1 of loeal and county news I
I of general interest. I
Number 44.
t Big Show Staged In Edenton’s Business
I Section Tuesday For Taking Pictures
LFor Use In Fox Movietone News Reel
Huge Crowd Assembles
To Witness Peanut I
Pushing Stunt
I JAMES SMALL WINS
Thirteen Local Beauties
. Operate Peanut Pick
* . er on Farm
Though unexpected, a large crowd
r of people assembled on Broad Street
Tuesday afternoon when steps were
taken to secure for Edenton just
about the juiciest slice of publicity
ever afforded the town, and if success
ful millions of people will have an op
portunity to learn that Edenton is
the largest peanut market in North
Carolina and the second largest in
the world.
This publicity will materialize by
way of a newß reel picture taben by
M. D. Cooke of the Fox Movietone
News, who spent two days here for
the purpose. On Monday shots were
taken in a peanut field on the Coffield
farm on Mexico Road., when 13 young
ladies, attired in overalls or slacks
took over the complete operation of a
peanut picker. The young ladies,
with pitch forks, raised the peanuts
L to the picker, where they were fed
I I by one of the girls. Others collected
* the cleaned nuts, while still others
bagged the nuts, removed the peanut
hay, fed the hay baler and removed
the completed bales. While this was
being done, the camera recorded
eyenkaetion which, says Mr. Cooke,
was a first class shot.
Tiaeadsy afternoon a huge pile of
peaiyits was placed at the comer of
Broad Streets by the Albe
marle Peanut Company tof" add color
to a peanut rolling . contest. The
street was closed to traffic and lined
’ft with white stripes to King Street as
lanes for the contestants. About 25
were in the contest, the idea being to
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Musical Festival Is
Latest Association
In Albemarle Area
I
I Festivals Planned to
J 1 Stimulate Musical
r . Interest
As the result of a meeting held in
Elizabeth City Monday night, the
Albemarle now has a Musical Festival
Association. The organization was
formed at the home of Miss Minnie
Nash, when a group of music-minded
people of the Albemarle unanimously
voted to form the association.
The purpose is to promote musical
interest in the schools and community
and plans will be made to hold a
number of festivals, both musical and
instrumental.
Officers of the association were
elected as follows: C. L. McCullers,
general chairman; Gene Gorman, in
stTsjmental chairman; Miss Batie
Earp, vocal chairman, and Miss Es
telle McCleese, secretary and treas
urer.
« At the next regular meeting which
will be held in Edenton on Monday,
t November 14, a Christmas cantata
I and musical entertainment will be dis
cussed. This affair has been tenta
tively set to be held in Hertford.
: Those attending the organization
meeting from Edenton were C. L. Mc
- -CuHers and Mrs. Leon Lewis.
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/ Auxiliary Planning
W Square Dance Nov. 11
The Auxiliary of Ed Bond Post of
|p. ■ the American. Legion are now plan
ning a square dance on Armistice
Day, November 11, which will climax
the day’s celebration by the ex-service
L As a special feature, Dr. Martin
l Wisely, commanding officer of the
local Ambulance Company, will allow
B hi s National Guard unit to drill at
the Armory sos the occasion. The
I Edenton band, too, will render a
concert prior to the square dance,
which will be held in the Armory.
C Os C Meeting Friday Night
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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| Final Lions Club Entertainment
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Above is a scene in "Mary’s Other Husband,” a three-act drama,
which climaxes a series of four entertainments sponsored by the
Edenton Lions Club in their efforts to raise funds for sight conser
vation activities. The cast includes professional actors and will no
doubt draw the largest crowd of the scries of entertainments.
Warehouses Begin Buying
Peanuts For Stabilization
Cooperative Next Monday
R. €. Holland, President, Urges Farmers Not to
Be Too Hasty In Picking This Year’s Crop;
No Change In Prices, He Says
AH approved and designated ware
houses for the purchase of peanuts
for the Peanut Stabilisation Coopera
tive, Incorporated, will be opened on
! Mon4&y .morning, November 7, end
ready to buy farmers’ stock peanuts
grown in 1938 at government schedule
prices under the peanut program that
has been announced by the Agricultu
ral Adjustment Administration, ac
cording to R. C. Holland, president.
