Ipf Hertford County Herald
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Volume XIV. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, May 25, 1923 One Section No. 4
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CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
HERE FRIDAY WITH
A MAMMOTH PARADE
First Regular Program Will
Begin In Afternoon; Con
cert And Lecture Both Are
Included
JUNIORS WILL HAVE
ENTERTAINMENT
Dr. Frank Dixon, Native North
Carolinian, Tops List Of
Lecturers
A big Junior parade, Friday
morning at 10 o'clock, will sig
nalize the opening of the six
days of Swarthmore Chautau
qua in Ahoskie., Miss Hannah
M. Harris, second advance
agent, has been here all this
week assisting in the advertis
ing and ticket "selling cam
paigns, and making plans for
the big parade Friday morning.
Miss Hajris is an indefatiga
ble worker, and says she ex
necta to nut. over a naraHn Hint
will eclipse anything of former
years. During her stay here
she has distributed window
placards, programs, and hand
bills; and has superintended
the stringing of banners and
streamers across the streets.
Copies of programs hve also
been mailed to prospective
chautauqua attendants living
in the rural districts and the
nearby towns. <
The first public program will
start Friday afternoon, and.
from then until the curtain
drops on the comedy "Crossed
Wires," next Wednesday night,
the big tent will be the mecca
for hundreds fit lovers of high
class entertainments, seeking
hieptal relaxation in good mus
ic, sound and logical lectures,
and platform lectures by the
superintendent.
For the younger bunch, boya and
girls, Junior Chautauqua will be the
entertainment. Every morning dur
ing the six,days chautauqua ia here,
the two young ladies who have charge
of junior chautauqua will work with
the boys and girls who attend?and
all are invited. On the last after
noon the juniors will stage their pag
eant, "Her Family on Display"; and
in addition to that feature, Miss Es
ther Lois Schenket, child impersona
tor, will give a delightful entertain
ment for noth grown-ups and child
ren.
Chautauqua workers are unani
mous in their expressions of approval
of this year's program. Especially
good are the musical programs, which
are given by the following compan
ies: The Margery Jane Gage Co., six
girls; Eekhoff-Waterman - Ringgold
Co., three girls; The Marchetti Swiss
Yodlera, two girls and five men; and
the Chamberlain-Babcock Co., 3
girls.
Charles Ross Taggart, "The
Country Fiddler", is one of the big
attractions. He plays, sings, talks,
and laughs. One of his specialties is
autographing for his admirers. Miss
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station suiou r iu, cartoonist, lec
turer and entertainer will be here
Tuesday. "Crossed Wires" is the
name of the comedy drama which
will be riven on the last ni(ht of
Chautauqua. The Anal night always
was a favorite at Ahoekie, and it will
be no exception this year. It la. one
of the best plays put out by the
Swarthmore aggregation.
Dr. Frank Dixon's lecture on "Out
of Nationalism Into Internationlism"
is the top liner among the lectures.
Dr. Dixon comes from North Caro
lina stock, and belongs to Tom Dix
on's family. He is a speaker of re
nown, a deep thinker, and good en
tertainer. Other lecturers are Grove
Herbert, and Frank B. Pearson.
Miss Frances H. Maxwell will be
platform superintendent this year.
She will give three interesting lec
tures.
One morning, (day to be announc
ed) during cheutauqua a kite flying
contest will be put on for tbe young
sters. A prise will be given as ray to
the person flying the highest and
fastest kite. Details will be an
HERTFORD RANKS BELOW
AVERAGE IN CARS OWNED
Bertie Has More Cars But Oth
er Contiguous Counties Be
low Average Listed Here
There is an automobile for
every 17.8 persons in Hertford
County. That includes the
flivver, too.
These figures are included in
the list recently compiled by
students at the State Univer
sity, every county in the State
being shown therein. The av
erage in the entire State iB one
car for every fourteen inhabi
tants. Hertford County, there
fore, does not rank with the
State average in car-owning. It
stands 60th among the one
hundred counties.
