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LOCAL NEWS
OF AHOSKIE
Mr. Hugh Swann of Stonewall wasj
in town Wedneaday.
The HERALD one year for $1.60.
It ia worth the money.
Mr. Tom Condon of Winton was
among the Sunday visitors in Ahos?
lde.
Rev. H. G. Bryant of Murfreesboro
waa a visitor in Ahoakie on Tuesday
morning.
Mr. A. M. Hart of Portsmouth, Va.
spent a few days of last week in this
city on business.
Miss Willie Mae Horton, a student
of Chowan College, was a visitor in
Ahoslde Monday.
Mrs. Bernard Reardon of Dunn, N.
C., spent last week with her sister,
Mrs. G. H. Sinclair.
Mr. W. P. Phelps of Colerain was
the guest of Mr. W. W. Lawrence
last Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Roberts Jernigan and
children spent Sunday afternoon in
Harrelsvilla with relatives.
Miss Ethel Callis of Colerain was
a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Mitchell last Sunday afternoon.
Miss Amy Rlddiek, a member of
the local school faculty, spent the
week pnd in Suffolk with friends and
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Taylor and
daughter of Harrellsville were guests
of relatives in Ahoslde last Sunday
afternoon.
Miss Sue Barker, who has been in
Raleigh for sime time, has returned
home and^ftcepted a position with
Mr. WalteTOrtis.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Burgess and
children of Dendron, Va., spent the
past week end with Mr. Burgess'
brother, Mr. L P. Snipes.
Misses Bessie and Mary Gaddy,
Grace Oliver, and Helen Stoneham,
all of the high school faculty, were
shoppers over the week end in Nor
folk, Va.
Miss Annie Laurie Sessoms, who
teaches in the Harrellsville school,
spent the past week end in Ahoslde
with her parents, Mr. and Mr*. C. C.
Sessoms.
Mrs. H. H. Taylor and children of
Harrellsville, Mrs. J. E. Ward of
Robersonville, Dr. and Mrs. J. A.
Powell and children of Harrellsville,
were guests in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. S. Basnight, Sunday.
Mrs. M. 0. Gerock, Ooten Gerock,
Mr. 3. A. Copeland, and Mr. and Mrs.
A. Lee Copeland and young son,
Worth Hart, motored to Greenville
last Sunday and spent the day with
Miss Feye Gerock, who la'a student
in East Carolina Teacher# College.
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METHODIST BAZAAR
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The annual bazaar given by the
Missionary Society of the M. E.
church will take place on Friday,
November 16th in the Curtis building
next to Jim Sessom's garage. The
public is cordially invited.
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SHOW WELL ATTENDED
The Richard Theaterjlid a big busi
ness the three days of last week when
"The Birth of Nation" was shown. Al
most one thousand persons from
Hertford, Bertie and Northampton
counties packed the house every
night Junia's Hawaiian*, on Mon
day night of this week, also played
to a large crowd.
ASSOCIATION WAS
HELD THIS WEEK
Many were the Baptist people who
went to Murfreesboro Tuesday and
Wednesday to attend the annual ses
sion of the West Chowan Baptist
Association. Tuesday's session was
held in the handsome new brick
church building at Murfreesboro. Dr.
C. E. Maddrey of Raleigh was the
principal speaker of the day. Re
ports were heard from churches and
messenger* during the day's session.
Wednesday was the big day at
Chowan College, where the new audi
torium with all its fixings was thrown
open to an enormous crowd. Hon.
J. W. Bailey was heard in the morn
ing by an audience that well filled the
auditorium, which seats 800 persons.
From 6 to 8 in the evening a banquet
was tendered alumni of Wake Forest
1 College by the Home Economics Club
of the College.
Dr. William Louis Potest, Presi
dent of the College, and Hon. J. W.
Bailey made talks. A county alumni
association eras organised with Heber
Vann of Como, President, and K. T.
Raynor, of Ahoslde, vice-presidsnt
At night, "The Diamond Pageant",
representing the growth and ideals of
Chowan College, was staged by the
college girls. The auditorium was
packed to its capacity for this at
traction, which is spoken of as the
best event of its kind ever staged at
I Chowan.
