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Hertford County Herald ?- : fi[ i - HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE- BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA 'I 1 -i~ . . Volume XII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, October 14, 1921 4 One Section No. 24 ?Governor Morrison hu eall Si a special election to be held Northampton ("punt i ?? the rli-rdOn of county representa tt> -succeed Dr. M. Bolton, de ceased. FW tions liayp also he en called in four other.counties to elect representatives.. ?Mayor Eldridge of Raleigh has lifted the ban on public dances ih the city auditorium, but announces'that strict p 1 king will be in effect at all fu ture dances. . ?V ?Special traffic regulations are being arranged in the city of Raleigh during the Great State Fair next week. ?The water situation in Ralei gh is again reaching the acute itage, with the continued drou ght. ?$3,000 worth of diamonds were stolen from the home of E. H. Jordan, qf Raleigh, last Monday night. ?The State Good Roads Asso ciation -held a two days session in Greensboro this week. ?i-Frank Henderson, wife slay er of Madison County, paid the death penalty by electrocution Monday. Tk. J XtT xuc uo.v VII vv County Superior Court was giv en over to a memorial of the late justice Allen, of the Su preme Court bench. ?Alumni of $. C. State College in a meeting at Charlotte, re ceived greetings from the col lege president, 200 miles away, in his office at the college. Each alumnus at the Charlotte meet ing was provided with a tele phone, over which the message wis given ?Two sites on the outskirts of Raleigh will be offered to the trustees of Meredith College, which wiH be moved from its present location. ?All of the North Carolina col leges suffered defeats, in foot ball, against heavier teams last Saturday. The most important game this week is that of Wake Forest-Davidson, which will be played Saturday. ?Dr. B. F. Kaupp, of the poul try division of the State Depart ment of Agriculture, has re turned to Raleigh from the W0 rld Poultry Conference, held at The Hague, Holland. -"-Lewis Edwards, of Danville, Va., has been sentenced to 10 years in the state pentitentiary for his part in the killing of po liceman McCuiston, of Greens boro, several weeks ago. ?The Knox Presbyterian chur ch of Charlotte, under the re cent will left "by Mrs. Sallie Cal .dwell, will receive $55,000 by changing the name of the chu rch to the Caldwell Memorial. ?Secretary Thad Page, of the Moore County Fruit Growers Exchange, reports that $715, 000 wa& received from the sale of peaches raised in that coun ty this summer. ?Presbyterians of the State wil soon Degin a drive for funds for providing for the orphans at Barium Springs. ?Geddes Day, in honor of the British 'Ambassador, will* be ob served at Flora McDonald Col lege on the 18th. of October. ?Lenoir County is paying out for roads each week $30,000. -?Winston-Salem will start a ? school for the training of police men for that city, ?The town of Lexington now claims the record for street pav ing in North Carolina, a record heretofore held by Kinston. ?A conference of presidents of North Carolina Colleges was held in Greensboro last week ?According to ginners' reports ?. - ' ?* t* > in Cumberland county, four ti mes as much cotton has been ginned in that county as was gi nned during the same period of last year. ?Ptoseprous times in rural dis tricts are helping to enforce the prohibition laws, according to Kinston news despatches. -^-Tobacco prices throughout the eastern section of the state have remained high during the past week, new high records be ing made at several places. ?The first snow of the season fell in western North Carolina last Saturday. ?Another job will be created for a North Carolina Republi can, when the state is given an other Internal Revenue, as is now planned. ?AH records in exhibits enter ed at the State Fair have been broken this year. ? ?Over eighty contractors are actively at work on state r9ad contracts ; and over 1,000 miles of hard roads are under con struction, according to the Hig hway Engineer. ?Jobs for 1,327 persons were secured by the North Carolina division of the U. S. Employme nt Rureau, dijring the month of September. ?A big Armistice Day celebra tion is being planned for Nov ember 11th., at Raleigh. ?The boll weevil has appeared A i. djm n a.. ?v jtxj ucii, *ii i iwi> \j\junvy ? ?Judge J. Bia Ray, of the Su perior Court bench, has order ed the commissioners of Meck lenburg county to make some improvements to the courthou se or suffer a penalty. i ' ?The Greenville Training Sch ool celebrated its ISth anniver sary last Wednesday, one week after the opening of the fall see sion. i ?