THE ROANOKE BEACON
And Washington County News
Published Every Friday in Plymouth. Washington
County, North Carolina
WALTER H. PARAMORE Managing Editor
The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889
and consolidated with the Washington County
News in 1929.
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Friday, July 22, 1932
Burke Fails by Three Millions Dollars
That fellow Henry Burk, the wonderful budget
balancer and $25 treasury teat sucker, failed by more
than $3,000,000 to do his duty last year. It would
probably be one of the best things this State could
do to balance Burke's account and send him back to
Wisconsin.
The people know they are in debt and must pay
taxes, and while they dislike to pay taxes, they also
dislike financial dictatorships worked out and thrust
upon them by one Mr. Burke. Apparently it is hard
to elect a man to do things himself but who has to get
somebody else to do the work.
This man Burke was brought to North Carolina by
Governor McLean, and it looks now as if no body can
make any figures but Mr. Burke.
Mr. Hoover’s Salary Cut
Polticians seldom do anything that pleases every
body. One exception popped up, however, and that
was recently when President Herbert Hoover decreas
ed his own salary by $15,000. And the President went
just a little bit further and pleased everybody again
when he decreased the salaries of each cabinet mem
ber from $15,000 to $13,500.
And then everyone is agreed that somebody should
take a whack at the salaries paid congressmen. If
they can’t live on small salaries then let them change
from the way of extravagance and turn to the simple
life. It will be better for them and for everybody else
if they do change because the rest of us will not have
to strain so hard to trot in the swift class.
Big Rats
We have heard of rats of all kinds, but those Ay
den rats that weigh four pounds each, mentioned in
news dispatches last week, are the largest we have
heard of so far.
Of course, the story that rats have recently killed
three hound puppies in that section is reasonable be
cause the puppies were young.
What puzzles us is how they grow such large rats
during these hard times.
A Child of the Liquor Trusts
John H. Small, the former congremman from this
district, and trust attorney-lobbyist, seems to be
earning his money as representative of the liquor
people. Although he announced his residence as
Washington, D. C., something like a year ago, yet
nothing can happen in North Carolina either in busi
ness or in politics but what he is down here blabbing
for the whiskey trust headed by Raskob, Dupont and
Co. who have designed already the establishment of a
great whiskey and beer trust like unto which the
world has never before seen.
Mr. Small has butted into conventions, and now he
is trying to butt into the North Carolina Bar associa
tion with his whiskey rabble.
Small is smart. While he was paid to represent
the people in Congress for 20 years, apparently he
represented the corporate interests instead. He has,
no doubt, has been a pest for many years to the people
who thought he was their friend, for it is more or less
evident now that he was against them rather than
for them.
It would be just recompense to expel him from the
State rather than to allow him to come among us as
the agent of selfish grafters who are trying to head us
deeper into the mire.
Should Harmonize
It may be that there is a little too much being said
by some newspapers about the recent primary candi
dates. Since all candidates, both those who won and
those who lost, seem to be on good terms, it is doubt
ful if it is good for anybody to keep nagging and
opening up more sores. It can’t help those who won,
and it is cowardly to kick those who have lost.
It is just and proper to exalt the strength and to
exploit the weakness of candidates before they are
chosen in the primary or general election, after which
all the people should act together in one common
cause.
Before we get good government we must harmonize
the forces of truth and justice. We can’t do it by
pointing out the weaknesses of our friends. This habit
of nagging has broken up many homes and weakened
political parties.
Striking at Two Educational Institutions
It is beginning to appear as if somebody is trying
to knife our State educational institutions, and that
our State College, where we have spent four and one
half millions for equipment and educate about 2,000
students annually, and our Woman's college at Greens
boro, where we have a similar investment and where
we educate about the same number of girls, are both
i about to be abandoned to the bats.
Governor Gardner recommended a consolidation of
these schools with the State University, which appear
ed to be a very wise undertaking in order to cheapen
costs and avoid duplications of courses. The plan was
to combine the engineering schools at Raleigh and at
Chapel Hill into one.
