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i STATE NEWS IN DIGEST Bat* protect* have been made witi the Interstate Commerce Commissior by the Hickory Chamber of Com mere* against steel product* from Pennsylvania. The lid will be pried off collegt baseball in North Carolina this week The annual Easter game between State College and Wake Forest at Raleigh next Monday will be the first big gam* of the season. Carolina will also play its annual game with Dav idson on that day. In Beaufort County the home dem onstration agent has just concluded a contest conducted by her between the club girls of the county in a bread making contest. The annual county commencement of Harnett County was staged at Dunn last Saturday, with more than 8,000 spectators on hand from every school in the county. The county commissioners of Dur ham county are seeking to collect ap proximately 1110,000 taxes from the large tobacco concerns of Durham. Commissioner of Revenue Watts al lowed rite tobacco companies to cut down their assessment for 1981, and the 8110,000 was lost to Durham county in taxes for that year. Declaring that bar husband no longer cared to go with her and was ashamed of her because she was sev ral years older than he, Mrs. Mary Pendergrass Bell committed suicide at her Raleigh home last Sunday, by drinking carbolic add. The meeting of the Woman's Mis sionary Union Convention, in Dur ham Tuesday, lived up to its promise of being of unflsnal interest A rec ord breaking number of delegates and visitors attended all the sessions, which ran throughout Thursday. More than three hundred cases with but one bond forfeited ia the record of the judge of Kinston's recorder's court > "v I Closing of the State Bank and Trust Company 0f Dunn by the State Friday from the offices of the Corpor ation Commission.*^ Mr. and Mrs. John Arthur, Wash ington residents, one day last week - found an automobile lodged against the front of their residence, several porch posts knocked down, and a por tion of the brick pillar of the house crushed in. The owner of the car has not returned to claim it Billy Sunday's address before thousands of people dosed the first annual Eastern Carolina Exposition at Wilson last Monday. Miss Helen Joyner of Greenville was chosen Queen and crowned last Friday night Negotiations are now under way looking to the erection of a tourist hotel at Raleigh. It will be one of a chain of tourist hotels to be built on the National Hiahwav run ni nor Nnvfh and South. Airing of the ease in which control of the Dixie Fire Insurance Company is sought by two contending factions among the stockholders has been post poned until April 24, when the re straining order secured by one faction will be argued in federal court at Greensboro. No change has been made in the personnel of the management at the State Sanitorium. Further action awaits the conclusion of the legisla tive committee appointed by the late General Assembly. The average Tar Hell is isured for f>4(, acording to figures that have just been compiled and published. Citizens of Rocky Mount have al ready secured pledges for the erection of 108 hew homes during this gear; and many others are expected to join in this number. Richard A- Patterson, Manager oi the Leaf Department of the Tobaccc Growers dbopehathre Assoeciatior has announced that another payment will soon be made by the association to its members In forty counties oi the old belt of Virginia and North Carolina. The largest contingent of Norti Carolina soldiery since the mobilisa tion of the National Guard in 1011 for service in the World War will gc into fifteen days training camps thii summer, according to the announce ment from the office of Adjutant Gen eral J. Venn B. Metts. In accordance with request from C W. Pugsley, acting secretary of Agri culture end in keeping with s similai action on the part of President Herd Ing, Governor Morrison on last Fridaj issued a statement to the people oi the State setting aside April 22-29 si Forest Protection Week in the State Four stills and two prisoners wen taken by Wake county officers in th? famous NewHght section of th? county lest Friday. Officers in thai county have