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A home newspaper dedicated s to the service of Washington = County and its 12,000 people. = mmmimiiiwiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiimmiimiimmmiiiiir The Roanoke Beacon ****** * and Washington County News* * * * * * * -WiiiiiiiiimmniiimmimiiiimiimHHiimriir .imiimmif 1 Advertisers will find Beacon 5 E and News columns a iatch-key to E 1,100 Washington County homes. ... VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 43 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, October 25, 1935 ESTABLISHED 1889 A. Louis Alexander Missing From Home Here Since Monday -$ Prominent in Local Affairs For Years; Letter Says ‘Will Never Return’ -« A. Louis Alexander, well-known local man and large-scale farmer in this county, disappeared from his home on Main Street here last Mon cay evening and has not been heard from since. Said to have had sev eral hundred dollars on his person, Mr. Alexander took all his clothes and drove away in his automobile j while members of the family were in the town’s business center, leav ing, as far as it could be learned, no information as to his future plans. He sold tobacco that morning, and, upon returning home that afternoon he explained to one of his tenants that he would see him the follow ing morning, but disappeared to parts unknown to the members of his family during the meantime. The action of the man who served as postmaster of the local office for 12 years and who, since Jus retire ment from that position operated a wholesale grocery business, came as a surprise to the family and friends here generally. While domestic troubles may have prompted the action, it is believed that adverse business conditions ex perienced over a period of years had much to do with his unexpected and sudden departure this week. A letter was received from Mr. j Alexander Wednesday that was post marked at Richmond advising the members of his family that he was ‘never going to return,” and that he was leaving Richmond immedi ately for “parts unknown.” It is generally believed now that Mr. Alexander had close to $4,000 in cash when he left. Every detail of his quick departure seemed to have been planned and carried out] to the letter. Money owing to him i was collected, farm crops sold, some: even without harvesting. Checks were given last week-end that were timed to turn up here Tuesday morning for collection through the local bank. Upwards of $2,500 had been presented for pay-, ment but hav e been returned. It j was said that a check to Joe Mathias, Norfolk grocer salesman, was re turned unpaid in the amount of1 $1,500. His estate here was left in a scram ble. Some time before some of his property was deeded over to his wife. His family is making every possible arrangement to prepare toj take care of obligations when they: fall due in the next few months. -9 ■ ■ Attendance at White Schools in County Has Been Very Good Figures for First Month Are Given by Superintendent County Schools Enrollment and attendance at the white schools in Washington Coun ty this year has been very good for the first month, according to H. H. McLean, superintendent of public in struction. Plymouth: Enrollment, elementary school, 398; high school, 149; total 547. Attendance: elementary, 368; high school, 142; totla 510. Only 37 difference between enrollment and attendance. Roper: Enrollment, elementary, 237; high school, 93; total 330. At tendance: elementary, 228; high school 89; total 317. Only 17 differ ence in enrollment and attendance. Creswell: Enrollment, elementary 350; high school 131, total 481. At tendance: Elementary 335; high school, 118, total 433. A difference of 28 in enrollment and attendance. Cherry: Elementary only. Enroll ment 155; and attendance 138. Dif ference of 17. . Nest of Black Widow Spiders Found Here —»— More dread for the people of Plymouth, as the black widow spid er has been discovered on the sub urbs by Garland Hardison, who brought a couple of specimens to the local newspaper office in a glass container. He found a nest of them near his heme. They have beneath their stomachs the famous pink or red that characterizes them. They are said by some to be very poisonous, v.’hile others claim that they are no more dangerous than any other such creatures. Only Article That Can Compare With Tobacco in Peculiarity Is Whiskey (Hertford County Herald) “You know anything about this tobacco business?” George J. New bern, local automobile dealer and farm owner inquired this week. And he went on to explain that he couldn't understand the system of buying in which two lots of tobacco from the same barn bought by the same buyers would sell at widely varying prices in the same grades, on the same day, and on the same warehouse floor. "We can’t understand it, and have never seen anything like it," he was told in response to his question. To which Newbern added, "The only other thing I know as peculiar ys tobacco is whiskey. Two men can drink the same amount of liquor at the same time from the same bot tle. It makes one man happy and fleased with all the world; the other man it makes as mean as hell so that he wants to fight everybody he sees.'' What do you think? Farm ]\otes By W. V. HAYS, County Agent The corn-hc.g referendum will be held Saturday, October 26th. Vot