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The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* Advertisers will find Beacon and News Columns a latchkey to I 1,500 Washington County homes. VOLUME L—NUMBER 45 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 9, 1939 ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opics The Methodist Missionary Society will present a Tom Thumb wed ding at the Plymouth Theatre Wed nesday night immediately after the first show. As an added attraction, there will be impersonations of lo cal persons on the stage, and the theatre management and society of ficials are urging a large attendance. The Plymouth High School Band will soon have a United States flag and a school flag, made up in the school colors, to be borne by the Boy Scout color bearers when the band parades, as the result of efforts by Chief P. W. Brow'n, who raised $46 in contributions here this week for this purpose. The Plymouth High Scltool Band is arranging for a concert to be given at the Woodland school in Northampton County Friday night. December 15, as the result of a conference between V. R. Brantley, principal of that school, and Director L. W. Zeig ler and Principal R. B. Trotman, of the local school, here Tues day night. The local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose will sponsor the showing of a 10-minute picture entitled “Young America" at the Plymouth Theatre Saturday and Sunday. Governor A. P. Whealton urges all Moose and the general public to see this picture. Tabulation of results in the re cent membership drive conduct ed by the Plymouth Country Club show that a total of 79 new members were secured, accord ing tq J. R. Manning, chairman of the membership committee. The club now has about 160 to 170 members, the largest in its history. Rudolph Jordan, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Jordan, left this week for Sanitorium, N. C.. to enter the hospital for tubercular patients. His father, a World War veteran, is at Oteen. Examiners found the boy was suffering from the disease, and he stopped school to enter the insti tution. The picture of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Marriner, route, one Roper appeared in a far mmagazine this month show in the well-known county couple gathering honey from hives on their farm. Mrs. L. B. Bergeron, of Wash ington, N. C., sent in the picture. -® Two County Pastors At M. E. Conference -»- — The Rev. Wade Johnson, pastor of the Plymouth charge, and the Rev. J. T. Stanford, pastor of the Roper charge of Methodist churches in Washington and Martin Counties, left Wednesday for Fayetteville, where they will attend the annual session of the North Carolina Methodist con ference. When the Rev. Mr. Johnson depart ed he carried with him a report show ing that all of the budgetary expenses of the local church had been taken care of and a record of the progress the church had made during the past conference year. It is understood that the Rev. Mr. Stanford carried with him a report also showing improved financial and general conditions of church work in his charge. lsi Prize in Drawing Next Wednesday Will Be $20; Big Crowd Here This Week Close to 1,000 persons (Yv. r. Wnislow insists over 1,100) gath ered here Wednesday afternoon for the mid-week drawing for the S30 in cash prizes given weekly by the Plymouth Merchants As sociation in their better-business campaign, but of this large num ber of people the first number drawn was not claimed, so the first prize next week will be S20 instead of S10. Winners this week were: Mrs. R. S. Martin, whose ticket from VY'illifords Yellow Front Store was good for the second S10 award onerea: .viiss biimy oriiiKie.v, with a ticket from Don G. Da vis, and Mrs. A. D. Simpson, with a ticket from E. H. Liverman. each of whom received S5 each. Immediately after the drawing. Director L. W. Zeigler accept the S46 raised by P. W. Brown, through contributions from busi ness men, for purchasing colors for the high school band, includ ing a national flag and a school flag. Mr. Zeigler also announced the addition of a bell lyre to the band, played by Miss Fanny Lou Winslow. Plans Made for Red Cross Roll Call Drive PICKER LICENSES | vj A warning was issued indirect ly this week to all peanut-picker operators in Washington Coun ty, urging them to comply with the law by securing operators’ licenses and by keeping accurate reports on picking operations. Strict enforcement of the law requiring licenses and reports is anticipated, according to infor mation reaching here this week from Raleigh. The licenses are available at the office of the register of deeds, Mrs. Mary Smith Cahoon, along with report forms and instruc tions. Up to today, only 38 of Uie more than 50 operators in the county had secured proper li censes. Total of 163 Men at Work on Three WP A Projects in County New Set-Up for County Ef fected Recently; Offices At County Home -e A new set-up effected here this week by the Works Progress Admin istration placed Winton R. Daven port, project supervisor of men’s work, in an office at the Washing ton County home, the new quarters having been provided by the county commissioners at their meeting meet ing Monday. Associated with Mr. Davenport in handling the records and supervision of the 163 men at