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VOLUME XLIII—NUMBER 2
Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, January 8, 1932
ESTABLISHED 1889
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COMPLETE LIST
CONTRIBUTORS
TO RELIEF FUND
Total Contributions and
Pledges $1,229.60; More
In Prospect
The finance committee of the Ply
mouth division of the Washington
County Unemployment and Relief
Association has gone over the top in
pledges of cash and merchandise. The
goal was $1,250, and the pledges as
shown below total $1,229.60. The
Gordon Brothers have offered the use
of their State Theatre for four Sun
days and the estimated receipts from
* this source added to the pledges will
more than equal the quota. The com
mittee contemplates having the first
picture show on Sunday, January 17,
provided this arrangement is satis
factory to the Gordon Brothers.
The list of contributors follows:
All cash: W. L. Whitley, $4; J. P,
Sutton, $10: H. E. Beam, $10; Ben A.
Sumner, $15; Thomas D. Woodley,
$1; Miss Pratt Covington, $4.
Pledges in merchandise: W. E.
Weede, $4; A. R. Latham, $4; B, G.
Campbell, $20; E. R. Jackson, $8; J.
C. Spruill, $10; Hassell Bros. Bakery,
$8; G. D. Davis, $20; Abe Adler, $20,
S. D. Davis, $4; W. F. Winslow, $16;
H. A. and R. A. Williford, $16.
Pledges and part cash: Daniel R.
Satterthwaite, $4; Jack Peele, $4; D.
V. Clayton, $4; Washington County,
$100; Masonic Lodge, $20; Post office
employees, $40; O’Henry Drug Store,
10; G. R. Leggett, $4; L. T. Weede,
$2; P. W. Brown, $4; M. W. Spruill,
$4; W. W. Ange, $4; Roanoke Bea
con, $4; S. A. Ward, $4; J. B. Ed
mondson, $4; R. L. Whitehurst, $4;
P. M. Arps, $4; National Handle Com
pany and employees, $120; Plymouth
Wholesale Company, $12; Modern
Barber Shop, $4; Harry Chopick, $4;
James W. Norman, $8; Tom J. Swain,
$8; W. C. Jones, $4; Olga E. Gard
ner, $4; L. W. Gurkin, $4; J. A. Get
singer, $4; Z. V. Norman, $20; C. J.
Norman, $8; F. C. Paschall, $5; John
W. Darden, $4; Mrs. Edison Swain, $4;
Theo Kampus, $4; Plymouth Hard
ware Co., $16; Thompson-Clagon, $6;
- F. D. Carstarphen, $4; T. \. Stubbs,
$4; E. H. Liverman, $16; Roscoe Gay
lord, $2; Chicago Mill employees,
$324.60; W. T. Nurney, $4; C. V. W.
Ausbon, $4; R. E. Dunning, $4; Dr.
f T. L. Bray, $10; L. O. Horton, $4;
>k>’A. L. Owens, $20; A. J. Riddle, $4;
J. T. Terry, $4; Town of Plymouth,
$100; teachers and high school pupils
in white school and teachers of col
ored school, $60; W. R. Hampton, $4;
Dr. Claudius McGowan, $4; City fire
*men, $12; Ernest Arps, $4.
SCHOOL HOUSE
IS IMPROVED
Repairs and Additions Are
Made to Building in
Creswell Recently
Greswell.—Improvements in j the
sanitary conditions and repairs on the
school building here have been made
by the Washington County Beard of
Education. Four drinking fountains,
14 toilets, a urinal, additional window
in toilet, connecting old and new sep
tic tanks, pipe line for waste to sep
tic tank have been installed.
An additional drain was laid along
the western side of the lot to Smith
son’s canal. A two-inch well 50 feet
deep was drilled, and a 2,500-gallon
water tank was installed, with elec
tric motor. Decayed joists in the
building were also replaced.
SUMMARY OF
BAPTIST GIFTS
Total of $139,489.40 Raised
For Church Work By
Roanoke Association
Baptists in the Roanoke Associa
tion, which includes churches in Wash
ington, Martin, Nash, Edgecombe,
Halifax, Beaufort, and other counties,
contributed $29,972.70 to denomina
tional causes in 1931, it has been
learned from figures compiled by H.
Perry Morgan, statistical secretary.
This association has 13,822 members.
