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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in Plymouth, N. C., under the act of Congress of
March 3, 1879,
Tuesday, March 28, 1933
Our Most Important Task
We have heard lots of talk about confidence re
cently, andjiearly always the talk placed the empha
sis in the wrong place.
We were taught to think that wealth wras afraid
to invest because of the attitude of the people gen
erally, which is entirely wrong. The truth is that
wealth has acted in such a manner that would give
general business a panicky feeling, and then it would
jump on them and rob them.
This has been fully proven by recent investiga
tions of the very people and institutions that have
been paraded before the public as business builders
and financial saviors, when, in fact, they have never
been higher in the scale of business or citizenship
than thieves and robbers.
Just ask the millions who have been caught by
them. They have dominated Washington and per
petrated their games of robbery from coast to coast.
The big and most important task before the coun
try today is to break up the big combines and mo
nopolies, and especially futures-gambling dens as well
as most of the stock exchanges. No gambling is
honest and it is always detrimental to honest dealings
in a community.
A Step in the Right Direction
Some folks are complaining and saying that Presi
dent Roosevelt is assuming the role of a dictator.
There is not a word of truth about it. He has done
nothing but his duty; that is, kicked the big dogs off
of the little ones.
It was a good deed, Mr. Roosevelt. If they don't
like it and don't stop growling, kick ’em again. They
certainly needed all they got.
No nation of people in all the world's history has
been choked and smothere so badly by dishonest meth
ods of capital as we Americans.
The President should now go a step further and de
stroy the /methods by which they wrought these
iniquities. Crush the combines and trusts.
Must the Camel Co?
According to the claims of a young lady of a for
eign land, her picture is to displace the camel on the
cigarette packages. It seems, she claims, that two
young North Carolinians who were traveling in her
country, trying to teach her to smoke, among other
thines. made the oromise.
While we have no interest in cigarettes, we admit
that we do not like the looks of the camel as well as
we would the picture of a good-looking woman, al
though the camel may be more in place there.
Suppose this brazenrv goes on—it will only be a
matter of a short time before some woman will butt
*»ie bull off of the Durham factories.
Trucks on the Highway
Chapel Hill Weekly.
Miss Linder, Congressman Frank Hancock's secre
tary, was killed a few days ago in Virginia in a col
lision between a truck and the automobile in which
she was riding.
The driver of a truck was killed in a collision with
a passenger automobile last Friday near Raleigh.
These two incidents are merely part of a long record
of slaughter. More and more frequently fatal acci
dents of this sort are chronicled in the newspapers.
The number of trucks has multiplied rapidly, their
size has increased, and they move at high speed. For
merly they were in single units. Now “trailers” are
hitched on, and we have what are in effect freight
trains tearing along the highways at 40 or 50 miles
an hour.
State governments have been shamefully negligent
in allowing such a condition to develop.
The driver of a passenger car is constantly faced
by these monsters. With their wide overhang, they
give him barely enough space for passing. It is no
woner collisions occur; the wonder is that they are
not more common than they are.
It is not always, of course, that the fault lies with
the driver of the truck. Sometimes the crash is due
to the failure of the other driver to keep far enough
to the right. But this does not alter the fact that he
use of he highways by these enormous vehicles is a
menace to life. One-hundred-per-cent hair-line per
formance is too much to demand of the drivers of
passenger cars; they ought to have a little margin of
safety. The veering of an inch or two ought not to
be punished by death.
Trucks on the highways have come to be more than
a nuisance. They are a curse of the first magnitude.
A Job for the Government
If things are to be done on a big scale, the govern
ment must do it. It can not be done byindividuals
| or combinations. Russia is beating us two to one in
handling things, all because the government protects
I the weak and curbs the strong.
Railroad combinations very largely dominated the
country for a quarter of a century. They spent mon
ey wastefully, built where they were not needed, com
peted with each other at heavy expense, paid dozens
of men more salaries than the President of the United
States ever got, gobbled up many millions of acres
of America's best public lands. And now they are
begging the government to save them.
