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fe:". 1 I' 1 IKS'- aaaaam.: - KENANS VILLE, N.C. A DOG'S LIFE . . . Mod fellows would be happy just teeing Call Bennett occasionally. But W hi ley, the pup, i doubly fortunate: not only doea he share the spotlight with the lovely blonde a part of lh Boor ahow at Manhattan's famous Latin Quarter, he also travels every where with her, riding comfortably in a big muff. Duplin Negro Makes Good By EARL DEAN In The News & Observer Foremost among North Caroli na's pioneers in education and one of the most loveable characters Elizabeth City has ever known was Peter Weddick Moore. Eorn in slavery, he struggled 20 years to get an education and gave 37 years of his long and useful life helping others of his race help themselves to better living. Today one of Eastern North Car olina's largest institutions for Neg roes is a monument to his efforts and his life marked by unselfish service, patient leadership and un obtrusive modesty. A good many years ago he told me that the guiding rule of his life had never to permit himself to do anything that would be offen sive to a white person. He always had utmost confidence in an ulti- For Best Prices and Com plete Job on Monuments, See or Write Rev. H. J. Whaley BEULA VILLE t. at THOMPSON & LEWIS Wholesale & Retail Groceries, Feeds, Seeds & Farm Supplies Mount Olive, N. C. Extra Special Low Prices Just Received, a truck load of 2 gal. cans CAPITAL MOTOR OIL, priced to sell 49c gal. Received truck load 501b Stands ESS-KAY PURE LARD - As long as it lasts $13.50 stand Sugar, while we have it $8.75 per 1001b 60 pet. FISH MEAL: 1001b bags $7.50 501b bags $3.80 If Bargains Are What You're Looking For, Thompson & Lewis Have Them. JHONE 324-J FREE DELIVERY TRY OUR ROBIN HOOD FLOUR. If You Like A White House, TRY OUR SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT. mate educational awakening that would prepare all men, irrespect ive of race, to vote intelligently upon political principles. KKK Lynched Father Peter Weddick Moore was the eldest of a family of five children born on a farm in Duplin County near Faison's Depot in the summer of 18S8. His mother, although un able to read or write herself, was deeply religious and made every sacrifice possible to see that her children were educated. His father is said to have been the victim of a lynching by the Ku Klux Klan during the stormy Reconstruction Days for betraying the hiding place of some valuable property belong ing to a family of white people in his community. In his early teens Peter Moore attended a country school taught in Sampson County by one Burke Marable, a very brilliant Negro, who had studied in Northern Uni versities. He taught all subjects in all classes in a little one-room school ranging all the way from beginners to students in Latin and higher mathmetics. Marable proved a very strong force in Peter's life by instilling in him a thirst for knowledge and a desire to teach others. By the time he was 21 years of age, he too was teaching in a small school in Sampson County, 10 miles from Clinton. The chool term was short so he found time to work a small patch of cotton on shares and with the money he made from his first bale entered Shaw University in Raleigh in the fall of 1880. While studying in Ral eigh he worked at his studies and in a brickyard on the grounds of the school as well as in a nearby Coundry operated by Joseph Se park, a white Baptist leader in Wake County, who used the busi ness mainly as a means of helping worthy students at Shaw Univers ity. Headed New School After leaving Shaw with an A. B. degree in 1887, he taught for a while in Bertie County and at Ply mouth. His real life's work began, THE DUPLIN TIMES however, when he was appointed principal of a new school for tea chers in Pasquotank County. The school didn't even exist but the General Assembly of 1891 had ap propriated $900 toward it. Theschool was located at Eliza beth City, where Professor Moore started in January, 1892. teaching Negro teachers how to teach school more efficiently. A small wooden building, badly in need of repair, was tented for the purpose and called the Elizabeth City State Normal School. Each year his clas ses grew in size until other similar buildi lgs were occupied. There was always a constant struggle for funds sufficient to finance