ing polls will be open at the school house in Creswell, the schoolhouse in Roper, and the county agent’s of fice in Plymouth from 9 a. m. until 6 p. m. Special ballot forms will be available for voting and non-con tracting producers who had corn and hogs in 1935 as well as contracting producers may vote. Roy Litchfield and Dewey Phelps will be the poll holders at Creswell; Roy Stillman will be at Roper and R. B. Daven port at Plymouth. The purpose of this referendum is to ascertain whether or not corn and hog growers wish to continue the corn and hog contract. A vote is not binding in any way and does not mean that it will be necessary for the voter to sign a contract but our last Congress gave the Secretary of Agriculture authority to make contracts and benefit payments to producers when 75 per cent of those producers voted favorably on a basic commodity or crop. Cotton producers will be interest ed to learn that a wire received Oc tober 22 from the Secretary of Ag riculture changed the price on cot ton ginning certificates from 5 cents to 4 cents and the tax when paid di rectly to the ginner from 6 cents to 5 45 cents pound. The peanut benefit checks have been received at the county office and are ready for delivery. No tices have been mailed to those who received checks. Producers operat ing more than one farm, on which ruling No. 2 applied, and those pro ducers who have hogged off or in tend to hog off peanuts did not re ceive their checks in the first lot. These should reach the county at an early date and notices will immedi alely be sent these producers. A number of producers have not signed Pn-21, which is a voucher showing the number of tenants or share crop pers on the farm and the acreage produced by these tenants. No checks will be delivered to such pro ducers until tl<is form has been signed. Peanut picker operators who pick peanuts this year will be licensed without charge the same as last year and will be required to keep accur ate picking reports on the number of bags picked on the various farms. A machine operator who has a pea nut contract himself will be violat ing his contract and other commod it\ contracts signed by him should he pick peanuts grown by non-con ti acting farmers. Peanut producers are advised to get a receipt for all i peanuts sold by them and turn this I receipt in at the county office. These sales receipts will be credited to the contract the same as the 1935 con tract. Producers who do not have a contract in 1935 are advised to also file their sales receipts. Please do r.ot use adding machine strips but .insist on a regular receipt form. Tobacco growers are requested | not to lend nor borrow tobacco mar keting cards without having this transfer properly made through the county office. This is violation of the contract and the deficient pro ducer would not receive adjustment payment or even get credit for his pounds for adjustment unless it is properly transferred through the county office. This is official and according to regulations laid down to us to follow. I have been offic ially advised not to be a party to a transaction of this kind and have been asked to report irregularities. Do not buy marketing cards from neighbors, warehousemen or others. Gc to the county office. -* Clay County Farmers Fill Silos Cheap Cooperatively -« By cooperative action, ten Clay County farmers filled their ten silos at a cost of $8 each by buying a sil age cutter for $60 and an automobile engine for $10. The men said it was the cheapest feed they had ever stored. County Shows Gain In Production of Corn and Potatoes —®— Difference in Crops of 1929 and 1934 Shown by Recent Figures Corn production was over 125,000 bushels greater and ootato produc tion about 100,000 bushels greater in 1934 than in 1929 in Washington County, it was revealed today by of ficial statistics Corn acreage in creased from $10,163 to 12,593 and the acreage ol irish potatoes from 292 to 938. Tobacco was reduced from 1,630 acres and 803,145 pounds to 671 acres and 561,447 pounds. This was true for the 1934 crop. However, the 1935 crop of tobacco was given at 780 acres, yielding about 700,000 pounds, which if sold at an average of 20 cents would mean $140,000, but many think it will average close to to $200,000. Cattle numbered 70 per cent more in 1935 than in 1930, with 686 cattle five years ago and 1,080 today. Hog production has jumped from 7,604 to 10,632 this year and still meat is high. Sheep and lambs have climbed from 449 to 526. Mules and mule colts declined from 1,388 to 1,295, while the same is true of horses, dropping from 357 to 264. There were about 10 per cent more farms and 4 per cent more land in farms in 1935 than in 1930. The average sizes decreased from 64.19 to 58.6 acres, and the average value per acre from $42.69 to $34.72. The number of farms has increased from 1,091 to 1,202. There are 22 more farm owners, making a total of 436 today. , The trend to farm ownership is proven by statistics. Total value of all farms is given at $2,446,683, which is below that of 1930. The average farm is valued at $2,036. -® Revival Held Last Week in Creswell —®— A revival was held at the Metho dist Protestant church in Creswell last week. The pastor, Rev. J. E. Mabry did the preaching and he brought some soul-stirring messages. The song services