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?;_ liBB ^ + nertford County Herald HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EASTERN CAROLINA Volume XIII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, May 12, 1922 One Section No. 2 ELECTION OF COURT CLERKS ?THIS FALL 1 CLERK OF THE COURT AS JUVENILE JUDGES Clerk* of the Courts Come up for Election This Fell for the First Time Since State Passed State-Wide Juvenile Court Law in 1919 By MRS. CLARENCE A. JOHNSON, Commissioner Clerks of the Court come up for election this fall for the first time since North Carolina, in 1919, passed a state-wide juvenile court law, estab lishing a juvenile court in every county in the state with the clerk of the court ss judge. Under the super vision of the judge of the juvenile court and the superintendent of pub lic welfare come dependent, neglected and delinquent children up to sixteen years of age whose needs should be given the most careful and intelligent consideration if the welfare of the child >s to be conserved. - During the past eleven months when a more or less adequate system of record keeping has been established for juvenile courts and superintend ents of public welfare by the State Board of Charities and Public Wel fare, fifty-five counties report having handled 4,643 children. Of them 8,626 have an actual court record, 2,018 being cases that were stettled out of court. Those cases which came before the court were disposed of as foUowes: 482 were dismissed, 1,241 returned home on probation, 450 placed in temporary homes, 366 sent to institutions, 38 adopted, 69 disposed of otherwise. The fifty-five counties making this report do not include some of the largest counties having whole time superintendents of public welfare. So it is a conserva tive estimate to say that at least 8,000 children have been handled by ail the juvenile courts in this state in the past vear. A number of the clerks of the court are doing excellent work m judges of the juvenile court. Inter esting Tories could be told of the unselfish service they have given; for Instance, of a judge who made two tripe twenty miles or more over moun tains in one of the western counties to investigate a case and render what aid he could to a woman and four dependent children into whose lives a tragedy had come; of another who carried home a half naked baby wrapped in a borrowed sweater which had been unexpectedly thrust in his arms, and which the judge and his wife kept in their home for several days until a good foster home was found. Several' clerks of the court have gone to other states to study the Work of new established juvenile courts in order to do their own work better. Approval of such service as I this should be expressed by the voter in the June primaries and candidates for the office of Clerk of Court be considered not only on their qualifi cations to 40 the clerical work of the county, but on their personality, character and ability to handle chil dren. ft "POUNDING" Rev. E. J. Iaenhower, pastor of the Ahoskie Baptist church, and family, ware the re&pients of a generous pounding Tuesday night at 8 JO. About one hundred of the members and friends gathered on the church gpounds and walked over to the par sonage. All sites and shapes of packages were represented in the lot carried, running from bens to.old hams, and included many useful kit chen utensils. Standing room was at a premium while the packages were being placed on or under the table. When the packages had been placed, the pastor made a short talk; all joined in "Blessed Be The Tie That Binds," and were led into prayer by the pastor. Rash departed feeling aa happy as the pastor for having taken part in the party. 0 Why mope around, half tick and liatlett whan health and strength are youre for the taking? Take Tanlac. C. H. Mitchell. Adv. PEANUT GROWERS CLAIM TOP SIDE ? ? i' r": Peanut Trade and Cleaner* Are Having ? a Trying to force Co-Operative Association to the-Wall The peanut trade and the cleaners are not finding it an easy job to force the cooperative association of Peanut Growers to the wall. One of the big gest guns of the opposition to this cooperative movement has boon their over estimating the X921 crop. Ac cording to Mr. J. Frank Fooshe, Sec retary of the Peanut Growers Ex change, in an interview with the Co operative Crop Reporting Service to day, the opposition has glutted the trade with reports to the effect that this crop wobld be four million bags. "We are drawing the ropes in around them," says Mr. Fooshe, "and believe that in the final show-down it will be seen that 1921 crop was hardly more than three million bags, if that much". Mr. Fooshe emphacizes the import ance of annual farm surveys of crop acreages as the best means of secur ing reliable data with which to pro tect the interests of the Growers by stabilizing the market. North Carolina is one of the fore most states in thea collection of data of this kind. There is a law, enact ed last year, which provides that each year the tax listers at the time of listing taxablgs shall also get the acres that each farm has piantd to the various crops. Each farm ow ner prepares a list of the sum of his and his tenant's plantings to be har vested this year, and turns this list to the tax listers at the same time that be lists his property for taxation, al though the list of crop acreages is not for Ihe purpose of taxation. The crop acreage data thus collected proved of inestimatable value to the Peanut Growers Exchange, as well as to all other co-operative marketing associations. W. D. JONES, Census Assistant, Co-Operative Crop Reporting Service, Raleigh, N. C. ? ? 