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Volume XIII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, June 16, 1922 One Section No. 7
MANEYS NECK
WANTS TAYLOR
FOR COM'NER.
IWhfrtnn Visits Ahoskie And
Asks Dr. Mtchell To With
draw in Favor of Their Man,
Who Was Candidate In the
County Primary Election
Held Saturday, June 3rd
Maneys Neck township "does not
look with favor upon the outcome of
the primary of June 3rd, which has
excluded that bailiwick from lepre
f sentation upon the board of county
commissioners. The new system of
nominating the commissioners by a
county-wide vote, without drawing
any distinction between the townships
from which the representatives are to
come, has not worked so well for
Maneys Neck, and the fdlks over the
river are not content to let it go at
that. They want a representative on
the heard and they are seeking a way
out of the situation which was created
ea June 3rd, when the voters of
Hertford county by their votes chose
two men from Ahoakie township to
make the race on the democratic
ticket for commissioner; nomination
being, of course, equivalent to elec
tion. P. G. Tayloe, present incum
bent, and Dr. J. H. Mitchell,, now
chairman of the county board of ed
ucation, were the two men chosen
from this township as democratic
nominees. J. C. Taylor, incumbent,
trailed the other candidates in the
primary, and under the provisions of
the new law was eliminated as a nom
inee from Maneys Neck.
A delegation of the leading citi
xens of Maneys Neck spent Tuesday
in Ahoskie seeking to correct the sit
uation thus created, and to gain for
themselves a candidate for the com
missionership. They came here with
the expressed purpose of prevailing
upon Dr. J. H. Mitchell, second lowest,
candidate in number of votes receiv
ed, to withdraw from the race,in
favor of Mr. Taylor, of Como. Hew
ever, the visiting delegation did not
accomplish the objective and returned
to their homes without any assurances
of representation on the county's ad
ministrative body for the next two
years, beginning in 1923. Dr. Mit
chell informed the gentlemen from
Maneys Neck that he had the kind
i liest feeling for them, but sufficient
pressure was not created to cause him
to resign in the face of the expressed
wishes of the voters of the county
who had said by their votes that he
was the man they wanted to sit in
Winton.
The result of the primary has
caused somewhat of a flurry in the
county; and the general impression
prevails locally that the new method
of nomination is not as satisfactory
as the selection by townships. Just
what, if any, steps will be taken by the
people of Maneys Neck are unknown,
although there is divided opinion as
to the advisability of excluding the
Como section from representation.
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COLORED SUMMER SCHOOL
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The summer school at Waters In
stitute, Winton, N. C., will open the
26th of June. All teachers who ex
pact to get credit for attendance
must be there not later than the third
dajr after the opening. All should be
there the first day if possible. All
teachers holding certificates below
the Elementary may raise their certi
cates by getting off the summer school
work required, and those holding Ele
mentary certificates can have theirs
renewed by doing the required work
for renewal but cannot raise them to
a higher grade. It is hoped that alf
who go will go with the determination
to get as much as possible out of the
summer school. N. W. BRITTON,
County Superintendent.
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NOTE OF THANKS
We deeire to express our apprecia
tion to oar friends for their many ex
pressions of love and sympathy in the
sickness and death of oar darling
baby.
Especially do we thank Dr. Paul
Mitchell for his untiring faithfulness
in ministering to him.
MR. and MRS. S. P. BOWERS.
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Anesthetics were known and used
by tiie Chinese thousands of years
ago.
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RAISE MORE FEB)- ~\
STUFF AT H6ME
North Corolia* Farmers Must
Raise More Feed Craps if
They Expect to Obtain Good
Net Returns for Their Work
BY JOHN PAUL LUCAS
Raleigh/Juns 14.?There are coun
ties in North Carolina which spent
more than $1,000,000 last year for
imported hay, corn, oats and other
feed stuffs. There is no logical reason
why any feed of any kind should be
imported into any Tarheel county,
except in rare instances where prepar
ed feeds may be* required for short 1
periods for special purposes.
