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PAGE TWO Registrations And Placements Jump In In Edenton District Employment Service Re ports Increased Ac tivity In State Registrations in the Edenton Dis trict of the Nl C. State Employment Service increased by 168 during April, while placements increased by 125. Twenty-three per cent of the applicants had been engaged in farm-1 ing and only 3A per cent in textiles.) The active file in this district is now, 7,651 or 402 more than in March. Activity in the Edenton District during April is reflected in the follow- ing figures: Edenton office: 28 private place-j ments, 164 public placements, 163 registrations. Elizabeth City office: 53 private placements, 74 public placements, 204 registrations. j Williamston office: 7 private place-1 ments, 111 public placements, 292 registrations. | “Employment Service offices, dur-j ing April, made more placements and took a greater number of claims for unemployment compensation than in any previous month of this year,” j reports R. Mayne Albright, director, in commenting on the monthly activ ity of the Employment Service. j Placements, totalling 6,595 during April, were 692 ahead of March. Private industry took 60 per cent of all applicants placed during the month and 75 per cent of these were. in regular employment. Registrations in April, 15,136 re presented an increase of 195 over March. As in March, the largest number of applicants were those who had been employed in textile plants. Personal calls at employment of fices totaled 452,883, an increase of 6,233 over March. Claims also in-! creased. Original claims, 41,888, were 10,931 more than March. Con-j tinued claims, 399,746, represented an increase from the previous month of, 100,239. * CROSS ROADS 1 1 « Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Perry had as, their guests Sunday afternoon Mr.) and Mrs. Lee Leary and children. Dr. and Mrs. M. P. Whichard, of Edenton, visited Mrs. Z. W. Evans and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Evans Sun day morning. Mrs. Cam White? of Manteo, spent j Thursday night arid Friday with Miss | Pattie Winbome. Miss Annie Belle Privott, a stu dent at E. C. T. C., Greenville, and Earl Privott, of Rocky Mount, spent I the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Privott. Mrs. W. A. Perry spent Monday 1 morning visiting relatives and friends. i Mr. and Mrs. Latane Palmer, of Heathsville, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Pes ton Tingle, Miss June Norris and Sonny Norris, of Kilmarnock, Va., 1 spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott. They were accompanied home by C. P. Palmer. Mrs. Tom Davis, of Rocky Mount, spent the week-end with her brother in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Lind sey Privott. Mrs. Privott remains very ill. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey Evans and son, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Asbell and daughter, Miss Kathleen, attended the baccalaureate sermon at Sunbury High School on Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Drew Welch and W. D. Welch spent Sunday at Louis burg with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Welch. They were accompanied home by Mrs. W. D. Welch, who had been vis iting in Gastonia and Louisburg. Mrs. E. N. Elliott visited Mrs. W. H. Winbome Thursday afternoon. Misses Alma and Eleanor Winslow had company from Chicod Sunday afternoon. Eugene Perry, who has been work ing with the Cannon’s Ferry Fish Company during the fishing season, has returned to his home at Cole rain. R. V. Knight and Henry Gray Shelton, of Tarboro, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Elliott Saturday after noon. Mrs. Undsey Evans and Mrs. E. N. Elliott visited Mrs. E. L. Winslow Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Hollowell and daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Grover Hollowell, at Corapeake. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Evans will at tend Hie State Democratic Conven tion in Raleigh Thursday. From there Mrs. Evans will go to Greens boro to attend the commencement ex ercises at Greensboro Woman’s Col lege. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hollowell and son visited Mr. and Mrs. R. W, Leary, Sr., in Rocky Hoek, Sunday (after lf*> «nit Urn T>a?n)i HnllrtWPll on*) ill r< o 1112 lllfot IVtMJpu iMnivWvil aisu son spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Hobbe, at Hobbsville^ Leary, of Rocky Hock; O. C. Long, of Edenton; Miss Marie Asbell and Luke Hollowell were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hollowell Wednesday evening. Alphonso Jordan has gone to Ral eigh, where he has accepted a posi tion. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Leary visited Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hollowell Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Jordan, Sr., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Jordan, in Gates County. All of the teachers except Mr. Bar nett have gone to their homes for the summer. He will leave next week. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hollowell and daughter, of Edenton, spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. R. H. Hollowell. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Baumgardner and daughter called in the afternoon. Misses Alma and Eleanor Winslow I visited Mrs. R. H. Hollowell Saturday afternoon. Mrs. D. M. Robertson and children have returned to their home at Mars j Hill, after a visit with Miss Lois I Savage and J. L. Savage. I Miss Lillian Styron and Mrs. Joe | Lewis, of Morehead City, are visiting i Mr. and Mrs. Alma Boyce. Mrs. Thomas W. Elliott, of Eden . ton, was the dinner guest of Mrs. j Lindsey Evans Monday. I Mrs. Sallie Castello and Miss Ad kins, of Aulander, spent Sunday with I Mrs. B. M. Hollowell, Sr. I Weldon Hollowell, a student at Wake Forest College, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Hollowell, Sr. : Mrs. A. S. Bush, Miss Helen Blanchard and Watson Blanchard , spent Friday and Saturday in Nor ' folk, Va. Watson Blanchard remain ed in Norfolk, where he has accepted a position. E. N. Elliott made a business trip to Norfolk, Va., Tuesday. <i> $ I MERRY HILL I 5> <§• Robert Bruce White, of Newport News, Va., spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce White. i Mrs. J. W. White, Mrs. E. J. Pru den, Mrs. Tom Cullipher and S. B. . Adams attended the Southern Bap * tist Convention in Richmond, Va., last week. j Mr. and Mrs. Billy Smith and | children, of Windsor, visited Mr. and ; Mrs. Guy Smith on Sunday. I Mrs. T. E. Bowen and Miss Ethel Bowen spent Thursday in Windsor | with Mrs G. E. Keeter. . Mrs. T. E. White visited her sis j ter, Mrs. Henry Castelow, in Wind sor, last Wednesday. Cliff Keeter. of Fort Monroe, Va., spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Keeter, and with his wife and children, Shirley and j Wayne. I Miss Louise Baker is visiting her I sister, Mrs. Virginia Lane, in Eliza beth City. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Matthews ! and children, Jim, Jr., Nancy and ■ Ginger, and Miss Daisy Louise Lang j dale, of Portsmouth, Va., were the guests of Mrs. Norman Keeter on Sunday. I Miss “Ease” White spent the week end with Miss Mary Leicester, on the “Martin Farm.” Misses Frances and Irene Maness ,' returned to their home at Buies Greek last Friday. Mrs. Frank Perry, of Edenton, \ j spent Thursday with her mother, Mrs. , Sue Britt. Mr. and Mrs. Chesley White, of ■ Windsor, spent Sunday with their ( parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. White. ! Frederick Bowen, of Windsor, was 1 the guest of his parents, Mr. and 1 Mrs. M. L. Bowen, on Sunday. I Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Cobb, of r North Edenton, dined with Mr. Cobb’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Shade Cobh, on . Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Spruill . made a business trip to Norfolk, Va., r last Monday. - j Mrs. Pattie Williford, who has j been spending sometime with her . daughter, Mrs. W. S. Montgomery, j in Norfolk, Va., returned to her home 7 here on Monday. r Miss Nellie Gray Phelps, of Wind sor, spent the week-end with her - sister, Miss Celia Phelps. i The condition of J. D. Phelps, son , of Sutton Phelps, who has been very - ill for several weeks, continues serious. r Miss Emily Smithwick, who taught 1 at Edenton, has returned to spend the - summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Smithwick. . Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Williams r and daughter, Shirley, of Edenton. spent the week-end with Mr. and l Mrs. W. S. Phelps. • 11 Tenth Graders Average Above 90 Eleven students in Mrs. George ■ Mack’s section of the tenth grade ■ made a yearly avenge of B 0 or above, while nine in the class had a I perfect attendance record for the Mary White, Alex Carl Keeter THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. N. C.. THURSDAY. MAY 19, 1938 Medals Awarded To L H. S. Seniors Junius Davis Wins Two Honors For Outstand ing Work Awards of medals for outstanding work during their high school career were made at graduation exercises of Edenton High School Friday night at the Baptist Church. Jumus Davis was selected as winner of