In these columns will be
found a fair presentation
of local and county news
of general interest.
Volume ll.—Number 32.
Health Board Warns
Quarantine Violators
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Children Still Forbidden
To Gather In Public
Places
SUBJECTTO FINE
Public WilUße Notified
When the Order Is
Revoked
Upon receipt of complaints that
the quarantine recently ordered by
the Chowan County Board of Health
in an effort to prevent the spread of
infantile paralysis has been violated,
the Board called a special meeting
last Thursday night to discuss the
matter. The quarantine has not been
lifted and letters were sent to all
places in the county which were af
fected by the order, including Sun
day schools, Churches, the theatre
and drug stores.
The quarantine of the home in
which was Chowan’s only victim of
the disease has been lifted, but the
forbidding of children under 15 years
of age to gather in public places is
.still in force.
The letter sent out by the Board of
Health is as follows:
“To whom it may concern: ,
“The County Board of Health in a
call meeting Thursday night August
Ist. had reports relative to the vio
lation of the quarantine resolution
made by this board, June 27th, as
an effort to prevent the spread of
infantile paralysis. The Board of
Health is cognizant of certain places
of business that are daily violating
the resolution, which sets forth the
fact that children under 16 years of
age are not to be allowed in theaters,
Sunday Schools, Churches, or any
public gathering, and that all public
places serving drinks, paper cups
should be used.
“The Board of Health desires to
announce that this resolution as pas
sed on June 27th is still in force, and
that the public will be notified when
it is revoked.
“The law on this matter of violat
ing the rules and regulations of
Boards of Health, is very clearly set
forth in Chapter 7066 of the Consoli
dated Statutes;” which states :-‘lf
any person shall violate the rules and
regulations made by the County
Board of Health he shall be guilty of
misdemeanor and fined not exceeding
fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceed
ing thirty days'.”
No Action Reported
On Loan For Schools
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Nothing definite has been heard
here regarding the application made
to the PWA for funds with which to
build two new school houses, one in
Edenton and one at Cross Roads.
John A. Holmes was in Raleigh last
Friday in reference to the application
and is of the opinion that he will be
called again before a loan is granted.
Mr, Holmes has already made four
trips to Raleigh and four to Chapel
Hill in the interest of securing better
school facilities for Edenton, and he,
as well as W. J. Taylor, who likewise
has spent a great deal of time in this
connection, are hopeful that more
adequate school facilities will result
through help of the PWA.
If the application is accepted by
PWA) officials, it must be submitted
to the Board of Commissioners, who
are convinced that some money will
have to be spent to enlarge or make
alterations to the school buildings.
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Projects In Chowan
Resumed Thursday
Os interest to relief workers in
Chowan County is the information
received Wednesday by W. E. Baker,
assignment officer for Chowan Coun
ty, from T. R. Richardsons, district
project engineer of Elisabeth CSty
that starting Thursday morning all
the projects in Chowan County would
be resumed. <?This work has been
held up for about three weeks due to
the lack of funds.
The order to resume work will
place almost 300 relief workers on
the pay roll which wW amount to ap
proximately SB6O weekly.
The projects which wilLbe affected
by the order are seweragt, malaria
drainage, sewing and two road pro
jects, one on the Sound Side Road and
one at Center Hill.
CHIEF HELMS BACK
Chief of Police G. A. Helms, Mrs.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
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S JOSEPHUS DANIELS, JR..
( Josephus Daniels, Jr., of Raleigh,
: was elected commander of the North
J Carolina Department, American Le
' gion, at the annual convention held
! this week in Fayetteville.
Josephus Daniels, Jr., son of the
. Ambassador to Mexico and war-time
Secretary of the Navy, enlisted in
the Marine Corps as a private upon
• the entry of the United States into
i the World War and rose to the rank
; of captain. He served a year over
■ seas with the 13th Marines and was
1 aide to General Smedley Butler.
