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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
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934.
LETS COOPERATE WITH
OUR TOWN COUNCIL
Some criticism of the street depart
ment in not keeping the grass and
weeds on the parkings and ditch
banks mowed more regularly recently.
In this connection, The Herald de
sires to make some observations.
While it is true that in some instances
the grass has grown quite high and
has a tendency to mar the beauty of
our town, for which it has received
Commendation on the part of visitors.
We understand that the street de
partment has been handicapped re
cently by virtue of illness of one of
their dependable men. Ernest Hollo
well, a truck driver has been on his
vacation, but is now back on the job,
thus making it possible for the power
mower to resume the mowing which
is now going on at a rapid pace.
Then, too, one must take into con
sideration that the whole of North
Edenton was taken care of very nicely
last year by the so-called charity
gang. This year the town has not
enjoyed this advantage and it has be
come necessary to again assume the
responsibility for this work. Seven
extra men were employed for two, or
three weeks in order to bush down
the ditch banks.
Moreover, this summer has been
one of the wettest experienced for
many years, the weeds and grass lit
erally growing by leaps and bounds.
Last year, if we remember correctly, j
the grass had died down by this time j
and no further mowing was necess- I
ary. Today the grass is thriving with '
k mid-summer rapidity.
In many cases our people have ;
mowed their lawns and kept them in !
lovely condition, but they have not j
thought to mow the parkings in front |
of their homes. They probably think
—and possibly are justified—that it is
the obligation of the town to keep
these parkings, inasmuch as the town
assumed this responsibility several
years ago. However, we do not hap
pen to know any other town in the
state which does this work. In some
towns it is mandatory that the prop
erty owner mow the parking in front
of his home, or vacant lots.
The Herald does not wish to be con
strued as recommending the enact
ment of such a law in Edenton, since
our people have learned to depend
upon the town to do this work. It is
our opinion, however, that if each
property owner would voluntarily ,
■ keep their parkings, it would require !
W <mly a few additional minutes while
I mowing our lawns to cut the grass j
r on these parkings.
You would be surprised just how .
much a little work by each resident
would save the tax-payers. We un
derstand that this constitutes one of
the largest expenditures by the street
department.
Let’s resolve that next year, and
succeeding years, we will cooperate
with the town to this extent. It i
will be practically no extra cost to !
each one of us, while in the aggre- j
gate it will prove a big assistance to j
an already over-worked street de- j
partment. Further, it will substanti- |
ate the pride which we all have in j
our beautiful town.
The Town Council has struggled
hard and faithfully to keep- the oper
ating expenses to a minimum in or
der to avoid the necessity of raising
the tax rate. This, we should ap
preciate. They receive no measur
able compensation for their services,
performing their many—
and sometimes unthankful tasks pure
ly as a matter of civic pride and
community interest. Let’s show them
that we are behind them.
MUCH TO BE
THANKFUL FOR
The brightest spot in the business
picture these days is the revival of
consumer buying on a broad front.
Dunn and Bradstreet says: “The un
expected increase in retail sales,
which started in mid-August, has
fc*-heen~'jjaimng momentum without in-
terruption, carrying the total for the
week ending September 15th 10 to
15 per cent above that of a year ago
for the country as a whole.”
This upturn in business is also
felt to some extent in Edenton. A
good line of seasonable stocks has
been secured by local merchants, and
although there has been no check-up
made, doubtless merchants are more
optimistic and in a better frame of
mind than they have been in a long
time. With the good prices for to
bacco being felt in Chowan and ex
pectations for better prices for pea
-1 nuts and cotton, business should be
J right much better this fall than it
his been.
So, although everyone may not be
satisfied, taken on the whole we
have a great deal to be thankful for.
FIRE PREVENTION
WEEK COMES AGAIN
In less than a week—between Oc
tober 7th and 13th—Fire Prevention
Week will be observed again. The
week, which has become a national
I custom, will be formally initiated by
'proclamations by the President, gov
ernors of states, mayors of cities and
other prominent persons in public and
private life.
During the week every citizen will
have a splendid opportunity to learn
the fundamentals of fire prevention
and control. Through speeches, news
paper and magazine articles, exhibits
and other means, an intensive effort
will be made to enlist the citizen’s in
terest. He can blame no one but him
self if he fails to learn.
Fire prevention is a civic duty
. which every citizen owes to himself
and to every other person. We all
pay for fire—we pay for it in loss of
business, destroyed jobs, higher taxes
and insurance rates. On the average,
each family contributes $4.00 a year
as a tribute to Moloch—dollars which
are destroyed as surely as if we toss
ed them into a stove. Worse still,
Heard and seen I
By “BUFF”
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Oh, for a host of friends like Mr.
R. G. Shackell, who was my former
newspaper “boss.” Mr. Shackell now
lives in East Orange, N. J., and has
just sent the following letter:
“Dear Buff: Ever since I re
ceived your first issue I have wanted
to write you, but somehow, up here,
the ‘strenuous life’ drives everything
out of mind. You won’t believe it,
but this is the first evening I have
been able to spend at home in a
month.
