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COUNTY THROUGH' IMPROVED FARM PRACTICES ±I Ifc/fcflasiiafo ‘Jsfl; m I m o: ties d ov L mal NUMBER 47 Laws, who recently has been under the weather and has been absent Item "Tapp’s Tremend ous Warehouse” longer than at anytime since It was built, is nljrout 'soaking up a little springtime sunshine and chew ing the fat with old friends and neWacqualntences. In addition to his knowledge of the tobacco trade and its many tricks, Laws is also a. fish - erman of parts and spite of the fact that he is not a heavyweight himself he has managed to drag in from time to time a fish that was almost large enough to drag him overboard. His speciality is aheepshead fishing. His long time fishing companion, Paul Stock Show Friday is the deadline for those who would like to enter unimnia in the 12th annual Coastal Plains Fat Stock show which will be held April 10-11 in Kinston under the direction of the chamber of commerce. All 4-H Club and Future Farmers of America who would like to'enter swine or beef type pulsate in the show are urged to contact their county agent at once «nd get the necessary in formation. More entrants are registered ’ this year than ever before and offteiate of the show predict the biggest and best attended in its history. er rotation of crops is one ■to the black shank prob 41eve tobacco growers of Hemtoy, says that Laws baa al ways had a peculiar aversion to paddling the boat and always can manage to establish him self In a boat so that the other fellow will have to do all the paddling. Laws, who has seen about as much tobacco as any man In this section, has one other pe culiarity . . . Cigarettes. He is usually smoking but he rarely has any “fags" of his own and one of his most constant ges tures Is reaching into another fellow’s pocket to extract a cig arette. In addition to these many strong and/or weak points Laws is also a chemist of some little proportion. He is the patentee and only user of that fajnus for mula known as “Tapp’s Skylight Equalizer.” This is an alchemist's nightmare which, when spread on warehouse skylights, is guar anteen to give equal light in every nook and comer of the warehouse. Only “Tapp’s Tre mendous” has access to this magic formula and it is kept un def lock and key and constant guard by either Bill King or Johnnie Smith, two of the few who are allowed into the “Sky light Equalizer Room.” Laws knows thousands of to bacco growers from North Har lowe to Oxford and his rocking chair in a south side door of “Tapp’s Tremendous'* is a gath ering place for those, young and old, who like to sit and listen to stories of the “old day*" when ers as occasionally wander into his office bn cool winter days or even occasionally during the hotter weather. He admits that he’d rather beat Roger Brooks than all the rest of his gin rum my adversaries. For more than a half century Laws has been watching the tricky tobacco business and now afi er accumulating such a vast store of tobacco knowledge he has reached the point where he’ll admit that “Nobody knows all there is to know about the tobacco business.” It might also be admitted that nobody knows all there is to know about Herman Laws and that Includes fishing too. Methodist Charge Presents Minstrel At 8 Next Tuesday Members of the several churches of the Trenton Meth odist Charge will present a ben efit minstrel at 8 Tuesday night, April 8, In the Trenton school auditorium. Funds realized from the minstrel will be placed Into the parsonage upkeep fund. All local talent will be used to the minstrel and-some hilarious and highly entertaining moments are guaranteed all who attend. A special part of the program will be devoted to singing by a group from the Maple Grove church. There will be black-face skit, hill Wily/and folk singing and plenty of comedy for every age to enjoy, the program chair man has promised. QUARTERLY CONFERENCE The First Quarterly Confer ence will be held at 8 Sunday night at Maple Grove Methodist Church. Pastor Charles B. Long has urged that every member of the congregation make plans now to attend this Important meeting. April 19th Filing Deadline For Spring Primary Candidates but Most Hopefuls Still are Bashful When 6 p. m. comes around on Saturday, April 19th, the deadline will have arrived for >those who want to file to take part In the May primaries which will decide who will hold what offices in North Carolina for the coming two years and in some instances for four years. At this time there are only two men who officially have their name in the political pot in Lenoir County. Incumbent Recorder’s Court Judge 'Albert Cowper and Would-be Recorder Frank Owens, both of whom have paid the filing fee to Elec tion Board Chairman William Alien Jr. Rink Hill Attorney Harvey Turner was the first announced candidate for office, offering his services In the county seat in the state house of representa tives after Incumbent Marlon Parrott had turned down a third term. Turner has not at this writing put the cash on the line with Allen, however. No member of the county board of commissioners or of the county school board has made any public statements on the subject of running or not run ning and no new names have cropped officially up, although J. D. Paschall is reported bitten by the bee for the board of com missioners. Jack Alexander, who two years ago ran a pretty strong ticket for the county commis sioners, is now president of the farm bureau and says that he does not think he will, or ought to, run because he does not want to get the farm bureau mixed up in politics. Up frd.w the Deep Run section where Incumbent Mark N. Smith’s retirement Is being talked around, Johnnie (J. R.) Daven port Is reported to be studying the field with an eye to step ping in, If Smith steps out. Over In Jone County the us ual informed sources say that competition for John Hargett for the state house of represen tatives is certain hut no one is able or willing to say who the opponent will be. From Pollocks ville the word still says that In cumbent Robert P. Bender will not seek reelection. Tarboro’s L.