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Hertford County Herald HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE <f BEST ADVERTISING MEDIU M IN EAST CAROLINA ^?????mmmmmmmmmim Volume XII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, December 23, 1921 One Section No. 34 STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PLIED FOR READERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD ?A total of 73,206,917 pounds of tobacco were sold ip North Carolina during the month of November, at an average price! of $27.02 per hundred pounds.! t?The probable reduction in va lues of land under horizontal reductions made by the various counties this-year, will amount . to approximately six hundt-ed million dollars. ?The Presbyterian church of ; Tarboro will open ,a reading & writing room in their church on January lirst, for the accomo dation of its members and the friends of the church. ?North Carolina ranks third in the United States in its total value of farm crops, according j to state commissioner of agri culture, W. A. Graham. {? ?Without a single dissenting vote the town council of Dunn has voted to sell its municipal 4 electric light plant for the sum of $45,000. The purchaser is the Carolina Light and Power Co., of Raleigh. ?Lenoir County will have com pleted its two million dollar road construction program by the first of next June. ?C. J. Kelly, garage man of Sanford, was found guilty and sentenced to five years in the Federal- Pentientiary, in additi on to having to pay a fine of five thousand dollars for having I bought stolen cars. He was tri ed in Fedefal Court at Raleigh last week. Kicfimond, Va., nas purcnas-i edthe ball club of Tarboro who! has given up its franchise fn the Virginia baseball league.. -?Ralph Patterson, Wake For est College freshman, was on last Wednesday taken from the Campus In broad daylight, as he was on his way to breakfast,, and given an application of ni trate of silver, by "Mx students of the college who were attir ed in hoods and robes. He was' taken into the college gymnasi-) um, where there were thrpe ot-; her men who helped to admin-1 ister the "blacking. As result; of this episode six men have al-1 ' ready been expelled from the college and others are expect-! ed.to be expelled. ?Dr. J. W. Taylor, of Greens-; boro, was found not guilty of having immoral relations with his stenographer, Miss Clara Saunders, in the Municipal cou " rt of that city last Saturday. On Monday, however, Ke was fou nd guilty of beating his wife and young daughter and was given a fine of $150. ?Liquor law enforcement offi cers Are biisy in the Dunn dis trict, having destroyed many stills within the past few,weeks in theirjTiads. ?There are over, a half million Baptists in the State of North Carolina. "V ?At Elizabeth City there is a hew and novel industry where by cork for use in fishing tackle is being manufactured out of the roots of gbm trees. ?A man in Sanford was one day last week tarred and feath ered, and tnade to walk down the streets of the town, for haV ing sold whiskey to & boy. ; ?Eight stills in one day is the record made by the internal re venue officers of the .county of Wake. The raids were made on Saturday and all of the stills captured were in the. section of County known as the "Harri cane." ?Furraan Betts, Jr., a young boy of Raleigh, was tolled off away from town, by a negro on last Saturday, and relieved of a five dollar bill which the ne gro claim to be trying to have changed for the boy. ?The universities of North Ca rolina and Virginia have decid v ed to arbitrate their difference over the eligibility of one of the former's football players who participated in the annual grid iron struggle on Thanksgiving. ?Wake Forest College will de bate three institutions during ' - * A?'> v JL its spring term, one of them being the Baptist University of Oklahoma. ?A bond issue of one hundred and hfty thousand dollars has been authorised by the legisla ture, for the schools of Tarboro. ! ?Governor Cameron_MorriaoiL pardoned one ancTparoled thr ee at the end of last week, the regular pardon week of Decem ber. ?Every agency in the Harnett County cotton growing district is doing its part in fighting the advance of the boll weevil, the chabber of commerce now be ing at work in the campaign. ?The state of North Carolina will raise $35,000 for the me morial to Woodrow Wilson, ex -president. Hon, Josephus Dan iels of Raleigh is chairman of the committee to raise the state quota. ?J. W. Cannon, wealthy cot ton mill man of Concord, died Monday. He was the father-in law of Federal Commissioner of Internal Revenue, David H. Blair, of Winston-Salem. ?Walter N. Patterson, aged 50 of Concord, committeed suicide last Sunday, cause.d by constant brooding over the capture of his whiskey still by the prohi bition officers. ?The city of Henderson will float a large bond issue in the near.future, for the construc tion of an adequate water : ply plant. This city suffered ve ry gnuch this fall on account of the drought. -?A young woman of Burgaw has been awarded a National prize of one hundred dollars for a composition written on "Peace." ?The Red Cross and other ag encies of a philanthropic natu re are planning to make the hearts of the sbldiers at Oteen glad, on Christmas Day. Many eats. and presents will be dis tributed on Christmas. ?The "Davidaonian", David son College weekly publication, will get out a special edition, in honor of their distinguished for mer student, Woodrow Wilson. -^-Marcus Edwards, who esca-' ped from the state prison last May, returned voluntarily and surrendered himself to the au thorities one day this week. He will complete a sentence of a lifetime which he was serving at his escape. He gave a detail> ed account of how he had spenj, the several months while he was' at large, doming direct to this state from some place, in Arkansas. ?Aaron Sapiro, attorney 01 , California, who.wrote the con tracts for the various coopera tive marketing associations, j will return to this state to make several addresses this week. ?The Southern Power Compa ny has let the contracts for coh struction of t\vo new hydro-el ectric plants to be built at some point in the western part of the state. One of them will gener ate 80,000 horespower. ?By virtue of a recent ruling of the State Suprehne Court, the consolidation of schools in Da vidson County has been held up. ?The North Carolina Foresty Convention will meet in W< | mington during the latter part ! of January. -' ?