- The amount of feed produced in
North Carolina during this year and
the amount that is to be imported
during the coming year is.going to be
determined very largely by the acre
age planted in feed crops during the
next few weeks. With the variety
of legumes and other crops, that are
adopted to this section it is an easy
matter to produce cheaply all our feed
requirements. Soy beans and velvet
beans for seed are cheaper than
they hate been at planting time during
the past^ew years and cowpeas are
probably a little cheaper also. Work
stock as w?U as cattle and sheep can
be maintained on legume hays and
without grain during the winter when
not at work. Other crope suitable
for hay production are sorghum and
Sudan grass and millets. Little time
remains for the planting of corn and
it is not too early to begin planning
for the planting of fall grain.
As strange as it may seem the coun
ties which import the greatest
amounts of feedstuffs into the State
are a number pf rich eastern coun
tjep in wjlicjl feed may be produced
more Mny and at less coat than in
other sections of the State into which
little or no feed is imported. The
boll weevil promises to force a rapid
abandonment of the old practice of
i "raising cotton to buy feed for live
stock to work more cotton to buy
more feed, etc., etc." And the one
crop cotton and tobacco farmer is
going to And that he can produce
feed in North Carolina as cheaply
or more cheaply than the farmer in
the middle west who has grown feed
for him heretofore?and he will not
have to pay for baling, hauling, stor
age, freight and more hauling charges
on It, in addition to two, three or
four dealers' profits.
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HOW TO FEED AND CARE
' FOR THE CHAMELEON
Time was when the changeable lit
tle liiarct known as the chvneleon?
Anolis carolinensis?was an object
to ornament a lady's coat or to keep
in the library as a household pet In
. some climates chameleons are used in
capturing flies, ants, and other insects,
being liberated for this purpose inside
screened houses in summer-time.
During the winter months suitable
facilities for hibernation of the cham
eleons are necessary.
Many inquiries concerning the care,
food, and habits of chameleons have
come to the ,United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. The Bureau
of Biological Survey has heretofore
compiled information concerning this
little animal for the benefit of those
who wish to try it as a pet. A box 2
or three feet long is recommended as
a cage. It should have its open end
covered with glass, mosquito netting,
or a fine-meshed wire screening. A
small shallow bowl containing a water
hyacinth, a Chinese sacred lyli, or
some other plant should be provided
inside the cage and a little water
rayed over the leaves of the plant at
least once a day, otherwise the cham
eleon may die of thirst. Chameleons
normally secure what water they want
by lapping droplets on leaves/ They
may not be willing to touch water in
a pan. Sweetened water should not
be given.
Chameleons are entirely instectiv
orous and in captivity may be fed on
flies and ijteal worms. The latter may
be purchased from dealer* or raised,
and a supply of cockroaches will prove
a valuable source of food. Where
cockroaches are a pest chameleons
may prove helpful in reducing their
numbers.
All kinds of Commercial Printing
neatly and promptly done at the
HERALD office.
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WHAT. OF ~
THE COUNTY
CHAINGANG'
Investigation* Reveal Deplor
ably State of Affair^ Existing
in County Chain Gangs of
North Carolina. What is the
Remedy? Welfare Commis
One of the questions that 'will con
front the Committee of One Hun
dred, as it gets down to a serious
study of the administration and ef
fectiveness of the State's prison sys
tem, is, What of the county chain
gpng? Does it return its men to
society more hardened and more
skillful criminals? Or is it helping
them to get a new grip on themselves?
A few weeks ago two members of
the committee visited a chain gang in
one of the most populous counties in
the state. It was raining. The men
were in camp. They were confined in
?literally packed into portable cages.
The space was so small that they could
scarcely move without jostling each
other. * The floor and beds were very
dirty. In these filthy little pens the
men were Shut up not only at night,
but all day, except *t meal time, on
rainy days. At least one prisoner in
this gang was ambitious to educate
himself. He was attempting to study
electrical engineering. There was,
of course, no provision for instruction,
and no place where he could study
undisturbed, in his spare hours.
