In these columns will be
found a fair presentation
of local and county news
of general interest.
Volume II. —Number 35.
Prospects Bright To
Get Loan From WPA
Application Sent to Lo
cal Government Com
mission
TIME SHORT
Chowan’s Request For
$267,722 In State
Schedule
Renewed activity looking toward
the establishment and construction of
new town and county high schools
was evidenced on Wednesday follow
ing a conference between Principal
John A. Holmes and County Superin
tendent W. J. Taylor. Acting in ac
cordance with the written suggestion
of Dr. H. G. Baity, acting State di
rector of the PWA, they have again
forwarded their application for fed
eral loans, totaling $267,722, to the
Local Government Commission at
Raleigh, and once approval is secur
ed there—an approval believed to be
but perfunctory—the loans seem as
sured. ,
This being true the PWA grants
will be made contiguous upon assur
ance from the Chowan County Com
missioners that they will ratify a
bond issue equaling 45 per cent of
the monies advanced by the govern
ment. This issue will stand in the
form of an assurance to the govern
ment that its amount will be returned
at the end of 40 years. The Commis
sioners have given no intimation as
yet how they will consider the mat
ter, but the schoolmen feel that some
action wall have to be taken by the
Commissioners at their September
meeting next Monday.
Mr. Holmes and Mr. Taylor have
already made several trips to Ra
leigh in behalf of the school loans,
and on each occasion have been en
couraged at each department visited.
They felt they already had had a
verbal approval from the Local Gov
ernment Commission to which such
matters must be formally approved,
but Dr. Baity’s letter of Tuesday in
dicated this would have to be in
writing, and forwarded to him to go
along with the rest of the papers in
the application.
Reports from Raleigh as featured
importantly in Wednesday’s news
papers state that Dr. Baity has al
ready scheduled Chowan's request
total, and that this helps to make up
a State aggregate of $13,881.71 for
PWA projects in North Carolina.
While four-fifths of the other Caro
lina counties are favorably scheduled
for loans for other projects than
schools, the $267,722 from Chowan
for a school here and another at the
Cross Roads seems to be the only
cataloguing of possible advances to
this county. Originally last March
the total of work wished for in this
county was up around the $2,006,000
mark but apparently it has dwindled
to the sole issue of schools.
Another Wednesday newspaper
story has it that both the PWA and
the WPA at Raleigh are planning a
vigorous campaign to hurry up more
requests for federal moneys. It is
expressed that “warnings” have been
sent out to county and town officials
that the “opportunities” for “cheap”
and “free” federal money for all
sorts of improvements will be closed
within a few days, and that by Sep
tember 7 such applications must be
in Washington.
The same story has it that a “Whirl
wind campaign” by “flying squad
rons” will be sent out at once to
“awaken” towns and counties to the
chance they may be avoiding if they
do not put in applications immediate
ly. It is stated that Dr. Baity de
sires to have the North Carolina
. total-run up as high a& S3QtQOQ,QOO
instead of less titan ope-haff of ‘that
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Masons Urged Attend
Regular Meet Tonight
The regular meeting of Unanimity
Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., will be
held tonight in the court house. A
large attendance is urged due to the
fact that a short program will be re
hearsed to be presented Thursday
night, September 5, when a delega
tion from the local lodge will visit
the lodge at Wanchese. About 20
Edenton Masons are planning to
make the trip.
DIES IN SANATORILM
A telegram was received Monday
from Sanatorium announcing the
death of Ed Harrell, colored tenant
on the farm of George Wood. Har
rell was a tuberculosis victim and
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Quick Action Needed
To Get WPA Money
The following telegram was re
ceived Wednesday afternoon by
The Herald from ,E. S. Askew,
Works Progress Administrator di
rector of District No. 1, which
shows the importance of quick
action necessary to secure federal
money for projects:
“Please give publicity to the
fact that all projects will have to
reach the Raleigh office by Sejt.
10th, in order that they may be
checked in this office in time to
reach the Raleigh office by Sept,
here as early as possible and not
later than Friday night, Septem
ber 6th. Call on this office by tele
gram collect for any service we
can render in preparation of pro
jects.”
