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The Roanoke Beacon * * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* Advertisers will find Beacon and News Columns a latchkey to 1.500 Washington County homes. VOLUME L—NUMBER 47 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 23’ 1939 ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opics License Examiner McCloud, of the Safety Division of the State Highway Patrol, said today he would not be here next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. to issue licenses, but would re turn on the first Thursday in De cember, when he will be here from 9 to 11:30 a. m. to examine appli cants. Plans for the organization of a Boy Scout troop at Columbia resulted in the decision to change the name of the Washington County district to the Southern Albemarle district, which is to be composed of troops in Roper, Plymouth, Creswell, and Columbia. A suggestion by J. K. Carr that short schedules observed by the local schools on rainy days be discontinued is being considered by school officials, but it is not yet definitely known what will be done in this regard. School officials wish to adopt the course desired by a majority of the pa trons for their children. R. Bruce Etheridge, chairman of the State Board of Conservation and Development, was in Plymouth Tues day to join W. R. Hampton, a board member, on a trip to Washington, N. C.. and other points to study ques tions relating to their department. John W. Darden, secretary of the Washington County Chamber of Com merce, has suggested that a com munity chest should be organized here to raise the money required for var ious charitable undertakings, Boy Scout work, and kindred movements, so that one drive would net enough to take care of all such needs in the community. Plymouth Lodge, No. 281, Loyal Order of Moose, will meet at the Masonic Hall Friday night, at which time the members will en joy an entertainment to be fol lowed by a supper. Details of the entertainment program will be announced at the meeting. Records in the office of the regis ter of deeds here show that Archie J. Riddle has purchased 109 acres of land in the Lees Mill section, known as the Vail farm, from Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Swain, of Beaufort County, the deal having been completed on No vember 14. It was reported that a colored per son grabbed the pocketbook from the arm of Mrs. L. F. Bowen Saturday night, when she reached a dark place on Washington Street. Besides per sonal effects she lost change estimat ed at less than $1. Here on a visit is Joseph Moore, colored, son of Peter Moor° who left here 46 years ago at the age of 19 and became a resident of Seattle, Wash. Now 67 years of age, this is his first visit to his home town. His parents are dead. Creswell Methodist Churches Merged -* Members of the Methodist Protest ant and Methodist Episcopal churches of Creswell met last Sunday morning and discussed plans for the union of the two Sunday schools and the two church memberships, in conformity with the action taken during the past year by the national membership of the two churches to effect a consoli dation. The decision was reached to con duct Sunday school in the M. E. church building, since it has Sunday school rooms, and to hold church services in the M. P. church until ar rangements can be made for moving and joining the two buildings. The new pastor, Rev. Solon G. Fer ree, was present at the meeting Sun day morning. -® Wilford Whitley Named Honor Cadet at School -1 Eagle Scout Wilford Whitley, son of Attorney and Mrs. W. L. Whitley, has achieved recognition in several fields at the Fishburne Military Academy, Waynesboro, Va., where he is a first year student. As a member of the band he plays a baritone horn, and he has been se lected honor cadet of his company. The selection of a student for the lat ter recognition is based upon charac ter, scholarship, and appearance. Young Whitley also made the hon or roll last month. Only 70 of the 200 cadets were on the select list. Peanut Growers Called to Meet Here Friday to Consider Grave Situation A grave situation is facing the peanut growers in Washington and other counties, it was stated today by County Agent W. V'. Hays in announcing that a meet ing will be held in the courthouse here tomorrow (FridayI night at 7:30 to discuss the situation. It is pointed out by Mr. Hays that the Federal Department of Agriculture has definitely stated that there will be no diversion program to bolster prices of pea nuts next year unless legislation is secured to arrest the continued expansion of peanut production. Chief speaker at the meeting to be held here Friday night will be .1. C. Broome, of Aurora, a mem ber of the State Soil Conservation Committee from this district, and other farm leaders. Similar meetings are being held all over the peanut-produc sections, so that a plan may be drafted for submission to Con gress by the Department of Agri culture when the lawmakers con vene early in 1940, the farm agent said. The situation is such that un less legislation is secured to re duce or control the acreage in 1940 there will be no Peanut Sta bilization Cooperative to take sur plus peanuts off the hands of farmers at 3 1-4 cents per pound, as at present, and the county agent said many believed that if it was not for the work of the cooperative this year, the price would be as low as 2 cents a pound. County Peanut Crop Is Moving to Market Sportsmen Flocking To Mattamuskeet Country Lake Landing.