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VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 8 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, February 22, 1935 ESTABLISHED 1889 'farm teachers HOLD MEETING IN ROPER TUESDAY Fail To See Value in Soil Erosion Program for Eastern Farmers -® Instructors in vocational agriculture of high schools in Washington, Mar tin, and Tyrrell Counties failed to see where the soil erosion program in progress in the western counties of this state would be of any use down here but they heard a good and inter esting talk from Mr. Marr, a repre sentative of the soil erosion control1 group at Roper Tuesday. Less hills here and more flat land cause a different problem here, the • teachers thought. Up in the west they must make the high-furrowed embank ments to keep the soil from washing away, but down here they are con fronted with a problem of seeking i some way for the water to run off of cultivated land. Besides Mr. Marr, J. K. Coggins, new supervisor of vocational agricul ture in this section, was an interest ing speaker at the meeting. Present at the meeting were the following farm teachers: C. H. Rabon, Creswell; C. H. Floyd, Roper; Pat Duncan, Co lumbia; R. C. Jordan, Jamesville; Mr. Mullins, Oak City. -® Hyde County Men Freed Under Bond —®— Mortgage bonds were used to se cure tlie release here last Friday night of l-Jarry and Leslie Blake, of Fair field, Hyde County, who were released under a bond of $2,500 each front the Washington County jail last Friday evening. The two were being held in jail here charged with the shooting and robbing of William Payne, deputy sheriff of Hyde County, November 24, 1934. The victim was robbed of $3,000 in cash and checks on tax col lections. Their first bond of $5,000 each was cut in half by Judge N. A. “'Sinclair. They will be tried in Hyde 'County in May. ( -® Students To Attend Ahoskie Stock Sale —$— A group of students in vocational agriculture in the Creswell High School will attend a sale of Guernsey heifers at Ahoskie Saturday. These heifers were produced by other voca tional students in Randolph County and are being sold to farmers and others. C. H. Rabon, head of vocational agriculture in the Creswell High School, will endeavor to get purchases made of these cattle so as to start a Better Cattle Club in Washington County, thus starting a movement for better cows on the farms in Washing ton County. --- Special Services at Holly Neck Church “The Church of Christ, It's Foun dation,” is the subject of the sermon that will be delivered by Rev. M. L. Ambrose, of Roper, pastor of a circuit of Christian churches in Washington and Tyrrell Counties, at the Holly ■Neck church at 11 o’clock Sunday morning. In the evening he will speak on “The Mission of the Spirit of God in the World.” Rev. Mr. Ambrose has been at Roper about two months. He came from Creeds, Va. He is serving Holly Neck, St. Delight, Zion’s Chapel in Washington and Cabin Swamp in - Tyrrell County. Every one is invited to attend services in his churches. Young Minister To ' Be Ordained 4th| Creswell.—Rev. J. W. Hardy has returned home after spending last week at Wilmington, where he passed an examination for the priesthood of the Episcopal denomination. He will be ordained by Bishop Darst on March 4th at Columbia. -® Father of Principal Anderson Is Dead —®— Frank L. Brinkley, a former faculty member of the Plymouth High School was on the job again last week, reliev ing Principal L. M. Anderson, who, with his wife, was called to Burke ville, Va., on accunt of the death of J. F. Anderson, father of Mr. Ander son. Principal Anderson is back on the job now. To Hold Contest in Public Speaking —®— Creswcll.—Elimination contests will soon be held in schools in Washing ton County to name the participant in the group public speaking contest that will lie held in Roper around the first of April, it was announced today by C. H. Rabon, bead of vocation agri culture in the Creswcll school. In the group meeting will be par titicipants from schools in Martin, Washington and Tyrrell counties. A district elimination contest will be held with the date and place to be an nounced later. A livestock judging contest will be held about the same time, at which time farm students will have an op portunity to judge dairy cattle, beef cattle, breeding swine and the different beef cuts, including beef, lamb, and pork. BILLWOULDCUT COST OF AUTO LICENSE PLATES Minimum of $9 Favored in Bill Likely To Receive Committee Approval The highway department is sched uled to lose $1,200,000 in revenue if the proposed reduction in automobile licenses goes into effect. It is report ed that the subcommittee of the joint roads committee will report favorably the bill introduced by Senator White, of Robeson, which would reduce the minimum tax to $9 by a reduction in 'the present 55 cents per hundred weight charge to 40 cents. Based on present registrations the state would thus lose about $1,200,000 in revenue. Proponents of a reduced license fee argue that the state would lose nothing as a result of such reduc tion because, they say, the loss in li cense revenue