A home newspaper dedicated to the Mr vice of Washington County and its 12,000 people. The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* Advertisers will find Beacon and News columns a latch-key to 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 17 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, April 24, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1889 LEGION POST TO SPONSOR SHOWS HERE NEXT FALL - Not Known Whether Event Will Be Operated as Fair or Not -• Ararngements are being made by the James E. Jethro Post of the American Legion with Kaus United Shows for a week of amusement here some time in the fall, with an engagement in October preferred. P. W. Brown and other legion naires were in Elizabeth City this week to meet the Kaus Brothers to make arrangements and to perfect an agreement. It is thought that the show folk will make a flat guar antee to the local organization that will be in the neighborhood of $500. The site that is to be used is the plot of ground on the Roper-Plym outh high way just over the city limits facing the White City section will be used. This ground is owned by the Plymouth Box and Panel Company, and it is thought that ar rangements for its use can be made with E. F. Still. It is not known as yet whether the event will be operated as a fair or as an amusement event entirely. This is to be determined by the Kaus organization and the local peo ple at some future date. Nothing much definite is known as yet. The Kaus organization is a clean show. It was here last year with the Plymouth Greater Fair. There were little or no complaints from those who attended the fair from the standpoint of the shows. They offered officials a guarantee that for every 30 cents spent a prize would be awarded. It was stated that N. G. Bartlett, of Kinston, secretary and manager of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, will have nothing to do with this event. Last year Mr. Bart lett was in charge of the fair part of the show, but this year he will not be included in the arrangements. Premiums that were won last year have not been paid. Some bills are still owed by the fair organization, it is understood. The fence on last year’s fair ground was torn down and burned as firewood. County Goes Into Real Estate Game; Has Land for Sale —•— Total of 3,414 Acres of Old J. & W. Tract Owned By County -* Washington County is in the real estate business. It has land for sale. A total of 3,414 acres of the J. and W. Land Company property, lo cated in Plymouth and Lees Mills Township will be sold at public out cry by Zeb Vance Norman as com missioner for the Washington County Commissioners in order to realize the taxes of $3,958.77. L. A. Squires, receiver of the Trust Company, of Washington, in Superior Court here waived any trial and asked that the county be given the land after due process of law. No valuable timber is on the property, and the land company would not pay taxes. Tracts to be sold follow: Shep pard, 36 acres; Stewart Allen 71; Andrew Davenport 359; Pettiford Watson 124; Marcellus Browning 156; Huff Allen 306; D. W. Davis 135; Dr. C. C. Jackson 77; Battle entry 174; Battle entry, second plat, 88; G. L. Bowen 80; W. C. Bowen 1,500; G. W. Jackson 3; ft. J. Jack son 5; other parts of J & W land 300 acres, making a total of $3,414. Taxes are due as follows, show ing years and amounts: 1928 $827.87, 1929 $648.33; 1930 $745.42; 1931 $577.51; 1932 $624.24; 1933 $499.40. This does not include $600 that W. W. Ange paid for the Alfred Jack son tract of 169 acres and Halsey Ange plot of 124 acres on Decem ber 20, 1933. This property was bid in by Geo. W. Hardison for Washington Coun ty back in December, 1933, and was conveyed to the county from Mr. Hardison. This is a lot of money to have tied up in taxes in this land It is not known when Mr. Norman will advertise and sell the property. The county, of course, will bid it in for the amount of the taxes unless some one bids stronger for it. Two Colored Men Die Here Sunday Alter Long Illness Bill Finch, one of the town’s old est colored residents, and Ed Wal ston, about 50 years old, died at their homes here late Sunday night. Both men suffered strokes of paral ysis twelve months or more ago and had been confined to their beds for some time. Jamesville Future Farmers Team Wins Dairy Judging Contest Held Last Week —$— With a score of 83 per cent, the