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niiiiiiiiiiimimiir. miiiimiiimiimiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimiiii^ A home newspaper dedicated = to the service of Washington E County and its 12,000 people. = The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News *★**★★* = Advertisers will find Beacon § = and News columns a latca-key to E 5 1,100 Washington County homes. = fiiiiiiiHimiiiiMiiimiiiiimmiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiir VOLUME XLII—NUMBER 37 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, September 11, 1931 ESTABLISHED 1889 REPORT OF HOME AGENT MADE TO BOARD MONDAY More Than 15,000 Quarts of Fruits and Vegetables Canned By Clubs The following report of the activities of the home demonstration clubs in Washington County for the month of August was delivered to the county commissioners here Monday by Miss F’ratt Covington, home agent: Food conservation was studied dur ing the month of August by the Home Demonstration Club women of Wash ington County. Each leafier turned in a report of the canning work, ami the number of quarts for the various clubs of the county now totals 15,312. One club alone has canned more than 2,000 quarts. The greater portion of this number has been canned with the steam pressure cooker owned by the club and the county outfit bought by the club members of the county. Along with this conservation work, the leaders have sold 22 steam pres sure outfits to different club mem bers of the county. A few clubs have purchased cans cooperatively. More than 1,000 cans were ordered by the home agent for the canning project. The county home superintendent had the home agent to order cans for that institution and the Alba canning lead er spent one day giving instructions on how to fill the cans with good, wholesome food for winter use. .Some thing around 300 cans were put up according to her advice. Four leaders from the county (two canning leaders and two garden lead ers) won free trips to the short course at State College, Raleigh. Five girls won free trips to the 4-H club short course. Each girl that won the trip excelled in her club. 1 he girls are determined to go back again next year. Through the local exchange, vinegar was ordered in barrel lots and sold to club members at a saving of 23 cents nor uallon. Garden seeds have been ordered, and 1,000 bnlbs for fall planting which will he distributed to club members at cost. Two colleges in the State have sent the home agent orders for eggs that are to be shipped each week. /V soon as arrangements are made shipping will begin. Sales on the curb market for the month amounted to $211.03. AGAIN POSTPONE LAND TAX SALE -® State Law Requires Adver tisement to Begin Next Month, However -$ Advertising of property for delin quent taxes in Washington County was postponed until the first of Oc tober by the Board of County Com missioners at their regular meeting here Monday. The commissioners had planned to have the sheriff advertise the delinquent taxes during Septem ber, hut due to various reasons it was postponed until next month, mainly in order to give farmers and laud own ers time for selling some of their crops. However, this is the last postpone ment that can be made, as the State law requires that all property upon which taxes have not been paid be duly advertised for sale not later than October 1, the chairman of the board stated yesterday. Most of the day was spent in reg ular routine, paying off bills, and so forth. Revival at Methodist Church Begins Sunday The annual revival meeting of the Plymouth Methodist church will begin here Sunday evening at 8 o'clock and will continue for eight days, Rev. R. G. L. Edwards, pastor, announced here this week. This will be the first re vival service to be belli in the new church. Mr. Edwards is planning to have an out-of-town minister to help with the services, but at this time no defi nite arrangement has been made. It is urged that every member of the church make a special effort to attend this series of services and members of other churches arc also cordially invited. - ---<$> Although Scnora Francisca P. de Lopez, of San Antonio, Tex., is 105 years old, she still supports he. self by doing needlework. -»-— Horses, oven when ridden, must car ry head and tail lights when on Con necticut highways at night. According to the census, recently taken, London, Eng., with 8,020,816 ■inhabitants, is the world's largest city. Amid the applause of his fellow townsmen, 40-year-old F. II. Stickney received his diploma from the Middle town (Conn.) high school. 