fAKr. A Tir tc-b?.cco
I markpfv That arP advPriiain^ nova
I for the privilege of selling your
^obacco, U-'e the V/arit Ads t v le;
the folks know what you want lo
I sell or buy.
L
Hertford County Herald
to ii.e third 'l-.;;! 'Jay
yy.i ran be tnanhfiu it you buy
from the advr-nite-r: In 1liis paper,
VOIJIME XXX, NO. I
AHOSklK, NOR'fil C4R01.INA. Ai;(,llST I7, JOtO.
; pages T tlis WGEk
J»uil(!ing Projects 'Alwskle Filling Slalion Operator
patured At Board | Has Encounter With An Octopus
lect Monday ]VltC^ OAttacked By DeviUish While Swim
Several Buildings to Be
Benovaled; $100 Given
to Athletic Fund
ming At Ocean View- Kecenllv : Says Critter '""Felt
lake Fire:“ Irag Bruisetl
^ “Bihy ' O’Briant, Ahoskie
Stseitis His Time i service station operator, probably
^ ’’is the only man in Ahoskie who
has ever encountered an octopus
in its native element and he
doesn't want to do so again.
County Office To
Take Orders For
I Cover Crop Seeds
iFieops Firs! toad
:On AhesMe Market
Building projects were featured j Singing In Jail
in the regular meeting of the , '
Ahoskie town coyncil Monday j Otis Casper, white man of
night, several persons applying j near Powell'ville, evidently found
■oixiing t'j hi.s own statement.
Last Tuesday, August 8, Mr,
O’Briant, Mrs. O’Briant and Mr.
and hlrs. O. V'!. Long of Roxboro.
for permits to remodel or move ; the lockup in the Ahoskie town
buildings in Ahoskie. ■ jhall a pleasant place in which
Commissioner W. H. Basnight 1 sober up Monday afternoon and ! at
v..as granted permission to move j night. Following his arrest early | I dito ™ ^
Monday atternoon by Policeman , ,hough," Mr.
Jim Mitchell near the Ircary sta- > O’Briant says
Mes for public drunhcmiess, Cas-: after'his arrival at the
per lay flat on lus back in the local
a house down Lloyd Street and to
.Lenair the Pure Food Store on
'/lain street which was damaged
considerably in a recent fire.
D. L. Myers appeared before the
council and asked the town to
open a sower near his residence on
whooped, shouted
! beach, Mr. O’Briant decided to i
He was swimmnig
Early bird this year on the
Ahoskie tobacco market is Clyde
E. Vt'illoughby, farmer of the Hic-
Price of Seeds lo Be De- jkory Chapcl community.
I 1 I T7' o •! T' i Announcement was phoned into
dueted From Soil Gon-j^he Herald office W'ednesday
servalion Pavment This imoming that 'Willoughby was un
loading about 2500 pounds of to
bacco on the floor of the Basnight
Warehouse. He has the honor oi
being the first person lo unload his
tcbacco on the Ahoskie mai-kc-t in
1039,
Year
The county farm office is now
ready lo take orders for seed as a
grant of aid to the farmers in the
county, County Agent J. 'W. Bal-
lentine announced this week.
The Hertford County Soil Con
servation will have 35000 pounds
of hairy vetch seed and 20,000 of
Austrian winter peas for sale to
the farmers, Mr. Ballentine said.
These seed may be secured from
the association and a deduction to
cover the cost will be taken from
clink and sang,
and whistled, though he protested, water, when suddenly he felt! the'^OLirchaseris^ solPconservatron
[vociferously on being placed in the 'y. ..j, puicnasers son conservation
East Church Street. Mr. Myers I cell in the first place, .something grab his right le,
‘■•'•d that it was impo.ssible to get '
/after a large rain without rub-
/ boots because of water pond-
/ in the street. L. T. Liverman
Three Cases Tried
Reeorder’s Court
Tuesday Morning
* /vas instructed to open the sewer
' as soon as possible.
J. D. AiLsley was given permis
sion to rebuild a shop at a cost of
around §800. This decision was"
rescinded for further consideration
v'hen the councilmen were asked
to give more thought to the mat
ter of allowing a manufacturing
establishment to be btiilt in''a re
sidential section. The shop was to
have been built in the residential
section at the east end of town.
Tom Costis was given permis-
k sion to repair the front of the
^lanhatlan Cafe on Main Street.
