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Volume Vll.—Number 42.
Chowan Counts
Draft Registration
Handled Smoothly
/ \ Efficient Planning For
Task Makes Work
'* Pleasure
. ON HAND EARLY
. Large Corps of Volun
teer Registrars Ren
. der Assistance
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All day yesterday and up to 9
o’clock l*ust night the man power of
Chowan between the ages of 21 and
3‘6 years inclusive met its country’s
desilte and command by responding
without a quiver to the first peace
time draft in the history of the
United States, and the smoothness
and speed with which the registra
tions were met and conducted in the
county’s two registration places in
dicated that this initial national
compulsory military training draft
was showing no “slackers” or hesi
tant ones in this commonwealth.
It is expected, of course, that
Chowan will show a full registra
tion strength quota, and this fact
was evident from the very start of
the drafting at 7 o’clock yesterday
when both registration places, at the
Edenton High' School here and at the
Chowan High School at Cross Roads,
were crowded with eager young men
anxious to get .the job through and
\ to sign themselves up as wiQling to
i / serve their country in peace or war
’ to the utmost.
In Edenton William S. T’rivott,
former prosecutor, was first regis
tered by Miss Edna Goodwin, one
of t'he school teachers, and over a
hundred others stood behind him at 7
o’clock waiting to similarly enroll
themselves. At Cross Roads the ini
tial registrant was Josephus Hall,
colored, whose blank was filled out
jjT by .Mrs. J. C. Rogerson. Around 60
other volunteer registrars were on
hand there at the opening hour.
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John H. Spruill
Chowan’s Oldest,
White Man, Dies
Passes Away at Home
tv j Os Son on Wednes
day Night
, 92 YEARS OLD
f
Often Told of Experi
ences During Civil
War Days
Clinging to a slender thread of ljfe
for several weeks, John Harrison
Spruill, Chowan County's oldest white
citizen, passed away at the home of
his son, Lawson Spruill, Wednesday
night. Mr. Spruill was 92 years old
and had been in good health until
several months ago.
He was born in Washington County
August 9, 1848, coming to Chowan
County 71 years ago to farm. He
. remained active on the farm until
about four years ago, when due to
gradually dwindling strength, he re
tired.
Though figuring in several major
;«■ accidents, Mr. Spruill each time re
f covered and was able to continue his
work. These accidents included be
ing pulled into a peanut picker, kick
ed and severely injured by a mule,
and the most recent one when he feH
down stairs breaking a hip and his
pelvis, . .
: > Jfis memory was very keen, aftd he
tdok Vfeat delight in reminiscing es
peciaily regarding Civil War episodes
.’ in Washington County. Os recent
years he always looked forward with
a great deal of pleasure to the an
_nual birthday party held by his son
• Harrison, the principal feature of
which was story-telling by the de
’: ceased. •
Surviving are three sons, William,
l Harrison and Lawson Spruill, and one
daughter, Mrs. Mary Harris, all of
1 1 Edenton.
I Funeral services were held Thurs
! day Sfite moon at the home of Lawson
| Sprafll, with the Rev. E. L. Wells
I officiating. Interment was made in
I Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Honorary, J. A.
I iMitchener, M. A. Hughes, Paul Ols
fc, son, Harvey Thomas, D. M. Warren
IgfWi J. Edwin Bufflap; active, John
!|y Lee Spruill, John Lane, Joe Williams,
I J- A. Bunch, R. E. Leary and Willie
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A HOME NMWMPAPER DEVOTED TO TEE lETEREMTt OF CEO WAN COENTT
15 DRAFT BOARDS
MEET IN EDENTON
TUESDAY, OCT. 22
i Draft boards from 15 counties
contiguous to Chowan County will
meet in the Chowan County Court
House Tuesday morning, October 22,
I at 10:30 o’clock. At that time £ap- i
tain Jonas, of Raleigh, who is ai
member of the State Selective Draft
Commission, will be present to dis
cuss and instruct draft board mem- 1
bers relative to their duties.
The meeting was arranged Wed
nesday morning when Richard D.
, Dixon was contacted relative to using
the Court House, to which he gladly
consented.
