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Yolume lll—Number 41.
Reestablishment Os County
Credit Seems Now Assured
Refinancing of Default
ed Bonds Is Decided
Upon
MAY BUILD SOON
County Board Will Meet
For Special Hearing
October 19
. Introductory steps looking toward
the ultimate placement of a new
590,000 bond issue to provide for a
high school at Small’s Cross Roads
and to make extensive improvements
to the Edenton graded school, were
taken by the County Commissioners
on Monday when plans were intro
duced and approved providing for a
refinancing of the county’s outstand
ing bond defaults. To meet the re
quirements of the law the Commis
sioners will hold a special meeting
on Monday, October 19, at which
time those who may care to be heard
on the question will be welcomed.
" Elsewhere legal notices are pub
lished in this issue detailing the
whole question at much length so
that those who read may have no un
certainity about the subject and will
be able to thoroughly understand it
in its entirety.
It is not expected the refinancing
plan will meet with any opposition.
A majority of the defaulted bonds
are held by Edenton interests, all of
whom are said to be in sympathy
with the plan, its culmination mean
ing that the county will be put back
into its old time strong financial
condition through the establishment
of a renewed credit both strengthen
ing and encouraging.
At the present time the county is
in default about $40,000 on road and
graded school bond issues. This
amount and'around $13,000 additional
representing a principal and interest
payment due this year, makes a total
of $53,000 which the county hopes to
wipe out by its refinancing.
Once this arrangement has been
effected the county will be free to go
ahead with its new $90,000 school
bond issue, and so confident is it of
bringing about this consummation
the County School Board, which met,
also, on Monday, directed Superin
tendent W. J. Taylor to go ahead
and notify the architect and contrac
tors, to whom building awards have
been made, that they rnay proceed at
once with work on the proposed high
school building in mid-county if they
are willing to wait sixty days for
their first payments.
Mr. Taylor has already so notified
Architect Frank Benton, of Wilson,
and the Goldsboro concern that re
ceived the general contracting bid.
The purpose of this County School
Board action is two-fold—to get the
work started as hurriedly as possible
and to express a guarantee of cer
tainty that the school bond issue will
be sold and banked within the 60-
day period.
As is pretty well known the re
financing plan was made more or
less obligatory by the Local Govern
ment Commission, which refused to
lend approval to the new school bond
issue until the county had first
cleared itself of its old obligations.
County Counsel W. D. Pruden has
had but little difficulty in counter
acting this objection by his assurance
that the defualts would be taken care
of through the refinancing plan, and
to this the State approving body ex
pressed satisfaction and intimated
that once the defaults had been re
financed its approval would be imme
diately forthcoming.
The defaulted bonds have been cut
down in aggregate in a substantially
large amount during the past two
years, and full interest payments of
5 per cent have been paid on them
regularly. Naturally holders receiv
ing this certain interest allowance
have not been disturbed about the
defaults and have made ho move to
force payment by the county.
Under the plan of refinancing the
$53,000 issue will be offered for sale
at a greatly reduced rate, sufficiently
low, in fact to make it possible for
the county to carry both principal
and interest payments at dates when
due. It is understood that the
present day holders of the defaults
will as a protective course to them
selves and an'unselfish' aid to the
county in its predicament, buy in the
new issue.
It is believed that at the forth
coming special meeting of the
County Board full agreement to the
larger new bond issue for the school
improvement work will be given by
the Local Government Commission
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEV.OTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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December Term Os
Court Be Cancelled
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On account of the December term
of Superior Court scheduled for
Chowan County the week of Decem
ber 21, which would come in the
midst of the Christmas holiday sea
son, the County Commissioners at
their meeting Monday agreed to re
quest Governor Ehringhaus to cancel
the term and ask for a special civil
term beginning December 14, one
week earlier.
■There are few and unimportant
cases to date on the criminal docket
and a cancellation of the court will
necessarily result in a substantial
saving to the County.
