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''jtWVNpWiiPIHIHHBMk >- Is m Jl,„ -- f -HI l- I • w CffwWfr'ttS WvV* OO I found 9 jab presentation I #/ toca/ and county news I o/ general interest. Volume IV.—Number 39. Bootlegging Death Knell Rune By Court And Police . -• .• i -f f .? r, J .• .-. Authorities Crack Down * On Violators; Judge Backs Them up FIVE PUNISHED Raids Prompt Court to Remark Such Viola tions Must Cease That the way of the bootlegger in Chowan County will be hard was evi denced in Recorder’s Court Tuesday morning when following a series of raids by local officers early this week five defendants were found guilty. The court room was the scene of a veritable bottle, and jug factory, the long table and floor being cluttered with all sorts of whiskey receptacles, some containing liquor, while others were empty and gathered about the premises raided. 1 Aaron Muse and Gurney Jordan, both colored men, were hardest hit by sentences handed out by Judge J. N. Pruden, each one receiving SO days on the roads on three separate . counts, with the sentences ordered not to run concurrently. • Hattie Wood, colored, was first to •" face the court, she being charged . with possession of bootleg liquor for the purpose of sale and possession of illegal liquor. Officers testified that she poured out whiskey when they * arrived, but were able to secure a small quantity as evidence. She was found guilty on both counts and was sentenced to 30 days in jail or $lO and cost of court for each offense and showing good behavior for two years. Hattie is tile mother of eight children, which resulted in some len iency on the part of Judge Pruden. Aaron Muse was charged with JUemgP liquor, possession for sale and vrtth posses sion of' liquor that had not .been tax t 4»id. Two white men, Lonnie Van Horn and Otis Holmes, testified that they purchased a pint of bootleg li quor from Muse for 60 cents, which in turn was turned over to officers, i Id use offered testimony that he was not;- at home at the time the liquor was supposed to have been bought, but he was found guilty On all three charges, receiving a sentence of 30 days on the roads for each offense, the sentences not to run concurrently. An appeal was noted and bond set at S3OO. Wilson Valentine, colored barber, was charged with possessing bootleg liquor for the purpose of sale and having in his possession liquor for which no tax had been paid. He was found not guilty of the first charge, ' aut on the latter count he was sen ".tenced to 30 days on the roads or; paying $lO and court cost as well asj showing good behavior for 12; months. Officers secured almost a' quart of bootleg whiskey in Valen . tine’s place of business, as well as a large quantity of empty bottles, some of which came from liquor stores, * while tie majority did not. Maggie Frazier, colored, was found j not guilty of possession of liquor, fop the purpose of sale, but received! a sentence of 30 days in jail or $10 ! and cost for possession of non-taxed 4iquor. She was also ordered to show good behavior for 12 months. A quantity of com whiskey was found by the officers just outside her kitch en door, which she claimed must have i been put there by her son. A small quantity of receptacles were also found having the odor of whiskey. —' Gurney Jordan, colored, was con * vie ted on three charges, selling boot leg liquor, possession for the pur- of sale, and possessing liquor which no tax was paid. The! ipen testifying against Musej offered testimony that they also; ■ bought a short pint from Jordan l Sunday night for which they paid 50 cents and turned the bottle over to officers. As did Muse, Jordan offered evidence purporting to show that he was not at home at the time the li _ quor was said to have been purchas * ed. He noted an appeal and bond was fixed at S3OO. Norman and Fred Revelle, brothers, ...were dismissel upon payment of the _ doctor’s bill in a simple assault case coming up from a justice of the peace court. ... In sentencing the liquor violators ?-'Vjudge Pruden reserved his sentences until after hearing all cases. “We have an ABC liquor store in Chowan County now,” he said, “and this boot legging business will have to be iSthh^ P jod^ n p^ n S*“« Xpt“S£ to ;: ■ ■ THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY LARGE dROWD AT BAPTIST MEETING Chowan Association Holding Inter- esting Sessions at Ballards .. „ Bridge Church Large crowds and much enthusiasm were both in evidence on Tuesday and yesterday at the annual conven tion-gathering of the Chowan Baptist Association, held this year in colla boration with the congregation of the Ballard’s Bridge Baptist Church. The edifice found, itself hardly able to handle the great number of members anxious to be in attendance -at the various sessions, and who came from most all of the churches embraced in the Association’s work. These 45 congregations, several of them from large towns, but mostly countryside pastorates, comprise a round 12,000 members, it was re ported, and presided over by 12 ministers, all of whore, of course, were present at the convention this week. Elaborate picnic dinners