In these columns will be
found a fair presentation
of local and county news
of general interest.
Volume Vl.—Number 36.
Investigation Results In!
241 More Automobiles Put
On County Books For Taxes
Tax Supervisor William
Privott Submits His
Final Report
MORE POLL TAXES
Commissioners Antici
pate Revaluation
In 1941
Faced with very little business, the
County Commissioners on Tuesday
held one of the shortest meetings in
many months. They met Tuesday
instead of Monday, due to the Labor
Day holiday.
Possibly the most important mat
ter to be brought to their attention
Was a report by William Privott, tax
supervisor, who completed, instruc
tions given him a few months ago to
endeavor to place all automobiles on
the tax books of the county. The
Commissioners felt that there were
more automobiles- in Chowan County
than were llisted and therefore or
dered an investigation.
Mr. Privott has been working on
the matter for several months and re
ported that on account of his efforts
241 more automobiles are now on
the tax books valued at $37,885.
in connection with his investigation
there were also more poll tax payers
placed on the county’s books, and
property valuation in the amount of
$47,979 which heretofore was un
taxed.
Besides, in the course of his work,!
Mr. Privott added 15 more dogs for
taxation, 12 of which were males and
three females.
The Commissioiters appeared to be
the * express
the belief that there is other property
in. the county upon which no taxes
are being paid. However, they an
ticipate a re-valuation of all property
in the county in 1941, when they
hope all property will be placed on
the books for taxes and which will re
sult in some property being valued
higher than at present, upon which
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Week's Schedule Os
WPA's Bookmobile
Requests Desired For
Appearance of Trav
eling library
Mrs. Bessie Gwyn, in charge of the
WPA Bookmobile appearing in Cho
wan County during the months of
September and October, announces
the following schedule for the week
of September 11. There have been
several alterations of the original
schedule and Mrs. Gwyn has asked to
be informed if there are other places
in the county where it is desired to
have this traveling library appear
during its stay in the county.
The schedule follows:
Monday—9 to 10, Overton’s Store,
Yeopim Section; 10:30 to 11:30, High
School, beginning September 25th;
11:30 to 12:30, Boy Scout Cabin,
Edenton; 1 to 2, Advance School.
Tuesday—9 to 10, Enterprise, Home
of Mrs. W. H. Hollowell; 10:30 to'
11:30, Perry’s Store and Beech Fork
School; 12 to 1, Henry Bunch’s Store. I
Wednesday, 9 to 10, Gum Pond
School; 10:30 to 11:30, Oak Grove
School; 11:45 to 12:45, Elbert Peele's
Store, Rocky Hock Section; 1 to 2,
Evans Milll, near Cross Roads.
Thursday—9 to 10, Chowan Com
munity House, Cross Roads; 10:30 to
11:30, Belch’s Store, Center Hill;
12 to 1, Elmo, Twine’s Store.
Friday—9 to 10, Ryland, old School
Building; 10:30 to 11:30, Snow Hill,
Copeland’s Store; 12 to 1, Gliden,
Briggs’ Store.
Band Returns From
Camp Leach Monday
It was a happy and healthy looking
crowd of youngsters who returned to
Edenton Monday morning when the
members of the Edenton High School
Band arrived home from a week’s
stay at Camp Leach. A very delight
ful and instructive week’s outing was
enjoyed by the young people, as well
as parents of several of them.
While in camp the band was visited
by many Edenton friends, who were
(Specially complimentary of the man
ner in which the camp was conducted
u *ell aa of the way meals were
prepared and served while there.
THE CHOWAN HERALD
4 HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
Center Hill Club
Gives Program On
Farm - Home Hour
Interesting Paper Pre
sented at 1 O’clock
Today
OVERWPTF
Mrs. Smithson and Mrs.
Walston Will Be
Speakers
Chowan County people, and. espec
ially members of home demonstration
clubs, will be greatly interested in a
radio broadcast today (Thursday) at
1 o’clock over Station WPTF at Ra
leigh. On the farm and home pro
gram at that hour a program spon
sored by the Center Hill Home Dem
onstration Club dealing with home
management and several other major
projects of the year will be presented
by Mrs. Rufus Smithson and Mrs. R.
E. Walston. The subject matter to
be presented was prepared by Mrs.
Smithson and Mrs. Walston, assist
ed by Mrs. T. E. Chappell.
These three ladies will be accom
panied to Raleigh by Mrs. J. S.
Turner and Miss Rebecca Colwell,
Chowan County home agent.