were conducted by Rev. Wayne Curtis and were enjoy ed by everyone, especially the solos which he sang. The church was greatly revived. One new member was added. These services were well attended and the cooperation of the other churches was good. -» Hallowe’en Party At Piney Grove The Junior Society of Piney Grove Free Will Baptist church will spon sor a Hallowe’en party October 31 at the old schoolhouse. The money fiom this party will go for the ben efit of the chyrch. Amusements for the evening will include practically a'i of the well-known Hallowe’en games and contests. Prizes will be awarded and the holder of the lucky number will receive a beautiful bed spread. Everybody is invited to this old-time hocus-pocus party. PLEASANT GROVE Miss Hazel Spruill, of Wilson, spent the week-end with her father, George Spruill. Miss Myrtle Tarkenton, of Colum bia, was the week-end guest of her sister, Miss Nellie Tarkenton. Mrs. H. R. Chesson was in Louis burg Sunday, where she visited her daughter, Elizabeth, who is attend ing school there. Mrs. J. E. Davenport has returned from Adar, after visiting her mother, who is very ill. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Chesson visit ed their daughters, Misses Fannie Clyde and Elsie, in Raleigh Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Duff Collins, Mrs. C W. Snell, and Mrs. S. Z. Water? were the guests of Mrs. Ida Hodges Sunday night. Tale of Adventurous Trip Told by Youth l pon Return Home -v Roper Youngster Returned By Juvenile Officials In Florida A tale of lurid adventure involv ing idfficulties with the law in an other state, was told heer today by Bill Bell, 15, who ran away from heme abcut two weeks, but was re turned to a relative, Miss Ida Pea cock, in Roper, by juveile officials in Florida. The youth told of meeting three companions in Elizabeth City, two girls and one boy of his own age, and from there they went to Day tona Beach, Fla., New Jersey, and ether places. The four slept at times, according to Bell, in the same bed. Bell had secured a job as bellboy in a Miami, Fla., hotel, when they were apprehended by the law and charged with spending the night with the girls and also for leaving his home without permission. Their conduct led them to a house of cor rection, frim v/hich Bell escaped but was apprehended again. The four formed a conspiracy in an effort to prove that they were married to each other and persuad ed authorities to permit them to leave the Dade County, Miami, jail, and who also sent them home to their people. The boy contends that he is married to the girl, told her name, but it is not being printed. Young Bell is above the average in intelligence. He has worked on papers in Washington. D. C., teach ing the city boys the circulation end of the business. He has caused rel atives much trouble by leaving for days at the time and never turning up again until apprehended or com pelled to return. His parents died some time ago. Main Circus Will Show Here Friday The Walter L. Main Circus, which iwill exhibit in Plymouth for one day jor.ly, Friday. October 25, carries inany of the greatest circus features in circusdom today, and numbers a mong their personnel of performers, some of the outstanding acts of the world. It seems that Walter L. Main, who is known to almost every circus per former as the “Governor,” has sent more performers to the top of the ladder than any other showman on earth. He seems to have the knack of picking just the right kind of acts to give the maximum amount of en tertainment for both the old as well as the young, and that is one of the reasons that the Walter L. Main Cir cus enjoys such a tremendous a mount of popularity wherever shown for the past 52 years that Mr. Main has been presenting circus perform ances in America, and it seems that each succeeding season it takes to the road in the spring, that popu larity seems to increase, which is shown by the added attendance by the old-timers, as well as the young er generation, and it is no easy mat tei to put together a well-balanced, smooth-running circus performance c'.ue to the necessity of considering every detail, such as the putting up and taking down of each kind of rigging used by various acts before the next act can start and many ether details that the general public does not think of. Among the many features this sea son is the great Labar Troupe of aerial performers who, in presenting their daring, death-defying stunts high up in midair, will thrill and send chills chasing each other up and down the spines of the most hardened thrill seekers, and would put the “man on the fijing trapeze” to shame, and the grandeur and splendor of their glittering, be spangled wardrobe make them one of the outstanding acts of its kind in America today. There are many other features too numerous to mention such as ani | trials, clowns, acrobats, wire-walkers, dogs, ponies, herds of elephants, and droves of camels, making up a full i two-hours performance that will I please every amusement-loving per i son. There will be t-vo peri'orm ! ances at 2 and 8 p. m., rain or sine at the ball park grounds, .-m Creswel! Students Attend State Fair —— Creswell.