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in these columns wiU be found 4 fm presentation of toed and county ndws of general interest. Volume IV —Number 15. Soil Conservation Checks Co Out To Chowan Farmers Much Elation Over Re ceipts For 1936 Farm Practices ' •County Agent Starts Distribution With More to Come ■Gratifyingly elated by the unex pected sisq of their individual re ceipts and at the enormity of the award to Chowan County as a whole, Chpwan fanners have been happy callers this week at the office of County Agent N. K. Rowell, who has been distributing the first of the 1996 batch of soil conservation checks. Up to right now two such batches of checks have been received from Washington, the first lot for 621,308.16 and the second for $20,- ' 695.78, both touting $42,003.88, a pretty substantial sum for a gener * ous “Nqw Deal” government to pass out in this little county for joining in a movement that benefits all. And there will be a still further .receipt and distribution, which if .based on the same ratio of allow .ance, will aggregate half as much more in final completion of the 1938 agreements. Around 538 farmers in Chowan .made- themselves beneficiaries under the 1936 conservation program, and so far Mr. Rowell has received 475 ■checks fpr distribution to 378 of the ■ original applicants, many of them tenant fanners as well as landlords. No program DianKS for 1937 pay ments have yet been signed. This year’s basis of agreement will be somewhat different from 1936 in this j table, showing what crops and in ' what crops and in what proportion are soilrdepleting, what the maxi mum acreage diversion is to be, what the diversion payment per acre will total, and what acreage can be drawn with largest diversion pay ment. While highly pleased at their pay ments this week the farmers realize that the money they are receiving constitutes but a minor benefit they (dontinued on Page Five) DISTRICT FARM . BUREAU MEETING IN E. CITY FRIDAY Number of Timely Topics to Be Dis cussed By Able Speakers; Open Meeting • A district meeting of the Farm jSureau will be held at the Central High School, Elizabeth City, Friday 'afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. At this time addrdfses will be made by W. R. Ogg, secretary-treasurer of the Ame < - rican Farm Bureau, a representative ' of SUte College extension work and 6the; speakers, according to J. E. Winslow of Greenville, president of the North Carolina Farm Bureau. Topics to be discussed are very ' timely, including community pro ( grams, county programs, the 1937 ‘ farm program, State and national peanut program and national truck . growers program, as well as the • national farm outlook and local pro blems and state issues. The meeting is open to fanners and business interests whether mem bers of the Farm Bureau or not, and anyonfi interested is urged to attend this meeting, which is one of a series of five held in the eastern section of the state. A goodly number of Chowan farm ' .era are expected to attend the meet ing. "Mary Perry Speaker Today At Rotary , As a special feature at the Rotary meeting today in the Parish House, Miss Mary Perry, Edenton High School student, will deliver her es > say on building and loan associa- recently entered in the Kess ler Memorial Essay Contest. Miss Rocky Mount,, when she carried off second honors E«ri Goodwin had charge of the program last Thursday when he very ”, “(T® ***** WWWU® Ui WMS I THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY . DISTRICT MEETING U. D. C. SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEK More Than 100 Delegates Expected From AH Over Albemarle; Meet ing Held at Hotel Much happy anticipation is being experienced by the matron members of Bell Battery Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, over the opportunity to be official host ‘ esses at next Thursday’s annual Fourteenth District Convention of r the organization, which will be held t at the Hotel Joseph Hewes, and * which, in addition to a lively business j session and hotel luncheon, will be ! made somewhat of a social affair. 1 More than .100 delegates, from the r different district chapters in the Al * bemarie are expected to be present. | Os added interest at the gathering i will be the presence of Mrs. John H. i Anderson, of Raleigh, the state pre sident, who will make an address r after the delegates have been wel -1 corned by Mrs. George W. Byrum, t Bell Battery Chapter president, and g the gathering has been turned over to Mrs. James G. Fearing, of Eliza beth City, the district president. ' Other speeches will, also, be made, i one expected being by Mrs. Claudius ! McGowan, who will give a record of * the past year’s activities in the dis ! trict. 