1 Active in the American Legion
• from its formation period, Mr. Dan
iels is a past Commander of Raleigh
1 Post No. 1 and for several years was
’ chairman of the Legion’s luncheon
; club in the State Capital. He is past
Grande Chef de Gare of the Grand
■ Voiture of North Carolina of the 40
and 8, and also is past Chef de Gare
: of the Raleigh Voiture of 40 and 8.
1 He has attended several national con
ventions as a delegate from this
• State. Mr. Daniels has also been a
delegate from the Raleigh Post to
several State conventions.
Forty-one years of age, Mr. Dan
iels is business manager of The News
and Observer.
Mrs. Daniels was Miss Evelina Fos
ter McCauley of Nashville, Tenn. She
is a member of the Raleigh Unit of
the American Legion Auxiliary. They
have one son, Edgar Foster, a char
ter member of the Raleigh Chapter
of Sons of the Legion.
Colored Youth Drowns
In Queen Anne’s Creek
Dorsey Lee Jernigan, Jr., 18-year
old colored youth lost his life by
drowning Tuesday afternoon in Queen
Anne’s Creek just opposite the Nor
folk Southern freight depot. He is
the son of Dorsey Jernigan, living
with his parents on Oakum Street,
and being employed by V. D. Jones,
Oakum Street grocer.
A number of other boys were on
the dock at the time, when Jernigan
stated that he was going to swim
1 across the creek. Shortly upon en
tering the water he went down and
upon coming to the surface gave the
impression to those present that he
■ was fooling. However, when he fail
ed to come up the third time the re
-1 port was spread that a man had
drowned and a lyge crowd was
soon at the scene.
A number of men in a row boat
searched for the body, which was
found shortly after the accident. Dr.
J. A. Powell, County Health Officer,
with a corps of assistants, worked
over the body for a long time in an
effort at resuscitation but all efforts
were of no avail.
Young Jernigan was released from
jail earlier in the day where he was
placed for being drunk and disorder
ly on the farm of A, C. Boyce.
Colored Youth Held
For Superior Court
Earl Gregory, colored youth,
whose exact age could not definitely
be determined, faced Recorder J. N.
Pruden in Recorder’s Court Tuesday
morning charged with feloniously
breaking into the residence of C* Y.
Parrish on Sunday and stealing a
small sum of money, a shirt, razor
and a pocket knife.
Judge Pruden held the defendant
over for the September term of Su
perior Court, placing the bond at
S2OO.
The case against Joseph Costen,
who is charged with hitting Robert
Brown with a baseball bat, was again
postponed due to the inability of the
i prosecuting witness to attend court.
1 Brow W’s eyesight been affected
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 8,1935.
, SPIRES HONORED
BY TEXAS GRAND
LODGE OFMASONS
’ Named Representative
Os Texas Masons In
N. C. Grand Lodge
ACCEPTS POST
Planning For 150th An
niversary of Grand
Lodge
Mayor E. W. Spires, Grand Histo
rian of the Grand Lodge of Masons
in North Carolina, was signally
honored this week upon the receipt
of an attractive certificate from the
Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, naming him as
the reresentative of the Texas Grand
lodge in the North Carolina Grand
Lodge- The certificate is signed by
John H. Crooker, Most Worshipful
Grand Master of Texas and bears the
seal of the Grand Lodge of Texas.
J In part the certificate sets forth:
“Whereas the Most Worshipful
I Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons of North Carolina
, and the Most Worshipful Grand
[ Lodge of the Honorable Fraternity of
J Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of
, Texas have agreed to cultivate with
, each other a more intimate corre
. spondence than has heretofore exist
’ ed between them, and believing that
. the ties of brotherly affection may
be strengthened, the prosperity of
! the Masonic family promoted, and the
unity, integrity and the purity of the
, Order protected, and its utility and
, honor confirmed, by the appointment
, and reception of representatives from
. each of the aforesaid Grand Lodges
j to the other:
, “Therefore, be it known that we,
, reposing especial trust and confidence
in our well-beloved Brother E. W.
’ Spires have thought fit to constitute
. and appoint, and by these presents
do constitute and appoint the said E.
, W. Spires as the representative of
the Grand Lodge of Texas near the
Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of
! North Carolina for the purposes
aforesaid.”
