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Volume IX.—Number &7.
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C. Os C And Merchants Meet Next Tuesday Night
Superior Court Calendar
Includes Charges Os Arson
And Attempt Commit Rape
Judge R. Hunt Parker:
Scheduled to Preside
Over Session
LIGHT”DOCKET
Chesson and Pulp Mill
Argument Again
Bobs Up
With Judge R. Hunt Parker, of
Roanoke Rapids, scheduled to preside,
the September term of Chowan Su
perior Court will convene Monday
morning, September 14. The court
will be a mixed term with criminal
cases being first on what appears to
be a very light docket.
The principal criminal cases in
clude a charge of arson and at
tempted rape, while the civil docket
again includes the Robert L. Ches
son and Kieckhefer Container Com
pany, of Plymouth, suit which for
> several years has consumed much of
the time of the Superior Court term.
On the criminal docket William
Henry George, colored, is charged
with an assault on a female with in
tent to commit rape.
Clesmon Holley, colored ia charged
, with refusing to allow his children
to work for L. ~C. Baker after al
legedly receiving advances of $52.90
and $91.30 from Mr. Baker for sup
port of hi* family.
An arson charge is lodged against
i ' Mary Riee, colored. She is charged
with setting fire to and burning a
, large --Stock, .house, the
property ,v{ Herbert S. vSmalk
£ mfrf: V >:
Holmes vs. Jenkins Motor Com
pany. This is an action brought
against the Jenkins Motor Company
(Continued on Page Jive)
Revival Meeting At
North Edenton Church
Begins Next Sunday
Evangelistic services will be held
in the Assembly of God Church, cor
ner of First and Bond Streets, be
ginning next Sunday, September 13,
and continuing through Sunday, Sep
tember 27. Services will be held
each night at 8 o’clock, and will in
clude good singing and old-fashioned
preaching.
The preacher for this series of
meetings will be the Rev. George
James, prominent evangelist, who has
; held meetings in many churches
’ i throughout the eastern part of the
country.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haste visited
l relatives at Merry Hill Monday.
\ country. He is one of the five Pres
byters of the Potomac District Coun
cil with long experience as pastor,
« teacher and evangelist. At present
he is pastor of the Assemblies of God
Church in Alexandria, Va.
The Rev. J. Edward Garns is pas
tor of the church and extends a cor
dial invitation to the public to at
tend.
Dance Tonight In
Edenton Armoiy
I Music Furnished By ‘Dil
lard’ Dixon and His
Orchestra
. Another dance will be staged in
the Edenton Armory tonight (Thurs
day) with music furnished by “Dil
| lard” Dixon and his orchestra, which
is an an up and coming group of
P Edenton youngsters who have played
r for several dances much to the de
light of those who have attended.
I Maurice ("King”) Bunch, Jr., fur
nishes a feature of the orchestra by
I rendering trumpet solos, which have
it been reason for much favorable com
-1? ment. The dance tonight will begin
E at 9 o’clock and continue until 1
o’clock, with proceeds scheduled to go
. into U. S. war bonds and stamps to
. be credited to the orchestra,
i fit Members of the orchestra are Miss
i R Doris Jean Leary, Billy Brunson,
: Lester Stewart. Millard Ward, Maur
ice Bunch, Jr., West Byrum, George
Alma Byrum, Dick Dixon, Dee Skiles
and Clarence Leary, Jr.
THE CHOWAN HERAfcsi
A NOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO TBE INTERESTS Or CHOWAN COUNTY
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J§i|, ' .Jill
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SHIELDS HASTE, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Haste, a staff
sergeant in the V. S. Aviation
Corpß. will 'ndi'ite from an
officer’s ad><» d ui Miami Beach.
!Fla„ as a s . »nd lieutenant on
October 27. He returned from
Newfoundland in July, where he
was stationed before enrolling in
the Florida school.
Mrs. R. L Leary
Salvage Program
Campaign For Waste
Kitchen Fats Now
In Progress
Mrs. R. E. Leary, on Tuesday, was
appointed vice chairman of the Wom
en’s Division of the salvage program
in Chowan County and will take an
active part with Miss Rebecca Col
well, chairman, in the drive now in
progress to accumulate waste fats.
“When should kitchen fats be used
as food?” and “when should fats be
turned into processors to increase
the glycerine supply?” are two sig
nificant questions being asked by
home-makers.
To answer these questions this ex
planation is given: By making good
use in the kitchen of the fats saved
from day to day, getting the most
from them as a food, which will les
sen the burden on commercial stocks
of fats. Remember that the fat
saved and used for food helps. Be
sure to turn in all that is not used
for food and cooking.