The money that went for foreign
missions, home missions, state mis
sions, hospitals, orphanages, educa
tion, old ministers’ relief, building and
other local expenses raised in the Ro
anoke Association that includes the a
bove and all gifts totaled $139,489.40.
O’Henry Drug Store Will
Handle Rexall Line Drugs
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The O’Henry Drug Store here has
accepted the agency of the Rexall
products and will carry this line, in
addition to the stock already in his
store. This merchandise is arriving
daily and will be fully featured in his
large stock of drugs and attendant
articles.
JANUARY TERM COURT
BEGINS NEXT MONDA Y;
TO CONTINUE 2 WEEKS
Movies To Be
Presented for
Benefit Needy
For the first time in the more than
a century that Plymouth has been
established, the amusement realm
will enter the role of philanthropist
when four shows are held here
during Sundays in January and
February with the proceeds going
into the treasury of the Wash
ington County Unemployment and
Relief Association.
The Gordon Brothers, who have
leased the talking picture play
house here will give their time.
Tickets will not be sold in the
booths on Sunday, as there will
be an advance sale of admissions.
The city council has agreed to al
low this. Officials interpret the
law to be liberal in regard to this
action for charity.
REV. MARSHALL
SERVES TOTAL
OF 10 CHURCHES
Believed To Have Most Ex- j
tensive Territory of Any
Minister in State
The Rev. Arthur H. Marshall, rector
i of the Grace Episcopal church here,
' is thought to have more churches in
i his charge than any other minister in
North Carolina, with a record of 10
parishes in four different counties that
he visits weekly. It keeps him busy.
These churches are at Belhaven and
Yeatsville, in Beaufort County; Lake
Landing, ,SledjvJlIe, Fairfield, Swan
Quarter, and County Mission, in
Hyde; Plymouth and Roper, in Wash
ington; Hamilton in Martin. Last
Sunday he was at Plymouth in the
morning and Roper in the evening.
His 10 churches have a total mem
bership of almost 600. There are
numbers of rectors that get their mes
sages weekly to about this many
church folk but there are none that
have as many churches nor have as
far to go to get to their work as this
minister.
Allow Use of Auditorium
In Roper for Basketball
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Roper.—Prohibition of the use of the
Roper High School auditorium for ath
letic events has been modified by the
Washington County Board of Educa
tion, it was learned here today by
Principal E. N. Riddle, of the local
school.
The educators agree to let basket
ball be played in the auditorium with
the understanding that certain expenses
be borne by the athletic society of
the school. The principal must super
vise the conduct of the children while
the event is in progress.
DESCRIBES SALE
OF VEGETABLES
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J. G. Wallace, of Norfolk,
Addresses Farmers of
Lees Mill District
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Roper.—Marketing vegetables in car
load shipments, with an explanation of
the company’s method was the theme
of a speech by J. G. Wallace, of Nor
folk, manager of the Southern Prod
uce Company, to a number of farmers
of Lees Mill Township in the Roper
school auditorium.
The Southern Produce Company is
reputed to be the most successful and
one of the oldest companies of its
kind in America, and is said to keep
in touch with the leading markets of
the world.
Accompanying Mr. Wallace from the
Virginia city were Billie Wallace and
J. Fitzpatrick. They were invited
here by N. H. Spruill, N. S. Herring
ton and W. T. Spruill, jr. They were
dinner guests of N. H. and W. I.
Spruill, jr.
Two County Cases Are
Reviewed by Commission
The North (Carolina Industrial
Commission that met in Raleigh this
week reviewed two cases from Wash
ington County. Jones against Chicago
Mill and Lumber Corporation, and
Davenport against Plymouth Whole
sale Company. The nature of tjie
cases will come to light later.
CRIMINAL CASES
FIRST TWO DAYS;
100 CIVIL ACTIONS
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Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, of
Snow Hill, Will Be
Presiding Officer
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The January mixed term of Wash
ington County Superior Court will
open here Monday for two weeks. The
first two days will be given to the dis
position of criminal cases. Judge J.
Paul Frizzelle, of Snow Hill, will pre
side. There are almost 100 cases on
the civil docket.
Cases have been set for disposition
as follows: January 13—C. W. Over
ton vs. Joe Peele: H. G. Walker vs.
W. T. Phelps; Ida Boyd vs. W. W.
Walker.
January 14: W. T. Phelps vs. Vir
ginia-Carolina Land Bank; Winchester
Simmons Company vs. W. R. Hamp
ton; Tidewater Brokerage Company
vs. Southern Trust Company; A. S.
