Hertford County Herald Published Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owners J. ROY PARKER Editor JAMES S. VINSON Manager Subscription Price One Year - 81.60 Six Months .76 Three Months -40 Advertising Rates Very reasonable and made known on request Entered as second-class mail matter February 25, 1910, at the posofflce at Ahoskie, North Carolina, under the Act of March 8, 1878. * Fmiisii Adwtima Rspm?eiii i THE AMERICAN PREbS ASauOATinN | FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1923 LET FRANCE DO IT The spontaneous outpouring of patriotism that swept over the United States when it de clared war against Germahy in 1917, and the intense loyalty prevalent throughout the per iod of the conflict has a flare back that is just about as in tense in its antagonistic ten dency to ever again meddle in foreign affairs. The former doughboy today grins at any suggestion of further hostilities, or any thought of his taking any part in another war in Europe. Discussions here and there on the probable outcome of the occupation of the Ruhr district by France usually brings out a pretty strong statement from any former service man in the 'crowd. It doesn't take a mo ment's thought for the average fellow to answer "let the 'Frogs' do the fighting" to any inquiry about the possibility of his taking up the cudgel in Europe again. WILL IT COST? The impression prevails among the county commission ers that a recorder's court will be self-sustaining; that it will not cost the county a cent to operate it. That is the infor mation secured by the editor of this paper from the commis sioners with whom he has talk ed. There is also a notion that it will be in session only once each month. The act under which the court was created is a general state statute and expressly states that such a recorder's court must be in session once a week, or oftener if the Record er deems necessary. Unless a special statute providng -for monthly sessions is enacted, then the Hertford County Re corder's Court will meet week ly and a Recorder, a clerk and a prosecuting attorney will have to be paid salaries accord ingly. * it is still a question of doubt whether any court of record in which any amount of busi ness is despatched can be oper ated without cost to Hertford County. AHOSKIE TOBACCO MARKET Announcement has been made that the local Tobacco Growers Cooperative Associa tion Warehouse will close on February 2. The open market warehouses have been closed for about two months. Three warehouses in operation here during the present season has added to the business of Ahoe kie; it has started this market off as one of the foremost among the smaller markets of eastern Carolina. >,*. ? There is no reason apparent or likely to develop against the successful operation of both an open market, ~and an Asso ciation market here. On the other hand, there is room for both, and Ahoskie business* In terests should take cognisance OFFICE CAT] | YAAOC MAMK COWfWIOMT BY WOW OUAW MOM, j Caught unawares at the last min ute, the CAT did not have time to ruminate upon the communication by Mr. T. E. Vann, which was published in the last issue of this newspaper Mr. Vann is one of the county's fore most citizens and, as he points out in his article, has served in several de liberative bodies and ift, presumably, well versed in parlimentary order. However well versed he may be, he has plainly stepped into his own light in uphoplding the right and practice of a chairman voting to tie ^ vote and 'following it with another vote to un tie that which he has tied. Mr. Roberts says the chairman dies not have the right, according to the best approved parlimentary rules, the attorney-general advises against H in small bodies, and one of our national representatives says it is wholly out of harmony with the idea of fairness. Our friend and former chairman, J. M. Eley, sets the case out pretty clearly in his article appearing in this issue. The Cat at least was laboring un der a slight delusion in saying the chairman was presumably the only one who believed he should vote twice; since Mr. Vann is another. But, still he believes he is hoisting a triumphant tail among the vast ma jority of folks in Hertford County. American doughboys on the Rhine are making ready to bring their fair German wives back with them when they entrain for the United States in compliance with the orders to evac uate. What the Imperial German Army failed to do in the Great War, those fair lassies of the Fatherland have accomplished to the queen's taste?they have captured those American doughboys. ?> Goats in Hertford County are val ued at one dollar apiece in every township except Ahoslde. Over here in this township, they are worth almost twice what other county goats are. In other words, Ahoslde folks don't like to be goats, bat, what goats there be among us, are just about twice as "goaty" as other Hertford County "Nannies." Another peculiar fact revealed in a study of the tax scrolls of the county is the total absence of any negro-' owned sheep. Not a single sheep is listed by a negro in the county. But, when it comes to goats, the colored folks have just about as many as the white people. "What about this report of Ahoslde of that fact. This town should extend, and does so far ps the HERALD knows, an open hand to both classes of warehouses. It should be the town's interests to promote, so far as possible, the success of both organiza tions. It means more tonnage for the market here; and larger sal&s means more busihess for Ahoskie. As an asset to the town and community, the tobacco market takes leading rank among all other enterprises. It not only turns loose a flood of cash, but it brings large numbers of out siders here. And, there is no difference between the cooper ative man and the non-cooper ative man so far as Ahoskie is concerned. She wants both. It should not be a part of the business interests of Ahoskie to line up with one or the other of the market systems; its