0 ANNUAL MEETING , OF THE U. D. C. The annual meeting of the 16th Dietrict, U. D. C., of the Confederacy will be held in the school auditorium, Ahoskie.N. C., May 17th, 1922. 10:80 A. M. Song?"Stars and Bears." Prayer?By Mr. Barker. Address of Welcome by Mrs. J. N. Vann, President, Ahoskie, U. D. C. Welcome?By Mayor W. L. Curtis. Response?By Mrs. P. M. Dunstan, Windsor. . Report of the District Leader? Mrs. E. L. Getting, Windsor. Minutes and roll call by Secretary ?Mrs. H. M. Bell, Windsor. Glimpes of the State Convention? Mrs. Stanley Leary. Address by Mrs. Thos. W. Wilson, State President U D. C., Gastonia. Appointment of Committees. Recognition of old soldiers. Song?"Dixie." Adjournment, for lunch. AFTERNOON SESSION Song?"America." Address?By Miss Ella Earley, Aulander. Address?By Mrs. R. P. Holt, Rocky Mount. Address?By Mrs. John L. Brid gets, State Historian, Tarboro. Special music. Histories of the following chapters ?Gates, Elizabeth City, Winton, and Murfreesboro. Remarks?By Mrs. F. M. Dunstan. Remarks?By Mr*. R. C. Bridges. Business session including reports from Chapters and committees. Song. Adjournment. WOMAN'S MISSIOfj. ARY SOCIETY The Woman's Missionary Society of the Ahoskie Baptist church will hare a "Home Coming Day" for every female member of the church on Friday, May 1Mb, 1022, begin ning at 10:20 o'clock. At^thie time the roll will be called and it ib hoped that every woman and girl will be present to answer to her name. Please come and enjoy the day with us. J** Dinner will be served by the society. W. M. SOCIETY, of the Ahoskie Baptist Church. BOLL WEEVIL ' ADVANCING - | noKiHWAKD KNOW N. C.; BEATING THE BOLL WEEVIL Cotton Growers of Eastern Sec tion and Coastal Plain Must Adopt Modern?Methods to Reduce and Check Ravages of the Boll Weevil The cotton boll weevil has reached our'state end is each year advancing: northward in it. Our cotton grow ers, if they are to continue in the growth of cotton profitably, espec ially in much of the Coastal Plain section, must all soon adopt methods that will effectively control or reduce to the minimum the ravages of tbis pest. The methods of the past will have to give way to more effective ones. The following are some of the precautions and methods which will have to be used in reducing the sever ity of attack by this pest and in mak ing cotton growing most productive and profitable under boll weevil in festation : 1. Be calm, use generally good farming methods. Meet his attack with courage if you wish to win out. 2. Plant cotton only on uplands. One will run a'big risk to plant bot tom land or lands near wooded areas, particularly so in extreme eastern and southeastern part of the state. 3. Use at least 600 pounds of fer tilizer to the acre, containing a larger proportion of phosphoric acid than is ^ordinarily used, avoiding the use of fertilisers too rich in nitrogen. 4. Break land well for cotton early in the fall or winter. Plant as early in the spring as ground is warm. Cul tivate well and frequently to keep plants growing rigorously from start. 5. Plant smaller, acreage and keep fields free from rubbish, grass, weeds, and bushes. 6. Pick up and destroy all first squares that have been punctured. Ui planting use a plenty of well ma tured seed. 7. Secure and maintain a moder ately thick stand, not exceeding 8 to 12 inches between hills. This will cause the plants to make smaller growth and to mature quicker. Have rows about 4 feet apart. 8. Grow sufficient food and feed crops to meet the needs of farm. 9. Avoid excessive rank growth of cotton planter 10. Field select seed, and use for planting, early fruiting and early opening varieties of cotton like Cleve land Big Boll, Express, or Edge combe-Cook. 11. After gathering cotton, de-j stroy cotton stalks, weeds, etc., by plowing in five or six Inches deep In the fall before frost, then put the land in suitable cover crope. 12. Establish a good crop rotation in which suitable leguminous crops with the main money crops are used. ?C. B. Williams, Dean of Agricul ture, N. C. State College of Agricul ture and Engineering. * n RESOLUTIONS r At la recent meeting of the Bertie Union Meeting of the West Chowan Association, held at Lasher Baptist Church April 28, and 29, the follow ing resolutions were adopted. BE IT RESOLVED 1. That the Bertie Union assem bled at Laaker Baptist Church go on record as opposed to Sabbath desec ration in the forms of curing tobacco, Sunday bathing, etc., and urge our churches to take an uncompromising position thereon. 