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limiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimmiiiifiiyi A home newspaper dedicated § to the service of Washington = County and its 12,000 people. § jlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIIIHIIIilllilir? The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ★*★★*** j| Advertisers will find Beacon § and News columns a latch-key to = 1,100 Washington County homes. niiiiiiMiiiimiiiiiiiMiiiimiiiimiimiiiimimiiiMiimiiiimii )LUME XLII—NUMBER 51 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, December 18, 1931 ESTABLISHED 1889 D-WORD STORY <1 LAMPLIGHTER £RE WINS PRIZE N. Deshields, Native of This County, Tells of Old Oil Lamps Here -.ft n original story of less than 200 is submitted by a native of Wash on County to the publishers of ngs,” relating to the activities of old lamplighter in Plymouth was rded a valuable prize by the pub trs of the book on original stories; after a score of years the author he story recently visited his home, re he got the material for the ar he author was Z. N. Deshields, now or of the First Christian church Sandusky, Ohio, who was born in Pea Ridge section of Scuppernong /nship in Washington County 42 s ago. He went to school in Ply ith for years before he left to con e his work in other sections. The plighter was John Pettiford, who i in the Sugar Hill part of town years. his is the story as it appears in widely read book: “When I was oy living in Plymouth, a little n in eastern North Carolina, the n used kerosene lamps to light the ets, and an old negro man was iloyed for many years to light these ps every evening. This old man his lights have never faded from memory. He would move on, n lamp to lamp, leaving the town iw behind him. Many times since those days have I lght what a beautiful lesson the lamplighter taught. He would h on sometimes in the blackest cness, hut would always leave a t behind him, so that those who >wed would have no occasion for nbling. So the Christian is to push from one good deed t another, ■ever dark and uncertain the way, •ing a trail of light in which those > come after may safely walk.” ot long ago the minister was here spent atime conversing with old nds, including P. W. Brown, W. Clifton, J. W. Cooper, G. W. Bow W. R. White, and J. H. Smith. Deshields has been a minister for years. XTEND THANKS OR DONATIONS i-operation Aids Mr. and Mrs. Brewer To Start j Their Work at Once ■ fr. and Mrs. W. C. Brewer thank friends in Plymouth and Wash ton County for their generous co ration, which made it possible for m to begin work at once. Visita is are already being! made with thing and food distributed. Ir. and Mrs. Brewer are especially teful to the following people, whose tributions completely outfitted a r-room apartment in a single day. V. R. Hampton, 3 beds and mat tes; C. I.. Groves, 5-piece break t suite; O. H. Lyon, 5-burner oil k stove; Mrs. House, 1 dresser and ockers; Mrs. E. G. Arps, 1 table 1 mirror; Mrs. Overton, 1 dresser. Jot one cent was spent for the a re items, as T. C. Burgess did the ving gratis. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer pped their bed linens, coverings, ows, dishes, and cooking utensils m their home in Winston-Salem. Vn appeal is made for a used heater a very old lady. Any one having :h, please notify Mr. Brewer, and will call for it. Also an appeal is de for toys that can be mended use in the special Christmas ef special mention is also made and inks extended to the Brinkley Ho which furnished free lodging to ; workers while they were getting ngs in shape. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer desire the lyers of the Christian people that :y may be used for good. —--<S— hristmas Program at the Methodist Church Sunday John W. Harrell, minister. | Sunday school at 10 o’clock a. m„ W. Norman, superintendent. Morning worship, 11 o’clock a. m., nducted by the pastor. Evening service at 7:30 p. m. There will be special Christmas mu ; by the choir and also the pastor 11 bring Christmas messages at both arning and evening services. ■je Leggett Suffers Injury o His Eye While Playing -$ Joe Leggett, little brother of O. R. ;ggett, is suffering from an injury 'Lu the eye that was accidentally in Cted by Pete Price Sunday, while jiL two boys were playing on Jeflfer ,, >ii Street. A blunt obect is thought ~Sc> have struck the youth in the face, narrowly missing his eye-ball. Stage All Set for Christmas in Washington County; Holiday Spirit Evident Everywhere + + + + + + ++ + + + The stage is set for the