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Hertford County Herald Published Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owners J. ROY PARKER- Editor JAMES S. VINSON .Manager Subscription Prion One Year - $1.60 Si* Months s?"? .T6 Three Months .40 Advertising Rates Very reasonable and made known on reqnaat Entered as second-class mail matter February 26, 1010, at the poeoffice at Ahoskie, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 18T8. Foreign A Hrwrtining Rr iirwrrrtfrntrrn " "T THE AMEWCAN PHESS ASSOCIATION FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1923 NO MCftlE COURTS? Whatever else the General Assembly might have done in spending State money, and is suing more bonds, it is a double compliment to it that it did not authorize more courts, more judges, and more solicitors. In the premises, North Carolina does not need any more super ior courts, nor any other kindB of courts, and the legislators should be commended for real izing it. The legislature being filled with members of the bar, any action they might have taken looking to additional courts could have been construed as having been done for personal gain. But they did not use their office to forward private interests, and for that reason, too, the legislators receive the plaudits of a large majofity of North Carolina's citizenship. IMPROVEMENT OF OUR SCHOOL The following composition was written by Richard McGlohon, young son of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. McGlohon of Winton. He is a student in the ninth grade of the Winton High School; and wrote the composition in the contest now being waged among the schools of the county in a General Improvement campaign, the details of which have beea published in previous issues of the HERALD. The compo sition follows: Improvement is what we all hear and witness every day of our lives We are improving inventions; improving roads; improving our government; and in feet we are endeavoring to add improvements to everything that is under man's control. Improvement is the yrorid's outcjy of today. The most cultured nations of the world are constantly demanding improve ment. Improvement, through count ies ages, has eljvated man from his barbaric customs to his highly, refin ed culture of today. As we are de manding improvement in everything about us, why not demand improve ment in our school? Our school, first of all, should be improved. At% we going to allow im provements to progress in every way about us and make ho effort to im prove our schools? No, we shall strive in every respect to add sufficient im provements to our school, so as to bring it on equal basis with any other school in the county; not only the county, but the state. Wo mow Am* afoi4 .. .? I.?, j? XWW V 1*U|/?W>CIUCI1I? upon the grounds. The gToundB should be properly drained and ele vated, so as to encourage all athletic activities and outdoor enterprises. A good location should be selected, properly drained, and elevated for the purpose of a basket ball court. At present, especially in rainy weather, the basket ball court is partly cover ed with water. This is a great hind rance to the progres of the team, as daily practice is necessary, and they can not obtain daily practice upon the undrained court that they now have. An elevated, well drained, court would afford daily practice and help to build the team. Besides making improvements upon the basket ball court for the larger boys, we should make improvements for the smaller children, such as erecting swings, bamboo slides, and other equipment that to essential in making up the smaller children's playgrounds. We should also set aside a small lot for the purpose of floriculture. This would help to beautify the grounds, and would be beneficial to the stud ents, especially those studying agri culture. Every effort should be made to improve the condition and appear ' ance of our achool grounds. Improvement of our building is the next step to consider. Our building should be equipped with the very best of maps, globes, separate desks, and tables for the elementary grades, and c-very necessity that is needed for the improvement of the modern building of today. We should have good edu cational pictures hung upon the walls. Flower boxes should be placed in the windows to make the appearance of our building look more attractive to visitors. A good library equipped with the very best of educational books should be provided for, to pro mote the interest of reading in our school. A large Bible is also needed in the school. Another improvement that would benefit the building is the elevation of the auditorium floor. Un fortunately for the Winton High School this auditorium was not ele vated when the building was con structed. This ia one of the main defects of the building. A science laboratory, gymnasium, and educa tional motion pictures would also be a great factor towards improvement of the Winton High School. TL _ nr:_i _ - UI.L o_i 1 -*-? - -?? ? ? l lie n uium niKii ociiwi miuuiu ue on the accredited list. On account' of not being able to comply with all the requirements, we are barred from the state's accredited list. We lack the rating only in a few particulars, and by An addition of a few improve ments, we can attain this goal, and enter the accredited list of the state. This would be a benefit to the grad uates, the town and the county, to do this we must provide for the accommodation of teachers and stud ents who come into our school from outside the district. By doing this it would enlarge and strengthen our school, and uplift it to a higher grade from where it now stands. The old building, which stand at the rear of the school building should be con verted into a dormitory of modern type for boarding students and teach ers. This would help to give home