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Volume V. —Number 35.
Tremendous Crowd i
Witness Albemarle
Bridge Celebration
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Estimates Range All the
Way From 5,000
To 25,000
hugeWccess
Many Congregate Along
Line of March to
See Parade
Beautiful in its engineering splen
dor, important in its right of way
connection as a linlc between the di
viding Albemarle shores, and above
all to be hereafter valued as means
of greater communication and good
fellowship , between Edenton and its
sister commonwealths on the south,
the mammoth Sound bridge, “Our
Bridge,” was formally presented and
dedicated last Thursday before the
largest concourse of people ever as
sembled in the whole Albemarle.
Estimates are but estimates and
they make but scant difference. Some
say there were 5,000 on hand; others
put the figure at twice that, but cau
tious Herald observers, banking on a
count of cars that crossed the great
span, set the crowd numerically at
easily 20,000. West W. Byrum, vice
-chairman of the celebration commit
tee, reports an official checker at the
. central draw counted 3,900 cars en
route from the north side to the dedi
cation' at Leonard’s Point. This
# would mean alone, if an average of
"four rode each car, more than 16,000
enthusiasts came from this side of
the and certainly, when the
processional pageant reached the nest
in the woods acresa the water 5,080
mor awakted. a|
But 20,000 or. HM, what does it
matter? The celebSfcion wa»*he big
thing, and the world ft ready khows
through fcrge midnkfte newspaper
stories that it was the greatest* be*P
and Bastem Carolin
ians, headed by the State’s governor
and his immediate predecessor, to
ever before, make the welkin ring in
the Albemarle with its importance.
And, of course, even with the ora
torical noise rampant for a couple of
hours in the Washington county shore
woods, the high spot of the affair got
its impetus, anyhow, in Edenton.
Captiousness compels the observation
that the pageant parade of vehicles
out Edenton and on over the long
• parade march could have been im
proved had it progressed a bit more
through the main section of the town,
instead of having got its start almost
up to the point Where it turned off
for the countryside.
However, it was a grand parade.
The floats and trucks holding the
bands probably totaled a dozen or
more,'and each was gaUy festooned in
some historical emulation of the dif
ferent county high spots. TRfen there
were two .Norfolk Southern busses,
one holding the notables who had
-gathered here to be taken to the
other shore, another some of the
committeemen and committeewomen
and the Chowan children performing
at the bridge presentation on the
crossway. Ahead of all were two of
ficial highway patrol pilot cars under
the guidance of Corporal George Dail,
of Edenton, and Sergeant A. W.
Welch, of Ahoskie, while in the far
forefront to hold back the pressing
crowds and clear the way otherwise
were a number of highway patrolmen
on motorcycles.
Even the night before some of the
distinguished guests began arriving (
at the Hotel Joseph Hewes, and
Thursday morning the hotel soon
crowded up with those picking it as a
focal gathering point. Nearly every
body of any importance in the lakf.
crowd, save Governor Hoey and Sec
retary of State Thad Eure, who came
together in the executive’s automo
bile on a hurried dash from Wendell*
where the Governor made a morning
tobacco market opening address, to
fifomouth and on direct to the cele
(ntion grounds, were at the hotel by
8 o’clock ready to embark in the
parade.
So were the “Queen” of the day,
Hiss Dorothy Jones, of Hyde County,
and the other county beauties picked
as her attendants. In hotel rooms,
under the tutelage of Mrs. Sidney Mc-
Mullen and Mm. J. N. Pruden, the
“beauties” all changed into the cos
tumes secured for the occasion and
later made off down the streets to
assistants, Fgrmor W.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Here appears four pictures taken Thursday when the Albemarle Sound Bridge was dedicated. Upper left shows Miss Dorothy Jones, of
Hyde County, leading the floats in the parade which started in Edenton as Miss Albemarle. Next above is Chowan County’s attractive float
depicting the famous Edenton Tea Party. Lower left is the Texas Company float which was given over to the queens of the Albemarle, one
from each of the seven counties. Lower right shows the group of youngsters, a boy and girl from each county cutting the ribbon, official
ly opening the new bridge.
inspects Bright
Building Erection
Plans Assure Improve
ment Would Be Self-
Liquidating
$2,000 ANNUALLY
Matter Subject of Dis
cussion By Commis
sioners Tuesday
Further plans looking toward the
possible presentation of a PWA pro
ject for the erection and construction j
of a two story brick colonial munici
pal building here, to be located on
town property near the west end of
South Broad Street were discussed at
a special conference of town council
men and county commissioners Mon
day afternoon. Agreement was
reached for the town to bring the
question up again at the September
meeting of the county commissioners
on next Tuesday, at which time it is
hoped something definite can be
reached in the desired self-liquidation
of the structure.