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* Holiday .hopping wtt bogie *
* toon, and ordinary fall and win- *
* lor baying ia alroady bare. *
* Tbora'a monoy in tbo country, *
* and H ia finding it. wag into the *
* cbannoia of buainoaa for tbo pur- *
* chare of the noco.aitioa of lifo. *
* No one lino of buainoaa baa a *
* monoply; all are .baring it.
* Reaching a largo majority of *
* tbo home, in Hertford county *
* many in Bertie, the HERALD'S *
* advorti.ing columna afford an *
* excellent medium for tolling tbo *
* buyer, where to aOcure the good. *
* they want. An adyortiaamont *
* in tboao columna ia worth SO *
* par cent mora than it wa. thirty *
* daya ago; and tbo advertising ?
* rata remain* tbo name. Cadi on *
* u?; lot ua help yon plan yonr *
* campaign. *
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WORKING STREETS
A Bear caterpillar tractor, pulling
a road acarefow worked on the town
streets for a short while Wednesday
and Thuraday.
SPRAINS ANKLE
Walter L. Curtis, manager of the
Ahoskie plant of the Columbian Pea
nut Company, has been hobbling
around on crutches the last three
days, on account of a sprained ankle
suffered Tuesday. The lame member
is improving.
LOCAL FIRM NOW
CHANGES HANDS
S. E. Dilday, who has been operat
ing a woodwork manufacturing plant
in Ahoskie for the last few years, has
disposed of his holding to Claifde
Greene- The new building, below
Barnes-Sawyer Grocery Company's
home, is soon to be completed when
the new owner will take charge.
Mr. Greene, who represents a Nor
folk building supplies concern, will
manufacture flooring, ceiling, and
other supplies for the home builder.
He was formerly owner and proprie
tor of the Ahoskie Variety Works,
which was destroyed by Are a few
years ago.
CONGRESSMAN WARD
SAYS HE IS SAFE
Hon. Hallet S. Ward, Finrt District
Cong lossman who spoke hero Wed
nesday at the barbecue, says he does
not anticipate any formidable oppo
sition in the democratic primary next
year. Although the State papers
have been naming candidates galore
for hie office, the Congressman says it
is all tommyrot. "There's nothing to
it," he said, when questioned about
the supposed opposition.
"Dr. Griffin, over at Bdenton,
might throw his hat in the ring, but
none of the other candidates mention
ed lately in the News A Observer will
even enter the race," he continued.
"Lindsay Warren of Beaufort will
get himself told if he makes a try;
for ear county has had the office for
86 years and Mr. Warren can hardly
hope to make any headway."
Mr. Ward will be in the race; there
is no doubt about that. He goes
back to Washington next month for
the session of Congress.
Shivering Owl And Cry Of
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The Hertford County Herald:
After reading the two letters, writ
ten in your paper October 19th from
the "Old Farmer," and the "Old Tar
Heel Friend," W. P. Brown, now of
Arkansas, carries me back to the old
bygone days when I was a boy in
Hertford county.
The cricket never bothered me very
much at any time in company or
alone. But that old shivering owl
would almost make me crawl out of
my shoes. And when the whippoor
will began to holler, if I should be
away from home, I would make my
trot, about as fast as my feet would
carry me, falling in the door almost
exhausted for breath. I wonder if
they still occupy the same piece of
woods now they did then. This piece
of woods was in front of Captain
Lang Tayloe'g home, near Frasiers
crossroads. 1 thought it almost
meant death to hear the owl or the
whippoorwill. Yet 1 was never hurt
by either of them. How silly that
was I I also learned by the teaching
of iqy mother, how to card and spin,
and to double and twist the warp and
filling, and gather the gall berry
bushes and green walnut hulls to dye
the warp and filling, to make ?4oth.
When time came to cook dinner, I'd
weave while mother was cooking. I
wonder where the old loom and spin
ning wheel are now. After our suits
were made, from the cloth, and our
new brass toed Norfolk Standard
shoes, with the white oak soles, made
to shine with the seot from the back
of the chimney in the Utchen, we
were made to feel as big as Jourdas
Horton who was then said to be the
biggest man in the State.
But later on mother stopped wear
in*, and resorted to raising cotton,
having a patch of her own each year.
