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I*7 iwwrrf imtmwt. I - Volume Vl.—Number 8. Noah Levy Ward Takes Own LifeWednesdayMorningßy Firing Bullet Into Temple - —- Rash Act Committed About 7 O’clock In ; Kitchen FUNERAL TODAY Deceased One of Coun ty’s Most Substantial Citizens 'Within a week’s time a second Eden ton citizen ended his life by a similar method when on Wednesday morning Noah Levy Ward pnt a .22 calibre rifle to his head and fired into his temple, falling dead instantly. Mr. Ward, 66 years of age, was one of Chowan County’s largest and most successful farmers, also operating a cotton gin near his home just out side of Edenton’s city limits. Adding to the severe shock of his untimely death is the fact that he was apparently in good health and on recent visits to his children ap peared to be even more jovial than usual. No reason was made known for his act other than that when he got up about 7 o’clock and was to make a fire in the kitchen he spoke sharply to his wife, who left the room and immediately heard a shot fired. Upon her return she was hor rified to see her husband lying on the floor bleeding profusely about the head. Mr. Ward was one of'the county’s most substantial citizens, owning con siderable farming land and was also part owner of the Citizens Bank building. He was a native of Chow an County, being born near Center Hill and had lived and prospered in the county all of his life. Surviving are his wife, two sons, Zelle and Mack,, of Edenton, and five daughters, Bliss Glenn Ward, a teach er in the Winston-Salem schools; Stokes, of S. L. Flynn and Mrs. Augustus Harrell, of Edenton. A brother, M. N. Ward, of Arnold, Md., and two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Bunch, of Rich Square, and Mrs. Hattie Nixon, of Norfolk, Va., also survive. Funeral services will be held this: (Thursday) afternoon with interment taking place at Center Hill. Edenton Fans Well Pleased With New Tar Heel Manager Frank Holmes Received First Training With Edenton Aces His many friends in Edenton were _ delighted last week to learn that Frank Holmes, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Holmes, has been selected as manager of the University of North Carolina football team for the 1989 season. He had served as assistant manager of the Tar Heels last year! and while his ambition was to become mafidger, the announcement came as a very pleasant surprise to him. He did an excellent job as assistant man ager and has ikon the admiration of many of the teachers and students. ♦ Mr. Holmes received his first train ing at managing a football team when a jjtudent at Edenton High School. He acted in this capacity (•for several years and was manager - in 1934 when the Edenton Abes went through a very hard schedule with out being defeated or even being W stored-upon and wound up the season by defeating . Reidsville at Chapel Hilt for the State Class B champion- V-was a very strenuous season, *and by his efficient discharge of the varied duties as manager made it possible for Coach Henry House to • .dismiss from his mind all of the de twjMkpf the management of the team ainrdevote all of his time to coaching | .jnembers of the team. § 'The Tar Heels have a large follow ing in Edenton, but due to a local j boy being their manager, interest in V *h«e success of the team this coming ■qeoson will more pronounced. | MASON'S MEET TONIGHT THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOW AH COUNTY » ■ - | Great Day! | “It’s a great day in Charlotte,” wired Hector Lupton, co-publish er of The Herald, who is repre senting this newspaper at the unique meeting of the General Assembly in Charlotte on Wed nesday. The telegram arrived just as The Herald was going to press, Hating together with Mr. and Mrs. Lupton as Chowan rep resentatives Mr. and Mire. Ray Hollowell, Miss Ruby Lentz, R. C. Holland and, of course, Mr. and Mrs. John F. White. Winners In Movie Quiz Contest Made Known On Monday Successful (Contestants Will Be Read From Taylor Stage MUCH INTEREST i List of Winners Now In Vault of Bank of Edenton Os interest to many movie fans is the information that winners in the recent quarter of a million dollar movie quiz contest will be announced on the Taylor Theatre stage Monday night. Manager Jimmy Earnhardt will celebrate this occasion by announcing the names of all national prize win *B*rs from the 850,000 lipst .prize, $25,000 second prize, SIO,OOO prize winners, $6,000 prize winners down to the ten SI,OOO successful contest ants. In addition, if there are any local prize winners, they will also be announced. Should winners be pres : ent in the theatre, certified checks issued by the Chemical Bank and Trust Company of New York, will be presented to them on this occasion. The list of winners is already in Edenton, being sent sealed to the Bank of Edenton early this week. There they ■will remain until shortly' before 9 o’clock next Monday night when the sealed envelope will