F. ,M. Tucker, principal of the
Ahoskie Scnool, appeared before
the beard 'and asked a donation
for the high school athletic fund. ;
The board agreed to donate $100
and to give their support on a .
$28,000 gymnasium and swimming i
pool project at the high school. [
Advertising for unpaid taxes |
was postponed until the second ;
week in September. ' j
, felt like fire,” he said. In no time
Town officials were amused the thing had completely encircled
.Monday night before the council • his right leg and seized his left le.g
mcetuiff to hear Casper mono- i as well. Mr. O’Briant did some
tonously singing over and over a ' cramblir.g—enough so that he
fragment of some song about a girl j dragged the thing several yards
with brown eyes. He could still be ■ to shallower water, where hjs tor-
heard whistling the same tune I mentor suddenly let go of his leg.
while the town commissioners ! He never was able to see what it
were in session. ; was that had him, but beach at-
Casper probably changed his ! tendants said it evidently was a
tune Tuesday morning when he! small devil fish, or octopus, and
was fined $8.75 by Mayor W. IV. that several of the critters have
Kogeixs for public drunkenness, 'been reported at the beach'this
year. All have been small, how
ever, because of the shallowness
i of the water frequented by bath
ers.
Mr. O’Briant’s leg pained him so
much from the encounter that Dr.
, Paul Mitchell had to treat it for
bruises soon after his return from
Ocean View. The leg was still sore
this week, Mr. O’Briant said.
Red Oxide Used
.Successfully On
Vifeacco Blue Mold
Yotir Bertie County
Farmers Report Good
‘ Results From Sjiray
By B. E. GRANT,
Bertie County Agent.
Last spring Hartwell Mitchell of
"Windsor township, F. H. Phelps
and Howard Phelps of Merry Hill,
and J. B, Cullipher of Whites
township sprayed a part of their
tobacco plant beds with red copper
oxide. They each report satisfac
tory results from the spray al
though spraying was not started
before blue mold made its appear
ance.
Hartwell Mitchell ' says he
sprayed 200 yards and set six acres
'-jorn splayed bed. He reports
F set from a 100-yard
Phelps says he sprayed
yards and had 80 yards that he
^did not spray. From the sprayed
. he says he set three-fourths
fen acre on May 1, and one fourth
acre from the unsprayed bed. He
reports a total of two'and one-
fourth acres set from the sprayed
bed and only three fourths an
acre from the unspraj’ed bed. Mr.
Phelps says he had plenty of
plants for his crop and sold
enough plants,to pay for the cost
of spraying, but most of his neigh
bors had a shortage of plants.
Howard Phelps says he sprayed
yards and left 50 yards not
'rayed. He was well pleased with
r results from spraying and had
PFlenty of plants to set his crop.
J. B. Cullipher reports spraying
700 yards with iOO yards not
sprayed. He says he was well re^
L\^paid for spraying. He had plenty
*1 of plants to set his ci-op.
.4t the same time, William Rid
dick, colored, was fined $5 and
costs for driving without a license.
Several Entrants
Signed For Soap
Box Derby Friday
Parade to F e a t u i’ e
Ahoskie-s First Soap | StatC-Aid
box l)er()Vi rnzes UJ-i
fei R'i Home Ec Teacher
check. All farmers in the county
are urged to plant winter cover
crops to protect their soil.? from
washing and to increase fertility,
Mr, Ballentine stated. Legume
crops .such as vetch, winter pea.s,
crimson clover lake nitrogen fi’om
the air and store it in the soil,
where it may be utilized by other
plants.
The association can only sell
seed to farmers that are complying
either in whole or part with the
sdil conservation program.
Several Ga.ses (Ym-
tinned; Abandonment
and (iont eabh! Weap
ons Feat tired
Ahoskie Tobacco Market
Ready For Annual Selling
Of Roanoke-Chotvan Crop
These Men Wili Run The Show
STII.I. UR. J.’OX
OFDE.ST
Colerain School
Only three cases were disposed
of in Recorders Court at W'nton
this week under Judge Boone,
while several others were contin
ued to subsequert terms.
Harden Evans, young Ahoskie
white man, was found guilty of
abandonment and non-support.
Prayer for judgment was' contin
ued three years on condition that
the defendant pay the cost of the
action, pay his wife Amanda
Evans $10 per week and give
bond for same in the amount of
S150.
