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VolurAe V.—Nunlber 33.
10,000 Expected Bridge Celebration
Spires Traces Early Efforts
Getting Bridge Connecting
N. And S. Sides Os Sound
Ex-Mayor Speaks at
Weekly Meeting of
Rotary dub
H ARD WORK
Necessary to Cooperate
and Achieve Greater
Objectives
Outlining the difficulties Edenton
and the Chowan sector have labored
under for years in a trade way be
cause of incomplete bridge connec
tions with the south shore, and de
tailing the procedure engaged in to
make the new Sound bridge a reality,
a procedure in which he pdayed a
leading part, former Mayor E. W.
Spires got a great hand at last
week’s luncheon of the Rotary Club.
The ex-mayor spoke tv the text
“A Reunited Albemarle” and proved
it by his words.
- After tracing the history of the
various eras of transportations! meth
ods hereabouts from the days of sail
ing craft down through the age of
railways and finally to that of high
way travel, Mr. Spires said among
other tilings:
"In 1934, I called a meeting at
Which time the Albemarle Sound
Bridge Association was organifed.
Forty-seven interested citizens from
lower Washington County cam* over,
while only a handful of our local citi
zens attended. Scarcely anyone had
any hopes for a bridge at that time.
Our efforts continued, without success,
toll biidge with a PWA loan and
grant. This movement likewise fail
ed. Then in
was held in Edenton to which I ex
tended invitation to citizens of the
seven counties most vitally interested.
A spirit of cooperation at this meet-'
ing resulted in the consummation of
this long needed-project. The spirit
manifested at that meeting is thej
same attitude which now attends the|
plans for the celebration at the open
ing of this bridge. It is, and should
be, the spirit of.the Albemarle.
“We are now to actually become a
re-united Albemarle. We should be
just as interested in a road for Hyde
County as for one in Chowan. The
fine spirit of friendliness being shown
to us by the good' people of the va
rious counties on both the north and
south sides of the Sonnd is a source]
of deep gratification. We must work
together, play together, vote together
and pray together. If we do this,
every reasonable objective will be
achieved.
"As for Edenton, I think it is nice
to have the so-called "Yankee capi
tal” come into this section, however,
we have the necessary brains and
money to launch additional manufac
turing enteiprises. Some have been
tried and failed, while our larger
plants have proved successful. These
failures were not the. fault of the
kind of plant, but rather the directing
heads thereof.
"I think that we snouiu show the.
same kind Os confidence in the Albe-|
marie and in our community as
our merchants show when they pur
chase a stock of gomfe for their store.
“If we have a prosperity builded
on a firm foundation, we must build
from the inside. We also must prac
. tics a spirit of applied friendship and
hospitality to everyone coming within
the portals of Our community.
“We must provide entertainment
for tiie visitors. In this connection I
would like rto see Edenton build a
large swimming pool and an out-door
band stand in order that the Edenton
High School band can give concerts
. in the evenings. Our director, Mr. C.
I* McCullers, has performed a miracle
in the development of such a splen
did organisation and they deserve
both our moral and our financial sup
port to the. fullest extent. :
“I desire to pay special tribute to
former Mayor Jasper Wiggins for his
untiring efforts in behalf of securing
the Chowan bridge and to Mr. Julian
■ f ®°d’ Re worked witii us so faith
ber of °t2 faST h * J^ ame
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
| Queen of Albemarle
Miss Dorothy Jones, of Hyde
County will be “Queen of the
Albemarle” for the bridge cele
bration on August 25, Miss
Jones, 21 years of age, was se
lected Wednesday in Plymouth,
when the committee in charge
placed the names of each coun
ty’s queen into a hat and allowed
a-little girl to pick out the win
ner.
$76,810.21) Income
From Chowan ABC
Store In 11 Months
Total Paid to County
General Fund to Date
$5,000
$4,837 TOSTATE
Surplus on Hand For
First Ten Months n
$8,951
Gross income from sales by the
Chowan ABC Store for the first
eleven months of its existence up to
August 1, have been announced as
totaling $76,810.20, of which $5,000
has so far been turned over to the
County General Fund as its share of
the profits.
