T'own
opics
Sam Tarlton and T. F. Daven
port, park ranger at Pettigrew
Park, returned home recently af
ter having attended the Conser
vation Congress in Raleigh. While
away, they visited other points
of interest in different parts of
the state in the interest of Petti
grew Park construction work.
Old buildings and other things
are being restored at the old Col
lins plantation.
. ‘Tis said that Mack Marrow,
staunch Tar Heel football fan,
found a wreath on the door of his
service station Sunday morning
which bore the inscription: Caro
lina 0, Duke 34. Also pinned on
the wreath was a Duke pin and
a clipping from one of the State’s
dailies reading, “Jack Horner
dies in’Chapel Hill.” Jack Horner,
of Plymouth, accompanied Mack
Marrow to the Carolina-Duke
game last Saturday and was also
a staunch Carolina rooter. A lot
of ribbing was carried on around
Mack’s station Sunday.
The 11th all-state check list of
outstanding high school football
players, prepared by Bill Gal
lagher and published) recently in
the Greensboro Daily News, in
cluded the name of Ken Trow
bridge, Plymouth Panthers’ star
back, for his fine work in the
James ville game. Trowbridge
passed for three touchdowns. He
has made the list on three other
occasions during the season, it is
said.
^ Mr. and Mrs. C. Clyde Hardison
and W. A. Roebuck, of Plymouth,
are leaving Thursday of this week
for Philadelphia where they will
attend the annual Army-Navy
football game on Saturday. They
plan to drive up and will make
the return trip on Sunday.
E. O. Arnold, chairman of the
Pettigrew Park restoration com
mittee, has announced that a
meeting will be held at the park
Thursday, December 4, at 2 p. m.
with Thomas B. Morse, state di
rector of parks. Matters concern
ing restoration and recreation at
the park will be taken up, Mr.
Arnold said, and he urges all in
terested county groups to have
several representatives at the
meeting.
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Nominate Bailey
For Scoutmaster
For Local Troop
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f Plans Worked Out at Mon
day Meeting Here To Re
activate Plymouth Boy
Scout Troop Very Soon
At a meeting held Monday
night at the Plymouth Hotel, Carl
L. Bailey, jr„ was nominated for
scoutmaster of the Plymouth Boy
Scout troop which the Jaycees
hope to reactivate.
The Jaycee scout troop commit
tee and other interested persons
met with Howard Hunter, chief
scout executive of the East Caro
lina Council, Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, to go over details of setting
up a troop here. The troop has
been inactive for some time buf
was previously sponsored here by
the Plymouth Lions Club.
Nominated at the meeting for
the post of assistant scoutmaster
were Dr. B. W. Cutler and James
Hardison. Waldo Knott was
named institutional representa
tive. This officer holds the vote
for the local troop at scout coun
cils.
Dougins Gurkin is chairman of
the scout committee, of which
Bailey, Cutler, Hardison and
Knott are members. Two other
members are to be appointed.
Harold Whitley, vice-chairman
of the scout committee for the
Wasmarty District, was also pres
ent at the Monday night meeting
Mr. Bailey stated Tuesday that
he hoped to meet and organize
boys in the 11-13 year age group
and, if possible, make application
for a charter next week. It was
explained that a charter may be
applied for just as soon as at least
five boys are organized.
Mr. Bailey also stated that all
boys in the age group who are
interested in scouting will be
welcomed into the troop.
. It is planned to hold meetings
at the Scout Hut each Tuesday
night at 7:30 o’clock, following
organization of the troop here.
The Roanoke Beacon
****** and Washington County News ******
A home newspaper dedicated
to the service of Washington
County and its 13,000 people.
VOLUME LXIII—NUMBER 48
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Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 21, 1952
ESTABLISHED 1889
j Pre-Induction Group ;
j To Leave Next Week j
The pre-induction call for ten
men from this county to be sent
to Raleigh Friday of this week
has been postponed, Mrs. Lor
raine Hunter, clerk to selective
service board No. 95, reports.
The men will be sent along
with eight other county regis
trants on Wednesday morning,
December 3, Sirs. Hunter said.
Reason for the postponement
was said to be the necessity for
the men having to remain over
night if they were to go Friday.
No appointment has yet been
announced to fill the vacancy
created by the recent resigna
tion of Dr. J. M. Phelps as a
member of the local board. Dr.
Phelps resigned because of the
press of other duties. Mrs.
Hunter said it is expected that
the vacancy will be filled in the
near future.
