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■ ffllfftfl Itl(tZf lsJ) j» VI. —Number 52. TOs Are Awarded | For Best Christmas Rgih&m’s and Mr. and He. West Leary Win > first Prizes UsSne displays 1 Committee Pleased to Notice Many New Ideas Used , Pjiate Winners for the most attrac tive. Ghristm&s decorations for resi WM 'tod business houses tn Eden itai»#%are announced Tuesday by a ctfnmuttee frofh the Edenton Garden Club, -fit ttWktog ■the decision the committee experienced some difficnl ty ifit toookfeg the tetmtnti doe to so masHbaWtirtitty dfecoWrtea residues and easiness trotrsSS, hn'd based their i Jiiilatlj. JlHMinti IH I ii the **gfenuity Mil oa! 41m decorators. Judges were especially pleased to irttyUmT increased number of dfcebra- I tiohe and were particularly pleased at \ ltew ideas put into errect. in the residence group Mr. and Mrs. jWest Leary were awarded first prize \nd Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dail second Aiae. Honorable mention was given Ja the decorations of Mr. and, Mrs. George P. Byrum, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gross and Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Earnhardt. Among the business houses Bad ham’s won first prize and Gulf Ser vice Station second. Honorable men tion was given to Preston’s. First prize in each group is $5.00 cadi, and $2.50 for second prize, the total amount of sls being appropriat- Od by Town Council in order to stim ulpte interest in decorating for the Christmas holidays. Cw 11 _ fc I I ■ "•* ttmn Is Available yj On Classed Cotton j North Carolina fanners who had I*# JfS* cotton classed by govern |Mt eiassers through approved Cot ton Improvement associations are re ikfeded by J. A. Shanklin, Extension cotton specialist of State College, that /they can use their grade and gtaplle reports in obtaining loans on their/crop. Regulations governing loans on 1989 cotton require that it must be 1 Classed by Government eiassers. Where the cotton already has been given the free classification provided j for cotton growers who are members of approved improvement groups, no other classification is needed to quali- * fv for the loan as long as ware-i housemen can. identify the gin balej number from warehouse numbers . Shanklin says that 55 cotton im-j provement groups in North Carolina fire** approved this year to have their cotton classed free by the govern ment. These approved groups, with a total of 3,434 members, planted 48,073, acres to adopted varieties, j This Cotton acreage grown by mem bers jo f improvement groups repre sertteW 6.5 percent of the cotton acre age planted in the State for the 1939 cnp. specialist also announced that M tote ’of 918 cotton improvement W group 1 ! were organized in the United [ States in 1939, with 64,399 members | who p anted 1,766,289 acres to adopt r ed vax ieties. This represents 7.8 per cent t f the total acreage planted to in the Nation. rUm Mexico planted 93.1 per cent hi itijeotton in improvement groups, tod California 33.6 per cent in one variety communities. Other states ■ln. the Sfeed program are: ■VPPEnina, Arizona, Arkansas, Flor ida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tfenne Bsee, Texas and Virginia. ttffajptain Dick” Hall Hiperves 74 th Birthday affair of considerable interest lillliUted on Christmas Day when R. celebrated his 74th birthday together with Christmas. HBKdain Dick,” as most everyone is the oldest active fireman 11111' peltate, being actively associat aßß |h the Edenton Fire Department ms j||the event Mr. and Mrs. Ray- W |||a|larrell and daughter and Mr. 1 Brantle y McCoy and sons, City, were guests of raVR™ 11 f*reman -1 ji Men Will Install H' K ew °ffi cers Monday teff. | Monday night’s meeting of teWs |»l en > new officers for the next ■ ' bnth period will be installed. EjtljS I member of the Tribe is urged BShP* 11 * for occaßion - TOE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY I Fast Basketball ; Played Tuesday hi i Edenton Armory Williamston Quintet De feats Olson’s Swedes 33 to 15 A small group of basketball lovers | were treated to a sample of real! basketball Tuesday night when Ol son’s Terrible Swedes played the fast-stepping Williamston Martins on the local Armory court. The game was given scarcely any publicity, thus the crowd was nothing like a game of this calibre warranted. The Martins won the