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Volume V. —Number 48.
New Invitation Extended
Anthony Eden To Come To
L Edenton While In America
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Speaks to Manufactur
ers In New York on
I December 9
t * MAYORWBITES
English Statesman Pre
viously Promised to
v i Visit Town
Mayor Jack McMullan, optimist de
> luxe, was agog Tuesday over the
possibility of at last having Anthony
Eden, English statesman and former
British Foreign Secretary, visit Eden
ton during his week’s stay in this
country starting next Friday. The
famous Englishman will address the
National Association of Manufac
turers, the great countrywide anti-
Roosevelt organization, in New York
on December 9, and plans to put in
" the following seven days touring
Washington Mt. Vernon and Wil
liamsburg.
So, of course, the town executive is
hopeful the visitor will come here and
lay a wreath on the grave of his fam
ous ancestor, Royal Governor Charles
Eden, lying buried today beneath the
towering magnolias in Old St. Paul’s
graveyard.
The Mayor bases his hope on the
fact thaV Eden wrote him a couple of
) years ago that he would do this very
-' thing if “I ever come to America,”
an d as he is now doming, Mayor Mc-
Mullan is string tooth and nail to
hold him to this promise.
Long before he was Mayor Mc-
Mullen* letter went to London to the
young' lawmaker in the House ol
... Commons, telling of Governor Eden’s
service here and of his burial place
and asking for information regarding
his earlier life. Back came a huge
sized errw*H**with a ribboned sealed
'letter in gold and black saying he
didn’t know i»ach about his ancestor,!
I but referred McMullan to Burke’s
Peerage and other genealogical tomes. j
pf coprse this was but a stepping :
atone.for the Mayor for as soon as he j
became town executive he indited
another letter to London, inviting the j
foreign statesman to visit Edenton
and promising to extend to him the
keys of the city if he could do so, in
cidentally “Edenton is pleased
to make you honorary citizen.
And to this, too, Eden replied, this
time through the English Ambassador
to the United States, saying the For
eign Secretary was grateful for the
honor conferred upon him and prom
ised that 'if he ever came to the
• United States he would make Eden
p . ton and his ancestor’s grave one of
T his main objectives.
So, of course, the unrepressive
' Mayor, remindful always of the im
portance such things are to Edenton,
has sent the youthful foreigner this
letter:
"I am very happy to see in today’s
Associated Press news the statement
that you have accepted an invitation
from the National Association of
Manufacturers to address them in
New York on December 9th.
“You will recall that in previous
- correspondence you assured me that
should you ever visit srica that it
(Continued on Page Five!
Msthodist Pastor
[ Wit Be Here Sunday
I Rev. and Mrs. Benson
Expected to Arrive
This Week
I". Rev. W. C. Benson, formerly of the
~'‘-lunt Olive district, who has been
to succeed the Rev. George
W- fc(Blount"at the Edenton Methodist
Chufcl% will meet his new eongrega
-1 tion newt Sunday, and will preach his
* nrtft sqermone twice that day.
The I new pastor has written to Dr.
yf A-l Leggett, chairman of the
Board Jof Stewards of the church, that
he wifi move here with his wife this
vreek, | and. is looking forward with
P'*V happfb«Bß to service with the local
H Revl Mr. Benson, a man of some
IX maturity, has a son, he wrote, in
m ColunSria University, New York, and
” a daughter, a member of the Wallace
it JSSfaculty. Neither of the chil
dren. m said, would be here with he
and Mrs. Beneon save during the sea- j
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Almost Through j
HERBERT LEARY
When the December term of
Chowan Superior Court closes
Mr. Leary, will have rounded out
almost eleven years of service as
solicitor for the First District.
His position will be filled by
Chester Morris, of Currituck
County.
| APiea |
The sponsors of the Christmas
Stocking Fund are again appeal
ing for help in raising a fund to
bring Christmas joy to childiren
who, except for this fund, would
have very little or nothing to
make them happy on Christmas
morning.
This is a community work, and
has been done for the children
for nearly twenty years through
voluntary contributions, and the
sponsors feel sure that friends
will be as generous this year as
fhyy have 1 - been in, the past.
Through means of this fund, in
j 1937 the children in 49 families—
-11 122 children in all—awoke on
Christmas morning to find that
1 Santa Claus had not forgotten
: ! them as they had been told he
would, but had left them toys,
1 presents and all kinds of good
things.
Please make contributions as
early as possible, as it is impossi
ble to do any planning or buying
until there are sufficient funds to
work with. Send contributions to
Mrs. 0. M. Elliott, Miss Sarah H.
