I in these columns will be
Vfound a fair presentation
[ of local and county news
I of general interest.
Volume V —Number 7.
Post Office Authorities
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Rescind Order Reversing
Mail Star Route To Suffolk
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News Comes as Disap
pointment to Local
Business Firms
STILL HOPEFUL
Efforts Being Made to
Stress Mail Improve
ment By Change
Coming as a distinct disappoint
ment after receipt of an order by
Postmaster C. E. Kramer of reversal
of the Eden ton-Suffolk star route,
" was an order Saturday rescinding the
action taken by , the Post Office De
partment, which, unless reconsidered,
will result in continued very unsatis
factory mail service byway of this
route. 'Hie matter was rather de
' pressing to most of Edenton’s busi
ness homes and as a result a number
of telegrams were sent to Represen
tative Lindsay Warren and Senators
Jediah Bailey and Robert Reynolds, in
an effort to ascertain the reason for
the sudden'rescinding order and to
prevail upon them to assist in rever
sing the route. f
Postmaster Kramer, too, was
swamped with telephone calls and ac
costed on the street by numerous per
sona in an effort to ascertain why the
sudden change came about. I
Edenton Lions at their meeting on
Monday night went on record as ob-j
jecting to rescinding of the order and'
pledged their sugnort in backing
Postmaster the Chamber
of .Commerce in urjg§& a reconsider^
* ation of the latest action. ' Talk is
also going the rounds to circulate a
petition in an effort to have the
route reversed.
Telegraphic information from Pos
•l* , Inspector F. D. Condeman, who!
. made a thorough survey of mail con
ditions and recommended reversal of
the route'to remedy the situation, was
that he knew nothing about reecind
> ~ing -the original order. The schedule
of the route was to have been re
versed on March 1 and it is still hoped
that authorities will reconsider and
carry out this schedule as planned.
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P. Rowland Wagner
Secured As Speaker
At Masonic Banquet
Annual Lodge Affair
Will Be Held Friday,
March 4
MUCH INTEREST
Lodgemen Feel Fortun
\ ate In Having Popu
< lar Minister
Unless something unforeseen oc
curs, the annual Masonic banquet will
. be held at Hotel Joseph Hewes on
Friday night, March 4. This date
will- almost of a certainity be set at
„ the regular meeting of Unanimity
Lodge tonighjt.
E. W. Spires, who together with
‘ A. S. Hollowell and W. J. Daniels,
. were appointed to arrange for the
banquet, received word Tuesday that
,Rev. P. Rowland Wagner, of Norfolk,
had accepted an invitation to speak
for the occasion. This fact alone as
sures a well-attended banquet and
local Masons feel highly elated over
the news that Mr. Wagner will again
speak in Edenton.
Rev. Mr. Wagner has spoken to ;
at least three Edenton audiences in
the past several years and in each
instance capacity houses were pres
ent to hear him. He spoke at two
H previous Masonic banquets and was a '
} commencement speaker at the Eden
ton school a few years ago. He Is
6ne of the most interesting after
dinner speakers ever to appear in
Edenton and his acceptance to speak ;
has greatly boosted interest in the
banquet, plans for which will be dis
| cussed at tonight’s Masonic meeting.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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C. E. KRAMER
Mr. Kramer’s nomination as
postmaster for Edenton has been
presented to the House of Repre
sentatives, the Senate confirming
the appointment. All that re
mains to be done toward Mr.
Kramer’s second term of office is
I the perfunctory duty of President
Roosevelt signing the commission.
C. E. Kramer Again
Named Posfnfaster
High Record of Effici
ency During His In
cumbency
Much gratification was expressed
this week when word reached town
that Carroll E. Kramer had been re
appointed postmaster of Edenton for
a second term of four years. Presi
dent Roosevelt sent his nomination
to Congress, after Representative
Lindsay Warren had recommended it,
and Senator Josiah Bailey, head of
the upper branch committee on pos
tal affairs, rushed it through for im
mediate confirmation.
Mr. Kramer was first named as
postmaster to succeed Miles Elliott
in 1934, and since his incumbency has
established a high record of postal
efficiency in the office here. In fact,
the Post Office Department views the
local office record as one of the high
spots in postal affairs in all of East
ern Carolina. Not only have re
ceipts and stamp sales increased, due
largely, of course, to advanced indus
trial growth hereabouts, but the local
office has been free of complaints and
a source of praiseworthy managerial
comment.
