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Darden Claims Effort Made
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ToCreate Discord InTowns
Os Plymouth And Edenton
Charges E. City Paper
Over Emphasized
Casual Remark
WRITES LETTER
Says No Effort on His
Part to Relocate U. S.
Route 17
Since articles appeared last week
in'The Herald and Elizabeth City
newspapers to the effect that John
W. Darden, of Plymouth, was urging
re-routing of U. S. 17 over Albemarle
Sound bridge, the Plymouth -judge
has accused Herbert Peele, editor of
she Elizabeth City Advance, of mak
ing an effort to create discord be
tween Plymouth and Edenton. Mr.
Darden, in a letter to Mr. Peele, a
copy of which was sent to Mayor J.
p. McMullan, says that a casual sug
gestion on his part which was second
ary in his criticism of the road pro
gram of the Greater Albemarle As
sociation, was over-emphasized by
Peele and entirely eclipsed the
thought he desired to convey.
The re-routing suggestion at once
met with vigorous protest in Eden
ton, Windsor and Williamston, which
three' towns would necessarily lose
traffic over No. 17, and plans were
immediately set in motion to institute
a fight against re-routing, an alter
nate route or any other compromise.
Mr. Darden’s letter to the Eliza
beth City editor follows:
“My dear Mr. Peele:
“It appears to me that youi
paper, through its editorial section,
is making an effort to create discord
between this section and Edenton' on
account of a mere suggestion regard
ing the re-location, of U. S. J 7 high
way or the adoption of the highway
from Hertford through Plymouth to
Washington as an alternate.
“I little thought that the casual
suggestion of this matter in my
letter to The Independent last week
would cause so much discussion. It
appears to me that this suggestion,
which was regarded by me as being
secondary, has entirely eclipsed the
principal thought that I had hoped
to to the press and the public.
“My first thought was for the
completion of U. S. No. 64 from
Columbia to Manteo, including
, bridges over both Alligator River
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PIA Question Box
On Monday Night
Error In Story That It
Would Be Held Tues
*m , > day Night
An error occurred in last week’s
issue regarding the question box to
be held by Edenton Parent-Teacher
Association. The meeting was ori
ginally scheduled, for March 1, but
due to conflict with other affairs it
was postponed to Monday night,
Alarch 4. The story last week stat
ed that the affair would be held
Tuesday night, which would conflict
with the open forum at which Di-.
Ralph McDonald will speak. The ex
ror is regretted, and it is hoped that
those interested will note that the
question box will be held Monday
night instead of Tuesday.
A list of 60 interesting questions
'have been arranged by Mrs. Ep Deb
nam, Phillip McMullan and Richard
Dixon, with a prize of $5 going to
the person turning in the most cor
rect answers. While the answers
are being checked, an old-time spell
ing bee will also be held, in which a
a prize of $1 will be awarded to the
best speller.
At the conclusion of the contests,
tea and sandwiches will be served.
f ew Fish Culturist
} At Local Hatchery
. Robert Lee Heckman, of Coving
ton, Kentucky, arrived in Edenton
, Monday to take up his duties at the
United States Fish Hatchery. Mr.
Mr. Heckman is an. apprentice fish
culturist and will fill the vacancy
tcaused by the recent transfer of W.
E. Baker.
Mr. Heckman is married and when
his wife and son arrive next week
they wiU make their home in one of
the houses on the Fish Hatchery
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Sponsored by the Ed Bond
Post of the American Legion,
Dr. McDonald will on Tuesday
night lead a public forum in the
high school auditorium.
Chowan Court House
Now Equipped With
New Chars For Jury
Equipment Makes Old
Court Room More
Attractive
NEW ROOF NEXT!
Chairs Recommended In
Several Grand Jury
Reports
Final touches in recent efforts to
make Chowan County’s ancient
Court House more attractive were
Completed Monday when 12 new
chairs were placed in the jury box for
the use of the jurors. The chairs
of mahogany finish are of a design
in keeping with the interior of the
court room and will be far more
comfortable than the old style chairs
long in use. The chairs are of
swivel type with comfortable arm
rests which will enable jurors during
long trials to change their position
and thus remain more comfortable
during court sessions.