be turned over to Mr. Earnhardt to be read from the theatre stage. This method is being used, all over the country so that no cities or com munities will have any advantage of first learning the contest winners which created a great amount of in terest while in progress. There will be T,404 lucky contestants, who will receive a total of $250,000. Judges in the contest were: Sirs. Ogden Reid, Dr. James E. West, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, Hon. Bruce Bar ton and Hendrick Willem van Loon. In the selection of the winning let ters, the entries were considered without signatures and identified by I a key number. In that way even the judges did not know the names of the Successful contestants until after they made their selections. . / ; . The motion picture Ihdiiti&y is proud of the success of this contest and. the manner in which it was judged. Although a tremendous task, because of the large number of en tries, each answer was carefully checked by a staff of experts, and through process of elimination the letters were graded and then consid ered by the judges. E.H.S. Teams Drop ■ Games To Tarboro Both boys’ and girls’ basketball teams of Edenton High School com pleted their regular schedule Tuesday night when both groups dropped games to the Tarboro High School. TTie boys were easily outplayed by the Edgecombe County boys, the score being 27 to 17. The girls, how ever, put up a hard fight and lost the game by only two points, the score standing 18 to'll. On Friday night the boys added their third victory of the season when they tripped the Merry Hill i quintet by a score of 19 to 5. The visiting girls, aided by the outstand ing playing of Betty Cowand, who scared 14 points, easily came out of - the fray with a 16 to 9 score. .1 The two local teams will now take Jpart in tte tournament to beheld in i Elisabeth City. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, February 23,1939. Pictures Continue To Boost Edenton As Peanut Center Peanut Frolic Shots Ap pear In 110 Newspa pers Out of State CHECKMADE / Clippings (Continue to Drift In Says Bill Sharpe Edenton is continuing to receive notice as a peanut center as result of pictures made here last fall. Distributed by the Advertising Di vision of the Department of Conser vation and Development, pictures of Edenton’s “peanut frolic” have ap peared in 110 newspapers outside the State of North Carolina, according to a check made by Bill Sharpe, of the Advertising Division. Among the far-flung cities covered by the publicity have been these: Plainfield, N. J.; Portland, Me.; Norfolk, Va.; Troy, N. Y.; Schenec tady, N. Y.; Lancaster, Pa.; Des Moines, Iowa; Washington, D. C.; Houston, Texas; Ithaca, N. Y.; Glov ersville, N. Y.; Brooklyn, N. Y.; St. Paul, Minn.; Keokuk, Iowa; St. Joseph, Mich.; Gadsden, Ala.; Atlan ta, Ga.; Detroit, Mich.; Flint, Mich.; Middletown, Pa.; Park City, Utah, as well as, many others. Clippings of the peanut pictures are still drifting in, Sharpe says, all of them identifying Edenton as a pea nut center. February Grading Os Meat Markets Made By Garriss Three Stores Deadlock ed For First Place During Month Dr. F. H. Garriss, health officer for the Bertie-Chowan District, has just released meat market gradings in Edenton for February, which reveals the fact that local stores are gradu ally complying with necessary re quirements. In the standing the G. M. Byrum Meat Market, Lassiter J Meat Market and C. E. Byrum Meat Market are tied for high honors, each being credited with a mark of 95.5%. The ratings as released by Dr. Garriss follow: G. M. Byrum Meat Market. —95.5% Lassiter Meat Market 95.5% C. E. Byrum Meat Market 95.5% A. & P. Grocery 95.0% j I Goodwin’s Grocery 94.5% Pender’s 93.5% G. L. Boyce Grocery 93.0% White’s Market & Grocery —84.0% Friendly Market 83.5% Band Will Play At Tulip Festival Local Organization Ac-j cepts Invitation to Play April 14 Edenton High School Band will again participate in the tulip festival to be held in Washington, N. C., an invitation having been accepted by Director C. L. McCullers. The festi val will be held on April 14, the local organization being among nine other bands to play including the National Guard and college bands. It will be remembered that last year the Edenton segregation carried off first honors, and according to Mr. -McCullers, the festival this year will be even greater than last year. The only thing worrying him, he says, is transportation facilities to Washing ton and return and that he will need Assistance for this phase of the trip. FISH MARKET (Courtesy of Gs, W. Moger & Co., Division of Chesapeake Packing Co., Baltimore, Md.) Roe Shad sold, per lb. 33c Buck Shad sold, per lb. —lßc Roe Jacks sold, per lb. Rock sold, per lb. 18c Prospects look good. RETURNS TO HOSPITAL J. Paul Holomqn returned Monday to Veterans Hospital at Kecoughton, treatment?