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Hertford County Herald ' * " Published ? Every Friday by VINSON * PARKER w Owner* J. ROY PARKER --Editor JAMES S. VINSON Manager Subscription Prica One Year - ?L60 Six Months ?-- .761 Three Months .4M Advertising Rata* Very reasonable and made known on Entered as second-elaae mail matter Febraary 26, 1210, at the postofflce at AhoaUe, North Carolina, under Um Acted March 3, 1878. _ ? | The HERALD seconds the Observ er's "Hip, hip, hooray", hilariously emitted when writing about the scheduled letting of contract for the construction of a steel bridge over Chowsn river at Winton. And, our observation leads us to ask where is that fellow who hollered so loud against the State's road building pro gram? We did have plenty of them in Hertford county one time; bat there has been ? noticeable falling off in the growling. This newspaper as yet has no reason to regret its stand in favor of the road program when it was in the legislative hopper at Raleigh. "Say bonds to Ahoakie persons and you've added another insult" is the view some local citizens hold. Thei agitation started within the rooms of I the town council to pave Main street, or probably Main and Church streets, has started talk about how Ahoskie views municipal bonds. This news paper does not believe the conscien tious taxpayer in Ahoskie objects to a reasonable amount of bonds, when expended for necessary public im provements. How many are there, we wonder, in Ahoskie who regret the issuance of bonds to construct water and sewer systems, and an electric light plant? MEETING DEMAND FOR BETTER CHURCH? Although we are not strong advo cators of band auction sales of real estate, the one held here last Friday was a distinct exception. It marked the first concrete step ia the improve ment of the church properties in our town; and it is probably the signal for_further improvements. - ,. xne Methodists of Ahoskie have been in need of a better house of worship for several years. The mem bers of the church have recognised that need and worked steadily for its attainment. Circumstances have halted them mora than one* However, with the passage of the Main street property of the church and the sale of the present building, it now seems their hopes and plansare to be realized. A new church house will be built, and the pastor will here after live in more comfortable sur roundings?he will have a new home in keeping with other respectable persons in the town. The HERALD congratulates the Methodists for their determination to meet the need for a better church and better pastor's borne. THE SEASON APPROACHES FOR THANKSGIVING? Another week and Thanksgiving 1923 will have passed. In North Carolina it will be a great and saving day for hundreds of orphans. Even today they are looking forward with expectant thoughts to the harvest that will be theirs when North Caro linians have completed their duty upon Thanksgiving Day. The orphans?charges of the pub lic, to whose mercy they muft look for all things?can very well expect a big day of it next Thursday, too. Material wealth has come to us in abundance during the past year, and only by giving does one receive; that is what the Father of all has said. Accumulation of money has been a peculiarly oaay job with a majority Of tbe people in our own section. Next Thursday will decide for all of us to whom we ascribe the power to convert effort Into money; the offer ing one gives on Thanksgiving Day ia a sign that points pretty clearly to the ?ouNjjujgke giver believes he receives his ability to make money. Giving a day's income or wages to the orphan is s peculairly fitting way to show one's thanks. Even had not most givers been blessed with a good year themselves, still the custom of giving to the orphans would be a fine medium of thanks expression. For, who is there who is not thankful for home, parents, and all the things of life that are grouped about the twot That thought alone should cause all of us to remember the orphans on next Thursday; and, together with the material progress that has been made. North Carolina orphanages should and will undoubtedly feel as they have not done for four years the ef 6 feeta of the general prosperity that has been North Carolina's during the last twelve months THE BUILDING AND LOAN CAMPAIGN? Local intywt to a^ home building ?f unified action; thjrt is, the impor Inn of supporting the rwoftii2M leading organization in all extensive and permanent home building cam paign* has not been fully realized by many parsons of the town. The observation made in the pre ceding paragraph is made upon the j premises that there are not enough ] holders of stock in Ahoskie's building and loan