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| A home newspaper dedicated = | to the service of Washington §j 1 County and its 12,000 people. 3 ^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiHtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiir The Roanoke Beacon ♦ and Washington County News ******* VOLUME miXVTl—NUMBER T9 - -r < itmMMimtiimmmiimnMmiiminiimirr .nmimimii | Advertisers will find Beacon f = and News columns a latch-key to 1 = 1,100 Washington County homes. | auumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiimiiiiiiKiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiHwiiHiiiT Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, June 8, 1934 ESTABLISHED 1889 LOCALS CLIMB ON ‘SLIM' GARDNER TO WIN OPENER —«— Come From Behind in 8th Inning To Score 7 Runs And Win, 9-7 -® Plymouth slammed old “Slim" Gard ner for 8 hits, driving him to the show ers in the eighth, and then picked Gat ty, his successor, for two hits, to score seven runs in the eighth inning as they went on to overcome a 7 to 2 lead to defeat Williamston 9 to 7 here Tues day in the opening game of the Albe marle league season in the local park before 600 cheering fans. Tex Edens usnerved the old veteran Gardner, when he smashed one over the left centerfield fence, scoring two ahead of him. Then matters grew worse for Williamston. Johnson, catcher for Plymouth, also smashed the apple out of the park. Van Horn doubled to put the ball against the fence in deep center and the scoring fiarade was on. Jack Wilson was snatched after al lowing Williamston seven hits in as many innings. Snooze Burham was credited with the win, pitching only one frame while Howard Burnham held the Martins in check in the ninth. Brake also hit a homer. I). Morris, third baseman for Ply mouth, with three hits, led the bat ters, with Chappell, Edens, Johnson, Earp, Gaylord, and Brake getting two blows each. TUESDAY'S GAME Williamston Earp, ss . Goodmon, cf Gaylord, If Brake, rf . Brogden, lb IJzzle, 3b Peters, 2b Whitley, c . Gardner, p Gatty, p . ABRHPOAE 3 2 2 3 2 1 4 2 0 3 0 0 4 2 2 1 0 0 4 12 10 0 4 0 1 10 2 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 2 2 0 3 0 1 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals . 34 7 8 24 10 1 Plymouth D. Morris, 3b Chappell, ss Van Horn, lb Gurganus, If M. Morris, cf Edens, rf . Johnson, c . Brown, 2b . Wilson, p . Burnham, p ... xSculley . ABRHPOAE 3 2 2 1 4 0 5 0 2 0 7 0 5 1 1 14 0 0 4 112 0 0 4 0 110 0 4 110 0 0 3 2 2 4 0 0 3 1 0 5 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 Totals . 35 9 10 27 16 0 xBatted for Burnham in eighth. Score by innings: R. Williamston . 202 010 200—7 Plymouth 110 000 07.x—19 Summary: Runs batted in: Gaylord, Goodmon, Brake (4), Brogden, D. Morris, Chappell (2), Van Horn, Edens (3), Johnson, Sculley. Two base bits: Brake, Gaylord, Chappell, Van Horn. Home runs: Brake, John son, Edens. Sacrifice: Gaylord. Stol en bases: Gaylord, Goodmon. Hits: off Gardner, 8 in 7 1-3 filings; off Gat ty, 2 in 2-3 inning; off Wilson, 7 in 7 innings; off Burnham, 1 in 2 innings. Winning pitcher: Burnham; losing pitcher, Gatty. Hit by pitcher: Whit ley (by Wilson). Bases on balls: off Gardner 3, off Gatty 1, off Wilson 3, off Burnham 1. Struck out: by Gard ner, 4; by Wilson, 2. Left on bases: Williamston 6, Plymouth 7. Monday’s Game Plymouth was defeated in the first game of the Albemarle League in Wil liamston Monday before a great open ing crowd, when the locals were limit ed to five hits by Bill Herring in a mound duel, with Howard Burnham, who also showed rare form. The Martins touched Burnham for only eight safeties. Gurganus, with two bingles, led Ply mouth at bat, while Uzzle with two led Williamston. MONDAY’S GAME Plymouth O. Morris, 3b Chappell, ss Van Horne, lb Johnson, c . Gurganus, If Morris, cf . Edens, rf . Brown, 2b . Burnham, p AB R H PO A E 3 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 Totals .29 2 5*26 8 3 •Two out when winning run scored. Williamston Earp, ss Gaylord, If Goodmon, cf Brake, rf .. Brogden, lb Uzzle, 3b xGatty . Peters, 2b xxGardner xxxCherry Whitley, c . xxxx Latham Herring, p AB R H PO A E 0 14 2 0 0 10 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 18 0 1 2 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 11 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 Totals .31 3 9 27 10 3 xRan for Uzzle in ninth. xxBatted for Peters in ninth. xxxRan for Gardner in ninth. xxxxBatted for Whitley in ninth. Score by innings: R Plymouth . 