The fact is private ownership, with superior gov
; ernment privileges, proved a boomerang. Their
greed caused them to plan and build unwisely.
The railroads offer only one illustration of the ac
tion taken by many other trusts. They built too ex
tensively. The basis of the whole load—the needs
of the public—could not stand the high salaries paid
and interest and dividends on the watered stock.
The question has been raised as to whether the
government should attempt to put over its farm relief
plan. It will certainly be better for the government
to rescue and stand by the farmer than it will be
leave him alone to the merciless speculator and gam
bler, who have already bankrupted him.
If our present-day civilization is to continue, it must
rest itself on principles higher than government by
riches.
Rich men are fully entitled to honest government
and fair play. On the other hand, the poor man is
equally entitled to a voice in everything, just as much
so as teh rich. For we must remember that there
has never been a rich man who did not gather his
riches from the poor. Of course, it may be honestly
done. But he must not get above the source of his
income, nor forget those who created his wealth.
Under the Beacon Light
-By WALTER H. PARAMORE
This issue of the Roanoke Beacon is dedicated
to Rev. Roy Rcspass, who takes an interest in
the young folk by identifying himself with every
purpose that would aid the advancement of the
future citizenship by making himself available
to them in bettering their condition—socially,
physically, spiritually—thus clinching the friend
ship of the young men and women.
A significant demonstration of his efforts in this
behalf was when he so graciously entered into the
neinusiasm of the dinner given at his home recently
in honor of the seniors of the Creswell High School.
And daily in his tasks he includes the young folk in
his plans for the advancement of the churches which
he serves and thus daily brings them to himself closer.
Not only that, but this minister has spunk. He has
it to such a degree that he went about himself to se
cure the needed aid for entering and continuing in
the Johnson Bible College, at Knoxville, Tenn.; Eu
gene Bible University, Eugene, Oreg.; Colorado Bible
College, Fort Collins, Colo., where he prepared him
seif for the ministry.
Again, this minister is not afraid of work. It takes
work to serve a charge comprising four churches and
two mission points, thus enabling him monthly to
reach upwards of 1,200 people inhis ministry. It took
work for him to plan out for his church leaders the
interior of the parsonage. It took work to grow
poultry, cultivate a garden, and do handy work about
the home.
So the Beacon has this toast jor a minister who
has courage, a love jor young people, and a will
ingness to work—“May the efforts oj a conscien
tious young minister be crowned with success in
such a measure that it will add courage to a enurag
ous young man and clinch the love oj the young
people to him, and aid him to truly be a servant
to his charge.”
-o——
Luck had run against Billy Harrell, son of Dr. and
Mrs. W. H. Harrell, in Creswell, on a certain day.
Usually a good marble shot, he had lost his prizes in
the ring. Disconsolate, he told his dad at noon about
his misfortune.
That evening he showed the parent the result of an
inventive mind. He had plenty of marbles. He put
a hole on top of a box large enough for marble to
go through, but in the bottom he made the hole a
fraction smaller. If boys dropped marbles through
the box they won, and if they did not he won.
He couldn’t lose, and he found many boys with
marbles to take a chance.
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A minister was at the home for dinner. The two
boys had already been advised of their behavior.
They were to eat mannerly and talk little. So every
thing went well for a time. And then just before
dessert the minister remarked “what a nice boy was
Hoytt.”
Whereupon Rex replied, “Yes, sir; but he will cuss
you out if you bother him.” And the hopes for a
good impression on the clergyman by the two boys
went a-glimmering as Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Para
more rushed the children out to play.
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LTnder the glare of the Beacon light: James W. Nor
man seldom wears a hat . . . J. O. Everett is a good
checker player . . . The young Owens couple have
moved into their new home on Adams Street ....