Mr. Kramer has been the recipient
of many letters and messages of con
gratulations since his reappointment
became known.
Lions Back Reversal
Suffolk Star Route
Gub Goes On Record as
Opposing Rescind
ing Order
Practically the entire portion of the
time usually devoted to the program
of the Lions Club at their meeting
Monday night was devoted to discus
sion of the recent Post Office Depart
ment order rescinding reversal of the
Edenton-Suffolk star route. The
Club, composed entirely 'of business
men of Edenton, realized the good
effect this change would provide and
went oh record as unanimously sup
porting Postmaster Kramer and the
Chamber of Commerce in their efforts
to have the department reconsider its
action and reverse the route as origi
nally planned on March 1.
EDENTON LIONS ATTEND
COLUMBIA ANNIVERSARY
tedenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, February 17,1938.
; Rotary Banquet Will
, Be Held Tonight;
; Was Not Postponed
k Twelfth Anniversary to
[Be Observed Tonight
At Parish House
ERROR IN REPORT
All Former Rotarians
Invited as Special
Guests
Though newspaper reports Tuesday
were to the effect that the twelfth
anniversary banquet of the Edenton
Rotary Club has been postponed, this
was an error, for the banquet will be
held tonight (Thursday) as planned
at the regular meeting last week.
The meeting which has been post
* poned and at which District Governor
George Matthews was invited to at
tend was an inter-city meeting.
At the meeting tonight, which com
memorates the twelfth year of Rotary
in Edenton, all former members of
the Edenton club have been invited
as special guests, and from reports
the major portion of them plan to be
present. There are 31 former Rotar
ians and to have them gather around
a table once more is looked forward
to with much pleasure by present
members of the Club.
There will be no visiting speaker
on the program, but Secretary John
Holmes has been asked to review
Rotary activities since the Club was
inaugurated in Edenton In 1926,
bringing to the attention of those
present the highlights as well as
ppsmbly some of the/most <jiscourag
, ing periods of the Club’s existence.
O. H. Brown and C. E. Kramer,
the Club’s master minds in arranging
stunte, will have on tap a short pro
, gram that will no doubt provoke
much enjoyment. The banquet will
begin at 7 o’clock.
1 T.J. Wood New Agent
I At Norfolk Southern
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; Assumed New Responsi
bilities Thursday
Morning
5 Replacing C. M. Cavanaugh, de- j
1 ceased, as freight agent in Edenton!
; for the Norfolk Southern Railroad is
* T. J. Wood. Mr. Wood assumed his;
> duties last Thursday morning.
The new agent has been with the
1 Company since 1914, coming here
from Munden, Virginia. He is a
’ married man, having one daughter.
Miss Margery, who is a student at
j Fredericksburg College, Fredericks-
J burg, Virginia.
I Mt. and Mirs. Wood will reside in
the home previously occupied by Mr.
, and Mrs. Cavanaugh on North Broad
\ Street.
Troop Committee
Withholds Joining
Tidewater Council
i
Contributions Used to
Purchase Necessary
Paraphernalia
Though it was understood that the
newly organized Edenton Boy Scout
troop would affiliate with the Tide
water Council of Norfolk, at a meet
ing of the local troop committee on
Monday night it was decided to with
hold this action at least for the time
being. In order to raise funds for
this purpose the Rotary Club, Lions
Club and Ed Bond Post of the Amer
ican Legion contributed $75 each.
However, after further considera
tion, members of the troop committee
came to the conclusion that it would
be for the best interest of the troop
to use present available money to
purchase troop equipment and main
tenance rather than spend it for
membership in the Tidewater Council.
It is necessary now to borrow what
equipment is needed and it is thought
th»t after thetroop is more firmly
Very Few Tickets
Left For Annual
C. Os C. Banquet
i Interest Increasing In
Affair Next Thurs
day Night
10 NEW MEMBERS
Planned to Take Gover
nor on Boat Ride to
New Bridge
According to advance sale of tick
ets to the annual Chamber of Com
merce banquet next Thursday night,
every seat in the banquet hall at
1 Hotel Joseph Hewes will be occupied,
about 100 in number. Tickets were
I placed on sale for the benefit of
members at Leggett & Davis drug
store and on Wednesday they had
• been practically exhausted.
