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PAGE FOUR THE CHOWAN HERALD Published every Thursday by Buffs Printing House, 100 East King Street, Edenton, N. C. J. Edwin Bufflap Editor Hector Lupton Advertising Mgr. SUBSCRIPTION One Year sl-25 Six Months 76c Entered as second-class 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. Cards of thanks, obituaries, reso lutions of respect, etc., will be charged for at regular advertising rates. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1986. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE THOUGHT THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE: There is therefore no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but af ter the Spirit.—Romans 8:1. NOT ENOUGH, BUT BETTER THAN WAITING Every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she kissed the cow, and so, too, the County and Edenton school authorities must feel at the allotments fixed for tihem by the County Commissioners on Monday. Perhaps the figures are not quite what may have been hoped for and planned for, but certainly the allowance must be viewed as generous when it is understood the citizenry is to agree to bond itself to raise the money without any of the long time expected Federal help. For Cross Roads a new school will go up costing around 866,000, and in Edenton the high school will be fixed up and improved to the tune of |4liooo. The former plans pro vided for an estimated expense but very little in excess of the sum al lotted by the Commissioners, so there will be little difficulty in paring here and there to keep within tfiie money available. As for Edenton, it had expected to spend more for what it wanted to do, but when it is con sidered that the local school authori ties have had to put up with much discomfort and hazard for so long, why $41,000 will do a lot to safe guard and improve a building that should have been replaced with a more modem structure long ago. All of which means that every body’s happy and they have a right to be under the circumstances. For the circumstances have been most trying to say the least. Promises and pledges of PWA and WPA help have at no time been forthcoming, and last week the Commissioners forced the Federal hands and brought about a show down. And what a show down it was! By the State authorities directing such Fed eral expenditures came the excuse “you’ve got no skilled labor or not enough,” and from Congressman Warren, urged to lend his aid in Washington, came a letter setting forth that “owing to your financial condition,” and so on, Chowan’s re quest for help couldn’t make the pre ferred list. Pretty small potatoes from a Fed-, eral organization that hinted at so much last year and that has done nothing for this section save to help out on some mosquito extermination work and sewerage. It was no won der the Commissioners refused to wait any longer and chanced an an nounced bond issue of $90,000 at once. It was a brave course to pur sue even if it was the only course to pursue. Now rush the school work and give us a chance to bask! in the glory of our own outlay. LET’S TAKE IT ON THE CHINI Cheer up! It’s a great life if you don’t weaken, and the first hundred years are always the hardest, so don’t let a little thing like a pro spective tax rate disturb year slumbers. The only thing to do it to meet the raise and forget it. From the days of good old Abra ham and his ten or fifteen million sheep, taxation has been on the carpet. Abraham made his camp followers chip in a lamb every once in awhile, you know, for the sake of being camp followers, and he didn’t miss the Biblical spot light because of it. Os course, when Charles I tried to emulate Abraham in a sense, he traveled the wrong road and found Cromwell in the way, and Oliver said “we’ll pay the taxes but we’ll spend the tax monies,” and when Charles remonstrated he lost his noodle. Now here in Chowan we have been going along happily and serenely with a tax rate lower than almost any other county in the State. That a white maniac should run amuck and kill his wife, and a Negro fiend slaughter his paramour, both crimes costing Ibe county huge sums by way of proverbial legal kindness to brutes such as these, and that Pro vidence or fate or destiny or what ever it was, should destroy the mid county high school—why these are things we didn’t expect and couldn’t help, and they are more or less di rectly and indirectly responsible for fee 18 point taxjcate jump this year. It is unfortunate, to be sum, bbt no one can help it. Money spent has got to be raised and that’s the whole situation in a nutshell in FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW!/! Wm |r SQftP " \a**'i*r WAS BEST MAOU 9* -me RNPUNT PHOE*»Otm Hcm'mmfDOOm.Aeo * ' ; v : X W \v {■ This Weeks Thought : : v • / _* j VOICE OF EXPERIENCE V V' 4 I Wealth eliminates only Poverty. .All else depends on the man. 1 ■■ vjEARD AND SEEN Ijl. By “BUFF” . While I doubt if she can enforce all of them in her own household, i Mrs. E. T. Rawlinson has written a , set of new commandments which by ‘ one way or another came into my hands and are herewith published < probably to the delight of some of < the women folks and possibly to the i sorrow of some of the men folks who , may be called upon to observe them, j Here they are: < THE NEW COMMANDMENTS , 1— I am thy wife whom thou must ( cherish all thy life. 1 2 Thou shalt not smoke indoors < or out—nor chew tobacco round j about. 