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7- ' • V ,>• ( \ found • fair presentation I of local and comity mm | *t tenoral interest. Volume Vll.—Number 31. Who In Edenton | Knows There Is A Ship S. S. Edenton? Contract Is Awarded to Recondition Ship In , Baltimore $121,426C05T Thomas Shepard En lightens Edentonians By News Release How many Edentonians know that' a ship is sailing the high seas carry ♦ ing the name of our good town ? Frankly, the editor of The Herald did not, and suspects many others in Edenton are equally ignorant. But Thomas Shepard, a former Edentonian, who lives in Washington, D. C., this week very kindly sent to Postmaster C. E. Kramer a press release from the United, States Mari time Commission revealing the fact that a boat named “Edenton” is afloat. The release said: “The Maritime Commission announced today an award of contract to the Maryland Drydock Co., Baltimore, Md., to re condition the S. S. Edenton for , $121,426.” Lions Regain Grip On Soft Ball Lead Civic Club Boys Add Two Victories Dur ing Week With two victories to their credit this week the Edenton Lions regain ed their grip on first place in the city soft bell league, leading the strong Red Men outfit by three games. ' *' - On Friday night the leaders had little difficulty in defeating the Red Men who were far off their usual form. Then on Monday night the Masons-Rotarians fell prey to the heavy-hitting Lions. Tuesday night, with an incomplete team on the field the Masons-Rotar ians forfeited the game to the Red] Men and played another game with' ineligible players in the line-op. This game was very interesting with r the ineligible team scalping the Red Men 7 to 4. S STANDING OF CLUBS W L . Pet. Lions 11 6 .647, Red Men 9 7 .562; Masons-Rotarians 4 11 .266 Holmes Company Plans Expansion Expect to Build up New Business In Adjacent Counties With affairs of the W. D. Holmes Wholesale Grocery straigthened out following the death of W. D. Holmes, the firm has now reoraanized and | plans for expansion. ' -| Under the new set-up, William {iolmes will act as manager of the firm and Frank Holmes will act as credit manager. Miss Dorothy Holmes will be the bookkeeper. l j The two managers, sons of the de ceased owner of the firm, will make no change in the personnel of the firm and pla,n to expand the business by soliciting, business in adjacent counties and hope to greatly increase the volume of business, which here tofore had been confined to Chowan County. Mail Box Improvement ; Week Begins Today .'“Today officially begins rural mail box improvement week in Chowan , -County, during which time it is ex pected material improvement will be imade to many of the county's rural mail boxes. Already rural carriers fcfcve reported to Postmaster C. E. i Kramer that a number of improve- \ ’ ments' have been noticed. t The campaign has been arranged not only, to improve the (landscape | along much traveled highways but to increase postal facilities. ‘ With the c9unty’s club woman un listed in the campaign, Postmaster „„ Kramer feels certain that great * deal of good will result. a Bm. M Bf wr B B" B B jI M A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS ON CHOWAN COUliti | Picnic | Next Thursday, August 8, the county picnic for home demon stration clubs will be held at Rden House Beach. All club members and their families as well as a group of specially in cited guests are urged to attend. Dinner will be served about 12:30 o’clock. ( Miss Rebecca Colwell, home agent, announced that if at least half the members of a club attend this picnic, the club will score 10 points on the club I score sheet. All county officials and their Ifamilies are invited as special guests of the club women. Big Celebration At Morrattock Church Sunday, August 18 All Day Event Planned At Washington Coun- ty Shrine BIG PICNIC LUNCH In Past Has Been Mecca For Thousands to Worship On Sunday, August 18, the second annual pligrimage to Morattock , Church in Washington County will Ibe observed. The service will begin I at 10:30 in the morning and continue ! on through the greater part of the day, with a sermon and worship ser vice in the morning and an histori cal program in the afternoon. A great picnic lunch will be served at 12:30 on table space that will be pre pared for the occasion, and John W.l Darden, of Plymouth, who is actively] engaged in the movement to restore' the historic church, invites this en- l tire section of the state to join in a] ■ pilgrimage back to Movatto-k as did our forefathers back in 1849. Back before the establishment of the Government of the United States of America, Morattock Church was probably the best known spot (ex cept Somerset, the huge plantation of the Collins’ family, on Lake Phelps and Buncomb Hall, the lux urious home of Cod. Edward Bun > comb, near Roper) in Washington County. It was established by the Kehukee j Primitive Baptist Association as-1 sembled at Shoulder’s Hill, Va., on! I May 14, 1785. Two other local] churches were instituted at this as-1 . sociation, one at South