North Carolina Newspapers

I|* » I Volume Vl.—Number 46. |*f i " * Home Demonstration Clubs f Will Observe Achievement Day Wednesday, Nov. 11 ? "Miss Florence Cox of Hertford County Will Be Speaker grouFsinging * Chowan Home Agent Urges Public to At tend Exercises r— ’ . ... Achievement Day for Home Dem onstration Clubs of Chowan County will be observed next Wednesday. November 22, beginning at 10:30 o’clock in the morning. The celebra tion will be an all-day affair with a i program held in the auditorium of Chowan High School and lunch served in the new Cpmmunity Building. The day was to have been observed Tuesday, October 31, but due to the inability to secure a speaker, the event was postponed,. Miss Rebecca Colwell, Chowan home agent, has an nounced that the principal speaker will be Miss Florence Cox, home dem onstration agent of Hertford County, and that special group singing will be in charge of J. F. Criswell, of State College. Miss Cox, in her address, will feature recollections of her trip to Europe last summer during which she attended a meeting of the Asso ciation of Country Women of the . World held in London. Miss Colwell desires it to be gen s erally known that the Achievement Day exercises are not only for club women, but the public is cordially in vited to attend and she hopes many will be on hand for the program. The i lunch in the Community Building will ' ■ be served at a small charge. The program, as released Wednes day, will be as follows: Morning Session Song, America, the Beautiful; Invocation, Rev. Frank feje. Greetings, Mrs. F. P. Gregory, President 16th District Federation of } Hopoe Demonstration Clubs. _ Roll Call by Clubs. Minutes of Last Meeting. ' Business. Solo, Mrs. Gordon Blow, accom-. panied by Mrs. Wood, Privott. I Club Reports: Advance, Rocky j Hock, Enterprise, Byrds, Center Hill; and Gum Pond. j Presentation of Attendance Certi ficates. ) Song, Follow The Gleam. Introduction of Speaker, Mrs. E. N. Elliott. Address, Miss Florence Cox, Hert ford County Home Agent. i Announcements. Collect of Club Women of America. 1 Lunch—Served by Chowan Club, i Afternoon Session i Song, The More We Meet Together. Club Reports: Hurdles, Beech Fork, 1 ' Ryland, Wards and Chowan. Song, A Song of the Open Country, j Presentation of Awards of Merit. ‘ Introduction of Leader, Mrs. Percy i Smith. ! Group Singing, Lead by Mr. J. F. Criswell; accompanist, Mrs. Gordon 1 Blow. ( Presentation of Club Prizes. j Song, Sing Your Way Home. Turkey Supper At Parish House Nov. 23 There will be a turkey supper at the Parish House Thursday night, November 23rd, from 6 to 8 o’clock. The affair will be for the benefit of St. Mary’s Guild. Any who plan to attend should make reservations early. < Mrs. W. S. SummereU Taken To Hospital Mrs. W. S. SummereU, veteran ■' ty, was on Monday rushed to St. Vin . cent’s Hospital, Norfolk, Va. Mrs. SummereU became violently ill Fri sk. day and was forced to be carried from the school, where she is a teach \ er of the fifth grade. SERIOUSLY ILL Im £• John Ballentine was taken seriously ill Thursday night, being found Fri day morning in his room at the : : Penelope Barker Hotel in a helpless' condition by Ernest Ward, who, see-; 3 ing his light burning thought some ; thing must be wrong. His sisters came Saturday afternoon and carried him to Portsmouth, Va., to be with them. Last reports were that he was feeling a little better. CAKE SALE SATURDAY Chowan Woman’s Club will have a cake sale at Quinn’s Furniture Store Saturday morning. a ■* r ';.-..m THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY 5> ; i ¥ —.-w—— Card Reader mm' Warn Jr «■: ,ta, rtWm' ~~ Ham< v W. FREDERICK 4 l(0CH Dr. Frederick H. Koch, found er and director of The Carolina Playmakers, who will read Dick ens’ Christmas Carol in Edenton Monday, December 11. Curtain Drops On Football Season With Game Today Edenton High Will Op pose Greenville on Hicks Field | AT 3 O’CLOCK {Scheduled Game With | Elizabeth City Has Been Cancelled j What will undoubtedly be the last game of the season for the Edenton I High School football team will be | played Thursday afternoon on Hicks 1 Field when the Aces tackle the Green i ville aggregation. The game is sche l duled to begin at 3 o’clock. This ' game was originally scheduled to be played Friday afternoon, but was i since changed to Thursday, i Though Coach Dave Holton’s boys i have- had a disastrous season so far as victories are concerned, they will ' put forth every effort to add at least I one more victory to the only one reg istered against Columbia in the open ! ing game. ‘ Another game had been scheduled with Elizabeth City to be played on! Thanksgiving, but because the Yellow Jackets are slated to take part in the finals for the Northeastern Cham pionship, this game will most likely be cancelled. Impressive Service Held Sunday Night In Methodist Church' Though