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THE CHOWAN HERALD
Published every Thursday by
Buff’s Printing House, 100 East
King Street, Edenton, N. C.
J. Edwin Bufflap Editor
Hector Lupton Advertising Mgr.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1934
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
What has become of the Chowan
Chamber of Commerce? is the moot
question frequently heard on the
streets recently.
It is a well known fact that the
Chamber has performed a note
worthy service to our county within
the past several years and has a
record of achievement for which it
should be justly proud.
We understand that the organiza
tion has virtually gone into a coma
because of the apathy evidenced by
the membership. Meetings were
called by the president, but only a
handful attended.
Perhaps no one in particular could
properly be censored for this lack
of interest. It is a condition and not
a theory, which the Herald ventures
the opinion was motivated by this
monstrosity that we call the de
pression.
Now that the usual fall season
upturn in business is becoming more
and more apparent with the passage
of each day, and the greatly im
proved prices which are confidently
predicted in the farmers’ commodity
market are about to be realized, we
suggest that it would be a good idea
for the officials, whose terms ex
pired long and merry ago, call a
meeting for the purpose of reorgani
zation and election of officers.
With the coming term of the state
legislature in the offing, it appears
that if w r e hope to secure the removal
of the toll on the Chowan bridge an
united effort must be exercised.
There also seems to exist a very pro
nounced possibility of securing a
bridge across the Albemarle Sound
connecting Chowan with Washington
County. The Pasquotank and Per
quimans committees have apparently
become reconciled to the fact that a
location of their choice would be im
practicable and we believe that our
friends in those counties would join
hands with us to the end that a
bridge be constructed at a point un
questionably favored by a majority
of the members of the Highway
Commission, namely, between the
aforesaid Washington and Chowan
counties.
Then, too, there appears a proba
bility of securing a bridge across the
Alligator River and also the Croatan
Sound, affording a complete loop
from Roanoke Island through Tyrrell,
Washington and thence to Chowan.
Let’s get together, revive the
Chowan Chamber of Commerce, make
the dues modest enough for almost
everybody to join and “start the ball
to rolling,” as they say in the lengu
age of the street. It is really worth
our while to do this.
The Chamber of Commerce is not
a selfish organization, but rather
should be a wide awake organization
of business men and public-spirited
citizens possessed and sold on the
idea that whatever helps the county
naturally will benefit every indivi
dual living therein.
HUNTERS SHOULD BE
EXTREMELY CAREFUL
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found an account of a telephone line
man killing three rattlesnakes while
attending to his work. This should
serve as a warning to hunters who
will very soon be entering the woods
and fields in quest of game.
Naturally while hunting, the hunt
er has his mind on the sport and
generally pays little attention to his
immediate surroundings, and the
Herald voices the warning for any
who go hunting, especially during the
early part of the season, to take ex
tra precaution, lest the pleasure de
rived from the sport turns into a
great deal of sorrow.
Then the mosquito menace in the
woods is to be taken into considera
tion. The woods are reported to be
literally swarming with mosquitoes
and with so much malaria in our
midst hunters are liable to be bitten
by malaria-infested mosquitoes and
may contract this malady due to
over-anxiousness to be among the
first to experience the thrill of bring
ing back a bag of game.
LET’S HOLD OUR FIRE
DAMAGE TO MINIMUM
Edenton has made a good record
for small fire loss during the month
of August, only one minor fire be
ing reported for the month. This,
however, is the “off-season” for fires
and_ the hope is expressed that dur
ing’ the next few weeks, when fires
will be made for the first time since
last spring, that residents will have
flues inspected and take every pre
caution possible in an endeavor to
hold down fire damage as low as
possible. Many fires during the fall
of the year are due to carelessness,
and may be prevented by jA a
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“It’s a fine paper you fellows are
getting out, but watch your Heard
and Seen, and don’t get too per
sonal,” said an interested subscriber
from Cross Roads the other day.
“What do you mean,” I interrogated.
“Well,” said he, “I’ve heard some
body say, ‘Watch out for Buff, the
first thing you know he’ll be nosing
around in folks’ kitchens for some
thing for his column”, Well, by
gosh, as hard as picking is these
days, I sure w r ould like to nose
around some kitchens, especially
around meal time. At any rate, I’ve
been more personal with Charlie
Swanner than anybody else, and who
cares about that. I can beat him
running any day in the week.
