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i Volume 111.—Number 23.
4-H Club Girls Guests Os
Ed Bond PostTuesday Night
Nine Club Girls Present
To Assist In Pleasant
Program
LOTS~OF FUN
Sarah Winborne Bakes
Prize Winning Cake
In Contest
Though other attractions were in
progress at the same time, including
the Silas Green show and political
gatherings, a large crowd was pres
ent at the meeting of Ed Bond Post
on Tuesday night. As a special fea
ture nine 4-H Club girls and Miss
Rebecca Colwell, Chowan home agent,
were special guests, the occasion be
ing the appearance of the Club girls
who were entered in the County Cake
Baking Contest.
The girls present were Lois Hope
Lane, Marguerite Etta Evans, Cam
illa White, Beulah Copeland, Joyce
Copeland, Helen Blanchard, Eleanor
Winslow, Sarah Winborne and Pencie
Chappell. The young ladies had
baked cakes for the contest, which
prior to the meeting were judged by
Mrs. R. H. Hollowell and Mrs. Pearly
Baumgardner, the winning cake hav
ing been baked by Sarah Winborne.
At the close of the meeting all
cakes entered in the contest were
cut and furnished the major portion
of the refreshments served in con
' nectiori with the meeting. The Le
gionnaires added ice cream and soft
drinks to complete the “menu.”
Quite a few contests were engaged
in during the evening, among which
were a hog-calling contest, mule
braying contest, quartets and other
amusing stunts. Shelton Moore, Craig
Haste, Joe Boyce and Frank Ward
were picked to do the hog-calling,
while Carroll Kramer, W. C. Bunch,
Julian,E. Ward and J. Edwin Bufflap
were chosen to do the braying.
A quartet composed of four 4-H
girls competed with a Legion quar
tet, with the former easily winning
honors, even though Oscar Duncan
did approach the high cockalorum
claiming that the men won. A Le
gion button was presented to Eleanor
Winslow, who captained the girls’
quartet. The Legionnaires protested
because Commander John Holmes al
lowed those present to raise both
hands when it came to voting for
the young ladies.
Miss Colwell told the Legionnaires
that it was a great consolation in her
work to know that she had the back
ing of such an organization and said
the 4-H Club girls look forward with
pleasure each year to the cake-bak
ing contest, which is sponsored by
the local Post and the winner sent
to the 4-H short course in Raleigh.
Miss Winborne, the winner, ex
pressed her appreciation to the
judges for awarding her first prize
and to the Legion Post for sponsor
ing the short course trip. She said
she looked forward to it with much
pleasure and hoped she would be able
to bring back to her club some valu
able information secured during the
course.
John Holmes, commander, ap
pointed R- E. Leary, T. L. Ward and
Shelton Moore as a nominating com
mittee to name a new set of officers
for the next term, as well as dele
gates to the State Convention which
meets in Asheville on July 26-27.
Carroll Kramer claimed the atten
tion of the Legionnaires as he im
parted to them the proper procedure
for soldiers to receive, sign and cash
fheir bonds, which are expected here
either June 16 or 17.
House - Badham
Wedding Saturday
The wedding of Miss Helen Bad
ham and Mr. Henry House, Jr., will
take place Saturday evening at six
o’clock in prjyate ceremony at St.
Paul’s Church. Church admission
cards have been issued.
BUILDING INSPECTOR MAKING _
ROUNDS over city this week
R. K. Hall, building inspector, is
this week making his annual inspec
tion, which wilt continue during the
week. Mr. Hall had covered consid
erable territory at the time The
Herald went to press and was very
much pleased with the conditions
about premises as he had found
them.
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CANCEL PRAYER MEETING
The prayer meeting service at the
Methodist Church was called off on
Wednesday evening due to Rev.
George W. Blount, the pastor, being
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS Os, CHOWAN COUNTY
Inter-City Rotary
Meeting At Parish
House On Monday
A Rotary inter-city meeting
will be held at the Parish House
on Monday night at 8 o’clock, it
was learned Wednesday afternoon.
This inter-city meeting includes
the Edenton, Hertford and Eliza
beth City Rotary clubs and while
the program has not been made
public at this writing, the affair
always draws a large number of
the membership of each club,
when very interesting programs
are arranged. All Edenton Ro
tarians are urged to make vote of
the meeting and make every ef
fort to attend.