In another county a member of the
staff of the Commissioner of Public
Welfare, accompanied by the Sheriff
of the county, visaed a chain gang
camp one evening after the men had
come in from their work. The pris
oners, lounging about the camp,
talked freely. Four-fifths of them
were doing time for making or selling
whiskey. The guard on duty at night
is an ex-blocader. The conversation
turned to this theme. They discussed
methods and devices of making and
disposing of "blockade." One man
about forty years old, an intelligent
and likeable fellow, with an evident'
bent for invention, described the con
struction of various types of stills,
including an ingenious device that can
be concealed inside the kitchen stove
pipe, and in which a gallon of whiskey
can be made every night. The courts
are sentencing men to this chain gang,
presumably, either to reform them or
to protect the public. As a matter
gf fact the State is conducting an in
stitute in blockading. <
In one of the mountain counties
that does not itself have crime enough
to justify the maintenance of a chain
gang, last October three men were
ren{enced by the Superior Court to
work on the roads. The county to
which they were assigned happened to
have all the men it wanted. The
three men were left in jail. The next
session of the court was six months
off. The County Commissioners hired
tone of the men to a citizen of the
county. He worked a few days; then
ran away. Another who had been
convicted of bootlegging was let out
on some sort of agreement by which a
friend paid the court cost, and the
prisoner was to work on a certain
county road. The Clerk of the Su
perior Court did not know the friend
was to be reimbursed. He is supposed
to be "mixed up with the liquor busi
ness." It seems to be a matter of gen
eral knowledge that the 'man is not
working on the road. He has made
a pretense of doing so, only a few
days. The third man was convicted of
selling three pints of whiskey and sen
tenced to one year on the roads. He
says this is the only whiskey he has
ever sold. Ha is probably telling the
truth. At least no friend has come to
the rescue. He is conflned day and
night in the jailor's corridor in a
little ramshackle jail. "Why don't you
take this man out and let him help you
work in your garden?" asked the vis
itor of the jailer. "He evidently
wouldn't try to escape or he'd get out
of here." It developed that he had
been used to do odd jobs on the out
side during the winter; but the Judge
at the March term of court had told
the jailor that he was exceeding his
authority, that he most keep his man
locked up. So his road sentence has
become a jail sentence. After fifteen
months in jail?three months await
ing trial, twelve months serving sen
tence?he will come out unable phy
CO-OPERATIVE BUY
ING PROVES GOOD
County Agent H. L. Miller
"-asents Facts and Figures
Which Show Advantages of
Co-Operative Buying
You have heaigi a good bit lately
about "Co-Operative Selling" and
while you may or may not favor the
plan suggested, if you are alive to
your own interest, you can't help
but be interested in the results ob
tained three co-operation.
The price of fertilizer this spring
was very high (considering what the
farmer got for his crops) and espec
ialy if bought on credit. Realizing the
farmers need of assistance along this
l?ne, the writer got car lot prices on
fertiliser materials, from several
wholesale dealers and after com
paring these prices and figuring out
the cost of the raw materials as
compared to the mixed goods, we
found that we could buy the raw
material (in car lots) for an 8-3-3
fertiliser for about $18.00 per ton.
After visiting and talking the matter
over with a number of farmers, we
succeeded in getting enough inter
ested in the plan to buy materials for
138 tons on an 8-3-3 basis. The best
cash price offered on an 8-3-3 ferti
liser in this section was $27.00 per
ton. So you see for yourself we
saved -at least $9.00 per ton( and
a lot of fertilizer was sold in this
county for $32 per ton cash which
would) make our saving much larger)
on the 138 tons.
188g$9.00 equals $1,242.00. Even
if a farmer has to borrow the money
and pay 10 per cent on it he can save
60 to 75 per cent on his fertilizer
bill by buying on some such plan as
we tried out.
We also bought six car lots, 210
tons) of ground limestone co-opera
tively, at an average saving of $3.00
per ton to the farmer.
210x$3.00 equals $630.00.
I $1,242.00 x $630 equals $1,872.00.,
This" isn't a bad beginning along
this line and another year the saving
can easily amount to several times the
above sum, with some one to explain
and interest the farmer in the nlan.
and to help him with his fertilizer
formulas* 6tc.
Co-operative buying has paid and
will pay. Ask a farmer who has tried
it. H. L. MILLER,
County Agricultural Agent.
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POTATO CROP BADLY
DAMAGED BY RAINS
The potato crop in and around
Ahoskie, and all over Hertford county
is reported as being materially dam
aged by the recent heavy rainfall.
