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PAGE FOUR THE CHOWAN HERALD Published every Thursday by Buff’s Printing House, 100 East King Street, Eden ton, N. C. J. Edwin Bufflap Editor Hectcr Lupton Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.26 £&x Months 75c Entered as second-class matter August 30..1934, at the post office at Edenton, tfTorth Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rate 3 furnished by re quest Cards of thanks, obituaries, reso lutions of respect, etc., will be changed for at- regular advertising rates. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK LOVE DEFRAUDS NOT: Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.—Romans 13:8, 9. CREDIT DUE LADIES OF DEMONSTRATION CLUBS Noah Webster, who got out quite a book a century or so ago, whether you agree with it or not, defines “achievement” as “something accom plished by valor, boldness or praise worthy exertion.” Had he been here last Saturday he would have found full justification for his wards! also a lot of very fine canned edibles spread out as delectable proof of- the' praise worthy exertion of Chowan County’s farm ladies. Achievement Day for the Chowan home demonstration clubs will ever be a memorable affair annually, and at no time more so than the one just closed. It is all right to write and talk about the autumn pageantry of the fields and forests, of the far away parades. before the wind and the rain! and through the morning mists and! fogs when the weather is sparkling along the Chowan and Albemarle, and the sourwoods are dyed in blood, the maple tree a Joseph’s coat and the black gum a dappled orange and red, with the pythenias proudly displaying their clusters of orange berries about the old home door sill, but even all this Mardi Gras of nature doesn’t compare with the multitudinous colors that can be made to show so lovely in glass jars, to make faces at the chilling blasts of December and January. There is achievement for you, and on Saturday it was never so fine be fore! Chowan’s fair sex showed anew that the declining year can offer up the finest and the fairest of her wares before the calendar and the clock conspire to end her days. It would be futile to bestow especial praise anywhere. True, a first and second prize was awarded and all honor to the winners of each. But one belly, anyhow, bets it could be comforted by product canned in Chowan, whether by a Grand Prix prize, holder or exactly the opposite, for, let’s say it and have it over with, everything in Chowan beats the world, or anything, either, as far as that goes. Achievement Day in Chowan was a demonstration of hun ger-satisfying good things, and my, how good they looked. The address is 104 Each Church Street if there were any left-overs! MAY THEY HAVE LEARNED MUCH IN SO SHORT TIME! Like many other cities of the State, Edenton, too, was honored yesterday by being permitted to play host for a few minutes to the band of north ern travel bureau representatives be ing autoed about the Carolinas to see the wonders of the land. We would have enjoyed the opportunity more had we been allowed to show the visitors something of the history of this first foothold of the nation, but as long as they couldn’t stay, or wouldn’t stay, we are at least glad they passed through Chowan, and saw-, as Stevenson once wrote of an other clime: “In the farmlands, the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens quiet eyes.” Frankly it seems like a great op portunity gone astray, and it is in no sense attributable to local manage ment. Thirty minutes to see and un derstand the history of the Albe marle is enough to make old Beelze bub turn oyer in his grave, if he is there and there is really some doubt about that fact. Something should be done and at ance of this section of the country, continued ignorance of the import ance of this section of the countrf. Here came 50 or 60 agents for great travel agencies. Daily they are called upon to map out trips. What they know of the past they know through good publicity artists. Should an in quirer seek to visit where the first settlers landed, nine out of ten cf the agents route the tour to Plymouth Rock with its nice little marble sum mer house built over it. Was there ever a greater joke on modem civiliz ation? The Albemarle was so far ahead of Plymouth and Jamestown as to make it very sad indeed to be mentioned in the same oreath with them. But who knows it, and why don’t they? Still there is no use tooting about it. The visit has been made and is over with. Edenton had much to show and would have liked to have shown it. If the privilege was de nied it can’t be helped. H f ~ EARD AND SEEN | . By “BUFF’ This column should start off with i a double apology this week, inasmuch • that it was stated herein last week , that Rev. W. T. C. Briggs letter would be found in the paper. Again it was crowded out after this column was written, but if Mr. Briggs’ let ter isn’t in this issue of the Herald there’ll be another shooting fracas in the Herald office and this time yours truly will be on the butt end of a gun instead of looking down ihe barrel as some would have folks believe sev eral weeks ago. o I must not be the only one in town who has a “strong” pipe. Charlie Wood says his son can tell the min ute he strikes the premises if the old pipe is being puffed on. Oscar Brown claims that on the same basis a stranger ought to know if Charlie is smoking his pipe by the time the city limits are reached. Anyway, 1 didn’t go to the last meeting £f City