>Mr. Paul R. Rouse, of Fort Barnwell, and Miss Effie J. Ro use, of Dpver, recently discov ered that they had not been le gally married, although they had gone through the ceremo ny several months ago. On ac- , count of the expiration of com mission of the justice who mar ried them, it was necessary for them to be married again. i ?W. P. Ingram, prominent cit izen of Rockingham County, has been pardoned by Gover nor Morrison. He was serving a road sentence for retailing. ? :?North Carolina's cotton repo rt indicates an average of 54 per cent as against the South's average of 42 per cent. ?Edgecombe county will, loan the State Highway Commission the money with which to con struct a hard surfaced road out of Rocky Mount to Tarboro. * ?A conference on tuberculosis was held in Greensboro last | week. i . V ? ? ? 4 ' ?Earl Hedrick, of Fayetteville ha* purchased the Greenville i News, a daily paper, from Jno. A. Parks, of Raleign. ?A young man- of Lumberton was recently sent to the roads , for retailing^vinegar at seven dollars a quaUMabeled as bot tled in bondtTVs liquor. r-W. B. Sullivan, publisher of < the Charlotte Observer, died in New York City last week. ? , ?The Roper Lumber Co., now the Rowland Lumber Company, of New Bern has resumed oper ' ations after several months of 1 enforced idleness. i ?A rate of one cent per mile - will be granted by all railroads i to Confederate veterhne who at tend the annual reunion at Chat tanooya, Tenn., this month. ?Wake Forest College announ ] ?"THE BUSY STORE"? The oldest readers of die HERALD will intuitively asso ciate the phrase "The Busy Store" with the name of one of Ahoskie's leading business men and the owner and proprietor of one of Ahoskie's foremost department stores?Mr. E. J. Gerock. Perhaps, there are oth ers, who are not readers of the HERALD, who likewise form this association in their minds; but, the constant reader of this paper is more apt to link the two together. .Why? Because, E. J. Gerock has believed in the value of news ink?he has been a firm believer in ADVER TISING. By sticking doggedly at it?advertising, we mean? he has succeeded in building up his present large business, with a clientele of patrons as good or better than the average de nartmanl ?A ? THE HERALD doe* not re member an issue in which there did not appear the advertise ment of "The Busy Store;" for almost twelve year* this alert business man has carried an ad vertisement in the county pa per, admittedly the best adver tising medium available to the small town merchant. Through hit keen perception of advertis ing values, the subject of this sketch has not suffered a week to pas* that he did not use space in the HERALD through which to advertise his growing busi ness. The advertisement of 'The Busy Store' was on* of the lim- ? Hod few that "stuck" eveu du ring the days of the World War, when neither manager nor editor was here to guide the destinies of the county pa per. And, The Busy Store was right there in its usual space, when publication was resumed after the signing of the Armis tice. 1 The HERALD would not dose this little bit of "shop talk' without adding a word of ap >reciation for the universal pro mptness with which advertising bills against this progressive bu sines* have been settled?a ha bit into which all of our "old line" advertisers have fallen in to; and a trait which is comm endable in all who adopt it. It is with keen regret we are announcing that the familiar j advertising?"The Busy Store" -?will, at least temporarily, be seen no more in our column*. .; ? -. v. ce that it wishes to enter into a triangular debate with David ion and Trinity Colleges. ?Three hundred marshals will officiate at the Great State Pair next week. ?$750,600 will cpine to North Carolina banks from the War Loan organisation. St ATE BOARD QF HEALTH 18 COLLECTING STATIS TICS ON BlkTHS, DEATHS mmmmmmmrn ? The Birth* and Death* Should, ?-^?ded With The VI tal Statistics Bureau of the Department of Health I?