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Volume XIV. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, November 2, 1923 One Section No. 27
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, HARVEST TIME IS
HERE AND PRICES
HOLDINGJIP GOOD
Cotton And Peanuts Hit*
Started Moving And Farm
ers No Longer Dependent
On Tobacco.
COTTON SHOWS LARGE
?, INCREASE IN REPORT
? Prices For Cotton Good; Pea
nuts Fair, and Tobacco Get
ting Better
Harvest time, and marketing of
farm products, that is, the three
chief "money crops", is well under
way in this section and all over Hertr
ford and Bertie counties. Heavy
sales of tobacco no longer produce
the only revenue for the farmers of
these two counties. Peanuts and cot
ton have begun rolling, and the
shekels are going into the pockets of
the producers in large bulk.
Business in all its phases is perking
up. The time merchant is not the
least happy of all; if anything, he is
k the most jubilant, unless it be the dirt
farpier himself who is seeing the
product of a year's toil turned into a
nice profit, at the present prices be
ing paid for every article put on the
market.
Tobacco which took a slight drop
a few weeks back has been selling
lately for a much better price, and
nice returns are being realised. Last
week's sales were among the biggest
of the season on the local market, and
the first three days of this week have
seen still larger breaks. Wednesday's
sale was the largest of all, many
farmers coming with a load to eat
barbecue and hear the speech mak
ing.
Dry weather preceded cotton pick
ing time, and it opened early, with
* the result that the cotton fields have
in most cases been picked over two
and three times. The report of
Special Agent J. A. Parker shows just
how much more has been ginned this
year than last. The total in this
county was more than double on the
18th of October what it was the same
dates last year.
According to the report, 8,409
bales of cotton, counting round as
half bales, were ginned in Hertford
county from the crop of 1928, prior
to October 18th, as compared with
1,182 bales ginned up. to October 18,
1922. In Ahoskie, approximately
1389 bales have been ginned this sea
son up to Wednesday night, and both
gins are kept busy every day.
Prices for this commodity have
ranged from 28 to 29% cents per
pound on the Ahoskie market. For
the last week the higher figure has
been given. The market is unusual
ly steady and demand for it still holds
out, with prices holding up good. But
few farmers are holding at the pres
ent prices. Buying is strong com
petitively here, and the market is one
of, .the best in this territory. The
addition of a second gin has brought
a larger quantity of cotton this year
than usual.
Peanuts are now moving to mar
ket Host all crops have been dug
and the peanut pickers are moving
from field to field, while the farmers
are either bringing them to market or
are storing them at home. The price
being paid here by independent buy
er% who are getting the bulk of the
A crop, ranges from 5 to 5% cents per
pound. Few farmers in this vicinity
are delivering their peanuts to the
Association. However, they are more
cautious about selling than usual, and
they' are not being dumped quite as
heavily as usual.
AhoskieV freight receipts, outgo
ing^ have taken a rapid rise within the
last two weeks. Carload shipments of
all three of die principal crops are
moving away dafly, and the outgoing
platforms of the Atlantic Coast Line
are filled every day with cotton, pea
nuts and tobacco. *r The railroad is
If handling the crop quickly, and with
despatch.
U. D. CHAPTER TO
PUT ON BIG SALE
The U. D. C. Chapter of Ahoskie
will have a "Parcel Post Sale", Sat
urday, November 3, at two o'clock,
at Bellamy's old store, next door to
Mrs. E. C. Britton. Home made
candy will also be offered for sale. -
The next regular meeting of the
chapter will be held with Mrs. R. R.
Copeland, Tuesday, November 6, at
4 8 o'clock.
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LARGE CORPORATION TO
OPERATE IN THE COUNTY
Planters Manufacturing Com*
pany Secures Timber Rights
Along Swamp
Ahoskie business may be helped by
foreign capital, principally from Vir
ginia, durng the next five or ten
years, through the extensive logging
operations which will be carried on by
the Planters Manufacturing Com
pany, of Portsmouth, Va. This large
corporation, one of the country's
largest makers of truck baskets and
allied articles, has secured contrscta
for cutting gum timber from the low
lands along the Ahoskie ''Swamp for
several miles.