work on WPA projects in this county are C. L. Blount, timekeeper, and Mrs. Flon nie Joyner, project clerk. Hereto fore, these three have been working out of the Columbia office. There are three projects now un (Continue on page fouri Colored Woman, Former Slave, Living Near Nackeys, Says She Is 110 Years Old; Describes Early Days in County Born on Plantation Near Creswell; Later Servant In Home Here Able To Get Around -® By Mrs. EDISON DAVENPORT According to “Aunt” Anne Norman, she is the oldest person in Washing ton county. Her tall angular figure is a familiar sight on the old Mackeys road, as she steps off briskly the three miles between her home and the vil lage. “Aunt Anne” says that she is 110 years old, and when one looks a little skeptical she proudly produces a slip of paper from her rusty old satchel. On the scrap of paper, tom from a memorandum book, is the date March 10, 1831, written by some white friend of Aunt Anne’s. She her self can neither read nor write, al though she declares that tw’ice in her life the Book was opened up to her and she read whole chapters with out even knowing one word. When questioned about her child hood, she says she was born a slave on the plantation of Mr. Bob Davis near Creswell; that "Marse Bob” had so much mercy on the folks about their taxes that he was sold out. In the sale Major Charles Latham bought her and carried her to the Latham home in Plymouth. There she helped look out for his children. So faithful was she in this duty that the first Mrs. Latham became greatly at tached to her and asked her husband in her last illness never to let Anne be whipped. She was resentful of her new mistress when Major Latham married again and did not get along (Continue on page four) Peanut Warehouses Here May Not Be Opened This Season Not To Be Needed as Long As Present Prices for Crop Hold Up -<*. Although there are four warehouses here, with a capacity of 56,000 bags, ready to open if the price on peanuts declines, J. E. Davenport, manager, said today that he was still not sure whether or not they would be opened under the diversion plan sponsored by the Peanut Stabilization Cooper ative. Mr. Davenport said that as long as the buyers continued to pay an average price around 3 V2 cents a pound for peanuts, the services of the cooperative would not be needed, as the growers would sell directly to the cleaners. However, it was said, should prices decline then the warehouses will be opened, and they have sufficient ca pacity to take care of all the pea nuts in the county which could be diverted from the regular channels of trade to the oil mills under the government agency’s plan of stabiliz ing prices. Recent rains have retarded har vesting of the crop, as peanut pickers are waiting until the nuts are dry enough to pick. So far, it is under stood, comparatively few have been picked in this county. Will Get Under Way Saturday, Continues Thru Thanksgiving -® Mrs. O. H. Cox, Chairman For County, Hopes To Raise $200 The annual roll call campaign of the Washington County chapter of the American Red Cross will get un der way Saturday, November 11, and continue through Thanksgiving Day Thursday, Novem _____ ber 30. Mrs. O. __ H. Cox, roll call RedChdbb chairman for the county, was busy this week organizing canvassing com mittees and assigning the workers to zones so that no prospective contrib utor would be overlooked when the county is thoroughly covered for mem bers at $1 each. It was hoped by Mrs. Cox that the workers this year could raise at least $200, doubling that secured last year; and, with the work that Mrs. Cox and her roll call committees are do ing, it is believed that this wili be done. Mrs. Cox called to the attention of the public that President Roose velt and Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, would officially open the organization's 23rd roll call drive Saturday night in a nation-wide broadcast over 350 sta tions at 10:30 Eastern Standard Time. Entertainers on the program will in clude Edgar Bergen and Charlie Mc Carfhey; John Charles Thomas, bari tone; Ben Bernie and others, who will be switched onto the broadcast from Hollywood. Because of increased calls upon the organization occasioned by the cur rent war, Mrs. Cox said quotas were abandoned and that every effort will be made to get as many members as possible. Urge Observance of Hours Agreed Upon A resolution was passed at the Plymouth Merchants’ Association meeting here last night urging the cooperation of merchants and cus tomers in observance of the opening and closing hours for stores agreed upon some years ago. The opening hours for stores is at 8 a. m„ and the closing hour is 6 p. m. on week-days and 10 p. m. on Saturdays. A few of the early risers have been opening their places of business a little ahead of time and some of the others are said to keep open after the time agreed upon for closing, causing mild dissension. It is requested by officials of the organ ization that all merchants cooperate in strictly observing the hours agreed upon. The tradesmen also decided to sponsor a good-will effort to attract new customers to Plymouth stores. The exact nature of the undertaking was left up to a committee composed of J. R- Campbell, E. H. Liverman, E. E. Harrell, Sam Scherr, W. P. Winslow and W. H. Booker, with