THE ROANOKE BEACON
And Washington County News
Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington ;
County, North Carolina
WALTER H. PARAMORE Managing Editor j
The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889 |
and consolidated with the Washington County
News in 1929.
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March 3, 1879, ___ \
Friday, February 15, 1935
Lowering the Standard of Living
We must lower our standards of living, or we will
fail in our civilization. \'o man can succeed so long
as he makes one dollar and spends two.
We have already, apparently, lost sight of the fact
that every man should give the wmrld just a little more
than he gets, which is the only way to improve our
selves. If we persist in our present pace, the world
and we ourselves will gradually go down until we will
face degradation.
Our whole system of culture seems to have taken
the attitude that we should live to shun as much work
and as many obligations in life as possible.
Unless we are mistaken, the attitude of both the
home and the school is permitting the child to dodge
all the work possible and lets them drag through by
“the skin of their teeth,” This has gone on until only
the very few honest conscientious workers are making
the grade.
More work in the home and more work in the school
will be a fine thing for the child. We need to teach
the child the value of work and his or her part in mak
ing a good citizenship.
We need some play, too. Some folks want too much
play. They claim it makes for health, which can hard
ly be proven, since a very large number of the youth
of today has to go to hospitals to be patched up for
some physical defect or other.
We must get it out of our thinking that we can live
on family names and family inheritance, for it is a
fact we must make our own characters and our own
fortunes if we expect to be counted worthy citizens.
Enemies To Recovery
One of the two most dangerous enemies to national
recovery is that class of people who would be willing
to stand by and see the poor and the weak starve to
death rather than to give them any help. The other
is that class composed of those who do not actually
need help but who have not sufficient honor to make
any effort to help themselves. Vet we find many of
both these classes of people in the nation.
With such conditions, it will take a Solomon to
draw the line so that those who are and those who are
not entitled to relief can be placed in their proper
class. In fact, such a line can never be drawn cor
rectly until every person who makes a claim is square
enough to tell the truth about his condition and his
needs. For it is impossible for any person to have
sufficient wisdom to determine the exact condition of
each applicant.
One applicant grunts one time, the next one twice,
and the third one—who, perhaps, is not as needy as
the first or second—grunts, groans and complains three
times. So we need not wonder nor complain that
some of the unworthy slip by while some more needy
are left out. .
No one has any harder job than the one who stands
between the government and the needy. Xo one, from
the President down, has as hard a job as the agency
which actually administers the benefits personally.
The Foundation of Wealth
Bertie Ledger-Advance.
Land continues to go up in prices. We started to
say it went up in value, but it might be best to say
that land retains its value, and no ups and downs in
prices of other things can affect that permanent fact.
Real estate in Eastern Carolina is safer than stocks,
bonds, oil wells, securities, or what have you. It stays
put. It produces, when worked.
A man in Windsor was recently offered nearly $3,
000 for a little farm in Bertie County that a few years
back could have been bought for only a part of that
sum. It is not now for sale however. A farm home
in Eastern Carolina is the safest place in the world
for a man with a family. Such a man will never get
rich on that farm, but he will always make a living
for himself and his own, if he works and has not set
back at the hands of Providence.
One of the reasons for the slackened demand for
real estate was the stock and bond craze of a few years
ago. People who had cash saw the greater fortune in
buying stocks and bonds. Later they saw their imag
inary fortunes wiped out overnight, so to speak. Those
who owned land, or invested their earnings in land,
will again see a restoration of their former worth and
financial holdings. While, on the other hand, those
who gambled in stocks and bonds, irt many instances,
sustained a complete loss.
Real estate is the natural foundation of wealth, and
when it has returned to its former ‘'standing" in that
respect, the financial status of the nation will be on
a much sounder footing. And, it is now returning.
The Proper Medicine
The State of Virginia applied the proper medicine
to two culprits on Saturday.