Claude 'Watson of .'Ihoskie, was
Bloodhounds Trail SS and costs for allowing a
Where Car Parked; Of- i
Thieves Raid
Three Meat Houses
Past Week-End
minor to drive his car.
Ulysees Reynolds, Ahoskie ne-
Possess Several ^ found guilty of carrying
a concealed weapon and fined $1U
and cost.
Several boys have already regis
tered and more are expected to
register for the Soap Box Derby
which Ls to be held Friday, August
IS. Major Rogers announced this
week,
Names of those who have al
ready registered are. Sam Vinson,
Donald Early, Linwpod Harris,
Harris. John Papas. A, O. Kiff,
Every boy entering the event is to
receive some sort of prize, Mayor
Rogers said.
The hffair is to be informal, and
there will be no rules except that
each boy must use regular soap
box wheels which were 'ordered
from Raleigh last week by Mr.
Rogers. Along with the wheels,
the manager of the Raleigh firm
that sold the wheels sent a check
for $10 which is to be used as prize
money for the winners of the
derby. The Virginia Electric and
Power Co., is also offering $10 in
prizes.
Entrants in the race are to be es
corted to the track—the overpass
cn the new highway at the South
ern edge of town—-by the high
school band. The parade is to
start from the new bandstand in
Ahoskie,
Mr. Rogers this week expressed
the hope that sufficient interest
may be aroused in the boys of
Ahoskie to send an entrant to the
state derby next year in Raleigh
and to the national contest.
Farsii Cliecksips
‘Finished Soen
N. C. Bureau Takes
Forward Step At
Anmiai Meetins
i e 1 d work by supervisors
checking on farm compliance is
expected to be completed this
week, according to an aniiounce-
kment made Tuesday by County
^'Vgeiit J. W. Ballentine. This prob
ably represents an earlier date
bn any previous year since the
feinning of farm compliance
Ballentine said that prac-
^he cotton growers in
complying with
J aiJotments, though
pverplanted their to-
Fonts. Farmers are to
■nent on their cotton
^cn if they overplant-
, provided they did
Kheir:allotment in cot-
The. Farm Bureau took a step
forward at its annual meeting by
authorizing the Secretary to set up
organization districts and employ
field men to work in a specified
number of counties. In order to
do this, it was necessary to in
crease the membership dues which
was raised from $2.00 to $3.00,
$1,00 of which remains in the
county, $2.00 being forwarded to
the state office, 50c of which goes
to the national organization; 50c
for the publication of a state paper
and $1.00 for the operation of the
state office.
A goal of 20,000 members was
also set for the coming year. R .M.
Evans, AAA Administrator, hav
ing reminded -the Farm Bureau
that if their work was to be ef
fective in securing and conducting
farm programs it was absolutely
essential that they have a strong,
aggressive membership through
out the state. It is expected that
these districts will be outlined at
the September 1st meeting of the
Executive Committee and the men
will be secured to do the organiza
tion work early in September.
Miss Eioise Burch Giv
en Post; School Term
to Begin Sept. 11
The Colerain high school has
been awarded state and federi ’ ■
funds for the employment of a
ten-months vocational home eco
nomics teacher, it was announced
this week by J. J. Beale, princi
pal.
Miss Eioise Burch who has been
employed in the Colerain school
as home economics teacher for
four years has been named as the
George-Dean teacher. Beginning
this fail she will, in addition to
her work in the high school, con
duct an annual class in home
making for adults of the school
district.
The school’s fall term will begin
September 11. The grammar
school faculty will be the same as
last year but there will be two
additions to the high school facul
ty, Beale announced.
Miss Rubyleigh Davis of Free-
mont, a graduate of 'W. C. U. N.
C., will teach English. Miss Alice
Wright, Wake Forest, also a grad
uate of W. C. U, N. C., will teach
typing in addition to subjects Miss
Burch formerly taught.
The complete faculty for 1939-
40 is:
Principal, J. J. Beale; math and
science, J6hn W’estbrook, Frank
lin, Va.; Rubyleigh Davis, English
and French; Alice Wright, busi
ness, civics and economics; Eioise
Burch, home economics; F. C. Mc-
Crery, agriculture; seventh grade,
Ida Townsend, Fair Bluffs; sixth
grade, Nita Brumley, Knotts Is
land; firth grade, Mary Gentry,
Asheboro; fourth, Eleanor Early,
Windsor; third, Rosalie Bullock,
Bethel; second, Adelene McGregor,
Spring Hope; first, Martha Yelver-
, Freemont; music, Mrs. C. T.
