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Volume VI. —Number 25.
Lloyd Webb Loses His Life
By Drowning In Rooky Hock
Creek On Sunday Morning
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Swimmer Becomes Ex
hausted When Unable
Locate Sand Bar
funeraiTmonday
Planned to Enjoy Day
Along: Water With
His Family
Edenton’s first casualty by drown
ing occurred Sunday morning when
lioyd Webb lost his life in Rocky
Hock Creek. The accident occurred
about 10 o’clock as he, together with
his brother-in-law, Robert Bunch, and
their families were picnicking along
the creek near the Rocky
bridge. .
The victim and Bunch decided to
go in swimming and as they left a
long sand bar both became confused
regarding direction and instead of
swimming toward the bar, continued
in the channel, Webb losing his life
when he became exhausted and un
able to keep himself above water.
Both men realized the seriousness
of the situation and several times ex
horted each other not to lose his h&ad
and they would get out all right
Bunch several times stood on the bot
tom of the creek and with water over
his head, hoisted Webb upward in
order for him to get air and continue
swimming. Webb never lost his com
posure. The last time he had hold of
Bunch he readily released his grip
when it was apparent both were go
ing down.
The irony of the affair is the fact
that Webb drowned only several
yards from the saad bar which both
men were endeavoring to reach, and
while Bunch narrowly missed exhaus
tion, he said had he known where the
bar was, fie could with ease have sav- j
ed his brother-in-law. - {
The body was recoveredaboutf 8
o’clock Sunday afternoon
spot where it was seen the last time .
by Bunch'. It was only a short dis
tance from the sand bar whej* the
water is ofjjrading depth.** After be- \
inp locategly lines Melvfn Layton,!'
local Red Cross swimming instructor, 1
dived down and brought it to the
surface. !
nFuneral services were held Monday
■ afternoon and it was one of the larg-!
Mt funerals in recent months. Ser-j
vices were held at the home of -Paul i
Bhnch, Webb’s father-in-law,-on the j
Hertford Road, with Rev. E..L. Wells
officiating. Interment : followed in
waver Hill Cemetery. * ' j
• The deceased, who was 81 years of,
age, is survived by his wife and three j
children, Harold Lloyd, 9, Joyce
Bunch, 6, and Marjorie Marie, 4.
Four sisters and two brothers also,
survive as follows: Mrs. Wheeler!
Griffin and Mrs. Elizabeth Winshew, |
of Edenton, Mrs. Vivian Ward, of
Sigp Pine, Mrs. Alphie Hoskins, of
Norfolk, and Lonnie and Ernell Webb,
both of Norfolk.
Pallbearers were: Clyde Cobb, Jim
my Partin, J. L. Collins, George Nor
ris, H. B. Batton and Charlie Swan
ner, Jr.
Co. F Ordered To
Camp In Florida
Changed From South
! Carolina on Account
Os Epidemic
Dr. Martin Wisely, commanding
< officer of Company F, local National
Guard unit, has been informed by the
general at Raleigh that the
■ organization this year will be sent to
Camp Foster, near Jacksonville, Fla.,
instead of Camp Jackson at Columbia,
jS. C., as had been originally planned.
The change was made on.: account
% iof an epidemic of . infantile paralysis
in South Carolina. •
The company is scheduled to leave
(for camp on‘July 2, remaining until
. jjuly 16, and while initial orders of
{Wisely is awaiting further instruc
.»jtions regarding plans for going to>
liMrs. JohnjG. Small
I Inu»nWitelnHospitol
, I F&ends Will be happy to learn that
l Mrs. John G. Small, who has been in
Va is now improving:.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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| Darned Chickens! |
Several complaints have been
registered by Edenton citizens
relative to damages done about
premises by chickens. Owners of
chickens are hereby reminded
that there is a town ordinance
forbidding (destruction of proper
ty by chickens allowed to run at
random, and they should be con
fined so as not to cause a menace
to neighbor’s property.
