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The Chowan Herald j
Published every Thursday by The Chowan
Herald, a partnership consisting of J. Edwin
Bufflap and Hector Lupton, at 423-425 South
Broad Street, Edenton, N. C.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1940.
THIS WEEK’S BIBLE THOUGHT
DO NOT VIOLATE ETERNAL LAWS: Cast away
front you all your transgressions, whereby ve have trans
gressed and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for
why will you die? —Ezekiel 18:31.
No Animosity Whatever
While, The Herald was an ardent supporter of the pro
posed bond Issue for making very necessary improve
ments in Edenton, there is no feeling of animosity what
ever <m the part of the. writer. If another election were
held tomorrow, a similar vote would be cast, based on
the firm belief that at least some improvements should
be made and strengthened by the belief that not to do
them is false economy in that there will be a continual
»nd increased drain on the Street Department budget in
.ay of maintenance and providing temporary relief.
We live in a democracy, however, and there is no ques
tion but that the majority of people, at least those who
voted, are preponderously opposed .to going in debt for
the purpose of making these improvements. They have
spoken in no uncertain terms, and the majority rules.
While a little better than 8 to 1 voted against the pro
posed bond issue, there was no little comment on. the
part of some of these same v oters that while they favor
making improvements, now is not the opportune time to
undertake to do this work, while others expressed the
belief that only a portion of the work should he done. and.
en a pay-as-you-go basis.
A strange turn in. the election is the fact that 28|i. per
sons signed the various petitions, counting the cotton
mill as only one signer, and only .98 Votes were cast in
favor of the bond issue in all of the fourwards of the
Town. Even many who signed up for the improvements
failed to vote in the election, so that they have no right
to complain about inconveniences which would have been
ell minuted hy the iw p rovement program.
Anyway, what has been done has been. done.
Cleaning Up In Order
In no wise mentioned in the form of an alibi, Satur '
day - sn rial election brought to light the. fact that the j
Tdv s rt g :str itioiv books are in a deplorable condition
and Town. Couic'il, "in fairn* !" any future issue or
can' idun si for office, should "a. . ange for a new regist ra-
Vi 1 ! . - "of voters still appea m :h<- bo. -k- who.'-have j
b ;. d-,;u. a quarter of a yen and a-" - >me wlm;
havemoved away from Edento: r.l long. Be-)
sides, there are voters Who have ■.moved, from one section 1
of Town to another and their na ties nave not been traps- j
ferred to the registration book in the ward where he or |
she is entitled to vote.
Many voters last Saturday .were denied, the privilege
easting a ballot in tile special election. Os course. [
these votes would have hardly, affected the ultimate re-j
suit of the ejection, for included in the number were )
those both for. and against .the: issue. However; some
apparently . Were of the opinion that because they voted !
in ,the/last election, which was a County election, their
names were on the books for a. City election. It should
be I,.Tile ii. mind that there are tW" separate sets of
books for City and County elections, and in some in-
Stances there are different polling places: Cor instance,
a- <'• ,m v .election all voters or. the east side of Broad
B'.i'e* and- area beyond vote at tile Court House,
whii* • se o'i the west side of Broad Street vote at (he
Mvinic.il a Bui ding. -
1 he d: 9 "rm:, o: a.i a T'lvvn t'lectiiin comes ahiiut. by tin
fact '".at ' iihre are, four wards which are .divided In
Br ad aioj Cl m'h Streets, so that voters in . the'First l
VVa-e vote ,i > tin Municipal Building, tin -sa" reha- in a
1 • 11 ofh and Second: Ward Voters cast their bal
lets a: t.hi < "hr: House.Us in a County election. In the ;
'i uni W aid. however, the polling place is usually at. the :
W. H. : Harris store, and in the Fourth Ward at Worth
Lay.Joi - store, tin- polling:, places being designated hy
T v i ‘ 'our.eil before an election.
I hat there mas .quite a .hit,of misunderstanding is re
fleeted in the. fact, that,; many yoters went to the Court
House to Vote in the election. while their proper voting
place was at the Layton store; and the same Condition
prevailed at the Municipal Building, where voters were
piipposed'iq Cast their ballots at the I'arrish store.
