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Dec* 25
| Mt.R. K. Hall celebrated
| ;,r h Hrthday anniversary on
MgjjSßyßly. The day was spent
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
A NOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY
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Edenton’s Band Will
Play At Inauguration
Director C. L. McCullers has
received an invitation from Ad
jutant General J. Van B. Metts,
at the request wf Governor-elect
J, M. Broughton, for the Eden
ton Band to take part in the in
augural ceremonies in Raleigh on
January 9. The invitation has
been accepted and the band will
leave in a specially chartered
Ijbus at 6:30 in the morning in j
order to be ready for formation
at the Governor’s mansion not
later than 10 o’clock.
It will be the first public ap
pearance of the Edenton band
iin the new uniforms.
Band Uniform Fund
Lacks Little More
Os Reaching Goal
Director McCullers Re*
ports Only $154.30
Now Needed
With $1,020 needed for 46 new
uniforms for the Edenton High
School Band, Director C. L. Mc-
Cullers on Wednesday reported that
the goal is in sight, for of that a
mount all has Tbeen raised except
$154.30. The uniforms have been or
dered and are expected to reach
Edenton next Monday, and because it
is a C.d.D. shipment it is very neces
sary that the small amount is raised
before that time.
The band is one of seven to be in
vited to take part in Governor J.
M. Broughton’s inauguration next
Thursday and it is hoped to use the
new uniforms for the first time for
that occasion. Anyone who desires
to make a contribution should con
tact Mr. McCulQers or Mrs. S. C.
Mills at once so that there will be
no delay in securing the new uni
forms.
Mr. McCullers reports that up to
Wednesday of this week he had re
ceived a total of $856.70 which was
received as follows:
Armistice Day football game $230.70
Advance band dues 448.00
I John W. Graham , 22.50
Habit’s Case . 22.50;
Bank of Edenton 22.50 1
Chowan Motor Co. 22.50
’! Campen’s i ——21.50
i Guy Hobbs ... —_—l 10.00
Julian E. Ward 10.00
Jimmy Partin lO.OO
W. J. Yates 5.00
; Iredell Florist 5.00
■ Mrs. H. G. Wood 5.00
, A"Friend 5.00
A Friend 1.00
i A Friend 1.00
i R. N. Hines 1.00
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Total $856.70
Prizes Awarded For
Christmas Displays
Badham Bros, and Mrs.
R. P. Badham Win
First Prizes
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Whether prizes offered by Town
Council had anything to do with it
, or not, the fact remains that Christ
mas' decorations in Edenton this year
i surpassed previous years both in
number and beauty.
Town Council offered prizes for the
two most attractively decorated busi
ness houses as well as the two most
attractively decorated homes and a
committee from the Garden Club ex
perienced some difficulty in award
ing these prizes. The prizes as a
warded went to the following:
Business Houses—-Badham Bros,
i first and W. J. Yates Sinclair .Ser
vice Station, second.
I Homes—-Mrs. R. P. Badham, first,
, and Mrs. Guy Boyce, Second. ■ .«(n.
In each division first prise was
. $5.00, and second prize $2.50.
The committee also made honor-
I able mention for Jule Elliott’s d®Cora
-1 tion at his fish house along the water
front.
Edenton; Chowan County, North Carolina. Thursday, January 2,1941
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Above is a reproduction of Chowan County’s ancient Court
House as flood lights played upon the ancient building during the
Christinas holidays. The building was a source of much Yule
tide attraction, but has dimmed again, together with the other
Christmas decorations which this year were very beautiful.
Mrs. C. A. Ashby |
Dies On Sunday;
Funeral Tuesday
Old St. Paul’s Church
Filled to Capacity For
-i Last Rites
_ Mrs. Evelyn Garnett Ashby, wife
o*f the Re.v. Charles Aylett Ashby,
passed away at her home at noon
Sunday, following an attack of
pneumonia. Mrs. Ashby was 64 years
of age and had been an outstanding
church worker until about eight
years ago when she became para
lyzed. She had been helpless, her
entire left side being affected, but
throughout this handicap she re
mained cheerful and maintained an
unusual interest in all that went on
about her.
Mrs. Ashby was the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Clarence Garnett, of
Newport News, Va., where she spent
her youth. In 1909 she married Mr.
Ashby, then a lawyer practicing in
Newport News. In the same year
Mr. Ashby went to the Virginia
Seminary and in 1911 began his
ministry at Amhert, Va., after
wards he served Episcopal Churches
in Elizabeth City and Raleigh, N. C.,
and at Jacksonville, Florida, from
which latter place he came to Eden
ton in 1933. In each place, until she
was paralyzed, Mrs. Ashby took a
very active part in church activities,
thus very ably assisting Mr. Ashby
(Continued on Page Four)
194 C IN REVIEW]
Highlights of Happenings During Past Year as
Chronicled In Files of The Chowan Herald
A pretty mean old man of the
year went his ominous way over the
Western horizon around midnight
Tuesday night, waving bombs of death
and devastation on all sides and fad
ing into the distant darkness at just
about the minute a squalling, bawling
1941 baby, with but little more hope
in his dangerous face, was prodded
up through the Eastern skies to the
tom tom beating of war drums
everywhere.