2. That this resolution be published in our local papers and the Biblical Recorder; and: 8. That our pastors be urged to emphasise it from their pulpits and lead their churches to take definite action thereon. An interesting discussion of the restoration of the family altar occu pied much of the second morning's session, ending in the pledging of many toward the setting up of such in the homes of the Association. Despite rains, there were present delegates from eighteen churches of the Association to take part in the diaeumion and enjoy the hospitality of the people of the Laaker community. N. C. GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SURVEY I Statistics Show North Carolina Developed audi Undeveloped I vJWater Power ? ? ? JOSEPH HYDE PRATT Director Water Resources Division Statistics recently made public by the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey show the amount of developed and undeveloped water power in the various states. Ranked in order of magnitude of developed water powers. North Carolina stands fifth with 360,000 horsepower. The first five states rank as follows: New York * 1,291,867 h. p. California 1,149,099 h. p. Washington * 464,366 h. p. Maine 449,614 h. p. North Carolina 360,000 h. p. In potential or undeveloped water power North Carolina is exceeded only by New York of all states east of the Mississippi River. It is esti mated that there is at least 1,600,000 horsepower in North Carolina streams which can be developed for future use as industrial needs in the States arise. Mnch of this amount of undeveloped power is not economically develop able under present conditions, but even now there are vast quantities of potential hydro-electric power going to waste which might profitably be used to increase the industrial output of North Carolina. The State at present has an average daily output of hydro-electric energy of well over 2,000,000 kilowatt hours. In this respect it is exceeded by no state east of the Mississippi except New York, jvhich contains the Niagra Falls power. In output of individual power companies also, North Carolina ranks well to the front, the output of the Southern Power Company reach ing about 790,000,000 kilowat hours, an outfrat exceeded by only eleven companies in the entire United States and Canada. The peak load of this country for one day is estimated at about 218,300 kilowatts, which is equivalent to 293,000 horsepower. 1 n THE W. M. S. OF THE BAPTIST CHUkCH , The Hertford County Union will meet with the W. M. S. of Union Baptiet Church, Tuesday, May 16. The following program will be ren7 dered. Hymn. Prayer. Devotional Service?Mrs, Joe Hor ton, Union. M inutes?Business. Talk?"Chowan College," Miss Una White, Associational Superintendent. Hymn. Sermon?Rev. E. J. Isinhower, Ahoskie. Appointment of Committees. Announcements. JTUESDAY, 2:00 O'CLOCK, P. M. Hymn. Devotional Service?Mrs. E. B. Vaughan, Murfreesboro Union. Sunbeam Program?Union. Greetings from the Training School ?Miss Ursie Vinson, Hertford county training school girl. Miss Ella Pearce, Bertie county training school girl. Hymn. Address?Mrs. J. M. Pox, Rocky Mount. Reports of Committees. Closing service. Delegates from all the churches in the county are urged to be present. Services will begin at 10:30 o'clock. MRS. C. C. HOGGARD, Pres. n ON THE SAME FOOT ING WITH MEN This twentieth amendment to the Constitution, obliterating all distinct ions in law between men and women, seems to be superfluous. A woman has been convicted in Michigan of bank robbery?the first of her sex in that State to achieve the distinction ?and has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in the Detroit House of Cor rection. Here there may, have been a little discrimination. Probably a man would have been sent to the pen itentiary, but -we do not believe it makes much difference to her in which she spend the next decade or two of her life. Substantially she got her rights in spite of her sex,? Philadelphia Record. STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PILED FOR READERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD John Underwood of Fayetteville, former mayor of that city and a well known local politician, was killed and three other Fayetteville men were in jured last Thursday night, when an automobile driven by one of the party side-swiped a'tree while rounding a curve. A coroner's jury included "intoxication" as contributing to the cause of the mishap. The Tobacco Growers Co-Operative Association reports that more than seventy warehouses in North Carolina have signed up with the Association. The list includes also forty-two ware houses in Virginia and forty in South Carolina. It is reported that less than one-fourth of the annual crop in Hertford county has been signed up so far. Klu Klux Klansmen made their first appearnace in Morganton last week when two white-robed figures bearing a huge cross made of red, white and blue flowers, appeared at a funeral. The emissaries deposited their burden at the grave, delivered a sealed envelope to the minister which contained resolutions of respect for the deceased and then quietly with drew. The question as to whether Nash county will .have a farm demonstra tor and county welfare officer will be decided by a vote of the people of that county in the primary election on JUne 3rd. The Men's Bible Claae of the Cen tenary Methodist church has placed an order for the purchase and install ation of a radio outfit which will be set up in the basement of the church. Salisbury Masons expect to enter tain 900 visiting Masons including Fairfax Harrison, president -of the Southern Railway, May 12th. The Mayor of Goldsboro, Edgar Bain, is filling the place of fire chief while the regular chief is laid up on account of his ardous duties of the past few weeks incident to the many fires from which Goldsboro has suf fered. , ? A real American eagle, measuring eight feet from tip to tip, was shot by Z. B. Simpson at Sanford last week. The bird is now in the hands of a taxdermist to be stuffed and mounted. It is perhaps the largest eagle to be seen in this state in a long time. Among the few remaining soldier dead now being returned to this country from the "fields of Flanders", were the