Hertford County Herald Published Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owner* J. ROY PARKER Editor JAMES S. VINSON Mauser Subscription Pi lee One Year _ 11.60 Six Months ... ... .76 Three Months -60 Advertising Rates Very reasonable and made known on request Entered as second-class mail matter February 26, 1910, at the postofflce at Ahoaide, North Carolina, under the Aet of March 8, 1878. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923 PRESIDENT HARDING WHOLE-SOULED MAN? . . ,Ss i While the number of persons in this vicinity who belong to the late President's political party are few, there is none who does not feel that the Na tion has lost one of its biggest and best men. There are vary ing degrees of greatness ascrib ed to the dead President, but none deny his bigness, both as the Nation's Chief and as a lovable, genial, and good American citizen. He was a man who sought friendships. And, the univer sal sorrow that has pervaded the whole world since his death last Thursday is strong enough evidence of the esteem and love all persons held for him. It is plain proof of his popular ity, his greatness, and his abili ty to make and keep friends. It has been said of him that he died trying to bring the people nearer to the government; and by his own statements that is true. T.T ... - ne might not have been as keen in intellect as some of his predecessors, and he might not have been as aggressive as oth ers; but, after all, his life was rich in those things the average American covets as the essen tials of life. Human emotions, love for one's neighbors, and a closely knitted friendship are some of the things typified by the late Warren G. Harding's life. PAYING TAXES LAST OBLIGATION OF SOME? Several causes may be as cribed for the habit some per sons have of delaying the pay ment of taxes until they are forced to do it or lose their possessions through' sale. One of them is, of course, the len iency with which officials have annually dealt with the delin quents, granting them exten sions right up until the time when another year's taxes are due. That, however, is not the sole reason. Many of these persons have overlooked their duty to the government that provides protection and education for thefb. They take the business of being a first rate citizen lightly, and concern them selves but little about what is going on about them. These are usually classed among the great number of American citizens who take but little interest in their gov ernment in any of its phases. They "let George do it." And, so when taxpaying time comes, they fail to realize that George is not in the habit of paying other people's taxes, and are brought face to face with some of the realities of government, whether they like it 6r not. Most people who have paid taxes at all should realize by this time that "Taxes and death are two certain things in this life." Daring the Farmer*" Convention leet week, 707 farmers and their wtrea registered tor room at the College dormitories. Over a thous and came in each dag in their cart. V "Old Farmer" Is Boosting Ahoskie Mister Editor: That piece I writ you last week come out 0. K., and you just as well know that when the carrier come along with the mail that I got out to my mail box good and quick and the first thing I looked for in the HERALD was that piece I writ and sure nuff it was in there. There were a few slips but I did not know wheth er you could read it or not but you done pretty well and I make no com plaint, after John C. Taylor says folks have been making complaint about his style of penmanship, and if the folks have complained about his handwriting what can I expect about rpy fist except some cussin. Tbe crops are looking mighty good and I am sure in hopes that we farm era will be able to help the merchants out for a sight this fall on back debts for say what you please the store-folks have been at times mighty good to us.. If nothing happens I am sure going to Ahoskie on the opening day of the tobacco market and f expect too to take along some of my primings and from its quality it ought to fetch a good price. Right here let me say that Northampton, Bertie and Hert ford ought to sell every pound of to bacco on the Ahoskie market and in that way we could have a big market which would attract all the folks across the river to come here because a strong market always helps. But you folks know that some folks thinks it lopks big to carry their tobacco to Rocky Mount and Wilson and then come back and claim big things after losing three or four days and hotel expenses. Phaup and them Emerson boys are hustlers and deserve the backing of us farmers. We are curing tobacco now and Mister Editor, I invite you ^nd Mr. Vinson, and Mr. Green and the office cat to come out and help us eat bar becue next Thursday night at the to bacco bams. Get here about nine