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18 GRADUATE AT
COLERAIN HIGH
SCHOOL TONIGHT
Dr. D. D. Carroll of University of
North Carolina, Will Be Speaker
at Commencement Exercises
The Colerain High School gradua
tion exercises will be held tonight
(Thursday) in the school auditorium
at 8 o'clock. Dr. D. D. Carroll, head
o's the School of Economics at the
University of North Carolina, will
deliver the commencement address
at that time.
Those composing the 1936 gradu
ating class are:
Ralph Freeman, Talmadge Fore
hand, Charlie Perry Hughes, Edward
Owens, Marshall Hughes, Norman
Perry, Margaret Adams, Virginia
Baker, Jennie Mae Brinkley, Florine
Farless, Alma Lee Forehand, Theo
Harrell, Louise Perry, Miriam Perry,
Maude Evans Phelps, Doris Pierce,
Ida Vashti Ward, and Bessie White.
Relief Again Puzzles
County Commissioners
The Chowan County Commission
ers are again faced with a proposi
tion regarding relief cases in the
county. During the winter the Unit
ed dharities had been supplementing
those on the county relief roll with
food orders, but now the United
Charities fund has been exhausted
and these food orders will have to be
discontinued. A special drive was
made last winter to raise funds for
this purpose and during the winter
orders amounting to about s2l a
week were given every Monday
morning except on the Monday the
Commissioners met.
There are approximately 23 of
these relief cases and just what
course will be taken was not decided
by the Commissioners at their meet
ing Monday.
Many Woodmen At
Initiation Ceremony
In New Elm Camp
About 100 Woodmen of the World
on Friday night crowded the hall of
the newly organized Elm Camp over
Ed Habit’s store when visiting
Woodmen together with a large
class of new members enjoyed the
initatory work of the Order. Dele
gations were present from Ahoskie,
Aulander, Hertford, Kinston and
Elizabeth City, with the degree work
in charge of the Hertford degree
team under the direction of Archie
Nobles. Following the initation of
a class of young woodchoppers a
number of side degrees were put on
which furnished plenty of fun for
the older woodchoppers.
The principal address was made
by T. E. Newton, of Kinston, State
manager, who told of the rapid
strides made in membership by
Woodmen and the sound financial
condition of the insurance depart
ment of the organization.
Refreshments were sefved at the
close of the evening’s activities.
A. O. Kiss, under whom the Elm
Camp was organized, presided.
Another meeting of the Woodmen
will be held Friday night, when a
number of new candidates will be
taken into the local camp.
RETURNS FROM CUBA
W. M. Wilkins returned Monday
from Havana, Cuba, where he spent
several days as the guest of the
Philco radio organization. Mr. Wil
kins was given a free trip to> Cuba
as a reword for highest radio sales
in his district. He reports an ex
cellent trip, which was thoroughly
enjoyed by a large number of Philco
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, June 4,1936.
RED MEN URGING
ADOPTION ALIEN
BILL IN CONGRESS
Chowan Tribe Appoints
Committee at Meeting
Monday Night
MAIL LETTERS
Bill Would Deport All
Aliens Refusing to
Be Naturalized
Chowan Tribe of Red Men at its
meeting Monday night definitely de
cided to lend its influence to the
passage in the United States Con
gress of the Reynolds-Stames bill.
This bill has for its purpose the de
portation of aliens now residing
within the borders of the United
States who refuse to be naturalized.
A committee consisting of Arthur
Hollowell, Raleigh Hollowell and J.
Edwin Buffiap was appointed to write
letters to proper authoriities urging
the passage of this bill. These let
ters are to be sent to Samuel Diels
stein chairman of the House com
mittee on Immigration and Natural
ization; Marcus A. Coolidge, chair
man of the Senate Committee on
Immigration; Senator Robert R.
Reynolds and Congressman Joe
Starnes, as well as other legislators
in order to urge passage of the bill.
Endorsement of this action was
adopted at the recent sessions of the
Great Council of North Carolina,
and no doubt Red Men all over the
State will urge passage of the bill.
