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Hertford County Herald Published Evury Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owners J. ROY PARKER.- -Editor JAMES S. VINSON? MaMgur Subscription Pi lee One Year ... $1.10 Six Months .76 Three Months .40 Advertising Rates Very reasonable and made known on request Entered as second-class mail matter February 28, 1010, at the postoSee at Ahoskie, North Carolina, under the Act of March S, 1878. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1923. GOVERNOR MORRISON EXPLODES ONCE AGAIN? Getting hot under the collar has grown to be such a common thing with our Governor that his tirades no longer convey news to the populace. It is a habit with His Excellency. What glory he expects to add td his name by his guttural an tics against any and all persons who are not his blind followers in every thought and action he himself is probably the only person in all -the universe who believes he knows, i. Even before he had finished with Maxwell, of the Corpora tion Commission, he fires anoth er poisoned arrow at his ad ministration fellow, flitch Shipman, who happened to have had enough influence over the late General Assembly to dissuade it against enacting one of the Governor's "pet meas ures?a Department of Com merce. Tom Bost, of the Greensboro Daily News, attributes this lat est outburst to ill health, and draws some kind of comparison between our Most High Govor fior and the crippied W bodrow Wilson. Bost is exceedingly generous to his late antagonist and accusers of everything bad, and we are a little afraid the people of North Carolina will not be quite so generous. In fact, it is now time for the Gov ernor to show the other side of his nature, if he has any in his system, and extepd Bost a col umn or two "Note of Thanks." JUDGE KERR A FRIEND TO MAN? Whatever else Judge Jno. H. Kerr may be, no person can say he iB not every man's friend. Certainly that is the impression the editor of this newspaper has gained from observation mainly, and from acquaintance casually. One does not have to know Judge Kerr intimately to be drawn to him nor to admire the man in him. He embodies the very principles that make men love him; and, if express ions voluntarily made by num erous persons are Bincere, Judge Kerr is resting securely in the knowledge that he is one official whose least concern is the making and holdihg of friends. "He is the same John Kerr he was the first time I ever saw him on the courthouse square," was a handy expression for numerous persons attending superior court at Winton this week. Passing in and out among the crowds, the editor of this paper has yet to hear one derogatory sentence passed by a single person who has aught to say about him. And^'there were many persons at Winton who had his name on their lips. In his public utterances, in and out of court, Judge Kerr's one theme is "Love thy neigh bor as thyself." The charge made to the grand jury Mon day embodied those great words of the Master of men, but, the HERALD believes there are few men who are in better position to repeat that "Old Farmer" Is Rearing To Write a? - Mr. Editor: Being that I halnt writ you any thing for the reason that I didn't know whether you would print it or ?lot, because I have been reading the HERALD a long time and aint loaded up on that flowery stuff that these here fellows has a overcharge of what writes. The old woman, none of the nirla and not even Jim knows that I am n bout "to "write to you for they would be standing around bothering the life out of me so I have got off to myself while the girls are off on a visit and the old woman is in the kitchen and dining room. The times somet'mps comes in a fellow's life when he just feels like his safety valve has got to blow off a little or else he will bust and you know it would never do to bust. Last Monday morning I told Jim to get ready and crank up our old tin lizze for 1 was going to Winton to see what the two boards were a-going -to do for I had seen in the HERALD that they were going to meet and either hitch up or unhitch and Heben knows I didn't know which. The tug had come between Education and Taxation. Well, that is the only way or about the only way I can learn anything is to read my county paper and hear the big folks talk and son, unless we clodhoppers get out once in a while we will be all the time groping about in darkness. So 1 ups and goes to Winton and in the flret place I want you to know that I am a red hot sizxling advocate of education because this day and time ain't nothing like it was when I was a "school boy." What did I say? "School boy" aint right for there weren't no school to go to *nd how Could 1 he a school hoy just so? I was just a boy and not a school boy. So I am determined to fight the rest of my life for good schools and I want all the boys to be school boys and all the giris to be school girls, and that's why the old woman don't'want me to expose my ignorance, but if 1 can get this piece writ in time I am sure going to slip it in my R- F. D., and then you can do what you please with my log school Jlouse stuff. ' But listen, Mr. Editor, I got to Winton and heard the tempos^ in a *"'* pot. T'nese big folks are all I reckon, but don't you think there is a happy middle ground about near about everything And don't you think that there is a danger line in mighty near everything? What I mean to say is that there is always danger in extreme men and measures for tfce Bible says that we must be temperate in all thinks and that don't mean just liquor. I know you can't expect pinch if you don't pay much, but aint there such a thing as biting off more than you can chew, but if we will take small mouthfuls we can go right along and never get choked. Well, that 52 cents on the flOO worth of property looks* big and is big but we are doing a heap bigger things than we used to but when it comes to jumping from 52 to 94 cents on the $ 100.00 aint that some leap and don't that look like somebody's going to come might near getting chocked next year about tax paying time? Remember the Bible says "Be temperate.