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This one, though, comes pretty
close to somebody’s kitchen. A lady
just recently had a hen which was
particularly tame, and at feeding
time would eat out of the lady’s
hand, and frequently followed her
around the back yard. Just a few
days ago the lady was in the yard
bare-footed and the tame chicken
began to pick at her toes, which
made her so mad she chopped off the
chicken’s head. But how could a
person blame the hen ? I reckon the
lady had corns on her feet. Anyway
the family had a chicken dinner the
same day.
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And getting a little further away
from the kitchen, I’ll jump to the
barn. Mrs. Rudolph Ward up at
Tyner, discovered a snake in the
barn at her home. She hurriedly
fled from the barn to inform her hus
band so that the snake could be kill
ed. And while searching for the rep
tile it was discovered that a snake’s
skin was suspended from two nails
up in the rafters of the bam. It is
supposed that the snake shed its skin
while resting on the nails. The snake
was found and killed, the skin
brought to Edenton as proof, and the
last I’ve heard Mrs. Ward hasn’t
gone back in the bam.
o
Joe Habit has returned to Eden
ton and is now running a hot dog
stand on Broad street. The rear of
Joe’s place adjoins the rear of our
printing office, and besides that there
is a big window in the rear of his
building. Now who in the dickens
can work along around dinner time
with the smell of those hot dogs
chasing through our back door?
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If the Herald ever grows to the
extent that we will need a cartoonist
I’ve already got one picked out. The
other day while talking with Jack
McMullan he took a pen, dashed
down a few strokes one way and the
other, and the first thing I knew he
had drawn a cartoon of me, pipe and
all. Yes, it’s a “beautiful” picture.
Ask to see it. It’s hanging in the
editor’s sanctum.
o
Gus Hughes and Beenie White
both told me a mighty good joke this
week. I don’t have that kind of type
so you’ll have to ask them if you
want to hear it.
o
Jake Muth made it a point to hand
me a jar filled with beans. But I’m
not asking him a bloomin’ thing
about them.
o
Harrison Spruill crawled on me
about writing him up last week. He
said if anybody inquired about me
that he’s going to direct him to the
fellow down street with a pipe in
his mouth. O. K. by me. Just
romp on anybody smoking a pipe.
But then Harrison isn’t lihe another
fellow I know who’ll soon be sport
ing a set of teeth. He says he’s go
ing to get a sharp set so that he can
do some “necking,” whatever that is.
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Charlie Conger the other day was
telling about his plans when he
builds a home. Friend Charlie said
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he’d have an electric dish washing p
machine, electric clock, electric
vacuum cleaner, electric stove stoker,
and in fact almost everything would
be run by electricity. But at that ,
point I asked him now about an elec- .
trie ice box. That set off the fire
works. Charlie, you know, sells ice,
and can tell you about a thousand
reasons why ice is best for refrigera- s
tion. How- about an ad, Charlie, with s '
some of those reasons?
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I sympathize with a certain fellow |
in town. The other Saturday night
he awoke to find himself in the local .
jail. On Sunday morning when Jail
keeper Moore arrived at the door of
the jail, the prisoner asked where he
was going. “To Sunday school,” was
the answer. To which the fellow re
plied: “Hec, let me out of here, I’m
going to Sunday school, too, and m*
miss my Sunday school lesson.’ Up- c(
on various inquires, he informed me a
that he’s up on the Sunday school .
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Os course with fall coming on w-e’ll t |
hear hunting stories. George Leary
has sent out an advance story al- g .
ready down around Captain Dick w
Leary’s drug store. George said a
certain fellow has a rabbit that is so
good that a gun isn’t needed to go n(
after rabbits. All the fellow does is
paint pictures of knot holes on trees Q1
and stones, and the dog chases the pj
rabbits, and thinking they’ve found a p (
hole, kill themselves by running in- y(
to the painted holes. Not such a jj
bad way with shells costing so much.