The Red Men as a patriotic organ
ization, founded upon American
principles and traditions, feel that
the residence of these aliens is. a
menace to good government and to
law observance, and therefore are
appealing to the law-makers for the
adoption of the pending measure.
The local letters sent out will
urge the recipients to do everything
within their power to support this
legislation and secure its passage at
the present session of Congress if at
all possible.
Vacation Bible School
Commencement Will
Be Held Friday Night
Commencement exercises for the
Daily Vacation Bible School, in pro
gress at the Methodist Church for
two weeks, will be held in the church
auditorium on Friday night at 8
o’clock. The school rapidly increas
ed in attendance over the first day
and those in charge were agreeably
surprised in that the success of the
school exceeded their expectations.
The program Friday night, aside
from the awarding of certificates,
will include some of the phases of
work done during the two weeks.
This part of the program has been
arranged in order to give parents
and friends an opportunity to see
just what has been accomplished.
A general invitation is extended
to everybody to attend the exercises.
Florida Citizen Deplores
Highway Death Traps
That the recent disaster at Chow
an River bridge, when four young
people met their death by drowning,
has been heard of in distant places
is evident by a letter received from
Miami, Florida, this week by John
A. Holmes. The writer, Ferd W.
Rawlings, thinking Edenton had an
active Chamber of Commerce, ad
dressed his letter to i “Chamber of
Commerce, Edenton, N. C-,” in the
hope that a campaign will be inaugu
rated to rid the highways of the
State of open drawbridges and death
traps.
Mr. Rawlings’ letter in full fol
lows:
“A rendezvous with death! Four
more innocent persons lose their
lives at an open draw bridge this
time near Edenton.
“I am alone and in sorrow today
because, through carelessness and
incompetence and utter disregard for
the simple rules of safety, I was
robbed of the loveliest sweetheart a
man ever had when a Greyhound bus
carried her and her mother, with
eleven other passengers, to sudden
death at the Hopewell, Va., death
bridge that bright Sunday morning
of December 22nd. No attempt at
rescue was made and none survived.
That inexcusable tragedy and the
one just occurred in North Carolina
are going to be repeated just so long
as busses are permitted to use the
highways at high speed and the to-
VETERANS’BONDS
EXPECTED ARRIVE
HERE ONJUNEI6
Strict Regulations Gov
erning Cashing of
SSO Bonds
INSTRUCTIONS
Postoffice Will Be Open
Nights to Assist Ex-
Service Men
A postoffice inspector was in
Edenton Tuesday for the purpose of
giving final instructions to local
postal authorities regarding the
handling of World War veterans’
bonds. These bonds are expected to
arrive in Edenton on June 16 and
upon their arrival the local post
office will remain open at night from
7 to 9 o’clock for the convenience of
veterans who are unable to attend to
the matter during the day.
It is necessary for veterans to be
identified before the bonds are de
livered to them and when they are
presented must be signed in the
presence of a certifying officer.
Following the signing of the bonds
the local postoffice will issue a re
ceipt for them and send to the pay
ing office in Raleigh, from where a
check for the amount of the bonds
will be sent direct to the owner.
This service will be given free by
postal officials, but the bonds may be
signed at a bank or before any officer
having an official seal. In the latter
cases, however, the veteran will be
obliged tio pay the registered letter
fee.
Piano Recital Will Be
Held At School Tuesday
A piano recital will be given by
Mrs. Leofi Lewis’ private high school
and grammar school pupils on Tues
day evening in the school auditorium.
The recital will begin at 8 o’clock,
and the public is cordially invited.
Edenton Concerns
Start Half Holiday
Edenton stores were closed on
Wednesday at 1 o’clock in observance
of the firsthalf-holiday which will be
in vogue during the months of June,
July and August. Many of the em
ployees enjoyed the afternoon at
home resting while some took ad
vantage of the time to make short
jaunts to nearby points.
AUXILIARY MEETING AT HOTEL
JOSEPH HEWES THURSDAY P..M
The regular meeting of the Amer
ican Legion Auxiliary will be held at
Hotel Joseph Hewes Thursday even
ing at 8 o’clock. The president, Mrs.