Christ mas drama—and the holiday spirit is gripping Washington County. The age-old pageantry that is enacted in the Yule season of each year is firing the depressed folk in this section as shoppers descend on the retail stores here during the week-ends to purchase gifts that they may spread good cheer despite a semblance of gloom that is a product of the times. A sun that is almost as bright as the spring time beamed down on the country-side adding its charms to the holiday scene for a time this week, and shoppers took advantage of the weather to hast en their Christmas buying. School children will add thrills to the oc casion this week-end as the schools I have closed for about two weeks. Christmas trees are being sold by vendors who are plying their trade on the streets. Fir and ced i ar are predominant this season, with a scattering of holly. Tur I keys can be engaged at this time for the happy Christmas dinner. Stores have entered into the spir ‘ it of the season and are decorat ; ed in their holiday attire awaiting the encouraging words of the pur chasers. Not only have the business houses joined in the spirit of the occasion as in many places can be found residences that are shedding forth the cheer with its own character istic and picturesque decorations. The down-town business area is enveloped in a number of multi colored lights that were arranged by the town. Mails have shown a little increase as is usual on this occasion. Fraternal organizations, civic clubs, society, and the scools are being thrilled with addreses, es- | says and poems about Christmas. I Relief organizations in town have already begun their work here to care for the needy. TEACHERS AND PARENTS MEET ROPER FRIDAY -to First Grade Presented A Christmas Program For Parents -® Roper.—The first A grade of the local school presented the program at the meeting of the parent-teacher as sociation here last Friday night. The play was of the Christmas variety, being very appropriate. Included a inong the speakers were James W. Norman, superintendent of public in struction, and T. J. Swain, chairman of the county board of education. A hundred shrubs had been planted on the campus by the committee on the improvement of the grounds, it was reported by the chairman, L. E. Has sell. Reports were also made by Miss Ruth McKellar, who revealed that the library committee had aided in adding 250 new volumes, while Mrs. L. S. Bray, as chairman, told of the work of the committee of grade mothers. The eleventh grade, with Miss Sally Taylor, as teacher, was awarded the prize for having the best attendance at the meeting Ifrom the high school, while the first firade, with Miss Car rie Jane Herman, as teacher, won the elementary award. Mrs. J. B. Hurley is president and Miss Sally Taylor, recording secretary. There were 125 present at the meeting. URGES MADE-IN STATE PRESENTS —1— Use of State-made Products Will Result In a More Cheerful Outlook -®— - Merchants here have received a list of goods made in North ( arolina that includes wearing apparel and acessor ies, things for the home, toys, books, and other articles designed to bring pleasure to their users, from the State Department of Conservation and De velopment, which is making an effort to acquaint the people and encourage the use of State products. “‘Christmas shoppers are going to buy useful things this year, and all the home-made goods bought by home merchants will give manufacturing plants additional working time, cre ate more wages and more buying pow er. This will result in a more cheer ful outlook,” according to Director Harrelson, who urges prominence of these goods in the show windows and on the counters. Three Cases In Recorder’s Court Here Last Tuesday An appeal was noted by George Bryant in recorder’s court here Tues day from a sentence of 12 months on the roads for violation of the prohi bition law. Joe Nathan Phelps was given 60 days for resisting Officer Co burn, who arrested him while drunk. Prayer for judgment was continued in the case of Hallett Wynne, who was found guilty of reckless driving. His sentence will be passed December 22., Special Christmas Day j Service at Grace Church “A Christmas Mystery and Manger j Service" will be presented at the Grace J Episcopal Church here Christmas aft ernoon at 5 o’clock under the direction of Miss Helen Duvall. Gifts will be taken for the Galilee Lake Mission on Lake Phelps. Christmas carols will also be sung. A pageant will be given, d here will also be a celebra tion of the Holy Nativity'. -« 1,119 Children Attended the County