—Guns can be heard banging away throughout the Matta muskeet region these days, as hunt ers come here to take advantage of the large number of migratory wild fowl that flock here each season. Calm weather the first few days of the season, which opened November 15. kept the hunters' hunting bags empty or only partially filled. How ever. fog and windy weather Monday and Tuesday cause most hunters to get their bag limits easily. E. C. Mil ler. jr., of Middle.own, got his limit in 4 minutes. FSA Buys 534 More Acres of Land for Scuppernong Farms Holdings Increased to 6,841 Acres in Washington And Tyrrell Counties By acquiring 534 acres of land last week, tire Farm Security Administra tion, an agency of the Untied States Government, has increased its Scup pernong Farms holdings to approxi mately 6.841 acres in the Lake Phelps section of Washington a-.d Tyrrell Counties. A total of $13,500 was paid to the former owners, with negotiations for the purchase completed last Wednes day and the deed filed a short time afterwards in the offices of registers of deeds of Washington and Tyrrell Counties. Almost equally divided between this and the adjoining county, the former owners from whom the purchase was made were Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Holmes Creswell; Mrs. Josephine Holmes, of Creswell; Bertha J. Woodley, of Tar boro; and Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Brock, of Stoneville. In July of last year the FSA pur chased 2,271 acres of land from Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Smithson and the heirs of the late Walter Starr, of Creswell, for a total of $55,711.28. During August, 1937, the govern ment agency bought 3,196 acres of land from the A. G. Walker Estate for 90,089 and several smaller tracts from other persons for $20,000, and started operation of the project un der the direction of the Resettlement Administration. This project, part of which is op erated by individual farmers and oth er parts of which are operated as cooperative farms under FSA super vision, has cost the Federal govern ment a total of $179,310 in purchase price, in addition to the money spent for improvements and equipment. -® Hyde Country Red Cross , Committees Are Named Swan Quarter.—Township chair men have been appointed for the an nual Red Cross roll call in Hyde County. The following appointments were made by E. A. Williams, county roll call chairman: Mrs. M. A. Mat thews, Lake Landing: Mrs. H. C. Jones. Fairfield: Mrs. N. P. Fitts, Swan Quarter; Mrs. Jeff Credle, Cur rituck; Mrs. W. T. Howard, Ocracoke. Present Plans Are To Resume Work at Handle Plant Here About December 15 Workmen are repairing ma chinery, which has laid idle for several years and are also mak ing repairs to the buildings in preparation for the local plant of the American Fork & Hoe Com pany to resume operations by December 15, it was learned to day from Miss Ethel Arps, man ager. When it was first decided to resume operations at the handle plant sometime ago, it was an nounced by Miss Arps that plans were to begin operating by Janu ary 1, but now she believes that by rushing preparations work will probably be started 15 days ear lier. A tew workmen have been add ed as needed, and when the plant begins operations, there will be a total of about 20 persons em ployed in the plant and 15 work ing in the log woods. The operations, on a small scale, will necessitate the shift ing of the crew from the saw mill department to the finishing department at times, as separate groups of workmen will not be maintained, and few additional employees are to be added to the score who will get work there. Deliveries Made at Local Warehouses of Stabilization Group Recent Price Declines Indi cate Many Peanuts Will Be Put in Storage Peanuts from the farms of Wash ington County have started moving to the markets and into the govern men warehouses, one of which is op erated in Plymouth by W. H. Clark and J. E. Davenport, as the North Carolina Peanut Stabilization Coop erative endeavors to bolster the lag ging prices. Up to today about 1,600 bags have been stored here with the cooperative, which is endeavoring to stabilize the price so that growers in the county may get a minimum of 3 1-4 cents for their crop. Rains during the last few days have retarded picking of the crop, and little has been done along this line since the latter part of last week. There were 6,000 acres planted to peanuts in the county this year and digging has been completed for some time, but pickers have been slow in getting around to the different fields due to the intermittent rains which have slowed up progress considerably. Messrs. Davenport and Clark have four warehouses here ready to store the entire crop of the county if it becomes necessary; and it is believed it will be necessary if the prices paid by cleaners drop lower than the 3.25 cents per pound assured by the co operative. Storage prices charged by the co operative this year average about a cent per bag. The peanuts handled in this manner are diverted from the usual channel of trade, being made into oil so as to l#eep them off of the regular market.- In 1937, when practically all of the crop was han dled by the cooperative, it is reported a $9,000 loss was sustained by the government-backed agency on pea nuts stored in this county alone. Construction Work On Reduced Scale At Pulp Plant Here .