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IjiiiiiiiHiimiiiiiimiiimiHiiiimmiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimu: i A home newspaper dedicated 1 | to the service of Washington = § County and its 12,000 people. § WiiHniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiitiniiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? The Roanoke Beacon ******* and Washington County News ★★★★*★★ JHiiiimiiiimiiiimiimiiiiiiimiHimimiifiiiiiiiiiimiHmiu = Advertisers will find Beacon 3 1 and News columns a latch-key to | § 1,100 Washington County homes. 3 fmiimiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiimniiimmiiiiiiHffliiiHiHiiiMiiimHii; VOLUME XLIII—NUMBER 27 I Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, July 1, 1932 ESTABLISHED 1889 YOUNG’S TO JOIN OTHER STORES IN HALF HOLIDAY Agreement To Cooperate With Other Merchants Made This Week -® Now that the local manager has au thority from W. F. Young, the local Young’s store will close with the rest of the stores in Plymouth each Wed nesday afternoon until August 17, when the business houses will remain open for the usual six days a week. The local merchants closed last week despite the fact that Young's store remained open. A letter from L. W. Gurkin, secretary of the chamber of commerce, to Mr. Young, asking him to cooperate with the merchants here in giving a half day holiday each week was granted by Mr. Young. The Plymouth Fire Department is sponsoring a game of baseball each Wednesday afternoon in an effort to | entertain the people during the half ■ holiday, and those who are pining for water on hot Wednesday afternoons have no further to go than to Rea’s Beach. Customers are urged to do their shopping early Wednesday mornings or at any other time during the week so that they will not be inconvenienced during the half holiday each week. The stores will close at 1 o’clock each Wednesday afternoon to open again at the usual time on Thursday morn ing. Names of those entering the agree ment follow: Southern Hardware Co., Sanitary Barber Shop, the Woman’s Shop, Jackson Electric Shoe Shop, Ply mouth Bargain Store, John W. Dar den, W. C. Harrison, W. E. Weede, Gilbert’s, Madison Street Grocery, Harry Chopic, Phillips-Wright Furni ture Company, W. F. Winslow, E. H. Liverman, Modern Barber Shop, Z. T. Sawyer, W. R. Hampton, Leon Sugar, Pender’s, White and Bowen, Ply mouth Hardware Co., J. C. Spruill, O. R. Leggett's Son, Williford’s, Econo my Cleaners, Thompson's, Campbell's Store, J. W. Jackson, Branch Bank, B. G. Campbell, J. T. Terry, R. A. Williford and Son, Insurance and Real ty Company, Beauty Shoppe, and Young’s. BUY TIRES NOW; PRICES TO GO UP Stocks Bought Before June 21 Are Not Subject to Federal Tax Car owners of this city were strong ly urged today by Dan Sattertlnvaite, of the Roanoke Service Station and Garage, local Firestone dealers, to buy tires now in preparation for their Fourth of July automobile trips. “There is no reason this year,” he says, “why any one should risk spoil ing his holiday enjoyment by driving on worn and unsafe tires. Motorists now have a wonderful opportunity to equip their automobiles with new tires at the lowest prices in history. With an excise tax on tires and tubes ef fective on June 21, it is unlikely that the chance to buy at the prevailing low range of prices will continue much longer. "With the Fourth of July holiday close at hand and with an eventual in crease in price inevitable, no one should miss this unusual opportunity. The pleasure you derive from a motor ing trip over the Fourth depends on your tires. It is the unwisest economy to mar your whole day through tire laiiure. ine uiuuc> *** to squeeze the last few miles out of a tire is insignificant compared with the expense and worry of an accident, with possible injury to the.motorist and his tamily, as a result of smooth or worn tires failing to stop the car in an emergency. ■‘In addition to the present low cost of tires, values have been greatly in creased. In Firestone tires, the gum dipped cord lilies under the tread and the extra tough, slow wearing non skid tread give the motorist the lowest cost per tire mile in history, lliese are construction features found in no other make of tire.” --« Local Young Man Is Sentenced To Roads -<f>— A sentence of four months on the roads was imposed upon Clyde Ca hoon, son of Mrs. Clyde Cahoon, of Plymouth, in a lower court in Rocky Mount last week. The young man am -ted on charges of assaulting an officer and also of assaulting a young