'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiimiiiiNiiiiiiiiiiii!; A home newspaper dedicated = to the service of Washington = County and its 12,000 people. = ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiMiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii? The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* I Advertisers will find Beacon = § and News columns a latch-key to g g 1,100 Washington County homes. g ffiiiiiiiimiiiiimiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu VOLUME XLIV—NUMBER 35 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday September 1, 1933 ESTABLISHED 1889 SUNDAY SCHOOL GROUP TO MEET AT ZION CHAPEL -<*> Convention Will Be Held With Christian Church There September 12 -*—-— The Washington County Sunday School Association will hold its an nual convention at Zion Chapel Chris tian Church, near Roper, Tuesday, September \2, it was announced here today by K. R. Davenport, president of the organization. The exercises will begin at 9:30 in the morning and will (continue throughout the day with an hour off for lunch. Food will be served at the church picnic style and there is sure to be a plenty for all those who at tend. Everyone is urged to carry a basket. The convention is interdenomina tional and workers and delegates from every Sunday school of the county urged to attend and partici pate in the convention. It is hoped by Mr. Davenport and the other lead ers that it will be a day of Christian helpfulness. Helping in the convention will be Rev. Shuford Peeler, of Raleigh, gen eral secretary of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, who will speak and render valuable advice on the best methods to advance the Sun day school work in this section. The song service will be led by ex perienced leaders and congregational and special singing will be features of the musical program at the conven tion. The musical program will be supplemented by numbers from an orchestra that has been secured by Mr. Davenport. The address of welcome will he made by Mrs. Leon S. Brey who is also secretary of the meeting. The response will be made by R. L. Lewis which will be followed by a program rendered by the representa tives of the Sunday schools that have delegates present. The principal morning address will be made by Rev. Mr. Reece, and this will be followed by reports from the superintendents of Sunday schools represented at the convention. At tendance records will be kept. These officers urge all pastors and superin tendents to be present. Other important speakers who will be on the program are Rev. Roy Res pass, Dr. Harrell and Rev. W. H. Hollowell. These men will bring a message relating to Sunday schools that are exepcted to be very interest ing and helpful to all those who at tend. The officers announce that again this year a pennant will be given to the Sunday school having the largest attendance based on the miles travel ed. It is expected that there will be much friendly comptition for the pen nant among the Sunday Schools. Officers for the coming year will be chosen and a place decided upon for the next meeting as a conclusion of the day's activities. MRS. BOWEN HAS GARDEN RECORD -@> Vegetables In Her Garden Returned $82.08 Up To First of Last July By EUGENIA PATTERSON Mrs. Jesse Bowen, of the Alba Club^ has a record kept of her prize garden front last December 1 to the present time, and I throw it out for a chal lenge to any gardener who has lived in the region of dry weather this past summer. Mrs. Bowen goes to the curb mar-| ket every Saturday morning with her fresh vegetables to be sold, and she had some vegetables first on the mar ket this past spring. She had May peas in April and got tip-top prices for them. In several cases it has been the “early bird who catches the worm with her. She has not only supplied her family with groceries from her market receipts, but she has been lib eral with her vegetables to her friends who didn’t happen to be as fortunate as she. She is one of those people who will divide always with her neigh bors. .She has sold this year $40.01 of veg etables from her garden, has used $27.27 worth at home, and has given away $14.50 worth. It takes a lot of vegetables to bring in a return of $82.08 up to July 1. Mrs. Bowen is keeping her record right on through the year, and will have a better show ing at the end of the summer. The total cost of all her seed amounted to $2.64. She raises most of them. This is a small amount of money when you consider her returns. She won a free trip to Raleigh to the State Short Course and thinks it was worth her hard labor and keep ing records. Her winter garden is on the way. She happens to be gar den