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nCUwbab AjNP 5 .!’ ! 11l 1 HI i eel, 20,000 barrels of cement and 20,000 tons of stone and sand were used. ||| i Q Not only in the splendid towns, but throughout the 111 rural section of all the Albemarle steady development 111 1 has been displayed. Many of the farms are outstand ing in point of beauty and productiveness. The adop- |ll 1 i tion of modem methods and the energy and initiative of ||| the people as a whole have created marked advance- ||| * ment in quality, quantity, and diversity of % agricultural || | and manufactured .products... that’s what is called' ||| i PROGRESS. <J Industrially the advancement of the Albemarle sec-11 1 1 tion of North Carolina made in the past decade has been 111 most outstanding, many worth while industries having 111 \ been established, whose products go forth to the markets 111 of the world and today they provide regular profitable 111 1 employment to large numbers and are otherwise con- 111 tributing to the prosperity, growth and development of 1 11 i , the various communities... that’s called PROGRESS. I I ion of the OLD NORTH STATE, it is with much plea sfinite part in contributing towards the PROGRESS 111 | your use and convenience the Albemarle Sound I I your already fine highway system, that you may en- I i |creatign, but as an aid towards the further develop iources yet to be developed. I , T. A. Loving & Company I GENERAL CONTRACTORS , I Home Office Goldsboro, N. C. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N, C. ! T. A. Loving & Co. ’ Builders Os South Side Os Big Bridge ’ Started Work May 27th, t 1937 and Finished Job * In Approximately 250 Working Days * (Continued from First Column) : barges on a running sea, is consider ed, it must be admitted that *itpost » precaution had to be exercised at all * times in order to establish such a fine ’ record. The T. A. Loving and Company, ( building from the South side, sunk , its first pile, or began actual work on May 27th, while the Tidewater Con , struction Corporation began work on ► April 17th, 1937, and required approx- I imately 250 working cays, with each company employing around 150 to t 200 men. * Material for the south side of the * bridge was shipped by rail to Ply mouth, where a supply base had been J established by the Loving Company, ; unloaded and carried down to the l bridge by barges, except cement » which amounted to over 9,700 bar- I rels. This was shipped by water | from Norfolk and unloaded at the bridge site. * On the Chowan County side and Construction Corporation established and built its own pier and brought a ► large majority of the material direct * to the bridge via water and its own ’ barges. On theChowan County side and P built by the Tidewater people is a L modern residence to be occupied by the bridge operators. This house is l located about 100 yards from the » bridge. In addition there is a con | Crete and stucco operator’s house at the draw. The entire project cost around * $1,500,000 and is truly a wonderful t feat of engineering and construction I and will prove one of the scenic spots k to be found On the Eastern shores of the Carolinas. ' f TW> , Historic Norfolk \ Invites Trade ' ’ L . , (Continued from Page One) ► The First Custom House in the ! United States was established at Yorktown, only a shgxt distance from ► Norfolk. * Remove from history the pages on Norfolk, Yorktown, Jamestown, Wil-. * liamsburg, Cape Henry and Porter mouth, and you have torn from ifc many of its brightest pages, in fact you have removed the pages covering i the very beginning of the life of this great country of ours. You cannot separate Norfolk from these historic _• i places. The history of each is inter-- 1 woven with the other. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America; Sape * Henry is where the first Permanent English settlement in America; Cape landed; Williamsburg, famous old colonial town now almost completely restored to its original' splendor is where George Washington , Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason, and other Revolutionary War heroes met and helped to plan the destiny of the Thirteen Original States; Yorktown is where Cornwallis surrendered his sword and by such an act brought the Revolutionary War to a close. Norfolk City itself dates back to before the days of English colonists. It was an Indian village when the hand of Sir Walter Raleigh lifted the curtain of obscurity that veiled the new country. Captain Arthur Bar low, one of the first British sea cap tains to visit the new world, reported in 1584—a year before the English to plant a colony at Roanoke Island: “Six days from the same (referring to Roanoke Island) is sit uated their greatest city called Ski-co-ak, which this people affirm to be very great.” This vague refer ence to Norfolk, according to Dr. W. H. T. Squires, historian, is certainly the first reference to the site of Norfolk in recorded history, and Dt. Squires further states that in his opinion it is the first reference to any Anglo-Saxon city in America. OBSERVANT A fat lady stepped on the scales, not knowing it was out of order, and put in her penny. The needle went up to 75 pounds—and stopped. An inebriated gentleman who was watching intently, staggered. “Great Guns!” he said, “she’s hollow." JUST HIS LUCK , "But how on earth did you come 1 to get so completely intoxicated?" asked the magistrate. “I got into bad company, your ► Honour. You see, there were four of us. I had a bottle of whiskey— and the other three men were fcee , totalers.” i A Use For High Heels A British scientist says that high L heels are diminishing the size of wo i men’s calves. If that i£ true we urge l our corn fed girls to go in strong for 31 high heels.—New Orleans States. PAGE FIVE
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