Mrs. B. G. Campbell enjoys bridge . . . Did Salesman
Sam Waters ever choose you as a prospective vic
tim? . . . Lud McNair is a favorite with the folk seek
ing Federal relief aid from the local distributing
agency . . . Joe Cherry resembles the cartoonist’s char
acter, Hambone . . . T. C. Burgess is fidgety . . . Last
week puzzle answers next week . . . Magnetic person
alities: Mrs. Steward Woodley, Dr. W. H. Harrell,
Mrs. Roy Respass.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and hv virtue of the powci
j and authority contained in that certaii
i mortgage deed executed by H. R
, Bateman and wife, Janie Bateman, tc
I D. O. Patrick, dated the 17th day o
j September, 1925, and recorded in tin
j office of the Register of Deeds o
| Washington County, North Carolina
| in book 77, page 531, to which refer
ence is hereby made, default having
j been made in the payment of the in
| debtedness thereby secured, as there
in provided, D. O. Patrick, the mort
gagee aforesaid, will offer for sale. t<
the highest bidder, for cash, at th<
courthouse door in Washington Coun
ty, at 12 o’clock noon, on Monday
j the 1st day of May, 1933, that certaii
property described in said instrument
as follows:
Lying and being in the town o
Crcswell, Washington County, begin
ning on the southwest side of Mail
Street, 100 feet ->>utheastwardly fron
the corner of Main and Fifth Streets
thence running southwestwardlv par
allel with Fifth Street 75 feet to op
posite the backside of warehouse
thence northwestwardly parallel witl
Main Street 36 feet 8 inches, thenci
parallel with Fifth Street 75 feet t<
Main Street, thence along Main St rev
36 feet 8 inches to the beginning.
Tjie bidder at such sale will be re
| quired to deposit as much as 10 pel
, cent of the amount bid in cash as ;
| guaranty of good faith, pending con
j firmation and the right is reserved t<
reject any and all bids,
i This the 31st dav of March, 1933.
D. O. PATRICK,
I a7 4t Mortgagee.
By Wilbur M. Darden, Attorney.
NOTICE
North Carolina .Washington Coun
i ty; Superior Court.
D. V. Satterfield vs. L. A. Satterfield
The defendant, L. A. Satterfield will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
superior court of Washington Coun
ty for absolute divorce from the bonds
of matrimny, that a verified complaint
in said action has been filed in my
office this day and that he is required
to answer or demur to said complaint
on or before the 15th day ol April.
1933, or the relief demanded will be
granted.
This 13th dav of March, 1933.
C. Y. W. AUSBON,
mrl7 4t Clerk Superior Court.
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to a decree of the Su
perior Court of Washington County,
signed and entered in an action en
titled “Town of Plymouth vs. Gar
field Ross, Mary Ross, and Sapora
Ross," appointing and directing the
. undersigned commissioner to sell the
land herinafter described for the pur
poses set forth in said decree, the
same bearing date of March 18th,
1933, and duly docketed in said Su
perior Court, the undersigned commis
sioner will expose at public sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, on the
21st day of April, 1933, at the court
house door of Washington County at
twelve o'clock noon, the following de
scribed lot or parcel of land:
A lot of land in the Town of Ply
mouth knowm and designated on the
map of said town as the Water part
of lot No. 166 and being the same
property purchased by Stewart Moore
of Huldah Leary, same property de
scribed in deed dated May 1st, 1888,
from Stewart Moore to Lucy Ross,
Garfield Ross, et al, to which reference
is hereby made for a more complete
description.
Being the same property now occu
pied by Moses Harper on the north
side of West Water Street.
This the 18th dav of March, 1933.
E. L. OWENS,
mr24 -It Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND
WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT
North Carolina,
Tyrrell County.
Superior Court.