FISH HATCHERY
PLANS UP AGAIN
E. S. Askew In Edenton In Behalf of i
WPA Project; Says Administra
tor Coan Deeply Interested
Renewed interest in the possibility
of WPA help for the federal fish
hatchery l here was quickened on
Monday and Tuesday by the presence
in town of E. S. Askew, formerly of
Elizabeth City, and now identified
as special representative to State
WPA administrator, George W.
Coan, Jr., of Raleigh headquarters.
Mr. Askew was here to complete pro
ject plans for the enlargement of
the outside retention pools at the
hatchery, as recommended by the
special shad program committee to
the State Board of Conservation and
Development. The work in question
will cost around SIB,OOO if the plans |
go through.
Mr. Askew, enthusiastic about ev
erything he engages in, is actually
public relations man between the
WPA and communities seeking help,
and his work carries him all over the i
State. He particularly stressed that;
his chief, Mr. Coan. Is deeply inter-;
ested and impressed with conditions !
in eastern North Carolina, and is 100
per cent behind every effort to im
prove them. The WPA is especially
interested it was said in arranging
for full and complete WPA news re
leases in every section with a view
of making equitable adjustment ex
planations where injustices are
brought up.
The hatchery program plan here
calls for additional outside pools for
bass and another pool in which a
test will be made as to whether shad
fry, immediately after propogation
can be turned into an encased pool
and kept until the fish have reached
a protective stage whereby they can
then be released large enough to take
care of themselves in their swim
back to the ocean. Mr. Askew ad
mitted the idea was novel and brand
new but that all those interested con
sidered it worthy of a try out.
As things are now, said Mr. Askew,
there is a marked shortage of shad
eggs and shad and that additional
funds with which to purchase addi
tional eggs would be of no value when
there are no eggs to buy.
Fishermen Meet In
Court House Saturday
A meeting of vital importance to
the fishermen of this section will be
held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock
in the Chowan County Court House.
All members of the Albemarle Fish
ermen’s Association, as well as any
other fishermen are urged to attend.
Few Contagious
Diseases In County
That there are very few cases of
contagious diseases at present in
Chowan County is evident from the
report of Dr. J. A. Powell, assistant
collaborating epidemologist for the
State Board of Health, made to the
County Commissioners on Monday.
According* to Dr. Powell’s records
during September there was reported
two cases of diphtheria, two cases of
whooping cough and one each of ty
phoid and scarlet fever.
Health Talk At Center
Hill Friday, October 16
Mrs. J. Henry Highsmith, assistant
director of health education in North
Carolina, will give a health talk at
the Center Hill Methodist Church on
Friday, October 16, at 8 P. M.
The public is cordially invited to
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 8,1936.
BRIDGE HEARING
SET FOR OCT. 14
War Department Will
Hear All Parties at
That Time
PERFUNCTORY
Plans For New Span
Outlined For First
Time
According to Major H. R. Cole,
acting district engineer of the Corps
of Engineering of Norfolk, Va., a
public hearing will be held in Eden
ton Wednesday, October 14, relative
to the application of the North Caro
lina State Highway and Public Works
Commission for approval of plans of
a highway bridge proposed to be
constructed across the Albemarle
Sound. The hearing will be held in
the Court House at 10:30 A. M.
All interested parties are invited
to be present, or to be represented
at the above time and place, parti
cularly navigation interests, and the
officials of any county, town, or
local association, whose interests
may be affected by the proposed
construction, insofar as the restric
tion of navigation by the proposed
bridge is concerned.
Oral statements will be heard, but
for accuracy of record, all impor
tant facts and arguments should be
submitted in writing, in triplicate,
as the records of the hearing will be
forwarded for consideration by the
War Department at Washington, D.
C. Written statements may be
handed in at the hearing, or may be
mailed to Major Cole.
The plans submitted provide for a
wood pile and timber highway tres
tle between Sandy Point, Chowan
County, and Leonard Point, Wash
ington County, with a steel swing
draw span to be located about 8,000
feet from the north shore and be
tween the northerly and southerly
channel limits of the fishing grounds.
The swing draw would have two nav
igation openings of 140 feet horizon
tal clearance each between fenders.