would be made up by an increased use in gasoline on which the state collects a tax. Figures com piled in Georgia, where auto tags have been reduced to $5. disprove their con tention. Many legislators who have studied the highway problems of the state point out that expert engineers say that the average life of a concrete road properly mintained under average traffic loads, is 20 years and 8 months. Most of North Carolina’s roads of that type were constructed between 1921 and 1926. Therefore, a tremen dous amount of construction work will be necessary in 1941-46. Many legis lators say they believe that the state should not reduce license fees, but any contemplated reduction be applied in stead to the fund which looks forward to the time when the highways will have to be rebuilt. This, they say, would not result in still heavier tax ation in the next decade for recon struction because a fund will have been created by that time which would help largely to pay for such work. In spite of such arguments, how ever, it is almost certain that some reduction in automobile licenses will be made. Reduction below the $9 level is remote, despite the number of ■bills introduced which would cut the fee to $5. Most such measures were introduced merely to keep campaign ■promises. Few introducers of those bills had any hope at all that they would be adopted. The 15-cent, $9 ! reduction bill is the lowest figure at which observers at the state capital will place lowered license costs. CRESWELL Miss Mamie Forehand, of Tyrne. was the guest of Mrs. Major Forehand the past week. Miss Virginia Davenport and Miss Elizabeth Phelps, accompanied by Mr. Floyd Spencer, of Columbia, spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Davenport at Alligator. Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Phelps, of Wash in.gton were the week-end guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Phelps. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Phelps and lit tle son, of Williamston, were the week end guests of his brother, Mr. C. J. Phelps. Mrs. Ida Hassell has returned from Raleigh, where she has been spending ■some time with relatives. The ninth grade of Creswell High School gave a party Wednesday night at the home of Miss Dorothy Hatha way. During the evening games and contests were played. The hostess served a delicious sweet course. Miss Mary Clark spent the week end with her parents at Inez, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. J. Winstead and little daughter, of Goldsboro, were the week-end guests of her mother, Mrs. Sallie Williams. They were ac companied home by Mrs. Williams. Mr. C. H. Aderholdt was the week end guest of his parents at Lincoln ton. Mrs. Mac Simmons spent Monday in Plymouth on business. TOTAL 7(1 CARDS ARE SENT IN BY COUNTY PARENTS -® Few Births Have Been Re ported in This County for Past Year -® Parents of Washington County are starting their reports to Washington of the hirths of children born in the county during the past twelve months. Cards mailed during the first two weeks of the “Register Your Baby” campaign show that 70 children have been properly registered. This is compared with 299 children which were recorded as having been born in this county during the year 193.1, as shown in the files of the Bu reau of V ital Statistics of the State Board of Health in Raleigh. Parents are urged by Dr. John H. Hamilton, director of the bureau, to send in these cards as early as possible. North Carolina had 75,238 births properly recorded in 1933, and incom plete figures show that 79,350 hirths had been recorded for 1934, by which Dr. Hamilton estimates that enough more will be added to make the num ber of births in the state last year 80, 000 or more. With almost a 5,000 increase in births in 1934 over those in 1933, as shown by the records, it is believed that North Carolina has the chance of again taking her place at the head of the list in birth rate, a position held for many years, but from which she was dislodged last year by New Mexi ico, and tied with Utah for second place. Complete recording of births is be ing urged in the State by the U. S. Bureau of the Cnsus, the State Board of Health and the State Emergency relief Administration. -- Freak Egg Is Put On Display Here -s—— An egg with a perfect heart formed by a white soft crust was exhibited here by Mrs. W. A. Swain Saturday. The egg was sent to the Beacon by Mrs. L. D. Collins, of Pleasant Grove, who found it in a hen nest in her lot. The egg was perfect in every par ticular except for the fact that over the top of the hard shell was the soft white crust in the form of a heart. This is unusual, and so far as is known is the first to be exhibited in Ply mouth. v * j Bible Class Holds Barbecue Supper -s Creswell.