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J. J. Street almost planted his fist
on the end of my nose the other
night. He said he received the first e ,
copy of our paper and the following c .
night sat up until 12 o’clock waiting
for the next issue. Ed Habit rescued jj
me, and now I’m wondering if Friend j r
Street even read the paper because «
it was plainly stated that this paper , (]
is a weekly (not weakly) sheet. p,
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I’ve got to hand it to Hec Lupton
for being explicit. One day this n '
week Hec made a long distance call j r
to a man named Cozart. “What’s his
first name,” asked the operator. “I
don’t know,” said Hec, “but he’s a
long slim fellow.” He got his man, g
however, but he could have reached p (
that kind of a Cozart here in Eden- ,
ton. p ,
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Roy Emminizer takes the cake as
a salesman. I understand he’s been pj
out on the Chowan Bridge trying to
sell Captain Pat Bell a lawn mower. J
Roy offered all kinds of induce- £
ments for paying for the thing—but
he didn’t make the sale. Now I
wouldn’t be surprised to hear of him
trying to sell a bald-headed man a
comb and brush.
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I don’t remember seeing Hannibal
Badham at the game of baseball Sun
day before last, but I’m told that
the day previous Hannibal made this
statement: “I’m a preacher, but if
I can scrape together 35 cents I’m
sure going to see that game.” Any
w-ay a game of baseball wouldn’t be
quite complete without Hannibal be
ing on deck.
o
One of our wise-crackers made this
remark one night while listening to a
radio broadcast: “Say, turn that
dial. I’ve got two ears, but I can
listen to only one station at a time.”
o
I’m making it a point to hang
around Miss Nelle Caldwell’s office.
She hasn’t much time to talk these
days due to getting material for the
special home demonstration and 4-H
club edition of the Edenton Daily
News, but then she has some of the
best looking canned things standing
around on the shelves that really
work up an appetite.
o
I’ve learned why they call Captain
Billington, our job printer, “Captain.”
That was the title he attained in the
aviation service during the World
War. He saw service overseas, and
I can vouch for him having been in
the aviation service by the way he
“goes up in the air” when he gets a
paper on the rollers, or something
else goes wrong.
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Now that baseball is over and un
til Henry House gets his gridiron
boys in shape, it’s hard to find out
the main topic of conversation at the
various drug stores. However, the
boys at Linw-ood Sutton’s new drug
store have been after me to bring
some checkers along and have a
game on the checkerboard floor.
But since Johnny Stephenson left
town, Frank Muth and D. B. Liles
seem to be the champs. And besides,
were I to crawl around on the floor
in a game after coming from an old
Intertype machine and a newspaper
press it wouldn’t be long before all
blocks would be the same color—and
ind not white either!
Every time Jack McMullan sees
me he calls me “Mr. Shackell.” I
don’t know where the resemblance
comes in, but the Shackells sent in a
two years’ subscription to the Her
ald and possibly Mr. R. G. will put
up a kick or possibly explain the
reason. Anyway I always like to
think of Mr. McMullan as the grand
pappy of a daily paper in Edenton
and Mr. Shackell as the pappy. I
svas only a stepchild.
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With all the revivals just closed,
low- in progress and scheduled to be
held soon, this neck of the w-oods
aught to be a pretty good place.
Here’s hoping every meeting proves
to be a success. Even if no con
certs are secured, it’s possible that
likely, maybe, perhaps and perchance
some of the church members will be
revived.
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We’re picking up new subscribers
every day, w-hich reminds me of a
case I heard about some time ago.
A friend seeing a newspaper pub
lisher doing a bit of mountain climb
ing, asked what was the big idea.
‘Well,” said the newspaper man,
‘my physician told me that moun
tain climbing would aid circulation,
rnd our subscription list has fallen
iff a bit lately.” Here’s hoping we’ll
not have to resort to mountain climb
ing.
Mrs. W. F. Walters, the Methodist
preacher’s wife, slipped up on me
Sunday. I started to take her key
to the book cabinet home so that
she’d have to put a want ad in our
paper to find it. Wouldn’t that have
been a good chance to write about
bow it pays to advertise? But she
threw a monkey wrench in the plan
is bad as we need the business.
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Think I’ll call on her to pray or
something now that those Methodist
“politicians” railroaded me into the
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superintendency of the Sunday
school. Hot dog, I’ll get to be a city
councilman yet!
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