In these columns will be found a fair presentation of local and county news of general interest. Volume ll.—Number 27. Edenton Half Holiday Changed To Wednesday Infantile Paralysis Victim In Edenton Two Year Old Colored Girl Stricken With Disease Friday NOnCESPOSTED Board of Health Forbids Children at Public Gatherings Many Cfiowan residents were stricken with terror last week-end when a case of infantile paralysis was reported in Edenton by Dr. J. A. Powell, health officer. The victim is the two-year-old daughter of Cora Stallings, colored, on West Gale Street- The child had been ill sev eral days prior to Saturday, when Dr. Powell pronounced the disease infantile paralysis. The Board of Health took imme diate precautionary steps-to prevent the spread of the disease, and issued the following notice at a special meeting: “Due to the prevalence of infantile paralysis over the State, the Chowan County Board of Health had a call meeting Friday evening, June 28, and passed an order forbidding the attendance of all children under 16 years of age at theatres, Sunday School, church services or aryy other public gatherings.” The health officials have also pro hibited the use of anything other than sanitary drinking cups in pub lic places. The notices were posted about the city and parents in general are co operating, there having been no classes in the children’s department of the Sunday Schools last Sunday. The information spread rapidly over the city and parents are taking as many precautions as possible. Although there was right much excitement over the case developed here, there is no cause for alarm, Dr. Powell saying the general health con ditions are excellent and that lihere are no symptoms of any more cases of the disease. Practically all meetings have been cancelled where young people gikally assemble, which will be observed un til there is an improvement in the situation. At present the disease has invaded 54 counties in the State, a total of 274 cases having been reported to the State Board of Health up to Tuesday. United States Public Health Service workers have been sent into various parts of the State experimenting with a vaccine preventive. In the meantime, health authori ties urge parents to keep their chil dren at home as much as possible, and to prevent them from mingling with other children, isolation being one of the best methods to prevent the spread of the disease. Good Program At Bertie Sunday Sing The Bertie Fifth Sunday Singing, which was organized three years ago last February, was held at Cape -5 t’.’3 Church last Sunday afternoon with one of the best sessions they have had. Register of Deeds L. S. Mizelle, of Windsor, is the efficient president, and Judge F. D. Winston has been sponsor, having missed but about two meetings since it began. The program Sunday consisted of quartets from Merry Hill, Colerain, Green’s Cross and Windsor, with se lections by a number of other singers, including George Lassiter of Edenton, and Miss Cora Felton Bass, of Cole rain, a recent graduate of Chowan College. Judge Winston made a sfcort talk, mentioning the beginning of the church 200 years ago. Dog Taxes Now Due; Must Be Inoculated Dog owners within the corporate limits of Edenton are reminded that dog licenses are now due sqid payable at the Collector's office. Before a li cense can be secured, however, the owner of a dog must present a cer tificate showing that the animal has been inoculated to prevent raoies. THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY | BOARD EDUCATION MEETING MONDAY Three Teachers Approved For County Unit; Repairs to Buildings Be Made The Chowan County Board of Edu- I cation met in monthly session Mon day morning with a full Board pres ent. The principal matter to come before the Board was a discussion of she school budget. The budget as presented was approved, recommend ; ing that the same carry a per capita i levy for the two bonding distiicts in the County, Edenton and Chowan High School. The Board approved three teachers for the County unit, which were as . follows: Mrs. Bertjha Hubbard, of Vanceboro, who will teach at Gum Pond; Miss Mary E. Adams, fifth grade at Chowan and Mrs- Thomas W. Elliott, seventh grade at Chowan. The Board also requested Superin tendent W. J. Taylor to secure bids and prices of material for painting and repairing the Center Hill