PAGE TWO
Edentonians
50 Years Ago
HON. W. M. BOND
This is another sketch in a series
of write-ups about prominent Eden
ton people 50 years ago, taken from
"Historical and Descriptive Review of
the State of North Carolina,” pub
lished in 1885:
One of North Carolina’s most bril
liant rising young men, upon whose
shoulders the hope and future of the
Old North State gracefully rest 3,
was born in Edenton July 14, 1858.
In 1878 he commenced the publica
tion of the Chowan “Gazette,” and
changing the name of the paper, he
continued- in editorial control of the
same, the Edenton “Clarion,” till the
close of 1879. About the same time
he completed his law studies under
Judge Strong, in Raleigh, and was
admitted to practice on January 7,
1880; he has since carried on busi
ness in his native county, each year
since having witnessed an increase in
patronage and an augmentation of
his general popularity. In May,
1884, he was elected Mr/or of Eden
ton, in which capacity he showed
further what he was made of. In
July of the same year he was nom
inated with James Parker, of Gates,
for a seat in the Senate, and after a
lively and heated canvass of his
district against one of the leading
Republican speakers of his section he
was elected by a majority of three
hundred and twenty-six votes over
the most popular of the two Repub
lican candidates. The counties com
posing the district, in a special con
gressional election the preceding
year gave a Republican majority of
one hundred and ninety. In the Sen
ate he was chairman of the Senate
branch of the joint committee on fish
and oysters and was on the Judiciary,
Library and Military Committees.
His district is composed of Chowan,
Hertford , Perquimans, Pasquotank,
Camden, Currituck and Gates coun
ties and while it is the largest in the
State it is most faithfully represent
ed. Mr. Bond was always found at
his post and though he is one of the
youngest members of the Senate m
point of age, he is not in judgment
and common sense.
His speeches in the Assembly,
while they have not been many, have
been among the best delivered during
the session; he speaks with an ease,
grace and fluency seldom seen in a
young man of his age. His eloquence
is fraught with sprightly thoughts
and never fails to receive a careful
hearing. It was a happy selection
by the people of the First District to
choose him to represent their im
portant interests, which, in his hands,
will never fail to receive the best at
tention and the wisest guidance. Mr.
Bond married on the sth of November
last Miss Griffith, of Norfolk, Va.
PERSONAL ITEMS
Tom Hoskins, a student at Louis
burg College, spent the week-end at
home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Hoskins.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Comer, Jr.,
spent the week-end in Raleigh as the
guests of the former’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Comer.
Murray Whichard, Jr., of Wake
Forest College, visited his parents,
Dr. and Mrs. M. P. Whichard, over
the week-end. He had as his guest.
Harry Payne, also of Wake Foiest.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Coker spent
Saturday in Portsmouth.
Albert By rum, R. R. Roper, John
Pruden, J. H. Haskett, Jr., and Car
roll Boyce, Jr., spent Saturday in
Chapel Hill, where they attended the
football game.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Campen of
Norfolk spent the week-end here as
guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. G. Campen, on Gale street.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Habit and two
children of Norfolk spent Sunday in
Edenton with his father, Joe Habit.
Misses Foy Cozart, Doris Jean
Ward and Richard Davis and Augus
tus Harrell attended the football
game in Rocky Mount last Friday
afternoon.
Hugh Bland Copeland of Ahoskie
spent the week-end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. X. E. Copeland, on
North Broad street.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Blow, Miss
Ernestine Jones and George Pratt at
tended the football game at Chapel
Hill Saturday.
J. H. Haskett, Jr., of Portsmouth,
spent the week-end with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Haskett.
Miss Willie Love Morgan spent the
past week-end in Ahoskie as the
guest of Miss Honey Feldman.
Miss Margaret Harrell spent the
week-end in Norfolk with her 3ister,
Mrs. Odis Carlton.
Miss Lillian Wilkins and Clinton
Bunch spent Sunday in Rocky Mount,
where they visited friends.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Barrington and
two children, Beulah and Mabel, and
Miss Sarah Margaret Harrell spent
Sunday in Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Swanner and
children spent Sunday in Norfolk
.with friends and relatives.
Miss Eva Bateman has returned
from Columbia, after spending the
oast few weeks with her father, who
is quite ill
Mr. and Mrs. William Averette of
Ahoskie visited the latter’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Griffin, over the
week-end.
'Miss Dorothy Pettus of Craddock,
Va., spent the week-end at home with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Pet
tus.
John Pruden of Newport News
spent the past week-end in Edenton
with relatives.
Mrs. Walter Smith of Elizabeth
City spent several hours in Edenton
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Mansfield
and two children spent Sunday in
Bethel with his father, J. H. Mans
field.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Morgan and
son, Leslie, spent Sunday in Jarvis
burg with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Evans of
Elizabeth City spent Sunday in
Edenton as the guests of relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Barrow, Mrs.
Grover Sutton and Miss Eva Bate
man visited friends and relatives in
Robersonville Sunday afternoon.
John Bunch spent the week-end in
Norfolk as the guest of friends.