1 An elaborate musical program will ‘ provide entertainment at intermis ’ sions in the business session and > during the luncheon which will be 5 given at the hotel at 1 o’clock. hDfetrtci MfcrtrAtSk * • N Paul’s Wednesday i - A district meeting will be held in > Edenton Wednesday, next, at 9 A. ! M., under the direction of Bishop 1 Thomas C. Darst, to last through - the day, when matters connected with the Episcopal Church will ibe ■ taken up. Lunch will be served by s St. Mary’s branch of the Woman’s ; Auxiliary. About forty delegates ■ are expected. SATURDAY NIGHT WAS DRY! Sheriff Plugs Spigot By Series of Lightning Like Raids Frankly regretting that he had not acted earlier on numerous criticisms and complaints leveled at him for some time, Sheriff J. A. Bunch took , the bull by the horns last Saturday afternoon and instituted a series of illicit liquor raids that just about ' cleaned up this end of the county and that netted him several prisoners, all of whom are under S2OO bonds for court appearances tomorrow. Those who will face Recorder Pruden are Joe Habit for operations at the Edenton Case and Habit’s Beer Garden, Joe Bunch, of the Yeopim Road, Albert Lassiter, who runs a section, Albert Lassiter, who runs a fish house on Queen Anne’s Creek, Charles Lassiter, who lives across the. same creek, and Julius Upton and Estelle Honea, who have been clerking at Harry .Crummey’s filling station on the Windsor Road, and Harry Crummey. At none of the raided places was there any large quantity of liquors found, but at Crummey’s and the Habits the wet goods was in the : shape of bonded bottles labeled as in dicating previous A. B. C. sales. ] The Lassiters and Bunch gave up bootlegged “white lightning,” but i even so very little of it was secured. < Naturally Hie tip got around that 1 the raids were on and the Sheriffs j forces feel that much of the stuff 1 that might have otherwise been con- ! fiseated was drained off prior to the (Continued on Page Five) 1 Tea Room Officially j Opens (hi Friday ! < The Tea Room in the Cupola I House will be officially opened Fri- l day afternoon between the hours of i 3:80 and 6 o’clock. Reservations for cards or tea should be made by call- 1 fog either of the hostesses, which 1 ps&sfvusisi: I wuu tti nuigvQi Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, April 15, 1937. BOOKLET MOVED AHEAD TOWARD ITS PUBLICATION Sub-editorial Committee Named to Pick Writ ers at Once LOCALTALENT Meeting Monday Night Enthusiastic for Brev ity and Accuracy Attractive illustrative features ty pifying Edenton’s past and present , with -brevity and rigid accuracy as essentials in Hie preparation of what ! reading matter may be offered, were 1 the two main keystones decided upon i Monday night at a meeting of the , editorial and publications committee in charge of the preparatory work on ' the proposed booklet descriptive of ! Edenton’s industrial future to be is ■ sued this spring by The Chowan He rald. • The committeemen, chairmaned by Julien Wood, were a unit in pressing for a quick publication of the booklet and another meeting will be held > soon for the purpose of selecting ■ those local heads of industry and civic life as writers of the terse | chapters decided upon. It was the unanimous opinion, and . this in the face of a visiting sugges tion to the contrary, that the book let must be something that can be taken in quickly, not too quickly, of > course, but something that should . serve as an easily understood guide to the town rather than an exten sively wrjtten brochure that might ! require lengthy and extensive perusal around the evening fireside table. Mr. Wood is a strong proponent of this theory of conciseness, and so ex pressed . hfenself at the meeting, as did aeveral qf the others. It was, aisflt deckled that Edenton was better 1 able to writ# of its past and present and hoped for future than could any outside writers be who were unac quainted first hand with the informa tion Edenton has been living with for over two centuries. And in this con nection the gathers Monday night were in no sense uncertain as to the eligibility of its own citizens to put this material together in a concise and easily censorable form. A sub-editorial committee compris ed of J. H. Conger, J. A. Moore, R. D. Dixon, and the editor of The Her rald, was selected to pick