In some sections where lands have a
low elevation and not well drained,
the crop is reported as being a total
loss on account of potatoes rotting in
the ground. Even on land with good
drainage the loss is reported as ap
proximating from one-half to three
fourths loss. It is the same over the
entire eastern section of North Caro
lina. Quite a few potatoes were dug
before the heavy rains came but lit
tle is expected now of those left in
the ground or which the grower could
not to get around to dig. Tobacco and
cotton also suffered material damage
and several tobacco growers have
been on the point of-plowing up what
tobacco they had left.
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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mm. W. A. Harris of Cop
perhill, Tenn., announce the birth of
a daughter, Saturday, June 10th.
Mm. Harris was before her mar
riage Miss Annie Parker, of Ahoskie.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Parker.
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An ancient Saxon law has been un
earthed in England, technically
known as "the doctrine of coercion,"
under which a wife virtually is the
property of her husband.
sically to do a day's work. He prob
ably has just about enough mental
ability to reason that it does not re
quire hardened muscles to sell whis
key. ?
These are not the sensational phases
of prison life. The sensational can
be found But it is the exceptional.
The incidents cited above are typical.
They point to the failure of the
county chain gang to accomplish the
ends for which a modern prison is
supposed to exist.
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STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM
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HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD
Pitt county is reported m being the
greatest sufferer from the recent
rains, the crops in that county having
been virtually destroyed by the un
usually heavy rainfall.
A new summer resort, the Willo
more Springs, of near Lexington, on
the Lexington-Asheboro Highway, will
be formally opened to the public
Saturday, June 17th, with notable ex
ercises. This is locate4 at several
noted mineral springs, and on a lake,
making an ideal place for the estab
lishment of a popular resort, in this
part of the state?.
C. L. Hornaday was formally elect
ed president of "'Davenport College
Saturday.
The proposed duty on potash would
cost North Carolina farmers the ap
proximate sum of $5,000,000 in tive
years according to the estimate of
J. R. Chamberlain, of the Carleigh
Fertiliser and Phosphate Works in
Raleigh.
W. H. Cloyd, one of the mott high
ly respected end honorable citixens of
Lenior, passed away at his home in
that city Saturday morning, after an
illness of a week's duration.
Governor Morrison, for the purpose
of making a study of the State's fish
ery possibilities, will make a cruise
on the coast of North Carolina-during
July. Governor Morrison says that
the State has enough wealth in its fish
and sea food products alone to pay a
large part of the'State det?t.
Wilmington and its four splendid
beaches, Wrightsville, Fort Fisher,
Carolina, and Mainland, are already
thronged with supimer visitors and
pleasure seekers, drawn t? Jh??c re
sorts from every section oithe 8a#$h,
to escape the heat of the mainland,
and owing to the attractions to be
found at these resorts.
Alamance county and the city of
Burlington have gone over the top in
the Near East Campaign for the
Armenian Relief. The drive having
come to a close recently.
- Bishop John C. Kilgo, who has been
seriously ill at Memphis, Tenn., re
turned to his home in Charlotte Fri
day, having partially recovered from
his illness.
A great gathering of the tobacco
growers of Surry, Wilkes, and Yadkin
counties met in a great celebration at
Elkin Saturday, to celebrate the suc
cessful sign-up of over 90 per cent of
the farmers in the co-operative Ex
change. This part of the State is re
ported as being nearly all in favor of
the co-operative system.
Engineers of the State Normal, at
Elizabeth City, have discovered min
eral springs, and in the near future
all Elizabeth City will probably be
seeking for water from the State Nor
mal water supply. The analysis indi
cates the water as being of consider
able medicinal value.
James J. Allen, clerk of the city
court of Raleigh, has handled over
$20,000 in the past nine months, with
out having erred a nickel in the keep
ing of the accounts.
Wilson county will vote on a $250,
bond issue in the month of July.
The city of Raleigh has donated
over 2,500 pounds of old clothes for
the Near East reljef since the begin
ning of the campaign.
Plans are now under way for the
erection of a new and modern hotel,
costing approximately $700,000, in
the city of Wilmington, in September.
