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PAGE FOUR THE CHOWAN HERALD Published every Thursday by Buff’s Printing House, 100 East King Street, Edenton, N. C. J. Edwin Bufflap Editor Hectcr Lupton Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.25 Six Months 75c Entered as second-class matter August 30, 1934, at the post office at Edenton, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates furnished by re quest. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1935. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE THOUGHT OUR OWN SALVATION: Where for, mv beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but how much more in my absence, work out your '--vn salvation with fear and trembling.—Philippians 2:12. WE NEED THE BRIDGE TOLL REMOVED A new year, 1935, is now here. How swiftly time passes! Without a doubt, the year 1934 has been more pleasant to a larger number of people than the few years previous. Many who had been with out jobs have secured work, and from reports business has been better in every line all over the country. So far as local business is con cerned, in discussing the matter with a number of merchants, business in Edenton has been much better than in the immediate previous years. Merchants are optimistic for even a better year during 1935. Os especial interest is the increased amount of business done this year with Bertie County folks. Many of them have come to Edenton to do a large portion of their trading. And what should be more encourag ing to local merchants is the possi bility of the removal of the toll across the Chowan River bridge. When this toll is removed, there is every reason to expect an even larg er trade from Bertie County, especi ally from the territory adjacent to the Chowan River. With the possibility of the toll be ing removed, it should behoove citi zens who are interested to mobilize and make a concerted movement to have the toll removed. It should not be merely taken for granted that the toll will be taken off. Let’s get to gether and let the powers that be know that we’re not satisfied with even a 25-cent toll charge. We are 1 entitled to a free bridge and should ? the proper action to secure it. MIGHT HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT STORY Although the east and west high ; school football game resulted in a tie j at Horganton on New Year’s day, the Herald understands that Paul | Spencer, Worth Spencer, Richard , Rogerson and Vernon Spruill, four j members of the Edenton High School 1 State champion team, rendered a good account of themselves. But as has been said many times in the Herald the Edenton team was not composed of individual stars. The honors won were due to a well-bal anced aggregation working as a single unit, and the Herald sees no particular advantage of picking play ers from various squads and throw ing them together with a limited amount of practice for a game of football. Good foidball teams are not developed in that way. Anyway, we’re proud of the four Edenton boys who were picked for this contest, but still have a =neek ing feeling that had they had their running mates instead of a group of strange playgrs to oppose the west ern all-stars, there might have been a different tale to tell. WE’RE VERY GLAD TO HAVE THEM The Herald welcomes two newcom ers into our midst, one a man and the other a lady. Miss Rebecca Colwell has come among us to replace Miss Nelle Cald well as home demonstration agent. She has already met with some of her clubs and appears very enthusi astic with her work. Mr. C. A. Lovejoy, president of the' Lovejoy H<si6 l System, thought -enough of Edenton to lease the Hin ton Hotel, and plans to put Edenton on the map by operating a hotel that will draw a good patronage. Mr. Lovejoy will remodel and re decorate the interior of the hotel, and is very anxious to make the ho tel a center of civic activities such as must have been the case in the olden days at Horniblow’s Tavern. He is a very likable and congenial sort of a gentleman, and the Herald hopes citizens will make both Miss Column and Mr. Lovejoy feel at home. We’re glad to have both of them in our midst. farmers should COOPERATE IN CENSUS Cooperation of farmers is urged in the important agricultural census which is now under way. There will possibly be a certain reluctance in answering questions, but census tak ers secrecy regarding f Heard and seen By “BUFF’’ I I ! I’ve finally checked up on Carey Bunch’s mosquito story he told last summer about the pest 3 out at Yel lowstone National Park. Fact is, Carey went very easy. C. H. Has kett, now located in Indiana, and who is home with his parents for the holi days, has also been at Yellowstone National Park, and says that of an evening when the sun is going down they look like smoke coming from a fire when looking toward the setting sun. He says, however, that they are all male mosquitoes and don’t bite. If that’s the case all the female ones must be down around Nags Head. Looks like a long way to do a mean piece of courting, but the “race” is far from being extinct even if they are so far apart. Anyway, Mr. Has kett is having the Herald sent to him in Indiana, and will follow him when he’s transferred. o Bess Hinton Silver in Capitol Key holes says “Money makes the mare go in the General Assembly.” Yes, and everywhere else, if you ask me. That’s why Lloyd Burton’s mare is still occupying my bam. o Isn’t it hard to please some wo men. Sometime ago a man accom panied his wife to buy a new hat. As she was looking in a mirror at the new headgear perched on the side of her head, she asked: “John, how does it look?” And John replied: “Oh, it