Hertford County Roads
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connecting with the state system just
beyond St Johns.
/hose who favor this method point
0(ft that every town and village in the
county would then be connected by
dependable roads. Leas expensive
roads could then be built connecting
with these. Feeders into the princi
pal roads would, they point out only
require maintenance to keep them fit
for traffle, which would be much
lighter over these than over the main
roads leading into the towns and vil
lages of the county.
First, build real roads connecting
the towns and villages, maintain the
feeders in the meantime, and if any
construction fund is left, apply it to
the building up of the more impor
tant of the short roads. That is the
policy of many taxpayers who believe
the county can get some real roads
out of the bond issue.
Abandon Township Id..
In Una with the thought advanced
by these proponents it also the con
viction that tittle or nothing will ever
be accomplished in road construction
of a lasting type so long as the roadi
commissioners are more concerned in |
what portion their individual town
ships will get than they are in real
izing the greatest possible good from
the bond issue.
When the bond issue was first men
tioned and from the very inception of
the good roads idea in the county, the
principal motive was to build roads of
dependable types and such roads as
would serve the largest number. It
was framed in such a way to make it
possible for the entire county to ben
efit by the money which the taxpayers
are advancing each year. Those who
would see some roads resulting from
the bond issue now believe that this
can only he accomplished by building
the main thoroughfares of approved
gravel type, regardless of the mote or
less selfish motives of some sections
or sub-divisions of the county.
It is also pointed out that If any
thing is to be done, it must begin with
the road construction this spring.
Superintendent Hines is certain that
he can not give the county any de
pendable roads unless "gravel" is the
word.
$300,000 Still Left
According to a statement published
in the HERALD last week about two
fifths of the bond issue has already
been expended. Of that amount
$110,000 is invested in equipment,
materials and supplies on hand. The
same figures show that only about
$76,000 of the bond issue has been
actually spent on road construction.
With $800,000 left in the pot from
the bond issue, -the principal roads of
the county, including the highway
leading into Maneys Neck Township,
could be built of gravel, equitable]
sums could be allocated to each town
ship for maintenance, and when the
final wind-up came, the county would
probably be enjoying some ripe bene
fits from their expenditures.
The road board is doing all within
its power to devolve some system by
which the county can reap this bene
fit, and are amenable to reason and
suggestion from the county's tax
payers. They are honest men, with a
desire to do the best thing by the
county, and in their own wisdom and
with helpful suggestions from the
people of Hertford County, there is
an ever increasing hope and prophecy
that the $600,000 will not have been
spent in vain.
I Hatch eariy. The early chicifi
bring the pullets that lay the early
eggs and these bring the beat, prices.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
Pursuant to and by virtue of the
power and authority conferred upon
me by a certain deed of trust exe
cuted by M- C. Matthews and wife,
Helen R. Matthews, on the 27th day
of June, 1921 and duly of record in
Book 72 at page 106, Register of
Deeds Office of Hertford County, de
fault having been made in the pay-j
ment of certain indebtedness therein
set out and secured, and having been
requested by the legal holder of said
indebtedness to advertise and sell the
land as therein provided, I shall on
the F4f
The 6th DAY OF MARCH, 1923
Between the hours of 12 oclock m.
end 2 o'clock p. m., at the Courthouse
door in Winton, N. C., sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described land,
to-wit;
A certain tract of land in Winton
township: Adjoining the lands of C.i
W. Jones, tho run of Deep Creek, W. |
L. Matthews, and Mrs. Evelyn New-,
some, and the County Road leading
from Winton to Ahoslde, N. C. Con
taining two hundred and four acres.
This being the home place of M. C.
Matthews and known as Oak Villa, i
This the 2nd day of February, 1923.
2-9-4L SflC C- W. JONES, Trustee.
Mfrcrib* to tho HERALD?$1.50.