COUNTY SCHOOLS
OPEN ON SEPT. 16
Teachers Secured For All Schools
Except Elmo; Colored Schools
Open September 30 <
The tentative date for the opening
of white schools in Chowan County
is September 16, while the colored
schools are scheduled to begin work
on September 30.
According to Superintendent W. J.
Taylor, all teachers have been select
ed with the exception of a teacher
for the Elmo school, and prospects
are bright for a successful session.
Teachers in the various schools are
as follows:
White Schools
Chowan High School—Miss Mar
jorie Hefren, E. C. Woodard, P. L.
Baumgardner and Miss Marian Fiske.
Chowan Elementary School—Miss
Eunice Hobbs, "Miss Lois Savage,
Miss May Belle Edwards, Mrs. Nora
Lane Boyce, Miss Myra Bunch, Miss
Mary Adams, and Mrs. Thomas W.
Elliott.
Center Hill—Mrs. Mary Nixon,
Miss Virginia Cale.
Elmo—Vacant.
Oak Grove—Mrs. Sadie Morris,
Miss Gladys Smith.
Gum Pond—Mrs. Bertha Hubbard.
Beech Fork—Miss Mary Lee Cope
land.
Colored Schools
Center Hill—Alethia J. Edwards.
Britts—Edith Jane Bonner.
Hudson Grove—Virginia Anderson,
Rosa Howcutt.
White Oak—'Henry Creecy, Har
riett Futrell, Tinie Jernigan.
Green Hall—Charles L. Fayton,
Delilah Satterfield.
Warren’s Grove—Mrs. S. J. V.
Etheridge and Mrs. Naomi Blount
Hicks.
MASONIC HALL IS
BEING DECORATED
Paul Olsson Will Make Unanimity
Lodge Room Most Unique In
North Carolina
Work on the decorating of the
Masonic hall on the second floor of
the Court House was started Mon
day morning. This work will be done
by P. Olsson, who is an expert in
this line and will be completed in
about two weeks. Mr. Olsson, a
member of-Unanimity Lodge, is very
much interested in affairs of the
lodge and gave it to be understood
that upon completion the local lodge
will have one of the most unique
halls in North Carolina.
Mr. Olsson hi his decorating pro
gram plans to paint various symbols
of Masonry on the walls and ceiling
and when the work is done it is ex
pected to "be not only a credit to the
local lodge' but th's city as well
• The teew lodge" plans to - have a
celebration in honor of the event
when Mr. Olsson has finished the de
corating. In the meantime the com
munications of the lodge will be held
in the grand jury room.
Many Attend Rocky
Hock Revival Meeting
Large crowds have been attending
the evangelistic services being con
ducted this week at Rocky Hock
Church, of which Rev. Frank Cale is
pastor. The preacher for these meet
ings is Rev. T. P. Simmons of Ash
land, Kentucky, and he has been de
livering interesting and powerful
sermons. The meeting will close on
Sunday night.
Next week the Rev. Mr. Simmons
will conduct revival services at War
wick Swamp Church and the
ing week at Center Hill, to which all
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 29,1935.
SCHOOLCHILDREN
MAY RENT BOOKS
FORYEJUCSWORK
Rental System Estab
lished By Last Gen
eral Assembly
ONE-THIRD COST
Edenton Schools Will
Open Monday, Sep
tember 23
The text book proposition in the
local schools this year will make it
less burdensome for parents of chil
dren due to the past Legislature pro
viding for the rental system of
school books. Under the dual plan
children may buy new books as here
tofore if they so desire and may buy
needed second-handed books if they
can be secured.
Books, however, will be available
on the renting system, the rent for a
book for a year being approximately
one-third of the list price. The ex
act procedure relative to book renting
has not been completed, a meeting
being called for school superintend
ents and principals in Elizabeth
City on Monday, September 2, when
all the details will be explained.
The life of a book is estimated to
be three years and remains the prop
erty of the State, the third price for
rental each year being calculated to
cover the list price. John A. Holmes,
however, has not been advised just
how the situation will be handled, the
new system necessarily creating ex
tra work due to keeping records and
providing for the damage and loss of
books.