They were Walter Leganza and Robert Mais, who
were electrocuted on the specific charge of robbing a
Federal Reserve Rank truck and killing the driver.
Dozens of dastardly crimes, murders, kidnaping and
robbery had been committed by the gang of which
they were the leaders.
Some folks oppose capital punishment. Every man
should oppose a gang of people who had rather rob
and kill than to live honest lives, |>eople who have no
conscience and who band themselves together and use
force of arms to deprive innocent people of their prop
erty or their lives.
It is not yet time to abolish capital punishment.
Sympathy for the Drunkard
We are in sympathy with the drunkard. The fellow
to be blamed is the man who traffics in the substance
that makes another drunk, whether he be bootlegger,
moonshiner, or legal dispenser, and the lawmaker who
legalizes and turns loose and gives alcohol a legal
status in our laws for a little revenue.
The fellow who advocates legal liquor and control
of it knows very little about liquor. For liquor con
trols the men who recognize it as a tax-producing com
modity.
The fellow who reels up and down the street is the
man who needs our sympathy. He reels because some
body has placed a temptation, which he could not re
sist. in his way. And they do it for the profits they
get out of the poor fellow.
Falsehoods in the Courts
Is it possible that the devil has so organized his
imps to that state of sinful sordidness that one
may go out and commit crime and others come along
and prove them clear by falsehood? Possbily not, yet
that is the case too often. No offense is more destest
able than falsehood or perjury.
Of course, the man who steals your purse or robs
you in any v.ay is a very undesirable citizen, yet it is
doubtful if his crime is as black as the man who de
liberately falsifies to defeat the ends of justice.
What we need in our courts is a system of ferret
ing out the falsehoods in court procedure in our coun
try. The witness who deliberately and knowingly
swears falsely for either the prosecution or the defense
needs to take the place of the defndant undr indict
mnt.
Our country, our homes, our lives, are unsafe when
dominated by falsehoods.
Divorce a Blow To Society
Nine couples, 18 people, were divorced in Halifax
County in five days during the recent term of court
held in that County by Judge Clayton Moore, which
would seem to mean that love is rapidly dying out in
that county.
It is rather sad to see men and women start off in
life, proclaiming their love for each other, and so
soon begin to find fault with each other. In some
cases a fight ensues, and in others either the husband
or wife begins a love affair with another man or wo
man, and soon the home, the most sacred of all earthly
places, is crashed asunder. Fathers, mothers, brothers,
sisters and, in most cases children are involved.
There is something seriously wrong with every di
vorce, either they did not have sufficient sense to
choose a suitable life partner, or they did not have the
stability to fulfill a very sacred obligation. Generally
the trouble is traceable to want of care in distinguish
ing between character and style. Many young men
and young women look good when they are not good.
Then sometimes married folks fail to live up to the
obligations of wedlock.
At any rate, society gets a hard knock every time
there is a divorce granted.
Abolish the Holding Companies
When the government abolihes the holding com
panies it is going to upset a lot of crooked bookkeep
I mg.
The holding company has too often been used as t
I hiding place to pull crooked deals. It has helped to
! dodge millions in taxes and has helped in the collec
tion of many millions in dividends.
The sooner the holding company is abolished the
better it will be for the country.
Fighting Again
Elkin Tribune
When the government provided deposit insurance
for the banks of the nation, the smaller banks bene
fited from withdrawals from the large city institutions,
as well as from patrons who had been housing their
cash in the chimney corner or in the bed mattress.
The large banks, of course, let out a howl, and in their
resourceful way sought to gain some of the lost ground.
As the deposit insurance covers only up to $5,000,
and the large banks have a majority of their accounts
in excess of' that amount, they sought a differential
in the premium they must pay, and approached the
FDIC with their proposal for a fixed premium, under
the plea that they wanted to know the exact figure of
their obligation.
They were accommodated, but not to their liking.