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Lithuania, Latvia and Bsthonla,
cut ad from th? Baltic fringe of pre
war Rural*, and whoas independence
recently has been reoognlsed by the
United States, have appeared often In
world comment lately and are sure to
be Important In the years to come
either aa buffers or gateways to huge
Basel a to the oast
Mere mention of theae three new
statea Indicates bow the Baltic aea
manor baa bean subdivided Into new
national building lota. Here where
the old Russian and German empires
and Sweden beid complacent sway, an
aaaorttnent of new national neighbors
suddenly starts housekeeping?Fin
land, Bsthonla, Latvia. TithnanU. Po
land, with Its precious corridor to the
ass. and the free city of Danslg separ
ating the German republic from West
Prussia. 8weden remains, as doss Den
mark, whose small frontage now be
comes Important amid aucb a rapid
waterfront development. Strangely
enough giant Ruaala retains only a
right of way?to pros rave real aetata
terminology?and emerges now from
Petrograd through the gulf that separ
atee Eathonla from Finland.
Lithuania, the southernmost of the
three major Baltic countries carved
out of prewar Russia, borrowed many
of the principles of Its republican gov
ernment from the United States.
Over the present country of Lithu
ania. once the largest state In Europe,
extending from the Black sen to the
Baltic, the armies of Germany and
Bnasia crossed and recroesed daring
the World war. Germans often raided
the country to capture cattle and the
Russians counter-attacked to gain im
mediate results for the moral affect
Lithuania'* Old Language
These fair-hatred and blueeyed peo
ple who claim that there are more
than one-mllUon foreign-born Ameri
cana of Lithuanian extraction In our
country, speak a language which la
said by some philologists to be the
oldest Using language today. It re
sembles the primitive Sanskrit and la
distinctly different from the Slavonic
family, the Teutonic and the Latin.
The conquering nations who ruled the
territory from time to time have at
tempted to stamp out the native
tongue by requiring the children to nee
textbooks and prayer-books written In
the Qyrinic alphsbet, bnt they have
never been entirely successful.
The ancient capital of this area,
which now to slightly in excess of the
combined areas of New Hampshire,
Vermont Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, was VUna, whose narrow and
winding streets, stony'pavements and
horse-cars gtv* it a quaint and almost
medieval atmosphere. Though the
saat of government now Is Kovno
many of the greet events In Lithua
nian history center around Vilna.
Vita a was founded at the Junction
of the VUna and Vllayka riven by
Oedtjnln in 1822, and Is connected by
railway Hnes with Petrograd and
through Warsaw with most of the
capitals of Europe.
Latvia Fought Well.
Latvia, which adjoins Lithuania on
the north, atoqd out by tta accom
plishments during the World war.
For n tiny Baltic stata, only a little
larger than Want Virginia, to battle
both the Bolshevists and the Prussians
out of Its borders, than to disarm the
Germans In Its midst by constitutional
means Is an achievement Even allow
ing for a strategic locution and for
"breaks" of poUtical luck, Latvia's
pentstsnce and Tankea-Uka Ingenuity
Latvia and the Letts were already
distinctive. According to Dr. Edwin
A. OraevenoFs classification of ths
races of Europe, the Letts with the
Lithuanians stand alone as s separate
stem of the great Slav family tree
that spUts Into numerous braaehaa
among the Baatern Slavs, the West
on Slav* and the South or Jago
Latvia raeetvod its ctodautiala as s
cfl almost two years ago. It earned
this early recognition as s reward. In
part, tor allying Itself with Poland
against Russia, while Bsthoula, to the
north, made a friendly treaty with the
Soviet government, and Lithuania, te
toe south, engaged la a dtoputa with
4 canal deration of Latvia hthsgs
two HW word* lot# plaj?words
which. Uko Intelligensia, may bo mlae
tag from many dictionaries, but which
go a long way toward explaining im
portant facta about the now republic.
One of thaaa words la "Bait" Tha
word does not refer, as might be sus
pected. to any Indigenous resident of
the former Baltic provinces of Rus
sia.- lost the opposite. ? Bait Is a
non-Lett, descendant of the Brethren
of lbs Sword, an aptly named band
of Gorman merchants who settled
along tha Gulf of Riga, near the pres
ent Latvia capital. Riga, and a tart ad
In to convert or Mil the Letts. Than
and there the Letts gave an Inkling
of their Independent temper. They
drove out the medieval missionaries
lmmeraod themselves again In the
waters of the Dvlna where they bed
been baptised at tha point of Gorman
swords, and sant tha waters back to
Germany as evidence that they re
nounced the naw religion.
