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THE Roauoke Beacon and U ashington County News l-l BLISHED EVERY FRIDAY In Plymouth. Washington County, North Carolina The Roanoke Beacon is Wash I mgton 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 Kates (Payable in Advance) One year_$1.50 Six months_ .75 Advertising Rates Furnished I’pon Request Entered as second-class matter at tlie post office in Plymouth. N C . under the act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Friday. August 12, 1()38 Trading at Home Hearts I ISetter Place To Trade With the approach of the market ing season for farm crops, it might e well t- consider again the advan tage^ to be derived from spending these crop dollars—and any others— with local merchants and business men. They are the men who have contributed in large measure to help ing produce the crops. At a time when money is scarce they are the men upon whom we rely to see us through until another crop is harvested, and in times of adversity they are the first ones we call upon for help in our distress. And these merchants here in Plym outh have been very liberal in this respect. They are called upon to contribute in one form or another to almost every form of community or ganization—social, civic, church and school—which go to make the sec tion a better place in which to live. They respond to practically every plea for two very good reasons: Be cous they are personally interested and because anything that helps the people thev serve helps them. Aside from these considerations, it is well to remember that every dollar made by local merchants remains in the community. They use the money to improve their stocks of goods and service, to pay taxes, to create more employment for local people and in a variety of other ways to contri bute to the general well-being of the people who live about them. When you go away from home to trade, the man you are doing busi ne-s with is interested in you in di rect proportion to the amount of money you spend with him. And as -oon as the transaction is over he turns his attention to someone else and his interest in you ceases. if you were in trouble and needed help or accomodation you wouldn't go back to this man; you would turn to the home merchant, who knows your circumstances and is personally acquainted with your problems. It is only fair, then, that you give the home business man first chance when you are in a position to throw some business his way. Hie more you spend with the home merchant, the better that merchant will become; a larger volume for him will mean a reduction in his over head expense and retied itself in low er prices to you. It all comes back to a live-and-let-live" policy, with cooperation on your part as well as on the part of the merchant essential to the success of both. We feel this a matter worthy of serious consideration, and w^e be lieve any reasonable person will agree with the conclusions we have reach ed. Plymouth merchants have dem onstrated a willingness to accept their obligations in connection with making Plymouth a better trading center fur this entire section, and it is up to the people to determine by their patron age just how far these men can go toward achieving this end. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE North Carolina, Washington County. Under and by virtue of one certain mortgage deed from Joseph M. Cox and Maude B Cox. which instrument is dated on the 4th day of June, 1937, and recorded in the office of the reg ister of deeds of Washington Coun ty in book 121, at page 297, default having been made in the payment of tlie debt and interest thereon, the un dersigned will, on the 23rd day of August, 1938, at 12 o’clock noon, at the courthouse in Plymouth, N. C., offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash the following described property: One house and lot on the north side of the Mackeys-Pleasant Grove road and being the premises upon which the said J. M. Cox now lives and more particularly described as follows Beginning at Spring Branch and running with the swamp 49 1-2 yards and thence westerly 59 1-2 yards to the mam road leading from Plym outh to Columbia and thence with the said road 49 1-2 yards to the begin ning, containing one-half acre. This the 19th day of July, 1938. IOSHUA T. GRIFFIN jy22 4t Owner of Debt. Walking Into Trouble In its interesting analysis of the hows, whys and whens of automo bile accidents in 1937. The Travel ers Insurance Company has pub lished some revealing figures re lating to pedestrian deaths. W ith fatalities and injuries to pedestri ans rising at an alarming rate, the figures are worth the attention of every individual. Nearly 28 per cent of the deaths, the figures indicate, resulted from the obviously unsafe habit many walkers have of crossing in the middle of the block Of the 27.5 per cent or a total of 4.450 pedestrians killed while crossing at intersections, only 280 met death while crossing, as they should, with the signal No less than 1.100 died when they at tempted to cross against the sig nal light or the officer's signal. The remainder were killed while cm ,s /<o%° f X* -«CT| A, 0, <1^0 c r.v^i <v iff o' I O ^ ‘3.,0/o /\ 20% , .