The vertical clearance under the draw
when closed would be 10 feet above
ordinary water level. For the con
venience of small boats one fixed
opening is to be provided on the
north side about 3,200 feet from
shore, and two fixed openings on the
south side 3,800 and 7,200 feet from
shore. Each of these fixed openings
would have a horizontal clearance of
23 feet and vertical clearance of 10
feet above ordinary water level.
Plans of the structure may be seen
at the United States Enigneer Office,
415 Post Office and Court House,
Norfolk, Va., and will be available
for inspection at the hearing.
Virginia Moore Leads
In Beauty Contest
Considerable interest prevails in
i the beauty contest sponsored by the
four classes of the Edenton High
School. Up to Wednesday over 600
votes had been cast by friends of the
candidates, a check-up revealing that
Virginia Moore, a member of the
j freshman class, was leading with
j 265 votes, followed by Crystal Gre
' gory with 153 votes, and Pearl
Whichard with 122.
The contest will terminate Friday
of next week, with the money secur
led through the contest going to pur
chase books for the school library
to be used in parallel reading.
Ruth Vail Appears In
Poetry “Who’s Who”
Ruth Vail's name and biographical
sketch will appear in the 1936
“Who’s Who in American Poetry,”
published by The Gallean Press,
New York. Mrs. Vail’s first book
“River Acres” (poems) will soon be
off the Kaleidograph Press, Dallas,
Texas.
Government Rum
Runner In Harbor
Edenton’s harbor is now sporting
a new boat which arrived here Fri
day from Norfolk. The boat, a 62-
foot government rum chaser, was
purchased by W. A. Everett and oth
ers and is now receiving a coat of
paint and being made ready for ser
vice. The “Kangaroo,” the name of
the new boat, will not be used in
connection with the ferry, but Mr.
Everett and his associates hope to
secure some work from the contrac
tors of the Albemarle Sound bridge,
when operations are begun, as well
as other shipping they have in view.
COUNTY COUNCIL
NAME OFFICERS
Mrs. S. F. Small Chosen
President of Group
For Year
MEETINGSATURDAY
Canning Contest Win
ners Announced; New
Goals Set
A very interesting meeting of the
County Council of Home Demonstra
tion Clubs was held Saturday at
Cross Roads when the score sheet
was prepared as well as goals set
for the year.
Officers for the year were elected
as follows: President, Mrs. S. F.
Small; vice president, Mrs. O. M.
Blanchard,; secretary-treasurer, Mrs.
J. C.. Haste:
Club secretaries were asked to
give the annual report at the October
meetings and dues and the Jane S.
McKimmon Loan Fund for 1837
should be paid in January.
The Council agreed to pay dues
for the first club sending in reports
from 100 per cent of the members,
if reports are sent in before Novem
ber 1..
Secretaries were instructed to keep
a record of goals reached by their
respective clubs and to read the
score at each meeting.
Each club is to have a home beau
tification leaders’ school to be con
ducted by Miss Pauline Smith in the
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Local Catholic Church
Has Permanent Priest
Rev. Father Edward L. Gross, who j
is to be the new’ priest in ’ charge of |
St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church
here, arrived in Edenton last night
and took up his residence in special
ly prepared living quarters in the
church. A new rectory is to be built
on the south side of the church prop
erty, work upon which will be start
ed immediately.
Father Gross comes here from a
four years pastorate at St. James
Church in Hamlet, and will officiate
at historic St. Anness for the first
time next Sunday when he will hold
early and mid-morning mass. The
new priest is a young man and comes
to Edenton with the enthusiastic en
dorsement of his Bishop.
Legion Officers Be
Installed Tuesday
A joint installation service will be
held Tuesday night when officers for
Ed Bond Post and the Auxiliary of
the Post will be installed in the Red
Men’s Hall. The ceremony will be
conducted by C. E. Kramer, district
commander. An interesting meet
ing is in prospect, with refreshments
and a social hour scheduled to follow
the business session. At the same
meeting a detailed report will be
made by Floyd I. White, who attend
ed the national convention held in
Cleveland.
John A. Holmes will be installed
as commander, with West Byrum, J.