leader for the Alba Club BASEBALL SIDELIGHTS Walter Davis turned in his ISth vic tory out of 17 starts this season for Plymouth when he hurled seven and i one-third hitless innings against Co lumbia, after Red Sculley had been knocked from the box last Saturday. The score was 7 to 3. Leary hit a homer off Sculley. Roper defeated the Newlands team 9 to 6 on the Creswell diamond last Thursday afternoon, with Phillip Spruill and Roy Hopkins doing the battery work for Newlands, and Char lie Mizelle and Tom Norman pitching and Ralph Harrell receiving for Rop er. Plymouth defeated the U. S. S. Idaho of Portsmouth, 3 to 2 and 5 to 3, in a double-header here Sun day afternoon. Van Horn, with three knocks, led Plymouth at bat, while Moon and Mick annexed two each for the Idaho nine. Slim Gardner was hit hard for eight hits, while Moon allowed Ply mouth nine safeties. In the second affair Van Horn led Plymouth with two blows, while Buddy Richardson clouted one over the left-field wall with one aboard to help along the cause. Parker and Mick led for the visitors with two each. Red Sculley, local twirler, was touched for 9 hits, while Parker yield-j ed 7. -9, Jim Weaver, head football coach at; Wake Forest College, and his assist-; ant, Roy Greason; and John Caddell, baseball coach at the same institu-j tion, were in Plymouth Tuesday night of this week visiting some of the local ^ athletes who will probably attend this: school this season. Tex Edens will go to college as a backfield man in football as well as baseball, as he was a member of the Oak Ridge Institute football squad last year with Coach Weaver. Pres ton Chappell is interested in basket ball and baseball at Wake Forest. Elizabeth City will play here Sat-, urday afternoon. Plymouth will play Williamston here > Sunday afternoon at the first in a series of games between these two teams. Carohiount Mills of Rocky Mount will play a double-header here Labor Day, September 4, with first game starting at 10:30 in the morning and second at 4 p. m. Dunston raced home with the win- ' ning run in the ninth inning, when a hard-hit ball was deflected off the ungloved hand of Pitcher Longest, allowing Slim Gardner to reach first safely in the tenth inning to give Plymouth a 3 to 2 victory over Tar boro here Tuesday afternoon. Both hurlers did good mound work, i each allowing seven bits. Richardson with two led Plymouth and House . with two knocks led Tarboro. Long- i est fanned seven and Gardner whiffed six. Umpire Milton Jones was hit twice by pitched balls, once on each shoulder and finally called them be hind the pitcher. RELIEF NEEDS IN COUNTY FEWER Expenditures Decrease To $1,196.26 In the County j During Last July Total relief expenditures in Wash-j ington County during July were $1,-, 196.26, it was learned today from Mrs. W. C. Brewer, superintendent of pub lic welfare in this county. This sum represents a decrease of approximately 25 per cent, as com pared with the amount spent during June. Very little of the amount spent was provided for locally, but came from Federal funds. During this month, there v^as a decrease in the number of families re ceiving aid, with only 153 in this coun ty being helped along. It is about 40 per cent as many as -were helped in other months, and the decline con tinues. The decline is attributed to improv ed business conditions; a logical sea sonal decline and because of the fact j that most of the relief families have j been assisted in planting gardens and ^ small farms from which they have de rived their food supplies. The welfare workers here are en deavoring to do all they can to de crease the number of dependents upon them and it is probable now that there will be less help the coming winter for all concerned than was the case last winter. It is thought also that the general improvement in conditions here will make it so that there will be a great reduction in the number of applicants for help this winter, and those who are out of work should begin now to lay by such things as they can for an early winter. I URGES GROWERS TOBACCO TO BE AT MEET HERE -(J, To Be Held At Courthouse Saturday Afternoon 3 o’Clock A mass meeting of tobacco grow ers of Washington County will he held Saturday afternoon, September 2, at 3 o'clock in the courthouse in Plymouth, according to Farm Agent VV. V. Hays. In several counties the tobacco growers have held meetings and or ganized temporary associations for the purpose of cooperating with other counties and with the Federal Gov ernment in working out a plan in han dling tobacco under the agricultural adjustment act. This plan has now progressed so far that it is believed by the growers that some plan can be presented that