boon lately making a de termined effort to break up the moon The Roxboro Chamber of commerti H v>' ? '' tj is embarking upon a program of im I provement of farm conditions in that section. It will seek to interest more persons in producing their commodi ties at home. Walter W. Newbern, Elisabeth City produce man, who eras thought ( to have skipped his c red Hons after a 1 few years of lean business, is reported 1 by his wife to be in Florida on busi | sees. He will return to Elisabeth City and make good all claims against him, and his brother who are in fansi ' ness together. "Not a few brass tack philsophera among us appear to be afraid that the [ increasing cost of education, if not . checked, will bankrupt the whole country," declared Dr. William Louis Potest, president of Wake Forest College, in an address before the North Carolina College Conference 1 held in Greensboro last Friday, inght. "Education is a branch of public ser vice, and its promotion cannot but help to make the country richer rath er than poorer," he continued. Bids are now out for the construc tion of a union depot at Kins ton. For several years there has been an order by the Corporation Commission that a new passenger depot be built there. Reports coming from the general offices of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail-1 road at Wilmington are to the effect that about 26 million dollars has been appropriated for adding to their roll ing stock, and-making extensive im provements and additions to their '? shops at various points along the line. | Several thousand- dollars will be spent at Rocky Mount | The North Carolina Council of State in a meeting at Raleigh last Friday directed fuU steam ahead in the building program which was taken care of by appropriations made by the late General Assembly. ? ?. m _ * if i t m swpt ior uw immediate opening ?i the North Carolina Hospital at Wins ton-Salem were taken last Friday at a joint meeting of the mission and education boards of ihe North Caro lina Baptist Convention. The boards arranged for a loan of $20,000 which will equip the hospital and enable it to open during the month of April. Wet weather during all of last week has resulted in retarding crops ac cording to' the weekly review of crop conditions, issued by Frank Parker who is the State Agricultural Statis tician. Dr. C. C- Taylor, for several years a member of the State College fac ulty, has resigned his position to be come professor in Cornell University. He will take up his new duties next summer. The Washington Chamber of Com ! meree is now in the midst of a stren uous campaign to add new members. Through the activity of public spir ited citizens of South port, a new $40,000 hotel will soon be erected there. Fanners in Craven county are so busy they do not have time to come after their checks for tobacco deliv ered to the Co-operative association, according to a recent statement made by the local manager of the Associa tions Investigations of injuries to the Sandhill peach crop by the cold wave of Monday night last week show that from 50 to 60 per cent of the peach bads were destroyed. The total loss sustained is estimated at nearly one million dollars. North Carolina is the greatest man facturer of tobacco in the United States, leads the Nation in the num ber of cotton mills and isfcjelose sec ond to Massachussetts in the value of manufactured cotton goods, according to report made by Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman. "Not more courts, bat fewer" esses" is the remedy offered by Judge N. A. Sinclair. He made that statement in i his charge to the jury at Williamston ; last week. , i Complications growing out of the failure of the Commercial National ! Bank of Wilmington, and uncollect i Ible notes given three years ago in i payment for stock in the Fisheries t Products Company, closed the doors i of ths Planters Bank A Trust Com pany of 'Fremont last week, i The ground has been broken for the first building to be erected to take i the place sf the main administration ? building at Eloh College, which was ' recently destroyed by fire. ? Secretary of State W. N. Everett i has denied that he has any