1 AT SHORT COURSE Five girls and one boy from Washington County took part in the above camp-fire program put on at State College during the boys’ and girls' short course. The girls’ and boys attending from this county are as follows: Margaret Everett, health queen; Virgie Davenport; Merle Norman; Paul ine Woodley; Minnie Furlough; and Edison Allen, of Wenona. It is hoped more will attend in 1932. Sheriff J. K. Reid Has Close Call at Hands of Demented Negro Near Pleasant Grove TO MARK GRAVES I \J 'I'he members of the local chap ter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy have requested that any person knowing of the location of any Confederate sol dier’s grave in Washington Coun ty to notify Mrs. T. L. Bray, pres ident, or Mrs. P. W. Brinkley, as it is the intention of the chapter to mark these graves within the near future. Therefore if some of your kith and kin were soldiers of the Confed eracy and are buried in this coun ty, you will do the local chapter of the U. D. C., a favor by com municating this knowledge to them at the earliest possible time. SAYS GARDEN HAS HELPED A LOT THIS YEAR Chapel Hill Club Garden Leader Has Had Very Good Success -® By Mrs. P. M. AMBROSE I was appointed garden leader of the C hapel Hill club for the year of 1931. Below is a brief sketch of “Our Garden.” Our garden consists of three quarters of an acre. 1 feel as though I coul 1 not have had a garden had it not been for the boys’ help. They plowed the garden and did other things that I could not have done very sat isfactorily. We did not use any commercial fer tilizer. The land was broadcasted with pea trash (another way to get your peanuts to pay for themselves) in the early spring. For side dressing we used nitrate of soda. We have been very successful this year and that is something to be thankful for. We have already plant ed beans, beets, and carrots in the fall garden. We have had this spring and summer kale (two varieties) mustard, pole, and bunch snaps, pole and bunch butter beans, two kinds of cabbage, onions, Chinese cabbage, bell pepper, lettuce, beets, collards, cucumbers, to matoes. squash, corn, potatoes, black eyed peas, crowdcr peas, okra, musk melons, watermelons, and vegetable peaches. ’i'he fine kind oi seeds Miss Coving ton gave us have been a great suc cess. Several of these vegetables have been planted in the second crop. We sold only $10 worth of vege tables as the majority of them were used at home and for canning pur poses. 1 gave several of my neigh bors vegetables whenever they wanted them. I have canned over lull quarts ot vegetables from our garden. One of my neighbors and I used the county pressure cooker two afternoons. We canned several quarts of soup mix ture, corn, beans, etc. Every member of our club has an excellent garden. We hope the mem bers of other clubs have been as suc cessful as we have. --s Mr. and Mrs. Leon Sugar Visit Northern Markets -® Mr. and Mrs. Leon Sugar left on Thursday for the northern markets, where they go to purchase new fall and winter merchandise for the Sugar department store. They will be gone something over a week. Mr. Sugar stated that he intended to take advantage of the prevailing low prices of merchandise and stock his store with the very latest thing in new fall and winter goods. JAMES ARNOLD JAILED AFTER EXCITING TIME Stick Shotgun in Sheriff’s Face; Later Found Not To Be Loaded -®— Late last Friday night, Sheriff Joe K. Reid thought that his time had come; that that lie was about to join the pageantry of the ages, and that in a few moments he would he shaking hands and exchanging salutations with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But, as it turned out, lady luck was with him, and the contemplated journey into the distant country from whose bourne no traveler 'returns, wias automatically postponed. An insane negro with an empty shot gun was the object of the sheriff’s fright and contemplated journey. It all happened when Sheriff Reid was called to the Pleasant Grove sec tion about 12 o’clock last Friday night to arrest and take charge of an insane negro. On receiving the call, the sher iff bounced into his automobile and ■hurried to the scene. Arriving at the home of Ophelia Green, Washington County negress, and grandmother of James Arnold, the 20-year-old insane negro man, Sheriff Reid was told that Arnold was in the house. It seems that he was the only occupant of the house. Everybody else had vacated in favor of the said Arnold, he being entry and armed with the family shot gun. Furthermore, the crazy man had defied anybody to come into the house, having made up his mind that he de sired privacy. Sheriff Reid being a sheriff who al ways gets his man, calmly kicked the du.ii' wide open, preparatory to enter ing the house, whereupon the said Ar nold shoved a double-barreled shotgun in his face and yelled, “Hold, hold; stop, stop stop.” The sheriff stopped all right, stopped till in his tracks. He thought his time had come. “When I looked down the barrel of that gun, I thought it vvas all up with me,” explained the sheriff. “I forgot that I even had a pistol. Yes, sir; I was scared stiff.” But the sheriff kept a cool head, and slammed the door. In a lew minutes the sheriff eased the door open again and focused his flashlight about the room. The light disclosed the negro crouching in the closet. The sheriff walked in and the negro was still pointing the gun at him. He snatched the gun away from the crazy man and proceeded to hand cuff him. But just as the sheriff took the gun away from the negro, he stood erect, and held aloft one hand toward heaven ana cxciamieu m voice, "1 am the Lord, thy God." That was all the negro said. In fact that is all he has said from that time until now. Arnold is now lodged in the county jail awaiting to he sent to the colored state hospital for the in sane, at Goldsboro, hut he has not been heard to open his mouth. How ever, Arnold attempted to burn the jail up Sunday by setting fire to bed ding, succeeding in burning up a cou ple of pillows and a pair of shoes. But what cooked the sheriff’s goose was that after he handcuffed the ne gro, he found that the shotgun was not only not loaded, but that there was not even a shell in the house. -- Registered motor vehicles in the world now number 35,805,602, of which 26,697,398 are in the United States. -- William D. Webb is in jail at Wash ington, D. C, for turning in 10 false fire alarms in two hours. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION AT ROPER SEPT. IS -dr Interesting Program Has Been Arranged for Two Sessions -® The Washington County Sunday School Convention will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church of Roper Tuesday, September 15, it was an nounced here yesterday. Every Sun day school in the county is invited to send as many delegates to this con vention as possible and the public at large is cordially invited. The convention will be divided into two sessions, morning and afternoon. The first thing on the program, which starts at 9:45 o’clock in the morning, is a song service. The de votional will be led by Rev. C. E. Wil liams; following will be a 10-minute address by W. B. Davenport, entitled “The Superintendent"; a 10-minute ad dress on “The Teacher,” by H. L. Lewis; then a song; then another ad dress, “The Place of the Man in the , Church and Sunday School," by Rev. Conley Greer; a male quartet, with R. W. Lewis, leader. Then the busi ness session. At 11:20 o’clock, Rev. , Shuford Peeler, of Salisbury, general .secretary of the North Carolina Sun day School Association, will deliver an address on “The Holy Scriptures.” | At the afternoon session, following |the song service, Rev. K. G. L. Ed wards will lead the devotional; then the president’s message; election of jofficers, etc.; an address on “Training For Christian Living,” by Rev. J. C. [Russell; address on “Trained Lead ership,” by Rev. Shuford Peeler; then will follow- conference groups on "How to Teach,” with Mrs. Leon Bray, lead er of adults; and Mrs. C. N. Daven port, leader of young people; and Miss Ida Peacock, leader of children. At the close of the afternoon ses sion a pennant will be presented to tin Sunday school having in the con vention the largest average attendance of representatives, 15 years of age and over, according to the number of miles traveled. MR. AND MRS. H. E. BEAM ARE HURT IN AUTO CRASH ■■ ■ --<•> Taken To Raleigh Hospital After Collision Near There Sunday , -® Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Beam, of Ply mouth, have been in the Rex Hospi tal at Raleigh this week, suffering with injuries sustained in an automobile collision which occurred on highway No. 90, about 5 miles this side of Ra leigh early Sunday morning between 7 and 8 o’clock. Just what caused the collision or whose fault it was has not been learn ed. Mrs. Beam was the most serious ly hurt, it is understood, one of her knee caps having been badly injured in addition to bruises and lacerations. Mr. Beam was also bruised and cut about the body. Mr. and Mrs. Beam were headed to ward Raleigh at the time of the ac cident, riding in a Ford coupe with Mr. Beam doing the driving. Mr. and Mrs. Beam are well known in Plymouth, where the former is cashier of the Branch Banking and Trust Company. Friends are trusting that both will have a speedy recovery. Revival at Holly Neck Church Ends Tuesday Skinnersville, Sept. 9.—The 10-day revival meeting at Holly Neck Disciple j church was brought to a close Tues day night of this week. The meet ing was considered a fine success. Rev. Louis C. Mayo, of Durham, who did the preaching, delivered some wonderful sermons. The music was especially good, aitjd the attendance was large. Several joined the church. Program of Services At Episcopal Church St. Cuke's Church, Roper. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30. All members arc cordially urged to attend both these services next Sun day and bring your friends. -* Senator Shipstead Sees 8,000,000 Idle By Win ‘er Washington, Sept. 7.—A special session of Congress at the earliest pos j sible date to meet the economic sit | nation was urged tonight by Senator | Shipstead in predicting at least 8,000, 000 unemployed by midwinter. “A policy of drift and inaction can only lead to further chaos,” he said. “Let us forget party politics and the coming elections and cooperate, not to see that nothing is done, but to cooperate in seeing to it that some I thing is don- ” Term of Local Schools Is Cut From Nine to Eight Months MEET OF LEGION AUXILIARY HELD WEDNESDAY, 2ND -v Delegates Who Attended State Convention Make Full Report Columbia, Sept. 7.