woman. Mr. Cahoon was in attendance at the June German dance held in Rocky Mount where news dispatches state that he was arrested by an officer who was compelled to use force after young Cahoon had struck him. The officer answered pleas for help from a hotel employee and the girl. An appeal to a higher court was made in behalf of Mr. Cahoon. Persons Qualifying Since Books Closed Can Register While there will be few, or prac cally no citizens wishing to regis ter this Saturday in order to vote that day, the question has been raised as to wether one has the right to register and vote that day. The law says, “No registration shall be allowed on the day of the election, but if any person shall give satisfactory evidence to the registrar and judges of election that he has become qualified to register and vote after the time for registration has expired, he shall be allowed to register on that date.” According to that section of the law, a man or woman becoming 21 years of age since the last pri mary, June 4, has the right to reg ister and vote this Saturday. A person who was 21 years or older before the registration books closed the 21st of May, and who failed to register prior to that time can not register and vote in the second primary, it is understood. The only other persons qualified to register that day are those who j have moved to the county or from one precinct to another within the county during the past four months. If he has lived in a pTe cinct only three months and 29 days he can not register and vote in his residence precinct, but he still has the right to vote in the i precinct from which he moved, provided, of course, he was a quali j fied elector in that district. j Few Tomatoes Are Shipped This Week ---A -9 TELLS HOW TO DRY CORN AND STRING BEANS . .. ♦— Home Agent Says Dried Product Equally Good As When Canned -®—— Miss Eugenia Patterson, home agents offers the following instruc tions that will prove of value in dry ing corn and green string beans: Corn.—-Husk and silk corn, boil for twety minutes on the cob. Remove from boiling water and as soon as it is cool enough to handle, cut off the grain, making two layers of it. Spread on a cloth and place on a metal roof for drying. If your roof is shingled that will be all right, too, but metal will dry the corn in less time. Cover with mosquito netting or tobacco cloth to keep out insects. When the corn rattles it is dry and ready to store in a flour bag or the like for winter use. If you desire it to be absolutely safe front insect eggs (that might have been laid while drying), place in a bread pan and place in slow oven j I (stirring often to prevent burning) for , a few minutes before storing. Soak (as you do preserves) and cook in the | same water to save all the food value, j | Try some, it is as good or better than canned coin. l Beans.—String and cook three-' fourths done; place on board or roof as you would corn. Follow same direc tions as for drying corn for the re- I mainder of the process. Green butter beans can be dried al so. Try them in the tobacco barns. Can tomato juice by using the small tomatoes. UNIFORMS FOR TEAM DONATED Eleven Suits for Baseball Team Are Pledged by Local Firms Merchants here have contributed uniforms for the baseball boys in Ply mouth. Eleven suits have been pledg ed. J. P. Sutton is endeavoring to aid the boys in securing them. These suits will greatly encourage the boys who are furnishing amusement for the fans of the national pastime without pay. i\ames ol those commuting suns could not be secured at this time, but they will appear in the Beacon soon. This shows the willingness of the lo cal business men to aid the Plymouth Fire Department in its efforts to spon sor a team. -« Presiding Elder Dowd To Be Here Sunday Morning -® Presiding Elder O. W. Dowd, of the Elizabeth City District, will preach at the Methodist church here Sunday morning at the 11 o’clock hour, and will hold the 'third quarterly confer ence immediately following the serv ice, it was announced by the pastor to day. Dr. J. W. Harrell will preach at the evening hour. -«-—. Alba Home Demonstration Club Holds Regular Meet Alba—The home demonstration club held its monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Garney Bateman Friday aft ternoon. The topic of the meeting was can ning, drying of fruit and vegetables. Correct ways of ironing were also pointed out by the home agent. Delicious chocolate and cocoanut fudge and salted peanuts were served by the hostess. EXPECT SEASON TO BE IN FULL SWING