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ivhhhhhhmhhbbhmhhhhh In then columu will bo found a fair presentation of local and county news of general interest. Volume Vl.—Number 42. Red Letter Day On Monday For Local Legionnaires And Members Os Auxiliary Joint Installation of Of ficers For Year of Two Groups B AND~CON CERT . Department Command er Special Guest at Exercises One of the most interesting meet-i ings among local Legionnaires and Auxiliary members in recent years is scheduled to take place Monday night when there will be a joint installation of officers for the two groups. The' meeting 'will be held in the Armory, beginning at 7:30 o’clock and from present indications a record crowd of ex-service men and Auxiliary mem bers will be on hand. Every member I of each organization will be contact- j ed by a committee from the Auxiliary J in order to determine how many will' attend beforehand. A supper will be served in connec- j tion with the. meeting, this to be a; “Dutch” affair. It will be prepared I and served by Mr. and Mrs. L. S.| Byrum. Another feature of thei meeting will be a concert by the | Edenton High School Band, who will 1 be given tickets to secure refresh-! ments as a token of appreciation on' the part of Ed Bond Post. Adding to the interest of this' meeting will be the presence of June • H. Rose, departmental commander, who was installed Monday night at Greenville. Mr. Rose will deliver anj address and will have charge of the | installation ceremonies. Specially in-1 vited guests will also include Mr. and j Mrs. H. L. Swain, of Williamston. '< Mrs. Swain is First Area president.! sb*eral members from the Elizabeth! City post and- auxiliary-are also, ex-' pected to attend. * The program as arranged will be as follows: I Supper at 7:30; Invocation by Fath-' er E. L. Gross; music by high school] band; meeting called to order by J.' H. Conger, retiring commander; ad vance of colors; “Star Spangled Ban-, ner” by band; installation of Auxil-' iary officers by Mrs. H. L. Swain; in stallation of Legion officers by June H. Rose; address by Mr. Rose; “Old North State” by audience; silent tri-j bute to departed comrad.es; taps; re tirement of colors; adjournment. Officers who will be installed for' Ed Bond Post will be as follows: | Commander, Thomas J. Wood; first vice president, R. L. Pratt; second vice president, S. W. Moore; third vice president, D. M. Reaves; adju (Continued On Page Five) j Edenton Quartet On Porter Team t Local Boys Playing Out standing Part on First String - ■*«/■» Friends will be glad to learn that' four of Edenton High’s former foot- j ball players are making good at Por-1 ter Military Academy. The four boys, Pete Everett, Durward Harrell, Billy Shepard and Tom Byrum, have made the first string and are playing a 1 splendid brand of ball. Porter played its first game Fri-j day with St. George, winning by a 6-0 score. The second game was played Monday with Charlotte High, 1 Porter walking off with a 34-0 vic tory. In this game Pqts.-Everett : i>s «!eoredrsliwe tou&fow&wMe’&tt In ’the Charlotte game Durward Harrell had the misfortune to break his shoulder and is now in a hospital. He is recovering splendidly, however. All the boys are playing a bang-up game on the first string despite ear lier reports that one or two were hav ing e hard time to make the. grade. P. T. A. Will Sponsor Concert In November Sponsored by the Edenton P. T. A., an organ and choral concert will be presented early in November in the Baptist Church by Hal Lyon and his widely-known group of singers of Franklin, Va. Proceeds from the offering which will be taken will go for free lunch es, according to Mrs. Richard Elliott, P. T. A. president. . THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY George I. Dail Is Made Sergeant State Patrolman Pro moted From Corporal Last Week Friends will be glad to learn that j State Patrolman George I. Dail has been promoted from corporal to ser geant. A number of nromotions were made last week due to the re j cent addition of new patrolmen. Mr. Dail has been in the service for nine years and has served as a district corporal for three years. The district over which he has charge in -1 eludes the counties of Chowan, Gates, ! Perquimans, Pasquotank, Camden, I Currituck, Dare, Tyrrell' and Wash ! ington counties. Patrolman Tom Brown of Ply ! mouth, has been promoted to corpo -1 ral, taking Mr. Dail’s place. | Girl Scouts Plan To Secure Curtains For Lunch Room i j Parents Are Invited to* Inspect Operations At School j One hundred and fifty children | j were served at the Edenton school lunch room on Moi)day, which now j has six tables son serving the meals i A partition has also been finished, ! and with the addition of two new ' tables, feeding the children has be ' come less of a problem. • A shower was held last -week for ; the benefit of the lunch room and ] , Mrs. Ernest Stillman desires to thank ; 1 all who contributed to the cause.; About 