Statistics Reveal
i Much Activity In
Health Department
Dr. Chamblee Submits
Report For Six Month
Period
APPRECIATES HELP
Maternity and Infancy
Program Stressed In
Edenton Office
Dr. J. S. Chamblee, director of the
Bertie-Chowan District Health De- j
, partment, has released a statistical'
, report for the period from April 1
to October 1, which reflects consider
able activity in the department.
] The report shows that the mater
, nity and infancy program was stress
ed most during the past six months
■ with 470 visits by expectant mothers
to the various maternity and in
' fancy clinics and 211 visits by the
nurses to these women in theii
! homes. There were 243 nursing vis
| its made to these mothers imme
( diately after delivery. One hundred
apd seven infants were examined by
physicians and 600 by nurses. Aid 1
was. also given mothers by having
classes for the midwives in the Dis
trict, 41 midwives receiving instruc
tion and physical examinations at
these classes.
The veneral disease program rank
ed second with 5,778 syphilis treat
ments and 69 treatments for gonor
i rhea. There were 2 cases of chan
ilcroid. 2,004 Wassermann tests were
taken with 197 of them showing
syphilis present.
1 The communicable disease program
included 3,679 typhoid vaccinations
and 767 doses of diphtheria toxoid
and 754 smallpox vaccinations. The
number of communicable diseases re
ported were as follows: scarlet fever
3, diphtheria 4, infantile paralysis
3, others including measles, whoop
■ ing cough and septic sore throat 7.
Seven cases of tuberculosis were
reported in the two counties with 80
nursing visits to these patients.
There were 189 tuberculin tests
i made and two patients were sent to
i the State Sanatorium.
1 The sanitation program included:
127 inspection of food-handling es
’ tablishments, 51 inspections of dair
ies, 75 inspections of schools, 12 in
-1 spections of public water supplies,
805 inspections of private premises,
’ 337 new privies installed, 12- new
1 septic tanks installed, 20 new sewer
1 connections, 34 buildings mosquito-
I proofed, 18 complaints investigated.
I I The school program was naturally
a small one because school was not in
session during most of the period.
The work done in schools indluded:
4,985 inspections of school chil
i dren, 440 pre-school children exam
ined, 3,919 corrections by dentist
(for last year), 44 school bus driv
, ers and athletes examined (not com
-1 plete), 94 teachers examined,
i J Examinations of food-handlers
and domestic servants totaled 140.
i The number of visits to the county
home in Bertie County were-23.
I: Laboratory tests performed in-<
; eluded:
64l Urinalyses, 22 tests for gonor
rhea, 22 water analysis, 18 milk
i samples tested.
i Vital Statistics' ,
Bertie County—Live births, 111
White, 261 Colored; Deaths, 51
, White, 74 Colored.
Chowan County—Live births, 64
1 White, 74 Colored; Deaths, 30 White,
29 Colored.
Number of bulletins, posters, dis
tributed, 4,227.
Total number of miles traveled by
personnel, 37,189.
“We wish to express ,pus , appre
ciation for the cooperation giv«f
by the Boards Ornimii
i sioners and the Boards of‘ Uedlth of
t Bertie and Chowan CountUft arid atet?
. to the many pthers who have taken
i interest in helping us put on a health
program,” says Dr. Chamblee.
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Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Tliursday, October 17, IMO-.
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Forum For Edenton
Will Be Discussed
At Meeting Tonight
' Presidents of Various
Organizations Asked .
To Meet
i
AT SCHOOL HOUSE
Edenton Considered an
Ideal Community For
Having Forums
Tonight (Thursday) at 8 o’clock, a
meeting has been called of the presi
dents of the civic and patriotic or
ganizations of Edenton for the pur-1
pose of planning for an open forum |
, for Edenton. The meeting will be
j held in the high school auditorium
' and the president of every organiza
tion is urged to be present.
J The Rotary Club at a recent meet-
I ing decided to sponsor an open forum
during the next few months ip the j
hope that various organizations will
lend their support and unite to bring
to Edenton something which should
be of interest to many citizens.
Edenton is an ideal community for
having a forum and the various or
ganizations will do well to take ad
vantage of the opportunity afforded
by the University of North Carolina,
State Department of Public Instruc
tion and the Federal Bureau of Edu
, cation to promote forums in North
j Carolina.