-<i> - Believed Work Will Be Re sumed on Complete Pro gram in February Although no official information is available today, it is understood that construction work at the North Car lina Pulp Company will be continued on a reduced scale until certain im provements and additions have been made, with completion of the orig inal expansion program to come lat er, possibly next spring. Besides the bleaching and liquor room buildings, now under construc tion, an addition to the boiler room is likely to be made, six liquor tanks added and a sewer line laid. It was also learned that prospects are now favorable for construction of the boiler room, machine building, and extension to the wet-room build ing, with actual work to be started probably in February. In the mantime, work on the new filtering plant is progressing rapidly, contractors believing this part of the plant will be completed and ready for installation of machinery by Janu ary 15. Information that prospects are bright for resuming work on the con struction of the finishing plant in February is welcomed here, as it will mean employment of many addition al workers both in the construction and operation of the new depart ment. When part of the construction work was suspended a few weeks ago, it was understood that plant officials had halted the project because of the increased demand for raw pulp, and it was feared that plans for erection of the finishing plant here had been abandoned, but it is now believed the expansion program will be completed, Largest Crowd To Date at Drawing Here Wednesday — Harold Harrison Wins $30; W. H. Ellis Is First Colored Winner It was necessary for eight tickets to be taken from the box by little Johnny Brooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brooks, Wednesday before four persons went away with the $50 in cash prizes at the mid-week drawing sponsored by the Plymouth Mer chants Association in its better busi ness campaign. The accumulative prize of $30, which had found no takers in the previous two weeks was called for by Tarleton Gardner, who was holding tickets for Harold Harrison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harrison, of the Cool Spring section. The ticket came from the Plymouth Motor Com pany. Mrs. C. C. Slankard, with a ticket from the Plymouth Hardware Com pany, won the $10 prize after the first number called had no taker. The first $5 prize went to W. H. Ellis, colored, who has spent 31 years as an employee of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad station here. The ticket came from E. H. Liverman’s. He was the first colored person since the drawings began to win a prize, and W. F. Winslow and E. H. Liver man, who were conducting the draw ing. had the winer stand on the truck with them. Three numbers were drawn with no claimants before Miss Dorothy Swin son, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Swinson, came forward for the last $5 prize with a ticket from E. H. Liv erman’s Store. It was estimated by observers that this was the largest crowd to attend the mid-week drawings since they be gan in early OctQber, and the num ber was placed at 1,359. Red Cross Roll Call Drive To Continue Through Next Week Around $100 Raised So Far In County, According To Chairman -« Workers continue to solicit mem berships in the American Red Cross and to date about $100 has been raised, according to Mrs. O. H. Cox, county roll call chairman, who point ed out that the campaign will con tinue through Thanksgiving Day next week. It is expected that the total will be much more than this, as some of the canvassers have been sick and the bad weather early this week slowed down the work, but renewed efforts are planned during the next few days to boost the county total to at least $200. Although well pleased with the re sponse made by those who have been solicited, Mrs. Cox was somewhat dis appointed that the goal of $200 has not been reached, and she hopes this amount will be secured within the next few days so as to double the amount raised last year. --■—® Band Members at Ahoskie Festival -—<» Members of the high school bands of Plymouth and Creswell will par ticipate in the concert that is to be given Friday night in the Ahoskie High School Auditorium by 100 boys and girls chosen from 17 high school bands. The group will Play their first con cert under the name of the Eastern North Carolina All-Star High School Band. The event is being staged by the band directors of the various schools, with L. W. Zeigler, of Plym outh, and Bob Merritt, of Creswell. sponsoring the group from this coun ty. It is expected that about 20 boys and girls from Washington County taken part in the concert. They will gather at Ahoskie at 4 p. m. Friday afternoon for a rehearsal before the concert. Workman Injured at Plant Here Tuesday 01 Last Week Dies John W. Spruill Never Re gained Consciousness After Accident Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon in tlie Pleasant Grove Methodist Church near Roper for Johnny W. Spruill. 