the rapidly growing school. "Give the Negro youth, whom the State is education, an oppor tunity to see the dignity, the utility and the beauty of educated labor," was his plea in defense of indus trial education for members of his race. Pushed Steadily Forward Elizabeth City's generous respon se to Prof. Moore's modest and un obtrusive appeals for needed funds was an indication of his value to the community and the high esteem in which he was held. Under his guidance the school grew until the large and modern institiitioi. that st:mds today in his memory became possible. One of Prof. Moore's white? con tempories, Prof. S. L. Sheep, who headed the white Elizabeth City High School, is said or.ee to have told his pupils that they all might do well to visit the city's Negro schools o see for themselves how well the students there behaved themselves. Prof. Moore always took a deep and personal interest in the Negro high school in Eliza beth City. This school, first named for Pau. Lawrence Dunbar, the Negro poet, two years before Prof. Moore died was re-named P. W. Moore High School. In one of his annual reports to the State Board of Education Prof. Moore wrole: "After assiduous labor, our stu dents are being convinced that the prime and ultimate aim of educa tion rests not .ilone on the ability to obtain from a county examiner a certificate t(, teach in a public school. Certainly they are taught Bear Wheel Alignment WILL HELP SAVE YOUR TIRES Balanced Wheels Will GIVE YOU 50 TO 100 MORE TIRE MILEAGE Warsaw Motor Co. "A Quarter Century of Service" WARSAW, :. c. W All Types OUVirinp y M VAI I TII H AIIIS I "'s The New L00K! j X Jfr 5! the little woman always recom- " I tMS mends us for quick prompt service Jtf 1' (including aowmg). 24 hour call... lCIC down here and shown the great Importance of the Intellectual train ing for teachers. They are also taught by precept and example that it is no disgrace to work for his or her living with the hands. Our students are being taught the excellence and dignity of right liv ing." Dr. Moore insisted on continuing to teach long after his retirement and personally conducted courses in classroom management. He lived on the campus until he died April 19. 1934, among the people he loved and for whom he had labored so long. At his death the mayor of Eliza beth City issued a special procla mation praising Professor Moore's good work and lamenting his pass ing, which was said to have been a major loss to the city. Much of the absence oi serious racial fric tion in Elizabeth City is attributed today to the Mood life and strong influence of Peter Weddick Moore. Southern Farm Market Summary Southern s-fed cattle prices tednedx downward this wee'-', but scarce supplies of main-fed cattle sold actively and generally steady in price. Most canner, cutter and common slaughter cattle were $1 lower with better grades :grain fed active and I'irm. Calves were strong to $3 higher while stock cattle closed al 50 cents up. Hogs, mostly 810 to 240 pound butchers Friday wen up to $31.50, an all-time high. Broiler dem vid strengthened and markets were steady to firm. Only crossbred chickens showed signs of price weakness. Broiler prices rang ed from 31 to 38 cents per pound. Late July shipments of fruits and vegetables were lighter .than normal shipments in the Southeast. The anticipated let-up in tobacco deliveries to the Ga.-Fla. markets failed to materialize during the second week of sales, and gross volume exec-cd-ng 9,000,000 pounds each day. The practical top leveled off at $62, although occasional bas kets brought $63 with the average around $52.3!). Spot cototn prices continued to edge downward. At Friday's close, the 10-markel average price for DUPLINITES, PLANNING TO VISIT CAROLINA BEACH? IF SO, STOP WITH Mr. and Mrs. W.E.Powell (Formerly of Warsaw and Kenansvillc) SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ON HIGHWAY CORNER CHARLOTTE AVE. . REDUCED WEEKLY RATES. "BILL ECK" POWELL Phone 3351 f.5TALLS! BAWLS1 xL m subbb iBBBBa mr m mm wmmr mwm I Take it from a back seat driver . . . Take it from a back seat driver . . . the little woman always recom mends us for quick, prompt service (including aowing). 