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found a fair presentation
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of general interest.
Volume lll.—Number 45.
ROOSEVELT-HOEY-BAILEY -WARREN WIN
Nation’s Greatest
Electoral Victory
President Carries 46
States as Belated Re
ports Trickle In
PLEASED - GRAVE
Terrific Landslide Guar
antees Still More
Happy Days
By the mandate of an electorate
that carried him to stupendous vic
tory in 46 of the 48 states of the
nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
swept the country Tuesday in the
greatest landslide in the history of
the United States. And with him
went Democratic success everywhere.
Congress will be overwhelmingly by
his side, and for four years more the
victorious administration will have,
again, the opportunity of addressing
itself to the task of translating this
popular ballot battle decision into
sound, far-sighted and beneficient ac
tion.
Give a thought to this if you have
ever doubted the popularity of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the
hold he has on the people of the
country—he won a re-election Tues
day over Alfred M. Landon, his
Kansas opponent by capturing 523
electoral votes out of a possible 531,
and maybe even more, for belated re
turns come frittering in yet from
outlying sections.
Every state in the Union save
rock-ribbed Vermont, which has nev
er failed the Republican party, and
Maine, went for Roosevelt by record
shattering majorities.
True, in 1912, genial and happy
hearted Taft, only carried Vermont
and Utah when he came up for re
election, but the strife in that cam
paign was a three-old one, and Wil
son, the winner, had a much smaller
plurality in the electoral college than
will the Roosevelt of today. And
while Wilson carried a majority con
gress with him this majority was not
so great then nor ever has been as it
will be when the next national law
mill meets after New Year’s.
The responsibility, because of this
great vote of endorsement that the
Democratic party will thus assume
under the new mandate, is a heavy
one, but no one fears the outcome.
In the victor-President the people
have named again their friend, and
everyone is satisfied he will remain
faithful to the trust reposed in him.
In fact the dailies yesterday said
that the President was "pleased with
the result but viewed it gravely,”
this from his mother’s home at Hyde
Park, while out in Topeka, Alfred M.
sat about with newspaper men dunk
ing doughnuts and sipping coffee the
while he laughed and joked about his
defeat.” One man knew the future
held grave issues for him to solve,
the other passed it up flippantly,
which again should make the country
glad it re-elected The Man of the
Hour.
All of the national dailies, many
of which had been fighting Roosevelt, j
conceded his victory at an early!
hour Tuesday night, and even A1
Smith and Father Coughlin and Dr.
Townsend and the rest of the little
fellows who had been yapping about
the country at the President’s heels,
came across with admissions, too.
And with the Roosevelt-Garner
victory in the nation came a six to
one victory*in North Carolina for the
entire Demorcatic ticket. Hoey, the
gubernatorial candidate, ran far be
tween the Presidential winners, how
ever, but equally far ahead of his
antagonist, Grissom, who didn't do
so well, certainly not as well as
hoped. Senator Josiah W. Bailey
was returned'for another six years.
Thad Eure goes into the Secretary
of Stateship by a rip-snorting major
ity. So did all the other State candi
dates, as was expected, and once
more North Carolina remained true
to its Democratic faith and princi
ples.
The political battle of 1936 is over
"and the people have won again.
Bank Will Be Closed
' On Armistice Day
The Bank of Edenton will be closed
all day Wednesday, November 11, in
/Aapryp Armistice Div
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
»} CHOWAN’S VOTE j
PRESIDENT
Roosevelt Landan
East Edenton 431 30
West Edenton 447 35
Rocky Hock 157 4
. Center Hill 173 6
Wardville 231 20
(Yeopim 110 1
Total 1549 96
; GOVERNOR
Hoey Grissom
\ East Edenton 376 39
[ West Edenton 372 40
I Rocky Hock 145 0
Center Hill 147 7
1 Wardville 225 12
I Yeopim 98 4
.Total 1363 102
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Bailey Patton
East Edenton 359 23
West Edenton 397 29
Rocky Hock 145 0
Center Hill 150 3
Wardville 220 12
Yeopim 101 3
Total 1372 70
CONGRESSMAN
Warren Wilkinson
East Edenton 364 21
West Edenton 393 26
Rocky Hock 150 0
Center Hill 150 3
Wardville 221 12
Yeopim 100 0
Total 1370 62
E. H. S. WILL TRY
MAINTAIN RECORD
FOR HOME GAMES
Franklin, Virginia, Invades Local
Gridiron Friday Afternoon; Good
Game Anticipated
Although the Edenton High School
football team lost out in its attempt
to capture district honors, the team
on Friday afternoon will exert its
efforts to keep clean an enviable re
cord of games won on the local grid
iron. No Edenton High School team
has been defeated on its home field
since 1933, when Elizabeth City,
which that year won the State Class
B. championship, trimmed the local
team 14 to 6. Since that time 15
games have been played here without
a loss recorded, and only one tie
game, that one being this year’s en
counter with Roanoke Rapids which
resulted in a scoreless tie. It is rather
significant, too, that in the last 15
home games Edenton has piled up
the tremendous score of 415 points
to its opponents’ 25.