MONDAY Good Yields Expected by Firms Contracting for Planting -• Few tomatoes are being wrapped here this week in preparation for the markets, but the largest buyers in the business here agree that by the first of next week the business will get down to a steady stride as the vege tables will begin to ripen. There are three definite stages that are recognized commercially for the picking of the tomatoes to show that they are in condition for marketing, and these are mature green, pink, and ripe. These tomatoes are called for on contract to be delivered green. S. C. Corl)in, of Corbin and Lowe, says: ‘Tomatoes are beginning to come into our place here now. A truck sponsored by us will canvass the county. It is thought that by the first of next week the vegetables will start coming in here and w>e are pre pared to handle them.” John W. Dardn, of the Crockett Packing Company, says: “Tomatoes contracted by us, as we have been informed by our growers, will start coming in here during the week-end, and by next week a steady delivery from those who planted for us is ex pected. Friday and Saturday we are expecting to be good days.” L. W. Gurkin, of the-Andrews & Knowles Produce Company, says: “Wednesday we had a good day. Ex pecting another good day Saturday, and from then on we are expecting to handle as many tomatoes for the market as we can conveniently do un til those contracted for by us will be exhausted.” A. R. Phelps, Albemarle Mutual Ex change, Roper, says: “It appears now that the season will give us a good yield from the acreage planted by mem bers of our organization. We arc han dling tomatoes at the present and ex pect them to increase from time to time until all those planting with us have sold their last of the vegetable.” SPECIAL TERM OF SUPERIOR COURT ENDED FRIDAY -3> Verdict of $1,000 Returned Against V. E. & P. Co.; Appeal Is Noted The two weeks special term of the Washington County Superior Court, for the trial of civil cases only, held here for the last two weeks, conclud ing last Friday, cost the county up wards of $1,200. There were 24 jur ors summoned from this county and their expense for one day had to be paid. Then 36 jurors were chosen from Hyde County, and their expenses to and from here and while here had to be paid by the commissioners. The Hyde jurors were summoned at the request of the defendants, who felt that they could ncrt get a fair trial with local jurors serving. The two week's term was spent on cases involving the Virginia Electric and Power Company for damages caused by fire in certain sections of the county. A verdict of $1,000 was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. The case was appealed. WEIRD GAME WON BY LOCALS, 26 - 6 Every Member of Plymouth Team Goes To Bat Seven Times -- Something unusual in baseball took place Monday when each of the nine boys on the Plymouth baseball team , went to bat seven times each in a ■ game with Creswell. The score was 126 to 6 in favor of Plymouth. It is also a coincident that exactly 63 men faced the two Creswell hurl | ers, as the last man in the Plymouth line-up was put out in the ninth in ning to stop the game. | This was Plymouth's revenge, as the locals dropped a game to Roper Fri 1 day and came back Sunday afternoon to lose a game to Dardens. Erratic defense contributed to the downfall of the locals in the contests which i were lost. Winston-Salem Man Likes Washington County -A | W. M. Evans, a teller in the home | hank of the Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, Winston-Salem, likes Ply I mouth and Washington County. A ' visit here with his wife and daughter I this week resulted in his expression that he would come down here in the season for hunting. While here the visitors were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brewer. They spent only a little more than a day, i but this was time enough for Mr. I Brewer and Mr. Evans to enjoy a good ' fishing trip in the county. -• Plymouth Loses To Roper By 10-2 Score Roper.