contest 33 to | 15, the edge being secured during the last half, when after an injury to one of the Swedes, they apparently lost interest. At half time the score was deadlocked at 8-8, but in the sec ond half the Maftihs hung up 25 points while the Swedes managed to tally only 7. The game was a treat for the handful of fans on band for big Geo. Campbell, 6 feet 8, and Jumping Joe Satovich, another six-footer, exe cuted all sorts of trieks with the ball while playing to startle those who looked on. Drug Store Prizes AmnUSaMay! Dorothy Lee Chestnutt And Leamon Jethro Win Bicycles One of the most interesting con tests in Edenton came to a close Saturday afternoon when Leggett & Davis drug store announced winners in their toy contest, in which 18 splendid prizes were awarded. There I were two grand prizes of a girl’s and i boy’s bicycles which went to Dorothy Lee Chestnutt and Leamon Jethro, who were tending when The Herald was prints! last Week. Other prize winners were: Girls First prize—Doll dressed in velvet, Kitty Campen; Second, Doll in peas ant dress, Betsy Duncan; Third, Charlie McCarthy doll and wardrobe, , Cherry Boyce; Fourth, Doll in yellow dress, Anne Hollowell; Fifth, Dydee Doll, Ann J. Partin; Sixth, Xylophone, : Mary Godley; Seventh, Tea Set, Joan ! Cobb; Eighth, Toy Stove, Eva Ann Jackson. | Boys First Prize—Electric train, Bubber | Dobson; Second., Erector set, Sam j Holmes Elloitt; Third, Raster Kit, | Maurice Hassell; Fourth, Mechanical train, Bobby Smith; Fifth, Boxing Gloves, Edsel Waff; Sixth, Basket Ball, Shack Small; Seventh, Prize Puzzle, Teddy Lupton; Eighth, Roller Skates, Ernest White. Business Houses To Gose On New Year’s 1 With New Year’s Day falling on next Monday, there will be quite a bit of interruption to business in , Edenton. In observance of the holi day, the Bank of Edenton, post office 1 and the Chowan County liquor store will be closed all day. Aside from these places befog closed, a majority 1 of the merchants on Wednesday ex pressed their intention of closing I ! their establishments in observance of 1 the holiday. W. J. Daniels Taken To St. Vincent’s Hospital ’ W. J. Daniels, veteran rural mail carrier, has been very ill at his home for the past several days, and was taken to St. Viricfent’s Hospital in r Norfolk this (Thursday) morning. Mr. Daniels is suffering with a heart ailment and has gone to the hospital ' for treatment in the hope of evading ; an operation. ; Students Os Norfolk ; College On Vacation ' Edenton students at Norfolk Col . lege, Norfolk, Va., who are spending . their Christmas vacation with their > parents include Miss Gladys Layton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Lay ton; Miss Lillie Mae Saunders, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Saunders; and Elwood Nixon, son of r G. R. Nixon. Miss Layton and Miss Saunders, Who are enrolled in the f Norfolk College secretarial course, t and ElWood Nixon, Who Is taking the managerial course, jffHl resume i their studies early next* month with the opening of the mid-winter term. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, December 28,1939. listing Os Taxes Will Be Required During January Os This Year j Fine or Imprisonment For Failure to Com ply With Law J ONE NEW - LISTER Mrs. J. G. White Suc ceeds Mrs. B. W. Ev ans Who Is Sick | Beginning Monday, January 1, tax | listers in the various townships will sit for the purpose of giving in taxes This should be taken notice of due to the fact that heretofore taxes were listed during April, the change being made effective by an act of the Legislature. Under the law all persons who arc liable for a poll tax and fail to give themselves in, and all who own prop erty and fail to list it, will be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction fined or imprisoned. Each farm owner shall prepare a list of the acreage of each crop grown, including acres of truck. The list should show the total acres culti vated by the owner, also the acres cultivated by tenants on each separ ately recognized farm, the acres in improved pasture, woodland, idle andi other lands. He shall be required to I j report the number of bearing fruit I trees, the number of livestock of I I breeding age, number of hogs sold or I slaughtered during past 12 months' and tons of fertilizer to be used, during this crop year. This informa tion is kept