association. The first cam paign for stock and subsequent organ ization of the association was a triumph for Ahoskie persons who de sire to see more homes occupied by | owners. Subscriptions were taken in i sufficient volume to warrant th^ be lief and nurture the hope of future success. When the flrst opportunity was presented, Ahoskie persons re sponded with the sum of $500 month ly?to be used for home building and mortgage lifting from homes already built but not paid for. Even that amount, which has been repeated for seven months now, has helped and it will continue* to help do the things for which the organiza tion was started. But, that amount will not effect the work of any no ticeable increase in home building and home owning; more money must be put into the organization that more good may come of it?and to the stockholders, for they alone re ceive the material benftts. There are still s few more days in which stock to the second series may be subscribed. First payments will b? due December first. The sub scriber may put aside any amount from one dollar up each month until at the end of 83 months he will re ceive $100 for every share subscrib ed ; in other words, you pay the asso ciation $83 for every one hundred you get back. It is a good investment from an in I terest standpoint, and for the up building of the community it is recog i nised as the leader among all organ iztions designed and promoted for that purpose. "AHOSHTF WR1TCS (Continued from page 1) West that*s been paving every foot of Lenoir county roads has completed the job and is lookin' some more work. He paves streets or county roads, or anything. Tobacco and cotton! Don't talk about 'em. They are going some and it looks like the sky's the limit. Everywhere we stopped, folks says money is plentiful. It reminds me of the wartimes when I was down 'round Norfolk. I guess I've told yon all about our trip except that we had no blows or nothin' and the county roads are fine from Williamston home. I forgot to tell you another thing. We were sailing along smooth when all of a sudden the driver slapped on the brakes and commenced to read a big sign, it said "The fellow around the curve wants to live." And further on one said "Stop! Look! and Live." See there? That's what they was af ter?to make us slow up. The joke was on us, eh? ? One more thing. I be hanged if ?t ain't further from Windsor to Ahoskie than 'tis from Windsor to Kinston. You see they's got up them "Detour" signs all along and we most hadter go to Lewiston to get back When we pulled into home I felt mighty proud to see that pretty new white bridge 'cross old 'Hoslde Swamp. L;- I I don't blame the feller what made it to put his name on it. He done us a good job on that. Mr. Editor, I must stop now and pick some er that 33c cotton. Your*n sincerely, AHOSKITE. POWERFUL FILM FROM POPULAR PLAY ?-.jp ? THURSDAY and FRIDAY Seeing "The Little Church Around the Corner," which was shown at the RICHARD THEATRE Thursday and Friday, is worth while, for it is an entertainment of rare pleasure, a picture drama of the type that comes aboat once in a blue moon. The worth-whileness is due to the fact that some of the important ac tions in this Warner Brothers pro duction take place in a mining town ?and so well is it reproduced that the illusion is perfect; you have the spirit of the strikers dramatically rendered, the mining district, streets and Vnines; it is all done so vividly that you think the cameraman had waited for a miner's strike before proceeding to take the pieture. David -Graham, a young minister just graduated from the seminary, finds his heart divided between Us people?the Workers in a mining town?and pretty Leila Morton, daughter of the millionaire mine owner, who is grinding his employees and refusing them proper living con ditions. There is an accident that threatens to snuff out the life of scores of workers?a strike?a mur der; and in fierce succession follow dramatic episodes so grippingly re lated that one forgets everything rise as irrelevant. Praise for the masterly mob scenes is due William Seiter, who directed. Never before has the spirit of the mob in its ugly moods been so finely rendered on screen. The supporting cast, a strong one, is made up of such well-known act ors as Kenneth Harlan, Hobart Bos worth, Walter -Long, Alec Francis, George Cooper, Margsret Seddon, Winter Hall, Cyril Chadwick and ; Fhuline Stark. E Subscribe to the HERALD?f 1.60. I OFFICE CAT i TBftOt MARK '? w. " COmAHTlMwaVtOMNAUANMNI. Myera and Hayes, HonorabU eoun cilmen of our town, had a laagh on their partner, Basnight, Monday night. Both of them snickered right ont loud when the paving engineer left the room after giving his