21. who died in a Rocky Mount hospital Saturday at midnight as a result of injuries suf fered Tuesday of last week while working at the Plymouth Box and Panel Company here. Rev. J. T. Stanford. Methodist min ister. and Rev. M. L. Ambrose. Chris tian minister, officiated. Interment took place at the family plot in the cemetery adjoining Pleasant Grove churchyard. A son of the late George L. and Sa rah Patrick Spruill of this section, he was well known in this county and a member of the Pleasant Grove Meth odist Church. Rushed to the f.ocky Mount ins titution after receiving medical at tention here, Mr. Spruill never re gained consciousness and it remain ed unknown today as to exactly what caused his death. A bruise on his nose and a bump on the back of his head led workmen, who found him lying on the floor, to believe he had started to drive a nail when the nail or hammer struck him on the nose causing him to jerk his head back ward against a heavy object, which knocked him unconscious. Surviving is a sister. Miss Hazel Spruill, of Wilson and his bride of five months. Mrs. Beaulah Swain Spruill. Methodist Minister Arrives This Week To Begin Work Here Rev. O. L. Hardwick Will Preach at Local Church Twice Sunday Upon his arrival here Tuesday to assume his duties as pastor of the Methodist church, the Rev. O. L. Hardwick found that the interior of the parsonage was being repainted and that the membership of the church had given him a “pounding” in advance of his coming, and he found the kitchen filled w'ith food. Born in Conway. S. C.. the new minister attended Wofford College at Spartanburg, S. C., where he received his bachelor of arts degree, three years later getting his bachelor of divinity degree from Duke University. After two years of service as pas tor of the West Kershaw charge in Camden. S. C.. the young minister was transferred to Raleigh, where he began a new work. With no church, congregation or parsonage to begin with, he founded a church which had grown to a membership of 240 by the time of the last conference, when he was transferred to Plymouth. The Rev. Mr. Hardwick was mar ried to Miss Bowman, of Mount Airy, about two years ago. The couple have a 10-month-old baby. With them is Mrs. Hardwick’s mother, Mrs. D. C. Bowman. Mrs. Hardwick is a grad uate of Duke University and for a time was director of young peoples' work in the Western North Carolina Conference, also serving as secretary to the Board of Christian Education. Mr. Hardwick said this morning he understood his schedule called for him to preach here twice next Sun day, and that he did not know any thing about the reported change made in the Plymouth charge which would relieve him of serving churches at Jamesville, Siloam and Ware's Chapel in Martin County, but that he would get in touch with district superintendent B. B. Slaughter at Elizabeth City to determine whether anything had been done in this re gard. 33 Bear Hunters at Camp Near Here -3 Thirty-three sportsmen are camp ing at the Hampton Fisheries near here, preparatory to a large-scale drive on bears, which have been prey ing on crops of farmers in this sec tion, according to W, R. Hampton and Game Warden J. T. Terry. There was no hunt Tuesday, due to the weather, but the party was out Wednesday for a short time. No suc cess was reported, although the large pack of dogs trailed some of the ani mals for a while. The party of hunters are planning a determined drive during the re mainder of the week, and it is be lieved they will get plenty of game before the hunt is over Most of those in the party are from Asheville and other sections in the western part of the state, and the group includes Dr. Owens, who is well known as a bear hunter, having been here several times before Road Celebration Is Planned December 4 Tobacco Markets To Close Tuesday The tobacco markets ill Wil liamston and Robersonville are expected to close for the season after their sales next Tuesday, and farmers who have been sell ing their leaf with the ware houses of those towns are being advised to rush the remainder of their crop to the markets. Warehouses on larger markets of Eastern Carolina are expect ed to reopen after the Thanks giving holidays, but most of the markets in small towns are clos ing for the season next Tuesday. Turkey Season Now Open; Quail May Be Taken November 30 Washington Is One of Five Counties To Get Early Date for Turkeys The wild-turkey hunting season opened Tuesday. November 20, in Washington and four other counties of this section, and a number of hunt ers are now taking to the woods in search of what is generally recognized as the most wary of all game birds. Aside from that, wild turkey is a traditional main item for the Thanks giving Day dinner. Heretofore the season on wild tur key has always opened on the same date as the season for quail, but this year the hunters of five counties are permitted to begin turkey hunting on the 20th, or 10 days in advance of the quail-season opening on Thanks giving Day, November 30. About half of the States in the na tion are observing Thanksgiving to day. in conformity with the procla mation issued by President Roose velt. with the remainder observing the traditional last Thursday in the month. North Carolina is one of tie States which will obbserve the 30m. Next Thursday will find a large number of sportsmen in the field aft er quail, the section's most plentiful game bird. It is believed the number of quail is larger this year, as a re sult of the restocking program which has been carried out by state and county game authorities during re cent years. Faculty Play To Be Presented Friday Do you think that, spirits live again in the form of ghosts or