Governor Gardner went to Chicago and brought
Mr. Works, an educational expert, back to tell him
how to reorganize the system. But to the deep
I humility of the people of Xorth Carolina, Mr. Works
■ suggests making the University a very high-powered
; institution where the wealthy may go and engage in
i the theories of things, and at the same time virtually
j abandon State College at Raleigh and Woman's col
j lege at Greensboro, two institutions that have made
| their impress on the home, the agricultural, the
j business and the economic life of the State.
People think Governor Gardner should keep his
promise to the three schools by holding them intact,
rather than placing himself in the hands of a Chicago
University man who has high-powered theories, but
perhaps a no better line of sound, sensible reasoning
of what the people of Xorth Carolina need than they
know themselves.
Our State needs more people to know how to make
a living, and certainly State College and the Xorth
t
Carolina College for Women at Greensboro have done
more along that line than any other of the institutions
in our State.
If Mr. Work succeeds in destroying our colleges at
Raleigh and Greensboro then let the legislature re
store them.
Social Bankruptcy
Why are boys and girls and even older people per
mitted to use so much vulgarity these days? Must we
admit that our social system has swung so low that
decent people are no longer protected from coarse
vulgarity when in the presence of what should be con
sidered decent society.
Our social system is about as near bankruptcy as
our financial system is. More home training and more
school discipline is badly needed.
Senator F. M. Simmons
Carl Goerch, in The Washington Progress.
Somebody, at some time or other, made the asser
tion that an honest confession is good for the soul. ,
If that is so, then I'd like to make a confession !
with respect to the attitude which I—together with |
many other North Carolinians—took with respect to j
former Senator F. M. Simmons in 1928.
I aoused Senator Simmons through the columns of
my paper; I inferred that he was a traitor to his party;
I intimated that he was disloyal to the people who
had stood by him for many years and whose feelings
he should have considered; I hinted at a great many
other things.
I wish to say that I am honestly ashamed of what
I wrote and said at that time. It has taken me al
most four years to obtain an accurate opinion con
cerning Senator Simmons and what he did during the
Alfred E. Smith campaign. As I see things today,
Furnifold M. Simmons is one of the greatest living j
men that North Carolina ever has produced. Instead
of reviling him for his stand in 1928, I can now ad
mire him for what he did. I can appreciate his view
point and I can understand his actions at that time.
Senator Simmons was eternally and everlastingly right.
Alfred E. Smith was not the man for President of the
United States. He never was and never can be. Sen
ator Simmons had the courage to express his convic
tions. Shrewd politician that he was, he knew with
out doubt that his stand would mean his political
death. But he never hesitated; he never wavered.
He did his duty as he saw it, and he did it fearlessly.
I admire Senator Simmons. I admire him just as
heartily today as I abused him in 1928. Somehow
or other—although I am not in a position to speak for
any one else—Ibelieve that there are a great many
other people in North Carolina who feel exactly as I
do about him.
Of Great Importance
; Bertie News-Leader
If balancing the Federal budget—the fact of which
! brought into being the enormous tax bille that went in
to effect this week—was for Congress a matter first
in urgency to the life of the nation, the people are
now thinking that a matter of equal importance and
lacking little of the former’s urgency is a reduction
of governmental expenditures that will as speedily as
possible make such excessive tax levies unnecessary in
the future. Congress may have performed a stu
penduous task and accomplished a highly commend
able piece of labor in balancing the budget, but so
long as our representatives dally and debate over an
economy program without doing anything to reduce
expenses, while the country pays heavier taxes out of
incomes diminished to the vanishing point, these rep
resentatives need not look to the people for any praise
or compliment. All of said representatives may be
good at reading the wishes of their constituency and
keep their ears glued to the ground to catch the swells
of rising feeling, but unless they do something about
cutting expenses, waste and extravagance, including
a few useless employees and a large number of exces
sive salaries, they are misreading the people’s wishes
and their ears are not properly attuned. After this
revenue bill that digs into everybody’s budget, the
people want economy much worse than they wanted
budget balancing.
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NOTICE
North Carolina,
Washington County.
Under and by virtue of a power of
sale embraced in a certain mortgage
executed by J. C. Spruill to Annie \\ .
Spruill, May Spruill, and Jerry L.