Council, so Street Commissioner Wallace Jones’ orders to buy a new pipe haven’t been carried out. o The past several weeks have been busy days for this writer. In fact with extra work, a revival meeting revived lodge activities and an effort to see as many football games as possible, many happenings have gone by unnoticed. For instance a ,big improvement has been made in the Bank of Edenton. Cashier D. M. Warren’s private office, where he sat behind frosted glass windows, has been removed, and Mr. Warren can now be seen from the front of the bank. I don’t know the reason for this, unless that it gives Mr. Warren a chance to get the word "No, sir,” ion the end of his tongue when he (spies a guy headijur toward him with a hard luck story and request for a loan. Anyway, the change has great ly improved the interior appearance of the bank. And then at the Citizens Bank Paul Olsson is painting the interior of the building. W. J. Berryman and Charlie Wood have moved their office from the third floor to the first floor where the president of the bank for merly had his office. This is a good move for both Mr. Berryman and Mr. Wood either now or pretty soon would feel the effects of climbing the three flights of stairs. Then another improvement worth mentioning is the sidewalk repairing being done by city employes. Some of the sidewalks were dangerous and the improvements, needless to say, are very pleasing to the folks whc are obliged to use them. , o Os course, it’s been pretty warm the past several days, but if yor don’t think Christmas will soon be here, just glance in the windows a1 Leggett & Davis Drug Store. Agai? this year they are giving away a number of really worthwhile prizes to little girls and boys, and there’s no telling how many longing gltncer will be caused by the list of toys or display. Votes ought to be more ir demand than at the last election o ’ city officials. o Well, the Red Men had their “feed’ Monday night, and it sure was f slaughter on hot dogs, a la Joe Habit The hall was crowded with members’ of the lodge, and it would have taken an adding machine to keep up with . the number of “dogs” eaten. Sherif . J. A. Bunch was called upon to make a speech before the supper, but failed , to speak, saying that he couldn’l speak on an empty stomach. And , then later in the evening his excuse , was that he was too full for utter ■ ance. Anyway, I am convinced tha* he likes hot dogs. The supper war . not a success, however , . . Noah Goodwin wasn’t feeling good, and I drank only one bottle of soda pop. A! Owens fed his dog the same number of wieners that Noah would have . eaten had he been feeling well. Joe Habit chased Arthur Hollcwell out of , the kitchen . . . for the same old rea son! Henry Barber managed to eat a hot dog . . . his teeth are fitting better these days. Theo Barrow lost . out, spending most of his time try , ing to gather up the empty pop bottles. Raleigh Hollowell failed tc . remain for degree team practice . . he went to see a doctor. John Waff . Jr., put in an appearance Monday , night . . . Joe Habit left the win t dows of the kitchen open with a wind blowing toward the Cowpen Neck l section. Asa Griffin left the hall with a bundle in his hands . . . may . be he took a few sandwiches down to the frogs in his neighborhood. Jim t Daniels delayed the “feed” by mak- I ing the lodge sing the closing ode. 7 Tom Wilder ate four hot dog sand i wiches without waving his hands r . single time. Oscar Brown didn't put i in an appearance ... he almost held, , the record at the last affair. The , fellows from the country . . . well, . they didn’t need any breakfast Tues > day morning. Bill Munden ... he . got the worst of the bargain—he’ll • have to clean up the whole darned ( mess! o i Just 'tain’t fair! All of the local • fishermen go out to try their luck and come back with a fish or two : and the other day Johnnie Stephen i son drops in from Raleigh, and ac , companies! by John White and Robert . Henderson, bring back a dish pan filled with bass, speckled perch and truth of the whole THE CHOWAN. HERALD,. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1985. matter is that I was called to see them fpr myself . . • they knew ( demed well I wouldn’t have believed j, them. And John White, versed as he is in slips in the law, went a little further and produced the head o each fish as part of the proof. Any way, both John Stephenson and John White say it’s just in knowing how ... so take that, you fishermen! . 0 . ... “Where have you been?” asked Parson Ashby the other day. So I up and tells him I was to see my son who is in a military school. ‘'What?” he says, “you have a son old enough to be in school—how old is he?” I politely told him the youngster is 18 years old. “Why, Buff,” he said, “you’re not big enough to have a boy that old.” “Shucks,’ said I, “I have one older that that who is married.” But the Parson still claimed “You’re not big enough.” It’s the age, Parson, that counts- Note the bald spot, hump on the back and stiffening joints. All I need now is a pair of specs and : cane to be grandpappy. Jimmy Oglesby just the other day went through a blood transfusion affair when he gave up a quart of his blood for the benefit of a brother who is in Duke Hospital. It was new t< Jimmy and he lost his temper. Af ter the blood was taken from his arm he was taken to a room and r structed what to do. Fortunately, he felt no ill effects from the operation and as nurse and doctor after another passed him they inquired, “How arc you