Schools Last Year Public schools in Washington Coun ty were operated for a total of 160 days last term, and this system is one of the score of counties to operate for this number of days in the State, with 1,119 white children. The average term in days for the colored was the same, with 1,254 children. TO BE OUT EARLY To better serve our subscribers and advertisers The Beacon will be issued on Tuesday of next week getting into Wednesday’s mail so as to bring fresh news of the mar ket to shoppers seeking last-min ute reminders of Christmas com mercial news. Correspondents are urged to get their copy into the Beacon office by Monday night. SAYS CALIFORNIA PEANUTS NOT TO AFFECT MARKET Kelford Man Returns From Recent Visit There; Costs Too High Kelford, Dec. 16.—Talking with friends in Kelford a few days ago, Mr. J. P. Harrington, of Lewiston, who has just returned from California, where he has been in the interest of the Harrington peanut machinery, says that he does not think that California will be a competitor in the peanut field of Eastern Carolina and Tidewater Virginia for some time yet, and gave several reasons why, among them be ing the high cost of labor, from $3 to $6 a day, growing peanuts by artific ial irrigation and the quality of nuts they grow. However, they do not have to stack their crop as we do here in the East, as they are cured on the ground after digging. Mr. Harington says that this year’s crop, which is their first, are of a grade between our No. 1 bunch and our Jumbos, and will all be used for seed ing their 1932 crop. Mr. Harrington went to California at the request of a large corporation that is interested in peanuts and will furnish seed and fertilizer and con tract with farmers to cultivate the crop, the corporation doing the har vesting after the crop is made and dug. Mr. Harrington says that the West is a fine and beautiful country and has many interesting features to be ad mired. but he would advise all who wish to live in God's country to stay in Eastern Carolina. TO M AKE WAR ON BAD HEADLAMPS Blinding Lights Declared To Be One of Greatest Menaces on Road If the headlights of your car blind the driver coming in the opposite di rection, you may be instructed by of ficers of the State Highway Patrol to do something about it, according to Captain Charles D. Farmer, of the pa trol, who is backed up by a rule adopt ed by the State Highway Commission. The rule was passed in order to place every motorist on an equal basis as regards the strength of his auto head lights. Prescribing a uniform and proper headlight service, the Highway Department has named several hun dred official service stations through out the State to render assistance to motor car owners. Captain farmer attriouies many highway accidents to drivers becom ing blinded by glaring headlights. He said, “It would seem that every man now figures on having the biggest and strongest light so as to overcome the glare of the other fellow’s lights. A blind man is not permitted to drive a car, yet a man who can not see through the rays of another’s glaring headlights is virtually a blind man, and there is no telling what he will do. “The highway death toll in North Carolina is still going up. It has got to go down. Two of the chief causes of night accidents are blinding head lights and the lack of a rear light, and the Highway Commission has ruled them from the highway. We have stations set up to eliminate this trou ble, and we hope the public will co operate with us in taking advantage of the service now offered.” J. B. Echerd, of Taylorsville, Alex ander County, produced 128 bushels of corn on one acre this fall. LEAF GROWERS GET $21,000,000.00 LESS FOR CROP North Carolina Production of Tobacco 56,199,385 Pounds Under 1930 -*> Marketing 56,199,385 pounds less than they did last year up to Decem ber 1, North Carolina tobacco grow ers received $21,747,333 less up to De cember this year than they received up to that time last year. : 1 he aniunt marketed this year was j smaller by 56,199,385 punds, but the I price average was smaller $9.62 a hun dred pounds as compared with $13.57 for the same period last year, when lower prices for cigarettes prevailed. Up to December 1 of this year, the latest data available, (producers had received a total of $34,364,765.92 for , their tobacco, and warehousemen est imated that 78 per cent of the crop had been marketed. On the same date last year they had received $56,112, 098.93. The $34,364,765.92 paid to producers so far this year was for 357,222,099 pounds of tobacco. The producers re ceived for 413,421,484 pounds in the same period last year the sum of $56, 112.098.93. Prices paid this year have held con siderably under the average of 193(1, the November, 1931, average price for 100 pounds being $8.81, against $13.92 in November. 