School books will be furnished
free to families on relief rolls.
The white schools of Edenton and
Advance will open Monday, Septem
ber 23, while the city colored school
will not open until Monday, Septem
ber 30.
The same faculty as last year will
return to the schools in the Edenton
administrative unit with the excep
tion of a successor to Henry House
as history teacher and athletic coach.
This vacancy had been accepted by
Jim Morgan, of Albemarle, but short
ly thereafter he wired Mr. Holmes
he would not accept in order to work
nearer his home. The coaching pro
blem at the Edenton school is no
nearer settled than when Mr. House
resigned.
As Ths Herald goes to press, Mr.
Holmes is in communication with
Frank Suttenfield, former coach, who
will come back to Edenton if citizens
of the town will suppdement his sal
ary as they did Mr. House last year.
Shaft At Peanut Mill
Torn Down Wednesday
The Bfick elevator shaft at the
Farmers Peanut Company, which has
been standing high in the air as a
reminder of one of Edenton’s most
disastrous fires, was blown down by
dynamite Wednesday morning. The
shaft has caused much concern on
the part of John G. Wood and it was
decided this week to have it torn
down.
The first attempt failed when a
heavy cable fastened to an iron beam
in the shaft was connected to a Nor
folk-Southern yard engine in the hope
of toppling the structure. The beam,
however, was pulled out, not having
any effect on the shaft. On Tuesday
another attempt was made, when five
charges of dynamite was exploded
at various places in the wall. This
again failed but on Wednesday morn
ing six more charges of dynamite
was used and the shaft crashed to the
ground. The shaft, however, re
mained in the air several minutes
after the explosion and fortunately
missed a number of men who had
gone up to, the place and scrambled
away as.,the bricks crashed to'the
ground,, .'
Mr. Wood contemplates building a
new warehouse where the old peanut
cleaning plant stood.
United Charities Fund
Now About Exhausted
Unless citizens of Chowan County
come to the rescue of the United
Charities, the supplementary relief
given by this organization to those on
the relief roll of the County will
have to be suspended. According to
Mrs. A. T. Bush, treasurer of the
Uilited Charities, this fund was bare
ly sufficient to give this added relief
this week, and unless there are more
donations forthcoming those receiv
ing aid will have to be content with
what they receive from the County.
There are from 17 to 20 of these
old persons who are unable to work
and each Monday morning have been
receiving orders for groceries from
the United Charities.
REVENUE OFFICER
MAKING CHECKUP
ON TAXDODGERS
R. F. Tuttle Apprehends
Six Failing to File
Sales Tax Return
TWO PLEAD GUILTY
Two Settle Out of Court
And Two More Await
ing Trial
Acting upon instructions of his
superiors, R. F. -Tuttle, state reve
; nue collector, is now making a tho
rough check-up of licenses and sales
1 tax returns in his territory, which
resulted in the finding of six viola
tors last week. Charges were
brought by Mr. Tuttle against G. A.
Hollowell, J. S. Goodwin, R. L. Ches
: son, J. W. Griffin, Joel Goodwin and
; Roy Hollowell, manager of the Cho
wan Grocery.
Two of these, G. A. Hollowell and
, J. S. Goodwin, came before Recorders
Court Friday afternoon, both being
charged with failing to obtain li
cense for a gasoline station and to
file sale tax returns. Both men
pled guilty and entered prayer for
judgment to be continued until De
, cember 1, during which time the li
cense and tax must be paid.
Sheriff J. A. Bunch was unable to
serve the warrants upon Chesson and
Griffin in time for court Friday and
Joel Goodwin and Roy Hollowell’s
case was nol prossed, they having
settled out of court.
P. ÜBAUMGARDNER
PROMOTED TO RANK
OF CAPTAIN IN N. G.
Assigned to Duty With 115th Ambu
lance Capable and
Efficient Officer
Pearly L. Baumgardner was sig
nally honored last week when he was
promoted in the North Carolina Nat
ional Guard, being elevated from the
rank of a first lieutenant to that of
Captain.