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Chappell and
daughter, of Bethel, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Corprew, of near Eden
ton, Sunday.
Roy Symons of Jarvisburg spent
the week-end in Edenton with his
sister, Mrs. Rupert Goodwin.
Miss Isabelle Atkinson, of Norfolk,
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Jackson, over the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Bufflap and
daughter, Dorothy, and Orphia Co
zart attended the football game in
Rocky Mount Friday and visited
friends.
Mi3s Evelyn Wright of Jarvisburg
is spending several days here with
her aunt, Mrs. W. M. Morgan, on
Church street.
Jay Barringer of Colerain visited
friends in the city Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. T. D. Basnight and Mrs. W.
E. Basnight of Roper were the guests
of Miss Eva Bateman Monday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Perry, of near
Edenton, visited friends in Bethel
Sunday.
Mrs. Oscar Symons of Jarvisburg
is spending several days here a3 the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. Rupert
Goodwin.
Miss Margaret Farless of Bertie
County spent Sunday here with her
sister, Mrs. Jordan Yates.
Miss Mary Lee Copeland spent the
week-end in Elizabeth City, where •
she attended a teacher’s meeting.
Earl Hansell, student at Wake
Forest, spent the week-end in Eden
ton as the guest of Nathan Dail.
Miss Mildred Munden spent the
past week-end in Elizabeth City as
the guest of relatives. ~
Mrs. M. G. Brown and daughters,
Misses Evelyn and Kathryn, Arline
Jackson, Eleanor Small and Margaret
Satterfield attended the Edenton-
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New Bern football game at Rocky
Mount last Friday afternoon.
Ed Simpson of Elizabeth City was
a visitor in Edenton Sunday.
Dr. and Mrs. M. P. Whichard and
daughter, Pearl, spent Sunday after
noon in Wake Forest.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Bush Jolly of
Raleigh spent the past week-end in
Edenton as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. George Wood at Greenfield.
Mrs. Seth Jones of Cypress Cha
pel is spending several days in Eden
ton as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Munden in North Edenton.
Churches May Benefit
In Housing Program
With loans for the modernization
and repair of churches ruled as eli
gible for insurance under the Federal
Housing Administration moderniza
tion credit plan, several churches are
taking advantage of the opportunity
provided in the national housing act
to recondition and renovate their real
property.
The cooperation of churches in the
better housing program thus is two
fold. On the one hand they are sup
porting the program by lending their
indorsement to the movement to re
habilitate the homes and business
properties of the country, provide
better housing for American citizens
and create much needed employment
in the building industry.
An example of the way in which
the Federal Housing Administration
aids churches in repair and modern
ization is cited by the magazine,
“Living Church,” which reports
shortly after the launching of the
housing movement, a clergyman
wrote a firm dealing in stained glass
windows about having some win
dows installed in hi 3 church. The
congregation had no money available
but had obtained pledges from a num
ber of families who were willing to
give the windows as memorials, and
with these in hand they were able Ito
obtain funds for the windows from
the local bank, the loan being insured
by the Housing Administration.
A church is just as eligible for a
modernization loan as any other real
property, it was pointed out, and the
need of the churches of the country
for repairs, alterations and improve
ments is estimated to be a3 great
proportionately as the need of Homes
and business properties.
The official board of each church
seeking a modernization loan must
go through the 3ame process as any
other property owner, whether an in
dividual or corporation, according to
Federal Housing Administration reg
ulations. The first step in this pro
cess is to apply to a bank or other
lending institution for the loan. The
institution applied to will give all
the details.
Purposes for which modernization
loans may be obtained are not lim-
’ ited to structural repairs. They in
clude all items which become a per
i manent part of the structure, such as
heating and cooling systems, built-in
I organs, ornamental windows, pews or
- seats, plumbing, built-in refrigerators
and kitchen ranges. They do not in
-1 elude pianos, movable organs or other
t movable equipment.
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Thanksgiving Service
At Methodist Church
Rev. W. F. Walters, pastor of the
Edenton Methodist Church left for
Washington, N. C., Tuesday, where
he will attend the annual conference
1 of the Methodist Church, which con
vened Wednesday morning,
i During the absence of the pastor,
Mrs. Walters conducted the mid
week prayer service Wednesday
night.
At the 11 o’clock hour Sunday
morning John A. Holmes will speak
and at the evening hour Fred Smith
will have charge of the service, which'
will be a combination of the young
people and the regular church hour
congregation.
During Thanksgiving week there
will be no Wednesday night service.
Instead the pastor will preach in the
church at 11 a. m. Thanksgiving
Day. Everybody is invited to attend
this service which will be appropri
ate to the holiday.
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Hartford, N. C. '
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The 900 hale cotton crop of Burke
County in 1982 was worth $27>000.
The crop of 600 bales allowed to be
sold tax free in 1934 is worth 686,000
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heavily nickeled copper
and the remaining 800 bales is worth
an additional 612,000 after paying
the 4c a pound for surplus certificates.
However, the increased price of the
seed will pay for the certificates,
says the farm agent.