THE ROANOKE BEACON
And Washington County News
Published Every Friday in Plymouth, Washington
County, North Carolina
WALTER H. PARAMORE Managing Editor l
The Roanoke Beacon was established in 1889
and consolidated with the Washington County
News in 1929.
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Entered as second-class matter at the post office
in Plymouth, N. C., under the act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
Friday, February 28, 1936
Settling Capital-Labor Differences
The Labor-Capital problem would be much easier
to solve if they all lived together, where each side
would have an opportunity to see and contact each
other, teaching them that each has rights and needs
alike, and then they would be better able to adjust
their differences. As it now is, each know's but one
side of the controversy.
Most of our troubles have originated in those fac
tories built and operated in the South which later fell
into the hands of New Englanders. The factory de
mands of a New' England owner do not tit well with
the Southern worker. New customs and demands,
though they may be equally as just as those under
which they have worked for years, may not be well
understood by the Southern laborer. The owners and
workers need to live where they can see each other
every day and Sunday, too.
Another source of trouble is a young scion who in
herits a fortune and tries to tave over the 1,000 men
men employed by his father, who enjoyed the work
ers’ esteem and friendship. The young man, who has
probably never earned a dollar and who has always
floated along in the higher stratas of society, knowing
curs "the enmity and hatred of the man who does
creases the enmity and hatred of the man who does
the work and trouble begins at once.
It is not a new thing in life. Men who think they
are imposed upon have never in any period of history
been satisfied. We need a more harmonious feeling of
actual frindship.
Every poor man should have that feeling of confidence
in his employer to think that he would not stand by
and see his children starve, and the owner should have
won enough of the feeling of loyalty in his employees
to think that they would gladly pull him out of a ditch
if he should fall in.
Nothing short of a feeling of good honest fellow
ship will solve the differences between labor and acp
ital.
Must Follow More Conservative Course
One thing we need to know is that so long as we
spend more than we make we will always remain poor
and get poorer because one can never till a cash when
more drains out from leaks than goes in at the bung.
Unfortunately our style of living and the craving for
more and more conveniences and luxuries demand
more than we can make. We need to spend less on
simple pleasures that make us no wiser and no rich
er. And unless we do follow a more conservative
course we are doomed to poverty and want. When
people get so hungry for pleasure that they will give *
up their birthright and mortgage their homes and
farms to enable them to get those things they do not
especially need and soon pass away without ever pro
ducing anything of lasting value. One of the neces
sary reforms that this generation needs to put into
action is to find a way to increase its income or re
duce its expenditures, and we are likely to find it
easier to cut our spending than to increase our in
come.
Judge Meekins for President
We have nothing whatever to do with the selection
of the Republican nominee for the presidency; but,
in the exercise of that guaranteed right of free spech,
we take the liberty of saying that of all the candidates
proposed we think our own Judge 1. M. Meekins is
the best yet mentioned. He has the fine quality of
friendliness, and he has charity and sympathy for the
weak and lowly man. He is, upon the whole, at heart,
too good to be a Republican.
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FOR SALE: FINE FARM OF 50
acres or more on hard-surfaced
highway in Washington County near
Plymouth. Six room house and out
buildings. Valuable cotton, corn,
peanut and truck land. Apply the
Roanoke Beacon. f21 3t
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as execu
tor of the estate of A. D. Holton, de
ceased. late of Washington County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of the deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned on or be
fore the 24th day of January, 1037,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 24th day of January, 1936.
EVA J. HOLTON,
Executor of Estate of
j24 6t A. D. Holton.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon the under
signed as trustee in that certain deed
of trust executed by J. D. Alexan
der, under date of October 3, 1935,
which deed of trust is of record in
the public registry of Washington
County, N. C., in book 114, page —,
etc., default having been made in
the payment of the indebtedness
therein secured, I will, on Wednes
day, the 11th day of March, 1936,
at 12 o’clock noon, before the court
house door at Plymouth, N. C., offer
for sale to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described tracts
lot' land, situate in Skinnersville
Township, Washington County, N.
C.
First Tract:
It being on the north side of the
public road leading from the great
swamp to Skinnersville fork. Begin
ning in a pine stump, the corner of
Abram Swain and the heirs of Z. P.
Alexander, thence north 30 poles,
thence north five degrees east^J72
to black gum tree in the Knowles
branch, thence along Pritchett's line
west 32 poles to Ephraim Pritchett
corner, a pine tree, thence south 172
poles along the said Pritchett’s line
to the beginning, a pine stump, con
taining fifty acres, more or less. For
further reference is given to deed
recorded in the Register Deeds of
fice for Washington County, in book
42, page 320. The interest herein
conveyed being a one-half undivid
ed interest in the above land, the
other one-half belonging to A. W.
Alexander. The said J. D. and A,
W. Alexander heired the above land
from their father. N. H. Alexander.
Also the following personal prop
erty, to wit: One Chevrolet Coupe,
This notice dated and posted this
10th day of February, 1030.
D. G. COMBS,
f 14 4tw Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
and authority contained in that cer
tain deed of trust executed by W. E.
Spruill and wife, Sal lie Spruill, to
II. D. Bateman, trustee, dated the
21st day of January, 1020, and re
corded in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Washington County,
North Carolina, in boko 01. page 409
to which reference is hereby made,
default having been made in the pay
mint of the indebtedness thereby se
cured, upon demand of the holder of
the indebtedness, the undersigned
trustee will offer for sale, to the
highest bider, for cash, at the court
house door in Washington County,
North Carolina, at 12 o’clock noon,
on the 19th day of March, 1936, all
of that certain property described
and referred to as follows:
Tract 1: Beginning at a mulberry
tree post, thence eastwardly along
J. H. Spruill’s line, thence south
wardly along Alexander & McKay’s
lino to a mulberry tree post at the
end of a ditch: thence westwardly
along said ditch to a corner at the
mountain gate; thence northwardly
along the road from mountain gate
to the first station, containing 28
acres, more or less. For further ref
erence see deed from W. W. Spruill
and wife, Lucy A. Spruill, to D. M.
Spruill, dated March 31st. 1891, and
recorded in book No. 30, page 432 of
Register of Deeds’ office, Washing
ton County; reference to which is
made a part of this conveyance.
Tract 2: Beginning in W. W.
Spruill's line, thence running north
wardly along the road within fifteen
Icet of A. J. Spruill’s lead ditch and
castwardly to A. J. Spruill’s line;
thence running along E. R. Spruill’s
line to W. W. Spruill’s line; thence
v.estwardly along W. W. Spruill's
line to the first station, containing
three acres more or less, being a
small tract of woods land owned by
said D. M. Spruill at the time of his
death.
Tract 3: Beginning at the public
road near the north corner of D. M.
Spruill’s yard on the north side of
said public road two feet from a
ditch leading northwardly through
J. H. Spruill’s field to the public
road, this beginning being two feet
from said ditch on the east side of
said, ditch running westwardly along
said public road leading by E. R.
Spruill’s residence to the ditch
named in the beginning, thence
southwardly along said ditch to the
beginning, containing three acres,
more or less.
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The man above might be you—ten, twenty, thirty, forty
years from now—receiving a check large enough to assure the
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little you earn, you can build your own estate. Consult with our
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The bidder at such sale will be
required to deposit as much as 10
per cent of the amount bid in cash
as a guaranty of good faith, pend
ing confirmation of the sale by the
clerk and the right is reserved to
reject any and all bids.
This the 17th day of February,
1936.
H. D. BATEMAN,
f21 4t Trustee.
By W. L. Whitley, attorney.
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Midsummer
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