*qS*L«£t<s v1W°°Ah ■ if of3 n ORr.N\V(V?^ / / PL.AV- \ , IN& IN \ - STP.E'TS\ ing diagonally in the intersection or while crossing at intersections where there was no signal. Other leading causes of pedes trian deaths, in order of their importance were: walking on rural highways, children playing in the street, coming into the street from behind a parked car. men at work in the roadway, and hitching rides. Our Election Laics Arc In !\ee<l of Revision N'ot that is makes any difference what we think about it. blit while the legislature is in special session some steps should be taken to reform our primary and election laws. And one of the most needed reforms is com plete repeal of the absentee ballot provision. If the Democratic Tarty in this State has reached the point where it cannot win elections without the ab sentee ballot, then the Democratic Party is no longer qualified to govern the State. Honest election laws, honestly ad ministered. are the surest guarantee of good government: and the people of North Carolina, whether they are Democrats. Republicans, or what not. should not let up in their demands that some of the present abuses be corrected. -e Sales Tax AI nays If ill lie Unpopular IT itli Public— Xews and Observer Despite all the efforts to popul arize it, the sales tax is still regarded by both the prosperous and the poor as the most unjust of all taxes, ac cording to a survey made by Fortune magazine. Thirty-three and two tenths per cent of all those who ans wered Fortune's question on which tax is most unjust named the sales tax. Of all the poor persons from whom answers were obtained 37.8 per cent regarded it as the most un just tax, while 25.5 per cent of pros perous persons questions held the same view. No other tax secured any thing like so high a percentage. Though the tax which received the second largest percentage of the re plies as most unjust was the tax on real estate, this percentage was only 16.4 per cent as compared with the 33.2 per cent which gave the prize for inequity to the general sales tax. Commenting on its own survey For tune says: “The prosperous, least affected by the general sales tax ne vertheless find it the most unjust.' The sales tax may be here to stay but its permanence does not make it pretty or fair. LEGAL NOTICES ~~ NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a judgment made and entered in the cause en titled Town of Plymouth vs. George Smith et A1 in the Superior Court of Washington County docketed in the Judgment Docket of Washington County, the undersigned Commiss ioner will, on the 29th day of August, 1938, at 12 o'clock noon, at the door of the Washington County Court House, in Plymouth, North Carolina, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, subject to the con firmation of the Court, the property hereinafter described, located in the Town of Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, and describ ed as follows: Bounded on the south by Main Street, on the east by Addison or Rox anna Everett lot; on the north by the Norfolk Southern Railroad and on the west by the Marcellius Ever ett lot and being a lot 25 feet along Main Street and extending north wardly between parallel lines 200 feet, more or less, and the same lot that was occupied by Virgie Cooper and wife, E. S. Cooper, and being that lot on which there is now a grave yard. The said property will be sold sub ject to taxes levied against it by the County of Washington. The highest bidder at said sale will be required to deposit ten per cent of his bid as a guaranty of his good faith, the said deposit to be for feited upon his failure to comply with his bid upon demand so to do. This the 27th day of July. 1938. Z. V. NORMAN a5 4t Commissioner Son Of The South Whiteville Xews-Rcporter The South should pause a moment in tribute to Dr. Charles H. Hearty, noted Georgia chemist, who died in a hospital Wednesday of a heart ailment. His story is a familiar one. We have been told in newsreels, by the press and over the radio how the altruistic chemist struggled against a host of obstacles to prove to the world that newsprint could be made from slash pine. Dr. Hearty is credited with giving the Southern farmer a new and lu crative money crop: pulp from pine. He is more than any other man, res Itonsible for the trek of pulp mills to the South, opening up a wide ave nue of industry and progress to the agrarian