It is for this reason that much in
terest centers on Friday afternoon’s
game with Franklin, Va., when the
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Special Term Chowan
j Court December 14
Governor Ehringhaus has called a
special term of Superior Court of
Chowan County to be held the week
beginning on December 14. At this
terra of court only civil cases will be
tried, the regular term for the trial
of civil and criminal cases which was
scheduled for the week of December
31 having been cancelled.
There are few criminal cases on
the docket and the cancellation of the
regular term will effect a saving to
the county.
Judge J. Paul Friselle, of Snow
Hill, is. the judge who is scheduled
to preside at the special term.
| JURYUST I
Twenty-four names were picked
by the County Commissioners Mon
day to serve as jurors during the
civil term of court which will open
on Monday, December 14. The jury
list follows:
C. Y. Parrish, John A. Bunch, R.
W. Leary, Jr., C. E. Small, L. C.
Smith, W. L. Bateman, L. C. Burton,
J. G. Campen, Jr., J. E. Lassiter, John
E. Bunch, George Privott, W. O.
Byrum, J. B. Ward, H. T. Miller, W.
Harrell, Clarence P. Harrell, Earl
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 5, 1936.
mayor’s proclamation
The annual roll call for the Chowan Chapter of the American
Red Cross will begin on Armistice Day, November 11, and end on
Thanksgiving Day.
There is little need for me to remind citizens of our community
how vital the Red Cross is in the life of our country. During the past
year, both from actual observation and from the accounts of work
done which were carried in daily newspapers, we have seen just how
important it is that we have an active agency of the American people
to administer assistance when the need arises.
The frequency with which this need does arise has been demon
strated during the past twelve months when we recall the floods, the
tornadoes, the hurricanes, and the epidemics that have been suffered
in various parts of this great country, and the work that the Red
Cross has done to relieve distress and actual suffering as a result of
these catastrophes. Other but less spectacular work carried on by
the Red Cross has been just as important.
The Red Cross comes to us now with another appeal for mem
bership dues that will finance the work during the year ahead. Our
Red Cross asks little from the community, yet contributes much to
the general welfare of our people.
For this reason, I sincerely urge those who are asked to partici
pate in this great program by paying the relatively small membership
to respond in a spirit of good neighborliness. I hope all will take
part in the work by becoming members of the society.
It gives me great pleasure, therefore, as Mayor of Edenton, to
hereby set aside the designated period as the time when all past mem
bers will be asked to renew their membership and for those who have
not enrolled before to add their names to the ranks of Red Cross
members in our community.
E. W. SPIRES, Mayor of Edenton.
RED CROSS CALL
BEGINS JOV. 11
Membership Goal In
Chowan Set at 250
This Year
MUCH NEED
Mrs. Pruden, Chairman,
Confident Quota Will
Be Reached
Mrs. J. N. Pruden, chairman of the
Chowan Red Cross Chapter, has plans
well under way for the 20th roll call
of the Chapter and under her leader
ship prospects are very bright for
the Chapter reaching its goal of 250
members. The annual drive will be
gin next Wednesday, Armistice Day,
and come to a close on Thanksgiving
Day.
The lethal, twisting winds which
swept through North Carolina last
spring, killing almost a score of per
sons, injuring hundreds, destroying
and damaging hundreds of buildings,
boosted the State’s disaster activity
higher than it has been in years,
says Mrs. Pruden, in her summation
of Red Cross accomplishments in the
State.
“Not within the memory of veteran
Red Cross workers have there been
tornadoes so completely devastating
as those which swept Greensboro and
other cities in the south during the
first week in April,” Mrs. Pruden
said.
