lln these column: will be
l found § fair presentation
I of local and county news
I of general interest.
Volume IV—Number 4.
Chowan Red Cross Quota Goal Set At $600.00
District Legion Meeting Is
Scheduled Here On Feb. 9
Disabled Veterans to Be
Helped In Pressing
Claims
PICKENS TO COME
Department Command
er to Address Tri-City
Posts In Evening
Anxious to furnish aid in pressing
claims of disabled war veterans of
the Albemarle, and to outline the
work of its organization further in
this regard, national and state offi
cials of the American Legion will be
here on February 9, to confer at an
afternoon session with those having
such claims, and to meet later at an
evening gathering with all Legion
naires from the district, which in
cludes posts front Manteo, Elizabeth
•City and Edenton. In between the
two meetings there will probably be
.a banquet either at the Hotel Joseph
IHewes or the Parish House.
Wiley M. Pickens, of Lincolnton,
the Department Commander of the
American Legion, will be here at
both meetings and will deliver an ad
dress at the night session, outlining
the 1937 legislative program as well
as a program of activities in which
l the various posts should engage.
The afternoon conference will be
in charge of Jack Lang, State Ser
vice officer, who will be aided in his
work by Bruce Stubblefield, exgpjjhive,
secretary of the national rehabilita
tion committee of the American Lj
* n£- WittAmgtor., Dr 'Csp' i*g M WS!F
as several oWi who may be in the
visiting part™
Word detailing the proposed claim
.conference and district meeting has
- been embodied in a letter from Mr.
Pickens to Commander John A.
Holmes of the Edward G. Bond Post,
No. 40, and through circular public
ity information sent ahead to Dis
trict Commander Carroll E. Kramer.
» The district visit here is a stop in
a tour the officials are making of
eastern Carolina in their desire to
offer what service they can to those
veterans having unsettled claims.
Much vital information for such Vet
erans will be made available through
talks with Mr. Lang* nd Mr. Stubble
field, and it is desired that all such
"vets" whether members of Legion
posts or not, try to be in attendance
.to explain his particular claim and
the difficulty he may be experiencing
in pressing it to a Successful con
clusion.
Mr. Lang and Mr. Stubblefield
will, also, appear with Mr. Pickens
at tiie larger night meeting which,
of course, will be thrown open to all
post members in the district. Com
mander Holmes, of the local post*
which will be host on the occasion
will introduce the speakers of the
evening. Mr. Lang will discuss the
work of his office, Mr. Stubblefield
will explain national rehabilitation
service, and Commander Pickens will
make one of his usual forceful ad
dresses.
OLDARMORY TO
BE SOLD FEB. 27
Town Council and Company F Agree
To Sell Building to Complete
New Armory
Town Council met in a special
.meeting Monday afternoon which
was called by Mayor E. W. Spires.
The purpose of the meeting was to
consider the proposed sale of the old
Armory building on * West Eden
; Street, which is owned jointly by the
Town and Company F of the North
Carolina National Guard.
Major Id. P. Whichard, command
ing officer of the unit, was present
at the meeting who, together with
Mayor Spires explained that a new
project was necessary to secure
enough funds to complete the new
Armpry on the Fair Grounds, the
town’s share as sponsor of the pro
ject being' $999. This amount will
easily be realized from the sale of'
the old Armory which the Town
Fathers agreed to sell at public auc
tion to the highest bidder at the
Court House on Saturday, February'
27, at 12 o'clock noon. A number of
local people are- interested in buying
TKfi nfiur Dfoi6ct ]K&s bGsn insdc up
to both Major
cipM.'l
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
t .
United Charities
Needs A Mattress
For An Invalid
The United Charities through
The Chowan Herald is this week
making an urgent appeal for a
mattress to be used for an in
valid who is now forced to use a
bed without a mattress.
Anyone who has an old mat
tress not in use or will arrange
to furnish one should communicate
at once with either Mrs. R. F.
Tuttle or Miss Mary Pruden of
the United Charities or The
Chowan Herald.
V J
PRESIDENT’S BALL,
GAINING INTEREST
Carroll Kramer Writes Chairman
Doherty; Auxiliary Securing
Telegram Signatures
Much interest in the President’s
Ball to be held in the Albemarle this
year for the annual benefit of the
infantile paralysis sufferers of the
nation at Elizabeth City, ha 3 been
shown locally, and Chairman Carrol!