—The men’s Bible class of the Episcopal church held a barbecue supper at the Jim Stuart store Wed nesday night, with the women’s Bible class and teachers as special guests. A delicious supper was served. Mr. J. W. Starr, superintendent of the Sunday school, gave the address of welcome, with the response by C. H. Aderholdt, teacher of the class. -® 75 Applications for Farm Loans Made —®— Miss Maude Wynn, of Washington, ■is in the office here of Attorney S. A. Ward, jr_, after 12 o'clock each Wed nesday and all day Friday and Satur day of each week to assist in prepar ing applications and other aid to those wishing loans from the Washington Production Credit Association. So far she has prepared about 75 applications for those wishing loans, with an average of these being at $300. Some have been as low as $50, while the highest is in the $800 class. -^ ■1 — Attendance Good At Roper School —®— Roper.—The Roper school opened Monday morning with a good attend ance. It had been closed for about two weeks on account of illness among the students. A basketball game will be played Friday night at 7:30 between the Ply mouth beys and girls and the local squads. A small admission will be charged. -® Williamston Men At Meeting Here —®— W. C. Manning, editor of the Bea con, and four other Williamston men were visitors at Perseverance Lodge of the Masonic fraternity here Tues day night. The men called it a sociai call, but Mr. Manning made an in teresting talk. Two Hurt in Grade Crossing Accident -—V T. Lee Harrison, of New Bern, arid his daughter, Miss Dare Harrison, sus tained cuts and bruises but were not seriously hurt when their automobile was struck hv a freight train on the Norfolk Southern Railroad at the Lu cas Farm crossing near here. The car was completely demolished. They were coming to Plymouth to visit Mr. Harrison’s mother, who lives near here and who was severely burn ed last week. -® Yard Improvement Over Whole County Aim of Home Agent General Plan Outlined by District Agent Excellent One To Follow -® By Miss Eugenia Patterson Your home agent is very anxious to see in the near future every yard in Washington County improved. For the benefit of all the people, the gen eral plan suggested by our district agent, Miss Pauline Smith, is a splen did one to use. Any person who wants to improve their surroundings can find much information in the “first year" plan of yard work. Miss Smith is an authority on landscaping and is acting as yard specialist for the State Extension Department. -® Alligator Girl To Be Here All This Week “Alice,” known as an alligator girl, will exhibit in the store building next to the store of A. L. Owens here the remainder of this week. The un usual woman appearing here next week is a college graduate, and is the only human in the world who has had the huge amount of $25,000 offer ed for her body. She was born, reared j ami educated in Raleigh. -® Slot Machines Are Made Illegal by Act Slot machines and other such coin machines have been taken down and stored away waiting for the owners to call for them in respect for the law that has passed the North Carolina legislature outlawing the mechanical devices. These machines had been a source of profit to many business houses her# But they were folded away neatly Wednesday in response to tel egrams from Raleigh officials order- I jing this done. -$ Respected Colored Man Died Last Week Funeral services were held last week for Sam Hines, colored, 70 years of age, who died on the farm of J. C. Spruill last week as the result of j paralysis. He was a well known and well liked colored citizen and main tained the respect of people who knew him. He laves a wife and five chil dren. -$> Representative and Mrs. Stell Visitors Representative and Mrs. Harry Stell were at home during the week-end front Raleigh. Mr. Stell is represent ing this county in the assembly, ami Mrs. Stell is with him. They are lo cated in a nice place near the Capitol. Mrs. Stell has been very sick with pneumonia and when she left there Saturday it was her first time out doors for several days. Pete Stuart, Aged Negro, Dies Here —®— Death claimed Pete Stuart last week. He was colored but was w'ell known and w'ell liked by both white and col ored in Washington County. For years he was employed by the old Wilts \ encer Company. Also he was a servant for some time for Clarence Latham when he lived here. -$ To Stage Minstrel Here Next Month —®— Guy H. Savery, of Willingford, Ver mont, w'ill arrive next week for a visit •to Shop Brinkley. Mr. Savery, while here, will stage a unique minstrel with Sheji’s assistance, which promises to • he one of the season’s best entcrtain ! ment features. Looks Like Anybody’s Race As Contestants Now Stand Funeral Held Friday At Ml Tabor Church For R. W. Furlough —®— Had Been in 111 Health for Some Time; Died Last Thursday ——« Funeral services were liekl Friday afternoon at the Mount Tabor F. W. B. church for R, W. Furlough, age 46, who died Thursday about noon at bis home in tbe Mount Tabor neigh borhood. Rev. T. F. Davenport conducted the service. A large crowd attended the funeral, and the floral offering was beautiful. Mr. Furlough had been in ill health with a complication of diseases for some time, although lie was taken ser iously ill only a few days before he1 died. His wife preceded him to the grave 13 months ago. Surviving him are four children, Mrs. L. V. Spencer, Co-! lumbia; Mrs. Jordan Phelps, Miss Aleathia Furlough, and Mr. Elvin Fur lough; a mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan A. Furlough; three broth ers, A. VV„ J. D. and M. J. Furlough; five sisters, Mrs. C. J. Hairr, Mrs. T. F. Davenport, Mrs. I). E. Spruill, Mrs. H. \V. Phelps, and Mrs C. H. Ange, of Jamesville The pall-bearers were J. F. Ambrose J. M. Gibbs, Lee Midyette, H. S. Fur lough, Loomis Furlough, and D. E. Spruill. Flower bearers were his nieces, Misses Gallic and Virginia Davenport, Lillie J. Bateman, Ehrdine Spruill, Erma, and Eleanor Furlough. Schedule for Home Agent Next Week —®— Miss Eugenia Patterson, home dem onstration agent, announces the fol lowing schedule of club meetings for next week: Monday afternoon, February 25th, YVenona. Tuesday, Cross Roads. Wednesday, Cool Springs. Thursday, Piney Grove. Friday, Lake Farm. Saturday morning, curb market. Come! -<$> Orthopedic Clinic In Tar boro Monday j —$— Another invitation has been extend ed by the Tarboro Rotary Club to cripples in Washington County to at tend its orthopedic clinic, which will be held at 12 o’clock Monday, Febru ary 25, at the Presbyterian Sunday -chool building in Tarboro. The clinic is in charge of a compe tent orthopedic surgeon. F'ree ex amination and treatment is given all who are financially unable to pay. Pa tients of all ages, races, and creeds are welcome. Complete Two ERA Projects in Creswell Creswell.—Baseball i- claiming at tention here again with the comple tion this week of a grandstand which will .--eat about 300 people on the Creswell High School campus. This was an J.RA project with Roy Hop kins in charge. A cement bridge a tross a drainage ditch was completed also. i'orty people have been em ployed on the projects. Lees Mills Sunday School Convention ——9 Roper.—The Lees Mills Sunday School Convention will be held at Roper on Sunday, February 24, at the Roper Baptist church. All are urged to he present by W. A. Swain, pres ident, who is expecting a good crowd and a good program. -1 Aged Man Died at Roper Last Tuesday —®— Roper.—Mr. Wright, about 70 years of age, died at the home in Roper of his son-in-law, Dr. W. T. Gibson, on Tuesday at midnight from angina pec-! toris. He was making his home with the local relatives. Hr wa^ from Batesburg, S. C. HR body left here’ Wednesday for interment at his old home. -® | FARM NOTES | | By W. V. HAYS, County Agent I V_J The 4-H chit) boys in Randolph and Alamance Counties are putting on a pure-bred Gurnsey heifer and bull sale at Ahoskie on Saturday, February 23. The 4-H club boys and vocational students will have an opportunity to liny a good calf at this sale. This is a good project for a club boy or girl, and one on which they can make some money after a year or so. -* A letter from the Wool Growers As sociation states that the wool market has been very much depressed for the past year and that orderly market ing has been the only thing that has helped maintain prices at their pres ent level. As soon as final disposi tion is made of this wool a final set tlement will be made Washington County shippers. Wool growers should realize that we received an advance ol two cents better than we were offered for wool at the time of the sale. Lt s make our plans for a wool pool and sale about the first of June this year. \ erv few complaints from tenants relative to landlords taking over the tenant's tobacco crop have been made to the county committee. It is well to remember, however, that the num ber of tenants or share croppers must not be reduced in 1935 to continue re ceiving benefits under a tobacco re duction contract. I'lie 1935 cotton contracts have not •yet been received at the county office. Notices will be sent to growers im ‘mediately upon arrival of these, and they may then go immediately to their township committeemen in their re -pective communities for making out these contracts. We are now accepting tobacco con tracts at the county office on land •where tobacco was grown in 1931, 32, and 3o. tobacco must be grown dur ing those years to be able to get a contract. Forms for making applica tion for exemption allotments have not yet been received. -<S> t orn and hog cntract signers wili he notified when and where to apply for contracts for 1935 between now and March 4th. A supply of forms and contracts will be in the hands of committeemen in each township by that time for making out new con tracts. A few peanut contract signers have not as yet sent in their sales slips for peanuts and a few have not as yet measured their land. This is holding up the whole county, and a report must be gotten away from the county not later than the first of March, oth erwise these contracts will be delayed, which will cause delayed payments to the grower. Special Services at Christian Church Another 01 the sene^s of special services that are being held during Home Beautiful Month,” Fcbruarv, at the Plymouth Christian church, will he held Sunday night, February 24, at 7:30. This will be •‘Family Night.” All families are invited. The largest family present will he honored in some special way. Each family will be asked to -it together. Rev. N. A. I aylor will bring the message of the hour, "Home Cooperation With the Church.” Othei services of the day follows: 0:45 a. m. Bible school. 