will be acceptable to the administra tion. A conference is called at Ra leigh on September 6th for that pur pose. The meeting in the courtroom Saturday afternoon is primarily for the purpose of electing three of the most able tobacco men in our county to represent us at that conference. “Think this over so that we may be able to draw up appropriate resolu tions for presentations at the Raleigh conference,” urges Mr. Hays. -* SURVEY MADE OF CANNING DONE ON TWO FARMS Colored Families Haven’t Realized Need To Can Food, Agent Says By EUGENIA PATTERSON Among the many ami varied experi ence of a home agent, it becomes her privilege to survey and work with these people. There are 33 families on the Western farm, which lies right on Lake Phelps and joins the Shep herd Farm. There are about 2,200 or 2,300 acres of land in cultivation in both tracts. Of the above 33 families,j y arc colored. The Shepherd farmj has 7 white families and 2 colored. I House to house visits were made last week and a line-up was gotten on each family’s garden, their plans for winter gardens, and also a check up was made on food canned and slot' ed for winter use. The white families have been doing quite a bit of can ning, but the colored people haven’t felt the urge yet. One woman, who has always planned and looked out for her family has canned 30 quarts of fruits and vegetables, and another one has canned 300 quarts for her awn family and her father and broth er, who live together. The next high est number was 150 quarts, while two white families had only saved 8 quarts each. The grand total for the white families amounted to 1,106 quarts, while the colored families on Western have saved only 22 quarts, quite a contrast. Now for the Shepherd farm. We found that the seven white families bad canned 280 quarts and the col ored families none. A new canning program will bej started tliere, ami we hope to save a j arge number of quarts of surplus veg etables. -• Name Teachers tor Colored School Here Colored teachers for the Washing 011 County Training School in Ply mouth were announced today by Principal William Bery, who predicts that last year’s record of pupils will be increased this year. Last season 545 enrolled for classes. Teachers follow: First grade: Romaine Godley and Mrs. Reunice Walker. Second: Margaret Heath and Es :her D. Sharpless. Third: Edna L. Wall. Fourth: Sophia Spruill. Fifth: Eloise Simmons. Sixth: Daisy Clark. Seventh: W. W. Walker. High school: Madelyn Watson, Eng lish and French; Annie Minor, science and history; William Berry, mathe matics and history. There was no reduction in the number of teachers in this department in this school this year. --<»-- j Use Lard and Sulphur To Kill Some Poultry Insects The sand flea or stick-tight flea among poultry can be treated very effectively by rubbing the infested parts with a mixture of two parts of lard and one part of finely powdered sulphur. The insect breeds in shady, sandy places under outbuildings and in chip piles and these places should be sprayed with kerosene or wired off so as to exclude the birds. FARM NOTES r ~\ V. By W. V. HAYS _/ Winter legumes are profitable in more ways than one. They furnish grazing for the livestock through the winter. They prevent soil erosion, thus conserving plant food and pre venting washing. Turned under in the spring they are worth from $10 to $20 in the form of plant foods. Plant some cover crop on every acre possible. -<$> A cooperative order on our fall grain and clover seed will save us all some money. The sooner they are bought the cheaper prices will be. -<*. A good hog grazing mixture would he oats and crimson clover. Sow right away, one and one half bushels (Norton) oats and 10 to 15 pounds crimson clover. -4> A good cover and soil improving crop would he: One and one-half hush els of rye or oats and 15 to 20 pounds of hairy winter vetch (it is not neces sary to inoculate after May peas.) -rf, If interested in a cooperative order of grain or clovers and vetch, see C. S. Rahon, Creswell; B. (1 O'Brien, Roper; or W. V. Hays, Plymouth. LUMBER "MAN IS HURT IN RECENT AUTO ACCIDENT Was On Way To Plymouth To Close Deal for Plant Site Here A letter lias been received front J. B. Ross, sales manager of the East Alabama Lumber Company, of Tus kegee, Ala., by Zeb Vance Norman, local attorney, who was told of the reason for the delay in the closing of negotiations here for a plant here. The letter follows: "1 am replying to your of the 25th to Mr. W. G. Mitchell ,a-- Mr. Mit chell was in a rather serious auto mobile accident last Friday, August 18, and as yet has not - recovered enough to handle his mail. He was driving to North Carolina on the date of the