They were given a blanket designation of 1-8 of 1 per
cent of total deposits as a suitable figure. And so they
are fighting again, seeking premiums based on insured
deposits only. Inasmuch as only a small percentage
of their deposits are insurable, it seems hardly fair to
tax their total. Yet in various ways they have milked
the little institutions in the past, and now they are
experiencing a heavy pull the other way. If they have
their way about it an unbearable load will be placed
on the little banks, which is certainly far from the pur
pose of the present administration.
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VCB-173-E. Richmond, Ya. f8 2t
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as the ad
ministrator of the estate of the late
Mrs. Emma P. Bclanga, I hereby give
notice to all persons indebted to the
aid estate to make immediate settle
ment, and those holding claims a
gainst the said estate must present
them to the undersigned at Creswell,
N. C.. within twelve months of the
date of this notice, or it will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery.
This the 7th day of January, 1935.
P. B. BELANGA,
Administrator of the estate of the
ate Mrs. Emma P. Belanga. jll 6t
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power of!
^ale embraced in a certain deed of
trust from A. F. Arnold and wife \
Carrie L. Arnold, to Z. V. Normal.,
trustee, on the 5th day of November,
192,1, and recorded in book 74. page
280, in the office of Register of Deeds
of Washington County, and the hon
orable N. A. Sinclair having entered
an order at the January term, 1925,
r-upcrior court of Washington County,
directing Branch Banking and f rust
Company, as Receiver of Cnited Com
mercial Bank to cause to be foreclosed
'aid deed of trti't in order that said
receivership may be brought to a close,
and defult living been Hide in the pay
ment of the note thereby secured, the
undersigned trustee will expose at pub
lic sale, to the highest bidder, for
cash, at the curthouse door of Wash
ington County, on the 4th day of
March, 1935, at 12 o’clock noon, the
following described real estate:
First parcel: Eighteen (18) acres,
bounded as follows: Beginning at a
black gum in Abnor Hughes swamp,
George Bowen s line, thence south 21
east along said Bowen’s line 22 poles;
thence south 61 east 18 poles; thence
south 70 east 28 poles; thence 63 east
4 poles to a ditch, Emma McNair cor
ner, it being the southwest corner of
lot No. 4 in said division; thence north
43 east along Emma McNair line 34
poles to a point in Asa Sawyer’s line;
thence north 56 west along said Saw
yer's line 87 poles to the run of Ab
nor Hughes swamp; thence up said
run of the swamp to first station; and
the second tract of land containing
seven (7) acres, more or less, begin
ning at a point at George Bowen’s
line at the southwest corner of the
fence; thence north 21 east 70 yards;
thence south 60 east 84 poles to Henry
Horton’s line; thence north 21 west
70 yards to Henry Horton’s corner;
thence north 60 west along George
Bowen’s line 84 poles to the first sta
tion, being said parcels of land deeded
to James C. Gardner by Abe Adler
and wife November 28, 1917, and fromi
James C. Gardner and wife to A. F.
Arnold, November 5, 1923.
The said land will be sold subject \
to all unpaid taxes against said prop
erty. The highest bidder at said sale
will he required to deposit ten per cent
of his bid to be forfeited to said trus
tee for the holder of said note upon
failure to comply with said bid upon
tender of deed.
This the 30th day of January, 193a.
Z. V. NORMAN,
Trustee.
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NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale embraced in a certain deed of
trust from W ■ B. \\ oodley and wife,
I. F.. Woodley, to Z. V. Norman, trus
tee, on the 6th day of February,_!924,
and recorded in book 85, page 76, in
the office of Register of Deeds ot
Washington County, and the Honor
able N. A. Sinclair having entered an
order at the January term, 1935, su
perior court of Washington County,.
directing Branch Banking and Trust
Company as receiver of United Com
mercial Bank to cause to be foreclosed
said deed of trust in order that said re
ceivership may be brought to a close,
and default having been made in the
payment of the notes thereby secured,
the undersigned trustee will expose at ,
public sale, to the highest bidder, for
cash, at the courthouse door of Wash
ington Countv, on the 23rd day of
February, 1935, at 12 o'clock noon, the
following described real estate:
Lots Nos. one, two, three, tour, for
ty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty
line of the Johnson Woodley farm as
shown on may made by Sam J. Res
pass, surveyor, and recorded in book \
if maps 1, page 29, of W ashington
County Registry, containing 101 acres.
