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Hertford County Herald -TWrlUhed Evary Friday by VINSON * PARKER Owner* J. ROY PARKER Editor JAMES S. VINSON Huu?w { ? ?'%$}'' ?' - r" ' r* S.tocriyU? Prtoa On* Year $1.50 Six Month. .?? Three Month* .40 IMln* Very rtMonmblo mad nurd* known on Entered a. aacond-claaa mail matter Febraary 26, 1910, at the poatofflce at Ahoaki*, North Carolina, nndar the Act ad March S, 10tS. WINTER AND TERRIBLE ROADS ARE COMING? t It is not the policy of this newspaper to cast tidings of evil, nor does it lend itB col umns to the support of pessi mistic reports and forecasts. It is contrary to the very na ture of these who shape and frame its policies. Yet, it can look sixty or ninety days ahead, and see curtailment of trsffle to an abnormal degree on account of the improperly maintained highways of the county, and the newly constructed State highway that cuts the county in half. For three years, persons in this county who are inclined to an optomistic view have waited it out, believing the county would have highways that ad mit of travel in the winter time. And each year has brought disappointment. That was to be expected, however, because it is almost impossible to keep newly built roads pass able the first winter after con struction. The same will, then, be true with the State highway; all the maintenance properly belonging to it will not prevent it becoming a miry, murky road that will keep automobiles stuck up much of the time. ? This time, with all the talk about a former bad system of working roads in the county and the consequent re-organi zation of the administration, the folks who pay the tax to build and maintain roads expect to see some results from the money they have been pay ing into the treasury. High ways that were built last year ?and the records will show some 90 miles or thereabouts? should be in passable shape all the winter through. There is no reason why they should not, unless it be inattention. Improper maintenance or an almost total lack of it, however, is going to see county highways in this section in the worst con dition that has existed for four or five yean. Some good can be done if started now, but not enough to keep Hertford County from sticking up in ths mud again. LETS KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE? There are only 32 of the native Hertford County Con federate Veterans alive today, according to Mr. H. C. Sharpe, of Harrellsville, whose word is final authority in matters af fecting the rotter of the Con federates, living and dead. The past year has taken a heavy toll in old-age deaths; and it is only a matter of a few years until there will be none left to perpetuate by word of mouth the heroism of those who though fighting for a Lost Cause did not fight in vain. We all love to revel in the glory those men brought to themselves and to their pos terity, and it is not only a nat ural inclination but it is also a commendable trait. Hero wor ship is not dead and it will nev er die for worshipping at the shrine of the brave, noble, and hon<jrable has many times been an incenitive for the succeed ing generation to seek the top of the ladder. It win always be so. And, the HERALD is glad to believe it will. This is the principal reason why this newspaper asks for a keeping alive of the spirit shown by the Confederates in the Civil War?the spirit of love for their country and their kin and a love so strong that it caused them to fight as they did. We have honored them on occasion after occasion, to be sure; but we cannot show our reverence -and admiration any too often, certainly not less than once every year, upon the occasion of the Annual Re-Un ion. Through somebody's error or unintentional management, this spirit of which we have spoken was not intensified as it should have been, when the Vets met in Ahoslcie last Thurs day. There waa a mere hand ful here, and lack of publicity was the direct cause of an im properly conducted Re-Ua-oa. Ahoskie hardly knew of the Re-Union, and evidently few others in the county even knew when and where the Re-Union was to be held. Otherwise, the day would have been made more fitting such an occasion, and the Vets would have again realized that they were among people who had not forgotten them and who love to do them honor. Until there is none left, let Hertford County honor them with an entertainment befitting the occasion. A BARBER, A BANKER, AND A CIRCUS SPIEL "Go to tha circa.?" a?ked tha ca.hier of the Book of Feutoaville ?? ho dropped back la tba I barber*. chair for hi. Saturday afternoon (bora. "Yeah; I went a little while hut ?l*ht after I cloud up. Some dr. ctuf* "Some circa. I. right," .aid tba honker, "and it waa some adv.rti.iag atunt wa palled. Yoa uw our big ?ign and heard the ringma.ter tall ?boat ear book, didn't 70a?" "Yeah; I uw the .ign and I heard the spiel. Wouldn't bare thought of it again though if you hadn't man tionod it." "Pretty clever .tuut wo call it," waa tba banker', reply. ?'ItUj dmr for tho Announcer ud >i?n punter. What did it coat you T' the barker asked sharply. The