The certificate was executed in the
, city of Waco, Texas, July 29th.
Mr. Spires has also had some cor
-1 respondence from Reginald V. Harris,
grand historian of the Grand Lodge
.of Nova Scotia at Halifax. The
Nova Scotia historian requested in
formation about plans of the cele
brating of the 150th anniversary of
the founding of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina which will be held at
Tarboro in 1937. The 200th anniver
sary of the Nova Scotia Grand Lodge
, will be celebrated in 1938.
i In connection with the North Car
olina celebration Mr. Spires and his
’ co-workers are accumulating histori
! cal information from all of the colo
nial lodges and a pageant Will be
presented depicting lodge activities
in the early days. Each of the Colo
nial lodges will be requested to ap
point suitable members who will im
peronate the characters who repre
sented their lodges at Tarboro when
I the Grand Lodge was founded.
The lodges prior to the Revolution
' ary War operated under a charter of
| the Grand Lodge of England.
Justice Peace Court
Draws Large Crowd
| A large crowd gathered in the
Chowan County Court House Monday
afternoon when three cases came up
for trial before Justice of the Peace
W. S. Summerell.
The first case was that of Mrs. M.
G. Sawyer and her daughter, Mrs.
Myrtle Brantley, who were charged
with assaulting Maybelle Twiddy on
the streets of Edenton. Both plead
guilty to the charge and were sen
tenced to 10 days in jail, which was
suspended upon payment of the costs
of court which whs $4.75 each.
The second case was that of Noah
Bateman, who was charged with
sleeping on the streets of Edenton.
’ He was released with the cost of
court which is to be paid by Saturday
night
The third case and the one which
no doubt was the reason for the
large crowd present was that of M.
; G. Sawyer* who was charged with as
saulting his wife and disturbing the
peace of the neighborhood.
Mr. Sawyer refused to allow Mr.
Summerell to try the case, claiming
that he could not receive justice. The
case, therefore, was changed to be
tried before F. W. Hobbs. Mr.
Hobbs, however, could not be found
and the affair was postponed until
Friday afternoon at 6 o’clock.
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| BIG CELEBRATION
|PLANNED AUGUST
: 14 AT EDEN HOUSE
: Elaborate Program Ar
ranged For Third
Annual Event
BEAUTYCONTEST
Hon. W. L. Lumpkin
Will Be Principal
Speaker
The third annual out-door celebra
i tion sponsored by the Eastern Caro
lina Chamber of Commerce will be
: held at Eden House Beach Wednes
: day, August 14. An elaborate pro
i gram has been arranged which is
calculated to draw a large crowd for
the occasion.
Hon. W. L. Lumpkin of Louisburg,
will make the principal speech of the
day, which is scheduled for 3:30
1 o’clock. Other prominent speakers
are also on the program.
A gorgeous bathing beauty contest
in connection with the celebration
will be held both afternoon and night
■ in which cash prizes will be given to
the winners. The coronation of the
bathing beauty queen will take place
at 9 P.j M., and the queen’s ball will
start at 9:30 P. M., lasting until
2:00 A. M.
A swimming and diving contest
will also be a feature of the day.
Music for the occasion will be fur
nished by Harry Slagle and his
Nighthpwks.
In order to defray the expenses of
the celebration, a small admission
charge:to the grounds will be made.
Judge J. H. Matthews, of Windsor,
will b 4 master of ceremonies, and
Wayland Spruill, of Bertie County
will introduce the speaker.
COUNTY TAX RATE
BOOSTED TO $1.06
The County Commissioners at their
meeting Monday decided on the tax
rate for the coming year. After a
careful study of the budget and a
paring down as much as possible it
was decided that the rate will be
$1.06, which is two cents more on the
hundred dollars than last year.
The rate is comprised of the fol
lowing amounts:
Schools $ .13
Road Bonds .63
Gen. County Expenses .15
Poor Relief .10
Health .05
* Total $1.06
There was a slight juggling of the
various levies which finally resulted
in the same rate as last year, but it
was found necessary to levy 10 cents
for poor relief this year as against
a levy of 8 cents last year, which is
the cause of the two-cent increase.
