I In these column will be
I found a fair presentation
I of local and county news
I of general interest.
Volume IV—Number 43.
$941.81 Chowan’s Share
First Month’s A.B.C. Sales
Total Sales Amount to
$5,696.10 According
To Audit
. STATE TAX $387.50
Fund Set Aside to Be
Used For Law En
forcement
A. T. Allen, certified public ac
countant of Raleigh, this week sub
mitted a report of the audit for the
first month’s business of the Chowan
ABC store. The audit was very
complete and in commenting on local
conditions the report said the Chowan
store and operation of it was in ex
cellent condition.
Total sales of liquor for the first
'tnonth amounted to $5,696.10, of
which amount $397.50 was returned
to the State in the way of taxes. An
item of $94.18 was also set aside to
be used in law enforcement. De
ducting the two above amounts and
current expenses, the first month’s
profit for the county by liquor sales
netted $941.81.
In the matter of law enforcement,
Chowan County will be joined with
other counties operating liquor stores
and in this way it is believed more
efficient and satisfactory enforcement
will result, with each county paying
its proportionate share.
Sales in the local store to dc'. - ’
are running considerably above las.
month’s sales and due to extra ex
panse in connection with opening the
stare there should be a larger profit
revised for the second month.
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Methodists Will Hold
Fourth Quarterly
Conference
Rev. B. B. Slaughter, preseding
elder of the Elizabeth City District,
will preach Sunday night at 7:30
o’clock in the Methodist Church.
Immediately after this service the
fourth quarterly conference will be
held. This is a very important
meeting and every officer of the
church is urged to be present.
Rev. Mr. Slaughter is a very In
teresting speaker and the public is
cordially invited to hear him.
You Can Stop Saying
“Stop” In Telegrams
The word “stop”, which has become
as familiar, in telegrams as the word
“love” is no longer necessary. Punc
tuation marks and paragraphs will be
sent free in all future telegrams, it
was announced last night by W. H.
Franklin, local manager of the Wes
tern Union Telegraph Company.
“Notice of this change 'in the tele
graph practice of the nation was
given in a tariff filed with the Feder
al Communications Commission to
become effective October 15th,” Mr.
Franklin said. “In future punctua
tion marks employed in the text of
domestic telegrams, but not to points
outside the United States, will be
sent as written and will not be
Methodist Revival
Closed On Sunday
A week’s revival meeting at the
Methodist Church came to a close
Sunday night when top building was
Rev. H. K. King, 6 of Elizabeth City,
who preached each night
week except Saturday. Interest m
the meet in c- wss excellent &nd credit*
able congregations were on hand for
F var»R have received word that their I
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Even Texas Doesn’t
Like Edenton’s No
U-Turn Stanchions
Attorney Says Town In
fringing on Patent
Rights
TALKS“HARD”
Mayor Replies Asking
For More Specific In
formation
A crack no doubt at Edenton’s no
U-turn signs was received this week
by Mayor J. H. McMullan, coming
from far-away Texas . Mr. Mc-
Mullan, though mystified at the
meaning of “paving type” signals, re
ceived the following letter from John
W. Spellman, an attorey in Dallas,
Texas:
“My clients, George Ben Graf,
Patentee and his assignees there
under have received information that
your City has purchased and is now
using ‘Traffic Direction Signals of
the Paving Type’ on the streets of
your city, in violation of United
States Letters Patent to Graf, num
ber 1,621,941, dated January 6, 1925;
and they have requested me in their
name to notify you of this infringe
ment and to request that you prompt
ly desist from such unauthorized use
of such ‘Traffic DirectidU Signals of
the Paving Type’ and from further
' infringement 'of said patent number
1,521,941, and to account to Them in
damages for such infringement.’
“The said Graf patent has been ad
judicated by the Federal Court and
decreed to be good and valid and
damages awarded for infringement
thereof.
“I shall expect a reply from you
stating that you will desist from such
infringement in using said signals
within ten days from toe date of this
letter, otherwise I shall assume that
you desire to test my clients’ rights
in the courts.”
Mayor McMullan, upon advice from
W. D. Pruden, town attorney, imrae
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Edenton High Downs
Elizabeth City 19 to 0
in Upset Game Friday
Edenton Boys Turn on
Full Steam During
Last Half
LARGECROWD
Heavier Opponents Out
played In Every De
partment
Playing before one of toe largest
football crowds ever to assemble on
Hides Field, Edenton High School’s
scrappy football team on Friday af
ternoon defeated toe Elizabeth City
aggregation by a score of 19 to 0.