The proposed building, described
thoroughly in The Herald last week,
will cost around $70,000, of which the
town, would place 55 per cent of j
the cost, the remaining 46 per cent,
being granted by the government
.(Continued on Page Five)
Frank Holmes One
Os Tar Heel Managers
Frank Holmes has returned to the|
University of North Carolina for
early practice. His friends
will be happy to know that he has
been appointed one of the junior
managers of the Tar Heel for the
coming season and returned early
to become familiar with football ac
tivities at the college. 7
Revival Starts Sunday
At Center Hill Church
Rev. G. S. Eubanks, of Pine Tops,
will conduct revival services at Cen
ter Hill Methodist Church, beginning
■Sunday, September 4. Services will
be held each night at 8 o’clock with
ce getting under way
Wilt*' ’
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, September 1, 1938.
Plans Now Under Way For
Celebration In ftlenton
Featuring Peanut Market
Committees From Four Organizations Asked to
Meet and Report Back to Meeting Called
For Friday Afternoon
Though it has been more or less
agitated for a number of years, the
first definite steps toward staging a
peanut festival or some celebration
featuring Eden ton as a peanut center
were taken Tuesday afternoon when
a meeting was called by- the Chamber
of Commerce to discuss the idea. The
meeting was held in the Municipal
Building with the following interest
' ed persons present: John A. Holmes,
;■ E. W. Spires, Richard D. Dixon, W.
R. Horton, J. Clarence Leary, J. H.
McMullan, C. L. McCullers, W. M.
i Wilkins, John Mitchener, D. B. Liles,
i C. E. Kramer, W. D. Hplmes, O. B.
■ Perry, J. G. Cafnpen, W. 38. Shepard,
i Jimmy Earnhardt, Harvey Thomas
and J. Edwin Bufflap.
In the absence of President J. H.
Conger, John A. Holmes was selected
to preside over the meeting and after
a statement as to the purpose of the
, meeting by Secretary J. H. McMullan,
i a lively discussion was entered into.
It was the general opinion of all
. present that some sort of a celebra
tion should be held, but the matter
of finances bobbed up to put more or
less of a damper on the affair. It
was generally conceded that if a cele
bration is staged it should be put on
I' creditably and it was likewise ad-
J raitted that to do this would necessi
', tate some expense.
Edenton has only one industry
1 claiming national attention which is
the peanut business. It is the second
largest market In the United States
and is the largest in North Carolina.
It is this fact that causes many to
favor some sort of exposition which
would advertise Edenton and at the
same time benefit local business
houses.
I If the festival is held, it will no
doubt be some time in October asd
tentative suggestions include a large
peanut display in t&e Armory, dem
onstrations of latest peanut machin
ery, a parade including many floats,
band concerts, boat racing and no
doubt a football game.
After expressions and suggestions
by most of those present at the meet
ing, a motion was made and passed
1 to ask the presidents of .the Chamber
Jof Commerce, Rotary Club, lion*
5, mittee from their organizations to
: j confer immediately as to the advis
-11 ability of having the festival and sub
mit tentative plans at a meeting
,' called for Friday afternoon at 5
*j o’clock in the Municipal Building. At
: this meeting, too, anyone interested
i in staging a celebration is urged to
' j be present.
’I It is thought that a celebration
! could be staged that would attract
’; tremendous crowds and that within
'! a few years an annual event could be
’' held that would rival similar festivais
' | held throughout the State,
j 1 The idea of a goodwill tour was
also advanced which would include a
visitation to all adoining cjounties
[ and especially in the newly-opened
. territory south of the Albemarle
, Sound. On this occasion the Edenton
band would accompany the caravan
’ and as suggested would precede the
peanut festival. Os course, many
ideas were suggested, including a car-1
nival, chancing off an automobile, but
nothing definite will be done until the
meeting Friday afternoon.
I Fugitive Finally Caught
After 4-Year Old Crime
Chief of Police J. W. Brown, of
r Colerain has eyes and uses them even
1 after a four-year wait, as was eVi
-1 denced yesterday when he arrested
1 Raleigh Lee Perry, erstwhile Cole
rain Nbgro, and sent him here for
trial. Albert Austin, another Negro,
• was knocked down by ac hit and run
! driver on June 3, 1934," and suffered
i a broken leg. Perry was accused and
Brown was sent a warrant for his
arrest.
The desired defendant journeyed
! north, however, but Tuesday night
returned to Colerain to see relatives
under the thought, perhaps, the whole
’ thing had blown over. Brown saw
1 him and Perry’s now in jail here for
trial Friday.
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MASONS MEET TONIGHT
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■ The regular meeting of Unanimity
f Lodge, No. 7, A, P. 4 A. M., will be
-1 held tonight at 8 o’clock. All mUm-
Lbers are urged to attend*-.
T
Lions Capture First
Game For City Soft
Ball Championship
Red Men Fight Gamely
But Lose Out In Final
Innings
SCORE 8-6
Second Game of Series
Scheduled for Thurs
day Night
The Lions softball team on Tues
day night won out over the Red Men
in the first of the five-game series
for the city championship. Trailing
by a 6-5 count in the seventh inning, I
the Lions rallied in their half of the J
frame, scoring three runs on two
hits and two miscues by the Red
Skins. The game was nip and tuck
all the way through, with the winner
in doubt until the final cut was made.:
The Lions led the city soft ball !
league with the Red Men trailing, j
while the Masons though winning;
consistently near the close of the j
schedule, were unable to qualify for j
the series.