sections. Like his forefathers, Dr. Hearty was a pioneer. He had a broad vision and has left the South a rich herit age. It is men of Dr. Hearty’s type who stand out as truly great in a world of Hitlers and Mussolinis. fJ *> Haled Him i'harlotte .Yews. He is an okl man now, sitting in Holland waiting for the end. And all of us think of him kindly these days, as simply a rather pleasant old fel low who once upon a time sat upon the throne that Adolph Hitler occu pies now. But we have not always thought of him kindly. Back in 1917, we hated him as cordially as we have ever hated a man, and pictured him as a sort of understudy to Satan. But we have found out since that, while he was far from guiltless in the making of the World War, he was no worse than many others, and that his main fault was not brutality but stupidity. And his successor, Hilter, has pretty well convinced us that a Honenzollern wasn't necessarily the worst sort of ruler on earth. Maybe we had better keep his case in mind, too, while we are about the judging of the current scene in the world. If we hated too easily and not quite altogether justly once, we could do it again. LEGAL NOTICES '"notice~of~sale Under and by virtue and pursuant to a judgment entered by his Ho nor, Walter J. Boone, at the July Term, 1938, Superior Court of Wash ington County, appointing and dir ecting the undersigned Commission er to offer at public sale the land hereinafter described for the purposes set forth in said judgment, the said decree having been entered in an ac tion entitled "H. E. Beam et al vs. Henry Ellis et Al", and the defend ants having failed to redeem the pro perty as allowed by the said judg ment : Therefore, the said undersigned Commissioner will expose at public sale to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door of Wash ington County, at 12 o'clock noon, on the 30th day of August, 1938, the i following described land: Being on the southwest corner, at the intersection of Madison and Third Streets, in the twon of Plym outh, North Carolina, and being the lot upon which the brick Church building of the New Chapel Baptist Church stands, said lot being rec tangular in form, and fronting on Madison Street forty feet, more or less, and running from said corner along Third Street westwardly as far as the said Church building and steps extends, together with the buildings and improvements thereon. The highest bidder at said sale will be required to deposit ten per cent of his bid as a guarantee of good faith and to be forfeited to the plain tiffs upon his failure to comply with his bid upon demand so to do. This the 29th day of July, 1938. Z. V. NORMAN u5 4t Commissioner Rambling ...About Bv THE RAMBLER Ticket To "(tossi/i Town"— As a rule, we don't go in much for poetry in any form, but we have re ceived some requests for republica tion of Mrs. W. B. Chesson's "Free Ticket To Gossip Town,” written a couple of years ago. so here goes: Have you ever heard of ‘'Gossip Town. ' On the shores of "Falsehood Bay"? Where old "Dame Rumor." with rust ling gown. Is going the live-long day. It isn't far to ' Gossip Town" For people who want to go. The "Idleness Train" will take you down In just an hour or so. The "Thoughtless Road" is a popu lar route. And most folks start that way: But it's steep down-grade: and if you don't look out. You will land in "Falsehood Bay." You will glide through the valley of "Vicious Talk" And into the Tunnel of Hate”; Then crossing the "Add-To Bridge," you walk Right into the city gate. The principal street is called “They Say,' And "I've Heard" is the public well, And the breezes that blow from "Falsehood Bay" Are laden with "Don't-You-Tell." In the midst of the town is “Tell Tale Park"; You're never quite safe while there, For its owner is Madam Suspicious Remark," Who lives on the street "Don't Care Just back of the park is "Slanderers' Row 'Twas there that "Good Name" died, Pierced by a shaft from "Jealousy's Bowr In the hands of “Envious Pride.” From Gossip Town Peace has long since fled. But Trouble, and Grief, and Woe, And Sorrow, and Care, you will meet instead If ever you chance to go. —By Mrs. W. B. Chesson. Do You Remember— The brief notice in Sunday's papers telling of tlie death of Pearl White, heroine of more than one blood curdling serial 'way back about the time movies were beginning to catch the popular fancy, started a chain of reminiscences back to the days when we could hardly wait from one Sat urday to another to see how in the world the handsome hero and the beautiful heroine were going to get out of one mess and into another, arranged, of course, by the sleek, suave and clever villain—even as they do up to this day. You don’t have to be too old to remember back there—but you do have to be old enough. Miss White reached the