, Special Term Os Superior Court To Begin On Monday Session Requested Due To Accumulation of Many Cases CIVIL TERM ONLY Judge A. Hall Johnson Os Asheville Sched uled t oPreside Beginning next Monday morning, a special term of Chowpn Superior Court will be held for the trial of civil cases, the term having been call ed in order to dispose of cases which have accumulated due to lack of time r in. the past several sessions of the , regular term. Judge A. Hall John- ( son of Asheville, will preside at the special session. ] The calendar as released by Clerk : I of Court Richard D. Dixon is as follows r Monday, April 29th < Harding et als vs. Southern Loan and Insurance Co. et als. Jackson vs. Perry. Francis vs. Smith. Leary vs. Perkinson. Tuesday, April 30th Edney vs. Edney. Belch vs. Hassen. IN RE: Will of McDonald. Johnson vs. Cooke. White vs. Chappell et al. Wednesday, May Ist Hawkins vs. Edenton Cotton Mills. Perry & Hofler vs. Hassell. Bank of Edenton vs. Lowry, i Thursday, May 2nd Umphlett vs. Leary. Scott vs. Holly. Davis vs. Winslow et al. Motions and divorce cases at the convenience of the Court. 1 TYNER £ Mrs. W. 0. Boyce visited Mrs. Cecil Byrum Friday afternoon. [ Mrs. Clifton Griffin and son, L James, called on her mother, Mrs. 1 N. B. Dail, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. E. B. Byrum and Miss Hilda ißoyce visited Mrs. Arthur Overton Wednesday 'afternoon. , Marjorie Anfte, little of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Byrum, is im proving, after being quite ill with pneumonia. Mrs. G. L. Twine, Mrs. O. C. Twine, Mrs. Alonza Mansfield and Mrs. Melvin Burke were guests of Mrs. Robert Twine and Mrs. Preston Dail Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. N. B. Dail called on Mrs. J. R. Byrum Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Twine visited Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Byrum Sunday evening. i Mrs. A. E. Byrum of Suffolk, Va., visited relatives here last week. Mr. Byrum came Sunday and accompa nied her home. Mrs. Josie Copeland of Greenville; Mr. and Mrs. George Forehand and daughter, Nellie Mae, of Virginia, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Dail Sunday. Additional af ternoon guests were Mr. and Mrs. M. Byrum and son, Eugene, of Vir ginia. Mrs. Freeland Chappell and Mrs. Tom Byrum visited Mrs. Robert Twine and Mrs. Preston Dail Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. G. L. Twine, Mrs. O. C. Twine, Mrs. Alonza Mansfield and Mrs. Melvin Burke called to see Mrs. Arthur Overton Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Howell and little granddaughter called on Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Dail Monday morning. Creswell Senior Play Displays Fine Acting The 3-act comedy “Dotty and Daffy” provided an evening of keen enjoyment for Creswell school pa trons and friends and evoked sincere remarks of appreciation for the good acting of the Seniors participating. Irene Spruill as the widow in de termined pursuit of a rich husband. Harold Stuart Woodley and Harrell Spruill as the pursued prospects, Allen Spear as the son of the sup posed millionaire, Roxie Furlough and Esther Davenport as the daugh ters of the widow, and their boy friends, John Collins and Thomas v Spruill, Collia Davenport as the old maid aunt, Dallas Spruill, who as the manservant, made love to Evelyn Swain, the maid, and Myrtle Mae Roberson, the cook, coiryhosed the ~ cast - U - BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Adams ‘on Saturday, April 20, a son, John Milton. ' ) ' a Bohemian art colonyrelatedman “KITTY STEPS OUT” —SHORT NOVEL YOU’LL ENJOY t Surprising experiences of a girl in entertaining short story by Curtis B. Leland. One of the many fea tures in the May sth issue^of The American Weekly v I%e big Magazine distributed with the L Baltimore American On naif at ail HfTTMItIHrff ■ VP ' ' " PARTY AT COMMUNITY HOUSE The Womans Club will have a party at the Community House at Cross Roads Tuesday night, April 23, beginning at 8 o’clock. Various games will be played and other forms of amusement will be provided. A cake will be sold for the prettiest giri. A small admission fee will be charged. IN REIDSVILLE HOSPITAL Hubert Williford of Madison, is recuperating in Memorial Hospital at Reidsville, after an operation for appendicitis Wednesday of last week. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B Williford, visited him Friday. | ~ ~AT~SiT PAUL’S | Rev. C. A. ASHBY, Cacique, Rector Been-away for a short visit to my son and daughtfiH-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Garnett Ashby of Jacksonville, Fia. My throat was bad; much improved, but not well. Am told Parish dinner Thursday night of the 11th a success. The Rev. Jack Roundtree made a splen did address. I knew he would. Jack can do it. Presiding warden was or namental and hungry. Fare excel lent. A good time had by all. Re gret I was away. John W. Graham, Esqr., lawyer and lay reader, gave the congregation a fine service Sun day I was away. Looks like these St. Paulities may discover they do not need a minister. They surely ■ ■ - ■in I. ■■ " «.ir)T,-aawjßgta—M| What Every Metropolitan Policyholder Should Know about his Company Metropolitan presents its Business Report for the year ending December 31, 1939. (In accordance with s the Annual Statement filed with the New York State Insurance Department.) § . . .. \■ ' • .. • .7 ASSETS WHICH ASSURE FULFILLMENT OF OBLIGATIONS OBLIGATIONS TO POLICYHOLDERS, BENEFICIARIES. AND OTHEtS National Government Secnritins. . U. S. Government . . . , , . $948,082,869.84 Canadian Government 67,856,044.76 Other Ronds. . . . ( U. S. State AS Municipal 110,055,727.87 Canadian Provincial & Municipal . t • 103,823,959.75 Railroad 573,665,903.43 Public Utilities 689,740,113.65 Industrial & Miscellaneoas . , , ■ . . 405,093,316.15 Stocks All but $22,561.13 are Preferred or Guaranteed. Mortgage *fba us on Real Estate Farms ......... 76,890,988.22 Other property . t * t e » • .876,767,661.85 Leons on Felicias Real Estate Owned Includes real estate for Company use, and housing projects. Cosh Premiums Outstanding and Deferred . ...... Interest Die and Accrued, etc. TOTAL ...... V NOTE-- Assets carried at $221,390,536.99 in the above statement are deposited with various public officials under requirements of law or regulator? authority. Canadian business embraced in this statement is reported on basis of par of exchange. TEN YEARS OF PROGRESS Highlights of Metropolitan's growth and stability over tho past doeado Insurance in Force Life Insurance 1*29 . . $17,933,000,000 -vss»\\ • 1 / eficiaries. J 929 1939 > Metropolitan Life Insurance Company § (A MVT V A L COM P A NT) Wk Frederick H. Ecker, Chairman of the Board Leroy A. Lincoln, President pfl 1 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. j | DIRECTORS FREDERICK H. ECKER, New York, N. Y. Chairman of the Board Metropolitan Life Insurance Company JOHN ANDERSON, New York, N. Y. Chairman, Executive Committee Charles Pfizer 6 Co., lac. MrraiEU, D. POLLANSBEE, Chicago, m. Member, Follaaabee, Shorey and Schupp Attorneys at Law JOSEPH P. DAY. New York, N. Y. Preeideafc, Joaaph P. Day, Inc., Seal Batata LANODOMP. MARVIN, New Yotte,N. Y. Marvin end Martin i ■ - k 1,. THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940 * • \ • know how to carry on without one. i Bishop Darst will be our next • Parish dinner speaker on the night of May 24th. The 26th he preaches 1 in Hertford at 11 a. m.; the Com munity House at Cross Roads (no service there on second Sunday in May) at 3 p. m.; St. Paul’s at 8 p. m. He will confirm at these ser vices. I want the name of any wish ing to be confirmed here, as class will soon form. St. Paul’s is grow ing. In three years I want us to have 200 communicants. Can be done Di V. if I keep as thin as I am now. Sunday, April 14, Mr. J. A. Moore and myseflf told of the diocesan debt campaign now on, and ending Whit sunday. Mr. Moore is a member of the finance committee of The diocese whose duty it is to raise this debt. Bishop Darst was consecrated on January 6, 1915. On his 20th anni versary as bishop in 1935 diocese decided as memorial to him to pay Off within 5 years the $23,000 debt which. diocese had accumulated dur ing the depression. Diocese fell down on this. St. Paul’s and a few other parishes and missions d.id their full part, but most of them failed. Last diocesan convention, held in 1 January 1940, passed a resolution calling for payment of balance of this debt by Whitsunday, May 12th, next. Debt originally $23,000; - $2,000 spent on Bishop’s house which was in almost unlivable condition; : we had a diocesan deficit of $4,621 in 1939, due to certain parishes and missions failing to pay what prom ised. We paid ours. These three items give us $31,621 debt, repairs and deficit. During the five years $15,000 was paid on the debt, so that $16,621 or about that sum, is due now. There are 8,000 communicants in the diocese. The finance commit tee is asking that every communicant give $2 by Whitsunday, which will wipe debt out. Some can’t give anything. Some can give more than $2. It will balance up. Bishop Darst writes inf The Mission Herald, “The debt, while not large, is proving bur densome, and I earnestly hope that we may have it out of the way by Whitsunday so that we may go for ward without strain to the accom plishment of the task committed, to our hands.” St. Paul’s quota is $330. The vestry passed a resolution saying this will be paid. A canvass will soon be on to raise it. A mem ber of the vestry will call on you, or you may hand to a vestryman your contribution, or mail check to Fred P. Wood, treasurer of St. Paul’s, stating it is to go on the diocesan debt. I have given many times my part on this debt, but I will most cheerfully respond again to relieve the Bishop of this burden. I hope you feel the same way. Our contributions to our church are usually small indeed com pared with what we spend for luxu ries, amusement, tobacco and so on. Get up your $2 or more by Whit- $1,015,938,914.60 . 