The schedule of prices to be paid by
Peanut Stabilization Cooperative, In
corporated, as weH as list of ware
houses that will be authorized to buy
I peanuts for it follows:
I Virginia U. S. No. I—Class A, S7O
perton; Class B, $66 per ton; Class
C, s6l per ton.
Virginia U. S. No. 2—Class A, $67
per ton; Class B, $63 per ton; Class
C, SSB per ton.
Virginia U. S. No. 3—Class A, $65
per ton; Class B, s6l per ton; Class
C, $56 per ton.
The Warehouses authorized to
make purchases are:
Edgecombe—Southern Cotton Oil
Co., Tarboro; Edgecombe Bonded
Warehouse, Tarboro; F. S. Royster
Guano Co., Tarboro; Fenner’s Ware
house, Rocky Mount.
Washington— s. E. Davenport, Ply
mouth.
Hertford—Odom & Myers Storage
Co., Ahoskie.
Chowan —Home Fertilizer Works,
Edenton; Leary Bros. Storage Co.,
Edenton.
Bertie—Bertie Bonded Warehouse,
Windsor; Beasley-Perry Storage Co.,
Colerain; H. W. Earley, Aulander;
Public Invited Attend
Legion Program Given
On Armistice Day
Though the program has not been
completed, Ed Bond Post, of the
American Legion will observe Armis
tice Day on November 11. A suitable
program will be held in the school
auditorium at 11 .o’clock which will be
open to the public and which it is
hoped will be well attended.
A feature of the program will be a
number of musical selections by an
organization from Suffolk, Va. Plans
are also in the making for a barbecue
dinner, but committeemen were un
able to say definitely Wednesday
whether or not this will materialize.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Rupert Goodwin an
nounce the birth of a daughter, Mar
garet Elizabeth, on Wednesday, No
vember 2nd. .'
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 3,1938.
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■ Peele Storage 'Co., Roxobel.
i Nash—Braswell Bonded Warehouse,
■ Battleboro.
i New Hanover—Wilmington Oil and
1 Fertilizer Co., Wilmington.
* Gates—-Gatesville Storage Com
■ pany, Gatesville.
; Northampton—Woodland Coopera
• tive Bonded Warehouse, Woodland;
Pendleten Storage Co., Pendleton;
■ Seaboard Bonded Warehouse, Sea-
Board; Boone Storage Co., Jackson.
Pitt—Farmville Oil & Fertilizer
Co., Greenvillej
Martin—Robersonville Storage Co.,
Robersonville; Williamston Storage
1 Co., Williamston; Planters Warehouse,
1 Williamston; Rhodes Storage Co.,
Hamilton.
Halifax—Planters Cotton Oil &
i Fertilizer, Scotland Neck; Enfield
Bonded Warehouse, Enfield; Farmers
1 Warehouse, Roanoke Rapids; Pierce
i and Gregory, Weldon.
Farmers are urged not to pick
1 their peanuts before they are thor
oughly dry—green or damp peanuts
■ will not be bought for the account of
the association. There is no occasion
to rush peanuts to the association as
during the marketing season and 1
the price schedule will not change
there will be ample time for delivery
of peanuts to the association. Rush
1 movements of peanuts to the associa
tion will cause congestion, inconven
ience and loss of time. Farmers arc
asked to make appointment for de
livery of their ]>3anuts for the ac
count of the association. Such prac
tice will ensure better grading and
receiving service at the warehouse.
Young People Conduct
Night Services Sunday
At Methodist Church
Climaxing the observance of Child
hood and Youth Week observed in
the Methodist Churches this week,
the Rev. George W. Blount, pastor of i
the local church, on Sunday night will |
turn over the service to the young;
people of the church, who will render
a program directed by Mrs. C. L.
McCullers, superintendent of the
Young People’s Department.
As a special feature Sam Harris
will play a violin solo.
The pastor will preach at the
morning hour as usual and Sunday
School will convene at 9:45.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
'Hie regular communication of
Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A.
M., will be held tonight at 8 o’clock.
All members are urged to attend.