E. Kramer has written enthusiasti
cally of his reactions to Henry L
Doherty, the national ball chairman,
in New York.
Mr. Kramer has explained that at
this particular time, however, the im
mediate and pressing demands being
paude upon the Chowan citizenship
Jpr financial succor for the Ohio
mod victims may retard the atten
atony from this county who
might otherwise go to the baH in the
Pasquotank metropolis. The post
master has, al3o, told Mr. Doherty
that the reason Edenton itself is not
holding one of the official balls is
owing to a lack of housing facilities
for such an affair, but that this has
in nowise diminished the interest it
will show in participation with the
(Continued on Page Five)
Sweaters Arrive For
H. S. Football Boys
Sweaters for members of the
Edenton High School 1936 football
team arrived in Edenton Tuesday
and will be awarded to the boys at
chapel exercises either today (Thurs
day) or Friday.
The sweaters are blue, ornamented
with a gold “E”, and will be award
ed to 17 boys including the two
managers.
Those who will receive the sweat
ers are: Junius Davis and Joe Cong
er, managers; Melvin Layton, John
By rum, James Smith, Robert Ches
son, John M. Harrell, James Cozzens,
Josiah Elliott, Reuben Miller, Sid
White, Clyde Spencer, Pete Everett,
William Cayton, Edward Bass, Fred
Hoskins and Lester Jordan, the lat
ter receiving his sweater as a mem
ber of the baseball team.
Children’s Orchestra
Now Making Progress
The children’s orchestra sponsored
by the Auxiliary of Ed Bond Post,
and under the direction of Mrs. W.
E. Baker, is making rapid progress,
rehearsals being held every Wednes
day afternoon at 3:15.
Members of the group include:
Pianist, Doris Jean Leary; first
clarinet, Catherine Reeves; first clar
inet, Norma Perry; second clarinet,
John Albert Holmes; first comet,
Emmett Wiggins; first cornet, Geo.
Alma Byrum; second comet, Carroll
Stewart; first tromjbone, D. S. Skiles;
small drum, Lester Stewart; large
drum and cymbals, Daniel Reeves.
COLERAIN NURSES SENT TO
KENTUCKY BY RED CROSS
Friends here will be interested to
know that two Colerain young ladies,
Luella Brown and Ruby Felton, who
have 'been in training at Norfolk
General Hospital, Norfolk, Va., have
been sent to Kentucky to assist in
Red Cross relief work.
MOVIE SHOW AT GUM POND
SCHOOL ON FRIDAY NIGHT
BiUy Faraway’s Movies will be
shown at Gum Pond School Friday
night, the title being “Fighting
Heart.*’ Ibis show is given for the
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, January 28,1936.
WATERS OF BAY]
BRING PEACE TO
LAURIE_KRAMER
Missing Since Monday,
Body Found Friday
Afternoon
LEFT~NOTE
Demise Occurred Off
The Norfolk Southern
Freight Wharf
Another saddening shock hit this
community last Friday afternoon
when word got quickly about Eden
ton that the body of Laurie Kramer,
former town councilman and brother
’ of Postmaster Carroll E. Kramer, had
been found submerged in the waters
of Edenton Bay just off the Norfolk
’ Southern railroad freight wharf.
And as if to add to this poignant
, regret came the additional news that
a note found in a coat which he had
previously discarded indicated that
he had intentionally taken his life
; four days before. No motive was
; given for this act but everyone who
, knew Laurie understood full well
, that his morale had been broken in
i late years through business and fi
[ nancial reverses, and that he had
. brooded much because of it.
The note in question was addressed
, to his brother and sister “Gladys,”
the latter the wife of Plummer War
; ren, of Norfolk, and merely express
. ed the contrite hope he had never
; caused his kin any trouble, and gnd
, ing with the words “I hope every
, thing will turn out all right.”
Irving Dean, bargeman on a Nor
i folk scow tug here in anticipation of
i dredging, work 'found the coat last
• Tuesday on An adjacent scow tied at
r the wharf. If had been rained on all
t the night before and Dean took it on
i his boat and hung it by the- engine
i to dry. Later he wore it about town
i without so much as examining it for
t identification. But soon after noon
! on Friday Pugh Roberson saw the
garment being worn and thought he
recognized it as Kramer’s.
