Hertford County Herald Published Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owners J. JtOY PARKER Editor JAMES S. VINSON Manager Subscription Prion One Year 11.60 Six Months .76 Three Months .40 Advertising Rates Very reasonable and made known on Entered as second-class mall matter February 26, 1010, at the posofflce at Ahoskie, North Carolina, nnder the Act of March S, 1878. * Farsiaa Adriitiilas Rapcessaaaifra THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1922 A GENEROUS RESPONSE Exact figures are undetermin ed, but we are safe in saying not less than two hund red and fifty persons have sub scribed,^ theHerald within the last month. Approximately one hundred and fifty others have renewed their subscriptions. The people of Hertford County have shown greater interest in the October Special Offer than in any other single proposition ever made by this paper Today, the HERALD leads any other single weekly news paper in this territory in paid in advance circulation. It now has a list of subscribers that will stand.the test of what a model weekly newspaper is ex-1 pected to have. Ninety per cent of that list is made up of subscribers who have read the HERALD almost since its in ception about fourteen years ago. There has never been any contest conducted; the steady growth of the subscription list has not been accelerated by any other inducements than creat mg desire for our product a NEWS paper. That the folks like to read the HERALD is now pretty con clusively proven. It is not only a source of pride to those res ponsible for its publication, but m the light of an announce ment on the front page of this issue, it is a compliment to the paper's subscribers. "They kn<^w a good thing when they see it." Competent judges in a contest among weekly news papers of North Carolina have Aid thfe HERALD is the third newiest paper in the State. ? While conceit is liable to creep in and make us boastful, still there is a foundation for the boast. Bbastfulness, how ever, is not the spirit that prompts us to acclaim the HERALD a leader among its field. There is behind it a par tial realization of an ambition and a fifed purpose to give Hertford County nothing, short of the cream in the newspaper field. It furnishes us with another goal for which to strive imProve the paper until it is the very best. In writing this article' the theme is to offer thanks to every old subscriber, and to those who have just recently come into the fold for a support and backing that has enabled the HERALD to give them the third newiest weekly in North Carolina. Just such coopera tion as has been shown during the last month has been a char acteristic of Hertford County people since the paper first be gan publication. To these folks goes the credit for supporting a county institution to an extent that it is able to compete suc cessfully with any other in the State. Individually and collectiive ly, the HERALD thanks every 1 old subscriber, and extends a welcome to the two hundred and fifty new subscribers. . *- - Twenty thousand persons attended the Annual Nefro State Pair held in Haletgh last week. BETTER COTTON MARKET Towns much smaller and with much lighter cotton re ceipts than Ahoskie are pro viding its farmer friends, a sat isfactory outlet for their prod uct. It is scarcely ever that one comes across a town that pays so little attention to its cotton marketing system as Ahoskie. In fact, there is not in the town a regular buyer and grader of cotton. All the marketing done here in Ahoskie is either to the mer chants for accounts, or to "pin hookers" whose business it is to get it just as cheap as they can. Although the buyer is usually governed by the Norfolk price, still it is his aim to talk down the price?never up, when buy ing. It is not altogether a question of whether the pinhooker gets stuck or sticks the farmer, al though regular cotton buyers and graders are necessary to correct that situation. Regard less of the price paid to the farmer, a well-governed, prop erly conducted cotton market is needed to protect both buyer and farmer. It is equitable. The system now in vogue here is not fair. Depending upon the grading done by Norfolk middlemen is a risky business, no matter who ships the cotton. What Ahos kie really needs is a grader who knows his business, and buyers who will give the market price whenever the farmer has a bale of cotton to put on the market. THE HERTFORD OBSERVER This paper yields up its title of "The Only Newspaper Pub lished in Hertford County". . The Hertford Observer has is sued its first number this week, Wednesday being the publica tion day. Copies of the new county paper