intention - of becoming a candidate the Governor - in the 1924 race. Final action on building a Woman's . Home at State University has been ? deferred until late in April when ths ? committee will |o)d another meeting. The supreme court of North Caro r line will soon pass on the constitu ! tionality of the foragn exemption law i recently passed by the Legislature. . Attorney W. M. Person of Loulaburg i will bring the case to court > A toll road on Mount Mitchell will i be extended to ths top of the moun : tain and an inn will be erected on the summit of the mountain for the ac ? commodation of tourists. The first of ten or more carloads of i hogs was shipped from Scotland Neck last week, to northern >nd western markets. The State Supreme Court lest week upheld the constitutionality of the recontly enacted Turlington Prohibi tion Enforcement Act. After thirteen years in the State's Prison, serving an eighteen year sen tence for murder in the second de gree, Washington Martin of David son county, was paroled by Governor Morrison last Wednesday. Announcement is made from the oflkee of the North Carolina Swnday School Association that four of America's most noted Sunday School specialists have been secured to take part on the program of the State Con vention to be held in Winston-Salem April 10-11-12. Contract has been let for the erect ion of a 1200,000 hotel at Chapel Hill. Effective next week employees of the cotton mills of Greensboro and other allied companies will receive a 10 per cent bonus in wages. Governor Morrison was the speak er before Rocky Mount's Current Topics Club Monday night He said he wanted a peaceful reign, and laud ed the legislature for work done in the recent session. NOTICE North Carolina? Hertford County. In Superior Court, Before the Clerk. Godwin Bryant, Lfflie Fogg and husband Johnnie Fogg, Linnie Steph enson and husband Lamb Stephenson, Nelson Bryant, Moffie Lassiter and husband Atlas Lassiter, Docie Lassi ter and husband William Lassiter, I Pattie Grant and husband Junious Grant, Betty Lassiter and husband I Ed Lassiter, Edna CasteUow, Oscar Bryant, Hattie Fleetwood and hus band Herbert Fleetwood, Charity Josie and husband Jessie Josie, Molly Raby and husband York Raby. Against Wiliam Bryant, Henry Bryant, I Csult" Vaughn, Ethel Vaugn, James Vaughn, Irene Vaughn, Walter I Vaughn, W. H. Bryant, Henry Thom as Bryant, Benjamin Bryant, Relcom Woodson, Martilla Woodson, William Woodson, SaWe Ann Woodson, and husband, ??Woodson, Matilda Til-1 let, and husband, TUlet, Mattie Holoman and husband Holloman, Lelia Davie and husband Charlie I Davis, Ellen Vann and husband 1 Vann, Betty a Taylor, Charlie Davis, administrator of Wiley Bryant, de ceased, and Ears Griffin. The defendants above named will take notice that an action entitled asl above has been commenced in the | Superior Court of Hertford County to I partition and d'vide among the heirs I at Uv of Wiley Bryant, deceased, a certain sum'of money now in the hands of the Clerk of the Superior 1 Court of Hertford bounty derived from the sale'of real estate belonging to the estate of the late Wiley Bryant, I deceased, and the said defendants, William Bryant, Henry Bryant, Caul-I en Vaughn, Ethel Vaughn, James Vsughan, Irene Vanghan, Walter Vaughn, W. H. Bryant, Henry Thom as Bryant, Benjamin Bryant, Rai l com Woodson, Martina Woodson, Wiliam Woodson, Sallie Ann Wood-1 son and husband ??jWoodson, I Matilda Tillet and husband TU let, Mattie Holloman and husband, Holloman, Lelie Davis and bus-1 band Charlie Davis, Ellen VanU andj husband Vann, Betty S. Taylor, I Charlie Davis, administrator of Wiley I Bryant, deceased, and Eira Griffiin will take further notice that they are J required to appear before the Clerk 1 of the Superior Court of Hertford! County at his office Tn Wlnton, North! Carolina, on or before the 9th DAY OF APRIL, 1923 And answer the complaint now on file in the office of said Clerk 0f said Court in Hertford County. And let said defendania take notice that if they fail to answer said Complaint! that day or within SO day* thereafter 1 the time prescribed by law the plain tiff win apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint Given under my hand and seal of said Court this the 87th day of Feb ruary, 1921. D. R. McGLOHOM, dark Superior Court E. R. TYLER, Attornoy. ] 3-9-23-4L A DO IT NOW?SUBSCRIBE TO THE HERALD?