1930. MANY TURN TO COTTON CO-OPS -<*/ State Association Now Has Total of 13,245 Members -® Raleigh.—To hold their crop from a depressed market, North Carolina and Virginia cotton growers continue to turn to cooperative marketing with the result that, without any special sign-up campaign, the membership in the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association has scaled the 13,000 mark and reached 13,245, a new high for the season. | Although the cotton delivery season 1 normally would be about over by this ! time, deliveries to the cooperative are | still coming in encouraging amounts, j General Manager U. Benton Blalock said. He attributed this to the fact that, unlike former years, considerable cotton was not pooled directly from the gin, but was hauled home and stored in anticipation of a rise in prices which would justify an increase in the cooperative advance. Under the cooperative plan, how 'ever, the advance paid members will j be supplemented when prices rise to a point to justify it. And, knowing this, many growers are hauling their cotton away from their individual sheds where it is endangered by fire and theft and storing it with the coopera tive in its fireproof warehouses. -* Peanuts grown after a crop of soy beans grazed last season gave a yield of 1,960 pounds an ere this year and peanuts after peanuts gave a yield of 1,620 pounds an acre in a demonstra tion in Bertie County. TWO RECITALS ARE GIVEN BY PIANO PUPILS Pupils of Mrs. Ernest Hicks Please Audiences With Their Two Programs Two recitals have been given by the piano pupils of Mrs. Ernest H. Hicks. The first was given last Thursday afternoon by the pupils of elementary school age in the chapel hour of the Plymouth High School, with the stu dents and patrons attending. Participating were Anne Liverman, Joan Stier, Wilford Whitley, Mary Elizabeth Bray, Helen Harrison, Eve lyn Arps, Harriet Heynen, Lillian Reid McGowan, Katherine Midgett. In ad dition to the piano music there was singing. Duets, trios, solos, and quar tets were featured by voice and in struments. The second was presented Wednes day afternoon at the chapel service with the high school age children play- j ing and others joining in the folk danc ing. Singing games were also enjoyed. Those on the program included Elg bern Manning, Naomi Weede, Vir ginia Norman, Edith Edmondson, Mary Lillian Campbell, Frances Jones, Ann Liverman, Katherine Midgett, Mary Elizabeth Bray, Wilford Whit ley, Cornelia Edmondson, and Helen Harrison. LEAF TOBACCO EXPORTS OFF 11 PER CENT —«■— Shipments To England Are Off, While China Is Buying More Exports of leaf tobacco from the Lfnited States during the first ten months of 1931 registered a decline of ( 11 per cent from the corresponding period of 1930, but were within 4 per cent of tiie total for the 1929 period, according to the Commerce Depart ment's Tobacco Division. The total for the current year’s per iod was 409,000,000 pounds, in com parison with 400,000.000 in 1930, and 427,000,000 in 1929. Export value, reflecting price trends in foreign markets, registered sharper declines than the export volumes. To tal leaf exports in 1931 were valued at $83,503,000, a decline of 24 per cent, compared with the first ten months of 1930 and 23 per cent compared with a similar period of 1929. Although there were actual price increases on certain types, the export price trend on the whole wras downward, the average for all leaf in 1931 reaching only 20.4 cents a pound, compared with 23.9 cents in 1930 and 25.3 cents in 1929. Mary land and Ohio export and Green River were exported during the period un der review for 30 cents and 27.1 cents per pound, respective price increases of 7.1 cents and 2.8 cents, compared With 1930 prices. There was al^o an increase in the export price of stems, trimmings, and scrap, large amounts of which have been utilized in foreign cigarette industries for the manufact ure of cheap cigarettes. Exports of flue-cured tobacco from January to October of 1931 amounted to 290,562,000 pounds, valued at $64,-1 479,000, a decrease of 3:5 per cent in quantity and 21.6 per cent in value, compared with last year. The United Kingdom and China are the principal foreign markets for flue-cured tobacco and shipments to the United Kingdom during the current year has decreased by 26,000,000 pounds, compared with 1930, while shipments to China have increased by 16,000.000 pounds. 