** ° P *™ tion *“*** \ \ Terrific Storm Strikes Near Windsor Tuesday Night Leaving Three Dead And Much Property Damage And Suffering Former Citizen Regrets Virginia Dare Stone Taken From State That recent newspaper stories regarding the Virginia Ikare stone has aroused some interest is evident by many local conver sations regarding it and at least one letter coming from a resident of Rocky Mount, who formerly lived here. Mirs. Ruph S. Williams has written to Richard D. Dixon, in forming him that in discussing the stone with a group of friends some of them expressed Wonder and regret that the stone should have gotten out of North Caro lina. “Even if there is doubt in the minds of those of you in Chowan County,” says Mrs. Williams, “it seems to me you could have kept the stone as an interesting bit of evidence that Virginia Dare actually did live in Eastern North Cairolina, or there would not have been even the tradition to inspire some one to attempt to carve a counterfeit record on 40 Lunches Served Daily In Edenton School Lunch Room Operated Through PTA, WPA and Welfare Department .. MENUS Feeding of Other Chil dren at School 'Can Be Arranged Forty free lunches are now being served daily in the lunch room re cently opened at the Edenton High School which is being operated with the cooperation of the Edenton Far-. ent-Teacher Association, WPA and Chowan County Welfare Department. All free lunches have been applied for, but enough facilities are avail able to feed more children and for that reason if anybody desires to feed a child he can make arrangements by calling on Mrs. Earl Goodwin, j chairman of the Finance Committee. The lunches are served in the base ment of the new auditorium and the project appears very popular and is expected to reflect improvement in the progress made in sutries by chil dren heretofore undernourished. An idea of the sort of lunches served can be learned by the menus arranged for the following week,, which are as follows: Thursday, February 23—Vegetable! soup, buttered whole wheat bread, 1 I plain and chocolate milk, ice cream. I Friday, February 24—Baked Lima i beans, Congealed cabbage and pine apple salad, hot biscuits, plain and chocolate milk. j Monday, February 27—Spaghetti dinner, com bread, plain and choco late milk, ice cream. Tuesday, February 28—Vegetable soup, crackers, plain and chocolate milk, ice cream. Wednesday, March I—Meat1 —Meat loaf, cole slaw, whole wheat muffins, plain and chocolate milk, ice cream. Thursday, March 2—Bean soup, carrot and cabbage slaw, corn bread, plain and chocolate milk, ice cream. Edenton Lions Told About Rehabilitation At Meeting Monday One of the most interesting meet ings in recent months was held by the Lions Club Monday night when W. D. Wood, State rehabilitation of ficer, made the principal address. Mr. Wood graphically told of the work among crippled children in the State, explaining operations and aid furnished. Adding to the interest of his talk were pictures of a number of children showing the great improve ment after the rehabilitation forces had been at work. The annual Ladies’ Night banquet was also discussed, but a definite date was not set, awaiting word from 4k prominent pptukw for tbo occukut 1 stone. “It could have reposed (this stone in doubt) in the Cupola House and many would have gone to see it, giving Edenton publicity at any rate.” Mrs. Williams says she is in terested in Edenton, even though she lived here only six years, and wishes very much that the stone mystery might be cleared up. She is a student of history and informed Mr. Dixon that some time in the future she hopes to spend several days in Edenton delving into the ancient records on file. “In the meantime,” urged the former resident, “don’t let the Virginia Dare stone get entirely away from you,, for it could be the authentic record left by Eleanor Dare. Stranger things have happened. And why should some one ‘plant’ the stone just when the ‘Lost Colony’ was being featured? That would seem too significant, it seems to me.” Perkins Succeeds Oscar H, Brown As i President Os Rotary > Presides For First Time At Meeting Thurs day Nigrht ASHBY~SPEAKS \ Judge I. M. Meekins'Ex-i pected to Make Ad dress Tonight William M. Perkins, by virtue of his oflice of vice president, has as sumed the presidency of the Edenton i Rotary Club, succeeding Oscar H. ■. Brown, who died suddenly on Febru- I ary 8. Mr. Perkins presided asj . president of the club for the first! 