In these columns will be
found a fair presentation
of local and county news
of general interest.
Volume II. —Number 12.
Baseball Meeting Here Tonight In Court House
April Term Superior
Court Not To Be Held
Taxpayers Saved Ex
pense of Session of
Court
ONLY ONE CASE
May Call Special Session
For Civil Cases, if
Necessary
Chowan taxpayers will most likely
be saved several hundred dollars due
to a movement now on foot to aban
don the April session of Superior
Court. The County Commissioners
are agreeable to the action as well as
members of the local bar, and it is 1
practically assured that the term
will he called o tL
The decision to do away with this
term of court was reached when it
was learned that only one case was
docketed on the criminal calendar,
and that a minor misdemeanor in
which the defendant took an appeal
and is out on hand after being tried
in Recorder’s Court on an automobile
tire theft charge.
There are abant 15 civil cases
awaiting trial, but most likely many
of these would be asked to be con
tinued (due to John White and Lloyd
Griffin attending the General Assem
bly and also due to the recent illness
iof \W. ;S. IPrivott.
Inasmuch that the holding of
court to try criminal cases entails an
expense of approximately SIOO a day
and the possibility of very little to do,
it was thought to the interest of tax
-vg payers to xall off court, and if neces
sary call a special session later on
to dispose <of the civil cases.
t
Play Friday Night At
Oak Grove School
“Eyes of Love,” a home talent play,
(Will be staged .-at the Oak Grove
jschool building IMday night .at 7:30
©’clock. The play promises to fur
nish good entertainment and every
body is invited to attend.
Those appealing in the cast are as
follows: i ,
Carolina, a servant, Mrs..
Craig Haste.
Gailya, an adopted daughter,;
Alethia Forehand.
Reeta, a two-faced friend, Mrs. Percy-
Smith. . ! |
Burt Wade, Reeta’s brother, Lloyd j
Peek. i j’
Mrs. Barry, Gailya’s foster-mother,
Emma Bunch.
Lora, a lively housemaid,'Gertrude
Nixon.
Clark, a busy butler, Abosa White
man.
Judge Barry, Gailya’s foster-father.
Haywood Bunch,
Royal Man ton, Burt’s rival, Percy
Smith.
Jim Rankin, the manacled man,
Craig Haste.
Last Bertie Civil War
Veteran Answers Call
Mr. Joe Myers, the only surviving
Civil War veteran of Bertie County,
aged 90 years, passed away on last
Thursday morning at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Joe White. He was
buried Friday afternoon at Christian
Harbor church cemetery. A very
large crowd attended the funeral, and
the floral offerings were beautiful
and in profusion.
METHODISTS ARRANGE
> FOR EASTER OBSERVANCE
Teachers and officers of the Meth
odist Sunday School held a meeting
Tuesday night at the home of Mrd.
jl G. A. Helms when plans were com
" pleted for the observance of Easter
and Church School Day. After the
meeting, Mrs. Helms served delicious
refreshments.
TWO-STORY HOUSE BURNS
A two-story house in the Cowpen
Neck section, occupied by Mr. Elton
Jordan and family, was completely
destroyed by fire Tuesday night
about midnight. The family saved
practically nothing, barely escaping
with their lives.
NO RECORDER’S COURT
Due to no cases being on docket,
ft no. session of Recorder’s Court was
either last Friday (hr Tuesday.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
*
Dr. R. Cary Montague
Preaching Wonderful
Sermons At St. Paul’s
Good crowds have been attending
the preaching mission being held at
St. Paul’s Church this week with Dr.
R. Cary Montague, of Richmond, Va.,
doing the preaching. Dr. Montague
is delivering powerful sermons and is
an extremely interesting speaker.
The mission will continue through
Friday "night and members of other
denominations are cordially invited to
hear Dr. Montague.
An interesting feature of the meet
ing is a question box, where mem
; bers of the congregation may deposit
, questions which will be answered by
tie preacher.
During the remainder of Lent vis
iting ministers will preach each
Thursday night in St. Paul’s church,
the services starting at 8:00 o’clock.
Dr. Montague, of course, will preach
tonight with Rev. George F. Hill, of
Elizabeth City, preaching next Thurs
day night.
