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Hertford County Herald ? i ... i THIRD NEWSIEST WEEKLY PAPER IN THE STATE A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EASTERN CAROLINA %. * f * T" j'V 1 ?' 1 i' 1 ' '? ' ' ? "1 ? "' 1 1 1' ' ' ? ' 1 1 ' Volume Xlll. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, December 1, 1922 - One Section No. 30 ASSOCIATION NOW ACnVELYWORKING ' Columbian Peanut Company Begins Cleaning Peanuts At Ahoskie Plant -L CONTRACT BREAKERS ? BROUGHT TO COURT War to the teeth has been declared throughout the -peanut belt of Vir ginia and North Carolina between the Peanut Association and the buyers for independent cleaners. At Ahoskie, one of the largest markets in this territory, local independent buyers and the Association ^representatives are hustling for the 1922 crop. The Columbian Peanut Company's - plant here began work last week, with W. I* Curtis in charge. This com pany has a contract for cleaning the Association's peanuts, and the mem bers of the growers' organisation are delivering their peanuts in large bulk every day. Advances, ranging from 2 to 3 cents per pound are being paid, and checks are issued promptly from the Norfolk headquarters. R. L. Brown is local receiver and grader for the Association, and has his offices at the Columbian Peanut Company's plant Independent buyers are paying from 5 to 6 cents per pound for pea nuts bought outside the Association. All the local buyers have received notice from the Association headquar ters giving a list of all the mem bers and advising th/m of the fact that these membp are pledged to deliver their peapdts to the Asso ciation. It refenfthe buyers to Sec tion 25 of the jfto-operative Market . ing Act .of Virginia and notifies them that it will resort to its legal remedy in ease itd rights are violated by any attempt to induce its members to breach of their contracts. The Association is tightening .-the reins on its members who are disposed to violate the contract, and have an nounced the institution of injunction proceedings against some of its mem bers. The first injunction was filed against C. 7. Harrell of Roxobel, Bertie &?. Winston & Mat thews are loci! attorneys for the As sociation, iMid will direct the legal proceedings in conjunction with the law firm of Sapiro, Levy and Hayes, general counsels. A number of other injunctions against violators scattered through out the territory are in the hands of attorneys with instructions to hie them as quickly as the necessary legal documents can be procured. Names of all contract breakers have been secured, with instructions to file all suits at once against breakers of the 1921 contract. The declaration in the Association suits against T. H. Birdsong et als aggregating $100,000 was filed this week at Suffolk. The case will be set ! for trial in Nansemond County as ( soon as Birdsong has been given an i opportunity, through his attorneys, to ? answer the charges in the declaration. Prices for Association stock was announced this week from the Nor folk headquarters. The prices are as follows: Pickanninny Brand Jumbos__ll l-2c Pickaninny Brand Fancies 8c Pickanninny Brand Extras?: 6c Pickanninny Brand Extra Large Virginia Shelled - .-10 l-4c Pickaninny Brand No. 1, Vir ginia Shelled 8c Pickaninny Brand No. 2 Virginia Shelled 6 l-2c No. 1 and 2 Spanish Market Un stable, prices on request. Association headquarters are very optimistic over the prospects for sell ing the 1922 crop at a profit to the member-growers, and have urged them to deliver their peanuts as quickly ai 'possible. In Perquimans County members of the Association are actively buying peanuts from non members and shipping them to the Association, so certain are they that the organization will be able to mar ket the crop to a better advantage than the independent cleaners. DRESSING UP POSTS The Atlantic Coast Line Railway employees .bave put a brand new coat of whitewash on its telegraph poles in Ahoskie. The row of posts staking off their right-of-way east of depot has also been dressed up with a coat of the same stuff. 