esti mate of cost to pave Main street. Fact is, they grinned at him even while the visitor was telling how to do it, and hbw big a pot of gold H would require. K-A-T Councilman Basnight had made a guess at it a week before, and his figure was anywhere from 25 to 60 per cent of the estimates the engineer gave to the commissioners Monday night. That was what started the other two laughing at him. "You won't object to adjourning tonight, will you Basnight?" they interrogat ed. And, Basnight didn't either. K-A-T "You haven't backed me any where," he retorted, as adjournment was taken and the other two kept nagging htm. "I am willing to tax myself a $1,000 to help do it too. Now, what do you say to that?" Which, in my own humble opinion, lacks a whale of a lot being stay crawfishing on the pavement busi ness. K-A-T ? Since this Main street paving idea has begun to penetrate the hard boiled craniums of Some of our folks, I ain't going to take any back seat in urging a vote?a sort of free will expression by the fellows who's got to foot the bill. "Let the folks say" is my program. And, if anybody wants to know, I'm everlasting in favor of the paving of the street Of course, the fellows who have broken themselves down paying taxes in this office in 1923 may not sanction what I'm saying about it But I!m fer it K-A-T res sir, tnerell be * great big bunch of our folks going away from here next Thursday to see those "warriors" of the football field war to the finish in the annual knock dowfi, drag out affairs. It's going to take a nice fat little pocketbook to take these fellows to the "Hill"? which means Chapel Hill. Which leads tee to introduce to you the hundreds of homeless who play around the North Carolina or- ' phanages. Those of us who's left behind should at least have enough cash to help these little ones; and I know the fellows who is able to finance that "Hill" trip won't even squirm when they deposit their day's wages * into the collection plate. K-A-T "When I read your newspaper way back last spring and saw in it all about the alleged plans of the State to put that bridge over Chowan river at Winton, I thought to myself, 'Well, it sure wil^ be done right away*; and here you come now saying you don't know when the thing will be put there." Thusly did friend Bud Ben thall accosfthe editor (that's what.he told me) one day this week. It must have been a delight to tell Friend Benthall that the bridge was "about to be let" to contractors. K-A-T I'm sure a-goiag to let oat tho kink ia my tail aod make aa 80-mile sprint right down Ahoskie'. Main street when I hear talk of the con tract being given to some poor (?) contractor. Folks, I do want to see that business wound up; for it's get ting ttma to talk about something else now?perchance paving Main street, Ahoskie, or (to got out of Ahoskie) let out the clarion call for a surface top on the Aulandar-Winton high K-A-T When all that's done, to save my black soul, I don't know what I'll grouch about. But then, you know, when a feller wants to chew on some old dirty rag, he'll always find some thing to satisfy. I don't know what'll it be. And, while I coil up here un der thi? arm-chair and think things over, the Kittens will entertain yon. Of course, I don't expect you to pay much attention to them; for, they are young yet. But, listen to me, I've been coaching them for a week now on what they're to say-?so, if they do say something worth your while, you'll know to whom the glory is due. K-A-T SALLY, Old Gal, says "Subscribe to share* in the Hertford County Building and Loan Association." 01 coarse, you mightn't want to use the 'loan' end or im organisation right now, bat the time may come when yon with you'd laid *Hde a few extra dol lars, even if yon dofcH'lMt to use it tot building a home. And, too, Ahoekie people ain't doing business all these years for nothing; they've got sense enough to know a good in vestment when they see it. I Say Building and Loan stock is the a-A-T PATICA, second child of Daddy Cat, plays second fiddle to sister Sally. I am none the less enthusiastic over the B. A L. stock. I pat an O.K. on it; it's a good thing for you, it's a good thing for your neighbor who wants to build; end it's a good thing for the whole community that takes a part in it. Step up, folka, and enter your subscription before December 1st.? Free Advertisement. K-A-T. TOM, JR., being a youngster and wanting _ to see his home town r and county move to wands the goal of sub I stantial progress, comes forth to say another mighty good organization for Ahoalde people to join if the CHAM BER OF COMMERClKd Admitting that some of the cash of the year just over went into the hands of a "See" who came nearer