The cost is very small and under
the set-up there is a wider range of
subjects to be chosen is well as many
prominent speakers to lecture and
lead in discussion of various phases
of the subjects selected.
i
Zone Meeting Os
Women’s Society
i Christian Service
Chowan and Perquim
: ans Groups Will Meet
On October 24th
The Chowan-Perquimans Zone of
j the Woman’s Society of Christian
> i Service of the Methodist Church will
li meet at Oak Grove Church, Per
j quimans County, October 24th, at
I I 10,30 o’clock. This meeting will be
ij a re-organizing of all the Woman’s
1 1 work in the United Methodism, and
*, will hold an unique place in the
• history of the church.
' Plans for the united work will be I
i passed on to the societies in the
■ Zone. It is a challenge to all Meth
| odist women' to attend the meeting
«! at Oak Grove.
>
Concerted Drive To
Plant Winter Grass
■i Strong Committee From
Garden Club Calling |
On Citizens
With the Edenton Garden Culb
, vitally interested in planting of win
( ter grass in Edenton, which it is
hoped will get under way at once,
[ Mrs. R. P. Badham, president of the
i club, has named the following com-
I mittees to solicit citizens in an effort
to secure general cooperation in this
beautification movement:
Broad Street—Mrs. L. D. Bond
Mrs. Albert Byrum, Mrs. J. S. Davis,
, Mrs. C. N. Griffin, Mrs. W,. E. Has
sell, Mra. J. L. Pettus, Mrs. W. M.
Wilkins, Mrs. Thomas J. Wood, Mrs.
M. S. Elliott.
< 1 Church Street—Mis. R. C. Holland,
chairman; Mra. R. G. White, Miss
Margaret Pruden.
Queen Street—Mrs. M. G. Brown,
chairman; Mrs. John Small, Mrs. C.
D. Stewart, Mrs. W. W. Byrum, Mrs.
J. W. White, Mirs. J. A. Mitchener,
Mrs. Ernest Stillman, Mrs. Clarence
Leary.
, Eden Street—Mrs. T. C. Byrum,
, chairman; Mrs. P. T. Owens.
Granville Street—Mrs. J. A. Pow
ell, chairman;' Mra. L. P. Williams,
Mrs. J. N. Pruden, Mrs. L. E. Griffin,
Mra. H. M. S. Cason.
Blount Street—Mrs. G. P. Byrum,
Chairman; Mrs. J. M. Jones, Mrs.
f !J. H. McMullan.
1 ■ Mosefly Street—*Mrq. W. J. Hart,
• to. chairman. y
f King Street—Mra. J. A,, Moore,
f Chairman; Mrs. W. A. Graham,
Mrs. J. H. Conger, Mfs.’lfc 'R Bad
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Garden Club Holds
Very Enthusiastic
Meeting Monday
Many Important Mat
ters Discussed By
Members
i
FLOWER SHOW
Effort on Foot to Plant !
Winter Grass About
Town
One of the most enthusiastic meet
ings ever held by the Edenton Garden
Club took place Monday afternoon |
| at Hotel Joseph Hewes, when many |
| important matters were discussed j
The meeting was presided over by J
the president, Mrs. R. P. Badham. >
One of the principal topics to be
I discussed was the planting of winter j
grass. The dlub decided to again j
purchase grass seed to be planted
I in front of the Court House and on
the Court House Green and an ef
fort will be made to enlist the co
operation of residents generally in
planting winter grass about theii
homes. This, it is believed, will go
a long way in making the town more
attractive.
Another beautification movement
approved by the club is a block pro
ject which has to do with cleaning up
the colored sections of the town, es
pecially pertaining to that portion
of East Church Street between Court
and Oakum Streets, where it is hop
ed property owners wll either white
wash or paint their houses and plant
attractive flowers and shrubbery.
Efforts along this line will be in
charge of a committee composed of
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R.L Pratt Named
Chairman Chowan
Campaign Fund
Young: Democrats Are
Asked to Contribute
* From $1 Up
Dick Reynolds, chairman of the ,
National Democratic Finance Com-1
mittee for North Carolina, with head-]
quarters in the Sir Walter Hotel,!
Raleigh, has announced the appoint-,
ment of Robert L. Pratt as Chowan
chairman of the Roosevelt-Wallace
Campaign Fund Committee.
