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STATE NEWS
IN DIGEST
Despite the |300,000 Are lose for
December in North Carolina, the total
loss in the State for the year 1822
will not greatly exceed the $7,463,207
loss of 1921, according to the ad
vance report of Insurance Commis
sioner Stacey W. Wade.
' In the most disastrous fire that has
occurred at Brev*rd in several years
twenty-seven mules were burned to
death and twelve automobiles were
lost, together with equipment, acces
sories and supplies, last Thursday.
The loss is estimated at $70,000.
% The second trial of O., G. (Red)
Thomas, Charlotte automobile sales
man, for the killing of A- J. Allen,
master plumber of Concord in Kan
napolis on the night of October 26,
1921, wBHjtftried in Salisbury at the
February term of superior court.
Opening what is pronounced as one
of the finest iron ore deposits, in the
South, Heaton A Mehaffey, of Mur
phy, are installing equipment to han
dle 200 tons of ore per day and it
has been estimated that this rate the
depdkit will produce for the next ten
yean.
A total of $10,073,000 of North
Carolina bonds were last Thursday
sold to a syndicate of fclew York
and North Carolina banks and bond
- buyers represented by B. J. Van
Ingen Co., at 4 1-2 per cent with a
ninety day option on the remaining
$10,000,000 for sale by the State at
par. A batch of $1,700,000 school
bonds brought a premium of $1,000.
Col. 3. Bryan Grimes, North Caro
lina Secretary of State since 1900,
died last Thursday evening at his
Raleigh home, following a brief ill
ness of pneumonia. Although fifty
four years of age when*he died, he
I was at the time of his first election
to the office twenty-three yean ago,
the youngest man heading any of the
principal State Departments. W. N.
Everett, repjpsentative from Rich
mond County, has been appointed Col
onel Bryan's successor, and has ac
cepted tip appointment.
With thirty-five North Carolina
counties and one other ouiside state
represented in the tegistratin of stu
dents, the winter course in agriculture
at the State College is now under
way.
water power developments in
North Carolina will b? materially
stimulated by studies which the State
geological and econoifiic" surrey, in
conjunction with the State Univer
sity's school of engineering, has be
gun and which it plans to carry stead
ily forward to conclusion.
Decision in the Southern Power
Company rate fixing case, one of the
most important now pending, is ex
pected at the next session of the
state supreme court in February.
The case was carried into the courts
by a number of manufacturing
plants supplied with current by the
electric company a large amount of
money through the increase in rates
granted by the corporation commis
sion is involved. -
Hugh E. Morris, young Vanceboro
white man, was instantly killed and
his body badly mangled A'V.-n a boiler
exploded at his father's saw mill two
miles from Vanceboro on the Wash
ington road. A brother of the man
v 1 o was standing 'it or eight feet
away was slightly injured when struck
with a piece of iron.
Owing to declining health, Joseph
L. Sewell has resigned as clerk of
the North Carolina Supreme court,
rtof th- curt, in session, Friday
elected Edward C. Sewell, his son,
who has acted as assistant for the last
eight years, as his successor. He *as
elected* for a tern of eight yean.
State edttort met in High Point
last week, and besides attending to
business of their own, and listening
to members of their own fraternity
I talk oh shop matters, they heard Jos
iah William Bailey and K. J. Elwood
Cox, both prominent in state politics,
make addresses. The editors were
given a great entertainment program
by the High Pointers, and Thomas
ville^
"Hash, you disnearten me, you
make me think I haven't done my
duty," said Beatrice Smith, young
white woman, when policemen, try
ing to comfort her after she shot her
former husband, Phil Kidd. She had
just been told she had not wounded
him seriously, and was disappointed.
The Tidewater Power Company's
(Wilmington) new transmission line
will probably be furnishing power on
a wholesale scale to the towns of Bur
gaw, Wallace, Rose Hill, Faison and
Clinton , acording to recent an
nouncement made by the manager of
the company.
The wife of W. R. Lee of Roper
who was recently burned to death
in a Elizabeth City Are has informed
;\ the undertaker who has the body in
charge that she did not - want the
corpse. However, she did want to
| collect the $1,000 insurance her hue
band had.
G. A- Cardwell, agricultural indus
trial agent, stated in Goldsboro last
week that he expected the strawberry
crop in that section to reach 1,800
cars, or nearly a third more than
the 1,860 cars last Jeer that netted
the farmers of that section more than
| a milion and half dollars.