school, repairing the underpinning at the Beech Fork scjhool, repairing the stairway at Chowan High as well as painting the roof and cold water painting of the walls in the same school. Mr. Taylor was also request ed to draw a voucher paying as much as possible on the State literary fund. Red Men Will Hold District Meet Here A Red Men district meeting will be held in Edenton on Tuesday night, July 30, when it is expected members of the lodge from a wide area will attend. A district organization was formed at a meeting in Elizabeth City last Tuesday night by which it is hoped to stimulate interest in the lodge. The officers elected to guide the district affairs were: Sadhem, Johnnie Williams, of Elizabeth City; senior sagamore, W. E. Baker, of Edenton; junior sagamore, Horace Holt, of Elizabeth City; prophet, T. J. Wilder, of Edenton; chief of re cords, Claude Ballard, .of Elizabeth City; keeper of wampum, W. .J Daniels, of Edenton. « The lodges in the district at pres ent include Chowan, Pasquotank, Manteo-Wanchese, Stumpy Point, Fort Landing and Knotts Island. County Commissioners Study Year’s Budget The County Commissioners met in regular session Monday morning, the meeting running over into the after noon. Regular routine business was transacted with the major portion of the time being taken up with the discussion of the budget for the next year. The budget will not be acted upon, however, until July 22, when a special meeting of the BoaVd will be held and definite action taken. At that time, too, the tax rate will be determined. The Commissioners are faced with an increased amount of expenditures during the next fiscal year and they are very anxious to keep from raising the tax rate. Queer Disease Hits Hollowell Cotton R. H. Hollowell, prominent Middle Township farmer, is worried about his 40 acres of cotton around Small’s Cross Roads. Something has hap pened to his fine plants and he has appealed to Farm Agent N. K. Rowell to tell him what the trouble is. So far Mr. Rowell has been un able to make any explanation. Sample plants, about 18 inches higih and mostly in bud, indicate that some sort of dry rot has hit the Hollowell acreage. The plants seem dried up, the leaves appear to have bepn riddled by some insect, and the stems have a rusty look. Mr. Hollowell, an experienced cot ton grower, knows all about “dry rust” affecting cotton, but'insists the season has not advanced far enough for this to be evident. He also claims the trouble cannot be attri-' butable to lack of rain owing to oc casional showers of late. Nor has he by close examination been able to find any the cotton leaves.^|^^^^^V some the plants Nation Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 4, 1935. MASONIC PICNIC BEEN (MED OFF Action Taken Due to In fantile Paralysis Situation Due to the infantile paralysis situ ation in Eastern North Carolina, the annual Masonic picnic which was to have been held on July 25th at Eden House Beach, has been called off. Officials of the picnic association made this decision early this week and A. O. Kiss, of Ahoskie, the president, has notified all member lodges to that effect. It was hoped that the picnic this year would be a banner affair due to the fact that tolls have been removed from the Chowan River bridge and interest in the annual outing had spread over a wider area. Each year huge crowds attend the picnic, the proceeds of which are given to the Oxford Orphanage. It is expected that the lodges who take part in the picnic will in some way raise a fund to take the place of the annual of fering. Plans had been made this year to conduct the affair on a very economical basis, but inasmuch that many children attend, it was thought advisable to call off the picnic. Holiday Schedule To Be Published In Papers Os State Mayor E. W. Spires has received from the Wilson Chamber of Com merce a request for information re garding the observance of a half holiday in Edenton. It is the pur pose of the Wilson Commerce body, for the convenience of traveling salesmen, to publish in the State papers a list of towns in which the stores observe a half holiday each week. Mr. Spires has sent the desired information, stating that the Eden ton business houses will observe the half holiday on Wednesday during July and August. Shell Station Under New Management Announcement has just been made of the re-opening of