And being the house, tracts and build
ing thereon and the woodland behind
i same, excepting timber on woodland
land the deed of trust is given to se
cure the purchase price.
The said land will be sold subject to
all unpaid taxes against said property
The highest bidder at said sale will
,e required to deposit ten per cent of
his bid to be forfeited to said trustee
for the holder of said notes upon fail
ure to comply with said bid upon ten
der of deed.
This the 22nd day of January, 193d.
Z. V. NORMAN,
Trustee.
j25 4tw
31.68
17.64
36.72
NOTICE OF SALE OF PROPERTY FOR
DELINQUENT TAXES
Pursuant to instructions issued by the City Council of the 1 own of Ply
mouth, N. C., the following property will be sold in front of the Courthouse
in Plymouth, N. C„ at 12 o'clock noon, on the 4th day f March, 1935, for 1933
taxes due and unpaid, unless said taxes, costs and penalty are paid on or be
fore the 4th day of March, 1935. Fifty cents will he added to defray adver
tising costs of each name.
This the 8th day of February, 1935.
(Signed) P. W. BROWN,
f8 4t Tax Collector of Town of Plymouth.
White
Ayers, Mrs. A. M., Estate. 1 lot Main St., 2 lots Water St.
Bateman, Mrs. S. R., 1 lot Jefferson Street .
Beasley, Mrs. Nellie, Est., 4 lots Washington Street .
Brinkley, D. O., Est., 2 lots old home, 1 lot, baseball park, 1 lot Water
and Jefferson, 1 lot Water and Washington, 1 lot Jefferson, 1 lot
Jefferson and Brinkley Ave., 2 lots Brinkley Ave., 1 lot K. S. Coop
er, 1 lot Water and Jefferson store, 1 lot on 90 store, 1 lot Harper
Place Monroe, 1 Washington Harrison place, 6 New Town. 1 Wa
ter St. .
Davenport, Dobitha, 1 lot Third Street .
Doughtie, Mr. J. F... 1 lot Monroe .
Eastern Cotton Oil Co., 2 lots Jefferson Street .
Everett, J. O., 1 lot Main Street
Faust, Paul. 1 lot Fort Williams .
Gardner, Mrs. Sallie, 1 lot Wilson Street .
Hardison, Mrs. W. R., 1 lot Third Street .
Harney, Mrs. G. W., 1 lot Main St.. 1 lot 3rd St .
Harrison, Mrs. E. G., for 1932 and 1933, 1 lot Main St
Hooker, Mrs. Annie, 1 lot Washington, 1 lot Brinkley Ave
Horton, H. L., 1-4 int. in home place .
Horton, J. L., 1-4 interest in home place .
Horton, J. M., 2 lots Main St., 1 lot Water St .
Hurley, D. A., 1 lot Washington Street .
Jackson, E. R., 1 lot Washington St, 1 lot Main St, E, 2 lots Main St,
W, 1 lot E Water St, 1 lot Sinclair Eilling Station
Jackson, W. J., Estate, 2 lots 3rd St, 1 lot Monroe
Johnson, Mrs. R. W„ 1 lot Main Street .
Kemp, E. D., 1 lot Brinkley Ave .|.
Landing, L. V., 1 lot Brinkley Ave .
Leggett, Mrs. Margaret, 1 lot Washington St., .
Leggett, Raymond, 2 lots Wash St., 1 lot Brinkley Ave, 1 lot Wilson St
Lucas, T. S., 1 lot Third .
