A home newspaper dedicated to the service 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 tc 1,100 Washington County homes. VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 46 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Friday, November 13, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1689 CASES TRIED AT OCTOBER TERM SUPERIOR COURT -- Plumber Divorces Granted By Judge Barnhill at Recent Session Returns and information on the election took up so much of the Bea con last week it crowded out the resume of the October term of Su perior Court which met here with Judge M. V. Barnhill presiding. Divorces were granted the follow ing: Ruby Harison Windley from Jack L. Windley, consent on grounds of incompatibility; Milton Eari Barnes from Ercell Snell Barnes, n bandonment; Mildred V. Bateman from J. Bruce Bateman, separation; Claire Ray Wilson from Anne Eliz abeth Wilson, separation; Rosalie Sallinger from C. D. Sallinger. ruemia rwiauy vs. n. r. iwiuuy C. L. Bailey, as commissioner, paid to the court $561.06, with distribu tion to be made Lillie May Ward, one twelfth; Sam Sykes, one-twelftii J. C. Tarkenton $150 and interest, with balance going to B. F. Twiddy. F. C. Thornton vs. John Ataman chuk. Case continue to January term. Sheriff ordered to make list of property of saw mill and garage to prevent Atamanchuk from selling before trial. J. J. Johnson vs. W. B. Copper smith. Johnson was awarded $350 damage from Coppersmith, as de fendant failed to return property. Depreciation was figured at $300. Industrial Bank of Elizabeth City vs. G. S. Pettiford. Bank was al lowed $70.37 with interest from June 15, 1935, and was given a piano. Clara Hedgepeth vs. Home Secur ity Life Insurance Co. Court would not allow amendment and so non suit was taken. J. I. Heritage vs. Victor Lewis. In this case $1,000 was secured by a deed of trust signed by Heritage and others to Norwood L. Simmons and held by Lewis. Heritage paid in full his one-third that was due on note, relieving him. Mrs. Ercell Jackson and E. R. Jackson vs. Branch Banking & Trust Co. Bank claimed that they only offered to credit Jackson with 85 cents on the $100 for Home Own ers Loan Corporation bonds ten dered to them in payment of an ac count. Several hundred dollars were lost by Jackson, as the jury held with the bank. Appeal was noted. J. L. Swain injunction bond a gainst Clyde McCallum was in creased to $200, and the case was referred to H. G. Horton, William ston, as referee. Sixteen Added To Jamesville Church Last Sunday was a great day with the Methodists at Jamesville. The Sunday school was larger than usu al. The congregations, both morn ing and night, were unusually good. The Communion service was the largest ever known in that church. The pastor, Rev. C. T. Thrift, re ceived the largest class ever receiv ed into the membership of that church. There were 10 received on profession of faith and G by certifi cate. HONOR ROLL OF LOCAL SCHOOLS FOR PAST MONTH Tenth of Enrollment Made Select List for Second Scholastic Month A tenth of the enrollmen of the Plymouth school made the honor roll for the second month, ending October 28, it was announced here today by Principal E. W. Joyner, who released the following names: First grade: Roger Carr, Joe Reid, Billy Swain, Phillis Brewer, Anne Cahoon, Bertie Outland. Second grade: Lucille Allen, Joyce Bailey, Mary Louise Bateman, Phillis Ann Davidson, Geraldine Harrison, Richard Carr, James Gur ganus, Raymond Leggett, John W. Outland, Walter Paramore, jr. Third grade: Zeno Lyon, Rex Paramore, Jake Paul, Helen Carr, Patsy Dixon, Martha Manning,'Joan Modlin, Faye Snell, Frances Stell Spruill, L. B Hardison, Clarise Bateman, Hazel Heyen. Fourth grade: Mary Garden Brat, ten, Harry McLean. Fifth grade: Frances Lane Bas singer, Barbara Link. Sixth grade: Mary Lillian Camp bell, Katherine Bratten, Frances Jones, Roy Manning, Gwenna Ange. Seventh grade: None. Eighth grade: Brinson Cox, Jim mie Hays, Edward Stokeley, Mere dith Johnson, Mary Charlotte Jones, j Katherine Midgett, Becky Ward. Ninth grade: Frances Joyner, Lil lian Robbins, Helen K. Harrison. Tenth grade: Doris Bateman, Hel en Bratten, Cornelia Edmondson, Catherine Terry, Bill Hays. Eleventh grade: Anne Ange, Al berta Clagon, Myrtle Hopkins, Bar bara Norman, Pauline West, James Harold Ward. -® Hold Federation Meet Next Week The home demonstration clubs of Washington County will have their annual fall federation Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, in the courthouse at Plymouth on November 18. Miss Pauline Smith, district agon! of the northeastern district, and the home beautification specialist, of Raleigh, will be the speaker for the afternoon. An excellent talk is ex pected. Each club is planning to exhibit some phase of its work during the past year. Some interesting exhibits are expected to be shown. The high school band will furnish music for tiie occasion, also some special srting music wil lbe given. Mr. W. F. Win slow will present the $5 prize he has offered to the club having the best gardens. The public is invited to attend this meeting to see what the different clubs in the county are doing. Basketball Teams At Creswell Sehool Basketball will be the principal form of athletics in the Creswell schools for the next few months. N. S. Riddick will coach the boys, and D. O. Rudisill will tutor the girls. Both instructors are members of the Creswell school faculty. Cherry Chapter P.