010 000 001—2 Williamston . 000 001 002—3 Summary: Run s batted in: Brog den, Uzzle; Edens 2; 2-base hits, Mor ris, Gurganus, Uzzle, Brake; double play, Herring to Earp to Brogden; left on bases, Plymouth 6, William ston 9; sacrifice hits, Morris, Brog den, Whitley; stolen base, Morris; hit by pitcher, Johnson, Morris, by Her ring. Bases on balls, off Burnham 4; off Herring 5. Struck out, by Burn ham 5, by Herring 11. Umpires: Forbes and Stevens. Local Defeat Bertie, 15-6 Plymouth hopped on three Bertie VOTE LAST SATURDAY Following is a tabulation of the vote cast mary in Washington County last Saturday: Ply. For State Senate W. A. Thompson 354 C. L. Bailey 266 R. L. Coburn 574 A. Corey . 142 Representative J. C. Gatlin . 19 Harry Stell . 447 E. L. Owens 266 Register of Deeds M. S. Cahoon 359 M. O. Sawyer . 392 Treasurer J. W. Starr . 31 E. G. Arps . 380 H. C. Spruill 334 Board Education C. N. Davenport, jr. 386 R. H. Lucas . 434 P. H. Darden 466 County Commissioners District No. 1 Frank L. Brinkley 451 W. R. Hampton . 270 District No. 2 H. D. Davenport 168 E. R. Lewis . 225 J. M. Clagon 309 District No. 3 Clyde Smithson 386 M. F. Davenport . 298 Skin. ,Scup. 63 98 102 24 57 21 73 19 146 102 29 33 132 85 75 62 92 52 70 37 27 137 254 88 222 38 224 65 56 93 245 322 13 18 331 65 243 270 61 85 50 83 269 61 in the Democratic pri Lees M. Wen. Totals 139 245 218 69 40 177 148 172 216 62 133 187 257 208 171 192 160 79 92 219 176 179 12 13 2 4 3 13 0 7 9 12 16 3 5 11 1 7 7 11 5 822 710 1,118 277 340 718 551 646 1,012 517 562 581 1,118 808 958 980 594 385 444 655 869 680 CORN AND HOG SIGNERS HOLD MEETING HERE —®— Elect Committeemen From Each Community and County Director -® A meeting was held at the Ply mouth courthouse Monday, June 4, at 10 o’clock, for the purpose of electing corn-hog committeemen for each com munity and a county director. The meeting was called to order by W. V. Hays, county agent, who gave a brief summary of the work done on the corn-hog campaign and the im portance of organizing the association And electing officers. The roll was called and 40 corn-hog contract sign ers were present. | The county was divided into three sections in order to elect community committees. The lower part of the county, which included most of Skin nersville and Scuppernong Township. From this section, J. G. Hathaway and T. F. Davenport were elected. Lees Mills and Plymouth Townships were combined and R. L. Stillman Jrom Roper and R. B. Davenport, of Plymouth, were elected committee men. Carl S. Heynen was elected for the Wenona section. It was unanimously agreed by the community committeemen that R. B. Davenport, of Plymouth Township, be appointed county director to repre sent Washington County in the corn diog control association. This asso ciation will consist of Tyrrell, Beau fort, Martin, and Washington Coun ties and will hold its first meeting at Washington, N. C., Thursday, June 7. Homing Pigeon Fed Here From Portsmouth, Va. The way of the homing pigeon is hard. Last week Raymond Jackson found an exhausted pigeon at the rear of some stores here. He picked up the bird, fed and watered it, and then .turned it loose with a note on his leg telling of the deed. immediately following Me received a letter from C. H. Markham, of (Portsmouth, Va., which conveyed the thanks of the writer and the follow ing information about the bird: I "The pigeon you fed and watered came home with the note on his leg. “This pigeon was on a race from Abbeville, S. C., to Portsmouth, Va., a distance of 400 miles. I sent five birds on the race and this was the last to get home. “Three of the pigeon got home on I the day they were released. They j were turned out by the express agent j in Abbeville at 6 a. m., and arrived home at 6 p. m.” -« Large Number Measles Cases Reported in Roper -® Roper.