Unique Program
At Baptist Church
On Sunday Night
Only Men Will Partici
pate in Feature of
Service
A very unusual program will be
rendered at the Ed.enton Baptist
Church Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock
during the regular preaching hour,
when the men of the Training Union
will present a program depicting in
teresting experiences and facts en
countered throughout the State in
promoting the Baptist program in
North Carolina.
This program is unique in the fact
that only men will take part in it,
and includes music by a male chorus.
The music for the program will be
rendered by a select group of men
from the church and will be under
the direction of W. Jim Daniels.
Every member of the church is
especially urged to attend, and the
public is cordially invited.
Edenton Eliminated
By Scotland Neck
In Play-off Series
Though experiencing little difficulty
during the baseball season to defeat
Scotland Neck, the Halifax County
team downed Edenton three straight
games in the play-off series in the
Albemarle League, thus eliminating
the local team in a shot at the cham
pionship title.
The locals were forced to give up
the ghost Sunday afternoon when
after going into the 11th inning
deadlocked 1-1, the visitors slaugh
tered the offerings of Outlaw for a
total of five runs, winning the decid
ing game 6 to 1.
Vestry Os St. Paul’s
Meets Monday Night
There will be a meeting of the
vestry of St. Paul’s Church on Mon
day night, at 8 o’clock, at which all
vestrymen are urged to be present.
Rev. C. A. Ashby, rector of the
Church, has also announced that Sun
day School will be resumed next Sun
day morning at 10 o’clock, with Sup
erintendent Ernest A. Swain in
charge.
CAKE SALE SATURDAY
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A cake sale will be held at Quinn’s
Furniture Store Saturday morning
at 10 o’clock under auspices of the
junior girls of the Edenton Baptist
Sunday School.
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, September 7,1939.
TEN YEARS OLD—
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Here appears a picture of the Edenton Boy Scout cabin, a gift
of the late J. A. Woodair,d. The tenth anniversary of the gift was
celebrated by the Scouts with appropriate exercises in the cabin
Tuesday of last week. (The picture was missent and arrived too
’late for last week’s issue of The Herald).
Peanut Program
To Be Announced
By Next Monday
R. C. Holland Expects
Same Prices as Pre
vailed In 1938
LONG WAIT
News Given Out When
Newspaper Folk Are
Entertained
Twenty-six northeastern North Car
olina weekly newspaper editors and
t publishers and invited friends were
guests of R. C. Holland Saturday
night at a barbecue cnicken supper
at a tobacco barn on his Bowen farm.
The affair was one of the most en
joyable ever experienced by the news
paper folk who have been meeting
monthly for the past two years.
Os especial interest to the news
paper folk was an announcement
made at the supper by Mr. Holland
to the effect that the 1939 peanut
program would be announced by next
Monday. He said that he had been
informed by a high official in Wash
; ington that the 1939 program will be
patterned after that of 1937 andj
1938 and will carry approximately \
the same schedule of prices.
Mr. Holland told the gathering that]
in order to have some definite infor
mation to give inquiring reporters,
he called Washington only a few min-
I utes before the meeting and that he
I was informed the plan of the pro
? gram was completed at 6 o’clock Sat
! urday evening and is to be submitted
Ito the Secretary of Agriculture this
I week and that it would undoubtedly
i be announced by next Monday.
“Farmers have been waiting in
suspense for several weeks,” said Mr.'
Holland, “and the information should
; be heartening to every one of them.”
| In the absence of Mayon Parker,
■ president of the group, J. Edwin Bus-
I flap presided. Those called upon to
speak were Mr. Holland, John F.
: White, Paul Olsson, Linwood Skinner,
of Hertford, Miss Addie Mae Cooke,
of Gatesville, and Charles Pierce, of
Ahoskie.
An invitation was extended by
Lucius Blanchard, Jr., editor of The
Perquimans Weekly, to have the next
meeting in Hertford. The invitation
was accepted.
Few Inmates In
Jail Last Month
Only 27 Locked Up Dur
ing August; Cost
Is $56.50
During August there ’ were fewer
people placed in Chowan County’s jail
than has been the case in many
months. This fact was revealed in
Jailer Shelton Moore’s report made
I to the County Commissioners . Tues
day which showed that during the
month only 27 were incarcerated, the
majority of whom were arrested for
from one to three days.
The cost incurred by the prisoners
was only $56.50, which included turn
key and jail fees.
Homecoming At St.
David’s October Ist
Plans are being made for a Home
Coming’ Day Celebration at old St.