—A good pitching job by Thomas Norman and hitting when hits 'could do the most good, accounted for ' Roper easily defeating Plymouth, 10 'to 2. Against the masterly pitching of Norman, Plymouth used three pitch ers, who were not able to silence the Roper bats. Other features of the game were the hitting of McAllister, who hit safely four times out of five, the catching of Mizelle, and the fielding of Williams at shortstop. Capt. In E. Mizelle Caught Matthewson lis First Ball Game As Professional —o— —o— —u— History is replete with the achieve ments of Christy Mathewson, acclaim ed as the greatest pitcher in all base hall, but it tells little or nothing in the sports annals of the catcher who caught for him in his first professional game. And that catcher was none other than Captain Charles E. Mizelle, of Roper, who came down to Norfolk from Fortress Monroe especially to receive for the pitcher who was mak ing his debut. Captain Charlie had been catching in the \ irgittia League and in the Army for some time and the two made a good battery. Norfolk was playing Portsmouth at that time, and Norfolk was eager to defeat their opponents in those days, as there was a kind of rivalry existing between the tw'O cities in sports, and especially was this true in baseball. And it w-as in Norfolk that John Mc Graw discovered Mathewson and took him later to the camp of the New York Giants of the National League. Mathewson was a little wild in the first inning, walking the first three men that faced him. Then Captain Charlie advised him to refrain from curves and "drops" for a time, and the next three men were struck out by nine speed balls that were hurled a cross the plate. The pitcher was a little nervous at the time. Another man that Captain Charlie played with that went to the second place position of the San Francisco Seals was Ping Bowdy, who later was sold to the Chicago White Sox, then to the New York Yankees, and who is now operating a filling station in San Francisco. His playing ability caused Captain Charlie to land a place on a club in the Southern Association, where he aided Arthur Devlin, who played for Tarboro some back in those days, to a place with the New York Giants. Mr. Mizelle was a private then, and the Army would grant him furloughs to play baseball. When the war came on, Captain Mizelle had been in the Army for a long while. During this time he had been on the staff of General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary F'orces. He had, previous to this time, served in the Spanish-American War. General Pershing had a pet cat that he liked very well and Captain Mi zelle saw the cat while walking with a pet dog. Realizing the feline belonged to the general, he took the dog in his arms before he could attack the cat. The general watched this procedure from a doorway. “Why did you pick up the dog from the ground,” asked the general of his inferior officer. “So that he wouldn't kill your cat,” replied Mr. Mizelle. “No; 1 think you were afraid the cat would kill the little dog," rejoined the general. “That cat would be killed in less than three minutes if I were to turn this dog loose,” C aptain Charlie con tinued. “Well, if you are not afraid, put the dog down. I would like to see a fight, anyway,” concluded the gen 1 eral. | In less than the three minutes, after a stiff fight, the cat was dead at the | general’s feet. Years passed. In France the two officers met again. And the incident was recalled by the general. And every time General Pershing’s name is mentioned, a word of praise comes from Capt. Charlie, lauding this great soldier. Close Contest Is Looked For In Primary Here Saturday Plan For Aiding Unemployed In County and Town Outlined Jobless negroes and others in Plymouth and Washington Coun ty can be fed this summer from small gardens scattered all over the city and county on vacant lots and open land about in various places while others can find work as well as food laboring in a com munity garden. This project of helping idle ne groes to help themselves can be worked out as a cooperative proj ect. This work can be superin tended by Farm Agent R. E. Dun ning. City teams and implements can be used in preparing the soil and cultivating it. Local business men can help supply seeds and fertilizer. From this number of gardens and cultivated acres in the county will come vegetables than can be canned by the help of Miss Eu genia Patterson, home agent. She can give demonstrations in how to conserve the supply. Idle ne groes can be employed on these tracts and can be paid by proceeds from vegetable sales. PRAYER SERVICE WELL ATTENDED -® 150 People at Wednesday Night Session at St. Delight Church -- YVestover.—Steady growth has fea tured the mid-week prayer services held in the cottages or homes of those interested in the St. Delight Christian church near here. A peak in attend ance was reached last Wednesday evening at the church when about 150 people were present for the service. For seven years these mid-week ser vices have been a feature of the ac tivities of this church. They started with only a few attending but now, in good weath, it is necessary to move from the homes to the church in order to seat the crowd that attends. Last week Rev. Gilbert Davis, pas tor of the church, was present for the service and he made a short talk. Wal ter H. Paramore led the singing. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Brewer re idered a duet. Miss Phelps was the leader. It is the custom for a boy to lead one time and a young lady the next. 'These services are held weekly witn W. A. Swain, one of the church lead ers, present and always ready to help in every possible way. A truck own ed by Mr. Swain, makes a route at each service, taking up those wishing to go and who have no conveyance of^ their own. These services are unique in that on every ocassion a period is taken for the quotation of verses or scripture from the Bible. Usually every one takes part even to the smaller children. Sentence prayers are always in order as some one is designated to start anti clase while as many pray in addition to this as feel led. This church recently has etdarged the building for the purpose of provid ing better Sunday school facilities. And it is wide awake in every phase, and visitors are always accorded a welcome. Tom D. Parrish Speaks Here for R. T. Fountain —•« Tom D. Parrish, of Raleigh, will speak here Thursday evening in the courthouse at 8 o'clock in the interest of Richard T. Fountain’s gubernatorial candidacy, it was announced here by Tom J. Swain, Fountain campaign manager in Washington County. AGRICULTURAL WORKER HELPS MANY FARMERS <» ” Resume of Activities of C. H. Rabon Shows Many Valuable Features Creswell.—Striking examples of the character of work being done by C. H. Rabon, head of the department of vocational agriculture in the Creswell High School, are brought out in a re view made of his work, which has reached about 80 per cent of the people in this immediate section. The purpose of this department is to train young boys that are to be future farmers of America in improved and economical methods of farming, and to help the farmers reap the profits from his labors by cooperation and to provide sources of practical informa tion on methods of farming that they are unable to get elsewhere. This department was established in July, 1930, and 129 students have been enrolled in both day and night classes. tn the types of instruction there have een two day classes with 1 1-2 hours each for the boys, and evening classes have been held in Creswell and Pea Ridge for adult farmers. Cooperative Work Farmers have cooperated in buying seeds and spraying materials. And a poultry organization lias been formed tlftt ^vTir'aitf in the cooperative buying and selling of poultry and its prod ucts. The intention is to form an exchange, wherein all seeds, fertilizers, and other necessities will be purchased and farm products sold cooperatively. The community program includes the supervising of all day and evening projects, which number at this time 65. An effort is made to visit each project fortnightly. These projects consist of poultry, corn, swine, garden, and soy beans. Demonstrations on pruning or chards, culling flocks, and fertilizer exhibits have been given from time to time. Individual Calls Examples of individual calls made follow: A mule owned by Robert Mc Gowan was suffering with intestinal trouble. Mr. Rabon’s efforts with a vaccinating syringe relieved the animal so that it is living today, when many thought it would die. He drove his • car 42 miles on this single job. A cow with milk lever was naraiy breathing when Mr. Rabon was called to the farm of Seaton Phelps. Not having an outfit for use in this work he used an automobile pump, and in 40 minutes the cow was better, and is getting along well today. A hot cloth application was used in reliev ing the cow of Will Davenport that suffered from the same trouble. A cow owned by J. C. Gatlin that was bloated was relieved by the use of a syringe in the hands of Mr. Rabon. A cow owned owned bj J. D. Alligood was suffering from eversion of the womb when Mr. Rabon was called and faithful work with the prop er attention being rendered resulted in the cow recovering from this trouble. These are just five cases taken at random to show the work that Mr. Rabon is doing in addition to hi.