Win these columns will be I found a fair presentation local and county news I of general interest. Volume IV—Number 3. Water Supply Augmented By Output From Mew Well Test Shows 520 Gallons Per Minute Output; Expect More OFFICIALS PLEASED Second Attempt to Se cure New Supply Is Successful Members of Town Council as well as the Board of Public Works appear very well pleased with the new well dug for the town on the town’s lot along the Suffolk highway which is 368 feet deep and which has just been completed, and now registers an output of over 500 gallons per minute. A test was made Friday and in the absence of J. A. Woodard, chairman of the Board of Public Works, who is ill, Mayor E. W. Spires, F. W. Hobbs and T. Wallace Jones were present and expressed •entire satisfaction with the amount of water pumped from the well as well as to its quality. |i As far as the well is concerned everything is ready to be connected to the pipes which will be chlorinat ed. When this is completed samples •of the water will be sent to the State laboratory to be analyzed before being used. A 20x20 brick building will also be erected to house the pumping equipment. The new well is equipped with an electric motor as well as a gasoline engine to be used in case of emer gency. Both pumping apparatuses have been tested with the electric pump registering 520 gallons per . minute and the gasoline engine reg istering 527 gallons per minute. The supply is expected to increase as the pumps are used, an increase already having been made since the first the amf the year’s program 6f the district. Besides the preachers from 34 charges, president of the missionary societies, charge and church lay leaders, and church school superin tendants are expected to be present. Lunch will be served in the Sunday School rooms by the ladies of the Edenton church. Other places where like institutes are held include Raleigh, Durham, Rooky Mount, Kinston, Wilmington, and Fayetteville. Chowan Interested In Pres s dcnt’3 Ball C. E. Kramer, who has been se lected to work up interest in Eden ton’s participation in the President’s ; Ball to be held in Elizabeth City Monday night, February 1, has been assured that Chowan County will be represented at the ball. Quite a few have expressed their intention of at tending. Warner Evans, chairman of the Chowan Democratic Executive Com mittee, is also anxious that many friends of the President and the New Deal show their appreciation in cooperating with Elizabeth City in making the ball a worthwhile affair especially since there is no place available to stage a ball in Edenton. Mr. Kramer is also interested in Chowan folks cooperating in sending President Roosevelt birthday greet ings. Cooperating in this plan the Wes tern Union has arranged to make over 21,000 offices available to send greetings. Under the plan the Wes tern Union will collect 25 cents from each person whose name is placed on the telegram, hut will in turn trans- I mit all of the funds so received to the National Committee. The com mittee will in turn send a check for 70 percent of all money orginating in the city while the remaining 30 percent goes to the President for presentation to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. Mr. Kramer is hopeful that many in this section will want their name on a telegram and will 'be glad to have any inform him of that fact. W. M. WILKINS ILL Friends will regret to learn that W. M. Wilkins, manager of Quinn Furniture Company, is seriously ill at his home on Oakum Street. Mr. Wilkins was suddenly taken sick Sunday and early this week it was feared it would be necessary to take him to a hospital. However, he had a restful night Tuesday and on Wednesday he was reported to >be somewhat better, though he was still unable to have visitors. An electric refrigerator may toe defrosted in half the time by filling die lew puns with boiling water. ; Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, January 21, 1937. OPTICAL TESTS AT EYE CLINIC PROVEJIELPFUL 24 Given Glasses After Examination Held Tuesday requestTnother Welfare Phase of New Deal Proves Very Desirable Another New Deal innovation was carried into service here on Tuesday when twenty-six persons took ad vantage of an opportunity for opti cal examination at a county eye clinic held at the office of Welfare Officer W. J. Taylor. All but two of those examined were found to have some sight defect and were treated for and provided with glasses. The local clinic is a phase of the work conducted throughout the State by the North Carolina Commission for the Blind, cooperating with the federal government which provides the funds for