confidential and has no relation to taxes. Its purpose is for agricultural education, economic ana lysis and safer guidance of county agents and farmers generally. W. S. Privott, tax supervisor, has re-appointed all of last year’s tax listers except Mrs. B. W. Evans in the Second Township, who cannot serve because of illness. Mrs. J. G. White will replace Mrs. Evans. The tax listers are: First Township—Mrs. C. T. Hollo well. Second Township—Mrs. J. G. White. Third Township—Mrs. A. D. Ward. Fourth Township—Mrs. Evie C. Umphlett. Mrs. Stillman Victim Os Pneumonia Attack Mrs. Claudia Stillman, age 71, died in the State Hospital, at Raleigh, Monday night after a very brief ill ness. She had been ill only a few days, being the victim of an attack j of pneumonia. Deceased was the! widow of the late J. D. Stillman, and is survived by three daughters and three sons, Mrs. Neal Hobbs and Mrs. E. W. Mason, of Edenton, and Mrs. M. W. Chesson, of Waverly, Va.; Lowry Stillman and, James Stillman, of Norfolk, Va., and O. J. Stillman, of Philadelphia, Pa. A sister, Mrs. Ella Stillman, of Washington County, and three broth ers, Alvie, Stewart and Willie Daven port, all of Washington County, also survive, as do 23 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the home on Broad Street Wednesday afternoon with Rev. E. L. Wells offi ciating. Interment was made in Beav er Hill Cemetery. - | Important Masonic j Meeting Tonight! With tonight’s Masonic meeting being the last of the year and very important matters scheduled to come before the membership, the master, J. R. Byrum, is desirous that as many of the members as possible i will be on hand. This will be the final meeting at which Mr. Byrum will preside as mas ter of the lodge, new officers for 1940 being scheduled to be installed at the first meeting in the new year. Mr. By rum will be succeeded by C. W. Sawyer. Lions Club Meeting This Week Called Off The regular meeting of the Eden . ton Lions Club this week was called off, due to falling on Christmas Day. Regular meetings, however, will be ■ resumed next Monday night, when • the president, Dr. W. S. Griffin, , urges every member to attend. \ BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT i ! Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Willie White, , of Colerain, on Tuesday, December : lb, s daughter, Sandra Catherine. » Jft*. White 1 mwrformerly Miss Lois: i Barrow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs: Joe Barrow, of Edenton. Enumerators For Business Census Are Announced I Supervisor D. W. Lup ton Selects 12 to Aid In Work IN CONFERENCE Farm and Population Figures Will Be Tak en In April D. W. Lupton, District Supervisor of the Census of the First Census or Congressional District, has announced that his office had completed prepar ations for the taking of the business census in January. The Bureau of the Census only allotted 12 people to do this work in the entire district and selections have been made as follows: Pitt—Frank Brooks, Greenville, and Mrs. John Andrews, Ayden. Beaufort—Ruffin O’Neal, Wash ington, and R. H. Paul, Jr., Edward Martin—Claude T. Smith, Rober sonville. Pasquotank—J. J. Hughes, Eliza beth City. Hyde—W. W. Watson, Lake Land ing. Dare—Mrs. Vivian Ryder, Manteo. Camden and Currituck—James A. Taylor, Maple. Washington and Tyrrell—Delbert Allen, Plymouth. Hertford and Gates—W. A. Mc- Glohon, Murfreesboro. Chowan and Perquimans—R. T. Brinn, Hertford. These enumerators will be in con ference during the week with Mr. Lupton and the Assistant Supervisor, W. A. Everett, of Edenton. Mr. Lupton stated that the farm and population census would not be taken until April and that enumera tors for that work would not be se lected until the latter part of March. No information has yet been given him as to how many enumerators will assigned to each county and those who do the work must success fully pass a test. Enumerators do not receive any salary nor travelling expenses and are paid fees for their work. Thieves Raid Storage . House Os J. G. Wood That theives had been at work in a storage building owned by John G. Wood, located near the Home Fer tilizer Works was discovered Satur day afternoon. In checking up ma terials stored there, it was learned that about 50 gallons of white and gray paint had disappeared, as well as about 1,000 pounds of heavy cop per wire which was