Quay, Va.,| ; and one at Bear Creek in Dobbs ] County, N. C. Dobbs County was; located along the Neuse River above New Bern some 40 or 50 miles. Morattock was located in Wash-' ington County (then Tyrrell County) I about two and one-half miles south :of Plymouth near Morattock Creek.! Roanoke River was known locally at j that time as Morattock Creek, the! Indian name for that'river. What is! left of the church building now, stands on Morattock Road and has for the past century and a half been' a meeting place for all generations of this section. Little is known of the church from! the time of its institution in 1785 j until 1791, when it was received by | fthe Kehukee Primitive Baptist As-1 ■| sociation assembled at Flat Swamp in Pitt County, as a regular congrie gation of that association. Thm-e were two other churches received by that body, Mattamuskeet Church in i Hyde County and Bear Creek in - Duplin County. From 1791 to Janu ary 27, 1798, it was conducted by the j local membership together with at 1 least one representative of the asso ciation and the records were kept by the representative of the association. During the past five or six years there have been very few services held at this church. About one and a half years ago, the building being in very bad repair, its roof fell in. Since that time it has been left there to rot and decay. There are only a few members left now to care for this old landmark. During the period of its existence Morattock has been the mecca for hundreds of thousands of people. To mention Morratock and the Third Sunday in August, seemed to excite 1 the people to attend the church ser i vices at that time. They would come ! from miles around and the gathering ] seemed to be more Jike a home-com ing than a church service.' / m ‘ . . • ’ AT SCOUT RESERVATION Kermit Layton, Boy Scout field j commissioner, left Monday to spend; a week in Franklin, Va., at the Dar den Reservation for Boy Scouts. Edenton/ Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, August 1,194& Co. D Leaves Early j Sunday For Three Weeks In Camp Outfit Will Return to Edenton on Sunday August 24 TAKE EQUIPMENT Intensive Training Will Be Order While In Camp Members of Company D, local am- ] bulance company of the National i Guard, are planning to leave Edenton j Sunday morning for three weeks training in Mississippi and Louisiana. Present plans call for their departure early next Sunday, and their return on Sunday, August 24. The outfit will be accompanied by: the commanding offeer, Dr. Martin! Wisely,’and Captain Pearly Baum-j gardner and will be at full strength,; Dr. Wisely’s orders calling for the I full company to go to camp. All of] the company’s equipment will be tak-: en to camp and due to present condi tions more intensive training will be* the order than in previous years. The outfit will travel across thej country at a scheduled rate of about.! 300 miles per day. The first night' will be spent at Camden, S. C., the second at Macon, Ga., the third at Selma, Ala., from whence they ex pect to reach Camp Shelby the fol lowing day. In event any relatives or friends i desire to communicate with members of the company mail should be ad dressed as follows: Co. D, 105th Medical Regiment, N. C. N. G., Camp Shelby, Hatties burg, Miss. Members of the company who will ] go to camp are: y ] Pearly Baumgardner, Martin Wise ] ly, James White, Clinton Davis, Rich ard Davis, Leon Leary, Archie Ash-1 ' ley, Howard Bennett, Frank Hugh es Elbert White, John Mitchener,! (Continued On Page Four) 15 County Women ! Attending Farm j And Home Week, | Mrs. A. D. Ward Sched uled to Graduate This Year i Fifteen Chowan County women are in Raleigh this week attending Farm | and Home Week at State College. * Those in the party, who accompanied j Miss Rebecca Colwell, home dem-| 1 onstration agent, are Mrs. R. H.i | Hollowell, Mrs. C. W. Blanchard, 1 j Mrs. Fred White, Mrs. A. D. Ward, ! Mrs. Conroy Perry, Mrs. E. L. Wins | low, Mrs. D. T. Ward Mrs. G. A. 1 Boyce, Mrs. A. L. Hollowell, Mrs. W. H. Dail, Mrs. S. R. Bunch, Jr., j ! Miss Eva Nixon, Mrs. John F. Perry, I Mrs. J. L. Sanderlin, Miss Kathleen I Parker, representing the following j clubs—Ward, Rydahd, Chowan, Gum, j Pond and Enterprise. Mrs. A. D. Ward, president of Ward Club will graduate this year. I W HI be the third club member from Chowan County to receive this honor. Mrs. R. H. Hollowell of Chowan Club expects to graduate next year. Funeral Saturday I For George Smith Funeral services were held Satur-i day afternoon for George Smith, 59, | who died at his home Friday after noon. The service was conducted by the Rev. J. Edward Garns, pastor of Full Gospel Church, interment was made in Beaver Hill Cemetery. Sur viving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Jack Lassiter and Mrs. Robert Lassiter. Two brothers, Foco Smith and Henry Smith, also survive. Pallbearers were Tom Basnight, Andrew Hawkins, T. F. Twiddy, Wil liam Edwards, Wade Edwards and B. F. Basnight. Fan House Destroyed At Brown Lumber Co. Fire about noon