Beaufort Community Club Met Oct. 6, 1926

Beaufort Community Club Had a Good Meeting

The first meeting of the Community Club for the year 1926-27 was held Thursday afternoon October 6, 1926, at the club room, with the new president, Mrs. S. F. Hildebrand, presiding.

Judging by the splendid attendance of old members and the new names presented for membership, it looks as if the club were beginning in earnest to make this a successful year.

It was reported that posters have come for the play “Cupid Up-to-Date”, which is to be given under the auspices of the club November 11 and 12. Also that Chautauqua is to be here October 29 to November 1. The club moved to help in the sale of these tickets.

After discussion, it was decided that there will not be a social feature at the close of each business meeting as has been the custom heretofore, but rather that there be a regular social meeting possibly several times during the year.

Miss Edith Powell, County Demonstration Agent, most kindly offered her services to the club. It was decided that the club cooperate with the Parent-Teacher Associatin in the course under her direction.

The District Federation of Clubs was reported to meet at Morehead City Friday, October 15. It was moved to charter a boat to attend this meeting, and all members were urged to go.

Mrs. Buell Cooke announced a meeting of the Music Department Thursday, October 28.

The president appointed the following committees.

Ways and Means

Mesdames Otis Moore, Rupert Jernigan, Ed Hancock, Chas. Hatsell, W. K. Hinnant, Bayard Taylor, A. D. O’Bryan, George Brooks, Dave DeNoyer, Miss Lena Duncan, Miss Maybelle Neal.

Library

Mrs. U. E. Swann, chairman, Mrs. Hal Potter, Misses Gladys Chadwick, Margaret Gustin, Lucile Pond, Martha Carrow.

Public Welfare

Mesdames M. Leslie Davis, Chairman, Dave Whitehurst, M. S. Snowden, R. L. Fritz Jr., Hugh Overstreet.

County Home, Jail and Sanatorium

Mesdames Claude Wheatly, chairman, T. C. Britt, N. W. Taylor, Chas. Bushall, Miss Neva Chadwick.

Publicity

Mesdames J. H. Stubbs, chairman, Hugh Jones, W. V. B. Potter.

Membership

Mrs. N. F. Eure, Chairman. Mesdames J. T. Blythe, J. H. Potter Jr., Chas. Howe, Miss Lottie Sanders.

Hospitality

Mrs. Thos. Duncan, Chairman. Mrs. B. C. Way, Mrs. Wiley Taylor, Mrs. Stubbs.

--Mrs. J. H. Stubbs, Publicity Chairman

From the front page of the Beaufort News, Thursday, Oct. 14, 1926

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Carteret County Girls in Greensboro College, Oct. 14, 1926

Many Carteret Girls at N.C. College

Greensboro, Oct. 8—Carteret county is represented at North Carolina college, this city, during the present scholastic year by 11 students, five of them from Morehead City, four from Beaufort, one from Merrimon and one from Newport.

Miss Mildred Salter is the student from Merrimon and Miss Chrissie D. Shull is the one from Newport. Beaufort sends these to the college: Misses Margaret Elizabeth Pierce, Florence M. Parkin, Alice D. Potter and Margaret Elizabeth Dill.

Morehead City has the following representatives at the institution: Miss Mary Lewis, Neta Mae Lewis, Carla Mia Ortleib, Bessie Mae Wells and Blanda Lee.

From the front page of the Beaufort news, Thursday, Oct. 14, 1926

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Marriage Licenses Issued, Oct. 14, 1926

Marriage Licenses

The matrimonial market has developed more activity in these parts recently, judging from the increase in marriage permits granted at the office of the Register of Deeds. Those obtaining the necessary credentials are as follows:

Vernon M. Rhue and Bertha M. Garner of Newport

Henry Monroe and Elizabeth Bell (col) of Morehead City.

Ellie Fodrie, Beaufort RFD, and Luray Chance, Newport.

Geo. W. Gillikin and Lottie Willis of Bettie.

Sterling Arthur and Myrtle Golden of Bettie.

Alonzo Simpson of Beaufort and Melissa Gillikin of Marshallburg.