question popped oat so un expectedly that for once the hanker teld the bank's business and admitted proudly that the expense had been *112. "Say you! Listen to me!" bawled the barber, as he swung his lather brush across his patrons's face and shut off anything be might have said further. "That guy paid $12 for the sign and got a hundred for shouting three minutes twice a day. He does that six days a week because be finds one in every town. In the season he makes more than your bank does. You call that advertising ? You got aa idea folks at the circus bring any money to your bank because of a spiel at a three-ring circus? Nothin to it! They were laughing at downs or getting nerrous about the lions. If yon want to do some advertising, you take your $112 and pay the edi tor of The Bugle $2 a week as long as the money lasts. Your ads in the paper will tell all of those people about your bank every time they look it over, something different every week. It won't go in one ear and out of the other." The barber was quiet for almost -a minute. The banker was quiet too. He was thinking. The barber bad told him something. Then from the barber, rather gently, "Did that fellow deposit the $112 in your bank? No? Well, whenever you pay the editor's bills he puts the money right back in circula tion hero." "Raror hurt! No? I thought you kinds scringed a little." Cull the flock, for "boarders" who don't pay are expensive. A bill of indictment charging Lieutenant Governor W. B. Cooper and. his brother, Thomas E. Cooper, with wrongfully abstracting funds and making false entires on the books of the defunct National Commercial Bank will be presented to the Fed eral grand jury which will convene at Wilmington on November $. ? *?i* i* I OFFICE CAT V * Those boys over in Winton, pardon the illusion Mr. Commissioners, are hedging now. Dipping cattle has and is still a mighty poor pieee of busi ness, according to their way of think ing. It certainly played havoc with tile treasury; and before it is done with, there is no telling what H will do to the county. A sample of what is hi store for the commissioners was presented at the Monday meeting, whoa one good and honorable farmer went in person, and two others sent in their bills for costs claimed to have been killed by dipping. "We can only take it up with the State", the commissioners told the complainants. "They put it on us, and certainly it is their busi ness to see it through," they said. Apropros a recent discussion in the HERALD about dresses and faces of the dear young things who are to be come "rulers of the world," the atti tude of the Somerset, Penn., rebel lious group against rules and regula tions of dress is cited herewith. Here is what they hava said to their elders and would-be reformers: "I can show my shoulder; "I can show my knees; "I'm a free horn American, "And I can show what I please." That ought to end It. It ia, at least, a relief if not a sign of sure peace for the auction tobacco warehouses and the co-ope retires to quit their campaign of hate and spite in this territory. It's much bat ter that the fellows ia either business look strictly to their own business and adopt ?n attitude of "letting the other fellow alone." "I sore do like the way you Abos Itie folks stick by your tobacco mar I ket," was a remark heard last Thurs day upon the opening day of the auction market. Farmers throughout the belt seem to be well pleased with the attitude Ahoslde has shown to wards all those who bring thair prod uct here. It always make as laugh when we hear a bird with one of those half inch brush mustaches kidding a girl about her plucked eyebrows. ijPy ? j... The income tax'collector is after the ferlner Kaiser, and for the first" time in oar life we are in faror of a tax collector. ft '?s^^oae'i "V Most girls with a strong line usually hook some poor fish. When a motor knocks all the time there is something the mat ter with it And it is the same with a man. Although a Chinaman's eyes are set on the bias, he doesn't think the world is crooked. ______ ( Economics Overhead expenses?hairnets. Upkeep?belts. Improvement taxes ? powder, ' rouge, etc. Internal revenue?malted milk. Protective Tariff?Cold cream. It takes a lot of sparking to make 1 a match, growls Clarence Perry. A woman who has reachad sixteen ' and never been kissed is going to ? reach sixty in the same state. 