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V.—Number 36.
Chowan Club Determined
lo Secure New Community
jNouse Through WPA Funds
Members Strike Snag at
Monthly Meeting of
Commissioners
) C05T~57^382.25
Signatures Necessary to
f Protect County From
Outlay
Though determined to secure a
community building for themselves,
members of the Chowan Womans
Club struck a snag in the County
Commissioners’ meeting on Tuesday
When they presented a PWA project
to be signed. The Commissioners
are very favorable to building a com
munity house, but refused to sign the
project making them responsible for
the sponsor’s share of the expense.
Representing the Club were Mrs.
E. L. Winslow, president, Mrs. R. H.
Hollowell and Mrs. Pearly Baum
gardner, who informed the Commis
sioners that club members would
comply in every way with the project
: requirements, and only wanted the
| Commissioners to sign in order to
{have the project approved. The Club
will buy a lot, deed it to the county
and will raise the sponsor’s part of
.the expense.
The total cost of the building, ac
cording to figures, will be $7,382.25.
Os this amount the Federal govern
ment will contribute $5,447.75, leav
ing $1,934.50 to be raised by the Club.
Mrs. E. L. Winslow called a meet
ing of the Club Monday at which
time they thoroughly went into the
and agreed to* comply wWi
‘ jirevisions of the project propomly
and felt certain that on those condi
tions the Commissioners would add
signatures.
However, Chairman D. M. Warren
thought signing of ‘the
contract would bind the county in
the amount of the sponsor’s share
and was unwilling to set a precedent
which might be hard to overcome.
Other members of the Board express
ed a similar opinion.
The ladies were informed that if
proper papers were drawn and signed
by members of the Club protecting
the county against any outlay of
money, the Commissioners would
sign the project. Immediately sev
eral members of the Club were con
! tacted, but in each instance there was
a reluctancy in affixing signatures
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first Year’s
Sales hi ABC Store
Over 111,000 Bottles of
liquor Passed Over
Counter
Completing its first year of opera
tion on August 31, records of the
Chowan County ABC store reveal the
fact that in the 12 months $82,426.26
was taken in by sale of liquor.. Dur
ing this period December showed the
([largest return when $10,676.50 was
©taken, and of this amount $1,915.65
j was recorded on Christmas eve when
it will be remembered the clerks were
jjjunable to accommodate all who went
Ito the store. February showed the
sales.
The $82,426.26 in liquor sales rep
resents over 111,000 bottles of various
brakes of liquor handled and some
whjbt of a record was established by
the fact that not a single bottle was
> broken. Tlfe records also show that
in operation of the store there was
so shortage and lees than one dollar
Band Parades On
g&road Street Tonigilt
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Featuring the soft ball game to
night (Thursday) will be the pres
ence of the Edenton High School
{Band, which will play during a series
Igame between the Lions and Red
pfen. Prior to the game ,at 7:30
L’clock a parade will be held on
C. L. McCullers is now
planning a band day some time dur
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
| Injustice |
In accepting the stewardship
of the County Home, now official
ly closed, George Harrell, appear
ing before the County Commis
sinors Tuesday contradicted in
ferences carried in a story in
the Elizabeth City Advance af
ter last month’s meeting that he
was responsible for dissipation
among former inmates of the
Home. Mr. Harrell claimed an
injustice was done him by the
story, which also said he to
gether with Sheriff J. A. Bunch
was given a “jacking up” by the
Commissioners.
Mr. Harrell has always had the
welfare of the Home at heart,
which fact is recognised by the
Commissioners and Chairman D.
M. Warren asked Harrel to bring
in the clipping of the story so
that any injustice done by the
neighboring newspaper can be
corrected in The Herald.
Lions Leading In
Contest For Soft
Ball Championship
Fans Treated to Dime
Novel Type of Game
Tuesday Night
INTEREST KEEN
Fourth Game Scheduled
To Be Played Thurs
day Night
With three games of a five-game
series to determine Edenton’s soft
ball champions already played, the
Lions Club lead by one game in a
contest that is gradually increasing
in interest. The Lions won the first
game in the series, but were tied last
Thursday when the Red Men copped
a 4-0 game.
A large crowd of fans on Tuesday
night were treated to a typical dime I
novel game when the Lions won out
by a 16-15 score. The Lions took
mi early five run lead, but were grad-1
ually overcome by a determined
group of Red Men who in the last in
ning were leading 15 to 9. In their
half of the ninth inning the Lions
took advantage of two errors and by
two timely hits brought the score to
15-13. With two men out and two
men on bases Kenneth Floars came
to bat and to redeem himself of sorry
playing during the game at third
base, connected squarely, sending the
ball deep into center field for a home
run. The game throughout was
packed with thrills, keeping fans at
one of the best attended games of
the season on edge during the entire j
contest.