Major M. P. Whichard on Satur
day received the following letter re
garding the promotion, by order of
the Governor, from Adjutant General
J. Van B. Metts of Raleigh:
“Having appeared before the ex
amining board and satisfactorily
passed the examination prescribed by
the War Department under the pro
visions of the Act of Congress ap
proved June 3, 1916 (as amended)
and as called for under special or
ders No. 262, AGO. N. C. r August 16,
1935, promotion of the following
named officer in the National Guard
of North Carolina and of the United
States, is hereby announced:
“Pearly Lorenzo Baumgardner,
First Lieutenant, MAC., to be Cap
tain, MAC.
“Captain Baumgardner is assigned
to duty with the 115th Ambulance
Company, 105th Medical Regiment,
N. C. N. G., station Edenton, N. C.,
vice vacancy in the grade of Captain,
and will report in person to Major
Murray P. Whichard, M. C., com
manding 115th Ambulance Company,
105th Mdicael Regiment, N- C. N. G.,
Edenton, N. C.”
Captain Baumgardner has served
with the 115th Ambulance Company
for the past six years and has served
in the grades of private, private Ist
class, corporal and first lieutenant-
According to Major Whichard he has
made a very capable and efficient of
ficer and enjoys the utmost respecte
and esteem of every member of the
local outfit.
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Highway Commission
Takes No Action On
Bridge Over Sound
Julien Wood, member of the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion, has returned from a meeting of
the Highway Commission in the wes
tern part of the State. According to
Mr. Wood the members of the Com
mission ware on. more or less of an
inspection tour aqd nothing was con
sidered regarding a bridge across the
Albemarle Sound.
The Commission will meet early in
September, at which time the body
expects to be flooded by requests for
roads, bridges and other improve
ments.
Mr. Wood was unable to say what
disposition would be made of the
Albemarle Sound bridge proposition.
HALF HOLIDAY OVER
Wednesday was the last of the
half holidays which have been observ
ed in Edenton during July and Au
gust Next Wednesday, September
4, all stores will be open all day as
usual. \
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Suttenfield May Be
New Edenton Coach
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[»lt. BAI PH W. McBUNAI "
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Win
ston-Salem, leader of the anti-sales
bloc and champion of the schools in
the 1935 General Assembly, has an
nounced his candidacy for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor of
North Carolina.
In his brief announcement Dr. Mc-
Donald calls for a definite choice be
tween “machine government for the
benefit of the few” and “genuine de
mocratic government for the benefit
of all.”
Dr. McDonald stated that he is un
concerned over reports that an unli
mited amount of money would be
spent in an effort to defeat him. “I
have had that experience before,”
said McDonald. “The day when a
North Carolina election could be
bought is gone forever.”
SEEKING DATA ON
APPLICATION FOR
OLD AGE PENSION
Baltimore Resident Claims She Was
Born In .Edenton In 1834 and
Married In 1869
R. E. Leary, Town Clerk, on Fri
day received a letter of inquiry from
the Baltimore Emergency Relief
Committee relative to the date of
birth of a Sarah Cox, who has made
application in Baltimore for old age
pension, claiming to be 101 years of
age.
The letter, signed by Mrs. Roberta
E. Finkbinder, district secretary, fol
lows:
“It would oe very helpful to us in
our eligibility in vestigation if we
could obtain proof from your files of
date of birth and marriage of Sarah
Cox (nee Brown) who claims to have
been bom in Edenton in 1834 and
married William Cox there in 1869.
If you have any means certifying the
above, will you kindly notify us at
once so as to expedite the investiga
tion?”
Mr. Leary was unable to find any
information regarding either date
and accordingly notified Mrs. Fink
binder.
Edenton Boys Return
From European Trip
Amos Griffin and Jack Pruden,
popular young men of this city, re
turned Tuesday to their respective
homes, after spending the past two
months in Europe, where they went
as members of the orchestra aboard
the S. S. Europa. Jack is a student
at the University of North Carolina,
and Amos attends North Carolina
State College, where he directs his
own orchestra. Both young men are
musicians of note, and have played
at many musical entertainments both
in Edenton and elsewhere.