Lee and Company vs. A. L. Alexan
der.
January 15: Jerome B. Rice Seed
Company vs. G. K. Harris; H. D. Dav
enport vs. Lazarus Walker; American
Agricultural Cherriioal Company v>s.
W. C. Davenport; May Simmons vs.
Emma S. Brantley; E. L. Owens vs.
Noah Paul; Eastern Cotton Oil Com
pany vs. E. B. Spencer; A. R. Pat
rick vs. J. B. Patrick.
Second week, January 18: The fol
lowing will have cases against the
Virginia Electric and Power Com
pany: Elizabeth Clark, L. J. Cooper,
Willis Roberson, A. L. Owens, Car
ter Basnight, Prince Puckett, James
Thomas, J. S. Sliugar, Mrs. Charles
Roberson, George W. Sitterson, E. S.
Phelps, Mary E. Phelps, J. T. 1 atem,
A. B. Houtz, Southern Roller Stave
Company, Jack Blount, Mechelina At
amanchuk, Stephen Skinner, S. A.
Ware, H. D. Davenport, Gus Mann,
and Laura Johnston.
January 19: Branch Banking and
Trust Company vs. the following, in
different cases: Mrs. M. G. Darden,
Louis P. Hornthal, J. S. Shugar, E.
R. Jackson, George W. Hardison, Mrs.
Harry Stell, Mrs. J. R. Knowles, J.
R. Knowles, M. S. Fagan, T. W. Bate
man, W. H. Clark, W. R. Hampton,
L. S. Landing, Harry Stell, Mrs. L.
S. Landing, Robert P. Walker, Mrs.
M. W. Norman.
Others that the Brancn tsanxing <*
Trust Company has cases against: J.
T. Browning, G. W. Bowen, A. J.
Simmons, W. W. Browning, J. W.
Snell, H. L. Davis, E. E. Stephenson,
Estelle Martin, Admx., P. B. Tomlin
son, C. H. Hale, W. B. Cox, Mattie
R. Swain, Admx., Mary E. Bowen,
Executrix, Amelia F. Stillman, Execu
trix; Mollie B. Chesson, Admx., J. H.
Leggett and Mrs. E. P. Godwin.
January 20: George Hardison vs.
Plymouth Oil Company; Plymouth
Oil Company vs. L. L. Mizell; Dr.
C. McGowan vs. Alberta Swain, ex
ecutrix; Hobbs and Ward vs. H. T.
Hopkins; J. L. Swain vs. Homulus
Ange.
lanuary 21: J. C. Gatlin vs. H. G.
Walker; E. D. Kemp vs. J. S. Shu
gar; Virginia Carolina Chemical Cor
poration vs. Missouri P. Lucas; Fan
nie Smith vs. End. Dep. G. U. O. of
O. F.; Eastern Cotton Oil Company
vs. Stanley McCullough; W. C. Har
rison vs. Tom Bateman; Eastern Cot
ton Oil Company vs. J. S. Daven
port.
January 22: Eastern Cotton Oil
Company vs. W. T. Freeman; Mrs.
F. M. Simpson vs. J. S. Davenport;
Charles W. Priddy Company vs. T.
W. Swain; Aaron Davenport vs. Chi
cago Mill and Lumber Corporation.
Motion and divorce cases will be
called at the pleasure of the court.
BEACON MAKES
SPECIAL OFFER
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To Allow 10 Per Cent Over
Market Price for Produce
On Subscriptions
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Ten per cent above market prices
will be allowed on all country produce
during the next few weeks in exchange
[for yearly subscriptions to The Roan
oke Beacon. The peanut offer, made
by the Beacon, having met with so
!much success, the papers is widening
its scope and will exchange subscrip
tions for any and all kinds of country
produce during the next few weeks
only.
A surplus of nearly every crop
grown in Washington County, and it
is the sincere belief of the Beacon
editor that many farmers will find it
profitable to exchange a few pounds
of his surplus products for a year or
more of interesting news of Washing
ton County and its people.
REQUIRE BRAKES
ON TRAILERS OF
2 TONS CAPACITY
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Several Owners Are Sum
moned for Failure To
Observe New Law
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The strict enforcement of the law
requiring all owners to equip their
trailers of two tons or more capacity
with effective brakes was reported in
the county Friday. Drivers of several
trailers unequipped with brakes were
ordered to park the vehicles and their
owners notified to appear in court to
answer the preferred violation charges.