Wednesday totally destroyed the fan house at the M. G. Brown Lumber Company. The build ]mg ’fras practically consumed by | flames by the time firemen reached I the scene. The cause of the blaze is 1 attributed to an overheated motor igniting the shavings in the room. {Wrestling-Boxing Matches To Be Held On Friday Night j Popd and Tuggle Will Fjrovide Feature Event STARTSAT 8:30 Three Boxing Bouts Add to Interesting Program I Sport fans in Edenton and adja i cent territory will have another op . portunity to witness wrestling and boxing matches tomorrow (Friday) night, when an interesting program has been arranged by Chowan Tribe of Red Men. j The principal wrestling match will jbe between Eddie Pope of Rocky i Mount, Southern light heavyweight | champion, and Roughouse Tuggle of , Atlanta, Ga. These two men were I supposed to wrestle in the first match ! staged,, but because of a conflict in : the contract Tuggle was matched with another wrestler. Fans were * well pleased with both Pope’s and I Tuggle’s performance and many ex ] pressed a desire to see the two meet i This match alone should draw more ; than were present at the last affair. Besides the wrestling there will be! three boxing bouts, the feature event i being spencer Adams of Colerain, | and Joe Taylor of Richmond.. Adams j weighs 155 pounds and his boxing 1 pleased fans at his first appearance. Taylor weighs 160 pounds and is said! to be fast on his feet and effective with his fists. In the preliminaries Battling Floyd i of Windsor, will face Hambone Gris-1 fin of Edenton. Both boys weigh i 130 pounds. Monk Hollowell and | Richard Mizzefll, both 125-pound youngsters, will also fight, and much i action is expected by the two boys. ] | The program is scheduled to begin at 8:30 [o’clock in the new ball park,] ! witlj. thi, proceeds going to the or-: | orphans’ and widows’ fund of the! | Red Men Tribe. Faulty Wiring In ! | Old Court House j Reported By Hall Modern Wiring Recom i mended by Hall and j | Hicks While Chowan County’s Court! House is being made more attractive Iby the addition of asbestos shingles; jon the roof, which follows many ] other improvements inside the build ing; a situation exists which could ! very easily make all the efforts for ] beautification and substantiability 'go for naught. As the result of an inspection of the building by Fire J Chief R. K. Hall and C. M. Hicks, I superintendent of the E. & W. De partment, it was learned, that faulty wiring prevails throughout the build l ing, especially over the ceiling on j the second floor. The condition has been known for some time by Richard Dixon, custo-; dian of the ancient 'landmark, but he ] has not been able to have the build- * ing properly wired. In one recent ] instance sparks were seen at one of the connections leading to the Ma-; sonic lodge room, which was report ed, to Mr. Dixon. This dgfect was j ! subsequently fixed by an electrician, [ ] hut only bears out the opinion of j Hall and Hicks that proper wiring ] should be installed. In view of the present situation j Mr. Hall will report the condition to' the County Commissioners at their' next meeting in the hope that this j fire hazard will be eliminated. Library Closed Each Sunday In August Beginning next Sunday, the Shep-I ard-Pruden Memorial Library will be! closed all day on Sundays during the 1 month of August, according to Mrs., Sidney McMullan, librarian. After' August the usual Sunday hours will be observed. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Jeff White, of Merry Hill, announce the birth of a son on Friday, July 26th. Mrs. White is the former Miss Edith Bunch, daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bunch, of Rocky Hock. 1 Boss Lion | i I Karl m. sorrick 9PRINGPORT MICHIGAN ■ , LIONS INTERNATIONAL Earl M. Sorrick of Jackson, Michigan, is the new president of the International Association of Lions Clubs. He was unani mously advanced from the first vice-presidency at the 24th an nual convention of the associa tion which closed July 25 in r Havana, Cuba. Sorrick succeeds retiring president Alexander T. Wells of New York City. Employment Office Registrations Drop | i In First Six Months 74 New Applications For Jobs Filed In Chowan | JANUARYTOJUNE j ; Placements on Jobs To tal 134 In Same I Period ! i While there has been ft small drop ! in new registrations for work in the j 46 white and 10 colored employment ! ; offices in North Carolina during the | first six months of 1940, as compared , with the corresponding period in [ 1939, the greatest drop was in the | number of placements on jobs, which i showed 35,829 in the first six months I of this year and 51,168 for the cor i responding period of last year. ) This drop was entirely in the j placements in public works, largely PWA projects, while private place | ments remained about the same for i the two periods, it is pointed out by !R. Mayne Albright, director of the 1 I Employment Service Division of the N. C. Unemployment Compensation ! Commission. i New registrations in the Employ-* j ment offices