If properly cared for the fats
saved may be used for seasoning,
frying, and in some cases for baking.
To use these facts is good home
economics as well as national
economics.
Fats are perishable and will turn
rancid if they are not used within a
reasonable length of time. The fol
lowing suggestions are offered for
the use of fats: Bacon drippings are
used for frying or seasoning vege
tables; Poultry fats may be used as
shortening in cakes, biscuits and
other baking, or frying.
Drippings with characteristic flav
ors should be used where the flavor
is desired. However, if only “fat” is
wanted, clarify it by mixing with
water, using twice as much water as
fat, and boil for 10 minutes. Stir
well, and then leave it to cool. If it
is a soft fat this should be cooled in
the refrigerator to give a solid cake.
When it is cold, lift off the layer of
fat and scrape any dark material
(Continued on Page Five)
Two Local Red Men To
Attend Great Council
A. S. Hollowell and W. J. Daniels
will leave Sunday for Richmond, Va.,
where they will attend the annua)
meeting of the Great Council of
United States, Improved Order of
Red Men. Mr. Hollowell is one of
North Carolina's representatives to
the Great Council. Both, expect to
return the latter part of the week.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 10,1942.
Red Cross Begins
Tuesday To Make!
Surgical Dressings
30,000 Expected to Be
Made In 11 Work
ing Days
‘ WORKERSNEEDED
68 Volunteer Their Ser
vices Three Days
Each Week
Material arrived Tuesday for the
making of surgical dressings under
the sponsorship of the Chowan Coun
ty Chapter of the American Red
Cross, and the same night a group of
ladies went into action in an effort
to make 30,000 of these dressings.
This quota is expected to be com
pleted during this month in 11
working days.
This work will be in progress each
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
the morning hours being 10 to 12
o’clock, 3 to 5 o’clock in the after
noon and from 8 to 10 o’clock at
night. The Parish House will be
headquarters.
To date 68 ladies have volunteered
to help make these surgical dressings,
but if the quota is to be reached,
more volunteers will be necessary.
Any who desire to contribute some
of their time to this worthy cause
should see or call Mrs. W. H. Coffield,
chairman; Mrs. Lela M. White, co
chairman, or Miss Corinne Forehand,
the instructor, or present themselves
at the ParSh House during the time
work is in progress.
There ladies were delighted when
123 reported for the opening Monday
night and made 967 dressings. Es
pecially was this gratifying to them
when it was brought out that in Eli
zabeth City only two reported the
first night and work was abandoned.
There is a friendly rivalry existing
| between the two chapters.
Miss Corinne Forehand, who took
a special Red Cross course in making
the dressings, is the instructor, and
, IS ladies have qualified as supervis
ors. These are: Mrs. W. J. Berry
man, Mrs. M. G. Brown, Mrs. R. G.
Carter, Mrs. W. H. Coffield, Mrs. J.
H. Conger, Mrs. J. W. Davis. Mrs.
R. E. Forehand. Mrs. R. C. Holland,
1 Mrs. E. A. Gorlock. Miss Maude Mill
er, Mrs. J. M. Price, Mrs. Lela M.
White and Mrs. John G. Wood.
Workers who have volunteered are:
Mrs. Francis Benbury, Mrs. Robert
Bunch, Mrs. W. H. Bolling, Mrs. L.
S. Byrum, Mrs. W. W. Byrum, Mrs.
Albert Byrum, Miss Mary Lee Cope
land, Mrs. J. A. Curran, Mrs. Alli
(Continued on Page Five)
REV. C. A. ASHBY RESIGNS AS RECTOR
OF OLD ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
! Succeeded Late Dr. R. B. Drane Nine Years Ago;
Plans to Live on Large Ranch Near
Jacksonville, Florida
Edenton will lose one of its most
valuable citixens when the Rev.
Charles Aylett Ashby gives up the
rectorship of old St. Paul’s Church
and moves to a ranch in Florida.
The news that Mr. Ashby had sent
his resignation to the vestry to be
accepted by them at the earliest
time possible agreeable to the wel
fare of the parish, seeped out into
the town Tuesday, and was unwel
come news to most Edentonians.
Mr. Ashby will leave at the end of
October if the vestry thinks he
should stay that long to overlook
the important every member canvass.
If the vestry will let Bishop Darst
handle the canvass, and the Bishop
offers to come here for that purpose,
then Mr. Ashby will leave at the
end of September.