1 rade observers have experienced the opin ion that both these countries have a potential market for much more Amer ican tobacco before the year ends. -® Wayne Land Owners To Reduce Tobacco Acreage Weil Brothers, of Goldsboro, among the largest land owners of Wayne County, will reduce their tobacco Acre age next year and plant none on poor land. House-To-House Canvass for Old Clothing Here Saturday The relief committee, through Z. V. Norman, chairman of the clothing committee, Plymouth Di vision, is making an appeal for contributions of old clothing for the destitute and unfortunate. W. M. Brewer, of the Salvation Army, is having many calls for clothing and shoes, especially since the ar rival of cold weather. This is an appeal to which everybody should respond. Those who are fortunate, com fortable and warm, are called up on to assist in the relief of those less fortunate. A drive will be made in the town of Plymouth Saturday, and every person and family is requested to collect in a bundle all the old cloth ing, or clothing of any kind, and have it ready for delivery when called for. A truck will call at the front door of every residence in Plymouth during Saturday, the 19th, and a generous response is especially desired. It is to be borne in mind tftat this appeal must be responded to during the entire winter months, and that the people of this community can not afford to allow the unfortunate to go hungry and naked. i Use of State Theatre for One Sunday Each Month Offered, Proceeds To Be Given Charity f RATTLESNAKE BITE I v/ Wenona.—Burdie Hudson, 18 years of age, is still up today de site a bite inflicted on his hand by a rattlesnake Saturday night while in Plymouth. The youth was han dling the snake, catching it too low from his head when the rep tile its mouth and inflicted the bite. It happened while the boy was showing the reptile to a crowd who was standing around him. The youth sucked the blood from his veins and took other precau tions against poisoning. The rep tile v as in a sack. SAYS MACHINERY FOR FARM USE AT LOW PRICE LEVEL Prices Are Still Out of Pro portion With Value of Products, However The farmer’s dollar is buying more in the way of materials and labor when he purchases a nevr farm machine than in anything else he uses at this period, suggest; David S. Weaver, agricultur al engineer at State College. Mr. Weaver has made a comparison of prices of machinery with other ar ticles used on the farm, and finds them priced at a lower level. Such equip ment as corn planters, cultivators, har rows, sulky plows, rakes, and wagons are selling at a much lower price level than washing machines, ranges, milk cans, lawn mowers, and the like. “It would be desirable if prices for farm machinery and other commodi ties could be maintained at a price lev el fixed according to the price paid for farm products, but this is impossible,' says Mr. Weaver. “True it is that farm products prices have some effect on the wages paid to manufacture farm machinery, but such effects are always slow. Wholesale prices are slow in affecting retail prices and retail prices are slow in affecting wages.” Mr. Weaver finds that less than five cents of every dollar received for farm products was spent for new farm equip ment during the years between 1924 and 1930. ncluded in this five cents were almost every kind of power farm ing and field equipment. At the same time 12 1-2 cents of the farm dollar was spent for labor ;eight cents for taxes; 7 1-2 cents interest and in debtedness; 15 to 20 cents for auto mobiles; 20 cents for food; 15 cents for clothes and 10 cents for fertilizes. Additional proof that farm machin ery is low in price is that no foreign machines are imported, despite the fact that no tariff protects the manufact urer. Most other similarly manu factured products are well protected by a high tariff, he says. DEATH OF MRS. WILLIAM WILEY Beloved Woman Dies At Her Home In Creswell After Short Illness Creswell.—Mrs. William Wiley, one of the most beloved women of this community, died here December 7. She bad been sick only a short time. Fu neral services were conducted from the Methodist church by the pastor, Rev. J. C, Russell, who was assisted by the Rev. Mr. Hollowell, of the Baptist church, and the Rev. C. E. Williams, of the Episcopal church. Ac tive pall-bearers were nephews of the deceased. Mrs. J. Walter Starr sang a solo while the casket was in the church. Assisting in the music was a choir of many friends. The body was interred in the family burying ground at White Chapel. A massive heap of pretty flowers covered the grave. -- Creswell Parents-Teachers Hold Meeting Thursday Creswell.