Proposed legislation authorising
Durham county commissioners to ap
propriate $5,000 for the erection of
a Confederate monument on the court
house lawn in Durham, submitted to
a mass meeting in the court house re
solved itself ihto a debate over the
amount of money to be expended.
General Julian S. Carr said there
should not be less than $l,50b author
ized for its erection, and said he
would ask the legislature to approp
riate that amount from the county
treasury.
With a sixty-five thousand increase
in acreage and a ,59,490,000 pound
increase in production, the 1922 to
baco crop outstripped in value the
1921 crop by $27,366,000, according
to figures compiled by Prank Parkdr,
Agricultural statu^ician.
Petersburg wil take over the New
port News baseball franchise in the
Virginia League and thus complete
the circuit Dave Robertson will man
age the Richmond team, and Rube
Oldring, last year's manager of the
Richmond bunch, will succeed Bunny
I Hearne as manager of t^e Wilson
team, while Hearne will Be retained
as one of the pitchers.
Work has already begun on the new
negro settlement at New Bern, to
replace the one recently destroyed by
fire.
Fourteen death from influenza and
1 pneumonia have been reported in the
City of Raleigh, since the first of the
year, according to statistics given out
by the city's registrar of births and
deaths.
Members of Dunn's Chamber of
Commerce met one day last week, and
with sad faces, for it was thought the
civic organization was doomed for the
graveyard, according to writers from
that own. The chamber owed money
Wild had only unredeemed pledges
with which to*pay> and its old officers
were resigning to go into other work.
Before the meeting had progressed
far, some of the members volunteer
ed to make donations, and the move
ment gained such impetus that soon
enough funds were promised by busi
ness men to carry on the work for
another year. The result was a
rejuvenated chamber of commerce
with bright prospects for a greater
work than ever before.
Bankers of Halifax county met at
Weldon on Monday and formed a
county bankers' association, electing
W. E. Daniel, president of the Bank
of Weldon, chairman, and Norfleet S.
Smith, county treasurer as secretary.
The Ku Klux Klan received its first
recognition in court at Wilmington
Monday when L. Clayton Grant, coun
sel for a negro charged with trans
porting liquor, asked -each member of
thtf1 jury if he was a member of the
Klan. There were no verbal answers
to the attorney's questions, although
one member arose from his seat and
left the box.
With buyers attending from all
parts of the United States, the South
er? Furniture exposition opened at
High Point Monday with the promise
of being the best show in the history
of the southern market. Nearly one
hundred buyers arrived the first day.
Agitation has been started in
Greensboro for a change in the form
of city government from the city
manager-council back to the three
commissioner commission form, with
the circulation' of petition asking for
an election to change the charter of
the city in order to change back Two
of the former mayors under the com
mission form are working, the peti
tions. ^
A Utbn. frnm Dr. J. W. Peacock.
formerly of Thomasville, states that
he la in Florida, and asks that hit fix
tures be sent him, as he expects to
practice medicine there. He has re
cently been declared sane in the State
of Florida. He was sentenced to a
lifetime in the North Carolina Insane
Asylum after being convicted of the
oitital murder of a Thomasville man.
He escaped from the Asylum several
months ago. Efforts will be made to
,ring him back to this State.
The Grand Lodge of North Carolina
A. F. and A. H- convened in the Ma
onic Temple at Raleigh Tuesdaj
ight and heard Grand Master Jame
I. Webb, of Hillaboro, deliver hi
nnual address, and listen to othe
ommunications, in its 186th annu
ission.
A fight in earnest for the conti
mce of the present . co-operath
ah between the county, city, and t
tate for the maintenance' of t!
ayne county health department h
-en begun by eight leading citise
ho have signed a letter and sent
t to hundreds of citisens throughou
e county, advising them that th
ad investigated the present sy?t
'd found it te be economical a...