Sledding Rough For
Purchasing A Bus
For Edenton Band
No Right to Spend Tax
Money to Transport
Members
£TILLHOPE
Effort Will Be Revived
To Secure Contri
butions
Word late last week from Harry
McMullan, attorney general, proved
to be a serious set-back to hopes of
securing a bus for the Edenton High
School Band. At a meeting several
weeks ago called by J. H. Conger,
president of the Chamber of Com
merce, the idea was advanced and
generally concurred in that the pro
per proceed.ure would be to request
the Board of Trustees of the Edenton
school to purchase a bus for the band
to transport the organization to va
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Three Act Drama Will
Close Festival Shows
By Lions On Tuesday
Rollicking Play Schedul
ed For Final Collins
Festival
BROADWAY SHOW
Five Players In Two
Hour Show at School
-Auditorium .
The Broadway play “Mary’s Other
Husband" closes this year’s Festival
series being presented by the Lion 3
Club, with a bang, on Tuesday, Nov.
Bth, at 8:15 P. M., at the High
School auditorium. Three acts of
rollicking, tempestuous comedy, with
situations that revolve like wheels
within wheels, give the cast of five
opportunity to play havoc with the
emotions of the audience.
The theme concerns the efforts of
Mary -Marshall to placate her Uncle
Elmer and to live up to some of the
highly imaginative tales she has
written people in Uncle Elmer’s Cali
fornia home town about her and her
husband’s financial position,
j Mary has eloped with Harvey
Marshall, a struggling young clerk,
some two years previous to the play's
opening, from the eastern school she
has been attending. Uncle Elmer has
never forgiven Harvey, and only
grudgingly recognized his niece by
sending a silver cup to the baby.
And now, with Uncle Elmer wiring
he will have dinner with Mary and
her husband, said husband refuses to
be at home to greet his “in-law.”
Poor Mary now has not only to bor
row her bride-neighbor’s wedding
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Red Cross Roll Call
Starts November 11
Chowan County Stands
18th In State’s 121
Chapters
Chowan Chapter’s annual Red j
Cross roll call will start Armistice!
Day, November 11, and run on until
, Thanksgiving, according to an an
j nouneemont *nade yesterday by Mrs.
, J. N. Pruden, the chapter chairman.
At present Chowan stands eighteenth
in the State in the matter of enroll
ment, and Mrs. Pruden is confident
this year it will advance beyond that
rank.
Just what Chowan’s quota will be
set at has not been disclosed to Mrs.
Pruden as yet, but she expects Wash
ington headquarters to report any
day now.
Mrs. Pruden is compiling a list of!
town and county workers tp be asso
ciated with her in the drive soon to
start, and will make the names
known next week.
Voters Show Little Interest
In Election Which Will Be
Held Tuesday, November 8
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| Fridays The Night
Though there was some mis
understanding about the Chamber
of Commerce meeting last week,
several members being under the
impression the meeting was to be
he(d last Friday night, the correct
time of meeting is tomorrow
(Friday) night. At this time
every member of the organization
is asked to attend so that the
most good will result.
The .fail and winter program
will be the principal matter ta be
discussed and the executive com
mittee is ready to hear any sug
gestions offered by the member
ship at large.
The meeting will be held in the
Court House, beginning at 7:30
o’clock.
President Approves
Small's Cross Roads
Community Building
Project Awaits Signa
ture of Comptroller
General
C05TJ55,448
Members Chowan Wo
man’s Club Overcome
Obstacles
Representative Lindsay vWarren
was notified at his home in Washing
ton, N. C., by Harry Hopkins, WPA
administrator, that President Roose
velt has approved a WPA project for
a community building at Small’s
Cross Roads amounting to an expen
diture of $5,448. The project must
now be approved by the Comptroller!
General.
News of the approval of the Presi
dent, which is also practically assur
ance that the Comptroller General
will sign the project, is welcome news
to the ladies of the Chowan Woman’s
Club, who have worked, hard and]
overcome a number of tedious obsta
cles to put the project across.