24 hour call . . . North I know a very ancient spit of land. An old, old sea heaves hoary waves upon It; An old, Old wind leaps wildly from far skies To sculpture fossil'd sand in dunes upon It. Of late came man, the savage red-skin first Then - bold, seafaring wights whose early hope To found a nation in the wilderness Was brought to an untimely end. There fate Was never known, but others came - again And yet again, till now the burgeoning land Fulfills the vision of the pioneers. Yet man was not content to tread the sand Nor sail the sea. He made him fragile wings And soaring from that same stark, storied strand Proclaimed him lord of all the elements The conqueror of water, earth and air. I know a very ancient fertile plain. Its fields are white with cotton in the Fall And ripe tobacco crowds tall slatted barns. In lofty spiring towers of rugged stone The sons and daughters of a sturdy, race Explore the endless reaches of the mind And seek with keen adventurous hardihood To meet the challenge of their troubled times. I know a very ancient range of hills Along their pine-crowned crests the soughing wind Is never still. Theymarch in serried ranks Away and yet away until the eye Of the beholder faints and cannot reach That last blue smoky line against the sky. Immutable and ageless, awful, grand They still the ravaged, tortured human soul And fill it with a deep serenity. " Your ancient spit of land along the sea, Your very ancient, rich and fertile plain, Your old, old range of far-flung, wind-swept hills Are folded in my heart, North Carolina! - - Mrs. F. B. Lewis La Porte, Indiana middling 15-16 inch was 32.74 cents a pound. 1 OUT OF 3 IS 45 YEARS OLD Scientific research has come up with a couple of new ones, to bless mankind. It reported, first, that 1 out of P. O. Box 553 FRIDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1W8 Carolina r every 3 persons in the U. S. is 45 years old or older. Second, that this old age group is larger and healthier than ever before, be cause of improved health habits; and third, that this old age group (about 50 million) can live longer, and be happier, if they improve their eating habits. State College Hints To Home Makers Iron with the grain of the fab ric --it makes ironing easier. An important reason for ironing with the grain is to keep bias-cut gar ments from sagging out of shape. "Pressing" means to set iron di rectly down upon fabric and lift it directly upward without to and fro action. Wools must always be pressed to avoid distortion. Avoid "lost motion" when you iron --it causes fatigue. Avoid using a wobbly iron handle or board for they increase "lost motion". Don't discard your perfectly good last year's dresses! Send them to us. We'll lengthen, clean and press them give you at hardly any expense at all. Take advantage of our services. ial Letters From Our Readers Dear Sir Will you please Bend me a copy of your newspaper. I would like to add it to my newspaper collection. Inclosed find stamps to cover post age. If there Is any other charge HI gladly pay it to the mailman or send the money to you. Yours, Chester J. Simon, 1665 Vance St. Toledo, Ohio. GROWERS LOSE MILLION DOLLARS IN BARN FIRES Tobacco barn fires in the State last year destroyed 88b barns con taining 535,327 sticks of tobacco at a loss to growers of more than a million dol'arr, according to R. R. Bennett, tobacco specialist for the State College Extension Service. Your County Agent has a folder entitled "Tobacco Barn Fire Loss Summary," set it and read. Gas Black-Draught Help That Eeatkchy Feeling? Vo. Black-Draught ttT help you V! 33 vuu teel lour It tha only reason you ,vay la because of constipation. .kt .v. .lnill lavntlve. la 1 Dr di;,L! t ana woroucn vw - w . i.tii. it costs only a canny or less a do'.e. That's why it has been teller wiUi tour generations. II you ara troubleJ Jflih sue he, upset stomach, flatu- Jnental hulnesa, bad breathft If thaaa jmptoirs are due only to consUpatlon try lJUu:f-Dr&u(ht. Oct a packaga today. FOR SALE SASH, DOORS, SHEET ROCK, ROCK LATH, ROCK WOOL, PLASTER, LIME, CEMENT, BRICK, MORTAR, PAINTS, TER-RA-COTTA PIPE, DRAIN TILE, WHITE ASBESTOS SIDING, ASPHALT SHINGLES, ALL KINDS OF ROLL ROOFING, 5-V ROOFINJ, BRICK SIDING Z. J. Carter & Son Wallace, N. C. the New Look J J 1 laundry In Wilmington Our Truck Runs AH Over Thompson & Lewis D. O. Thompson Ed Lewis I Duplin Supply Co. J. A. Fulford's Garage AT WEST SIDING WARSAW, N. C. II
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