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Volume IV.—dumber 46.
Edenton Aces To Tackle Apex Friday
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District Champions Play For Right To
Enter Semi-Finals For Eastern Title
Game Scheduled to Be
gin at 3 O’clock on
| Hicks'Field
C ALL DRESSED UP
Local Team Is In Good
Shape and Ready to
Do Battle
Preceded by pep meetings at which
the popular High School band will
take the principal part, bedecked
with new gold and blue-jerseys with
** Conspicuous numerals and brand new
hood sweaters, the Edenton High
School football team, Northeastern
District Class B champions, is all
set to tackle Apex, north central dis
trict champions, on Hicks Field
Friday afternoon in an effort to con-
I tinue their climb toward a try at the
State Class B championship. The
game is scheduled, to start at 3
o’clock and with favorable weather a
record crowd is expected to be on
hand.
Except for the fact that Apex has
a much heavier team than Edenton,
little is known in way of comparative
strength.
Thia fact alone, however, doesn’t
appear to worry Coach David Holton
and his boys for, while they expect
their hardest game of the season,
Mr. Holton recalls that practically
/ : /very team opposed during this year's
*-i«dule had his boys outweighed.
' the Edenton teanLwith even
breaks has a chance to come out vic
torious.
The locals have won every game
played thus far this season, among
the victories being Windsor, Tarboro,
Washington, Plymouth, Elizabeth
City, Roanoke Rapids and Franklin,
' running up a score of 149 pointg
against 19 for their opponents. Every
boy is in tip top shape for the game
Friday and fans are assured of aj
very interesting and hotly contested i
battle.
At the time Apex and Edenton j
are fighting for the eastern cham- j
pionship semi-final game, Hamlet
and Whiteville will be playing for the
same honor at Fayetteville on neutral
grounds. If Edenton wins from
Apex'on Friday the schedule calls
for the final game for the eastern
title to be played next Thursday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock at Wake Forest
if Hamlet wins, and if Whiteville
wins it will be played next Friday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at White
< viye.
The final game for state honors
will be played in Chapel Hill on No
vember 26 at 1 P. M. The Class A
jr title game will follow the Class B
\ game.
In the event Edenton and Hamlet
are winners Friday, tickets will be
sold locally for the game at Wake
Forest with the local school realiz
ing the money from such sale, and in
that event Manager Junius Davis
urges everybody to buy tickets here
for at Wake Forest no local ticket
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Weekly Publishers Meet
In Edenton On Saturday
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Unless tiie Duke-Carolina football
game interferes, about a dozen ‘week
ly ly newspaper publishers and editors
of eastern North Carolina will meet
in Edenton Saturday night, with The
Herald as host.
This jproup of weekly newspaper
neweipSm *Tte will be
dfately |oUowing a dinner to be
secretary. >
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
IeDENTDN’S no u turn law knocked"!
DOWN BUT ITS NOT ALTOGETHER OUTj
Edentori’s no U-Turn law, in force I ’
since early in September, was struck t
for a knock-out blow at the meeting i
of Town Council Tuesday night, but f
remained down only for the count of
nine, and will continue to be a nuis- ]
. ance or improvement, according to 1
i the new token, for at least part of ;
the time hereafter. The Council, ac- 1
' cording to a motion made by Dr. L. *
P. Williams, voted to amend the j
* present U-Turn ordinance to apply to
Saturdays and holidays or at such
times as it is deemed necessary,
1 when the signals will be put in place.
■ Not so much was opposition thrust
! at the i\p U-Turn rule, but rather at
s the type of warnings in use, whicn
! were put up as an experiment to see
. whether or not the forbidding of U
i Turns in the business section would
prove beneficial and worthy of con- j
I tinuation.
A committee composed of Albert.
, Byrum and W. E. Bond was appoint- i
ed to select the type of no U-Turn j
. signs which can easily be removed ■
’ when not needed. No doubt this
! committee will have made a tapered
wooden contraption with “No U- ;
f Turn” painted upon all four shies,
( the “box” being approximately 30
inches high.
> The board, iiowever, did sense the,
; extreme danger at Kroad and Quee.,
, Streets, which fe the intersection of ;
U. S. Route 17 and where there are;
filling stations on three corners. At;i
this point, no doubt, large “No U-|i
Unemployed Census
Starts On^ Tuesday
Five Day Postal Can-!
vas of Those Out of
Work In County
i One of the most gigantic under
takings of its kind will be started by
the federal government next Tuesday,
when postal workers throughout the j
nation will start a five day census,
of the unemployed. Postmaster C.
E. Kramer has already started thvl
machinery for the canvas in Chowan
County and has arranged to have the
official census cards in the hands of
every resident of this commonwealth*
on Tuesday morning with instructions
as to how to fill them out and direc
tions as to returning them before i
the following Saturday night.