Compiled tabular figures for the
'first ten months of operation make
I the gross income from sales during
I that period as $69,303.20 against a
cost during the same time of $45,-
340.54, giving a gross profit to the
business of $23,962.66, against which
there were operating expenses of
$6,003,97. The tea months net profit
was $17,958.69.
Os this net profit for ten months
the State tax on sales got $4,837.97.
For law enforcement $1,168.97 was
placed in readiness. The surplus on
hand is $8,951.75.
Band Honored At
Tobacco Festival
Selected to Play Special
Concert at 4 O’clock
Today
Twelve auto loads of young and as- 1
piring local bandsters will soar forth
across the highways early this morn
ing to positions of honor in the wind
up ceremonies at the Wilson Tobacco,
. Festival. The local school band, un
| der the leadership of C. L. McCullers,
will have a place of honor in the
great parade through the Wilson]
streets this morning, and this after
noon will have a place of musical
glory set aside for them on the Wil
son court house steps where they'
will give a special concert at 4
o’clock. The local band children will
be the only band folks from all over
the State to be given this program
compliment.
W. C. Brunson Hurt
By Scaffold Break
W. C. Brunson is in a precarious
condition in the General Hospital in
Norfolk, Va., following an accident
Monday. While employed in Larch
mon, where 174 apartments are be
ing erected, a scaffold broke, throw
ing heavy blocks of concrete on Mr.
Brunson. He was injured about the
head, chest and shoulders. Unless
pneumonia develops he is expected to
NO TRAFFIC JAM!
Walsemburg, Colo.—Nq traffic jam
I formed li rtccnt accident Ib*
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, August 18, 1938.
| MOST POPULAR PERSON
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HON, LINDSAY C. WARREN
Peeaibly no person at the Albemarle Bridge Celebration
will be more popular than Lindsay C. Warren, who will recog
nize officials and distinguished guests.
Many Motorists
Cross New Bridge
First lime Sunday
Span Opened to Traffic
Promptly at Seven
O’clock
STEADYSTREAM
Estimates Fix Number
Os Cars Crossing at
5,000
“Have you been over the bridge
yet?” was the one question on the
lips of almost every Edentonian on
Sunday when the new span was
thrown open to traffic, and by the
affirmative response pretty nearly
everyone in Edenton and Chowan had
made the trip and expressed universal
approval with the span.
For fourteen months the construct
ing contractors have been striving to
make the great crossway ready. A
flare up toward the last made the
opening delayed from the first set
date, August 10, but by Friday night,
the chief engineers had made their
final inspection and had given the
word “_Go“ for Sunday at 7 A. M.,'
and did they go, They surely did.
' From the time when the first barri
cades were thrown down and the
bridge was formally crossed by the
Commission’s engineering representa
-1 tive, until twilight brought a close to
I travel, the bridge was patrolled by an
almost unending cavalcade of motor
ists from b6th sides, many coming j
from far away sections of the State (
I and from Virginia.
I Late in the afternoon the huge
' center draw was thrown open to al
| low a scow to go through, and the
procession of motorists was held up
for fifteen minutes. So great was
the double chain of vehicles on the
span at that time it was said to
stretch for several miles in both di
rections.
Every other day this week the
bridge has been similarly traveled
md many trucks laden with products
for sale or use in Edenton and Nor
folk markets used the bridge from
the south side shore.
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Edenton Background
Os Book To Be Printed
Mrs. Peggy Ingles Fletcher, of
Hollywood, Cal., is gathering infor
mation of this section for a book she
is working on. to come out Soon, with
Edenton aa the background. As she
writes set^Edentwu”
E. H. S. Faces Hard
Football Schedule
For Coming Season
First Game With Rocky
Mount School Sep
tember 16
AT NIGHT
Coach Holton Calls For
First Practice Monday
Afternoon
With one of the hardest schedules
in p'rospect in the history of the
school, practice will begin for the
Edenton High School’s football team
on Moodily. Though several strong
teams in larger schools will be tack
led this season, Coach David Holton
is very optimistic of winning at least
a majority, of the games.
