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PAGE FOUR THE CHOWAN HERALQ Published every Thursday by > Buff’s Printing House, 100 East King Street, Eden ton, N. C. J. Edwin Bufflap Editor Hector Lupton Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION One Year sl-25 Six Months ——76 c Entered as second-class matter August 80, 1934, at the post office at Edenton, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates furnished by re quest. Cards of thanks, obituaries, reso lutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular advertising rates. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK A VOICE FROM HEAVEN: And I heard a voice from heaven saying un to me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence forth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.—Revela tions 14:13. A NEW YEAR REFLECTION With the advent of the new year 1936 we must realize that another year has swiftly passed by and that a new year is now before us to be whatever we shall make it. It is young and pliable and may be mold ed to suit our fancy. When we write its history twelve months hence, will it be a.story of progress or one of backsliding? Time waits for no man and the Meeting days slip by with great ra pidity. Unless there is a plan for definite progress in Edenton, the next 365 days will have gone into histor* and we will come to the end of the year without very much accomplish ment to our credit. Has the community as a whole or any of the organizations of the town a plan for the new year? Is there any course mapped out for definite and concerted action? If not, the chances are that we will drift along like a rudderless ship, aimless and purposeless, with no idea of making the best of our opportunities. To follow the line of least resist ance and go along with the current eventually results in the loss of initi ative and a desire to forge ahead. And when that stage is reached either by a single individual or a group of individuals it isn’t long before they begin slipping, and when once started backward they move faster in that direction than they did forward. If we get careless about the welfare of the community, if we are satisfied to “let well enough alone” and unre sistingly drag along through the year without ambition or hope of bettering our condition, there is no hope of any advancement nor the building of a better and more wide-awake Eden ton. In fact if such is the case dur ing 1936, we are headed for the /ommunity graveyard. ; To progress as we should and make Edenton the hub of business for a large portion of this section of the State, which it should be, a defin ite course of action is needed by un selfish leadership and whole-hearted cooperation on the part of all the people^__ We can get whatever we go after if community loyalty is placed first and individual selfishness is not al lowed to Thwart the progress of the town. Let us all, as 1936 starts on its round, work together and when its final seconds are ticked off a year hence reflect with just pride that we have done our dead level best to make Edenton' a better and more worthwhile place in which to live and . transact business. A NEW YEAR AND A NEW GOAL With this issue The Herald starts a new volume number and in so doing but look back 52 issues when the |.7\sent volume was begun. It is ■Very gratifying to report considerable progress during the past 12 months, but while reflecting the publishers are aware that many mistakes have been made. Some things have been done that should not have been done, and likewise many things have been left undone that should have been done. Through it all, however, The Herald has been able to maintain its excel lent subscription list and during the year hass won the confidence of a larger number of advertisers, which two facjtcrs account for the popular ity of Chowan County’s only news paper. It will be the aim of The Herald to maintain the unusual "reader inteigst and produce just as interesting a newspaper as in 1935, but to strive to make The Herald a bigger and better paper as the weeks pass by. We wish to thank our subscribers, advertisers, correspondents and the many others who have cooperated in making The Herald what it is, and as MMch nrk on the good ship 1986 the Beach livrffort will be to publish as jHsnd offspring-‘west as it is possible Hnot to evolve into Make The Herald jSsnt. But when He f not only the as the crowning; county may ■'creation, He left the bet. ■ fields to produce offs I their own kinds, while '**- 9 created, both man add woman nr n® Heard and seen By “BUFF’ Z i - ■ ■ The smaller size of the Herald last f week crowded this column out, and . we hope you’ll forgive us for putting out such a little paper, but it was so arranged in order to be delivered be fore Christmas and also allow HefSid employes to get ready and enjoy [ Christmas, which is one day in the year a printer doesn’t want to think s about the craft, much less seeing a printing