conducting the exami nations and, when required, for fur nishing lenses. It meets a great need in country sections where op portunities for contact with eye . specialists is sometimes difficult, and especially among those who need eye attention and may be without funds. Such clinics have been made a part of the New Deal* welfare work and were referred to in a message to the last congress by President Roosevelt as meeting a very pressing need. * They are in operation in every state’ and county of the nation, and the one held Tuesday was deemed so fruitful in its opportunity and result Welfare Officer Taylor will ask the State authorities to hold another one here in March if possible. Dr. J. C. Sawyer, of Windsor, was the optomerist in charge of the clin ic, and a representative of a national optical company was on hand to im mediately furnish lenses ordered by ; Dr. Sawyer. Miss Meta Dowling, welfare case worker for both Chowan and Perqui mans counties, was largely instru ' mental in acquainting the needy with the opportunities offered by the 1 clinic and with rounding up the cases for treatment by Dr. Sawyer. : Miss Ruby Lentz, Chowan health 1 nurse, was o.i hand Tuesday, also, to 1 provide what assistance was requir ed in the examinations. In every way the clinic was pro nounced a success and much appre | ciation was evinced by those who mine for .rrd for the examinations. One Death Result Week-end Accidents i One death and four others slightly hurt was the week-end motor score of accidents brought to the attention of local authorities. George T. Hol ley, 38, Merry Hill Negro, was the one to lose his life. He was cross ing the Colerain road when run down by a car driven by another Negro, James Watson, of Perrytown, and was instantly killed. One tof the other accidents occurred on the Hertford highway near the county line. A car coming this way and containing nine passengers was ’ sideswiped by a northbound vehicle driven by Charles Curry, Jr., of Suf folk, Va. Both cars were badly wrecked and Mrs. Elmer Kennedy ! and Mrs. Hugh Harrell, of between I Hertford and Elizabeth City, who • were in the other car along with 1 their husbands and five children, were 1 treated by Dr. J. A. Powell for minor ’ cuts, as was one of the little ones > for a skinned nose. Sunday evening Joseph Jordan, 12, ' Negro, was knocked from his bicycle : in front of his home near Hancock, and was brought into town after a call had gone forth that he had been 1 killed. It turned out he was more frightened than hurt, however, and was soon sent home. Elbert Hunter, 1 Negro, was driving the car that ' caused the accident. REV. ASHBY ATTENDS FUNERAL OF FORMER LAW PARTNER t Rev. C. Aylett Ashby was in New port News, Va., yesterday taking ; part in the funeral services for J. ■ Winston Read, a prominent lawyer 1 of that city, who was formerly a ! partner of Mr. Ashby in the practice of law, the firm being Ashby and ; Read. i . . , MASONS MEET TONIGHT i . The regular meeting of Unanimity Lodge will be held tonight at 8 i o’clock. At this time Hie auditing committee will make its report and all members are urged to attend. NEW LIONS CLUB ORGANIZED HERE STARTSJONIGHT Twenty Charter Mem bers Will Meet at Ho * tel Joseph Hewes OUTSIDEVISITORS Community Betterment One of Club’s Out standing Aims The Lions Club of Edenton, newest civic organization in this community, will be permanently organized to night (Thursday) when twenty char ter members and several out-of-town guests will meet for a dinner at the Joseph Hewes Hotel at 6:30 o’clock. The required quota of charter mem bers has already been secured, ac cording to Larry Slater, internation al representative of the Lions, who has been working with the local com mittee. A delegation of visiting Lions from Washington, N. C., will be on hand, and the meeting will be conducted by Lion Slater. The Edenton Lions Club will be affiliated with the International As sociation of Lions Clubs, the largest association of business men’s civic service clubs in America. The Lions Club is a non-profit, non-secret, non sectarian, non-political organization of representative business and pro fessional men who are interested in boosting the community in every way possible, and the local club re ceives benefits in the form of as sistance and direction from the head quarters of the Association. Lions Clubs everywhere are carrying on a constructive program Os community betterment. Membership is acquired only by invitation, and none but business and professional men of good standing are invited to become members. Officers and directors for this new booster club will be chosen tonight (Thursday) at the