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I Hf s fair presentation | W jpo/ and county news w|ie/ interest. re-Tf"~i\w,7T7a Christmas Is Very Quietly Klebrated In Community ’ t9|rg Report No Ar-' rests Made Over the 13 Enjoy rrade and fixin’s , and some 1 our breath can be said on and the passe d ily. This is • except for >ang of fire Iklpi Christmases have been i. e jajjj&pm instead of novelty here lt Gpl & season of much rejoicing ;,i -i |jflft bearing, however. The Brags were all home from schopi «n 4 college, are still here, and s<*mm**™ in so many homes occasion a great family reunion. Other than the “iv.vßßljii that always follows when JKpople get together, there licize.Nfcfc one is scheduled for to pr night at the Hotel Joseph Hewtsfißi Mrs. J. W.* Davis as Th Sbd the pnnonnrr mml, told of elsewhere, of the un- StiSeiHg*# wedding e2 Thomas - wll Cheats, Jr., and%f the little gos outdoor careers, mar- Con^Qhristmas everybody’s stock ■but the old man’s. Re town was decorated as never flfere and was beautiful in its shin ing radiance. This does not neces sarily mean the main business section was so attractively adorned, for it vftH the same story there, the same string of lights that started red, white and blue but gradually burned off until mostly they were white. But it does refer to the efforts made to bedeck their homes in radiant beauty. Never be fore, perhaps, have the homes been so attractive in their Christmas illumi nations. It would be possible to de-| scribe some of those thought most at- j tractive, but it had better not be 1 for the “critic’s” opinion might: conflict with the awards for prize il-| luminations announced by Mrs. J. A. Moore and her Garden Club conwnit- And what can be said of the home decorations can also apply to the way the storekeepers along Broad Street put themselves out to make their places showy. They succeeded, every one of them, and they got their re ward by the volume of business done everywhere. In fact the merchants reported one of the best business And Respite the fact it was the first ABC Christmas the town has ex perienced, the trade through that chfihnei being enormous, the authori ties report the season as at great variance with other Christmases. No arrests were made for convivality. were no motor accidents re ported, and poor Shelton Moore will have to pad his jail bill if he expects December to keep up to normal —he bad!:'no guests of any nature for any effcnae at aQ» i-,' All this Ming true, here’s how for a Happy New Year, a season of com | irinionat Lent and Easter, a summer ffSpippiness at Nags Head, a bigger turkey than ever next Thanksgiving, ■i ami then another Christmas. And so Hi tong day wore on, as do the .i-just one thing after another. will be closed all day. Patrons ■ M , _ -fcja 1 ... * - Bmii FoDiilar At HllCnli 1 THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY A —£ «■ | Lost And Found! Eight-year-old Celia Phelps, of the Pea Ridge section of Wash ington County, came over here to spend Christmas with her unde, F. H. Jethro, of Court Street, and on Monday afternoon decided to get lost. The youngster had nevei* been in a “big city” like Edenton, and more particularly 1 had never been to the movies be fore coming here. But Monday a couple of the Jethro neighbor 1 children dedded Celia should • have a grand and glorious time. ‘ so they took her to see “Second 1 Honeymoon.” Celia waa dazzled by the per formance and the pretty colored 1 street lights afterward, and in the crowd wandered off by her self. She went the wrong direc tion and soon found herself in 1 front of Dr. Powell's house on | South Granville Street. The Powell home had a Christmas tree illumination in front and a big tree inside. So naturally Celia derided to get a bit closer. Marjorie Powell saw her and in vited the errant child inside. There Celia remarked she was M, Mrs. Powell reckoned a lost child, above all else, should hay*, a full tummy, so Celia was aat down to a rip-snorting CMrimas week supper, and ate IjjgMf sri full the Powells had ■HUty in arousing her. -In the MHflms the Jethros had told the poMce and the force went on !