policy is to foster and aid both, to the end that every tobacco farmer who comes here will be a wel come guest. If there is any notion of hostility against either of the systems, let us dispel it from our rilinda; and exert our i efforts towards building up a larger and better market, re gardless of how the farmer wants to dispose of it. That is nis business. selling electric current to the other 1 towns in this territory T" A citixen 1 of one of the adjoining towns made this inquiry last Saturdays and when informed that it was true, he spoke very optimistically about what he , thought it would mean for the smaller ] town and the country homes along the route where the lijpes aft run. i Ideas entertained by the laiety I about what Recorder's Court really is make a rather interesting conglom eration of fact and fancy, the large I majority of which is pure fancy. One | fellow thought there was no appeal- ' ing from a civil judgment rendered, another was disappointed when he discovered that no criminal case in- 1 volving a felony or above could be tried in the Recorder's Court, et cetera. And, they do say, the court was created because the taxpayers of the county overwhelmingly said so on the questionairres mailed out by ' the county representative. ?I V ? Where is the npn who ever heard ' Recorder's Conrt mentioned in any questionairre to which taxpayers in this County have signed their names? ' You can't find that fellow. AINT IT THE TRUTH ( Short skirts on a small girl Make a girl look smaller; Short skirts on a tall gill Makes a girl look taller. Short skirts on any girl, ' Smaller or taller, Make all the men look A doggone sight longer. , 1 HOWEVER, ITS WARM IN GEORGIA ? The Young Ladies' Auxiliary marched in the parade and there were thirty of them. Their uniforms con sisted of a narrow blue sash.?New ton (Ga.)*News. I ma Nutt concludes that one thing wrong with our homes is that too many couples think a pair beats a full house. J? POOR PARKING PLACE Even the youngsters keep up to date in their atmosphere. Willie had forgotten several of the things his j mother told him to get at the store and when scolded about it he said, "Well, mother, all I can say is, my memory is not a good parking place for all the things you tell me to get" ?_? Professor?What do you use a fuse for? 'Student?To Burn out ? . Joe the Plodder says there is always plenty of room at the top, because J those who get theirs are the few who started early to avoid the rush. PUNCTTJATE THIS SENTENCE! The late professor rushes into his class room and throws off his coat and pants. Since an Indiana girl has bestowed the name of "Galloping Gertrude" on her coupe the fad is spreading and other names like "Rambling Wreck", "Shadow-rapus" and "TJnterrifled Democrat" are being coined. One good thing about the recent World War was that the bird and his sons who started it did not benefit very much by their action. A DARB OF A JOURNALIST GONE WRO*G Versailles, lad., Republican. Our father, who ain't much on re membering names, handed us this news item last week: "What's his name, at Lawrenceburg, who lire: right across the street from uuu .e. low who runs the store on the corner, has sold bis farm to what you call him, out there on Aurora pike. A PROHIBITION EPITAPH Her* lie* the body of Frederick Le Farge, Hie death is too sad for description. He was killed by the mob in a terrible charge, When he carelessly dropped his pre scription. Cy Kology say* a maj isn't down until he is down in the mouth. We shall always believe that it was more by design than accident, that one New York evening paper put a headline referring to the chicken show over a bunch of photographs of Broadway actress so, If you writ* verses advertising soup, soap, and cosmetics, you'll never lie known as one of the im mortals, but you will have a bigger bank account. SLAM, SUP AND SUD A collegian stood At Salina and Fayette, A Ford hit him, H* going yet. Newspaper headline says: "Bandit ?IBs ?,* ? Was Shot in the Holdup." Must have lit him in tho suspenders. BUZZING ALONG An)0? Tash uyi a lot of people who :an't live on their incomes seem to le living on wheels most of the time. "Can the flapper make her way?" isles a professor. She does not have to make her way. She has it We 'have faifcd to see any special proclamation for this week, so we can do just about as we please without interruption. Teacher?"How many seasons are ;.here?" Pupil?'"Two." Teacher?"Only tw?? Name them." Pupil?"Baseball and basketball. V ( -f 4'i| Farmer?"What did you give the lorshs?' Servant?"Hay, sir." Farmer?"What did you give the ;ows?" Servant?"Hay, sir," Farmer?"What did you give the lucks?" . | Servant??"Hay, sir." Farmer?"Hay 1 .Did they eat it?"1 Servant?"They hailn't hut were alking about it when I left" RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT in.iii WHEREAS, our Heavenly Father, >n May 12, 1921, called out of the sarthly tabernacle the soul of our >rother, W. T. Taylor, age 84. AND WHERA8 he was a member >f our church, loyal and devoted and For a number of years a deacon also. RESOLVED That we acknowledge >ur loss of a true workfellow in the Hester's service, of an upright citi ten, a kind neighbor and an affect onate father to his children. RESOLVED also that we cherish lis memory as a christian whose ex imple in faithfulness to his church, n patience through suffering and in oving trust in the Lord is worthy of smulation. RESOLVED FURTHER: That we render our sympathy to the bereaved Family and publish these resolutions n the Biblical Recorder and the Hert Ford County Herald. Adopted by the Christian Harbor Saptist Church, January 14, 1928. CUSTOMER'S NOTICE All persona needing building ma terials of any kind during my absence >f about six weeks will mail their >rders direct to the "Building Sup plies Corporation" at Norfolk, Va. rhey will handle your orders prompt ly. C. GREENE. January 15, 1928. ? ? Wynn . 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