Doing the work herself, how anxious
we children would be in the fall when
the day came for Mother to go trad
ing. The horse and oart wore pre
pared and the journey was made to
Winton. This of course took practi
cally all day. Shaw Brothers then
were one of the leading merchants
of Winton. Still later work time
came on for me. This was six days
to the week, the year 'round. In eaHy
spring it was haul dirt, knock down
cotton stalks with a stick and com
stalks with a weeding hoe, split rails
to mend the fences, rive boards and
cover the stables, barns and shelters.
After supper we would draw a hun
dred white oak staves before bed
time by a lightwood torch. Mr.
Henry Modlin was another great
stave getter, he would have his staves
hauled to Winton to save time on the
farm on rainy days. We had to work
a steer that belonged to Mr. I* T.
Taylor after 10 o'clock every day.
He would swear by all good and bad
that he would not work any more that
day. He would stick his horns in the
ground, turn somersaults, stick out
his tongue, roll his eyes 'till they1
looked like they were large as your
fists, you would think his neck was
broken. As soon as crops were laid
by, 'twas then go in cow-hall and cut
gum logs for ashes and clear land.
When the winter months came on it
was big log .rolling and burning them
to ashes to put on the farm. Some
time twenty-five and thirty men
would be at the log rollings. It was
who and who, trying to pull each
other dowp. This wag good exercise
for strong muscled men and boys too.
Mother thought it was time that we
we should start to Sunday School.
This broke up our Sunday recreation
of playing round cat, fox in the war,
den in the base, paddling Joe Law
rence with a board. Poor fellow, he
is now dead and gone. The Sunday
School was started in a country free
school house on the road betwfien
Union and Mr. Jesse Wynn's. Our
first lessons were in the old blue back
spelling book. Mrs. J. P. Freeman
was our teacher. Later we had the
catechism and in this we learned
about Moses, the Ten Command
ments, Egypt, The Ten Plagues, and
many other things not taught in Sun
day Schools now. Although we have
much better Sunday Schools now than
then. From this Sunday school the
Baptist church in Union was built.
After the church was built Braxton
Craig held a revival there. One
night he preached a sermon "Hell
Fire on Earth" which was enough to
make the devil and his angels sit up
and take notice. And the closing of
this meeting on Saturday night, will
never be forgotten by Claude Matt
hews, Bob Modlin and others.
An old Hertford County boy,
L>W. HOLLOMAN.
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WANTED?MEN OR WOMEN TO
take orders for genuine guaran
teed hosiery for men, women, and
children. Eliminates darning. Sal
ary $75 a week full time, $1.60 an
hour spare time. Cotton, heathers,
INTERNATIONAL STOCKING
till 1-80 MILLS, Norm town, Pa.
FOR SALE?A HOUSE AND LOT
in the town of Ahoskie. One-half
cash, balance on time.
?0-5-tf H.W. STOKES.
FOR SALE IN AHOSKIE, N.^C.?
Several lots, including large 2
story house near colored church
and two small houses in Hayesel
town. EDGAR T. SNIPES,
608 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pa.
10-6-28-tf.
ONE MILLION EARLY JERSEY
Wakefield cabbage plants now
rekdy for setting. Fine as you
have ever seen. Send me your or
ders. Price 25c per 100 or $2.00
per thousand in 600 or 1000 lota.
11-2-23-4t J. R. RIVES, Ahoskie
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ESTABLISHED JEWELRY HOUSE
of Norfolk, Va?, desirous of secur
ing responsible lady or man to rep
resent them in Ahoskie and sur
rounding territory. Permanent
and good paying position to re
sponsible parties. Sample line fur
nished free. Write SPERTNER8,
INC., 200 H Main Street, Norfolk,
Va. 11-2-28-2L
FINE OXEN FOR SALE ? WE
have two yokes of fine, heavy
weight oxen, in good condition,
well broken. Can be driven with
out reins; good workers. Will sell
cheap to early purchaser. Also
two log carta and yokes. Write to
or call on the undersigned.
H. J. HOLLOMON,
10-26-2t. Merry Hill, N. C.
FOR SALE?MEWSOME FARM, ON
terms to suit purchaser. 1 mile
from Ahoskie on Winton Highway.
42 acres, 26 acres clear; $ room
dwelling, 2 tobacco barns, high
state of cultivation. Apply to W.
W. Rogers, Attorney, Ahoskie, N.
C., or Raleigh Real Estato A Trust
Co., No. 4 E. Martin St Raleigh,
N. C. 10-26-2 3-tf
RICHARD THEATER
AHOSKIE, N. C.