Jesse White is most desirous that a
large number of the members at
tend, and reminds all members that
only by complete cooperation can the
Auxiliary accomplish the greatest
good.
tiquated death-trap type of draw
bridges continue in use. Had your
bridge and the Virginia bridge, of
which one official claims there are
many In their state, been of modern
lift construction, such ‘accidents’
would have been impossible, eighteen
lives would have been spared and my
beautiful, talented little fiancee and
her good mother would now be en
joying life here with me in sunny
Florida, instead of lying in death in
Superior, Wis.
“I have never considered bus
transportation a safe mode of travel,
never shall use them and shall al
ways blame myself for not warning
my dear ooes of their danger before
they left home. Numerous other
bus accidents have since occurred.
“ ‘Don’t worry about us’, said their
letter, ‘we will get there all right.’
What confidence! They placed their
precious lives in the hands of the
bus company which failed in its mis
sion of transporting them safely
through and giving them the protec
tion for which they had paid. At
Richmond, they were not permitted
to board the main route bus directly
through to Petersburg where the
road crosses on a safe viaduct, but
were placed on a bus which carried
them miles off the main highway
around to Hopewell—and to death.
“I have learned my lesson and
may God forgive me for failing to
advise my loved ones to come by
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Political Leaders Predict
Victory For Candidates
Commissioners To
Hear Complaints
On Tax Valuation
The Chowan County Commis- i
sioners will meet at the Court
House on Monday, June 15, at
10 o’clock A. M., for the purpose
of hearing any complaints relative
to property assessed for taxation.
Any taxpayer having any com
plaints must appear before the
Commissioners, sitting as a Board
cf Equalization and Review, in or
der to have the valuation adjusted.
B. T. U. MEETING IN
COLERAIN JUNE 7
Interesting Program Arranged For
Eastern Bertie Quarterly
Meeting at 3 O’clock
The Eastern Bertie quarterly B. T.
U. meeting will be held in Colerain
Baptist Church Sunday afternoon,
June 7, at 3 o’clock. The theme for
this meeting will be “Faith Is the
Victory in Living With Others.” A
very interesting program has been
arranged and the public is cordially
invited to attend.
The program as outlined is as
follows:
Devotional— Miss Nana Mae Ward,
of Capehart’s Church.
Chowan Encampment—Rev. L. M.
Dixon.
Christian Responsibility to Other
Races—Milton Cullipher, Riverside
Church.
Special Music—Green’s Cross Bap
tist Church.
Play—Living With Others, Cole
rain Intermediates.
Address—Have Faith in Mankind,
Rev. Oscar Creech, of Ahoskie.
Chowan Women Go
To Washington For
World Women Meet
Ten Chowan County club women
left this morning at 6:30 o’clock to
attend the Association of Country
Women of the World which is being
held in Washington, D. C. The
Chowan group left in a large bus
and stopped in Elizabeth City where
they were joined by 14 Pasquotank
women to make the trip. The party
will return Sunday night.
Those composing the Chowan
group were: Miss Rebecca Colwell,
home agent, Mrs- S. E. Morris, Mrs.
E. L. Winslow, Miss Alma Winslow,
Miss Eleanor Winslow, Mrs. R. H.
Hollowell, Mrs. J. N. Smith, Miss
Gladys Smith, Miss Elizabeth Eason,
and Miss Inez White.
Arthur Chappell Opens .
His New Restaurant
Following a series of postpone
ments, Arthur Chappell this week
formally opened his restaurant in the
building purchased by him next to
Quinn’s Furniture Store a few
months ago. Mr. Chappell was pre
vented from opening the restaurant
department of his business first due
to holding up of shipments of equip
ment because of floods in New Eng
land, and only two weeks ago he
narrowly escaped death in an auto
mobile mishap at Woodville when re
turning from Norfolk, Va., where he
had been in search of a first-class
chef.
The restaurant is now attractively
furnished with up-to-date equipment,
including a lunch counter and
booths of latest design. Mr. Chap
pell has secured the services of Tom
Cappos, an expert chef from Nor
folk, who will arrive Friday to take
charge of the restaurant.
Mr. Chappell’s business now in
cludes the restaurant on one side of
the building, a billiard parlor on the
other and an up-to-date dance hall
on the second floor.