Police will investigate any
further complaints and arrests
will follow for failure to comply
with the city ordinance governing
the nuisance. ..j »■*'(
Edenton In Dark -
About Three Hours
On Monday Night
Main Artery of Electric
Supply Damaged In
Storm
CROWDSGATHER
Business and Other Ac
tivities at Standstill
In Darkness
Edenton was in total darkness for
about three hours Monday night,
which greatly interfered with activi
. ties in town. The cause of darkness
I was due to a storm between Suffolk
| and Winfall, during which one of the
mpin arteries bringing electricity in-
was damaged. Cornet
was cut off shortly after 7 o’Mbck
and was not turned on until about 40
, o’clock.
. Du? to having no electricity, the
■ 'Brans Club wag unable to carry out
its program, the Red Men’s meeting
waa not held, no picture show could
j be shown, and the scheduled softball
game between the Lions and Red Men
j could not be played. -v - >
Business at drug stores asid filling
j'statipno.: ,was:£t*s standstill, where
j talloW candles were brought into use,
j but with fans not in motion crowds
j gathered on the outside where it was
j cooler, waiting for electricity to be
, turned on and discussing the cause of
j the lack of current.
I No damage, however, was reported
j by those who use electricity for re
frigeration, but much anxiety devel
) oped when no assurance could be giv
|en that current would be furnished
during the night.
Bensons Visiting Son
And Fair At New York
Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Benson and
their daughter left Friday for New
York to visit their son and attend the
World's Fair. They are expected to
return the latter part of this week.
Due to Mr. Benson’s absence, no
services were held Sunday morning at
the Methodist Church, but at the
night service Rev. C. A. Ashby, rec
tor of St. Paul’s, preached.
Cucumbers Handled
At Freight Station
Quite a bit of activity prevails at
the old Norfolk Southern freight sta
tion, where farmers are bringing in
cucumbers. Many farmers signed con
tracts with the Manhattan Produce
Exchange of New York to plant cu
cumbers and many acres ‘throughput
the County have been planted.
The cucumbers are graded 'and
packed in refrigerator cars and sent
to northern markets.
While many cucunvbers have bees
brought in, the weather was not fav
orable which caused replanting in
some cases. This fact has caused the
crop to be late in some instances and
many more cucumbers are expected
to be brought in.
Cake Sale Saturday
. | AX Quinn’s Store
Saturday morning,. June 24, begin
ning at 'lo o’clock, a cake tale will bfe
.conducted at Quinn-s Furniture Store.
This Sale will be held by the! Ladies’
Missionary Society of the Edenton
Methodist Church,' members of which
uM*a generous patronage.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, June 22,1-939.
Hearing Held July
10-12 At Morehead
City For Fishermen
Mid-Summer Meeting of
Board of Conservation
And Development
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HEAR PETITIONS
Commercial Fishermen*
Hunters and Public
Are Invited
Commercial and inland fishermen,
hunters, and the general public will
have the opportunity of appearing be
fore the Board of Conservation and
Development with petitions and sug
gestions and to give their ideas con
cerning any phase of the program of
the Department at the annual mid
summer meeting scheduled to be held
July 10-12, at Morehead City, R.
Bruce Etheridge, Director, has an
nounced.
Although matters pertaining to all
divisions will be considered, the meet
ing is held at Morehead City for the
convenience of commercial fishermen.
The other regular semi-annual session
, of the Board is held at Raleigh in
January and call meetings are in
1 other places as designated.
Because of the increasingly large
, number of persons wishing to appear
before the Board and its expanded
duties, Director Etheridge pointed out
that the usual two-day meeting has
been expanded to three.
As is the usual case, the morning
of the first day will be devoted to the
reception of petitions and hearings
for the commercial fishermen. This
session, the Director said, will be ex
tended, if required, to give an oppor
tunity to all attending the meeting to
be heard. Following the period set
aside for commercial fishermen, those
wishing to discuss game and inland
fishing matters and other functions
of the Department will be heard.
