In these columns will be
fpund a fair presentation
of local and county news
of general interest.
r olume II. —Number 9.
WearJy Million Asked
*ln Chowan Projects
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Secretary John Holmes
• Fills Out and Mails
Proper Forms
DISTRICTPROJECT
Central Planning Board
Approves Project For
Bridging Sound
The Central Planning Commission
for Chowan County met in the
Municipal building Saturday after
noon at which time reports were
made by the chairman of the project
, committee as to the estimated cost of
the ten projects which were approved
by the board last week. Proper forms
have been filled out by Jno. A. Holmes,
secretary to the board, and have been
mailed to Capus Waynick, State
chairman, in the hope of securing for
Chowan County a part of the money
to be spent through President
Roosevelt’s security bill.
The total sum estimated for the
ten projects is $997,511, the largest
single amount being $250,000 for im
proving rural highways. The small
est amounts included in the list are
three projects of SIO,OOO each, an ad
dition to the Negro school building,
repairing and renovating the court
house, jail and jailer’s house, and im
provements to the public library and
museum.
Aside from the County’s projects
« another district project was, also ap
proved for the erection of a bridge
across the Albemarle Sound at the
narrowest point. This bridge war
estimated to cost $950,000.
various projects and the esti
cost of each follows:
, 1, includes a request for
sewerage, heating, lighting,
at Chowan High School at
a cost of $80,000; a new high school
for Edenton costing $125,000;
WiKons to the Negro school build
ing, $10,000; additions and alterations
to the present Edenton school build-
ing, $62,000; sewerage in East Eden
ton, $13,000; or a total expenditure
of $290,000. The application for this
project was submitted to Mr. Way
nick on February 14 and was subse
+ quently approved by the Central
Planning Commission.
Project 2,-calls for $50,000 to be
spent in malarial control throughout
the County.
Project 3, Armory and war memo
rial in the form of an auditorium at a
cost of SIOO,OOO.
Project 4— Rural electrification at a
cost of $65,000.
Project s—Repairing and renovat
ing the court house, jail and jailer’s
house, SIO,OOO.
Project 6—Remodeling and addi
tions to the County Home, $36,740.
Project 7 Recreational facilities,
y which would include a bathing beach
and erection of a permanent camp for
young people, $46,000.
Project B—Street paving and storm
sewerage, $139,771.
m Project 9—Rural highways, $250,-
™ 000.00.
Project 10—Improving the public
library and museum, SIO,OOO.
WiH Stage a Finger
Print Demonstration
Dan Cannady, local finger print ex
pert, will give a practical demon
stration of how identifications are se
cured by the finger print method on
JT Saturday afternoon. This demon,
stration will take place in The Herald
office at 3 o’clock and anyone inter
ested in seeing how this work is done
is invited to attend.
person, whose finger prints have been
taken, will touch some object in the
office, .frota which Mr. Cannady will
£ transfer the prints, compare and de-
touched the object.
the past two weeks many
' prints have been taken of
BRmcitizeas, and Mr. Cannady is
4, now endeavoring to have the schools
cooperate in finger printing all stu
dents, which has been done in many
other dtiee. V
JAILED FOR STEALING
BASEBALL PARK FENCE
Henry Newsome, colored, was
found guilty in Recorder’s Court Tues.
| . 'ftiay morning of stealing part of the
’fence around the baseball park at
Hick’s Field. Judge " J. N. Pruden
sentenced the defendant to 10 days in
kcjvo sections of the fence, each ap-
L ■kmately 50 feet long, ha£,been
k? an< * ta^en a n®y-
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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So That’s Where The
\ Old Scoundrels Are!
To start with, this is a fish story
that happened along the Water
Street sea wall this week while
improvements were being made
under the direction of J. H. Wroten
and a crew of city employes
As each segment of cement was
poured extending 18 inches below
the earth, a box affair was con
structed in order to pump out the
water, and it was while this was
being done at a point where water
worked its way under the old wall
and caused the bank to cave in that
Mr. Wroten says they must have
come upon a hide-out for fish.
According to his statement about
500 eels, catfish and perch sudden
ly made a break for their freedom,
everyone apparently making a
getaway.
