In these columns trill be I
found a fair presentation I
of local and county news I
of general interest.
Volume II. —Number 26.
Edenton Stores To Close Thursdays At 1 O’clock
Drainage Project In
Edenton Beneficial
Malaria Cases Neglig
ible Compared to
Last Year
FEW MOSQUITOES
Gardens Take Place of
Marshy Breeding
Places
Modem methods carried on by
Edenton’s department of works dur
ing the past winter and spring in
collaboration with the local ERA to
combat the annoying malarial situa
tion which has been such ah annual
worry for over 300 years, Jiave al
ready proved effective. A simple
statement of facts is specially evi
dent This time last year malaria
cases in Edenton were counted by tlf
hundreds as against a number so
small this June as to be hardly
worthy of record.
On its three land sides the town
has been ditched and into these
ditches have drained the slime and
muck water that help to make Up the
swamps and sinkholes all about which
made such delightful breeding places
for mosquitoes. The thought the
town has had in mind was to make
dry land out of these mudholes and
thereby restore the ground for small
agricultural purposes and thus serve
notice on the mosquitoes to go root,
hog or dies elsewhere.
To date mosquitoes apparently
have been doing that very thing for
where it did not use to be uncommon
to scoop up mosquito larva by the
handfuls the ditching done has neces
sitated exploring parties to find this
larva anywhere about. But ease your
mind. No miracle has occurred. It
is quite likely somebody may gett a
mosquito stingaree stuck in him as
usual this year but it is a perfectly
safe thing to say mosquitoes won’t be
brushed off in 1935.
And where mosquitoes are Inactive
then is malaria somewhere else.
Which means, drive out the mosqui
toes and you’ve driven out malaria,
and Mayor Spires and his civic co
horts believe this very thing has_been
done. If so, of course, the Mayor
bought the wrong sort of hat the
other day—he should have had a halo
and every man, woman and child in
Edenton will see that he and all the
others responsible for the possible
elimination of this curse get their
haloes and harps, too, if the summer
finishes as unmalarial as it has be
gun.
It would well pay everybody to
take a trip about the town outskirts
on all sides. Short lateral ditches
connecting with deeper main drain
age canals can be seen everywhere,
some of them, mostly all at the
present moment, being but four or
five foot deep drainways, while oth
ers are to be piped and covered over
when they run through closely set
tled residential neighborhoods.
LeEnfant when he laid out the city
of Washington, D. C., a couple of
hundred years ago, never had a bet
ter architectural idea in mind than
did those handling the anti-mosquito
anti-malarial ditching here. For in
stance ditches on the east side of the
town run along that way, connecting
with south bound ditches from the
north, while up from the west run
ditches crossing and criss-crossing
each other and finally merging into
one main ditch which runs all surplus
water and muck into a nameless
waterway over by Brown’s lumber
yard.
However, the purpose of all this is
to say there were mud.-flats and
swamps across the railroad and
north of the cotton mill section.
Look ’em over. You’ll see potatoes and
cotton and com and cabbages grow
ing there today, and these things
don’t grow in mud swamps. Also,
mosquitoes haven’t much use for
potato, cotton, com or cabbage fields.
They want muck and Edenton is just
exactly out of the muck game at the
present time, at least this kind of
muck though John Bunyan, if here,
might say there had been a particu
larization as to muck.
Someone broke in at this point to
say the doctors and druggists weren’t
very happy over the changed condi
tions. Just a mean old cynic said
that. Edenton’s doctors and drag
gists are an unselfish bunch. Our
own thought is they would rather
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Children Warned Not
To Bathe At Colerain
Although there has been no
cases of infantile paralysis report
ed in Colerain or vicinity, Dr.
Credle has advised that all chil
dren under 16 years of age keep
away from Colerain beach as a
precautionary measure due to the
infantile paralysis epidemic in
certain sections of the State.
Red Men Elect New
Officers At Meeting
officers for the next six months,
starting with July, were elected Mon
day night at the regular meeting of
Chowan Tribe, No. 12, I. O. R. M. A
number of candidates were placed in
nomination for some of the offices
and in a number of instances several
ballots were necessary to decide the
winner.