250 meals are sold weekly while 45 free lunches are given un dernourished children who are unable |to pay for the meals. The idea of the lunch room is to feed under i nourished children as well as provide ' a place to eat for those children who' I come on the busses and bring their lunches. To make the room even more at-; tractive, the Girl Scouts are planning j to furnish curtains for the windows. Those in charge of the lunch room ! are very anxious to have parents who ! have not seen it to pay a visit. John Sikes 111 With Double Pneumonia ! Acquaintances here received word • Monday night that John H. Sikes, ■ former resident, was critically ill with double pneumonia in the Mul lins, S. C., hospital. Since giving up his insurance job and leaving Eden ton last spring Sikes has been living 1 with his wife’s folks in Tabor. Last i week he was suddenly stricken with | pneumonia and on Sunday was not expected to five. He was rushed to the Mullins hbspital and placed im mediately under an oxygen tent and the last word from Mrs. Sikes was i that he was somewhat better but still . | unconscious. i j Entertainment At i Center Hill Friday ;! ' , The Georgia.' -Wildcats -of Rieh p mond, Va. r will present-aa; entertain hUnit :af Center Hill | -day night,' October®). ;! Everybody is invited to come out and hear these radio artists. A small ,; admission will be charged. I Masons Will Confer First Degree Tonight At tonight’s Masonic meeting the first degree will be conferred upon a ’ candidate, according to J. R. Byrum, master of the lodge. An attendance , contest is now underway among the s 1 members and a large crowd is aiitic i ipated. , ’ BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT i Mr. and Mrs. Gillam Twine, of . Tyner, announce the birth of a son, , Grady Gene, on October 14. The baby weighed 9 pounds. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, October 19, 1939. Edenton Laundry Destroyed By Fire On Friday Morning Building and Contents Go Up In Smoke In Short Time WILL REBUILD Lack of Water Reason For Great Amount of Criticism Earl'y Friday morning, unaware to the majority of citizens in town, the Edenton Laundry in a brief time be came a mass of ruins as the result of fire. The building was enveloped in flames when the fire was discovered ; and. due to the inability of firemen to secure water, nothing was saved ex cept a small two-wheeled trailer j which was pulled from behind the! building. The origin of the fire is undeter- j mined and laundry employees say i everything was in perfect shape j when work ended the night before. I Though Charles P. Wales, owner of the laundry, coul’d not say defin itely the amount of his loss, it is cal culated to be in the neighborhood, of $20,000, which is partly covered by insurance. Not only was the building lost and the various pieces of ma-1 chinery, but records and a great deal j of laundry as well were burned in the | inferno. A fortunate circumstance in con-! nection with the fire was the fact that no wind was stiring, for had there] been, the entire block of houses , would have been seriously menaced. l As it was, onl'y the two houses on j | either side of the laundry were dam- ] , aged by the fire. These were the! j homes of Mrs. R. W. Boyce and Wil- j ! liam Adams, which were scorched by | i the intense heat. I Mr. Wales began immediately to j have the debris cleaned from his lot and plans to rebuild at once, and rush the new building to early com pletion. In the meantime in order (Continued On Page Five) Sanitary Sewer j Project Approved j For Oakum Street Federal Allotment Will Be $5,549 For Im provement ! Representative Lind.say Warren has been notified by WPA officials in I Washington, D. C., that President ] 1 Roosevelt has approved the project to install sanitary sewers on Oakum Street with a Federal allotment of $5,549. Considerable trouble has been caus -1 ed by the sewer line between Church j I and King Streets, the line being I I j broken in places, thus permitting : , j sand and othe.r obstructions to enter I I present pipes. The line is located ■ in the middle of the street, but un i der the project just approved new ■ j lines will be laid on each side of the | ; street which will prevent tearing up j ; ’ the hard surface. ,| Rotary Club Meets At Cross Roads Tonightj Faculty of School Will Be Special Guests at ! 