Mr. Pratt will be in charge, undei;
■ I the sponsorship of the Young Demo-i
i cratic Club’s State President, Ralph
Gardner, of distributing pads of re
• ceipts for contributions.
The Young Democrats will ask
donations ranging from SI.OO up. It
is expected that Mr. Pratt will find
much enthusiasm amongst Democrats j
of Chowan County in raising funds j
to carry on the work of the National
1 Democratic Committee to re-elect
i Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Menu Announced
For Lunch Room
Series of Meals Arrang
ed For Two Weeks
Operation
That parents may know what their
children will be served in the lunch
room at the Edenton school, the fol
lowing menu has been released, ef
fective Monday of next week:
First Week
Monday—American coop suey, but
tered biscuits, fruit milk.
Tuesday—Vegetable soup, crack
ers, peaches, milk.
Wednesday Hamburger, baked
tomatoes, buttered biscuits, milk
fruit.
Thursday—Wieners, beans, cole
slaw, buttered biscuits, milk, fruit.
Friday—Vegetable soup, crackers,
apple jacks, milk.
1 Second Week
Monday—Ham sandwiches, raisin
sandwiches, hot chocolate, peaches,
milk.
Tuesday—Vegetable soup, crack
ers, stewed prunes, milk.
Wednesday Salmon croquettes,
Spanish rice, biscuits, peaches, milk.
.Thursday—lrish stew, buttered bis
cuits, fruit, milk. 1 c
Friday—Vegetable soup, crackers,
ginger bread, m9lc^
WORKERS URGED
TO LINE UP BIG
DEMOCRATIC VOTE
i
Richard Dixon, a member of the
advisory committee of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
this week was informed by Chair
man Emery B. Denny that extra 1
efforts will have to be made to getj
the Democratic vote on November 5. |
“This year,” says Mr. Denny, “we]
have but few local officials running;
for office in this State in compari-1
son with other years, which fact;
makes it most imperative that our
Democratic officials give to theii
respective county chairmen and pre
cinct organizations their full cooper
ation and assistance.”
“I am confident of victory on
November 5, in the State and na
tion,” continued Mr. Denny, “but we
will not have the overwhelming ma
jority we ought to have unless we
work together and supplement the
efforts of our party organizations.”
Dixon Plans Real
Picnic Dinner For
Lindsay Warren Day
Vividly Recalls Many
Old Fashioned Com
munity Picnics
OCTOBER 25
Forced to Wipe Mouth'
While Referring to !
Affair
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With Richard Dixon in charge of
the picnic in connection with Lindsay
C. Warren Day in Washington, N. C.,'
Friday, October 25, he has sent to
every chairman a letter which au
gurs well for one of the affairs
reminiscent of the good Old days of
picnic dinners.
Says Mr. Dixon in this letter: I
“Os all the cherished memories of I
childhood days, none stand out so
•vividly as the old-fashioned,, basket
community picnics. Down on the
rivers and sounds of Eastern North
Carolina this day of days was Easter j
Monday when we all went to a near
by fishery and watched them bring
in the herring and shad; or maybe
some of us picnicked in that old oak
1 grove where the protracted meeting
] >vas held or maybe on the Fair
| Grounds after a big political rally,
j “Regardless of the reason or place,
,we can never forget those great
heaps of good things to eat that sud
] denly appeared after the fishing,
; the preaching or the speaking was
l over; when everybody untied their
boxes or baskets and put the delect-!
able eatables all together and from]
| every box or basket would cornel
some special meat, or bread, or con-!
diment especially prepared by the
owner arud known the whole country
j side round as the best of its kind
j ever dished up to hungry folks;
there were Aunt Lucy’s special bak
ing of pound cake, striped with jelly
and covered with thick, soft icing;
Cousin Susie’s special pack of arti
choke pickles; Mr. Jones’ prized sea
soned coid link sausage; fried chick
en cooked in the Carolina style and
maybe venison, cold squirrel, or duck
or goose.
“(Excuse me, I must wipe my
mouth. IT IS WATERING.)
“The above is some idea of what
we are looking forward to on Lind
say Warren Day in Washington,
North Carolina, October 25, 1940.
After a short parade and not much
speaking, all of us with our boxes
and baskets of good things to eat,
will place them on long tables, rank
after rank, and then the order will
be given: ‘CHARGE.’