were distributed in Ahoskie Wednesday evening. It is an eight-page, home print paper, well filled with reading matter and containing some advertisments. Although news of Hertford County is lim ited to Chowan College, Mur freesboro and Como in.the ini tial issue, the publisher an nounces that additional news will appear regulally here after. The Observer will be issued from Murfreesbono. Although the first isuue does not state by whom the "paper is published, the HERALD understands Mr. Walter W. Edwards, the hust ling editor of the Northampton Progress at Jackson, is editor of the new Hertford County paper, and that it will be print ed at his plant in Jackson. The editor makes his bow with a two-column editorial, in which he outlines the purposes and aims of the paper, which is a "permanent institution", and says he will work always for the best interest of Hertford County; and that, together with the HERALD, he will en deavor to cover ,the field. The HERALD welcomes the Observer into the field, and hopes that it will be able to do a good work with the coopera tion of Hertford County folks. ? THE HERTFORD COUNTY ? ? GERM IS STILL THERE ? ? ?? * Here's on* fallow who ha* ? * something on Everett Edward * * Hale. He', dead certain h* ha* * * a country, and i* proud to pro- * * claim Hertford County a* the * * land of birth. ? * la sending his subscription to * * the HERALD on* non-resident * * saidi * * "I am not taking advantage of * * your on* dollar offer this month, * * for I think too much of the paper * * than try to take the advantage * * of it. I'm sending my dollar * * because my time is nearly out, * * and I don't want to miss a single * * copy of the H E R T F O R D ? * COUNTY HERALD. * * 'Tor, I'm Hertford County ? * bred, and when I die there'll be ? * a Hertford County hop dead. * * BILL" ? ? b ? + ?? ?? ? ? '.11 J. !._L_L"i_!_ J 1 v SEEN AND HEARD THIS WEEK BY THE OFFICE CAT i "Taxpayer" geta a thr*t thia week that rings with aarcaam and derision as a starter and winds up with a blanket endorsement of the actions of B. N. Sykes, a member of the road board, who sought the Superintend ent's removal. And, Dr. Powell seems well able to sign his name with out the aid of witnesses. It is pretty disappointing not to divulge the name, tax receipt, and other articles called for about this "Taxpayer". However, it is not with in the province of the paper to make the expose unless the writer says let her go. "Better roads at a minumum cost" sounds good, and, like Dr. Powell, we all are with one accord on that propo sition. Now that both sides have had say-so's, let's cut out the raising and help get better roads?and get them as cheaply as they can be built. The Kitten's fur stood on end Wed nesday morning as he stood at the Main street crossing in Ahoskie and saw a Ford truck creep up on the track directly in front of the Atlan tic Coast Line passenger train going north. Quickly applied brakes brought the engine to a halt just before hit ting the truck, and probably saved one or two lives. That reminds us of the increasing danger at the railroad crossings in Ahoskie. Traffic up and down Main street is heavy, and proper safe guards for both automobilists and pedestrians demand better attention than it is getting. The crossings at First and Church streets is almost as dangerous as at Main street. Either better protection must be provided or traffic regulations requir ing full stops at each crossing will have to be enforced. The fact of the business is?there is entirely too much speeding and reckless driving, and too little apfti cations of court fines. "Do newspaper writers love their job?" inquires one fellow who has budding aspirations for a journalistic career. You bet your life they L-O-V-E to do it, jr some times they'd throw up and quit The editor of this paper says he would have "flew the coop" long ago had he not been enamored of it. There came a letter to him this week that accused him of intention ally omitting from the list of demo cratic candidates the name of Lloyd J. Lawrence, who heads the ticket as Representative, And, that in face of the fact that he and the whole gang working with him have been, are, and will probably forever belong to the party that named Mr. Lawrence its candidate. It's a case where the writer was not satisfied to lay it on the newspaper fellow for a grevious error but ad tola trouble," "Dtaagree akle cleaning made eaey " 'Soap making." etc. Thle valuable booklet will BW rou '"*? Write lor It today. Aak your dealer lor tke genuine Red Seal Lye- Take no other. r. v.. l UMSON 4k CO., Soltkvark P. 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