4 ..Meeting . - ' EdenfcSfr Rotery Club’s meeting will " -ia»*he keM'to<tay as usual - in the . Parish House. Instead the Club has | arranged to meet at Cross Roads at 7 o’clock tonight, where they will have as their special guests members of the faculty of Chowan High School. In connection with this meeting the I Rotarians will attend a Womanless I Wedding entertainment to be staged ! in the school building at 8 o’clock, ij Next Thursday the Rotarians will , meet at the usual time and place, j i . when a luncheon will also be served s to delegates to the Red Cross regional ■ ] conference. PERFECT SPELLING SCORE The following children in the Fifth : Grade made a perfect score in Spell ing for the first month: i} Marian Alexander,, Fred Keeter and Davy Lee Ward. Edenton Included In Survey For One Os Chain Hotels _ i Group of Investigators! In Edenton Last I; Week TWO STORIES j If Chosen Hotel Would Be Located North of Queen Street Whether it materializes or not, the 1 fact remains that there is a possi-l bility of a new hotel locating in ] Edenton. The reason for such com-| ment is based upon the appearance: here last week of a group of men 1 who were making surveys of towns between New York and Florida as ! strategic locations for attractive ! hotel accommodations for the in j creased number of travelers over j U. S. Route 17. I The men are connected, with an or j ganization which operates a chain of I hotels, and while they were only making preliminary surveys along the route, it is understood that they were dickering for a site somewhere north of the intersection of Broad and Queen Streets. The investigators spent a brief! | time at Hotel Joseph Hewes chatting i | with G. H. Harding, the proprietor, j ] and acquainted him with their mis- j sion. Hotels in the chain are very at- j tractively constructed and are plan-! ' ned to be operated as economically j as possible. From what can be ] learned about $75,000 is invested, in a I ! building which is of colonial design! j with large pillars in front. It would • ! provide about 40 rooms on two floors, j j thus eliminating the cost of installs- 1 I tion and operation of an elevator. ] Nothing definite could be learned from the men, other than that they; were making an exhaustive survey) and Edenton was included due to the i convenient distance from Norfolk by! travelers to spend, the night. They j went from Edenton to New Bern. , ] Program Released j | For Achievement j Day Observance Public Invited; Meeting Not For Club Mem bers Only I Arrangements have been completed for the observance of Achievement | ! Day by home demonstration clubs of j Chowan County on Tuesday, October 31. Two sessions will’ be held at 1 Chowan High School, the morning session beginning at 10:30 o’clock) and the afternoon session at 1:30 i o’clock. Lunch will be served in the I | new Community House at a nominal | j price. Door prizes will be awarded j | at both sessions. I The principal speaker for the oc- 1 casion will be Miss Pauline Smith, district home demonstration agent, 1 I who will deliver an address at the ] i morning session. The afternoon ] (Continued On Page Four) Licenses Ready For Pickers Os Peanuts! Every Operator Requir j ed By Law to Secure j Permit With peanut picking time at hand, * M. L. Bunch, register of deeds, eal ls ; attention to the law which requires every operator of a peanut picker to secure a license at the register of deeds’ office. These licenses are now ready and Mr. Bunch hopes it will not be necessary to take drastic action to have the law complied with. There is no charge for this license for those who pick their own pea nuts only, but for those who pick for others a license fee of 60 cents is re- Iquired. . Hallowe’en Party At Beech Fork School A Hallowe’en party will' be given at Beech Fork School on Friday evening, October 27. There will be amusements of all kinds. The public is cordially invited to come and enjoy the fun. Plans Completed For Red Cross Regional Meeting To Be Held Next Thursday I A. | ii 1| Red Cross Worker |Jlfl* * ckffiHßWL; j§§H r• -2 HHbik 'V ■ [fcaa * I I I Hf Clarence F. Rowland, assistant | director of Red Cross Roll Call j for the Eastern Area, who to gether with Dr. Frank Porter j j Graham, will speak at the region- j ] al conference to be held in Edenton next Thursday. Edenton Opposes j ! Ancient Rival On j I Gridiron Friday ! Local Team Will Enter Fray Decidedly the Under Dog ! Undismayed by the season’s record; i thus far in which they have been d.e --! seated three times, played a scoreless j tie and gained one victory, Coach | David Holton and his high school ! charges are preparing for the most I important game of the season Friday ! afternoon. At that time they .will j oppose Elizabeth City, their ancient i rival on the gridiron, and though Edenton, with a young and inexper i ieneed team, will enter the fray de ) cidedly the under dog, it is honed ' that an upset will result, i At any rate, the boys have been | put through strenuous workouts this i week in anticipation of this game and every effort will be put forth to hold back the invading Yellow Jack ets, who are rated to win by at least | three or four touchdowns. ! The game is scheduled to begin at 3:15 and should take on the air of a 'college game. Elizabeth City fans, predicting an overwhelming victory, | are expected to attend in large num bers, accompanied by the school’s I band. Edenton High School’s Band, ! too, wiil parade before the game and j add color and interest on the field I during halves. The, game is expected: I to attract a crowd large