' / j WATCH EDENTON GROW! Mother of North Carolina Capital of the Albemarle - >• Volume V. Albemarle Awaits Big Day Aug. 25 | “V ' —— Chowan County Adapted For Raising Crops of Any Nature; Climate Is Ideal « Profitable For Raising Livestock; Markets Convenient < RICHSOni ’ Long Growing Season Enables Year Round Garden Chowan County lying in Northeast ern North Carolina- and within 60 miles of the Atlantic Ocean is well adapted to the growing of most all crops and the raising of livestock, as it has a good soil and its location gives it an ideal climate. Due to its fine loamy soil, the county is noted for the growing of a superior grade of peanuts. Virginia Runner, Virginia Bunch, Jumbo and N, C. Runner are tie leading varie ties used, in this section. The vines are used, for hay and the-waste pea nuts are excellent for fattening hogs in the fall after the crop is harvested. Edenton, the county seat, is the lead ing peanut market in North Carolina. Cotton is also a leading money crop, running second to peanuts. On an average, more cotton is grown per acre here than in other sections of the South. A good staple and grade can be produced by the use of good seed, proper fertilization and culti vation. Tobacco is another leading crop. A good corn section, for all the farmers are growing com for their own use in feeding their livestock and poultry and tome to sell. Com is also used in preparing many dishes for the family. Cora is easily grown as an early crop or as a crop follow ing truck. The county is favored in its soil and climate, nearness to markets and { ready means of transportation for the growing of early and late truck.' Some of the leading truck crops pro-' duced here include Irish potatoes, 1 sweet potatoes, sweet corn, May peas, snap beans, butter beans, toma toes and cabbage. Watermelons are grown in several sections of the' county, especially along the Chowan River, in the Cowpen Neck and Rocky Hock sections. Here the famous Cowpen Neck Special bavored water melon is grown, which is in much de mand. Cantaloupes are also grown for the market. Frujts of almost every kind are found growing in the county, such as apples, peaches, pears, pluxhs, rasp berries, strawberries, dewberries, figs, grapes and pecans. The county has long been noted for its Scuppemong vines; these and other varieties of grapes can be seen on all farms. Pecan trees are being planted for shade as well as profit from sale of nuts. Livestock and poultry do well here and are on the increase. This is due to the fertile soil and mild climate, which make it possible for the grow ing of pastures and feeds for the hogs, beef cattle, sheep, milk cattle and poultry. Cattle and sheep 'can be grazed on green pastures most of the year. All feed necessary for cattle, sheep and most of the feeds for hogs and poultry can be grown here more economically than else where, except as tankage, bone meal, meat scraps, lime and salt; and with a surplus of milk to be fed the hogs and poultry, most of the animal pro tein feeds could be eliminated. The forests of the section contain more than thirty varieties and kinds here. Some of the important trees of trees and much lumber is produced .are pine, juniper, cypress, poplar, gum, oak, beech, hickory, dogwood, ‘ persimmon and cedar. In addition to lumber, poles, piles, fence posts and railroad ties, firewood is pfoduced for local use and sale. With the long growing season all the vegetables needed can be pro duced. A year-round garden dan be maintained. A great variety of vege tables is grown in every section of * e ,^ u " ty t t" d J£,™ ethinß: P 6 6" o . - . / a. V . THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY | He Can Do It! || l i •vfi; •' 59 1 ; GOVERNOR CLYDE R. HOEY No more able person could be secured to deliver the address of welcome to the visitors who will attend the dedicatory exercises of the Albemarle Sound Bridge. The Governor will discharge this duty on August 25. Demonstration Clubs Play Important Role : Chowan Has Ten dubs Each Very Active and Doiqg Excellent Work Each Year It seems only natural that historic Chowan County, which has been first ! in so many events, should be one of the first counties to have Home Dem onstration work. Some of the aims of this organization are: (1) to pro mote a spirit of friendliness, good will and neighborliness in the com munities; (2) to carry out a planned home economics program which will help the members with their problems of home-making; (3) to develop in terest in the cultural phases of home making, and to encourage wholesome recreation in home and community; (4) to develop leadership; (5) to do one or two definite pieces of work each year for the betterment of the community as a whole; (6) to coop erate with other groups and organi zations working for community im provement; (7) to give all possible support and encouragement to 4-R club work; and (8) to be of service to neighbors or others in misfortune who need such assistance as the club can give. In Chowan County there are 10; Home Demonstration clubs