apparitions? Whatever your opinion, you should see the faculty presentation of "The Saturday Evening Ghost” at the Plymouth High School auditorium Friday evening at 8 o'clock. The play offers all elements of a balanced production, with mystery, comedy, and an unusual love angle. Rehearsals have been underway for two weeks; student electricians will handle the lighting effects; the stage has been transformed into a room of a sixteenth century castle: the home economics department has prepared the costumes. As an added attraction. Miss Wool aid. a dancing teacher, will present members of her tap-dancing team and Miss Woolard will present two specialty numbers. Popular admission prices will be charged and proceeds of the play will go towards an athletic fund. -$ Barbecue Supper Will Be Served Saturday Night -*>-•— A barbecue supper will be served in the Christian church annex Sat urday night, November 25. Early Saturday morning, S D. Davis will rise to prepare the pig for cooking by one who knows how. and the la dies of the church, headed by Mrs. Cleveland Cratch, will serve the sup per to the public that evening. Lindsay Warren To Speak Here During Afternoon Program Tentative Plans Made at Meeting Held Here Tuesday Night Speeches, music and military ac tivities by a unit of the National Guard are the basic features of the program to be held here on Monday. December 4. in celebration of the conclusion of the hardsurfacing of Highway No. 97 between Plymouth and Washington. N. C.. as arranged by committees of the Washington County and Washington chambers of commerce in a joint meeting at the country club here Tuesday evening. Topping the speech-making group will be an address by Congressman Lindsay Warren, and the program will also provide for talks by High way Commissioner E. V. Webb and some of his associates, as well as speakers from Plymouth. A large crowd is expected here for the event. Music wil lbe provided by the Washington and Plymouth High School Bands, with both groups likely participating in a parade, which will also include the Washington unit of the National Guard. Tentative plans call for a motor cade from Washington arriving here at 2:30 in the afternon for the pre liminary exercises here; leaving at 4:30 for the return to Washington, where that part of the celebration is to begin at 8 o'clock that night. Headed by Secretary John W. Dar den. of the county chamber of com merce, the committee, including Z. V. Norman. P. W. Brown and W. H. Par amore. will meet later to arrange the detailed program of exercises here. Edmund G. Harding. H. G. Walker, Colon McLean, and E. S. Johnson are to arrange the program for Wash ington. Besides chamber of commerce of ficials and others from Washington mentioned above who will come here will be Mayor Ralph Hodges, W. N. Spruill and C. H. Cutchins. highway engineers. H. L. Taylor, of Columbia, highway engineer, and others. >-- —*-if— 4 Six Cases Called In County Court Six cases were called in recorder's court Tuesday, five being heard and the sixth being nol prossed on ac count of lack of evidence. Two years on the roads was the sentence imposed on Leroy Wynn, after he had been found guilty of an assault upon a female. A fine of $50 and costs was im posed on Julian H. Swain, white, who was found guilty of reckless driving. Pearly Watts, colored, was given the alternative of a fine of $50 and costs or six months on the roads on charges of carrying a concealed weap on and discharging firearms within the city limits of Plymouth. Lillian Hill, colored school teacher, charged with whipping a negro girl, was found not guilty. Henry Bateman, white, was given a year on the roads or fined $50 and costs on a charge of having in his possession non-tax-paid whiskey for the purpose of sale. Howard Hurdle, white, had the charge of reckless driving against him nol prossed, as there was insuf ficient evidence to connect him with an automobile accident. ■-$ Building Being Prepared For New Furniture Store -® Workmen have started repairing and renovating the building on Wa ter Street formerly occupied by the Plymouth Motor Company for a new furniture store, expected to open about the first of December. The new concern will be known as the M. H. Mitchell Furniture Com pany, with F. H Modi in as manager. Mr. Modlin is now employed by Mr. Mitchell in his furniture store at Ahoskie Mr. Mitchell said Mr. Modlin would move his family here probably next [spring. Will Soon Launch Movement To Have 0. S. 17 Rerouted Through Plymouth With the hard-surfaced high- | way linking Plymouth and Wash ington. N. C., almost completed and the new bridge over Albe marle Sound as talking points, the Washington County Cham ber of Commerce may soon begin agitation to change the route of U. S. Highway No. 17 so that it will pass through Plymouth. Tourists can save eight miles between Norfolk and Washing ton by coming through Plym outh, it is said. The route change would take Williamston, Wind sor and Edenton oft' Highway 17, one of the main north-south tourist routes. Secretary John W. Darden, of tlie county chamber of commerce, said efforts would be made to join the Ocean Highway Associa tion. composed of towns along the coastal route from north to south if Plymouth was placed on the highway. Ask for Tickets With Each $LOOPurchase When Buying in Plymouth and Attend Weekly Drawings
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