—There is quite a number of cases of measles in town. Among the | victims are Asa, David and Jimmie Johnston, Rosebud Gaylord, Kenneth 1 and Oreal Chesson, Helen and Mil dred Phelps. hurlers for 18 hits Wednesday as they defeateil the visitors, 15 to 6. Prof. Red Sculley breezed along to an easy victory, holding the Bertieans to eight safeties. Frazier, Lee and Magee were the hurling victims. Tex Edens came through with his second homer of the week, while Van Horn with four and Brown with three blows led the victors, with Lee head- I ing the losers with two safeties. The game was listless. Box scores of the games with Wil liamston follow: FARM NOTES By W. V. HAYS, County Agent V---J The Washington County Farmers’ Club dinner has been postponed un til later in the month on account of some of the Creswell ladies taking a vacation and the potato season. -$ C. J. Maupin, poultry specialist from State College, will be in the county Tuesday, the 12th. Any poultry rais er needing his services can get it by dropping the county agent a postal card. The county wool pool sale will be held at Creswell railroad station on Thursday, June 28. Corn and hog reduction contracts may be signed by getting in touch with any of the committeemen in your community. Allotments on non-participating cotton contracts will be made for cot ton growers who could not sign the original reduction contract some time during June. -® Nine Local Girls Named Sponsors Ahoskie Dapce -<s> Nine young women from Plymouth served as sponsors for the “spring festival” which was held in Ahoskie Tuesday with music by John Hall and his Taft Hotel orchestra, of New York, providing the music for the dance. Attending as sponsors from here were Misses Nellie Frances Beasley, Catherine Harrison, Lot^jse Duvtall, Mildred Owens, Marion Brinkley, Edith Dilday, and Martha Bateman, and Mcsdames Bosie Horton and Jimmie Smith. PRECINCT MEETS TO BE HELD 9TH Delegates To County Con vention To Be Principal Business Precinct meetings will be held in each voting section of this county on Saturday at 11 o'clock, it was an nounced today hy W. R. Hampton, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Washington County. The Plymouth precinct meeting will he held at the courthouse with Harry Stell, precinct chairman, presiding. Everybody in the voting division of this township is urged to attend. Sim ilar meetings will he held in Scupper nong, Skinnersville, Lees Mills, and Wenona. The principal business will he to elect delegates to the Democratic con vention that will be held in Plymouth on Saturday, June 16. At this time delegates to the state convention will be elected. Precinct and county com mittees will also be elected. -$ Attends FERA Meeting Held in Washington -3* — Julian C. Gibbs, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- I ministration in Washington County, attended a meeting held in Washing ton last week, at which time rehabili tation administrators of six counties discussed their problems. Beaufort, Hyde, Martin, Tyrrell, and Pitt counties were represented among the 75 people ;n attendance. George Ross, State director of tbe rural rehabilitation program, was the principal speaker. He revealed that 53,000 families are now being helped with 80 of these families in Washing ton County. NOMINEES FOR TWO PARTIES ARE CERTIFIED Certification Sent To State Authorities After Meet Held Here Tuesday -® Nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties of Washington County to be entered in the general election in November were certified in a meeting of the Washington County Board of Elections, accord ing to information by Chairman W. L. Whitley. Together with P. B. Btlang^, a member of the board of elections, the meeting drew the following regis trars: W. L. Furbec, Wenona: A. R. Phelps, Lees Mills; W. R. Gaylord, Plymouth; J. A. Combs, Scuppernong; C. L. Everett, Skinnersville. J. T. McAllister, Republican member of the elections board, was absent. The following were declared to be nominees of the Republican party, none of whom had any opposition in their party and who did not partici pate in the primary: E. R. Jackson, sheriff; Asa D. Snell, treasurer; Roy V. Patrick, clerk of superior court; J. Richard Carr, member of the house of npresentatives. County commissioners: District 1, A. L. Alexander; district 2, B. B. Spencer; district 3, Stewart J. Wood ley. The following are the Democratic nominees with the exception of treas urer and representative, who go into a second primary June 30: C. V. W. Ausbon, clerk of court; Mary O. Saw yer, register of deeds; J. K. Reid, sher iff; Mrs. D. M. McKnight, coroner; John W. Darden, recorder. Country commissioner: District 1, Frank L. Brinkley; district 2, J. M. 