with aj membership of 185, and eight 4-H clubs with 160 members. These clubs are located so that they are available to practically every community in the (Please Turn to Page Four) | Washington’s Queen I I MISS VIRGINIA TARKENTON Miss Tarkenton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C Tarkenton of Pteuant Grove, will represent I IIOTMIU waaa reyiwmu Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, August 18, 1938. Official Celebration Program | 10:00 A. M. ■ Pageant parade with historical floats in lipe leaves Edenton, directed by Carroll E. Kramer, Chief Marshal, i 10:30 A. M. Parade arrival in center of bridge. Formal opening of bridge, directed by John W. Darden, Chairman of Program Committee. Formal presentation of the bridge to the public by Hon. Frank Dunlap, Chairman State. Highway Commis sion. Bridge acceptance by Hon. Julien Wood of Edenton and Zeb Vance Nbrman of Plymouth. ' Formal bridge opening gesture by seven boy and girl heralds from the Albemarle. Music. 11:10 A. M. Parade will proceed to south side of sound for dedica tory exercises. Dedicatory Exercises CHARLES WALLACE TATEM, Master of Ceremonies 11:30 A. M. Music. 11:40 A. M. Invocation by Rev. John Barclay of Wilson. 11:50 A. M. Presentation of Hon. Lindsay C. Warren, who will rec ognize officials and distinguished guests. 12:20 P. M. Welcome .address by Governor Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina. 12:30 P. M. Music, “Carolina.” 12:35 P. M. Response to address of welcome by Col. E. E. Holland, representing Governor James H. Price of Virginia. Music, “Carry Me Back to Ole Virginia.” 12:50 P. M. Introduction of former Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus by Hon. Jerome B. Flora of Elizabeth City. . 1:00 P. M. Address by former Governor Ehringhaus. Music. * Luncheon. 2:30 P. M. Water Carnival. ' " . “PRIDE OF EDENTON” Bf Jill Here is grouped Edenton High School’s Band, which has won for itself quite an enviable reputation resulting in much favorable publicity to the town by its splendid performances at many affaire in the State. The band will participate in the Albemarle Sound bridge celebration and only recently was honored at the Wilson To bacco Festival by being asked to play the special concert for the great exposition. TROOP OF FOUR LIVELY PATROLS OCCUPY UNIQUE LOG CABIN ON TOWN PROPERTY George Capehart, Pres ent Scoutmaster, Is Bringing Out''Best In Boys With a membershiu of fully uni formed youngsters up to 15 years of age Edenton’s Boy Scout unit has I lived faithfully up to the national I organization’s slogan “Be prepared”, , and has established itself as one of j I the leading outstanding Scout corps lin the State of North Carolina. Un i der the enthusiastic leadership of Scoutmaster George Capehart and 1 his assistant, Kermit Layton, the Scouts have shown renewed activity and interest during the past year i and the corps “log book” detailing the “one good deed a day" of the sixteen youths is not only the prize posses sion but an. envy of scouts all over the Albemarle. Other Scout units may force their; publicity stronger than the Edenton corps, but the Ejenton lads have so much to be proud of they are down right modest about extolling their merits. For instance they have one “Life Scout,” which is near the top ranking in Scoutdom, and three “Star j Scouts’* a rank below. The lone high j ranker is Meredith Jones, 16 years of age. and the trio who are pushing him for high laurels are Elbert Cope land, John Hassell and Nick Gardner. There is a happy rivalry amongst the boys as to all this and the enthus-j iastic display they show in all their endeavor has made the organization one of the community’s chief prides. There are fourteen second class Scouts in the unit and 24 others in the “Tenderfoot* category. Their chieftains, Capehart and Layton, how ever, are confident all of the khaki uniformed lads will be out of the lower rankings soon and will soon ® : coterie of “Scout cubs,” which ara boys below the entrance age of 12 years and who are anxiously hoping for the time when they, too, can com pete for entrance into the parent corps. The history of the local Scout unit is a history of persistency and ear nestness. The unit got its start in 1922 when Rev. H. I. Glass, a Methodist divine here, took over the organiza tion with a corps membership of 16. He served for two years and was | succeeded by County Agent N. K. Rowell, who was soon followed by Aubrey Shackell, a former newspaper editor here. Shackell boosted the membership to 20 where it remained until the Scoutmaster control of H. A. Campen, who drove the membership up to 32 at which number it has since remained. Mr. Campen served until 1931 when Rev. Payne Brown, a Presbyterian minister, took hold with Layton, himseif an early Scout, going in as assistant Scoutmaster, j In 1932 William Privott became Scoutmaster with Layton and Thomas Chears, Jr., as assistants. In 1935 John W. Graham officiated in the same capacity until this year when Capehart, at the urgent request of many, became