feeling?” and the like. The ques tions were so numerous that Jimrn) wondered what it was all about and put a stop to the whole works when he up and says, “Look here, how am I supposed to feel ... am I supposed to have a baby?” Anyway, Jimmy’s liable to get what blood he gave up from' my nose if I tell any more of his experience. o You’ll notice that J. A. Curran, Sutton’s Drug Store and S. Gander son & Sons are giving away courtesy tickets to the circus today. Rose’s 5 and 10 Cent Store also was includ ed in the stores giving away tickets, but Friend Jones’ supply exhausted before the Herald went to press which augurs well for a crowd at the show. o Sunday School attendance is pick ing up some since Roy Leary has been up North and yours truly slip ped up in Virginia last Sunday. Maybe some church officials will soon discover they ought to have a new ‘superintendent if Sunday School attendance is to grow. o Which reminds me of the little girl who brought her nickel back from Sunday School last week. The mother inquired why the girl had not dropped the money in the collection plate, and the mother was dumb founded at the reply, “Mama, I didn’t want to waste it.” o Elmer Ward, who lives in the Sign Pine section, is grieving at the loss of his pet dog, Doodle Bug, which died as the result of a fight with a bull dog. Elmer wanted his pet’s death chronicled in The Herald, and here’s hoping he’s feeling better by this time. o Mayor Spires and Jim „ Daniels came near getting in Dutch with the women folks on Saturday. While at tending the Achievement Day pro gram in the school building, one of the Rocky Hock women (and both men say she was young and good looking) asked them to stand to be counted as guests of her club. They consented, but as they arose, some of the other club members were quick to say, “You don’t live in Rocky Hock.” Well, maybe they don’t but then again, maybe they would like to! 22 On Honor Roll At Merry Hill School Twenty-two students in the Merr: Hill School have made the honor roll for the first month’s work. Those on the list are: Second Grade Mary Elizabeth Pierce, and Chester Williams, Jr. Third Grade Audrey Coffield Doris Mizell, Rachel Mae Lawrence. Fourth Grade—Josie Belle Keeter, Melvin Leicester. Fifth Grade—Frances Phelps. COLORED SCHOOL GRID TEAM PLAYS IN E. CITY SATURDAY The football team of the Edenton colored high school will play its first game of the season Saturday after noon in Elizabeth City, where they will oppose the strong State Normal School eleven. Both schools boast a good team and a hard-fought game is in prospect. CHOWAN GIRL IN ARGENTINA Mrs. Maxwell Warden and son, of Richmond, Va., who recently visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Goodwin, near Edenton, left with her husband last week for the Argentina, where Mr. Warden is construction engineer for DuPont. They expect to remain in the Argentina for two years. Mrs. Warden was formerly Miss Marguerite Goodwin, of near Edenton. ATTEMPT MADE TO REVIVE RACING AT WILLIAMSTON PAIR Holding a key position in a newly i organized harness circuit offering ! more than $20,000 in purses to late campaigners, the Roanoke fair at Williamston . will attract many of the trotting and pacing stars of big time speed circuits for the three-day meeting at the Martin County fair ground on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 6, 6 and 7. Seven different events, three each for the trotters and pacers and a free-for-all bringing together out standing contenders of both gaits into a feature contest, are listed on the fair programs. Entry books will not be closed until Tuesday, October 29. “If harness racing makes a come back at Williamston and other points along the North Carolina circuit this year, I think we can develop valuable stake events and other important races that will bring outstanding grand circuit stables into the each fall,” Harvey Walker, resident manager, declared this week. He believes the current efforts will bring gratifying results this year. Edentonians Attend Missionary Meeting Many of the ladies of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Baptist Church attended the missionary meet ing of five associations held at Bethel Church last Thursday. Dr. H. H. McMillan, missionary to China, de livered the principal address, while Mrs. W. N. Jones, State president, and Mrs. Edna Harris, both of Ra leigh, and Mrs. J. B. Lawrence, ol Birmingham, Ala., presented the woman’s work. Those attending from Edenton were Mesdames A. T. Bush, T. E. Gardner, J. Lester Forehand, P. L. Rea, W. S. Privott, Chas. T. 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Monday and Tuesday probably is the week’s highlight in presenting Kay Frances and George Brent in their new popular picture “The Goose and the Gander.” Wednes day’s program presents Madge Evans in “Men Without Names,” a Para mount release. On Thursday and Friday of next week Shirley Temple comes to the screen in “Curly Top.” BISHOP DARST AT MERRY HILL ON NOVEMBER J Rev. William H. Latta, rector of the Merry Hill Episcopal Church, an nounced at the services Sunday af ternoon that Bishop Thomas Darst would be present at the service to be held in the church on Sunday after noon, November 17. A large congre gation is expected. MISS MARTHA OUTLAW Will teach dancing at St. Paul’s Parish House, beginning Wednes day, October 23. For information or particulars call Mrs. J. M. Jones, 255-J. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS! 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