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(’"I es hed md county nows I of general Interest Volume Vll.—Number 21. Only Two More Days Until £ oils Are Open To Register Choice For Office Holders { Workers For Candi ' dates Refuse to Yield Any Ground MUCH INTEREST White-Campen Contest X Claims Local Spot light Chowan voters will join with the irest of the State Saturday in going j to the polls to register their choice for the chief executive of the State as well as other State and county officers. An unusual amount of in terest in the gubernatorial contest has been shown hereabouts, which ..'act will undoubtedly bring out a second vote, and while followers of the various candidates predict that their man will carry the county, and refuse to yield any ground, there are those who believe the vote will be close. i Possibly the outcome of one local contest will be awaited with even more anxiety than the Governor’s . race, that being the race between | John F. White and J. G. Campen for "a seat in the House of Representa tives. Mr. White has served, four regular and one special term, while it is Mr. Campen’s first shot at pub lic office. Both candidates believe they will win and the vote will be awaited with much interest. There are two contests for county commissioner, one in the Second Township, where Stillman Leary is opposing Raleigh Peele, incumbent. In this township there is a variance of opinion relative to erecting a new school in Rocky Hock and a close vote is expected. A. D. Ward, incumbent from the Third Township, is by E. G. Blanchard, where, anofe!|{t close is looked for. For the benefit of voters, the State ticket appears below: Governor—J. M. Broughton, W. P. Horton, A. J. Maxwell, Thomas E. Cooper, Paul Grady, Lee Gravely, and Arthur Simmons. Lieutenant Governor —L. A. Mar tin, W. Erskine Smith, Dan Tomp kins and R. L. Harris. Secretary of State —Thad Eure and Walter Murphy. Auditor—George Ross Pou and * Charles W. Miller. Commissioner of Agriculture—C. Wayland Spruill and W. Kerr Scott. Insurance Commissioner—‘William B. Oliver and Dan C. Boney. In the district there are five can didates for the two Senate seats. These are Herbert Leary, Merrill Evans, C. R. Holmes, G. D. Gatling and J. J. Hughes. Oxford Orphanage Singing Class Will Give Concert Friday Well Drilled Children Appear at School at 8 O’clock On Friday night at 8 o’clock, the annual concert of the Oxford Or phanage Singing Class will be pre sented in the auditorium of Edenton High School. The program was ori ginally scheduled for tonight (Thurs day) but due to the appearance here of the Eastern Carolina All Star Band, dates were changed with the Gates vile Masonic Lodge. The class is composed of 14 splen didly drilled children, who will pre s«mt songs, recitations, pageants and patriotic drills. The entertainments in former years have been highly satisfying to the large number at tending and this year’s program will be no exception. Appearance of the class in Eden ton is sponsored by Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., with E. T. Rawdinson, chairman of the local orphanage committee, shouldering the greater portion of the responsi bility for arrangements. There will \ be <no admission charged to hear the program, but a free will offering vffll be taken. All of the money taken in will go to the orphanage and because local Masons have a warm spot in their hearts for the welfare of orphans, they axe hopeful that a creditable offering will be A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY Demonstration Os Cotton Mopping On Farm Os E. L. Ward A cotton mopping demonstration will be held on the farm of E. L. Ward on Thursday, May 30, at 10 o’clock, at which time the extension entomologist of State College will be in charge. Mr. Ward’s farm is known as the Chappell-Warren farm and is located on the Virginia Highway, Route 32, just north of Edenton and across the road from N. L. Ward’s cotton gin. The bold weevil may cause trouble this year, but the early weevils can be controlled by mopping the cotton three of four times just before the squares are formed. The material used is 1 gallon molasses, 1 gallon water and 1 pound calcium arsenate. Marquis, Famous Magician, Shows At School Tuesday World Renowned “Bag Os Tricks” Will Be Opened^ Marquis, world-famous magician, will present a performance in the Edenton school auditorium next Tuesday night at 8:15 o’clock. The entertainment is being sponsored by the Edenton Lions Club and efforts are being made to have a large at tendance on hand to witness the show. From the rise of . the curtain, mystery lovers and amusement saek ers wilt bes regated by'*ma«ng hap penings upon a stage ablate with action. Appearing in a flash of fire, Marquis will lose no time in continu ing to bewilder his audience. Flick ing his cape through space he Will materialize a large water fountain, its streams sparkling as they spray through dazzling lights. Another