Methodist Institute
Held In E. City April 2
A Christian Endeavor Institute
will be held in the First Methodist
Church in Elizabeth City on Tuesday,
April 2, beginning promptly at 3:00
P. M., and closing about 9:00 P. M.,
with a picnic supper at 6:00 o’clock.
The purpose of this institute is to
afford inspiration and specific help
, on particular problems relating to all
phases of Christian education in local
churches. The first hour will be de
voted to a general meeting. From
4 to 6 will be given to age group
discussions with a stereoptician lec
ture featuring the evening hour.
Prominent speakers will take part
in the institute, to which everybody
is invited, and church leaders espec-’
ially urged to attend.
Home And Fireside
Editor In Edenton
Russell Lord, editor of Home and
Fireside, published by the Crpwell
1 Publishing Company, was in Edenton
; Wednesday seeking information rela
' tive to hog raising in the Albemarle.
Mr. Lord, accompanied by County
Agent N. K. Rowell, visited farms in
; Chowan County as well as other sec
i tions in the Albemarle.
ÜBERTY BONDS CALLED
IN FOR REDEMPTION
The Bank of Edenton has been
notified by the Secretary of the
Treasury that all outstanding
Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds, Fourth
4 1-4 per cent, bearing serial num
bers ending with the digits 5,6, or 7,
are called for redemption on April
15, 1935, on which date interest or
called bonds will cease.
For a limited time, according tc
D. M. Warren, Cashier, the holders
of the Fourth 4 1-4 per cent bonds
called for redemption on April 15
can take advantage of the exchange
offered, if they act promptly. The
exchange cannot be made after the
27th of March.
Any one wishing additional infor
mation in reference to these bonds
may secure same by calling at the
Bank of Edenton.
FORMER EDENTON BOY
BREAKS ARM AT SCHOOL
George Story, young son of Mr
and Mrs. Wendell Story, of Norfolk
Va., but formerly of Edenton, broke
his right arm recently. George was
at school playing with some othei
boys when the accident happened
He is now getting on nicely.
SCOUTS MEET FRIDAY
The Boy Scouts will hold their
regular meeting Friday night at 7:80
in the Scout Cabin. The troop has
recently been enlarged to four patrols
and Scoutmaster John Graham is
very anxious that every Scout be
present on time,
BERTIE COUPLE MARRIED
James Gaskins and Pearl Holley,
colored, of Bertie County, were is
sued a marriage license Saturday by
Register of Deeds Maurice L. Bunch
The couple were married in Mr.
Bunch’s office by Justice of the Peace
W. S. Summerell.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, March 21,1935.
FOUR GRAVES LOCATED!
UNDER DLD ST. PAUL’S 1
All Prominently Iden
tified With Early His
tory of Edenton
Announcement has been made that
the four graves recently located be
neath historic old St. Paul’s Church
by termite exterminators from Nor
folk contain the bodies of parishon
ers who died long before Revolution
ary days. Over each grave was :
heavy slab of stone marked with th<
names and dates of death of those be
low it, and while the church authori
' ties say they knew there were graves
1 underneath the church they only had
a record of one, that of Col. Thomas
Nash, who is honored by a marble
marker on one of the walls of the
church main auditorium.
A cursory search to prove the bu
rials in question has been made
through the church vestry records but
1 this has obviously been a difficult
• task. E. R. Conger, of the vestry.
■ and Rev. C. A. Ashby, the church
! rector, have also expressed an inter
est in whether the burials were made
at the time the church had a tile floor
or in the days when its main floor was
wood. They each feel sure Rev. Dr.
Robert B. Drane, who was rector at
i St. Paul’s for 56 years and who was
1 thoroughly conversant with its his
i toric past, may be able to aid in mak
■ mg the present day discovery one of
' official record. Dr. Drane, now living
>! with one of his daughters at Hills
* boro, has been communicated with
< and his reply is expected to clarify
matters.
’ The buried dead were all promi
! nently identified with tire early-day
I history of Edenton, which makes the
finding of the graves by tire ant-killers
all the more important, as Edenton
1 views it. The names on the slabs
1 show that Mrs. Alice Hutton, born at
. Chesterfied, England, on July 25.