—The American Legion Auxiliary held its regular Sep tember meeting with Mrs. Haywood Swain at Rider’s Creek Wednesday afternoon, September 2nd. Most of the time was taken up with reports from the delegates who attended the state convention at Morehead City, j The rewards were on display, the 1 loving cup for attendance, $2.50 in gold for unit secretary, who sent in the most complete records for the year $5 in gold for the small unit excelling in unit activities; $5 in gold for the small unit doing the best work in Americanism, the State and National citations. I Some of the activities planned for the following month were: Mrs. Floyd E. Cahoon, music chairman, promised that with the help of the people who sing in the community to organize a glee club or quartet for the communi ty and auxiliary. , Mrs. Roberson was asked to make a I talk on the United States Constitu tion for September 17, to the Columbia high school pupils; also to ask the teachers of this and Washington coun ty to observe fire prevention week, and that each grade or home room put ■on a fire prevention program during this week, the week of October 10th. Mrs. S. J. Holloway was asked to see that a Labor Day program be given during the next week by the Columbia high school students. In all the exercises of this day there should be tributes to George Wash ington. 1 The auxiliary is offering a medal to the Columbia and Creswell high schools this year in scholarship, that is, the pupil making highest average in Columbia high school will receive an Auxiliary medal at commencement. Likewise, in Creswell, the pupil mak ing the highest average in high school will be given a medal. After the business session, four very interesting papers were read as fol lows: “Going to Detroit,” by Mrs. T. W. Armstrong; “The Work at Oteen Clinic," by Mrs. S. J. Holloway; and “The Colleges Open Their Doors to the War Orphans,” by Miss Martha Sykes. Mrs. Floyd E. Cahoon read and suggested activities for September and October. Following the program, Mrs. Swain, the hostess, served a delicious sweet course. SCHOOLS WILL GET POSTERS -- Large Portrait of George Washington To Be Sent To All Classrooms «■" * Announcement was made today by Congressman Lindsay C. Warren that every school room of every school in his district will, within a few weeks after the opening of the new school term, receive a beautiful portrait-pos ter of George Washington, executed in colors. The portrait to be used in these posters is a reproduction of the fam ous Gilbert Stuart Athenaeum paint ing and will be 22 inches by 28 inches in size. This poster was selected aft er a good deal of study and is con sidered the hnest example of poster making available. The poster-pictures are being dis tributed through the cooperation of the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission of Washing ton, D. C., in order to stimulate in terest among the thousands of school children of the district in the coming nine-months elebration of the two hundredth anniversary/ of the birth of the Father of our country. The United States Commission is placing a good deal of emphasis on the i cooperation of the school children of j America in this historic event. This poster-picture is just one feature of • its work. I Congressman Warren announced that lie will see to it that the schools, clubs, churches, and fraternal and pa triotic organizations in his district will , be adequately supplied with literature ' to be issued by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Com mission. | The George Washington Bicenten nial celebration will begin on Feb ruary 22, 1932, and last until the fol 1 'owing Thanksgiving Day. f PUBLIC MEETING I v.J Mr. George Hardison, chairman of the Washington County Board of Commissioners, announced here yesterday that the board of com missioners and the county board of education would meet in a joint session here Friday of this week. The purpose of this meeting is for the discussion of the county school budget, and the public is invited to attend. Mr. Hardison stated that the meeting would be glad to hear any plans and opinions that might be advanced by any citizen of the county. The meeting will be held in the county auditor's office in the courthouse. BATEMAN FAMILY HOLDS REUNION NEAR CRESWELL Meet At The Scuppernong Church Sunday; 175 Are Present The descendants of Nicodemus Bateman and Lovie Elizabeth Hatfield Bateman met at the Scuppernong church, near Creswell, Sunday, Sep tember 6, for the third annual reunion. There were about 175 present, some coming from as far as New York City, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington City, and many from Vir ginia and various sections of North Carolina. The meeting was divided into two parts, one devoted to memor ializing the dead, and the other de voted to the business which included the election of officers. The dead who were memorialized were J. Warren Roughton, Cora Roughton Anderson, Claud Swain, Dora Swain Weatherly, Jessie Dillon Swain, William Dillon, Willie Daven port, and others. After the memorializing exercises the business session was held. The fol lowing officers were reelected: hi. L. Swain, Raleigh, president; Clyde Roughton, Columbia, vice president; H. S. Swain, Columbia, secretary; and O. D. Hatfield, Creswell, treasurer. William Wiley, who has served as treasurer for two years, asked to be relieved from office. The statistical committee, through May Swain Liverman, reported a num ber of marriages and births to mem bers of the clan. After adjournment a bountiful picnic dinner was served on the