In addition to being the first under
taking of the sort ever initiated by
the government, its importance is
otherwise of value. The purpose is
to secure work for those out of work
who want to work, and the desired
registrations will make this possible
and bring to the personal notice of
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Strict Ordinance Prohib
iting Mistreatment of
out V aJong P by the town
delicacy.
A very strict ordinance was passed
. . ... , . anv in-
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina,, Thursday, November 11,1937.
Turn” lettering will be painted on
the street and the law will be perma
nent so far as this particular inter
section is concerned.
There was no one present to cham
pion the no U-Turn law, but F. W.
Hobbs did appear to ask, as a citizen,
just what advantage accrued by for
bidding no U-Turns at Eden and
Church Streets. Councilman Bufflap
expressed his opinion that to allow
U-Turns at these two intersections
would defeat the purpose of the ordi
nance.
A bill was presented by C. W.
Sawyer for damage to a tire caused
by colliding with one of the stanch
ions, but by motion of Bufflap it was
discarded, the latter being of the
opinion that the town is no more
liable for damages than for a motor
j ist to damage a tire on the curbing or
j running overboard at Court Street
;or the County dock. Another try for
i damages will no doubt be presented
;at the next meeting of the Council
; when Philip McMullan is expected to
present a bill for approximately S3O
damages caused by hitting one of the
stanchions. This bill, too, will most
likely be discarded
Hardly before the chair seats had
cooled off after Council adjourned,
, some of the Councilmen got busy and
j muscled the crude -stanchions off the
; street, and soon afterward several
j motorists made the U-Turn at Broad
land King Streets carrying a smile
i that reflected complete satisfaction.
Armistice Memorial
At Methodist Church
IRev. George Blount to
| Be Speaker; Oyster
Roast Follows
All plans have been completed for
the Armistice Day_ memorial to be ob
, served this evening under the spon
! soi-ship of the Ed. Bond Post of the
! American Legion. The formal part
I of the celebration will be in the na
\ ture of a service in the Methodist
Church at 6 o’clock to which all
Legionnaires from the county, wheth
er Post members, or not. and the
members of the Legion Auxiliary, are
expected to attend. Rev. George W.i
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rhlt kim wi) •nacted many times In refugee center* established by the Red
Cross during the Ohle-Mlesleaippl Valley flood. Inevitably floods bring the danger
of dlesasf as drinking sources become contaminated and large groups of people
are thrown together. The medical-health service of the Red Cross serves thou
sands each year, and la maintained by membership fund* contributed to the
organisation at the time of its annual Roll Call from Armistice Day to Thanks-
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I MR. AND MRS. HARVEY JUDSON BOYCE
i Greeted unexpectedly Friday night by a group of neighbors,
, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Judsan Boyce, parents of the late Sheriff
s C. A. Boyce, experienced one of the most pleasant occasions in their
lives, celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their home
on Oakum Street. The affair was a complete surprise to the couple.
They were married in 1887 by John Martin Forehand, Justice of the
Peace, in upper Chowan County.
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: Echoes Os Nina
; Wilcox Putnam’s
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; Visit To Edenton
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J Edenton and Herald Get
t Publicity Over Colum
, bia, S. C., Station
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| Commentator Mentions
i Proposed Peanut
Festival
Somebody’s started it all over
again, which just goes to show that
when you imagine things and stick to
them they won’t die. Last year Nina
Wilcox Putnam, the authoress, went
through town and subsequently in a
travelogue essay she spoke of Eden
ton as “Edenton is a peanut center
and we could smell it before we
cculd see it,” nothing more and noth
ing less.
Os course the town got hot about
it, and one. enthusiast imagined
Nina’s visit and wrote entertainingly
of what he really did imagine. Nina
got hot under the collar and pub
licity (lew back and forth for some
time. And now comes a revival of it,
this time over the radio.
Down in Columbia, S. C., WIS has
a new news commentator, Ivy Clough
Johnson, and each Tuesday and
Thursday he’s going to chin about
i “Something New Under the Sun.”
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Contracts Awarded
For Alterations At
i Locai High School
29 Bidders Anxious to
Get Job on Edenton
Improvements
S6I,2I6TOTAL
i Meeting- at Courthouse
Resulted In Lively
Interest
Enlargement and improvement of
the Edenton high school became an
assumed fact Tuesday afternoon,
when bids for the work were opened
at a large meeting of bidders and
educationalists in the Court House,
and contracts totaling $61,216 were
awarded to four firms from every-j
./here except right around here. The!
County Commissioners, who started i
the financial side of the plan to pro- ■
vide the money for the work, a plan j
afterward endorsed personally by !