A meeting of the board was
held Tuesday night of this
week at the selective service of
fice in the courthouse.here. Dal
las Waters, of Plymouth, is
board chairman and W. C.
Spruill, of Roper, is the other
member.
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V. Norman Speaks
t Masonic Banquet
TAKES OFFICE MONDAY
I■ f. Si
W. Ronald Gaylord will suc
ceed Edward L. Owens as judge
cf recorder's court Monday in
the only change in Washington
County's official family at the
start of a new year. Several
other county officers recently
reelected will start new terms
of office at that time. Gaylord
is scheduled to hold the next
Tuesday session of court.
Opening Response
To Seal Letters
Reported as Good
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Seals and Bonds Mailed to
979 County Residents as
Annual Christmas Seal
Sale Gets Underway
Returns are coming in well
from the 979 letters containing
Christmas Seals and Bonds which
were mailed to county residents
last week, Mrs. A. I.. Jackson, of
Plymouth, reports. Mrs. Jackson
is chairman of the Washington
County Christmas Seal Sale for
1952.
In pointing to the importance of
the annual seal sale conducted
in this county, Mrs. Jackson said
that in the past year alone, the
program which is supported by
the sale, has led to the discovery
of several cases of tuberculosis
in this county. All were assisted
in getting prompt and proper
treatment at a tubereulois hospi
tal, the chairman said.
If their illnesses had not been
detected, Mrs. Jackson pointed
out, the sick persons could have
gone on innocently spreading
their disease to others. Christmas
Seals, she said, buy, or help to
buy chest x-ray services and help
to halt the spread of the dread
disease.
The chairman emphasized that
it is quite possible to have “hid
den” cases of tuberculosis in the
community, because the disease
in its early stages is symptomless
and a person can have the di
sease without looking or feeling
ill.
It was said that bangles would
be put in all schools of the county
sometime this week and that sales
of them would begin after the
Thanksgiving holidays.
Local Lodge Observes 141sl
Anniversary of Charter
At 33rd Annual Past
Masters' Banquet
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A sizeable number of Masons
and their ladies heard an inspira
tional address by Z. V. Norman,
local attorney, on the subject,
“The True Mason,” at the Plym
outh Methodist Church Banquet
hall Tuesday night.
The occasion was the 33rd an
nual past masters' and ladies
night banquet of Perseverance
Lodge No. 59, A. F. & A. M., and
was presided over by W. R.
Harden, lodge master. The ban
quet also commemorated the 141st
anniversary of the lodge which
was chartered in 1811.
The lodge members assembled
at the lodge hall at 7 o'clock and
went to the church in a body.
The banquet began at 7:30
o'clock and went to the church
in a body.
The banquet began at 7:30
o’clock and a delicious ham din
ner was served by ladies of the
Woman's Society of Christian
Scrvite of the Methodist Church
here.
The address of welcome was
given by G. R. Leggett, senior
warden, and present officers of
the lodge were recognized by the
master. They are W. R. Harden,
worshipful master: G. R. Leggett,
senior warden; Harry Garrett,
junior warden: B. G. Campbell,
treasurer; H. H. Allen, secretary;
Hilton Dunbar, senior deacon;
Joseph Norman, junior deacon; L.
E. Sullivan, steward: Ben R.
Tucker, steward; and W. A. Roe
buck, tiler. Tucker was not pres
ent.
H. H. Allen, secretary, called
the roll of past masters. The Rev.
R. H. Lucas, chaplain, gave the
invocation and benediction.
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Case at Windsor
Ends in Mistrial
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The trial in Bertie County Su
perior Court at Windsor involving
J. Milton Clagon, former Plym
outh merchant and Washington
County commissioner, ended in a
mistrial.
It was discovered that a wit
ness in the case was related to a
juror and Judge R. Hunt Parker
ordered a mistrial. Both state and
defense counsel were agreeable to
the ruling.
Clagon, a State highway in
spector, was being tried along
with W. S. Murph, inspector- en
gineer for a Charlotte contractor,
on a manslaughter charge grow
ing out of the death of a Nor
folk, Va., truck driver, Ernest C.
Conner.
A tractor-trailer truck which
Conner was operating broke
through a temporary bridge over
the Roanoke River near Scotland
Neck May 17, 1951, and Conner
drowned. Clagon was inspector
for the highway commission on
the project.
Clagon was in the clothing bus
iness here with L. S. Thompson
from 1926 to 1929 and later was
a member of the county board
of commissioners. His home is at
Roper.
It is not known when the case
will again be called for trial.