Several grand juries nave recom
mended the addition of more com
fortable chairs, and, by elimination of
the grand jury at the last term of
court a saving of sufficient amount
was effected with which to purchase
the new chairs.
The new equipment adds greatly
to the appearance of the court room,
the only regrettable part of the im
provement being that not all 12 of
the chairs could be placed on the
platform formerly used by the old
chairs. However, Richard D. Dixon,
who has supervised the improve
ments, had two of the chairs placed
on the floor level at a point where
they would not cause any inconven
ience to court activities.
At present both the inside and out
side of the Court House is very at
tractive, the only thing remaining to
be done to place the building in first
class shape being a new roof. This
matter has been up for discussion
by the County Commissioners on
several occasions, but no definite time
has been set for replacing the old
roof which is in a bad state of repair.
$180.91 For Film
The committee on Finnish Re
lief pf which Mrs. J. W. Davis
is chairman for Chowan County,
{reports a total of $180.91 sent
on to National headquarters
through State chairman, Blucher
Ehringhaus. Through the efforts
of the Rev. Frank Cale am ap
peal has been made to the
churches of Chowan County.
Generous collections from Rocky
Hock, Center Hill and Warwick
Swamp churches have helped
materially in bringing Chowan’s
previous report amount to the
above gratifying amount. Her
bert Hoover has found nation
wide, whole-hearted support in
this wonderful work for Civilian
Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, February 29, 1940.
Public Forum Will
Be Held Tuesday
Night At School
Dr. Ralph McDonald Se
lected to Lead Inter
esting Discussion
AT 8 O’CLOCK
Legionnaires Hopeful to
Have Large Number
Present
What should attract a large crowd
is the public forum which is sche
duled to be held Tuesday night in the
high school auditorium, starting at
8 o’clock. The forum, sponsored by
Ed Bond Post of the American Le
gion, will be led by Dr. Ralph Mc-
Donald, former gubernatorial candi
date, who will use as the topic of dis
cussion, Federal Aid to Education or
Next Steps in Education.” Many
have heard Dr. McDonald speak be
fore and were impressed with his
ability as a speaker and it is the
hope that many turn out to hear and
take part in the forum. An oppor
tunity will £>e given to any who de
sire to express their opinion or ask
questions, for after Dr. McDonald’s
address the meeting will take the
form of a round-table discussion.
Legionnaires consider themselves
very fortunate in being able to se
cure this public forum and especially
so capable a speaker to conduct it as
Dr. McDonald, and they are very
anxious to have a large crowd on
hand to hear and take part in this
timely topic.
Several local Legionnaires have at
tended forums held in other towns
and were very favorably impressed
with the interest shown in the topic
discussed, and the valuable informa
tion obtained, and it was on this ac
count that the local post was induced
to sponsor the meeting to be held on
Tuesday night.
Fashion Show At
Holmes Company
On Friday Night
Living Models Will Dis
play Large Stock of
Merchandise
Announcement has been made by
the J. H. Holmes Company that a
Fashion Show will be held in theii
store Friday night, beginning at 3
o’clock. During this event 15 young
ladies of Edenton and, Chowan Coun
ty will act as models to display the
large stock of merchandise purchased
for the spring season. There will
also be five children models to dis
play children’s wear.
The Holmes Company has purchas
ed an unusually large stock of at
tractive ladies’ and children’s weai
and a cordial invitation is extended
to all to attend the show.
Dental Puppet Show
To Return March 8
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Three Showings Will Be
Made In County Dur
ing Day
On Friday, March 8, the dental
puppet show will again appear in
Edenton. There will be three show
given in the County, at 9 a. m., at
the Edenton colored high school, at
11 a. m., at the Edenton white school
and at 1:30 p. m., at Chowan high
school.
This show is financed and sponsor
ed by the Dental Department of the
State Board of Health for the pur
poses of teaching dental hygiene and
all who saw it last year will remem
ber how entertaining it was. The
show willl be different this year with
a new cast of actors, but it will be
just as entertaining and educational.
All children are especially urged to
see the show at one of the three
places and it is also urged that as
many parents as possible come.
There will be no admission fee.
