In thett columns will be
found a fear presentation
of local and county news
of general interest.
.Volume II. —Number 49.
Edenton Loses State
Title To Mt. Airy 7-0
<s
' Westerners Complete a
Pass to Capture Class
B Crown
NIP AND TUCK
Both Teams Well Coach
ed and Play on About
Even Terms
The Edenton High School football
team, State Class B Champions in
1934, lost the 1935 title to the Mt.
Airy High School in Chapel Hill last
Friday by the score of 7 to 0. The
game was played in Kenan Stadium
before a good sized crowd of fans re
presenting followers of the two teams
as well as coaches from a number of
the colleges and football enthusiastis
fsom nearby high schools.
The game was a nip and tuck affair
with both teams playing on about
even terms, Mt. Airy fortunately
completing a forward pass during the
first quarter that spelled victory for
them and defeat for Edenton. It
was the first taste of defeat the Aces
have experienced in over two years.
Beth teams reflected good coaching,
with Mt. Airy having a decided ad
vantage in having plenty of good re
serves to replace the regulars. The
westerners brought three complete
teams to Chapel Hill.
Edenton was badly handicapped in
the titular affair due to injuries to
Paul and Worth Spencer. Paul was
suffering from a knee injury of sev
eral weeks’ standing and had the limb
bandaged in such away that he
needed help to get up off the ground.
-He remained in the lineup during the
Entire game, but his powerful driving
ability was considerably cut down
due to the injury. Worth Spencer
likewise was nursing an injured arm,
but despite this fact he played a very
spectacular game, gaining consider
able ground by his fast sweeping end
runs. The entire team played well
and won the highest praise from
spectators for their courage and abil
ity despite their handicap of injured
players and lack of reserves.
Edenton kicked to start the game
and on the first play Sexton broke
through to throw the Mt. Airy run
ner for a five yard loss. Failing to
gain Mt. Airy punted out to the 38-
yard line. Wozelka was knocked out
on the next play as Worth Spencer
gained three yards. On the next
play Layton fumbled with Mt- Airy
recovering the ball. The westerners
lost six yards on the next play in
which Sexton was injured but re
mained jn the game. Mt. Airy was
forced to again punt, putting the ball
on the 25-yard stripe, where Layton
again fumbled and Wozelka was forc
ed to kick. At this point Marberry
dropped back and made a beautiful
long pass to Davis, who reached the
2-yard line before brought down. On
the next play Davis crashed the line
for a touchdown which was the only
scoring of the day. Marberry skirted
end for the extra point. During the
remainder of the quarter no appre
ciable gains were made by either
team.
Starting the second quarter Worth
Spencer picked up 14 yards around
end with Paul Spencer and Layton
eafch assisting in making another
first down in short order, but also
due to a penalty Wozelka kicked to
the Mt. Airy 25-yard line. At this
point Mt. Airy again threatened when
Pendergraph on two runs made a first
down, immediately following which
Marberry twisted through the Eden
ton defense and ran 29 yards, being
run out of bounds by John M. Har
rell. The threat was stopped, how
ever, when Sexton broke through to
throw the runner for a 17-yard loss
and Mt- Airy kicked to Edenton’s 14-
yard line. Paul Spencer made 12
yards through the line, but Edenton
was penalized 16 yards for holding.
Wozelka kicked out to the 50-yard
line when Spruill and Sexton downed
the receiver in his tracks. The half
ended with an exchange of punts,
with the Aces in possession of the
ball at half time.
Mt. Airy kicked to begin the second
half, with Worth Spencer returning
to the 36-yard line. Edenton took on
new life and gains by Worth and
Paul Spencer lacked less than a yard
of a first down. Paul Spencer then
fumbled but recovered and Wozelka
kicked, Vernon Spruill stopping any
progress by downing the runner as he
picked up the ball. During this play
John Byruin was injured, but he, like
the others hurt, remained in the
game. Mt. Airy was held for do gain
and kicked, Harrell fumbling the
hunt, hot recovering at the 37-yard
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 5, 1935.
DECEMBER TERM
SUPERIOR COURT
WEEK OF DEC. 16
Judge William C. Harris, of Raleigh,
Scheduled To Preside Over
This Session
The December Term of Chowan
Superior Court will be held the third
week of this month, court convening
on Monday, December 16. Judge W.
C. Harris, of Raleigh, who presided
at the last term of court, will again
conduct this session.
The calendar follows:
Monday, December 17—Dixie etc.