office. And from all reports " every Herald employee thoroughly en joyed the day. o 1 Christmas, however, was very quietly . observed by some at least. ‘ You see, there was a dance held on Christmas eve, and some, no doubt, spent most of the holiday in bed. r This incident just leaked out and | it’s too good to go by unnoticed. [ It so happened the other day when the Puroil airplane was overhead and r advertising the product that Frank | Barrow was seated on top of a cart hauling a load of wood. The voice from the airplane could easily be heard, and Frank suddenly stopped his mule, and looking up into a tree, said, “Who in the devil are you yell ing at?” Nobody was in the tree and ■ Frank rode away wondering what , kind of a world this is getting to be. o And then Chief Helms got after Fire Chief Dick Hall for putting a i circle around the star for the street . Christmas decorations. “Why did you do that?” asked Helms, “there are no rings around the stars in Heaven.” ; But Captain Dick sent the Chief away in a hurry by saying, “How in the dickens do you know —you’ve i never been there, and maybe you’ll not go there.” ■ o Harvey Thomas was forced by the weather to remain indoors most of i Sunday, and to while away the time ■ sent me a letter. It involves A. B, Griffin, £nd here goes: “Dear Buff: When it comes to tall i stories, you stick to A. B. Griffin. He ! was over in court the other day when > this fellow Tom Hollowell was up for ; being soused. You know Tom was shot in the heel. He was peppered 1 pretty generally but the only place ; the stung him was in the heel. And when A. B. heard that he go' agoing. Why I never heard such a . fairy tale as he told! He said that over in the Cowpen Neck swamps there once was an old hag by name . Thetis, or something like that, and ; it’s likely, for it sounds like an Albe , marie name, and she produced a baby I from somewhere, somehow, who was t “a glorious youth.” A. B. insists that she fell for a swarthy hoodoo doctor man who said the kid would j be somebody if she would duck him several times in a frog hole he ’ named in Pembroke Creek, and that if she did the boy would live forever, ’ for nobody, not even a Rocky Hock gunman, could ever kill him. The 1 old hag thought this was something to be desired, so she paid her quar | ter and took the baby down to the ! frog hole and soaKSd him well. He was so little she was afraid he might I drown, so she held him by the heel ; which didn’t get immersed. And while she was doing it A. B. says ' she asked him if he was cold and, ! baby-like, the tyke replied “I’se chil- ; 1 ly,” and said it so cutely his ma ; 1 worked it into a name for him which i A. B. wasn’t sure of. Well, said Mr , ' Griffin, this kid grew up and sure enough the hoodoo man was right. ' ■ Nobody could get him. He was some 1 boy. Hector, not your friend Hec i tor, though I wouldn’t put it beyond l i him, tried it and was buried soon as ■ terward. So did a whole slew of oth- ' : ers. A -B. says they shot this fellow 1 at close range with all kinds of ma- ' ! chine guns but he sure was the Pop ! Eye of Cowpen Neck. He even stole the belle of the swamps, some tart named Helen, and chased her father back home when he objected. Finally he got tired one afternoon and lay down by the fish hatchery. One of Carey Bunch’s youngsters, so A. B. said, all dressed up in a Christmas suit and bow and arrows, took a pot | shot at a squirrel and with great 1 Bunch accuracy hit the sleeper in- 1 ’ stead, and, of course, plugged him : kerslam in the heel. He awoke with ‘ a start and took it hotfooted for Mit- : : chener’s to get some iodine but, be ; lieve it or not, before he got there, fell over dead. Now, I ask you, was there ever a bigger liar than A. B. ? He even went so far as to say that if Thetis had dipped her offspring heel and all, the Bunch boy arrow would have had no effect- Personally, I i don’t believe the story, but I’m going to send it out, anyhow, and I tip you off so you won’t be beat. “THOMAS.” o But this fellow Thomas does some 1 queer things sometimes. For instance, > the Herald now rents the entire build ■ ing from Mrs. A. T. Bush and the 1 front room on the second floor is used as sort of an office (and incidentally , a place to hide from bill collectors). i There’s a light in the hall which is i turned on at the foot of the stairs. 1 The other day Thomas was upstairs ! and remained until it was dark, and i as he left he squawked for a light, i “It’s at the foot of the steps,” I told him, and he deliberately went down . ! the steps, turned \on the light and came back up to the second floor so he could see to walk down. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C-, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936. Well Christmas is over, and many of us are‘glad of it Charlie Swan ner says he has lived through it but that he will never look the same. Good for him—he’s been ugly looking long enough. o Anyway Christmas left yours truly with a brand new pipe, and a good one at that I believe it was a frame up among the Herald force in order to get rid of the old faithful one. At'any rate, possibly Kid Jones will now be able to listen to what Mayor Spires has to say during Town Coun cil meetings instead of cutting a sar castic look around at me every time I happen to strike a match. But even the Red Men don’t appreciate a good pipe, for they’ve banned smoking in the hall while the meeting is going on. Looks like we’ll have to organize a pipe club where we can go and smoke without being bothered. o Frank Muth and Joe Campen the other day were walking down the street together, and as they passed ; couple of good-looking young, ladies Frank l;eard one of them say, “I won der who those good-looking men are with such big noses.” o The telephone girls were given quite a scare the other day when someone put a small firecracker in the mouthpiece and lighted it. The thing exploded just about the time Central made the connection, and the whole office force was in an uproar for a spell. o Green automobile plates are now in vogue in North Carolina. I like the new color—because Patrolman Dail likes the same color. For sale, a set of old plates, cheep! o Sunday’s News and Observer car ried a story regarding the approach ing political campaigns in which it was stated that New Deal loyalty, the sales tax, liquor, the new social security laws involving the question of whether the General Assembly should be reassembled to speed up North Carolina’s participation already are occupying front seats in the plat form making as the candidates gird for the battle which will be decided by the Jmy primaries. Here’s one who judging from the accomplishments of some of the General Assemblies, thinks that if speed is what is desired, the bloomin’ legislators had better stay at home. Pastor Briggs is away ahead of me. He’s got another article in this week’s issue before I’ve had a chance to re ply to his last baptism story. But it will come, sooner or later. o I’m mad with Mrs. Sam Taylor. With only a night or two in the week in which so slip out, she goes and books a whole string of fine pictures and it makes a fellow scratch his head and wonder which one to go to see. o C. D. Stewart takes the cake for sending New Year’s greetings. He has an ad in this week’s issue wishing all his customers a happy New Year, and then kills the whole works by saying “after this date we will go on a cash basis.” With fishing not like it used to be, fish eaters will have hard sledding ahead. o It’s a handicap to look so young. Take, for instance, Mrs. Julian Ward. She has. a son, George, who has pick ed up in size so much that he’s now almost as big as his daddv. But where the rub comes is "that while ac companying her son on several occa sions during the holidays, Mrs. Wart was asked if the boy was her nephew. Nope, it’s her son, and if he keeps or picking up weight he ought to be a big help to Edenton High’s football team a year or so from now. o Vernon Barrow, a Herald employee, living in North Edenton was clean out of sorfs on Monday morning. His feet left the icy pavement so many times on his way to work that he stood up the whole day. At one time he was tempted to stop at a house enroute and ask for a pillow to tie around his mid-section. o A mistake appeared in the story on another page about the prizes given by the Town Council for the best out door Christmas decoration. The sec ond prize was $3, instead of $2, as stated in the story. o-» Solicitor Herbert Leary is one who is fortunate enough to own a pair of ice skates, and he has been taking advantage of the ice along the sound. The Solicitor says he knows how to skate oq ice and has not tak en a fall. But if what one spectator saw was not a tumble, Mr. Leary sure is a fancy skater, and should enter some of the fancy skating con tests- Anyway, he had a chair on the ice the other day to rest between strides. Lodge men are like politicians. The Masonq had an election last week and next Monday the Red Men elect offi cers, and not a single cigar has been handed out; y LIFE’S BYWAYS LTBllllftrU 1 wr'swmurr JVffey Ifßfi gf S ° R %3 l T y/m j Blank empty pages today, may some day 1 hold a world-inspiring idea. | Lights of New York by L. L. STEVENSON All former Mayor James J. Walker has to do to assure himself of an in come of $15,000 a year for life is to hold down a Job for one month. That job must be with the city, however. The annuity would be paid by the city as a part of its pension system. To be eligible, the applicant must have spent 20 years In the service of the city. For 16 years the former mayor was a state senator and for six and one-half years, mayor. So that re quirement is met. The applicant must also be fifty-five years old. Next June, Jimmy Walker will reach that age. Then comes the third condition—he must be In the service of the city at the time be puts In his pension peti tion. Tammany, It Is