'Clagon; district 3, Clyde Smithson; fC. N. Davenport, jr., and P. H. Dar den for county board of education. CAMP LEACH TO OPEN JUNE 11TH -® Young People of This Sec tion Eligible To Attend Meetings -$ Young men and women, as well as boys and girls of this section are eli gible and urged to attend the meet ings that will be held at Camp Leach situated on the north shore of Pamli co Sound, 14 miles east of Washing ton, N. C\, it was announced today by W. Frith Winslow, superintendent of the Grace Episcopal church. For the past five years young peo ple of the East Carolina Diocese of the Episcopal church have been gath ering at this pleasant place for recre ation, amusement, and pleasure. Mr. Winslow urges all of those who are interested to attend these camps as the expehse is very small. The senior camp of boys and girls from 15 to 24 years of age will open on Monday, June 11. This is followed by a two weeks camp for boys front 12 to 14 years of age, with the girls of the same age limit coming next. The midget camp for boys and girls from 9 to 11 years of age have one week. Included in the group of officials of the camp are Rev. George S. Gresh am, rector of St. Stephen's Church; and Rev. Stephen Gardner, business manager; Rev. John Erwin, New York City; Rev. Edwin F. Moseley, Wil liamston; Rev. W. R. Noe, Wilming ton, and others. [ WHERE THEY PLAY'I v_> FRIDAY, JUNE 8th Williamston at Elizabeth City. Plymouth at Ahoskie. Edenton at Windsor. SATURDAY, JUNE 9th Elizabeth City at Williamston. Ahoskie at Plymouth Bertie at Edenton. MONDAY, JUNE 11th Williamston at Ahoskie. Plymouth at Edenton. Elizabeth City at Colerain. TUESDAY, JUNE 12th Ahoskie at Williamston. Edenton at Plymouth. Bertie at Elizabeth City. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13th Williamston at Windsor. Edenton at Ahoskie. Plymouth at Elizabeth City. THURSDAY, JUNE 14th Bertie at Williamston. Ahoskie at Edenton. Elizabeth City at Plymouth. I STANDING OF CLUBS I J Club Plymouth . Williamston Elizabeth City Ahoskie Edenton . Bertie W L Pet. 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 1 1 .500 1 2 .333 0 2 .000 Wilson Farmers Not To Increase Leaf Acreage Most Wilson County farmers have finished setting their tobacco and are not considering a 10 per cent increase in their acreage now. Many Changes To Be Made Result of Primary Saturday ASK VETERANS TO REGISTER AT RELIEF OFFICE Hours for Registration To Be Between 9 and 12 Saturday -'Sr— All veterans of the World War who have not been visited are requested to come to the emergency relief office in Plymouth Saturday, June 9, be tween 9 and 12 in the morning, ac cording to a statement issued this morning by Mrs. Kitty Norman, chair man of the child welfare survey being conducted in Washington County. Those coming are required to bring their discharge papers. Mrs. Norman is requesting them to meet her, as it has been impossible for her to visit all of the veterans in the short time allotted her for this work. Also any children, blind, lame, or otherwise handicapped should he reported to Mrs. Norman. During last week, Mrs. Norman spent 30 hours on duty traveling 267 miles in this county. She has com pleted information for 50 cards and forwarded them to head office at North Wilkesboro and completed and forwarded four to the state office. Sev eral more veterans than implied here have been visited hut complete in formation was not secured, and this is to be sent in later. -$ EMPLOYMENT MEETING HERE —®— Representative of State De partment of Labor To Be Present A meeting will be held at the court house here Saturday morning, June 9, in the courthouse at 10 o’clock, to consider local employment problems, it was announced today by Luther R. Ausbon, of Plymouth, manager of the district national reemployment service. Homer H. B. Mash, of Raleigh, a representative of the State Depart ment of Labor, will speak and also will answer questions regarding this work. Mr. Ausbon urges that all who can possibly do so go to some [extra effort to attend. “The State and Federal govern ments are endeavoring to bring about some definite program whereby the unemployed liabilities can be devel oped into assets. And we need the fcooperation and assistance of every one possible,” said Mr. Ausbon. -® Marriage Licenses Issued By Register of Deeds -- Marriage licenses have been issued to the following couples by Mrs. Mary