o'clock and don't forget that office cat for I might happen to rub the hair the wrong way on that varmint's back sometime and I don't want to see him hump up his back top high So don't fail to bring him al^ng so 1 can make his acquaintance. ijmi i nursaay Jim cranked up our jonnyford and we went to Coleraiine to the big picnic. Well, sir, when we got there and parked our car and walked up to tfce place where the folks go in swimming, the old woman stopped plum still when ge got to the ' beach where all them- half-naked women were strolling around and by jingt she come near fainting. I sup pose she was horrow-etruck. When she got so that she could breathe right good and e&sy, she said "let's get away from here, this is no place for me." Then Jim he come up good and close to,his mama and he said to her for her not to say one word for if she did the folks would know that the whole kit and hilin of us was from the back woods, and that she must not let the folks know that this was the first time she had come to the outskirts of civilization. And then the old woman ups and wants to know if the women in the outskirts of civilization didn't wear any skirts and if that was the way you told yon were on the edge of civilization. She carried on for a sight but after a while she got quieted. But she said that she did'nt want to get so far in civilization that the modesty which her-grandmother taught ceased to be a virtue. I didn't raise any fuss my self about how the gals dressed or un dressed, but I believe I would like to go down there again, when the old woman aint along. I told her it was sure awful but I went one eye on 'em just the same. The old woman said on the way back home that she tried to learn something every day and that she had always felt sorry for poor old mother Eve because she knowed that she felt embarassed to be in the presence of Adam in such scant clothes and always wished Eve had had a shift of homespun dresses but if the precious old dear could drop down to Colerain Beach one day and see what she had seen she would not have any cause for further em barresament* in the presence of Adam. Don't forget the barbecue next Thursday night and all you Herald felows including the cat be sure to ? come. OLD FARMER. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Green and children are leaving Saturday for an absence of two weeks. Mrs. Green and children will visit their old home in Culpeper, Va., while Mr. Green, as a reserve officer of the United States Army, will attend a military training camp at Camp Meade, Md. A bell dating back to the time of St. Patrick hai been found in the ruins of Nendrum Abbey, in Ulster, Ireland. * I OFFICE CAT ?maoimakr I e?nr?iowt iml. w tow mm mom. "Old Farmer" has struck a respon sive chord in the mind and breast of one of Hertford County Commission ers. E. W. Whitley, Murfreesboro member of the board, wants to know the fellow who writes incognito. "He has got this thing just about right," Mr. Whitley says. K-A-T "I am about to discover that you commissioners have borrowed just about half enough money to pa$ for these dipping vats," said Clerk John A. Northcott to the county board Monday. He had just finished read ing the maze of bills for cement, lum ber, services, etc., all of which were to be charged against the dipping vats. The total cost figured to the first Monday in July was $10,600. This week probably $750 or $1,000 in bills wire approved for the dipping vats. The cost will be around $12, 000. ^The commissioners have bor rowed $10,000 for the purpose of paying for them. K-A-T Reading the 1921 figures as lately compiled by the University bureau, it appears as if Hertford county's edu cation is costing its citizens pretty dearly. There seems to be few coun ties in the State that pay more for education than does Hertford. At least, the per capita tax paid in this county put us right near the top. K-A-T One day last week three new citi zens were added to Ahoskie's popu lation within a period of twenty-four hours, Every now and then that very thing is duplicated, until Paul Holloman, birth registrar, is begin ning to believe he has a regular job keeping track of the new ones. K-A-T The advertising manager of this sheet has made a special request of the writers in this column this week. He wants everyone of us to hammer away at the idea that the HERALD expects to;is?ue a banner edition next week?addressed to the tobacco growers of Hertford, Bertie, Gates, Chowan, and Northampton counties. He Sayg advertising rates will remain at the regular rate, despite the fact that not less than 1,000 extra copies will be mailed to the very fellows who are going to spend some money in Ahoskie during the tobacco season. SALLY wants to chime in with a little admo _ nition t o business houses. "Advertise 1" | Don't stop to ask her if it pays; she says it does. In