11 a. m., morning worship. Sermon subject, 1 he Lord’s Supper.” b:30 p. m., both senior and young people’s t E. meets. Wednesday evening at 7:30 a con tinuation of special services will be h* hh ^ he subject of the evening will be An Ideal Home. Attorney W. L. Whitley will be the speaker. -—•-■ 3 County Teams To Enter Tournament —•— Schools ;ii Crcswcll, Roper and Plymouth in Washington County are expected to send a basketball squad t" Atlantic Christian College in Wil son on March 8 and 0 to participate in the first annual high school basket ball tournament for eastern North ( arolina. I vventy-five high schools in near by counties have entered quints. All teams must be entered by February 2.s Class K is probably the rating vthich the Washington County clubs will play in, as the schools have less than the 250 enrollment specified. VOTE SCHEDULE WILL DECREASE SATURDAY NIGHT -® Race Not Over Nor Prizes Won Until March 9; Urge Workers Keep Busy The end of the first period of The Roanoke Beacon’s subscription con : test conies this Saturday, and follow ing that there will be a slight decrease I in the value of the votes given. Right now contestants are earning 100 votes ! for each renewal to the paper and 200 I on a new scription. A two-year order earns 300 and a three-year 600, with double credit being given on new sub scriptions. After Saturday these credits will de crease to 80 votes in the case of one ! year subscriptions, 200 for two years, fand 400 for a three year. As matters stand now it looks like anybody's race with the end of the drive set for 12 o'clock noon of Sat ■urday, March 0, just a little over two weeks away. It may be that those who are running in the lead for the prizes of $300. $150, $75, $50, and $25 will continue to hold to the top, or it may be that some others wdio have already enrolled in the contest and who have not as yet reported with subscriptions will take on a new lease of life and start working real hard. Some Favored To Win At tins writing tne workers wnu seem to have the best opportunity to win, judging from reports of subscrip tions already made to the office in clude Mis Elizabeth Vail, of Route 1; Miss Margaret Hooker, of Ply mouth; Mrs. H. D. Peele and Miss Esther Knowles, of Roper; Miss Wi nona T. Gardner, also of Plymouth; Mrs. S. F. Darden, of Route 1; Mrs. R. E. Dunning, also of this town; Claire Wilson and Miss Gallic Daven port, the last named of Cresvvell. Mr. J. Richard Carr has also started to campaign in earnest. The campaign manager lias worked hrd in all the various towns interview ing contestants and trying to line up workers for the campaign. Various people have been talked with and en couraged to take an active part in the campaign, competing for either one of the five cash prizes or a liberal cash commission of 20 per cent on all sub scription money turned in. These prospective workers have been entered as candidates for a snare of the more than $600 in cash offered and while many of them will not be heard from there stil remains a lingering hope . that some of the many interviewed will come through with subscriptions and ultimately prove themslves good ' workers. The campaign manager and the Ro anoke Beacon cannot make folks work. However, we have done our part by providing a means of earning money for ambitious persons by offer ing this large amount of money with a provision in the rules and regula tions that allows a cash commission to go to each one who participates j and tails to come within the prize I winning class. Votes Determine Winners W e want to ta e this opportunity to call to the attention of the various workers and their friends the fact that votes a> issued on paid subscrip tions win the prizes and not neces sarily the amount of money turned in or the number of subscriptions. Each subscription earns votes with the long er term subscription earning more votes in proportion than the shorter term. As subscription returns are made to the office votes are issued in the form of a reserve vote coupon and these coupons are held by the workers un til the close fo the contest on March 9th. Sometime during that final day these coupons will be returned to the office to be put in a locked ballot box "ct up for the purpose. At the close of the contest this box will be turned over to the judges and the final count will Mart with the winners being an nounced and the prizes paid immedi ately following the judge's decision. W hat we are trying to get at is the lact that votes win and candidates should work toward the long-term subscriptions. One or two long-term subscriptions may be the means of putting any new worker into the lead and also the means of putting some of the present high-standing contest ants still further ahead in the contest. Shepard Rice Home Today Fire Volunteers Called To --$ i he local fire company was called at 2 o’clock thi-. afternoon when fire threatened the home of Shepard Rice, colored, corner Church and Sycamore Streets. A small hole was burned n the roof, but very little damage was done.
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