-, class-1 room work. Calls come to him day and night, and he has never turned j down a single applicant in his efforts to aid the farmers in the Creswell and Pea Ridge and l.ake Phelps sec-^ tions. Project income shows that for labor the students earned $740.09; increased yield due to improved practices of eve ning students last year was $964.62, labor income for evening students last year was $726.38. Each student is re quired to keep complete and accurate accounts of each project. --* Nineteen steers on 14 acres of car pet grass and lespedeza pasture on the farm of E. t'. Bell in Jones County made gains of 1,633 pounds from May 11 to June 8, a period of 28 days. EHRINGHAUSAND REYNOLDS WILL PROBABLY LEAD County Treasurer Is Only Local Office At Stake in Saturday Voting -- Qualified voters will go to the polls again Saturday to make their final choice in the selection of candidates for the Democrats to run against the Republicans in the November general election. There are only eight candi dates out for the four offices in this second primary. John C. B. Ehringhaus is the op ponent of Richard T. Fountain for the gubernatorial nomination, while Rob ert R Reynolds is seeking the nomina tion to succeed Cameron Morrison as Senator and then there is Clarence E. Mitchell against A. L. Fletcher for the office of commissioner of labor. The only fight in the county is be tween Ernest G. Arps, local druggist, who is opposing J. Corbitt Swain, farmer, for the office of treasurer. These two were the high men in a fieid of seven candidates. Arps polled 385, while Swain led him by four votes in the first primary. Indications are today that there will be a close contest between the latter two men, who are after the county job. Each is perfecting an organization to get people to the polls. Today, with less than 24 hours to mobilize their fighters, they are hard at work. Washington Coutny will probably again give Ehringhaus a good ma jority as they did in the first primary, as the Elizabeth City attorney has not lost any of his attraction to the peo ple in these parts. Leading politic ians in this county predict a heavy ma jority all over the state for Mr. Eh ringhaus. As a wet, Robert R. Reynolds will get a large number r.f votes, not for this reason alone, probably, but for the reason that a number are out to get the scalp of Morrison on account of his activity in the Senate i t regard to endorsing McNinch, lloovercrat, for a big Federal job. HIGHER POSTAGE RATES TO TAKE EFFECT JULY 6TH Patrons Holding Two-cent Envelopes Will Have To Add Another Stamp -^ New postal rates included in the revenue measure recently passed by Congress are effective July 6, accord ing to Postmaster VV. E. Vick. Ef fective on that date, letters weighing no more than 1 ounce will require 3 cents postage. Mr. V ick issued the follow ing state ment explaining other postal changes made by the new law: Letters or other first-class matter weighing in excess of one ounce will require postage at the rate of 3 cents for each ounce or fraction thereof. No change was made in the rate for post cards and postal cards, this rate re maining at 1 cent each. In order to discourage the mailing of insufficiently prepaid matter, 1 cent per ounce in addition to the deficient postage will be collected on postage due letters or matter of the first class. Letters prepaid less than 3 cents will be returned to the senders if known. If the sender is not known, they will, ii prepaid at least 2 cents, be rated with the deficient postage and dispatched to destination for collection of the amount due upon delivery to the addressee. betters in business reply envelopes are subject to postage at the rate of 3 cents for each ounce Effective the same date the rate on mail carried by airplane will he in creased 3 cents per ounce. The old rate of 5 cents for the first ounce or fraction and 10 cents for each ad ditional ounce or fraction will be chang ed to 8 cents for the fir-t ounce or fraction and 13 cents for each addi tional ounce or fraction thereof. This rate, however, does not apply to mail sent by air to Puerto Rico, Virgin Island of the United States, and the Canal Zone. The rate be tween Puerto Rico or the Virgin Is lands of the United States and the Ca nal Zone is 10 cents for each half ounce or fraction of a half ounce; and the rate between the United States, Puerto Rico, or Virgin Islands of the United States and the Canal one is 20 cents for each half ounce or fraction of half ounce. It will be necessary that patrons hav ing 2-cent envelopes on hand place an additional 1-cent stamp on each en velope. Future envelope orders will, of course, be entered for envelopes of the 3-cent denomination.
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