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I 'UI 'fjMjrnf I Volume Vl.—Number 45. Canvassers Selected For Annual Red Cross Roll Call Which Begins On Saturday President Will Launch Drive By Address Over Radio OPmffSTIC Mrs. Pruden Hopes For Generous Response For Members . * 1— Mrs. J. N. Pruden, chairman of Chowan Chapter of the American Red Cross, has completed plans for the annual Red Cross roll call in the county, which begins Saturday, (Armistice Day) and will continue until Thanksgiving. Mrs. Pruden is very much enthused over this year’? campaign and hopes there will be noj trouble in raising the county’s quota and thus maintaining the high stand ing of Red Cross chapters in the State. Mrs. Pruden has been advised that President Roosevelt will launch the annual Red Cross roll call in a radio address on November' 11 over thej combined networks of the t Broadcasting Company, Columbia and I Mutual Broadcasting Systems. The Chief Executive will be the; first speaker on a full-hour program j bringing together some of the mostj popular stars on radio, screen, and! stage. The broadcast will start ati 10:30 P. M., E. S. T., and will switch j from Washington to New York and ( Hollywood for participation by such ( popular favorites as Fred Allen, Ben Benue, John Charles Thomas, Clifton j Fadiman, Paul Whiteman and his or-' chestra, Harry Von Zell, Don Wilson, j Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,) Connie Boswell, Major Bowes and Jascha Heifetz. The program has been made possi- 1 ble through the eeurtesy of the-three | cooperating broadcasting systems and the donated services of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country. AH stars on the program, as Red Cross members, have volun teered their services. In recognition of the need for in-, creasing Red Cross membership in j one of the busiest years in the his-, tory of the organization, President j Roosevelt is appearing on the air for the Red Cross for the first time since j he has been in the White House. As President of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt is also President of the | American Red Cross. His appeal for membership will be coupled with that of Chairman Norman H. Davis who was appointed to the chairmanship in (Continued Ort Page Eight) Mrs. Doyle D. Alley j Pays Compliment j To Edenton P. T. A. State President Speaks At Monthly Meeting Monday - Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, State presi dent of the Parent-Teacher Associa tion, complimented the local club on its activities in her talk delivered at the meeting held in the auditorium of the high school Monday night. She declared that the Edenton group is successfully sponsoring projects which have often required five or six years to complete in other clubs. ; Mrs. Alley urged parents and teqchers to work for a common view point in solying the various problems : confronting the child.. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. R F. Elliott, president, who an ; nounced that the next meeting of the 'P. T. A. will be addressed by W. E. • Debnam, Norfolk publisher. . Reports were given by the chair men of the membership, finance bnd -lunch room committees. A total of 32 members joined the Association Iy important part is playing in the iton Graded School! ned and following aber of those pres >m in the basement i where around 80 Wm. CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Only One Hour Postal Service On Saturday Although Armistice Day falls on Saturday, which ordinarily is a half-holiday at the Post Office, Postmaster C. E. Kramer an nounced Wednesday that for one i hour, from 11 to 12 o'clock an opportunity will be given to se cure stamps and parcel post packages. The window will be open only for the hour designated and pa trons of the office are urged to take due notice of the limited time to secure service. All other departments of the office will be dosed the entire day. [New Court House I Roof Appears Be | Drawing Nearer; | More Leaks Discovered’ | During Recent Heavy Rains | worn”OUT ; Commissioners In Favor * Lighting Tower Dur ing Holidays i . Richard D. Dixon, who is custodian of the ancient Court House, reported to the County Commissioners Monday | that several leaks in the roof have i been discovered during the recent! rains. He fears s th<? interior of the, building will be damaged if the leaks • are not remedied and. therefore was: seeking authority to hase the roof repaired. However, In recent years frequent; repairs have been made to the roof i ; and the Commissioners called a halt ! , on spending any more money on a; ! roof which has about served its pur- j pose. Instead, the oft-discussed new! : roof for the building again bobbed up j 1 Monday and definite action will no | , doubt be taken very soon. D. M.. ! 