It is estimated that a force of 50
clerks will be kept busy for the next
six weeks, at the office of the Secre
tary of State, registering and issuing
licenses to the 200,000 motor vehi
cles in North Carolina.
The largest primary vote- in the
history of Dare county was cast Sat
urday, June 3rd. This was largely
due to the unprecedented Interest and
enthusiasm of - the women voters of
the county.
The Chapel Hill school district re
cently voted a school bond issue of
140,000. I
Senator Carter Glass delivered the
principal address at the finals of the
University of N. ,C. Wednesday. The
attendance was large.
George W. Sherman, of Baraes
ville, Ga., S3 years old, and a Confed
erate War veteran, is walking the
distance of 614 miles from his home
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in Georgia, to Richmond to attend the
Confederate War veterans' re-union
in that city in the near future. He
is in North Carolina this week, mak
ing his way North and is expected to
arrive in Richmond inside of ten days.
William Goforth, aged 22, of
Statesvillc, while painting a smoke
stack for the Grier Cotton Mill at
Wilkesboro, fell to the roof, a dis
tance of 56 feet, breaking almost
every bone in his body. Death was
not immediate however, as he sur
vived for a short time afterwards.
Since the Sandhills peach crop, of
the Sanford section, has begun to
move out to the markets, it is esti
mated that the production this year
will be a record-breaker?almost
double the yield of last year.
Ernest J. Green of Durham, was
unanimously elected president of the
Carolina College at Maxton, Friday.
The town of Snow Hill will, in the
near future, spend over $100,00 for
street paving and other municipal
improvements, having voted to issue
bonds to cover the necessary expendi
tures for this work.
Alamance county will pay the ex
penses of all resident Confederate
War veterans to the re-union at Rich
mond, Va., this month.
This year's finals at Chapel Hill are
the biggest in the history of the in
stitution, as to attendance, noted
speakers and many other contribut
ing features making it the the cloee
of one of tffe most successful years
since the beginning of the school.
)duch interest has been manifested
all over central North Carolina by
Irttoon of Raleigh's second Suburban
B|fy held in that city Thursday, June
15. One of the biggest crowds of the
season attended.
Contract has been let for the erect
ion of a large hothouse and nursery
plant for the growing and supplying
of flowers of all kinds in the city of
Henderson.
Final arrangements were made
Monday for the employment of Clarke
and La roe, of Washington, D. C., to
appear for the North Carolina Cor
poration Commission in the contro
versy about freight rates to points
in North Carolina, now under dis
cussion by the interstate Commerce
Commission.
Kennie Sanders, aged 70 years, liv
ing near Carthage, was found dead
at his home with a shot gun wound
through his breast Sunday. The cor
oner's verdict was suicide.
Grady Ferguson, charged with rob
bing the bank of Randleman of over
$500 on May 24th, is now in the Ran
dolph county jail, having been cap
tured Sunday afternoon.
The Co. Comihissioners of Stokes
county have decided to issue $150,000
in bonds to be used for the purpose of
constructing roads in sections of the
county which have not had any benefit
from previous bond issues.
The 20th annual convention of the
North Carolina Merchants Association
will convene in session at Wrights
ville June 20, 21, and 22. Stacy W.
Wade will figure prominently at this
meeting as speaker.
Amid many impressive ceremonies,
a handsome Elks monument was un
veiled at Cross Creek cemetery in
Fayetteville Sunday. A part of the
ceremonies consisted of a fellow Elk
piloting an airplane, flying overhead
and dropping flowers on the graves
of departed Elks, as the the monu
ment was unveiled. |
The First Methodist Church, of
Elizabeth City is installing a new
$10,000 pipe organ.
Wilbur Hobby, aged 14, while
swimming in a lake near Burlington
Sunday was drowned.
Officers of Beaufort county have
entered a bootleggers war, the boose
traffic in that county having ap
proached alarming dimensions in the
past few months. The number of
arrests for liquor law violators has
been unusually large during the
month of May in this county.
James Bailey, an employee of the
Carolina light and Power Co., was
seriously injured near Goldsboro
Tuesday, when coming in contact with
a wire containing 2,300 volts of slec
trieity. Bailey ,was paralysized by the
shock, and had. to be taken from the
| pole by fellow workmen.
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