A. Bunch and O. B. Perry serving as
vice presidents, and O. H. Brown,
adjacent and finance officer.
Revival Starts Sunday
At Baptist Church
Revival services will begin Sunday
at the Edenton Baptist Church, with
Rev. John L. White, of Miami, Fla.,
assisting Rev. E. L. Wells, the pas
tor.
A successful meeting is anticipated
and a cordial invitation is extended
to everybody to attend.
Methodist Sunday
School Starts 9:45
Beginning Sunday morning, Sun
day School at the Methodist Church
will begin at 9:45 instead of 10
o’clock. This arrangement was de
cided upon last Sunday morning
when the majority of those present
voted for the change. The new hour
will allow more time for the teach
ers in the discussion of the lesson.
Home Agent Seeking
Membership Data
In order to compile complete re
cords of home demonstration clubs
in Chowan County, Miss Rebecca
Colwell, home agent, requests all
women who have been club members
since their club was first organized
to notify her at once. She also
would appreciate ' ,if the women
who have been unbers for the
last 14 y--‘ Vm her.
Chowan Democrats Out For
Record Vote November 3
|27 Turkeys Killed
j By Dogs In County *
That at least some of the dogs in
Chowan County are very chioce in
their food was evident when bills
were presented to the Chowan Coun
ty Commissioners Monday for tur
keys killed by dogs. Three farmers
complained that dogs had killed an
aggregate of 27 of the choice birds,
the weight of which netted almost
300 pounds.
Tom Hoskins reported 14 turkeys 1
killed, T. L. Ward is minus eight, '
and Dick Coffield has lost five.
Owners of turkeys killed by dogs
are reimbursed for their loss from
the County dog tax fund, but if the '
inroads on the fund Monday is an in
dex of what is in store until the ;
holidays there no doubt will be a !
scarcity of turkeys for Thanksgiving
and Christmas as well as a depleted
dog tax fund.
808 REYNOLDS
IS ROTARY CLUB
SPEAKER TODAY
Senator Spoke at Gatesville Wednes
day Night; New Members Join
Edenton Club
Edentonians who have been wait- j
ing four years to see United States I
Senator Bob Reynolds again will I
have their chance today when “Our
Bob” conies to town to address the i
Rotary Club at its regular Parish I
house luncheon. Recently Parson :
Ashby wrote the Senator trying to
enlist his support in a movement;
that might make a national park out
of the historic wings of the Albe
marle, and “Our Bob” will be expect
ed to have something to say on the '
subject at the luncheon. Anyhow he
wired Parson Ashby he would be de
lighted to be on hand and in the
Parson’s absence Tuesday John W.
Graham wired back “And We’ll be de
lighted to have you.” The Senator
spoke at Gatesville last night and
will come through from there this
morning.
At last week's luncheon Charles
Whedbee and, Recorder Walter H.
Oakey, Jr., of Hertford, were the
outside speakers, the former explain
ing the proposed constitutional a
mendments for easing the burdens of
the Supreme Court, and the latter
discussing the recent national rifle
meet.
Paul Olsson, William Jones and
Raleigh Hollowell were taken in as
new members and so they would
know what it was all about Secre
tary John A. Holmes explained the
tenets of Rotary faith and service.
Provision will be made for non
members of the Club to attend the
meeting providing they notify Mrs.
R. P. Badham, Mrs. W. 1. Hart, Jr.,
Mrs, W. B. Shepard, or Jesse W.
White this morning.
Collector’s Whatnot
Name Mrs. Dixon’s
New Antique Shop
Mrs. Richard D. Dixon is extending
a cordial invitation to everyone who
may be interested in her collection :
of antiques and gifts which she will i
put on display for the first time this
afternoon at her new sales shop in
the library annex to “Beverly Hall.”
The attractive little shop will be
known as “Collector’s Whatnot” and
will be the first and much needed
place of antique sales in this section
of the Albemarle.
In order that there may be no con
fusion regarding sales hours, Mrs.
Dixon is mentioning in her published
invitation that the “Collector’s What- j
not” will be open in the morning
from 10 to 12:30 o’clock, and in the
afternoon from 2:30 to 5 o’clock. |
Os course visitors from afar who
may be in town and find these hours
conflict with their traveling time,
will be welcomed graciously by the
hostess at their convenience.