the local writers and to pass upon the mate rial that might be submitted by them. In this regard this quartette will act as censors who will pass the' approved copy on for final sanction | by the full committee made up of the four mentioned, Mr. Wood, as chair man, Mayor E. W. Spires, N. K. Ro well, Rev. C. A. Ashsby, John, A. Hoi- ( mes and James E. Wood, all of whom ■ but Parson Ashby were on hand Monday night. The committeemen were regaled by the fine companionable humor and suggestive ideas at the meeting of the state director and assistant, of the WPA Federal Writers Project, Edwin B. Bjorkman, of Asheville, and George L. Andrews, of Raleigh, who came here to volunteer their ser vices in any way. Except in regard to an extended story being told , throughout the book, previous prepa ratory plans of the publication com mittee, had embodied most of the Bjorkman-Andrews ideas. BAPTISTS STUDY WORK OF B. Y. P. U. HERE NEXT WEEK Week’s Program Begins With Ban- i quet at Baptist Church Mon day Night; 150 Invited The B. Y. P. U. Department of the 1 Edenton Baptist Church will enter- 1 tain at a banquet in the church on i Monday evening at 6;30 o’clock. An i interesting program has been ar- ; ranged consisting of music under the < direction of W. Jim Daniels, assisted i by his orchestra, and followed by an ] inspirational address by Nathan C. ] Brooks, N. C. Baptist Training Union secretary, of Raleigh. 1 These exercises will foe immediate- I ly followed by the banquet at which - 160 invited guests are expected. As- < ter the banquet study classes for < each phase of B. Y. P. U. work will i be organized and the remaining ] evenings of the week will be devoted j to a familiarization with the funda- i mentals of Baptist Training Union < work. Large classes are anticipated. ] Instructors for these classes will be Rev. E. L. Wells, with the Senior Department; Mr. J. L. Chestnut, with the Intermediate Department, i and Miss Mildred Munden, with the : N. S. RAILROAD HO BUILD PIER OVER BAY FRONT Council Gives Consent Providing Abutting Owners Agree COST~SI2,OOO Will Facilitate Unload ing of Sound Bridge Shipments If the action of the town council this week is sustained by adjacent property owners, as it is expected it will be, the Norfolk Southern Rail road Company as represented by its receivers, is to be permitted imme diately to build a 250 foot extension wharf and railroad pier from the end of its freight yard siding out of the bay water front. The cost of the work will he around $12,000 and the work is to be carried out to faciliate unloading of materials for use in the construction of the forthcoming ve hicular bridge over the sound. In a sense the pier extension will be but temporary, at least will fall into disuse when the big bridge is completed 18 months or two years off. Representatives of the railroad were here on Monday with the re quest and after papers had been con sidered by Town Counsel W. D. Pruden it was brought up at council meeting Tuesday night. Mayor Spires explained the matter and the councilmen were a unit in granting the consent providing the Water Street property owners who own the riparian rights in front of their lands offer no objections. Such property owners include J. H. Holmes, Julien Wood and Mrs. Wil liam J. Leary, and it is understood they are so far making no protest. ff'he extension pier is scheduled to irun toward the Willis Warehouse. Shallow shore waters make it neces sary to build the structure out as far as has been suggested so as to reach a depth into which sound craft can arrive with their heavy bridge cargoes. Already, it is understood, much of such material is on its way to these shores so work will be start ed at once by the railroad concern. COURT HOUSE MAY GET PORTRAITS OF OLD COLONIALS Parson Ashby Making Heroic Effort To Have WPA Artists Paint Pic tures For Display Here Rev. C. Aylett Ashby, of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, who almost alone and in the face of much skepticism got the legislature here on its recent i commemorative visit, and who seems out to do or die in his vigorous ef fort to have the historic shrines of the Albemarle taken into some sort of a federal park scheme, is out with another chip on his frail shoulders and expects to keep it there. He ful ly hopes that he will be able to have the government through its WPA portraiture experts provide Edenton with a series of paintings of its old Colonials for display on the second story walls of the court house, which would be a real accession. Edenton