in the January-June periods of the past five years Were as follows: 1936, 60,755; 1937, 39,430; 1938, 118,816; 1939, 67,475,' and 1940, 63,039. Placements on jobs in the same periods follow: 1936, 71,333; 1937, 51,032; 1938, 34,302; 1939, 51,168; and 1940, 35,829. In Chowan County, the records show that 74 new applications were filed for jobs in the first six months j of this year, the by-month registra tions being as follows: January, 23; ! February, 14; March, 10; April, 8; ] May 10, and June, 9. j Placements on jobs of the residents of this county in the first six months! of this year numbered 134, while the by-month placements follow: Janu ary, 21; February, 26; March, 19; j April, 14; May, 29, and June, 25. Mr. And Mrs. Lewis % Move To Norfolk j Their many friends in Edenton I will regret to learn that Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lewis leave today (Thurs-1 j day) for Norfolk, Va. Mr. Lewis, I i who for the past three and one-half l years has been assistant manager of I the local A. & P. store, has been * I transferred to Norfolk. He received j . this information last week. The transfer is especially' regretted i j by the local Methodist Church, where | ; Mrs. Lewis has been organist and ] has taken a leading part in the | music in every entertainment at the * j church since she was employed short- ] ly after arriving in Edenton. During their stay here both Mr.; and Mrs. Lewis have won a host of friends. MASONS &IEET TONIGHT The regular communication of Unanimity Lodge A. F. & A. M., will be held tonight at 8 oclock. All members are urged to attend. This newspaper is circu lated in the territory where Advertisers will realise good results. $1.25 Per Year. 100 Notices Sent To Property Owners To Connect To Sewer Health Department Fol lowing Town Council Instructions 10C% SEWERED Duty to Try and Im prove Conditions as They Exist On July 11, the Town of Edenton requested the Health Department to enforce the sewer ordinance and the Health Department has acted on that request by mailing notices to some 100 residences without sewer connections. In commenting upon the present sewer situation W. B. Gaylord, new sanitary officer for the Bertie- Chowan District Health Department, says: “I don’t think the town or Health Department would work any hard ship on any individual but at the same time we all have a responsibil ity to pay to society and we should feel it our duty to try and improve the insanitary and unsightly condi ( tions which now exist.” ] Edenton is practically 100 per cent sewered and after the matter of placing sanitary toilets promiscu ously about town had been discussed time and again, Town Council final ly agreed to support the Health De partment in carrying out a town or dinance which requires property own ers to connect where the sewer line is available. Edenton Has Had {Three Young Men ! To Enter Annapolis The Herald Miscued In Editorial Comment Last Week Commenting editorially last week on the appointment by Representa i five Lindsay Warrenn of Billy Shep ard and Durwood Harrell as candi ' dates to take the examination to enter Annapolis, The Herald openly displayed its ignorance of happenings here before the arrival in Edenton of the editor. It was stated in the editorial that the editor admitted no recollection of any Edentonian ever making the United States Nava! i Academy, but thanks to W. S. Sum merell, a close reader of The Herald, 1 he has furnished information in order to keep the records straight. As a matter of fact, three young men have been heretofore selected as ] Edenton representatives, though one I actually was a Portsmouth citizen. The three were Donald Gilliam, Thomas Leary and Francis Old. Mr. Gilliam, who was a first cousin I of Julien Wood, graduated from An napolis and became one of the high est lawyers in the State. I Mr. Leary, an unde of Hebert Leary, also graduated from the Gov ernment institution and later prac ticed medicine in Edenton until forc ]ed to retire due to ill-health. He died quite a young man. Francis Old was appointed by Re presentative John H. Small and his appointment created considerable | criticism in Edenton at the time, for though his mother, Claude Paxton, I aunt of John and R. P. Badham, was j born and raised in Edenton, young j Old was a resident of Portsmouth. ! j The Herald appreciates this infor mation and gladly presents it as a correction to last week’s editorial j comment. I 12 Boats Leave With Chowan Watermelons Twelve boats left the Edenton ] harbor for northern markets last j week loaded with Chowan County i watermelons. This week three more I boats are being loaded. I This year’s crop has been of splen ] did quality and prices ranged in the I neighborhood of 10 cents per melon ; delivered at the boat. RED CROSS FUND $566.91 One more dollar has been contri buted during the week to the Red Cross refugee fund, which brings the total amount to $566.91. The dollar contribution was made by the Rocky Hock Home Demonstra tion Club.
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