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THE Roanoke Beacon and Washington County Awi PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY In Plymouth, Washington County. North Carolina The Roanoke Beacon is Wash ington County's only newspaper. It was established in 1889. consoli dated with the Washington County News in 1929 and with The Sun in 1937. Subscription Rates (Payable in Advance) One year_$1.50 Six months_ .75 Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request Entered as second-class matter at the post office in Plymouth. N. C., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Friday, February 18, 1938 ISo Time to Hang Back The movement to secure the paving of the Turnpike Road through Wenona on to Pantego gained the support of another strong organiza tion last week, when the Plymouth Merchants Association decided to lend its support. This group has already gone to work, emphasizing that the program set for March 2 to impress upon highway officials the urgent necessity of providing an all weather road should be heartily backed by all the people of this sec tion. Resolutions asking for this work have been passed by the commission ers of three counties, Washington, Hyde and Beaufort, and whether or not anything definite will be accomplished at the meeting on March 2 depends almost entirely up on the response of the people of the three counties in turning out to im press upon representatives of the highway commission the fact that the folks of the section realize the urgent necessity for the road and that they are standing together as a unit in seeking immediate action. The State Department of Agricul ture is another strong supporter of the movement. It has a tremen- j dous investment, probably in excess) of $100,000, in the Blackland Test Farm at Wenona, and unless a good all-weather road is secured the fu ture of this important undertaking is problematical, to say the least. Under present conditions the test farm is absolutely inaccessible in bad weather. Wenona no longer has a railroad and the transportation prob lem is serious indeed at times. The experimental station there is the only one conducted by the state depart ment for livestock demonstrations, and it is considered among the most complete in the whole South. Yet its whole value is considerably lessened if farmers are unable to depend up on getting there to see the results of the tests. No threats have been or are being made, but it is not unreasonable to arrive at the conclusion that the de partment may have to curtail its ac tivities at Wenona unless better fa cilities are afforded. Certainly no program of expansion is likely lnder existing conditions. And just as cer tainly Washington County is the chief sufferer from this state of af fairs. For this reason alone, Washington County should do its utmost to pre sent the most forceful argument it can for this improvement. And its most forceful argument will be a big delegation ti impress upon high way commission officials that a united people are determined upon secur ing better road conditions in this section. We need this road; we deserve this road. It remains to be seen just what we will do about getting it. •A Hugging Social -• WhitevUle News-Reporter Many ingenuous schemes have been devised to raise funds for churches and other worthy institu tions, but a “hugging social’’ recent ly held in Ohio is a new wrinkle in the business. Of course fair young damsels have at Church box suppers allowed the patrons to receive a gentle platonic kiss. But when the opposite sexes go into clinches for religion’s sake, it seems that someone is developing a contorted idea of religion. The affair was a success financial ly, having been widely advertised as a scheme to pay off the church debt. Following were the rates charged: Girls under 15 years-of-age, 15c for a two-minute hug; girls under 20 years, 50c; 20 to 25 years, 75c; an other man's wife, $1.00; old maids, 3c and no time limit. The girls in the congregation set another meeting in this month, but the older members set their foot down, said the bounds of propriety have been over stepped. The “hug ging social” was more largely patron ized by middl-aged and old men than by young men, it was reported. PEI1DER Jeon PHILLIPS’ DELICIOUS Corn - Peas StringBeans No. 2 Cans 25* ★ ★ ★ ★ Solid Pack • Red Ripe Tomatoes 4 ^ 25* ★ ★ ★ ★ Colonial Red Sour Pitted Cherries, 2 cans.27c Campbell’s Brand Pork and Beans, 3 cans 20c SEED IRISH POTATOES Selected Cobblers, 150-lb. bag.$2.60 Selected Red Bliss, 150-lb. bag.