Much interest in the banquet pre
vails in that Governor Clyde R. Hoey
will be the principal speaker and
with him as special guests will be R.
Bruce Etheridge, director of conser
vation and development, and D.
Colin Barnes, member of the high
way commission for this district.
E. W. Spires, active in arranging
for the banquet, communicated with
the Governor Tuesday relative to de
termining what time he will arrive in
Edenton. It is hoped that he can get
, here in time to take a boat trip
down the Sound to the new Albe
marle Sound bridge before banquet
time.
The approaching banquet has
greatly stimulated interest in the
business organization, Secretary Mc-
Mullen informing The. Herald -.. that
ten nfrrr*members have been added to
the membership during the past week
or two, which brings the membership
to 130, and includes practically every
phase of business and professional
life in the county.
More Relics Placed
In Local Museum
i
Richard Dixon Finds
Part of Old Gallows
Equipment
Edenton’s Cupola House museum
; was enriched again this week through
i the presentation of a couple of an
■ cient relics which may have been
■ parts of the old gallows that once
; swung from the eaves of the little
jail here in Revolutionary days. A
massive hir.ge-like contraption, 3 or
4 feet long, supposed to have support
ed the gallows trap, and one of the
great side chains that held the gal
lows platform in mid-air, are the new
curios.
Richard Dixon came across the
hinge first while prowling about the
inside wall plot behind the jail. He
immediately surmised what it had
been used for, and placed it on exhi
bition for a few days in Leggett &
Davis drug store window. Discover
ing it aroused Dixon’s curiosity fur
ther, and this led to finding the long
chain with end fastening pinions.
This went into the pharmacy window,
also, for the time being.
A* Dixon’s research has it the
gallows once swung in open air from
the roof of the jail. Two wrought
iron bands through which the sup
porting chains went, are still in plain
sight in the jail wall. The gallows
was used as a medium of legal death
for all the Albemarle in those days,
he says, and the records show there
was an execution a day for years.
In those times capital crimes were
more numerous than now. Hog
thieves, for instance, went to glory
through the gallows, so did anyone
who dared to use a weapon on
another. Those were surely the
“good old days.”
Rev. A. A. Butler Dies;
Victim Os Pneumonia
Many friends in this county learned
with regret of the death of Rev. A.
A. Butler, who died in a Norfolk
hospitaHdonday. He was a victim of
double pneumonia and only last week,
following a rally, hopes were revived
for his recovery.
Rev. Mr. Butler, a resident of
Hertford, was a former pastor at
Ballards Bridge Church, and held the
pastorate at Yeopim Church.
Funeral services were held Wed
nesday in Durham, which were at
tended by W. J. Berryman and Paul
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Edenton’s Hopes ForYacht
Basin Receives Setback By
Report Os War Bepartment
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|“M Dread Up" |
Interior of Old Court
House Looks Like
New Building;
Painting, plastering and pro
tecting improvements at the
Court House recently ordered by
the County Commissioners are
about done, and give the place a
highfalutin’ and worth-while ap
pearance. The work is under
stood to be but preliminary to
more extensive alterations this
spring and summer. The Com
missioners are now in the game
in earnest, report has it, and
plan to repaint and refurnish the
( court room proper before the
April term of Superior Court,
and to paint the outside of the
building anew, also, to say noth
ing of finding away to provide
different heating for the place
next fall, maybe, who knows, re
| locate the much-complained of
gentlemen’s boudoir beneath the
stairs.
The work so far has had to do
j with turning the offices of Clerk
R. D. Dixon and Register of
Deeds Maurice Bunch into apart
ments of charm as well as service.
The Dixon office has been finished
in gray and white, quite colonial,
you know. But, step softly, the
cursed old stoves still remain.
i ‘‘Silent Salesmen”
Machines Outlawed
Judge Meekins Rules
They Are Gambling
Devices
Edenton police were inferentially
upheld this week in their recent elim-;
1 ination of “silent salesmen” slot I
machines here, this despite the fact I
that all the rest of the State was
scared stiff about so acting, when
Federal Judge Meekins, of Elizabeth
City, on Tuesday handed down his
long delayed ruling declaring the dc- j
vices gambling apparatuses which
must be got out of his district in ter.
days.