the Rotary Cup as well as the school activities medal. Jennie Ruth McAlily won the schol arship medal while Clyde Spencer was given the athletic medal. Two new prizes of $2.50 each were awarded in connection with school closing, “The Spotlight,” the school paper, awarding Jennie Ruth Mc- Alily first place for the best contri bution and Sarah Ellen Goodwin first place as the hardest worker. Possibly the most outstanding honor is winning of the Rotary Cup which has been awarded since 1927 by the Edenton Rotary Club to the best all around student during his or her high school career.. Former winners, since 1927, were: Mary Lucile Jones, Ruth Thorson, Lena Mason, Jack Pruden, John Bowers Wiggins, Sara Paxton Bad ham, Stuart Blow, Elizabeth Elliott, Frank Holmes, Mary Elizabeth Cates, Mabel Ruth Harrell. Perrytown Defeats Cotton Mill 9 To 0 The Edenton Cotton Mill baseball team fell victims to the Perrytown team on the latter’s diamond Sunday afternoon by a score of 9 to 0, with quite a crowd on hand to witness the game. The Perrytown hoys will tangle with Scotland Neck next Sun day afternoon on the Perrytown dia mond. Both teams are confident of victory which should result in a very interesting game and another large crowd of spectators. silsstt] j mmSMT nmm^sssss, E^ShL M | H|§L&| a u i more than 3 out of every 5 motor cor buyers today * pro choosing sixes. And, of course, the most popular 1 six of all is this now Chevrolet—the Six Supromel i. «- .» i- i n i— n. «»-«- ■». utscrumnanng people prefer it uetuuse or ns mgn quamy ... because of Hs groat value ... because if s the only r s - * Z . ■■■■ • low-mired tor with all these fine car fouturoel r ww-piwu MM wain w I ■ , e V-* . "You'll bo AHEAD with o CHEVROLET*'' ■ »■ .. - V . -Mi- , : . M %hB ■ YS V BE* H*™ JB nn IH BO SB nBHMB HBV In IB VIIV ?▼ Avmw a vam Vi • . Dunw 1 cn pnrMTAM MARTH CAROLINA t i rtIUMK 150 AUiNIVB, WURin WIBWWWA The Dean! IHf! wi wL A W 1 I Hr (gnl V m •' m - |||. m I Gracie Allen swings from dunce to dean and then back to dunce again in “College Swing,” coming to the Tay lor Theatre, Edenton, Monday. Dr. J. W. Selig 1 OPTOM E TRI S T Will be in his office IBuiaiai on the third floor of jyiMMjjfi the Citizens Bank HliUifi Building, Edenton— FRIDAY, MAY 20 8 A. M. to 1 P. M. > M ' * Give Rules Carole Lombard and Fernand Gra vet give you their rules for scandal in “Fools For Scandal” at the Taylor Theatre, Edenton, Friday. - i- 4 V I SOLD THE CHOICEST 10IS OF MY lASt'^N f CROP TO CAMELS AT TOP PRICES. SO DIP MOST ) MWmMmrmk. 1 planters ‘round here, you wont need < three guesses to know what cigarette ) ■ MmMmW i smoke _rrs camel, i know camels are J made from costuertobaccos, naturally. J Mr. J. E.•“ Tiowi rtutf-T 7 MOST TOBACCO PLANTERS HERE SMOKE CAMEIS/ f 0 i gif top prlrtt EXPERIENCED tobacco growers like Mr. Jenkins SVrwk know that cigarette quality has to be grown in the tobacco. They prefer Camels to other cigarettes, because they know Camel’s MORE EXPENSIVE TO BACCOS give them the real top in quality. Try Cam- / els. You, too, will say that Camels give more of the / real pleasure and enjoyment there is in smoking. MlOk jj ■ ‘ WE SMOKE CAMELS ■ BECAUSE WE KNOW TOBACCO’’ <rW ■"'"/' _£. _’ . | PIRFECTID HYDRAULIC BRAKES 85-H.P. VALVE-IN-HEAD * i| S ■ ENGINE . _ - ;J jg %&$. - -i *'<’. " .. GENUINE KNEE-ACTION* ALL-SILENT, ALL-STEEL BOOMS • ,• • • fc■ £j>. : ' 'tV.v&*4. '‘ • s*• »• *? V# » ■ } > ■ '->■ '• SHOCKPROOF STEERING* *g |!| - : mrroE-NATic olutch -; *; ’ ■ ' -Hi I7«rtir n Imii irf» ill | .*! ,—<s> -m | PERRYTOWN | ■ ——— 1 Mrs. Annie Cullipher has returned ' home from Norfolk, Va., where she spent last week' with her sops and \ 'their wives, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Culli- < pher and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Culli- Pher.; Miss Velva White spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Darden dale. Mrs. Cecil Daniels returned home Sunday from the home of her father, where she has been since leaving the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Barrow, of Edenton, were visitors in Perrytown on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jeb Smith and son, of Edenton, were here Sunday to see ' the game. Anne, Hie little daughter of Mr. and Mrs Felton White, is ill. Her grandmother, Mrs. Miller, of Powells ville, was called here Saturday to b£ at her bedside. Darden Cale was given a surprise birthday party on Wednesday, May 11th. About twenty guests were [ present. They were served ice cream, r cake, candy and apples. He received many useful presents; . TOBACCO PLANTERS SAY
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