has no such portraits, nor are there any real ones in existence. There is hot even a picture of Gov ernor Eden in town, in fact there is only one and that from imagination . and hanging on the State House walls in Raleigh. That one Edenton once possessed but with its customary dis regard for such ownership gave it up to the state government and has since been without any. The Parson, wondering as to the why and wherefore of such matters, 1 voiced his wondernment recently in ] the town library. Mrs. MciMullan, the librarian, was sympathetic and showed him some pen and ink work or Edenton sites by WPA artists, ; another set of which is in the post office possession of Postmaster Kra- i mer. The Parson took the bait and 1 pounded out a lively appeal for the 1 portraits in a letter to Washington. 1 The other day he got a message i back from Ellen S. Woodward, assis tant federal WPA administrator, in which she spoke kindly of the re quest and suggested that the state director of the Federal Art Project of the WPA at Chapel Hill, D. S. Defenbacher, should be written to, i and she felt sure he would lend what < aid he could . And the Parson has i done so and is nervously awaiting Mr. 1 Defenbacher’s reply. ~ 6 BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Har- 1 roll at their home on the Yeopimj ■ Road, on Thursday, April 8, a son, Thomas Stanley. i Mayor Spires Refuses To Run Again For Reelection W 3> All City Officials Seeking Reelection Except for a Mayoralty candi date to be yet selected, all the present town officials announced today that they would file at once for re-election on May 4. This means Councilmen at large, O. B. Perry and T. Wallace Jones; First Ward Councilman, Dr. L. P. Williams; Second Ward Council man, Graham Byrum; Third Ward Councilman, A. G. Byrum; Fourth Ward Councilman, W. E. Bond; Board of Public Works, J. A. Woodard, F. W. Hobbs and F. P. Wood, and treasurer, W. H. Gard ner. It a!fso means that none of these need figure in further gossip as candidates for mayor. > —> ‘SAFETY SABBATH’ SET FOR SUNDAY Mayor Joins In General Proclama tion Demand For More Care In Motor Driving Next Sunday has been officially termed a “Safety Sabbath” for mo toring in North Carolina, and Mayor E. W. Spires is joining with all municipalities in so proclaiming it. It will be the seeond “Safety Sab bath” sponsored in this State by the Carolina Motor Club, and is proposed again in an effort to curb the high accident toll each week-end. In his proclamation anent the sub ject the Mayor refers to. “The appall ing number of preventable accidents and deaths upon the highways,” stating that “Our beautiful threads of jraue), designed for pleasure and trade have been converted by the reckless driver uni the careless, in competent 3)>er«&r* into lanes of horror.” 'He urges everyone “by precept and example to foster the ideal of consideration for the rights of others" so there will be an irre ducible minimum in accidents and deaths.” Churchmen and ministers are urg ed to sermonize on the subject next Sunday, and by prayer, anyhow, join in the “Safety Sabbath” movement. TOWN ELECTION SET FORMAY 4TH Short Time to Register; Ward Officials Are Reappointed Election of city officials will be held Tuesday, May 4, between the hours of 7 A. M. and 7 P. M., the election being one of the principal matters to be discussed at the meeting of Town Council Tuesday -night. The legal time allowed for regis tration had just about reached the dead line and R. E. Leary, town clerk, was instructed to place no tices on Wednesday at the various polling places, thus allowing 20 days for this purpose, according to law. Further planning for the election registrars and judges of election were appointed as follows: First W@rd—R. L. Spry, registrar; W. A. Everett and H. T. Miller, judges of election. Polling place, Armory building. Second Ward —C. H. Wood, regis trar; Tom Leary and N. J. Castelow, i judges of election. Polling place, Court House. Third Ward—H. T. Layton, regis trar; G. B. Potter and A. M. Fore- j hand, judges of election. Polling place, Alex Rawlinson’s store. Fourth Ward—W. T. Gordon, reg istrar; Worth Layton and Roland 1 Ward, judges of election. Polling! place, Worth Layton’s store. Whether, or not there will be a rush of candidates could not foe learned this week, even present mem bers of the Board being very reluc tant to say whether or not they will run for re-election. Masons Neck And Neck In Contest That the attendance contest now in progress among local Masons is creating considerable