height of her popularity about the time the United States en tered the World War, and this Ram bler had gotten along in years to about that stage where we had to pretend to be bored to death with such stuff as they dished up, al though we always managed to sneak a thrill or two out of her adventures, and wild horses couldn’t have kept us out of our accustomed seat every Saturday. In fact, the wild horses were kinda thrown in as an added attraction, since the Saturday pro grams were usually composed of a western, a serial and sometimes a Keystone comedy—and, come to think of it, things haven't changed so much, after all, now have they? Still Further Back— Thinking back to Miss White’s ' Perils of Pauline" carried us on a LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a judgment made and entered in cause entitled Town of Plymouth vs. Jimmie Gee et al in the Superior Court of Wash ington County docketed in the Judg ment Docket of Washington County, tire undersigned Commissioner will, on the 29th day of August, 1938, at 12 o'clock noon, at the door of the Washington County Court House, in Plymouth, North Carolina, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, subject to the conformation of the Court, the property hereinaf ter described, located in the Town of Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, and described as fol lows: A lot or parcel of land situate in the Town of Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, on the north side of the west end of Main Street, the said lot being fifty (50) feet wide along said street and more particu larly described as follows: A lot or parcel of land situate in the Town of Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, on the north side of the west end of Main Street, the said lot being fifty (50) feet wide along said street and more particul arly described as follows: Bounded on the north by Norfolk Southern Railroad, on the east by the lot of Willie Johnson, on the south by said Main Street and on the west by the E. J. Conklin property now owned by the Town of Plymouth, said lot being 50 feet along Main Street and extending northwardly be tween parallel lines 200 feet. The highest bidder at said sale will be required to desposit ten per cent of his bid as a guaranty of his good faith, the said deposit to be forfeit ed upon his failure to comply with his bid upon demand so to do. The said property will be sold sub ject to taxes levied against it by the County of Washington. This 27th day of July, 1938. Z. V. NORMAN, a5 4t Commissioner little further back to the first movies we ever saw. It was in the old Lyric Theatre in Columbia, S. C. We don't remember the title, but we do remem ber seeing some of the old John Bun ny pictures there, as well as "Bron cho Billy," who last name was An derson, we think, and who must have been one of the original western stars. Along about that time a new the atre was built there, the Pastime. It specialized in nickel shows—5 cents to everybody—which gave us an op portunity to see just about twice as many shows as we'd been accustomed to seeing before then. About every other day it would run one of those "Flying A" westerns—always with the same leading characters: J. Warren Kerrigan as the hero. Jack Richard son as the villain, and the name of the feminine lead escapes us just now—women's names mean little to a 9-10-11 year-old youngster. Stiblime To Ridiculous— Some very entertaining absurdities would occur every now and then, technique and film editing were in their infancy. There was a scene representing a wagon train attacked by the Indians before the taming of the West. Everything was going along fine, the Indians were gallop ing around the wagons, the settlers were battling for their lives and scalps—but they failed to take into account railroad schedules, for in the background a steam locomotive pull ing a string of Pullmans moved across the picture. Then there was another time when the villain and the hero were engaged in one of those fist and-skull fights all over the room of a frontier cabin; one of them knocked the other against what we used to call a "bureau”; it toppled over with the mirror at a crazy angle, and there in the mirror was the re flection oF the man behind the cam era. cranking away for dear life. Five-Heelers and Serials— The first five-reel picture to be shown there was a railroad story, "The Juggernaut.” In it there was a head-on collision between the two locomotives, and we well remember the extravagant advertising cam paign the old Lyric put on to im press the populace with the stupen dous expense it had undergone to secure this great epic—five full reels and a train collision. Talk about double features—they packed 'em in! Then came the first serials. Grace Cunard and Francis Ford in "Lucille