-T. A. Is Active The program of the parent-teach er association of Cherry for the cur rent year includes the completion of payments on a piano and the ob taining of supplementary readers for the children. Mrs. Kie Spruill is president of the organization and G. A Wilson is principal of the school. Farm Notes By W. V. HAYS, County Agent It seems that prices of mules and work stock will continue to advance until a farmer can hardly afford to buy work stock. The number of young mares imported in the county during the past few years should be bred to the young Percheron stal lion at the State Test Farm at We nona. The fact that the old stallion proved sterile should not discourage us in the production of colts. The young stallion is a beautiful animal and now weighs about 1,500 pounds. The get from this stallion crossed on most of the mares here in the county should give a good chunky work animal weighing from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds. We should take ad vantage of our opportunity and raise some good breeding fillies while these stallions are being kept at State expense in our neighborhood. Pure-bred Percheron mares, I un derstand, can be bought registered in the buyer’s name from $300 to $350 in the Valley of Virginia. A good mule will cost this much or more, and when one considers the fact that a colt can be raised prac tically as cheap as a cow we should realize that we farmers in this coun ty have an opportunity of increas ing our income considerably. The soil conservation program has accomplished something which the county agents have found very hard to do in the past few years, that is the planting of winter legumes and cover crops, as is being done in our county this year. To date, there is a record of four tons more vetch sown than any previous year. There must have been quite a little of which there is no record. Warren j Spruill, on Mr. J. T. McAllister’s j place, near Roper, has a piece of corn planted where vetch was turned under this spring without any ad ditional fertilizer which he estimates will yield 60 bushels per acre. I j have personally looked over this! corn and do not believe the estimate i much out of line, if any. The soil) is an ordinary deep sand and per-' fectly demonstrates what vetch as! a green manure crop can and will1 do. This has been called to the at.-' tention of most of the farmers in the immediate neighborhood and most of those visiting this corn patch now have some vetch sown. We have been advised from Ra leigh and Washington that our soil conservation program will be con tinued. regardless of politics or any thing else. This being the case the farmers having surplus soy bean seed for sale would do well in hold ing these seed until the seed market really opens. Prices on winter le gumes, small grains have continued to advance, and there will certainly be a premium on soy beans with the continuance of our present program. Most of our farmers have increas ed the size of their poultry flocks and apparently have more laying hens per farm than usual. For these hens to show a profit they should be put on a good laying mash, either home mixed by a good formula or a good commercial laying mash and the hoppers kept full. The quarters should be cleaned up and made com fortable for cold weather. Plenty of grit, oyster shells and clean water shall always be available. It will be a good idea to have on hand litter for the floors, which may be pine straw, peanut trash, shucks, etc., but by all means change this as often as necessary to keep it clean. Some of our farmers seem to think that rye and oats are winter le gumes or that the planting of these qualifies them for a soil-conserving acreage Winter legumes are vetches, clovers, Austrian Winter Peas and are best adapted of the winter legumes for this territory It is permissible, however, to mix rye, barley, wheat or oats with vetch or clover or winter peas, but possibly where there was a shortage in sum mer soil-conserving crops either vetch, clovers, or Austrian winter peas must be used. Rye, oats, or barley sown by itself will not do, nor will it be credited as a soil con serving crop under the present pro gram. -* Entertainment at Cherry on 16th —— The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Philippi Christian church will spon sor an appearance of the Tobacco Tags in the Cherry school building on November 16. This group of en tertainers is widely known for its radio presentations. PLAN TO FINISH (NEW ROAD ABOUT FIRST OF YEAR -- Total Cost Around $30,000; Shortens Cherry Route Considerably Completion of the new road be tween the head of the Newlands section and Roper by January 1, was