being a "Suc-ker", I nevertheless believe it worth your while, your money, and your effort to keep the thing moving along, and let the fellows who direct it have a j chance to "come hack." Thanksgiving (By James Edward Hungerford) When the turks have ceased to gob ble, v An' are bein' stuffed to eat, And the ducks no longer wobble. On their pigeon-toed feet; When the odors from the oven Come to tempt the sons o' men, It's a sign that ol' lovin' Day?THANKSGIVIN'S here again! When the pumpkin, fat an' juicy. Is transformed into a pie, An* your Ma and Aunt Jerushy Keep the kitchen stove "on high"; When the cellar's store o' cider, Pickles, jellies, an' preserves, Makes you let your belt out wider, To accommodate the CURVES. When the air.is full o' spices, An' the scent o' things a^oke. An' the freezer's freezhP ices. An there's frostin' on the cake; When the folks?both kin an' neigh bors, Start appearin' on the scene, Looldn' hungry?like, b'jaber!? You can GUESS what it may mean! When the guests have all foregather ed, 'Round the moanin', groanin' board, An' their smilin' lips are lathered, An' their appetites have soared; When the gobbler's stuffed with dresain* To be gobbled up by men. You can thank God for the blessin' O' THANKSGIVIN' DAY again! Mustaches are getting scarce. Rouge cliags to them too long. JOSH BILLINGS SAYS: IT AIN'T NO DISGRACE TO FALL, BUT TO LAY THERE AND GRUNT IS. Some people .are never satisfied, Roberts Jernigan says even if they win a harp in the after-life they im mediately ask for a playpr attach ment. if i The objection some people have to banks is that they are too inquisitive when you try to make a loan, says John Gatling. Don't blame yonr digestion. No car can do its bast on a kill if yon feed it too muck gas. Vernon Strickland says money talks, but the German mark is too hoarse even to whisper. "There's something in this," said the Ahoskie grocer as he shook the ancient egg. i MRf? it ' A public nuisance?the bobb ed haired girl who sits beside you in a picture show and swishes her oily locks in your face every time the heroine clinces with the villian. They tell us the horse is fast dis appearing. What do you suppose the man of the future will do when his auto gets stalled? 'What would you do if you were in Ay shoes?" "Shine 'em". Coughs that wear you out making you fed weak and ill, rasping your throat and hings i until they are Ml htask ... them up dow before they cause you more serious trouble. Dr. long's New Die- am - co very breaks up coughs quick ly by stimulating "xajjftv the mucous mem tro^T has a ^7 / Of pleasaat taste. lk^/Urn PR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY II. ?? w A =======5^ Come Early and Make Your Selection From Wynn Bros. "murfreesboro's greatest store" Oar lines in every Department are most complete with up-to-the-moment merchandise LADIES READY-TO-WEAR Fall Frocks of Eaquisite Charm of Line that will catch Wonderful Fall and Winter Stocks the eye of those who know, Are being shown by us Coats and suits One of the authentic notes of autumn Fashions is the new knitted suit. We have them Our showing in Fall Coats will charm the moot fastidious?simple elegance is the keynote that stands out prominently through the entire line. See our line and save money. BIG UNE OF MENS' and BOYS SUITS AND OVERCOATS SHOES TO FIT EVERYONE?FLORSHEIM SHOES To wear Florsheim shoes is to enjoy the heat there is in shoemaldng?comfort, good looks, long service. No shoe will give you greater satisfaction WYNN BROS. THE SHOPPING CENTER MURFREESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA v i saaay ? , . ; Wholesome Cream : ? - ? , ? ? . **? u,. ?*? . . '? * . ' ? . N We do not make any other kind. Those who have tried the Delirious Ice Cream Manufactured Right Here in Ahoskie never forget the Taste and keep on buy ing from this House of Quality. If you have not got the habit of eating "The Quality Kind," give us your order, and become a regular customer. : Ahoskie Ice Cream Co. " The Quality Kind" Newsome's Block - - Ahoskie, N. C. -? ? , ' " 1 1 1 1 I ' I TkmSSUiMjf^ar 1 1 $295 I F. O. B. DETROIT I fFord utility, durability, andeconomy are embodied to the full In this new Ford Touring Car. in addition,it is up-to-the minute in appearance. It is finished in an enduring black, rich and deep in liistre. A high radiator, enlarged hood, graoeful cowl, slanting windshield and streamline body are pleasing details that en nance its style. With this handsome ex- , terior, it combines every mechanical feature essen tial to open car utility. Thit car emu be obtained through the ford Weekly Purchase Warn. I 'lI | CARS ? TRUCKS ? TRACTORS I ?
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