Merchants Plan Holiday Schedule
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Members of the Plymouth Mer
chants Association will be asked
to meet Monday afternoon of next
week at 2:30 o’clock at the May
flower Restaurant here to work
out special holiday arrangements,
Thos. F. Hopkins, president of the
group, reported yesterday.
It is expected that the mer
chants will decide at the meet
ing one a definite date on which
stores will begin to observe spec
ial Christmas shopping hours, re
maining open nightly until 9
o’clock, as in past seasons. Last
year, local stores began the spec
ial shopping schedule on Decem
ber 20.
Also, it is thought that the mat
ter of closing days for the Christ
mas holiday period will be decid
ed, as well as a vote on whether
to close stores to business on New
Year’s Day or not. Stores here re
mained open New Year’ Day of
this year.
Mr. Hopkins said the merchants
do not plan to sponsor the ap
pearance of Santa Claus here
again this year, since it is under
stood that the Jaycees are plan
ning such a project. Last year
Santa came to town on December
8 and distribute free candy to
a large crowd of kiddies who
gathered on the streets to wel
come him to Plymouth.
Other important matters may
come up for discussion at the
meeting Monday and President
Hopkins is urging a full atttend
ance of the association members.
Special Law Held
Unconstitutional
By Supreme Court
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Jury Law Passed at 1951
Session of General As
sembly Over Opposition
Of Local Bar
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.The North Carolina Supreme
Court has declared unconstitu
tional a special Washington Coun
ty law automatically placing
clases on the superior court doc
ket when defendants in record
er’s court cases request jury
trial.
The law was passed at the 1951
session of the General Assembly,
over the opposition of the Wash
ington County Bar Association.
The ruling was handed down
by the high tribunal recently in
a case heard on appeal from
Greene County where a similar
law was placed on the statutes
by special legislative act also in
1951.
It is not known just what action
now will be taken. When a de
fendant, booked for a misdemean
or, calls for a jury trial, his case
cannot be legally placed on the
superior court docket. However,
it is possible to bring a formal
indictment by the grand jury
against the defendant, clearing
the way for its appearance in the
higher court. It is also possible
to go ahead and try the defend
ant in the lower court, and let
him go into superior court by way
of an appeal if the lower court
finding is adverse to his cause.
The Greene County law, enact
ed in 1951, says that when a de
fendant demands a jury trial in
any criminal case in the county
recorder’s court, the judge shall
send the case to Superior Court.
There it shall be heard upon the
warrant issued in the lower court.
That law and others like it are
“repugnant to the declaration
plainly inherent’’ in Section 13 of
Article I of the State Constitu
tion, said the court. That section
says that a person charged with
a misdemeanor cannot be put on
trial in Superior Court upon a
warrant from a lower court unless
he has been tried upon that war
rant in the lower court and has
appealed.
For that reason, the court void
ed the road term given to Ran
som Thomas of Greene County.
Thomas had been accused of pos
sessing non-taxpaid illegal liq
our. He had demanded trial by
jury in the Greene County Court
and the judge had automatically
transfered the case to Superior
Court.
There the case was tried with
out an indictment ever being con
sidered by the grand jury. Thom
as was found guilty on the pos
session charge and given a road
term.
He appealed to the Supreme
Sec SPECIAL LAW. Page 5
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Mother of Local Woman
Buried at Philadelphia
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■Funeral services were held
Wednesday of this week for Mrs.
Vera Rathway, 77, of Philadel
phia, Pa. Mrs. Rathway was the
mother of Mrs. E. F. Bagans, of
Plymouth. Mrs. Bagans left for
Philadelphia early Monday.
Mrs. Rathway died early Sun
day night. She had been in de
clining health for sometime. Serv
ices were conducted at 2 o'clock
Wednesday from Bowen’s Fune
ral Home, 50 Catherine Street,
Philadelphia. No other details
were available.
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Plymouth Woman
Buried on Monday
Mrs. Debra Allen Harrison, 80,
died at her home here Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock following
an illness of two weeks. She had
been in declining health for the
past year.
Mrs. Harrison was the wife of
Whitmual J. Harrison, who sur
vives, and was the daughter of
the late George Allen and Le
viney Freeman Allen, of this
county.
She was born in the county
October 1, 1872, and spent her en
tire life here. She was a member
of the Baptist Church.
Surviving besides Mr. Harrison,
are a sister, Mrs.. Nellie Harris,
of Pinetown; a brother, Edgar
Allen, of Plymouth; two grand
children and one great grand
child.