Jamesville quint led four other groups from schools that are mem bers of the Tri-County Future Farmers of America, in the dairy judging contest held at the Spring wood Dairy farm, near Plymouth, with 25 boys participating. Trailing the leaders was the Plym outh group, with 73 per cent, while the Creswell boys were next with 67, Roper following with 56 and Columbia on the bottom with 43. Points won by the Plymouth boys for second place were distributed as follows: Bill Mizelle, 73; Osborn Dunbar 38; Thomas Bateman 82; Jack Lefever, 84; Rjchard Lucas 87. Individual honors were distribut ed as follows: Edward Lee Martin, Home and ciubNews By Mary Frances Misenheimer Schedule for Next Week Monday, 4-H club at Plymouth. Tuesday, County Federation at Roper High School. Wednesday, Cool Springs Club. Thursday, canning school at home agent’s office. Friday, Lake Farm. Saturday, curb market, 8:30. Mrs. Joe Browning led the sales this past Saturday. Mrs. Browning has been leading the sales for some time. The county federation is to meet Tuesday, April 28, 2:30, at Roper High School. All of the club mem bers are expected to be present. Which club will get the cup? There is to be a canning school held in the home agent’s office on April 30 at 2 o’clock. A specialist in canning, Miss Wood, is to have charge of the school. Some helpful information will be given to those interested in canning. There is nothing like canning a surplus for the winter. I notice Mrs. John Spruill’s and Mrs. Davenport’s gardens in the Scuppernong club. They were cer tainly fine-looking gardens. Good gardens mean a lot to a family. Ev ery one should have the very best food. If one grows their own they are sure of the best. The women of Mount Tabor club enjoyed an ‘old-timey” egg hunt at their club last week. They seemed to have enjoyed the outing more than a crowd of young children. After being absent from the We nona club for several months, it was like a reunion meeting with them again. The women are still work ing hard in their club and haven’t lost interest at all. Such a large number attended the Cherry club last week. They be lieve in their club work and show it by attending every meeting. Twenty-five hog-feeding demon strations have been planned by swine growers of Beaufort County for this season. Resources of State Recited hy Darden In Speech To Club —•— Leads Nation in Several Lines of Industrial Endeavor -* “Increased population from 1,892, 810 in 1900 to 3,170,276 in 1930 shows the progress that North Car olina is making,” said John W. Dar den in a speech on resources, prod ucts and industries in the state to a large crowd of women at the sen ior woman’s club meeting recently. “Transportation is divided into three systems. There are 57,000 miles of highways, with 10,250 miles of this hard surfaced. Since 1921 a total of $200,000,000 have been ex pended on construction and $40, 000,000 more on maintenance, as this state was the first to undertake the task of maintaining these rib bons of concrete. “Bays, sounds, and rivers offer more shore-line that any other state in the nation. Fishing has become a large industry, as well as the use of these waters for transportation along with the railroads. “This state produces 691,500 horse power of electricity by hydro-elec tric plants, while steam plants pro duce 753,500 horsepower. North Carolina is first in the Southern States and fourth in the nation in tHe use of electric power in indus u\y. “There are 31,193,600 acres of land with 20,568,000 acres classed as for est, on which is twenty billion feet of merchantable timber. Forty mil lion dollars worth is cut annually. Soil resources are too great to men tion in the limited time. “Thirty-four minerals and metals are found here in ‘the sample case of nature.’ Up to the California gold rush in 1849 this state produced more gold than any other, and it had been here for a century. An nual output in 1933 was $23,661,400. Copper, lead and zinc are mined. Building stone is produced in quan tities. “In 1932 agricultural products were valued at $314,000,000, sur passed only by Teas, Iowa, and Ne braska. Last year the state pro duced $3,000,000 worth of food fish, $750,000 worth of fish for fertilizer, and $750,000 worth of shellfish. An nually 4,000,000 game fish are hatched and distributed in streams and lakes. Fur-bearing game is val ued at $4,000,000 annually. “There are 2,084 manufacturing plant employing 200,202 wage earn ers who are paid annually $113, 523,150, while turning out products valued at $877,852,732. The largest pulp, hosiery, rayon, overall, towel, cordage, and twine factories in the world are in this state. Total value of textiles in 1933 is given at $280, 474,000 and furniture at $33,820,000,’ Mr. Darden concluded. 