looks all right from the back.” “Huh,” said the Missus, “you don’t think I’m going to walk backwards, do you?” What in the dickens should a fellow have said in a case like that ? ' < o Captain Pat Bell possibly will have been closer to the Lindbergh kidnapping trial than anybody in Edenton. Dr. John Condon, the “Jafsie” in the sensational case, passed over the Chowan bridge one day last week enroute from Florida to the scene of the trial. o Now that 1935 has arrived, here’s advance warning not to be surprised if we date letters 1934—it always takes a month or more to get used to the new year. Which reminds me to wish every reader of this column a Happy and Prosperous New Year. If you need any money—well, go to< the bank. | o A Harlem taxicab from Washing ton, D. C., was parading around the I streets one night last week. Yours ' truly, as well as a few others, stretch- I et! necks to see all we could about the ; high falutin’ thing. o—— This one was told by one of ray ; friends living in the country. A man j came across a boy with a basket of j eggs, and asked the chap how much j he was asking for them. “Twenty five cents a dozen,” said the boy. “Why son,” said the man, “if you had those nice eggs in New York you could get SI.OO a dozen.” “Yes,” said the boy, “and if you had a cake of ice in hell, you could be a millionaire.” o A. B. Griffin tells me he ac companied three of the talkingest men in Chowan County recently to visit a sick man. And upon arrival the man who was ill sat up and the three fel lows had very little chance to say anything. “What would you have done if the fellow hadn’t been sick?” I asked. “Well, I reckon we would not have gotten in a single word,” was the answer. o Wanted to buy a set of Tvhiskers! The other day while in a boarding house in Rocky Mount with my two sons, the boarding mistress informed her daughter that Floyd’s two broth ers were visiting him for dinner. Ye gods! But one of them threw a monkey wrench in the whole works i when he said, “Come on, Pop, let’s walk down the street.” Won’t kids ever learn anything? o The Herald this week starts a series of articles on “The Mighty Bamum” by the best news commen ■ vtators over the radio. The first is by Boolce Carter, and we hope you’JJ en joy every one of them. o The Broad Street Fish Market has moved into the building recently va cated by Cecil Byrum’s Meat Mar ket. We should have said something about it last week, but Christmas got us all twisted up—nope not from “corn.” / The Hi;4ton Hotel has changed hands, the : name of the new manager being Mr. Lovejoy. He contemplates making a numfcw of changes at the hotel, and is-verW anxious to have the hotel as the center of local ac tivity. He’s a very friendly sort of a man and would like to become ac quainted with everybody in Edenton. Call around and shake his mitt and tell him who you are. o Mike Kehayas, beside being a good restaurant man, is no slouch at paint ing signs, ff almost insulted him by inquiring whto painted his Olartmas greeting on the mirror. I THE CHOWAN HERALD EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 3,1985. and it’s almost as good as the Her ald’s job printing. Need any, heh? o If anybody failed to pay bills on account of the check tax, it’s O. K. now. The two-cents tax on each check written has been taken off starting with January 1. Gosh, here’s hoping that’s a hint for 3ome of the other taxes we’ve got to pay. o The Red Men had an election sure enough Monday night. Thirty-five applications were voted upon, which necessitated two ballot boxes in or der to speed up the voting. The Ma sonic ballot box was borrowed and the bloomin’ thing was worked more than it has been in many a day. o This is one for Ripley, and came to me by Charlie Conger. It’s a well known fact that Uncle Sam never cuts prices on postage stamps, re gardless of how many is bought. But postage stamps can be bought at cut prices, according to Friend Charlie. Sears Roebuck receive an enormous amount of stamps for merchandise, and they have received special per mission from the government to sell these stamps at a slight reduction in order to dispose of them. It’s no use looking in their catalog, however, for although everything else almost is listed, they do not list U. S. postage stamps. G Sort of late, but here’s congratu lating the colored carol singers who, furnished such delightful music dur ing the we sma’ hours Christmas eve. Here’s hoping more of it is done next year. How about it, white folks? The winners have been named for the best Christmas decoration, but if yours truly would have been one of the judges I’d have given the town first prize for the tree at the foot of Broad street which wa3 donated by Captain Wiggins and the decorations by X. E. Copeland. It was a pretty thing and set off the town’s other decorations in fine shape. But then how could Town Council have given away the five bucks? n Here’s hoping you’ve all made some good New Year’s resolutions. I’ve taken a tip from a little sign hanging in Wood & Berryman’s office which says: “Keep your temper—nobody else wants it.” So I’ve resolved not to get mad. But .shucks I reckon that will be broken before this column if finished. Who in the dickens can keep their temper around the first of the month when bill collectors want to straighten up their accounts for the year? On second thought I’ll not make a resolution. The folks over in Powellsville will not let Jim Daniels “get away with it.” A short time ago Jim declined to take his orchestra over because he couldn’t get enough practices before the time requested. Now they come back at him and tell him to set the date when he