Funeral services were conduct
ed at Horner’s Funeral Chapel
here Monday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock by the Rev. P. B. Nickens,
pastor of Ludford Memorial Bap
tist Church, assisted by the Rev.
C. N. Barnette, minister of the
Plymouth Christian Church.
Burial was in Harrison Ceme
tery, near Plymouth.
Town, County Boards Meet Monday
The governing bodies of town
and county, as well as the county
board of education, will hold
their usual monthly meetings
here Monday of next week. The
county commissioners and the
board of education will meet in
their respective quarters at the
courthouse Monday morning,
while the Plymouth Town Coun
cil will meet in the Municipal
Building here that night at 8
o’clock.
H is thought that a main item
of business for the county com
missioners will be to make ar
rangements for beginning the an
nual task of tax listing on Jan
uary 1, 1953. The county tax su
pervisor and tax listers for the
several townships are usually ap
pointed at the December meeting
and arrangements made for a
meeting of the supervisor and list
takers sometime in the month to
set up a uniform schedule of
values to be used in listing per
sonal property and livestock.
Routine business is on the
agenda for the board of educa
tion, it is understood. The board
will probably take action on the
bids received Saturday at the
sale of the Deep Bottom and
Backwoods 'school property. The
high bidder for the Deep Bottom
property was Leroy Mitchell with
a bid of $1,600. E. L. Owens bid
$75 for the Backwoods property.
A routine meeting is in pros
pect Monday night for Plym
outh's city fathers, according to
Ility Clerk W. A. Roebuck.
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Begin New Term j
Of Office Here!
Several members of Washing
ton County’s official family will
begin new terms of office next
Monday. Among those recently
elected to new 4-year terms are
W. Blount Rodman, solicitor of
recorder’s court; J. Robert
Campbell, register of deeds; A.
R. Latham and Hubert L. Dav
enport, county commissioners.
W. A. Everett will begin a new
term as constable of Lees Mill
Township.
W. J. Woolard was reelected
as Washington County Repre
sentative in the General As
sembly but will not take oath
of office until that body con
venes early in January at Ra
leigh. One change will be made
—that in the office of judge of
recorder’s court. W. Ronald
Gaylord will begin his term of
office Monday, replacing Ed
ward L. Owens. The job will
not be new to Gaylord as he
held the post for several years
previously.
Special Services
For Thanksgiving
Day at Churches
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Stfrvices Announced ’>y
Several Town and Coun
ty Churches for Thurs
day of This Week
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Special services have been an
nounced for Thursday of this
week in observance of Thanksgiv
ing Day at several churches of
this county. The Ludford Memor
ial Baptist Church and Grace
Episcopal Church of Plymouth,
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in
Roper and Saints Delight Christ
ian Church, near Westover, will
have special programs for the
day.
The special Thanksgiving serv
ices at Ludford Memorial Church
will begin at 10 a. m. Special
music will be rendered by the
choir and the pastor, the Rev.
Paul B. Nickens, will deliver the
message. At the close of the serv
ice, a special offering will be
taken on behalf of the Baptist
Orphanage at Thomasville.
Morning prayer and sermon
will be given at Grace Church
here Thursday morning at 11
o’clock. A similar service will be
held at St. Luke’s, Roper, begin
ning at 9 a. m. Sermons at both
churches will be delivered by the
rector, the Rev. Edward M.
Spruill. At each service, an of
fering will be taken for the bene
fit of Thompson Orphanage ,at
Charlotte.
The special Thanksgiving pro
gram at Saints Delight Church
will be held Thursday evening at
7:30 o'clock, with sermon by the
pastor, the Rev. Walker Perry.
Some of the churches featured
Thanksgiving observance on Sun
day programs.
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Creswell Woman's
Club Hears Brown
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The November meeting of the
Creswell Woman’s Club was held
at the home of Mrs. W. D. Peal,
with Mrs. C. A. Swain as co
hostess. Miss Matilda Alexander
presented Harold F. Brown, prin
cipal of the Roper High School,
who gave an entertaining and in
spirational talk on the subject,
“Education.”
Mr. Brown challenged teachers
and patrons to know what our
changing educational needs are
and to meet those needs, point
ing out the fact that a highly pro
fessional job is being done by the
majority of our teachers. He
stressed the fact that the process
of education involves a sharing
of experiences .that information
should1 be presented in an in
viting atmosphere, and that mod
em audio-visual aids facilitate
the teaching and learning process.