3 Thou shalt not be a drinking man, but live on strict tee-total plan, j 4 Thou shalt not stay out late at ] night—what clubs, dances or friends ] invite. i 5 .Thou shalt in manner mild and ] meek tip up thy wages every week. ] 6 Remember, ’tis thy duty clear , to dress me well throughout the t year. \ 7 Thou shalt with praise receive i my pies, nor pastry made by me de spise. 8— Thou shalt my mother strive to ■ please, and let her live with us in ' ease. ] 9 Thou shalt get up when baby i cries, and try the child to tranquilize. ] 10 — Thou shalt these new com- , mands obey and live by them from , day to day. o Jim Daniels, one of Edenton’s old- | time baseball players, has been um- ; pi ring some of the games in the Bertie-Chowan League this year, but it was just too much for him to keep • out of the game, so last Friday he donned a uniform and played against Perrytown. He took his old place in the field and Jim admitted that the ball soaring through the air at first looked like a wee little pill, but he Chowan. Now next year—well, let’s not fuss about next year until it gets here- HERALD WELCOMES A NEWCOMER More and more this section of the hemisphere is becoming news paper minded. Since The jlerald first started three years ago, The ’Perquimans Weekly and Dare County Times have come into existence, all weeklies, and now W. O. Saunders of Elizabeth City, announces that he will enter the daily field. The Albe marle will be well represented in the newspaper field with two dailies and four weeklies. The Herald, a newcomer, and a successful one, thanks to subscribers and advertisers, extends the right hand of fellowship to the new morn ing daily soon to make its appear ance. Mr. Saunders is an able news paper n>an and .feature writer and aside from that was very courteous to The Herald publishers when they started off by offering any assis \ tance he could.’ K’s dollars to dough nuts thas Rfr. funders will produce a daily newspaper that will be a-dis tinct credit not only to the Albe marle but to the State as well. Aside from plenty of newspapers of its own, dailly publications have an eye on the Albemarle and Eden ton in particular and utilise consider able energy to secure 'news, subscrip tions and advertisements. There is room for us all, however, and The Herald finds no fault in folks sub scribing to daily newspaper*, but The Herald is firmly convinced that the home newspaper should come first for it carries mere home news and can be of far more value to the county, than any daily newspaper sent in. Subscribe to them all if you can, but subscribe to The Herald first! THE CHOWAK jgBRAU>; N. C„ K soon got his old eye back and cap tured would-be hits. Jim looked natural except his pose at the plate which was not at all like the pose a dozen years ago. Anyway, I was expecting him to be all stiffened up the next morning, but he went about delivering letters on his mail route as usual. Johnny Asbell, also one of the old-timers, was in the game a couple of weeks ago. He got a crack on a finger while behind the bat and hasn’t been back in uniform since—but you can’t keep him away from the games. o The Boy Scouts have returned from Atlantic Beach and though they had a good time at camp, it was a happy looking bunch as they drove up Broad Street. One of them, Lloyd Burton, was forced to be brought home a few days before camp broke due to illness. Un doubtedly it’s hard to say which was the more painful to him, his fever or the fact that he had to leave camp. Cal Kramer is at a great advantage when he returns from a fishing trip. You see Cal keeps his fishing para phernalia next to C. D. Stewart’s fish market and as he emerges from his place folks naturally think he came from the fish market with his string of fish. However, Cal, good fisherman as he is, claims that he furnishes C. D. with all the fish he sells, which is evidence enough that he can hook ’em. Paul Olsson has been working in the country during the past week, remaining there during the night. He’s been staying with the finest kind of people, but Paul just can’t understand how they live. You see Paul eats only two meals a day and where he’s been staying they eat three meals every day—and what meals they are! He was forced to come to town Saturday night to keep from eating himself to death. And then some people say the farmer isn’t any better off under the Demo cratic administration! o The Edenton baseball team played a bang-up game Sunday afternoon when they downed the West Haven team of Norfolk 4 to 1. The game had plenty of thrills too. In fact Clyde Lee Cates pulled off some of Fred Wood’s old stunts of diving af ter a ball on a running catch saving a possible rally. And then Melvin Layton in the left field did an ex cellent job of fielding also. It was a good game and the sort of a crowd that should see most of the games. o Yes, sir, the Baptists are a fine bunch of people. They even allowed a Methodist to attend preaching ser vice Sunday night, with an abundance of hand shaking after the service. Rev. Mr. Wells preached an excellent sermon in the course of which he took occasion to criticize the selling of intoxicating beverages in and around Edenton. “It’s generally known,” said Mr. Wells, “that intoxi cants are sold in Edenton, except by those who have taken the oath of office to enforce the law.” I disagree ' with the parson on the latter part of ’ his statement, for if all the officers ' of Chowan County are not aware of i the places where liquor is sold, i Chowan takes the cake for a bunch ■ of dumb-heads in office. If* said that Major Rowell re cently