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PAGE FOUR THE CHOW AN HERALD Published every Thursday by Buff’s Printing House, 100 East King .Street, -Edenton, -N. C. J. Edwin Bufflap Editor Hector lepton Advertising Mgr. SUBSCBIPTION One Year $1.25 Six Months 76c Entered as seoondrclass matter August 30, 1934, at the .post office at Edenton, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Advertising rates, furnished by re quest. S' Cards of thanks, obituaries, reso lutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular advertising rates. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2Q, 1936. BIBLE THOUGHT FOR WEEK GOD’S IMITATORS: Be ye there fore followers of God, .as dear chil dren; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given him self for us an offering and a sacri fice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. —Ephesians 5:1-2. education officials MEET A CRISIS Twenty-nine years ago a mighty city on the Pacific coast was utterly destroyed by earthquake and fire. It was one of the world’s greatest ca tastrophes. Yet it had been peopled by men of action, of faith and vision. Within a week, and while the smoke from the crumbling ruins was still rising to high heaven, .these brave and heroic Americans had formulat ed and inaugurated plans .for .a .new: and better metropolis, and .today .San Francisco towers again over .the Golden Gate a glorious symbol of sturdy courage and staunch determi nation to overcome the direst .calam ity. | Chowan County haß no San Fran-, i-iam within its borders hut the pio neers who made the West have .their counterparts here. The .destruction 1 by fire last week of the Chowan .High, School-at Small’s Cross Roads was a momentous occurrence to this neigh-, borhood. In San Francisco,, perhaps, it would have been reckoned .as but a one alarm blaze, but in a .territory still fighting for its life .and its future, struggling as it still does to overcome the want occasioned by a great war of 75 years ag», with money needs making its educa tional facilities and opportunities limited, to say the least, the Cross Roads conflagration was a most se-, rious occasion. Teachers stood about in the crowd that night and cried. Strong and robust farmer parents also felt their little world had been crushed beneath them. But by dawn another day blazoned across the horizon and will and pow er and determination met the issue. One of the greatest compliments that can be paid to Chowan can be trace able to this fire. Instead of waiting a month or two to figure out what could be done Chowan citizenship acted at once. Already younger scholars have been provided with schooling facilities and next week, it is expected, all of the 378 pupils of the late school will be at their stu dies once again in temporary quar ters secured in Center Hill and near by. But even greater than this instant action is the fact that plans are al ready under way for the preparation of architectural drawings for a new school, larger, better and more com modious, to be erected in the same locality. By fall it is hoped it will be ready for occupancy. It will mean continued tax cost and privation by the citizens, but this will be bravely met. All praise to a citizenship who can thus face such a situation fear lessly and with pride! IT’S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD! Momentarily disheartening as all calamities are, yet out of each in variably comes {greater perfection. The destruction of the Chowan High School last week will prove the truth of this. A ' better and more commo dious school will succeed it. Phoenix like, education in the county will rise to higher and more perfect ideals, vigorous imagination will have a larger sweep of wing, and the coming generation, in a new and rejuvenated environment, will see transfiguring beauty in the heart of all things; class rooms will become individual temples and Chowan pupils worship ers at the feet of higher learning. Great expectations! Yet according to your expectancy, so be it unto you, as a wiser man than any of us once said! Even now we can look ahead and see the teachers at the new Chowan High discussing, say, history next fall. We can see them swing from age to age, from kingdom to king dom, from civilization to civilization, peopling the solitude of ancient years with gorgeous presences, and as they will do so they may be able to catch along the vista of the past a glimpse of the Creator’s mighty pur pose, firing within the minds of those they are tutoring an exalted enthu siasm to see through the teacher’s glowing world view, possibilities of a future that seems vast, indeed divine- So hats off to the coming new Chowan High! Greater and better