One of the most worrisome obsta
cles encountered by the ladies was to j
have the County Commissioners agree j
to sign the project as sponsors. The j
matter was presented at a meeting
of the Commissioners two months
ago, when they agreed to sign the
project only upon condition that mem
bers of the Club sign a joint note
for the sponsor’s 55 per cent of the ,
cost as a protection to the county in *
event the ladies failed to raise the
amount necessary. This the ladies
have done and are now anxiously
awaiting actual construction work on
their building.
45 New Members
Join New P. T. A.
Organization Will Pre
sent “Oh Doctor” On
November 22
Lively interest is being taken in
the recently organized Parent-Teach
ers Association as was evidenced at
| a meeting of the organization on
j Tuesday afternoon, when 75 were
present at the high school auditorium i
and Mrs. James E. Wood, the associa-)
tion president, was able to report 40
new members had joined up.
Mrs. Wood reported that much
time was taken up regarding plans:
for a lunch room at the school to pro
vide meals for the needy and to sell
additionally to others. This is a
much needed movement and has the
endorsement of the school officials.
It was, also, announced that a com
mittee had been appointed to arrange
! with a production company for pre
sentation of the play “Oh Doctor” on
November 22, at the auditorium.
Only local talent will participate in
the proposed play, and a lively at
tendance is hoped for.
This nev/s paper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers wUI
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
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Small Vote Expected to
Be Cast For Demo
cratic Nominees
TWO AMENDMENTS
Only Three Republican
Opponents On State
Ticket
Though a general election will be
held next Tuesday, very little interest
in Chowan County, at least, is shown
and election officials look forward to
an exceedingly small vote cast. Os
course the Demorcatic nominees in
Chowan have no opposition in the
Republican party and their election
in the primary election was equiva
lent to being elected to the offices
they seek.
Local voters will have an oppor
tunity to cast their ballot for Chester
Morris, solicitor for the First Dis
trict; W. I. Halstead and J. J. Hughes
for State Senators for the district;
John F. White for House of Repre
sentatives; J. A. Bunch for sheriff;
Richard. D. Dixon for clerk of Super
ior Court; J. N. Pruden for judge
of recorder’s court; John W. Graham
for prosecuting attorney of recorder’s
court; George C. Hoskins for treas
urer; D. M. Warren, A. C. Boyce, W.
H. Winbome, A. D. Ward and J. A.
Webb for County Commissioners.
Three townships will also elect
constables: First Township, W. J.
Yates; Second Township, H. W. Dail;
Third Township, McCoy Spivey.
Though there is little interest in
voting for office seekers, there are
two constitutional amendments which
should command the attention of vot
ers and cause them to register their
opinion. One of* th.'sa is for or
against an amendment making the
term of office of sheriff and coroner
four years instead, of two as at pres
ent. Little objection is heard to a
four-year term for these two offices
and it is the general opinion that J
majority of votes will be cast in fajp
j of this amendment.
! The other amendment is for or •
against a department of justice. If
this amendment is carried it will set
up a bureau for the purpose of aiding
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j EdentonßandWill
i Play Saturday At
j Caroiina-V.P.I. Tilt
J ed to Witness Game
Saturday
Members of the Edenton High
| School Band are looking forward to
Saturday with a great deal of pleas
ure. On that day they will play at
the Garolina-V. P. I. football game in
Kenan Stadium at Chapel Hill.
A great crowd of high school stu
dents will be on hand, estimates be
ing placed at 12,000 students as
guests of the University at what is
designated as “High School Day.”
Fourteen bands from various high
schools of the State will add color to
the game, providing music prior to
the game and at half time.
Cotton Ginning: Fails
To Near Last Year
Decrease in Chowan County’s cotton
j crop is again reflected in the report
of F. W. Hobbs, special agent for the
Bureau of the Census, Department of
Commerce. According to Mr. Hobbs’
, figures 494 bales of cotton were gin
ned in the county from the crop of
1938 prior to October 18, as compared
with 2,066 bales from the crop of
1937.
ATTEND MASONIC MEETING
E. T. Rawlinson, C. W. Sawyer,
John Lee Spruill and Paul Olsson at
tended a meeting of the Masonic
lodge at Plymouth Tuesdy night,
when the Washington County Masons
conferred the first degree upon a
candidate.