Mr. Ashby was bom and spent his
youth in Culpepper, Va., July 19,
1874. He was graduated from the
Virginia Midland Academy and Hall’s
Academy, the latter operated by a
retired Presbyterian minister at Cul
pepper, and then went to work for
the electric railway company in Rich
mond, Va. He rose rapidly with the
company and was soon assistant
cashier thereof at a good salary.
He got off from work about 8 p. m.,
and went to Richmond College, now
Richmond University, where
he took a course in law and was
{graduated in 1894. He won the
medal, which he yet wears, as being
the best speaker of the college, and
there were some 900 attending Rich
k
! Town Council Adds
i Another Officer To
Police Department
Harry Snell, Former Of
ficer In Washington,
Accepts Position
DISCUSS~TOILET
Cement Sidewalk For
North Side of East
Gale Street
Harry Snell was added to the
Edenton police force by Town Coun
cil at its meeting Tuesday night,
bringing the number of patrolmen
now employed to five instead of
three as has been the case for many
years. Mr, Snell, whose home is in
Washington, N. C., served on the
Washington police force for six
years, during which time he has been
assistant chief, plain clothes man and
regular patrolman.
Specific duties and regulations
have been drawn up bv Mavor J. H.
McMullan. which provide for all the I
officers being under the direction of
Chief of Police G. A. Helms, who in
turn will be directly responsible to
Town Council in seeing to it that
the regulations are carried out. R.
L. Pratt will carry tire title of ser
geant and will fill Chief Helms’
position when off duty for any rea
son.
The regulations call for more ac
tual patrolling on foot with only
one policeman at or near enough to
headquarters to answer the tele
phone, while the police car is to be
used only when needed and only for
patrolling in North Edenton. A
meeting of Town Council and all of
the policemen will be held in the
near future, when the duties and
regulations required by Town Coun
cil will be discussed.
Another addition which will afford
better protection is the addition of
four telephones which will be placed
in various sections of town for use
by officers in that section to call!
headquarters. These telephones will
be enclosed in boxes with only offi
cers having keys.
The Couneilmen also adopted an
amendment to the recent black-out
ordinance which extends the power
of the Civilian Defense Council with
in a radius of one mile from the
town limits. It was also decided that |
in order to curb an influx of cheap
and undesirable games, it will be
necessary to secure a license from
Town Council as a whole.
Another matter again bobbed up
which had to do with a public toilet
(Continued on Page Six)
mond College in those days, and also
when the Richmond Dispatch came to
sum up the law class of which Mr.
Ashby was a member, it said: “Os
course C. Aylett Ashby is the ablest
member of the law Hass, and he will
have a brilliant career as a lawyer.”
Mr. Ashby moved to Newport News
upon graduation and established a law
office, where he did well, and later
established the firm of Ashby and
Read, one of the best known law
firms of that section. Mr. Ashby
was a trial lawyer of note, trying
cases from Richmond to Norfolk.
When Judge W. C. Blackstone was
impeached before the Virg’nia Legis
lature for having the record book
brought to him when drunk, the
Judge selected Mr. Ashby out of his
circuit to represent him in the im
peachment proceedings.
In 1909 at the urgency of Bishops
Randolph and Tucker, the then bish
ops of South Virginia diocese, Mr.
Ashby gave up law and went into the
ministry. He was then superintend
ent of a Sunday School which he had
built uo from about 9ft to 415, and
was cited by Bishop Tucker in his
annual report as an examole of what
a layman could accomplish if he
would work for his church. Mr.
Ashby went to the Virginia Seminary,
and got through there in 1911, hav
ing made high marks: 100 on church
history and the Prayer Book, some
thing no other student had done.
Mr. Ashby was offered a church
(Continued on Page Six)
Large Attendance Urged
In Order Put Machinery
In Motion For New Year
j Promoted j
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LINWOOD EDWARDS, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Edwards, was
recently promoted to Third Class
Petty Officer at the Naval Avia
tion School in Chicago. He was
one of 25 to be recommended for
a commission and will now enter
training as an aerial gunner; He
enlisted in Norfolk on January
Ist of this year.
R. L Martin, New
Band Director Conies
Well Recommended
Considered Best Direc
tor and Instructor
In State
That R. L. Martin, Edenton High
School’s new band director, comes
well qualified is reflected in a letter \
i to The Herald from John W. Lupton,
Roanoke Rapids hardware dealer.