As a result of the action, owners are
buily engaged equipping their heavy
trailers with brakes this week. The
new law was resented to some extent
but trailer owners accepted the man
date and are now complying with the
law, it was learned Monday.
Trailers of less than two tons ca- j
pacity are not affected under the new
law, which became effective January 1
1. Trailers operating with a license
of a ton and one-half capacity and car
rying more than two tons are also
included under the law. Owners op
erating trailers of less than two tons
capacity are warned not to overload
them or brakes will be necessary.
Very little discretion can be shown
where violations of the trailer-brake
law are noted, and first offenses are j
subject to prosecution.
The law, passed by the 1931 General .
Assembly, in connection with brakes
for trailers, read as follows:
“Every trailer or semi-trailer of two
tons or over shall be equipped with
adequate brakes, that can be effective
ly operated while the trailer is in mo
tion: Provided, that until January first,
one thousand nine hundred and thirty
two, this section shall not apply to
trailers or semi-trailers licensed or in
use on the highways of the State at
the time of the passage of this act.”
Section 71 goes on to say that the
violation of the act is a misdemeanor
and the violator of the provisions there
in is subject to fine or imprisonment
in the discretion of the court as for
other misdemeanors.
Owners of trailers used for hauling
logs are finding it difficult to install
brakes, but in an effort to comply with
the law, the owners are equipping the
vehicles with mechanical brakes.
RECORDER HAD
BUT TWO CASES
J. B. Bateman Is Charged
With Removing Crops
Without Permission
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Prayer for judgment was continued
in the case of J. B. Bateman, who was
arraigned in recorder’s court here
Tuesday, charged wifth removing a
crop without permission from the farm
of Mr. Cole on which he was living.
It was alleged that he was warned
not to move the produce unless he
sold it and turned the proceeds over
to Mr. Cole. His bond was fixed at
$250, while lie was given until Janu
ary 26 to settle the matter.
R. S. Browning was assessed the
costs after pleading guilty to viola
tion of the traffic laws.
Home Agent Announces
Schedule for Next Week
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The home agent’s schedule for the
week beginning January 11 will be
as follows:
Monday, Scuppernong; Tuesday,
at Cherry; Wednesday, Albemarle;
Thursday, Wenona; Friday, Cross
Roads; Saturday, curb market.
Creswell Parent-Teacher
Group To Meet Tonight
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Creswell.—The Parent-Teacher As
sociation will meet Friday night, Jan-^
uary 8, at 7:30, it was announced by f
Principal C. H. Aderholdt, of the lo-J
cal school. The tools, technique, and
spirit of learning will be discussed.
Every membjjr is urged to attend.
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Child Is Attacked By
Dog At Scuppernong
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Scuppernong.—C. B. Davenport, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Davenport, was
walking down the road when the ani
mal attacked him, inflicting severe in
juries in the child’s side. A search is
being made for the animal to have its
head diagnosed to determine if he has
rabies.
Little Girl Dies In
Skinnersville Sunday
Skinnersville.—Funeral services were
held Monday afternoon for little
Gladys Marie Furlaugh, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Furlaugh, who
succumbed at her home Sunday morn
ing. She was two years of age. Death
was attributed to diphtheria.
To Outline Farm Program at
Meeting Here Tuesday Night
Delegation Informed That
Connty Has No Money for
Extension of Local Streets
TOWN COUNCIL
AGREES TO PAY
HALF OF COST
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Board Education Says No
Funds Are Available
For Purpose
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A delegation, including S. F. Davis,
H. C. Spruill, T. C. Burgess, A. L.
Alexander and W. H. Clarke and a
number oi negroes were told by the
Washington County Board of Educa
tion that no money was available for i
the purchase of enough property of
the W. D. Carstarphen estate to al
low the extension of Third and Fourth j
Streets to the Washingon County
Training school.
Even though the city council origi
nally recommended another site for
the location of the building, it agreed
to appropriate half of the $450 needed
to purchase the street right of way.
The board of education pleaded that
there was no funds to be used in this
manner.
The meeting was held as the result
of a petition bearing almost 100 white
and colored signatures, which was pre
sented to the officials. The white peo
ple were anxious to afford the negroes
an approach to their building other
than through the best residential sec
tion, while the negroes were anxious
for this added convenience tor their
children.
