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Hertford County Herald HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA fotume XII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, April 14, 1922 One Section No. 50 )0 NOT INCRE ASE ACREAGE THIS YEAR MANAGER BIRDSONG WRITES OF DANGER '?anut Growers of North Caro lina and Virginia Arm Warn ed By Manager Bird song Not To Increase Peanut Acreage In 1922.""*' "Any increase in the peanut acre age of Virginia and North Carolina lor 1922 will be most disastrous," ays Manager Birdsong of the Peanut }rowers Exchange. "So apparent is he necessity for the growers to cut heir peanut acreage that any efforts ? get them to increase it rather than o decrease it must be taken as op >osed to the best interest of the (rowers. With a surplus for 1921 ind the prices at a low level, there is every reason why the peanut acreage ihould be cut 20 to SO per cent to iring it back to normal. The probab Hties are that it will cut that much >r more." "Acording to carefully tabulated ?eports from over 1,500 growers the otal production fro 1921 was about 10 per cent more than in 1920. How iver, with all this increase in produc ion, our reports further show that he total production for these two its tea was not over 8,000,000 bags, vhich is 1,000,000 bags less than the exaggerated estimate of 4,000,000 >ags which has been scattered broad cast by certain bearish influences.' [*he Exchange itself has 800,900 bags sither in warehouses or already re H>rted to be delivered later, the re ports of the Bureau of Markets up to Kareh 15 showed that a total of >00,000 bags had been shipped out of his section, and 400,000 bags are es timated to be in the hands of growers mtside the Exchange, and of country nerchants. These fibres sccount for 1,100,000 bags. So far there are to te^a total of 3,000,000 bags the cleaners and warehousemen would lave to have in their factories and' warehouses in the way of fanners rtock and cleaned goods as many pea ints as have already Keen shipped out, >r a total of 900,000 bags. It is tardly probable that they have any luch large quantity." "The heavy movement of peanuts n both the Southeastern and South western Sections are most favorable :onditions for better prices later in he season. These sections for 1921 is compared with 1920 show that 10,000,000 more pounds more of helled peanuts have been shipped >ut, and that 10,000,000 more pounds if peanut oil, representing 40,000,000 xrands of peanuta, have been made, rhis increase of 50,000,000 pounds nore in other sections much more han offsets the decrease of 18,000 >00 pounds in this section. Reduced :o 100-lb. bags, the figures would how a total movement for the first lix months of the 1921 crop of 870, 100 bags more than for the same >eriod with the 1920 crop." "These same reports further show hat in the Southeastern section fully 15 per cent of the peanuts are now >ut of the farmers' hands. The luantity of peanuts held by the ?leaners and oil men is not known for he simple reason that the cleaners ind warehousemen of Virginia and lorth Carolina refuse to furnish the Sureau of Markets with reports of heir holding. If these peanut people would only give this information as he cotton milla and grain elevators lo, the peanut growers and .the trade would have the advantage of doing Misiness in terms of open knowledge ?ether than according to hidden ae *eta. Such reports as the Govern nent now issues on peanuts were nade possible through the activities if the growers, who placed their de nands before Congrese." As we go to prese we learn that he Town Council has designated the reek commencing April 24th as clean lp-week in Ahoskie. Everybody to nark now so that ere' may make a food start and have a grand and glor ous finish. " ?/-'V Tan lac makes people strong, iturdy and srell by. toning up the rttal organs. C. H. Mitchell. Adv. ' W ' .5 N. C. TO ESTAB LISH FOUR-YEAR HIGHJ5CHOOLS NORTH CAROLINA APPROPRIATES $54,850 Saturday The State Board Of Education Appropriated the Sum of $54,850 To Establish Four-Year High Schools In Rural Districts. Raleigh, April IS.?An epoch was marked in the educational develop ment of North Carolina when Satur day afternoon, the State Board of Education appropriated $64,850 to aid in establishing standard four-year high schools in rural districts in counties which have not had such schools heretofore, thus assuring a standard high school for every county in North Carolina. At the close of the last school year there were 28 counties in the State in which there was not a high school of standard grade. All of these 28 counties will be enabled to maintain such a school through the action of the Board of Education, and in addi tion there will be established 15 other high schools in the rural dis tricts of counties which have not heretofore, had a high school of standard grade outside of the towns of these counties This act of the board is made pos sible be a law enacted by the last General Assembly, and the approp riation to the pchools that will be ef fected prill range from $500 to $1250, the latter figure being appropriated in most instances. A high school of standard grade must maintain at least an eight-month term, have three teachers devoting their whole time to high school instruction, apd have an average attendance in the high school department of not less than 45 pupils. The development of high schools within the^ State during the past two years has been moat