Spruill on the "th day of February,
1929, and recorded in Washington
County in book 98, page 302, and the
said J. C. Spruill having defaulted in
the payment of the indebtedness there
by secured, the said undersigned mort
gagees will expose at public sale at the
store of J. C. Spruill in Plymouth,
North Carolina, on Water Street on
the
30TH DAY OF JULY, 1932, AT 11
O’CLOCK A. M.
to the highest bidder, tor cash, the fol
lowing described personal property:
The entire stock of goods, wares,
and merchandise together with all fix
tures of every kind and description in
the stores now located on Water
Street and occupied by the said party
of the first part and all other goods,
wares and merchandise which may be
added to said stock before this indebt
edness is paid.
This the 8th day of July, 1932.
ANNIE W. SPRUILL,
MAY SPRUILL,
JERRY L. SPRUILL,
jy 15 4t Motrgagees.
By Z, V. Norman, AttJrney.
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
and authority contained in a certain
mortgage from George Hassell and
wife, Lydia Hassell, to J. E. Phelps,
dated December 30, 1930, and regis
tered in the office of Register of Deeds
of Washington County, in Book 93,
page 161, default having been made in
the payment of the indebtedness there
by secured, the undersigned will, on
Thursday, July 28, 1932, at 12:00 o’
clock noon, at the courthouse door of
Washington County in Plymouth, sell
at public auction, to the highest bid
der, for cash, the following described
lands:
First tract: The John W. Gaylord
Steeley place, containing 26 acres, more
or less, and being the same land con
veyed to the said George Hassell by
Levi Blount and wife, by deed dated
the 27th day of October, 1904, and
recorded in book 49, page 57, public
registry of Washington County.
Second Tract: Being the home lot,
together with the improvements there
on conveyed to the said George Has
sell by the John L. Roper Lumber
Company by deed dated January 4,
1901, and recorded in book 41, page
478, public registry of Washington
County.
The terms of the said sale will be
cash and the successful bidder will be
required to deposit 10 per cent of his
bid to guarantee compliance and in
demnify against loss, pending con
firmation of the sale.
Dated and posted this the 27th day
of June, 1932.
J. E. PHELPS,
jy8 4t Mortgagee.
Carl L. Bailey, Attorney.
NOTICE OF RESALE OF VALU
ABLE REAL ESTATE
North Carolina,
Washington County.
Under and by virtue of the authority
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust executed by M. D. Hare to
P. W. Brinkley, trustee, dated 21st day
of January, 1931, and recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds of
Washington County, in book 74, page
540, to which reference is hereby made,
default having been made in the pay
ment of the indebtedness thereby se
cured, and demand having been made
upon the said trustee to foreclose said
deed of trust according to the terms
of the same:
And said trustee having sold the said
property on the 4th day of July, 1932,
and the bid having been raised as per
mitted by law, and the clerk of the su
perior court for Washington County,
North Carolina, having ordered said
trustee to readvertise and resell said
real estate, the undersigned trustee
will, on Monday, Aug. 1, at 12 o’clock
noon, in front of the courthouse door
in the town of Plymouth, Washing
ton County, N. C., offer at public sale,
and sell to the highest bidder, for cash,
the property described in the said in
strument as follows:
Being located in Scuppernong Town
ship, adjoining the lands of C. E. Cam
pen, M. M. Hare and others, and
bounded on the north by C. E. Cam
pen; on the east by Isaac Furlough;
an the south by Scuppernong River;
and on the west by M. H. Hare. Ex
cepting from the operation of this con
veyance any and all rights of the said
M. D. Hare in and to the schoolhouse
lot embraced within the above de
scribed land.
The bidder at such sale will be re
quired to deposit as much as 10 per
cent of the amount of the bid as a
guaranty of good faith, pending con
firmation by the court.
This the 14th dav of June, 1932.
P. W. BRINKLEY,
jy 15 2t & h Trustee
H. D. Davenport, owner of the debt.
NOTICE OF SALE
LTnder and by virtue of the power
and authority contained in that cer
tain deed of trust executed by Leroy
Spruill and wife to the undersigned
trustee, dated the 18th day of Januarv,
1923, and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Washington
County, in book 74, page 250, to which
reference is hereby made, default hav
ing been made in the payment of the
indebtedness thereby secured, the un
dersigned trustee will, on Monday, the
8th day of August, 1932, at 12 o'clock
noon, at the courthouse door in Wash
ington County, offer for sale, to the
highest bidder, for cash, that certain
real property described in said instru
ment as follows:
Beginning at an iron marker at the
edge of the Folly road, a corner at the
intersection of the Folly road and the
public road that lead from the Woody
Spruill farm to Cherry by C. D.