Jones, or Miss Louise D. Coke,
and be sure to send them early.
New Auto License
Plates Go On Sale
Locally Dec. Ist;
i
Arrangements Made to
Handle Rush For
1939 Tags
NEW HIGH MARK
New Plates Must Be Dis-
I played After Mid
night Dec. 31
I I Motor vehicle owners who reside in
i Edenton or who receive their mail
through the Edenton postoffice, should
I contact the local office of the Carolina
Motor Club if they have not received
the white 1989 license application
card from Raleigh covering their au
tomobile, trucks or trailers, accord
ing to Mrs. Leon G. Leary, manager
of the club.
R. R. McLaughlin, director of motor
vehicles, has authorized the postoffice
to turn over to the Carolina Motor
Club all license application cards that;
could not he delivered. These cards ;
are filed alphebetically at the Caro-[
lina Motor Club office at 116 E. King
, Street, where those who have not re
, ceived cards for their vehicles are in
vited to call and see if their name ap
pears among these cards*
The 1989 plates will go on sale
December 1, Manager Leary said, and j
arrangements have been completed!
for handling the rush quickly and es- 1
ficiently. To date 3,851 have been ]
sold at the local office compared with;
3,867 for the entire year of 1937.
The total sale for the entire State
I stands at 591,648, and indications are
that the total will fall jufet shy of!
j sale for thej
.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, December 1, 1938.
Edenton Preparing
For Christmas As
Big Holiday Nears
Business Section Will Be
Illuminated Friday
Night
NEwIICHEME
Merchants Already Re
ceiving Shipments of
Holiday Wares
Christmas is in this month and
Edenton is knowing it. With $14,500
of Christmas Fund money sent out by
the Bank of Edenton today, and with
the official strikingly beautiful town
illuminations up this week and to be
lighted Friday night, the annual
gay and festive Festival of Childhood,
chronicling the birth of the world’s
most important Bab£— yes, Christmas
is coming and coming with a rush.
Edenton and its merchants will
have' a reason to be genuinely proud
of its lighting pageantry this year.
Thanks to the Town Council and the
E.— W. Department, Broad Street
through the business section will be
able to claim a lot of Christmas
beauty distinction. In a sense, differ
ing as it has from other years, the
! cross street illuminations will be one
i of the south's finest small city jobs.
If not the beat, then among the best,
and as you travel Broad Street from
the Post Office south you will know
the pattern has been planned well.
For as you gaze from one vantage
point to another up or down Broad
Street, you will seem to be standing
beneath a canopy of flickering color.
The Main Street will have a red,
white and green roof on it of shim
mering globes. Strikingly beautiful
it will be and we’ll stand by that.
And the storekeepers are already
at work planning to add to this beau
ty. Stocljs, linparalled in their ele-
aw arriving daily for display
I in artistic treatment in shop windows
I and on shop counters and shelves. A
! bit of snow here, waning autumn
. there, dolls and doll houses, fairyland
for the children, Christmas bells,
some of them chiming,—everywhere
the parade of attractive merchandise.
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Episcopalians Elect
Vestrymen Monday
A congregational meeting of St.
Paul’s Church will be held. Monday
night at 8 o’clock. At this time a
vestry will be elected, reports from
all of the organizations heard and
other business attended to.
The Candle of Health
The Lady Barrister who demanded payment of a pound of flesh
1 , in the Merchant of Venice, also remarked in one of her more pleasant
ij moods—“ How far that little candle throws its beams.” Her theme
j could well apply to the 1938 Christmas Seal, just now being offered
1 generally for sale in Chowan and the nation, and could be augmented
with “So shines this little symbol for a healthier world.”
The pleasant custom of lighting a candle in the window on Christmas
Eve has come down through the ages and the mother with her two
children on this year’s Seal links that seasonal ritual with the ideal of 1
family and home. And mere so with the phrase beneath—“ Protect
your home from tuberculosis.”
Study the Seal carefully and you will see the suggestion of earlier j
days as the three characters upon it are costumed in the formal style i
of the Victorian era, the period when Home was really idealized and 1
holiday customs meant much to old and young alike. But the health
situation in those days was in a sorry state, which it is well for us to
know when we buy our supply of Seals this year, for we are living to
day in an age when modem methods and intelligent cooperation have
completely revolutionized health conditions in the United States.
Up to the middle of the last century, or even later, people did not
even know that tuberculosis was contagious. It was many years after
Dr. Koch’s separation of the germ that causes the disease before we
all learned the way infection spreads. It used to be that any one who
' had consumption was considered doomed to death—he was kept in
doors and watched over resignedly by his sorrowing family. When ,
others broke down they never realized, they had been infected by the i
coughing victim—they believed tuberculosis was inherited.