Rotarians Preparing
For Inter-City Meeting
Plans are rapidly being completed
for an inter-city Rotary meeting
which will be held in Edenton Tues
day night, March 5, at 7 o’clock. The
meeting will be held in the Parrish
House. Rotarians from Elizabeth
City, Hertford, Greenville, Washing
ton and possibly Tarboro will attend
the meeting, which is calculated to he
one of the most outstanding Rotary
affairs ever to be held in Edenton.
Edmund H. Harding, of Washing
ton, group leader for the Eastern
North Carolina district, will have
charge of the program, which can be
counted upon to be very interesting.
A good speaker will be provided, r.s
well as music, including, Floar’s or
chestra, a local organization. Mr.
Harding is a prominent figure in
Rotary, and every local Rotarian is
urged to plan to attend Tuesday
night’s meeting.
The committee on local arrange
ment is made up of C. E. Karmer,
Rev. C. A. Ashby, Millard Bond, N.
K. Rowell, W. D. Holmes, and J. L.
Wiggins.
Reports coming from nearby clubs
are to the effect that a goodly num
ber from each club will attend the
meeting and local Rotarians are of
the opinion that over one hundred
will come to Edenton for this meet
ing. .
Band Likely To Be
Formed At School
What may result in a band for
Edenton is contemplated by Oscar
Duncan, member of the Edenton High
School faculty. Mr. Duncan is inter
ested in forming a band at the local
school and believes that with the
proper cooperation one can be organ
ized. Os course, the first thing ne
cessary would be instruments and
Mr. Duncan is of the opinion that if
local owners of band instruments
would loan them, some of which are
not now being used, to prospective
members of the band, a nucleus could
be formed around which a first class
band could be organized. He t him
self, would be responsible for any in
struments loaned in tJis venture.
Subsequently it is Mr. Duncan’s
idea to buy enough band instruments
for those taking part, which would
be paid for on a monthly basis. If
enough instruments will be loaned to
warrant the attempt, Mr. Duncan,
who is experienced in band music,
will instruct each member individual
ly. His idea would be to secure
members from the lower grades so
that the band would not be handicap
ped by students graduating and
leaving school, . .
Any owner of a band instrument
who is willing to loan an instrument
and cooperate with Mr. Duncan is
urged to get in touch with him im
mediately.
Y. W. A. GROUP MEET TONIGHT
The Intermediate Y. W. A. of the
Baptist Church, will meet tonight
(Thursday) with Mrs. W. M. Wilkins,
at her home on Oakum Street. A full
attendance is requested.
DISTRICT MEETING IN WINDSOR
A district Masonic meeting will be
held in Windsor Thursday night,
March 7th. Mayor E. W. Spires,
grand historian, has been issued a
special invitation to be present at the 1
meeting, and is expected to attend.
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 28, 1935.
LADIES’ AUXILIARY TO
BACH MOVEMENT FOR
AMERICAN_LEGION HUT
Committees From Both
Organizations Dis
cuss Matter
NEED FELT
Auxiliary Names Com-
Building Committee
Os Three
A meeting was held Tuesday night
in the Municipal Building which is
hoped will result in the erection of
an American Legion hut in Edenton
in the very near future. The com
munity service committee of the Le
gion Auxiliary met with the building
and community service committee of
Ed Bond Post of the American Le
gion, together with Mrs. M. P.
Whichard, Auxiliary president, and
W. W. Byrum, post commander, when
the idea was discussed.
The ladies of the Auxiliary feel the
need of a hut and are determined to
do their utmost to have one erected.
Immediate action was taken, a
building committee being appointed
to work with the post committee. The
committee named consists of Mrs. J.
W. Davis, Mrs. R. E. Leary and Miss
Emma Byrum, who with the post
committee which is composed of Joe
Conger, Dr. M. P. Whichard, O. T.
Brown and Major W. S. Privott, will
go to work immediately to get the
movement under way.
It is thought that materials will be
donated, and contributions made to
enable a creditable Legion hut to be
erected for use of the Legion and
Auxiliary. The location of the hut
has not been decided.