Though outweighed and dopesters
predicting a victory for the Pasquo
tank team, Coach David Holton’s
boys easily outplayed the visitors in
every department of the game. At
half time the spore stood 0-0 and
though Edenton; was unable to push
the ball across,. they outplayed their
opponents and labal fans felt confi
dent toe second half would change
the story. They came back strong
and after scoring toe first touchdown
As in former games this year, the
team played as a unit with every boy
taking part in toe game evidently
realizing that he had one particular
job and each one did his job well.
The line was stubborn on defense
and it was only by drilling adequate
holes in the opponents’ line that
XeVtertSg line-up "were Robert
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, October 21,1937.
BOARD OF HEALTH
MEETS TO STUDY
NEEDS IN COUNTY
Compulsory Vaccination
of Children Against
Smallpox
STARTS IN 1938
Public Requested to Use
Paper Cups at Drink
ing Places
A special meeting of the Chowan
County Board of Health was held in
the office of the Municipal Building
on Friday night, October 15. The
members present were: Mr. W. J.
Taylor, Mr. J. H. McMullan, Dr.
A. Powell, Dr. L. P. Williams anu
Dr. W. I. Hart. In the absence of
Mr. D. M. Warren, the legal chali
man of the Board, Dr. Powell was
elected temporary chairman.
The meeting was called for the
purpose of discussing health ana
sanitation needs and regulations of
the County. Ihe members as a
whole expressed an opinion that they!
wished the newly organized Health j
Department to push a campaign of |
health education instead of enforced I
health and sanitation. Only one j
health regulation was passed and thal |
was a County health law requiring j
all children who enter school in 1938'
to be vaccinated against smallpox. I
This means there will be no compul-!
sory vaccination against that disease i
during the 1937-1938 school term.
But it does mean that all white and
colored children who enter school in
September, 1938, must be vaccinated
against that disease before they can
be admitted. The Health Depart
ment expects to bold pre-schfcol clin
ics during the mbnths of April and
May add at these clinks all begin
ners will be vaccinated. Upon re
quest of the Health Officer, there was
no resolution passed concerning vac
cination against diphtheria with re
ference to admission to school. On
account of the fact that the major
ity of cases of diphtheria occur be
fore the school age, the Health De
partment is putting on a special drive
to secure the vaccination of all chil
dren during the second six months of
life. Children between this age and
six years are encouraged to be vac
cinated.
The question of glasses or paper
cups at public drinking places was
discussed lengthily and the Health
Officer was requested by the Mayor
to conduct an educational program in \
the form of newspaper articles to 1
instruct the public to request paper j
cups at drug store fountains and |
other public drinking places. This j
attitude was taken on account of the,
fact that there is no place in the j
Town of Edenton except the drug
stores w.here people can secure drink
ing water and it would be asking ]
too much of the druggist to furnish
free paper cups to provide people!
with drinking water. It was alsoj
suggested that the Town Council be!
petitioned to install drinking foun
tains for the public at convenient 1
places.
Concerning the control of venereal
diseases and the enforcement of toe
domestic servant law. This being a
law passed by the last legislature to
give housewives health protection,
the Board went on record as recom
mending all housewives to take ad
vantage of this service and require
their servants to secure health certi
ficates and not to employ new ser
vants unless they posses health certi
ficates of recent date. The Health
Officer wishes to' add that owing to
the fact that the servant class of
colored people in this community car
ry such a large case record of tuber
culosis and syphilis that all house
wives should certainly protect them
selves and especially their children
by making 1 use of the benefits of tots
law.
■-> The sanitation of the Town was!
considered and action deferred pend
ing the establishment of a WPA
sanitation project. The Town dump
was discussed and decided to be serv- j
Ing satisfactorily the present needs
in toe Town without any great health
or nuisance menace.
The citizens of the County as a
whole ahe requested to present their
health and sanita ;ion troubles to the
Health Department and make free
use of the Department in any way or
method in which its members can
serve them.
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Mr and Mrs Fred P Wood an-
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Perfect Entertainment Showered Upon
State Guests Visiting Edenton Tuesday
S. 0. ills Retires
As Edsnion Barber
Shop and Fixtures Leas
ed to Raymond
Mansfield
Friends will be interested to know
that on Saturday S. C. Mills will re
tire from the barbering business
after serving the public in Edenton
for 30 years. Mr. Mills has leased
his shop and fixtures to Raymond
Mansfield, who has been an employee
of Mr, Mills for 13 years, and will
continue in business at the same
stand.
The only reason advanced by Mr.
Mills for retiring was the fact that
he wanted to devote all of his time
to his farming interests, and in giv
ing up his business he informed The
Herald that he especially wanted to
thank Captain J. L. Wiggins, J. M.