there was no Armistice Day celebration in Chowan County Saturday, the day was fittingly ob served Sunday night when special services were held in the Methodist Church. The speaker for the occa sion was the Rev. C. A. Ashby, who was heard by a goodly number, in cluding ex-service men and members of the Legion Auxiliary. Mr. Ashby spoke briefly but his remarks were very appropriate for the occasion. He read, a scripture lesson from the sixth chapter of Deuteronomy dealing with fear of the Lord. Emphasizing the futility of war, Mr. Ashby said there is no 1 lack of patriotism on the part of [ those men who have had a taste of war, but that their disappointment in the belief that the last war would end war, makes them hesitant to again enter any war on foreign soil or see their sons slaughtered. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Jones announce . the birth of a son, Lester, Jr., on Monday, November 13. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, November 16, 1939 Fuller Development Os Albemarle Topic Os Meeting Friday County Representatives Meet In Hotel Jo seph Hewes PLAN BOOKLET Processing Plants Seen As Aid to Section’s Prosperity In a zone meeting of the Greater Albemarle Association held Friday night in Hotel Joseph Hewes repre sentatives from most of the counties in the area were present. The meet ing was presided over by P. D. Mid gett, of Englehard, president, and af ter a delightful meal, Mr. Midgett I expressed his faith, with proper co operation, in the fuller development of the Albemarle. One of the great est needs, he _saidfi IS” an all weath er road stSrcunding the territory. There is unlimited opportunity in the section’s agricultural resources, he said, and we have a “gold mine” in our waterways. He urged an in creased number of dairy cattle, addi tional experimental facilities and, pro cessing of our farm products at home. In this connection, he said the Pied mont and southern counties are mak ing more money on processing Albe marle products than the growers themselves receive, which money J could be kept at home. Mr. Midgett urged the growing of j blueberries, cranberries, asparagus, celery and strawberries on a large | scale with packing plants to process: ! them, as well as a creosoting plant, to treat the millions of pine trees used for telephone poles. Secretary W. 0. Saunders report ed that despite any special drive for membership, members are gradually coming into the organization. He al so reported working on the matter of printing 10,000 copies as a begin ner of a booklet to contain 36 pages for distribution to prospective visu tors. The title "or the booklet will be “North Carolina’s Historic Albe marle.” Mr. Saunders reported that through his efforts President G. Leslie Hall of the Tidewater Automobile Associa tion had secured the remedy of cer tain injustices on Virginia road maps, which showed only one highway en tering the Northeast section of North (Continued On Page Five) Move Under Way To Eliminate Grand- Jury AtCourt Term No Criminal Cases to Claim Attention of Select Group SAVING OF $250 Good Chance to Pur chase New Chairs For Jurors Unless some legal entanglements develop, Chowan Superior Court, which is scheduled to convene Mon day, December 11, will be rather J unique in that there will be no grand jury to serve in connection with the term. Clerk of Court Richard D. Dixon has revealed that up to the [! present time there are no criminal cases for a grand jury to pass upon, i only one appeal case, a misdemeaner, from Recorder’s Court being dock eted. Mr. Dixon, anxious to save expense ; for the taxpayers, says by eliminat ing the grand jury a saving of around $250 would result. The matter will be taken up with i the proper authorities in the hope that this expense can be saved at the i next term of court. For the last 12 or 15 years, grand , juries, lawyers and jurors themselves i have agitated more comfortable ■ chairs in the jury box and it is Mr. . Dixon’s idea that this improvement , could easily be made by the saving i resulting from doing away with the i grand jury. ! Another advantage, too, according I to Mr. Dixon, is the fact that more , time could be devoted to civil cases, [ many of which appear on the docket. At present there is nobody in jail", only one appeal case on the criminal docket and unless something devel opes in the meantime, Mr. Dixon | sees no reason why the grand jury 1 j cannot be eliminated thus saving the county unnecessary expense. Haskett Appointed Commissioner Os I Police By Council i Board Acts In Execu tive Session Tues day Night LONGSESSION i Perry Submits Improve ments For Fire De partment • Though very few matters confront ’ ed Town Council Tuesday night, a • discussion of the town’s fire-fighting i system and an executive session call* • ed to discuss matters pertaining to • the police department, resulted in • quite