flick of his cape and Marquis will grasp from its folds an enormous crystal prism chandelier glowing with scores of colored lights. A golden cord will be lowered and the chandelier will be suspended over the stage to enhance the magnificent and massive Marquis stage settings. From Marquis’ famous mystic fin gers will leap rats, grinning skele tons and gorgeous ladies who are the very most provocative essence of femininity. Pigs and pies will be pried from pockets of unsuspecting spectators. Live slyinks will appear from the “nowhere” and school boys will be changed into rabbits. A play ing radio will vanish and canary birds will be shot into lighted mazda bulbs. The fast moving two hour presen tation of scores of new tricks and il lusions will be climaxed by Marquis’ SIO,OOO travesty, “The Merchant of Bagdad”, wherein Marquis and his cast will portray the fabled charac ters of ancient Bagdad of the Ara bian Nights while Marquis himself will present the Magic told of only during the “thousand and one nights.” Tickets are now on sale and the Lions Club share of the proceeds will be used in their program for helping the blind. Over 800 Boys Attend Deep Creek Camporee Gatesville Boy Scouts were the only unit from the Albemarle district represented in the Boy Scout Camp oree held over the week-end at Deep Creek. Kermit Layton, Boy Scout field commissioner for the district, attended the affair and was very much impressed with the activities, reporting that over 800 boys were there, representing 114 troops and including 120 Boy Scout leaders. The major portion of the time was devoted to instructions for summer camps, and Mr. Layton feels that all who attended were very much bene fitted. Famous Singer At Colored High School Glarence Parson, famous Negro radio singer, will present a program Friday night at the colored high school. The program will begin at 8 o’clock, to which both white and col ored are cordially invited to attend. Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, May 23,1940. lllr |H|| • ■a jijsSc W. H. GARDNER, Jr. MEREDITH JONES The highest honor which can be (conferred upon a Boy Scout took place Tuesday night in Norfolk, when W. H. Gardner, Jr., and Meredith Jones were two of four to be velevated to the rank of Eagle Scout. The ceremony took place in the Navy Y. M. C. A. ° Urgent Need For Funds To Aid In Relief Ofßefugees [ Chowan Asked to Raise SSOO Quota as Soon r As Possible Mrs. J. N. Pruden, chairman of Chowan Chapter of the Red Cross, states that the county’s quota for relief of refugees in Europe is SSOO i, and she is very anxious to raise e this amount as soon as possible, t While no house to .louse canvass e will be made, Mrs. Pruden empha y sizes the tragic need of funds and, s hopes voluntary contributions will be > made at once. These contributions e may be sent or left at The Chowan Herald office, the Bank of Edenton i, or to Mrs. Pruden herself. ;- Tha* Red Cross funds are needed i- a§ quickly as possible is reflected in h the following telegram received by 5, Mrs. Pruden from Red Cross head .- quarters in Washington on Wednes :- day morning: “With several million men locked ’> in mortal combat on French and y Belgian soil, the relief needs of Bel r gian and French peoples are reaching 11 staggering proportions. Already five s million pitiful refugees are clogging S every road into Central Souther- France trying to escape bombing e and strafing from airplanes. Our e representatives in France report d thousands dying by roadsides of wounds, fright and hunger. Ameri l" can Red Cross must rush relief of every kind if these innocent people e are to be saved. f “We are expediting millions of e dollars in money and supplies but ? we need more and bigger contribu r tions to carry on. Cannot urge upon s you too strongly need for prompt - action if we are to befriend these y sorely tried victims of brutal war a fare. “We count upon you to reach and • over-subscribe your goal within the ' shortest possible time. Every day’s delay means hundreds may die be s cause we have not brought them aid s in this their saddest hour.” ; Two Edenton Boys ! Now Eagle Scouts s . r Meredith Jones and Henry Gardner Hon ored In Norfolk i —.... W. H. Gardner, Jr., and J. M. 3 Jones, Jr., two Edenton Boy Scouts, \ were honored Tuesday night in Nor . folk, where they were decorated and j raised, to the rank of Eagle Scouts. t The ceremony was held in the Navy Y. M. C. A. in the presence of a ’ large number of Scouts, relatives and friends. The two Edenton boys were two of the four to be raised to Eagle [ Scouts and bring to three the num ber of Eagle Scouts in Edenton, s having preceded them in 1931. j. their Scoutmaster, Wade Leary, I The ceremony was very impressive, . the medal being presented to the mothers of the boys, who in turn, pinned it on their sons. Those from Edenton who were I present for the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Jones and son, Bur