1 Warren, chairman of the Board, Mr. J ■ Dixon and A. C. Boyce compose a ’ , committee to decide what type of i roof is to be purchased, and they will, no doubt, bring the matter to a headi | within the next few weeks. ! The idea of lighting the tower dur-j ; ing the Christmas season was also discussed, it being the purpose to in- | j stall several strings of lights from j ithe very top of the tower to the base, j With this illumination the Christmas! , decorations in, Edenton will be more * attractive, it is thought, and the idea j was advanced that whep a new roof is j i put on the biulding, a permanent ar rangement should be made for light-’ ing the old building on any occasion. •I The Commissioners were heartily in favor of illuminating the tower during the holidays provided the town ’ agrees to pay for the current con sumed. Goodness Os God Is Acknowledged In Dr. Crane’s WiHi ! *. | ii Asks That All of His i Manuscript Sermons Be Destroyed i The Will of Dr.' Robert Brent Drkne j was. probated before Richard. Dixon, j. • clerk of Superior Court, late last I week, in which two sons, Rev. Fred I ’ B. Drane and Brent S. Drane, were 1 i named executors of the estate. ' ] “I acknowledge the goodness of; : God all my life long which has given i me anything to bequeath,” wrote Dr [ Drane, in beginning his will. Sensi • ble of the kindness of the church in ■ retiring him on a pension and also ; of his desire that the ministrations 1 I of the church should be maintained 1 l in Dare County, he gave his Nags ; Head cottage and its land to the] trustees of the Diocese of I olina, to take effect upon the death ; of his daughter, Mrs. Frank P. , Graham. Provision was also made that SIOO j (Continued On Page Five) ' Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, November 9, 1939. Chowan Will Have 11 Weeks Dental ! Clinic This Year! Dr. W. S. Griffin Secures Aid From County Commissioners MATCH $45 Extra Two Weeks of Work Adds S9O to Clinic Expense Chowan County this year will have an adequate dental clinic lasting 11 weeks following an agreement by the l County Commissioners Monday to provide funds for carrying on the clinic and another week to be paid] for by civic clubs. Dr. W. S. Griffin, in behalf of the Lions Club, appeared before the Com-1 missioners in the interest of an ade-; quate clinic. Dr. Griffin stated that at first a seven weeks’ clinic was held, that last year the work was carried on for eight weeks and that j the present budget provided for nine j weeks. However, he said, the State; Board of Health requests an adequate ] program, which will require 11 weeks | !of this work, entailing an additional J ; expenditure of S9O. Dr. Griffin told j the Commissioners that $45 of this ! ! amount had been pledged and urged i j the Board to match the amount,' which they agreed to do. The great- •' er portion of the expense of the clinic | is borne by the State and Federal 1 government. The date of the clinic has not been i determined, but during the 11 weeks | the teeth of all children in schools of, the county between the ages of 6 and 13 will be examined, deaned and minor corrections made. The work 1 is done by dentists under supervision I of the State Board of Health. HUGH ASHLEY IN HOSPITAL | Friends will be interested to know! that Hugh Ashley is a patient in Park i View Hospital in Rocky Mount. Mr i ' Ashley was taken to the institution i Sunday and was operated upon Mon ' day for a spinal ailment. He is re ported to be making satisfactory progress. i Merchants Os Edenton Plan |Concrete Brive To Increase Trade For Present Season j Tentative Arrangement Is to Award SI,OOO In Prizes to Shoppers; Committee Now. At Work on Idea i - Determined to make an effort to, j attract to Edenton its rightful amount j |of business, a goodly number of | I Chamber of Commerce members met j jin the Municipal Building Tuesday I j night to discuss idets to improve j I trading conditions during the next 1 i few months. The meeting was pre sided over by M. F. Bond, Jr., presi-1 dent, who after stating its purpose,, j entertained suggestions whereby j shoppers might be attracted here to j do their trading. Outstanding in the discussion was; a plan whereby merchants would give; coupons for purchases of merchan-, dise, with the holders of these cou-' pons participating in a drawing for j various prizes. Although a definite program was not inaugurated, it was. the general impression that about SI,OOO would be given away in the ; I way of prizes during a campaign j lasting about five weeks. Tentative I j plans call for a drawing for a prize, ! each week while the drive is in pro-' gress and at the conclusion the larger prizes would be awarded. It is hoped j that arrangements can be completed ,in time to put the idea in effect by, next ‘ Wednesday, November 15, and J continue for five, weeks. To this end l Mr. Bond J. G. Campen, 1 .’Jimmy Earnhaircftl, Earl Goodwin, P.; I T. Qwens, W. M. Wilkins and Secre -1 tary J. H. McMullan as a committee f to at once perfect a plan, canvass the j merchants and see if they will under- 1 write the prize list. The merchants, of course, would be expected to purchase the coupon j , books to such an extent that the; 'amount paid would provide funds for; | the prizes. It was calculated that j 1 one per cent of sales in Edenton dur-, itig the period would easily raise the i ! amount desired, and would not im- j pose a hardship on y.ny particular merchant. J. H. Conger, membership chair-: man, turned over his report, which j i revealed 63 contributing members se t ' cured during the recent canvass and' |Scenes Os