$2.85 Onion Sets, Assorted, qt.5c Old Virrinia Cane and Maple Syrup, bottle.15c Sonny South Buckwheat or Pancake Flour, 3 pkgs.20c Sun Maid Seedless or Seeded Raisins, 2 pkgs.15c ★ ★ ★ ★ Golden Blend, Mild and Mellow Fresh Coffee lb. 15* On Reducing Taxes -• “All this talk, about reducing tax es doesn’t mean a thing as long as that kind of business is permitted,” said a well-known local man last week, referring to the article in “Un der the Dome” in Saturday’s News and Observer abput the trip of se veral state officials to Massachusetts to bring back Fred Beal, convicted of conspiracy to kill the Gastonia chief of police during the textile strike some years ago. Attorney General Seawell, Assist ant Attorney General Harry McMul lan and two other officers had just returned from Massachuttes without Beal, a continuance in the extradi tion hearing having been granted— with the Attorney General’s consent —until February 18. The four were expected to return for the hearing, bringing the total cost to the State and Gaston County to at least $895.96, according to the article. “That's a small amount, it is true, so far as reducing State taxes is con cerned,” this man stated, “but it rep resents the attitude of the officials in general, and we’ll never have any tax reductions while such things are permitted.” He went on to tell the story about a local man who owed a fertilizer concern about $50,000 or $60,000 some years ago. The owner of the company called his son in and told him to go to Plymouth and collect the money. The man who owed the account met the young fellow at the train, greeted him cordially, arrang ed a round of parties for the youngs ter and treated him so royally while he was there that when he got back he told his father, “Dad, I just didn’t have the heart to mention the money he owed us while he was being so nice to me.” So the old man said, “I’ll go col lect that money myself.” He came to Plymouth, and the debtor outdid himself in showing him a good time. They really went places and did things. When the old gentleman got back to the office, the youngster greeted him, “Well, Dad, did you get the money?” And the head of the concern replied, “No Son, I didn't. But I did sell him his fertilizer for next year.” In drawing this parallel, the lo cal citizen may be doing the attor ney general and his assistants an in justice, but he is expressing the sen timents of a lot of folks in his be lief that these state officials “will not wear themselves out sitting around on the soft chairs that are pro vided for them up there in those Massachusetts offices.” CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION State of North Carolina Department of State To All to Whom These Presents May Come—Greeting: Whereas, it appears to my satis faction, by duly authenticated record of the proceedings for the voluntary dissolution thereof by the unanimous consent of all the stockholders, de posited in my office, that the Albe marle Mutual Exchange, a corpora tion of this State, whose principal office is situated at No. — Street, in the town of Roper, County of Wash ington, State of North Car ina (E. R. Lewis, president, being the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process may be served), has complied with the requirements of Chapter 22, Consolidated Statutes, entitled “Corporations,” preliminary to the issung of this Certificate of Dissolution: Now, therefore, I, Thad Eure, Sec retary of State of the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said corporation did, on the 31st day of January, 1938, file in my office a duly executed and attested consent in writing to the dissolution of said corporation, executed by all the stock holders thereof, which said consent and the record of the proceedings aforesaid are now on file in my said office as provided by law. In testimony whereof, I have here to set my hand and affixed my offic ial seal at Raleigh, this 31st day of January, A. D. 1938. THAD EURE, ti 4t Secretary of State. Rambling ...About By THE RAMBLER Unusual Burial Request— Most folks want more or less of an elaborate ‘‘putting away” when the time comes to leave this vale of tears. But D. O. Patrick, from down Cres well way, has a different idea. He was in the office last Friday and, af ter stating about all he received in life was thorns and that lightwood might have some signifiance as to his ultimate destination, asked us to pub lish his wishes for burial as follows: “When I die, bury me like I die; don't change my clothes or change my looks. Put me away as cheaply as possible. Put upon my grave just an armful of thorns and at my head a piect of lightwood, with a message: ‘Dead and forgotten: gone and don’t know where.' This will show the future how I had to live the past. —D. O. Patrick." Typographical Errors— The bane of existence to news paper folks—at least to folks on small newspapers—is the typogra phical error. It is eternally bobbing up in the most unexpected, not to say embarrassing, places, regardless of the care exercised in reading proofs and checking copy. Practically every small-town news man, at one time or another, has wished for the earth to open up and swallow him when an irate subscrib er barges through his office door, brandishing a copy of the paper