1 time last Thursday, the previous ■ week’s meeting being called off due ’ to the funeral of Mr. Brown. As a token of respect, President Perkins’ i first official act was to call the Ro , tarians present last Thursday to their feet and stand for a few moments with bowed heads in honor of their ! late leader. He also appointed a committee composed of Wood Privott and J. Edwin Bufflap to write resolutions of respect. A program committee was also appointed consisting of C. E. Kramer and N. K. Rowell, who will ■ arrange programs for the weekly ! meetings. J Federal Judge I. M. Meekins, of 1 Elizabeth City, was scheduled to make an address on Abraham Lincoln, but due to sudden illness was pre vented in making his appearance. In his stead Rev. C. A. Ashby spoke j to the club, making brief mention ot Lincoln’s greatness before entering upon a discussion of providing ade quate facilities for the many farmers , who come to Edenton to transact , business. Mr. Ashby frankly told the Rotar , ians that, “We gladly take tne farm ers’ money, and when we’ve done that, not much is left for him to do , except go home.” He urged some (Continued on Page Eight! Benson Preaches Last Os Series Os Special Sermons On Sunday On Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock, Rev. W. C. Benson, pastor of the 1 Methodist Church, will preach the > last of a series of special messages • for young people, when his subject , will be “Young People and Christian s Service.” The sermon is the last of i four prepared during this month in 1 connection with the Youth Crusade ’ which will be emphasized periodically ’ during the entire year in all Metho . diet churches. i A goodly number heard the sermon lest Sunday night and Mr. Benson t extends e cordial invitation to all i young people of the community to i hear the final sermon in the series next Sunday night. This newspaper it circu lated in Use territory where Advertisers will reaku good results. $1.25 Per Year. Some Houses Literally Carried Away Dur ing Storm DESOLATE SIGHT Wind Loses Intensity as It Does Some Damage In Chowan County Striking suddenly a few miles on this side of Windsor Tuesday night about 7 o’clock a fierce storm of tor nado proportions played havoc and left in its wake an undetermined amount of damage and suffering. It was the most disastrous calamity ever to strike this section, in the course of which approximately 20 houses were either carried away en tirely or demolished to such an ex tent that they are unfit for use. Many telephone poles as well as lines were blown down and huge trees com pletely uprooted or twisted off as if offering no more resistance than a match in the hands of a strong man. As a result of this storm there were three dead Wednesday mo ring 1 , these being Chief of Police John W. Brown, of Colerain, Robert Lawrence, who was 94 years old, and Mrs. Geo. Lawrence, 66. Mr. Brown was killed when he ran into a Norfolk Southern bus as the latter was forced to stop suddenly on account of a tree lying across the highway. He was driving behind the bus and, unable to stop in time, crashed into the rear of the big bus, killing himself instantly. Mr. Lawrence was fatally injured when hit by falling timbers and died shortly after entering the Windsor Hospital. Mrs. Lawrence died in the hospital about 6 o’clock Wednesday morning as the result of injuries. At the hospital, physicians worked . like Trojans as the place was over [ crowded with victims of the storm. I About 25 were taken to the hospital, where temporary accommodations ■ were arranged, assembled outside as the unfortunate persons were brought in. A call was sent out to State High way patrolmen and in a comparative ly short time about 20 patrolmen were on the scene helping to direct traffic and in various other ways as sisting. The center of the storm ap j peared to be along the highway, and at the time, due to darkness, it could j not be estimated how much damage was done beyond the highway. May or J. A. Pritchett, of Windsor, in the emergency, organized groups of searching parties, who as far as pos sible searched in the neighborhood to ascertain damage done and try to (Continued on Page Five) Dime Society Will Celebrate Sixtieth Anniversary Feb. 28 Mrs. R. Cheshire Only Remaining: Charter Member Quite an unique meeting will be held on Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Holmes when the Dime Society of the Edenton Bap tist Church will celebrate its 60th anniversary. This organization, oldest in the local church, was organ ized in 1879 with only 16 . members and now has an f 68. It is also one of the most ap'; e groups, supporting the church in numerous ways. Os the charter members of the Society there is only one now living and still a member, she being Mrs. R. F. Cheshire, At the present time Mrs. L. D. Bond is president; Mrs. A. S. Smith, vice president; Mrs. W. D. Holmes, treasurer; Mrs. Cleo Gardner, histor ion, and Mrs. C. T. Doughtie, secre tary. Mrs. Doughtie succeeds Mrs. E. S. Norman, who had served as secretary of the Society for 22 years. Since the Society was organized the anniversary meetings were al ways held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Bush, but since the death of Mr. Bush the place of these meet ings has been transferred to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes. A good program has been arranged f for the meeting Tuesday night and > every member is urged to attend and i carry as many didjfa as the organi zation is years old. 'CtsixkML ■■ Alt. v -J
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