leient
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CIGARETTES
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^ GENUINE
"Bull"
TF'TK DURHAM
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Notice of Sale Under Deed of Trust
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Pursuant to and by virtue of the
power and authority conferred upon
me by three certain deeds of trust
executed by W. H. Manly and Mary
Jane Manly, all of said deeds of trust
being duly of record in the Register
of Deeds office of Hertford County,
default having been made in the pay
ment of'certain .indebtedness set out
in said deeds "of trust, and having been
requested by the legal holder of said
indebtedness to advertise and sell the
land and other property set out in
said deeds of trust as therein pro
vided, I shall on SATURDAY, the
17th day of FEBRUARY, 19C8, at the
Courthouse door in Winton, N. C.,
sell at public auction, to thq highest
bidder the following described land,
to-wit:
1st tract. Lying and being in Win
ton township; beginning on the North
at a corner on the path that leads to
the turnpike, thence along said path
to the corner of Knox line, thence
along said Knox line to a ditch, being
a corner in the line of George W. Mit
chell, said ditch being the line, thence
in an Eastwardly direction along the
line of Mfs. Perry to Carter line, a
corner, and to a path leading over
Browns Mill, and thence back to first
station in puMie path. Containing
ONE HUNDRED ACRES MORE OR
LESS.
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?.uu trwii. auuwn as iu? r xaiicia
Hall tract, adjoining the lands of J
L. Anderson heirs, Ames A. Hall and
Joseph Hoggard heirs. Containing
six acres more or less.
. 3rd Tract: Bounded on-the East by
Cofleld Manufacturing Co., on the
North by W. R. Manly land, on the
Weat by the lands of J. H. Jenkins,
on the South by the lands of Kathar
ine Hall heirs. Containing TWO
HUNDRED ACRES more or less. This
being the home place of W. H. Manly.
All of the above described land lies
in one body and now consists of but
one tract of land containing THREE
HUNDRED ACRES more or less.
4th Tract: A certain tract j>f land
in Wintdn township adjoining the
lands of J. H. Jenkins, Catherine Hall
heirs, Pauline Pugh and others, and
containing THIRTY acres more or
less. This tract of land is known as
the Miles Melton land.
The following personal property:
Three young mules, one bay mare,
two open ^buggies, one top buggy and
set of buggy harness, one two-horse
wagon, one black and white spotted
ox, one jersey cow, one body cart and
wheels, ofte log wagon bunk and rear
wheels complete.
Time of sale?Between the hours
of 12 o'clock m. Band 2 o'clock, p. m.
Terms of sale?For personal prop
erty?Cash.
Terms of sale?For all the above
described land?ONE THIRD CASH,
ONE THIRD January 1, 1924, ONE
THIRD January 1, 1926, tlje deferred
payments to be secured by first deed
of trust on the lands.
The above described lands are well
timbered, having a nice lot of pine
and oak timber standing upon them.
This the 16 day of January, 1923.
C. W. JONES,
l-19-28-4t. , Trustee.
Rub. Rheumatism or
Sore, Aching Joints
, Rub Pain right out with small
trial bottts of altf
"St. Jacobs OH."
Rheumatism if "pain" only. Not
ne case' in fifty requires internal
reatment Strip drugging. Rub sooth
ig, penetrating "St Jacobs Oil" right
ito your son, stiff, aching joints and j
luscles, and relief comes instantly.
St Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rbeu
atism liniment which never disap
lints and cannot bunt the skin.
Limber up 1 Quit complaining I Ge
small trial bottle of old, bones
St. Jacobs Oil" at any drug store
nd in just a moment you'll be fre
>m rheumatic pain, soreness, stiff '
ss and swelling. Don't suffer I Re
?f awaits you. "St Jacobs Oil" ha
lieved minions of rheumatism suffei
s in the last half century, and is ju
rr/iAil f a. nmsdhlffla lives
gooa tor sciatica, ncunigia, lun
go, backache, sprains.
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BANK OF WINTON, TREASURER
In Account With Hertford County
ALL FUNDS 1
1022.
