I In then columns will be
I found « fair presentation
I •/ local and county news
I of general interest.
Volume V.—Number 45.
Com m issionersPutThum bs
Down On Request For New
At Chowan School
o
Argument Adds Spice
To Monthly Meeting
Monday
COSTS7OOO
to Teach Agri
cultural Gasses at
School
Fireworks were injected into an
otherwise uneventful meeting of the
County Commissioners on Monday.
The excitement was caused when the
County Poard of Education appeared
before the Commissioners in an effort
to persuade a loan with which to
erect a new building at Chowan High
School for the purpose of teaching
agricultural classes. The request for
aid resulted in some sharp arguments
for and against the project, with an
occasional fist Jhump on the table to
emphasize the point in question.
The proposed building would be of
brick construction, with two class
rooms for teaching agriculture. It
would also be equipped with a stor
age room and shop with tools. The
cost of the building would be $7,000,
which amount, according to the Board
of Education, could be loaned from
the N. C. Rural Rehabilitation Cor
poration which has a million dollar
fund appropriated by the government
for improvements to rural schools.
The loan could be secured ri. a 4%
interest rate running over ajkriod of
10 years. ‘wfc- ">
Each member of the Boaritadvanc
ed the opinion that the budding was
necessary and needed mjmp up
county school plant, but L. JFBrich
and Superintendent
were more persistent in their de
mands for authorization of a loan.
Both men said that due to no agricul
tural classes, many high school stu
dents leave school because no course
of specific benefit to them was offer
ed. It was also pointed out that in
all neighboring counties agricultural
classes are available and that Chowan
students were entitled to as good
school facilities as their neighbors.
The Commissioners, on the other
hand, argured that the request was
ill-timed in that taxes are already
hard to collect and that they were un- j
willing to add any more to the tax'
burden especially at this time when
crops were undeniably in no condition
to expect any appreciable returns.
As the argument heated, the Com
missioners further reminded the
school board that when an appropria
tion was made to build the present
school at Small’s Cross Roads it was
their understanding that it would
take care of the school needs for at
least ten years. The school men
countered, however, that they were
limited to such an extent by the
amount allowed that the proper facil
ities could not be included in the
$66,000 available.
The argument hung fire for some
time, when Chairman Warren said he:
would entertain a motion. No mo
tion was made, however, and the
matter was dismissed for the time 1
being at least.
District Meeting
Os Town Officials
I Held Here Today!
One of 18 Meetings
Sponsored By League
Jr yf Municipalities
; ■
As one of the 18 meetings being
held during 'tfovember throughout the
k state the North Carolina League of
Municipalities will meet here today at
o’clock in the Court House. As
town executive, Mayor J. H. McMullah
will preside. The purpose of the
gathering will be to better acquaint
the local town officials and all others
who can attend with the state-wide
municipal legislative program to be
-promulgated during the forthcoming
session of the state law mill. Presi
dent J. E. L. Wade, executive secre
tary Patrick Healy, Jr., and Field
Consultant Bill Newell, are all ex
pecting to be on hand at today’s
gathering, and as Edenton is a mem
ber of the state league, Mayor Mc-
Mullen « anxious that a large crowd
of cittJKit be present to meet with
&nd hear ■
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
V
! Legionnaires Will
Observe Program In
School 10:45 Friday
• Every citizen in this section is
j cordially invited to attend the
,! Armistice Day celebration spon
sored by Ed Bond Post in the
Edenton school auditorium Friday
morning. The exercises, starting
at 10:46 o'clock, will be in the form
of a memorial service with special
; , music features.
’ An originally planned oyster
« roast has been dropped from the
I program, this feature being with
; held until the district meeting is
i held later in Edenton.
i
■ Subject Os Taxes
Occupies Attention
j Os Commissioners
, Steps Now In Making to
L Collect 1931 to 1935
I
Taxes
PAY ORELSE—
’ Eight Taxpayers Re
sponsible For Half
Amount
t Taxes appeared the principal theme
• with the" CounW- Commissioners at
. their monthly meeting Monday. From
, all angles the matter of taxes were
. discussed in the hope that enough
. would be forthcoming to be able to
i steer clear of embarrassing circum
. stances regarding the payment of
i bonds and interest as they become
[ due.
I I In the first place Clerk of Court
1 Richard D. Dixon took it upon him-
I self to figure out an arrangement j
■ ! whereby with small indexed books,,
[• one for each township, the Commis
■l sioners as well as his office can in a
. i few moments learn who owes the
: ! county back taxes as well as the
The scheme was well re-|
, 1 ceived by the Commissioners who for j
curiosity sake thumbed through the
pages and in doing so became enough
, interested to determine the amount
’ due the-- county in taxes for which
foreclosure suits have been brought,
'i The delinquent taxes in question cov
' ered the years 1931 through 193 b,
. which amounted to $13,500.