The second game of the series will '
be played Thursday night at 8 o’clock
and though dropping the first game,
I the Red Men are very confident of
coming out on the long end of the
score in the next game.
The Lions made quite an impres
sive appearance Tuesday night, each
member of the team appearing for
the first time in the recently acquired |
new uniforms. The jersey, a dark
blue with white collar and white let
tering in front, with blue pants com
bine tq make a very attractive uni
form.
A series game on Friday has been
called off due to a game scheduled
betweeq 'Winfall and Edenton on the
local diamoocL.
| Cupid Uses Bridge |
First business caused by Dan
Cupid to cross the new Albemarle
Sound bridge was transacted in
Edenton Tuesday by Justice of
the Peace W. S. Summerell when
he joined in wedlock R. S. Fur
lough, 28, of Columbia and Iva
deen Mayo, 19, of the same town.
The couple ; crossed the new
a marriage li-
This newspaper is circu
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where Advertisers will
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Two Army Officers
Explain Details Os
Anti-Aircraft Test
Meeting- Held With Ed
enton Citizens Friday
Afternoon
FLORA IN~CHARGE
Five Warning Posts to
Be Located Through
out Chowan
Preliminary plans for the import
ant anti-aircraft war maneuver to be
held in eastern North Carolina during
the second week in October, with this
county prominently selected as a
principal staging point, were outlined
Friday before a satisfying crowd of
local enthusiasts at a hurriedly called
meeting in the Municipal Building.
Two prominent officers from Fort
Bragg, the eastern coast artillery
headquarters, and under the leader
ship of General H. O. Blackwell,
former department commander of the
American Legion in this State, ad
dressed the Edentonians, and dis
played army maps in further explana
tion of what is intended.
With General mackwell were Gen
eral Gardner and Colonel Jarmon,
from Fort Bragg. The latter said
that the maneuver would be in the
shape of “warning nets” distributed
over every eight miles of area
through this section, each “net” to
be actually an observation post in
charge of a war officer with civilians,
specially selected in each county, as
assistants. The warning posts will
be equipped with telescopic observa
tion signals for use in detecting the
oncoming “enemy.” There will be
five such posts in Chowan County.
Mayor Jerome B. Flora, of Eliza
zeth City ,has been put in charge of
the civilian personnel in this area
which will include all the counties on
the north side of the Sound running
through to Norfolk. Mr. Flora, it is
expected, will confer with the local
American Legion post as to his selec
tions jn Chowan, as well as naming a
head Chowan observer for all this
county’s five warding posts.
The plan, General Gardner explain
ed, was to interest an invading fleet
of enemy airships coming in out of
the ocean, or from that direction,
with a view of destroying Fort
Bragg. The idea is to sight these
enemy ships, a great flotilla of them,
probably a hundred, flying in forma
tion or singly, and telephone the ob
servation warning to Fort Bragg be
j fore they appear over that bastile.
Should the airships be too high for
observation or scurry in through
watergirt sections where observers
cannot see them, their interception
will, of course, prove futile and the
Fort will be reckoned as succombing
to the invasion.
The area of operations runs west
, as far as Raleigh, south to Wilming
j ton and north to the Virginia line
I and Norfolk. Three hundred and
i fifty warning posts have been in
cluded in the area. The maneuver is
viewed as important by the War De
partment and will be the first test of
| its kind ever engaged in in this
. country.
| All telephones within the Chowan
! post area will be catalogued with a
| code number for use by the observers,
i and this phase is already being work
!ed out by E. W. Spires, of the local
telephone company. Once an airship
has been seen the observer will be
expected to rush to the nearest tele
phone, send in the code number, and
augment the report otherwise.
Those present at Friday’s meeting,
which will be followed within the next
ten days with more detailed explana
tions of the maneuver, were Mr.
Spires, W. W. Byrum, Shelton Moore,
Oscar H. Brown, Sheriff J. Alva
Bunch, Chief of Police George A.
Helms, Richard D. Dixon, Mayor J.
H. McMullan, John W. Graham,
Geddes A. Potter, John A. Holmes,
and C. E. Kramer.
Bank Os Edenton
Closed On Monday
The Bank of Edenton will be closed
all day Monday in order to observe
Labor Day, a national holiday. Pa
trons of the bank are urged to note
the closing and transact their busi
ness accordingly.
Bishop Darst Confirms
Class At St PauFs
Bishop Thomas C. Darst, D. D., of
Wilmington, visjgpi St Paul's Church
yesterday afternoon at 6;30 ofcloek,
and confirmed a small cjfag. He
leaves today for Greenville. Wlttla in
the eity Bishop Darst is me guest of
Mrs. W. A. Graham. **
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