Dean frankly explained, when ac
costed, that he had found it as said
’ and Roberson knowing that Kramer
had not been seen about town since
| (Continued on Page Five)
' Important Legion
Meeting Tuesday
I The regular monthly meeting of
■ Ed Bond Post will be held Tuesday
i night in the Red Men hall at 8
o’clock. According to John A. Holmes,
. commander, this will ,be a very im
. potrtant meeting and every member
is urged to be on hand. At this time
. plans will. be discussed for the dis
trict meeting to be held in Edenton
I Tuesday, February 9, as well as a
conference for disabled veterans
I which will be held at 2 P. M., the
. sarnie day,
Chowan Schools Are
Able Remain Open
3 Though some inconvenience has
been experienced in transporting
[ children to and from school in Chow
an County, it has not been necessary
to close schools as has been the case
in many sections of the State. Roads
. are in bad condition in somp sections,
but clear and cooler weather Wed
. nesday gave promise of improvement
; in transportation.
Os the trucks coming to the Eden
, ton school the one traveling the
, Paradise road was most affected, on
. several occasions being stuck and
l water putting the motor out of com
; mission, necessitating arrival at
> school late.
Gala Performance At
Parish House Feb. 5
i An entertainment that will be ex
, tremely interesting and most likely
i wijl draw a capacity house, will be
: staged in the Parish House on Pri
i day, February 5, at 7:45 P. M.
l The entertainment is sponsored by
St. Mary’s Guild and will include a
juvenile minstrel, songs and antics
as first part, with a bit of old Japan
’ and firefly fantasy composing the
second and third portions of the pro
; gramt
r . Mrs. E. T. Rawlinson will coach
r the performers ‘and most likely-part
> of the proceeds will go toward the
■ relief of . suffering in the flood
stricken areas of the mid-west.
WINDSORROTARY
TO BE FORMALLY
CHARTERED FEB. 5
Edenton Rotarians Will
Attend As Sponsors
Os Baby Club
HARDING, TOO
Visitors From All East
ern Carolina Expect
ed For Affair
Due to the inter-city Rotary meet
ing in Elizabeth City Monday night
and Charter night which will be held
in Windsor Friday, February 5, no
meeting of the Edenton Rotary Club
will be held today or next Thursday,
local members’ attendance at both
of these meetings being counted to
ward their home club attendance
record.
Twelve members of the Club at
tended the inter-city meeting Mon
day night and N. K. Rowell, presi
dent of the Edenton Club, is very
anxious to have 100 per cent attend
ance in Windsor Friday night of
next week. At that time the charter
will be presented to the recently or
ganized Windsor Rotary Club, which
was sponsored by the Edenton Club.
The latter will also at that time pre
sent a Rotary bell to the new club.
The charter night program will no
doubt be one of the biggest affairs
held in Windsor in years. Rotarians
from Washington, including District
Governor Edmund Harding, will at
tend, as well as members from Ro
tary Clubs all over Eastern North
Carolina. A very interesting pro
gram has been arranged with the
meeting -scheduled to be held in the
Windsor Women’s Club building.
Edenton Rotarians are justly proud
of their sponsorship of the Windsor
Club, in which 19 members have been
enrolled and two 100 per cent meet
ings having been held since the or
ganization was effected three weeks
ago. Rotary interest is keen in the
new club and great things are ex
pected by those who are interested
in the club.
At last week’s Rotary meeting
John A. 'Holmes very ably spoke on
the life of Stonewall Jackson in the
1 course of which he quoted portions
of letters written by both Robert E.
Lee and Jackson to the effect that
they were devoted friends and that
. what greatness one achieved was due
to the cooperation and loyalty of the
other.
At the next meeting of the Eden
ton Club on Thursday, February 11,
John Graham, chairman of the pro
gram committee, is arranging a
ground hog program which promises
to be very entertaining.
Bailey And Warren
Promise Support To
Get School Money
That no Aone is being left unturn
ed to secure the WPA grant to re
pair the local school is evident by
letters received Tuesday by John A.
Holmes from Senator Josiah Bailey
and Representative Lindsey Warren
• in which each promised to aid in
whatever way they can to the end
that the money will be forthcoming.
The letters were in answer to ones
written by Mr. Holmes, who is very
anxious to have the request approved
especially in view of the fact that
the county’s share of the cost is al
ready on hand.