Local Fire Department
Aids E. City Firemen
Quite a lot of excitement prevailed
in Edenton last Friday afternoon
when a request came from Elizabeth
City for assistance in fighting a fire
which threatened an entire section of
the city. Various reports were ram
pant which caused quite a number of
Edenton people to journey to Eliza
beth City to see the fire.
The Edenton fire truck, immediate
ly following the call for aid, made a
record run to Elizabeth City with a
crew of fire-fighters ready for any
emergency. The Edenton truck, how
ever, was detailed to the fire house to
answer any alarm that might be sent
in from other sections of the city.
Calls for help were also sent to Nor
folk, Portsmouth, and Hertford.
The loss is estimated at approxi
mately $50,000 which includes the de
struction of the Roanoke Institute, a
Negro institution, and many homes in
tne neighborhood.
The Edenton fire-fighters returned
home about 8:30 Friday night.
Previous to the call from Elizabeth
City the local fire department was
called out to extinguish two flue fires,
one on East Albemarle Street, and the
other on Carteret Street. No dam
age was reported done at either of the
fires.
Many Farmers Sign
For Tomato Acreage
At the present time prospects are
that Chowan County farmers this
year will plant at least 500 acres in
tomatoes. This fact is due to the
definite decision of the Neuse Packing
Corporation to can tomatoes after the
fishing season is over.
The packing concern now is install
ing in the old Eastern Cotton Oil
Company building equipment to can
herring roe on a large scale, which
will likely get under way about the
middle of March. Some of the to
mato canning machinery has also al
ready arrived.
Contracts for tomato acreage are
rapidly being signed by farmers,
which provides for the furnishing of
tomato seed. This seed has been
shipped and can be paid for out of
the crop when sold. A special va
riety of tomato will be used, the
Marglobe, which is said to be parti
cularly adapted to shipping and can
ning purposes.
Contracts for tomato acreage are
now in the hands of H. B. Jones, of
Edenton, and J. E. Perry, of Tyner,
who report a ready response to the
planting of tomatoes, the packing
concern agreeing to buy the entire
crop.
Officials of the canning company
feel satisfied that other vegetables
will be canned as the season pro
gresses. .
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
PLANNING SPECIAL
SERVICES FOR LENT'
Dr. R. Cary Montague
Os Richmond Will
Conduct Mission
SPECIAL SPEAKERS
Visiting Preachers Will
Conduct Services On
Thursday Nights
As a special feature of Lent, Dr.
R. Cary Montague, of Richmond, Va.,
will hold a preaching mission in St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church March 18th
to 22nd inclusive. During this mis
sion Holy Communion will be held
Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock,
and services each night at 8 o’clock,
with Dr. Montague preaching.
Each Thursday night at 8 o’clock
during Lent special preachers will
have charge of the services, as
follows:
March 7—Rev. J. Leon Malone,
Winton.
March 14.—Rev. Stephen Gardner,
Washington.
March 21.—Dr. R. Cary Montague,
Richmond, Va.
March 28.—Rev. George F. Hill,
Elizabeth City.
April 4—Rev. E. F. Moseley, Wil
liamston.
April 11 —Rev. E. T. Jillson, Hert
ford.
The observance of Lent by Episco
palians will begin on Ash Wednesday,
March 6, with a meeting in the peni
tential office at 11 A. M. and a ser
vice at 6:15 P. M.
Week days to Holy Week services
will be held at 6:15 P. M. excepting
the week of the Montague Mission
and Saturdays, with Holy Communion
being observed on Wednesdays at 11
A. M., and special preachers Thurs
days at 8 P. M.
During Holy Week a service will be
held Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day at 6:15 P. M.; Wednesday at 11
A. M., and Maunday, Thursday at 8
P. M., observing Holy Communion.
On Good Friday a service will be held
at 11 A. M.
On Easter Day, April 21, Holy
Communion will be held at 7:30 A. M.,
and 11 A. M., with a Sunday School
celebration at 4:30 P. M.
Programs of services have been
distributed with special emphasis be
ing made on the Montague Mission,
Rev. C. A. Ashby, rector of St. Paul’s,
urging all interested in Old St. Paul’s
to take advantage of the opportunity
to hear Dr. Montague.