1 Cutting Expenses I love to ride fn a touring car, And zip on the old stone road; I love to tour the burgs afar, , And joke with the merry load. I love to observe the trees flash by, ^ And hear the good motor hum; I love the rumble as on we fly, , With the sound Of a kettle drum. , It's the jo Hi est thing I know by far, , And my heart in rapture melts; |j I love to ride in a touring car. When it's owned by some one else. < All's not fair in love Some are brunettes, snaps G. C. Britton. What a pity Robinson Crusoe lived so many years ago. Think of the rnone^ he could have made writing testimonials for safety razors. According to an exchange a boo Angolan harbor has a sign an hi* window "Hair cot whilo you wait" If he can cut it any, other way Wo a magairlsn A girl 1 hate U Wlaaie Brett. She Ude you mm Bat never gate About the only difference is that the old fashioned peddler sold tin ware and the now one rides in it, says Uncle Bill Myers. The auto bus taken the place of the porch swing as the most potent adjunct necessary to get a husband. "Do you stand back of every statement you make in your news paper?" asked the timid little man. "Why?or?yes," answered the country editor. "Then," said the little man, hold ing up a notice of his death, I wish you would help me collect my life insurance." Holding to the theory that good biscuits, or even fairly good biscuits, have a great deal to do with the suc cess or failure of a marriage venture, the county clerk of Clarksburg,' West Virginia, will Issue a cook book for the bride along with each marriage license. Three Is a-Crowd Duck?What did that young couple ssy when you presented them with the second set of triplets? Stork?They said that they could take a little joke, now and then as well as anyone, but that they thought I was carrying the kidding too far. - The average Aheskie barber speaks four languages ? baseball, prisefight, racehorse and polities. A toad hops, A bird flops, A gun pope, A fish drops, Then they And things slow, A dog trots, A town lots, A pen dots, But man stops % When he ought to go. WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE BOLL WEEVIL Raleigh, September 4. ? "Un doubtedly much money has already been wasted In North Carolina this year In needless and ineffective at tempts to combat the boll-weevil. Time and again we warned against this says Franklin Sherman, Chief in Entomology for the State College and Department of Agriculture. "We advised against any extrava gant outlay of money for machines or poisons of whatever kinds in the area where weevil injury was due to be light, yet we are told of persons who have used 'remedies' and now be cause their injury is light doubtless some of them think they have con trolled the weevil; whereas, in fact, the weevil is equally scarce in other fields where no expense was incurred to protect from weevil." Mr. Sherman states that in the reg ion where injury .was due to be se vere this season advice was given to prepare for using the standard dust poison method and to follow the of ficial advice, which is NOT to begin poisoning when the weevil first ap pears, but to wait until there is harm ful damage in immediate prospect. A number of cotton farmers bought machines and poison and dusted by directions with good prospect of suc cess. There are others likewise equipped who have not yet applied one pound of poison because they haven't needed to and their invest ment is still safe. f But there are many others who thought they would go one better on the official advisers, states Mr. Sher man. Those determined to use other forms of poison and to begin when the first weevils appeared They have applied their poisons repeatedly for two months or more, and certain ly killed some weevils, especially be fore squares formed, but it is known today that in many such fields there has been no real need of this expendi ture, and that in other fields the weevil injury is increasing in spite of their "treatments." "Weevil injury is not eqoal and Slike in all fields," says Mr. Sherman. "He who thinks that he must adopt s certain 'remedy* into his practice and use it whatever happens, stands every chance of wasting money and effort He who follows the standard official advice will prepare, and will then apply the poison when it is needed and where it is needed. The one expends blindly on a yet ques tionable method; the other uses his judgment and knowledge in the time- , Iy application of a known method. There is a wide difference, and per haps this difference will grow wider aa we grow in our weevil experience." Wynn Bros. "MURFREESBORO'S GREATEST STORE" MURFREESBORO, ? NORTH CAROLINA ? ?? ? ?*??' ' ? >?? ?? ?' ?: 'fs< C>*j.?? ? >?'';#???< i.. T Big Values ;i, . i Ladies' Suits, Wraps and Dresses at Greatly Reduced Prices Nifty Line Men's and Boys' Suits at Prices to Please j Wonderful Line Footwear for Ladies Men and Children WYNN BROS. THE SHOPPING CENTER THE SPIRIT OF 1776 Like the pioneers of 1776 Who fought for freedom And created a government - Fit for a growing country So let us by thrift and Simple living fight for Individual Independence And community propserity, Thus making this a better Place in which to live. *Kf;f ' --t; "? ;,V III Farmers-Atlantic Bank AHOSKIE, N. C. NOTICE! We wish to announce that we have pur chased the HERTFORD AUTO & MA CHINE CO.'S Machine Shop, Ahoskie, N. C. We hope we have come here to stay We want the public to know we are at their service Day or Night. Anything in the line of MACHINE WORK ACETYLENE WELDING GAS ENGINE WORK STEAM ENGINE REPAIR GENERAL AUTO REPAIRS Oar Slogan: if it Needs Fixing, We can Fix it', Yours for Service Ahoskie Machine Works - COMMERCIAL PRINTING OF ALL KINDS NEATLY AND JPROMPTLY DONE A? THE HERALD OFFICE . J' ; ? * " * *"*v' # 0
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