GRAMMAR GRADE OPERETTA
“A Little Bit of Holland” will be
presented by the Grammar Grades
of the Edenton Graded School on
Friday evening, March Bth. The
public is cordially invited. A small
admission fee will be charged.
All New Registration
Books Are Required
Before Next Election
Now Necessary to Have
Two Sets of Books
In County
OLD ONES VOID
Matter Will Be Decided
By County Commis
sioners Monday
A matter which will require se
rious consideration on the part of
Chowan County Commissioners will
confront them at their meeting next
Monday. According to action taken
at the last session of the General
Assembly, there must be a new
registration of voters, which carries
with it either one of two alternatives
for there must be two new sets of
books, one for primary elections ano
another for the jreneral election.
It is permissible to transfer names
of those who have voted within the
last few years into the new books, in
which case those who have not voted
must be notified to come in and
show if they are entitled to be en
tered on the new books, or else an
entirely new registration must be
held in which the old books are dis
regarded.
Strictly speaking, a new registra
tion is what is required, during which
registrars would be obliged to can
vass the entire county in an effort to
secure every eligible voter on the
registration books, for otherwise
considerable confusion and much cri
ticism may develop due to some vot
ers going to the polls and finding
themselves disqualified due to their
name not being entered.
In some counties all of the old
registration books have been de
stroyed, but Chowan’s dating back
to 1902, will no doubt be saved for
the reference value contained there
in.
Over One Hundred
Attend Red Men's
Banquet Tuesday
Walter W. Cohoon Uses
Tenets of Order as
His Subject
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Over one hundred Red Men and
their wives gathered in the Com
munity House at Cross Roads Tues
day night when Chowan Tribe, No.
12, held its annual banquet. A
sumptuous turkey dinner was served
by the ladies of the Chowan Woman’s
Club and with an interesting pro
gram arranged, the affair was one of
the most enjoyable ever held by the
local tribe.
Promptly at 7:30 Lloyd Bunch,
sachem of the tribe, called the group
together and requested them to sing
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Landscape Artist
To Speak Tonight
Men Especially Invited
To Attend Meeting
At Cross Roads
Tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 o’clock,
the home demonstration dubs of the
county will sponsor a Home Beautifi
cation meeting in the Community
House at Cross Roads when the prin
cipal speaker will be John Harris,
extension landscape specialist. Mr
Harris will use as his topic “Propa
gation and Screen and Border Plant
ing.”
This meeting was forced to be
postponed on one occasion and un
fortunately tonight conflicts with the
Farmers’ Night banquet being held
by the Edenton Rotary Club. On
this account Miss Rebecca Colwell
home agent, urges all club members
to make a special effort to attend
and desires it to be understood that
a cordial invitation is also extended
to men to be present.
W. T. PERRY IN HOSPITAL
Friends throughout the county will
regret to learn that W. T. Perry,
prominent farmer of the Rocky Hock
section is very ill and is now in a
Norfolk hospital. Mr. Perry became
violently ill Sunday as the result of
a kidney ailment and was rushed to
the General Hospital.
FarmersOf Chowan County
Will Bo Rotarians’ Guests
At Banquet Held Tonight
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W. KERR SCOTT
With about 50 Chowan County
farmers as special guests of the
Edenton Rotary Club in obser
vance of Farmers’ Night, Mir.
Scott, commissioner of agricul
ture, will make the principal ad
dress at a meeting tonight in
the Parish House.
Merchants’ Group
Ready For Business
By First Os Month
President J. G. Campen
Spends Monday In
Raleigh
VERY OPTIMISTIC
Secretary Mrs. Grace
Dobson Taking Secre
tarial Course
J. G. Camper, president of the
newly-organized Merchants Associa
tion, spent Monday in Raleigh in con
sultation with Willard Dowell, exe
cutive secretary of the North Caro
lina Merchants Association, and up
on his return was very enthusiastic
and optimistic over the prospects for
the future of the local association.
Accompanying Mr. Campen was Mrs.
Grace Dobson, the secretary, who re
mained in Raleigh to receive a
course of instruction under the State
group.
Mr. Campen reported that the As
sociation now has 42 members and
that the membership committee ha?
not as yet completed its work. Dues
to the State Association have been
paid and within a few days a charter
will be received affiliating the
Edenton Association with the State
organization.