John W. Davenport vs. Kent Timber
Company
To the defendant above named, take
notice: That an action entitled as a
bove, has this day been instituted in
the superior court of Tyrrell County,
North Carolina; that the purpose of
tlie said action is to enable the plain
tiff to recover against said defendant
for services rendered as set forth in
the complaint filed herein. You will
also take notice that a warrant of at
tachment has been issued in said ac
tion against the property of the said
company in Tyrrell County, North
Carolina. You are hereby notified
that you are required to be and ap
pear before the clerk of the superior
court of Tyrrell County, North Car
olina, at the courthouse in Columbia,
within thirty days from and after the
17th day of April, 1933, and answer
or demur to the complaint of the plain
tiff or else the prayer of the complaint
will be granted.
This the 16th day of March, 1933.
JERRY BRICKHOUSE,
mr24 4t Clerk Superior Court.
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to a decree of the Super
ior Court of Washington County
signed and entered in an action en
titled, “Town of Plymouth vs. Mrs.
Nellie Beasley,” appointing and di
recting the undersigned commission
er to sell the land hereinafter describ
ed for the purposes set forth in said
decree, the same bearing date of
March 18th, 1933, and duly docketed
in said superior court, the undersign
ed commissioner will expose at public
sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
on the 21st day of April, 1933, at the
courthouse door of Washington Coun
tv, at twelve o’clock noon, the follow
ing described lot or parcel of land:
Being two lots lying on the east
side of South Washington Street in
the Town of Plymouth, North Caro
lina, on the corner of Sixth and
Washington Streets, lanid itj is the
same land described as lots No. 9 and
No. 10 in block F of the subdivision
of the Marcia Latham property, the
same fronting on" Washington Street
100 feet and extending back 200 feet,
being the same lot purchased by Mrs.
Nellie Beasley.
This the 18th day of March, 1933.
E.'L. OWENS,
mr24 4t Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to a decree of the Su
perior Court of Washington County,
signed and entered in an action en
titled “Town of Plymouth ,vs. W.
Mack Pettiford and wife, Ida I’etti
ford, and J. C. Spruill, holder of
Mortgage,” appointing and directing
the undersigned commissioner to sell
the land hereinafter described for the
purposes set forth in said decree, the j
same hearing date of March 18th,
1933, and duly docketed in said super
I ior court, the undersigned commis
i sioner will expose at public sale to
; the highest bidder, for cash, on the
; 21st day of April, 1933, at the court
house door of Washington County,
at twelve o’clock noon, the follow
ing described lot or parcel of land:
Beginning at the north corner of
the former Dr. C. C. Jackson’s line
; in Ruberta Pettiford’s south line and
running thence with said Dr. C. C.
Jlacksonls (east line southwardly 50
feet; thence eastwardlv 50 feet to a
lane shown on Sanborn’s map of Ply
mouth, North Carolina, thence north
wardly with the said land 50 feet to
Ruberta Pettiford’s south line; thence
westwardly along Ruberta Pettiford’s
line 50 feet to the beginning, the same
being lot No. 130 as shown on the
map of the Town of Plymouth, North
Carolina.
This the 18th dav of March, 1933.
E. L. OWENS,
mr24 4t Commissioner.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of W. T. Nurney, de
ceased, late of Washington County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the es
tate of said deceased to exhibit them
to the undersigned at Plymouth, N. C.
on or before the lsf day of April, 1934,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons indebt
ed to said estate will please make im
mediate payment.
This 27th day of March, 1933.
SARAH F. NURNEY.
Administratrix of W. T. Nurney.
mr31 6t
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
i and authority contained in that cer
! tain mortgage deed executed by Pltil
l lip Shugar to A. L. Owens, dated Feb
ruary 20th. 1924, and recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds of
Washington County in book 77, page
421, to which reference is hereby
made, default having been made in the
indebtedness thereby secured, as pro
vided therein, the undersigned mort
gagee will offer for sale, to the high
est bidder, for cash, at the courthouse
door in Washington County, at 12 o'
clock noon, on Friday, the 21st day
of April, 1933, the following describ
ed property:
Lying in the Town of Plymouth,
X. C., and being the western half of
lot number 75 in the Town of Ply
mouth, X. C., on the north side of
Third Street, and bounded on the east
by C. V. Norman, on the west by
Mrs. Hassell, said lot being 50 by 200
feet, 'Containing 1-4 acres, more or
less.