The first game will be played on
Friday, September 16, when Holton’s
bo]js will play the Rocky Mount
team, a Class A aggregation. The
game will be played in the tobacco
town, taking place at night.
Other games on the schedule in
clude Suffolk, New Bern, Tarboro.
i Elizabeth City, Franklin, Washington,
Plymouth, Williamston and possibly
Ahoskie. Roanoke Rapids, always a
strong opponent in former years, is
not included in the schedule this
year.
Coach Holton has called a practice
for Monday afternoon and expects
the following to report:
Pete Everett, “Little Bud” Cayton,
! Fred Hoskins, Tom Byrum, Elwood
I Nixon, Billy Shepard, Meredith Jones,
I James Cozzens, Sam Cates, Murray
I Byrum, Muriel Byrum, Lloyd Burton,
Emmett Wiggins, Dick Badham, Er
win Griffin, Thurman Harrell, Clyde
Spencer, Lester Ashley, Joe Rowlett,
Nick Gardner, Jimmie Davenport,
Samuel Harris, Edward Stokeley,
Robert Chesaon, James Smith, Tpm
Shepard, George Alma Byrum, Albert
Holmes, D. Skiles
Ambulance Company
Back From Camp
Well tanned by two weeks under a
broiling lowet Mississippi sun the
local members of the Edenton Am
bulance Corps returned by train on
Sunday from a training tour with
5,000 other State guardsmen back of
Hattiesburg, Miss. The visit can in
no sense be termed a vacation for
the Edentonians, however, as they
returned to report it was a case of
toil and facsirailie warfare from start
to finish. It was all work to them,
they say, and darn tittle play.
5 Pickaback plane has been patented
I here by British inventor. '
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I Literally All Roads Lead To
Edenton For The Largest
Event Held In Albemarle
Clara Meade Smith
Is Chowan’s Entry
As Beauty Queen
Decided ByVote Which
Came to Close Satur
day Afternoon
23 IN RACE
Runner Up In Voting
For Honor Was Miss
Anna Wood
When it comes to bridge celebra
bration “Beauty Queens” Chowan
showed ’em all last Saturday when
it picked Miss Clara Meade Smith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Smith, of Edenton, as its favorite.
More than a score of aspirants were
reckoned with in the popular election
decided by ballot at Leggett & Davis
drug store, but at no time was the
balloting close, Miss Smith receiving
43 votes out of 125 ca3t for all.
Miss Anna Wood was her nearest)
rival with 32 votes. I
The others in the contest with the!
I votes given to each were: Elizabeth!
Elliott 3, Marguerite Etta Evans 7, j
. Kathryn Holmes 5, Evelyn Jackson 6,
Eleanor Small 3, Ruth Goodwin 2,
• Mrs. Jimmie Earnhardt 2, Norma
Perry 1, Myda Weaver 2, Arlene
Jackson 2, Florence Ward 2, Mary
Elizabeth Cates 2, Orphia Cozart 2,
Marjorie Powell 3, Barbara Kepler 3,
Dolly Spencer 1, Evelyn Blow 2,
Betty Wales 1, Edith Bond 1, Mary
White 1, and Evelyn Brown 1.
’ If present plans do not miscarry
the Chowan queen will ride one of the
large floats in the parade, probably
with other paragons of beauty.
Chowan has provided no particular
j float for its Queen, but it can remain
. an assured fact that whether alone
. or with others all eyes will be on
, Miss Clara Meade Smith. She is ai
- junior at Greensboro College, where
. she is very popular among the stu
i dent body.