the request that they develop a plan and report it to the association. -- Tentative Plans for Road Celebration Considered -a Tentative plans for the celebration at the conclusion of the surfacing of Highway No. 97 from Washington to Plymouth were discussed at a meet ing of the chamber of commerce in Washington Tuesday night.. Edmund G. Harding, secretary of the Washington organization, agreed to send a copy of the plans here for approval by the Washington County Chamber of Commerce within the next few days. John W. Darden, sec retary of the local organization, was unable to attend the meeting Tues day. Funeral Services for Jno. J. Brinkley, 61, Held Last Saturday -* Well-Known Murfreesboro And Plymouth Business Man Died.Thursday Funeral services were held from the residence in Murfreesboro Saturday morning at 10:30 for John Jacob Brinkley, 61, who died Thursday night there at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. P. Hammonds, as the result of a heart attack, from which he had suffered at intervals for the past sev eral years. The Rev. Charles E. Vail, pastor of the Methodist church at Murfrees boroo, conducted the service, and in terment was made in a Murfreesboro cemetery. A massive heap of flowers, which literally covered the grave, was contributed by friends of the family from all over this state and Virginia. A son of the late John and Mary Brinkley, of Suffolk, Nansemond County, Va„ Mr. Brinkley was a well known business man of Plymouth and Murfreesboro, dividing his time be tween the two towns in looking aft er his business interests and assist ing his son .who operates theatres at both places. He was a member of the Plymouth Methodist church and was also affil iated with business organizations in Plymouth. Mr. Brinkley is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Shepard Brink ley; two daughters, Mrs. Bernice Hammonds and Miss Marian Brink ley, of Murfreesboro; one son, J. Shepard Brinkley, Plymouth; two grandchildren, Mary Shepard and Patricia Newcombe Hammonds, of Murfreesboro; and one sister, Miss Margaret Jane Brinkley, of Suffolk. -$> County Board Takes Steps to Secure Two Added Jury Rooms Also Seek Improvement of Folley Road To R. T. Chesson’s Store The Washington County Commis sioners, at their regular meeting here Monday, requested Recorder John W. Darden and Mrs. Kathleen S. Nobles to vacate the offices they are now us ing in the courthouse in order to provide extra jury rooms for the Washington County Superior Court, in accordance with instructions is sued by Judge Leo Carr, of Burling ton, who presided over the court here last week. This action was taken by the com missioners to provide two rooms for petit juries and a consultation room for lawyers and witnesses. Because of the crowded conditions in the courthouse last week, the presiding judge included in the court minutes a request to the commissioners to nake several more rooms available. The commissioners also decided to write Andrew Taylor, of Columbia, supervisor of the WPA, asking that agency to improve the Folley road from Highway No. 64 to R. T. Ches son's store on the Mackeys road. T. C. Burgess With Furniture Company -® The employment of T. C. Bur gess, former merchant and business man, as general representative for the Plymouth Furniture Company has been announced by E. E. Harrell, owner. Well known here as a businessman and civic worker, Mr. Burgess is a former member of tire Town Council, at the present secretary of the Mer chants association and Lions Club. Mr. Burgess succeeds Grady Ches son, well known young man, who has resigned to accept an insurance job to be located in Ahoskie. Johnny Everett will continue his connection with the firm. Sunday Services At Baptist Church Rev. P. B. XICKENS, Pastor All members of the church are asked to be present Sunday morning for a special service. At the morning hour the pastor will preach on the subject, “God's Plan for Giving.” The pastor will also fill the pulpit at the evening hour, preaching upon an ap propriate theme The revival spirit continues to move in our church and among our people. Last Sunday night, 13 young people were baptized, and oh the previous Sunday 3 others had been received into the church. We are indeed happy to have all these new members with us, and we feel that the church and community will be blessed. Sunday school at 10 o clock; wor ship services at H anc* 7:30; B. T. U. at 6:30; and prayer service Wednes day night at 7:3° Bank, Post Office, and ABC Store Only Places Here To Observe Armistice Day Armistice Day will pass with out a celebration here Saturday, but the Branch Banking & Trust Company and the ABC store will be closed and the post office will operate on a schedule of reduced hours. It was learned this after noon that the county courthouse offices would also be closed all day. Because the schools will not be in session, preventing: the gath ering: of the children, and also in view of the fact that Saturday is the busiest day of the week for most local people, the James E. Jethro Post of the American Le- j gion will not stage its usual parade and program of exercises. Postmaster George W. Hardi son stated that the post office would receive and dispatch mail as usual and the stamp and gen eral delivery windows will be open during the following