A. M. Hart, manager of the Ports
mouth factory, has been in this vicin- j
ity for several days making arrange
ments for the immediate construction
of a siding just below the Ahoskie
electric light plant. It is understood
here that it will be begun next week.
The timber rights on lands all the
way from the A. C. L. trestle South
of the town limits to St. Johns, and
many more acree in the Cuttawhiskey
Swamp are included in the corpora
tion's holdings. Several yqars will be
required to cut and move the tim
ber.
A logging road will be built across
the lands and it will terminate at the
siding which wil be constructed next
week. Large operations, and much
labor and materials will be required
in the process of cutting and moving
the property.
It is one of the largest logging
projects undertaken here; next to the
Branning Manufacturing Company,
perhaps the most extensive. The
Planters Manufacturing Company
does a big business in a big way, and
annually furnishes boxes, trucks, and
barrels for a large trucking area.
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IS
IN FOR FIGHT IN COURT
Mandamus Proceedings Started
to Force Election to Annex
Territory
The North Carolina Supreme Court
may bo called upon to decide whethei
a Northampton county school shall
annex a portion of Hertford county
territory. A mandamus proceeding
has been started hy petitioners in the
Menola section who are seeking to
vote themselvee into the Woodland
Onley High School District of North
ampton County.
Four weeks ago when the Hertford
county commissioners rejected the
recommendations of the board of Ed
ucation to call an election in the terri
tory not now in the school district,
Attorney Sumner Burgwyn, appear
ing before the commissioners then for
the petitioner*, told the board such
an action might be taken, and he was
told to "shoot" by the members,
every one of whom was opposed to
the annexation idea.
During superior court in Winton
last week, a mandamus order was
signed by Judge Kerr, at the in
stance of Attorneys Stanley Win
borne and Sumner Burgwyn, who are
representing the freeholders asking
for the election. It will be returnable
at Jackson, Tuesday, November 6th.
Judge T- M. Pittman, latest appointee
of Governor Cameron Morrison, will
pass upon the order then.
I Attorneys J. Hiliary Matthews and
Ernest Tyler have been retained by
Dr. J. H. Mitchell, chairman of the
board of commissioners, to plead for
dismissal of the order and prevent the
calling of an election. Doctor Mit
chell says he will carry the fight to
the Supreme Court before he will
ever consent to the territory in Hert
ford County being turned over to the
Woodland-Onley High School.
Tuberculosis Costing Hertford County
Heavily In Loss Of Life And Money
Tuberculosis is still reaping a |
grim harvest in Hertford County.
Accurate figures reported by
the North Carolina Tuberculosis
Association on Hie 1922 deaths
show this county to rank third in
the deaths from this disease in
the 100 counties of the State.
It is exceeded by Durham county
only.
In 1922, there were 151.8
persons to the 100,000 popula
tion in Hertford County to die
from Tuberculosis. Since the
population of Hertford Count
was a little above 16,000 in 1920,
working this out by the percent
ages figured in the report, there
were pproximately 26 deaths
from tuberculosis in the county
in J922. In Durham county,
there were 152.2 deaths from
every 100,000 population. Pas
quotank had a rate of 156.2.
While we still need to cut this
figure down, Hertford has fallen
down one notch since the report
issued last year and covering
1921 deaths. Durham was the
only county ahead of this then.
The figures were: Hertford,
169.6; Durham, 182.8.
During that period the state
average also fell from 101 deaths
to 87.6 in the 100,000 popula
tion. The disease is more prev
alent among negroes than among
white parsons, and the high aver
age of this county is partly due
to the fact that the negro popu
lation is greater than^the white
population.
Neighboring counties have al
so shown a decline in the num
ber of deaths from Tuberculosis
* since the last report. The 1922
-
figures are: Bertie, 90.7; Gates,
56.8; Northampton, 102.6;
Chowan, 131.4. In 1921, the
average deaths for the 100,000
population in three of these
counties were as follows: Bertie,
123.4; Gates, 121.7; North
ampton, 93.6. Both Bertie and
Gates have improved conditions
by big percentages, while North
ampton's death rate took a de
cided jump from 1921 to 1922.