remains of two young Dup iln county boys who were laid to rest near Bealaville last week. Asserting that the voters of Bun combe county are entitled to all the information poaaible on the moment ous political questions of the day, Mrs. Charles Malcolm Piatt, candidate for the office of State Senator, has issued a challenge to Plato Ebb, also a candidate for the office; to meet her in a series of joint debates. Sandy B. Moore, of Reidsville was bound over under $2,000 bond on the charge of involutary manslaugh ter as the result of the accused run ning over and killing the 18 months old daughter of a citizen of that com 1 munity. Elkin has issued bonds to the extent of $160,000 for the purpose of street improvement and extension to the sewer and water system. At a meeting of the city council of Gastonia held last week, the chief of police was invited to hand in his resignation which request was com plied with. Dr. William Parker, of Elizabeth City, has recently purchased an aeroplane motor boat at a cost of $600. Dr. Parker plans to thorough ly enjoy the coming water season. His boat will accommodate three or four persons and navigates in three inches of water. The' Independent reports that May peas have been bringing three to Ave dollars on northern markets to the growers around Elisabeth City. Changes of postmasters throughout the state have become general and thorough. J. A. Hooper, republican, succeeds Dr. Andrew L. Pendleton at Elisabeth City. In many parts of the state hot lights are reported while verbal assaults and charges are launched daily. A row of no small proportions has just been started in New Bern. In this town, (Senator Simmon's home,) the third man on the "civil service" list was named and the announcement of the selection was greeted with a wave of protest which nearly everyone of that city appears to join. A record shipment of shrimp for the seasnn Ha. !?.. Wiiming. ton. To date 31 carfe have been sent to northern markets. The industry has been greatly stimulated by im proved transportation facilities. They promised that prohibition would revolutionize the country, and evidently it has. A newspaper car ries the headline: "Woman Fined For Keeping Still." Dr. E. C. Lindemann, of the faculty of North Carolina College for Women has been forced to sever his connect ion with that institution on account of a variety of charges relating to re ligion, the race question, and various other points of apparent disagree ment The Seaboard Railroad is planning a large expansion of its shops in Ham let incident to the general addition of new equipment consisting in part of 2E?. locomotives, and 1760 steel freight ASM H. W. Baxton's grocery store in Wilson was dynamited about 11 o'clock Saturday night. A large crowd of shoppers was in the store at the time of the explosion but fortu nately no one was seriously injured. Mr. Baxter states that robbery was not the motive of the deed. James Hinton Seawell, age 81, died Tuesday at his home in Gates county. Mr. Seawell had been a resi dent of Gates county for many years. Be served with distinction through the Civil War in Tuckers Calvary. Thieves who entered a garage in Wilson Tuesday night left a card bearing this inscription pinned to one of the machines. "Mr. Oattinger, we will inconvenience you as little as possible. We leave the machine jacked up and all you have to do is to get two new wheels, slip them on, step on the gas and off you go?we are gone. Thanks." Several hundred armed men have been scouring th$ woods around Washington, N. C., in an effort to ap prehend Tony Gibbe, colored, wanted for the murder of J. A. Adden of Orangeburg, S. C., who was shot to death in the . plant of the Hughes To bacco Plant in Washington. The sheriff of Person county, (Rox boro P. 0.) is advertising a reward of $1,000 for the arrest of Claude Bowles, white, an alleged murderer. Two colored men lost their lives and three others made a narrow es cape when an automobile conveying the party went off the edge of the road and down a steep bank into a pond near Weldon, Monday night. The state of North Carolina will realize about $436,000 in inheritance taxes from the settlement of the es tate of the late George W. Watts of Durham. Another large payment is expected from the estate of J. W. Cannon, now in process of settlement The last named estate is appraised at about nine million dollars. Greensboro is stirred over a war on the public pool rooms of that city. The question of renewing the annual licenses is up and is being hotly op posed. Decision by the city council has been postponed. William Bramble, age 60, met a horrible death at the plant of the Southern Cotton Oil Company in Fay etteville, Monday. The unfortunate man was caught in the shafting of a fertiliser mixing machine and instant ly killed. It is supposed that a piece of twine which he wore on his wrist became caught in the shaft. Construction work in Kington com pleted end started during the three months just past, total approximately $1,000,000. National Guard troops from Geor gia, Florida, and North Carolina are scheduled to train at Camp Bragg, N. C. this summer. Camp Bragg is as artillery camp and artillery training only will be carried on. Hanferd McNider, national com mander of the American Legion, is scheduled to speak in Wadeaboro May 20th on the occasion of the un veiling of the memorial drinking foun tain by the Thomas Wade Chapter, D. A. R.
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