This mortgage was given to secure
balance of purchase money on the
above house and lot.”
The bidder at this sale will be re
quired to deposit 20 per cent of the
amount bid in cash as a guaranty of
good faith pending confirmation, said
deposit to go as liquidated damages
in case of default upon confirmation.
This the 20th day of March, 1933.
A. L. OWENS,
Mortgagee.
mr24 4t
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to a decree of the Su
perior Court of Washington County,
signed and entered in an action en
titled “Town of Plymouth vs. George |
W. Smith and wife, Minnie Smith,” '
appointing and directing the under
signed commissioner to sell the land
hereinafter described for the purposes
set forth in said decree, the same
bearing date of March 18th, 1933, and
duly docketed in said superior court,
the undersigned commissioner will ex
pose at public sale to the highest bid
der for cash, on the 21st day of April, !
1933, at the courthouse door of Wash- ]
ington County at twelve o’clock noon,
the following described lot or parcel
of land:
One house and lot on West side of
Madison Street, beginning at the east
corner of the colored Normal School
lot; running thence south 47 1-2 feet
along Madison Street to a post; thence
westwardly parallel with said colored
school line to Albert Thatch, deceased
line; thence northwardly with j^aid
Thatch, deceased, line to said school
line; thence with said line to the be
ginning, being the same property con
veyed to George W. Smith and Nicy
Smith by deed executed by Levi
Blount and wife to said George Smith
and Nicy Smith, dated March 3rd,
1908, recorded in book S3, page 52,
to which reference is hereby made for
a more complete description and to
all other intents and purposes.
This the 18th day of March, 1933. j
E.'L. OWENS,
ntr24 4t Commissioner. !
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, ‘
Washington County.
Under and by virtue of a power of !
sale embraced in a deed of trust exe- i
cuted by R. T. Hopkins and Mag- I
nolia R. Hopkins, his wife, to H. D.
Bateman, trustee, on the 30th day of i
September, 1931, and recorded in the i
public registry of Washington Coun- j
ty, in book 74, page 555, and default I
having been made in the payment of :
tlie note thereby secured and the hold
er of said note having applied to the
undersigned trustee to exercise his
power of sale contained in said deed
of trust, the said H. D. Bateman, trus
tee, will expose at public sale at the
courthouse door of Washington
County on the 22nd day of April,
1933, at 12 o’clock noon, to the high
est bidder for cash the following tract
of land:
One lot in the Town of Creswell
on the corner of Main and Sixth
Streets, adjoining Mrs. J. L. Hassell
and the Baptist parsonage and de
scribed in deed from Aydlett Bros.
Company to Mrs. M. V. Hopkins Oc
tober 11, 1909, and registered in book
53, page 235, Washington County
Records.
Except, however, a small lot of said
land embraced in the above descrip
tion, conveyed to —■ Gatling, by
deed duly recorded in the public reg
istry of Washington County.
The said land will he offered for
sale subject to all unpaid taxes levied
against said land. The highest bid
der at said sale will be required to de
posit 5 per cent of his bid with the
trustee to guarantee compliance with
his bid, and upon his failure to com
ply with said bid his deposit will be
forfeited to the said trustee for the
benefit of the holder of said note.
This the 21st day of March, 1933.
H. D. BATEMAN,
mr24 4t Trustee.
By Zeb Vance Norman, Attorney.