The Lions have won two games and
the Red Men one, with the fourth
game scheduled to be played tonight
(Thursday). Naturally, the Lions
will put forth every effort to wind up
the series, but the Red" Men, who
were somewhat crippled Tuesday
night, feel sure they can tame the
Lions to tie the series and carry the
series into five games. A large
crowd is expected to be on hand.
Lions Rank Fifth
In Sale Os Canes
New Signs Expected to
Arrive and Be put In
Place Shortly
Members of the Edenton lions
Club felt very proud at their meeting
Monday night when Secretary W. J.
Taylor informed them that the Eden
ton club ranked fifth in the recent
cane campaign when miniature csuies
were .sold to aid in blind work. Mr.
Taylor also told his fellow members
that three attractive lions signs had
been ordered and will soon arrive and
I be erected at idvantareoiu nointn on
I tne nignways.
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, September 8, 1938.
September Term
Chowan Superior
Court Next Week
Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn
Os Jackson Will
Preside
NEWJUDGE
Number of Interesting
Cases Included In
Docket
Once again Chowan County will
have one of the State’s newest jur
ists as presiding officer when the fall
term of Superior Court opens here
next Monday. Judge W. H. S. Bur
gwyn, of Jackson, but recently elect
ed to the bench, will officiate at the
session which bids fair, from the na
ture of its criminal docket, to run
through the week.
Judge Burgwyn was formerly soli
citor of the Roanoke-Chowan district,
and has many friends and acquaint
ances in the First District. He is
considered thoroughly conversant with
law procedure and is particular in his
observance of the proprieties and
ethics of court room life.
Seven criminal cases, all viewed as
important in this county, are sche
duled for consideration by court and
juries next week. These include:
Kurt von Wischon, cocky little Nor
folk seaman now in the State peni
tentiary for safe keeping after he had
been arrested here, in Hertford and
in Elizabeth City, and wanted numer
ously elsewhere for alleged breaking
and entering thefts and safe cracking
jobe.
Joe Habit, Edenton restaurant
keeper, up on appeal for the second
time in answer to conviction and
sentence for alleged liquor violations.
John W. Crabtree, Burlington resi
dent and local WPA painter, arrested
here charged with bigamy.
T. W. Craddock, on appeal in con
nection with alleged perjury in the
Joe Habit case of two terms ago.
Gilbert Hollowell, Edenton ice
truck driver, manslaughter growing
out of a road fatality.
James Dillard, Negro, assault with
shot gun.
Robert Lee Perry, on a hit and run
charge.
Fire ]Viad*v
Week Os Sept. 26th
Fire Chiei K. K. Han announced
Wednesday that he will oonduct a
thorough fire inspection during the
week beginning September 26. In or
! der to eliminate embarrassment he is
urging all citizens to clean out fur
l naces, pits, attics and otherwise
I clean up around their premises.
jC. of C. Meets Tonight!
J. H. Conger, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, has called
a special meeting to be held to
night (Thursday) at 8 o’clock
in the Court House. A very im
portant matter will be discussed
and every member is urged to be
present.
Edenton The Hub
By J. EL McMULLAN
The questions have been asked:
Why Edenton? Why was Edenton
the center of government, commerce
and culture of the Albemarle region
of North Carolina for over a cen
tury Why was its growth and ex
pansion retarded? And why should
it look forward toward the future
with an ambitious program of devel
opment with every assurance of
success?
Answering these questions in the
order propounded the best answer to
the first—“ Why Edenton?”—is to be
found jn the solution of the riddle of
colonization. Why Roanoke Island,
why Jamestown, why Plymouth
Rock? My answer is water. The
only means of transportation of the
pioneer period of America was by
water, so natundly those places best
adapted to accessibility by water be
came the logical location for settle
ment. The waters of the Albemarle
Sound region offered an irresistable
appeal to settlers. So in 1668 those
pioneers who surveyed the territory
of the Albemarle found at the site of
the present town of Edenton the ideal
spot of this whole area, and so located
here the first permanent Nbrth Caro
lina settlement This town, beauti
fully located on a magnificent bay
I faiKiifaw j-/, it. a lk ft m n rln Gnmul
Municipal Building
For Town Strikes
Snag In Financing
Commissioners Unwil
ling to Do More Than
Pay Certain Rents ,
MAYOR ILL
Self Liquidating Idea
Os J. H. McMullan
Doubtful
For the moment, anyhow, Eden
ton’s plans for a new municipal build
ing to house all town and federal of
fices and a majority of those «ow
operating for Chowan County, went
aborning on Tuesday afternoon when
the County Commissioners seemed
disinclined to go along with the idea.