a lengthy meeting. O. B. Perry reported that com ■ plaints have been made relative to : inadequate fire-fighting facilities, and following an investigation, he said ■ lhat to put the department in first • flps shape it would be necessary to 1 purchase j»ore hose, provide more ! hydrant£fu|mploy more paid firemen, I put adequate mains on the west side • of Broad Street and install a bell ■ system in each fireman’s home to as ■ sure knowledge of a fire. J. H. Wroten was called upon to ■ make a report regarding the water ■ lines. Mr. Wroten said the Board of ■ Public Works had recently secured a • guage for hydrant testing, and that ’ | he had tested every hydrant in town. | In the course of his investigation he I I discovered ample pressure on Broad , Street and the east side of town, 1 1 but that cm the west side the highest i: pressure registered was 12 pounds, ,: and going as low as seven pounds, i - He said, in this section there are 4 and j 2-inch lines with some as small as ••114-inch, which he gave as reason! for lack of an adequate amount of I . water in case of fire. Mr. Wroten, I however, sounded a note of encour- j . agement, telling the Councilmen that i at present he was working on an es-! . timate, ordered by the Board of Pub-; lie Works, to determine the cost of { laying another 6-inch Rue BJWQ fe~t; long parallel with Broad Street on the West side. In view of this in (Continued On Page Five) Dr. Koch Will Read Christmas Carol In j Edenton Dec. 11th Coming 1 to Edenton Un-j der Auspices Parent- I Teacher Group | AT HIGHSCHOOL Efforts Will Be Made To Pack Spacious Auditorium Following Arbor Day exercises . Monday, committee chairmen of the Edenton Parent Teacher Association met at the home of Mrs. Richard Elliott. The purpose of this meeting was to lay plans for the appearance si in Edenton on Monday, December 11, , I of Dr. Frederick H. Koch, of Chapel - j Hill. -I Dr. Koch has been secured for that 1 j date to read the famous Dickens’ • j Christmas Carol and the Association . I will make a strenuous effort to fill ; | the Edenton school auditorium for 1, the occasion. , | This will be the 35th anniversary , of Dr. Koch’s initial public reading ■ of this immortal ghost story, which will take place in the Edenton school > auditorium at 8:30 P. M. In the last • 34 years he has read the Christmas l Carol to audiences far and wide. He has four times given it in Town Hall l in New York, twice he has ,read the i story at the Institute of Arts and i Sciences at Columbia University. Large cities, little country towns and l secluded byways have heard, him give s Tiny Tim’s immortal toast: “God « bless us everyone.” Members of the Parent-Teacher As : sociation are greatly enthused over p securing Dr. Koch to read the story, • and the reader himself says that his record would not lie considered com-, p plete without an Edenton apear > ance. , An intensive campaign will be . made to sell tickets end many are ex ; pected to be sold in nearby towns. I Dr. Koch last year appeared in Cole •' rain, but very unfavorable weather i ! reduced the audience, and it is hoped ■ many who planned to hear him then s! will avail themselves of the opportun-, I ity on December 11. Arbor Day Appropriately Celebrated In Edenton; 48 Trees Are Planted In Town | Presides In Wilson | * j| I J -v • • s : jH L I JOHN A. HOLMES As president of the North eastern District Teachers Asso ciation, Mr. Holmes will preside at the 17th annual convention to i be held in Wilson Friday and Saturday. Farmers Stage Big! Turkey Supper At Cross Roads Tonight! j i IRotarians, All County! j Officials and C. H. S. ! Faculty Invited | 130 EXPECTED j Aifair wiiTcet Under! Way at 7:30 In Com- j munity Building Tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock. ! members of the Board of County I Commissioners, Board of Education, i all other county officials, the Edenton ] Rotary Club and faculty of Chowan High School will be guests of farm - ers and merchants of upper -Chowan County at a supper to be served in I the new Community Building at j Small’s Cross Roads. The meal will . be prepared and. served by members of the Chowan Woman’s Club, j The affair was originally planned | to entertain the Rotary Club, which j organization on a number of occa sions had observed Farmers’ Night, but as the idea spread among the farmers it was decided to include county officials and the Chowan High ' School faculty. E. N. Elliott was selected to have charge of arrange-, rnents and reported early this week that 130 would, attend the supper. | which is labeled a get-together occa- J sion. j Practically every member of each group is expected to be on hand and all look forward to a very appetiz ing roast turkey meal and a delight-! ful hour spent with the farmers of j the section. Funeral Wednesday For H. W. Batton Funeral services were held Wed nesday afternoon