ton, and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gard ) ner, Scoutmaster Wade-Leary, Mrs. l B. W. Hathaway and Mrs. Herbert t Leary. A number of relatives and 5 friends of the two families living in - Norfolk were also present to see the . two boys honored. Two Edenton Eagle Scouts is * Jap “Open House” This Week In Chowan For WPA Projects » Citizens Urged to In spect Result of WPA Funds Chowan County this week joined, with the rest of the country in ob serving “Open House Week” for the Works Progress Administration dur ing which the various projects were open for inspection of the public, some of whom have been quite criti cal, so that they could get a first hand conception of what has been accomplished with some of the WPA funds. In Chowan there have been seven WPA projects, each of which reflects credit to the government agency and by each of which the county has been greatly benefitted. The list of these projects includes the Edenton school library, commod ity surplus over the Western Auto Store, a cleaning project at the Ed.enton school, the colored school library, lunch room project, canning and gardening at Chowan High School and the Federal Writers pro ject at the Court House, all of which are open for inspection this week | until Saturday. Especial credit is due the library at the Edenton school, where a neat and up-to-date library has been es tablished from almost nothing. Be fore being taken over by the WPA a few books were stored in a d.ark closet where students were obliged to search for the sort of material de sired, whereas now a Large number of books are neatly arranged on shelves so that little time is lost and proper arrangements made for read ing. This library has serviced and ac cessioned. 1,088 books, as well as 556 books for the elementary library on the second floor. All of these books have been classified and lettered by the Dewey decimal classification— accession record and shelf list cards made for every book. The circula tion was 2,957 for the high school and 4,735 for the elementary library. The circulation of the WPA bookmo bile during September and. October was 7,733 for Chowan County. Dur ing the past year 277 new books have been added to the elementary library and 114 to the high school library. Superintendent John A. Holmes is very generous with praise for the various WPA projects at the school and said this week that without the school’s library project it would have been necessary to employ an extra teacher this year. Other projects in the county have been equally as creditable and it is hoped many citizens will take ad vantage of the opportunity to inspect all or as many of the projects as they can. Rev. Andrew Stirling Accepts E. City Call Rev. Andrew Stirling, for the past 17 months pastor of the Assembly of God, has accepted a call to preach at, the Elizabeth City Church and has gone to his new position. Dur ing his pastorate here the church has enjoyed continual growth, last year being the best year since the congregation was begun here. No successor has been chosen, but Rev. J. E. Graves of Hagerstown, Md., will preach until a permanent preacher is chosen. Typhoid Clinics In Chowan Will Get Under WayJune3 Announces Health Officer Janie Mitchener Will Represent Edenton In Ahoskie Festival Mayor J. H. McMullan this week selected Miss Janie Mitchener, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Mitchener, to represent Edenton in the contest for Queen Chowan to be held at Ahoskie on June 6 in connec tion with the sixth annual Kiwanis festival to be held June 3-5. The affair is staged to raise funds for the benefit of underprivileged children. Poppy Day Will Be Observed Saturday All Over Nation Mrs. J. P. Rowlett Put In Charge of Local Campaign Tribute will be paid by millions of Americans Saturday to the nation’s World War dead.. The day Till be Poppy Day throughout the country and little red poppies symbolic of pa triotic sacrifice will be worn in thousands of cities and towns. The American Legion Auxiliary has ap proximately 12,000,000 ready for dis tribution, according to Mrs. J. P. Rovvlette, local poppy chairman. Arrangements for the observance of Poppy Day here have been com pleted hv Mrs. Rowlette’s committee. Womej of the Auxiliary, aided by volunteers from other organizations, will be on the streets early Saturd.ay morning with baskets of the memo rial flowers. No price will be asked for the poppies, but in exchange for them contributions will be received for the welfare and relief work of the Auxiliary among disabled veter ans and needy families of veterans. The poppies which will be distri buted here were made by disabled yeterans. The making of these flow ers has given employment during the winter and spring to many veterans unable to do other work, and has helped fill tedious hours of idleness for them. The poppies are crepe paper replicas of the wild poppies of France which grew in such profusion on the