Every phase of the request has
been approved by the State officials
and local school men are anxiously
awaiting favorable word from Wash
ington.
House Furnishing .
Leaders’ School In
Court House Feb. 5
Miss Rebecca Colwell, Chowan
County home agent, announces that
a house furnishing leaders’ school
will be held in the Court House on
Friday, February 5. The school will
be an all day affair, beginning at
10:30 A. M.
Miss Mamie Whisnant, assistant
extension specialist in house furnish
ing, will conduct the school, using
for her subject “Slip Covers For
Furniture.”
The two house furnishing leaders
from each club in the county are
urged to attend this school, and they
will in turn give the same lesson in
respective clubs at the Man* meet
ing-
> .
More Than Half Is Already
In; But Need Still Urgent
fIIER’RE THE ONES?
WHO HAVE GIVEN j
Chowan Council of Farm Wo
men $ 5.00
Miss Rebecca Colwell 2.00
Macedonia Sunday School 5.00
Oscar M. Elliott 1.00
Edenton Baptist Church- 50.00
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Baker 2.00
J. N. Pruden 1.00
Mrs. George Mack : 1.00
George Mack 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Summerell 1.00
Mrs. Tom Bell ; .25
Dr. M. P. Whichard 1.00
Mrs. Graham White 1.00
J. Edwin Bufflap 1.00
A FViend 3.00
J. E. Wood 1.00
Henry Gardner l.OO
George Hoskins 1.00
W. W. Byrum 5.00
Geddes B. Potter 5.00
R. E. Leary 1.00
Rev. George W. Blount 2.00
Mrs. H. G. Wood 5.00
Miss Sophie Wood 5.00
Mrs. Thomas Chears 1.00
Mrs. Lester Forehand l.OO
Mrs. W. S. Privott 1.00
Mrs. Eugene Marriner 1.00
Mrs. H. H. Preston l.OO
Miss Marie Reed : 1.00
W. J. Daniels 1.00
Mrs. W. A. Graham 20.00
Mrs. Maggie Jones 5.00
Miss Margaret Pruden 2.50
Miss Mary Pruden 2.50
Mrs. Lloyd Griffin 1.00
Mrs. J. N. Pruden 5.00
Mrs. Oscar Elliott 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Leary 2.00
Mrs. J. D. Traylor 1.00
Miss Sarah H., Jones r _ 1.00
Dr. J. A. Powell 15.00
Hector Lupton l.OO
Leon Billington. —_—- 1.00
Jimmy Partin 3.00
Carrie W. Coke 2.00
R. C. Holland 5.00
Mrs. Myra V. Holland 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott __ 5.00
C. P., Palmer 2.50
Edenton Graded Schools 85.50
Mrs. B. W. Hathaway ; 1.00
George Capehart 1.00
W. A. Harrell 1.00
Gale St. Bap. Church (col.) __ 3.00
F. P. Wood 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hassell 2.00
Mrs. J. A. Moore 5.00
Mrs. Charles Wales 1.00
Mrs. Walter White 1.00
Mrs. Julien Wood 1.50
Byrum Bros. Hdwe. Co. - 10.00
Rev. C. A. Ashby 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kramier 5.00
Church of God in Christ (col.) 2.00
W. M. S. of Warwick Baptist
Church - 8.95
Y. W. A. of Warwick Baptist
Church • 5.05
Mrs. Jennie P. Vann 4.00
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Badham - 1.00
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Badham __ 1.00
George S. Harrell 1.00
Mrs. George S. Harrell — — 1.00
Edward Wells .50
Earl Harrell ———- I- ‘ -SO
Mrs. G. W. Lassiter I—,—— 1.00
Miss Clara Wheeler —.—— 3.00
Proprietor and employees of
Goodwin’s Quality Store — — 10.00
Mrs. J. H; Holmes 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Hughes 2.00
Mrs. Jimmy Partin 1.00
Cash 3.00
Others Will Be Published Next Week
U. D. C. District Meet
Scheduled To Be Held
In Edenton March 12
Mrs. George P. Byrum, president
of Bell Battery Chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, was
informed this week by Mrs. James
G. Fearing, district president, of Eli
zabeth City, that the meeting of the
14th district will be held in Edenton
on Friday. March 12.