1722, and died “in Carolina” Septem
| her 28, 1777, and that her only
■ daughter, Ann Booth Pollock, placed
’! tire stone over her. Another grave
contains two bodies, the marker’s in
: scription stating that Ann Mills, “whr
died November 4, 1763, aged 80
years,” and Samuel Walter Swift, 7
years old, who died October 8, the
same year, were interred beneath it
1 The third grave contains the remains
1 of Mrs. Elizabeth Dawson Buncombe.
1 "wife of Col. E. Buncombe,” who died
October 24, 1773 at 24 years of age.
■ The last grave is of Col. Nash, of
Wales. Great Britain, a son of Col.
; John Nash, and a member of the Vir
' ginia House of Burgesses from 1756
to 1758, and “a commander of Linen
burg troops in the Indian Wars.”
Special Meeting For
Red Men Friday Night
A special meeting of Chowan Tribe
'No. 12, I. O. R. M., has been called
for Friday night at 7:30 o’clock for
the purpose of conferring degree
work upon a number of palefaces.
Members of the degree team are ask
ed to assemble before 7:30 in order
to arrange the parphemalia.
W. J. Daniels has been elected
delegate, and Jake Hobowsky alter
nate, to represent Chowan Tribe at
the Great Council meeting which
will be held this year in Elizabeth
(City.
At next Monday night’s meeting of
the local tribe refreshments will be
served and a record crowd* is ex
ited. - ,
High School Seniors
Practicing For Play
Members of the Senior Class of the
Edenton High School are now dili
gently practicing on the Senior play
"So You’re From Missouri,” a com
edy in three acts. The date of the
presentation has not been decided a*
yet„ however.
Among those taking part in the
play are Louis George Wilkins.
Eleanor Small, Bill Harrell, Ruth
Elliott, Marjorie Powell, Saintie
White, Jack Satterfield, Clara Mead
Smith, and John Paul Morgan.
FIFTH GRADERS VISIT
MASONIC LODGE ROOM
Members of the fifth grade of the
Edenton school, taught by Mrs. W. S
Summerell, on Wednesday morning
visited the lodge room of Unanimity
lodge, which is an unusual affair for
this class. The children displayed r.
keen interest as they were told of the
various historical connections of the
old lodge.
TRIANGULAR DEBAIE TO
BE HELD FRIDAY NIGHT
Affirmative Side Debate
At Home, Negative
At Hertford
The triangular debate in the Albe
marie will take place on Friday
night with the Edenton affirmative
team remaining at home to contest
with the Elizabeth City negative de
haters the query: “Resolved, that the
United Sates Should Adopt the Pol
icy of Extending Federal Aid to Ger.
eral Public Education.” The Eden
ton negative team at the same time
will be arguing with the Hertford
affirmative debaters in Hertford.
Edenton’s debaters are: Affirma
tive, Margaret Spires and George
McKenna; negative, Junius Davis
and Eleanor Small.
The school winning both sides of
the debate will send its representa
tives to Chapel Hill on April 11 and
12 to compete in the State-wide con
test for the Aycock Memorial cup.
the trophy which has been donated
to the High School Debating Union
by the intercollegiate debaters of the
University of North Carolina.
For some reason in former year;
small crowds attended the triangulai
debates and it is hoped more citizen:
will show an interest in this phase cf
school work this year.
Coach House Calls
Baseball Practice
Coach Henry House this week
started baseball practice for the
Edenton High School, the first ses
sion being held Tuesday afternoon
Prospects seem bright for a good
team this season with right many cf
last year’s team being out for berth:
on the nine.
The Edenton High School will not
play conference baseball this season
Coach House has announced.
The first game has been scheduled
for Friday, March 29, which will be
played on the local diamond, with
the Columbia High School team be
ing the opponents.
Those who reported for practice
the early part of the week include:
Vernon Spruill, Edward Wozelka,
Richard Davis, Richard Rogerson.
Bill Harrell, John Byrum, Melvir
Layden, Clyde Cates, Calvin Sexton
and Reuben Miller. Others are ex
pected to come out and try for the
team.