Ed Bond Post Meets
On Tuesday Night
The monthly meeting of Ed Bond
Post will be held on Tuesday night
in the Red Men Hall at which time a
report of the delegates to the State
Convention will be heard. Among
other matters to come up for discus
sion is decision upon plans for the in
stallation of the recently elected new
officers of the Post.
All members are urgently request
ed to attend.
BACK FROM SOUTH AMERICA
Oscar E. Duncan, who has spent
the summer making trips from New
York to South American ports, has
returned to Edenton. Mr. Duncan is
a member of the faculty of the Eden
ton High School.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
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$1.25 Per Year
| Frank Suttenfield Will
Return If Supplement
Is Raised
FANS ANXIOUS
Superintendent John A.
Holmes Prefers For
mer Coach
As The Herald goes to press there
is a likelihood that Frank Suttenfied
may be secured to coach athletics at
the Edenton High School this year.
Mr. Suttenfied has gone to Spray,
where he has been offered a position
in one of the mills there, but has inti
mated to John A. Holmes that if the
salary as teacher of history and
coach is supplemented by Edenton
citizens as it was last year for Henry
House, he would be receptive to ac
cepting the position.
Os the available coaches, Mr.
Holmes prefers by far to have Mr.
Suttenfield, but at present is unable
to guarantee him any supplement by
football.and high school fans. In the
meantime Mr. Holmes would like to
know if a movement would be start
ed in an effort to raise enough mon
ey to secure the former coach.
Mr. Suttenfied had much to do with
promoting athletics at the local
school. He put extra good athletic
teams on the field and it was under
his coaching that the majority of the
members of last year’s championship
football team received their first
training. He is well liked by citizens
as a whole and demands the respect
of high school students.
Mr. Holmes at this time isn’t dick
ering with any other man as coach
and will wait to see if Edenton fans
will raise enough to warrant Mr.
Suttenfied returning to Edenton. Mr.
Suttenfied would like to return to
Edenton and coach athletics, but at
the present salary allowed for teach
ing he feels that it is insufficient to
support himself and wife.
Anyone who is interested in rais
ing a fund to secure Mr. Suttenfied
should get in touch immediately with
Mr. Holmes. The time for opening
of school is drawing near and fans as
well as football players are very
anxious to know who to expect as
coach.
BOY SCOUTS WILL
HAVE CAMPING TRIP
Edenton Troop Plan To Leave On
Wednesday For Camp at
Point Harbor
The Edenton Boy Scouts will leave
for a camping trip on Wednesday.
This decision was reached Monday
night at a meeting of the troop com
mittee in the office of Scoutmaster
John W. Graham. Point Harbor has
been selected as the site for a camp
and the boys and scoutmaster are
now busily engaged in preparing for
camp.
Members of the troop committee
who were present Monday night were
C. E. Kramer, Millard Bond, Joe
Conger, W. D. Holmes and Scoutmas
ter John Graham.
Mrs. Robert White
Buried In Hertford
Mrs. South Jackson White, 79,
widow of the late Robert White, died
at her home on North Broad Street
Sunday afternoon, following an at
tack of malaria and a chill on Friday.
She was a very lovable old lady and
during her lifetime had won a host
of friends. She was a faithful mem
ber of the Methodist Church and
took an active part in the work of
her church up until her death.
Funeral services were held at the
home Tuesday afternoon with Rev.
W. F. Walters, pastor of the Metho
dist Church, officiating. The body was
taken to Hertford, where it was in
terred beside her husband, who died
several years ago.
Mrs. White is survived by one son,
R. Graham White, of Edenton; one
niece, Mrs. W. A. Everett, of Eden
ton; three nephews, L. J. Wool, of
Nags Head; William Small and J. S.
McNider, of Hertford.
Ballenger-Moore
Wedding Today
The wedding of Miss Dorothy
, Moore and Mr. Earl L. Ballenger
’ will be solemnized at seven o’clock
tonight at the home of the bride’s
i parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L.
Moore, in the presence of a few rela
tives and friends.
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