300 People Attend Little Theatre Play —®— Over 300 people attended the initial performance of the Little Theatre Guild, which was presented at the Plymouth High School build ing last Friday night, when Phillip Liverman, as the child always inter rupting a country courtship, capti vate the audience which saw “In Dixon’s Kitchen.’’ Other roles were played by Bill Roebuck, Hubert Cox Grady Ward Price, Mildred Robbins and Doris Bateman. This play was the first for the lo cal WPA program which is being directed by Miss Ada Weede, a lo cal girl. The large audience was well pleased with the local talent, and it is expected the attendance will increase with the presentation of a longer play some time within another month. -® Christian Church Board in Meeting —♦— Since Mr. John Jackson is con fined to his home because of an ac cident which happened some time ago, the church board of the local Christian church held its regular monthly meeting there Monday, April 13th. Mr. Jackson, a member of the board, said it was the best board meeting he ever attended. Of 18 who compose the board, 16 were present, and all expressed words of praise about the recent revival that was held by local forces. This re vival resulted in 24 addition and much renewed interest. A Bible school that had an average attend ance of 100 jumped to 236 Easter Sunday and 160 the following Sun day. Rev. N. A. Taylor has announced his sermon subjects for Sunday, April 26, at 11 a. m., “The Scope of the Church; at 8 p. m. “When God Is Near.” The public is invited. All Dogs in County Must Be Vaccinated, Owners Warned “Dogs must be vaccinated again this year. Last year’s vaccination was good for only one year. This is a treatment that they must take annually in order to prevent rabies,’ said Frank L. Brinkley, a member of the Washington CMounty com missioners. Last year there were over 1,500 dogs to take this vaccine treatment. They are slow coming in this year. It is to be remembered that this is free, as the 50-'cents fee is for the vaccine, and will be deducted from the tax on the animal when a cer tificate showing the dog has been vaccinated is presented. Even in the dog days of last sum mer there was little or no reports of the animals with the rabies. This vaccination has served to reduce the number of dogs with this dis ease, and it protects the dogs and the people also. Penalties of law will be imposed unless they are treated. 6.001) FARMERS GO TO RALEIGH TO DEMAND ACTION -» Governor Gives Reason for Not Calling Special Session While the value of the move con tinues in doubt, between five and six thousand tobacco farmers march ed on Raleigh Tuesday to urge Gov ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus to call a special session of the General As sembly that a state tobacco compact act might be created. For four hours farm leaders and the governor ex changed verbal attacks, but after the rukas was over, it was apparent that the chief executive had no more idea of calling the legislature into special session than he had prior to the mass meeting. The governor probably convinced a few it was useless to call a special session of the lawmakers, but the large majority of the farmers left the Ehringhaus capital still puzzled at the chief executive’s refusal to act in their behalf. “We are only asking the right to organize and protect ourselves,” the farmers told the governor, adding that if they failed it would not be his fault. They had the governor on a spot, and a hot spot at that, but it is quite apparent that no compact bill will likely received consideration before early “January. Now that the control feature is doomed so far as the 1936 crop is concerned, farmers will find it more profitable than ever to turn to the soil conservation program to save themselves. Between 200 and 300 farmers are believed to have attended the meet ing from this county, Wilson, Edge combe, and Pitt sending more than 1,000 each. -0 Falsifying Tax Returns Scored —•— “It is just as well to warn peo ple to be careful