North Carolina Newspapers

jotmia fair presentation at had and county nows , third interest. Volume Vl.—Number 18. | County Commissioners In r Favor Plan To Consolidate 1 Three Rocky Hock Schools New Building Would Be l Erected In Center of Territory SELL PROPERTY Schools at Oak Grove, Gum Pond and Beech Fork Affected According to sentiment prevailing among the County Commissioners and County Board of Education, a new central graded school will, be con structed in the Rocky Hock section to replace the three schools now op erated at Oak Grove, Gum Pond, and . Beech Fork. The of the three schools was presented to the Com ‘ missioners Monday by Z. T. Evans, member, of the school board, on the f premise that the new school would I greatly improve school conditions in the Rocky Hock section of the coun- ■ ty. In each of the three schools] seven grades are now taught and by j comparison at intervals it has been shown that under this system pro gress made by these pupils is far be low those who are taught in schools where only one or two grades are taught by one teacher. If plans sot consolidation of the schools are carried out, the new ' building will be located on the center road running through Rocky Hock about one-half mile from the Rocky Hock church. Tentative plans call for a brick veneer building of four ¥ooms and possibly an assembly hall. The cost involved is estimated to be between $4,000 and $5,000. The Com missioners were so much isf favor of the idea that Vhe Bo«ilaUvfl3E»lucatlor was authorized to secure an estimate of the amount of money which can be I realized by the sale of the thfee | present buildings and ground in order V to ascertain how much will be neces ' sary to be appropriated, which \rill ' come from the capital outlay account. ■ The property is, therefore, being ad vertised for sale in this issue of The Herald. •At present there are four teachers in the three schools, but attendance intone of them has been so uncertain tljat there is a likelihood of losing a teacher. Under the new set-up at tendance will warrant four teachers ' with the possibility of securing another teacher. The present en rollment in the four schools is about I#9 pupils. f The consolidation idea is similar to one advanced about ten years ago when R. H. Bachman was county superintendent and whifch \vas. bitter ly opposed at that time. However, former opponents now realize that with the change of conditions and the possibility of losing one school on account of attendance, the section will be benefitted by a central school for teaching the graded classes. The matter will no doubt be brought up for final consideration at the next meeting of the two boards. Ranks High In U.S. , Saving Bonds Sale ©f 1,200 Offices Edenton Claims 43rd Position v In Volume of Sales if Secretary of the Treasury Morgan ihau has announced that the total V: sales of savings bonds through March 31, 1939, aggregated in maturity value, more than $2,437,108,850, and .tKaf purchases have been made by ap ■ proximately 1,664,608 investors. The total represents average purchases of $1,967,526 forreach business day since March 1, 1935, when these bonds were , first placed on sale. Deducting bonds | redeemed, the maturity value of sav t ings bonds outstanding on March 31, 1939, was approximately $2,206, r 008,900. X • The total maturity value of pur s' chases for the calendar year 1938 : was $707,291,650, ah average pur ‘ chase for. each business day of last year of $2,334,30% , Approximately $2,000 post offices throughout the country sell United States savings bomfc and of this t * number 1,200 are locate in North Carolina. 'ln. the State- the Edenton v . office ranked 48rd in ybtafctte of sales. THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Merchants Balk At Closing Stores Half Day During Summer ■■■« Vote 10 to 2 Against Idea at Meeting Held Wednesday There will be no summer half holiday observed by Edenton stores, according to action taken Wednesday afternoon by a group or merchants who met at the Municipal Building to decide the matter. The idea was discussed pro and con and upon a vote it was deckled 10 to 2 to remain open all day during the summer. Finals At L H. S. Get Under Way Thursday, May 11, With Recital Baccalaureate Sermon On May 14 By Rev. W. C. Benson ampleTroom Graduation Exercises to Be Held Wednesday, May ITth With 42 students included in the 1939 senior class of Edenton High School, expectations at present are that the largest class in the history 1 of the school will graduate on Wed nesday, May 17, when graduation ex ercised will be held in the new school auditorium. This number exceeds last year’s class by eight, which to taled 34 students. The commencement season will get under way Thursday night, May 11, • when a music recital will be held in the auditorium by pupils of. Mrs. Leon Lewis. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Rev. W. C. Benson, pas tor of the local Methodist Church, this exercise taking place Sunday night, May 14, at 8 o’clock in the auditorium. Night services at the churches will be called off and due to this fact it is expected that the new auditorium will be filled to capacity. On Friday night, May 12, the. seventh grade will have their exer cises when those promoted to high school will receive their certificates. Class Day exercises will be held Tdesday night, May 16, which always attracts a large crowd. The final commencement program Jgvill take place Wednesday night, * May 17, when the graduates will be presented their diplomas which term inates their career in the public schools. I Much more interest prevails in ! commencement exercises this year due to the fact that an auditorium is available in which to adequately car [ ry out the exercises as well as seat the large number of relatiyes and friends who enjoy attending. Last year, it will be remembered, com mencement exercises were greatly handicapped due to the new audito rium being in the course of construc i tion. Court House Tower Will Be Repaired Chowan County’s Court House will undergo some improvements, as the result of Richard D. Dixon, custodian j of the building, being authorized to ’ oversee repairing and paintirie the tower, including the numerals and hands on the 'dock. The weather > vane has become loose and a number of nails have been pulled out of the ; tin roofing, which will be repaired in order to protect the timber under t neath. *• . 1 The County Commissioners on > Monday authorized Harry Spruill to t do this: work, delegating Mr. Dixon i to see to it that, it is properly dime ■ and to repair any other disrepair i which night be discovered while toe work is being done. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, May 4,1939. Important Peanut Meeting Be Held In Edenton On May 4 Specialists Headed By Dean I. O. Schaub Will Attend OUTLOOKBRIGHT ! Group Will Consider De velopment of Re search Work An important peanut meeting will be held in Edenton on Thursday, May 4, when Dean I. O. Schaub of State College, Raleigh, with a group of specialists including Dr. Collins, Dr. Middleton and Dr. Poole will meet with the directors of the Peanut Stabilization Cooperative. Announce ment of this meeting was made by R. C. Holland, president of the peanut association. This group will give major consid eration to the development of the lines of research work to be under taken by State College Experiment Station for peanuts during the next two years, the money for which re search work in this crop was appro priated by the last General Assem bly. The peanut growers of North Carolina are pleased over the pros pects of beneficial results that are expected from this research work, says Mr. Holland. The meeting will be held at the Court House beginning at 11 o’clock and, those attending will be served dinner at 1 o’clock at Hotel Joseph Hewes. Trio Os Red Men Go To Meeting- Os Great Council In Greensboro A. S. Hollowell, W. J. Daniels and J. Edwin Bufflap will leave Edenton Sunday morning for Greensboro, where they will attend a meeting at the Great Council of North Carolina Red Men. The trio expect to return Wednesday night. Mr. Hollowell is great sachem of the Order, Mr. Daniels, a member of the judiciary committee, and Mr. Bufilap will attend the meeting in the capacity of representative of Chowan Tribe, No. 12. Considerable interest in the meet ing prevails in the local Tribe due to the fact that Mr. Hollowell will va cate the highest office in the Order during which he made a very credit able showing, and also because sev eral important matters will be con sidered of vital interest to Redman ship throughout the State. Garden Club Meets Tuesday Afternoon Members Asked to Send Flowers Cut From Own Gardens Members of the Edenton Garden Club are urged to note the change in date and hour of meeting, which will be held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the home of Mrs. John G. Wood, at Hayes. At this particular tinie the gardens at Hayes are very beau tiful and every member of the Club is especially urged to attend, this meeting. The program committee asks that each club member bring to the meet ing a bouquet of flowers cut from her own gardens. These are asked to be arranged as attractively as possible and sent to Mrs. Wood’s home Tues day morning. The idea is not to have a competitive exhibit but mere ly to show what, type of flowers are in bloom in the various gardens at the prtesent time. Bank of Edenton Will Give, Savings Account To Class Valedictorians j Hie Bank of Edenton, in order to encourage scholarship as well as thrift among high school stu dents