The successful candidates were as
follows: sachem, .N, J. Goodwin;
senior sagamore, W. E. Baker; junior
sagamore, A. L. Sexton; prophet,
Josiah Elliott. An auditing commit
tee, consisting of O. H. Brown, G. E.
Cullipher and W. E. Baker, was also
appointed to audit the books before
the new officers are installed. The
new.officers will be installed next
Monday night with 0. H. Brown,
deputy great sachem, officiating.
Mr. Goodwin, the new sachem, will
select his appointive officers during
the week and these will be installed
with the elective officers.
The Tribe also voted to adopt and
support the resolutions of the great
incohonee regarding the deportation
of aliens who refuse to be naturaliz
ed after living in the United States
for a period of three years.
Tomato Packing Plant
Starts Work Today
Operations at the Neuse Packing
Company in the old cotton oil mill
will be resumed today when the pack
ing and canning of tomatoes will get
, under way. Right much acreage is
planted in tomatoes in this territory
and contracts with farmers assure a
huge output. In connection with the
furnishing of tomatoes, the concern
will send inspectors to the fields and
, instruct growers as to the sort of
tomatoes to pick and send to the
plant.
The tomatoes will be graded and
the more perfect of the crop will be
wrapped and shipped to the markets.
The less uniform will be canned.
Any farmer desiring to sell toma
toes should get in touch with H. B.
Jones, who is connected with the
firm.
Officers Named For
Legion Post Tuesday
A very important meeting of Ed
Bond Post will be held on Tuesday
night when new officers will be elect
ed to serve for the post. These new
officers will be installed in October
but are named in July in order that
they may have the opportunity of at
tending the State meeting which will
be held this year at Statesville in
August.
A large attendance is urged by
post officials inasmuch as there will
apparently be keen competition for
the post of commander.
Among those who have been sug
gested as commander timber are L.
S. Byrum, Joe Conger, Lloyd Griffin,
John Holmes, Ernest Jackson, Cam
Byrum, Geddes Potter, W. S. Privott,
C. D. Stewart, Jesse White and Roy
Leary.
W. W. Byrum has been the com
mander of the post for the past year,
and while the membership has not
been as large as desired, the post
has been very active.
Odd Fellows Concert
Class At Hobbsville
The concert class from the Odd
Fellows Orphan Home at Goldsboro,
will render a program at Hobbsville
Friday night, June 28th, featuring
choruses, quartets and musical num
bers. The program this year is re
i ported as exceptionally good and a
large crowd is expected to turn out.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina,Thursday, June 27, 1935.
TOWN OFFICIALS APPLY
FOR LOAN TO BUILD A
150,000 GALLON TANK
Extra Water Storage
Needed Since Old Tank
Is Worn Out
NO EXTRA TAX
New Tank~Will Meet
Requirements For
Long Time
Additional water storage faciliities
for Edenton seem pretty well assur
ed now according to an announce
ment Tuesday by Mayor E. W. Spires.
Application papers calling for a $25,-
000 government loan for the erection
of a new 150,000 gallon storage tank
on West Freemason Street, have been
signed and will be passed for consid
eration by the proper federal author
ities.
The application stipulates that 55
per cent of the cost will be viewed
as a loan and so guaranteed, the loan
to be paid from the earnings of the
Electric and Water Department and
in no sense attributed to an extra
tax levy.
The proposed new tank is abso
lutely necessary. The town’s little
tank, erected some 25 or 30 years ago
and which did heroic service until the
second and present 250,000 gallon
tank was put up, has badly rusted,
leaks and has been generally con
demned, in fact is not used and hasn't
been for several months.
The proposed placement of the
new tank on West Freemason Street
has been thought desirable because
of the proximity it would have to the
new wells thereabouts, and would
equalize the pressure in the northern
section of the town.
Mr. Spires said Tuesday that the
additional tank, supplying, with the
present large one, a double storeage
of 400,000 gallons, would meet the
water requirements of the city for
the next 30 or 40 years.