in handling their money to avoid covetousness and untruth as it is to advise the gam bler against the gaming tables and the drunkard against his cups,” said he Rev, C. T. Thrift, pastor of the local Methodist church, in a sermon recently. “And a man who lists his taxes improperly is as responsible for this act of untruth as if the same un truth was told for another purpose; and as it is tax-listing time I want to advise those people who are list ing at this time,” said the minister in his discourse. “Umph,” said the tax official in the back after looking around, ‘he sure got ’em that time.” -® Total of $111.55 Was Sent To Red Cross -<*> Headquarters of the National Red Cross have advised Mrs. H. A. Liv erman, acting chairman of the Wash ington Counyt chapter, that a total of $111.55 has been received from her jurisdiction to aid in relieving suffering in tornado and flood-swept sections. Mrs. Liverman wishes to thank all of those who have contributed: In cluded are contributions as follows: Plymouth Box and Panel Company $5; W. A. Davidson, $2; Plymouth Fire Department $3; George W. Har dison $5; Roper section $36; Nation al Handle Company $17.55; Mrs. L. D. Jones $1; W. H. Bolling $5. New Firm To Open Here by May I Oth —L_« The old Buchanan Motor Com pany building on the main street of Roper has been purchased by W. T. Freeman and A. R. Phelps. It will be used as a filling station, garage, and seed and feed store. The new firm hopes to open for business by May 10. ABOUT TOWN -*, Rev. A. L. Harrison, of Front Royal, Va., was here visiting his nieces, Mrs. Sadie F. Alexander and Mrs. John W. Darden this week. The minister has been pastor of the same four Primitive Baptist churches for 25 years. He remem bers much of the history of the old Morrattock church near Plymouth, which celebrated its first centennial in 1890. W. O. Pratt, of Elizabeth City, project supervisor for this district of the Works Progress Administra tion, was in Plymouth this week. He was down here to see the prog ress that had been made on the Roper to Cherry road which it is hoped will be finished by July 1. Also he said that he had hopes that the agricultural building for this county would be approved. W. J. Jackson, of Columbia, S. C., a former resident, was here this week. He is an investigator for the Federal Department of Justice. He is also an instructor in pistol sharp shooting for his group. He made 276 out of a possible 300 points with a .22 caliber pistol. He was rated an expert rifle shot in the army during the world war. H. T. Dillon, of Chicago, an offic ial of the Carolina Holding Com pany, which owns thousands of acres of timberland and other tracts in Wilmington and Wenona, was here this week. He was here during the time an irrigation system was ar ranged for the Wenona section near Pungo Lake, and at the time a num ber of canals were cut for drainage purposes. Van B. Martin, a son of Mrs. Es telle Martin and the former Van B. Martin, sr., was here this week from Fort Myer, Va., where he is station ed as a member of a cavalry unit of the United States Army. He was born, reared and practiced law here for some time. He can tell you a bout the work of the cavalrymen. His brother, Ransom Martin, is in the navy. Harry Barnes, mayor of Cherry, was in Plymouth this week. He men' tioned the convenience and delight of the populace of this little cor poration at having electric current provided by the Virginia Electric and Power Company. It was nec essary to incorporate the town be fore power could be supplied. This meant expense that was borne large ly by Mr. Barnes. Billy Davidson, a student at the Belmont Abbey school near Char lotte, was at home this week. He was a back on the football team. During the season he broke a leg, which has healed and which is a bout “as good as new.” He is also completing for a place on the base ball team. He has his eye on an infield position, and it is expected that he will land at third base. H. C. Brinn, of Creswell, was in Plymouth Friday. He recalled the singing of the negroes down his way. P. W. Littlejohn, principal of the Creswell colored school rates among the best for the Methodists, while Joe Lewis ranks among the best for the Baptist church. People throwing entertainments can prob ably import this talent. W. S. Nurney, of the Nurney Fu neral Home, is back from an un dertakers’ and embalmers school in Raleigh, which is held twice annu ally by a casket company. The one in the fall will be held in Leesville Professor Straub conducts the insti tute. Numbers of undertakers at tend each meeting. Rev. T. F. Davenport, of Creswell, in town for court last week as a witness, epressed the belief that close to 100 in quarters had been sent to J. E. Pope in Washington, D. C„ to aid in the beginning of the immediate payments of pensions to the aged before Congressman Lindsay C. Wfirern advised that it was a “racket” and that Pope had been convicted three times on charges relating to use of the mails to defraud. 