David’s Church at Creswell, to take
place the first Sunday in October, ac
cording: to the rector, the Rev. Wood
Gaither. : y •*
County Residents
Receive $1,143.50
1 In Aid Payments
; Director Yelton Re
leases Report For
August
146 RECIPIENTS
Average Monthly Old
Age Assistance Pay
ment $7.89
Chowan County received a total of
I $1,143.00 of combined county, state
and federal funds in August for dis
tribution to 146 recipients under the
North Carolina public assistance pro
’ gram, H. D. Farrell, field representa
■ tive for the State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare, has been advised
by Nathan H. Yelton, director of pub
; lie assistance.
To IC-s ->ieedy aged in the county
went a total of $859.50, giving them
■ an average grant for the month of
$7.89, while 37 dependent children re
ceived aperage grants of $7.68 to
make a total expenditure for that
purpose of $284.
Yelton’s communication to Mr.
j Farrell showed there were no widows
I of Confederate veterans in the county
i drawing old age assistance payments
j under the legislative act transferring
| them if eligible to the public assist
ance rolls.
.State-wide average payments to
needy old people was $9.58, to de
: pendent children $5.91, and to pen
sioners $25.31. A total of 55,283 per
sons over the State received $463,-
118.82 in August while for the fiscal
year through August State totals
were: old age assistance, $635,140.16;
aid to dependent children, $249,194.54,
Confederate widows on the public as
sistance rolls, $33,221.26.
Sunday Shows At
Taylor Resumed
Matinee and Night Per-'
formances Begin
Next Sunday
Jimmy Earnhardt, manager of the 1
Taylor Theatre, announced early this;
week that beginning Sunday after
noon he will again stage Sunday
shows. The shows were held until
the beginning of this summer when
they were discontinued, until the fall, j
As previously, a matinee will be
held every Sunday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock, and. the night show beginning;
at 9:15.
Louis George Wilkins
Goes To Grand Rapids'
Louis George Wilkins, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Walter M. Wilkins, left
Edenton today (Thursday) for Grand
Rapids, Mich., where he has accepted
a position with Seidman and Seidman,
public accountants. Mr. Wilkins was
a member of the graduating class of j
■ 1939 at the University of North Car
olina, since which time he has been
connected with his father at the
Quinn Furniture Company.
TO ATTEND CONVENTION
Mrs. Howard Jackson will leave
Saturday for New York City to at
'•' tend the fall convention of the New
York Hair Dressers Association in
i session at the Pennsylvania Hotel
, four days next week. She will be ac
i companied by her nephew, George
- Ward, and after the convention closes
| they will visit friends and attend the
World’s Fair.
Beauty Queen Contests At
TaylorTheatreMondayAnd
Tuesday, September 11 -12
Laymen Os East
Carolina Diocese
Meet Next Week
Convocation of Edenton
Meets In Washing
ton Tuesday
GOOD PROGRAM
i
J. A. Moore and John W.!
Graham In Charge
Os Groups
Bishop Thomas C. Darst has ar-1
ranged two meetings of the laymen
of the diocese of East Carolina, both !
to be held next week. The Convoca- i
tion of Edenton, which embraces the j
northern part of the diocese, will meet!
in St. Jeter’s Parish House, Washing-'
ton, next Tuesday, September 12th, at
5 p. m. The meeting will adjourn at >
9p. m. Supper will be served at 6:30 j
at a reasonable price. The Bishop;
hopes that a large number of the '
laymen will attend, and has a pro- j
gram that should interest them.
The Convocation of Wilmington, j
which embraces the southern part of}
the diocese, will meet at White Lakej
on September 14th.
J. Augustus Moore is chairman of
the Convocation of Edenton, and John
Washington Graham is chairman of
District No. 7, which takes in Eden
ton, Hertford, Elizabeth City, Nags
Head and Camden. Messrs. Moore
and Graham will probably see to it
that the Convocation and district they
head are fully represented. Bishop
Darst will be in charge of the gath
ering.
Garden Club Holds
First Fall Meeting
Monday Afternoon i
Final Plans For Observ-I
ance of Arbor Day
Will Be Made
The Edenton Garden Club will hold
its first meeting of the fall Monday !
afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the home i
of Mrs. J. Clarence Leary. At this j
meeting Mrs. R. C. Holland, Mrs. C. j
D. Stewart and Mrs. J. S. Davis will !
act as hostesses.
' Very important matters are sche
duled to be brought before the Club,
which includes final plans for the ob
servance of Arbor Day in Edenton.