|pjrit for Oita. Ysgng Jess unde was, and the rest Was ’ easy. Celia said she had a fine time. 1 Red Men Elect New OfficersFor Term Asa Griffin Will Act as Sachem For Next Six j Months Officers for the six months period! : beginning January 1 were elected by I Chowan Tribe, No. 12, Improved Or-! . der of Red Men, at the regular meet-1 i ing Monday night. Those who will I serve as officers are: Sachem, Asa Griffin; senior sagamore, W. C. Hollo well; junior sagamore, Fielding Tan ner; prophet, J. Edwin Bufflap; chief of records, Raleigh Hollowell; collec tor of wampum, A. S. Hollowell; keeper of records, W. J. Daniels. These officers, together with those appointed by the new sachem, will be installed at next Monday night’s meeting with 0. H. Brown, deputy great sachem, presiding. In the meantime books will be audited and a report made as to the progress made by the Tribe during the year. Sale Os Auto License Plates Leading 1937 Though sale of 1938 automobile li cense plates is leading last year at the same time, Mrs. Leon Leary, branch manager for the Carolina Motor Club, expects a terrible rush over the week-end for the new plates. Up to the* same time last year there Were 872 license plates sold which compares with 1,206 sold this year. Reason for anticipating a rush business from now until the first of the year is the fact that last year 4,068 piates were sold in the local office, which means that approximate ly 8,000 more will have to be bought until January I.’ Mrs. Leary says no extension will be allowed and car owners must be properly equipped with license plates to prevent trouble with traffic officers. Mean People sJFViende of Edenton Boy a a Rav Qroint ia|i|n arnrwa VKKU W IOC DUJ OWUI vBUUI i _ _ _ I __ ____ j _ mUuip j __. I ™ ™Jr®n wu uiiiw uiuivr uttiaagc Tjßdenton, Chowan bounty, North Carolina, Thursday, December 30,1937." \ 120 Children Made r Happy By Efforts Os Stocking Fund Those In Charge Very Grateful For Coopera tion of Friends NICETOYS Gifts Sent to Children In 49 Families on Christ mas Eve , . The sponsors of the Christmas Stocking Fund wish to thank all those who made contributions to this fund, thereby making it possible for many little children to have a happy .Christmas. On “the night before Christmas,’ which is such an eventful night in the life of each little child, a truck was sent out, loaded with attractive bags well filled with good things for 120 children, each child receiving a nice new toy or present supplemented by some toys which R. K. Hall had collected and worked over and given to help in this worthy cause. Be-! sides the truck, R. E. Leary loaded! his car and delivered all the North j Edenton packages, which was a great help and was greatly appreciated. In all there were 49 families sup plied with Santa Claus for their chil ! dren through this Fund. These fami lies were investigated as to their real need and recommended by the Wel i fare Officer. Those who contributed to the Christmas Stocking Fund were: Mrs. W. D. Pruden, Mrs. S. M. Mc- Mullan, Mrs. O. M. Elliott, Miss Jessie McMullan, Rev. C. A. Ashby, Mrs. J. 5T Beatty. . C. Skinner, Mrs. C. E. Kram ; er, Mrs. B. W. Hathaway, Mrs. J. A. Woodard, Mrs. W. O. Elliott, Sr., Mrs. W. 0. Elliott, Jr., Mrs. C. P. Wales, Miss Marian Skinner, Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Miss Zene Elliott, Mrs. Meredith Jones, Miss Carrie Coke, I Miss Louise Coke, O. H. Brown, Mrs. H. C. Jackson, W. P. Jones, Mrs. William Badham, D. M. Warren, Miss Mary Pruden, Miss Margaret I Pruden, Miss Rebecca Colwell, Miss j Sophie Wood, W. S. Summerell, Mrs. ! John Wood, Anna and Gilliam Wood, ! Mrs. W. A. Graham, Mrs. George ! Mack, Mrs. Julien Wood, Mrs. J. D. I! Traylor, The Rotary Club, St. Mary’s ’ Guild, Mrs. R. G. White, R. E. Leary, ■ j Mrs. H. C. Wozelka, Mrs. J. A. ■ i Moore, Mrs. H. R. Leary, Mrs. E. L. I Hansen, Mrs. W. E. Baker and Mrs. l f H. G. Wood. Thanks also go to R. K. Hall, who | furnished so many beautifully worked over toys, and to The Chowan Herald for boosting the cause and keeping it ' before the public so that people were constantly reminded that their con ! tributions were needed. ; Winners Named For Best Holiday Display Mrs. 0. M. Elliott and Quinn’s Take First Prizes i Awards for the most attractive i Christmas decorations were announc ed Wednesday morning by Mrs. J. A. • Moore, president of the.