Sheriff Makes Good
Month’s Collection
Possibly spurred by having prop- J
erty advertised this month for non
payment of 1935 taxes resulted in a
good collection made by Sheriff J.
A. Bunch during September. In his
report to the County Commissioners
Monday it was shown that $7,503
was collected during the month,
bringing the year’s collections to
$58,373.83. There is $75,988.68 on
the tax books at present, about
$17,614.85 uncollected.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year
County Chairman B. W.
Evans Urges Snappy
Campaign
FIVE RALLIES
Broughton, State Con
vention Keynoter, to
Speak Here
Chowan’s Democratic campaign,
somewhat apahtetic today, began to
warm up last Saturday when County
Chairman B. Warner Evans, Secre
tary R. D. Dixon and the various pre
cinct captains and others met at the
Court House and discussed plans for
getting out the vote on November 3.
Mr. Evans made an earnest appeal
for a larger vote than at any time
in the County’s history, calling at
tention to State Chairman Win
borne’s recent speech at Ahoskie
when he said “Every Demorcat is
needed this election.”
A program providing for campaign
funds and a series of rallies through
out the county just before election
were mapped out. It was thought
desirable, Mr. Evans said, to raise
$l5O and this was agreed to. The
desired amount was apportioned .S4O
to East Edenton, SSO to West Eden
ton, and .sl4 from each other pre
cinct. The precinct leaders were
urged to raise these funds as quickly
as possible and turn them in to
George C. Hoskins, who was named
treasurer.
There will be five rallies, as fol
lows: Tuesday, October 20, Rocky
Hock; Friday, October 23, Wardville;
■ Tuesday, October 27, Small’s Cross
Roads; Friday, October 30, near M,
W. Jackson’s; and Monday, Novem
ber 2, Edenton. It is proposed to
make the latter rally a large affair
at which Hon. J. M. Broughton, of
Raleigh, keynote speaker at the State
Democratic convention, will make the
address. Charlie Swanner’s orches
tra will furnish music at all the ral
lies and other State speakers will
address each.
Mrs. Emmett Elliott, county vice
chairman, reported that much work
had already been done up county
and that she and those with her were
striving every day to impress upon
women voters the need of going to
the polls election day. County Com
missioner Winbomc also spoke of
what was being done around the
Cross Roads and Center Hill neigh
borhoods, and everyone present felt
confident of a rousing majority for
Roosevelt and Hoey in Chowan.
R. P. Badham. chairman of the
County Board of Elections, reports
that books will be open this Satur
day and closed Saturday, October 24,
for the registration of those eligible
to vote and who may have not regis
tered so far. Os course those who
have registered do not have to do so
again. Books will be opened the
last Saturday before election for the
purpose of receiving any challenges
that may be made, but no registra
| tions will be received after October
■ 24th.
J State Chairman Winbome has no
i tided Mr. Evans urging that a house
to house canvass of every Chowan
voter be made, and that the political
preference of every eligible voter be
ascertained. Once the lists are thus
completed, he said, they should be
checked against the registration
books so that the poll can be as
thorough and complete as possible.
"I have been asked why we are
making such a thorough campaign
when there is no danger of losing
either State or National ticket,” said
1 the Chairman. “The answer is sim
ple. An overwhelming Democratic
majority this fall would be of the
greatest value to the Party and to
the State in its relationship to the
federal government. To pile up a
heavy Democratic majority both for
President Roosevelt and for a Demo
cratic administration which would
give him 100 per cent cooperation
could not but help North Carolina in
the eyes of the national administra
tion, which will be Democratic again.
Mrs. J.. B. Spilman, the State Vice
; Chairman, has called upon the women
i members of the precinct committees
i to offer their services to the men in
■ making the canvass and in checking
i the registration books. These books
1 will open Saturday and remain open
, through Saturday, October 31st. Each
i Saturday during that time they will
i be at the voting places. On other
: days they are available at the regis
trars’ homes.
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