—About 3U members of the vocational agriculture class of Creswell attended the State Fair at Raleigh Friday under the leader ship of their teacher, A. H. Tucker. Everyone reported having enjoyed the trip. Some Foreclosures This Fall by HOLC Inevitable, Officials Sav I Plymouth Legion Post Is ^ inner of Three Citations First in State To Secure 100 Per Cent Renewals of Membership Three members of the James E. Jethro post, No, 164, attended the American Legion meeting held in Raleigh Monday, October 21, at which time the state officers were installed. Those attending from this post were: P. W. Brown, athletic of ficer; R. L. Tetterton, service offi cer; and J. B, McNair, Americaniza tion officer. Plymouth post was awarded trophies and citations for being the first post in the state to reach 100 pel cent in membership renewals, al so first in securing its quota of new members for 1935-36. At the posts’ commenders and ad - ; jutants’ meeting at the Sir Walter Hotel at 3:30 Monday afternoon, each post reaching 100 per cent was asked to tell the other posts how they did it. Several good speeches from different post officers were made, telling how each post gained its membership renewals, also quotas of new members. Comrades Tetter ton and McNair spoke for Plymouth post, McNair in his talk emphasiz-1 ing the importance of commanders, keeping in close touch with mem-, bers in order to create an interested body of men in the activities of each post. After a very impressive parade, | the Legionnaires enjoyed a barbe-i cue supper at the Raleigh Memorial auditorium, Daughter of School j Superintendent Has, Exceptional Record Average of Between 95 and 100 Maintained During 11-Year Period -- An average of between 95 and 109 has been maintained on all subjects during the last 11 years of school by Miss Sarah Slilley McLearr, of Plym outh, daughter of H. H. McLean, sun erintendent of public instruction in Washington County, and Mis. Mc Lean. The young lady has not moved to Plymouth yet, as she is completing her senior year in school at Wash ington, N. C., where Mr. McLean was head of the school system for years. This school has 12 grades. jAnd during her school work she has j missed only an average of a day a jear. She is also a member of the stu dent council at the Washington High School, and this week-end will at tend a meeting of the state group of istudent council officials in Wilson. I She is also an official on the school .paper. Mr. and Mrs. McLean and a small [son have moved into a residence here on Jefferson Stret, but they will continue their daughter in the Wash ,ington school until she completes [high school education and then she ■ will be sent to college next year. I Attending: Chevrolet Service Mens Scliool Earl Ainsley, a mechanic for the Satterthwaite Chevrolet Company, is expected to return Saturday from a special scliool for Chevrolet me chnics that is being held in Charlotte this week. He left Tuesday for spec ial training. He will see the new Chevrolets and will learn of the new mechanism of the new models. MISS MARGIE WHITE ENTERTAINS MONDAY Skinnersville.—Miss Margie White entertained friends of the Roper school at her home Monday celebrat ing her thirteenth birthday. The living room was beautiful with cut fk wers and a color scheme of pink and white. Miss Jamie Riddick played a num ber of selections on the piano with the young guests joining in singing. Games were played. In the dining room was a birthday cake with 13 candles burning brightly. Miss Jamie Riddick cut the cake and Mrs. Walter White served hot choco late, peanuts, sandwiches, pickles and cake. Home and Club News By Mary Frances Misenheimer Schedule for Next Week Monday, October 28. 4-H Club. Tuesday. Cross Roads Club. Wednesday, Federation Day. 1 hursday, Piney Grove. Friday, Lake Farm. Curb market the usual time, Sat urday morning. 8:30. Let’s make our curb market big ger and better each Saturday. Miss Lula Watson is still leading the sales. Fine cooperation among the club members was shown last week in helping with the exhibits at the fair. All types of exhibits were sent in from all parts of the county. I thank each one for the splendid work. Creswell Club and Chapel Hill Club are to be congratulated on their prize-winning booths. An ex cellent piece of work was done in both clubs. The members of these clubs showed a fine spirit of coop eration and worked hard. The next event to look forward tc is the fall federation of home| demonstration clubs. Wednesday,! October 30, is the day. Mr. Andersen, principal of Plym-, cuth High School, kindly consented to let us have the meeting in the Plymouth High School auditorium.' Two p. m. is the hour. I urge all1 club members to come. The public i: cordially invited. A style show is to be held by the I club women at the federation. Other interesting numbers are on the pro gram. The final judging of canned prod ucts for the Ball and Kerr jar con test is to be held the last of this wek, as the best exhibit has to be sent to Raleigh by the 29th of Oc tobe .r I urge the canning leaders to send the best exhibit in from their clubs as soon as possible. Will Phelps, 61, Dies Near Roper —*,— Roper.