life and domestic science training to students, and would also help toV>lve the boarding problem, which would be very beneficial to boarding stu dents. Many benefits could be ob tained from a dormitory towards the uplifting and improvement of our school. v We need a live Parent-Teacher association, to bring together the parents and teachers for the purpose of exchanging their views and diffi culties. Cooperation of parents and teachers is needed to support the im provement and betterment of the school. We need cooperation of the entire community, for a good school needs not only materials, but also the help of all good people, if its finished products are to meet the re quirements' of the present age. UNION NEWS Mr. and Mrs. A. If! Brown were in Norfolk a few days last week shop ping. Miss Nelie Dunn who is teaching in Goldsboro spent the week end at her home here.. \ We are glad to note that Mrs. W. J. Dunn who has been down for two weeks with lumbago is some improved this week. Miss Janie Parker of Menola was the guest of her sister, Mrs. A. M. Binns for a few days last week. Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Peed of Nor folk spent the week-end here with relatives. Union has another enterprise open ed up. Mr. B. J. Duke has opened a grocery business in the store build ing formerly occupied by Mr. J. C. Britt. We wish him welL Mr. M. & Forbes and 1. M. Dar den were in Norfolk a few days last week. Mr. P. J. Vaughan and Mr. W. A. | Miller were in Rich Square Sunday afternoon. The Womans Missionary Society of the M. E. Church held its regular meeting in the home of Mrs. W. J. Dunn Monday afternoon. The meet ing was well attended and new offi cers were elected for the present year. Union M. E. Church has been re cently transferred to the Murfrees boro and Winton cireyt and Mr. Lar kin delivered his first sermon to his congregation here Sunday afternoon. He brought us a strong message of gospel truth which is well worth con sideration and our people here are were deeply impressed with both Mr. and Mrs. Larldn and the Methodist people here are hoping and planning for a great year's work here under his leadership. PROVIDING DRAINAGE Owing to a cave-in on Main street near the postoffice, the town is pro viding drainage for that street, and South Railroad street bv digging a ditch from the intersection of Rail road and Main streets to Church *we?^-. Tlfevditch is being deepened at the S^oth end and will carry the water to the big ditch on Church street, near the J. A. Mitchell resi dence. I OFFICE CAT TNADS HARK cowmiiiT iti>, >v 10m mom iioh. j "Murfreesboro has robbed Ahos kie of its 'rep'; whet is the trouble over there?" The CAT heard that same statement made a couple of times last Monday. Recent disorders, alleged murders, and cutting scrapes have put Murfreesboro into the lime light At least there's no persoff in Ahoskie who begrudges the honor. We've had it long enough. "Enclosed please And check for your paper one more time. I am bound to have it in my home. In every way it gets much better all the time." That is the sum and substance of a letter received by the HERALD Monday of this week. It came from one of Hertford County's oldest and mdst respected men, who is right now on the fag end of life. When the CAT saw that letter, he added anoth er kink to his tail. _____ Fresh from Indiana, with eyes wide open, tail as straight as a "bee-line", feet as swift as the air wagon, and a furry coat impenetrable, the OF FICE CAT made another weekly visit to Hertford County this week. About the first man he ran into averred that this CAT column was the "very" first thing he turned to when the HER ALD was opened. The next man said the same thing, and on down the line, with one accord they checked. Now, the CAT is almost to the point of congratulating the HERALD for hav ing enough newspaper sense to secure my services. In J. R. Garrett, the county road board haa a man who has a passion. Just as certain as the sun rises to morrow morning, he thinks Hertford County is not economising in its ex penditures for road building; he says things must be worked out whereby, maintenance and upkeep expenses can be reduced. If the business is put on a better working basis, he says the county can buy enough gravel for its roads out of the money saved each month. He produced some figures last Monday. If the figures can be deduced into actual reality and ac complishment, J. R. Garrett's name will be a household word in all parts of the county. All power to him. Doctor J. H. Mitchell wants roads, he says. But, if he wants to spend taxes in their construction, the CAT is yet to find from all his voluminous sayings at Winton and elsewhere any thing indicative of such a desire. How are you going to do it. Doctor? ? ; ? Some fellow, writing in another paper last week, said a mouthful in his statement: "We need more doers, and considerable less talkers." He might jnst as well said, "we need less knockers (via talking route) and more doers." "I am tending you a clipping from Hartford Obi error; knock ing yon and your paper. I am taking both paper*. I would not ? - ?ubecribe to it for 2c a year, but all I want it for ii that it comei in kandy to wrap with" That ii part of a latter received from a ?ubicriber this week. It i* not Indiana stuff, either?Mr. Bea nie Whitley live* over in Como. "Why in the world don't you say something about a new bank building for the Bank of Ahoskie?" has been a question popped to me three times within the last week. Yes, why don't IT Fact of the business is, I'm not hunting for trouble, and that'e one good way to get into it But it is really high time for this institution to erect something new to take the place of the present home. THE DEMON BEAUTIFIER The othef day an Ahoskie man in a friendly chat with a