-Federal Prohibition ^Director iCohless of North Carolina has reported to the Washington au I thorities the operation of sever al whiskey syndicates in North Carolina; and a special detach j ment of sleuths will be sent to j the State in an attempt to break up the wholesale violation of ; the prohibition laws. ?Charlotte was this week host to the Odd fellows of the state who held a meeting there. 1 ?The State Board of Agricul ture, augmented by three oth er men, will make an exhaus tive study of the tenant prob lem of the state, within the next twelve months. General Assembly Adjourns By turning the clock back on Sunday, and clamping down on all new bills, with a hurried pas sage of many local bills, the cor rection of the Municipal Finan-1 ce Act, and the passage of the measure for the relief of the! State Department of Education, the North Carolina General As sembly was able to conclude the business of the special ses sion, Monday. No measures of state-wide importance were passed during the special session,' except the Finance Act, and the Education bill, the latter being fostered by Representative Matthews of Bertie County. The bills to cause the State "R'evenue "Officer to publish the complaints against assessment arid his action in each case fail ed to pass, although the vote on the measure was very close. All of the billfc designed to change the method of the deathpenalty met defeat; the Dunlap Eject ment bill, supported by the mill interests of the State failed of passage, as did the bill intro duced and which would have repealed the state-wide prima ry law now in effect. Two bills relating to Hert ford County were passed dur ing the special session, one to al low the county commissioners to appropriate money for bri dge construction in the county ; and another empowering the County Road Commission to li quidate the debt against the old road supervisors of Murfrees boro Township. , Both Messrs. Winborne and Barnes were absent from their placefc in the law-making body, several days last week, having taken an active part in the case of State vs. Robertson, at Ga tesville. '" ? - 1 i* . /. .. * ... Coming Out Early This Week The HERALD is being is sued one day early this week. ? We've "Christmas in our bo nes" and we decided it "were best and more fittting that we take off time enough be fore old Santa comes in order that the paper may .make its usual appearance next week. For several years it has been our custom to take a week off this time of year but on account of the number of legal advertisements running 1 in the paper, it will not be convenient for us to do this next week, hence you may look for a paper. Those having news for ; publication next week are requested "to have it in early as we are expecting to pub lish a day earlier. Advertis ers will also take notice. ^ a J MENOLA NEWS A pageant, "Bethlehem," is to be staged at the school build ing on Friday at eight o'clock. Local talent will give the pag eant, to which everybody is fn t Vited. It will be highly^ enterta ining. - Mrs. Harvey Snipes is still ve ry ill. She was taken to Sarah Leigh Hospital a week ago. Miss Janie Parker went to Norfolk on Saturday returning on Sunday evening. Mrs. J. M. Eley spent several ? days last week with her son, Dr 0. W. Eley in Portsmouth, V*. and returned on Saturday ev ening. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Benthall of Woodland, spent Sunday af ternoon with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. El?y, Mr. II arvey Snipes left for I Norfolk on Sunday to spend a couple Of days with his wife. J <Fi " ~ jr ' V f REV. F. T. COLLINS RESIGNS Rev. Fred T. Collins, wKo has been pastor of the Ahoskie Bap tist church for the past three and a half years, tenderd his resignation to his charge on last Sunday evening, following the regular preaching services. At the morning preaching hour, he told his congregation that he had reconsidered his action of a few Sundays ago, when he ac cepted the call for 1922. The question of his resigna tion was taken up Sunday night and it was voted that he be ask ed to remain here for thirty days, during which time a new pastor will be sought. 0? Betterment Meeting Deferred f. - The meeting of the Better ment Association will be defer red until after the Christmas holidays. The time for the Jan uary meeting will be announc ed later. 0 | STOP CATARRH! OPEN NOSTRILS AND HEAD j I Says Cream Applied in Noatrila j ? Relieves Head-Colds at Once. 1 L - If your nostrils are clogged and your head is stuffed and you cant-tuxnfhe' freely because of a cold or catarrh, just get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm at any drug store. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream into your nostrils and let it penetrate through every air passage of your head, soothing and healing the inflamed, swol len mucous membraho and you get in stant relief. Ah! how good it feels Your nos trils are open, your head is dear, no more hawking, snuffling, blowing; no more headache, dryness or struggling for breath. Ely's Cream Balm is just what sufferers from head colds and one tarrh need. It's n delight. The Herat*. Je cheep at $1.50 * ' 19 ' .'?* *> i ? ." I " ' ~l COTTON HAS FOOLED EVERY SINGLE GUESS cott6n crop this year FOOLED EVERYBOD Y Crop Reporting Service Say* Everybody Guessed at The Crop and None Got It Right ?Crop Was Poor But?North Carolina Had A Better Crop Than Other Southern States Z11' 1 " Y Raleigh,, Dec. 17.?The cot ton cvop for 1921 was like this > ear's weather. Everyone gues sed at it and missed. The "Gov ernment" or Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates, has been criticized because their estima tes were too low this year. The October forecast was for 490, 000 bales and the December estimate was 800,000. These estimates were based on the re ports of the same 2300 reports who are farmers having above the average knowledge of con ditions. The "Government" the refore reflects the peoples' ve racity and information, not th at of any special official. Since all private agencies were quite as erratic, the Coperative Crop Reporting Service at Ra leigh has deoided that every one was just fooled about the acreage and yield, or else many just tried to fool others. Then, too, the yield improved won derfully after the August ex tended drought. The terrible boll weevil did not do nearly the damage expected excepting in tha eountioe adjacent to the iouth Carolina line. 1 The bright side of this de ceptive cotton report is that the State of North Carolina has the . best crop of any state, having made a fine yield per acre, in view of the dry conditions, and jt has helped in giving the state a possible rank of third, or in ( the class next to the California ' and Texas empires. Even Illi nois and Io'tvk seem to be sur- * passed. If so, cotton and tobac co did it. The underestimation should have helped the farmer rather than otherwise. This year a crop seems to be about 8000 bales for Nor^h Ca rolina or almost ten per cent of the South's 8,340,000 bale crop which gives us fifth rank amo ng cotton states. The state's $ield per acre was 256 pounds and the December 1st. price 1^.4 as compared with 16.2 ce nts for the national crop. Who would have thought this state would make more cotton than South Carolina or Oklahoma, and almost as much as Georgia. Even an eight million bale crop means but 6 per cent of last year's crop. Our unex pected large'production is^but dicative of the fact that North Carolina is about the most for tunate state in the union. Our peraere value of crops is quite high, and we are not burning corn because .it is the cheapest ? fuel. We are behind and unpro gressive in many respects but, the Lord haa favored this year. The cotton yjelds per acre by counties for the coastal and piedmont areas are estimated * to be. as follows: [ COASTAL COUNTIES Beaufort 289, Bertie 835, Bla den 215. Brunswick 140, Cam den 328, Cartaret 325, Chowan 345, Columbus 173, Craven 260 Cumberland 250,'Currituck 340 Duplin 218, Edegecombe 225, Gates 247, Greene 267, Halifax 194, Harnett 287, Hertford 312 Hoke 270, Hyde 231, Johnston 298, Jones 255, Lenoir 249, Mar tin 802, Nash 291, New Hano ver 280, Northampton 236, On slow 240, Pamlico 270, Pasquo tank 290, Pender 215, Perqui mans 315, Pitt 334, Robeson 277, Sampson 286, Scotland 327, Tyrell 380, Washington 280, Wayne 305, and Wilson 318 pounds per^acre. Rub-My-Tism for Rheumatism. ?advertisement. ? i | . Oor Greetings i IfS t*. ?' i '*- I ; In the Meaning of Christmas I In the true spirit of the occasion and with due apprecia tion of all it implies; we extend Christmas greetings to the read ers of this publication. Christmas has a meaning possessed by no other holiday throughout the world. America has its na tional and special days, other cbuntries have theirs: Christmas is the only one alike in spirit and celebrated in all Christian lands.. So pure is its principle that it commands respect and admiration among people who worship their Creator in differ ent ways from ours. Christmas typifies all that is best in mankind. It is the cul mination of the human mind throughout the ages dwelling up on the wonders and mysteries of existence, turning to a rever ence for God and Ifis representative on earth. It expresses the' ascendency of spirit, the realization of men of their interde pendency and their duty to one another; and so it is marked by the bestowal of gifts and other sentiments of benevolence and well wishing. '? - ' -, "r-M1 ? * The makers of newspapers, concerned as they are with the doings, manifestatibns and thoughts of their communities and the world at large, and recording them in their more important aspects for information, mayhap the education of readers, are brought into an intimate sense of the spirit and meaning of the Christmas .Day. Would that we could express to you all the, good that we see in the hearts of mep and the increased bril liancy behind a few shadows of the light which has upheld the world for so many centuries. In the happy auguries we see for the future, there is every reason to be merry. Our Yuletide thoughts go out to the people of this cmomu- . uity and our thanks are due the patrons and kind friends who have given us practical support or extended encouragement! during the year. May this be the best Christmas'you have ever spent, is our wish to all. ' JAS. S. VINSON, Manager. J. ROY PARKER, Editor. -1 ~1r
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