that belief she is sustained by every business house that has. consistently and con tinuously tried it the newspaper way. K-A-T PATICA says he is rearing to go on this advertising proposi tion. "It's high time the business person be gan to bestir himself, herself, itself, them selves or wnat not if the fall business is wanted," he says. The modern ruralite, like the townsman, has al ready gotten into the habit of shop ping by advertisements. < It saves time, worry, and often times money. Remember, he is not saying the fel low who does not advertise hasnt just as fine stock of goods as the ad vertiser; often that is true, but the customer is saving time when he glances over the columns of adver tisers and goes directly to the place where he knows he can get what he wants. K-A-T TOM, JR., apologises for the conduct of sis ter and brother, for having taken up the readers' time with little talks on advertising. However, he wants it firmly stamped into the inside stuff of every person's cranium that he is eternally for that advertising pro gram himself. He also urges the ad vertiser to get his copy in early for next vieek's issue. N K-A-T I don't know what's the matter with this here reporter on the HERALD. It seems that he can't keep out of hot water. Here he is this week having to tell folks the motives that have in spired him to writ* about "Hertford County's Busiest Mm" It does seem to me that he could, after years of experience, know enough about writing to frame an article to suit somebody's idea. It is by me, folks. K-A-T I do feel sorry for the fellow, though, for he affirms and re-affirms that he was red hot after a feature story for his last week's paper and in ' picking up the one he did, thought it was a corker, written in a light vein, with no malice or thought of malice. , That's his business, however; I don't want to get mixed up in his trouble. I have mine. When the people refuse to be up lifted the uplifters start another drive for funds to continue the work. Man spends half his life cussing the old fogies and the other half worrying about the rising generation. Movie Ad. Georgous Pageant 5,000 People 4,000 Costumes Scientists say we are what we eat What a lot of people there ire that eat nuts. You Tell 'Cm The robin is dearer than all the rest; the peacock can boast' of the finest frill; the yellow canary can sing the best, but the stork is the bird with the longest bill. Automobile owners are getting so lazy that they will net even walk in their sleep any more. They call a taxi Cheer Up This world is full of sunshine This world is full of cheer If we but tried to find it Throughout each day and year. There seems to be too many people interpreting the liquor laws, says Ras Wooten, and not enough observing them. How long does a dream last? won ders Paul Dukes. It took us twenty . years to find out we couldn't sing. ^ -Correct this sentence: "Don't dis tress yourself about it st all," said the banker, "we'll be glad to renew it." Say, cull, don't git gay wid me? I'm so hard I scrathes de bathtub. Dat's nuttin'. I'm so hard I shaves 1 wid a blow toreji. "You don't know your eggs!" said the rooster to the old hen as she sat down on a glass one. I Still, the knights of old who stood up for women didn't go so-far as to do it in street cars. I THE TWO MIDDLE LETTERS MAKE LIFE UNCERTAIN. We know of a man who is so thin that he makes his living by diving in bottles and pulling out corks. - A man who complains that his wife can not take a joke forgets that she took him for better or worse. _____ If a woman admits that she trimmed her own hat, oomments Johnnie Britten, there usually are those present who .will remark later that it looks it. What man doesn't feel weak when some lovely little girl tells him how big and strong she thinks he is? If a man tells his wife everything, it may be that he loves her. And then it may be that he merely loves a fight. Say It With Melody Z "Our Earnest"? "Are You Playing Fai*" You are away down there "In Yama," while I am oh the "Gin 'Gin Ginny Shore." It was "In Rosetime When We feaid Goodbye," back there in "Ohio". "Oh Loveable Eyflfs," on this "Mystic Night" I realise that "No body Lied When They Said that I Cried Over You." "I often have a dream of your "Smiles" and Wonder if you could be happy with me in a "Jungle Bunga low" underneath a "Hindu "Moon." L "My Sun God," I'd Rather Loved You and Lost You than Never Have Loved You at AH." "Don't Forget," you promised "Over the Radiophone," to be "My Buddy. "Do y ? . . ? . . .. - j . -tj j M S ??????? Wynn Bros. "MURFREESBORO'S GREATEST STORE" MURFREESBORO, NORTH CAROUNA 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 v BONDS - RAIN FIRE . - ? ' ?? " ? - ' ? -f ? * m? *. We Write All Kinds of Surety Bonds \ "? - V fk Citizens Insurance & Realty Co. Ahoskie, N. C. AUTOMOBILE - HAIL - TORNADO