It is, New Year’s, to be sure, but
not much of a one to face today. Yet
here in Chowan, where we have un
ruffled temperaments and are undis
turbed by the rattle of musketry
across the seas save what we read in
the papers or hear over the radio,
we are at peace with all mankind
and intend to keep so.
To us in Chowan 1940 has been
replete with other things beside
strife and war. The year has been a
productively prosperous one in many
ways, and a resume Os happenings
culled from the weekly issues of The
Herald show that calamity' and dan
ger have avoided us through the
twelve months just ending.
Os the 1940 events perhaps the two
that stand, out as marked in import-
| U.S. Army Engineers
Scheduled To Arrive
In Edenton January 6
Group of 50 Men Will
Make Headquarters
j Tn Armory
Lieutenant Carr of the U. S. Army
engineer corps was in Edenton Mon
day relative to making arrange
ments for a corps of engineers mak
ing their headquarters in the Edenton
Armory. Lieutenant Carr, together
with assistants, met with Mayor J.
H. McMullan and Fred P. Wood and
Graham By rum, custodians of the
Armory, and definitely set the second
week in January as the time the en
gineers will arrive in Edenton.
In the corps will be 50 men, who
will make their headquarters in the
Armory while making surveys
throughout the section.
Permission was granted for an in
definite stay at the Armory, but it
is thought the corps will complete its
work in about two months. The en
gineers are ail high class men, grad
uates of West Point, and their pres
ence in Edenton has been cause for
much favorable comment. They
have been stationed at Wilson.
DISTRICT POULTRY SCHOOL
AT CURRITUCK JANUARY 13
A district poultry school will be
held at Currituck Court House on
Monday, January 13. Chowan Coun
ty farmers who are interested in
poultry raising are urged to attend.
ance and which should make us all
give a thought to the recent burning
of London by the scalawags from
Germany, center about the almost
complete demolition of the M. G.
Brown Lumber Company by fire last
August, the worst conflagration in
Edenton in recent years, and but a
short time before that another fire
at the waterfront end of Broad
Street that did great destructive
damage, too.
Then there has been the death of a
number of the county’s prominent
residents, including Farm Agent N.
K. Rowell, County Commissioner A.
D. Ward, Joseph C. Dail, John Harri
son Spruill, the county’s oldest white
man, and Mrs. C. A. Ashby, all of
whom will be sadly missed by a re
gretful populace.
In the criminal line there has been
much, but nothing of marked notice
save the fall “wipe out” of the slot
machine business in the county and
the penalization of those most in
volved including the king bee of the
game in the State.
But let the record of the year speak
for itself, week by week, as follows:
January 4—‘Rev. George W. Blount,
(Continued on Page Seven)
Organization Home Guard
For Edenton To Be Decided
At Mass Meeting Tuesday
■ <s
C. Os C. Membership
Meets Next Tuesday
A membership meeting of the
Edenton-Chowan Chamber of
Commerce will be held next
Tuesday night, January 7, at 8
o’clock. |The meeting will be held
in the Municipal Building and all
members of the organization are
especially urged to be present.
With the advent of a new year,
President Davis is Very anxious
that every member becomes ac
quainted with what the associa
tion has done as well as with
future plans, and lot that reason
!he urgently requests every mem
ber to attend.
104 Children in
31 Families Helped
By Stocking Fund
$109.27 Contributed to
Help Spread Christ
mas Cheer
It will be interesting to know that;
through the Christmas Stocking
Fund, 104 children in 31 families were
made happy on Christmas morning, j
The sponsors of this fund, Miss \
Louise Coke and Mrs. O. M. Elliott,!
wish to thank all who helped in any i
way to make it possible to carry on j
this good' work. The 'amount, of cash !
received was $109.27.
Below is a list of those who con-j
tributed to this worthy cause:
Miss Mamie Skinner, Mrs. H. C.
Wozelka, Mrs. C. E. Kramer. C. E.
Kramer, Mrs. E. C. White, Mrs. B.
W. Hathaway, Miss Can-ie Coke,'
Miss Margaret Pruden, Mrs. O. M
Elliott, Mrs. S. W. Taylor, Mrs. R.
P. Badham, W. D. Pruden, Mrs. H. G.
Wood, Mrs. E. N. Elliott, Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Summerell, Mrs. W. H.
Coffield, Mrs. C. P. Whales, F. W.
Hobbs, Mrs. J. M. Beatty, D. M.
Warren, Mrs. H, H. Preston, George
C. Hoskins, Mrs. H. C. Jackson, Miss
Sophie Wood, Mrs. W. O. Elliott, Jr.,
Edenton P. T. A., Mrs. W. B. Shep
ard, Mrs. R. G. White, Mrs. J. A
Moore, Mrs. R. F. Tuttle, John W.
Graham, Mrs. W. I. Hart, R. A.