World War battle front. Contributions, above the actual cost of the poppies, will go into the welfare funds of the local Auxiliary Unit to be expended to meet local needs during the coming year. These contributions are the principal source of support for the welfare work be ing carried out continuously by the Auxiliary. “When the people of Edenton put on their poppies Saturday they will be both honoring the war dead and aiding the living sufferers from the conflict,” said Mrs. Rowlette. Two Mad Dogs Killed By Chief Police Helms Because they showed strong symp toms of being mad, two dogs were killed Friday by Chief of Police G. A. Helms. The dogs were discover ed in time and fortunately nobody was bitten. With tne approacn in warm weath er, Mr. Helms desires to emphasize the importance of having dogs inocu lated against rabies and reminds dog owners that a State law requires this to be done, failure to comply with making the owners subject to prosecution. Sarah Winborne Named Head Os Education Club At a meeting of the Education j Club at W. C. U. N. C., Greensboro, held Tuesday night, Miss Sarah Winborne, daughter of Mrs. W. H. Winborne, was elected to serve as president of the group for the com ing school year. ■ Chowan High School Teacher Married Mr. and Mrs. James M. Forbes, of Ahoskie, announce the marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth, to William Oaqde Futrell, of Rich Square. The wedding took place in Norfolk, Va., Monday, May 20. Miss Forbes was a member of Chowan High School faculty the past session, teaching home economics. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.25 Per Year. Dr. J. S. Chamblee Re quests All To Take Treatment SCHEDULE GIVEN Diphtheria Vaccine Also Administered to Chil dren Under Six Dr. J. S. Chamblee, health officer for the Bertie-Chowan District Health Department, announced this week that clinics will be held in Chowan County beginning Monday, June 3rd and continuing until Thurs day, June 27. These clinics will be held in order to allow every citizen of the county to be inoculated against typhoid fever and at the same time to treat ail children under six years of age against diphtheria. In commenting on these clinics, Dr. Chamblee had this to say: “When summer comes, so does the danger of typhoid fever. Typhoid fever used to be one of our most dreaded diseases before the era of modern preventive medicine came into being. There are many diseases that have practically been forgotten in many parts of the world, but to one thing and that only: Vaccination. We seem to forget that vaccination is the only reason that most of the people of this generation have never seen a case of smallpox. There are only a very few people in Chowan County who aren’t broadminded enough to realize this, a few who insist on endangering their fellow men and their own children by not having them vaccinated. We pity them. “In 1914, 35 people out of every 100,000 in North Carolina had died of typhoid fever, but in 1939, less than two out of every 100,000 died of this disease. We should be very thankful to the physicians of this State for the saving of these lives through vaccination. “Diphtheria took the lives of sev eral unfortunate children in this health district last year. These chil dren were unfortunate because their parents did not have them innocu (Continued On Page Five) Over 100 Children Enrolled In Bible School This Week Two Weeks Session to Be Held at Metho dist Church On Tuesday morning 105 children had ei. rolled in the daily vacation Bible school at the Methodist Church. The school got under way Monday and the enrollment is expected to in crease before the first week is over. Two weeks will be the duration of the school during which the young sters will be taught various portions of the Scriptures as well as recrea tional periods when they will be taught to apply their talents to making various articles. At the conclusion of the school, commencement exercises will be held when parents and friends will be in vited to attend and get some idea of what has been accomplished. Assisting with the school this year is Miss Alma Cade of Durham, superintendent of Children’s Work in the North Carolina Conference, and ■nder whose direction the school got off to a splendid start that augurs well for the most successful school since it was inaugurated several years ago. A group of interested and able teachers forms the faculty this year, and is composed of Mrs. W. C. Moore, Mrs. Paul Wallace, Mrs. G. A. Helms, Miss Mary Ellen Moore, Miss Frances Benson, Miss Mildred Stephenson and the Rev. W. C. Ben son. * U. D. C. Meeting Next Tuesday Afternoon The Bell Battery Chapter, United Daughters Confederacy, will meet at the home of Mrs. George P. Byrum on Tuesday afternoon, May 2, at 4 o’clock. Highlights of the District meeting held in Hertford will be the interesting feature. All members are invited.
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