NOTICE OF SALE
Pursuant to a decree of the superior
court of Washington County signed
and entered in an action entitled “Ed
ward I.. Owens vs. Clara Ange and
others,'' appointing and directing the
undersigned commissioner to sell the
land hereinafter described for the pur
poses set forth in said decree the same
bearing the date of March 24th, 1933,
and duly docketed in the superior
court, the undersigned commissioner
will expose at public sale to the high
est bidder, for cash, on the 24th day
of April, 1933, at the courthouse door
of Washington County, the follotving
described tracts of land:
FIRST TRACT: Beginning at an
oak a corner in Levi Boston’s line;
thence westwardly with her line and
James Walker’s, jr.. line and Wm.
McNair’s line; thence with Wm. Mc
Nair's line westwardly to Welche’s
Creek, thence with said creek north
wardly to the corner end of Log Land
ing, Jas. Walker’s, rs., line; thence
with his line and Francis Walker's line
southwardly to the beginning, contain
ing 60 acres, more or less, known as
the Norman Mill tract, being the same
land described in a deed from S. D.
Jones and wife to L. H. Ange, dated
December 28th, 1911, recorded in book
62, page 84,
SECOND TRACT: Beginning at
an iron stob in Richd. Watson’s line,
running northwardly with the run of
a branch to Welche’s Creek; thence
with said creek northwardly to an oak
Jas. Walker's, ir., line; thence with
his line southvvaidly to John Cole
man's line: thence southwardly with
Coleman's line and Jas. Walker's jr.,
to a pine, thence with Jas. Walker’s
jr., line southwardly to an iron stob
in Richd. Watson’s line; thence writh
his line westwardly to an iron stob to
the beginning, known as the Clara
Bunch land.
THIRD TRACT: That land more
fully described in two deeds from the
State Board of Education to A. T.
Ange and C. W Ange, bearing the
date of February 9, 1910, and the
deed from A. T. Ange and C. W.
Ange, dated February 12, 1910, record
ed in book 5.1, page 316, to L. H.
Ange. in which deed was conveyed
by the said A. T. Ange and C. W.
Ange and L. H. Ange a one-third in
terest in both of the above-mentioned
deeds from the State Board of Edu
cation, to which deeds and record ref
erence is hereby made for a more
complete description, and the same is
made a part hereof.
FOURTH TRACT: All that land
described in the deed from A. T. Ange
and Levi H. Ange. dated January 25,
1914. recorded in book 61, page 435,
adjoining the Norfolk Southern Rail
road on the east, former Mrs. M. S.
Barden land on the west ("Now A. L.
Owens land), W. T. Lucas estate on
the north, containing two acres, more
or less, to which deed and record ref
erence is hereby made for a more
complete description and is hereby
made a part hereof.
This the 24th day of March, 1933.
P. W. BRINKLEY,
mr31 4t Commissioner.
SAVE MONEY!
RIDE TRAINS!
Reduced Fares for Train Travel
One and One-Half Cents Per Mile
via
NORFOLK SOUTHERN
RAILROAD
Between All Stations
Except Electric Division
Effective March 1st
Stopovers Allowed in Final Limit
Baggage Checked
Half Fares for Children Under Twelve
Years of Age
For Information Consult Any Agent
or Address
my J. F. DALTON 30
Traffic Manager Norfolk, Va.
To Save Keep a Budget
Money, it seems, has a way of slipping thru
one’s fingers unnoticed. You’re tempted to spend
for so many things that, in reality, are unneces
sary. The result is it hardly reaches from one pay
day to the next.
Young couples, especially, will find the
best way to SAVE is to keep a budget.
Set aside certain sums for amusements,
clothes, and so on, and BANK the rest.
Branch Banking
& Trust Company
“THE SAFE EXECUTOR”
PLYMOUTH, N. C.
Sound Banking and Trust Service for Eastern
Carolina
Pay Your Taxes Now
The comissioners need the money to aid in school work; to
pay their local obligations and operating expenses; and to pay
outstanding indebtedness.
Already another 1 per cent, making a total of 3 per cent, is
added to taxes not paid by the first of April, and it will be 4 per
cent on May 2. So pay now to escape further penalties.
J. K. REID
SHERIFF OF WASHINGTON COUNTY