Co. vs. Mitchener and Leary; Brown
Executrix vs. White and Spencer;
Nixon vs. H. C. Nixon; West vs.
Byrum (Tort).
Wednesday, December 18—Satter
field vs. Boyce; American Surety Co.
vs. Edenton-Mackeys Ferry Com
pany; Hill vs. Albemarle Fertilizer
Co. et als; Earl Harrell vs. Griffin;
Jerry Harrell vs. Griffin; Chappell
vs. Griffin.
Thursday, December 19—Co. Mat
tress Co. vs. Ziegler; West vs. By
rum (contract); Pierce Tire Com
pany vs. Perry.
Motions
White vs. Foreman Blades Lumber
Company.
Pettus vs. Badham et als.
Motions and divorce cases will be
heard at the convenience of the
Court.
NO GROUNDS HERE
TO PROTEST GAME
Unfounded Rumors To Effect That
Mt. Airy Team Used An
Ineligible Player
Though numerous rumors were
afloat Saturday and Sunday relative
to protesting the game played last
Friday with Mt. Airy for the State
Class B Championship, no founda
tion for the rumors could be learned
here. It was reported that Mt. Airy
had used an ineligible player, which
if true would forfeit the game to
Edenton.
The source of the rumors could
not be learned, and John A. Holmes,
Superintendent of the Edenton
school, said so far as he knew all
the players on the new champions’
team were eligible. He has, how
ever. written a letter to the Mt. Airy
school superintendent inquiring about
the player.
It appears that Pendergraph, one
of the two outstanding stars on the
Mt. Airy team, formerly lived in Ra
leigh, where his parents now reside,
but that he is going to school at Mt.
Airy. The superintendent of schools
at Mt. Airy carries the same name
and it is supposed the player is a
relative and probably makes his home
there. At any rate no protest on the
part of Edenton will be made unless
definite information is secured, which
at this time is unlikely. The only
authentic information in Edenton is
that the Aces played Mt. Airy and
were licked 7 to 0.
Four Face Recorder
J. N. Pruden Tuesday
Four defendants faced Judge J. N.
Pruden in Recorder’s Court Tuesday,
three of whom were found not guilty
of the charges.
W. L. Jones, of Hertford, charged
with operating a car under the in
fluence of liquor, and unlawful park
ing, was found guilty on both charg
es. He was sentenced to 60 days on
the roads, suspended upon payment
of SSO fine and costs, and his driver’s
license revoked for 12 months on the
first charge. On the second count
he was ordered to pay the costs.
Josh Norman was found not guilty
on a charge of assault with a deadly
weapon, a knife, with intent to kill,
upon Junius Jones.
G. S, Pate, charged with non-sup
port of his wife, Rosa Pate, and two
children, was found not guilty.
Richard Cooper was also found
not guilty of possession of liquor for
the purpose of sale.
ERA Offices Closed
Information from Raleigh is to the
effect that ERA offices in the State
will be closed tonight, this form of
relief being discontinued. Office
workers, however, will remain on the
job to liquidate the records and at
tend to. other matters which need to
be straightened out.
The Raleigh order affects the local
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CHRISTMAS SEAL
SALE LAUNCHED
MONDAY, DEC. 9
Proceeds Used to Com
bat Invasion of Tu
berculosis
NEED URGENT
Able Committees Ap
pointed to Canvass
Entire City
Monday morning, December 9, will
again be launched in Edenton the
annual Christmas Seal Sale of the
National Tuberculosis Association for
funds with which to continue the fight
against tuberculosis. This appeal
deserves the serious consideration of
everyone, for the disease continues
to be the nation’s foremost public
health problem, especially among the
young. It is imperative that protec
tive measures which have been found
effective in preventing further spread
of the disease shall be continued un
abated.
The Christmas Seal Campaign is
conducted annually between Thanks
giving Day and Christmas by the
2000 affiliated tuberculosis associa
tions of the United States. During
that time Christmas Seals are sold
for a penny each, the proceeds of
which are used to finance a program
of free nursing service, clinics, re
habilitation, education, preventoria,
tuberculin testing of children, X-ray
ing and social and medical research.
Mrs. J. A. Moore, chairman, and
Mrs. R. C. Holland, treasurer, for the
Christmas Seal drive for Chowan
County, are very anxious to sell out
their entire allotment of seals. They
urge citizens to rally to the cause
and purchase an ample supply to use
on Christmas packages and letters
during the holiday season.