A tentative schedule as arranged
by Edmund Forehand, the team’s
manager, is as follows:
March 29—Columbia at Edenton.
April s—Edenton at Columbia.
April 9—Williamston at Edenton.
April 12—Edenton at Hertford.
April 16—Hertford at Edenton.
April 19—Edenton at E. City.
April 26—E. City at Edenton.
May 7—Edenton at Williamston.
Dr. R. Cary Montague
Speaks To Rotarians
Dr. R. Cary Montague, of Rich
mond, Va., who is this week conduct
ing a preaching mission at St
Paul’s Episcopal Church, was a guess
at the weekly luncheon of the Rotary
Club at 1:00 o’clock today. The pro
gram was in charge of the club ser
vice committee which is composed of
C. E. Kramer, chairman, E. W
Spires, Earl Goodwin and D. M. War
ren; Rev. C. A. Ashby introduced Dr
, Montague, who spoke very interest
ingly to the Rotarians during the
time allotted for' the regular pro
gram.
Os especial interest is the fact
that Dr. Montague is a grandson of
the pastor of the Old North Churcl
at the time Paul Revere made hi;
famous ride at Concord, and was alsc
with George Washington at Valley
Forge.
At last Thursday’s Rotary meet
ing J. A. Moore made a very inter
esting talk on the world’s cotton sit
uation, the International Relation;
Committee having charge of the pro
gram.
New Furniture For
Home Agent’s Office
The office of Miss Rebecca Colwell
Chowan home demonstration agent,
in the Post Office Building has beer
re-arranged with new steel filing
cabinets, which arrived at the Federal
building this week. The new furni
ture replaces wooden shelves and
will Miss Colwell to better ar
range her reports, pamphlet- and the
like. M.
Will Discuss Plans
To Organize League
it
Bank Stockholders
Relieved Os Double
Liability On Stock
In the interest of relieving the
stockholders in the Bank of Edentoi
of double liability on their stock
holdings in that institution, Mr. Johr
G. Allen, Jr., from the Examining
Staff of the State Banking Depait
ment was in Edenton Tuesday morn
ing.
The Legislature on last Friday
passed the Lindsay Bill (H. B. No
185) and it was immediately ratified
It makes the following provisions foi
relieving stockholders in State bank
ing institutions of double liability:
1. Publication by the Bank in i
newspaper having general circula
tion in the community where tht
bank is located, once each week foi
four consecutive weeks prior to May
Ist, 1935, of the bank’s intent to such
i relief.
2. Mailing written notices to each
depositor and to each other creditoi
prior to May Ist, 1935.
3. Sworn affidavits from a ban!-
officer that such notices have bee:
mailed and sworn affidavits from the
publisher on each insertion of the
advertisement, that such publication
has been made.
On the completion of these pro
* ceedings and the forwarding of such
affidavits to the Commissioner of
. Banks, State banking institutions ca?
a accomplish this relief to their stock
. holders by July Ist, 1935.
When announcement was made
l Friday afternoon that the Lindsay
f Bill would become a law, Mr. Hood
the Commissioner of Banks, irame
diately organized the State intc
. twenty temporary districts, and plan
ned to send twenty men from his
staff into the field immediately tc
explain the measure and aid and
- sist the State banks in taking immc :
diate advanetage of its provisions.
His forces worked far into the night
on last Friday preparing forms, affi
davits, advertisements, etc., and. be
? ginning with Monday of this week
• each and every Bank, and each an
> every branch Bank will be visited by
■ these representatives.
It is Mr. Hood’s earnest desire
that every North Carolina banking
institution be listed on July Ist, 1935.
? free from double liability on their
stock issue. A market for bank
- stock must be re-established.
The Lindsay Bill provides that
banks previously organized or re
lieved through the provisions of the
Aycock Bill, an enactment of the
1933 Legislature, can take advantage
of the same methods of procedure
outlined above, and have released i>
them the North Carolina or Unite'’
States bonds pledged in connection
'with that act, and at the same time
obtain relief for their stockholders
from all double liability.