assumed, will take care of that The assumption is based on precedent. Francis X. Mc- : Quade resigned as city magistrate, under a cloud In 1930. Three years later, he worked 34 days as an assist ant corporation counsel. During that period, he made his pension applica tion and got It after court proceedings. Should former Mayor Walker be come eligible for pension, he would have three options. He may withdraw the percentage of his salary that he has paid Into the pension fund, plus Interest, In cash. That would be only a small amount as, during legal pro ceedings In London, the ex-mayor said he had paid In about $5,000. The next option would be $15,000 each year he 'lives. The third Is a pension payable during the lifetime of Mrs. Walker, the former Betty Comptom, who is about twenty years younger than he. .That would amount to $7,500 a year. {Pensions are based on salaries drawn for the five years preceding retire ment During his first term as mayor, Walker drew $25,000 a year and from ;1929 until he resigned In 1932, $40,000 a year. • • • ! At present, former Comptroller Charles W. Berry is the only city pensioner who Is drawing $15,000 a year. The next largest Is $14,000 which former Mayor John P. O’Brien is drawing. Before serving his brief year as mayor, O’Brien was for many years a surrogate. The present surro gate’s salary is $22,500 a year. * • • The business of conducting an or chestra is just about as cockeyed as Broadway theatrical business. For. that reason, something new in orches tra management is being watched with the closest Interest by those who know of the deal. Recently, a musician, who had been connected with one of the better known orchestras for some time, quit to start an organization of his own. A friend, well known In the local motor world, on the ground that musicians, especially saxophone play ers, are notoriously poor business men, offered to take over all the business arrangements for the new organiza tion. The musician having consented, .the business man associated with him self five other big business men, all engaged In different lines of endeavor, : and they constitute this board of di rectors. In other words, they are de voting their spare time to putting busi ness into music I * * -* Broadway is wondering how It will work oat la the past, the assocla ,t!on of big business with Broadway |has been in th« main the “angel” who poured good money into a show with else saying how it should be spent—and with the angel general ly finding bis return merely first night passes. • • • Manhattan Interlude: The wife of a newspaper man was sitting in the fam ily motor car parked near the county courts building. A woman driver, In attempting to pass, bumped into and dented an already dented fender. In stead of stopping, apologizing, Inspect ing damage, etc., she tossed a quar ter Into the lap of the newspaper man’s wife and drove on with a smile. The wife turned the take over to the newspaper man who, figuring one more dent made no difference, invested the two bits in beer. Down on Chambers street, a pitch man was demonstrating some kind of gadget supposed to do everything from opening bottles to cutting glass, and from sharpening knives to pulling nails. He seemed to be absolutely de tached from the vulgar art of sales, his Interest centered entirely on prov ing the possibilities of that device. Being appreciative of a sincere work man, I bought one and I don’t regret the 15 cents invested even though I don’t know what to do with It. • * * Bus top eavesdropping: “The rea son widows have It all over young girls is because they know all about men while the only men who know all about them are dead.” Indiana Man Owns Watch Carried by Washington LaGrange, Ind. —A watch, once owned by President George Washing ton, Is possessed by Milo Tucker, farmer. President Washington gave the watch to Tucker’s great-great-grand father, Rev. Edward: ISvenß, at the close of the Revolutionary war in 1781, and It has been handed down to each succeeding generation. The timepiece Is two Riches In diameter and seven-eighths of an lncn In thickness, with a one-half inch stem. It has two cases, both off* sli ver color. The outer case must be re moved to wind the watch. The hours are marked in Roman numerals, with the minutes marked In figures above the numerals. The days of the month to 31 are Inside the numerals. The name of the manufacturer, N. Haushurst, New York, Is engraved on the back. The watch ran the last time It was wound, but the winding key has been misplaced. Star Says Song Is Cure for Any Ailment Chicago.