Both Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Holland
expressed a desire that citizens un
derstand that the Christmas Seal
Sale is separate and apart from the
Red Cross annual Roll Call, saying
that they have experienced numerous
instances where folks were of the
opinion that the two drives were for
the same purpose. They likewise de
sire it to be clearly understood that
75 per cent of the money raised re
mains in this county to help those in
need.
An able committee has been named
to assist in selling the seals, one of
whom will call at every home in the
city. However, should anyone be
missed, any one of the committee as
well as Mrs. Moore or Mrs. Holland
will gladly furnish any quantity of
the little Seals. The committee is
composed of the following:
Manufacturing plants and ware
houses—Mrs. John G. Wood.
North Edenton—Mrs. Earl Ballen
ger.
Edenton Mill Village—Mrs. Henry
Rogerson.
Upper Main Street—Mrs. Albert
Byrum-and Mrs. William E. Bond.
Lower Main Street—Mrs. J. S.
Davis and Mrs. N. K. Rowell.
(Continued on Page Seven)
Curtain Drawn On Edenton’s
1935 Football Season Friday
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The curtain will be drawn on the
Edenton High School’s 1935 football
season on Friday afternoon when the
Aces meet the Roanoke Rapids High
School aggregation in Rocky Mount-
The game will be played on Briles
Field, starting at 2:30 o’clock.
This game was arranged following i
the drawing of straws in Raleigh to
continue in the State championship
fight when the two teams played to
a 0-0 tie in Roanoke Rapids earlier
in the season. The conference ruling
provided that in such event Edenton
would be obliged to play Roanoke
Rapids if they won the champion
ship. However, inasmuch as Edenton
won the right to continue in the
race, the game was arranged at that
time and will be played according to
schedule.
Local officials were anxious to
postpone Friday’s game until next
week due to injuries on the local
squad and also on account of so fans
traveling to Chapel Hill last Friday
who would no doubt go to Rocky
Mount next week. This postpone
ment would not be agreed to, how
ever, by Roanoke Rapids due to the
fact that the game has been widely
advertised and all preparations made.
There is right much at stake in
Friday’s game, so far as Edenton is
concerned, for should Roanoke Rapids
win, that team would claim the East-
139 SIGN UP IN
RED CROSS DRIVE
FOR MEMBERSHIP
Mrs. Pruden, Chairman,
Well Pleased With
First Reports
stlll incomplete
Number of Canvassers
Have Not Turned In
Their List
With reports still incomplete from
the various members of the can
vassing committees, Mrs. J. N. Pru
den, chairman of the Chowan County
Red Cross, is very much pleased
with the progress being made to se
cure members for 1936. Mrs. Pruden,
though still confined to her home fol
lowing an accident at Nags Head, is
keeping, in close touch with the work
being done and is hopeful that the
quota for the County, which is 250,
will be reached.
The drive got off to a bad start,
being postponed on two occasions,
once on account of the drive for funds
for the United Charities, and then
again when Mrs. Pruden was injured.
The canvassers began their work last
Friday, some of whom have not
completely covered their territory.
Others have finished their work and
turned in their report to Mrs. Pru
den.
The following names of members
have been reported by workers which
does not include the report of several
canvassers in town and none from
the Chowan High School and the col
ored workers:
Mrs. W. J. Berryman, W. J. Berry
man, Mary Berryman, Mrs. N. K.
Rowell, Mrs. W. M. Morgan, R. G.
White, William Jones, Edenton Pea
nut Co., Chowan Storage Co., Texas
Company, M. G. Brown Co., Gordon
Blow, Albemarle Peanut Co., Willie
White, Leary Bros. Storage Co.,
Triangle Service Station, Mrs. W. S.
Privott, Mrs. Geo. P. Byrum, Miss
Blanche Leary, Mrs. J. S. Davis, Mrs.
J. E. Wood, Mrs. W. H. Coffield, Mrs.
G. W. Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Summerell, Mrs. Geddes Pottery Miss
Mary Cody, Mrs. R. R. Roper, Mrs.
L. D. Bond, W. E. Bond, Mrs. M. L.
Bunch, Mrs. S. E. Morris, Mrs. L. S.
Byrum, W. E. Baker, Mrs. G. A.
Helms, Miss Emma Byrum, Mrs. J.
E. Jackson, E. I. Warren, S. W. Tay
lor, Mrs. Lee Moore, E. J. Ward, W.