things will be expected of it; greater and better opportunities will be its portion! Our health, your health and a long life to come for all! Heard and seen By “BUFF” .Candidates for office axe seen these days in this neck of the woods. “I’ll not vote for Mr. So and So for the Senate," said a feminine voter .the .other -day. “And why not,” I asked her, “he seems like a very nice man and ought to make a good candidate.” The lady was very re luctant to give any reason for not supporting this particular candidate, but said he stood in pretty good with the county’s politicians and could tell very good jokes. Maybe the lat ter is the most outstanding require ment to be .a .member of the General Assembly, fer goodness knows some of the things they do sure look like jokes—and ' bum ones at 'that. But these candidates have the in terest of the “Dear Peepul” at heart, especially before election -while out trying to get votes lined up. It’s no telling what some of them will promise. For instance 1 asked one how he stood on some counties be ing allowed to sell liquor while others could not (of course, I’m speaking about selling liquor legally for even in Chowan it can be bought without expending any more energy than' go ing to the phone) and he informed me that he would work for what the people wanted. Now what kind of, an answer is 'that when some want; “prohibition” and others would rath er have an opportunity to buy their; liquor without feeling like a crim-: inal? If the General Asserriblyi hasn’t made a joke of the liquorj situation, then my sense of humori is all out of gear. And then each of the candidates for Governor Claim strength gained I after every speedh made by one of the others. Well, they may Claim all they want to, 'but only one wHI be nominated- At any rate, I’m go ing to vote for who 1 demed please, and I reckon you’ll do the same. » 1 1 surely must not foiget to thank, those who sent me the unsigned Val-! en tines last week. One of them’ must have been from one of the fair, sex, for the message on the thingj reads like this: “You are just too sweet for words—-he my Valentine.'” i Another says: “It’s been a dog’s age; since I met you, but honestly I can’t forget you.” But, of course, I’m ■married and must be somebody else’s Valentine and bread basket, too. An other Valentine with an ugly face must have been from a man, and I’m going to be on the lookout for some guilty-looking guys down street about Saturday night o It’s just too bad that the Chowan High School was ruined last week by fire. Undoubtedly the fire furnished a certain amount of joy for some of the children, but there were those who apparently felt as sorry as the teachers who helplessly watched the building and all its contents go up in smoke. It was a pretty fire—if a fire can be called pretty. The Eden ton High School is better protected against fire ... it has a sprinkler system . . . when there is any snow or rain on the roof. o The snow and cold weather have played havoc with the country roads, and fields as well. I’ve been told that a certain farmer rambled out in one of his fields to sort of get an idea of the condition of the soil, but before he had gotten very far he was stuck, boots and ail, in the mire. That ought to be news, for it’s not unusual to see an automobile stuck, but when a pedestrian gets stuck so that he needs help to get out, some thing ought to be done about the weather. o The incident of a lady customer of a Nash county ABC store becoming so hilarious over her purchases that she jumped into the municipal lake at Rocky Mount, can make us a little proud. Whatever else may be said o.erainst it, the illegal liquor of Chowan and other prohibition coun ties in the Albemarle has not so far driven any of its victims off of dry ground to make fools of themselves. o “The only thing wrong with the Herald is that it doesn’t carry the weather forecast.” said a subscriber this week. Shucks, with the sort of weather we’ve been having for the oast several months, what good is a weather report, anyhow ? The Herald editorial of a few weeks ago commenting on all the fuss about murderers and the like being obliged to suffer when put to death was used by Frank Smethurst in his “In My Opinion” column in Sunday’s News and Observer. He’s a bit wrong, however, when he says I yanked out the editorial before the whole edition was printed. It ap peared in every copy of the paper, and what’s more possibly some of the hideous crimes would not be per petrated if the suffering of offend ers were exposed to citizens in the communities where the deed took place as a warning to those who otherwise might commit a crime just as horrible, rather than in a semi private room in some far-off prison. After all, if the taking of a life for a crime does not have the effect of holding down similar outrages, what "•ood does it do anyhow? Let would-be criminals see what is in store for them, and possibly they’ll be a little more reluctant to carry THE -CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, rN. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1986. out their intentions. -Even a good sound public whipping would have its effect of making some people think twice before they act. o Anyway, one fellow the other day when asked if he would prefer the electric chair to the lethal gas .cham ber, said “I’d rather live an honest life the rest of my dayß.” (j Jim Daniels at the weekly luncheon tof the Rotary (Club today is sched uled to tell the Rotarians his ex periences as a rural mail carrier. But -the Rotarians will hardly expect Jim to tell them what he has said during the many times his car has been stuck while on the 'job- At any rate, some of those Rotarians are pretty shrewd, for unless J’m badly mistaken, they’ll also put Jim to work leading the singing. -You see, Parson Ashby is the song leader, but he usually starts off on the wrong key or no key at all and makes the boys sing another verse or so. That’s where the Parson differs with Min ton Warren as song leader, for the latter just don’t care whether they sing or not. —O Os course, Ground Hog Day is past but George Lassiter wrote a poem l about the 'bloomin' critter, which like some of Pastor Briggs articles, was crowded out. Anyway, here is what George has to say: Old Mr. Ground 'Hog, your time is. right here, We anxiously wait -your prognosis; -With fear; We’ve had so much weather, the, rain, Sleet and snow: We’ll lose our recovery, if back m| you go. Os course you’re no prophet, at least no hero, It’s your sp'leen'ish nature that makes you. act so; It seems it’s your weakness to sneak' from the cold: Afraid of your s'hadow! True seers are bold. And I don’t believe you—except for the fact 1 Past-pending condltwms is due for! your act; For if there is weather w!he;n you so appear: We’re having it worst, for that time of the year. Furthermore— If we looked to you for our weather forecast, We’d not have much weather at present or past; For one of your species that burrow the ground: In this coastal country is rare to be found. «T” And now that I’ve set that spell of poetry, I don’t know whether I ought to shoot the consam ground hog or Friend Lassiter. Since Sunday a week ago, the Quinn Furniture Company has had 13 funerals, and if the weather con tinues as it has been and there is no improvements in the roads, the com pany will have to add a tractor to their burial equipment. .i. o “How, many packs of cigarettes do you buy during a week?” asked a fellow of a cigarette smoker the other day. “Well, about a pack a day— that depends on how many I can bum during the week,” was the reply. And according to the number you see bumming cigarettes, it’s a wonder any are sold. o Some folks surely have their mind on their work. I’ve just heard of an organist (not in Edenton, however) who turning to the preacher for the purpose of knowing which hymn to play, asked, “What size, please?” o There’s all kinds of stunts used for married men to get out at nights, but a local gent was getting in pret ty hot water when he sneaked his shoes out of the house for the pur pose of attending a dance. The wife, discovering that the shoes were miss ing, inquired about them, and there was a sudden spell of tall explaining. He didn’t go to the dance! o The amateur night idea has at last struck Edenton. On Tuesday night one of these affairs will be held in the Parish House as the last social function before Lent, and then Friday two weeks, March 6, an amateur night will be held at the Taylor Theatre. Both of these amateur per formances are scheduled to be very entertaining and well worth going to see. The first one ought to be extra good with Carroll Kramer and Oscar Brown imitating Major Bowe and Graham McNamee, respectively. o A newspaper fellow sometimes catches the dickens. For instance on Tuesday while out trying to scare up some news, a certain fellow said, “I’m off of newspaper guys . . . I’m not telling jhem a thing anymore.” That wasn’t so bad, but another one in the'group continued: “Yes, and as little as Bufflap is, if he puts my name in the paper, 111 beat the hell out of him.’’ And he’s close to a 200-pounder, too! o Raleigh Hollowell thinks I’m pre judiced toward him. In naming • JUSTJHUMANS By obne carr rs »||fj|E2» ‘She’s Goin’ T’cheer Her Husband Up. Th’ Doctor Told Her He Never Can Work Again." birthdays of great men occurring in February last week, I omitted his name, although his birthday also is in *F4broary. No wonder he’s so bloomin’ lucky. Anyway, ;be don’t smoke Cigars and I do. o I’m not the only one who has seen enough snow and cold weather this winter. Mrs. Cad Cap Chart in her Merry Hill letter “'seconds the mo tam”’ First Fish Story—M. G. Sawyer, East side mail carrier, reports ihe caught 26 herring on Tuesday. 1 THIS WEEK’S i | RECIPE i ~ j BAKED RICE AND CHEESE Why ;not try baked rice and cheese some night for supper. With some toast, hot coffee and raw fruit, noth ing else is necessary. 3 cups cooked rice 2 cups cheese % teasp. salt 2 tbsps. butter 1 cup milk Cayenne (Crumbs Put layer of cooked rice in greased baking dish, cover with layer of Your Turn May Come Today, Tonight Or Any Second . . . DO YOU REALIZE THE FIRE HAZARDS IN YOUR OWN HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS? The Following Are a Few Facts There is $500,000,000 annual fire loss in the United States . . . 10,000 human lives lost annually (60 per cent are children and women) .. . 30,000 persons permanently injured annually . . . 525,- 000 fires reported annually. THE FOLLOWING HAPPEN DAILY: 1,277 residences destroyed 96 farm buildings 1 hospital 5 school buildings 15 hotel buildings 5 churches 2 theatres 6 department stores 3 printing plants 8 public garages 3 dry goods stores Thousands of other buildings annually Only Automatic Alarm and Equipment can give you the proper protection you need. The liquid used will not harm person or the finest piece of fur niture or material made. It is constantly on the watch every sec ond of the day to protect your property, yourself and your loved ones against the terrible demon —FIRE. Approved by Underwriters Laboratories. Recommended by the National Fire Protection Association. Used by thousands of large manufacturers and home owners and approved by practically all States of the Union. No Inspection, No Recharging, No Updceep Cost, Protected Against Freezing, Cost Reasonable, Good Until Used. R costs you nothing to have your property inspected and rec ommendation made for equipment necessary to protect your prop erty. Avail yourself of this free service by writing or calling Carolina Fire Prevention Company C. G. CONGER Member N. F. P. A. j grated cheese, season with salt and cayenne. Continue adding layers un til dish is almost full. Add enough milk to come half-way to top of rice- Cover with crumbs, dot with butter, and bake in moderate oven (350 deg. F.) 30 minutes. MATTIE MACON WHITE CIRCLE TO MEET MONDAY AFTERNOON The regular meeting of the Mattie Macon White Circle of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Edenton Baptist Church will be held Monday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, with Mrs. H. B. Jones, at her home on Queen Street. All members are urged to be present. COLERAIN YOUNG PEOPLE ENJOY CANDY COOKING A number of the young people of Colerain on Monday evening enjoyed a candy cooking at the home of Mrs. H. 0. Harrell. Using Dried Out Cake If cake is very hard it can be made into a delicious pudding by steaming 30 minutes in double boiler, and serv ing hot with any desired sauce — hard, creamy, foamy or fruit. Harry Crummey Gets Six Months Despite Plea Os Innocence Although vigorously protesting his innocence and insisting he knew nothing whatever of the charges made against him, Harry Crummey, North Edenton filling station opera tor, was convicted by a jury in ‘the Pasquotank Superior Court in Eliza beth City on Tuesday. The charge was receiving stolen goods. Crummey was immediately sentenced to six months on ■ the roads, but through his attorney, W. D. Pruden, posted $635 in bonds and filed notice of ap peal to the Supreme Court. The charge against Crummey grew out of recent thefts of cigarettes from the Norfolk Southern Railroad in Elizabeth City. Nathan Mann is in custody charged with the stealing. He is said to have told the authori ties that he disposed of some of the stolen goods to Crummey. The Bit ter testified he had never seen Mann, that he bought no cigarettes from any one except tobacco sales men, and that he could not under stand why he had been accused. Workmen about his station testified similarly in his behalf. BRIDGE CLUB ENTERTAINED Mrs. Nathan Dail charmingly en tertained her bringe club Tuesday afternoon at her home on Queen Street. Those playing were: Mrs. Sidney Campen, Mrs. L. H. Haskett, Mrs. Willie White, Mrs. Tom Spen cer, Mrs. Jesse Wiggins, Mrs. Wal lace Griffin and Mrs. Z. Bright Tucker. Mrs. Willie White won high score prize, and the hostess served dainty refreshments. i|Sy»gr~ A DENTIST IS TW SADDEST MAN 111 TM WOULD....BECAUSE HI ! ANNUM LOOKS DOWN N TM MMTI. i
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