1,882,379,020.85 86,624,833.01 953,658,650.07 515,495,459.26 407,215,594.74 132,667,027.52 87,666,343.58 60,340,337.46 $5,141,986,181.09 WILLIAM L. DE BOST, New York, N. Y. President, Union Dime Savings Bank JEREMIAH MIL BANK, New York, N. Y. MUbank&Co. D’ALTON CORRY COLEMAN Montreal, Canada, Senior Vice-President, Canadian Pacific Railway NEWCOMB CARLTON. New York, N. Y. rhairmnn of the Board Western Union Telegraph Company LEROY A. LINCOLN, New York, N. Y. President, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company HARRY W. CROFT, Greenwich, Conn. Former Chairman - Harbieon-Walker Rafractoriee Company Policy Reserve! required by law $- Amount which, with interest air* future premiums, will assure payment of policy claims. Dividends te Policyholders Set aside for payment during the year 1940. Reserve for Future Payments on Supplementary Contracts . Held ter Claims Including claims awaiting completion of proof and estimated amount of unreported claims. Other Policy Obligations Including reserves for Acciden snd Health Insurance, divi dends left with Company, premiums paid in advance, etc. Miscellaneous Liabilities Liabilities not included above, such as taxes due or accrued, special reserves, etc. - TOTAL OBLIGATIONS . . . , . . $ Surplus This serves as a margin of safety, a cushion against contin gencies which cannot be foreseen. TOTAL . . . $ After fulfilling all its contractual obligations (including payment of over $4,260,000,000 to policyholders and beneficiaries) over tbe 10-year period of adverse economic conditions from 1929 through 1939, Metropolitan A 1 1.... added to its contingency reserve, or surplus, as an extra safety factor, more than . $132,000,000 2.. . strengthened the basis of its policy reserves to the extent of 45,000,000 3.. .. made expenditures to improve prop erties acquired through foreclosure, without increasing their valuation 25,000,000 4.. .. reduced the valuation of securities and real estate as carried on its books, by more than 216,000,000 5.. .. expended on health and welfare work for policyholders more than 58,000,000 ... $ 476,000,000 6. VET, over this same 10-year period, and in addition to the above, Metropolitan also paid or credited to its policyholders almost one billion dollars in dividends .... . 992,000,000 TOTAL $1,468,000,000 THOMAS H. BECK, New York, N. Y. President. The Crowell-CoUier Publishing l^pmpnpy WALTER EWING HOPE, New York, N. Y. Member, Milbank, Tweed and Hope Attorneys at Law SAMUEL W. FORDYCE, St. Louis, Mo. Member, Fordyce, White, Mayne, Williams and Hartman, Attorneys at Law GEORGE McANENY, New York, N. Y. Chairman of the Board Title Guarantee and Trust Company ROBERT V. FLEMING, Washington, D. C President and Chairman of the Board BlpNstlaisl Bank FREDERIC W. ECKER, New York, N. Y. Vice-President Metropolitan Life Ineurance Company i Sunday and let’s make our quota. • Don’t have someone else paying your ( share unless it is absolutely neces . sary. Two dollars for every con - firmed person in St. Paul’s is what it will be. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Bond are now communicants of St. Paul’s. We welcome them. For Representative I hereby announce my candidacy for the office of Representative of Chowan County in the General Assembly, subject to the Demo cratic Primary Election on May 25. If elected, I promise to serve the County to the best of my ability. Your vote and support will be greatly appreciated. J. G. Campen md Hereford and Angus STEERS fftCSF’Wt. 400 to 900 lbs. Sorted —S S in even sizes in -carload lots. 2 loads fine T. B. tested springer heifers. 2 loads cows, 3 loads spring calves. Will sell one load or all. HARRY I. BALL FAIRFIELD, IOWA WINTHROP W. ALDRICH, New York, N. Y. Chairman of the Board Chase National Bank of New York EDWARD R. STETTINIUS, Jr„ N. Y. C. Chairman of the Board United States Steel Corporation WILLIAM W. CROCKER, San Francisco. Cat President Crocker First National Bank AMORY HOUGHTON. Comma, N. Y. . President. Coming Olass Works LOUIS S. ST. LAURENT. Quebec. Canada Member, St. Laurent, Gagne, Devlin h Taacheroau, Attorneys at Law ERNEST K. NORRIS, Washington, D. C. rroMueni, aouuwni nSUWiy system ■■■■ ■ - QUART ***■»■> B PlSggy BLENDED WHISKEY CARSEURS White Seal FOR THE MAN WHO CARES 86.8 Proof. 72% grain neutral spirits. 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