For this reason every member of the
Club is requested to be present.
Vernon Spruill Goes
To Greenville As State
Highway Patrolman
Vernon Spruill left Monday for
Greenville, where he will be stationed [
as a member of the State Highway;
patrol. Mr. Spruill was among the ■
group of 50 new patrolmen to be se- j
lected at a recent try-out when about'
100 prospects went in training at,
Henderson.
Perkins Reports On
Welfare Activities
. i
According to the monthly report
of W. M. Perkins, superintendent of ,
public welfare, 109 persons received
old age assistance during August, the
amount being $859.50. There were
also 20 cases of dependent children, j
representing 39 children, who receiv- j
ed $284. Eight received blind aid j
amounting to S9B. t
j Perkins also reported that three'
! paroled prisoners had reported to i
him and. that seven employment cer-;
tifieates were issued to minors.
COURT OPENS MONDAY
The September term of Chowan i
, County Superior Court will be held |
j next week, opening on Monday mom-;
I ing with Judge Q. K. Nimrock, of i
Fayetteville, presiding.
MASONS MEET TONIGHT
Tonight at 8 o’clock the regular
meeting of Unanimity Lodge No. 7,
A. F. & A. M., will be held, AW
members are urged to attend.
This newspaper is circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realize good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
‘Miss Edenton’ and ‘Miss
Chowan County’ Will
Be Selected
TOO
Winners Given Trip to
Blowing Rock For
Screen Test
Girls from Edenton and Chowan
County will be afforded, an opportun
ity to secure a screen test Monday
[ and Tuesday nights, September 11
l and 12, at the Taylor Theatre, where
a contest will be held to select “Miss
Chowan County” and “Miss Edenton.”
On Monday night “Miss Edenton”
j will be selected from locall girls and
the winner of this contest will have
I all expenses paid while at the State
contest in Blowing Rock, where a
' screen test will be made. This film
will be sent to the Taylor Theatre so
that local people can see how their
candidate looks in Hollywood make
up. On the same night there will be
an amateur contest, with all types of
amateur acts competing for a trip to
Burlington.
Tuesday night there will be a coun
ty contest with girls from all over
the county competing for the title of
“Miss Chowan County ” The winner
of this contest will receive the same
trip as “Miss Edenton” as well as the
screen test. On the same night there
will be a Junior Queen contest which
will include all the cutest little tots
from two to ten years of age. The
winner in this group will be eligible
to compete in the State picture con
test for State “Junior Miss North
Carolina.”
Some lucky girls will be grateful
for these contests, since they will have
an opportunity to meet girls from all
t<7er the State at the famous summer
resort at Blowing Rock.
Manager Jimmy Earnhardt states
that everyone is assured a most
pleasant evening of entertainment by
seeing their local girls at their best.
The contest will be directed by
Buddy Darnley, talent scout for
United Cinema Productions, of Vir
ginia Beach.
important Meeting
At Cupola House
Committees Asked to
Discuss Planting of
Crepe Myrtle
A meeting of much importance will
be held at the Cupola House this af
ternoon (Thursday) at 5 o’clock, to
discuss the possibility of planting
crepe myrtle trees along the Edenton-
Windsor highway to the Fish Hatch
ery as a memorial to Chowan Coun
ty’s war veterans.
Earlier in the summer the Masons,
Red Men, Rotary Club, Lions Club,
American Legion and the Legion
Auxiliary were asked to appoint a
committee to be ready to
this meeting, and it is hoped these
various committeemen will be on
hand at the meeting this afternoon.
Rotary Club Meets
At 1 O’clock Today
Though the program has not been
announced, William Jones, president
of the Edenton Rotary Club, urges
every member to be present at to
day’s meeting in the Parish House.
During the summer attendance has
been off considerably and with Sep
tember here Mr. Jones is very anx
ious for the club to get back to nor
mal.
At last week’s meeting Thompson
Greenwood read a number of poems in
Negro dialect written by John Char
les McNeill. Before his readings,
Greenwood commented on the fact
that all too often good and. worth
while poetry is shunned because of
mediocre verse seen in print and he
expressed the belief that more good
poetry should be read.
“Most of our writers nave been
; obliged to leave the State in order to
i be recognized,” he said, “but McNeill
remained at home and wrote of a peo
ple familiar to us. Though only 33
years old when he diied, his poems
are permeated with a mellowness
which fills readers of them with a
longing for a return of the almost
forgotten days.”