The treatment then by the best physicians was exercise, an ocean
; voyage, plus many expensive prescriptions, say like Antiphyrine. But i
i today rest becomes recognized as all important along with established I
T modem sanatorium treatments. We have advanced still further
through the tuberculin test and X-ray and are able to detect the
malady in its early stages when cure may be effected.
We are privileged, indeed to be living in this healthier world. The
death rate from tuberculosis, for years the leading cause of death, has
been cu£ more than two-thirds since the turn of the cenutry. Each
j year finds the public better informed on the need for this prevention,
j Yet tuberculosis still takes more lives than any other sickness, be
| tween the ages of 15 and 45. Until that important group has been
| protected the educational work of the Christmas Seal must be
; continued.
'Hie little candle on the 1938 Christmas Seal throws its beams far
out into the world. To those who are ill with tuberculosis it offers
• hope, encouragement. To others it stands as the beacon of happy,
j healthful homes—homes free from tuberculosis,
I Buy your share and save a life!
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Red Cross Roll Call j
Drive Lacks About
SSO Os County Goal
i Only Few More Scatter -
ed Reports Not Yet
; In Hand
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$358.90~T0 DATE
• Mrs. Pruden Is Hopeful
Quota of S4OO Will
Be Reached
l Continued reports by canvassers,
) made public today by Mrs. J. N.
r Pruden, chairman of the local chap
ter, indicate that $358.90 has been se
-1 cured in the annual Red Cross roil
> call membership drive. With only a
> few more canvassers to be heard
| from, Mrs. Pruden bellieves that un
, less some unexpected contributions;
i are made, Chowan will this year fail
i to go over the top in reaching the
S4OO goal. Mrs. Pruden is hopeful
I that the quota will be reached, how-
I ever, and in commenting oh the drive
says it is not that citizens are less
j interested in the Red Cross, but that
, many feel the pinch of the scarcity of
[ money. She will not send her report
J in to headquarters for several days
in the hope that friends of the cause
, will add to their contribution so that
' Chowan ffiay again be listed among
the counties which have raised their
quota.
(Continued on Page Five)
Federation Meeting
> Held Friday Night
i
r As announced in The Herald last
. week, the fall meeting of the Federa
, tion of Home Demonstration Clubs
■ will be held Friday night in the
I I Edenton High School auditorium.
The meeting will begin at 7.30 o’clock
r and it is hoped that not only club
. members attend, but also those who
. are interested in the work done by
, the women of the county.
5 i An interesting meeting is in pros
, pect, presided, over by Mrs. S. F.
i Small, president, which includes an
1. illustrated lecture on kitchen planning
,! by Miss Naomi Shank, home econo
i] mist for the Virginia Power and
.! Electric Company, awarding of prizes
; in the kitchen contest and naming of
| winners in the Ball and Kerr canning I
| contests. Perfect attendance certi
i ficates will also be awarded to the 1
r women who have not missed a club
I meeting between November, 1937, and
. j November, 1938. j
r j Rev. R. E. Walston, pastor of the]
i Center Hill Methodist Church, will,
i offer the invocation, and Miss Sally;
i Dixon will add to the program by i
1 singing several solos.
isl4,sooDistributed Today
By Bank Os Edenton To 500
Christmas Club Members
j PASSED ON - j
MW
wm i-j
J. C. “DICK” LEARY
Succilmbing finally last week to
attacks of angina pectoris, Mr.
Leary was laid to rest Tuesday
in Beaver Hill Cemetery. Photo
arrived just a little too late for
last week’s issue*
Campaign To Sell
Christmas Seals
Gets Under Way
Canvassers Meet With
Mrs. Holland Today
* 'AtIOA. M.
SEAL ARTISTfC
Mrs. Moore Outlines
Reasons For Need of
| Cooperation
: Canvassers selected to hand.le this;
> year’s Christmas Seal drive will pre- ]
. face their start today by gathering!
j in the Cupola House at 10 o’clock this j
,] morning to confer with Mrs. J. A.
1 Moore, the chairman, and her chief
• ■ aide, Mrs. R. C. Holland. At that
■; time they will be given their bundles
lof Seals to dispose of, wilfr receive
! final instructions as to the sale, and
1 will begin a campaign that will con
-1 tinue unceasingly until Christmas.
Mrs. Emmett Elliott has been as
signed, as before, to handle the cam
paign in the county outside of Eden
ton, and Mrs. J. W. Davis has con
sented to serve as chairman in charge
,of the Edenton schools, both white
and colored.