neighbor, among other things, asked him if his wife did fancy work. "Great Scott," he exclaimed, "she won't even 1st a porous plaster come into the house without crocheting a red border around it and running a yellow rib bon through the holes." Rhode Island is planning to spend an immense sum on good roads. But K is hard to see how she can spend eery much and ke?p the road* in the state. Better to be wrong end meke en attempt then never to have made the attempt, according to Paul Dukes. Rosh Askew says Ford ought to put up a rattling good campaign for the Presidency. ( Don't you fell like a boob when you see some othpr fellow do the thing you gave up as impossible? Hugh Harrell says the reason lots of people miss easy street is because they are trying to And easy money. FRESH A middle-aired bachelor was in a restaurant at breakfast when he noticed this inscription on his egg*: "To Whom It May Concern t Should this meet the eye of some young man who desires to marry a farmer's daughter, eighteen years of age, kind ly communicate with After reading this he made haste to write to the girl, offering mar riage, and in a few days received this note: "Your note too late. I have been married five months today." One of the disadvantages of being a humorist is to get a brilliant idea at three o'clock in the morning Just when you are trying to get to sleep. The pessimistic, fault-finding hus- . band chirps: "Man's work is from sun to sun, and woman's work is never done?right" One's friends never leaves one flat They wait until one get flat to leave one. NOT APPRECIATED Jud Tunkins says: "Fault finding we can ill afford. Nobody offers a reward. DONT CRY LITTLE GIRL There, little girl, don't cry, they have lengthened your skirts, I know; but don't you fret, you're a long way yet from the girls of the long ago. They have added an inch or two, but there little giri, don't cry, for a frisky breeze still show your knees as the race of men go by. The musical comedy comedian gets paid for making a fool of himself. But in real life the fellow who makes a fool of himself also does the paying. MAN Man is like the old kerosene lamp; I He is not especially bright. Though occasionally "all lit up", He is often turned down; He generally smoked; And frequently goes out at night To act without thinking you may get you into trouble; but to think without acting will get you nowhere. "A Traveling Man Told Me?" "Hush! Waft til we pass these girls." Fashionable women at Hie Florida resorts are now wearing fur bathing suits, but reports do not saw how fur. Wisdom is knowing what to do; skill is knowing how to do, and ser vice is doing it. Luther Burbank, the plant wizard, . was afrested by a California traffic cop. Luther was probably trying to cross ? street with an auto. It cost Columbus only $7,250 to discover America, but then it must be' remembered he did ont. have to live in it after he had discovered It. LEFT STRANDED Fashion is a fickle elf, Often we have heard, Besides, it simply works for pelf? It ought to be interred. But now I charge it cruel, . Besides its other sins, Note if you will the school I Of unprotected shins. I Poor little dame, in warmer time, Jumped at Fashion's call , But now, in wintry elime. She has no cash at all To do as she would choose, So, no matter what the call, Of style she still has shorter clothes. Eric Garrett says in a.small town there is always some citizen worth $8,000.00 who is willing to tell young men the secret of success. A newspaper writer makes a com ment on the number of women who are making a success of banking. Women have always been good at figures, especially their own. The Tariieel farmer who wants to beautify his farmstead needs only to go into the woods and fence for . shrubs which Vill equal any the nurseryman can furnish. The sweetest type of heaven is home.?J. G. Holland. ^ I I Wynn Bros. THE ONE PRICE STORE MURFREESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA , Just Received CARLOAD Field Fence Wire 1 Prices Low for Cash ? WYNN BROS. THE SHOPPING CENTER 1 ' Stop that Pain! It'a spoiling your enjoyment and ruining your health. L When you're suffering from A headache, neuralgia, sci hHl atica, rheumatism, ear ^ ache, a toothache or any n other pain. Bra Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills will bring relief with I HL out unpleasant after HRb effects. DAi Buy them of your Druggist. , . WHY NOT MAKE A TRIP TO FLORIDA OR CUBA Send for the Winter Tourist Folder "TROPICAL TRIPS" Which describes all Resorts, Hotels, Boarding Houses end Golf Courses in these famous Rivieras, and is replete with illustra tions, maps and other valuable information of interest to those interested. In connection with the above folder will be sent a copy of the "Purple Folder" containing winter schedules and through car service. ATTRACTIVE EXCURSION RATES For detailed information, and any desired information, appy to, F. M. JOLLY, Passenger Traffic Agent Room 301, General Office Building, Wilmington, N. C. ATLANTIC COAST LINE The Standard Railroad of the South " 1 JJ - /hotel solTthland^ ?TW> Ike traveler, the Hold SfMhlnd offtro bright nd (haM MM fei 1 aa Mkl, Mpnaf baUdiag ad REAL >nk. fcy pnptrl? ??>!?)?"? T?bl? JHoH !??*??? 1 Fifty Can. Waa in al Q? DaMar wJwilleM.hniiinfcuw tiiinmi afifcaWalaglUan. TWkatd > erotnll). Uad ?? Norfolk'? aula ikanugUare. Rata p ' | ) ?? *r*~* frm BM par dap. ? n i riliai. la adrnm. an W. L. OREBAUCH. - I hi norfolk-virginia j/. SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD ONE YEAR ..... $1.50 " QueenAhoskie" Aho.kie, N. c., 1923. The undersigned hereby cuts one rote for to represent Ahe^kie at the "Queen Contest" at the Eastern Carolina Exposition, March 22. Name Address 1 >* ========acs====== . , =====: j.
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