Yeopim Union Meets
In Edenton Church
The Yeopim Union meeting will be
held in the Edenton Baptist Church
Friday and Saturday, June 28 and
29, when an interesting program has
been arranged. Each person amend
ing is requested to bring his or her
own lunch, there being sessions held
both morning and afternoon each day.
Following is the complete pro
gram:
Friday Morning
11:00—Introductory Sermon, Elder
D. S. Dempsey; Elder J. T. Byrum,
alternate.
Friday Afternoon
I:3o—Devotional Service, Elder Al
phonzo Jordan.
1:45—Miscellaneous Matters
2:oo—What Can and Ought to Be
Done About the Unsaved In Our
Churches? Elders W. T. C. Briggs
and O. J. Murphy.
2:4s—How Can Wholesome Discip
line Be Maintained In the Churches?
Bro. C. R. Holmes and Elder E. L.
Wells.
Saturday Morning
10:00 —Devotional Service, Elder B.
A. Mitchell.
10:15 —How Can We Make the
Sunday School More Helpful to the
Churches? Elders J. T. Byrum and
T. L. Brown.
11:00—Sermon, Eldet O. J. Mur
phy.
Saturday Afternoon
I:3o —Devotional Service, Brother
Floyd I. White.
I:4s—Miscellaneous Matters.
2:oo —Can a Christian Consistent
ly Advocate and Vote for the Manu
facture, Sale and Beverage Use of
Intoxicating Liquors? Elder D. S.
Dempsey and Bro. W. J. Berryman.
2:46—Has Our Lord Given Any
Non-tesential Commands, or Any
That Do Not Mean Just What They
Say? Elders B. A. Mitchell and W.
F. Cale.
Local Musicians Sail
For Europe July 29
Ambrose Griffin and Jack Pruden
and members of their orchestra will
leave Thursday night for New York
City, from where they will sail at
midnight June 29th aboard the Ham
burg-American Line S. S. Europa for
Europe. The orchestra has been en
gaged to furnish rfiusic on the boat
EDENTON NEWS OFFICE
GOES OUT OF EXISTENCE
WHEN SOLDLAST WEEK
Equipment Sold Jointly
To Williamston Enter
prise and Herald
ups anFdowns
Several Attempts Made
To Publish a Daily
Paper Failed
; The equipment of the Edenton
' Daily News, property of the Edenton
News Publishing Co., Inc., has been
’ sold and practically all removed from
the office which is situated at the
corner of Broad and Water Streets.
The transaction took place Saturday
morning when H. Fred Evers of New
York sold the place, lock, stock and
i barrel jointly to the Williamston En
l terprise and The Chowan Herald.
Both newspapers plan to use the ma
: jority of the equipment in their re
spective offices.
1 The newspaper was owned princi
pally by the late Mrs. Mary C. Rum
sey, of New York, whose estate is
: now in the process of liquidation.
The closing of the local plant
! marks the end of a series of attempts
1 to publish a daily newspaper in Eden
’ ton with each subsequent attempt
| proving more disastrous. The daily
' publication was started in 1921 when
the Chamber of Commerce subscribed
1 enough stock to buy the plant from
; Jack Wells, who at that time pub
! lished a weekly newspaper in Eliza
! beth City and operated a job printing
1 department. The equipment was
1 moved to Edenton and the daily
started with R. G. Shackell acting as
! editor. The paper for a number of
: years under Mr. Shackell was able to
! pay expenses, but made very little
! profit, and subsequently came under
• Mr. Shackell’s control.
Clark Kinnaird, backed by Mrs.
Rumsey, bought the establishment,
which was then also publishing The
Hertford News, a weekly paper. Dur-
ing Mr. Kinnaird’s editorship weekly
publications were printed for Hert
: ford, Windsor, Aulander, Columbia,
t and Plymouth. Mr. Kinnaird operat
l ed the plant at a loss for something
> over a year and when he secured a
■ lucrative position in New York the
‘ plant was sold to Joseph Peele, of
l Elizabeth City. Mr. Peele moved in
• to the E. C. White 'building and
■ made many improvements in the me
chanical department and for a time
it appeared that the paper was on a
• paying basis. This condition was
, short-lived, however, and after a
little over a year, Mr. Peele was
forced to give up, the place reverting
. to the holding publishing company.