Roebuck, Colerain.
The new gymnasium is nearing
completion and indications are that
it will be ready by the time school
opens.
firers
Tips
Jackson, August 15.—
Sheriff J. Clyde Stephenson and
Northampton County Deputies are
searching for tnieves who raided
three smoke houses in the county,
Friday and Saturday nights.
The smoke house on the farm of
A. M. Mullen, of the Minton Store
community, was raided Friday
night, and the farmer’s entire .sup
ply ot meat was stolen. The loot
\ncluded 6 hams, 3 shoulders and
3 middlings, each piece weighing
approximatelj’ 30 pounds.
During the same night, the meat
house on the farm of Norman
Sumner, of Conway, was entered
and a quantity of meat was stolen.
Saturday night, Charlie Bi'itton,
of Conway, lost 10 hams and 1
piece of middling from his smoke
house.
- Upon learning of the raids.
Sheriff Stephenson, Deputy W. H.
Barnes and Frank Outland, Chief
of Police of Rich Square, trailed
the thieves with bloodhounds to
a spot on the Minton’s Store-
W'oodland road where the culprits
parked the automobile in which
they hauled away their cache.
Local officers have several tips
as to the identity of the thieves
and their apprehension and arrest
is expected soon,-
FOX CI.-ENDENON
He came lo Ahoskie as a slim
jeung fellow who kept the books
at the Basnight Warehouse and
answered every’oody’s questions.
They called him by his first name,
Fox. Even now,
ried an Ahoskie girl, settled down
here, is the father of two children,
and is not as slim as he used to be,
to tobacco farmers and townspeo
ple he is still “Fo.x" or “Mr. Fox.’’
With Curtis Walker and John
Bernard, he is back at the Ba.s-
night again this year.
C. U. RHAUP
lit was twenty-five years ago
that Charlie Phaup came to Ahos
kie and whose energetic poliices
and vigorous advertising made the
name of Phaup a household word
,,, , , . with tobacco growers in the Roa-
noke-Chowan section, and it was
largely through ■his effort.^ then
that the Ahoskie tobacco market
became firmly establLshed. After
several years on other markets, he
returns this year lo be associated
in the manage.ment of the Brick
Warehouse.
LEARNED IT LLERE
A LIVE WIRE
THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY CHANGED
Americans will celebrate their
Thanksgiving holidays earlier this
year, according to an announce
ment this week by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The President announced Mon
day that he will advance the date
of the holiday this year from the
last Thursday in November (No
vember 30) to November 23. The
change, he said, was to meet re
quests that holidays be spaced
more evenly during the last six
months of the year.
Thanksgiving is the only holi
day not set by federal law. The
President said there was noth
ing sacred about the customary
date, and that it was not until af
ter the Civil War that the last
Thursday in November became
generally accepted.
Christian Harbor
Man Visits World
I Alliance, Atlanta
J. H. Evans Describes
Highlights of Recent
Trip: Visits Former
Resident
By J. H. EVANS
Christian Harbor, Aug. 7.—We
reached Atlanta, Ga., at 2 p. m.,
Friday, and stopped at the regis
tration hall to register. There must ^
have been 3000 people in there.
We were given paraphernalia,
consisting of a song book, a bag,
programs and ticket to all the
sight-seeing places in 20 miles of
the city of Atlanta, with a map of
the city of over 200,000, of which
one out of three was a missionary
Baptist.
From the welcome addres.s of
the governor, the mayor and sen
ator, we learned that they were all
Baptists.
We looked the map over and
found the route to W. R. Taylor’s
Colegen Park, (Mr. Taylor
being raised in thi^ communty).
found him and his wife ready
and waiting with outstretched
hands, and a heart full of love. The
hospitality given
Second Hit-Run
Victim Found In
Highway Sunday
Ernest MeJton, C-olor
ed. Found iNear Cali
fornia Road: No (Yticsj
Found
Second victim of hit-and-
drivers in two'weeks in Hertford
County was Ernest Melton, young
colored man of the California sec
tion, who was found dead in the
highway between Winton and
Ahoskie last Sunday night about
one o’clock.
The -body was discovered by J.