encouraging. The enrollment in the high school de partment in 1920 was SO,868, while the enrollment for the present term is 42,816, an increase of nearly 60 per cent in attendance. North Carolina has heretofore been almost at the bottom of the list of the states in providing high school advantages. Through this new aid from the State, however, the growth of county high schools will soon place them on a plane with those of other states, making the opportunities of high .school education at home available to a much larger percentage qf the school population of the State. The remarkable growth of consolidated, schools in North Carolina is regarded as one of the greatest achievements for education in several years. The counties which will hereafter have at least one standard high school as a result of the action of the Board of Education are as follows - Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Bertie, Brunswfck, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Davie, Franklin, Gates, Graham, Qranville, Greene, Haywood, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Ma con, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Montgomery, Onslow. Pamlico, Per quimans, Person, Polk, Randplph, Rockingham, Stokes, Swain, Trans svlvania, Tyrrell, Washington, Yad kin, Yancey. 0 MARKET OPENS AUdUST 10th Mr. C. H. Phaup announces in this week's issue that he will sell tobacco at -auction this fall as usual, opening the market on August 10th. Mr. Phaup is known to be one of the beat warehousemen in this entire sec tion and has done more to build the tobacco market at Ahoskie than any other man in this section. Ha is pro prietor of the Farmers Warehouse, "The Iron House" hare and has serv ed the tobacco growers of this and adjoining counties very satisfactorily for the past several years. If you en in need of printing of any kind, send year copy to Mm Her ald office, end you am net only get quick service, but yen will be aatie fed with the week. Why drag around feeling half sick and no account all the time when you can get Teniae? C. H. Mitchell. Adv. FINAL APPEAL TO SECURE GOOD SEED FOR THIS YEAR County Agent H. L. Miller Is suee Final Appeal For Good Seed For The Coming Sea son. A final appeal for good teed for this year's crop.?It isn't necessary to go into a lengthy discussion here, for in recent articles and circular letters we have given results and fig ures on field tests carried on in this county last year, to show you just how much more, pure bred seed, di rect from a seed breeder, produced than did average seed uBed in the county. It is enough to say that these tests proved conclusively that the pure bred seed direct from a breeder will produce from 25 per cent, upward more than average good seed. You wouldn't consider hiring four men and four mules and renting 100 acres of land, then allowing one man, one mule and twenty-five acres of the land to stand idle, would you? Well, you are, so far as crop yields go, doing that very thing when you plant just average good seed. As cheap as the best yielding varieties of cotton and corn are this year, di rect from a reliable breeder, you simply cant afford to ignore this. If you think you can't afford to ignore this. If you think you can't afford to buy pure-bred seed for your whole place, at least bity enough to plant two or three acres of both corn and cotton and then by carefully saving these seed next fall you will have enough to good seed to plant e^our whole place another year. By fol lowing this practice each year you can always have seed just one year removed from the breeder for your general crops and yet never have to spend much on seed either. For the address* of the breeders of the highest yielding varieties of com and cotton, write or see me. H. L. MILLER. A ? V DEATH OF MISS LENA CHERRY Last Saturday night about one a'clock Mist Lena Cherry died at her home here after having suffered from tuberculosis for about four years. Miss Cherry was well known here and everybody who knew her loved her, as she was one of the most Christian young women of this entire section, having been a faithful member of the Methodist church at Lewiston, N. C. for about fifteen years. Miss Cherry would have been 26 years old on May 26th. She came to Aboekie about two years ago from Richmond, Va. Miss Cherry leaves a mother, Mrs. Fannie Cherry, a sister Mrs. S. J. Boyette and two brothers, Messrs. E. D. Cherry of this city and Robert Cherry of Richmond, Va. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church at Lewiston, Mon day afternoon and the remains were laid to rest in church cemetery. Ser vices were conducted by Rev. M. F. Hodges of this city. The large number of beautiful flowers and floral designs from rela tives and friends expressed the esteem in which this young lady was held. A large concourse of relatives and friends from Ahoskie attended the final servioes. ; 0 AMERICAN MOVIE STARS VISIT THE HOLY LAND Twenty stars of the American film world arrived in Jerusalem recently j to prepare for the Aiming of the Old Testament story of King David. The big scene In the' play is to be the fight between David and Goliath, rihich will be staged a few miles I north of this city. Bibical accuracy is not strictly adhered to, since the scenario provides a love scene after the battle. About 6,000 persons are to em ployed in the Aiming of the play; 6000 sheep, 1000 camels and 2000 goats are also to be used. This will be the first time a pro duction of this magnitude has been filmed in the Holy Land. Apart from the appropriateness of Biblical stor ies, it is declared that Palestine is un surpassable for film productions, ow ing, first to its natural beauty, and, second, to the clarity of the atmos phere. GROWERS ARE URG ED TO SUPPORT THE PEANUT EXCEL4?!