predicted today by Roy L. Hop kins, fdfeman of the project, which will cost about $30,000 before it is ready for traffic There are now only two miles to go. One mile of the work will be done by the dredge which has been digging a canal for drainage pur poses alongside the road, and the other mile will be done by men and tractors, possibly with a little heln from the dragline. The distance is seven miles thru high land, reed swamps and marshes but now only two of the seven miles is left to connect the two portions of the road. Now an automobile can enter the road at E. R. Lewis' farm at Roper, traveling down the road 2 1-2 miles to where the work is in progress. The project was approved by the old WPA with Washington County to pay $2,00 as sponsor, and with the new WPA to provide the remainder of the money. Since then $6,000 has been added to this amount mak ing $18,000 for the expense so far. It is predicted that it will take $12, 000 more. R. T. Hopkins has served as fore man of the project. Carl Brey, as sistant foreman, has been in charge of the men while Mr. Hopkins has been sick for the last several days. Some of the men employed have stopped work to help at peanut pick ers. So far an average of 21 men have been employed. The work started November 1, 1935. This road short ens the distance between Roper and Cherry from 20 to about 13 miles, making the Cherry people within 20 miles of Plymouth, the county at of Washington instead of about on the other route. For about eight weeks the men orked on drainage, digging a ca al from back of the school to Scup srnong River and then digging out e old Idlewild Canal to Scupper - mg River. This has impeded the rogress made on the roads. Mr. opkins believes the new road will le ready for traffic by the first of e year. -4> Local Church Plans Victory Drive Here At Tuesday Meeting -- Prominent Leader To Take Part In Two Sessions In Christian Church “Through Loyalty to Victory” :s the forward slogan of church of Di sciples of Christ this year as they plan to strengthen and advance their brotherhood enterprises thru Unified Promotion, and that is the theme of their annual Loyalty and Victory Convention, one of which will be lipid here Tuesday, Novem ber 17. Approximately two hundred and fifty of these conventions have been planned throughout the United States and Canada. For fourteen years these meetings have been con duced among churches of Disciples of Christ until they have become Last year their attendance reached 65,846. They are under the direc tion of Unified Promotion, the gen eral promotional agency of the their largest convention enterprise, brotherhood. A morning and afternoon session will be held. The principal speak ers will be national and state lead ers of Disciples of Christ, and one of their missionaries. Local church development will be studied, and the world-wide activities of the church will be emphasized, botn concerning its program presentation and suggestions and methods as to how to support that program. Chris tian stewardship and tithing will be stressed. Funeral Service for Infant Held Friday! —*— . ‘ ! Funeral services were held Friday • afternoon for Nina Ruth Davenport,! infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mc Coy Davenport, at the grave in the S. R. Davenport cemetery, with the Rev. Roy Respass, Christian minis ter, officiating, assisted by Rev. T. F Davenport, Free Will Baptist. One sister and two brothers sur vives, besides the child’s parents. r HERE TUESDAY James A. Crain, executive sec retary of the United Christian Missionary Society of the Dis ciples of Christ, who will be the leader of the team that will be in a one-day convention at the Christian church here Tuesday. aMisticeday” IS OBSERVED BY PROGRAM HERE -#> R. L. McMillan, of Raleigh, Principal Speaker; Big Delegation Attends Fighting men of a generation ago gathered around the improvised tables in the Legion Hall here on Wednesday, singing songs of their World War days as they climaxed their celebration of Armistice Day. Enthused by a talk from Comrade R. L. McMillan, of Raleigh, past commander of the Capital City post, the men who slept in mud and saw the blood of their comrades drench the trenches in which they fought sat down to eat their food in peace. Hundreds of Legionnaires, sons of Legionnaires, school children, and the Plymouth High School Band, under Coach Ziegler, paraded thru the streets of Plymouth to the front of the Legion Hall, where the dead of Washington County veterans were remembered. The rumble of muffled drums was heard, then a salute from the fire alarm. James Harold Ward blew “Taps” on his bugle, with Wil ford Whitley, down the street, echo ing the notes. J. R. Carr and F. M. Simpson were color bearers. The only woman Legionnaire in this section, Mrs. Ernestine Alexan der Stroup, formerly of Harrison, Ark., who qualified as a Legion naiie through her position as a war nurse in Bellevue Hospital in New York City, was present at the ban quet. District Comander C. McGowan and Commander P. W. Brown did their work well in getting the Leg ionnaires out and to attend. 