were served by the ladies of the church between the morning and afternoon sessions on each day of the meeting. The convention was opened on Tuesday- by an invocation by Rev. E. L. Wells, of Edenton, followed by a brief worship session, and an ad dress of welcome by Rev. J. T. By rum, pastor of the host church. Live ly addresses on the various phases of association work and the coopera tion the association should give all its member churches, preceded the j dhily sermon delivered by Rev. W. D. | Morris. Tuesday afternoon further | committee rg?orts, brief talks by va- 1 rises members, and an inspirational! address by Rev. J. L. White, of Miami, Fla., completed the first day’s session. Yesterday the program was augu meutedjby additional, addresses hav ing to do with ChrSti-an education, orphanage work, 'reports of tees, election of officers and other announcements, with Rev. Dr. -R. P. Downey, of Suffolk, Va., delivering the main speech of inspiration. Rev. E. H. Potts was the moderator at the gathering. CAIRN PROPOSED FOR TOWN CLOCK Memorial to Old Settlers Out of Ballast Rock Latest Project If the WPA can be induced to fur-' nish the necessary labor Edenton stands a fair chance of having a uni ■ que town clock memorial built at the ; water front end of Broad street. The -1 proposal, still in its infancy has reach- j ed Mayor McMullan and a couple of! the town councilmen and is likely to come up for final consideration at the October meeting of the council, j As the plan is talked of. the idea j would be to remove from the shal i low water harbor bed several hundred ! of the ancient rock ballast used by ! incoming ships several hundred years ago, tote them ashore and build them into a sort of cairn twenty or twenty five'feet high, maybe higher. In to this cairn would be placed an illuminated electric clock, probably near the top, which would shine forth j the time at night all the way out Broad street, and would Serve finely as a time beacon for motorists com ing through the town. ’ At the bottom of the cairn would be placed a bronze tablet somewhat on ! the style of those on the court house j facade, which would carry some such ! dedicatory inscription as this “De i dicated to the first settlers and early day immortals of North Carolina who gave it the impetus to become the great commonwealth it now is.” The flippant hurricane last year, as everyone knows, bared of the bay for several hundred yards out, and at the'thne is was noticed seve ral substantial piles of these ballast rocks which could easily be reached down for and be removed by tall laborers. The belief is that if the WPA can be made to understand that the pro ject has a historic value it may be prevailed upon to provide the neces sary funds, which would be small, for the work. MASONS MEET TONIGHT The regular meeting of Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. P. * A. M., will be tSBfU&Sti&SS, MtJ innwa. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 23,1937. j RETURNS FOR EVANGELISTIC MEETING ] ■ X 3 DR. J. L. WHITE Following a very successful revival meeting held last year in the Edenton Baptist Church, Dr. White of Miami, Florida, returns this year to conduct an evangelistic meeting in the local church, the first service of which will be held Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. i CURTAIN RAISES IFOREDENTON H.S. FOOTBALL TODAY I Windsor Gridders In vade Hicks Field This Afternoon AT G~CLOCK ss @ihedule Calls For Nine Games; Five Played At Home Edenton football fans will have i their first opportunity this afternoon 1 to see the Edenton High School’s 1937 team in action when they are! scheduled to meet the Windsor High] School aggregation on Hicks Field, j play to be called at 3:30 o’clock. The local youngsters have been ( practicing hard and are gradually getting into shape for the season’s! schedule. Coach David Holton is ■ very favorably impressed with thej progress made in practice work and | he, like members of the squad, wel-] comes today’s game in order to de termine the best suited players for the various positions. Coach David Holton will most like ly use the following boys in the | i starting lineup, practically all of i I whom had experience last year: Joe | Conger and Clyde Spencer, ends; | j Thomas Byrum and Bill Whichard, i tackles; Fred Hoskins and Billy Shepard, guards; James Cozzens, * center; Pete Everett, William Cayton, ■ Robert Chesson and Durward Harrell, j baekfield. A string of subsitutes will also; be on the sidelines ready to jump] into the affray in an emergency. Though the team is somewhat light, a stiff schedule consisting of nine games has been arranged, five of which will be played in Edenton. The schedule follows: September 30—Windsor at Edenton. October I—Tarboro at Tarboro. October B—PlymouthB—Plymouth at Edenton. October 15 Elizabeth City at Edenton. October 22—Washington at Wash ! ton. October 29—Roanoke Rapids at Roanoke' Rapids. November s —Franklin at Franklin, Virginia. November 12—Dunn at Edenton. November 19 Williamston at Edenton. The Windsor Lions, coached by Howard Earp, well-known in Eden ton, will invade Edenton todaj