R. F. Tuttle To Assist
In Filing Income Tax
R. F. Tuttle, deputy commissioner,
will be at his home, 105 West Queen
Street, on March 1 and 2, and March
13, 14 and 15, for the purpose of as
sisting taxpayers in filing their State
income tax returns. These returns
must be filed on or before March 15,
and include any unmarried person
who had an income of SI,OOO or more
during 1934, or a married person
having an income of $2,000 or more.
A deputy collector of internal re
venue will also be in Edenton on
March 12 to assist income tax payers
to file their Federal returns. A pen
alty of not more than SIO,OOO or im
prisonment of not more than one
year, or both, and in addition 25 per
cent of the amount of tax is imposed
by the statute for wilf\l failure to
make a return on time.
Mill Village Sewerage
Project Receives O. K.
T. P. Richardson, ERA project su
pervisor for this district, with head
quarters in Elizabeth City, on Monday
announced the approval of the Mill
Village paving project, work on which
will soon get under way.
This project was sent in some time
ago and is part of Project 1 approved
by the recently organized Central
Planning Board for Chowan County,
at an estimated cost of SIB,OOO. The
city is called upon to furnish mate
rials, most of which are already on
hand. This work is calculated to put
about 72 men to work.
FISH MARKET GOOD
With prospects for fish good on
the northern markets, the price quot
ed Wednesday was two cents per
pound higher than the previous day.
G. W. Moger & Co., Baltimore, on
Wednesday, quoted roe shad, 30
cents; buck shad, 18 cents, and rock,
20 cents.
Cotton Chief Advises
On Size of 1935 Crop
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Lindsay Warren Must
Like Smoked Herring
W. A. Everett, local dispenser of
hickory smoked herring, yesterday
divulged the reason for the desire,
some months ago, of colored folks
in Washington to eat in the House
of Representatives restaurant, and
caused right much of an argument.
Mr. Everett, it appears, sent a
complimentary mess of his product
to Representative Lindsay Warren,
who evidently had them cooked for
himself in the restaurant. Shortly
after, Mr. Everett received an or
der from the restaurant for 500
smoked herring, and it wasn’t long
thereafter that colored folks were
clamoring to eat in that particular
restaurant.
Representative Warren, however,
evidently must be very fond of the
smoked herring, for he refused
Negroes the right to eat in the
same restaurant.
Quick Action Keeps
Soup Kitchens Open
But for immediate action on the
part of the United Charities and the
Red Cross, the four soup kitchens in
the schools of the County would have
been discontinued this week. ERA
funds for paving for the operation o;
these kitchens have been exhausted
and the Red Cross and United Chari
ties jointly decided at a meeting on
Tuesday to temporarily obligate to
assume this responsibility. The ERA
will furnish food, but until money is
forthcoming from the Government,
which is not expected in the near fu
ture, there is no money on hand to
pay those who operate the kitchens.
The four kitchens are located in
the Edenton High School, Chowan
High School, Beech Fork and Ad
vance.
$131.58 Realized By
Christmas Seal Sale
The somewhat belated report of the
Christmas Seal Sale in Chowan Coun
ty has just been completed by Miss
Emma Byrum, county chairman. The
total amount secured through the
sale of seals was $131.58. Os this
amount one-fourth, or $32.90, will be
sent to the State headquarters while
$98.68 will remain in Chowan County
for use in fighting tuberculosis.
Owing to so few cases of tubercu
losis in the county, much of this mon
ey will be spent in furnishing milk to
those threatened with the disease and
undernourished children. In this con
nection local leaders in the Christmas
Seal movement desire to appeal to
any individual or organization to fur
nish a quart of milk per day to be
given to undernourished children. The
cost of a quart of milk per day is al
most SSO per year, and there are a
number in the county who need this
nourishment but are unable to buy
milk. Anyone who may be interested
in helping in this movement should
get in touch with Mrs. R. C. Holland.
Law Against Gambling
Includes Punch Boards
A copy of the recently enacted law
outlawing slot machines and gambling
devices has been received by Chief
of Police Helms, who desires to make
it clear that the new law specifically
includes punch boards and any other
sort of gambling contraptions. The
law, captioned “Prohibiting manufac
ture, sale, possession and use of slot
machines, gambling apparatus and
devices,” will be rigidly enforced by
the police and Chief Helms stated to
The Herald Wednesday that in a few
days he would make a thorough in
vestigation and indict anyone violat
ing the law.