Beasley, Mrs. W. A. Graham, Mrs.
Julien Wood, Sr., Mrs. W. J. Leary,!
Miss Jessie McMullan, Mrs. W. 0.
Elliott, Sr., Mrs. Jennie P. Vann,
Mrs. J. M. Jones, Mrs. John C. Bad
ham, Mrs. John Wood, Gilliam Wood,
American Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. A.
M. Day, Miss Louise Coke, Miss Sallie
Jones, Mrs. W. D. Pruden, D. M.
Warren, Jr., Jack Badham, Mrs. J.
A. Woodard, Mrs. W. M. Bond, Miss
Emily Smithwick, Miss Zene Elliott,
R. E. Leary, M. F. Bond, J. M. Vail,
Mrs. J. A. Powell, Graham White,
Rotary Club, Edenton Cotton Mills
Edenton Boy Scouts, The Chowan'l
Herald.
Masons Will Install
Officers Tonight
G. A. Helms Replaces
C. W. Sawyer as
Master
Officers for the year 1941 will be
installed at the meeting of Unanimity
Lodge, No. 7, A. F. & A. M., tonight
(Thursday) at 8 o’clock. Chief of
Police G. A. Helms will replace C.
W. Sawyer as master of the lodge,
with Louis E. Francis, senior war
den; John Lee Spruill, junior warden;
C. H. Wood, treasurer, and J. Edwin
Bufflap, secretary.
Mr. Helms has made the following
appointments, who will also be in
stalled: ISenior deacon, S. C. Mills;
junior deacon, W. J. Daniels; stew
ards, Sidney Campen and Colon
Sawyer; orphanage chairman, E’. T.
Rawlinson; educational secretary, A.
S. Hollowell; chaplain, W. C. Bunch;
degree team captain, H. A. Campen;
auditing committee, R. E. Leary, W.
M. Wilkins and E. W. Spires; tiler,
Paul Olsson.
This newspaper it circu
lated in the territory
where Advertisers will
realise good results.
$1.25 Per Year.
Citizens Urged to Meet
At Chowan Court
House
AT 5 O’CLOCK
Committee Is Named to
Pick Officers If Unit
Is Desired
In compliance with Governor Clyde
R. Hoey’s authorization permitting
35 North Carolina cities, of which
Edenton is one, to establish Home
Guard units to replace national
guard troops called into regular army
camps for a year’s training, a mass
meeting of Edenton citizens has been
called for the Court House next
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. The
call for such a meeting went out yes
terday from Mayor J. H, McMullan
and Chairman D. M. Warren, of the
County board, after a letter inform
ing them of the State executive’s
authorization had been received by
both from Adjutant General J. Var,
B. Metts in Raleigh.
The question of a Home Guard unit
here has been a subject of much
street talk ever since the local am
bulance corps was shunted off to Fort
Jackson leaving the Armory vacant
| Naturally it would be an emergency
unit, prepared to aid in defending
; the town against any sort of invasion,
; whether by the hands of a war enemy
| or as the result of riot or any other
| civic disturbance. Sentiment has
been pro and con relative to the
unit’s establishment here.
I General Metts’ communication sets
, forth that the unit should be made up
' of 50 men between the ages of IS
| and 45, not subject to call into fed
j eral service because of dependents or
' for fay Other c.vsc, ■'each ■«<et* be
1 a “good substantial citizen.” The
| unit will be marshalled by :• captain
i and two lieutenants, pn-.erably men
with military training.
No pay or other emolument will
be available for such service by offi
cers or men, but armament will be
furnished by the War Department.
Uniforms will have to be supplied by
the unit itself or by the town where
(Continued on Page Eight)
New County Agent
Bue Jan. 12 To 15
C. W. Overman Detain
ed For Some Time at
Manteo Office
C. W. Overman, who has been ap
pointed Chowan County agent to
succeed the late N. K. Rowell, and
who was to take over his new duties
Wednesday, January 1, will not take
charge of the Edenton office until
January 12 or 15.
Mr. Overman is serving in a simi
lar capacity in Dare County and has
been detained at the Manteo office
until a new agent has become ac
i quainted with the program in Dare.
Bank Os Edenton’s 1941
Christmas Club Breaks
All Previous Records
Though still more members are ex
pected to join, the Bank of Edenton
early this week reported the shat
tering of all previous records for
membership in the 1941 Christmas
Savings Club. Ever since this help
ful form of saving was inaugurated
by the Bank of Edenton, each suc
ceeding year has seen an increase in
members as well as in the amount
represented in the various clubs.
The club is still open for members
and. any who desire to join should do
so at once.
Dance Friday Night
For Benefit Os Band
For the benefit of the Edenton
High School band uniform fund a
dance will be held in the Armory on
Friday night, beginning at 9 o’clock.
Music for the occasion will be fur
, nished by Edenton’s newly formed
. swing orchestra of 10 pieces.
A grand prize wiM be awarded the
; holder of the lucky ticket, the draw
. ing to take place at the Armory at /
, 10 o’clock. Tickets for the affair/
are now on sale.