The figures as set down in this
article are a part of the folder
just issued calling for tne Third
Annual Session of the North
Carolina Tuberculosis Associa
tion. The session met Tuesday
and Wednesday of this week at
Durham.
Through the sales of Christ
mas Seals, the Association an
nually raises finds for the fight
against the Great White Plague.
Stamps will soon be placed on
sale for Christmas 1923, and the
officers, directors, and members
of the Association sue looking
to North Carolinians to swell the
receipts from sales.
Something of the work accom
plished in the crusade against
Tuberculosis can be seen from
the following figures given out
by the Association:
"There were 4,800 deaths
tuberculosis in 1913; there were
2,369 in 1922.
Tuberculosis cost the people
of the United States one hundred
million dollars in 1913; it cost
fifty millions in 1922.
"Fifty millions saved in 1922,
but still losing fifty millions an
nually."
HALLOWE'EN EVENT
Members of the Colombian Liter
ary Society of the Ahoslde High
School gives a special Hallowe'en en
tertainment at the school auditorium
tonight, Thursday. Elaborate deco
rations have been arranged and a
snappy program will be given.
CLEAR SKIES AGAIN
November opened up Thursday
morning with a clear sky and a tem
perature moderately cold, bat not
enough to make it uncomfortable. A
large frost and some ice resulted from
the change in temperature over Wed
nesday night.
DOLLAR DRIVE ENDS
The HERALD'S Dollar-A-Year of
fer hag closed; and it ended after the
most successful campaign ever con
ducted by the newspaper. Figures
have not yet been accurately counted,
but enough haB been checked to as
sure the addition of not leas than 800
new subscribers daring October. Not
an old one has been Tost. Approxi
mately 750 persons either renewed
their subscriptions or entered their
names for the first time during the
month. 1
Ma$ or Thad A. Eure of Wlnton
was among the business visiters in
Ahoskie Thursday morning.
COUNTY FAIR WILL
BEGIN AT WINTON
ON NOVEMBER 6TH
Secretary Will Thomas, After
Riding The Circuit, Plans To
Give The Best Attraction
Of All
EXHIBITS INCREASED
AND OF BETTER GRADE
Fast Racing Program, Fire
works, and Nardor's Majes
tic Shows Billed
For the sixth consecutive year,
Hertford County folks will trek their
way to Winton next week to attend
the annual Hertford County Fair.
There will be four days and nights of
it, beginning Tuesday and lasting
through Friday night
There ia every reason to believe
this fair will be the best in every line
of the six affairs staged. The agri
cultural exhibts, home exhibits, and
all others will be larger this year, and
there will be a greater variety in
every department Secretary Will
Thomas has been "following fairs"
now for two months, and he is pick
ing and choosing the best features
from all to introduce to his guests
next week. This will be one of the
last fairs of the season, and comes at
a time when all the folks have enough
cash to pay their way through, and
sufficient time to linger around for a
while.
Bumper crops have* been harvested
and others are in the process in this
county, and. in adjoining counties;
and that is one great reason why the
farm exhibits should excel those of
previous fairs. The best of every
variety will be on exhibit, and the
best this year is better than usual.
The following superintendents of
departments will look after the booths
ut Winton: Farm Crop, B. N. Sykes;
Livestock, B. G. Williams, with Hugh
Jonas as assistant; Poultry, M. R.
Herring; Canning Clubs, Pantry and
Dairy Supplies, Miss Myrtle Swindell;
Needle and Fancy Work, Mrs. W. B.
Pollard and Mrs. J. S. Shaw; Anti
ques, Curios, War Relics, Miss Olethia
Vick; Mrs. J. A. Shaw; Arts and
Crafts, Mrs. P. H. Taylor; Work of
Children, Miss Mary Williams.
G. N. Harrell, of Murfreesboro, has
charge of the horse racing program
this year, and he has booked racers
from some of the best stables in the
country. There will be two races
each day, beginning at half past
twelve o'clock. Two hundred dollar
purses are offered in each race, and
the money will be divided as follows:
50, 25, 15, and 10. Rules of the
National Trotting Association will
govern all races.
The program is as follows: Tues
day 2:25 trot, 2:20 pace; Wednesday,
2:15 trot, 2:24 pace; Thursday, 2:22
trot, 2il2 paee; Friday, 2:17 pace,
2:20 trot. J. C. Chitty bf Murfrees
boro?will assist Dr. Harrell in the
program.