24 CANDIDATES IN FIELD NOW FOR COUNTY OFFICES -$ Time for Filing Closes on May 9; Few Others Are Looked for -* .Nominees lor the Democratic ticket in November will be selected for Washington County offices from the following persons unless some proverbial “dark horses” are run in before filing time for candidates closes on May 9: Sheriff : J. K. Reid, incumbent, no opposition. Commissioners, 3 to be elected: Clyde Smithson. Frank L. Brinkley, Percy M (Pap) Arps, J. M Clagon, Sidney A. Ward, sr. Board of education, three to be chosen: R. C. (Dick) Peacock, C. N. (Mike) Davenport, jr., incumbent, Paul B. Belanga, W. L. Whitley, P. IT. Darden, incumbent. Treasurer: J. Robert Campbell, Stuart J. Davis, W. L. Hassell, James A. (Jim) Chesson, W. T. (Tom) Freeman. Register of deeds: Mrs. Mary Smith Cahoon and Mrs. Mattie R. Swain. Representative: A. L. Owens, J. Lloyd Horton. Harry Stell, incum bent. Coroner: William S. Nurney, no opposition. Recorder: Zeb Vance Norman, Jno. W. Darden, incumbent. County Magistrates In Quarterly Meet Here Last Saturday j -e Adopt Schedule of Fees as Suggested by State Association -® Next meeting of the Washington County Magistrates Association will be held in the schoolhouse at Roper on Saturday, Independence Day, July 4, at 10:30 a. m., it was an nounced today by John W. Darden, president of the organization. The organization in a recent meet ing adopted the proposed justice of the peace fees that were recommend ed by the North Carolina Associa tion of Magistrates and will ask the legislators in the next General As sembly to adopt the schedule as rec ommended by the state association. The organization is in favor of the appointment of justices of the peace by the legislature instead of having them elected at the polls. They were elected in 1932, but were appointed in 1934. The appointment system has the approval of the local mag istrates. The fee system that was adopted was not a general increase in the fees that the officials are to get for their duties, but was merely the adoption of fees scheduled by the state so that a state-wide uniform amount may be charged for the same service by all oqicials. The local organization meets quar terly. They held their first session in Plymouth last December. They met again last Saturday and the next meeting will be in July. They discussed their duties and the law as regarding them and also have lawyers to aid them in discussing their functions. -a> Coburn Announces For Senate Again -- In filing his formal candidacy for State Senator from this district, At torney R. L. Coburn, of William ston, last Saturday briefly reviewed his record in the General Assembly last term. Senator Coburn was a member of the appropriations com mittee and was active in securing greater appropriations for schools and charitable and correctional in stitutions. Mr. Cobuin also intro duced a bill to amend the steriliza tion laws, which was calculated to increase sterilization of people men tally diseased, and as a result more people have been sterilized during the past year than at all other times combined. The senator points out that this is proving one of the most effective ways of curbing crime and the birth of feeble-minded children. Mr. Coburn opposed the sales tax, principally because no provision was made to exempt foods and oth er necessities of life. The sales tax was created in 1933 as an emergency and he felt it should have been so considered in 1935, that instead of reducing the sales in proportion to the emergency, it was increased and made more oppressive. He also thinks North Carolina should pass necessary laws to entitle it to par ticipate in the benefits under the national social securities act. There are three other candidates in the field, two from Beaufort and one from Pamlico county.