“Thousands were made homeless,
stunned by sudden and awful inten
sity of the storm; many were sepa
rated from loved ones, whose fate
they could only guess; many others
knew only too well what had hap
pened to those they held dear. To
all of us, the ministrations of the
Red Cross came as a blessing. We
learned, many of us for the first
time, what the Red Cross really does.
We saw in operation the organization
which our dollar memberships helped
to build.”
In all, the chapter chairman stated,
a total of 2,900 persons were given
rehabilitation assistance by the Red
Cross following the Greensboro
storm. This aid included repair and
rebuilding of homes, providing new
furniture, clothing, food and medical
assistance.
In other storm areas throughout
(Continued on Page Eight)
Former Gangster At
High School Today
A. W. Dittmore, who carries the
title as king of racketeers, but who
was converted, will speak in the high
school auditorium this (Thursday)
morning at 8:50 o’clock. He is said
to be the only man having the cour
age to expose racketeers and has
lectured before 3000 police depart
ments and 36 penitentiaries in the
United States. He was a notorious
gangster for eight years before his <
conversion.
. A small admission charge will be
made, the lecture being sponsored by
ROTARY - LEGION
ARMISTICE MEET
District Governor Hard
ing to Address Joint
Meeting
AT PARISH HOUSE
j
Officials of Both Organ
izations Urge Good
Attendance
The Edenton Rotary Club and Ed
Bond Post of the American Legion
will hold a joint meeting Thursday
night, November 12, at the Parish
House, the occasion being the cele
bration of Armistice Day. The
meeting will take the place of the
regular Rotary luncheon usually held
at 1 o’clock, and letters will be mail
ed to all Legionnaires inviting them
to attend the meeting. It will be
necessary for all ex-service men
who desire to attend this meeting,
and all are asked to do. so, to notify
John A. Holmes not later than Tues
day so that necessary preparations
can be made.
The local Post had previously an
ticipated putting on an elaborate
Armistice Day celebration, but it did
not materialize and officials of the
Post are very desirous of having a
good representation at the joint
meeting next Thursday.
The supper will be served by the
ladies of St. Mary’s Guild, at 7
o’clock, and each one attending will
be asly>d to pay for his own meal, j
/ «• .al feature of the meet-1
ing be the presence of Edmund i
Harding, of Washington, N. C., Ro- j
tary governor for the 57th district.
N. K. Rowell, president of the Rotary
Club, has notified Mr. Harding to
come to Edenton for the affair, the ’
latter previously requesting a con
venient date to make his official visit
to the Club. Mr. Harding is well- i
known to every Edenton Rotarian
and aside from being called upon to
make the principal address he un
doubtedly will bring along his accor
dian which insures a lively and in- I
tereating get-together affair.
Every Rotarian is especially urged 1
to arrange to be present in order to *
register another 100 per cent meet- !
ing.
1
Damage By Dogs
Cutting Into Fund
Further inroads on the County
dog tax fund was made Monday at
the meeting of the County Commis
sioners. Four complaints were regis
tered by county residents, each one
asking to be reimbursed for damages
amounting to $44.50 as the result of
dogs.
R. E. Coffield was paid $lO for
turkeys killed, while Melvin P. Per
ry was paid a like amount for tur
keys killed.
Not content with killing turkeys,
dogs on Friday night killed 21 chick
ens. property of Mrs. B. F. Owens,
for which she was paid sl2. J.) D.
Swindell, Jr, was also paid $12.50
Chowan Candidates
Follow Through Too
| CANNING EXPERT j
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MISS GLADYS KIMBROUGH
Home economist and culinary
authority who will conduct a
canning school in Edenton High
School Monday, November 16, at
2:30 P. M. The school will be
sponsored by the home demon
stration clubs of Chowan County.
cannTncTschool
HERE ON NOV. 16
Miss Gladys Kimbrough Will Give
Demonstration Under Auspices of
Demonstration Clubs
Miss Gladys Kimbrough, home eco
nomist and culinary authority, will
conduct a canning school in the Eden
ton High School Monday, November
16, beginning at 2:30 P. M. The
school is sponsored by the home dem
onstration clubs of Chowan County
and will no doubt attract a large
proportion of club women. This class
in food preservation will include
latest tested practices, labor-saving
methods and timely recipes.