Scoutmaster with Lay j ton continuing as his aide, j The troops go on weekly hikes to be taught the rudimentary, principles of woodcraft, cooking and life saving, and each year are off on a week’s camping trip to one of the Carolina beaches or watering places, j One of the big things helping to make the unit an enviable one and to provide suitable facilities was the pre sentation of its present “Scout Cabin” on North Broad Street in 1929. The “Cabin" came as the generous gift of the late James A. Woodard, who al wajjs kept up a warm interest, with purse .and advice, in the unit. The “Cabin" is tftted on town property and in a se§B is one of j the little r-’irl -Ti Ju Dedication of Sound Bridge Will Attract Most People Ever Te Gather In Section - ■ j Principal Speaker j MM Jffl J. C. B. EHRINGHAUS Former Governor and prime Ij factor in securing the Albemarle I Sostnd bridge, Mr. Ehringhaus I was selected to make the princi- I pal address for the dedicatory exercises. Ferry Makes Final Run On August 14 j For Years Only Con-j necting link Between North and South Sides Os Sound j ■—— / Although sixteen years, some of them long and trying twelve months and others fast and fleeting eras, have passed since the Edenton-1 Mackeys ferry got its first start, itj seems but yesterday to many of us! when the first “toot-toot” of the ofuj stage boat “The Pilot,” resounded, across the waters of the Sound and, perhaps, awakened some of the later morning sleepers about town. But with the coming of the mag -1 nificent new bridge across the Sounu the faithful ferry which has given such heroic service during sunshine, and rain, through snow and ice, has! ' had to fold up, and pass with much 1 else of less importance into the ob livion which only memory can make; us forget. ■ Short as the ferry life has been itj has been a connecting link between i : the north and south sides of the Sound, in a sense has been a great I factor in bringing both shores of the intervening waterway into closer com munion, and has made it possible for us on the north to know our neigh bors a little better on the south, a possibility, hard as it is to see the] ferry quit, which will be gTeatly ac (Continued on Page Four) 1 Chowan’s Queen ! I . r- T i 1..T- , hum., - A ;SB|P ML t .. ’ CLARA MEADE SMITH From among a list of 23 can didates Miss Smith, by popular vote, was on Saturday elected to represent Chowan County in the beauty queen feature to be held 1 in connection with the Albemarle Progress and —— Prosperity - Edition Single Copies—loc All Details Have Been Finally Arranged For Huge Celebration PARADE Former Governor Ehr inghaus Will Make Main Address For all the Albemarle its day of days is nearly here, and next Thurs day, August 25, the mammoth new vehicular bridge over the Sound, which has been under way in agita tion and construction since 1933, and which has culminated in an engineer ing feat unequalled and unsurpassed in the annals of national bridge work, North Carolina’s greatest pride and most expensive roadway venture, will be formally dedicated in the presence of an expected great concourse of people with governors, ex-governors and other State and federal dignitar ies on hand to lend oratorical eclat to the occasion. Os course it will be a wonderful day for the whole Albemarle section. A general holiday everywhere ha 3 been declared and all businesses will be closed while the celebration is on, or are expected to, so that everyone, j owners, clerks and patrons may take i advantage of the opportunity to get to the. south shore and raise their f eyes and voices in glory to a great , Providence and a proud State which ] have made it all possible. | And it will in no sense be a tire some visit for the onlookers for while the ceremonies were originally plan ned to run all day and into the night • various program changes in recent weeks have cut the festivities down to but a four or five hour affair, and four or five hours is nothing at all in the open expression of satisfaction by j a populace which has been hoping , and planning for five years, j While the celebration has been set I in location directly on the eastern side ! of the south shore terminal of the span it will actually get its impetus in the congregation of a big historical parade in Edenton under the guid ance of Chief Marshal Carroll E. Kramer. The parade will be one of numerous county floats, each sup posedly. emblematic of some high his ; tory spot in each commonwealth’s life, of a half dozen or so bands, of an almost countless chain of motor ; vehicles carrying dignitaries and j other distinguished guests to the I scene of action across the gaily de | corated and festooned bridge. Mr. Kramer, an expert in matters of this sort, will be assisted in his work by four town and county stal warts in the persons of Fermor W. Hobbs, Charlie Swanner, B. Warner Evans and Henry Goodwin. The marshal’s aides, all horsemen of j moment, will await the cavallade at the north shore side of the bridge and following the grand marshal v lead the procession ahorse t