Members of Bell Battery Chapter
are looking forward with much in
terest to the meeting, plans for
which will be announced later.
GATES INVITES CHOWAN TO
CELEBRATE PRESIDENT’S BALL
According to a letter received by
The Herald Wednesday, citizens of
Chowan are invited to join with
Gatesville in the celebration of the
President’s Birthday Ball which will
be held Saturday night at the Court
'House from 8 to 12 o’clock.
T. W. Costen is chairman and an
nounces that plans are now completed
which will insure an enjoyable even
ing for all who attend.
This newspaper is circu
lated 4n the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year
► __________
Nation-wide Appeal For
Aid Brings Hearty
Response Here
; $366.75 RECEIVED
• Mrs. J. N. Pruden Well
! Pleased With Gener
-1 osity Shown !
i
* As part of a series of rapid fire
1 nation wide appeals for financial aid
1 in meeting the daily increasing needs
l of the half million or so homeless
1 and suffering victims of the mighty
Ohio Valley flood, the Chowan Chap
-1 ter of the American Red Cross has
been urged to engage in an intensive
1 fund raising campaign, which, in the
1 last 24 hours has assumed almost
1 superhuman proportions and which
1 only the fullest and most heartfelt
1 sympathetic interest on the part of
1 this commonwealth’s citizenship cap
* meet.
However, Chowan has never fail
( ed in an emergency where devasta-
J tion and disaster has wrecked such
| damage as is multiplying every day
in reports from the flood stricken
area, and Mrs. J. N. Pruden local
( Chapter chairman, and those work
ing with her, are still confident the
final response from this section will
substantially come up to expectations
and provide the encouraging assis
| tance so anxiously depended on.
The first appeal for aid, coming
, personally from the Red Cross nat
ional chairman, Admiral Cary J.
Grayson, called for the collection of
a quota allotted the Cl.owan chap
, ter to, $l2O. Before the
i ink had hardly dried on this appeal
I donations poured in on Mrs. Pruden,'
I and the first quota was more than
I exceeded.
I On Monday, however, Dr. Grayson
j wired a second time, detailing the
) great stress and need, telling of the
) suffering and want and of the home
) less, and setting a double quota goal
) for the Chowan chapter to raise.
) This was confidently faced and by
) Tuesday morning around $l6O in cash
j was in Mrs. Pruden’s hands all from
) Edentonians as the appeal had not
) reached the countryside directly.
) But later on Tuesday Dr. Gray
) son, in his great anxiety and because
) of the rapidly mounting need, which
) bids fair to be even worse, sent a
) third telegram raising the local
> chapter quota five times the amount
j originally assigned to it, or a total
I of S6OO, the largest amount ever ask
ed by the Red Cross from a common
i wealth so small as Chowan, and
(Continued on Page Five)
: CHOWAN FARMERS
MEET AT THEATRE
FRIDAY, 9:30 A. M.
\ J. F. Criswell Will Explain New 1937
| Soil Conservation-Program; In
,• Bertie Saturday
* ' *"
Chowan farmers interested in the
J new 1937 soil conservation program
will have an opportunity to have it
explained to them in the Taylor
Theatre tomorrow (Friday) morning
at 9:30 o’clock, according to an an
nouncement made yesterday by Coun
ty Agent N. K. Rowell. The meet
ing here will be one of a series of
such gather np.s in eastern Carolina,
and will be adiliessej by J. F. Cris
! well, of the state extension bureau
at Raleigh. He ..111 talk similarly on
; Saturday in Bertie county and next
[ Tuesday in Gates,
i This morning the same program
; was entertainingly emphasized in a
• talk at Hertford by one of Mr. Cris
. well’s associates, M. L. Barnes.
i Special stress will be laid by to
morrow’s speaker upon the benefits
. that will accrue to the agriculturists
in the shape of continued financial
. payments to those who sign up.
Mr. Rowell is anxious that as large
an attendance as possible, greet Mr.
Criswell and profit by his expounding
of the program.
Along with his announcement of
r this meeting Mr. Rowell stated he
: had sent out letters and circulars to
i all Chowan tobacco farmers, shpw
s ing by tables and bulletins how flue
l cured tobacco can be best handled,
i as well as various other steps in to
bacco production. A list of places
- where tobacco seeds can be purchased
l directly or through county agent
- are, also, enumerated by Mr. Rowell
in his letter.