1 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS JAKEOATHSON MONDAY There Will Be Two New Mem ber*; Four Now Serving Will Succeed Themselves On next Monday at Winton Hert ford County's new administrative body, the Board of County Commis sioners, will take the oath of office for a two-year term. There are six mem bers of the board, until this year there being one member for each township in the County. However, when the new membership enters upon its duties, Maneys Neck town ship will not be represented. Ahoskie township outvoted Maneys Neck at the.primary, and, according to the new primary law in the County, Ahoskie will have two commissioners. In other words, two of the county commissioners will be Ahoskie men. The territory beyond the Chowan river will not haVe a representative. There will be two new members of the board, Dr. J. H. Mitchell of Ahos kie, and W. J. Vaughan, who succeeds J. M. Eley, retiring chairman. The other members who succeed them selves are: F. G. Tayloe of Ahoskie, J. 0. Askew, Jr. of Harrellsville, E. W. Whitey of Murfreesboro, and E. H. Eure of Winton. Just who will succeed to the chairmanship of the board is a question to be settled next Monday. F. G. Tayloe is senior mem ber and may be elected to the chair. Ordinarily the change in adminis tration is attended with but passing notice, and little interest has hereto fore attached to the board's activities. However, the increased business of the County through appropriations for farm and demonstration work, and lately the appropriation for a whole-time health officer, coupled with the half-million dollar road bond issue, has been the means of arousing considerable interest in the conduct of the county's affairs. The jnew administration will be watched closely by taxpayers, who are evincing a greater concern over the county's affairs. Ift fact, since the personnel of the new board was first decided at the primary last spring there have been rumors of what they were going to do, or rather what they would undo. Some have believed the new board would be reactionary, and would seek to dispense with some of the county offices. However, with four of the old members returned to office fears of the sort described above are appar ently unwarranted. And, if there was any foundation for such belief, the old board has just about plastered things for some time to come. All of the County road bonds have been sold; an appropriation has been authorized for the health officer, and at the last meeting of the board at the County Home two weeks ago, appropriations for both the f^rm and home demon strator were ordered continued for! another year. THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS AT AHOSKIE HIGH SCHOOL I Teachers Laava For Home, And Stato Teachers' Assembly At Raleigh Two days holiday is being given at the local school this week on account of it being Thanksgiving, and the an nual meeting of the teachers of North Carolina. School closed Wednesday afternoon, to reopen on next Monday. K. T. Raynor, superintendent, T. R. Bain, assistant principal, and Miss Mina Holloman, seventh grade teach er have gone to Raleigh for the assembly, while all the other non-resi dent teachers have left for their 'homes, except Miss Louise Buffaloe, first grade teacher, who is spending the holidays in Ahoskie. MRS. ODOM IS IMPROVING Mr. C- R. Odom spent last Saturday with his wife who is recuperating from operations recently performed at Sarah Leigh Hospital, Norfolk. Mrs. Odom is slowly improving. Toilet Facilities At Postoffice Ii| pursuance of the conditions of the government lease on the Ahoskie postoffice running, water has been made available for the employees at the building. A partitioned room has been built at the rear of the God win barber shop, and a door will be cut into one Eide of the same room to the postoffice. Original Grant Tract Of Land Still , Held By Members Of Same Family One Hundred Acres Granted By King Charles II To Harry Jenkins Has Never Changed Hands; House Built There During Revolutionary Period Still Habitable Two hundred years the property of the same family is the record of a 100-acre plot of Hertford County land. It is less than ten miles from Ahoskie, lying next to a private road over which there is little travel. The tract of land is known as the Jenkins land, and is now owned by the heirs of Richard Jenkins, and is situated about two miles from the mill of Jen kins & Boulder. King Charles II of England issued the grant for this 'particular home stead which at that time contained about six hundred acres. Harry Jen kins was the fellow who left the Motherland, and decided to cast his. lot with the venturesome brothers from England, and to him the grant was made. TJie exact date of the grant is still undetermined, although an effort is being made to locate the original piece of paper that gave this property to the Jenkins family, one of the oldest and biggest families of Hertford. The last direct lineal descendants of Richard Jenkins, the last owner of the property, are now residing on the farm. Both are unmarried. They farm. Both are unmarried! They are Kelley Jenkins, and Miss Bertie Jenkins. All