—Funeral services for Mr. Will Phelps, Cl, who died Thursday, were held at Holly Neck Church on Friday afternoon, with the Rev. M. I. Ambrose officiating. Pall-bearers were his nephews, William Phelpss, Theodore Phelps, Nathan Phelps, and Mack Daven port. Interment took place in Holly Neck cemetery. Surviving are his wife and one son, Luther Dean Phelps. -® Marriage Licenses Issue dby Register j i? -4> The following marriage licenses have been issued by Mrs. Mary Saw yer Clayton, register of deeds of Washington County: William Bag lev and Wilmer Davenport, both of Creswell; Jan es Kelly Armstrong. Elizabeth City, to Annie Mae Fur lough, Roper; William Clifton, Cres well, to Mae Patrick, Creswell; Johnny J. Spruill, Roper, to Flor ence E. Lane, Williamston. -* Methodist Services At Creswell Church Sunday, October 27, at 11 o’clock, Rev. E. L. Stack will deliver his reg ular monthly sermon at the Creswell Methodist Episcopal church, South. This will be the last service before the annual conference and everyone is urged to attend. Mackevs Youn^ j r* Alan Joins Navy ■—®— Nathan J. Everett, of Mackeys, has been accepted by the New Bern Navy Recruiting office as an appren tice seaman. He was one of five ac cepted for this service with Uncle Sam. In November the Raleigh dis trict office will enlist 60 apprentice seamen and 12 mess attendants and 'those who like can join through this | office. Majority Borrowers Said To Be Making Payments Regularly j r —®— HOLC Now Holds Mort gages on Nearly Million Homes in U. S. -® As a result of the institution of several hundred foreclosures on the part of the Home Owners’ Loan Cor poration, questions have been raised as to the number of properties the corporation will have to take over aver in the next year or two. It is impossible to make any intelligent estimate as to the number of homes we will have to sell or rent, but it is inevitable that some thousands of homes must be acquired by the cor poration in the normal course of its business. Acquisition of properties by the corporation cannot be prevented, in spite of the convenient terms on which these loans are made and the corporation’s purpose to give worthy borrowers who are in temporary trouble every possible assistance. These borrowers will not be unduly harassed, nor asked to do the im possible. but, under the law, the corporation must collect the money due from borrowers who are able to pay. The vast majority of borrowers are making their payments regular ly and are in no danger of foreclos ure, but the very fact that the cor poration has become the largest real estate lending organization in the world means that it will have more properties to dispose of than any other single mortgage-lending insti tution. The corporation now holds mortgages on more than 885,000 ur ban homes. Soon it will have over a million. This is more than all the owner-occupied houses in our three largest cities, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia combined. Out of so large a number, some thousands are inevitably represent ed by people who prove irrespon sible, and who do not respect their obligations. Even in normal times, the large lending institutions have to deal with thousands of pieces of property on which they are obliged to foreclose in the course of a year. The Home Owners’ Loan Corpora tion cannot expect to escape similar experience). The Corporation should encounter no serious problem in dealing with such homes as it is forced to take over from delinquent borrowers. In nearly every section of the country, real estate values are rising. There is already a growing demand for properties which carry the liberal type of mortgage made by the cor poration. We are finding that the houses on which we have made loans command a more ready sale than those of corresponding value which do not have the same advantage of the long-term amortized mortgage. The corporation does not propose to dump hastily on the market the homes which it is obliged to take over. It would be short-sighted policy to stimulate a new depression of real estate values by indulging in a forced sale of properties. If such a policy were followed, not only would the corporation suffer unnec essary losses, but it would likewise depress the value of other homes. Every home owner who has a loan from the Home Owners’ Loan Cor poration has been helped out of a difficult situation which threatened him with foreclosure. Each loan made by the corporation is a long term mortgage, bearing interest at . a very low rate, enabling the fam ily to come into debt-free home own ership through small payments, ac tually lower than rent in most cases and averaging less than $24 each month. The corporation in cases of con tinued genuine distress has permit ted borrowers temporarily to post pone at least part of their payments. Foreclosure has occurred only in in stances of abandonment, willful de linquency, legal complications or the death of the borrower, and not in any case of plain distress. Home owners who are clearly in difficulty are given every consideration. On the other hand, such leniency is possible only where the borrower can prove his present inability to meget his payments, and that he is acting in good faith. Investigation of more than 5,000 requests by IIOLC borrowers for postponement of their installments revealed that less than 1,100 of them were actually in difficulties. The other 3,900 were merely seeking to evade their obli gations. Their demands were not granted, and most of them have paid up, rather than lose their homes.
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