Displays of fireworks will be given
every night during the fair. Fair at
tendants will remember the attraction
this feature has held for them in prev
ious years; and Secretary Thomas
promises the same thrills as hereto
fore.
Narder's Majestic Shows, one of the
largest and most complete aggrega
tions showing the fairs will fill the
midway with their attractions, and
every imaginable entertainment fea
ture will be offered by, them. They
will be open day and night through
out the fonr days of the fair.
NEW BUILDINGS NOW
BEING ERECTED HERE
Garrett and Jemigan have already
started construction on a new ware
house building located next to the
Barnes-Sawyer Grocery Company, on
the South side, next to the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad. The bnilding
will be 79 x 70, and will be bnilt of
corrugated iron, with brick founda
tion.
J. D. Sessoms, owner of six Main
street stores, East, is also having a
new brick garage building erected on
the lot at the rear of his stores.
Hoggard A Stokes, one of the
town's oldest mercantile firms, are
planning to supplant their old wooden
building, on Railroad street, with a
handsome brick building. They will
move from their present quarters the
first of the year, and do business in
'another building while the new struc
ture is in process of erection.
BARBECUE AND,
TOBACCO FARft
JOHN H. KERR NOW
A PRIVATE CITIZEN
Warren too Man Wind* Up His
Career as Superior Court
Judge While Serving In
HIS SUCCESSOR IS
ALREADY AT WORK
Court Officers And Bar Offer
Resolutions For Retiring
Jurist
It is no longer Judge John H. Kerr
?after November 6th, it will be
Congressman John H. Kerr, and to
day it is plain John H. Kerr.
He ended his career as a superior
court judge of North Carolina last
Thursday at Winton. His formal
resignation was left on Governor
Cameron Morrison's desk in Raleigh
last Saturday, and he went back
home, to Warrenton, for a few days
well deserved and no doubt greatly
needed rest, before taking up his of
ficial duties as Congressman from the
Second North Carolina District. The
election will be held November 6, and,
since the republicans have not yet of
fered any opposing candidate, Hon.
John H. Kerr will step into his new
public office without further opposi
tion.
Judge T. M. Pittman, Judge Kerr's
successor on the bench, has already
started his judicial career, sitting at
Jackson, Northampton county, this
week and next
ome yhpda
last Thursday, resolutions were pre
sented to the court expressing regret
in the loss of Jdtfge Kerr's services
from the bench, but congratulating
the Second District and North Caro
lina for choosing him as National rep
resentative. The resolutions as origi
nally drafted are set forth below:
WHEREAS, at this term of the
Superior Court the Hon. John H.
Kerr, resident Judge of this district
being present and presiding, and
WHEREAS on the 3rd day of Octo
ber, 1923, the Democratic voters of
the Second Congressional District
elected this learned and able jurist as
the Democratic nominee for the
United States Congress, and
WHEREAS, this term will be the
last Court held in this State by the
said John H. Kerr,
WHEREAS, as Solicitor of this
District for 13 years, and as judge of
this District for 7 years, he has
by his fairness and ability endeared
himself to the bar of this County, and
by his unfailing courtesy to the Court
Officers, has won their esteem, and by
his life and character among us has
attained a high place in the affections
of all the people:
THEREFORE: Be it resolved by
the Hertford County Bar and the
Court Officers of Hertford County:
First: That we express our pro
found regret in the fact that we lose
John H. Kerr as our Judge, but we
congratulate the Second Congression
al District and the State in having his
eminent services as a member of Con
gress of the United States.
Second: That we wish him God
speed in hie new field of service and
?ay by these resolutions that we deep
ly appreciate his great service to the
people in his many years of unselfish
Bervice as Solicitor and Judge of this
District.
Third: That a copy of these resolu
tions be spread upon theYninutes of
this Court and copies sent to the
Hertford Herald and Hertford Ob
server and the Raleigh News and Ob
server for publication.
The following names were signed
to the above resolutions:
Court officers of Hertford County:
B. Scull, Sheriff; D. R. McGlohon,
Cleric of Superior Court; J. A. North
cott, Register of Deeds.