in Chowan County, will this year present a $5.00 savings account to the valedictorian of toe graduating class in the Edenton High School, Chowan High School and toe Edenton colored high school. For a number of years the bank presented a medal to the moat outstanding student, but has this year ddcMed to change to a savings account instead in the hope that the award will create more fatbreri aa well aa be of more hniilf Dr. W. S. Griffin Unseats Fermor Hobbs As Member On Board Os Public Works; Wilkins, Haskett And G. M. Byrum Win The Way Edenton Voted First Second Third Fourth Ward Ward Ward Ward Total MAYOR: J. H. McMullan 114 163 124 97 498 TREASURER: W. H. Gardner 123 158 128 86 495 COUNCI LMEN-AT-LARGE. O. B. Perry 113 130 116 86 445 J. Edwin Bufflap BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: W. S. Griffin ___. 94 182 120 85 481 W. W. Byrum 104 137 119 81 441 F. P. Wood 99 117 98 68 382 F. W. Hobbs 53 42 60 34 189 G. W. Leary 4 29 21 8 62 COUNCILMEN: First Ward L. P. Williams 133 Second Ward G. M. Byrum . , _ ._ - _IBO Raleigh Hollowell 47 Third Ward Leroy H. Haskett . 87 Albert Byrum 76 Fourth Ward W. M. Wilkins 84 Gurnie Hobbs _—.——_.—________— 36 Commencement At Chowan Will Begin On Sunday Night Supt. Clyde Erwin Grad uation Speaker Wed nesday Night EXPECTjCROWDS Rev. Frank Cale Will Preach Baccalaure ate Sermon Commencement exercises at Chow an High School will begin Sunday, May 7, according to W. J. Taylor, County superintendent. 6*n that night at 8 o’clock, in the school audi torium, Rev. Frank Cale, will preach the baccalaureate sermon. On Monday night, May 8, the music recital will be held at 8 which will also take place in the” school auditorium. Class night exercises will-.'be held| Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, when the usual program will be rendered and the house is expected to be filled to capacity. Graduation exercises will be held Wednesday night in the auditorium, when Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state sup erintendent of public instruction, will deliver an address to the graduates. This exercise will also begin at 8 o’clock. Commencement exercises at Chow an High usually attract large num bers from the surrounding section and this year is figured not to be an exception. .Members of the graduating class are: Isaac Byrum, Leroy Harrell. Carlyle Hollowell, Forest Jordan, Margaret White Byrum, Irene Cope land, Mamie Hollowell, Clarine Lane. Juanita Lane, Gladys Layton, Pearl Nixon, Lillie Mae Saunders, Evelyn Tynch and Eleanor Winslow. The original program included a declamation and recitation contest which was scheduled to be held Fri day night, May 5, but on account of so many other things being crowded into the limited time, Principal Pearly Baumgardner announced early this week that this contest will be aban doned this year. Superintendent Taylor announced that the white schools at Center Hill, Gum Pond, Beech Fork and Oak Grove will have their closing exer cises on Monday and Tuesday nights, May 8 and 9. Colored schools will not close be fore* June 2nd. Masonic Lecturer Coaching Members P. C. Stott, Masonic assistant grand lecturer, arrived in Edenton Monday to give instruction to mem bers of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7. Mr. Stott is working at any hour conven ient with members of the local lodge and will remain here until Saturday. The lecturer, a blind man, is accom panied by his wife, whom he took unto himself since his last appear ance in Edenton two years ago. Mr. Stott will attend the regular meeting of the lodge tonight and all members, especially the officer*, are urged to be present. • t •~ijj} y ’.j v.-'- i Dancer Campaign Falls Short Os Goa! : In Chowan County Edenton, However, Ex ceeds It Quota of $75 During Drive finalTlist Mrs. B. W. Evans Appreciative For Co operation Offered Though slightly under the goal of sll3 for Chowan County in the can- j cer control campaign, Mrs. B. W.j Evans in her final report shows that! $104.25 has been collected for this worthy cause. While she regrets that the goal was not quite reached and that contributions were somewhat! gtbelow those tff last year’s total, Mrs. j frlvans has expressed her appreciation! I for what was received in the face of j many other drives for money for va-| I rious purposes. Especially is she ap-( preciative of the support given by; Mrs. Wood Privott and Miss Rebecca j Colwell, her lieutenants, and the can-i vassers who did. splendid • work in canvassing their respective sections. The campaign has officially closed, but Mrs. Evans expects to receive a’ few more contributions from several solicitors who had not completely, covered their territory. In Edenton the quota was passed. The quota for the city was $75, but $78.80 was secured, which Mrs. Evans