of the other children have died, and the property is now awaiting court order for sale to di vide it between the two children, and the children of their dead sister. About thirty acres of the original plot is tenable, the remainder being heavily timbered woods land. In one section of the farm is located the old Jenkins burying ground, which has grown up with trees and shrub bery. The old mounds are almost ob literated, and there are only a few head-sticks to identify those who are buried there. Across the road from this tract of' land is another section of the original grant, containing aBout two hundred acres. Henry Jenkins now lives on the latter plantation. This particu lar tract, although now owned by the same original family of Jenkins (Henry Jenkins beihg a brother of Richard Jenkins), has not remained in the possession of the family con tinuously since the grant was made. At some time or another, other par ties have owned it. The rest of the original 600-acre grant has been sold off, and ia now owned by the neighbors of Kelley and Bertie Jenkins. Traced down the line from the ori ginal owner, Harry Jenkins, the old home tract of 100 acres has been own ed by the following members of the Jenkins-family: Harry Jenkins, Henry Jenkins, Turner Jenkins, Richard Jen kins, and at present by the latter's heirs. Records have been searched in an effort to uncover some data that might identify the ownership of the several families, but little is available. Among the papers of Hon. B. B. Winbome, deceased was one nota tion showing that when the first cen sus was taken in 1790, Henry Jenkins, second owner of the property, had seventeen slaves listed as among his personal property. ? The home in which Kelly and Ber tie Jenkins now live is supposed to have been constructed along about Revolutionary War times,-either just prior to or immediately after Ameri ca became a free colony. The house stands there today just as it was built, with the exception of the roof which has been repaired. It is a story-and-a-jump, with the high steps entering directly into the large living and bedroom. On the other end of the house is another bedroom smaller in sire. There is aso a kitchen at the rear, with a narrow porch extend ing around it and back of the two bedrooms. It >s of the old colonial type, built high off the ground, with a brick cel lar located beneath. The original bricks are right there, and the cellar job is a good one. At the front and back are small windows with neatly carved oak bars set in the aperture. Although the cellar is of the original structure?just like the Jenkins' fore fathers put it there?today it is em ployed for a purpose entirely foreign to that of the "good old days" when wine, whiskies, and brandies were a component part of the household supplies. Even some of the heirs liv ing today well remember when the cellar was stacked up with the elixir, that provided the folks of the olden I days with the spice of life. \ One story is told, and is vouched for by members of the family, of one member of the old Jenkins' families being burned to death in the large living room of the house. She was standing on the hearth in front of the 9-foot fireplace when her tresses caught fire. When she screamed for help one of the servants rushed in with a jug or bucket of brandy and dashed it upon the woman's dress to squelch the blaze. The volatile brandy caused a spontaneous outburst of fire all over the woman's body and she was soon enveloped with flames. Stories of the dead woman's ghost are yet current among the members of the family, and friends of that sec tion. Miss Bertie Jenkins and her brother, Kelley, however, told the writer they placed no credence in the stories about the ghost. In the front yard there are two large sycamore trees?perhaps the largest in the County. How 'long they have stood there is not in the mepipry of any surviving member of the family. In the body of one of the trees is a large scar, marking the place where the lever to the wine and J brandy press was inserted. Mary Jenkins, 79-year-old sister of Richard Jenkins, can remember when the scar was a hole, and remembers her for bears telling of the hens using it to supply the household with its break fast food?in the form of freshly laid eggs. A cedar tree in another corner of the yard has been there probably fifty years and was implanted there by | Mary Jenkins. All of the timber used in the con struction of the house is as solfet to day as that in homes built in recent years, ant it was all cut out by the wld-fashioned rip-saw, including the huge sleepers that support the frame, which are in