“The first line of defense, beaten |
biscuits, fortified with old country
ham, will soon crumble before the
attack of the ‘hongry’ invaders and
be mowed down; the next line, big
biscuits loaded with 12-inch sau
sages will soon be spiked and si
lenced; then the next wave, Tom
Thumbs as big as trench-mortars are
quickly annihilated; enormous breast
works of chicken, turkey and guinea
fowl quickly consumed; next are
trenches of barbecue, flanked by em
placements of combread which offer
little resistance, and finally the
mighty ramparts of thick slabs of
ham have been reached and scaled.
By this time all enemy units have
disappeared and the exhausted invad
ers chanting a song of ‘the battle
o’er, the victory wearily
for rest and recuperation.
“So
come a)s J}riiyg .'ijien*!?'ftoxee and
baskets us gqod tfeifigiF to Washing
ton, North, Carolina. Remember the
day and date, Friday, October 25,
1940/* ,
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$1.25 Per Year~
Coast Guard Air
; Station Dedicated
In I City Today
Lindsay Warren Sched
| uled To Make Prin
cipal Address
PROGRAM BRIEF
Station Said to Be Fin
est In Coast Guard
Service
Herbert E. Gaston, one-time night
editor of the New York Wofld and
now Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Department, will formally
dedicate the two-million-dollar Coast
Guard Air Station at Elizabeth City
Thursday morning.
Lindsay C. Warren, appointed by
President Roosevelt to become Comp
troller General of the United 'States,
will deliver the principal address of
the day in one of his final gestures
as Congressman from the first dis
’ trict of North Carolina.
Great super airliners, Coast Guard
planes of all sizes, visiting Army and
Navy Aircraft, and a number of pri
vate ships will dive and zoom over the
station, erected on the bank of the
Pasquotank River within ten minutes
ride by air to the sand dunes where
the Wright brothers made the first
(light.
i Rear Admiral E. R. Waesche, com
mandant of the U. S. Coast Guard,
• and Rear Admiral L. V. Coveil, as
j sistant commandant, will fly to Eli
i zabeth City from Washington to take
part in the exercises.
! Commander William J. Keester ol
Norfolk district will be chairman oi
the dedication ceremony.
Invocation and benediction will be
pronounced by Commander William
W. Ed.el of the Chaplain Corps of the
! U. S. Navy at Norfolk,
Mayor Jerome B. Flora will make a
brief address of welcome, and the
| 65-piece Elizabeth City high school
I band will furnish the music.
1 The entire formal dedication is ex
pected to begin promptly at 11
o’clock and tb last only one hour.
The formal exercises will climax
the completion of the Elizabeth Cit?
' air station, described by Commander
Richard L. Burke as the finest in the
Coast Guard, service.
Edenton Gridders
Tackle Foremost
Rival On Friday
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I Elizabeth City Host to
1 Aces on Hunsucker
Field
E. CITyTiAS EDGE
Edenton Boys Will En
ter Game In Role of
Underdog
Despite the fact that Edenton High
School’s football team lost to Tar
boro last Friday night, enthusiasm
has not waned in anticipation of Fri
day’s game with the Elizabeth Ci*y
Yellow Jackets, which will be played
on the latter’s gridiron. This game
is without doubt the most important
one on the schedule and upon it
al#ne almost entirely depends wheth
er or not the locals’ season will be
considered a success, for so keen is
the rivalry between these two schools
that a game would rather be lost by
either team to any other outfit on
I their schedule than to each other.
Edenton, with light and inexper
ienced players, will enter the game
in the role of underdogs, but Coach
Jimmy Maus has been emphasizing
the importance of a team working to
gether instead of featuring individual
stars, which, coupled with the
knowledge that Elizabeth City has a
good team of veterans might result
in any sort of an upset.
Elizabeth City has a decided edge
in the game. They have won all
four of their games played thus far,
besides not being scored upon. They
will endeavor to maintain this per
fect record Friday, while at the same
time Edenton is hoping to shatter
the record.
It is generally conceded that Eli
zabeth City is Edenton’s toughest
opponent. Out of 12 games played
Elizabeth City has won 9 and Eden
ton 3. Elizabeth City won the first
six games and Edenton did not break
the win column until 1934. That
year the Aces won 20 to 0 and went
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