&leigh, Oct. 10.?In several eowttes of the state the State Board of Health is instituting an Intensive check on the re ports of vital statistics. It is ne cessary that a high percentage of girths-and deaths be report ed In order that the State re main in the official registration ar^|, under the rules of the Bu reau of the Census. Periodic checkings are required to show conclusively that such percent^ age is maintained. Special attention will be giv en to the reports of births. The report^ of deaths, in the State are now practically one hund red per cent complete but there is reason to believe that quite a number of births are got re 1 ported, as required by law. This i State according trf the reports i mnrfo louHo oil flto ofatoa nf Union with the highest birth rate, nearly eighty-five thom and births having been record ed during the past year. At the same time it is known that qui' te frequently a birth <is not re ported to the local registrars. It is to find these, and to stim ulate more complete reports, that the intensive checking is 1 being instituted. The method of checking re turns is one recommended by the Bureau of the Census. In the selected territory a careful ; canvass is made through gov | eminent agents to ascertain the names of all children, with the names of parents, who havebe l en born within the past year. These reports are then check ed against the birth certificates filed with the bureau of vital st atistics in the State Board of Health for the same territory. Under the laws of North Ca rolina it is a misdemeanor pun ishable by'fine or imprisonment for an .attending physician , or a midwife to fail to promptly re port to the local registrar any birth* The.birth certificate con tains such necessary informati on As the name of the child, the name of the parents, place of residence, and other import ant information. A birth certifi cate is a document that may i prove of the highest value, and is now recognized as the inhe-, rent right of every child born in | the State. It is the intention of the State Board of Health to protect that right, and insure it for every child insofar as is possible. 0 EDITOR STORY PAYS VISIT TO AHOSK1E Editor H. L. Stroy, of the M bermarle Observer at Edenton, paid Ahoskie a short visit last Tuesday, motoring over here af ter a business trip taking him to Powellsville. Mr. Story, is bet ter remembered here as "Pro fessor Story," having a few years ago been principal of the Ahoskie school, for one year. While here thai other day, he quite naturally paid the HER ALD office a call; and, when he greeted the editor of this pa per, it was teacher and pupil met?both now engaged in the same venture. Editor Story was somewhat bewildered at the many addi tions and changes wrought in ! "Th4 City" since the days of yore, when he wielded the "hic kory." In a comparatively short period of time Ahoskie has so outgrown its former proportions until the visiting editor l^ard'y recognised the Ahoskie of a ve ry fe* years ago. HEAD OF EXCHANGE HAS ENTERED UPON DUTIES IN DEAD EARNEST Th? Peanut Exchange U Re-1 ceiving Many Coagratulutiu on Securing the Service? of Mr. Birdsong, Who Is A Pea nut Man Suffolk, Va., Oct. 10.?Thom as H. Birdsong, whose announ cement as General Man&ger-of. the Peanut Growers Exchange has already been inade in these columns, has entered upon his new duties, and is already bu sy on. the job working out plans for the handling of this year's crop. Mr. Birdsong has reached the definite conclusion that the peanuts will have to be weigh ed and graded by competent receivers at the various ship ping points, and that settleme nt with the growers will have to be made upon these weights and grades. Satisfactory arran gements are being made for th? storing of peanuts and the pro visions for securing the necessa "ry money for taking over the peanuts of all members as soon as ready for market will soon be completed. The Exchange is receiving ma ny strong expressions of con gratulations from growers and ousiness men on lis securing Mr. Birdsong as Manager. The Tide water News, published at Fran klin, Va.? edited by Mr. Paul Scarborough, says: "Last week's announcement of the selection^ of Thos. H. Birdsong of Suffolk for this po sition has, as we see it, definite ly settled the all-absorbing qu estion as to whether the Ex change will or will hot be a suc cess, and leads us to make the unqualified statement that Vir ginia-Caroina Peanut Exchange is starting at the very beginning of its perfected organization to function in'a way that promises to the farmers of the peanut belt all that they have hoped 'for, worked for and planned for since the