Spruill’s place; thence running north
wardly along the east side of said
public road 230 feet; thence eastu'ard
iy perpendicular to the public road 210
feet to the Folly road; thence south
w'estw'ardly along the north side of
the Folly road 305 feet to the public
road, the beginning point, it being that
part of the T. T. Sawyer place on
which all the buildings are used as a
building lot and yard, triangular in
shape, 305 feet on Folly road, 230 feet
on public road, and 210 feet across j
corner of field from public road to:
Folly road. Also all that three plats
of land deeded from N. F. Ambrose
and wife, Mary Ambrose, to Leroy
Spruill, January 17th, 1923, containing
40.21 acres of the H. W. Spruill farm,
being plats numbers 2, number 2A,
and number 4, recorded in map book
No. 1, page 7, Washington County
records.
The bidder at such sale will be re
quired to deposit as much as 10 per:
cent of the amount bid as a guaranty |
of good faith, pending confirmation by.
the court and the right is reserved to
reject any and all bids.
This the 0th day of July, 1932.
H. G. WALKER,
jy8 4tw Trustee.
By W. L. Whitley, Attorney.
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Side Quit Hurting,
Got Stronger, Well;
CARDUI Helped Her
Mrs. R. L. West, of Huntsville,
Ala., writes: “I was weak and
run-down. I had a pain in my side,
and I kept losing weight. I grew
nervous over my oondition—this was
unusual for me, for I am very cheer
ful when I am well and don t easily
get nervous. I knew I ought to take
something. My aunt told me I ought
to try Cardui, which I did. I began
to feel better. I kept It up until I
had taken three or four bottles. My
side quit hurting and I was soon
feeling strong and well."
Cardui is sold at drug stores here.
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of a power of
sale embraced in a deed of trust exe
uted by VV. 1. Alexander and wire
to E. S. Woodley, trustee, on the 18th
day of February, 1928, and recorded in
book 74, page 476, Washington Coun
ty, and default having been made in
the payment of the note thereby se
cured and application having been
made in the payment of the note there
by secured and application having been
made to said trustee for a sale of the
land hereinafter described, the said E.
S. Wodley, truste, will expose at pub
lic sale to the highest bidder for cash
in the
STH DAY OF AUGUST, 1932, AT
12 O'CLOCK NOON
at the courthouse door of Wahing
:on County, the following described
real estate:
All that part of the Sheppard farm
ind the Mountain tract of land which
yas owned by Alfred Alexander and
vhich was inherited by William T.
\lexander from his father, the said
Mfred Alexander, and was acquired by
William T. Alexander by deed from
fennie V. Alexander, widow, and Ma
dda and Alfred Alexander, children
if Alfred Alexander, deed which was
•eserved from a deed of trust executed
iy William T. and Ethel P. Alexan
ler to the Southern Trust Company,
which said deed of trust is recorded
n book 89, page 22, Register of Deeds
office, Washigton County. The pur
iose of this deed is to convey the en
ure interest of William T. Alexander
ind Ethel P, Alexander in the Shep
oard farm and the Mountain tract of
and not covered by the above-named
feed of trust to the Southern Trust
Company.
The above described land will be
■old subject to the taxes of 1932, but
lie crops now growing on said land
aril not be sold, and the present own
;rs of said crops will be permitted to
larvest the same without inference on
lie part of the purchaser.
This the 2nd day of July, 1932.
E. S. WOODLEY,
v8 4tw Trustee.
By Z. Y_. Norman, Attorney.
DR. V. H. MEWBORN
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted
Robersonville at Fulmer’s Drug Store,
Tuesday After Third Sunday Each
Month.
Williamston, at Davis Pharmacy, on
Wednesday After Third Sunday of
Each Month.
Plymouth at O’Henry Drug Store,
Thursday After Third Sunday Each
Month.
At Tarboro. N. C., Every Friday and
Saturday
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