organization din ner, and plans for the formal char tering of the club will be formulated. The charter will be presented at a later date, a ladies’ night meeting, when District Governor V. J. Ash baugh, of Durham, will be here to officially represent Lions Interna tional. The following are charter mem bers of the new club: Dr. W. S. Griffin, J. A. Curran, J. Clarence Leary, Ralph Cuthrell, W. P. Jones, L. S. Byrum, George Dail, W. S. Privott, G. C. Hobbs, Hector Lupton, W. R. Horton, W. W. By rum, T. W. Jones, C. E. Byrum, G. M. Bynun, L. H. Haskett, H. C. Goodwin, Jr., W. M. Jones, G. B. Potter and T. C. Byrum. ROTARIANS hold INTER - CITY MEET AT E. CITY MONDAY John A. Holmes Will Be Speaker Today Commemorating Birth day of Stonewall Jackson Rotarians of Edenton, Hertford, and Elizabeth City will gather in Elizabeth City Monday night for an inter-city Rotary meeting. President N. K. Rowell, of the Edenton Club, is very anxious that a 100 percent attendance will be registered from the local club and asks every mem ber to make an effort to go. The program will be in charge of the Elizabeth City club and promises to be very entertaining. The regular luncheon next Thurs day will be called off due to the inter-city meeting. At today’s luncheon in the Parish House, John A. Holmes will be the principal speaker, when he will de liver an address on Stonewall Jack son, whose birthday anniversary falls on the same day as the meeting. At last week's meeting an address was made by Rev. C. Aylett Ashby in honor of General Robert E. Lee, whose birthday anniversary occurred Tuesday of this week. Auxiliary Sponsors Square Dance Friday The Ladies Auxiliary of Ed Bond Post will stage a square dance Fri day night in the room over the Eden ton Case, beginning at 8 o’clock. The music for the dance will be furnished by Jackson’s string orchestra. The dance will be in charge of the finance committee of the Auxiliary, composed of Mrs. J. N. Oglesby, Mrs. G. M. Byrum, Mrs. J. J. Long, Mrs. M. L. Bunch, Mrs. O. B. Perry, Mrs. R. E. Leary and Mts. L. E. Griffin. A small admission will be charged all who attend the dance, to which an invitation is extended the general public to attend. Case Folks Are Jacked Up By State Board Os Health - ■ - — Electricity Off 1 A. M. To 7 A. M. Oil Sunday C. M. Hicks, superintendent of the Edenton Electric and Water Department, informed 'The Herald Monday that current would be turned off from 1 a. m. to 7 a. m. Sunday. Repairs to the station at Winfall is reason for cutting of the electricity. Users of electricity are asked to take notice of lack of current during these hours and govern themselves accordingly. V, , » annual meeting B. & L. ASSOCIATION BE HELD MONDAY Statement Shows Interest Rate of .072812; President and Secretary Well Pleased The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Eden.ton Building and Loan Association will be held in the Chowan Court House Monday night at 8 o’clock. Each stockholder has been sent a notice of the meeting with a request that in event any are unable to attend they should sign an accompanying proxy and hand to some one who will be at the meet ing in order that their stock is repre sented. Stockholders should also be well pleased with the annual statement of the Association, wherein is shown that the rate of interest earned for the past year was .072812 as com pared with .070043 last year. F. W. Hobbs is president of the Association, who with It. E. Leary, acting as secretary, is very well pleased with the amount of business done during the year. Annual Meeting Os Burial Assn. On Feb. 1 Members of the Albemarle Burial Association this week received a copy of the annual report of the Associa tion, which showed that 22 members died during the year. Included on the report is a special notice calling attention to the annual meeting of the Association which will be held at the Quinn Furniture Company in Edenton on Monday, February 1, at 1 P. M. Each policyholder is invited to at tend this meeting, each one being en titled to one vote. U. D. C. Observes Birthday Os Lee Twenty-one members and friends of Bell Battery Chapter, United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, gathered in the Cupola House Tuesday afternoon to observe the birthday of Robert E. Lee. Rev. George W. Blount, pastor of the Edenton Methodist Church, was the principal speaker for the ’ occasion, using as his subject “Lee 1 as , a Christian.” Those present were: Mrs. George P. Byrum, Mrs. J. L. Pettus, Mrs. Julien Wood, Mrs. J. | M. Vail, Mrs. M. P. Whichard, Mrs. R. P. Badham, Mrs. L. D. Bond, Mrs. , Walter White, Mrs. W. S. Summerell, Mrs. W. A. Graham, Mrs. Sidney