Never Before Has Ahoskie Attempted To Show Any Picture Three Days i
THE BIRTH of A NATION
Will be shown Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 25th, 26th and 27th
Why? It is still the biggest picture ever made. Come on time, show starts promptly at 7:30, no extra reels. Admission 50c straight.
Colored will people not be Admitted to this picture.
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Old Farmer Says
But Needs Watch
Gosh! Jjjp will yon please go ou
and try |p step that deg i~m howjin
for he's werse'n the* ends and crick
ets, I writ 'bout last week. I havt
never been able to tell for the life ol
me, why^Mog howls,?it is evidentl]
a sort of nervousness, because he wil
howl at ?1* sound of music or th<
blowing of a horn or steam whistle
and then Igg will howl out in the moor
light wheq everything is a* still ai
death. go I've never been af>le tc
figger out whether he howls from Jos
or distress, If anybody knows, !
would thank him if he would answei
through t%e HERALD.
But sinen that howlin' dog that Jim
has just stopt, caused me to saj
somethin' Taout dogs, I will say before
droppin' the subjeck that the dog is,
of all animals, the most loyal and
faithful, but I'm not goin' to under
take to wrfte any tribute to or on th?
dog, for too many men's writ thing;
that Old Farmer can't touch with a
forty-foot pole and therefore I just
ain't a-goin' to attempt to git off no
dog-gone-dpg-stuff, for it would be so
crude and simple compared to what
that feller that lived in England nam
ed George Gordon Byron wrote 'bout
his Newfpgpdlad dog when he died,
and what that feller named Vest in
Missouri said to a jury 'bout the dog's
faithfulness^ that you would be com
pelled to Igff at my stupidity. But
let me tett you that the first dog that
I can remember was a large white
dog with | a dark spot on each
side and he belonged to my
daddy and lived some years after his
death. His name was Dash. I recall
that while I was a very little boy
standing with this dog near the "din
ing room window while breakfast was
beln' served that I put oat my hand
towards him and he opened his mouth
and grabbed it He didn't bite or try
to bite me but let me tell you that
dog skeeifd me jam by to death and it
taught me a lesson,?not to fool with
a dog at the meal hour while the folk*
are eatin' and he is round where the
meal is beln' served. If a stranger
comes to your house at meal time and
that dog your is at the kitchep.
door, he show more viciousness
than at gay other time. I've heard
that it is mighty dangerous for the
keeper of fions to go into the cage
if any raw meat is near nuff for the
beasts tg smell. U seems that it
rouses all the ferociousness of his
nature.
One morning early,?Dash come
home fatally shot in the flank. I can
-remember how he would whine when
(you come up to him and then he
would lick the wound, as much m to
indicate or tell you where his suf
ferings mfg. He soon died and I
know that my mother had the colored
boy at the home to dig a grave and
bury him. >knd then I got the ax and
a piece of hoard and went and driv*
the board the head of his grave.
So you can see that I was e shore
nuff boy.
A little lgter, my step-grandfather
brought pg boys a small brown dog
and his name was Mack. He must of
been killed away from home as I do
not re member anythin 'bout his death.
So I suppoge be left home and failed
to return. Then we had a small dog
that we rgjged from a puppy and his
name was ?ario. My smaller brothers
claimed that he was one of the beet
squirrel dogs in our community. They
had then gpt big nuff to go huntin'
with a gup. When I had my gun
fever, fortune didn't smile on me and
after I fat over it I didn't want a
gun and UU to this good hour I haint
owned a gpn, except a long barrelled
gun that f got in a tort of a trade
with a nigger and I never loaded it
end which I sold at auction for 75
cents. Se Carlo was the last dog that
was in any way connected with my
family in my boyhood days.
But you know I was just talkin'
'bout squirtels and while I don't hunt
and neve^ gxpect to, I still feel an in
terest in the wild game and would
like to see it protected better*n 'tie.
Man is a destructive animal. You
give the average man a gun and dog
and turn 'em loess In your TOgfe aad
Dog Is A Good Pal
ing Upon Occasion*
he yiil kill the last squirrel in your
I preserve if be could,?if it 'twas one
hundred. Not that he needed the
squirrel, but he would just shoot 'till
* he'd cleaned up every vestage of 'em.
No man,?even on his own land
I oughter be allowed to kill more'n
three squirrels in one day. There
| oughtn't to be a deer killed in the
peninsula of Hertford, Bertie and
Northampton counties. You see this
neck lies between Roanoke and
' Chowan rivers on the north and
south and the Albemarle sound on the
east and we could easily give all the
protection needed. I just hate to see
the connectin' link between the days
1 of the Indian and now wiped out.