In the absence of Mayor J. H. Mc-
Mullan, father of the idea, who was
home ill, Architect Frank Benton, of
Wilson, called in by the Mayor to
prepare plans and a picture of what
the structure could be like, appeared
before the Board and half-heartedly
agreed with the Commissioners that
the proposed plan might be a bit dif
ferent of financing than had been
originally suggested.
The building program would have
a two-story Colonial brick structure
with room for every one of the above
offices as well as quarters on the top
for a modern jail and jailer’s quar
ters, and would cost $70,000. Mayor
McMullan has felt the proposition
could be financed with PWA help on a
55-45 per cent basis, and was positive
sufficient rentals could be secured by
the town to make the project self
liquidating.
There was some belief expressed,
however, that this was only a partial
viewpoint and that the PWA would
lend no aid save the town’s 45 per
cent cost obligation was first guaran
teed by a bond issue. This fact and
the uncertainity of meeting the situa
tion otherwise, led the Commissioners
to turn thumbs down on the idea for
the present.
Foye Cozart Succumbs j
To Heart Ailment
Foye Cozart, after seven months
illness of a heart disease, died at the
s ome of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
ij. S. Cozart, on East King Street,
Friday morning at 10 o’clock. Missi
Cozart was 21 years old, a graduate]
of the Edenton High School in thej
j class of 1935 and was very popular
among the younger group of the,
town.
Funeral services were held Satur
day morning at 11 o’clock in the
Baptist Church by Rev. E. L. Wells,
• the pastor. The body was later tak
en to Roxboro, where interment was
made Sunday morning at 11 o’clock.
Both services were largely attended
by hosts of friends in both towns.
Surviving are the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Cozart, two sisters, Mrs.
Matt Dickerson, of Roxboro, and
Miss Orphelia Cozart, of Edenton,
and three brothers, Jack and Taft,
of Roxboro, and Bill, at home.
zers’ dream. And so this spot be
came the seat of government, trade
and culture for the Albemarle region.
The be3t evidence of Edenton’s lead
ership of that period is found in the
fact that it later contributed four im
mortals to the roster of Revolutionary
patriots, Joseph Hewes, signer of the
Declaration; Hugh Williamson, signer
of the Constitution; James Iredell,
a Justice of the Supreme Court; and
Samuel Johnston, three times Gover
nor and the first U. S. North Caro
lina S-enator,
The next question is to be answer
ed in the same way, “water,” With
the expansion of the colony and the
coming of the railroad and other
means of inland transportation the
importance of water as an avenue of
commerce became secondary. And
so the very watercourses which were
the efficient cause of Edenton’s great
ness became an insurmountable bar
rier to its growth and expansion. So
while Edenton basked in the glory
of its past the course of empire mov
ed inland. For another hundred
years these.water barriers halted the
progress of Edenton and the best it
could do was to consolidate its
growth and live a life of isolation
from the rest of the State.
The answer to the last query is,
“Water and bridges!” For now,
to a magnificent system of Ve
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Edenton Peanut Festival
Fails To Materialize For
Fall; Planned For 1939
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| “Indigestion” |
Z. T. Evans is minus one of his
cows as the result of what he
thought was indigestion. Noticing
the cow was sick, he administered
medicine to relieve indigestion,
but when this failed to bring
wanted results he called in Dr.
P. W. Tedder, veterinarian. Upon
close examination Dr. Tedder ad
vanced the opinion that the cow
had swallowed a nail which was
causing the trouble.
Very shortly after Dr. Tedder’s
diagnosis, the cow died and to
satisfy both his and Mr. Evans’
curiosity, the cow was cut open,
which revealed five nails in the
cow’s four stomachs.
Training School
At Baptist Church
All Os Next Week
Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Ste
gall of Hertford on
Faculty
FOR ALL AGES
Three Courses Arrang
ed Which Should Be
Very Helpful
The Training Union, or all the B.
Y. P. U.’s of the Baptist Church
will conduct a Training School each
night next week at the Edenton Bap
tist Church at seven o’clock. An ex
! cellent faculty will teach three inter-1
| esting and helpful books and every,
' member of the church is urged to j
take advantage of the unusual oppor- 1
tunity which this school offers. There
will be taught a course for each age;
within the scale of eight years to !
100 years, and it will be well worth
while, not only from the standpoint
| of the individual, but also that of the
. church as a whole.