President Roosevelt and augmented
by substantial help from the federal
PWA, were in attendance at the bid
awards, and gave their approval to
the allotments.
Frank Mitchell, of Burlington, re
ceived the general contract award, at
the lowest figure of $47,230 les
sl,ooo.
William Wiggins and Company, of
Wilson, was low bidder on the plumb
ing contract, at $3,391, and was
given that contract.
The Bogwell Plumbing and Heat
ing Company, of Durham, won the
contract to install a new heating
plant, at $9,100, and the Holmes
Electric Company, of Fayetteville,
won out on wiring and fixtures at
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Wanted—Discarded
Christmas Toys
If citizens cooperate with R.
K. Hall there may be more
Christmas cheer among the poor
children in Edenton this year.
Mr. Hall is asking that anyone
in Edenton having doll furniture
or other toys which) are of no
more use and need repairing be
sent to him or notify him and he
will call for them. He has agreed
to repaint or repair such toys to i
be distributed and is very anx
ious to make his efforts worth
while. 1
Articles should be sent to him
as soon as possible and for con
venience may be left at The
Herald office if desired to be |
turned over to him.
Cotton Ginning Ahead
Os Last Year’s Figure
F. W. Hobbs, special agent for the
Bureau of the Census, Department ■
of Commerce, reports that there
were 3,124 bales of cotton ginned in i
Chowan County from the crop vt
193’’ prior to November 1, as com
pared with 2,424 bales ginned to
November 1 of the 198* crop.
RedCrosb
$1.25 Per Year.
1937 Annual Red
Cross Roll Call
Under Way Today
Mrs. J. N. Pruden Se
lects Corps of Able
Workers
GOALIS $350
Quota Expected Long
Before Close of Drive
On Thanksgiving
Get your dollars ready today and
keep them handy until Thanksgiving.
For the Red Cross Roll Call starts
this morning and you’ll be guessing
wrong if you think you’ll not be given
a chance to once more join up with
this worthy cause. Membership in
this great organization is as much a
duty as taking a bath once in awhile
or going to church occasionally, and
the man or woman, son or daughter,
who runs away from this duty, will
be very much ashamed of himself or
herself. * •
The Red Cross is the greatest
charitable organization in the world.
Its tentacles reach into every home
where need is required and whenever
there is disaster of any kind the first
thing one reads of is that the Red
Cross was on the spot with supplies,
medicines and surgical kits, ready
and anxious to ease suffering and
bring relief.
Here in Chowan the Red Cross has
ever beer popular and the support
given it has been pronounced. Mrs.
J. N. Pruden, chairman of the Chow
an Chapter, has - been bemedaled for
years as a result* of the way this
county has stood by her in her work,
and this Roll Call time she expects
a renewal of this interest. Tho
county’s membership quota has been
raised this year to $350 which is, of
course, insignificant in a common
wealth with more than 11,000 inhabi
tants.
The canvas for members starts
right after breakfast this morning
and will continue without interrup
; tion until Thanksgiving Day. And
!to make it thorough Mrs. Pruden
i has selected a corps of workers from
; every section of Edenton and the en
i tire county. Those who will assist
j her in the drive, besides yourself,
will be:
King Street and Colonial Square—
Mrs. J. L. Pettus, Mrs. J. H. Conger,
Mrs. Alvah Bunch, Mrs. David Hol
ton, Mrs. Richard Elliott, Mrs. E. L.
Hanson, Mrs. Marvin Wilson and
Mrs. J. S. Davis.
Granville Street Mrs. George
Mack, Mrs. Lee Sledge, Miss Jessie
McMullan and Miss Fannie Sue
Sayers.
Broad Street—Miss Mary Fore
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Rotary Club Now Has
Signs Along Highways
Fond realization of an Edenton
Rotary hope was accomplished this
week when Rotary signs were placed
along the highways to acquaint visit
ing Rotarians with the fact that
there is a club in Edenton. At a re
cent meeting the responsibility of
making and placing these signs was
placed upon the shoulders of Paul
Olsson and he is about ready to re
port to the club that the task is
done.
Four signs were made and three
have been put in place, one on the
Virginia Road, one on the bridge
road and one near the Triangle Fill
ing Station. The fourth, with an
arrow pointing toward the Parish
House, will be located at the corner
of Broad and Gale Streets, but has
not yet been placed.
The program committee is trying
to arrange to have Mrs. J. B. Spill
man, of Raleigh, a former Chowan
resident, as a speaker for next
Thursday's meeting.
October Liquor Sales
Lead September Total
An increase for October of $1,896.70
in liquor sales at the local ABC store
over the previous month, was report
ed yesterday. The October sales
total was $7,592.80 as against
$5,696.10 for September. This ag
wouldTindicate tf°*the
S year.