* Meeting Of The Peanut Grow ers Of Hertford County Is Called At Court House In Winton April 20th. ? The members of the Peanut Grow ers Exchange in Hertford county have no doubt received a letter from Mr. J. Frank Fooshee calling attention to the fact that Mr. S. P. Winborne has declined to serve as director for Hertford County because of the seem ing indifference of the growers. It appears that only one-seventh of the growers of the county were present at the meeting on March 8th, at which time he was elected. Mr. Win borne would make a good repre sentative for the peanut grow ers of Hertford and it is very much to be hoped that on April 20th, when another meeting of the growers of the county has been called at the Court House in Winton for 2:00 p. m., that a large attendance of the peanut growers will be present and assure Mr. Winborne of their support. He no doubt will serve in this capacity if made to feel that the farmers of the county are backing him. Cooperative marketing has taken hold of the farmers of the eastern parts of the United States in such a way as to spell success. The results accomplished by the Burley Tobacco Grousers Association of Kentucky as sures us that it is a successful under taking. The peanut growers of Eastern North Carolina and Virginia were the first to perfect their organi zation and go to work. The experi ments being made in cleaning and selling the farmers' stock are meeting with marked success. If the growers of Hertford County desire economic freedom in the production of peanuts, they should by all means stand to gether in the support of their County Director and the Exchange. To fail in this undertaking means disaster to the peanut industry. The peanut farmers of Hertford County are not going to fail the Exchange, nor are they going to fail to support their representative in this crisis. T. E. BROWNE. Raleigh, N. C.f ApriJ^), 1922. MODLIN-LONG A beautiful home marriage was witnessed by intimate friends and relatives of the contracting couple on Sunday afternoon, April 9th, when Mise Blanche Modlin became the bride of Mr. Charlie Long of evern, N. C. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents near Ahoskie. The parlor was beautifully decor ated with pine, evergreen, apple blossoms and candles. An arch led from the doorway to the improvised altar bf potted plants. Rev. D. Kale, of Potecaai, N. C., was the officiating minister, using the ring ceremony. Miss Audrey Newsome, of Ahoskie, was ushered to the piano by Mr. Otis Modlin, brother of the bride. The bridal party entered to the strains of Mendelssohn's wedding march. Lee Stanwood Jernlgan, Jr., acted as ring bearer. Miss Daisy Modlin, sister of the bride, entered with Mr. Sam Brett of Severn, N. C? and Miss Helen Modlin, also a sister of the bride entered with Mr. J. B. Steph enson, of Severn, N. C.; following came the bride and groom. The bride wore a handsome midnight blue coat suit trimmed with gray. After the ceremony Loheghifl's march was played and the bride and groom with attendants entered the living room. After receiving the congratulations and well wishes of a host of relatives and friends, the happy couple, accompanied by the bridal party and friends, motored to Ahoskie to meet the afternoon train on which the bride and groom depart for a northern wedding trip. 0 THIS IS LATEST REAL SPRING HOME BREW RECIPE Chase a wild bullfrog three mbes, then gather up the hops, add ten gal lons of tank bark, one pint of shellac and one bar of home-made soap. Mil 86 hours; then strain through an L W. W. hat to keep it from working. When cool (if it ever gets that amy) add one grasshopper to each pint, to idee it a kick. - ?S2' ? ? ( STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PILED FOR READERS OF THE' f HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD Burglars entered the store of J. & D. Oettinger.of Rocky Mount, Sunday night, taking merchandise to the amount of $6,000. The miscreants escaped safely, having made good their getaway via automobile. Jake Tomlinson, former prominent business man of Wilson, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head at his home Saturday. A special call meeting of the busi ness and professional men of Rocky Mount was held Monday night, in which matters were discussed con cerning the future status of Rocky Mount as a tobacco market. Congressman Samuel M. Brinson, of Newborn, is now critically ill at the Newborn General Hospital. Con gressman Brinson is one of the ablest men the Third District ever produced. The Greenville Tobacco market will open for the season Tuesday, August 8th on the auction plan, as in former years it was announced re cently. The progressive town of Lumber ton began a "rat killing" campaign Tuesday, April 10, to last until May 10th. It is under" the supervision of local home demonstration agents. Officers captured a whiskey plant in the smokehouse of Rhodes Pittman, near Lumberton, Saturday, of large capacity. Pittman was arrested the same day and now resides in the local bastile. Maxton, April 6.?The ginning plant of the Maxton Ginning Co., and almost a hundred bales of long staple cotton, caught fire and burned this morning about