accident, and while approach ing Atlanta and passing a truck- he had to run into a telephone pole to avoid running over a woman who walked into the path of his car. “His car was demolished and he was both painfuly and seriously in jured. Fortunately no bones were broken, he was badly bruised inter nally and also about the head and face. The doctors allowed him to leave the hospital this week. He is now it home in bed. His progress is sat isfactory, and we hope that by the last of next week he will be able to get back on his feet and return to w-ork. "As soon as he is in condition to ittend to business, either he or the writer will come to Plymouth to close j 'or the mill site. “You understand we were held up on account of the lumber code. Ibis •ode as signed will be all right from our standpoint, and we do not think . mything else can happen to delay the ntilding of the mill. This tetter is referring to Mr. lun liett, who is president of the lumber company, but it is expected that Mr. Ross will be manager of this plant uul will live here with his family as | toon as the plant is erected. Revival Begins Sunday at j Pleasant Grove Church -- Pleasant Grove.—A revival meeting ,vill begin at Pleasant Grove church Sunday. Rev. R. L. Hethcox, of Trip iett, Va., will assist Rev. R. E- At cinson during the meeting. Ret. Hethcox is a much beloved preacher n this community. The people will be delighted to welcome him in this community. The public is cordially' invited to attend these services. \ NEW BANK HOURS I S Uniform banking hours have been adopted by the North Car will be effective in Plymouth, it was announced today by H. E. j Beam, cashier of the local unit of the Branch Banking and Trust Company. The hours will be from 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., except Saturdays, when the banks will open at 9 a. m. and close at 12 o’clock noon. Dur ing the tobacco season banks will remain open after 2 o’clock only for paying tobacco sales. Other business houses in Ply mouth, beginning September 1, will open in the mornings at 8 o’clock and close in the afternoon at S o’clock and those patroniz ing the local NRA members will have to do their business in the limited time. LOCAL PLANTS WORK UNDER LUMBER CODES Fall in Line With Other Firms in Putting Over NRA Program Falling in line with tlie general trend of the merchants and consum ers here in an effort to put across the President’s NRA campaign, the local plants are now working under the code of fair competition for their industry, it was learned today. The Plymouth Box and Panel Com pany, through its general manager, E. F. Still, announces that it has been observing the lumber -code of fair business compettiion since Au gust 22, as far as hours and wages are concerned. The minimum rate now paid employees is 23 cents an hour, with the maximum number of hours of labor for employees is 40 hours a week, except certain classes of em ployees, including the night watch man, and other such employees. C. L. Groves, manager of the local unit of the National Handle Company, is away on his vacation, and the Bea con could not learn from authentic! sources what steps this jplant had taken to join in the general efforts to improve conditions. However, it is known that the plant is working only 8 hours daily at the! present for 5 days and maybe a half j day on Saturday. This plant has nev er paid its employees less than 15 cents an hour for a day of 10 hours,' and it is thought there has been some' kind of boost in pay checks. As soon as Mr. Grove returns,' which is expected to be the last of this week, the Beacon will endeavor to get some information on the indi vidual observance of the code by this plant, as they are under two acts, onej of lumber and the other implement makers. W. If. Clark, manager of the Ply mouth Peanut Company, advised the' Beacon that he was closed down at the present on account of the lack of I penauts, but that as soon as he could replenish his stock he would start a- ( gain and would operate under the code ' agreed upon by the peanut industries. Smaller industries here, with E. H. Harris and John Williams, operating« saw mills will probably, if they have not already done so, raise wages and shorten hours so that they can come j under the code anil be in a position to join with the general effort to im- ! prove conditions. -• Bailey Vice President of j District Bar Association Carl L. Bailey, of Roper, was elect- i ed vice president and Zeb Vance Nor- ' man, of Plymouth ,ws attained a mem- ^ her of the board of directors of the j second judicial district bar associa- j lion that was held in Rocky Mount ' last Saturday with attorneys from five counties present. The