Edenton 1 Being Completed I By Noted Artist ________ i Lewis Orr Etchings Will Appear In Exclusive Publication FIVE PICTURES Book on State Will Be Published By Robert Humber Lewis Orr, Paris painter-etcher, will this week, weather permitting, 1 complete the etching of five of Eden ton’s historical shrines, Indue 1 . , I the list are the Cupola House, Court i House, Beverly hall, St. Paul’s I Church and Hayes. The first three, . have been completed, and Mr. Orr is! I now working on the church and 1 ; Hayes. . i The etchings, included in a series of 100 scenes in North Carolina, are , being made for Robert Humber, who iis now in Paris. Mr. Humber is a ! native of Greenville, N. C., a gradu -1 ate of Wake Forest and Harvard and iis now a wealthy oil and petroleum j official, and plans to publish an ex . elusive book of only 150 copies con , taining the original etchings of North • Carolina scenes made by Mr. Orr. • Mr. Orr is an accomplished artist, j He was born in Connecticut and went i to Paris as a young man to study j art, where he married a French lady, j He takes great pains with his work, 'which is being done first in pencil,j j then taken to his laboratory where each picture is etched by hand on ' copper plate. He has the distinction of being the only artist who has etch | ings on exhibition in the Louvre and |he also has exhibits in the Luxem | bourg Galleries and other famous gal i leries abroad. In America some of | his work is displayed in the Metro- I politan Museum of Art. i Though very modest, Mr. Orr was I decorated with the Legion of Honor in France, for which country he has done very much. He was widely ac claimed for painting Rheims Cathe dral while it was under actual bom (Continued On Page Five) , $565 collected. He stated, however, 1 that the list of names included. 47 po | tential members, some of whom have I promised to join and others flatly I refusing. It is hoped that the great- I er portion of this number can be in ' duced to join and in an effort to boost the membership to at least 100, j Mr. Bond appointed John W. Graham. ! T. W. Jones and A. E. Jenkins to so | licit those who have not as yet joined. Those present at the meeting were: John Graham, J. H. Conger, J. W. Davis, M. F. Bond, Jr., M. L. Flynn, I J. G. Campen, J. A. Bunch, C. 11. ; Wood, C. L. McCullers, Paul Wallace, ; J. H. McMullan, J. Edwin Bufflap, C. jE. Byrum, Jimmy Earnhardt, P. T. Owens, W. M. Wilkins, R. D. Dixon, I . C. D. Stewart, Dr. W. I. Hart, Jr., D. M. Warren, 1/. H. Haskett, Geddes ! Potter, Thompson Greenwood, F. W. : Hobbs and O. B. Perry. ' Before the meeting adjourned D. , M. Warren expressed the hope that 1 the Chamber of Commerce would ap : point a committee to confer with ! Town Council relative to an investi-: gation of ' the fire fighting system: I Mr. Warren cited, two recent ■; in- 1 stances of failure to have sufficient j water “for: lighting-’fire arid' expressed j 1 the opiniojl that the matter should; ; be thoroughly investigated apdTeme- i died even if it does-cost some money, j He made it plain . that he wps not' criticizing any particular person or | department, but that if there is a need ' | for improvements to afford proper fire protection, they should be made ! : whether it affects the tax rate oi j j not. “Both Town Council and the j ; County Commissioners are some-; j times too prone to hold down expen-1 ses in an effort to maintain a low! | tax rate that very important and | j vital matters are left undone which i . after all result in poor economy,” | I ?air! M*\ Warren. Fire Commissioner | O. B. Perry was asked to present the j matter to Town Council at their I meeting Tuesday night, which he j I agreed to do. Commissioners, Rotarians And Board EducationToße Guests Os County Farmers Bank Os Edenton Be j Closed Armistice Day Though Saturday is always a busy day for banking business, the Bank of Edenton will be dos ed all day next Saturday, Novem ber 11, in observance of Armis tice Day. J For that reason patrons are especially urged to transact their banking business accordingly. The bank will dose at 2 o’clock I on Friday and will not re-open until 9 o’clock Monday morning. i Chowan Club Ladies Are Determined To ] Get 190 New Chairs I Thumbs Down By Com missioners On Using I County Funds —— I WILL GET ’EM SI.OO Extracted From j Each Board Member j Monday j Mrs. E. L. Winslow and Mrs. E. N I ] Elliott, a committee from the Chowan I ( Woman’s Club, appeared, before the; ( County Commissioners Monday again' | asking county aid in purchasing chairs for the new Community Build- i ( ing at Cross Roads. The ladies said . they have several banquets scheduled I . to be served as well as other plans J and that it is embarrassing and im- j poses a hardship upon them in carry- ( ing out their various efforts to raised money to liquidate indebtedness on ( the building. The Commissioners, iiowever, again ] refused to make an appropriation for . the purchase of chairs for the Com- j munity Building, but the two ladies , were not so easily disposed of. “Well. , then,” said Mrs. Elliott, “if you will ] not use county money to buy chairs, . how about each one of you giving a dollar, which is the amount we ex- , pect