Political Speeches To
Be Held Tonight
Senator Carroll Weathers of Ra
leigh, will speak in behalf of Sandy
Graham’s candidacy for Governor at
Cross Roads tonight (Thursday) at
8:30 o’clock. The meeting will be an
open air affair and will be held at
the Bush-EUiott store.
A similar meeting will be held at
7 o’clock tonight on the baseball
diamond in the Mill Village when
Will Flora, of Currituck, will address
the voters in behalf of Mr. Graham’s
candidacy.
The public is cordially invited to
attend both of these meetings.
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lated in thf territory
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$1.25 Per Year
McDonald, Graham and
Hoey Supporters Ap
pear Confident
SEEK BIG VOTE
Governor Race Over
shadows Local Con.
tests For Office
With only two more sundowns and
sunrises due before the voters of the
State will face their biennial oppor
tunity to do business with their bal
lots on Saturday, confident assur
ances of success are being evinced
by the Chowan campaign managers
of the three leading gubernatorial
aspirants.
So certain are these chieftains of
ultimate victory for Graham, McDon
ald and Hoey, one might feel safe in
anticipating a return to the old days
of the Roman Empire when every
body won and a Triumvirate of rul
ers served in different sections of
the country. However, here in North
Carolina that’s against the rules so
it had better be said “somebody’s
going to win” arid by midnight Sat
urday we’ll all know who it is.
For several months now the vot
ers have been told all there is to
know about the sales tax, machine
domination, old age security and
better farm programs. The candi
dates have expostulated with vigor
relative to the respective merits of
and against these various things, arid
have staked their candidacies upon
their utterances and their platforms.
Yet, even at this last moment, if a
brand new candidate would appear,
helmeted like Henry of Navarre, and
cast aside all these political isms and
take the stump in favor of a heavy
rainfall and nothing else, he’d sweep
this section of the State hands
down. The iniquities of a useless
sales tax and of machine control, and
the blessings of old age security and
better farm programs, are worthy
subjects of discussion, but if some
body would start a small-sized de
luge working in the Albemarle right
now, some of us would think the
millenium had come and would be
grateful for it. A little rain would
n’t hurt, would it ?
The Hoey manager in Chowan is
Mayor E. W. Spires. Graham’s in
terests are being marshallled in
Chowan by Charles T. Griffin. Mc-
Donald is being looked after by a
committee. Mr. Griffin reached The
Herald office first with his statement
as follows:
“Remarkable gains have been
made for Mr. Graham and we confi
dently expect him to carry Chowan
County. We are especially gratified
by the large number of voters and
workers who have voluntarily offered
their services to the furtherance of
Mr. Graham’s candidacy.”
There have been Graham meetings
of workers almost every night of
late, and no stone has been left un
turned to bring out a vote for Sandy.
Tonight there will be a large out
door Graham meeting at Small’s
Cross Roads, and another on the
baseball diamond at the cotton mill
here. At the former Senator Car
roll Weathers, of Raleigh, will speak
and it is expected the crowd will be
augumented by visitors from Per
quimans and Gates counties. At the
cotton mill gathering the speaker
will be William Flora, of Currituck.
And while Mr. Griffin was showing
his confidence Mayor Spires got his
typewriter at work to express his.
Said the Mayor:
“Reports coming to me voluntar
ily from voters in every precinct in
Chowan indicate that we will get a
tremendous ‘silent vote’ Saturday.
Our campaign has been quiet, but
very effective. We are well organ
ized and while not wishing to make
any rash statements it is our con
sidered opinion that Chowan will be
found in the Hoey column Saturday
night. As to the State: our head
quarters in Raleigh is bubbling over
with enthusiasm because of the great
trend to Mr. Hoey’s cause which has
reached tidal proportions. They con
fidently expect Mr. Hoey’s plurality
to closely approach if not surpass
the majority mark.”
And as for McDonald, well here is
what his henchmen say:
“The committee for McDonald has
been hard at work getting the issues
involved to the voters of Chowan
county, and feel that by doing so the
voters will intelligently choose the
candidate that will administer the
government in North Carolina in the
next four years for all the people
rather than for any special group or
groups. The committee feels confi
dent that McDonaldand the things
for which he stands will triumph in
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