and demanding to know, in a voice that can be heard in the next county, what in the name of forty-seven different varieties of blue profanity does the dot-dash-blanked editor mean by calling his wife’s party a “smell” af fair or saying that he “lies” on West Main Street. Under such circumstances it is dif ficult to make convincing the expla nation that it was written “swell” or “lives”; but that when the Linotype operator came to this particular part of the article he was still ruminating upon his folly in trying to fill an in side straight the night before, and that the editor, reading the proof, was worrying about Saturday’s pay roll or a late ad, or something else equally calamitous, resulting in an other “just one of those things.” Chances For Error— In defense, consider the chance for error in just one line of printed mat ter. From a mechanical standpoint alone, these chances multiply into fantastic figures for a single issue of any newspaj^er. Take the typesetting machine, for instance. It turns out approximately seven lines a minute. There are, in this paper, an average of about 38 characters to the line. When an operator is “hanging the elevator,” or keeping ahead of the machine, he is hitting about 15,960 keys an hour. Any one_ of a hundred things may cause a key or matrix to stick or fail to respond, and, the English language being what it is, any of them may result in a blunder, which if it gets past the proof reader, will make some body want to commit one of those messy murders you read about. Then, consider human frailities. An “unimpeachable source of infor mation” is impeached. You may mis understand a word in an interview; a correspondent fails to write plain ly; your notes are lost and you try Courtney Funeral Home Successor To Nurney Funeral Home PLYMOUTH, N. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS EMBALMERS AMBULANCE SERVICE DAY or NIGHT Call 247-6 to write from memory or maybe you can't read your notes; occasionally someone with a grudge" about which you know nothing, maliciously in duces you to print an innocent-ap pearing article with a double mean ing. Everything considered, it is not as astonishing that errors occur as it is that so few occur. ff fry Editors Leave Town— Gorrections almost invariably make bad matters worse. One editor had occasion to write a piece about a ra ther pompous ex-soldier who had been wounded during the war. He referred to him as a “battle-scarred” veteran, but the linotyper dropped an “r" and it came out in the paper “battle-scared.” Purple with rage, threatening mayhem, public horse whipping, and suit for libel, the ex soldier demanded correction. Oblig ingly, the editor fixed it up but hasn't l>een heard from since the pa per came out with the explanation reading as follows: “Last week we referred to Co lonel Blank, our distinguished townsman, as a ‘battle-scared’ veteran for which we are very sorry. All those who are familiar with the record of this leading citize% knew this was a typo graphical error and that what we really meant to say was “bot tle-scarred.” Housewives and Cooks in Washington County rank icith the best in cooking baked foods. This is ichy sales con tinue to increase on— LIGHT WHITE FLOUR H.E. Harrison Wholesale Co. PLYMOUTH (SEED OATS AND SEED POTATOES) 'Tobacco (rRQMi&fGvow I'VE GROWN OVER 87,000 POUNDS^ OF TOBACCO IN THE PAST FIVE J YEARS. THE TOP 0RADES OF MY ) LAST CROP WENT TO CAMEL AT \ .BEST PRICES. THEY ALMOST ALWAYS^ DO. LIKE MOST PLANTERS, I SMOKE, CAMELS. I KNOW THEY'RE MADE . OF FINER TOBACCOS/ MR. CECIL WHITE, EXPERIENCED p PLANTER TOBACCO planters work hard to produce the choicest leaf. They know who buys their finer leaf, too. "Camel ’most always does," says Cecil White. And he, like most other planters, smokes Camels. As he says: "We know what tobacco’s in ’em." 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Bank Debentures 1,239,756.55 North Carolina Bonds_ 357,663.97 Municipal and other marketable bonds 2,291,146.82 Other stocks and bonds_..._ 19,606.00 -.§19,798,458.18 Loans and discounts_ 2,215,542.96 Other Assets - 8,190.37 Banking Houses, Furniture and Fixtures and Real Estate, less Depreciation Reserve_ 225,316.44 §22,247,507.95 LIABILITIES Capital Stock—Common_$ 400,000.00 Capital Stock—Preferred _ 396,000.00 Surplus %- 400,000.00 Undivided'iProfits_ 482,281.70 Reserves _'t_ 289,409.40 Dividend Payable January 1, 1938 _ 8,000.00 Other Liabilities_ 15,913.51 DEPOSITS - 20,255,903.34 \ $22,247,507.95 Upon the strength of the above statement and the hocking of our directors, tee so licit your business, promising every ac commodation consistent tvith safe banking SOUND BANKING AND TRUST SERVICE FOR EASTERN CAROLINA talking pictures HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORS M. PLACE; v,'UAAMST«h noetii cakouna. DATE: 5ATUBDAVi FEBRUARV 19th, 1938. TIME: 2:00 P.M. 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