Mr. Lupton had this to say:
“I am enclosing a clipping from
our local paper which I thought
would be of interest to the Edenton I
paper and to the citizens of your
town. Having been a musician for
the past 20 years and knowing Mr. j
Martin during that period, I have j
seen him get wonderful results from
green material. In my opinion, he.;
is one of the best instructors and ;
band conductors in the South. Tt is
with the deepest regret that the boys
and girls and the citizens of this
town are parting with him.”
The newspaper clipping referred to
was taken from the Roanoke Rapids
Herald and follows:
“R. L. Martin, Bandmaster of the j
Roanoke Rapids High School Band |
for the past 21 years and the Rose-1
mary Concert Band for many years, j
has resigned to accept a position as [
bandmaster of the Edenton High i
School Band.
“During the past years, Mr. Mar- ■
tin also conducted the old Roanoke i
Rapids Band and at one time was
bandmaster for three bands here at
the same time.
(Continued on Page Two)
Building- Inspector
Now On Fall Round
Building Inspector R. K. Hall is
now making his usual fall inspection
and, therefore, urges residents to
make a careful survey of all chim
neys and fireplaces as a precaution
against fires. He is inspecting the
business section this week and will
gradually extend his activities into
the residential section.
Library Begins Winter
Schedule On Monday
Beginning Monday, September 14,
the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library
will resume the winter schedule of
hours, which will be from 2 to 5
o’clock every afternoon during the
week except Sunday. The Sunday
hours will be from 3 to 5 o’clock in
the afternoon.
Aside from these hours, the li
brary will be open Monday and Fri
day nights from 7 to 9 o’clock.
fi t Co
I
•here Advert* n trill
reatee good rendte.
$1.50 Per Year.
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Meeting Will Be Held
In Court House at
8:30 O’clock
NEED MEMBERS
Plans Now Ready to
Peg-in Membership
Drive
Next 1 uesday night, September 15,
another effort will be made to put
into action machinery of the recently
consol dated Chamber of Commerce
and Merchants Association, when a
meeting will be held in the Court
House at 8:30 o’clock. This meeting
was called by President J. G. Cani
pen two weeks ago, when not enough
members or interested citizens were
on hand at a meeting to effect a
working organization.
There is much work to be done by
the organization, one of the major
problems being the membership drive,
which already should be completed
or at least well underway. For that
reason every merchant and business
person in Edenton is especially urged
to he on hand Tuesday night so that
activities can be started without
further delay.
A tentative budget has been work
ed by W. M. Wilkins, Richard Elliott
and T. C. Byrum, members of the
Finance Committee, which calls for
raising approximately $5,000 for the
year. President Campen, on Tues
day night, will name the membership
committee, whose duty it will be to
canvass the town in order to secure
not onlv that amount, but a member
ship which should be larger than
any ever experienced by the organi
tion. Tt is the opinion of both Presi
dent Campen and Vice President
Ralnh Parrish that the need for a
| strong and lively organization in
Edenton was never more necessary
j than at the present time. Both of
; these men accepted the responsibili
| ties of president and vice president
respectively solely because of their
keen interest in the development and
progress of the town, and for that
| reason they appeal to every business
i person to attend Tuesday night’s
meeting so that the load can be
j equally distributed as it rightfully
should be.
At the meeting, too, the constitu
| tion and by-laws committee is ex
oected to be ready to report so that
j the rules of the organizat'on can be
j discussed and adopted. Members of
this committee are R. P. Badham,
! John Mitchener an Millard Bond
Ralph Parrish is vice president
]of the organization which carries
, with it head of the merchants group
with services practically identical
with the former Merchants Associa
tion. W. M. Wilkins is treasurer,
while the following compose the
board of directors: J. Clarence Learv.
T. C. Byrum, Richard Elliott, W. E.
| Malone, John Mitchener and Guy
i Hobbs.
Air Station Groups
! In Quarters At Site
By Next Monday
j Temporary Administra
tive Building: Near
ing: Completion
With the temporary administration
building nearing completion at the U.
S. Marine Corps Air Station, all
three of the organizations connected
with the construction of the station
are expected to be out of their pres
ent quarters and housed in the new
location by Monday.
The three organizations affected
are the Navy Department, which has
been located in Hotel Joseph Hewes: '
Olsen, Deitrick, Carr & J. E.
Greiner, engineer and architect con
tractors, who have been occupying
the second floor of the Court House,
and North Eastern, Warren, Beckham
& Brooks, contractors for construc
tion of the station, who have been
occupying the Kramer Garage Build
ing on West Water Street.
Work in connection with moving
will begin today (Thursday) and is
expected to be completed by Monday.