to pay for a chair?” , It was abqut the easiest way to • bring to a conclusion a long string of strong arguments presented by both ladies, sometimes at the same time, so each Commissioner dug, I down in his jeans and. forked up a i greenback with which to buy a chair.: The two ladies let it be emphatic ally known that they intend to get 100 chairs for the building, and be cause they were turned down by the 1 Commissioners, the present plan will no doubt be to solicit individuals for the price of a chair, with each chair. bearing the name of the person who’ contributed a dollar for the purpose, j Everybody in the Court House Mon-j d,ay was relieved of one dollar for the , purpose. Rev. C. A. Ashby Will Speak At Armistice Day Service Sunday Special Service to Be; Held In Methodist Church j Though the idea of an Armistice ] Day celebration ors Saturday has 1 been discussed by members of Ed i Bond PojSt of the American Legion. ; Commander Thomas. J. Wood, has an ; nounced that due to world-wide af i fairs, aqd the uncertainty of events, j j jdecided that a big celebration ! would hot be appropriate this year. ; Instead a more serious observance of the signing of the Armistice in : 1918' will be in the way of a special : service to be held ip,the Methodist ! Church on Sunday night at 7:30 ! o’clock. At that time the mess-age j will be delivered, by R'ev. C. A. Ashby. | rector of St. Paul’s Church, and not / 1 only Legionnaires and Auxiliary i members are urged to be present, but j !an invitation is extended to every-, i body to attend. During the week also addresses i have been made in the schools in ob- j servance of American Education' Week. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. $1.25 Per Year. Supper Planned to Be Held Thursday Night, November 16 AT 7:3OO^CLOCK Affair WiUße Held In Community Building At Cross Roads An affair of more than ordinary interest will take place at the Com munity Building at Cross Roads next Thursday night, November 16, when farmers and merchants of upper Chowan County will entertain mem bers of the Board of County Commis sioners, the County Board of Educa tion and. the Edenton Rotary Club. -Supper will be served by the Chowan Woman’s Club in the new Community Building, the affair be ing scheduled to get under way promptly at 7:30 o’clock, and those invited, as well as the hosts, antici pate one of the most pleasant affairs held in recent months. The invitation to attend the supper was extended by E. N. Elliott, in charge of the affair, who said he, as well as the farmers and merchant? who are bearing the expense of the meal, hope that every member of the three groups will be able to attend. Mr. Elliott has requested each group to submit a list of the names of those who will attend the affair, so that proper arrangements can be made to accommodate all who will be on hand as well as to eliminate any duplication of those who may be mem bers of more than one of the groups. The invitation has been gladly ac cepted and unless something prevents there will likely be a 100 per cent representation of all three of the or ganizations. The purpose of the supper is to enable farmers to become better ac ►q’vunted with county officials while on a number of occasions Itr.larians have observed Farmers’ Night when many farmers throughout the county were entertained at a Rotary meet ing, and as a token of their apprecia tion un-county farmers desire to have an opportunity to have Rotarians as their guests. The regular meeting of the Rotary Club next Thursday at noon will, therefore, be called, off with presence at the Cross Roads supper counting as regular attend ance. Simple Ceremony Marks Funeral Os Dr Robert B. Drane Old St. Paul’s Church Unable to Hold Large Crowd of Friends Simple in every respect, symbolic of the life he lived, was the funeral conducted for Dr. R. B. Drane last Thursday afternoon at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The ancient church was unable to accommodate the large number of friends who came from many sections to pay their respects to the man so well-known and loved over the greater portion of the State. The services were conducted by Rev. Fred. Drane, son of the de ceased, Bishop Thomas C. Darst, and Rev. C. A. Ashby. Also attending the funeral were 16 rectors of Episcopal churches, includ ing the Revs. E. T. Jillson, B. W. Gaither, R. W. Eastman, Stephen Gardner, James Beckwith, J. R. Tolar, E. C. McConnell, W. R, Noe, A. C. D. Noe, William M. Latta, George F. Hill, C. E. Williams, Sidney Matth ews, John Armfield, John Hardy, and one colored rector, J. B. Brown. Members of St, Paul’s vestry acted as pallbearers. The body was buried in the rear of the church, beside his wife, who preceded him to the grave in 1921. So many beautiful floral tributes were sent by friends, and, acquaint ances that hot only the Drane lot was a solid mass of flowers, but many ad joining graves, were used- to arrange j.the symbols of respect in which he was'held. GOES TO HOSPITAL • - R. L. Pratt went to Durham Wcd ! nesday, taking W. M. Williams to | Duke Hospital for treatment. Mr. ' Williams will remain for ton days or two weeks.
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