for H. W. Batton, ' 78 years of age, who died Tuesday morning at his home on Office Street. Mr. Batton had been in ill health for | a long time. The services were con-: ducted at the home with the Rev. W. J O. Henderson, of Elizabeth City, of ficiating. Interment was made in | Beaver Hill Cemetery. Surviving are his wife, three, daughters, Mrs. J. A. Hart, of San ford, Mrs. M. G. Twiddy and Mrs. Edward Cuthrell, of Edenton, and five sons, -J. L., E. R. and C. R. Batton.! j of Fayetteville, and F. C. and 11. B. J Batton, of Edenton. Missionary Society Will Meet Monday; The regular meeting of the Worn-1 an’s Missionary Society of the Meth- J odist Church will be held Monday as-! ternoon at the home tff Mrs. M. F. j Bond, Jr. The meeting is called forj 3:30 o’clock, and because of very im portant business, Mrs. W. W. Byrum, the president, requests every mem ' ber of the Society to be present. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realize good results. Per Year. Exercises Held In Af ternoon on School ! Ground special" MU SIC J. L. Wiggins Speaks on Trees Found In North Carolina i i ■ ■■■ - ! For the first time in many years the true spirit of Arbor Day was ef fectively carried out in Edenton Monday and as a result 46 trees were planted which, if they survive, will add considerably to the attractive ness of the town. The project was undertaken by the Edenton Garden Club, which also had the whole-heart ed cooperation of the Parent-Teacher Association. Os the trees planted, 12 were placed on the Ed.enton school ground, each of the 11 grades buying and assuming responbility for a cer tain tree which is plainly marked, and a beech tree planted by Thomas Chears, chairman of the school trus ! tees. Each tree is surrounded by a ! wire guard and children have been ! encouraged to see to it that the trees I are not damaged or abused, j Appropriate exercises were held on | the school ground Monday afternoon : under the direction of the Garden { Club and Parent-Teacher Association, j when the entire student body was j present as well as quite a few others, i John A. Holmes presided and special ! music was furnished by the high , school band and glee club, j In connection with the tree plant ] ing, Mrs. C. T. Hollowell awarded a j prize to little Josephine Mills for the ! best essay written on “Trees,” call j ing on the winner to read her paper, j As a climax, former Mayor J. L. ! Wiggins, an ardent tree lover, made •an address on “Our Native Trees.” | In beginning his address, Mr. Wig ! gins recited a,, poem on trees which ; was indelibly stamped upon his mind l when in the fourth grade about 51 | years ago. Mr. Wiggins said North | Carolina is fortunate in its forestry resources, placing trees of the State in four classes, fruit bearing, nut bearing, lumber producing and orna mental, and mentioning the trees in each group. Explaining the two general classes of trees, decidous and evergreen, Mr. W’iggins said that in nature wc must think of everything as God’s gift, but that there exists peculiar and close trees in the rela tion of trees and, mankind. “This would, indeed, be a dreary world if we did not have trees and birds,” he said, “and here again we have a close relation.” Mr. Wiggins defined and described the uses of some of our most valuable trees, beginning with the pine which has undoubtedly been the most valu ' able natural asset the Southland has known since the earliest Colonial period. He then graphically defined flowering and ornamental trees, clos ‘ ing his very appropriate and inter ; esting remarks by reading Joyce Kil . mer’s short but wonderful poem “Trees,” which was inspired after the writer witnessed the devastation and 1 awful destruction of trees by war. j Aside from the trees planted on the school ground, 34 were planted about ! town, with the property owners pay* ' ing half and the other half coming from the town’s appropriation for 1 town beautification. The variety of trees planted included water and willow oaks, crepe myrtle and a few other varieties. Benson Reappointed To Edenton Church i, . i Appointments for Methodist Churches for the new church yeai ' were announced Monday morning at ' the annual conference held in Fay ' etteville. Included in these appoint ments was the return of Rev. W. C. Benson to the Edenton Church. It is the Rev. Mr. Benson’s second year ! as pastor here. j ‘Die Rev. R. E. Walston, who served 1 the Chowan charge for four years, I was transferred to the Pink Hill j Church in the New Bern district, the | Rev. J. T. Stanford replacing him in j Chowan. UNDERGOES TONSILECTOMY | Joan, young daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Clyde Cobb, had her tonsils re j moved at the Powell Clinic Wednes 'i day. ■ ■ ■ BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Erson Blanchard, of near Salwin, announce the birth of a ’ son on Wednesday, November Bth.