with what is expected to be the best team Windsor has produced in years. Earp boasts 25 members on his squad, 15 of whom are lettermen and capable of giving a good account of themselves in any position on the team. ROTARY MEETING TODAY Rotarians will hold their usual mid-day luncheon in the Parish House today at 1 o’clock. The program! will be in charge of Jimmy Earn hardt. President John Graham, now that vacations are over, is very anx ious to have a 190 per cent attend ance registered, and urges every POSTAL MEETING PROVES SUCCESS: AT SESSION HERE i Officials First District Have Lively Meeting At Parish House KRAMER HOST Lloyd Griffin Pinch Hits, For Congressman Warren j Successful in every way was the 1 meeting Friday night of postmasters jof the First Congressional District ! held in the Parish House. Postmas ! ters and postal employees from about I 75 per cent of the offices in the dis- ] : trict were present, many of them be -1 ing accompanied by their wives. Post j master C. E. Kramer was highly ! elated over the success of the meet- I ing and in discussing it was loud in I his praise for the part taken by the ! Edenton office force, who not only ! offered their services in carrying out details but also contributed individual ly td the expense of the meeting. “Without their help,” said Mr. Kram- j er, “it would have been a big job to J [ arrange for the affair and carry it j out to such a successful conclusion. ’) I The meeting was called to order by j | Mr. Kramer, who called on W. J. ] Taylor to offer prayer, and imme- j ( diately thereafter shifted the res- j ponsibility upon the shoulders of W. • T. Culpepper, of Elizabeth City, who' | acted as toastmaster. Mr. Culpepper, j however, very ably performed and ; was responsible for a lively and en j tertaining program. He was very I anxious for all to become better ac- j | quainted and called for the various, representatives to stand and give) their names, that is, if he didn’t) know them Mayor J. H. McMullan in a well spoken address welcomed the visitors on behalf of the town, while D. M. : Warren, chairman of the County Commissioners, extended a welcome on behalf of the county. The response to the addresses of welcome was made by Mrs. Effie Brickhouse of Columbia. Congressman Lindsay Warren was scheduled to make the principal add ress, but due to unavoidable circum stances was unable to come to Eden-j ton. In his stead L. E. Griffin, sec-. retary of the State School Commis-, sion, was called upon and though, he i said, it was impossible to imitate Mr. | Warren, he delivered, as usual, a very | interesting and timely address. In! the course of his remarks he traced I various phases of progress in the; State from the time settlers landed on Roanoke Island to the present, and in all of this progress, he said, the faithful and untiring efforts of Uncle Sam’s postal employes played a very important part. Mr. Griffin, himself a rural mail carrier years ago, is acquainted with the problems and hardships of postal employes, ■n»kfaig his address especially inter esting to the delegates. . Following Mr. Griffin, Wythe M. Peyton, president at the State Post (Continued on Page Five) 789 Enroll In Edenton School On Opening Day —. — , BAPTIST REVIVAL BEGINS SUNDAY Dr. J. L. White of Miami, Florida,! Returns to Edenton to Preach During Week Edenton, which profited much spir itually by his services last autumn, is glad to know that Rev. Dr. J. L. ( .White, of Miami, Fla., has returned j here for another series of revival j meetings Which he will conduct in the | Baptist Church, starting Sunday j morning at 11 o’clock, and continuing daily at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M., throughout next week. Last year’s j revival by Dr. White was a very sue- , cessful one and the local congregation ■ is confident it will be repeated again, j Dr. White has been in this section j for several weeks now holding similar, revivals at Bethel and other country side churches, and at each has met with much encouragement. He is a forceful speaker and expounder of, the Baptist faith, and has been j largely instrumental in Miami, not! ; only in enlarging his own congrega- J j tion, but in starting 20 other Baptist j i churches in and around Miami. He j has hundreds of warm friends here and his presence is always an as surance of well-attended meetings. Error Appears In Hobowsky’s Ad Due to a terrible rush in S. Ho i bowsky’s store in preparation for ! their fifth anniversary sale which be j gins Friday morning and a similar j rush in The Herald office to furnish a large number of circulars in time to i be distributed before the sale opens, • |an error was made in their adver i tisement. A line of type was trans- j | posed in one of the boxes giving the i | impression that two pairs of $1.00! men’s union suits would be on sale 1 ! for 63 cents. This special offer p£r- : i tained to ladies’ silk hosiery. The ‘ | union suits will sell for 63 cents ! each, while two pairs of ladies’ silk , ] hose can be purchased for SI.OO. The Herald and S. Hobowsky re- i ! gret the error, as it was discovered 1 after all printing was done. 