Final Link Paved
Dn Bridge Road
Workmen Now Paving
Spur Coming Into
■ Edenton
Paving of the little over a mile
stretch on the Albemarle Sound
bridge road. ,tonnecting with U. S.
Rdusd 17 was completed Friday and
will no doubt be opened to travel ’in
about ten days. This short piece of
road was in no condition to be com
pleted when the remainder of the
road was paved almost a year ago,
due to the peculiar characteristics of
the soil which has puzzled engineers
in that it refused to allow water to
drain off, which fact has prevented
the grading to be considered unfit for
paving until recently.
The same contractor will pave the
spur leading from the bridge road in
to Edenton, and this work was begun
immediately after completion of the
short stretch left undone last year.
This road is ready for paving except
for a short distance, which is being
treated daily in the hope that it will
be ready by the time paving activitfes
reach that particular point.
$37.33 Realized By
Lions Sale Os Canes
This Year’s Returns For
Blind Aid Exceed
Last Year
As thg result of the white cane
sale sponsored by the Edenton Lions
Club Saturday of bust ijjeek, a total
amount of $37.33 ,was Received fqy
aiding in blind Wbrk, one of the Club’s
majot,. projects. This' amount-- ex
ceeds what was collected last year in
Edenton for tin same cause, which
was reason for gratification of Lions
at their meeting Monday night when
the report was submitted by J; A.
Curran, chairman of the committee,*
Mr. Curran expressed his apprecia
tion for "the cooperation shown during
the sale and desires to titan k all who
purchased the canes or in any way
helped to make the affair a success.
SUNBEAMS MEET FRIDAY ‘
A meeting of the Sunbeams wall
be held at the ißpptist Church Friday
afternoon at 6 o’clock, Mrs. John El
liott;, leader of the group, requests
i! every member tp be present and -to
bring their Fannie Heck Memorial
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Garden dub Seeks
Aid In Beautifying
West Queen Street
Determined to Plant
Trees Along Highway
To Fish Hatchery
ELECT OFFICERS
Arbor Day Will Be Ob
served; Date Set at
September Meeting
Considerable business was trans
acted at the final meeting of the year
held by the Edenton Garden Club last
week in the Cupola House. One of
the first items of business to be at
tended to was the election of officers
which resulted in the present group
being re-elected as follows: President,
Mrs. J. A. Moore; vice president
Mrs. R. P. Badham; secretary, Mrs
J. Clarence Leary; treasurer, Mrs. L.
P. Williams.
At the meeting the first yearbook
of the club was presented, which
came somewhat as a surprise to some
of the members, and all of those
present expressed themselves as be
ing very much pleased with the first
attempt.
Possibly the most outstanding piece
of business brought before the club
was a project to beautify West Queen
Street from Mosely Street to the Fish
Hatchery. The purpose is to plant
crepe myrtle trees in order to com
plete beautification scheme started
about six years ago, but which was
abandoned due to lack of funds. By
planting crepe myrtle trees along this
highway, Garden Club members feel
certain the approach to Edenton
from the south will be made much
more attractive and will obviously
result in more favorable and lasting
impressions 'by motorists as they
come and go through Edenton.
The idea, unlike many similar sug
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W. J. Taylor Named
Chairman Os Lions
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In Charge Clubs at Ply
mouth, Hertford, Co
lumbia and Edenton
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. W. J. Taylor, secretary of. the
Edenton Lions. Club, has been notified
by Lion headquarters that he has
been appointed general chairman of
the area including clubs at Edenton,
Hertford, Columbia and Plymouth.
It will be Mr,’ Taylor’s duty to con
tact the various clubs, keep in touch
with their activities and report pro
gress made to the State governor.