“I am delighted with your paper.
It calls to mind our first association,
but it is more readable than my early
Edenton productions
“You certainly have the knack of
quaint phraseology which is most at
tractive, and am sure your readers
will appreciate.
“What a pity we wasted so much
energy over a small daily taking the
risk of loss through greater expendi
ture, when a weekly so much better
covers the local field.
“It is my desire to help you get
second class mail privileges quickly.
I so enclose you check for two subscrip
| tions for the two papers to go to out
! of-town students, or otherwise as
1 you desire, since my son sent you a
j subscription, and the paper now
| comes here regularly, so it would be
a pity to duplicate.
“Hope you will keep up the good
work and the business interests will
support you in your efforts.
“Give my regards to all old
friends.”
We have complied with Mr.
Shackell’s request, so if two people
receive our paper with the subscrip
tion paid for one year—don’t thank
us, but send your thanks to Mr. R. G.
And byway of explanation to Mr.
Shackell, I want to say that we have
a large number of subscribers—we
are proud of our subscription list in
so short a time, and just as soon as
we find the “nigger in the woodpile”
j our mast-head will carry the date of
j our acceptance into second class
1 mail. And until then, if any sub
| scriber doesn’t get our paper, just
| let us know, so we can raise the
i devil with our old Uncle Sam.
o
George Peele dropped in the office
last Saturday, telling me that he
hadn’t put up his “grape store” but
was selling chickens like hot cakes.
I thought he was coming in to take
a poke at my nose but instead he
j “worked” on my pocketbook.
o
j If I don’t tell this one on myself
| a gang of local Masons most likely
j will call me “yellow.” At the last ■
j Masonic meeting a fellow aisplayed a
watch, the back of which contained
! all the emblems of the order. As I
gazed at the wonderful piece of work
I piped out “how in the dickens do
you tell the time on it?” “Just look
on the other side,” yelled about half
a dozen at the same time—and I
reckon some of them are still laugh
ing. But, how can they blame me
when I haven’t owned a watch since
dear only knows when.
o
Charlie Hollowell is having a hard
time in the hardware business. I un
derstand a customer asked for acer- .
tain item and Charlie brought out a
cow bell. Next time I want any- '•
thing in Byrum’s store I’m going to ■
draw a picture of it. Anyway, a
hardware store is sort of like a drug
store—there’s no telling what can be '
bought in one. 1
o i
While hanging around Quinn’s Fur- >
niture Store this week I learned of '
a tax I hadn’t heard about before.
It’s a tax on coffins. Well, there’s
one consolation the person the 1
coffin is bought for doesn’t know a 1
darn thing about it. !
o ‘
A. B. Griffin was in town this week
with his hand in a sling. I asked
him if he was bitten by some of those *
mosquitoes he was talking about, t
He informed me, however, that he <
was bitten by a hook-worm. And <
while speaking to him I learned a
thing or two about boll weevils. I
think he’ll tell others this same in- j
formation upon request. 1
o 1
The stronger beer has been taken i
out of Edenton, so possibly the home
brewers will again get busy. It’s <
a wonder North Carolina can stay i
dry. Virginia to the north is wet,
South Carolina to the south is wet,
Tennessee on the west is wet, and :
the Atlantic Ocean on the east ought* •
to be very wet —how can we stay\ i
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THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1984
three people—two adults and a child
—out of each 89,000 of our popula
tion, are sacrificed to the pagan god—
because we are ignorant and careless
when it comes to fire.
In the past, it has often been the
experience that fire losses dropped
during the week and for a short per
iod thereafter, only to rise again as
the public gradually forgot the in
formation gleaned. This year we
should look forward to the week and
devote a little time during it to really
learning the fundamentals of fire pre
vention, then remember and practice
them in the future.
Fortunately there have been very
few disastrous fires in Edenton and
Chowan County, but we’re 3till con
vinced that the old adage “an
ounce of preventoin is worth a pound
of cure” still holds good, especially
with reference to fires.
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Just like I said: The babies will
be coming along. In this issue sev
eral announcements of new arrivals
appear—and the crop hasn’t exhaust
ed as yet. Well, we need a larger
population anyhow!
o
But John Burton Harrison must
change his philosophy. He has been
selling apples at Burton’s Filling Sta
tion, claiming that an apple a day
will keep the doctor away. He has
changed the tune now to “sell a track
load a day to keep the wolf away.”