—The Creswell Graded School Parent-Teacher Association held a largely attended meeting in the school auditorium Thursday night. Rev. Russell, pastor of the Creswell Methodist Protestant church, con ducted the devotional exercises. Mrs. H. G. Walker, president of the asso ciation, presided over the meeting. A delightful Christmas program was rendered by the second, third, and fourth grade pupils, under the direc tion of Misses Swain, Craddock, and Stillman. At the close of the meeting, the hospitality committee, under the di rection of its chairman. Mrs. Viola Smithson, served a course of delicious refreshments to those present. COMMITTEE ASKS FOR EXPRESSION FROM RESIDENTS Gordon Brothers Offer Use Of Theatre Here One Sunday Each Month -® The State Theatre has very gener ously offered the use of their theater on one Sunday each month for ti- next four months as a donation to the lo cal fund for unemployment and re lief. The plans contemplates are to have the theater open from I o'clock to 6 o’clock in the afternoon, and the sale of tickets to be handled by vari ous committees to be appointed 1 iter. The committee having the iin ncial work in charge greatly appro : te this offer made by the Gordon I r thers. At a meeting of the Plym nth Di vision of the county-wide relief or ganization, consisting of T. J. Swain, chairman, also in charge of fo d; Zeb Vance Norman, in charge of clothing; and A. H. Stier, in charge of finances, it was decided that they would like to have an expression from a! t the people of Plymouth as to win. t should l>e done in connection with the offe. made by the State Theatre, remem bering, of course, that the theater will receive no financial benefit whatso ever. On the other hand, it may have a tendency to reduce attendance on Monday and Tuesday. Zeb Vance Norman commnni ated with the Executive Secretary of the Governor's Council in regard to the advisability of having the theatre open on Sunday, and he received this an swer: “'There is an old law of about 60 or 70 years old that prohibits the show ing of a moving picture on Sunday. This law carries a $1 fine, according to my information from the Attorney i ieneral’s office. On the other hand, the Attorney General informed me that the State does not intend to enforce this law for any theater that gives a Sunday moving picture attraction for charity. Even though some local or ganization in your own community should attempt to enforce this law, they would be able to fine you only $1. "We are showing pictures in Ra leigh and many other places through ut the State for charitable purposes.” The committee would particularly solicit an epression from the ministers and the city council, and the law-en forcing agencies in the county and town, and they will be glad to be gov erned by the will of the people. W. ROBERTSON DIES NEAR HERE In Poor Health For Several Months, Mr. Roberson Died Last Saturday -<$■ Funeral services were held Saturday for Willis Robertson, 75 years of age, who died suddenly in his home near here last Friday. He had been in de clining health for years and the end, although sudden, was not altogether unexepected. He was born in Nan semond County in Virginia. His par ents were born in Ireland. Burial took place in a near-by plot. Surviving Mr. Robertson are the following children and a widow, Mrs. Tabitha Davenport and Mrs. P. E. Whedbee. of Plymouth; Edward Rob erston, of Hamilton; and Dock Rob ertson, of near Plymouth. -9 More Cotton Ginned In County Than Last Year A dozen more bales of cotton was (ginned in Washington County prior to December 1 for the crops of 1930 and 1931 than wast he case for the same time last year, when there was a total of 1,102 bales ginned, accord ing to statistics from the United States Department of Comerce that issued the information through the Bureau of Census. This is a preliminary report. -$> Club Members Average 58 Bushels Corn Per Acre Fourteen 4-H club members of Clay County grew an average of 58 bushels of corn an acre this season, as com pared with the county average of 15 bushels an acre. -<S> Lespedeza More Than Doubles Yield of Corn Corn after a two-year growth of les pedeza produced 45 bushels an acre, as compared with 20 bushels an acre, where no lespedeza was turned un der. says T-. P. Sherman, of Rougc mont, Person County.
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