Jones and others who have been con
stant patrons during the entire SO
; years.
Mr. Mills started his barber busi
j ness on October 10, 1907, in the old
i Bay View Hotel. In 1915 he moved
j to what is now part of T. W. Jones
| Hardware store. In 1919 he moved
|to where Preston’s is now located,
j and in 1921 he moved to his present
i location at the corner of Broad ana
j King Streets.
EDENTON Hi TEAM
HEADINE FOR TRY
AT CHAMPIONSHIP
Next Move Is to Whip
Roanoke Rapids On
October 29
tougiTgame
Comparative Scores
Give Holton’s Boys an
Advantage
By defeating Elizabeth City Fri
day afternoon, it is felt that the
! most formidable northeastern con
| ference foe has been eliminated in
j Edenton High School’s chances to at
| least participate in district competi
j tion in the State Class B football
1 championship. Only one more game
: remains on the conference schedule,
| that being Roanoke Rapids, and if
1 Edenton is the victor in this contest,
| Coach Holton’s boys will participate
| in district elimination.
The two teams will meet Friday,
j October 29, at Roanoke Rapids. By
| comparative scores Edenton should
! have the upper hand, for the Halifax!
' boys were defeated by Elizabeth City I
by three touchdowns and Edenton by
the same margin downed Elizabeth
City. It is this very fact, however,
that Coach Holton is warning his
boys about toe danger of our confi
dence. The game will be played in
Roanoke Rapids and Holton is im
pressing upon the boys that it will be
one of the hardest games, as well aa
the most important game on the
schedule.
To date the two schools are on
about even terms, each team having
two victories to its credit, and two
0-0 ties recorded since athletic rela
tions were resumed between the two
towns in 1928.
In 1928, it will be remembered,
Roanoke Rapids completely outclass
ed Edenton, winning by a 66-0 score.
The next game was played in 1933,
| when the Halifax boys took a hard
] fought game 7-6. In 1934, however,
Roanoke Rapids fell victim to Eden
ton’s State champions by a 12-0
count. In 1935, the two teams
fought to a 0-0 tie and in a play-off
.to decide district champions, Edenton
took the long end of a 20-0 score.
Then again last year the two clubs
fought to a 0-0 tie.
The game no doubt will be hotly
contested and from present indica
tions a large delegation of fans will
accompany them to Roanoke Rapids
on October 29.
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MASONS MEET TONIGHT
The regular meeting of Unanimity
Lodge, A. F. & A M., wiU be held
tonight in the lodge room at 8
o’clock. All members are urged to
* on time.
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Red Cross Roll Gal
Begins On lev. 11
Chowan County's Quota
During Drive Will
Be 350
W. A. Frizzell, special field repre
sentative in connection with the an
nual Red Cross Roll Call, was in
Edenton Monday conferring with
Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Chowan County
Chairman, relative to the 1937 drive
for memberships.
Mr. Frizzell was very much pleased
with the splendid record turned in
from Chowan in previous years and
is hopeful that this year will be more
successful than ever.
The campaign will begin on Armis
tice Day, November 11, and continue
through Thanksgiving, and Mrs. Piu
den is already working on plans to
reach Chowan’s quota which this year
will he 350.
Bids For School Work
Opened November 9th
Frank Benton, architect, was m
Edenton Friday in connection with
contemplated improvements and ad
ditions to the local school and in
formed Superintendent John A.
Holmes that advertising for bids for
this work will be made in a few
days. These bids will be opened on
November 9.
According to the terms of the
government grant, work must be
started before December 7 and
must be completed before 7.
P.F.Keil Transferred
State Employment
Office In Fayetteville
Robert S. Cobb, Green
ville, Will Be Eden
ton Manager
PROMOTIONS
Mr. Keil Experienced
Shortage of Workers
For Jobs
After just a brief stay in Edenton,
P. F. Keil, district manager of the
North Carolina State Employment
Service, has been notified that effec
tive November Ist he will be trans
ferred to the Fayetteville office. Mr.
Keil, according to information from ■
headquarters, will be replaced by ]
1 Robert S. Cobb, who at present is 1
I branch manager in the Greenville i
I office. 1
Mr. Keil, who has laken a particu
lar liking to this section of the State ,
and Edenton in particular, regrets ,
having to leave so soon, but the
change means quite a promotion to ,
him as well as to Mr. Cobb.