meeting was called by Judge i M. V. Barnhill, of Rocky Mount, who j presided prior to the election of offi- I cers. Lawyers were present from Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, Martin, and Washington Counties. The third Saturday in June was set as the date for annual meetings. After the business session Judge Barnhill and the Nash County Bar Association served a barbecue dinner. I Winds Helps Take Care Of Knotty Problem A lashing wind that bolted over trees and removed roofs from houses did a good turn to Jim Francis at the Main Street home here of J. W. Cooper. A large tree stood beside the home of Mr. Francis and Mr. Cooper, with limbs and branches sheltering one side. They have realized tlie danger (»f the tree for a decade but could not figure a safe way to chop it down.: Mrs. Wolfe lives next door. If the tree was cut down it would break ^ wires or fall on one or other of the houses, causing damage. Hut the! wind came along and solved this by wringing the top part out about mid dle way of the trunk and it never touched anything as it fell. -4 Firm To Make Shoe Shine Machines Is Incorporated -<*> Secretary of Slate Stacey VV. Wade j ias issued a charter to a group of men! tere as the result of an invention by | Move W. Spruill of an automatic shoe1 hining machine and a request for a ■barter by a local group. The facts if the incorporation follow: "Automatic Shoe Shines, Incorpor ated. Principal office at Plymouth. To own and operate shoe shine ma chines. Authorized capital stock $100, BOO; subscribed stock, $250, by M. W. Spruill, Gilbert Davis, and /.. V. Nor man, Plymouth." I FASHION SHOW j v._✓ September 6th is designated as a big day in the life of Plymouth this year, as there will be a fash ion show in connection with the regular feature at the New The atre, to be followed by a dance at 10 o’clock. Everybody is urged to attend all of these activities. A big day is promised. Everybody come. COUNTY RANKS 67TH IN NUMBER OF ILLITERATES -<*, Approximately 1,400 Over Ten Years of Age Can’t Read or Write Washington County ranks sixtv seventh among the 100 counties in North Carolina in the number <»f il literates, it was learned today from statistics prepared by the department of rural social-economics of the Uni versity of North Carolina. An illiterate is one who confesses •the inability to read and write. How man)r near-illiterates there are in this county there is no way of knowing. It is certain that there are more peo ple who can barely read and write than there are who cannot read and write at all. Figuring on a basis of 12,000 popu- j lation, with a specified amount of 11.5 i people over 10 years who are illit erate, this makes it close to 1,400 peo ple around us here who are over 10 years of age and who cannot read and j write. This makes this county a 1 fraction above the State average of 10 per cent of illiterates. The tabulation as taken from the 1930 Federal census reveals that only 5.3 per cent of these in this county are white and that it is a problem among the negroes with 18.8 per cent, ' mostly adults, who can neither read nor write nor even, in most cases, sign their names. About half of the negro illiterates' are 21 years ot age or more. And it i was revealed that upwards of 75 per cent of all white illiterates are over this age. Illiteracy is more prevalent among men than women. In other words, there appears to be about a third more illiterate men than women in this county. The depression among white and :olored has brought about a bad ■con dition, as those who wanted to at-1 tend school did not have sufficient clothing or the necessities to attend. It is a usual case to find a 15 or 16 rear old negro in some of the lower grades, and this is caused sometimes jy not being able to attend school. [ TEACHERS GET SPECIAL RATES Duke Hospital Announces Reduction for Carolina Teachers Durham.—North Carolina school eachers whose pay checks have been ronsiderably diminished in the face >t generally rising costs of living may lave some consolation in the fact that hey can be ill for less during this >eriod of economic uncertainty. Because of the lower incomes of he faculties of the universities, col-! eges, ami public schools of the state, Duke hospital has announced a revised) schedule of rates applicable to those groups. The revision involves a con-j iiderable reduction from rates hither-J o charged, and gives all college and >ublic school teachers in North Caro ina advantage of the same rates en oyed by faculty members and em ployees of Duke University, it is an nounced by Superintendent F. V Alt eater. The present Duke hospital middle group daily rate of $3.50 to $.450, and j he full private