D. Blythe of Ahoskie and other]
motorists who were passing at the
same time. It is said by spectators
that one motorist, failing
the body because of the parked!
cars, ran over the man as he lay-
on the pavement-
The tragedy was investigated by
Patrolman P. H. ■V^iodley, Ser
geant A. W. Welch, Sheriff Charles
Parker and Coroner J, N. "Vann, all
of Ahoskie, and ascribed to a hit-
and-run driver. -Np clues as yet
have been di; covered, though
Sei-geant Welch-said the driver of
the death car may be apprehend
ed, saying tha more than 50 per
cent of hit-end-run drivers are;
caught.
Investigating officers said that
Melton was, drunk at the time of
his death and had been drunk all
day. Ho had been arrekted several
times bn charges of drunkemess.
The driver who struck md kill-
David Peele, colored, near Mur
freesboro two weeks ago ;i-is not
been apprehended.
emcc
"Viarehouse, At the Basnight they
have with them John Bernard as
sales manager. This team has been
operating the Basnight for the
past ten years.
W. D. “WOODEN" ODOM
A native of Hertford County and
B resident of Ahoskie since man
hood, Odom learned first about to
bacco in the fields arouijd Har-
rellsville, acquired experience as a
speculator on the Ahoskie tobacco
market in its early days, went on
ilo become a licensed buyer, and ]
finally graduated into warehouse- i
man in association with the late 1
Sid Watson. He has operated the I
Iron Warehouse here for the past '
ten years or more. In addition, he j
is the owner and operator of a j
warehouse at Hahira, Ga. I
Woodland Youth Wins Contests And
1 Receives Awards Entitling Him to Trip
Robert Boyce. 17. Graduate of Woodlaud-Olney
High Scliool. Will liOavc October 12 for .Annual
(Y.iiivention of Future Farmers of America At Mis
souri Metropolis; To Receive Degree
year-old
days we were there cannot be ex
celled in North Carolina.
Mr. Taylor took charge of us and
carried us for six days on his car
to every session of the meeting and
to ^places of interest, except the
place that housed Al Capone.
■W'e were present at the roll call,
where 60 nations responded, all
but 2 in the English language.
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
CO TO RALEIGH j
School Superintendent Robert i
Brown, Principal F. M. Tucker of 1
the Ahoskie school .and Rob Roy I
Copeland made a trip to Raleigh I
last Wednesday in the interest of
the Hertford County schools.
They visited the state school
commission office to see about the
possibility of securing an extra
teacher for the county if attend
ance after the first ten days of
school justifies. No definite prom
ise was made by the officials.
WPA officials promised to help
local WPA authorities in getting
school WPA projects -through
us during six j soon as possible, Mr. Brown said.
Robert Eovee.
Woodland boy, was awarded re
cently three trips to the Future
Farmers of America convention at
Kansas City, Mo., and several oth-
honors for outstanding" work as
Ahoskie Firemen So
T® Powellstrllle
iTo Begin Sale
jOf Largest Weed
I Crop Ever Tuesday
1 Alio.skie .Market Pul In
j Readiness for What fs I
i Exjieeted lo Be BiggeM
' ■ Year
iTFlREE WARFROGSl’-S
j When the sale.s begin Tuo-sdny
I morning, tobacco farmers of the
j Roanoke-Chowan section will be- '
, gin tbo marketin.g of the lar.gcst
[crop of tobacco ever ijrudueof) .in
jihe history of tobacco .growing in
] this area.
At the same tirnc, as a tobacco
market, Ahoskie will oe the best
equipped and manned in its hi.s-
tory, so that the greatc.st season in
the history of the Aiioskie market
is- being anticipated i>y -ware
housemen, buyers, and local bu.si-
ness concern.^, all of whom have
been busily engaged this week
putting! on the finishing touches to
their preparations for the opening
Tuesday morning.
Everything has been put in
readiness in .'I’noskie’s three big
warehouses to receive the flood of
the golden weed that is expected
to flow into Ahoskie from the sur
rounding territory. Warehousemen
and their assistants have been
busy in the field among the grow
ers, advising and assisting them
with their problems of curing and
grading, and al the .same time urg
ing upon them tiie advantages of
marketing at Ahoskie. At the same
time, producers are themselves
realizing a.s never before the ad-
vantage.s of marketing their croji
ncai' at home.