Another meeting will be called by
President Campen as soon as Mrs.
Dobson returns from Raleigh, at
which time it is expected to have an
office equipped and ready for busi
ness. The office of the association
is a present of G. H. Harding, pro
prietor of Hotel Joseph Hewes, who
has given the room formerly occu
pied by Chestnutt Cleaners.
Mr. Campen while in Raleigh,
learned of a number of ideas which
he plans to inaugurate in the asso
ciation program and these, together
with a number already under conside
ration, augurs well for an active as
sociation through which merchants
themselves will benefit and Edenton
become the trading center which it
should be.
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Edenton’s First
Hubert Williford, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. B. Williford, has the
distinction of being the first
Edenton boy to fiy home. Mr.
Williford, together with a friend,
Charles Bailey, dropped out of
the sky Tuesday morning to
spend the day with his parents,
coming from Madison, N. C„
where the two boys are located.
flhe trip was made in a Cub
Trainer machine, which landed in
W. O. Speight’s field. fl%e two
left Tuesday afternoon on their
return flight to Madison.
This newspaper it circu
lated hi the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
Edenton Rotary Club
Observes Farmers’
Night
so exlpected
W. Kerr Scott Will De
liver the Principal
Address
With about 60 Chowan farmers in
vited, at least 50 of them are ex
pected to gather in the Parish House
tonight (Thursday) at 7 o’clock in
observance of Fanners’ Night by the
Edenton Rotary Club. Naturally,
not all the farmers in the county
could be included, but in scanning
the list an effort was made to invite
those who had not previously been
guests of the Rotarians and at the
same time include a cross section of
the county.
Os especial interest to the meeting
will be the presence of W. Kerr
Scott, commissioner of agriculture,
who will make the principal address,
and undoubtedly Mr. Scott will
choose for his subject a topic which
will appeal to the husbandmen and
Rotarians as well, who during recent
meetings have expressed much con
cern for the welfare of farmers and
agriculture, upon which the prosper
ity of the section almost entirely
depends.
An interesting program has been
arranged under the direction of C.
L. McCullers. Mr. McCullers has
planned a number of stunts and con
tests, which include a wife calling
contest and a hog calling contest.
Special music has also been arranged
by a colored quartet.
President William Jones is greatly
encouraged by recent Rotary at
tendance, the club registering three
consecutive 100 per cent meetings,
and he hopes that tonight will find
every Rotarian in his plwce.
A turkey dinner will be served
and the meeting is expected to be
one of the most enjoyable in recent
months held by the civic group.
At last week’s meeting eight club
members were stationed on the stage
of the Parish House to undergo a
quiz regarding facts about North
Carolina. John A. Holmes easily
won the contest, failing in only one
of the questions asked him. The
program was in charge of Jesse
White.
R. D. Dixon Receives
C.M.T.C. Applications
High In Praise For Ac
tivities In Military
Camps
Richard D. Dixon, Chowan County
representative for Citizens’ Military
Training Camps, is in receipt of
blanks for enlistment, and those de
siring to receive this training should
see him as soon as possible. Chowan
County is allotted three applicants,
but as in former years more may
apply and be entered to make up for
some counties which do not fill their
quota. The camp will be held at
Fort Bragg, N. C., from June 12 to
July 11.
It is Mr. Dixon’s 15th year as
Chowan’s C. M. T. C. representative
and he is high in his praise for the
work accomplished by these camps,
which after four years service puts a
young man in line for a lieutenant’s
commission in the U. S. Army Re
serve Corps.
The purpose of these camps is to
bring together for thirty days train
ing, young men from all walks of
life from all sections of the country
on a common basis of equality and
thereby develop closer national and
social unity; to teach privileges,
duties and responsibilities of Ameri
can citizenship; to stimulate patriot
ism; to interest young men in the
importance of military training, self
discipline, team work and leadership;
to develop the physical and moral
standard of American youth through
participation in military exercises,
athletic games and sports, conducted
under expert directors.
IN VETERANS HOSPITAL
John H. Hassell on Sunday became
a patient in the Veterans Hospital at
Hampton, Va. Mr. Hassell was ac
companied to the institution by
Sheriff J. A. Bunch and E. B. Mizell.