-Garden Club, I which organization had charge of , judging the winners. As reported , previously in The Herald the Garden : Club this year decided to award ■ prizes for the best residential decora [ tion as well as the most attractive . display in the business section. The awards as announced by Mrs. Moore gave first prize in the resi -1 dential group to Mrs. O. M. Elliott, . with' second prize going to Misses i Margaret and Mary Pruden. Quinn’s , Furniture Store was awarded first place among the business houses, while the W. J. Yates Service Station won second place. In each instance first prize win ners will be given $6.00 and'second prize winners $2.60, the total amount of sl6 having bedh appropriated by Town Council to stimulate interest in decorating for the holiday season. In commenting upon the awards, Mrs. Moore said the committee in charge experienced considerable diffi culty in naming the winners. There • . a a«• | L Orville Wright Says Local Museum Relic i Part Os 1905 Plane Used At Kitty Hawk Ff A fear | ■ ! * {Sales In Local ABC {Store On Christmas Eve Register $1,915 ; .. : f .* Oerks Unable td Wait on Tremendous Crowds TURNED AWAY Despite Large Sale, Po lice Make No Arrests In Three Days Passing all expectations, the busi ness done by the Chowan County ABC store last Friday, the day be fore Christmas, reached a total of $1,915. With only two clerks to make sales as well as replenish the shelves with stock, many customers left without making purchases rath er than to stand for an hour or even longer to be waited on. It was also necessary at times to have police at the store to keep open walking space on the sidewalk for pedestrians, and on several instances the store door was locked until all inside could be waited on and another crowd allowed to enter. With sufficient help, it was estimat ed that tbe local store could have done a business totaling $2,500. With a brisk business during the holidays preceding the Christmas eve rush, it is estimated that busi ness for the month will pass the SIO,OOO mark. Despite the large amount of liquor sold during the few days before | Christmas, not a single arrest for which liquor was responsible was made by the local police and on Mon day morning the jail was ertipty. Masons To Elect Officers Tonight Special Dispensation Is Granted Lodge By Grand Master Election of officers for the year 1938 will be held tonight (Thursday) i by Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A, F. & A. M. These officers should have been elected last Thursday night, but due to the holiday season the meeting was called off. .Special dispensation has been granted by Watson N. Sherrod, Grand Master, toehold the election to night and evdry member of the local lodge is urged to attend. The newly elected officers will be installed at next week’s meeting. LIONS MEBT MONDAY The usual meeting of the Lions Club will be held Monday night at 1 TJU> IT VII X. 1, • V 11 Fussing Over Budget Delays Improvement To U S. Fish Hatchery Pleasure Waifing F&r President Roosevelt’s Signature IN BUDGET Warren Confident Rear ing Ponds Will Be Ready By Spring Delay in starting work on the en largement of the federal fish hatch ery on Pembroke Creek is due to the fussing the Congressional chieftains at Washington are having over the national budget. Representative Lind say Warren has written in that the Edenton $25,000 appropriation has been allotted, is included in the bud get, and that as soon as the Presi dent signs the measure, the money will be available and then work will be begun at the hatchery. It is Mr. Warren’s confident belief that the work of constructing a number of outdoor rearing pools will have been completed in time to make the pools available for use when the fishing season gets under way next spring. Cotton Ginning Far Ahead Os Last Year F. W. Hobbs Reports 1,107 More Bales Gin ned to Dec. 13 According to Mr. Hobbs’ report there were 4,456 bales of cottqp gin ned in the County from the crop of 1937 prior to December 13. To the same date last year there were 3,349 bales ginned from the 1936 crop, an increase of 1,107 bales. Cotton ginning in Chowan County to date is far ahead of last year, 1,107 more bales being ginned to December 18, according to F. W. Hobbs, special agent for the Bureau of the Census, Department of Com merce. | Sold Out! | Anticipating a heavy demand for IVi -cent stamps for Christ mas nuriHng, the local postoffice practically doubled last year’s supply of this particular series of stamps and despite this fact there was a sell-out Patrons of the