Miss Kimbrough’s general foods
experience includes teaching foods
and cookery; working as home dem
onstration agent; acting as foods edi
tor for a magazine; broadcasting
tested recipes; and serving as home
economics laboratory director for a
national organization of millers. She
has taught home canning to large
groups of women in 30 states and has
met most of the questions that can
be asked about food preservation. She
includes the answers to the more
usual ones in her lecture-demonstra
tion. This period is always followed
by taking up the individual canning
problems of those who attend. Food
values, proper servings of canned
goods, storage, dietary value of dif
ferent products, all are frequently
related to her informal and enter
taining way of telling how and show
ing how to keep summer’s goodness
for winter’s table.
Sheriff Bunch Collects
Total $62,621.07 Taxes
Apparently October is a good
month for paying taxes, for during
the month Sheriff J. A. Bunch’s re
port to the County Commissioners
disclosed, $4,248.81 had been collect
ed. This amount added to what has
been paid thus for during the year
brings total collections up to
$62,621.07.
Only Seven Cases
Contagious Diseases
Reported In October
There is very little contagious
disease throughout Chowan Coun
ty at present as evidenced by the
report made to the County Com
missioners by Dr. J. A. Powell, as
sistant collaborating epidemiologist
of the North Carolina State Board
of Health. According to Dr. Pow
ell the following diseases and the
number of cases of each were re
ported during the month of Octo
ber:
Diphtheria, 2; scarlet " '{
IjUcken pox, -
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year
Roosevelt Pace, How
, ever, Too Hot For All
Os Them
NO RECORD VOTE
Even Republicans Go
Faster Than Ever Be
fore In County
True to its reputation as a stal
wart Democratic commonwealth,
Chowan County, in the face of some
dissatisfaction on the part of a few
and an apathetic interest on the part
of more, kept the faith stadfastly on
Tuesday and turned in a Roosevelt
victory of 1,549 as against 96 for
Landon, or a 15 to 1 vote.
By much reduced pluralities the
rest of the entire State and county
tickets went through, also, to satis
fying results.
Earnest work by the precinct lead
ers, marshalled as they were by
County Chairman Warner Evans, was
responsible for bringing out a great
vote, but not sufficient to meet up
with that cast in the county in 1932,
and even further yet below registra
tion figures.
About 105 less votes were cast for
Roosevelt in Chowan on Tuesday
than were cast here for the same
candidate in 1932. Various reasons
were attributed for this—Mr. Evans
taking the position the voters realiz
ed they had somebody to give a good
licking to four years ago and went
out and did it, whereas this year
they were never uncertain about ulti
mate results and may have felt that
their labors in the fields this year
were of paramount interest to many
of them. Anyhow 105 of them stay
ed away from the polls in Chowan.
And to carry the comparisons
further a gain of nearly 100 per cent
in the Republican vote in Chowan
was evidenced this election over 1932,
at which time 54 voted for Hoover
as against 96 this year for Landon,
and even more, 102, for Grissom,
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I)R. JANE McKIMMON
SPEAKER FRIDAY AT
FEDERATION MEET
Club Women Will Gather at Parish
House; Interesting Program
Arranged
Arrangements have been made and
an interesting program prepared for
the meeting of the Federation of
Home Demonstration Clubs which
will be held at the Parish House
Friday morning, beginning at 10
10 o’clock. Women from every sec
tion of the , County, are expected to
attend this meeting, the principal
speaker for which will be Dr. Jane
S. McKimmon, State Agent and as
sistant director of extension work in
North Carolina. Mrs. McKimmon is
well-known and highly thought of
among the women of the State and is
an excellent speaker.
Miss Rebecca Colwell, Chowan
home agent, has given the meeting
considerable publicity among the
club women and she is especially anx
ious that a large number turn out to
hear Mrs. McKimmon.
The following program has been
arranged;
Assembly Singing—“ America, The
Beautiful.”
Club Collect.
Invocation, Rev. George W. Blount.
Greetings, President.
Roll Call and Reports from one
half of Clubs.
Special Music, Mrs. Gordon Blow.
Roll Call and Reports from Other
Clubs.
Reading of minutes.
Business.
Assembly Singing—“ The More We
Get Together.”
Introduction of Speaker, Mrs. E.
N. Elliott, former home demonstra
tion agent of Chowan.
Address, Dr. Jane S. McKimmon,
State Agent and Assistant Director
of Extension, Raleigh, N. C.
Assembly Singing—“A Song of the
Open Country.”
Candle Lighting Service.
Assembly Singing “Follow the
Gleam.”
Adjournment for lunch.
The officers of the Federation are:
President, Mrs. A. D. Ward; vice
president, Mrs. S. F. Small; secre
tary, Miss Margaret Dail; pianist,