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I The faculty of deep thinking and
practical knowledge is listed below
j along with the course taught.
Adult and Senior Age: “The Func
> tioning of the Church,” taught by
Rev. J. F. Stegall, of Hertford.
Intermediate Age: “Training In
Stewardship,” taught by the Pastor,
Rev. E. L. Wells.
Junior Age: “The Junior and His
Church,” taught by Mrs. J. F. Stegall,
of Hertford.
A period of fellowship will be held
each night and every member of the
church, young or old, is urged to at
tend the course which fits his- or her
age and interests and to enlist others.
While this is primarily for church
members, and will mean much to the
life of the church as well as that of
the individual, there will be a most
cordial welcome for visitors.
County Relief Load
For August $5,005
Perkins* Report Shows
253 Recipients Under
Welfare Setup
Included in W. M. Perkins’ welfare
report submitted to the County Com
missioners Tuesday was an approxi
mate relief load for the county dur
ing August. This phase of his re
port showed that there were 253 re
cipients involved, totaling an outlay
of $5,005, distributed as follows:
One hundred and four receiving old
age relief totaling SBO3.
Fourteen aid to dependent children
cases receiving $205.
Four general relief cases, $37.
Eight aid to blind cases, S9B.
Eighty-five WPA cases, $3,000.
Thirty CCC cases, $75.
Os course, the amount expended
represents Federal, State and County
shares under the welfare set up.
REVIVAL AT WHITE OAK
Revival services are being con
ducted every evening this week at
White Oak Methodist Church , in
Bertie County.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
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Insufficient Time Re
mains to Make Proper
Arrangements
MUSTBERIGHT
Permanent Organiza
tion Suggested For
Annual Affair
Prospects faded for staging a pea
nut festival in Edenton during the
fall last week when it was decided
that insufficient time remained to
make proper preparations for a cele
bration that would do justice to the
idea. At a meeting held earlier in
the week of a group of those interest
ed, it was unanimously agreed to
have presidents of the Rotary Club,
the Lions Club, Chamber of Com
merce, American Legion and Chowan
Woman’s Club appoint committees to
meet jontly and recommend whether
or not it would be feasible to have
the festival some time early in
October.
Committees from the five organiza
tions met and after a thorough dis
cussion of the idea came to the con
clusion that not enough time remain
ed to properly arrange for the event,
and rather than stage a haphazard
sort of affair it would be advisable
to postpone the festival this year and
plan for a big affair next year and
annually thereafter.
Accordingly, a permanent organi
zation will be set up comprised of
members of the five groups who, it
is hoped, will keep the festival idea
alive and start in ample time next
year to put on a peanut celebration
„that yill claim State-wide and even
, national attention. No reason can b#-
advanced why Edenton should not
stage a peanut festival that would
claim as much attention and publicity
as tobacco, strawberry, tulip, cotton
and other festivals held in other
! parts of the State,
j Though the peanut festival is off
I for this year, however, it was the
opinion of the committeemen that
1 there was no reason why other af
fairs, possibly not so elaborate,
! should not be held in Edenton during
. the fall to attract and entertain folks
living within the Edenton trade area.
{Holland Reelected
j President Peanut
| Cooperative Group
Committee Plans to Go
i To Washington on
Saturday
R. C. Holland was given another
| year’s term as president of the East
[ era Carolina Peanut Stabilization Co
operative at the annual meeting of
the organization last Friday. Twen
ty-two members of the Cooperative
gathered first in the Court House,
where plans for the ensuing year
were discussed, and later in Mr.
Holland’s office in executive session at
which time the president and J. B.
Fearing, of Windsor, and B. D.
Stevenson, of Pendleton, were re
elected secretary and vice president.
Mr. Holland and the others were
1 somewhat disappointed as to the size
of the gathering inasmuch as more
than 2,500 postal invitations had been
sent out, but all agreed' that the or
ganization had accomplished much
t during the past first year and would
. very likely accomplish more in the
year to follow.
E. B. Arnold, secretary of the
State Farm Bureau, Raleigh, was on
hand, and grave the Cooperative the
- endorsement and blessing of the
State body. A lengthy report of
what the Cooperative had done during
1987-1938 was read by Secretary
Fearing and an animated discussion
followed at the Court House meeting.
It was decided among other tilings to
send a committee to Washington, D.
C., next Saturday to confer with the
Department of Agriculture chieftains
and work out a diversion program
for the coming fall harvest time,
also to seek a possible purchase price
announcement.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Sutton,
i at their home in North Edenton, a
son oa Wednesday, August 8L
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