Nine hundred and twenty-seven
people own automobiles in this
county. That is the number regis
tered with the Secretary of State as
of January 20, 1928. Of course,
when the new tags are issued next
month, quite an additional number of
cars will probably be listed in the
county; but so will the number of in
habitants of the county show an in
crease; and the average shown in this
I report is pretty well indicative of the
average for the year 1928.
The average family in Hertford
County is almost four, and dividing
this by the number of persons to each
automobile in the county, gives one
out of every four and a half families
an automobile. Of course, this is a
rough estimate; but it is not far
wrong, at that.
In our neighboring county, Bertie,
there are 1,512 automobilek, or a
ear for every 16.1 persons, an aver
age somewhat above that of Hert
lorn, uiner contiguous counties,
however, do not have as high an aver
age ?s does Hertford. The figures
for some of these counties are:
Gates, 296 automobiles, or a ear
to every 36.6 persons; Northampton,
1,229 automobiles or one to every
19.1 persons; Warren, 1,100 automo
biles or one for every 20.3 persons;
Halifax, 2,612 automoblies, or one
for every 18.2 persons. Among other
counties trailing Hertford in this re
spect are Perduimans, Pender, Robe
son, Washington, Onslow, Chowan,
Tyrifell, Bladen, Pamlico, and several
far westerif counties.
When data for this report was
gathered, there were 187,880 cars in
the State. Within the three months
following January 20, there was a
gain of 16,620, and this during the
three winter months. , Of all the
counties in North Carolina, Guilford
has the largest number of automo
biles, there being a car to every 7.9
persons in that county. -v.
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* TENANCY COMMON *
* AMONG NEGROES*
* Twenty-eight negroes oat of *
* ijtrj 100 own tlio forma upon *
' which they oparata in Hartford *
* County. Thii is 1.2 par cant *
* lass than the State average of *
* farm ownership among negroes. *
* According to this report, fig- *
* ures for which ware compiled *
* from the 1020 census this county *
* ranks ahead of most of tha oast- *
* am counties in which tha negro *
* population is hoary. For in- *
* stance, in Edgacomba county *
* only 0.6 per cant of nogro farm- *
* era are farm owners, or about *
* one out of every 16.fi nogro *
* farmers. *
* -Whore the negroes aro.coaaon- *
* trated tenancy is tha rule, whore *
* they are scattered ownership is *
* the rule. Honco tha small per *
* ceataga of farm owners among *
* tha raco in tha eastern nogro *
* holt. Tha reverse is true in the *
* western counties, whore there *
* are faw, if any, negroes. la *
* Mitchell county, 100 par cent *
* own their farms and in several *
* other western counties from 00 *
* to OS per cant own tha farms *
* thay operate. *
* la Bertie 30 par cent are farm *
* owners| in Northampton, 23 *
* par aeati in Gates, 4fi.7| in Hall- *
* fan, 23.01 Warren, 33.3. *
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nouneed after chantaaqua's arrival.
The big tent will be pitched on the
lot next to the Farmers' Tobacco
WAR DEPARTMENT
TO HAVE HEARING
ON CHOWAN BRIDGE
Plans For Structure Hare Been
Submitted By The State
Highway Commission
MEETING WILL BE HELD
IN WINTON TODAY
Completion Of Project Will
Mark Opening Of "Lost
Provinces" Of East
Friday afternoon, at one
o'clock, there will be a public
hearing in the courthouse at
Winton on the proposal for
construction of bridge across
the Chowan River, plans of
which have been submitted to
the U. S. Army, War Depart
ment, for approval. The North
Carolina State Highway Com
mission is presenting the planB,
since the bridge when con
structed will be a part of the
State Highway System.
Major D. D. Pullen, Corps of
Engineers, U. S. Army, will
represent the War Depart
ment, and he has invited all
parties interested to be nresenf
or to be represented at the
above time and place. Partic
ularly does he invite all navi
gation interests to attend the
hearing. Officers of any county,
city, town or local association
whose interests may be affected
by the construction of the pro
posed bridge are also invited.