Lyon, O. H., 1 lot Main Street .-.
Lyon, O. H., Gdn.., 1 lot Madison Street ..
Norman, Mrs. Claude, 1 lot Third St .-.
Norman, Mrs. Madeline, 1 lot Washington St., 1 lot Main St.
Price, P. O., 1 lot Fort Williams .
Rodgers, J. J., 1 lot Third Street .
Smith, J. H., 1 lot Third Street .
Swain, Edison, 1 lot Third Street .
Swain, J. T., 1 lot Jefferson Street .
Weede, L. T., 1 lot Jefferson Street .
Willoughhv, Mrs. Emma, 1 lot Washington Street
770.47
31.00
9.45
36.00
33.30
15.21
31.14
10.80
97.20
105.30
49.41
20.55
14.25
44.28
21.93
155.79
64.80
32.95
23.76
28.11
14.40
64.47
22.81
51.51
85.23
25.92
39.68
18.80
21.09
36.00
37.47
8.85
28.88
36.00
Colored
Allen, Julia, 1 lot Madison Street^
Armstead, Fannie, 1 lot Wilson Street .
Ballard, K. Dean, 1 lot Madison Street .
Axuni, Thomas, 1 lot East Main Street .
Ballard, Hannah, 1 lot Madison Street
Barnes, Maggie, 1 lot Wilson Street
Bateman, Daniel, Est., 1 lot Wilson Street .
Bell and Johnson, 1 lot Fourth Street .
Bell, John, Heirs, 1 lot Madison Street
Bell, P. H., Little Court and Third Street
Blount, John, 1 lot Wilson Street .
Boone, Rebecca H„ 1 lot Fourth Street .
Bowen, J. L„ 1 lot Water Street .
Bowser, Louis, 1 lot Madison .
Bowser, Shelton, 1 lot Water Street .
Boyd, Matilda, 1 lot Wilson Street .
Clark, Mary, 1 lot Fourth Street .
Cobb, D. C, 1 lot Fourth Street .
Cherry, Wesley, 1 lot Brinkley Avenue .
Cooper, Aaron, 1 lot Monroe Street .
Cooper' William and Dewey, Wilson Street .
Cooper, Theodore, Wilson Street .
Cradle, J. C, Main Street .
Downing, Annie, Fourth Street .
Dempsey, W. M., Hrs., Wilson Street .
Ellis, W. H„ Water and Madison ...
Felton, Victoria, 1 Wilson Street .
Gardner, Lucretia, 1 iot Madison Street .
Garrett, Charlie, Fourth Street .
Garrett, Lewis, 1 lot Main Street .
Garrett, Mamie, 1 lot Wilson Street .
Gee, Martha, 1 Main Street .
Halsey, Millie ..
Harrell, Irvin, 1 lot Water Street .
Harrison, Abraham, 1 lot Adams Street .
Harris, J. J., 1 lot Fourth Street .
Hayes and Spruill, Augusta and S„ Madison Street
Heath, C. C., 1 lot Water .
Heath, C. D., 1 lot Main, 1 lot Water Street .
Hines, Henry, 1 lot Main Street .
Horton, Elizabeth, I lot Main Street .
Howcutt, Marv, 1 lot Madison Street .
James, Edith and Elijah, 1 lot Wilson Street .
James, John S„ 1 lot Monroe .
Jenkins, Emma, 1 lot Fourth Street .
Jennett, Zion, 1 lot Fourth Street .
Johnson, Dempsey, 1 lot Wilson Street .
Johnson, John, 1 lot Monroe Street .
Johnson, Levi, 1 lot Water and 1 lot Monroe
Johnson, Willie J., 2 lots Water and Main Street
Johnson, W. M„ 1 lot Main Street .
Jones, H. C., 1 lot Main Street .
Jones Est., Elizabeth, 1 lot W'ater Street .