*' Yes sir, that would be more than we could chew with boll weevils threatening to chew a part of our cotton this year and next year maybe every darn boll. I don't always agree with my friend Dr. Jess Mitchell and I don't reckon he expects me to but I think he was right this time when he faught to a compromise the increase in taxation and if he had not led the fight I am afraid the levy would have been 94 instead of 75. I kept my mouth shut last winter when such big fellows as Jno. O. Tay lor and Thad E. Vann were chewing the rag over whether the chairman of the county Board of Commissioners had the right to vote as a member and then in case of a tie to vote to break it, but I expect that my friend Jno. C. was wilting the other day for Dr. Mitchell to vote twice and in fact I can just naturally see friend Taylor reach out his hand to friend Vann and with mouth to ear say in whisper tones, "Let's allow Dr. Jess to vote twice on certain questions." I must stop now for I can tell by the way the old woman is stepping around she will soon be out of the dining room and if she catches me with all this scribbling, she is sure going to want me to tell her what it is all about OLD FARMER. admonition than Judge Kerr If there is one thing he is, Judge Jno. Kerr is a lover of fellowman. Egyptians of 1S00 B. C. played a game of chess similar in its main points to our modern pastime. -V.Jsl I OFFICE CAT TMOt MAftfc ??ymOHT IMk,(rlO<MMitNMOM. The CAT has been requested by Ahoskie's Young America to start a movement to raise a fund for i the erection of a memorial to that engi neer on the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road, who sings those lonesome melo dies on his engine whistle every night around the stroke of twelve. Fathers and mothers are expected to make a strenuous and stubborn kick against any such movement, for they have trouble enough getting their young sters to sleep at night. K-A-T Speaking of Ahoskie's "Young America," the CAT desires also to erect a monument to the tribe that has awaken the sombulency of the peanut market by extracting count less nickels and dimes from both do mestic population and the transient bunch by almost forcing them into the habit of buying their "hot roasted peanuts." Where in all the land isj there another such bunch as Ahoekie has produced? If any slicker-ton gued bunch qf vendors can be found. I trot 'em out and let's look them over. The CAT expects the peanut farmer to endorse this move. K-A-T "The best crop in 25 years," say those who live in and around Har rellsville; and some are farmers who say it My observation has been that when a farmer?a real farmer? says his crop is extraordinarily good, there's no use trying to deny it And, from other sections come the tame reports of fine crops. K-A-T Mr. E. B. Vaughan, of Murfraes boro, believes the present condition of tl>e cotton crop would easily jus tify a prediction of an average of one bale and a half to the acre, straight through, talcing the good and bad. The fanner now has only one come back and the weight-carrying word "if" plays a big part in it. "If the prices hold up." K-A-T D. L. Myers, local town alderman, doesn't believe Ahoakie should buy all the land between Cofield and Barleys Station for opening up streets across the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road. He has<waid so upon several occasions at the meetings of the council. "Rocky Mount doesn't do it," he said. "Yes, but I tell you Mr. Myers, we want to make Ahoskie a better looking town than Rocky Mount; I'd hate to think we couldn't improve over its street system in the business section." That came from Councilman H. S. Basnight. K-A-T The CAT didn't write that to make any person believe friction existed among the councilmen. They are the pleasantest bunch you most ever saw, attd if they've ever split on any ques tion when voting time came, I don't believe the minutes will show it. They never do, despite the fact that they have to wrestle with most every kind of'problem of town administration ever dreamed of. I sez it's a pretty tolerable bunch. * K-A-T If you are doing good woric, don't worry, somebody will find it out, says John Gatling. K-A-T | G. C. Britton says the reason two girls can't be friends is a man. K-A-T SALLY is rather sullen this week; she's been . moping around the of fice for two days now. I It's all because "Old Farmer" has finally edged himself into the columns of the "HERALD, and, by the eternal darkness of printer's ink, "Old Fanner" has made such a hit that our SALLY is afraid she'll lose some of her glory. K-A-T P A T I C A, however, while showing slight _ signs of jealousy, has F sought to console his a sister by a line of W thought that r u n a something