sent dome sort of beetle to Rslaigh in order to determine the species of the thing, but in transit the bloomin’ thing ate its way out and only an empty box reached Ra , leigh. It’s a good thing the Major didn’t put the beetle in bis hip pock- TSKra It WSftTHE last WORD IN MCNff pmmhn »N England, durms dunn MABTOfe RSION. »>OR MEN TO gag Tfteß HOB* WITH BPea.GOTRCIR IMS APPEARED «NOftMOU*LV FAT SOMT Owrrfgp WA U-W ■—«■ PuOMatwAc ®NECi*a frfFr. wrw A PAIR OF Zf/XuX 7|W» 1! I -üBSM '|fS et and proceed to Raleigh. o Charles Bond, editor of The Jack son News, chronicles a rather dis rupted family in his neighborhood. The father is a Republican, the mother a Democrat, the baby wet, the cow dry and the dog a commun ist It’s easy to tell the “party affiliation” of each, but the dog is sopposed to be a communits because all he does is sit on his nethermost and growl. If that’s the qualifica tion of a communist, we have some in Chowan County, too. The writer this week received a letter from Pugh Robinson to the effect that anylihing • I publish in The Herald about him that I cannot “ascertain” will be held against me and The Chowan Herald. Mr. Robinson is particularly peev ed at Rev. W. T. C. Briggs’ articles in connection with the dog inocula tion law and he has every right to be. It isn’t Mr. Robinson’s law. He is only appointed to inoculate dogs and report violations. He hasn’t even the power to make arrests. I believe Mr. Briggs has been very unfair to Mr. Robinson, and there- ; fore I have deleted that portion of Mr. Briggs’ letter this week directly referring to Mr. Robinson. However, it isn’t to be taken for granted by Mr. Robinson or anyone else for that matter that The Herald ' can be hushed in its mentioning of any names in connection with any ■ matter of interest to Herald readers if it pertains to any phase of en forcement of law or duties of any office in which the people are a fac tor in filling that office. At least this will be as long as there is free-' dom of the press in this country and newspapers are not censored by a dictator. As this is written the weather, is so hot that it’s ridiculous to think that Johnny Curran wore an over coat to go to Tuscarora last Thurs day to attend the Masonic picnic. But Johnny did wear an overcoat and was glad of it. The picnic was rain ed out and were it not for the broth erly love among the Masons, here’s betting Friend Johnny would have come home minus his last winter’s overcoat. o Now I know a long list of figures has something to do with a person’s sight. At Monday’s meeting of the County Commissioners Chairman Minton Warren had his head buried in the figures that decided the new tax rate. Suddenly he looked direct ly across the room where I was sitting and issued the following or der: “Mr. Bunch, go tell Mr. Dixon to come in.” However, yours truly didn’t budge and as Mr. Warren put on his specs to see the reason why, he discovered I wasn’t Maurice Bunch. Gol ding, I’m getting better looking every day. o— By reading just a few lines of Parson Briggs’ article this week it is obvious that he either don’t want to read correctly or else is very adept in finding reasons for an argu ment. How he gathered from my paragraph last week that I ordered him from the county because he is a Republican is beyond me. Why, ding ' bust his hide, I reckon his hair will stand up on end when I tell him that, though as far back as I can remember my forefathers were Dem ocrats, I have in my lifetime voted a Republican ticket! “Who is Bufflap to order me out of Chowan County because I’m affiliated with the Re publican party?” asks the Parson. In answer .to which I’d say just an insignificant weekly newspaper edi tor who handed him a dose of the same medicine he gave to Harvey Thomas and which apparently makes his blood boll. Why Bufflap would be the last one to order Briggs from Chowan, especially at this time for if the Parson will recall, last year he promised me a nice big ; watermelon like the inspectors throw out. Better cough up, Par i son. My blood is also boiling just now, , but I’m blaming it on the bloomin’ i heat, so I’ll ring off. Ido want to say before dosing, however, that if Parson Briggs uses as much energy . to be correct in Ms writings as The i Herald folks do to present news ac i curately, his letters would have s ; far different tone. Right much is heard about eoun ■ ties requesting refunding of money spent on highways, but John White, MINKS wll cmetfl=w* tost to em twevr \ BRAINS# gi X» PtfWiA, JR ■ VntteSN WELCOME TWweousMuesTs VUK noHMoe or "raw* vmnoes. AS tt VAWOL To Tell ’Em ’Bout ’Lee Twisty ■ One of the model item net ration ears that are noon to take to the rural aMM to funittariM the thcMHand fmmnw btTt electric ■i» »lcu far the tint Bate this year with the varied See* et electric service, the proper eppWahee is aoe In home, chop, dahy er farm-choree and the eoat at Me tfardta. Turn at theee ears have been purthaatt hjr the Carohaa rawer and Light Co. and a third at a «*hHy different type hr the Dabe Power Co. AM aM ha operated and dhroetad by the State Korol BtoeWMleetfm AntbarMp, Chowan’s representative, studied the matter ever, and cannot see how Chowan could ask for Its part back in one breath and in the next ask for a bridge across the Albemarle Sound. To which I’d say “Amen.” Give us the bridge, Mr. Highway Commissioners, and we’ll call It square. TRY A HERALD WANT-AJD! GREATER AUGUST VALUESI A “I R. & H. Brand I Southern Manor ATC , fI . 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