, Most of the other canvassers se
lected—a full list of those so chosen,
' follows at the end of this article —
have done heroic service in the same
! capacity during other years and are
1 considered by Mrs. Moore as her
I “Old Guard.”
! Last year’s drive brought in $228.45
! from the sale of Seals in Chowan, of
| which three-fourths remained in this
county for tubercular work . locally.
Os this amount $l6B was spent for
milk alone.
Anyway you look at it postal em-;
ployees have a special interest in this 1
year Christmas Seals, as each sheet:
of one hundred contains the picture;
of a member of their profession,
| Einar Holboeli, the Danish postal
‘ clerk who invented the idea of selling
an extra stamp to raise funds for
anti-tuberculosis work.
I The little seal this year is espec- 1
! ialiy artistic, showing a mother and;
■ her two children lighting a Christmas 1
i candle in the window. In color and 1
i design the seal is highly regarded as
I art work. It was designed by Lloyd
Coe, of New York and differs from]
other years in that the four corner;
sheet stamps are different. Portraits:
of pioneers in tuberculosis history
appear, such as Laenee, the French-]
man, who invented the stethoscope in]
1810, Koch, of Germany, who discov
ered the germ of tuberculosis in 1862, j
Trodeau, who established modem,
sanatorium treatment in 1885, and
Holboeli, who introduced the seal
idea.
A full list of those canvassers
and which will be added to when
the town and county drive is thor
oughly under way, has been given
out by Mrs. Holland, who has that
phase of the campaign in command.
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This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
9
Sizeable Amount Will
Be Used For Many
Purposes
LARGEST YET
Started In 1921, Popular
Savings Plan Grows
Yearly
There will be some new furs in
Chowan this Christmas. There will
be plenty of playthings for the little
ones pop out of Santa’s bag Christ
mas morning. Even Dad may find it
possible to get his car license before
the first of the year, maybe a whole
new car for it. And Bill or Mary
away at college will find their allow
ances awaiting them, maybe in
creased.
And all because of the gladsome
tidings that came out of the Bank of
Edenton this week, and which reach
ed fulfillment in distribution today.
The bank’s Christmas Fund, made
up this year of around 509 members
got paid off. This means checks have
been sent out to all the members and
for that largest aggregate in the his
tory of the fund, $14,500.
And $14,500 in a little county whose
total population is not that much, is
a lot of money to come right now.
It beats any AAA check for under
sowing corn or for stabilizing peanut
prices. This is your own money
handed back to you by a bank that’s
added to it monthly and quarterly
with interest payments, and now
j hands the whole sum back to you and
merely says “Try it again and don’t
be foolish.”
Banks are supposed to take depos
its and by careful loaning and man
agement make them bring in heavy
interests^ But those* who know the
I Bank .of Edenton kndw that in the
case of its Christmas fund members
it has been less actuated by this idea
than by making the club an encourag
er for thrift and saving.
I The bank won’t say as much, per
j haps, but if you use your head you
j will realize that the small sums you
j have left with the fund guardians at
I the bank each week, would hardly
j find a borrower in the sums a bank
j of this one’s importance is accustomed
jto loaning to. So the two or a little
! more percent you get today on youi
savings you can count as a gift from
the bank, a payment acknowledgement
of its gratitude for 500 sensible,
worthwhile friends who know what’s
what and act accordingly.
Today’s fund payment is the largest
since the fund got a start in 1921,
seventeen years ago. Each year the
fund has grown steadily in members
and in resources, and next year bids
fair to be even greater.
Be the first in line when the 1939
fund starts. Otherwise the poor ye
have with you always.
Plans Are Completed
For Fall Festival To
Be Held Next Week
I Officially Opens With a
Parade on Monday
Afternoon
BALLFRIDAY
Beauty Queen Will Be
Crowned Saturday
| Night
[ Plans are gradually being whipped
, into shape for the fall festival to be
held all of next week which is being
I sponsored by the Edenton Fire De
] partment and the local Ambulance
j Company. The affair which will be
i held in the Armory will officially get
] under way at 4:30 Monday afternoon
I when a parade will be held starting
j at the fir*. station and marching to
| the Armory. The parade will be
| headed by the Edenton High School
i band and will include the firemen
and the fre fighting apparatus, the
Ambulance Company and their equip
ment as well as merchants being ask
ed to join.
In the Armory many booths will be
erected for the entertainment of those
who attend. The Broadway Brevi
dears, a musical comedy, boasting a
bevy of beautiful girts, has been ae
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