activity is evi dent by the numiber present at last Thursday’s meeting when 28 members were present with each side claiming 14. W. Jim Daniels and G. A. Helms are captains of the opposing sides with Me, Helms leading by only one to date. Another largely attended meeting so expected tonight. {&(& _ ;i,X , This newspaper is circu | lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.25 Per Year Announces Retirement At Meeting of Town Council Tuesday; ILL HEALTH FACTOR Colleagues Listen Feel ingly to His Surprise Decision As if stunned by a bomb from a clear sky members of Edenton Town Council at their meeting Tuesday j night listened breathlessly as Mayor ,E. W. Spires told them of his inten j tion not to run for mayor for an other term. The announcement fol lowed official action calling for the j regular city ’ election which will be I held on Tuesday, May 4. Feelingly Mr. Spires expressed his profound appreciation to the board members for their cooperation and sympathetic understanding dur . ing hi 3 tenure of office and urged the same loyalty and consideration for the new mayor whoever he might be. “If anything has been accomplished f during my administration,” said the . Mayor, “the two city boards are re . sponsible, for we have been as one I family and got along far better than many families do.” Mr. Spires gave for his reason not > to run again for the office that due 1 to his health it was imperative that i he take a rest from the arduous activities in connection with the du ties of chief executive. He further . stated that due to the amount of ; time required by the office he has ■ sacrificed his personal efforts which . he feels would have been more re- I munerative to him. And in this con , nection he informed his colleagues . that his future plans would not allow > the time which * felt rightly foe r longed to the office. He did not in . timate what these plans were, but . assured the councilmen that he had . not contemplated leaving Edenton. 1 “Though I have had a lot of worry and many headaches acting in the . capacity of Mayor,” said the Mayor, ; “it has been a labor of love. I will i always have the welfare of Edenton at heart and will be willing at all times to lend a helping hand.” Mr. Spires paid tribute to the pre sent board, explaining that when the town’s affairs were taken over there was a $4,000 bond default and that at a time when the town was in the depth of the depression. However, the board was very conservative in a hard .up-bill struggle and in the face of less money to work with due to a $5,000 yearly appropriation in stead of SIO,OOO from the E. & W. Department. “This is no reflection on the department,” said Mr. Spires, “but a condition that could not be averted.” The highest kind of praise was ex pressed by Mr. Spires in behalf of J. A. Woodard, chairman of the E. & W. Department. “I say it without any fear of an expression of jealousy or contradiction,” said Mr. Spires, “that (Mr. Woodard has been the most valuable citizen in Edenton for the past 16 years. My one regret is that he is not only 40 years old so that the Town could be favored by his valuable services for so many more years.” Members of the council expressed great regret at Mr. Spires’ decision and urged him to reconsider his action or else run for office and if elected to serve until such time that !he would have to retire. However, the Mayor said he had not taken snap judgment on the matter, but that his decision was the culmination |of serious consideration during the past several months. In closing his remarks Mr. Spires expressed the hope that if people in i Edenton appreciated what has been ; done by the present council, they jshow tfopir appreciation by a vote of confidence by paying taxes due the town. He expressed wonderment at the slow payment of taxes this spring and said that if 80 or 90 per cent of taxes due were paid, the town would be in good shape financially. W. J. Taylor, county welfare offi cer, who happened to be at the meet ing, arose to bespeak on behalf of the organizations with which he is associated sincere appreciation for the attitude and interest shown iby Mayor Spires a*id the entire Board on every occasion he has been obliged to come before them for various re quests. Despite Mr. Spires’ announcement that he would not run, very little authentic information could be ob tained by the councilmen, some not committing themselves while a few expressed a willingness to run pre (Continued on Page Five)
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