postoffice who mailed Christmas cards the day before Christmas were obliged to boy J-cent stamps to send greeting cards to relatives and friends. limlf ntnmna- wfere mM This newspaper is ckrcib lated in the territory where Advertisers wiU realise good results. $1.25 fcer frear -S’ ’ Identifies Piece as the Cradle of Second Wright Machine VALUABLE Photostatic Copy of Pi oneer Aviator’s Letter Sent to W. D. Pruden Through a letter recently written by Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, the Cupola House Museum has firmly established its claim of possessing two small parts of one of the original Wright airplanes as flown 30 years ago at Kitty Hawk. Mr. Wright states there can be no question as to , what these much valued relics are, and asserts he has examined them with much interest and is certain ; they can be identified as the cradle j of the plane used by himself and j brother Wilbur in the 1905 flights. | The parts in question got to the \ Museum from W. D. Pruden, Fred P. j Wood and Rev. Fred B. Drane, the j latter of Monroe and a son of Dr. R. !j B. Drane, who was for so long rector i of old St. Paul’s here. Mr. Pruden, Mr. Wood and Mr. Drane, when boys summering at Nags Head, found the pieces at Kitty Hawk, viewed them . merely as playthings at that period, but in some way, peculiarly the trait of childhood, kept them and in ma , turity gave them to the Museum. At the time of the presentation it 1 was supposed the plane parts, coming as they did from Kitty Hawk, were ' actually parts of the original glider flown by the Wrights in their initial air experiments in 1903.... Inasmuch t Sas this 1903 glider fes prf&ntdi by the Wrights intact to the British Museum, London, the local institution hesitated about discussing their gifts until 1935 when George W. Bradham, brother-in-law of Mr. Pruden and at that time a reporter on the Virginian Pilot, Norfolk, Va., learned of the finds and syndicated a series of arti cles claiming that the London Mu seum didn’t have the 1903 plane in its entirety and that it shared its prize with the little museum here. In the intervening two years Mi. Bradham has told this tale variously , in the press of the country, but , stumbled a bit when he sought to un , load it on the Aeronautical Society’s official organ, “Aviation.” It was to , substantiate and verify Bradham’s offered story that Major Lester D. Gardner, secretary of the Institute, wrote Mr. Wright to which Mr. Wright made the substantiating reply. Mr. Bradham had said in his story, and the Museum here has always so understood, that the plane parts were found by Pruden, Wood and Drane as kids, in 1904. This 'Mr. Wright says couldn’t be, and that on the contrary it must have been after the 1905 plane had been stored in a building at Kitty Hawk. This plane, he says, was pretty generally broken up by shore residents and sent out through the State as souvenirs. Yes terday Mr. Pruden said Mr. Wright was undoubtedly correct and Mr. Bradham wrong, as he had no imme diate recollection as to the exact year of the find, “but it was probably 1908.” However, Mr. Wright ex plains it all in his letter, which fol lows in full: “Dear Major Gardner: I find I have not returned the story by George W. Bradham nor the corre spondence concerning it between him and the editors of ‘Aviation.’ The photographs which accompanied this story interested me very much, be cause they definitely reveal the iden tity of the piece about which the story is built. “In 1928 I received a letter from Dr. Mark F. Boyd, Chairman Cupola House Association Museum, in which , he said ‘The Museum of the Cupola House has been given a small piece of the upholstered framework said to be a part of one of the gliders em ployed by your brother and yourself in your epoch making experiment at Kitty Hawk. I inclose a rough sketch of the piece in question.’ “In answer I told Mr. Boyd the part ‘evidently is the cradle from one of my early gliders, or possibly it may be from the 1903 motored plane.. Ibis part was lacking in the motored plane when we assembled it for ship ment to the British Museum. If you will -send it to me, I think I can de finitely determine for you to what machine it belong^.’ “Dr. Boyd acknowledged receipt of ay letter and said that be had rev ered his connection with the Cupola
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