J. Edwin Bufflap was then placed in
charge of the concern with John D.
Langston, Jr., acting as editor. Due
to the accumulation of many debts
and diminishing advertising revenue
’ as the result of the slump in business,
this arrangement continued only a
’ bout a year, when the paper was dis
continued by the owners-
After being closed about a week
the equipment was leased to John
Sikes, who published the paper as a
daily for some time, later turning it
into a weekly. After several months
■ as a weekly it was turned into a tab
i loid daily and in turn had decreased
; in size to a 6x9 sheet, finally being
discontinued altogether a few months
ago. It was during Mr. Sikes’ lease
of the plant that it was moved from
the White building to its former lo
■ cation where it was started and
where it went out of existence.
Rotary Gub Calls Off
Meeting On July 4th
The Edenton Rotary Club held its
regular luncheon today in the Parish
House when the program was in
charge of the boys’ work committee,
of which D. M. Warren is chairman.
The meeting for next Thursday,
July 4, will be called off, due to
many members of the Club being out
of town for the holiday. At the
• meeting of the Club on July 11, Dr.
W. I. Hart, Jr., the newly elected
president, will replace Chas. H. Wood,
who has been Rotary’s president the
past year.
she local Rotary Club, while small
in members, occupies a creditable
place in the monthly standing of the
clubs in the State, and Dr. Hart
; plans to increase interest and activity
in flu> i locftl club
Effective Through
July and August
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Canning Factory
May Locate Here
There is a possibility of another
canning industry locating in Eden
ton, according to correspondence
from Sherwood, Md., to Jule El
liott. M. G. Jarboe, representing
the Sherwood Canning Company,
has been in Edenton in the inter
cf.t of his company, which operates
plants in Easton, Chapel, Cordova
and Sudlersville, Md., and has
written Mr. Elliott in quest of in
formation as to the amount of
herring roe that could be secured
and other information.
Lightning Plays Havoc
With Telephone Lines
The greatest amount of damage by
electricity ever experienced by the
local telephone company resulted
from the electrical storm last week
when about 50 telephones were put
out of commission. As a result of
the lightning there were five holes in
the King Street cable, two in the
two in the North Broad f/reet cable
and one in the Water Street cable.
The cable crew of Elizabeth City was
pressed into service and worked like
Trojans through Thursday, Friday
and Saturday in clearing up the trou
ble.
During the same storm lightning
struck in the John G. Wood home at
Hayes, being attracted by the tele
phone, which was grounded, from the
electric light fixtures. It was be
lieved that had it not been for the
ground wire on the tetephone, the
home in all probability would have
caught fire.
Fire Monday Night At
Home Os M. S. Elliott
The Edenton Fire Department was
called out about 7:30 o’clock Monday
night when a fire was reported at the
home of M. S. Elliott on West Queen
Street. Upon arrival at the scene
the firemen were able to smell smoke
but it was some time before its ex
act location could be found. It was
discovered to be in a clothes closet on
the first floor, the cause being attri
buted to spontaneous combustion.
Aside from burning a few clothes,
no damage was done, according to
Fire Chief R. K. Hall.
E. R, Roberts Dies At
Gatesville Wednesday
E. R. Roberts, 68, prominent citizen
of Gatesville, and well-known in this
section, died about 4:00 o’clock Wed
nesday morning, following a heart
attack Monday morning. Mr. Roberts
also suffered an attack Sunday, but
was unable to withstand the latter
attack.
The deceased is survived by his
widow and three children, Dr.'WS&
son Roberts, of Durham, Miss Susie
Roberts, of Washington, D. C., and
Mrs- Fred P. Wood, of Edenton.
CCC Enrollment At
Local ERA Office
The local ERA office announces an
enrollment for C C Camps during the
remainder of June and July which is
for both white and colored boys be
tween the ages of 18 and 28. These
applicants, however, must be from
families who were placed on relief
rolls since January 1, 1935.
The local office is very anxious to
receive preliminary applications and
will gladly render any information
desired regarding the camp. Two
Edenton boys left last week for camp
duty and it is hoped many more will
take advantage of this opportunity.