Business Closing To
Mark Thanksgiving
Observance Locally
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Offices, Stores and Shops
Closing for Day with Few
Exceptions; Schools To
Be Closed Until Monday
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A general cessation of business
for the day will mark the observ
ance of the Thanksgiving holi
day in Plymouth, according to a
check made here yesterday.
The one-day closing will in*
elude banks, all offices—county
and federal—in the courthouse,
professional offices and the post
offices of the county.
Exceptions to the closing for
Thursday will be eating places,
drug stores and service stations.
Restaurants will open for the day,
and drug stores will remain open
certain hours of the day. Most
service stations are expected to
remain open for regular hours,
but a few may close for a short
while around the noon hour or
in the early afternoon.
Local industrial plants will ob
serve the holiday, at least in part.
Atlas Plywood Corporation and
the True Temper plant will cease
operations for the day, while the
office force at the North Carolina
Pulp Company plant here will
ha’. ' the L.J ‘ The mill itself,
however, wili be operated as
usual.
All county schools, white and
colored, will observe the holiday.
They will close Wednesday at the
usual hqur and resume classes
Monday of next week.
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Buddy Poppy Sale
Here on Saturday
The Bosie Bateman Post, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars and the
post'auxiliary will jointly spon
sor the sale of Buddy poppies on
I the streets of downtown Plym
| outh Saturday of this week, it has
! been announced.
Volunteer school children will
offer the poppies for sale and a
prize is being offered to the child
selling the greatest number of
poppies during the day.
Proceeds from the sale will be
used through veterans’ hospitals
to aid disabled veterans, it was
said.
Workers will be on the streets
of the business section from 9 a.
m. Saturday until the poppies are
sold.
Holiday Lights
Being Installed
Chief of Police P. W. Brown
has had his town crew at work
several days this week string
ing the holiday lights in the
business section. He said yes
terday that the work should
be completed this week, and
it is possible that the lights will
be turned on for the first time
Saturday night.
As in the past, the lights are
being installed on two blocks
of Water Street between Jef
ferson and Adams, and the one
block of Washington Street be
tween Main and Water. The
strings of lights, arched across
the streets are spaced about 50
feet apart. They will remain
up until New Years. Cost of the
work and the current is divided
about 50-50 between the mer
chants association and the town.
Annual Meeting of
Biijge .Group Set
For December 5th
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Alligator - Croatap Bridge
Association To Hold Im
portant Meeting at Bel
haven; To Hear Bost
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Annual meeting of the Alliga
tor-Croatan Bridge Association
will be held on Friday, Decem
ber 5, at 11 a. m. in the Rivet
Forest Manor at Belhaven, it was
announced Monday by Floyd E.
Cohoon, of Columbia, president.
He also stated that the principal
speaker at the session will be
Representative E. T. Bost, jr., of
Concord, a leading candidate for
speakership of the house at the
forthcoming session of the North
Carolina General Assembly.
The association is composed of
citizens of Beaufort, Dare, Hyde,
Martin, Tyrrell and Washington
Counties who are interested in
the completion of U. S. Highways
S4 and 264 by building bridges
across Alligator River and Croa
See~BRIDGEsTlPage^5
Leroy Ange Heads
Cheer Fund Here;
Next Meeting Set
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All Interested Organizations
Asked To Be Represent
ed at Meeting Here Next
Wednesday Night.
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Leroy Ange, of Plymouth, was
aamed chairman of the Empty
Stocking Fund at the meeting of
interested persons held in the
auditorium of the Agriculture
Building here Friday night. Mrs.
James H. Ward, also of Plym
outh, was named treasurer of the
fund.
Many organizations were not
represented at the meeting. In
view of the small number pres
snt, it was decid»d not to perfect
organization of an administrative
council at the meeting. Instead,
another meeting was called at
which it is hoped that all inter
ssted organizations will be repre
sented.
The next meeting has been set
for Wednesday evening, Decem
ber 3, at 8 o’clock, at the Agri
rulture Building here.
The Empty Stocking Fund has
for several years been an annual
event here. For the past several
years it has been sponsored by
the Plymouth Rotary Club, with
the assistance of other groups.
The Rotarians are again sponsor
ing the event this year as a club
project.
The purpose is to bring holiday
cheer to needy families in the
county and solicitations are made
for used toys, clothing, food and
cash donations. The items are as
sembled and boxed for distribu
tion at Christmas time to needy
families, a list of which is gener
ally supplied by the county wel
fare department. «
Mr. Ange has announced that
anyone having clothing to donate
may either deliver it to the wel
fare department at the court
house here or call him to have the
clothing picked up.