7.20
4.32
14.25
7.20
4.32
5.76
8.64
28.80
22.62
4.32
7.20
14.25
10.80
9.21
4.32
1.48
5.85
1.44
12.66
4.32
10.65
12.09
14.40
3.60
21.15
3.60
1.80
8.49
10.80
7.20
2.88
5.04
5.04
5.76
8.49
14.40
5.76
13.68
14.97
7.20
2.88
10.44
13.44
8.64
7.20
10.80
3.60
7.93
13.53
7.92
9.21
2.88
Joyner, Jim, 1 lot Water Street
Joyner, Lucy, 1 lot Fourth Street
Linson, Ernest, 1 lot Main Street
Lowery, Mary, heirs, 1 lot Monr •? Street
Mitchell, Lucinda. 1 lot Wilson Street
Mitchell, Izah, Est„ 1 lot Water Street
Mitchell, L. S., 1 lot Monroe Street
Moore, J. J>„ Est„ 1 lot Adams, 2 lots Madison, 1 lot L. Moore Court,
4 L. Little Court, 2 Jots Wilson Street
Moore, Sam. I lot Wilson Street
Moore, Lucy, 1 lot Freeman Court
McDonald, John, I lot Wilson Street
Wiggins, Arthur, 1 lot Fort Williams Street
Owens, C. M., 1 lot 3rd St., 1 lot Madison
Pettiford, Mack. Hot Main Street
Pettiford, Roberta. 1 lot Water Street
Pettiford, Ruben, llrs, 1 lot Water, 2 lots Main, 2 lots 4th St.. 1 lot
Wilson, 2 loa Water .
Rhodes, Joe, 1 Madison Street
Rascoe, Ladie, 1 lot Water
Simon, N;.ncy, llrs., 1 hit Freeman Court
Simon. Washington, 1 lot McLee, 1 lot A C L
Smith, Ethel, 1 lot Main Street
Smith, George, 2 lots Wilson Street
Smith, Geo. \\.. 1 lot Madison Street
Smith, Josephan, 1 lot Water Street
Smithwkk, Elizabeth, 1 lot Wilson Street
Smithwick, Senara, 1 lot Main Street
I'harpe, James S., 1 lot Water Street .
Toodle, Fannie, Hrs., 1 lot Washington, 1 lot 4t.h St
Towc, Rosetta Heath, Water Street
Towe, Augusta, Hrs., 1 lot 3rd Street .
Towc, A. L., Norman lot, Wilson lot, store
Towe, Milton, Hrs., 1 lot W. 4th
White, Cornelius, 1 lot 1 ittle Court
Wynn, Caroline, 1 lot Little ( nirt
15.33
3.60
10.63
11.52
8.64
5.04
31.05
58.54
8.64
5.04
12.24
9.21
23.04
873
7.20
74.16
3.96
2.16
4.32
5.19
3.6(1
12.09
11.52
4.32
5.04
8.64
14.40
46.80
5.76
4.32
29.82
12.96
4.32
2.16
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"Camels have a rich flavor that
I can enjoy. They refresh my
energy—and steady smoking
never upsets my nerves."
(Signed) HAROLD McCRACKEN
* (Right) “WHEN I’M WORKING
hard, a great way to keep up my
energy is to smoke a Camel."
(Signed) P. HALSEY, Surveyor
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FOR THE MAN
WITH A RESERVE
It’s the unexpected that makes life so un
certain. Emergencies frequently arise
that bring a temporary hair to oijr earn
ing power. Funds must come from
somewhere to tide us over.
In a critical period a reserve means mon
ey, food, clothing, and vitality. There is
no friend that comes so quickly, so sure
ly as a reserve.
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& Trust Company
PLYMOUTH, N. C.
F. D. I. C.
The Branch Banking and Trust (jomnany
is a Member of the Temporary Federal (
posit Insurance Fund, and the Funds of Each
Depositor Are Insured Up To $5,000.00 by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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FOR EASTERN CAROLINA