- H. Fountain, an energetic young man, who has considerable backing is out shaking every bush in an effort to dislodge Warrenton’s John Kerr who has been in Congre s for 29 years from the second congressional district. Fountain may 'be just the boy* to lick Kerr if his legs and his hand holds out from now until the votes are cast in May. Kerr is not known by 98 per cent of the voters. The Past Week in Review Kirby Loftin says that some characters played a mean trick on him Monday night by stop ping near his home in the Bouthwood Community to take tour tires from a trailer he had parked there. The thieves were very thoroughly and there is a likelihood that they may be to. Mil their loot to some these folks are the ones who paid loftin an unwelcome visit Mon day night. .. Sgt. John Laws arrvied in Kinston Tuesday to take over command of the Highway Patrol Units in Greene, Pitt, and Lenoir counties. Laws is one of the top yonng sergeants on the pa trol and |s also the top pistol shot in North Carolina. .He was stationed for many years in Greenville and is familiar with the section and bis coming to Kinston has been greeted with universal acclaim except, per haps, by the ten or eleven other patrol sergeants who had been pulling strings to get the Kins ton post. Laws replaces Sgt. Bill Nail who retired at the end of the year after 21 years on the patrol to take charge of a perm anent weighing station at his former home in Asheville. spn.oi ill at the Carolina Monday illght. The Order of the Grail la considered the top hon orary society on the campus at Carolina. Included among those from North Carolina who were on the troop transport General W. H. Gordon which arrived in San Francisco Monday with 1890 Korean veterans was Marine Corps Captain Richard C. Odoud of 1109 Carey Road in Kinston. A capacity crowd Mon,day night jammed Grainger High School auditorium to hear Nadine Con nor, famed Metropolitan opera star, give the last concert of the season under the sponsorship of the Kinston Community Con cert Association. The biggest weekend news came at 3 a. m. Sunday when come Farrell who was sleeping in an adjoining room. Leon Smith and Ray Malpassr two Kinston school boys who got mixed up in a dare about going to Florida almost got as far as Georgia before Police In a small South Carolina town near the Georgia border picked them up and notified their parents. The missing school boys were re turned to Kinston and after a day of eating blackeyed peas and corn bread in a South Caro lina jail their parents believe they have taken the traveling cure. The boys were just 12 and 13 years old, respectively. Judge Grady Ends Jones Court on 1st Judge Henry A. Grady of New Bem came to Trenton Monday to convene a one-week mixed tftrm of Jones County’s Superior Court and at noon Tuesday the calendar, both civil and crim inal, had been put into order and the judge returned to his home on the banks of the Neuse to await further docket clean ing-up jobs. some 40 cases were ctearea form the criminal docket, a number! oi divorces on the civil calendar and' one other civil matter were cleared before the adjournment gavel was rapped. The following were convicted of drunken driving and paid $100 fines and the court costs: Charles Franklin Bryant, Thur nianrt E. Jarman, Chester Ar thurs Carr, and Lester B. Wells, who had been tried in the Jan uary court and placed on pro bation for five years returned to get his probationary sentence ended by paying a $200 fine the court costs and placed on good behavior for five years. Charged with drunken driving but convicted of Teckless driv ing were Clarence Lee Inman, $100 fine and oourt costs; John Wesley Gooding, $25 fine and costs; Elmer Davis, $2S fine and Costs; Henry Foy, charged with reckless driving, plead guilty and paid the court costs. Henry Smith was found not guilty of violating game laws Raymond Leroy Dove and Duffle Suttsn were found guilty of breaking and entering and each was ordered to pay the court costs. Fred Whitfield, found guilty of violating the liquor laws, was placed on five years probation and ordered to pay the court costs. Carlton Rhodes, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, yand Moses Bur ney, charged with simple assault each had to pay the court costs. Judge Grady ordered a capias issued for George P. Smith Jr. who had reportedly violated the conditions of his parole after be ing tried at the January term on a worthless check charge. After hearings into the matter of a deed being cleared for L.. F. Simmons the court declared that Floyd Koonce of Pollocks ville. Who had disappeared from his home on September 21, 1921, and had never been heard from since that time, be officially and judicially dead as of a date seven years'-after his departure from home. 'V ." v". ' '• Forestry Projects Interest 4-H’ers * During the past winter Jones County 4-H Club memibers have set out over twenty thousand red cedar and loblolly pines, As sistant County Agent Henry G. Swiggett has reported. A total of 19 boys and girls took part in these forestry pro jects and Carl Killingsworth Jr. of Pollocksrvllle route one topped the work by setting out 3,000 cedars. Grace Aurthur of Mays ville route one was not far be hind Killingsworth since she planted 2,700 trees. County 4-H Council To Meet Friday, 4th The Jones County 4-H Club County Council will meet at 7:30 Friday night In the ag building In Trenton. A special program is planned lor the meeting which will be .followed with the usual recre ation program. All members of the county council are urged to attend this session.
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