Dec. 1. Balance forwarded - $19,377.12 '
Error 1 J1.18 '
Dec. 5_ F. G. Tayloe, sale of cow 88.O1 1
B. ?. Sykes, 8.1J
Dec. 16. J. C. Carter, estate ? 74.2c
^B. Scull, corporation tax, 1922 2,540.5
. B. Scull, corporation tax, 1922 6,136.5c
" W. L. Matthews", Tav Collector, (delinquent) 6.9(
W. L. Matthews, Tax Collector, 1922 1-,-- 3,190.71
S. E. Vaughan, tax collector, 1922 8,000.3;
T. T. Parker, tax collector, 1922 - ? 1,500.00
W. J. Hill, Tax Collector, 1922 ' 2,969.7
W. H. Vinson, Tax Collecttor, 1922 ? 1,945.63
J. L. Smith, Tax Collector, 1922 8,787.21
N. W. Britton, Superintendent , 40.00
N. W. Britton, Superintendent - 15.00
N. W. Britton, Superintendent s?z 802.00
Proceeds from bonds, note number 11 10,000.00
D. R. McGlohon, C. S. C 283.38
D. R. McGlohon, C. S. C -v- 166.75
W. L. Matthews, ' 100.00
State (for schools) 2,000.00 -
B. Scullft corporation tax 1922 % 27.66
Dec. 28. D. R. McGlohon, C. S. C. 10.00
TOTAL t $61,550.10
Amount forwarded $61,550.10
Interest daily balances, November 64.05
TOTAL $61,604.1A
/ CREDITS V
Dec. 30. Road vouchers paid 312,800.83 1
Murfreesboro Baptist Church 3,000.00 '
Jury tickets 6.30
County vouchers 8,108.27
School vouchees 0,903.07
Balance due all funds 28,644.06
. '
Interest coupons paid I 1,062.63 J
TOTAL .$61,604.16
GENERAL COUNTY FUND " ,
Disc. 1. Balance forwarded , .-l' 2,699.4?
Dec. 6. F. G.Tayloe, (sale cow) 38.00
Refund special school taxes by County 8.6?
J. C. Carter, estate ? 37.64
B. Scull, Cofporation Tax, 1922 2,249.9'
B. Scull, corporation tax, error .6:
W. L. Matthews, (delinquent) 3.85
From tax collectors, 1922 3,084.4?
From D. R. McGlohon, C. S. C. &. 283.3
From W. L. ?Matthews, 1921 ; lfeo.OG
From B. Scull Corporation Tax, 1922 5.66
From D. R. McGlohon, C. S. C .' 10.0?
From interest daily balances, November 32.33
TOTAL - ?VT * 8,468.90
Dec. 1. Winton, Sup. list, 1921 1_. $ ^50.98
1 per Cent allowed tax payers 30.85
Dec. 30. Jury tickets paid 6.30
s County checks paid i 3,108.27
Balance due 4,768.60 f
TOTAL 1 J-i ?8,453.90
HERTFORD COUNTY ?N ACCOUNT WITH SCHOOL FUNDS
Doc. 1. Balance forwarded ez i ?$14,236.01
Error in last report 31.19
Winton supplemental list, 1921, net 850.47
J. C. Carter, estate, net - .. .. 16.87
B. Scull, corporation tax, 1922 3,443.67
W. L. Matthews, delinquent _. i 2.06
From tax collectors, 1922 tax a-_J L 13,734.If
From N. W. Britten, Superintendent 1 40.00
From N. W. Britton, Superintendent 16.0C 1
From N. W. Britton, Superintendent 802.0'
From Clerk Superior Court, fines, etc. 166.75
From State _ - 2,000.0'
From B. Scull, ; 54.72
From interest November balances 21.72
TOTAL $34,403.11
Dec. 1. 1 per cent allowed taxpayers l $ 133.06 1 ?
Reffin^ed special district taxes w - 8.68
Dec. 30. School vouchers - 9,903.07
Balance due all schools 24,868.81
TOTAL ? -isf403.11
HERTFORD COUNTY IN ACCOUNT WITH INTEREST AND
SINKING FUND
Dec. 15. B.S99II, Corporation tax, 1922 $ 1,656.61
W. L Matthews, (delinquent) _ 1.00
From Tax Collectors, 1922 taxes 6,126.43
From Winton supplemental list, 1921, net 160.64
From B. Scull, Corporation tax 7.14
Dec. 80. Amount overdrawn 893.64
a
TOTAL ? $ 7,844.46
Dec. I. Amount overdrawn f $ 240.65
Interest coupons paid 1,062.63
_ Amount to Murfreesboro Baptist church. $ 6,000,00
1 per cent allowed taxpayers s... 51.18
TOTAL - $ 7,844.46
HERTFORD COUNTY IN ACCOUNT WITH ROAD BOND ACCOUNT
Dec. 1. Balance forwarded ? y i $ 2,774.30 i
. B. N. Sykes ?I. 1 8.18
Dec. IS. Proceeds from Bond Note number 11 - L 10,000.00
Dec. 80. Amount overdrawn 108.40 .