$1.50 per year ? lKlrfjUkflUI IKI[Jw -?ipp!tw the most Imps'* commercial fertiliser* lack I mat?Nitrogen. It is the cheapest Nitrogen source?100% available at one#, assuring a food start without pushing plant after growth should stop. Also ro? pays cost many times on corn, tobacco, and general crops. Order early through** H. g. snipes ? WoeaUna, n. c.w or wrtU direct to W. E. OruA Co., lot Ml. Norfolk. Tjf '2k g< Sutoerib, to the HERALD?$1.60. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER EXECUTION J. J. Pilsnd and N. H. Lassiter trading as J. J. Piland A Co. vs. Frank Walls. By virtue of an execution directed to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Hertford county in the above entitled action, I will, on MONDAY, APRIL IS, 1028 | At IS o'clock m. At the Courthouse door of said county, sell to the highest bidder for cash to satisfy said execution, all the right,' title, and interest which the ?aid Frank Wells, the defendant, has in the the following described real estate, to-wit: A certan tract of land near the town of Winton, N. C., and known as the Granlson Halley home place, ad joining the lands formerly owned by the late J. B. Hare and others be ginning at a sweet gum on southwest corner of said land and runing seventy yards northwardly, thence seventy yards eastwardly, thence seventy yards southward, thence seventy yards westward to the first station at sweet gum. For further description reference is hereby made to deed Frank Wells to C. W. Jones. The said deed being duly recorded in book 71, page 78, Register of Deeds office Hertford County. Place of sale: Court House door, Winton, N. C., Hertford County. Time of sale: Between the hours of IS and S o'clock. Terms of sale: Cash. This March IS, 10SS. B. SCULL, Sheriff. 3-16-2S-4t ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of R. J. Baker, deceased. This is to give notice that on SATURDAY, APRIL 7th, 1922 At 11:00 o'clock a. m. I will sell at public sale, fire shares of the capital stock of Bank of Ahoslde belonging to said estate. Terms of sale: Cash. P. BAKER. Administrator. The farmer plants his cotton, But the weevil takes a toll, And the way the squares are drop pi"*; Just afflicts the farmer's soul. , p iVfJ, f . ? Xn'ii"| ? But he goes and dusts his cotton. When he should be in his bed, And the weevil comes to eat it, But is soon among the dead. ?c. a a f, j BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW FEATURING JUNIA'S HAWAIIANS AT Richard Theater, Ahoskie, N. C. EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 2 At 8:00 P. M. Excellent music, and vaudeville acts by a company that has played the larger towns?You'll enjoy it - Admission: 28 and 80c TODAY?THURSDAY?TODAY Gloria Swanson in "Impossible Mrs. Bellew" FRIDAY and SATURDAY Pole Negri in "Gypsy Blood" if ' i ? | ? i. ? i i -J ? ?? , i- ' i?? I AN MfwwJiMd demand for BUSPPBB /\ Atlas exists right nofr ?? I demand that cannot be met unless gAT'l I the empty Adas bags now in uears' fl I of a yearrd^Tto* #^<><W,OOCUX> R^jJ worth of bags arc needed by I Atlas. Tbia would be a heavy 1 ? ? burden on cement ueete if the so cmting^dMin the number ?f ? -A Return wu empty Atlas bags pronythf to your dealer. Help fan, and help ns, bse^ PottUaS factored Ptoduds* ? ? ? PATLA S I jflTtjtirr. #?% n ??#% %P Q a _ ?W??^ __ COMMERCIAL PRINTING OF ALL KINDS NEATLY AND PROMPTLY DONE AT THE HERALD OFFICE i ???I ?? ? $ 1 ' ?'*".*< ' ?' * 7*t> ?'. i: ANNOUNCEMENT vr ' . Have just returned from the Northern Markets, and opened up a complete line of New Spring Goods, consisting of Ladies' Misses and Childrens New Spring Dresses, Suits, Coats and Capes of the Latest Styles and Shades. A beautiful line of Easter Millinery, which is now on display. It will pay you to come here before purchasing elsewhere. Prices are the fewest, and Our Merchandise the Newest. Feldman's Bargain Store Newsome's Block - - ^ AHOSKIE, N. C. V, i assasaas ===^===^^
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