O. Sawyer, register of deeds of Wash ington County: White: Ernest 1 . Sawyer, James ville; to Miss Addie Hinson, Dardens; Lee Roy Harris, Plymouth, to Miss Clara Mae Batchelor, Rocky Mount. Colored: James Chesson to Lula Mae Chesson, both of Mackeys; Jas. E. Moore to Ruth Bell, both of Ply mouth. Home Agent Announces Schedule lor Next Week Miss Eugenia Patterson, home deni onstration agent, announces her sclied ule of club meetings for next week as follows: Monday, June 11, Scuppernong. Tuesday, Cherrj. Wednesday, Albemarle. Thursday, VVenona. Friday, Mount Tabor. Saturday morning, curb market. -® Routine Matters Hold I Attention ol Board -$ The Washington County Commis-1 sioners had very little busines other than routine to attend to Monday. They employed W. V. Hays as farm demonstration agent, and Miss Eu genia Patterson as home demonstra tion agent, for another year. i They also voted to allow the emer- ; gency relief administration offices here $7.50 monthly as incidental ex-1 penses. —-<S Local Girl Graduates At Greenville College -9 Miss Elizabeth Tetterton, daughter of Mrs. Claude Tetterton, of Thirdl Street here, received her diploma from the Eeast Carolina Teachers College at Greenville in exercises held Sun day. She graduated with an A. B. degree. Records showed that she was ii good student. Few Beaufort Farmers Increase Leaf Acreage W. L. McGahey, Beaufort County agent, reports that tobacco farmers in his territory are not very enthusi astic about increasing their produc tion the 10 per cent allowed on their contracts. They had much rather have the full amount of the benefit pay ments, he explained. -1 BAILEY LEADS, COBURN NEXT, FOR SENATORS Thompson Close Third; Lead Shifts Between Three Leaders -3> Messrs. Carl L. Bailey, Washington County attorney, Robert L. Coburn, ^Martin County attorney, will represent the second district in the Norh Car olina Senate next term, it was unof ficially but authentically determined this week from reports received from the primary held in the seven coun ties last Saturday. Bailey led the ticket with 6,382 votes, or just 240 more than the total accorded Coburn, who was ahead of W. A. Thompson, of Beaufort Coun ty, by only 250 votes. Corey was fourth with a total of 4,073 votes. The contest was a close one with the three high men, early returns giv ing top position to first one and then the other. Thompson was leading at one time, but the Dare County vote shifted him from top to third position, and then Coburn had the lead, due in part to the record vote received in Washington County, where he led the ticket. The vote by counties: County Cob’n Bail’y T’m’p. Cor’y Beaufort 1,743 Martin 1,972 Wash’ton 1,118 Hyde . 235 Dare 591 Pamlico . 162 Tyrrell 271 Totals 6,142 1,929 2,372 1,167 981 684 1,485 710 822 277 582 441 426 1,137 367 135 655 697 425 388 509 158 6,382 5,892 4,073 JURY LIST FOR JULY COURT —®— Drawn At Meeting of Board of Commissioners Here Last Monday Jurors chosen Monday by the Wash ington County Commissioners for serv ice in the July term of superior court follow: Plymouth: Joe T. Tetterton, Clar ence O. Kelly, George L. Chesson, C. L. Windham, Ben A. Sumner, A. W. Tetterton, Jesse R. Bateman, J H. Leggett, R. B. Davenport, S. E. Beasley, E. F. Still, and Colon Gur kin. Lees Mills: D. W. Chesson, W. E. Marrow, W. W. Phelps, L. E. Bowen, L. E. Woodley, J. H. Long, T. E. Marriner, C. S. Heynen, J. L. Mc Allister, W. A. Blount. scuppernong: u . 11. zstmnian, j. n. Hathaway, Clyde Smithson, A. J. Fur laugh, Ci. O. Combs, Wilson E. Phelps, Lonnie \V. Davenport, A. \V. Davenport, J. \V. Xooney and Carson D Speight. .'Kinnei sville: W. P. Patrick, J. B. Patrick, H. L. Davenport, and E. L. Riddick. -$'-—• New York Man Badly Hurt in Auto Wreck -® D. Sharplass, 72, of New York City, I deceived serious injuries when a truck i in which he was riding plunged from the shoulders of the road into a ra- i vine at the curve on the highway he- ! tween Roper and Creswell near the I home of N. S. Harrington on Tues- 1 Hay night. Mr. Sharplass sustained a compound fracture of the nose, lacerated fore head and scalp, and an injured rib. J Jannis Spencer, 30, who was driving 1 the truck, was bruised on the face and chest. . Mr. Spencer was giving Mr. Sharp lass a ride to Columbia when the ac cident occurred. Both came back here to Dr. T. L. Bray, who treated