While Mr. Taylor, at the meeting
Monday night, had not definitely said
so, it is expected that he will accept
the appointment, which members of
the club feel is not only an honor
conferred upon him, but the local club
as well.
The meeting Monday night was cut
short on account of lights going out
shortly before the program in charge
of John Mitchener was scheduled to
begin.
New York Students
Select Edenton As
Part OfField Trip
Teachers and Students
Will Visit City Mon
day, July 24
Mayor J. H. McMullan last week
received a letter from the State Nor
mal School at Oswego, New York, in
which he was informed that on Mon
day, July 24, between 20 and 30 stu
dents and teachers from the institu
tion will Arrive in Edenton as part oi
the ftinelfary of a field trip ftfr the
study of North Carolina.
will be made for the
party to, spend the night at Hotel
Joseph Hewes and a tour of all this
historical points of interest- wiH.be
made for.,the benefit 'of' the-' New
Yorkers, -
Dr. and Mrs. Tedder
Attend World’sFair
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Dr. and Mrs. P. W. Tedder left
Edenton Saturday for New York on
a joint business and pleasure -trip.
While in New York attending to bus
iness, the couple attended the World’s
Fair. They are expected to return
today (Thursday).
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Edenton’s 1 -Hour Parking
System Greatly Relieves
Congestion On Saturday
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| July 1 Deadline"!
Dr. P. W. Tedder, ’ official rabies '
inspector for Chowan County,
sires to iremind dog owners that
Saturday, July 1, is the deadline
for • having dogs., vaccinated
against rabies.
After that date, according to
law, dogs not thus treated should
be shot and Dr. Tedder hopes
that owners will abide by the law
so that this will not be neicessary
in Chowan.
Perrytown Is Now
Leading Teams In
Albemarle League
Edenton’s Entry Drops
In Standing to Sec
ond Place
UTTLEMARGIN
Two Leaders Battle Sat
urday and Sunday
Afternoons
STANDING OF CLUBS
(Includes games of June 18)
W L Pet.
Perrytown 14 4 .777
Edenton 13 6 .684
Plymouth 11 8 .579
Scotland Neck 10 8 .555
Windsor 1 4 15 .210
Oak City 4 15 .210'
j
•Splitting even over the week-end
and losing last Wednesday, while I
Perrytown won two and lost one,!
Edenton now occupies second place in
the standing of the Albemarle League
with a percentage of .684, trailing
Perrytown with a percentage of .777.
Perrytown has won 14 games and
lost 4, While the locals have 13 vic
tories to their credit against six de
feats. ' • ■ .
Last Wednesday jn;h hotiy" con test
ed game, Plymouth wop by' a score
of 5 to 4,. and, in a return, game Sat- \
urday, Ed.enton easily turned back |
the Washington County boys 10 to 8. j
'Sunday’s gam* blithe local dia-1
mond was very close, Oak City win-!
ning by a 3-1 score. The visitors
took a one-run lead in the third in
ning, which they held until the sixth,
when the score was tied. However,
in the seventh and eighth frames,
Oak City tallied a run, which could
not be overcome by the locals, who
had extreme difficulty in solving the
curves of Satterthwaite, visiting
hurler.
What should result in a very inter
esting game and. one which will no|
doubt attract many fans will be play-1
ed on the Cotton Mill diamond Sat-1
urday afternoon when the two leaders
will meet. 'Die same clubs will battle
Sunday afternoon on the Perrytown
diamond and Floyd Cayton, manager
of the Edenton outfit, is hoping his
boys will take both games which will
again put Edenton slightly in the lead
j over the Bertie County team.
Ed Bond Post Names
Convention Delegates
Geddes B. Potter, W. W. Byrum
and Robert L. Pratt were last week
elected as delegates fr.om Ed Bond
Post to attend the State Legion con
vention to be held in Raleigh June
25, 26 and 27.
Alternates elected were Ernest
White, Shelton Moore and Frank
Ward. /
jA throng of some 5,000 Legion
naires are expected to attend the con
vention, for which a,n interesting pro
gram, including prominent speakers,
has been arranged.