From the front page of the Beaufort news, Thursday, Oct. 14, 1926

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Mrs. Susan Hinson, 87, Has Died, Oct. 14, 1926

Aged Lady Passes Away

One of the oldest residents of Beaufort passed away Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. Susan Hinson died. She was 87 years old and apparently up to the time of her death was in fairly good health for one of her age.

Mrs. Hinson died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clares Springle who lives at 411 Turner street. She was originally from Goldsboro but had lived in Beaufort for 45 years. The funeral services took place at the Free Will Baptist church and were conducted by the Rev. W. J. Moore, assisted by the Rev. W. W. Lewis. The interment was in Ocean View cemetery.

Surviving relatives of the deceased lady were two sons, Mr. C. L. Hinson of Kinston, a son by her first marriage Mr. John Boyd of Wilson. Two daughters, Mrs. Charles Springle of Beaufort and Mrs. R. W. Williams of La Grange, also survive Mrs. Hinson.

From the front page of the Beaufort News, Thursday, Oct. 14, 1926

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Robey Fesperman, 23, Killed When He Drives Car into Train Stopped at Crossing; Three Passengers in Hospital, Oct. 13, 1926

One Killed, Three Hurt as Car Hits Train at Crossing. . . Robey Fesperman Killed and Companions Hurt While Returning Home from Cabarrus Fair. . . Others All in Hospitals Now. . . Train Was Standing at the North Charlotte Crossing When Accident occurs, Train Crew Said

Charlotte, Oct. 13 (AP)—One man is dead and two women and a man are in a hospital seriously injured as a result of a speeding automobile striking the side of a motionless Southern Railway freight train at a grade crossing near here today.

The dead is Robey Fesperman, aged 23, a Charlotte city fireman. The injured are T. Wl Black, Charlotte fireman, and Mrs. Lillian McVickers and Mrs. Henry Ward, both of Charlotte.

The quartet had been attending the Cabarrus County Fair at Concord and were returning home. Trainmen who saw the accident said the automobile was running at high speed and was rammed more than halfway under a freight car which it struck. It was impossible to move the train, it was said, until the automobile had been pulled out.

The automobile is said to have been the property of Mrs. Ward, but Fesperman was said to have been driving.

Rural police said they could obtain few details of the accident. None of the injured was in condition to talk.

Fesperman’s skull was crushed and he died in an ambulance en route to a hospital. Black sustained a fractured shoulder and possible internal injuries. Mrs. McVickers’ skull was fractured, and she is unconscious. Mrs. Ward was injured internally.

The freight train is due from Asheville each day at the North Charlotte yards at 3:40 a.m. It is required to stop before entering the yard, and for a short time each morning blocks the crossing. C. I. Jones, a Salisbury textile manufacturer, was injured on March 18th in a similar accident.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1926

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Fesperman Buried Here

The body of Robey Fesperman, Charlotte firemen killed in an auto accident early Wednesday morning, was brought to Concord for burial Thursday afternoon.

Interment was made in Union cemetery after services were held in Charlotte. The deceased has a number of relatives in Concord and Cabarrus County.

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Oct. 15, 1926

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Taft Johnson, Prisoner Accidentally Shot by Guard, Recovering from Shattered Skull, Oct. 13, 1926

Wounded Prisoner Is Expected to Recover

Salisbury, Oct. 11—Taft Johnson of Granite Falls, who was accidentally shot by a road force guard several days ago, is improving at the Salisbury hospital and there is hope of his recovery. A rifle bullet entered his head, shattering the skull.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1926

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Oscar Pearce, Who Skipped Out on $156 Hotel Bill, Captured in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 13, 1926

Guest Jumps Bill at Hotel Jones. . . Jumps Hotel Bill and Is Nabbed in Baltimore; Deputy Gentry Goes After Him. . . Claimed to be a Lawyer

Oscar E. Pearce, who is believed to be a resident of Kentucky and who several weeks ago made his debut in the town of Roxboro, representing himself as a lawyer, is now being held in Baltimore, Md., on recommendation of N. W. Br???, sheriff of Person County, on charges of having left the town of Roxboro owing the Jones Hotel a bill amounting to $156.40. This amount is alleged to have been Mr. Pearce’s total bill from the time of his registration at the hotel to the time of his hi?? departure.

Deputy Gentry left home ?? with papers to be presented to Governor McLean to be signed by him for the arrest of Mr. Pearce.

From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1926

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