hours: 8 to 10 a. m.; 12 to 2 p. m.; and 4:30 to 5:30 p. m. The postal of ficial said there would be no rural or city deliveries, but patrons who usually receive their mail by these methods will be served if they present themselves at the office during the time the windows are open. II. E. Beam, cashier of the lo cal bank, advises local merchants to get their change needs on Fri day, as the time lock on the vault will be set for Monday morning when the bank closes Friday, and it will be impossible to serve them Saturday. Construction Work Is Halted at Pulp Plant No Reason Assigned For Cessation Order Received Yesterday -<s> Understood Not To Affect Two Buildings Already Well Under Way -$> Preliminary work on the machine and beater buildings and the exten sion to the wet room was abruptly suspended Wednesday upon instruc tions from the Kieckhefer Container Corporation at Delair, N. J., to of ficials of the William Muirhead Con struction Company, which had the contract to erect these structures in cluded in the expansion program at the plant of the North Carolina Pulp Company here. Work on the bleach er and liquor plant foundations were continuing today on a small scale, as workmen awaited the arrival of steel for the bleacher building and ar rangements were going forward for the pouring of cement on the liquor auilding. Although there was no official an nouncement from the Kieckhefer company as to the reason for sus pending work on the three finishing plant buildings, it was unofficially learned on fairly good authority that a large order for unfinished pulp had been received by the company, les sening the necessity for rushing the finishing units to completion. How ever, persons close to the company express the belief that the construc tion work on the entire project will go forward after a short time. O. H. Cox, general manager, said today that he had not been officially notified of any change in plans of the expansion program, and that he was unable to make any statement regarding future construction activi ties. The pulp plant closed down Monday for periodic repairs and in spection, but Mr. Cox said it would resume operations Saturday morning. Work is continuing on the filtering plant as usual, and although em ployees of the Muirhead company ire more or less marking time today, ;hey believe work on the bleaching room and liquor room buildings will pe resumed and go forward without ielay. It is also understood that a rontract for the construction of a power house is to be let shortly. Officials of the Kieckhefer Con ainer Corporation were expected to pe here sometime today for a con ference on the construction of the idditions to the plant. When word came to the Muirhead pfficials here to reduce their crew, ;here were 82 persons on the pay roll md that number would have been in preased greatly in the next day or I iwo. as steel workers and brick mas- I pns, with thier helpers, were begin ning to come in. G. G. Brooks, superintendent of the instruction projects for the Muir nead company, arrived here only this week to take charge of the local work. Impressive Service At Methodist Church Under the direction of Mrs. W. F. Winslow, an impressive candlelight service was held in the Plymouth Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at 5:30, when the young peoples di vision presented a dramatic pageant entitled, "Love Never Faileth." Ben Owens and Dale Johnson had leading parts in the pageant Oth ers participating included Lillian Read McGowan, Camille Burgess, Margaret Cooke, Mary Lillian Camp bell. Roy Manning, Duncan Getsing er, Edward Willoughby. Mary Char lotte Jones. Luther Armstrong. Special readings were given by Mrs. L. W. Zeigler. The church was decorated with chrysanthemums presented by Dr. Claudius McGowan Day ot Prayer Services at Creswell Next Tuesday -<5> Creswell.—Day of Prayer services will be observed Tuesday afternoon and evening by members of the wom an's auxiliaries of the M. E. and M P. churches here. The afternoon session will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church, when the subject for discussion, con ducted by Mrs. R. L. Spruill, will be "Home Mission Work." The evening session will be held at the Methodist Protestant church with Mrs. C. N. Davenport, Sr., in charge of the dis cussion, the subject for which will be "Foreign Mission Work.’’ All mem bers of the auxiliaries are urged to attend these services. - 1 - First Tobacco Theft Reported in County While tobacco thefts have been re ported widely in other counties near by, the first case of this kind to come up this season in the Washington County recorder’s court will be heard next Tuesday. Ernest Thomas and Henry Thomas are charged with the theft of tobac co from H. C. Spruill, well-known lo cal farmer. James D. Blount is charged with transporting the tobac co to the Planters Warehouse in Wil liamston, where it was sold. It is alleged that he knew when he was taking the tobacco to Williamston that it had been stolen. The warrant charges Henry Thom as with selling two lots of the stolen tobacco, one bringing $19.30 and the other $2.80, and Ernest Thomas is charged with getting approximately $11 for his basket. coy cullers Broken Leg When Struck by Hil-and-Run Driver Jack Pierce Painfully Hurt In Accident Here Satur day Night -$ Local police and highway patrol men are without a clue to the iden tity of a hit-and-run driver whose car struck Jack Pierce, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pierce, Saturday night on Highway No. 64 near the Gulf bulk plant. Young Pierce, who suffered a broken right leg and severe bruises, was reported today to be steadily improving at a Rocky Mount hospital, to which he was removed shortly after the acci dent. Corporal Tom Brown, of the High way Patrol, said efforts were still be ing made to identify the driver of the car. although the officers were with out a single clue at this time. Walk ing on the extended portion of the paved highway near the Gulf plant, on his way home, young Pierce said he did not see the car, which pulled from behind another car back of him, until it was right on him. The driver yelled to him to get out of the way, and he jumped, but the car struck his right foot before he could clear the roadway. Young Pierce haiied the car of Hubert Britton, who was passing, and the latter brougght him to Dr. Bray, who rendered first aid and sent the boy to a Rocky Mount hospital for further treatment. The spunky youth chatted with visitors in the physicians office, explaining how the accident occured, while Dr. Bray wras giving aim an examination and treatment. A slight rain and fog made it im possible for anyone to get the license lumber of the hit-and-run car. When the boy was struck, the shoe in his right foot was knocked off and uas not yet been recovered. Inves ligating officers said the shoe was cither picked up by a later passer-by ir became lodged on the car that itruck him and was carried off by it. Die accident occurred about 9 o’clock. Two Cases Tried by Recorder Tuesday Recorder's court attaches were busy until 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, al though only two cases were tried, with about five being continued un til next week, Spear Pittman Lynch, 52, colored, of Edenton, appealed from a verdict of $25 and costs assessed against him on a charge of reckless driving. This case was the outgrowth of an acci dent on the Albemarle Sound bridge road about 10 days ago, in which the car of Charles Cahoon was in volved. Charles Thomas Gurkin, 24, white. chai ged with reckless driving had has case suspended upon payment of the costs. Albemarle High School Bands Will Meet Here Next Wednesday To Rehearse Music For Festival at Ahoskie November 24th Added Sidewalk Paving for Town Being Considered -• Suggestion Is Made That Federal Project Would Cost Town Little A suggestion advanced by Chief of Police P. W. Brown that thousands of yards of sidewalks could be paved through government aid with but lit tle expense to the town caused the Town Council, in session here Mon day night, to ask for an investiga tion into the matter. Mayor B. G. Campbell and the po lice chief said there are a number of streets in the town which need pav ing, and they hope something can be worked out whereby this can be done without running the town into further debt. The council postponed action rela tive to listing of property for taxa tion during January until the next meeting. Tire last legislature enact ed a law requiring that listing for all counties be done in January, and the town will likely decide to follow As an aid to the police protection of buildings from robbers and thieves, the council decided to add to the number of lights at the rear of the store buildings facing Water Street. The council also received, with gratification and approval, the re port of the committee looking after the extension of sewer lines on Mon roe Street and Brinkley Avenue, in which it was said the WPA-sponsored project would be completed in almost a month less time than allotted. Plymouth, Edenton, Colum bia, Ahoskie and Other Bands Included At Least 82 Players -« Band members from high, schools in the Albemarle section will gather here next Wednesday. November 15, in the Plymouth High School gym nasium. for a practice session under the auspices of the Albemarle Music Festival, it was learned today from Director L. W. Zeigler. This drill period will be held es pecially for pre; aration of the com bined bands from the several towns for an appearance in Ahoskie on Friday November 24, when the ju venile musicians will play for an af fair in the Hertford County capital. It was expected that the Ahoskie appearance w'ouid find at least 82 high school band members from Edenton. Columbia, Ahoskie, Plym outh and other places nearby partici pating. This is to be the first of a series of appearances in which the young mu sicians of the area will perform as a unit, as an effort is being made to increase interest in high school band music and to give the players oppor tunities to gain experience by play ing under the baton of different di rectors. Those chosen to perform in the combined unit from the local band are as follows: Harry McLean, Jack Stubbs, cornet: Douglas Gurkin, Os borne Dunbar, Mary Lillian Camp bell, Gertrude Woolard, clarinets: Mary Charlotte Jones, Zeb Norman, Lorraine Jackson. Harry Garrett, sax ophone: Brinson Cox, bass: Carolyn Byrd, alto; Phil Liverman, trombone. 71 Ask for Tickets With Each $1.00 Purchase When Buying in Plymouth am Attend^ Weekly Drawings
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