the Shell filling station on North Broad Street oppo site the Boy Scout cabin which until a few weeks ago was operated by Tom Goodman. The new operators will be Jack Satterfield and Paul Spencer, two members of the cham pionship Edenton football team. The two young men plan to be ready for business on Thursday. The filling station will be known as Paul and Jack’s Service Station and will specialize in greasing, washing, and polishing cars. They will han dle a full line of Shell products. The two young men have a host of friends and solicit the patronage of all automobile owners. Herald Will Present Special Feature For Rural Readers Beginning with our issue of July 18th we will offer our rural readers an outstanding monthy agricultural feature to be known as “The State Farmer Section” of The Ctiowan Herald. The State Parmer Section will be written and editored by specialists in the field of agricultural journal ism, who have had many years of ex perience. It will be of news-maga zine character, and will cover every phase of agriculture as it is practic ed in this area. It will be distinctive in that its articles will deal chiefly with current happenings, and it will avoid the long technical phraseology which makes such dreary reading. The State Farmer Section is pre dicted on flhe belief that Carolina fanners today are business men, and that they know pretty well how to produce their crops. However, there will be timely helpful articles per . taining to production problems ef fecting local crops. In addition, The State Farmer Section will present the news of all farm commodities—what js happen ing to them in the markets; what competitive areas are doing, and what is going on in other sections of I the Carolina. !t will work closely with county NOBLES SELECTED AS INSPECTOR Will Have Charge of Vaccinating Chowan County Dogs 'Jhe Chowan County Commissioners at their meeting Monday morning made arrangements to carry .out the State law regarding the compulsory vaccination of all dogs against rabies. A. A. Nobles, vetemarian of Per quimans County, was appointed ra bies inspector for this county with J. P. Roberson being named as as sistant inspector. The town of Eden ton already had an ordinance requir ing all dogs to be vaccinated which is now being enforced. Mr. Rober son had been doing this work for the town for a number of years. Under-Iflie State law it shall be the duty of the owner of every dog to have the animal vaccinated annually by a rabies inspector, and it shall be the further duty of dog owners to properly restrain same and to assist the rabies inspector in administering the vaccine. According to the law, when the rabies inspector has carried out tthe provisions of the act in a county it shall be the duty of the sheriff with the assistance of the rabies inspector to make a thorough canvass of the county and frequently thereafter to determine if tihere are any dogs that are not wearing the metal tag show ing that they were vaccinated. If such dogs are found the sheriff shall notify the owner to have same vac cinated and produce the certificate provided for within three days. If tihe owner shall fail to do this he shall be prosecuted. If the owner of a dog not wearing a tag cannot be found it shall be the duty of said officer to destroy such dog. The rabies inspector will collect from the owner of each dog vacci nated 50 cents for each dog, the same to be credited on the dog tax when the certificate of vaccination is presented to the sheriff or tax col lector. Any person found guilty of violat ing any of the provisions of the act will be subjected to a fine of not less than $lO or more than SSO or to im prisonment of not less than 10 days or more than 30 days in the discre tion of the court. Mr. Nobles was also named rabies inspector for Perquimans County, where many dogs have already been treated, and he and Mr. Roberson will start vaccinating Chowan dogs as soon as the vaccine arrives. WEEDS BEING CUT City employees on Monday began cutting weeds on vacant lots in town where owners failed to comply with the city ordinance which requires property owners to keep weeds cut 'ijhe owners of the property will be charged for this work. state agencies, such as the colleges of agriculture, the state departments of agriculture; and the cooperative marketing organization. Having close contacts witih officials