TOTAL . $12,890.88
bee. 30. Road checks paid $12,890.88
SUMMARY OF ALL ACCOUNTS TO DECEMBER 80, 1922
Amount due all funds by Treasurer 1?$28,644.0.r
Overdraft sinking fund 898.6'
Overdraft, bond account 108.4
TOTAL $29,146.0
Amount due Schools -I ??-$24,868.31
Amount due State ? - .....?.. 29.28
Amount due County Fund 4,768.50
TOTAL ?. - $29,146.09
11 ' ' ' %
SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALr
)NE YEAR $1.5C
NOTICE OF SALE
3HATE OF NORTH CAROLINA?
County of Hertford.
By virtue of the powers contained
in ? certain deed of trust, executed
an the 7th jiay of February, 1922,
by Henry Lane and wife "Nannie
Lane, to W. J. Barnes, Trustee,
which deed of trust is duly recorded
in the Register of Deeds Office for
Hertford County, in book 72 at.
page 101, default having been made
in the payment of the indebtedness
therein secured, and at the request
5f the holder of said note, I will on
the 15th day of January, 1923,
affer for sale, in front of the Post
Office in the town of Harrellsville,
V. C., to the highest bidder for cash,
the following described tract or par
eel of land, situate in Harrellsville
Township, Hertford County, N. C.,
described and Refined as follows, to
wijt: That certain tract or parcel of
land adjoining the lands of Ben
lones. J. T. Archer A Bras, and
a there. Bounded as. follows: On the
north by the lands of J. T. Archer
ft Bros., on the east by tha lancfa of
I. W. Harrell, on the west by the
Sessoms Mill Pond, on the south by
the public road leading from Glovers
Cross Roads to the old Sessoms Mill.
Being the same tract of land that .
was deeded to Henry Lane by N. F.
end Adie Williams, containing
eighty-four (84) acres more or less.
This the 28th day of December,
1922.
W. J. BARNES, Trustee.
CARL SESSOMS, Attorney.
Place of sale?Postoffioe, Har- ?
rellsville, N. C.
Time of sale?January 16, 1922.
Terms?Cash.
NOTICE?VALUABLE FARM AND
TIMBER FOR SALE
As directed by the last will and
testament of J. H. Pritchard, deceas
ed, of record in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Bertie, in
Book "L" of Wills on pages 619 et ?
seq., am offering at private sale the
following described tract of land and
timber, to-wit:?Said tract of land
lying and being in Roxobel Township,
Bertie county. North Carolina, ad
joining "the lands of W. P. Tyler, J.
J. Jilcott, W. E- Womble and others,
and known as the "A. H. Pritchard
Home Place," containing three hun
dred acres, more or less, and being in
about tyro and one-half miles of the
town of Roxobel, and about three
fourths of a mile of good school.
About one hundred and sixty acres of
this tract of land is cleared and in a
good state of cultivation and has four
good houses in same including the
dwelling of the late A.H. Pritchard.
This tract of land has at least six
hundred thousand feet of original
growth pine, not more than two and
one-half or three miles from the Sea
board Air Line Railway and the At
lantic Coast Line Railway, will sell the
farm or separate.
Possession given the first day of .
January, 1923.
Those wanting to see the land or
timber see the undersigned at Roxo
bel, N. C.
, E. R. TYLER,
Executor of J. H. Pritchard.
If Kidneys Act
Bad TakevSalk
/ I^P
Say* Backache often meant yc
have been eating too
much ^ioat. I
When you wake up with backache a . I
dull miaery in the kidney region it n.../
mean you have been eating to" >
meat, iay? a well-known authority. '
exceea of meat may form uric acio,
which overworke the kidneye in their
effort to filter it from the blood, and
they become tort of paralysed and loggy
When your kidney* get sluggish and
clog, yon must relieve them, like you ?
relieve your bowels, removing all the
body's urinous waste, else you ha. a
backache, sick headache, ditty spells;
your stomach sours, tongue is ooatod,
and when the weather is bad you have
rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy,
full of sediment, channels often get sore,
water scalds, and you are obliged to
seek relief two or three times during the
night
Either consult a good, reliable phy
sician at once, or get from your phar
macist about four ounces of .Tad Baits
take a tableepoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast few a fcw day* and
your kidneve may then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon jniee, combined with i J
lithis, and has been used for generations
to elcaw and stimulate sluggish kidneys,
also to neutralise acids in the urme
so it no longer irritates, thus often
ending bladder weakness.
Jed Baits Is inexpensive, can not in
jure, end makes a delightful, efferveeoent
iithia water drink. Drink lots of soft
water, t
^Vchapped '^nas?\
Imenthoiaium J
%tnakei them smoothly