Local Hotel Men Get
Part Os Unpaid Bill
Lee Smith, a former insurance
agent here, was summoned from Eli
zabeth City Saturday morning upon
two warrants issued by George Lassi
ter and Maurice Broome, manager of
the Hotel Hinton, charging him with
failing to pay a board bill. The case
was dismissed by Justice of the
Peace W. S. Summerell when the
prosecutors agreed to accept part
payment of the bill upon the promise
that the remainder would be paid as
soon as Mr. Smith is able.
Chowan Farmers Busy
Curing Tobacco Crop
Tobacco fanners in Chowan are at
present busy curing their crop, re
ports being to the effect that the
tobacco is of a fairly good grade.
The tobacco acreage in Chowan this
year is 408 acres, which compares
with 362 acres last year.
Fanners are optimistic at the pros
pect of gpod prices again this season
due to the favorable prices in the
markets which have opened further
south. In the meantime employes in
County Agent Rowell’s office are pre
paring the tobacco marketing cards,
which from is somewhat different
from list year,'but carry more com
plete information which is to the
advantage of the farmer.
Just what arrangement will be
made this year regarding the number
of pounds each farmer may sell tax
free is not known at present, but
will be made known in time for the
opening of the market which will be
Monday, August 26.
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! Canning Factory For
i Edenton Considered
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. Commissioners Meet
At County Home For
Inspection Aug. 29
The Chowan County Commissioners
will meet at the County Home on !
Thursday, August 29, at 10 o’clock
A. M., for the purpose of making an j
inspection of the institution.
Up to the present time informa- 1
tion has been received relative to the |
building of a new County Home as j
proposed by Frank Benton, architect. 1
who is hopeful of securing a new
, plant as an outright grant by the
’ PWA. Mr. Benton at a previous
meeting of the County Commissioners
. presented a blue print of the proposed
. new building and has made an appli
cation to the PWA officials.
; No Action Taken On
1 Coach For School
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Nothing definite has been done to
' date to secure a coach for the Eden
[ ton High School for the coming ses
sion. John A. Holmes had planned
[ to have a meeting with members of
' the Edenton School Board on Tuesday
J to discuss the proposition, but due
j to an extra amount of work, he was
unable to have this meeting.
Mr. Holmes will, however, meet
with his committee as soon as possi
ble and come to some definite con
’ elusion in the matter.
It is understood there are several
: applicants for the post, and these
, will be thoroughly considered before
any selection is made.
, Frank Suttenfield, the coach of the
I school preceding Henry House, was
r in Edenton Saturday night and in an
interview with a Herald reporter left
the impression that the only reason
he would not accept his old job was
that the salary was not enough to
i provide a living. He has an offer to
make more money at teaching over a
nine-months period, but was unde
cided if he would accept it or not.
When asked if he would consider
returning to Edenton if a public sub
scription similar to the one raised
, last year to supplement Mr. House’s
was included in the offer, Mr. Sutten
field did not intimate that he would
turn the offer down.
Prospects are bright for a good
football team at the local school
again this year, the championship
team of last year losing only two
members by graduation, they being
Bill Harrell, quarterback, and Richard
Rogerson, end and star punter.
; C. E. Kramer District
Legion Commander
O. H. Brown, R. L. Pratt, Sheriff
: J. Alvah Bunch, Craig Haste and
Floyd I. White, members of the Ed
Bond Post of the American Legion,
attended the 17th annual convention
of the American Legion which was
! held at Fayetteville this week. AH
report a very successful and interest
: ing convention.
Josephus Daniels, Jr., of Raleigh,
i whom the local Post endorsed, was
elected commander for 1936, with
: Asheville winning out as the conven
i tion city for next year.
■ Os interest to Legionnaires was
‘ the passing again of a resolution cair
-1 ing for the immediate cash payment
• of adjusted service certificates, and
: the promise that an unrelenting fight
; will continue in Congress until ad
journment to secure the payment for
veterans.
C. E. Kramer of the Ed Bond Post
| was elected district commander for
the First District, with D. E. Evans,
of Manteo, vice commander, and J.