The owner of the land that was of
fered for sale for the streets also of
fered to give free enough land for use
as •* street to parallel Madison Street.
It might be that negroes will be de
manded to be transported from the
other side of town as a result of the
action of the board.
Change in Club Meeting
For Week oi January 18
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On account of conferences with the
state specialist, Miss Pratt Covington
announces the following clubs will
meet during the week of January 18:
Monday, Alba; Tuesdify, Pleasant
Grove; Wednesday, Swain; Thursday,
10 a. m., outlook meeting in court
house; afternoon, Creswell club.
SLIGHT GAIN IN
POSTAL RECEIPTS
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Gradual Gain Is Shown in
Past Thre Years by
Local Office
The local post office has shown a
gradual increase in postal receipts for
the last three years, it was learned
here today from Postmaster A. L.
Alexander.
Receipts for 1930 were $8,204.14 for
the year ending December 31, while
there was a net increase of $35.81 for
the year ending December 31, 1931.
The total receipts last year were $8,
239.95.
The local office has a good staff of
workers, with Mr. Alexander in charge. .
Eight dispatches a day are made from
the local office.
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Presiding Elder At Local
Methodist Church Sunday
The Rev. O. W. Dowd, of Eliza
beth City, presiding elder of the Eliza
beth City District of the Methodist
church, will preach here Sunday eve
ning at 7:30. There will be no morn
ing services Sunday as Pastor J. W.
Harrell will preach in Jamesville.
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Archeologists at work at several j
points in Kentucky have discovered
traces of a race of people which burn
ed the bodie of their males at death
hut buried in the flesh all females
and children.
In the Great Smoky Mountain Na
tional Park, Tennessee, is a spring
which discharges water for 7 minutes
and then remains inactive for 7 min
utes—thus alternating continuously
from an active to inactive state with
clock-like precision.
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As a measure of economy, the Eng
lish Government has announced the
abolishment of the custom of supply
ing free, during each session of the
House, 12,000 boxes of matches for the
smoking rooms of the House of Com
mons.
I HERE’S A LAUGH I
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Federal income tax return forms
for the year of 1931 were released
Monday, this newspaper has been
informed by Gilliam Grisssom, of
Raleigh, collector of internal reve
nue. Persons desiring the blanks
should apply to Mr. Grissom. Al
so they can be obtained from Da
vid Burnett, commissioner, in
Washington, D. C.
FOUNTAIN TALKS
TO MEMBERS OF
EASTERN C. OF C.
Favors Removal of Tax on
Land for Support of
Schools
Lieutenant-Governor R. T. Foun
tain, speaking at a meeting of East
ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce
at Murfreesboro Wednesday night
stated, in part: that the tax upon real
estate and ad valorem taxes for the
support of the State's six months
school term must be removed.
“From time immeorial, land and
other forms of real property have been
the real foundation of all wealth and
the chief and safest basis of credit.
In our zeal to push forward and build
up immense fabrics of paper wealth,
our tax laws have been constructed so
as to favor intangible property. Real
estate standing as a bulwark of true
wealth and value yet recently cast
aside by the investor has been called
upon to bear the brunt of the burden
of taxation. Real estate in 1915
represented fifty-five per cent of the
tax book wealth. In 1930 it had in
creased to seventy per cent of the tax
book wealth. Everyone knows that
this change in percentage should have
been decreased instead of increased as
personal property had magnified many
times.
“There should be a re-valuation of
real estate as early as possible so that
the above conditions can be remedied
and real estate taxes made more
equitible.”
Mr. Fountain further stated that
along with these changes must, of
course, go a balanced budget as near
as can be accomplished, but that this
budget must not be balanced at the
expense of the child. The public
schools must be kept open and with
out lessend facilities, that while he be
lieved in strict economy, he did not
think that the present standard of the
public school system should be low
ered any further or the teacher load
made any heavier, and that it should
be improved as soon as business con
ditions would permit.
“The State, as the individual,” the
Lieutenant-Governor continued, “can
not hope to long function with ex
penditures exceeding income. I re
spectfully submit however, that the
proper time to give greatest consid
eration to this problem is when the
legislature is in session. More care
and thought must he given to pro
viding revenue to meet appropriations
that are found necessary after giving
consideration to all sound ecenomies.
It is both unfortunate and unfair for
the legislative body to hold out cer
tain promises to the institutions of the
State which it is not able to fulfill,
whicr, in turn, makes it impossible
for these institutions to function in a
normal way.”