The fund chairman also urges
that all interested organizations
be represented at the meeting
next Wednesday in order that the
campaign can be mapped and an
organizational set-up perfected.
Those present at the Friday
night meeting wwere Joe Boone,
representing the Bosie Bateman
Post, Veterans «-of Foreign Wars;
Ralph Hunter, of the Plymouth
Junior Chamber of Commerce;
Leroy Ange and Jack Latham,
representing local labor union no.
356; Mrs. Ursula Spruill, of the
county welfare department; Mrs.
James H. Ward, Plymouth Wo
man's Club; Bruce Bateman, Ro
tary Club; Mrs. W. H. Thomas,
See FUNrTDRIVETPagrT^*
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Attend Funeral Rites
For Brother - in - Law
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Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Prevette,
of Plymouth, attended funeral
services at Somerset Memoriaf in
Salisbury Tuesday afternoon at
4 o’clock for his sister’s husband,
James R. Elium, jr„ 40.
Mr. Elium is said to have fatal
ly shot himself in the head at his
home in Salisbury Sunday after
noon at 5:30 o’clock. He had been
despondent over poor health. He
had been an employee of the
Southern Railway for many years.
County Records Show Gradual
Change in Frequency of Names
By JAMES L. BOND
With the passing of time come
many changes, not the least of
which is a gradual change of
names as family names die out or
their owners move away. This
is a familiar story in any locality
as county records will attest.
Washington County is no except
ion, a somewhat cursory search
of old books in the courthouse
here reveals.
Washington County was set up
in 1799, having been a part of
Tyrrell County, and its records
go back to that time. Indeed,
some indentures found in the
deed books bear even earlier
dates.
Among names not now to be
encountered in the county bu1
which appear from time to time
in the early records are Bodwell
Bogue, Camock, Carnal, Calhoon
Cabarrus, Darkis or Dorcus
Dough, Fessenden, and Kissam.
The name Bodwell first ap
pears in the records under dat<
of 1831 and is not found aftei
the i year 1898. For a period o
just' 15 years—from 1875 to 1891
—the name Bogue appears in the
deed books.
If the Camock family lived ir
the county after 1833, then n<
property conveyances involvinj
them were made, apparently, foi
deeds or other indentures ar<
found bearing that name only for
the period from 1816 to 1833.
The name Calhoon does not ap
pear in the records after 1849.
Whether or not that fact has any
connection with the California
gold rush is purely conjecture.
The records do not bear the
name of Christopher after 1810,
Carnal after 1815, nor Fessenden
after 1860.
It is interesting to note the
change of fashion with the pass
ing years as to the spelling of
some names. Perhaps a change of
personnel in the register of deeds
office may have accounted for it.
At any rate, the surname Cabar
rus appears in the records from
1882 down to 1924 and only on
two occasions is it spelled the
same. Indentures recorded in
1882 and again in 1913 bear the
name “Cabaras.” In 1909 it was
spelled “Caberas.” Under date of
1911 the name appears “Cabar
ras.” Nine years later, the fash
1 ion of spelling seemed to have
1 swung to “Cabarrus,” the fami
! liar spelling of today. But in 1924,
I whether there was any Latin in
: fluence or not, it appeared as
“Cabarias.”
i Other surnames had a habit of
, appearing in more than one form,
; also. For instance, from the year
■ 1876 down to 1920 the name De
Shield (if that is really the cor
rect one) appeared with five sep
arate spellings, viz: De Shield,
DeShields, De Sheill, DeShield
and Dashields. The familiar name
Roberson also appears “Robason”
and “Robarson.”
Both William A. and Samuel
Dickinson and Dickerson are also
found, appearing first one way
and then the other. Dorsey is
sometimes spelled with a “c”
rather than an “s”, while “Doz
ier” occurs as often as “Dosier.”
From 1799 to 1833 it was either
“Harramond” or “Harrimond.”
Interesting things crop up in
a perusal of musty tomes. His
tory is reflected in a power of at
torney executed by one Corneil
le Le Diot and others in the par
ish of Ville aux Moines, Depart
ment of Mortiban, France and re
corded here in 1848. Power of at
torney was executed to Louis
Picot, of Plymouth, and at the
first of the paper the phrase, “in
the Kingdom of France” is used,
while at the close it becomes “in
the Republic of France.” A revo
lution in the year 1848 brought
about a change in the French
government from that of the so
called July Monarchy of Louis
Philippe to a republican form of
government, history records.
Although time, with its ine
vitable changes, has effected the
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