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Last Run Edenton
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| Mackeys Ferry On
Sunday Morning
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t. jW. A. Everett, on First
! Boat, Also Made
Last Trip
; HELPEDBY STATE
Bridges Cut Heavily In
| to Vehicular Traffic
t Over Sound
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The Edenton-Mackeys ferry is no
! more. This Edenton landmark since
> 1922 went out of existence Sunday
>■ morning when the last trip was made
’ as the new bridge across Albemarle
1 Sound was opened to traffic.
W. A. Everett, one of the ferry
owners since it was organized and
who made the first trip on the initial
ferry, was also on the Frances Har-
I rington on the final voyage across the
Sound.
t The ferry during the last few years
» was a losing proposition, especially
. since opening and elimination of tolls
j on the Chowan River bridge. How
i ever, in order to maintain a connect
( ing link with southern Albemarle
, counties, the State Highway Commis
r! sion agreed to support the ferry by
y appropriating S2OO per month, with
f the understanding that all State ve
t hides would be carried free,
i, Opening of the new bridge, how
ever, and withdrawal of State sup
port was a death Mow to the ferry
d| business end Mr. Everett ceased oper
| ation Sunday morning. v
This nevispoper it circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers uriil
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year,
Procession Will Start In
Edenton Thursday
At 10A. M.
BIG DANCE
Program at Bridge Fig
ured Consume About
Six Hours
Literately and figuratively all roads
will lead into and out of Edenton
next Thursday when the Albemarle’s
mammoth new bridge celebration
ceremony will take place. A crowd
of around 10,000 spectators from all
over eastern North Carolina is expect
ed to be on hand at the dedicatory
exercises, and because the festivities
will get their start here and because
of obligatory road detours through
the Chowan County seat, most of the
motoring public aiming for the show
at the end of the south side of the
bridge will first touch on Edenton as
a focal point of travel.
For it will be here Grand Marshal
Carroll E. Kramer will congregate his
large pageantry parade of floats,
each emblematic of some historical
feat of commonwealth glory, gather
them under the wing so to speak and
with four stalwart aides parade down
the Yeopim highway and on to the
i bridge where the exercises will actu-
I ally get under way.
! The congregation of the parade in
| Edenton is expected to be an event of
much local importance. The floats
are being put together here, Chowan’s
to be illustrative in a grand pictorial
way, of the Tea Party of 1774—the
town’s trade mark, a huge tea pot to
be displayed in a festooned garden
scene frequented by a number of the
leading matrons of the town —and
will be sequestered at important
town points to later fall in line when
the parade gets fully under way.
Other floats beside those of history
will carry the different county “Queens
of Beauty”—Miss Clara Meade Smith
was chosen by popular ballot to repre
.l sent Chowan—will be in the parade
as will numerous band aggregations
, and many carloads of State dignitar
, ies and other notables of importance,
j As has been explained frequently
! before, the parade will be carried
, | down the Yeopim highway to the
bridge and across the span to the
center where it will be met by the
first of the day’s celebrants. Judge
John W. Darden, of Plymouth, chair
man of the celebration program com
mittee, will perfunctorily introduce
Chairman Frank Dunlap, of the
State Highway Commission, who will
briefly present the bridge to the
public. Julien Wood, of Edenton,
who has had as much as anyone to
do with getting the bridge agitation
five years ago started, will accept the
bridge, if able, for the north side
citizenry, and Zeb V. Norman, of
Plymouth, will do the same for the
south shore.
Then seven groups of boys and girls
from each of the abutting counties,
each dressed Colonially, will draw
aside a temporary decorated gate and
allow the procession to move on to
the ceremonies proper just to the east
of the south side bridge terminal.
General bridge Chairman C. Wal
lace Tatem, of Columbia, will offi
ciate there as Master of Ceremonies
for the day, and at 11:30 o’clock the
bands will start the program with
music, followed by an invocation by
Rev. John Barclay, of the Christian
Church, Wilson. At 11:50 A. M.,
Congressman Lindsay C. Warren will
be presented and will briefly recog
nize officials an others of the invited
guests, and at 12:20 A. M., Governor
Clyde R. Hoey will take the platform
and deliver a short address of, wel
come.
The Hoey talk will be followed by
singing of the State anthem “Caro
lina,” after which either Governor
James H. Price, of Virginia, or his
delegated representative, Col. E. E.
Holland, of Suffolk, Va., will respond
to the Hoey address of welcome. As
a tribute to its sister commonwealth
the audience will sing “Carry Me
Back to Ole Virginny.”
Soon after this song Mayor Jerome
B. Flora, of Elizabeth City, wfii in
troduce former governor J. C. B.
’ who was State executive
- when the brtdge got its first •tart