1 H 'ourse, this misunderstanding is the fault of the
voters concerned, for due notice had been given as to the
porßirg places, registrars and judges of ejection in the
varaus wards, and voters urged to see to it that their 1
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'j Heard & Seen!
By “Buff” n j
The Herald printed all letters received both for and
I against the proposed bond issue, but my friend E. J.
I Bunch, sent in one too late to put into type for last
j week’s Herald. Os course, the bond issue was com
! pletely snowed under, but here’s Mr. Bunch’s letter just
, the same:
; “To My Enemies and Friends and Neighbors: Be it
{ known unto you that 1 would love to see all of the streets
; in our beautiful little city curbed and paved, with side
walks laid. But as I see it, it is the wrong time to un
' dertake such a great task as this, with everything so
I scarce and getting higher and higher ail the time, and
! the whole world in such a turmoil and strife, and another
World War brewing. What we need more than anything
else, is to get back to God and pray. ‘But seek ye first
j the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all thtse
things shall be added unto you. Take, therefore, no
thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof.’ Matthew (1:33-34,
I. “In Heard and Seen ‘Buff’ says, ‘Those guys in Wash-!
| ington do some funny things.’ I don’t see where the j
; kettle has any right to call the pot black, do you?
j "1 am asking every person in Edenton to seek God and
j pray and get God’s will about what to do, and then go
i to the polls and put the answer in, and I know every
-1 thing will be all right.”
Yep, “take no thought for the morrow.” All we need i
to do is go to church, read the Bible and pray. God Al
mighty. no doubt, has also been very busy during the
war, but when He catches up maybe he'll send down His
' street paving equipment arid a gang of angels to pave
Edenton’s dirt streets, put in Curbs and gutters, improve
I the storm sewer system, or anything else we might de
•• sire-- ALL FREE! Let’s get to praying, folks.
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Ralph Smith of Coral Gables, Florida, a step-son of
W. F. Swearinger, editor of the old Edenton Transcript,
was a visitor in Edenton last; week and was talking about
some of the old times in Edenton. He met up with some
of his old friends and was looking for Kid Jones, but
never did get up with him. He said he and Kid went to J
school together and that Kid was the dumbest bov in j
school and he the meanest, or maybe it was the other
way around.
Just about the most popular contraption in town is
Izzy Cam pen's lawn mower. Izzy rigged up a machine
out of a baby carriage and a set of blades which look
like old butcher knives. He attached a small motor to
the thing and it cuts grass from away hack. In fact,
so many people want to see his ridiculous-looking rig
that he’s about decided to charge admission. The thing
cuts going and coming and has been Izzy’s salvation in
liis yard where the grass was about to "take him". Only
one accident has occurred and that happened when Izzy
was sharpening one of the knives. The stone slipped,
causing a gash in his thumb requiring four stitches to:
close it. One of the most ardent admirers of Izzy’s “in
vention" is Leon Halsey, who has a job of keeping grass
j cut. Leon has already advertised for a small motor.
out he's sort of dubious about using liis baby carriage-
Che might need it. Izzy, of course, Was more optimistic,
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It's ail; Miss Rebecca Colwell's fault. Tuesday mofn-
I ing she called up a, (T asked me to try and ::tt"nd. the I
i county-wide j cn'.c at. Valhalla Well. I forgot t! at the
i picnic was set. d . d to he held \\ . dm-sday, so Tut sday [
afternoon T bu. !> d to. g t shaved and cleaned up a I*/ ;
1.■ in order to heat the-' wele.line words. "Let > eat. f-dks" j
, Upon arrival at the auction block there Was nohod;. J
■ there except a few frames with a small pile of water
' melons. Going into‘lie store I.asked Hanford Forehand,
i "Where is the count.-wide picnic to be held?" “Right
here." said Sanford. "Well,”. I. replied, "wasn't it .sup
posed to start about 4 o'clock ?" Stopping his w ork, j
Sanford said, “Why, yes. at 4 o'clock Wednesday after
j noon," Well, it didn't hurt-'anything, to be on time, did
: it ?