The jurist held, literally, he was!
surprised that anyone would think hisj
initial injunction against confiscation j
of the machines was intended to per-1
mit their continuance anywhere if'
shown to be operated for gambling. 1
He revoked this injunction, spoke of
the devices as “sucker machines” and
ordered them driven out. Actually
the ruling is in exact consonance with j
the opinion advanced by Town Attor-!
ney W. D. Pruden two months ago,'
and was made after a hearing in |
Washington, N. C., in which the State j
made vigorous protest, with subse-'
quent arguments in Raleigh.
Members State ABC
Boards To Meet Here
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Promised Shad Dinner!
At Hotel By Chair
man Badham
Members of liquor control boards
throughout the State will gather in ■
Edenton Wednesday night to hold aj
meeting immediately after being
served a shad dinner at Hotel Joseph
Hewes. The group voted at their
last meeting at Greenville to come to
Edenton, when Chowan County’s
chairman, R. P. Badham, promised a 1
shad dinner and it is expected that
practically every member will attend.
Members of the State Board have
also been invited as special guests at
the meeting.
C. W. MIZZELL ILL
Rev. J. C. Mizzell, of Currie, N. C.,
has recently been informed by his
niece, Mis. Lether Mizzell Wolfe, of
Danville, Va., that his brother, C. W.
Mizzell, merchant, in Colerain, is
seriously ill.
Mr. Mizzell’s health has been de
clining for a year or more, but he
held to the personal supervision of
his store until about two weeks ago,
Dr. Credle, his physician, is advising
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lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
Report Partially Unfav
orable For Digging
Giannel
CAN APPEAL
Would Be Very Expen
sive Because of Many
Sunken Logs
Edenton’s hopes of eventually es
tablishing a yacht basin opposite the
fish hatchery received somewhat of a
set back the latter part of last week
when those who attended a hearing
held in Edenton several months ago
received a letter from the War De
partment saying the report was par
tially unfavorably acted upon.
It was the hope of the Chamber
of Commerce that while snags were
being removed in Pembroke Creek
the channel could be dredged up to
the fish hatchery, thereby permitting
boats to go up the creek and anchor
in the basin in case of storms or bad
weather.
Information from Colonel Earl I.
Brown, of the Corps of Engineers, is
to the effect that an unfavorable re
port was made in that a survey for a
channel north of the line of piles in
the creek is not recommended.
The principal grounds upon which
the adverse conclusions are based are
that the dredging of a channel north
of the line of piles would be expen
sive because of sunken logs; and that
the additional cost of a channel in
this location instead of south of the
piles would hot Be justified by the in
crease in benefits, especially since the
M. G. Brown Lumber Company would
be the sole recipient of the additional
benefits.
However, Colonel Brown stated
that any interested parties have the
privilege of an appeal from the con
clusion to the Board of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors, a permanent
body sitting at Washington, D. C., to
which all examination and survey re
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Shad Again Claims
Attention Federal
Fish Culturists
Investigate Pollution of
Waters By Plymouth
Pulp Mill
CANFIELD HERE
Local Hatchery Likely
I Take Over Propaga-
I tion Four States
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The 1938 “Save the Shad” survey
is underway in earnest hereabouts
I right now. Complaint has been made
' by the experts here against the possi
, ble pollution of the Roanoke River
and upper sound waters by the big
| new paper pulp mill at Plymouth.
This and the fact that the federal
hatchery on Pembroke Creek will be
j made a central propogating point for
| North and South Carolina, Georgia
! and Virginia, are the two high spots
of latest moment in the campaign.
As last year the survey is in
charge of Harry Canfield, federal
traveling culturist from the Bureau of
Fisheries, Washington, D. C. Mr.
\ Canfield has established his head
| quarters in Edenton but expects to
roam about the coastal waters of
this State and Virginia. With him
here the other night were Captain
John H. Nelson, State Commissioner
of Fisheries, D. M. Davis, specially
J delegated representative of the State
Board of Conservation and Develop
ment, of Morehead City, and John
Pierson, of Charleston, S. C., who,
also, will make headquarters in Eden
ton through the remainder of the sea
son.
Mr. Pierson has been in charge of
the Bureau of Fisheries work in
Charleston for several yeare, and it
was from him it was learned the local
hatchery seemed destined to take
over shad propogation for the four
states in question. Mr. Pierson said
the South Carolina hatchery at
Orangeburg would be closed while toe
work here was carried on.
On Monday Bruce Etheridge, direc
tor of the State Board, was also here
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