While in Edenton Mr. Keil has had :
numerous calls for positions to be fill- j
ed, but he has experienced a distinct i
shortage of workers. Many of the 1
calls were for common labor, al- j
though a great number of requests :
have been received for skilled labor :
carrying with them attractive sala- .
ries. However, applicants were not
available which caused Mr. Keil to 1
remark: “Apparently there are few i
people out of jobs in this section, i
Time was when we couldn’t find <
enough jobs for workers, but now ;
there are not enough workers for the
jobs.
He expressed the hope that any
body out of work will register in
the local office, thus proving of mu
tual benefit.
R. S. Proctor, area supervisor with
headquarters at New Bern, was in
Edenton Monday and Tuesday going
over various details of the employ
ment service with local workers.
LEGION AUXILIARY TO MEET
The American Legion Auxiliary
will hold its regular meeting Thurs
day night, at 8 o’clock, in the Rea
Men’s Hall. This is the first meeting
of the year, and ell members are
urged to be present.
Auxiliary members must realize
that unless the officers are given full
cooperation by the members they
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
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$1.25 Per Year.
Lavish Hospitality and
Fine Feast For Na
tional Publicists
HOTEL BANQUET
Reception Without an
Equal; Visitors Well
Pleased
Another memorable occasion was
written into the annals oi Edenton
this week when the town dressed
its best, and hoisted an umbrella, too,
in perfect entertainment of the
State’s “hospitality program” guests
from all over the eastern sea.oard
who are just now winding up a two
weeks’ tour of North Carolina.
Eclipsing in every way, except, of
course, numerically, the elaborate
visit of the General Assembly last
spring, the 100 or more national pub
licists and local committeemen who
sat down to a banquet spread in the
Hotel Joseph Hewes Tuesday night',
and who later seemed to resent the
idea of being toted off for an over
night stop in Elizabeth City, were
shown renewed evidence of the re
sourcefulneSs of a small. Albemarle
community, especially of the genial
kindness and regard Edenton always
holds for the strangers within its
gates.
It rained a little when the travel
ers arrived, it sprinkled a spot or
two more when they went in and out
of several historic shrines, and it
poured pretty hard for awhile while
they were at dinner, but if anybody
cared for the rain or anything else
except seeing and hearing and know
ing about the quaintness and historic
charm of “Ye Towne on Queen Anne’s
Creek,” and of Its opportunities for
a worthwhile industrial future, they
kept very mum about it. They were
tired abit, naturally, but happy when
they arrived and more so when they
left, especially the 25 who stayed
overnight as the personal guests of
W. R. Horton, hotel lessee, most ot
them young newspaper men trair.ea
to see nothing but happiness in the
world and who were shrewd enough,
under the sagacious guidance of Re
presentative John F. White, to
know where to find it in this land of
easily located pleasure.
It remained for Joshua L. Horne,
of Rocky Mount, chairman of the
tour, to remind the travelers at the
banquet that it was right here in
Edenton where the State law mill
enacted legislation making the tour a
thing of reality. Mr. Horne, in the
midst of a happily facetious address,
explained that when the legislature
was here just before Easter it passed
a bill authorizing the State to ex
pend $250,000 to advertise its re
sources and extol its beauties, and
that it was out of this fund carried
into being in the old Chowan Cour;
House that the expenses of the tour
were being paid. The banqueteers
let out another whoop for Edenton at
this information, and undoubterly
chalked up another score for the
town.
Expectant and hopeful of great re
sultant good from the visit of the
nation’s chief travel publicists, com
ing as they did from half of the 48
states of the Union, Edenton, figura
tively and literally, washed its official
face prior to their arrival, scrubbed
itself behind its communal ears, and
otherwise took a shower in order to
be very presentable when its guests
got here. Fire Chief Dick Hall, act
ing under instructions, took out his
fire engine Tuesday morning, gath
ered in a dozen of his volunteers, and
laved Broad Street as it has never
been laved before. That the late
afternoon rain made this unnecessary
didn’t prevent Mayor McMullan from
commending the firemen and a spick
and span town was ready for the
boosters of toe North, when they
came streamlining by bus out ot
Queen Street from Windsor toward
4:45 o’clock, on time to the dot.
But though it has a 300 year back
ground of history it was not that the
boosters first got sight of. Instead
they noticed that Edenton could be
industrially proud, too. It’s main
traffic warning signal at King and
Broad Streets, was superceded by a
huge stack of recently plowed up
peanuts and their mother vines.
Signs chronicled the information toa*
Edenton was the State’s leading pea
nut center, and in the windows of
toe hotel there were arranged many
other evidences of this fact. Peanuts
Were distributed to toe guests at the
dinner, these in paper sacks setting
forth that the daily output of peanuts
from here was sufficient to give one
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