Why not let the deer be immune
1 from the destructive aim of the
' huntsman? There was a time when
' the buffalo in the west went in hurds
' that would number in the thousands
' and when they would start on a trail
1 it would string out over miles and
i miles. Now how is it? A few years
ago the Government census showed
1 that all had been killed except 58.
i Tben our Uncle Samuel got mighty
' busy wantin' to hard that 58 and un
dertake to propagate the species
whieh feed become almost extinct, all
because the destructive animal called
?Man?had been allowed to kill
and kill and leave 'em on the prair
ies to dry up or rot or furnish food
for the buxxards. It will soon be the
same way with our deer. Man does
n't hunt deer for the food he gits
outen the beautiful fawn fop he does
n't have to git food that way and lie I
oughter be stopt and our members
from the three counties oughter come <
| 'ogethe at the next session ?r the I
1 Legislature and pot an end to it. Its
too late after the deer is all gone.
Then the counties will ' e try4"' to
git the breed back agin just like the
Government is the buffalo. Not to
?top it is a shame on our boasted civ
ilization. Now I've said it and if
some sportsman that wants to shed
the innocent blood of a beautiful
fawn wants to git mad at Old Farmer,
let pim git het up just as hot as wants.
I've spoken words of soberness and
truth. Ill soon be under the sod, but
I want to help to the right thing
while I am here.
I think a heap of what Mr. Pete
Brown way outen Arkansas had to
say 'bout me last week in the HER
ALD. Yes, Mr. Brown, I have done a
little plowin' and hoe work this year
and am mighty thankful that I'm able
to do it If I am not much outen the
way, I think you were born in Win
ton and raised in Colerain, over in
Bertie. I failed to see you this year
in 'Hoskie. You make your annual
visits to 'Hoskie like the bull bats and
martins, but you didn't come this
year for every time I'd go to 'Hos
kie town long "bout the time of the
Big Confederate Re-Union, I'd be
looldn' fur you to come by and stop
fur a while but your Confederate
[ Gray was not seen, this year, I don't
think, and I missed you too when I
would go to town in the summer ev
ening and hear you tall 'bout when
you was with Quantrill's Guerrillas,
And 'bout how bad Quantrill was
treated after the Civil war and caus
ed him to git hooked up with Jesse
James' gang. Not seein' you this
sumnynr caused me to think that yog
had passed over the river and was
restin' under the shade of the trees
as Jackson said in his dyin' moments.
May many years be spared you and
may they rest lightly upon you is the
wish of OLD FARMER.
October 28, 1928.
Versions
He (to himself) What a heavenly
girl. I'm not half good enough for
her, but I cant possibly live without
her. HI ask her to be mine as soon
as ever I can get up the courage.
She (to herself) I can boss that
simp. Guess I might as well pick him
up. I could do worse.
So they were married.?Exchange.
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RED CROSS STILL
DOING GREAT WORK
The West and Southwaat can no
longerbeast a monoply 0n tornadoes,
floods, and the many other little
practical jokes Mother Nature is
prone to play on poor mortals. In
spite of the boll weevil, shortage of
rain in some sections and too much
in others, the year's crop of serious
disasters in the South compares fav
orably with those of the most devest
ed areas of the country.
Figures gleaned from the annual
report of disaster work of the Red
Cross received today, which covers
activities from June 1022 to June
1928, show that in the twelve month's
period there have been fifteen serious
disasters resulting from terrific
storms, floods, and fires in the South,
which destroyed millions of dollars in
property, took a toll of many lives,
and inflicted serious injury to hun
dreds of people.
The year has been one of almost
unprecedented natural calamities for
this section of the country, the re
port states, and has necessitated the
expenditure by the organisation of
over $165,600,000 in extending relief
to the thousands of people deprived
of food and shelter, and left desti
tute without warning by a freak
trick of nature. Relief given, H is
stated, was administered in accord
ance with the policy of the American
Red Cross, and was in every instance
based on the actual' needs of the in
dividual.
Mentioned among the more severe
disasters in which the Red Cross has
extended relief in the last year are
the destructive fire at New Bern, N.
C., December 1, which destroyed over
$2,600,000 worth of property and
left 8,600 people homeless; the hail
storm of August 8, 1922, which left
178 families of Anderson, S. C., in
need of immediate relief; the More
Haven, La., flood which inundated
over 150 homes; the little town of
Hamlet, Miss., which was visited by
two terrific cyclones in as many
months, wiping out practically the
whole town; and the tornado which
swept through Pinson, Tenn., devas
tating a large section of the city, kill
ing twenty people, and injuring 100
others.
A lUal Tall Gay
(Wisconsin State Journal)
Mr. Pickering has been pastor here
for twenty-eight years, and this is
the longest Baptist pastor in Wiscon
sin.
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The primacy of agriculture jn
North Carolina was fully demon
strated at the State Fair in Raleigh
last week.
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EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor of the
estate of Richard O. Whitley, deceas
ed, late of Hertford County, North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
holding claims against the said es
tate to exhibit them to the undersign
ed at Como, N. C., on or before the
26th day qf October, 1924, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to the
said estate will please make imme
diate payment.
This the 25 day of October, 1923.
R. A. MAJETTE, Executor
10-26-<t estate of Richard 0. Whitley
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