This .si'ason, when the lal'gest
tobacco oil i-ecord hasbeej^
ked to, capaci
with t'his t3?mg particularly so ’in
the large market centers. On tho.se
kirs'.c markets,. gUu.s and blocl:s
maj be expected which cause aay.s
of-delay and expense ’oe'ore'.the
farmer can sell his product and gel
his check. At .Vhoskie, market
promoters .are stressing the fact
that the throe large houses hero
are prepared to render the Roa-
noke-Chowari farmer servii .i, gi\'o
him a sale lor his tobacco at prices
as high as the market afibrd.s, and
permit him to return l.o his home
the same night.
Tne warehouses at Ahoskie are
under the management of veter-
m warehousemen who are knn.vv
;o tobacco farmer.s and to their fel
low workers in the tobacco busi
ness to be among the best in their
line. At the Basnight Warehouse,
there are John Bernard, Curtis
j Walker, and Fox Clendenon, with
j a complete persoAel of assistants,
I including Mark Squires, their
[’well-known auctioneer: at the
j Iron House, the veteran Wooden
I Odom will again conduct the sales
! and direct his efficient and cour-
j teoiis crew of assistants: and at the
Brick Warehouse, “Charlie"
[ Phaup,^ sometime.s called tlie dc.Vldy
; of the Ahoskie tobacco market, is'
j te-uned up with E. R. “Ned’’ Evans.
. .md the two of them are expecting
: to do their part in making this
I Ahoskie’s greatest tobacco market
year.
Not only have the warehouse
men been busy this and iiast week.s
out in the field, but a strong in
terest in the market this season
has been manifest throughout the
The state department recommend
ed several teachers for the posi
tion of. home economics teacher at
the Harrellsville high school, and
one is to be sent for an interview.
.. . , . „ . „ , , I j community. Streets around the
J' U f warehouse properties have been
Woodland-Olney nigh school and | day morning- after receiving an , , , - ,
as a member of the Future Farm- . urgent call from "W. L. Early of 1 ^
ers of America organization, I PowellsviHe stating that one of his L ^' , , iddilions made
Boyce was slate winner of the tobacco barns was burning and i ^ , f j , convenience of
supervised farm practice contest others wore vhreatened. ' mL in" naWonrof ihe mS
sponsored by t!ie Chilean Nitrate | pj Chief Thco Mitchell and i also have been made by the
Company. The contest consisted 1 . ... . . .. ^"Jdns aiso nave oeen niduc mc
■ondition,
hness houses have been im-
(Continued on Page 4)
IN HOSPITAL
Como.—Miss Rebie Picot was
'operated on for appendicitis at the
Raiford Hospital, Franklin, Thurs
day, -
of a farm practice program,
scholarship in school and leader
ship in the Future Farmers of
America organization, both local
and state. The award was a free
trip to the annual convention of
the Future Farmers of America.
While attending the short course
at State College, Raleigh, the de
gree of American Farmer, high
est degree that a high school vo-
vational agriculture student can
receive, was conferred upon him.
This also entitled him to the Kan
sas City trip. Boyce will receive
the degree at the convention.
In addition, Boyce was elect
ed state delegate to the convention
which is to be held the week of
October 14-17.
Boyce is past treasurer of the
four assistants arrived on ilie
scene with truck and equipment
few minutes later. They were
unable to save the burning barn,
but they saved the two barns
nearby, thus preventing a consid
erable less to Mr. Early.
(Continued on Page 4)
SON OF FORMER
PASTOR DIES
Oakley, 'Va., Aug. 16.—Funeral
services were conducted Friday at
the Reed Memorial Baptist church,
Oakley, for Reginald Oliver (Ted)
Burrell, son of Rev. and Mrs. W^.
R. Burrell of Oakley. Rev. Bur
rell was a former pastor of Mur
freesboro Baptist church and Ted
Burrell had many friends in Mur
freesboro. The burial was in Ar
lington National Cemetery, Wash
ington, Saturday morning.
town commissioners for orderly
handling of traffic- ai the ware
houses and on busy business
streets.
A strong corps of buj-ers rep
senting all domestic, foreign '.and
independent buying concerns has
'oeen assigned to Ahoskie,
strong competition on all gradej
under the spur of competition Irl
by the veteran and aggressi'"
warehousemen, is assured.
While production and acreage
in tobacco in this area was in
creased from twenty to twenty-
five percent this year over last,
observers state that the quality
will be only from fair to poor.
Color generally is good, they say,
•but weight and body are light due.
to the excessive rains wliicl);