plain view down in the cellar. ' Nails used to hold the weather boarding are handmade, that is, were welded' and shaped in the blacksmith shops of the Revolutionary days. Al though the report is not absolutely vouchsafed, it is said many of these nails were picked up in Norfolk, after it was burned during the Revolution ary days. Wooden pegs are said to have been used to hold the shingles on the roof, before it was repaired many years ago. There is no dearth of interesting facts and fancies abdut this old home stead, and the good people who have held it for so many years. The brother and sister livlhg there now are of that same substantial Jenkins stock, and, when visited by the writer and Mr. A. O. Kiff some weeks ago, took delight in opening up their home, and giving all the information sought by the inquirers. Upon the recent visit to the old plantation, we were guests of Mr. P. H. Jenkins, a mem ber of another branch of the same family. A feed that combined the substan tial offerings of the country with the finer delicacies of the most elite city home was served by Mrs. H. O. Boutler, brother of P. H. Jenkins. BAZAAR A SUCCESS Many Ahoskie persons visited the booths and bought articles froiil at the baxaar conducted last Friday by the ladies of the Methodist church. Dinners were also popular in the evening, all of the eats being quiekly sold. A neat sum was realized from the bazaar and it will be added to the building fund. ? BRIDEGROOM ARRIVES Rev. June Franklin Carter of Winston-Salem arrived in Ahoskie Wednesday afternoon. Friday even ing he will be married to Miss Ursie Vinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ! John H. Vinson of this city. The I marriage will take place in the Bap tist church. Many out-of-town visi tors wiU be here for the" wedding. 1 PLACED IN JAIL TO SOBER UP, HE SOON BREAKS OUT Spurgeon Doughtie Become* Disorderly And Is Hailed Into Justice Court Spurgeon Doughtie, a young white man living near Ahoskie, let liquor get the best of him last Saturday af ternoon, and despite his efforts to resist arrest and frequent protests that he would not be locked up he was placetf in the town lock-up in default of a $100 bond for his appearance in Justice J. R. Garrett's court Mon day morning. On Monday he was tried upon the charge of being drunk and disorderly, being fined $40 and costs. Justice Garrett, expressing sympa thy for Doughtie's wife and children, suspended payment of the fine, upon the condition that the defendant live soberly for thirty days. He was ad vised to keep oat of trouble, or a few days on the county roads would be his lob Doughtie became boisterous down about Bellamy's drug store, and hurled a few epithets at some by stander; who shoved his blasphemer out of the way and moved up the street. Doughtie soon followed him, and sought to engage him in a fight. Stones were hurled in the flight, but Doughtie never got his man, the lat ter' leaving town unknown, unsung, and unwept O. H. Britton, constable, caught Doughtie on Railroad street near the Herald office, and the latter tried to prevent the officer from taking him in custody. He resisted for a brief minute or two, while Britton worked to get a death grip on him. Doughtie soon became submissive, when he realized that Britton had him hard and fast Carried to Justice Garrett's office, he persisted in defying the law, and reiterated that he would not put up bond nor go to jail until his accusers were brought before him. Failing to secure a bondsman, he yielded to the officer, and went to the town jail. Before the cop and his assistants could get back up town, Doughtie had made friends with the window of the jail, and walked back dow<n town. He was again taken in custody, and suc ceeded in securing bondsman. Steer Clear Family Quarrels, Says Cop An old-old-story was re-en acted in Ahoskie IaaO "Saturday afternoon. And, now Chief Oscar Britton is absolutely cer tain he will never again get mix ed up in any family quarrels, at least, without being fore armed with a warrant for either man or wife. The chief thought he was going to perform a hu manitarian mission, but the affair ended with him the goat, and husband' and wife better friends than ever. Hardly had Britton finished with the business of attending to a public drunk when he was be i sieged by a woman of color who asked that ha go down to her, house and help tame her "old man." He had touched the joy water too freely, and was a "wild man." In his wild mom ents he haul set fire to all her ! clothing and threatened to give her a sample of cave man treat ment. , The cop hurried back home with'her. When he