JUNIOR CLASS SPONSORS
VERY SUCCESSFUL DANCE
A dance sponsored by the Junior
Class of the Edenton High School was
held Friday night in the Boy Scout
Cabin. Music for the occasion was
furnished by Kenneth Floars and his
orchestra, and the proceeds will be
used to help pay for the annual
Junior-Senior banquet at the local
school. A very successful dance was
reported.
A large number of Bertie county
tobacco growers are requesting for
an increase in their 1935 allotments.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year
C. A. Cobb Urges 65 Per
Cent of Base Acreage
This Year
NEW "SIGN* UP
County Agent Rowell
Will Soon K:ive 1935
Contracts
The following letter from C. A.
Cobb, chief of the cotton production
section, to county agents in cotton
producing states, will be of interest
to many Chowan farmers:
“The Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration has investigated the
present supply, the probable market
requirements, the probable carry
over August 1, 1935, of American
cotton, and the foreign situation in
an effort to determine the size crop
that would bring producers the larg
est income in 1935. As a result of
these investigations, it would seem
that a crop of about 11,500,000 in
1935 should be planned for. While a
crop somewhat smaller would in all
probability brirg a higher price per
pound, the total income from the
crop might be less. Or the other
hand, a crop materially larger {lfain
11,500,000 hales would undidy depress
the market in 1925 and make 't diffi
cult to reduce the ‘-can v-cver to a
desirable figure by August 1, 1936.
and in this way wor 1 1 affect the
1936 price : s well as th 19-75 nrice.
“In the objective of a crop ■ f ap
proximately 11,500,000 lairs is to bi
achieved in 1935, A will be necessary
for contract signers to take the full
35 percent reduction permitted in
1935. If producer- who signed con
tracts in 1934 and those who sign
contracts in 1935 reduce 35 percent,
it is estimated that a crop cf about
11,500,000 bales will be produced if
yields are no more than average.
“It will be to the advantage of in
dividual cotton producers to remove
35 percent of their base acreage from
cotton production and receive the
maximum rental payments permitted
under their contracts in 1935. -
“It will be to the further advan
tage of individual producers to plant
in 1935 only 65 percent of their base
acreage because in no case will the
bases used in making allotments of
tax-exemption certificates be more
than 65 percent of a producer’s base
production. Producers should there
fore be cautioned against planting
more than 65 percent of their base
acreage with the anticipation of buy
ing surplus exemption certificates at
reduced prices in 1935. It will be our
recommendation that provisions be
made which will prevent surplus ex
emption certificates being sold much
below the full amount of the tax. We
will also recommend that the tax be
kept adjusted as 50 percent cf the
price. Neither of these things were
done in 1934.
“Due partly to the drought, fo'd
and feed will be somewhat less plenti
ful and prices will be higher in 1935
than they were in 1934. For this
reason cotton producers should plant
only 65 percent of their base acreage
to cotton, thus making available ad
ditional land on which to produce
food and feed for home consumption.
“It should also be called to the at
tention of producers that if two crops
of different size are sold for the
same gross value, a larger proportion
of the total market value is usually
returned to the producer from the
smaller crop. It is certain that the
farmer cannot produce the larger
crop as cheaply.”
Very shortly county agents will
receive blanks for the new sign-up of
those who did not sign in 1934. It
is interesting to note that contract
signers last year received more money
from rental payments than the extra
cotton allotments cost theta. N. K.
Rowell expects a great increase in
signers for 1935.
Under last year’s contract rentals
ranged from 35 to 45 percent, where
as under the new contract the per
centage is 25 to 35 percent, with the
minimum being one acre instead of
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LEGION AUXILIARY TO MEET
AT HOTEL HINTON FRIDAY
The American Legion Auxiliary
will meet Friday evening at 8:00
o’clock, in the parlors at the Hotel
Hinton. Mrs. M. P. Whichard, the
president, is very anxious to have a
full attendance as a number of com
munity service projects will be dis
cussed. k x