593 ENROLLED IN COUNTY SCHOOLS Cross Roads Has 425;; Still Vacancy on Faculty ] W. J. Taylor, superintendent of the i 1 county administrative unit of Chowan i schools, is experiencing considerable j difficulty in securing a teacher of I science at Chowan High School who ! would also act as athletic coach. | Though school opened last week and i Mr. Taylor has been in contact with j j several agencies, up to this week no suitable application has been re-1 1 ceived. He is hopeful, however, that j very shortly he will have a man to j fill the position. In the meantime; Mrs. Pearly Baumgardner, a former teacher, is substituting, i The county schools got off to a : good start and are at present in mid ! term form, all books having been i furnished to students immediately | upon opening of school, which in large measure is responsible for an early start of work. Enrollment in the county schools almost reached the 600 mark, the first week’s figure totaling 593 with more expected* to enter school. Mr. Taylor is hopeful that a large enough increase in enrollment will be regis tered to warrant the employment of an extra teacher. I The first week’s enrollment fol- I lows: Chowan High 133 ! Chowan Elementary 292 Center Hill 43, Oak Grove : 51 I Gum Pond 31 ,J Beech Fork 43 Officials Meet In Tarboro Today i The Northeastern district meeting [ of the Institute of Government will , be held in Tarboro today with dis i cussions beginning at 2 o’clock. The i meeting will be held in the Edge , comb County court house, to which . all city and county officials have been invited to attend. Who would attend the meeting - from Edenton was not known as this newspaper went to press. This newspaper it circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.25 Per Year Orderly Proceedings as Band Plays to Add Interest 2 NEW TEACHERS Textbook System Great Help In Organization Os Classes Though handicapped by not having an auditorium in which to assemble and assign children to their class rooms, the Edenton school opening Monday morning was said to be the most orderly and quiet opening ir. recent years. The various classes were organized outside of the build ing, instructions being given from the school steps by Superintendent John A. Holmes. In connection with the opening of school the High School Band played several selec | tions in front of the building, and I according to Mr. Holmes it was the i best music furnished by the musicians ito date. “It sounded very good,” ! said Mr. Holmes, “and seemed to i have the effect of putting everybody in a pleasant frame of mind.” Immediately following the assign ment to their places the children sembled in their respective rooms where books were furnished. In this i regard, too, Mr. Holmes was highly ! pleased, saying that for the first time in the history of the Edenton school, books had been supplied the first day of school. Heretofore it has been as long as three or four weeks until students had completed their list of books. This great im i provement is the result of the free basal books furnished in the elemen j tary grades as well as use of the i rental system. Though school officials expect more 1 children to enter school during the I week, the first day’s encfti*r??nt was ; 40 more than on the first day last year, a total of 789 being enrolled in . the Edenton school and 78 at Ad vance, making the Edenton adminis trative unit enrollment 876. A complete faculty was on hand I for opening of school Monday morn ; ing, all teachers having been pres ent for a teachers’ meeting held on Saturday when instructions were giv en and plans discussed. Aside from 1 Harvey Cheston, who replaces Miss | Pauline Sprinkle, and Mrs. Gus I Hughes, who fills the vacancy caused !by the resignation of Miss Myrtle ! Jenkins, the faculty is the same as : last year. Enrollment for the first day of j school follows: First Grade 88 Second Grade 70 Third Grade 87 Fourth Grade 71 Fifth Grade 66 Sixth Grade 93 Seventh Grade .- 71 Eighth Grade 74 Ninth Grade 5B Tenth Grade 56 Eleventh Grade 36 Special Courses 19 Advance School . 78 i Bishop Darst To Be In Edenton Oct. 31 Bishop Thomas C. Darst, D. D., of Wilmington, will visit St. Paul’s j Church, Edenton, to confirm a class on Sunday, October 31, at 11 A. M., ' and at St. John’s, Edenton, at 8 P. 1 M., for the same purpose. The Rev. C. Aylett Ashby, rector of St. Paul’s, will soon form a con firmation class. Special Meeting Os Town Council Tonight A special meeting of Town Council will be held at 7:30 o’clock tonight in the Municipal Building. The town is in need of a new tractor and the purpose of this meeting is to decide ! on what make machine to buy. LICENSED TO WED Two marriage licenses were issued during the week by Mrs. M. L. Bunch, deputy register of deeds. The con tracting couples were: Willie Copeland and Mildred Ward, both of. Harrellsville. Woodrow Holley and Corine Holley, colored, both of Merry Hill. TWINS BORN Born to Mr. and Mrs. Mack Miller, In North Edenton, Tuesday night, : twins, a boy and a girl. The little i girl died very shortly after birth, however.
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