says is due to the well organized plan of solictation and the persistency of canvassers to see every person on their list. | Those who have contributed in the! campaign, either by membership oi l donation, since last week’s issue of- The Herald are: Mrs. Gibson Perry, Mrs. R. W. j Leary, Sr., Miss Louise Bush, J. L. Savage, J. C. Leary, Mrs. Rosie (Continued on Page Five) Edenton Band Plays At Gallopade Today, Edenton’s High School Band will leave Thursday morning for Rocky [ Mount to participate in the Gallo , pade celebration. The local organiz-fi : tion will take a prominent part in: ■ the affair and is the only eastern ,! high school band to be included in j bands invited to take part. • < At last year’s celebration the local band was signally honored and Direc tor McCullers feels sure this recog nition will be repeated in that the band has grown in numbers and has ! greatly improved in ability to per form. Many of the parents of chil dren in the band as well as other friends are expected to journey to Rocky Mount to see the outstanding spectacle. Dixon Is Reappointed As County Accountant Richard D. Dixon was on Monday re-appointed county accountant by • the County Commissioners. Mr. I Dixon’s term of office expired May 1, • and his new appointment is for a two yean. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.25 Per Year. Interest Attracts Many More to Poll Than In 1937 CLOSE THIRD Appointments Will Be Made at June Meet ing of Council Despite a steady rain almost all day Tuesday over double the amount of Edenton voters went to the polls in the city election than in the pre vious election in 1937. With contests developing for membership on the Board of Public Works, and council men from the Second, Third and Fourth Wards, the election took on the form of county or state elections when candidates resorted to hauling voters to the polls in the interest of their candidacy. Keen interest prevailed in the con test for three seats on the Board of Public Works, with five candidates in the race, in which Dr. W. S. Griffin unseated Fermor W. Hobbs, present chairman of the Board. Dr. Griffin polled the highestvote, a total of 481, with West Byrum trailing with 441 and Fred P. Wood with 382. Mr. Hobbs’ vote was 189 and George W. Leary, low nian with 62 votes, i A very close race occurred in the Third Ward, where Leroy Haskett ousted Albert Byrum by a slim ma jority of 11 votes. Haskett polled 87 votes to 76 by Byrum. Mr. By rum is at present chairman of the important finance committee and while a member of Town Council took a major part in making up the bud get. He had a particular hobby of acquainting himself with the town’s finances and kept an eagle eye on expenditures. . In the Second Ward, Graha’r By rum, veteran member of the Board, had little trouble in defeating Ra leigh Hollowell, winning by a vote of almost 4 to 1. Byrum polled 180 I votes, while Hollowell secured only j 47. Mr. Byrum is at present parks j and playgrounds commissioner. A considerable amount of interest centered on the result for the coun ' eilinanic seat in the Fourth Ward, j where W. M. Wilkins, incumbent, was j opposed by Gurnie who made I a last-minute entry in the race. ! Wilkins won out handily, polling 84 ; votes to 36 polled by Hobbs. Mr. ! Wilkins was appointed as a member ; of Town Council from his ward when (Continued on Page Five) Property Advertised Next Week For 1938 Taxes Not Yet Paid Delinquents Urged to Pay Sheriff Bunch Before Saturday With Saturday being the final day |to pay 1938 taxes before being ad j vertised, Sheriff J. A. Bunch is anti cipating a large collection of county taxes on that day. Delinquents Thrill |be published in The Herald next S week, which fact has been reason for fairly good collections during April. 1 According to Sheriff Bunch’s monthly j report to the County Commissioners | Monday he collected $5,015.19 of 1938 ! taxes during the month, bringipg the j total amount collected to date to j $56,094.36. The tax levy for the I year is $82,007.99. j During April Mr. Bunch also col j lected $228.27 of 1937 taxes which brings that year’s total collections to $83,764.53 of the levy of $96,146.48. All delinquent taxpayers have been notified by Sheriff Bunch that their property will be advertised next week 1 and The Herald has been carrying 1 notices to that effect. The county is in need of funds at present and it is hoped most of those who have not paid their taxes will do so before 1 Saturday night. Important Auxiliary Meeting Friday Night The monthly meeting of the Amer ican Legion Auxiliary will be held Friday night at the Armory at 8 o’clock. Mrs. D. M. Reaves, presi . dent of the organization, says very , important matters will be presented i at this meeting and for that reason every member is urged to be present.