FRIDAY
Shiiley Mason
"THE NEW TEACHER"
News and Comedy
SATURDAY
Mary Miles Minter in
"THE TRAIL OF THE LONE
SOME PINE"
This picture is good, be sure
and see it. Admission 25
and 35 cents
MONDAY and TUESDAY
Jack Holt in
A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE
Jack Holt as a third rate burg
lar in a first class comedy
Coming Wednesday and Thurs
day, Rupert Hughes, a comedy
drama
"GIMME"
PROFESSIONAL
CARDS
DR. C. G. POWELL
DENTIST
OFFICE: Third floor, Room* 2 and S
Farmers-Atlantic Bank Building
AHOSKIE, N. C.
X-Ray Service Phone No. 21
When Viaiting Norfolk and in
need of FORD CARS buy from
S. S. JERNIGAN
701 Granby Street
Salesman for
Brandt Motor Corporation
Investigate The Chiropractic
Health Service
DR. J. B. BALL
Ahodria, N. C.
Office over Mrs. E. C. Britton's Store
R. R. ALLEN A SON
OwUn la
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, WINDOW
GLASS, HARDWARE. PAINTS,
and BUILDING MATERIALS
GENERALLY
Wholosele and Retail
927 Washington Squar.
SUFFOLK, VA.
? TOMBSTONES
OF ANY DESCRIPTION
See or Write
J. B. MODLIN
AHOSKIE, N. C.
Agent for
?COGGINS MARBLE CO.
Dr. W. C. Mercer
DENTIST
Offlcee over Mrs. Brltton's store
Ahoslcie, N. C.
DR. CHARLES J. SAWYER
Eye, Ear, None and Throat
AHOSKIE, N. C.
Every Wednesday.
Farmers' Atlantic Bank Building
10:00 A. M. to 5 P. M.
In Windsor offlce: Saturdays and
Mondays.
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THE SPEAR ENGINEERS
Consulting Engineers
300-801-802 Bankers Trust
Building
Municipal Drainage and
General Engineering
NORFOLK, VA.
HARRY B. 8PEAR
President and Chief Engineer
7-12-2 8-Smoe.-x
T. S. OVERTON
Agent for
Everwear Steel Roofiing and
Siding
If yon are in need of Rootling or
Siding don't fail to get my prices
before baying.
FOR
FIRE INSURANCE
SEE
Strickland & Hale
AHOSKIE, N. C.
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The Fashion Store
SMART NEW
FALL
DRESSES
No woman can help but appreciate this wonder
ful opportunity right on the threshold of the new
FALL SEASON
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A Dress For Every Woman
And shown in navy, black, browns, and newest
autumn tones?Be sure to give us a call?and see for
yourself.
SHOES SHOES SHOES
Our stores is being "RAMMED FULL" of FALL
GOODS?of the newest and smartest styles for
WOMEN and CHILDREN
"THE ONLY STORE IN HERTFORD COUNY
THAT SPECIALIZES IN WOMEN AND CHILD
REN'S WEARING APPAREL
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MRS. E. C BRTTTON
^ "AHOSKIE'S FASHION CENTER"
Ahoskie, N. C.
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OUR NEXT
Big One Cent Sale
Thursday - Friday - Saturday
October 25,26 and 27,1923
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Three Days Only
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Money Saving Values
COPELAND DRUG CO.
39* Jan
The Prompt and Efficient Pharmacy
We hare the only Registered Druggist in Ahoslrie or
riertrora Louncy
AHOSKIE, N. C.
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Household Remedies.
The season of Coughs and Colds is here, and the wise
person will take precaution to head them off.
If you are looking for good, simple remedies or
Preventitives, let us supply you.
We can save you money on your purchases of Pro- [
pnotary Medicines. THE SAME REMEDY
FOR LESS MONEY
Also supplies for School Children, including Paper,
Ink, and Pencils.
"The House of Moderate Prices'*
MITCHELL'S DRUG STORE
THE OLD RELIABLE** ,
Manhattan Hotel Budding AHOSKIE, N. C.
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AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING
Battery Charging, Vulcanizing, Auto Sup
plies, Accessories and Oils.
Free Air and Water. AHOSKIE, N. .C ||