Mc , Mullan, Mrs. O. M. Elliott, Mrs. M. S. Elliott, Mrs. Wood Privott, Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Mrs. Richard Win , borne, of Norfolk, Va., Miss Sophie Wood, Miss Margaret Pruden, Miss Mae Warren, Mrs. John Badham, and Jack McMullan. Yeopim Union Meets Sandy Cross Jan. 29-30 The Yeopim Union will meet at Sandy Cross Baptist Church in Gates County January 29-39. An in teresting program has been arranged including addresses of a timely na ture regarding the welfare of Bap tist Churches. According to the committee in charge each person attending i« re quested to bring his or her own lunch. Norman Winslow Dies Near Gliden Norman Winslow died at his home near Gliden Sunday night, following a long illness. He •is survived by , his widow, who prior to ter marriage . was Miss Louisa Parks. 1 Funeral services were conducted i Monday afternoon by his pastor, Rev. 1 W. F. Cale. Interment was made in the family cemetery. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.25 Per Year » Only Two Establish ments Given Grade A Rating chap’slhighest Supervisor of District Swoops Down and Causes Havoc W. Murray Linker, district sanita tion supervisor of the State Board of Health, swooped down on Edenton s last week to play havoc with a num ber of restaurants and as the result of an inspection warrants were sworn out for two operators, Joe Habit and Mike Kehayas, who were ordered to make necessary changes and improvements required within a limited time. Only two places where food is sold were able to obtain from Mr. Linker a Grade A sign, these two being Chappell’s Restaurant and Hotel Joseph Hewes Coffee Shop. At each of these places only a few minor changes had to be made to re ceive the coveted rating, which was promptly done before the inspector left town. All colored cases were forbidden to sell food which is prepared in the buildings until owners can comply with health requirements and as a result these places are at present disposing of only canned or package goods. The inspector also informed proprietors that after efforts are made to comply with sanitary condi tions required by law a written re quest must be made to the State Board of Health for a re-inspection before food can be legally sold. In issuing the two warrants Mr. Linker quoted the law which spec fically says that any owner, manager, agent or person in charge of a hotel or restaurant who shall be found to have a rating of less than 70 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The term < restaura^e’ JV in the law includes lunch counters, cases and all other establishments whatso ever where lunches, meals or food in any form a/re prepared for and serv ed to the public for immediate con sumption. After the inspection by Mr. Linker, which is said to have been most thorough in every respect, Chappell’s Restaurant led in the rating at 92.5 with Hotel Joseph Hewes Coffee Shop a close second at 90.5, both now being Grade A establishments. Burton’s Service Station and Tri angle Filling Station were given a Grade C rating, the former being marked 70.5, and the latter 70. Habit’s Beer Garden was rated ,60 and the Edenton Case 59. Os the colored establishments the following rating was given: Edney Case, 51.5; Norwood Case, 49; Royal Case, 42.5; Blue Bird Case, 30.5. First Recorder’s Court Session Since Dec. 22 For the first time since December 22, a session of Recorder’s Court Was held Tuesday morning when 'two minor cases came up for trial. ■■ J. T. Bland, colored farm hand plead guilty to stealing a chicken from J. H. Long and was sentenced to 30 days on the roads with the sentence to be suspended upon pay ment of all costs and showing good behavior for 12 months. Joe Bond, another colored farm hand was found guilty on two counts, one for carrying a concealed deadly weapon and the other for being drunk on the streets. On the first charge he was given 30 days or pay ment of $5 fine and costs and show ing good behavior for 12 months. He was ordered to pay costa on the other charge. Marvin P. Wilson New Local Attorney Marvin P. Wilson, of Winston- Salem, arrived in Edenton the latter part of last week and is now asso ciated with John F. White in the practice of law in Chowan County. Mr. Wilson will make hi«| headquar- , ters in the office of Mr. White, oppo site Hotel Joseph Hewes. ~ Edentons newest ettofliey-at-law practiced at prior to : coming to Edentota Ujwpfßa son of T. J. WiksoflL wbo W«9ed as registrar at>the Unit&sitjf *f North i Carolina si*6e 19Q0. -V? 'A-:,. The newcomer ie a very peasant I sort of an individual and fa . ioua to become i new friends not only in but the entire section.