H. Hall, Jr., of Elizabeth City, dele
gate to the National Convention.
Discuss Route 13 At
Wilmington Meeting
A general invitation has been is
sued interested citizens to attend a
! meeting to be held at the Cape Fear
Hotel in Wilmington next Wednesday
in the interest of U. S. Route 13. A
number of these meetings have al
ready been held and at the one Wed
nesday the organization will be ef
fected and officers elected.
U. S. Route 13 now stops at Cape
, Charles and it is the purpose to route
. this important highway by Norfolk
to Elizabeth City byway of the
; Moyock road through Edenton, Wind
. sor and southward along the coast to
. Florida.
In commenting on the matter May
or E. W. Spires said that, although
he would not be able to afctigKi, it
This newspaper is circu-
I lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
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John H. Sikes Explains
Plan In Meeting
Monday
LITTLE INTEREST
Site and $5,000 City’s or
County’s Share In
Proposition
John Sikes, who is connected with
the N. C. ERA, appeared before the
Chowan County Commissioners at
their meeting Monday with a propo
sition to establish a canning factory
in Edenton. Mr. Sikes’ proposal was
stated, but due to the amount of cur
rent business to be transacted a joint
committee from the Commissioners
and Town Council was appointed to
meet in the Municipal Building that
same afternoon to discuss the matter.
This committee, composed of D. M.
Warren, W. H. Winborne, A. C.
Boyce, T. W. Jones, and X. E. Cope
land, met at 5 o’clock, together with
Mr. Sikes, when the proposition was
thoroughly explained.
The plans call for the erection of a
one-story frame building 100x47 feet,
costing SIB,OOO. Os this amount the
North Carolina Fisheries Corporation
would pay $13,000 leaving the town
or county to furnish $5,000 and a site.
The'corporation now has 1571 mem
bers in 12 counties and under the
plan will erect factories at Manteo,
Southport, Morehead City and Bel
haven. Membership in the fisheries
corporation would cost $lO per year,
which could be paid by fish or pro
duce which is handled by the factory.
Mr. Sikes explained that in Eden-/
ton the factory could can herring roe
during the fishing season and resort
to the canning of various vegetables
at other times. The enterprise would
employ from 30 to 35 hands when in
full operation. He also said a cer
tain sum of money had been set aside
for operating costs which would in
sure the operation of a plant for at
least three or four months.
It would oe necessary to erect the
plant within the city limits due to
the necessity of having electric lights
and running water.
It is understood that the town or
county, or both jointly, furnish a site
and $5,000 in order to secure the re
mainder of the money from the fish
eries corporation to build the plant
and after it is completed it is leased
to the corporation for a period of
years at $1 per year, with the under
standing that if the plant is not oper
ated for a certain number of months
during any one year the building
would become the property of the
town or county.
Members of the committee explain
ed the financial situation of both bod
ies, neither one seeing its way clear
to advance such an amount in the
face of defaulted interest on bonds,
as well as other expenses that must
be met.
A definite decision on the proposi
tion was held over until the meeting
of the Town Council on Tuesday
night when it will be brought up for
discussion before the entire board.
However, sentiment of the council
men, as well as the commissioners, is
not very encouraging to accept the
plan.
New School Bus
For County Schools
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The Chowan County schools have
been promised a new school bus by
the time school opens, which has
tentatively been set for September
16 by the County Board of Education.
The Board has also been advised by
the school commission that the Chow
an unit would also get two more re
placements in event the PWA loan
went through.
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Colored Woman Found
Murdered Last Week
Edenton experienced a murder last
week when Hester Satterfield, color
ed, aged about 28 years, was found
apparently choked to death at the old
Farmers Peanut Mill. The body of
the woman was found Friday morn
ing by some Negro men while on
their way to work, and from the
bruises about the neck she was most
likely choked by her assailant.
There was no clue to the murderer,
except the fact that Tom Rawls, a
local Negro, was seen accompanying
her Thursday night and up to the
present time has not been located.
Local goUce have searched for Rawls