salvaged and stored there after the Farmers Pea nut Company plant was destroyed several years ago. Just when the material was taken is not known and police have as yet no clue upon which to work in order to apprehend the guilty parties. Police Make Only One Arrest Over Holiday Police report a very quiet Christ mas celebration, only one arrest be ing made over the week-end. The person arrested was John White, col ored, who was charged with assault j upon Roosevelt Ford, also colored. When White was arrested officers found a long dangerous pocket knife opened and concealed up one of his sleeves. He was fined $5 and costs when tried before Justice of the Peace F. W. Hobbs Tuesday. Texaco Warehouse Relieved Os Tires On Monday it was discovered that the Texas Company warehouse had been entered and a quantity of tires stolen. The robbery occurred either Saturday night or Sunday, but J. H. Conger was unable to say exactly how many tires were carried away. Entrance was gained by breaking out a window, and though some finger prints were secured, no arrests have been made. Rotary _£lub Will Meet As Usual Today With last week’s Rotary meeting called off due to the holiday rush, the regular meeting of the Edenton club will be held in the Parish House today at 1 o’clock. President William Jones is very ; anxious that every member presents i himself at Hus meeting, the last on< in the year 1939. Rotary Christmas Dance Was One Os Best Ever Staged President Jones Turns Over Profits to Club Treasury One of the most successful dances ever held in Edenton took place on Monday night when the Rotary Club’s Christmas dance was held in the Ar mory. The spacious floor was well filled with couples coming from every section of the Albemarle, and from various expressions heard, it was as delightful a dance as could be ex pected. Music was furnished by “Dutch” McMillin and his Duke Ambassadors from Duke University, who provided snappy music all evening to the de- 1 light of those on the floor. 1 William (Spec) Jones, president of the Rotary Club, who had charge; and promotion of many previous dances, directed the affair and is now receiving congratulations of fellow Rotarfans as well as other friends sor 1 the success of the dance. Mr. Jones, in order to bolster the' treasury of the Rotary Club, has very kindly turned over every cent of the profits of the dance to the club to be used for various Rotary activities. RoperNepHces j Hit And Run Charge Colored Woman Taken To Hospital as Result Os Accident Willis Howell, Roper Negro, was arrested Tuesday and placed in thej Chowan County jail facing a charge of hit and run. On Monday night Rosetta Blanchard, colored, was se riously hurt when she was struck by a passing vehicle on the new road leading from Edenton to the Albe marle Sound bridge road. * After an examination, following the accident, she was taken to the Windsor Hospital, when it was thought that her neck was broken Harry Ford, with the Blanchard wom an at the time, was also knocked to. the ground, but escaped with slight injuries. The accident was investigated by ; State Patrolman Vernon Spruill, who was home for the Christmas holiday, and being furnished only with the: information that the couple was hit' by a truck, Patrolman Spruill later arrested Howell and lodged him in] jail. j Howell told officers that if his! truck hit anybody while he was on ' his way home Monday, he knew nothing about it. The right fender; of his truck was dented and several I pieces of broken glass rested on thej running board when his truck was; brought to police headquarters. Cotton Ginning Still Trailing 1938 Figure Chowan County cotton ginning con- j tinues far below last year’s level,: according to F. W. Hobbs, special I agent for the Bureau of the Census, ' Department of Agriculture. Accord- j ing to a report just released by Mr. j Hobbs, 848 bales were ginned from 1 the crop of 1939 prior to December \ 13 as compared with 1,267 bales from j the 1938 crop to the same date. 35 Beer Dealers Lose Licenses In Clean-pp! Raleigh.—Thirty-five retail beer li-! censes have been revoked in all parts j of North Carolina at the behest of j the Brewers and North Carolina Beer Distributors Committee. This means that 35 proprietors of anti-social beer outlets have been forced by the local authorities to get out of the beer business as a part of the beer industry’s “clean up or close up” campaign in North Caro lina. While the committee pressed against the few bad actors in the beer business, it took time off to congratulate the great majority of law-abiding, respectable beer retail ers who have cooperated in the purge of the bad element forming the minority. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET NEXT WEDNESDAY Due to New Year’s Day falling on next Monday, the County Commis sioners will hold their regular month ly meeting on Wednesday of next i week, instead of the first Monday as usual. ' . This newspaftt U UrCu-' lated in ms territory where Advertisers wul realise good results. $1.25 Per Year. Watch Service In Methodist Church On Sunday Night Rev. W. C. Benson, the Pastor, Eager For Crowded House 10:30 TO ITo’CLOCK Various Groups Will Submit Program For New Year Next Sunday night, from 10:30 o’clock until the new year arrives, a watch night service will be in pro gress in the Methodist Church, to which not only members of the con gregation are earnestly urged to be present, but a cordial invitation is extended to anybody to attend. 1110 pastor of the church, Rev. W. C. Benson, is very anxious to have a full house, for what he says should be one of the most impressive ser vices of the year. Various groupings of the church are expected to submit programs of activity during the new year as well as a brief resume of the past year’s work, the climax to the service being a communion service as 1940 makes its debut. Mr. Benson assures all who attend that the meeting will not be tiresome and he is confidently looking forward to a great and well attended service. Mrs. John E. Waff, Sr., Dies Saturday Night Mrs. -John E. Waff, Sr., died Satur day night at 11:45 o’clock at the home of her son, Ernest Waff. She was 69 years of age and had been ill for about three weeks. Her husband preceded her to the grave about two years ago. Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock Christmas afternoon, the ser vice being held in Full Gospel Taber nacle, with the pastor, the Rev. An drew Stirling officiating. Interment pvas made in the family buryfog ground at The Emperor. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. W. G. Davis, of Berkley and Mrs. A. C. More, of South Norfolk, and three sons, Hugh Waff, of Ports mouth, John, Jr., and Ernest Waff, of Chowan County. Pallbearers were: Clincy Briley, , Erie Jones, Reuben Bass, Johnny Bass, Jasper Copeland and Asa , Griffin. AAA Leader Reports Soil Building Gains i'. I In a preliminary report on Triple- A activities in 1939, E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer of State Col j lege, says gains were made in every i phase of soil building during 1939, iand that there is promise that 1940 | will be even a greater year for the ■ Agricultural Conservation Program. i The use of ground agricultural I limestone increased to 108,464 tons as grants of aid alone, with individuals | buying and applying an equal amount 'in excess of that required for prac j tices under the program. This com j pares with 78,169 tons of lime used j in 1938 and 30,584 tons used in 1937, Floyd said. i In 1939 the use of triple-super -1 phosphate as a grant of aid totaled ! 3,514 tons, as compared with 1,863 j tons in 1938 and 370 tons in 1937. ! The construction of terraces totaled ! more than 20,000,000 linear feet dur ! ing the past year, as contrasted with ! 15,233,000 linear feet in 1938 and I 9,849,000 linear feet in 1937. “There were also encouraging ■ gains in the seeding of iespedeza, j winter legumes, and blue grass.” the j AAA executive said. “We had a greater participation in carrying out j soil building during the year, and 75 | percent of the total soil-building al lowance set apart to be earned by , producers was earned. J In addition, cotton parity pay ■ ments are being made to 118,000 i farmers, and wheat parity payments I to 3,024 producers. Colored Organization Distributes Presents “The Secret 15,” group of young colored people organized to spread Christmas cheer among the unfortu nate of their race, on Saturday dis tributed 20 baskets of food, each val ued at SI.OO, in addition to many i clothes and toys. Members of the or - ganization have asked The Herald to - express their appreciation to both ; white and colored friends for their i contributions which made the aim of their group possible.