50 Men in Bible Class at Creswell -a The largest men’s Bible class in Washington and maybe surrounding counties is claimed by the Christ Episcopal Church at Creswell as up wards of 50 men were present Sun day. C. H. Aderholdt, principal of the school, is the speaker. D. O. Rudi sill and Sidney Smithson are group captains who yank the fellows out of bed on a Sabbath morning to at tend Sunday schol. The losing group buys a feed for the winers. “What the main trouble now is to get the fellows to attend church services,” said Mr. Aderholdt, who told the men that if they wanted him to leach the class they must hustle an audience. And they do. Three Arrested at! Creswell Last Week —-»— Jess Harrington, 22, has been fill ing the job as chief of police of Creswell very well in the last two weeks while Seaton Davenport is in a Rocky Mount hospital conva lescing from injuries received when he was attacked from ambush while on his way home. Last week he arrested three, Er nest Phelps, Harvey Gibbs, and Sipey Woodley, charging them with disorderly conduct. He would have probably nabbed the fourth if the colored person hadn’t pleaded so sorrowfuly for crowding the white folks off the streets of Creswell. Those arraigned before Mayor J. A. Combs were assessed the costs, and in two cases a small fine. THREE MARKERS CHALLENGED A T POLLS LN COUNTY Cherry Mayor Resigns Of fice in Order To Retain job at Polls watchful Republicans caused the mayor of one Washington County town to resign his position and a second was threatened with “the election law” in the recent general election. Harry Barnes, of Cherry, was faced with the choice of either re signing his office as mayor or for feiting his right as a Democratic marker in the Republican sec*ion of Scuppernong Township in Washing ton County. His party’s call was stronger than the necessity for hi. being the mayor. He handed in his resignation on October 30. A majority of the Dem ocratic town commissioners favored allowing Barnes to resign, while G. A. Overton, Republican, protested his resignation. Barnes manted bai lots on election day. Now he is out as mayor. Overton has an eye on his place as mayor and then again, Barnes may be accepted again. Mayor J. A. Combs, of Creswell, had the same trouble. His rigid to serve as an official in the election disqualified him as mayor. But he left the precinct aide’s job and went out to hustle the votes in holding to his job as mayor. Hardy Craddocn took his place at the pools. Some said that if Mr. Combs had resigned as mayor of Creswell that W. T. Phelps might have taken bis place. Mr. Phelps is a widely known and successful merchants and about the only thing they had against him was that he was a Republican. And the good Democrats opposed a Re publican mayor. W. M. Darden, prosecuting attor ney, of Plymouth, was moved out of a marker’s place in the Plymouth precinct polls on a challenge by J. R. Carr, Republican candidate for representative, who brought the election law’s provision to bear on a public official holding such jobs at the polls. W. Dewey Phelps, unsuccessful opponent of J. K. Reid for sheriff, led the opposition to the officehold ers down below the county serv ing as precinct officials. Mrs. Mary Lee Wiley Dies Tuesday Night Funeral services were conducted Wednesday for Mrs. Mary Lee Wii y 91, who died Tuesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. A. Holton, at Roper. Officiating were Rev. Sidney Mat thews, of Washington, rector of the Grace Episcopal church in Plym outh, of which Mrs. Wiley was a communicant; Dr. G. A. Martin, pas tor of Ores well Baptist church; Rev. W. J. Watson, pastor of Roper Metii odist church. Interment took place in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. She was the wife of the late George Wiley and is sur vived by her daughter, Mrs. Holton, and two grandchildren, Miss Aim . Lee, of Richmond, and Geog, Wiley Holton, Roper. --- Program at Local Colored School -« j. W Darden, recorder of Wash ington County, was the principal speaker at exercises held in the Washington County Training Scho i in Plymouth, Sunday afternoon, which marked the end of a six week campaign to raise money for seats for the auditorium of the col ored school. Two teachers, Eva Stewart and Abbie Brandon sang a duet. Titi choral club was directed by the lat ter. Principal W. H. Berry pres.d ed. Present were Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Harris, Mr and Mrs. W. H. Para more, Frank Brinkley and Mike Da\ enport, of Creswell, as guests. A total of $195.43 was obtained for the purpose during the cam paign. This will purchase about 260 opera chairs for the auditorium. A total of 284 is needed. Other sources will be asked for aid. The county commissioners agreed to lend the school $175 for the pur chase of auditorium seats which makes enough to buy about 500. ROPER P.-T. A. TO MEET -• The Roper Parent-Teacher Asso ciation will meet Tuesday night, No vember 17, at 8 o’clock, at the high school. Everyone is urged to at tend.