can come. Just better get the boys together, Jim! o W’ith 86 marriage licenses issued in 1934, and the crop of new babies that has arrived, how about taking a new census of the town? Trouble is I don’t know if it would be proper to count A. J. Meekins’ increase in 1934 or 1935. Anyhow, here’s wishing him a happy New Year. c Bill collectors are all right, but what gets my goat, is the one who drops in offering a nice 1935 calen dar and right after that pokes a con sarn bill, saying “Can you do any thing for me on this?” Who can enjoy a pretty calendar like that? c Maurice Bunch has had a spell of sickness and upon seeking some in formation, he pointed to his wife and said “Ask the ‘Register of Deeds’.” Gosh, I wish some wives could set type and do the thousand and one things a poor weekly editor do when he feels like 30 «•*«*• GRATEFUL TO i FRIENDS We wish to extend to our friends our heart- I felt thanks for their patronage through 1934. I Through your support our Chevrolet business I has been a gratifying success. We will take I as keen pleasure in serving you through the 1 year 1935 as in the past. I CjHOWAN MOTOR CO. I O. B. PERRY, Manager J i: , ~11,1 H. - THE family dinner does not rate sloppy service j use there are no guests present. Here is c setting for a fwo-ctra.'sb dinner en famille. with one wine served throughou loth is of white Irish linen damask with napkins to mmch.-ign is r.s -• , ’.e as the occasion—a scroll over a satin band. its.;, suri'.vc ..v.-.ts the candlelight and is a cool ■ , aiow jonquils. FOUR MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED OVER WEEK-END Four marriage licenses were issued Saturday by Register of Deeds Maurice L. Bunch, three to colored couples and one white couple. The contracting parties were: Nathan Holley and Vida Warren, colored, of Bertie County; Reese Lukei and Maxine Rogers, hite, of Washington, D. C.; John GiWm and Julia Jordan, colored, of C 1 iwan County; and James Mullen ?...d Annabelle Morris, colored, of Chowan County. The first two mentioned couples were married in the Register < Deeds’ office by Justice of the Peace W. S. Summerell. National Agricultural Census Is Under Way (Continued from Page One) erators, as well as all census em ployees, are sworn to secrecy and are required to read the law’ and the severe penalties established for any disclosure of information. Only sworn employees of the Census Bu reau have access to the files. Sec tion 9 of the Fifteenth Decennial Census Act provides penalties for failure to answer questions asked by enumerators or for giving false in formation. “Enumerators are legal residents of the districts which they canvass. Some, if not all, of the farmers re siding in an enumeration district will know the enumerator personally and they will do well to see that an accu rate report is returned for their dis trict. With the program now being carried on by the government to as sist agriculture an inaccurate report might very readily react to the dis advantage of the farmers in that par ticular district. “The farm schedule is comprised of 100 questions covering practically every important ramification of the agricultural industry. Os course, very few farmers will be required to answer all of the questions, only the ones pertaining to their particular activities. Questions to be answered will include farm -tenure; farm popu lation; farm acreage, which includes all crop land, pasture land and wood land; total value of the farm; acre age and yield of each of the princi pal field crops and vegetables; num ber of trees and yield of the princi pal fruits and nuts; number and value of each class of livestock, and poul try and eggs.” Those who will take the census in Chowan County are as follows: Edenton Townshfn- v - Jobes. .Mkwe .township—P. G. Perry. Upper Township—T. L. Ward. Yeopim Township—T. J. Hoskins. . MR. AND MRUTER TO CONDUCN EDENTON Mr. and Mrfc W. Lassiter, who until JaAnanaged the Hinton HoteJ *ed the house on North Brojt formerly oc cupied by Mrjs. Elton Fore hand. They iconduct an inn, catering espe* the tourist trade. The hame Mew place will probably be .son, according to Mr. Lassiti BIRTH Mr. and Ms Smithson an nounce the fc son on Thurs day momingj 4. Peanut <rs Urged ’ To Sig> Contract ■ (Contin Page One) before you contract, as the committee r your 1933 and 1934 acre out 1934 yield when you l contract. Make a record o: er of bags rais ed and th« ftt of the crop. The peanul for seed are a part of yoJnd may be in- i eluded wither of bags sold, i Try and gjformation to the j Committee y> there will | ' be no trou !1 g cbntracts, etc. Benefit, '’ill be paid after the. 1935 j 'ted 'and checked j with the I’ | If youftr price for pea nuts, coJh your neighbor ! and withfnment. • I Ljßegin Anew . I i YEAR with NEW I m*)od start toward Prosperity. 3HB 1 equipment^^^M I FISHING 1 National Gill Netting: 1 Wall Fishermen’s Rope I Woodbury’s Seine Twine . I Boat Equipment I Ball Band Boots I GENERAL EQUIPMENT^B Stoves, Ranges, Heatrolas |H| Building Hardware faints and Oils glasses and Putty Nails, Bolts, Screws j dog Killing Supplies |H| I Byrum Bros. Hardwar^H ff In Hardware and Supplies” ■&- '« II PHONE 4 7 EDENTOj 4-H club members of Ir«M produced an average of H||!|||H of lint cotton and 43.9 buslß|§jli§ji on their club acres season. «HHH| The annual extension efl will be held at State Collefl the week of January 7. and farm agents from alfl will attend. januar|H clearancH sale! One Week Onlfl Beginning mm Saturday I January Through Wm Saturday I January 12^H ON Allfl Coats* Dressel Ha PRESTON’^H EDENTON, N. C. HHB
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