(Continued on Page Five)
Baskervill Pleased
With Edenton Visit
I
That J. C. Baskervill, of Raleigh,
, who accompanied M. U. Cooke to 1
,1 Edenton last week to make movie
. tone shots, is well pleased with his
, i visit is reflected in a brief letter to:
Mayor J. H. McMullan. Says Mr. j
Baskervill in part:
“I want to thank you for the very
fine cooperation which you and the
people of Edenton gave to Mr. Cooke
last week when he was there making
the peanut picture.
“I confident that this coopera
tion will not only react to benefit
l Edenton but the entire state of,
• North Carolina. I was frankly sur-j
prised at the progressive spirit shown :
I there and the interest taken by your 1
leading business men, in making these
newsreel shots. You can truthfully
say that Edenton is now the most
progressive old town in North Caro
lina.”
Good News |
Collection of Chowan County
taxes revived somewhat during
October, Sheriff J. A, Bunch re
porting that $18,018.71 of the
1938 taxes ’were collected diving
the month. Os the 1937 taxes
$738.47 were collected, bringing
the total 1937 tax collections up
to $80,204.42 of a levy of $96.-
246.48. Mr. Bunch told the Com
missioners that collections for
the month were about $3,000
ahead of the same month last
year, credit foe which was given
the new system #f bookkeeping
wnicn provide* ror ft ftifticnwit
bring sent tv every taxpayer.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, November 10, 1938.
: Chowan Red Cross
Roll Call Continues
I Until Thanksgiving'
Membership Drive Be
gins In jCounty To
morrow
TOWN CANVASSERS
Edenton Solicitors Se
lected By Chapter
Chairman
Starting tomorrow and running
through to Thanksgiving the annual
Red Cross membership roll call will
be held in this county, and Mrs. J.
| N\. Pruden, the Chapter chairman,
announced yesterday the canvassers
| selected to manage the drive in
1 Edenton. Posters have been placed
all about town justifying the appeal,
and an earnest effort will be made to
enlarge the membership beyond the
figures of last or previous years.
Those chosen as canvassers, each
of whom will have others working
with them, are:
West side Broad, between Peterson;
and Gale—Mrs. Leroy Haskett.
, East side Broad, between Peterson
■ and Church—Mrs. Lester Forehand.
Broad, between Church and Queen —
Mrs. Henry Gardner.
( East side Broad, between Queen
and Water—Miss Mary Moore and.
Miss Audrey Rowell.
West side Broad, between Queen
and' Water—Miss Kathryn Hdlmes
and Miss Barbara Kepler.
Bank of Edenton Building—Miss
Frye Pettus.
Citizens Bank Building—Mrs. W. I.
Hart.
Mosely Street—Mrs. Waylon Moore.
Water Street Miss Katherine
Brown and Miss Betty Wales.
!. Albemarle Street—Mrs. W. H.
: Coffield.
1 Albemarle Street Mrs. M. F.
! Bond, Jr.
1 Granville, between Peterson and
1 Church—Mrs. Oscar Brown.
; East side Granville, between Church I
and King—Miss Jessie McMullan. j
! West side Granville, between |
Church and Granville—Mrs. C. E. j
; Byrum. |
South side Church, between Broad
; ■ and Granville—Mrs. J. F. White. |
,! North side Church, between Broad
• and Granville —Mrs. S. W. Taylor. I
Church, between Granville and
s Mosely—Mrs. J. F. Miller.
i j (Continued on Page Five)
Hotel Joseph Hewes
Changes Ownership
G. M. Harding Buys
Property From E. City
Concern
Right much interest was evidenced
| this week when it became known
, that the Hotel Joseph Hewes was •
,i sold. The new owner is G. M. Hard
ing, who purchased the hotel from
the Southern Loan and Insurance
Company, of Elizabeth City, which
i concern was trustee for bondholders.
| Mr. Harding formerly operated a
1 hotel at Fredericksburg, Va., but later
became owner of a hotel at Peters
burg, which he now operates.
Just when the new owner will take
over management of the hotel is
problematical. The present manager,
W. R. Horton, hflds a lease with the
original owners which expires June
■ 1, and if and when satisfactory ar
! rangements can be made with Mr.
• i Horton he will relinquish his right to
continue as manager.
Mr. Harding prans to remodel and
make a number of improvements
when he assumes control.