D. Holmes, Dr. J. W. Davis, J. H.
Holmes, M. A. Hughes, Dr. W. A.
Leggett, S. Ganderson & Sons, Rose’s
5, 10 & 25 Cent Store, Percy Satter
field, Mrs. H. H. Preston, Earl Good
win, Mrs. J. C. Badham. Mrs. R. P
Badham', J. C. Dail, W. J. Harris,
J. C. Leary, W. M. Wilkins, G. M-
Byrum, W. D. Pruden, Mrs. W. O.
Elliott, Jr., Mrs. Roy Leary, Mrs.
Burton Hathaway, Mrs. J. M. Jones,
Mrs. J. H. McMullan, Mrs. J. M. Vail,
Mrs. R. F. Tuttle, J. A. Curran, Rev.
E. I* Wells, Mrs. O. C. Byrum, Mrs.
Mary E. Ward, Mrs. Clarence Leary,
Hector Lupton, Mrs. J. Lester Fore
hand, Mrs. H. C. Privott, Mrs. I. Lee
(Continued on Page Six)
em championship.
The Aces have had a successful
season,.losing only the championship
game to Mt. Airy and tieing Roa
noke Rapids. The teams to fall be
fore them were Aulander, Beaufort,
Elizabeth City, Smithfield and San
! ford. This remarkable record was
hung up despite the fact that there
are only eleven men on the first
string, thus compelling the boys to
remain in the lineup during the en
tire game, many times when a sub
stitute should have replaced an in
jured player. The team displayed
couragq, and determination and
though not having as good a record
as last year, Coach Brogden is high
ly commended for producing a win
ning combination which for a time
seemed doubtful. Local football en
-1 thusiasts also compliment Mr. Brog
den for his activities among the lower
l classmen. He has spent much time
i in organizing and coaching the B
’ team, which has also had a fine sea
’ son, winning three out of four games-
A number of the B team boys have
■ developed into first string calibre
i and will be ready to step in when
1 players are lost by graduation. They
. have received practical experience
i and this move on the part of Mr.
i Brogden augurs well for the continu
i ation of strong teams at Edenton
' High if continued in future yean.
j Upward Trend Shows
i Progress In Chowan
COUNTY OFFICIALS
FAIL TO RECEIVE A
BOOST IN SALARY
Commissioners Order Vouchers To Be
Signed As Settlement For
Salary To Date
1 The salary question for county
officials, including the clerk of court,
sheriff, judge of Recorder’s Court
and prosecuting attorney for Record
er’s Court reached further complica
tions at Monday’s meeting of the
County Commissioners. The four of
ficers. under the White law passed at
the last session of the Legislature,
are due salary increases, but as yet
their monthly checks have been the
same as before the law was passed.
The matter on several occasions
was brought before the Commission
ers. but the raise in salary has not
been granted, the Commissioners
taking the stand that the law provid
ing for a change in salaries was not
authorized by them.
At Monday’s meeting the question
again bobbed up, when the Commis
sioners passed a motion instructing
the Clerk of Court in the future to
issue orders for regular salaries for
the four officials with the following
endorsement on each order: “This or
der is accepted in full settlement for
services rendered as
officer to date order issued.”
This ruling obviously means that
the officials in accepting and signing
the order relinquish any right to back
salary or increased salary, and if not
accepted they will go unpaid for
their services.
Sheriff J. A. Bunch, who would
greatly appreciate a salary boost or
back pay, will sign his order, while
the others are in a quandary as to
whether to accept the checks or not.
BUSINESS SECTION
TO BE DECORATED
Vari-Colored Lights Being Placed
From Water Street To Church
Street This Week
Town employees early this week
began stringing electric wires on
Broad Street by which the business
section will be decorated during the
Christmas holidays. The decoration
of the street with vari-colored bulbs
was begun last year and will be ex
panded upon this year in that last
Christmas only one block, between
King and Queen Streets, was decorat
ed, while this year the decorations
will extend from Water Street to
Church Street, taking in two more
blocks
Much favorable comment was
heard regarding the decorations last
year, the beautiful lights strung from
the ligh.t standards adding greatly tc
the spirit of the season.
Annual Meeting Os
St. Paul’s Monday
Next Monday night, December 9th..
at 8 o’clock, there will be the annual
congregational meeting of St. Paul’s
Church, held in the Parish House, for
the purpose of electing a vestry,
hearing reports from the Parish or
ganizations and other business. AH
members of the congregation are
urged to attend.