Love." The same stars in “The Trey of Hearts,” and others. Moving on a bit more, we come to "The Diamond in the Sky,” "The Iron Claw,” which were about the time of Miss White. Incidentally. Monday's papers carried the story of the death of Warner Oiand—“Charlie Chan” these latter years—who was the “heavy” in a number of the Pearl White serials, although no mention was made of this in his obituaries. About this time Clara Kimball Young and Theda Bara were among the leading feminine stars. Annette Kellerman, the aquatic star, was be ing compared with Venus de Milo, and her pictures were being banned in some of the more puritanical cen ters. Francis X. Bushman. Douglas Fairbanks, sr„ and William S. Hart were favorites for male leads. The movies have come a long ways in a few years. Pictures that would be billed as great features a few short j years ago are just program fillers now. The introduction of ' talkies" brought about a complete revolution, with new faces and voices and doing away with many of the old favorites. But. with all the changes, the im provements. and the new and more comfortable theatres, no one could possibly get more real enjoyment out of present-day super-colossal produc tions than we who "grow'ed up" with the movies did bark in those days when the announcement of a new Pearl White serial meant that our entertainment program wTas taken care of for at least 10 Saturdays. PLEASANT (.liOVE Mrs. Clyde Barnes and daughter. Vivian, of Norfolk, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barnes. Mr. and Mrs. Will Everett, of Ahos kie. were the week-end guests of Mrs. H. G. Spruill. Miss Myrtle Tarkenton. of Colum bia. was the dinner guest of Mrs. Ef fie W. Gurkin Sunday. Clinton Tarkenton. jr., of Elizabeth City, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. J. C. Tarkenton. Mrs. J. W. Furlough returned home from the Tayloe Hospital in Wash ington Sunady and is getting along nicely. Miss Jamie Riddick has accepted the place as postmistress at the Mackeys post office. Mr. and Mrs. Pat Pharr and Dr. Rhodes, of Newport News, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Phelps Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Edley Hutchins made a business trip to Williamston Tues day. The Pleasant Grove picnic held at Albemarle Beach last Wednesday was a complete success. There was a large attendance and an abundance of good ‘'eats” was greatly enjoyed. Mrs. A. J. Riddle Hostess Tuesday Mrs. A. J. Riddle entertained at two tables of bridge at her home on Tuesday evening, honoring Mrs. J. H. Smith, jr., of Goldsboro. Mrs. Sidney Ward, jr., was pre sented the high score prize, a flower pot. while low award, an ash tray, went to Mrs. Joe Arps. The honoree was given a box of powder by the hostess. Stuffed tomatoes, pickles, olives, sandwiches, iced tea, deviled eggs and cake were served. Guests included Mesdames Joe Arps. E. G. Arps. P. M. Arps. W. H. Johnson. Mary Caiioon. Sidney A Ward. jr.. Miss Gray Guilford and the honoree. 25 P1R CENT REDUCTION' ON ALL I. E. S. floor lamps during month of August. Virginia Electric and Power Company, K. D. Worrell, Salesman. It Time On Earth Is So Short In your hour of need let Courtney’s help you. Because of our years of experience we feel that we are better qualified to restore peace to the living. Free Use of Chapel Courtney FUNERAL HOME Washington Street Phone 229-1 Plymouth, N. C. "WE KNOW FINER TOBACCOS WE SMOKE CAMELS CALVIN WIGGINS (left) knows cigarette tobaccos. Ho knows because he grows tobacco. He says: "There’s quite a difference between fine grade tobacco and other grades—big difference in smoking too. From my experience, it’s the Camel people who buy the best tobaccos. Most tobacco planters down here smoko Camels, as I do. We know Camel buys finer tobaccos.'* HUMAN ALERTNESS plus the uncanny ingenuity of the modern cigarette ma chine, assures full, uniform packing of your Camel cig arettes. There are billions of Camels made (Camels I are the largest-selling cig arette), and each one is carefully scanned to make sure that every Camel you smoke is a perfect ciga rette, and a matchless blend of finer, MORE EX PENSIVE TOBACCOS. MATCH YOUR FINE BUSINESS with Finely Printed Advertising No Job Too Big— None Too Small TAGS FOSTERS RECEIPTS BOOKLETS ENVELOPES STATEMENTS LETTERHEADS BUSINESS CARDS ANNOUNCEMENTS PACKET HEADS CATALOGUES INVITATIONS BROADSIDES PROGRAMS LEAFLETS FOLDERS FORMS ANY Commercial Printing that you may require, from a calling card to a catalogue, can be made right in our plant. Illustrated for you, too! You will find our printing (with our modern high-speed equipment) to be high in quality—the service of our expert craftsmen prompt and satisfac tory—and our prices reasonable. ROANOKE BEACON
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