enough to give the new athletic field and bleach -1 ers its first real test. ] Interest, as in former years, is at j its peak and in event Edenton wins or i even holds the Jackets to a tie score, ! the season will be considered a very I successful one, even though no more games are won. j Edenton Lions Go To Plymouth Tonight Monday night’s meeting of the Edenton Lions Club was called off j and instead a goodly number of local i Lions will tonight journey to Ply j mouth, , where a district meeting will j be held. ! Those attending the Plymouth meeting will be given credit for • regular attendance and President Wallace Griffin urges every member of the club to go. It is the first meeting of the district since it was revamped, including Hertford, Ply mouth and Columbia. Edentonians Attend Legion Installation Edenton was well represented at the installation of officers for ttye American Legion and Auxiliary held at Greenville on Monday night. Those attending from Ed Bond Post were R. L. Pratt, Thomas J. Wood, Ged das Potter, West Byrum and D. M. Reaves. Representing the local Aux iliary were Mrs. D. M. Reaves and Mrs. Shelton Moore. The local representatives were much impressed with the ceremony and report a splendid meeting. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.25 Per Year. [lnteresting Program Is Released By Mrs. J. N. Pruden TWO SESSIONS Dr. Frank Graham and Clarence F. Rowland Will Speak Plans have been completed for the ! regional conference of the American Red Cross to be held in Edenton next Thursday, according to Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Chowan County Chapter Chairman. The conference will in clude two sessions, one beginning at { 9:30 in the Methodist Church and the | afternoon meeting taking place in the I Parish House beginning at 1 o’clock. ] Luncheon will be served in the Parish | House prior to the afternoon session. I All those who intend to attend the j luncheon are urged to notify Mrs. I J. W. Davis as soon as possible, j Featuring the morning session will |be an address on “Interpretation of j the Relationship of the American Red j Cross to the War in Europe” by ; Clarence F. Rowland, assistant direc j tor Roll Call for the Eastern Area. Mr. Rowland’s Red Cross exper ience dates back to 1917 and in j eludes a varied background of inter j national relief work, special field as- I signments, and disaster relief service ! and executive experience. He as (sumed his present post in May, 1939. Featuring the afternoon meeting j will be an address by Dr. Frank Por | ter Graham, president of the Univer sity of North Carolina. Mr. Graham jis well' known in Edenton and un , doubtedly will attract many Eden | tonians to hear his address, j The program as planned is as j follows: j Morning Session—Methodist Church 9:3o—Registration, Chowan Coun ty Chapter, Mrs. Junius Davis and Mrs. Wood Pnvoft, registrars. 10:00—Presiding, Rev. E. H. Potts, Chairman, Elizabeth City Chapter. Invocation—Rev. W. C. Benson, Edenton. Welcome—J. H. McMullan, Mayor, Edenton. 10:15—-Interpretation of the Rela tionship of the American Red Cross to the War in Europe, Clarence F. Rowland, Assistant Director Roll Call ■ Eastern Area, Washington, D. C. The Red Cross Production Service —Discussion. A Balanced Chapter Program in a Balanced. State, C. Leo Wilhelm, Union County Chairman. 11:00—The Annual Roll Call—Dis cussion leader, Clarence F. Rowland. 1. Enlisting Workers and Zoning (Continued On Page Five) Man Wanted Here Caught In Florida Paul B. Moore Arrested In Ocala After Long Search Complications have arisen in the I desired extradition of Paul B. Moore, who lived here last summer as an employee of the Manhattan Produce Exchange. Moore is under arrest in Ocala, Fla., charged with the em ■ bezzlement of $429.45 in money from his former employers. : As the story has been told to Pro- F secutor Graham the alleged embez- I zler was trusted to deliver a load of • cucumbers to a concern in New Bern, I that he did so and collected the $429 for the vegetables, and deposited the t -cash to his own account in the l’ocfel • bank. When the exchange people : found the cucumbers had been paid ■ for Moore vamoosed and has since ; been hunted through the deep South. II On Monday word came from the ■ sheriff at Ocala that he had Moore !in custody. Graham at once prepar !ed requisition papers asking for ] Moore’s extradition and return here . for trial, and on Tuesday Sheriff Bunch took these to Raleigh for the • North Carolina Govesnor’s signature, ,) intending to go on the same day for I the captive. , j But the Governor’s office refused |I to honor the requisition, claiming . that it should have been requested of the governor by the district solicitor . instead of Graham. All Bunch could j do was to return to Edenton and so state. i In the meantime Moore is being / held in Ocala while Solicitor Morris is found and new papers prepared.
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