— ls yonr husband sings in the bathtub, don’t complain of the noise; be glad you married him. ' His sharps may be flat and bis tempo 'out of step, but it’s a sign of well be jtng, good nature and the energy that gets a man ahead In bis business and with his family. ! The authority Is Agostino GUamlnl, [former Metropolitan Opera star. “If you feel like beating your wife, take up singing. You’ll have s better disposition. > “If you’re perpetually tired sod nerv ous, singing will put oxygen In your Mood and snap you out of It “If you’re tongue-tied and embar rassed with strangers, learn to sing. The ability to do It will give you more self-assurance than all the personality books laid end to end. Show mo a man who sings,” saM GUamlnl, “and :ril show you a fellow with energy and enthusiasm.” Chowan Still In Grip JR Os Freezing WeathMl (Continued from Page One) ■i| to clear the sidewalks of snow ancflffi|| as soon as possible. rHB Due to the bad roads and the ger and expense involved in operaflffiS school busses on country roads, Taylor, county superintendent schools, has postponed opening of his schools today. No definite date has been set for reopening, which will de- | pend upon the condition of the roads and weather. j Joh A. Holmes, superintendent of city schools, however, opened school this morning. v “EYE” GAUGES RAYS I UNSEEN STARS CAST I ' Device to Be Auxiliary to Largest Telescope. ; Pasadena, Calif.—Astronomers have revealed plans for an electric “eye”, so powerful It will sight a flame thousands of miles away, to an auxiliary to the world’s lanߧ| telescope. The “eye” Is an extraordinarily <H|| cate photoelectric cell, for use in mil urlng the amount of light given off byj stars millions of miles out of sight Os | the human eye. ] ; It will be used In conjunction with’ I the giant 200-lnch telescope, rated at 1 a power sufficient to show up sky scrapers on the moon and soon to be constructed on a southern California | mountain top. To Gather Light Rays, j Dr. George Ellery Hale, veteran as-, tronomer and director emeritus off | Mount Wilson observatory, outlined; 'plans for the new telescope and its' Auxiliaries in the Astrophysical Jour-' inal. | The "eye" consists of a target off . .'a sensitive metal inside the cell. Ught< jrays traveling perhaps 20,000,000 or. ,50,000,000 miles from distant stars grajfl ;gathered in by the massive rounder*! t Sector of the telescope and foculqfl ion the cell. M Faint though the light rays hreß they excite electrons In the sensUlvß metal, In turn generating electrlcaß currents, very feeble but still measurß able. By measuring the strength oB the electrical current a distant staifl sets up the astronomers will be ablß to compute the star’s relative brlghtfl Eyes Already in Use. I Such electric “eyes” now in use wltlfl the present world’s largest 100-lncH telescope at Mount Wilson are powenß ful enough to spot a candle 5,000 distant with the aid of the of seven miles distant without j amplification. With the new telescope, big and four times as powerfuttßß which a 16-foot pyrex reflector cooling at a Corning (N. Y.) 1 IBm works, greater distances are exp<4TVß Construction details of the jj IB scope are now being worked scientists. The tremendous barrel wlUl require a mount comparable to that ofl a big gun. I j When Installed, probably atop Mount* Palomar near San Diego, It is expecteß to have a possible amplification poweß that would bring the moou to wlthirß an apparent distance of 25 miles of thfl Officer Keeps Minute ■ Check on 1,300 Felons Lewlsburg, Pa. —Something like “old woman who lived in a Cap.’. E. J. Lloyd has so many 1 he always has plenty to do. His responsibility Is that ot kJ^H - ing at all hours of the day , the 1,500-acre reservation of the eral Northeastern penitentiary i the 1,300 convicts may be found. IVH Lloyd Issues passes allowing iamunfl ! to go to various parts of the huge* , prison area for work or recreation* i He checks bis pass record four times a day by roll calls at many point* otß i the grounds. ■ i The captain’s desk resembles tbs i working place of a train dispatcher! - His work must be just as accurst*! - If be finds an error In bis records, al! activities at the penitentiary halt undjfl i the missing man Is acconnted for. ; Explorer Makes Journey} « Through Africa on Q H Berlin.—George Lelchner, a /Wm i explorer, has tost returned after pleting a motorcycle, ride through i rlca lasting two years. this timfelß i months were spent In Ethiopia, Lef.lß ner claims to be the first to balß crossed the Lyblan desert alone oml motorcycle. He returned with i|n lection of 1,800 Insects, among tlflß six specimens of the rare “armcßßH , spider.” > "■ 1 ■■— jhh! , Relic Recalls Episode \ in French-Englith Vv H ; Campbellton, New Brunswick.—j ijH 1 hulk of the French merchant va the Blenfalsant, relic of the last ’ between the French and EngUs} J Canada 175 years ago, has bean |M ’ in the Restigouche river, neffir hel pll ' The vessel was abandoned crew and set afire In July, lffijjliji ' ! prevent capture by English ' it sank on the Quebec side BBTII Restigouche river and has 1 ; there ever since. *1 II ■ : This fall, because of unusoaUyJ. fl ! tides, part of the hulk has baeMEH| ’ lble and souvenir hunters are *trfcfl||| [ It Using simple equlpmenttt(r!;.c. ; >J
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