Anyway, last Saturday he had a nifty
advertisement to draw customers to
his truck. He placed an apple on
a quantity of dry ice, and the smoke
caused a number of inquisitive folks
to have a look—and incidentally buy
some apples.
o
We’ll soon have another “member”
to our false teeth “club.” One of the
post office employees who drives the
parcel post truck had his teeth
yanked out, and told a party he was
steering clear of me. But it’s no
use to do that—l won’t let him have
mine.
c
Charlie Swanner and yours truly
tackled Paul Bunch and Joe Boyce at
set-back last Saturday. The latter
pair played very good---if you get
what I mean.
o
In case I run out of material for
this column, I was reminded today
that I can get “1935” jokes around
at the drug stores. Oh, yeh! But I
want to print them!
o
Here’s hoping suit isn’t brought
against us for this one. A local lady
after being out of town returned last
Friday morning. She’s in the habit
of getting a coca-cola early every
morning, but said she just had to
read the Herald before going down
town and almost perished before
reaching the drug store.
o
The big circus better hurry and fin
ish their schedule or they’ll have to
go back to the jungles for more wild
animals. Recently a lion escaped and
was shot, and now 36 monkeys broke
out and are now wandering about in
the woods near Marsden. It’s said
that the animals are fed by railroad
men, but that the monkeys are too
shrewd to be caught. Maybe we’ll
have big game hunting if the circus
hangs around in this neck of the
woods much longer.
—-—o
Said a- young man this week to a
young' lady: “Gosh, how is it that a
girl as smart as you are not mar
ried by this time?” And right on
top of that the young lady retorted:
“Huh, it’s the smart ones that don’t
get married.” Well, I reckon “So
mote it be!”
o
The student body at the Edenton
High School held an election this
week to elect officers for the student
council. The election was conducted
along regular lines. And, bless my
soul, it looks like they have the mak
ing of real politicians. They act
just like Edenton politicians—mighty
tight on passing out cigars to pro
spective voters. But then maybe
that’s gone out of style.
o
The Legion Post at the meeting
Tuesday night discussed the idea of
wearing Legion hats on meeting
nights. One of the members said he
needed a shirt, too, so I don’t know
what they’ll wear.
o
What’s the idea of some men still
wearing straw hats—the season’s
long passed out. I haven’t worn any
since September 15th fact is I
“hain’t had nary one this summer.”
o
But the past few cool days have
sent all but Joe Elliott out of the
seersucker breeches. Joe says, how
ever, that there’s something else un
derneath.
o
Jim Daniels and Arthur Hollowell
got a chance last week to ask me
how I’m FILLIN’ at a table, and true
to form I showed them. But demed
if they didn’t fill up more than I did.
Walter Wilkins was no exception,
either. But who could help but fill
up on barbecue.and country ham?
o
For those who tum in sort of late
at night, therd’s a dog concert up on
Main street almost every night about
midnight—so I’ll knock off and at
k4end the “musical.”
A . \
( THIS WEEK’S
| RECIPE
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APPLE SAUCE CAKE
2 cups applesauce.
2 cups sugar.
1-2 cup butter.
1-2 teaspoon cloves.
1 teaspoon cinnamon.
1 lb. seeded raisins.
2 teaspoons soda.
3 cups flour.
Pinch of salt.
1-2 cup black walnuts.
Dissolve soda in a little hot water.
Flour raisins and nuts. Bake in a
moderate oven.
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Miss Velma Jackson was the din
ner guest of Misses Louise and Gert
rude Nixon Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Bunch called
on Mr. and Mrs. John Parrish Sun
day afternoon.
George Parrish and son, John,
made a business trip to Suffolk, Va.,
last week.
Mrs. Jesse Nixon left Sunday to
spend a few days with her daughter,
Mrs. John Perry, of Gliden.
Miss Evelyn Parrish spent the
week-end in Edenton with her sister,
Mrs. Ernest White.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Jackson and son,
William, of Colerain, were the sup
per guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Jackson Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Forehand and
children of Norfolk spent Sunday
with Mrs. Forehand’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. George Parrish.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Byrum and
family spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. Willie Bunch.
Mr. and Mrs. John Parrish and
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Bunch called on
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Byrum Sunday
night.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest White and
son, Ernest, Jr., of Edenton, were
supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
George Parrish Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Gurney Forehand
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Lane.
ATTEND FOOTBALL GAME
SATURDAY AT CHAPEL HILL
J. A. Webb and Douglas Webb, of
Honduras, Central America, spent
Saturday in Chapel Hill, where they
attended the Carolina-Wake Forest
football game.
They were accompanied home by
Mrs. Frank Suttenfield of Louisburg
College, who is the guest of her par
ents for several days
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MRS. J. FRANK WHITE, JR.,
HONORED ON BIRTHDAY
Mrs. J. Frank White, Jr., was the
guest of honor at a delightful sur
prise birthday party given her by
Mr. White on Thursday evening at
their apartment on North Broad
street.
Mrs. White received many beauti
ful birthday gifts, after the opening
of which bridge was enjoyed by the
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following guests: Mrs. John Lee
Spruill, Misses Maryland Parks,
Myrtle Parks, Lena Mason, Dorothy
Moore, Hazel Goodwin, Kathleen
Barrow, Annie Mason Cobb and Lois
Barrow, Raymond Mansfield and the
guest of honor, Mrs. White.
Later in the evening delicious re
freshments were served by the host.
Those coming in for refreshments
included Carlton Mason, John Skiles,
William Privott aniMMiaMM