daily rate of $6 to $9, established last April 20, which cover ill hospital costs, including those usu illy charged as extras, represent a 50 oer cent reduction from the former rates. This new concession to all North Carolina teachers, announced today, of an adidtional reduction of 50 cents a day from the present mid lie-group and $1 from the full pri vate daily rates is a further saving to them of approximately 15 per cent.; Suggests Planting Vetch and Austrian Winter Peas x__ i A mixture for fall sowing and which has been found very satisfac tor> is composed of one bushel of beardless wheat, one and one-half bushel of oats or beardless barley, and 20 pounds of hairy vetch or .30 pounds of Austrian winter peas. This mixture, sown between October 1 and 15 on well fertilized soil will be ready for cutting the following May and will yield from two to three tons of excellent hay to the acre. MASS MEETING OF DRY FORCES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY -$ To Be Held in High School Auditorium Here; All Are Invited The people of Washington Coun ty are called to meet at Plymouth Sunday afternoon at .3 o’clock in the high school auditorium, for the pur pose of considering plans and meth od- lor conducting the campaign in support of the dry laws of the state and the nation, it was announced to day by Dr. J. W. JV.rreH, leader of the dray forces in Washington County. Rev. R. E. Atkinson pastor of the Roper Methodist church, will be the principal speaker. The State’s United Dry Forces, through Dr. Harrell, issued the fol lowing in reference to the campaign: “The wet wave in North Carolina has reached its peak. Every change in sentiment from now until the polls close November 7 will be in our favor. “This declaration is increasingly strengthened by the reports coming to us from every part of the field. Workers are volunteering and our forces are mobilizing with enthusias tic determination from one end of the State to the other. The slogan that illustrates the spirit that animates hem: ‘North Carolina dry though all the world go wet.’ About SO counties are already or ganized in the short time we have been at work; the others are either organizing now or will organize im mediately after the meetings called for Sunday in every county in North Carolina. ■‘North Carolina is dry. Her peo. pie are not ready to go on a debauch They are not ready to repeal the pro hibition laws under which North Car olina has enjoyed the greatest quarter century of progress the state has ever known. They are not ready to have their sons and daughters exploited and doomed to disgrace and shame at the behest of selfish design and unscrupu lous greed of gain. North Carolina is dry. Our task is only that of mark ing the ballots and depositing them in the proper boxes.” PLANT CROPS IN FALL FOR COWS -«> Advisable To Keep Cows Off Permanent Pastures During Winter Months -<*> The* short hay crop occasioned by die continued dry weather in parts >f this State this past summer means hat an additional acreage should he danted to winter-growing crops this all. "The need for temporary pastures lext spring on most Nortli Carolina lairv farms will he urgent,” declares fohn A. Arev, dairy extension speci ilist at State College. “The sup dies of hay on most of these farms a i 11 he exhausted by February or March, especially where there are no dlos and a few cows are kept for ■ ream production. Usually when the upplv of hay is exhausted the cows ire turned on the permanent pastures vhether there is anything to eat on iicm iNemier is tne condition if the soil considered. This means hat the cows damage the sod and get it tie nutrition from the early grass.” 11 temporary grazing is provided hrough March and part of April, the ows may be kept off the permanent Pasture until the grass has made a lesirable growth and the soil is dry •nough to prevent damage to the >od from trampling. Arey says most any of the small (rains might be used to supply this emporary grazing; but, a mixture romposed of several will give better (razing than any one used alone. 3ne good mixture is two bushels of \bruzzi rye and 15 pounds of crim son colver an acre. Another which le highly recommends consists of me bushel of beardless barley and 10 rounds of crimson clover. The first nixture should be planted during the alter part <>ary for best results in se curing spring grazing. Two tons of ground limestone per acre with 4(H) to 500 pounds of tertilizer ap plied at seeding will give best re sults. Tobacco Growers Organize in Effort To Raise Prices -* Tobacco farmers of Craven and Granville Counties have organized county associations to aid members in bargaining for better tobacco prices this fall.