Garden Club Meets
On Monday Night
With Mrs. J. A. Moore
The regular meeting of the Garden
Club will be held Monday night with
Mrs. J. A. Moore. The meeting has
been called for 7:30 o’clock, at which
time H. C. Wilson, of the Davey Tree
Company, will speak. All members
are urged to be present.
J. C. (Dick) Leary
Is Critically 111
Friends will regret to learn that
J. C. (Dick) Leary is critically ill at
his home. On Wednesday hiß condi
tion was reported to be very little]
improved.
Gilbert Hollowed
And Ice Company
! Sued For $29,267|
Mrs. P. J. Warner Seeks
Damages Due to Hus
band’s Death
AUTO ACCIDENT
Result of Fatal Crash at
Triangle Filling
Station
Civil damages totaling $19,117.36,
and punitive damages totaling SIO,OOO
more are claimed in a suit filed in
the Superior Court yesterday growing
out of the automotive death last
spring of P. J. Warner. The action
is brought by the widow against Gil
bert Hollowell, driver of the truck
causing the fatality and the Edenton
Ice Company, by whom Hollowell was
employed at the time of the accident.
A special claim of $l5O is made for
the demolition of the Warner auto
mobife.
The accident occurred near the
: Triangle Filling Station, and the
complaint papers charge Hollowell
was driving in reckless and careless
manner, at a speed approximating
more than 40 miles an hour, that he
was operating the truck on the left
hand side of the roadway, and that
his vision was obstructed.
The complainant claims thgi she is,
aside from other children, the mother
of two minor children and that' her
husband was 53 years old at the time
of the fatality.
Farm Security Office
Gogysjri Nejam Bldg.
Anotofr effinge in offices of govern
ment * n Edenton will be
made thisofreek. The change affects
the office of the Farm Security Ad
ministration-now on the second floor
of the Court House. Two more peo
, pie have been added to the office
j personnel, thereby outgrowing the
j present office space.
The second floor of the Nejam
! building has been rented, with the
• county and city jointly paying the
I rent. The County Commissioners
I were very agreeable to making a
• change in that it releases the room
, ordinarily used by a petit jury during
1 court services.
Election In Chowan
Very Quiet Affair
Vote Estimated Below
400; Amendments
'(Carried
Except for a marked interest on
the two constitutional amendments,
election was as quiet ap an Alabama
mockingbird on Tuesday—that is it
was in Chowan. Os course in nearby
Kentucky the folks had to wade
through shot gun pellets on the way
to the polls, but in this distinctive
commonwealth if there was anything
noisier than a pin dropping it wasn’t
heard at any of the four Chowan
voting precincts.
In fact it was all so quiet and or
derly none of the county officials had
bothered themselves to collect the re
turns yesterday. Those figures in, a
clean Democratic sweep, of course,
indicated the usual off-year voting
total, something like 400 or a little
less for the county, as compared with
a normal aggregate of 1,600 or 1,800
presidential years.
U. S. Senator Bob Reynolds and
all the others running on the Demo
cratic ticket in the state won by
around 400 to 1, and here in Chowan
the perecentage for the local candi
dates, all re-elected, was as much if
not greater.
But on the amendments the interest
evidenced shows a marked degree of
inquisitive intelligence on the part of
the electorate. In the first Edenton
ward the first amendment relating to
the term of sheriffs was carried 85
for and 25 against, and in the second
ward 77 for and 11 against. The
second amendment providing for a
Department of Justice was carried
in the first ward 51 to 11 and in the
second ward 78 to 14. Both amend
ments carried throughout, the State.
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Meredith Jones, who has been in
St. Vincent’s Hospital, Norfolk, Va.,
for the past ten days following an
I appendectomy, was brought home on
] Wednesday. It is hoped that his con
valescence will be a speedy one.
Edenton Peanut Processors
Sense Misunderstanding In
Price Expected By Farmers
——— <%
| Heads Democrats |
JOHN W. GRAHAM
Mr. Graham was last week
elected president of the Chowan
Cotfnty Young Democratic Club.
Town Councilmen
Faced Witti Little
Business Tuesday
Need For Better Storm
Sewerage Presented
To Board
BUY POLICE CAR
Concise Delinquent Tax
Figures Are Now
Available
Very little business confronted
Town Councilmen at their meeting
Tuesday night, with the bulk of the
time taken up in deciding upon the
make of automobile to be purchased
for the Police Department and a sug
gested remedy for improving storm
sewer drainage.
Bids were submitted for four makes
of automobiles for the Police Depart
ment, a Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Ford
[ and Chevrolet. Figures were studied
and by a secret ballot the Chevrolet
was the choice made. The amount
of expenditure for this make of car
was smallest, the difference in the
price over the old car being S4OO.