reached the 'house he recognised his em ployee, "Bud" Cornelius, until lately town scavenger, heavily charged, and ranting tike the beast 1922 liquor will make a human. Britton sought to quell t him into submission and mq|le the first move in that direction. "Don't hurt him. Don't hurt him", screamed lauiy Cornelius as she made for Britton. The cop quit trying to offer his good services, unloaded a little of his mind and moved away. Later "Bud" was taken into custody. ( GOES TO WASHINGTON Mr. Claude Greene left last Satur day for Washington, D. C., driving his automobile. He was accompanied by his father, Mr. J. W. Greene, who came here to attend the funeral or hig son's wife. They spent Saturday night-in Richmond, Va. I s I WILL NAME MAYOR AT NEH MEETING Check Records Of Light Plant One Month ;'Puihing Tax Collections PUSHING COLLECTION OF TAXES FOR BONDS Selection of s mayor for Ahoskie was deferred by the town conncil at the regular meeting this week until next Monday night. H. W. Stokes, councilman, served as chairman pro tem of the board. Several have been mentioned as probable appointees for the office of mayor, but, if any of the commissioners have made a choice it was not brought out at the meeting. Although the board is seeking above all else to secure funds suffi cient to cover the payment of water and sewer bonds December 15, to the amount of $5,000, that there must be a more efficient administration of the town's affairs was the keynote of the Monday night's session. Three hours were spent in approving old ac counts against the town, hearing the report of Constable Britton, and lis tening to suggestions from the cham ber of commerce directors through the secretary, C. O. Harris. . Approximately $1,300 of the 1922 taxes had been collected up to Mon day night, $800 of which had been paid for coal with which fo run the electric light plknt. Only fifteen days are left before the bond payment is due, and the commissioners decided to allow 1 per cent reduction during those fifteen days, and instructed the collector to urge all taxpayers to take advantage of the reduction. To prevent a reoccurrence of the Saturday night episode when a priso ner easily proved himself a better man than was the town lock-up, J. koy Parker was appointed to secure a steel cage from the county commis sioners. The county now owns a strong, substantial cage which is not in use, and Jailer Buck says it is prac tically worthless to him. If secured it will become Ahoskie's place of in carceration for the holiday drunk", and othgr fellows who are running wild. The Council also notified the con stable to enforce the ordinance re quiring the throwing of waste paper and refuse in the tin cans on the streets for that purpose. Paper is not to be burned in the street or on va cant lots unless enclosed in a wicker basket to prevent the wind from scat tering it over the streets, and pro viding fire hazards. Action was also taken looking to some change in the lighting plant. An accurate check ^rill be made during V the month of December on the expen ditures and receipts of the plant in order to ascertain just how much the town is losing monthly. With figures available and ready at hand, some re adjustment can be made. , The town's scavenger "Bud" Cor nelius drew his walking papers. Here after he will not draw a pension from the city's taxpayers. Arrangements will be made to employ the truck own ed by the toUm in carrying off the waste accumulating in the tin cans on the streets. A dormant committee on the con struction of a railroad aiding to the light plant was urged to get busy, and L. C. Williams, clerk, was added to the committee. The council hopes to take some action at once towards se curing the siding for unloading coal. The trucking of coal has been a heavy expense upon the light plant since it was first built On next Monday night besides ap pointing a mayor for the town, the Council will listen to C. M. Cobb, of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, in reference to placing gates at Main Street crossing. He has notified the council he or a representative will be here at that time, in response to a second request for the gate installa tion. REV. BLAYLOCK HERE . Reverend Blaylock, Baptist pastor at Rich Square, exchanged pulpits with Rev. E. J. Isenhower of the Ahoskie church last Sunday morning. The visiting pastor preached a strong sermon here, and made a plea for the reinforcement campaign. J. Hillarv Matthews, chairman of the campaign for the West Chowan Association, spoke at the Ahoskie Baptist Church Sunday night.
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