Members of Hertford County bar:
R. C. Bridger, Jno. E. Vann, W. D.
Boone, Lloyd J. Lawrence, Thad A.
Eure, W. R. Johnson, W. W. Rogers,
Stanley Winborne, C. W. Jones, D.
C. Barnes.
LAWRENCE-B0STICK
Mrs. A. C. Lawrence, 2906 4th
Ar. H. P., Richmond, Va., announces
the marriage of her daughter, Nell
Darden to Rev. Edward May Bosticlc,
Jr., of South Carolina.
The marriage took place In Shang
hai, China, September 21st Rev. C.
W. Whisenhunt officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. Bostick will make
their home in Soochow, China where
Mr. Bostick will teach in the Yates
Academy.
SPEAKING FOR
JERS HELD HERE
Fair Sized Crowd Attend Event
Sponsored By Business In
terests of Ahoskie on
Wednesday
MENU WAS SERVED
IN THREE COURSES
I Judge Winston and Congress
man Ward Delight Attend
ants With Speeches
1 Despite the pepery rainfall
1 and the accompanying raw and
cooler atmosphere, Ahoskie's
twice advertised barbecue and
speaking for tobacco farmers
took its place in history Wed
nesday afternoon about half
past three o'clock, when Con
gressman Hallett S. Ward
wound up his hour talk on re
ducing the high cost of living
through improvement of the
marketing of farm produce.
Rain had already interfered
with the plans to hold the bar
becue Wednesday of last week,
and if anything the brand of
weather this week was even
more disagreeable, but the
twelve barbecued pigs could
not be denied, nor could the ap
petites of those who had been
lying in wait for so long be fur
ther appeased except by being
fed. The four or five hundred
persons who gathered about
the tables Wednesday after
noon had no excuse for leaving
until their stomachs, eyes, and
appetites were satisfied. There
was aplenty and then some, the
left-over being sold privately
after the barbecue.
The rain was too heavy by
ten o'clock in the morning to
permit of an outdoor affair.
The pigs, table*, and all acces
sories were transferred to the
Iron Warehouse, where the
barbecue was served and the
speaking done.
Strickland Taker Charge
V. D. Strickland, President of the
Chamber of Commerce, was the first
to start the ball rolling, by mounting
the cart body hastily erected as speak
er's platform, and extending a wel
come to farmers present, winding up
with the presentation of Judge Fran
cis D. Winston, of Windsor, the first
of the three-course dinner; the other
being barbecue, and the dessert by
Congressman Hallet S. Ward.
Judge Winston's Visions of Akoslda
Judge Winston did not keep the
crowds away from the barbecue for
many minutes, for, he said, "Wt
stomach won't let my mouth
He complimented Ahoskie on Hs p re
pressiveness, and made one of the
best "booster talks" Ahoskie has had
for some time. He spoke as follows ?
"The inspired writers speak of old
men dreaming dreams, and of young
men seeing visions. I have not yet
reached the age for dreams. I am
still with the boys and see visions. I
have a vision of Ahoskie and I see my
ideal of it clear, real, and within
reach.
It is of a united citixenship; united
for God and the community; no fac
tions, no bickerings, no laggards, no
one standing in the way, every man,
woman and child in the town proud to
live here and determined to make
Ahoskie foremost in every Rood work
and 'a pleaaant land in which to
dwell.' "
I see churches raising their spires
heavenward, and hear the sound of
the church-going bell break the still
of the Sabbath mom in an atmos
phere of faith in God and love for
fellow-man. I see perfectly equip
ped school for training for future
citlsenship and usefulness thousands
of typical North Carolina boys and
girls; the future hope of our State
and Nation. Somewhere within her
limits is a magnificent hospital, equip
ped to the minutest detail, where sick
ness and disease will surrender to
skill and science and tender nursing.
Your citixens are riding on paved
streets and walking paved sidewalks.
Your merchants in variety and qual
ity of goods equal those in any land
and the rule and guide of every busi
ness man is to be 36 inches to the
yard, and 16 ounces to the pound, J
and such reasonable profits as will
support owners and clerks in reason
onable comfort. The hum of ma
chinery is heard ">n every hand and
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