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Getting away from Saturday night s, baseball game
(was almost as bad as a football game at Durham or
Chapel Hill. Night games are very popular, especially
for some <»f the teams in the league, so that seats are
;*! a premium. In fact, it’s getting so that if any
group wants to have a night meeting it is necessary
to find out if there's a night baseball game scheduled at
Edenton or Hertford.
! What I'd like to know is. the 'meaning of week-end.
Take Wade Cashion, for instance. Whi n he takes a
week-end trip, he leaves Thursday morning anil gets
i back the following Wednesday night,
! Ca) Kramer gave a fellow some good advice the. other
day. 'Evidently:'learning that the Edenton postmaster
was an ardent fisherman, the fellow, equipped with poles
and other paraphernalia, dropped in to. see Cal, "Can .
you tell me where to get a good mess of fish?” the
stranger, asked him,: "Well,” said Cal, “if you want to
be sure,of getting, a good mess, just go down this street
to the Broad Street Fish. Market.” ' (.I’ll collect from
Haywood Jones for that plug).
names were on the Town's registration books, in that it
was not necessary to have a separate registration for
the election.
However, be that as it mav. the Town’s registration
books are in very bad shape and should be put in more |
up-to-date condition for future elections.
LETTERS TO THE f
EDITOR I i
OPPOSES LEASING BASE 1
Editor Chowan Herald:
In your last issue of the Chowan
Herald l see where the Town of Eden
ton wants to lease the Edenton Naval
Air Station. Well, that don’t make '
sense. If the Edenton Naval Air Sta
tion is too expensive for the U. S.
Government to keep up, how can the
Town of Edenton afford to keep it up.
Even if the Government would give it
to the Town, the Town could not keep
it up.
Now if the Town of Edenton and
Chowan County want to do something
that is badly needed and would be
beneficial to'all the people and not a
few, try to buy or lease just the hos
pital, not the base, at the right price
and equip it and then have some
j money left from the Hospital Fund '
jto run it on. If you put all the money j
that is now collected for hospital
funds in a hospital, it will not run it
self.
DR. J. W. WARREN.
ONLY ONE MASS NEXT SI'NDAY
AT ST. ANN’S CATHOLIC CHURCH
The most holy sacrifice of the mass,
including Holy Communion, will be
offered only once Sunday, August 4.
in St. Ann’s Catholic Church, wj|h
confessions starting one-half hour,
ending 5 minutes before services, to
which everybody is invited, stated
Father F. J. McCourt, rector. Week
mornings: Mass, Communion, Ros
ary. -
EASONCROSS ROADS
j Mr. and Mrs. Spivey of Suffolk'
j visited Mr. and Mrs. 1.. B. Lawrence
Sunday. Miss Virginia Lawrence
returned home from Ocean View after
spending sometime at the beach.
Miss Wessie Harrell and Frances
Lawrence spent Saturday at Ocean
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Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Harrell and .
children visited Mr. and Mrs. L. B. j
Harrell Sunday p. m.
Miss Sill Jordan is suffering from i
a bad leg which she fell and hurt
some time ago. .
Kermit Jordan of the U. S. Army )
is home with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walice Jordan. He haH ,been
discharged from the Army. i
Mrs. Walice Jordan and sons, Ker- i
mit and Billie spent Saturday in j
Elizabeth City.
Clifton Jones of Norfolk spent the j
week-end with his parents, Mr. and )
Mrs. Benedict Jones.
SOCIETY WILL MEET MONDAY
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the Baptist Church will meet at :
the church Monday afternoon at 4 j
Too Late To Classify
CANOE FOR SALE—SEE JAMES 1
| Leary or Jim Wood. ltpd j
WE HAVE ANOTHER SHIPMENT!
of hay and good ole Mule and Horse i
Purina Feed. Halsey Feed & Seed
Store, “The Checkerboard Store”.
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garden. We have just received a
new shipment of Seeds and Garden
Fertilizer, also Garden Dust. Hal-,
sey Feed & Seed Store, “The Check
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pullorum controlled stock. Will
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