Chowan Glee Club
Rotary Guests Today
Following the calling off of the
Rotary, meeting last Thursday due to
Thanksgiving, Rotarians are sche
duled for a treat at 1 o’clock today
in the Parish House when the Club
will have as guests the Glee Club of
Chowan High School. These singers
have been organized and coached by
Mrs. Gordon Blow, who is teaching
music in the school this year, and
have worked up quite a reputation
They are expected to utilize the time
usually devoted to programs arrang
ed by the program committee.
Last Chance For Bank
Depositors Get Money
A final opportunity for depositors
in the closed Citizens Bank to secure
their share of the money through
the bank’s liquidation is announced
A fund, has been paid to Richard D
Dixon, Clerk of Superior Court to
cover procata dividends on all valid
liabilities on the date of the bank’.*
closing for which no claims have
been filed. This fund will remain ir
his hands, as well as a list of credi
tors, for three months, during which
time the creditors are notified to take
action in order to secure the amount
due them.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year
Notes Paid and County
Gradually Getting
Out of Debt
CITY IN GOOD SHAPE
Farmers Benefit By Op
eration of New Deal
Methods
Indications pointing to an upward
trend in business and agricultural
progress, if not prosperity, have
made themselves evident in many
ways in Chowan County of late. Cer
tainly the economic situation, which
has been so bothersome during the
past six years, has been given a
number of good licks in the Albe
marle, and while it may be a little
too optimistic to say we are all out
of the woods it can be said hopefully
that we have come nearer to the edge
of the clearing than at any time since
1929. And as bravery and courage
and perseveraence have brought us
thus far it will not take much to get
us forward into broad financial day
light once again.
Except for the natural free-run
ning corporate bond issues the Town
of Edenton is out of debt for the
initial time in many a year. Last
week it paid off the last of its
defaulted bonds, totaling $6,000, and
shortly prior reduced its tax rate 9
points, increased salaries of town em
ployees 15 per cent, and has a very
substantial balance in the town
treasury.
In away Chowan County has done
even better. For five or six years it
has had a defaulted bond issue aggre
gating $47,500. This has not meant
the bonds have been ignored nor held
without value. The contrary is true.
Interest payments have been kept up
regularly and, of course, the bonds,
even while in temporary default, have
been worth 100 cents on the dollar.
There has been no united or half
way general demand for the payment
of these bonds. They, perhaps, could
have run along in default indefinite
ly. Last fall when there was much
excited talk about what the govern
ment would do toward building two
new high schools in the county State
Treasurer Johnson suggested to
David M. Warren that the county
could reestablish this lost bond credit
by a new bond issue sufficiently large
to take up the bond arrears.
The proposal was entertained kind
ly but was deemed unwise owing to
the heavy cost of re-issue. Mr. War
ren and. his brother commissioners,
ever sure of the stability of Old
Chowan , abided their time. Last
week this time had come. Tax re
turns, largely from unpaid back tax
es, have been coming in so bountiful
ly the County was able to take up
SIO,OOO worth of the defaulted bonds
and plans are underway to make sim
ilar payments after the first of the
year.
In addition to this heavy outlay
the Commissioners last Monday an
nounced. that they were also paying
off the last of many notes given
when the county was so hard pressed
several years ago. At that time
many of the more well-to-do citizens
of the county came valiantly to the
front and offered to make advances
solely on the county’s promissory
notes. Mrs. William Badham, one of
the oldest Albemarle families and an
ever earnest Chowan citizen, held the
last of these obligations, a note for
$3,500. It has been paid to her with
full interest.
Os course all this progress has
been made possible by increased agri
cultural returns. In Chowan farming
is the sole industry save for the
spring fishing season. Storekeepers
depend on the farmers, as does every
other line of community business.
Whether the farmers have had their
best season is for them to tell but the
fact remains they have struggled and
laid aside and have now made de
posits either by tax payments or to
their bank credits to oblige the bug
aboo of depression to go hang its
head temporarily.
And if you ask the husbandmen of
Chowan they will tell you the great
government of the United States
spurred by most encouraging Nev.-
Deal methods of operation, has been
their mainstay and backbone.
County Farm Agent N. K. Rowell
says that peanut, cotton, tobacco and
corn-hog contract payments this year
have been large and except for a few
isolated series of checks to come in
around the first of the year, have all
been distributed. There are many,
perhaps, in anti-administration cir
cles who belittle these payments anc|
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