of the United States Dapartment of Agriculture and its various divisions as well as heads of the AAA in Washington, its editors will interpret the grist of news coming out of the capital, as it relates to local condit ions. In addition to crop news and infor mation, the new farm section will offer feature articles on the success ful operation of every class of farm ing enterprise. It will contain material of vital in terest to every farm housewife, and in covering activities of the 4-H Clubs and Future Farmers, it will naturally be welcomed by farm boys and girls. It will be illustrated throughout. The news and feature material in The State Farmer Section will be confined strictly to the Carolinas, and to interpretive matter effecting the agricultural pursuits in these two states. The Chowan Herald takes great pleasure in making this announce ment, and we know our rural readers will find in our State Farmer Sect- | Will Go Into Effect ; Wednesday, July 10 DR HART NAMES COMMITTEEMEN New Rotary President Goes Into Office Next Thursday; Meeting Called Off July 4th The usual Rotary Club luncheon on Thursday will be called off this week due to the Fourth of July holi day. The meeting will be held as usual next Thursday, however, when Dr. W. I. Hart, Jr., the newly elected Rotary president, will take charge. The board of directors during Dr. Hart’s term will be John Grahaig, J. N. Pruden, C- H. Wood, C. E. Kramer, M. F. Bond, Jr., Fred P. Wood, and himself. The new president has named the following committees, who will be asked to prepare interesting pro grams during the year: Aims and Objects—C. H. Wood, chairman; C. A. Ashby, M. F. Bond, Jr., C. E- Kramer, E. W. Spires, Jno. Grs|ham, J. A. Holmes, W. I. Hart. Club Service—C. A. Ashby, chair man; L. E. Griffin, E. W. Spires, C. E. Kramer. Vocational Service—M. F. Bond, : Jr., chairman; D. M. Warren, ,T. H. Holmes, J. A. Moore. Community Service—C. E. Kramer. , chairman; J. N. Pruden, L. C. Burton, Jno. Graham. International Service —E. W. Spires, chairman; Isaac Hobowsky, Jno. A. Holmes,. J. Edwin Bufflap. Classifications—F. P. Wood, chair man; Jno. A. Holmes, M- W. Jackson, D. M. Warren. Fellowship Attendance Jesse ! White, chairman; W. D. Holmes, C. H. Wood, J. L. Wiggins. Public Information —J. Edwin Bus- i flap, chairman; J. L. Wiggins, F. P. Wood, L. C. Burton. Boys’ Work—Jno. Graham, chair man; Earl Goodwin, Jesse White, i N. IL Rowell, C. E. Kramer. i Crippled Children—O. H. Brown, chairman; C. A. Ashby, M. F. Bond, Jr., Earl Goodwin. Rural Urban Acquaintances—N. K. Rowell, chairman; M. W. Jackson, J. G. Small, O. H. Brown. Committee for Special Projects— L. E. Griffin, chairman; D. M. War ren, J. A. Moore, Jno. A. Holmes.. Student Loan—J. N. Pruden, chair man, F. P. Wood. Methodist Bishop In District July 10-15 Bishop Paul Kern of the Meffto dist Church will be in the Elizabeth City District July 10-15. It was hoped to have the Bishop appear in the local Methodist Churdh, but former plans were necessarily chang ed and he will not be in Edenton on this visit in the district. He will however, appear in Hertford on Fri day, July 12, at 8 P. M., when a number of local Methodists will at tend. Following is the itinerary of Bis hop Kern, which makes it possible for all people in the dictrict to hear him. July 10—North Gates at 11 A. M and Ahoskie at 8 P. M. July 11—Amity at 11 A. M. and Belhaven at 8 P. M. July 12—Creswell at. 11 A- M., when the church will be dedicated, and Hertford at 8 P. M. July 13—Wanchese at 11 A. M. and Manteo at 8 P. M- On Sunday, July 14, he will preach at Pilmoor Memorial and dedicate (jhe church, appearing at Elizabeth City at 8 P. M. July 15—12 to 1:30 P. M., luncheon at the First Methodist Church, Eliz abeth city. Address to pastor and stewards of the district by the Bis hop. Rev. W. F. Walters of the local church is hoping to have Bishop Kern appear in Edenton during the fall. Life Saving Course Has Been Postponed The Red Cross life saving course to have been given here soon (has been called off due to the spread of infantile paralysis, it has been an nounced by Mrs. J. N. Pruden, chair man of the local chapter. The course, which was to .have been conducted by Charles Wales, Jr., who at present is receiving instructions at Hanover, Mass., is sponsored by the Edenton Red Cross, will be started at a| I This newspaper I I l