them. Mr. Sharplass is well known in Co fumbia. Grass Growing Fast In Cherry Section section now. Farmers have vtry lit tle time to waste. Anyway, this is the opinion of J. J. Hassell, who avers |hat now is the time for weeding crops. SECOND PRIMARY IS NECESSARY TO DECIDE 2 RACES Anti-Administration Forces Muster Strength to Put “Ins” “Out” -* Anti-administration forces in Wash ington County mustered their forces last Saturday to prevent the renonii nation of incumbents as they marched to the polls with the ballots in their hands and demonstrated their pref erence for the candidates on the ticket Veterans of many campaigns assert that it was one of the most mixed bat tles in years, due to the fact that vo ers did not hesitate to scratch their tickets in falling from one line-up of forces to another. Most of the votes showed that the electorate cast their ballots on both sides of the proverbial fence. This upset thrust into leadership in the Democratic party many unknowns who have hardly entered primary bat tles before. Some were young in pol itics and others were hardened at the game. Names will be on the tick t this fall for the Democrats that have not been on there before. I So successful were the “antis" that j there may be many changes in the personnel at the courthouse here. [This means, of course, appointive of I fleers, wherein those working under ; the present rigirne might lose out like their superiors. However, tiiere ^ is nothing definite, j A second primary has been called ; for by Harry Stell and Edward L. Owens, aspirants for the office of rep | resentative in the 1935 General As sembly. Joining in this request was *E. G. Arps and H. C. Spruill, who sought the place as treasurer. Owens land Stell defeated J. C. Gatlin and the latter two led J. W. Starr. Heading the list this fall for county commissioners’ office will he Frank L. Brinkley, on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Brinkley is probably one of the 'young.st men ever to be nominated for this office. He is a graduate of State College and taught in schools I ere for years and is now connected with his father and brother in caring for an estate in the county. The second primary will be held ton Saturday, June 30, it was an nounced today by W. L. Whitley, chairman of the Washington County Board of Flections. T! c rote this year in the first skirmish was much heavier than was expected. R. L. Coburn and William A. Thompson led Carl L. Bailey in his own county for the senate, but Bailey carried his own precin't in Lees Mills with a large majority. Bailey felt the brunt in the county because he was identified with the administration that was doomed. R. L. Coburn, with 1,118, and C. N. Davenport, jr., a candidate for mem bership on the board of education, with the same amount, tied for the highest running candidate. Mrs. Mary O. Sawyer, for register of deeds came third in the numb r of votes, 1,012, to will over Mrs. Mary S. Ca hoon, wdio polled 646. Perhaps one of the greatest sur prises of the contest was the a.alanche of votes that submerged E. R. Lewis, who has served well and good on the board of commissioners for eight or more years. He was a vi . :i of the “antis”” wrath also. To give a synopsis of tie entire affair, it was well said by . :ie: “All the ' ins" are out, and all of the “outs" are in. A number of changes is ex pected to result from the antis* vic tory if they are successful in Novem ber, which is predicted, as numbers aver that they will take their defeat like men and vote for the party in the general round-up. Pay Checks for Eighth Month Mailed Teachers I ay checks for the eighth month were mailed out last week from State Relief Administration headquarters to 05 teachers in Washington County. These checks totaled $4,088. This is an average of a little more than $60 monthly for the teachers in the public schools in this county. This includes the average of white and col ored teachers. The salaries for the colored teachers are lower than those of the white. --— Irish Potato Digging Under Way at Creswell Creswell.—Irish potato digging lias started in this section. Louis Spruill, who lives out toward Cherry, dug some last week. It is expected that from now on for the next few weeks numbers of carloads of “spuds” will be shipped from this section.
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