Before the plane are approved and
the State Highway Commission can
proceed to ask for bids, an oppor
tunity must be given all the interests
named above to express themselves
upon the suitability of the location
and the adequacy of the plans in ref
erence to navigation, and to suggest
changes considered advisable in the
interest of navigation. The War
Department will try to satisfy all
parties in making its report on the
proposed plan.
When the plans of the State High
way Commission are okehed by the
War Department, bids will be called
for, and construction work may begin
on the bridge within a few months.
According to the specifications sub
mitted to the War Department, the
bridge will be of the swing-draw type,
with two openings, each with 60 feet
clearance; the vertical clearance
when the draw of the bridge is elosed
is 6.2 feet at ordinary elevation.
Will Be Important Project
Work on this bridge will signalize
one of the biggest pieces of engineer
ing work yet undertaken or to be
undertaken in the First District. The
approach from the Hertford County
side at Winton will be comparatively
insignificant compared to the work to
be done on the Gates county side. In
Gates, there is a vast stretch of
swamp lands, boggy, sandy, and filled
with a thick undergrowth.
This bridge will provide the one
important connecting link between
the "Lost Provinces" of the East and
the rest of North Carolina. It will
make that section more nearly Jar
Heel soil, and a little less akin to
everything Virginian. Commission
er Hart has had his heart set on the
Chowan River bridge, and, in one of
his very first public utterances after
his appointment to the State Highway
Commission, said he expected to see
that structure ready for travel while
he was in office, and added further,
that he wanted his name emblazoned
across the end of the bridge.
A combination hand-motor poorer
ferry now serves to carry passengers
across the river at Winton. A bridge
has,been needed, and its completion
will bring the counties beyond the
river miles closer this way, and also
put this territory in closer touch with
the Virginia seaboard, with its en
larged facilities.
RETURN TO AHOSKIE
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh L. Harrell re
turned to Ahoslrie last Saturday
night, after a bridal tour of several
days. They are stopping temporarily
at the Manhattan Hotel. Later they
win occupy the former J. A. Bey
CHOWAN COLLEGE MECCA
DURING COMMENCEMENT
Commencement Begins Friday
Evening With Annual Con
cert; Closes Tuesday
Commencement begins at
Chowan College, Murfrees
boro, Friday evening. The An
nual Concert will be given at
eight o'clock. This event is an
nually one of te strongest
drawing cards of Chowan com
mencement, and it will no
doubt be attended by many al
umnae and friends of the col
lege this year.
On the following evening, Satur
day, Class Day exercises will be given.
Dr. S. H. Templeman, of Elizabeth
City, will preach the baccaulaureate
and missionary sermons Sundky, the
former in the morning at 11 o'clock,
and the latter at 8 o'clock that night.
Dr. Templeman is a strong and able
preacher.
Monday will be p day of mingling
and intermingling of students, alum
nae, and friends. The trustees will
hold their meeting at 10 o'clock in
the morning. In the afternoon, be
tween the hours of 3 and 6, the Art,
Domestic Art, and Domestic Science
Exhibits will entertain the college
visitors. Monday evening at 8:15
o'clock an operetta will be given.
Tuesday's program will wind up
the commencement exercises. Class
Day exercises will begin at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and will close with
presentation of diplomas. Dr. J. T.
Riddick, of Norfolk, Va., will deliver
the annual address to the graduating
class.
The following young ladies will re
ceive their degrees this year: Emma
Riddick Parker, B. A.; Minnie Dun
ning and Claudia Marie Griffin,. B. S.;
Bessie Mae Jordan and Genievieve
Taylor, Expression Diploma; Voice
Diploma; Elizabeth Turnley and Em
ma Riddick Parker, Expression Di
ploma; Maluna Foyd Bridgers, Piano
Diploma. i
Norfolk Fair Will
Be Best On Record
Norfolk, Vs., May 23?The fourth
fair of thi Norfolk Agricultural and
Indusrial Fair Association, Inc., will
be held Labor Day week, starting
Monday, September 3. So great has
been the success of this enterprise
that it is now known as the Greater
Interstate Norfolk Fair, for it not
only attracts exhibits from Tidewater
Virginia , the celebrated eastern
shore, but from eastern Nqrth Caro
lina as well.