grounds. Nicodemus Bateman, after whom the Bateman clan was named, lived to a ripe old age. At his death he left sur viving him several children and ap proximately 75 grand and great-grand children. IIis wife, Lovie Elizabeth Hatfield Bateman, preceded him to the grave by several years. Their children, however, were all grown. They decided that he should no1 con tinue to make a home, but visit from one home to another, where lie was always welcomed with open arms. The Bateman clan is seeking to learn the ancestry oi Nicodemus Bate man for many generations back. It has been definitely learned that his wife’s ancestry was among the early settlers in this country, having come from England. I Schedule of Prices at Curb Market Saturday' The following prices will be in ef fect at the curb market here Saturday j morning: Eggs, per dozen Eggs, No. 2, iH-r dozen Corn, per dozen Beans, per pounds Tomatoes, per dozen Okra, per quart Butter, per lb. Dressed chickens Broilers, on foot Country) hams . Curb market opens promptly at 8 o’clock. No selling allowed on streets until after 9:30 o’clock. Five dollars fine imposed on any one violating this ordinance. 28c 25 c 15c 5c 10c 5c' 30c 30c 23c 25c Home Agent Announces Schedule for Next Week Miss Pratt Covington, county home agent, announces that her schedule for next week will he as follows: Monday, Scuppernong; Tuesday, Cherry; Wednesday, Albemarle; Thurs day, Wenona; Friday, Plymouth; Sat urday, curb market. -® Public records show that Li Ching yun, of Shanghai, l hina, who claims to have celebrated his 251st birthday recently, has been married 14 times and has 11 generations of descendants. MOVE FAVORED BY MAJORITY OF LOCAL PEOPLE Public Hearing Is Held On Proposition Here Last Friday Night Just before going to press, it was learned that the city school board had decided to curtail the Plymouth city school from nine to eight months year. This curtail ment was made at the request of citizens. Between 40 and 50 citizens attended the special meeting of the Plymouth City School Board held at the high school auditorium here last Friday night fur the purpose of discussing the advisability of curtailing the city schools from nine to eight months. P. H. Darden, chairman of the school board, presided over the meet ing, and the following men made talks in favor of the curtailment: John \Y. Darden, Zeb Vance Norman, A. L. Owens, W. L. Whitley, Roy Hamp ton. W. H. Clark, and E. R. Jackson. James \Y. Norman and Tom Swain were opposed to the curtailment and argued in favor of continuing the full nine months term. At the conclusion of the discussion of the question, a vote was taken, wherein everybody present voted for the eight months term with the ex ception of Messrs. Norman and Swain. After the meeting, the members of the board of education went into con ference, but no definite steps were taken, due to the absence of A. H. Stier, a member of the board. How ever, it is understood that Mr. Stier is in favor of doing whatever the majority of the citizens are in favor of. CAR OF MR. W. T. NURNEY STOLEN Driven Off by Strange Man Sunday Night; Later Recovered -» An unknown white man stole the Ford sedan of Mr. W. T. Nurney here Sunday night about It) o’clock, while Stark Nurney, son of Mr. Nurney, and a number of other men looked on from across the street. Young Nurney thought it was his sister who was driving the car off and gave it no fur ther thought until he noticed the car continued straight on down the street instead of turning off toward the Nur ney home. Accordingly, Nurney phoned his sis ter and learned that she was at home and had not bothered the car. Police headquarters were notified in various adjoining towns. The car was found iu Washington, N. C., Monday afternoon, and appear ed to he none the worse for the steal ing. But the man has not been appre hended. Stark had driven the car down street and left it parked in front of the Nur ney funeral parlor, leaving the key in the car. A number of people noticed the man about the streets here Sun day who was a stranger. f> WILL PRACTICE LAW IN MANTEO —«>— Van B. Martin, Jr., Leaves For County Seat Of Dare -<$> Van B. Martin, jr., and wife have moved to Manteo, Roanoke Island, where Mr. Martin has opened a law office. In discussing his new location here a few days ago, Mr. Martin stat ed that he felt that Manteo offered a wonderful opportunity for a young law yer, hence his going there. For the past several years, he has been prac ticing law in Plymouth. Mr. Martin is a son of Mrs. Van B. Martin, of Plymouth, and the late Van B. Martin. sr.t who was one of Washington County’s most outstand ing lawyers during his life time. Friends oi Mr. Martin will wish for him the greatest of success at his new location, the county >eat of Dare. Dance To Be Stage Here Friday Night, This Week -<s> What is expected to prove one of the best dances of the season is the pre-school ball being staged in Ply mouth Friday night of this week. Mu sic will be furnished by Dunn & Tel fair's Knight Hawks of Kinston. Joe Arps and Lloyd Owens are the promoters, and it is understood that I they advertised the event very exten sively.
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