inception of the movement several months ago. "We could wish at the out set that every farmer in the pea nut belt knew Mr. Birdsong as we know him; that they were acquainted with his splendid ability that they were conver sant with the success he has al ready made of his own business, starting as a poor country boy and advancing within a compa ratively short period to one of the commanding pbaitions in peanut world, and that they al so could realize how all who know him in Southampton, Is le of Wight and Nansemond Counties admire and esteem him for his integrity, his stand ing among hs fellows and for the effective and untiring ener gy which he applies to every thing in which he is interested. "Tt waiiM Ko wnrao fVian cmi. cidal to employ inexperienced or inefficient man to handle the affairs of tjie Exchange. The or ganization wouldn't last twel ve months under such a head and would not amount to a pic ayune under anything than the best man in the peanut belt as its manager. Mr. Birdsong pos sesses three requisites, essential in the man picked to handle the peanut crop?he is a good hus- : iness man who has made a sig- ' nal success of every business in which he has ever been interest ed, enjoying the confidence of, the public and of the financial institutions of the peanut belt; as a practical farmer and farm owner and as an experienced buyer he posses a thoto kn owledge of the peanut business from the fiqjd through the fac tory to the ultimate consumer, and he is a man unquestionably j reliable and loy^taeyeryain frle trust and oblgitaion ever mposed upon him. Under his management and with the co operation of the farmers of the peanut belt ahd the wise coun COUNTY FAIR IN PROGRESS WINTON * . < ^""rv PA?P FULL SWAY Hertford County Fair Opened Tuesday with Large Array of Exhibit*?Good Racing Pro gram Every Day?No Dirty Shows, or Otherwise, on The Grounds This Year A first class agricultural and livestock show, minus the inde cent shows of the ordinary mid way, is thd accomplishment of Secretary M. R. Herring, of the Hertford County Fair Associa tion, at the fourth annual fair, which opened at the fair gro unds, Winton,- Tuesday morn ing. Today, Thursday, the "fair begins its third day, with an in creasing attendance since op ening day. Tomorrow night will f witness the close of the fair. The exhibits in all lines this year surpasses anything shown at previous fairs in Winton; the versatility of the Hertford soil is clearly evidenced by the va riety of exhibits shown, Includ ing "money" crops, hay and grain products, and the articles grown in the garden, for hum an consumption. The prize hogs shoats, pigs; ewes, lambs, heif ers, bulls, and the pens of fowl are all but evidences of the "hog and hominy" theory pnt into practice in Hertford. The canning products are both varied and numerous, ma ? ny of them the handiwork if the county club girls. The exhi bit in the Hasketry Department ?_ iL - A 1_A uj one ui me most interesting at the fair, showing what a multi plicity of household articles, ei ther useful or ornamental, have been made by t"he boys and girl of the county. Other interesting exhibits are the Antiques and Curiop, and Needle and Fancy Work. In fact, every depart ment in the exhibit buildings as well as those housed in the live-, stock building and chicken dc partment, is creditable not on- , ly to the superintendents of tne various departments, but they are real live evidences gnd p r v of conclusive of the producti i ty of Hertford County in ??* <-ry line of farm and domestic ac tivity. The principal attraction of each day's program has been the fast horse racing. Kvery sta ble at the grounds is taken; A a record number of entries e ? e being made each day. Fast time has been made in all the ra ces. . . The display qf fireworks at _ night provides entertainment to the evening crowds. Tonight, Thursday, a special double header fireworks display will be given. The Herald hopes to give na mes of the winners in the var ious departments and exhibits in a subsequent issue. 0?? ? " The Herald is "fltten" to read. Send us your subscrip tion to-day. sel of the board of directors, the Exchange can not fail to sue ceed. He is the right man for the job and is entitled to the loyal and whole-hearted sup port of every thember of the Ex change." When in need of Job Print ing?think of the Herald a* Ahoakts. ? ? . 1 V '? .. & ;Y ' JhA \Vm!
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