Norfolk being the chief city of the
great port of Hampton Roads, which
also includes Newport News, Ports
mouth and Old Point Comfort, is the
port through which Virginia ships its
peanuts and" tobacco, and North Car
olina its cotton and garden truck, as
fruits and vegetables are called here.
The fertile lands lying between the
James and Elizabeth rivers and Albe
marle Sound is known as the truck
garden of Virginia, the home of the
peanut-fed hogs that make Smith
Held hams and bacon celebrated
throughout the world.
Naturally, with this background,
the Norfolk Fair is the biggest agri
cultural event in Virgina, aside from
the State Fair possibly, and even the
State Fair is in danger of being over
shadowed by the exposition held
every Labor Day week by the Hamp
ton Roads metropolis.
This year, according to Manager J.
N. Montgomery, the Fair will be big
ger and better than ever. Already
the exhibits are being entered from
prize cattle to prise peanuts, and the
management proposes to spend more
money than ever for racing and show
purposes. There will be Three
Stake events for harness horses as
well as dally running and open class
harness races, the frst five days of
the week. The last day will be given
to Auto racing when some of the
fastest dirt track cars in the country
will compete. The vaudeville enter
tainment and fireworks will be in
keeping with the racing events.
PURCHASE BOYET-fo HOUSE
Mrs. A. C. Venn has recently pur
chased the residence of Dan P. Boy
ette, West Church street. Mm. Venn
will move to Ahoakie. Mr. Boyette
is flaanhw to erect a new home on
the Ahoakie-Frazier'. highway.
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Stockholders Order New
Building For Local Bank
Committee Appointed To Stnrt Work On Structure That May
Coat Bank Of Akoakie $50,000 To $60,000, When Ready
For Occupancy?Talk Of Merger Of Two Banks
? After practically-all hopes of taking any forward step had
been abandoned, and following the disapproval by a safe major
ity of the plans for a new building submitted by the directors,
the stockholders of the Bnk of Ahoskie late Tuesday afternoon
ordered a building committee of nine persons to proceed
with the construction of a new bank building to cost, exclusive
of lighting, heating and plumbing^systems, and also fixtures,
not more than $40,000.
The plan offered by the directors was to construct a build
ing a}ong the same plans as were drawn in 1919, at a cost of
$41,000 complete, the only difference being in the frame speci
fications, wood being substituted for steel wherever the latter
was specified in the old plans. A motion to accept this report
was defeated in the early part of meeting held Tuesday at the
Richard Theater. Later a motion to build at a cost of from
$30,000 to $40,000, including complete equipment and fixtures,
was also lost.
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OFFICERS ELECTED
j FOR ROGATION
H. J. Vmnn Of Como Member
Of Peanut Organization'#
Executive Committee
MAY ERECT OWN
I CLEANING PLANT
At a meeting of the new Board of
directors of the Peanut G sowers As
sociation held in the Chamber of
Commerce rooms, Norfolk, Vs., on
May 18th, William A. Gwaltney of
Spring Grove, Va., Surry County, was
elected President of the Association.
The following other officers were
elected: T. E. Langston, Hertford, N.
C.,Perquimans County, Vice-Presi
dent; W. C. Manning, Williamston, N.
C., Washington County, Secretary;
W. J. Story, Courtland, Va., South
ampton County, Chairman of . the
Board of Directors and E. M. dePen
cier, Norfolk, Va., General Manager.
The Executive Committee, as named
at the meeting is composed of the
President and Vice-President of the
Association and E. Frank Story of
Franklin, Va., L. H. Brantley of Ivor, |
Va., and H. J. Vann, Como, N. C.
Both Mr. Gwaltney and Mr. Langs
ton were directors of the Association
last year and were very active in
promoting association interests, Mr.
Gwaltney also being one of the oldest
members on the Board from the
standpoint of service. He served , as
a member of the Board of Virginia
Carolina Co-Operative Peanut Ex
change out of which the present or
ganisation gre^. Both he and Mr.
Langston are prominent growers in
their respective Counties and men of
wide business experience. Mr. Man
ning, the Secretary, is a prominent
North Carolina grower and is Editor
of the Williamston Enterprise.