Engagement Marie
Spruill Announced
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Spruill, of
North Edenton, announce the engage
ment and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Miss Marie Joyce
Spruill, to Mr. Asa J. Manning, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Manning,
of Williamston, N. C.
The wedding will take place in the
future . vi-..,-,.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year
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Clerks Appreciate Ac
tion Taken By Their
Employers
37 SIGNPETITION
Customers Urged to Do
Their Shopping In
Morning
Although there is no baseball to be
enjoyed in Edenton this summer,
practically all of the merchants in the
city will close at 1:00 o’clock during
July and August, thus enabling
clerks and the merchants themselves
to enjoy a half holiday during the hot
weather.
Agitation for the Thursday closing
has been under way for several
weeks, but no definite steps were
taken until the first of this week
when a petition was circulated to
close at 1:00 o’clock Thursdays and
37 business men signed to cooperate
in the closing idea.
Clerks, especially, will welcome the
decision made by the merchants, and
in token of their appreciation have
among themselves contributed to a
paid advertisement in The Herald
this week announcing the half holi
day.
It is not the purpose of the various
merchants to create an inconvenience
for their customers, and they are
confident arrangements will Be made
by their customers to do their buying
in the morning.
Those merchants who have signed
the petition to close are: Liles 5-10-
25c Store, Rose’s 5-10-25 c Store,
The Community Store, Goodwin’s
Quality Store, S. Ganderson & Sons,
W. I. Cozzens, E. L. White, S. C.
Mills, Preston’s, J. H. Holmes Co.,
W. D. Holmes, L. F. Ziegler & Son,
Badham Bros. Co., Pender’s, A. & P.
Store, S. Hobowsky, Floars Electric
and Plumbing Co., The Chowan Her
ald, G. M. Byrum, J. C. Dail, W. J.
Harris, Habit Bros., C. E. Byrum,
Broad Street Fish Market, Oglesby
Bros., D. M. Reeves, J. E. Lassiter,
Anne’s Beauty Salon, Quinn Furni
ture Co., Mae Jackson, Beautician,
E. J. Ward Barber Shop, Campen’s
Jewelry Store, Julian Ward’s Shoe
Shop, Town of Edenton office, P. A.
Reeves Barber Shop, Edenton Feed &
Fuel Co., Brown Bros.
Funeral Held Sunday
For Mrs. B. B. Cobb
Funeral services were Held Sunday
afternoon for Mrs. Margaret Cobb,
68 years of age, who died about 10
o’clock Saturday night at her home
in North Edenton following a linger
ing illness, Mrs. Cobb was the
widow of the late B. B. Cobb, who
died several years ago.
The services were held in the Eden
ton Baptist Church with the pastor,
Rev. E. L. Wells, officiating. Inter
ment took place in Beaver Hill Ceme
tery. The deceased is survived by
.two brothers and two sisters, as fol
lows: S. E. Morris, of Edenton; Rob
ert Morris, Mrs. J. H. Smith and
Miss Annie Morris, of the Cowpen
Neck section of Chowan Jlotmty.
The pallbearers were: John G.
Small, Claude Small, S- R. Cobb,
Clyde Cobb, Eugene Cobb, and W’illie
Morris.
Birthday Dinner Party
Held For Mrs. Muth
A birthday dinner party was held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. F.
Muth on West Eden Street Sunday in
honor of Mrs. Muth’s 72nd birthday,
which was on Friday last. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Muth were happy over the
event having their children present
for the occasion. Mrs. Muth received
many appropriate presents.
The children who were present
were: Mr. and Mrs. George Muth and
sons, of Newport News, Va., Frank
Muth, Jake Muth, Nick Muth, Misses
Margaret and Tillie Muth-
SMALL CROWD ATTEND
DANCE MONDAY NIGH7T
As large a crowd as was expected
failed to attend the dance in the
Edenton Armory Monday night
which was held for the benefit of the
Cupola House Museum. The music
by Amos Griffin and Jack Pruden
and their orchestra was splendid and
those who did attend thoroughly en-