nine o'clock. The loss is covered by insurance. W. B. Duncan, as Raleigh's new postmaster, took formal charge Sat urday morning. Mr. Duncan had seen active service in the army and at the time of his appointment was a practicing attorney in that city. Durham High School won in the tenth annual debate Friday night, at Chapel Hill. The subject was: "Should the U. S. Enter the League of Nations?" This gives Durham the Aycock Memorial Cup for "keeps." i Seven schools of Wake county in the Group Center Commencement at Garner Friday, where school and ath letic contests were staged in prepara tion for the county-wide commence ment, to be held at Raleigh Saturday, April 15th. Donation Day for the Rex hospital at Raleigh was held in that city Wed nesday. The donations consisted of a variety of usable articles commonly used in a hospital. The North Carolina Department of the American Legion is leading the southern states in membership, ac cording to recent statistics. J. Dixon, colored, age 26, Was con victed by the Superior Court in New bern Monday night, of burglary in the first degree, and was sentenced Tuesday to die in the electric chair. The number of arrests of drunken disturbers of the peace in the city of Raleigh Saturday was unusually large, as compared with the usual number of violators of the law, as caused by liquor. One of the oldest churches in North Carolina, St. Peter's Parish in Washington, N. C., celebrated its hundreth anniversary April 7th. It was founded in April, 1822. Representative Hammer, from the Raleigh district, in a statement made MoAday, stated that the peach crop in North Carolina will be unusually large, with prospects of an output worth in excess of a million dollars. The town of Nashville is to have a Co-Operativ# Tobacco Growers ware house, a meeting of the town's promi nent business men having decided such in session Monday night. The Wake Forest Glee Club ap peared before a large audience in Henderson Monday night. Dr. H. M. Poteat presided at the entertain ment ?';\ V?'.''' ?? .? ;? . ??. v.'.- v For the ftrat time in the history of Goldaboro a large number of women attended the Democratic ward meeting Friday night in that town. Women all over the state are becom ing more and more active in politics, if indications at the polls are to be relied upon. Approximately 12b Rotariana from Norfolk, Suffolk, and Newport Newt are expected to attend the meeting of the Rotary Club in Elizabeth City on Friday, April 21st. J. Homer Mann, of Washington, N. C. addressed an audience of 300 farmers a( Louisburg Saturday, on the subject of co-operative market ing. A. Wv Taylor, sheriff of Lenoir county, is now minus an automobile, robbers having taken charge of his Saturday night. Taylor's dignity, as sheriff suffers no little for this "out rage." Governor Morrison granted two more conditional paroles Monday to prisoners. _ Davidson County has been doing much work in regards to school and other improvements in'the past few months, and many prizes and contests "have been given to stimulate civic pride and to beautify the school , grounds in that county. ,ir* Winston-Salem, April 11.?Former County Commissioner E. W. Huser died at his home in the northern part of Forsyth county today, follow ing a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Huser was one of the county's fore most citizens. J. Price, 18, of Wilson, shot himself thru the lungs Tuesday, and is now in a precarious condition in a Wilson hospital, where recovery is uncertain. The Reidsville Rotary Club has made plans to establish a childroits playground, under the supervision of the school superintendent. This is one of the many projects originated by the Rotary Club in that city. The Hickory Community Club, with the 4th largest membership in * the entire state, began its sixth year with one of the best records of any similar organisation in N. C. Many local improvements have resulted from the efforts of the Club in that town. The Christ Lutheran Church, to be erected at a near date in the town of Spencer, is to be constructed at an ap proximate cost of $22,000. Sheriff Sands, of Reidsville, has | confiscated exactly fifty-five automo biles, most of which were connected with bootlegging, in the past few weeks. The sum total of the moon shine captured with the cars is said to be about 600 gallons. 0 "MISS LULU BETT" PRIZE WINNER AS PLAY > . . "Miss Lulu Bett," William de Mille's Paramount production, coming to the Richard Theatre next Monday and Tuesday, is the screen version of the play which won the Pulitxer prize of $1000 as the best American play produced during the 1920-21 theatri cal season. The play ran on Broad way and was a decided hit. Zone Gale, an American novelist, is the author. The story is typically American and deals with a side of small town home life not yet uncovered. The principal character is the seemingly unattractive spinster sister-in-law of a small town Justice of the Peace and dentist She has to depend upon him for support and shelter, and thus she automatically becomes the unpaid family servant Later, romance en ters into her life, only to increase her troubles. After several years bitter experience, however, every thing cleats up for Lulu and happiness and love are her reward. Milton Sills is leading man and Lois . J Wilson plays the role of the girl. Theodre Roberts, Helen Ferguson. Mabel Van Buren and others of prom inence arc In the cast
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