The aspirant for the Governorship
also called attention to the organized
and systematic effort of certain in
fluences-'in the State and (nation which
are undertaking to remove the gov
ernment from the control of the peo
ple, and undertaking to substitute ap
pointive government for representa
tive government through the short
ballot bills which take away from the
people the right to elect their own
officers and have them appointed
from Raleigh and Washington.
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Although a clock in the Memphis
(Tenn.) Power and Light Company’s
building is 150 years old, and its every
part of wood construction, 'the old
clock marks time as accurately as mod
ern time-pieces.
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CHATHAM FARMERS SELL
12,000 POUNDS OF TURKEYS
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A group of Chatham County far
mers sold 12,000 pounds of turkeys
for 19 cents a pound during the month
of December.
HON. A. D. M’LEAN
OF WASHINGTON
IS MAIN SPEAKER
Business Program for Agri
culture in East Will Be
Topic Discussed
Upwards of 50 persons are expected
to aUend the meeting that will be held
in the basement of the Washington
County courthouse here Tuesday eve
ning at 7 o’clock. Jan. 12, for the pur
pose of discussing a business program
for agriculture for Northeastern North
Carolina, it was announced today by
A. L. Alexander.
Representative A. D McLean, of
Washington, will be the principal
speaker of the occasion. Representa
tive Z. V. Norman, of this place, will
introduce the speaker, who became
prominent in his stand for tax legisla
tion in the 1931 General Assembly.
N. G. Bartlett, secretary-manager of
the Eastern Carolina Chamber of
Commerce, at Kinston, will preside.
Delegations from Roper, Creswell,
Columbia, Jamesville, Williamston,
Washington, Windsor, Belhaven, Pan
tego, Plymouth and other near-by
towns are being urged to attend by
Mr. Bartlett. The meeting will be
held in the form of a dutch supper,
with each participant paying his own
expense.
The local chapter of the united
Daughters of the Confederacy will he
in charge of the banquet, which will
cost each guest 50 cents. Working on
this committee with Mrs. Alexander
in arranging for the event is W .R.
Hampton, C. L. Groves, Z. V. Nor
man, L. W. Gurkin, and R. E. Dun
ning.
The meeting here will be the fourth
in a series of such meetings that are
being held in the eastern part of the
state under the auspices of the sec
tional organization. In addition to
the mentioned speakers there is likely
to he farm specialists present who will
aid in arriving at some specified meth
od of work for better conditions.
Those wishing to participate in the
supper should notify Mr. Alexander
by Saturday night. Reservations for
places made by those expected to at
tend will be a great advantage to the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
who are serving the meal. Those not
wishing to join in the supper are in
vited to the auditorium of the court
house to hear the speeches.
SEEK ESTIMATE
POTATOACREAGE
Growers Receiving Blanks
From U. S. Department
Of Agriculture
Irish potato growers in Washing
ton County have received blank ques
tionnaires from the division of crop
and live-stock estimates in the bureau
of agricultural economics in the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture,
which is seeking to determine the acre
age that will be produced in the sea
son of 1932.
“Early knowledge of intended acre
age in your section and in other early
potato States should be of valuable
guide to growers adjusting their acre
age plans before planting begins.
Every one making a report will receive
a complete summary as soon as the
estimate is issued,” writes W. F. Cal
lander, chairman of the crop report
ing board.
COUNTY BOARD
MEETS MONDAY
Routine Matters Occupy
Time of Commissioners;
J. P. Reports Made
Routnie business matters occupied
the time of the meeting of the \\ ash
ington County commissioners here on
Monday. John W. Darden was the
only one among the following magis
trates who reported the collection of
any fines: C. L. Everett, J. 1'■ Snell,
G. W. Hardison, and E. D. Carstar
phen.
It was decided to issue a voucher of
$5 to Cheek Douglas, a convict, to be
used in the purchase of food while he
was convalescing from a broken leg.
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Returns To Charlotte
After Visit in Roper
Roper.—Mrs. G. F. McNeill, of
Charlotte, has returned to her home
after spending a couple of weeks here
with her daughter, Mrs. H. W. Tar
kington. Accompanying her on the
return trip were Miss Rachel McNeill
and Joe McNeill and Mrs. L. N. Pat
rick and son, Neale, jr., of Gastonia.