Mr. de Pencier, the General Man
ager, was promoted to this position
from that of General Sales and Ad
vertising Manager of the Association.
Three members of the Executive
Comittee, Messrs. Brantley, Langston
and Vann were appointed a Commit
tee on Production and Plants. The
Association owns seventeen acres of
land in the outskirts of Suffolk, Va.,
and there Is a strong probability that
they will erect their own warehouses
and cleaning plants on this property.
This Committee i# also to consider
production problems in general.
A Committee consisting of E.
Frank Story and C. J. Shields was ap
pointed on affiliating with other simi
lar organisations. It if probable that
the Association of these two States
win be very closely allied with the
Georgia Association. This Commit
tee will be on the lookout for oppor
tunities to affiliate with organisations
of a similar nature.
A closer contact with our grower
members is very essential and to this
end a Committee on field service con
stating of Messrs. W. C. Manning.nd
Richmond Maury was named, mens
gentlemen will concentrate in this
I phase of Association work and bring
j about much needed results. Suggest
ions from any individual members or
any County that tend to improve the
situation will be much appreciated
by these gentlemen.
Most of the great forest, ftraa to
. /*, r ???=?? 01 narreusvwe
led the fight against any heavy ex
penditure for a new building. He
preferred to do business at the same
tfd stand. After the two first mo
tion, had been lost, and following the
defeat of another motion to leave the
matter entirely to the building com
mittee with power to act, W. L. Cur
tis offered the motion which was fl
ad?P*d- H- S. Basnight favor
ed the Curtis motion and seconded it.
A warm contest was waged Over
the motion before it was ever passed
and at times pariimentary tangles
tb^ate"ed to halt further action.
Or the more than 600 shares of
stock represented at the meeting 430
voted to erect the new building on the
lot opposite the old bank building.
' If the wishes of the stockholders
are carried out by the building com
mittee, the new building will cost in
the neighborhood of $60,000 or f 60,
.?' e" for occupancy, in
cluding furniture and fixtures. This
is $12,000 to $20,000 more than the
cost ?f the Farmers-Atlantic Bank
which was built during the
??h prices. The approximate cost
atter building, complee
with fixtures, was about $37,000.
The following persons were named
on the building committee: J. A. Wil
B?ms, J. N. Vann, Jf. R. Garrett, L.
L Cttrti"' H- S- Bas
night, C. Greene, Dr. L. K. Walker.
?nd Mrs. A. W. Greene.
Talk Consolidation
Whispers of consolidation of the
two Ahoskie banks became an open
discussion at the stockholders' meet
??*. J- N. Vann, in discussing a mo
tion before the house, said there was
a secret move" on foot to form a
coalition and combihe the two banks
Since the meeting Tuesday, there has
been more or less free discussion of
a consolidation. Many stockholders
favor it, and believe it the right step
to take. y
However, there is an element
strongly opposed to a merger. The
majority of this class does not believe
the issue will ever come to a head;
but, in case it does, they are ready
to fight any such move.
U From other sources there also
comes talk of another bank here
should a merger be effected. The
building committee of the R?n|r 0f
Ahoskie has not yet made any definite
movefto erect the new structure.
REQUEST PHYSICIANS
TO REPORT DISEASES
^ com? *> the attention of
the Sub-District office, United States
Veterans' Bureau, Raleigh, N. C., a
few isolated cases in which physicians
scattered over Eastern North Caro
Hos have been treating without
bringing such cases to the attention
of the United States Veteran' Bu
reau.
Provisions of the new Veterans'
Relief Act which presumes the ser
vice connection of Tubercular and
Neuro Psychiatric disabilities arising
within three years from date of dis
charge and disabling the ex-soldier
ns much as ton per cent in degree,
when such facts are pmaatod to
the Veterans' Bureau by a r-ri
practicing physician. Physicians who
bring such cases to the attention of
the Veterans' Bureau will be confer
ring a great favor, not only upon the
Veterans' Bureau, but aba upon
those unfortunate ones whose ex
penses may be met by the Veterasw'