Essay Winners Decided
Wednesday At School
Due to Chowan High School stu
dents not participating in the Kees
ler Memorial essay contest sponsored
by the Edenton Building and Loan
Association, on account of so much
other school work, the two prize
winners were not chosen to repre
sent Chowan County in the district
contest. Instead the four best pa
pers from the approximately fifty
written by Edenton High School stu
dents have been selected from whicl
the two winners will be decided at the
chapel period in the local school or
Wednesday, March 27, at 11:20 A. M
The writers of the four best papers
are Margaret Spires, Sarah Elizabeth
White, Mary Elizabeth Cates and
John Briggs. These four will delivei
their essays on Wednesday, and th<
winners will receive $lO as first
prize and $5 as second prize whicl
will be given by the Edenton Build
ing and Loan Association. The firs'
prize winner will represent Chowar
County in the district contest whicl
will be held in Rocky Mount.
The public is cordially invited tr
attend the presentation of the essays
in the school auditorium Wednesday
when they will be judged not only ar
to English and subject matter, bus
delivery as well.
LARGER DISPLAY WINDOW
Ed Habit, local cleaner and dyer
has made a slight improvement in the
front of his building. A doorway or
left side of the building has been
taken out and the space devoted to a
larger display window.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year
Warm Weather Brings
Baseball Fever to
Local Fans
COLERAIN OUT
Problematical Whether
Henry House Will
Play Here
Everybody who is interested in
baseball for Edenton during the sum
mer months is urged to attend a
meeting which will be held in the
Court House tonight (Thursday) at
8:00 o’clock.
Graham Byrum, manager last year,
is very anxious to have a large at
tendance in order to decide whether
a team should be formed so that in
that event preparations can be made
to secure what players may be nec
essary. He appears confident that
enough local players will be available
to form a creditable nucleus around
which a strong team could be put on
the field.
It is hoped that Henry House will
- remain in Edenton for the baseball
- season, and in that event Edenton’s
backstop position would be very well
taken care of. It is problematical
, at this time, however, whether Mr.
f House will remain here after school
closes.
Nothing definite has been given
out relatives to a league this year,
although many baseball fans are
strongly in favor of league baseball.
Nothing as yet has been learned
from other teams in last year’s circuit
as to their desire to form a league,
- but after the meeting tonight a corn
s'. mittee will most likely get in touch
r with baseball leaders in the various
towns.
According to H. O. White, of Cole
rain, however, that town will not en
■ ter the league this year, due to the
- expense involved. Mr. White stated,
however-,■ that Colerain would have a
local baseball team which would play
nearby teams.
• The meeting tonight is for the pur
pose of thorough;,- discussing the
baseball situation for the summer and
r it is hoped a large crowd turns out.
1 Airplane Lards Near
Cross Rcr.de Monday
A plane from th - * Naval Air Sta
tion at Norfolk, Va., p’ioted by
Lieuten; nt Bossier, h-nded near Cross
Roads Monday around noon. The
pilot was making a test flight under
compass and when it was learned
■ that the instrument failed to function
-he landed and communicated with
Norfolk officials for permission to re
< turn to Norfolk, which was accord
ingly done.
I Filling Stations Now
I Have All Night Service
Starting Sunday night, Burton’s
Filling Station inaugurated an all
i night service in an endeavor to serve
motorists coming through Edenton at
all hours.
Travel through Edenton has in
creased materially since the removal
of tolls over the Chowan River
bridge, and now two filling stations,
Burton’s and the Gulf, give all night
service.
Mrs. T. E. Parks Dies
In Rocky Hock Section
Mrs. T. E. Parks, 50 years of age,
died at her home in the Rocky Hock
section Tuesday afternoon about 5:00
o’clock, after several years of ill
health. Funeral services, with Rev.
Frank Cale, pastor of Rocky Hock
Baptist Church, officiaaing, were held
at the home Wednesday afternoon at
2:00 o’clock, with interment taking
place in the family burying ground
near Center Hill.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, several children and two
grandchildren.
DR. GARIS TO HOLD PRE-CLINIC
AT MERRY HILL SCHOOL APRIL 3
Dr. Garis will hold a pre-clinic at
the Merry Hill school building on
April 3rd. All parents are asked to
bring all small children and spend the
day. Lunch will be served free by
the ladies of Merry Hill.