like thia: "Old Farmer" is probably under taking to run counter to the CAT tribe?a bunch known for its ability to fight back.. That being the casa, there U the Impending prospect of a friendly setto. That being the case, reader interest is due to increase, and j the whole con-earned Cat tribe will be on the tongues of men as never j before. K-A-T TOM, JR., is regaling himself over the pros _ pect of a 'controversy.' He has it in his nature and it must be coming 1 out, he says. The Junior Tom savs he's | going to welcome anything tending ; to arouse interest. Mind you, how ever, he didn't aay animosity. Away with any such rot; it'll be friendly to the core. Ahoskie Customer say the sugar barons, the coal operators and the ice men must belong to the same | fraternity. On The Local Screen Two little Hies in my office I see, I have killed one, and now there are j three; Seven little flies bussing early and late, I have killed six and now there are | eight. Eight little flies all impatient to ' dine, I have killed seven and now there are nine?million. I . ? ???' Hugh Harrell says genius is com posed of equal parts of sweat, temper ament, and headlines. - . ?' Political Notes ^1 The Ford boom is making quite a rattle. Dr. Royal S. Cope land, Senator elect, says Gov. Simth will be the next president. Guess, the doc has got the wrong dope. Now since the girls are wearing their dresses lower in the neck, we understand that there is to be a mass meeting of mosquitos this evening, and hymns of praise and thanksgiv ing will be sung. Aren't men funny? They wear clothes that cover them from ankle bone to Adam's apple. They smoke ?becaise they like it. They tie knots that will untie.v They know what's trumps and why they played ' the joker. They wear B. V. D's. and don't roll their socks. Aren't men funny. They're so different from women. We have no more right to consume 11 pood cheer without creating it than to consume wealth without producing It : - Correct this sentence: "I enjoy go ing out with Mrs. Jones," said the wife, "because the wears so much finer clothes than mine." Mr. Newlywed: "Oh, Jack, you left the kitchen door open and the draught closed my cook-book, and now I haven't the faintest idea what It is I'm cooking." That chap who says there is no more co-operation in the world hasn't tried making love to a modern flap tk per. . " Bob Mitchell says looks are often deceiving. Very few autos are over four years old. Leara Role One And Then Follow Fifth And Tenth 1. The cop is always right. Don't sase him. 2. Never crowd a truck to the curb. 8. Never run over a crossing cop's feet. 4. Steer around the lamp costs in the middle of the boulevard. 5. Never sase a cop. 6. Always give a woman enough room to change her mind. 7. Try & avoid running into the mounted policeman's home. 8. When you have been given a summons, make it a point to appear. Judges appreciate this. 9. Never try to beat a fire engine to the crossing. Picking you up may delay the firemen. 10. Never saas a cop. If a little girl comes back from a picnic reasonably clean, you know she didn't have a very good time. Have you ever noticed that the man who pays as he goes seldom gets beyond the speed limit. It doesnt cost so very much to start in business now. Ten dollars will buy a fairly good sucker list. About all you can say for the groom, is that he holds a responsible position, says The Reporter. Promises may get friends, but per formance keeps them, thinks V. D. Strickland. The boll weevil is not responsible for damages done by the red snider and wilt disease. These are still ad ditional troubles for the cotton farm er and require different treatment, say State College workers. NOTICE Having this day qualified as Ad ministrator on the Estate of Geo. W. Horton, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the under signed, duly and properly itemised and verified, on or before the 29th day of June, 1924, or this notice will be pleaded at bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate" payment This 29th day of June, 1928. R. C. BRIDGER, Administrator. I I' Soft bodied hogs sell for 91 lean end oily hogs for 92 leas than hard hogs, finds W. W. Shay. With the tremendous possiblitier for corn pro- * duction in North Carolina no farmer should be compelled to sell soft hogs. Because his daughter is a member of the Hutaff Poultry Club in New Hanover, one father decided that he would put in pure bred poultry and build a modern house for handling them, says Miss Florence Jeffress, Home agent in that county. 1 CLEARANCE SALE August 4th to 14th I most make room for new goods, so am offering my ENTIRE STOCK AT COST Take advantage of this opportunity to get a Sum mer Hat, your Ribbons, Hose, Laces, Etc., At Cost I can save you money now while goods are advancing. _ Don't Forget the Dates August 4th to 14th Everybody Invited Miss Nannie Newsome AHOSKIE, N. C. * 1 1 i'i i Wyr.ii Bros. "MURFREESBORO'S GREATEST STORE" MURFREESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Big Values Ladies' Suits, Wraps and Dresses at Greatly Reduced Prices Nifty line Men's and Boys' Suits at Prices to Please . Wonderful Line Footwear for Ladies Men ? and Children WYNN BROS. THE SHOPPING CENTER ^ 1 ' 1 1 BONDS - RAIN FIRE We Write All Kinds of - Surety Bonds Citizens Insurance & Realty Co. Ahotkie, N. C. AUTOMOBILE - HAIL ? TORNADO Me / \
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