Then and later Latvia Shook off
German political control but welcomed
economic co-operation of Germans.
Riga became a prominent member of
the Hanseatic league In the Thirteenth
century and kept an Important place
In world trade until 1914 whan It
stood second only to Petrograd among
Baltic cities in Its shipping.
Through tha centuries of political
seesaw the German merchants In Lat
via accomplished what Invaders could
not achieve. They gained control of
the land and thus of the local govern
ments and held e position which has
been compared to that of the landed
gentry lp England of a century ago.
This squirearchy of the Baltic com
prises the Belts. And no enlightened
was their tyranny that when, about
the time of our Cavil war, the tear
began to Russify the Battle provinces,
the Letts and their neighbors resitted.
They resented the replacement of their
feudal barons by Russian bureaucrats.
"Llteratsn* of Latvia.
Tha other new word which Latvia
brings Is "LItare tan." It appltaa to
the professional men, the writers, art
tats, doctors and o therm, a group which
lies between the alien noblemen, on
the one hand, and tha native farmers
and laborers, on the other. The Lat
via "Liters ten," became the con
servers of literature, art, music, and
Ideals of political Independence
Ilia present position of Lettish mu
sic may symbolise, la some degree,
Lettish national life. Invariably, visi
tors are impressed with tha musical
genius of the people. Critics explain
that the Letts have passed the folk
song period and are groping toward
that stage of creative genius where
great compositions may be expected
of them.
Ksthonla la the northernmost of the
three conn trie*. Its northeastern cor
n?r, In fact, extends to within shoot
BO mil as of Kronstadt, the fortified
gateway to Psti ogrsd.
The Estbonlans might wall claim to
! be the peers of any national sufferers
since medieval times because they
have been sore beset both by Germans
and Russians From the eighties of
the last centnry until the World war
parted Eatbonla bore the double yoke
of tsarist laws administered by Ger
man sOdalsL As erne writer exclaims,
"Heaven preserve as from Russian
law as Interpreted by Germans. The
Russian official may not take a Rus
sian law very seriously, bat one can
be sure that the Gorman officials will."
The Baths are an aboriginal people
at northern Europe who once terror
ised the Baltic by piracy, and later
clashed often with Bsodas and Danes.
Within the past half century the R?
gather the Baths Into the (old at their
Orthodox church.
The rugged endurance of this north
ern people, their vitality and ?lrit. Is
sulllrteutly shown by their bearing up
under oppraarion that was both re
ligious and political, and Bom the po
litical standpoint both Prussian and
scanty helps account for that
accounted one of the meat isugiwrin
regions, agriculturally, In Russia. Ma
ture Is scarcely kind to the Bathe
as a nation. They live In a lew
swampy country, nuwheie as high
above sea level as the bass to tag
NOTICE
By virtue of authority contained in
a certain execution issued out of
court by J. R. Garrett, Justice of the
Peace, wherein A. J. Early, plaintiff
and Thomas Winborne, defendant,
the undersigned will, on the
8rd day of MARCH, 1928
At one o'clock, p. m.
At J. R. Garrett's stables in the
Town of Ahoslde, offer for sale the
following articles of personal prop
erty:
One sewing machine, two barrels
and contents, one keg and contents,
live chairs, Ave bundles of slats, four
bedsteads, one cross-cut saw, three
cake boxes and contents, two tubs and
contents, four bundles of beds and
bed clothing, two tables and one
crib, six bags of corn, one cook stove,
one set of bed springs.
Or as much thereof as may be suf
ficient to satisfy said execution and
judgment.
This 5th day of February, 1923.
B. SCULL, Sheriff.
By O. H. BRITTON, Deputy Sheriff.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
By virtue of the powers contained
in a certain deed of trust executed on
the 9th day of September, 1920, by
S. W. McKeel and wife Zenobia
McKeel to W. L Curtis, Trustee,
which deed of trust is recorded in the
Register of Deeds Office for Hertford
County, in Book 68, on page 126.