C. Earle Cohoon Will
Speak At Rotary
At; the Rotary toileting today at 1
o’clock in- the Parish House, C. Earle
Cphqqfty' qf Columbia, will make the
principal- address. Mr.- Coheon will
SpesOk, hriefjyjqii thf v development of
the Albemarle.
At last week’s meeting, Mayor J.
H. McMullan was guest speaker,
reading a very interesting' editorial
written by David Lawrence regarding
the visit of the King and Queen to
America.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers trill
realise good results.
$1.25 Per YearT
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Police Find It Necessary
To Tag Less Than ;
. Dozen Cars
NO ARRESTS MADE
i
Committee Ready to Re
port Upon Renting
Parking Lots
As the result of the inauguration
of a one-hour parking system on
Saturdays between Water and Queen
Streets, a great improvement in the
I parking problem last Saturday waa
reported by the police. Chief of
Police G. A. Helms and Officer R. L.
Pratt kept strict watch for cars re*
maining over the hour limit in the re
stricted area, marking the tires with
a yellow pencil.
That there is a general desire on
the part of townspeople to cooperate
and thus provide parking space for
visitors coming to Edenton from ad
joining territory is evident by the
fact that less than a dozen cars were
tagged for failure to observe the new
ruling adopted by Town Council at
the June meeting held last week. No
arrests were mad.e by officers, the
guilty ones being asked to cooperate
in the efforts being made to relieve
the parking situation on Saturdays.
The tags were torn up before those
who reported to the police, but they
were given to understand that for
failure to observe the new regulation,
a fine of $5 may be imposed.
Police reported that from 10
o’clock Saturday morning until about
7 o’clock Saturday night, a number of
parking places were available in the
area affected, but at the latter hour
all spaces were filled. Shortly after
noon there were approximately 20 va
cant parking spaces, which has not
; heretofore been the case at that hour
of the day.
| It is considered, therefore, that the
| one-hour parking regulation has
greatly relieved the parking problem
on Saturdays, but that if is far from
being solved, and that it will be neces
sary to secure added parking space
before any appreciable solution will
i result.
Walter M.-Wilkins and Leroy H.
Haskett df‘the Town- Council, were
appointed to make "an investigation
of likely parking lots and are ready
to report that two are available,
I which should go a long way toward
j solving the parking problem. It will
be necessary, however, to rent either
lof these two lots, one being the By
rum Hardware Company lot back of
Hotel Joseph Hewes, and the other
the lot in the rear of the Penelope
Barker Hotel. The two committee
men are ready to report back to Town
Council, which will be called, into
special session either the latter part
of this week by Dr. L. P. Williams,
mayor pro tem, or the early part of
next week by Mayor J. H. McMullan,
when he returns from a week’s vaca
i tion at Nags Head.
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Commissioners Will
Hold Meeting July 5
Day of Meeting Chang:-
ed on Occount of July
Fourth Holiday
Due to the Fourth of July falling
on Tuesday and the probability that
all of the work confronting the Coun
ty Commissioners at their regular
July meeting cannot be completed in
one day, the meeting will be held on
Wednesday, July 5, beginning at 10
o’clock a. m. . , ;
A request for the .change in meet
ing has been made - by several mem
bers, of the Board ,• and Chairman D.
M. Warren announced Wednesday
that the day of meeting will be ad
vanced to July 5. The change will
also serve as a convenience - ! to those
who are interested in'the meeting in
that it will allow more time to enjoy
the -Fourth' of July holiday.!
Band Plays Tonight
Ori Court House Green
Tonight at 8’ o’clock ori the Court
House Green, the Edenton High ,
School Band will render a concert.
Director C. L. McCullers said Wed
nesday that this concert will take the
place of a rehearsal, and due to hot
weather, members of the band need
not wear their uniforms. ’