The street commissioner reported
inadequate storm sewerage facilities
in case of rain of any volume and
presented a remedy. He explained
that the volume of water was far too
great for the one pipe line at Eden
Street to carry the water to the
Sound. The suggested remedy is an
auxiliary line from Queen Street to
the Sound which would relieve the
line now in use. In an investigation
it was also discovered that the line
through the swamp between Queen
and Eden Streets is completely out
of service which also tends to cause
(Continued on Page Five)
Auxiliary Os Legion
Sponsoring Square
Dance Friday Night
i
Members of the American Legion
Auxiliary of Edward G. Bond Post,
No. 40, have completed arrangements
for a square dance at the Armory
Friday night. The program includes
a military drill by the Ambulance
Company, a concert by the Edenton
High School Band, followed by several
vocal solos and quartets.
A small admission will be charged
and it is hoped a large crowd will be
on hand.
| Better Grades
October grading of Edenton
stores where fresh meat is
handled shows much improve
ment,’ according to Dr. F. H.
Garris, county health officer., The
grading which was completed
early this week gives every store
a grade above 90 per cent.
The standing follows:
J. E. Lassiter Meat Market 94.5%
C. E. Byrum Market 94.0%
G. M. Byrum Market 93.5%
Pender’s 92 Jb%
White’s Market 91.5%
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
Quotations Depend En
tirely Upon Quality
Os Nuts t
S7O TOPPRICE
Grades and Classes Set
Up to Determine
Prices
Local peanut processors have been
meeting with some difficulty in pur
chasing peanuts from farmers which
no doubt for the most part is caused
by unfamiliarity with quality requir
ed by the prices offered by the gov
ernment. It appears that some farm
ers are under the impression that the
government will pay S7O per ton for
peanuts, regardless of grade, and,
therefore expect that amount when,
selling to local peanut concern*. As
a matter of fact, local plants will
pay the government price for pea
nuts and would rather pay S7O per
ton for the best grade of peanuts
- than lower prices for inferior grades.
The government has specified three
grades, which for the information of
peanut growers are as follows:
Class “A”—s7o.oo. These peanuts
must contain 34 per cent bright
Jumbos and 11 per cent bright Fan
cies and shell out 65 per cent sound
l and mature kernels.
Class “8”—566.00. These peanuts
must contain 34 per cent bright
Jumbos and 11 per cent bright Fan
l cies and shell out 60 per cent soun<f
and mature kernels.
Class “C”—s6l.oo. These peanuts
must contain 34 per cent bright
Jumbos and 11 per cent bright Fan
cies and shell 65 per cent sound and
, mature kernels. - Y
U. S. N«F2'-‘
‘ Class “A”—567.00. These peanuts
must contain 21 per cent bright
Jumbos and 14 per cent bright Fan
cies and shell 65 per cent sound and
mature kernels.
I Class “8”—563.00. These peanuts
r must contain 21 per cent bright
. Jumbos and 14 per cent bright Fan
• cies and shell 60 per cant sound and
| mature kernels.
Class “C”—ssß.oo. These peanuts
i (Continued on Page Five)
• Graham Speaker At
j Rotarians’ Meeting:
i
; John W. Graham, a member of the
• 1 International Service Committee of
. the Edenton Rotary Club, will be the
j principal speaker at the Club’s meet
ing tonight at 6:30 in the Parisa
, House.
At their meeting last Thursday
] the Rotarians were treated to a mus
. ical program. Several solos were
( sung by Mrs. Gordon Blow, accom
( panied by Mrs. Wood Privott. Two
, colored men also contributed to the
( pleasure of the evening when John
( Brickhouse and O. B. Lamberth fur
_ nished a number of lively piano selec
j tions and. tap dancing.
Edenton Gridders
Tackle Suffolk On
Friday Afternoon
i Contest May Be Last
Game of Season For
Holtonmen
! _____
! Unless Coach David Holton is able
1 to schedule a game for Friday of next
' week, the Edenton High School foot
ball team will play their final game
1 of the 938 schedule tomorrow after
! noon. The Aces will invade Virginia
territory, being scheduled to meet
the Suffolk High School on the lat
ter’s grounds at 3 o’clock. The Vir
ginians always have a strong team
on the gridiron and local fans pre
dict a tough battle. In anticipation
of this pre-game dope, Coach Holton
has been putting his boys through
some stiff practice. All of his boys
are in splendid, shape and the Tar
Heels are prepared to let the Suffolk
boys know they were in a football
game if they are successful in down
ing the Aces.
Coach Holton expects to be able to
arrange a game to be played in
Edenton next Friday afternoon with
one of the losing teams contending
for district honors, but at this time,
no gams has been scheduled.