The conditions contained in the said
ieed of trust having not been cora
ilied with and on request of the hold
er, the undersigned Trustee will
Jierefore, on the
3rd DAY OF MARCH, 1923
Offer for sale to the highest bidder
'or cash, in front of the U. S. Post
Office in the town of Ahoskie, N. C.,
County of Hertford, the following
racts of land, to-wit:
1. That certain tract of land lying
ind being in Hertford County, N. C.,
ind more particularly described and
lefined as follows: On the South-east
ide of County road leading from
Vhoskie to Fraziers Cross Roads and
idjoining the lands of W. L. Curtis,
4rs. A. R. Minton, V. H. Garrett, A.
E. Garrett and others and containing
orty (40) acres more or less and be
ng the farm known as the Minton
'arm purchased from E. J. Gerock
>y said S. W. McKeel.
2. That certain tract of land lying
md being in Hertford County, Town
>f Ahoskie, N. C. Situate on the
iorth side of Main street, East side
>f Lloyd street and adjoining the
ands of the W. A P. right-of-way, J.
i. Newsome and others and contain
ng one and six-tenths acres and
tnown as the Planters Warehouse
>o. warehouse property.
Time of sale?March 3, 1923, be
tween the hours of 12 m. and 1
Vcloek p. m.
Place of sale?In front of the U.
3. Post Office.
Terms of sale?Cash.
This the 1st day of February, 1923.
W. L. CURTIS, Trustee.
2-2-4L
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NOTICE OF RE-SALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
Pursuant to the provisions of a
ieed of trust executed by Mattie L.
-Jewell end husband T. W. Sewell to
the undersigned, Trustee, executed
>n the first day of January 1919, and
"ecorded in the office of the Register
of Deeds of Hertford County, in
book 64, at page 431, default having
been made in the payment of the
bond secured thereby, and being re
quested by the holder thereof so to
do, and having offered said land for
tale under the deed of trust afore
said, and the same having been sold
and upon report of said sale into the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court, and within ten days as pro
vided by law, an up set bid of five
per cent having been deposited with
the Clerk of said Court, and having
been ordered by said Cleric to re-sell
the same, I will on
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, 1923
Between the hours of 11 o'clock
and 1 o'clock in front of the Post
Office in the town of Mnrfreesboro,
North Carolina, again offer for sale
the following real estate:
That tract of land In lfnrfreesboro
Township, Hertford County, North
Carolina, and* known as the Leonids*
Parker, or T. W. Sewell Home Place,
which is bounded on the North by
the lands of G. M. Blow, on the East
by the W. R. Barrett land, being the
Allison Parker land, on the South by
the Winton and Woodland road and
on the West by the lands of T. E
Browne ? containing Eighty Acres,
more or less. '
This sale trill start at the up set
bid of 34,200.00 and terms of sale -
will be cash.
This the 23rd day of January, 1923. (
D. C. BARNES, Trustee J
l-2G-28-2t.
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To acquire money is to earn it; to have
money is to save it; to save money is to
bank it.
Money boarded or hidden is never safe?
neither is it profitable to anybody.
Money saved and banked here is not only
safe but constantly productive.
We can render the farmers of this com
munity profitable service during your
dull season.
LET US SERVE YOU
Farmers-Atlantic Bank
AH0SK1E, N. C.
Notice of Sale
TOWN PROPERTY
WE WILL OFFER FOR SALE THE
Farmers Union Brick Warehouse
And Lot in the town of Ahoskie, N. C., and on the A.
C. L. Railroad and two streets, containing 3-4 acres,
more or less
TIME OF SALE
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1023
Between 1 and 2 o'clock p. m.
Place of Sale?At warehouse
Terms of Sale?To be announced at time of sale.
For further information apply to the undersigned.
J. J. ASKEW, Manager
Ahoskie, N. C.
J. K. PARKER, Chairman Directors,
Murfreesboro, N. C.
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The Bank That Has Never Charged Any Person
More Than 6 Per Cent Interest
Ahoskie, N. C
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