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I In ertumnt Wmjm I I if jMMfw interest I Volume VIII.—-Number 31. Miles S. Elliott Father Os Idea Which Would Add To Beauty Os Edenton’s Trees 1 Suggests Trees as Fit ting Memorials For Service HONOR MISS PATTIE Letter to Herald Fol lows Heard and Seen Comment on Trees I Comment in the Heard and Seen Column of The Herald last week rel ative to the beanty of Edenton s •crepe myrtle trees has brought form an idea advanced by Miles S. Elliott which warrants consideration. Mr. ' Elliott, a great admirer of trees, makes /the suggestion that trees be planted as memorials to friends and tagged so that the donors may be known. He further recommends a greater variety of blooming trees such as dogwood, cherry and others which would add considerably to the town’s beauty. Mr. Elliott is so much in earnest about the idea of tree memorials that he plans to transplant a dog wood, given by Miss Pattie WJnbome (to Mrs. Elliott, in front of his home on North Broad Street as a memo rial to Miss Pattie for her devotion to Chowan County and what she nas contributed in Christian, educational and' general civic uplift. Mr. Elliott’s letter to The Herald’s editor follows: f “In reading your column (Heard and Seen) I notice you refer to the beautiful crepe myrtle trees now clothed in all their majestic beauty, surely an inspiring sight, and one of inestimable value to the beauty of our town, which is known far and near for its beautiful trees. Which could be made more beautiful with addition of, more trees of greater variety such as the dogwood, cherry and others. In this connection, i suggest that trees mow standing and those to be added, should -be identi fied by some mark of identification, * carrying the names of their donors, such as metal tags or plates or Iden tification in some form. Such per sons contributing could wish for no more befitting memorial for their m r terest in the material, cultural, spir itual development of our town, than a monument in the form of a living tree, not as enduring as marble pos sibly, but many generations to come would have their memories perpetu ated and kept green. There are many people connected with Eden ton’s history, some dead and others living, (who could be thus honored. “I have a dogwood on my front >'lawn, given to my wife by a t'ery dear friendpf ous (Miss Pattie Win borne) sonSe five or six years ago, then a mere sprig, but now grown to quite a bush. It is my purpose to it to the side of Main Street in front of our home and name it in her honor, as a living memorial to her life’s devotion spent in Chow an County’s Christian, educational, general civic and public uplift. And where can you find one more deserv ing of Chowan County’s highest honor than she, and her family?” Judge Dixon And Bob Pratt Raise ; North State Quota Pair Gofs to Work When Canvassers Fall Down On Job Judge Richard D. Dixon and Rob ert L. Pratt saw to it that Chowan County did not fall down on its quo ta of SIOO for the North State Fund through which $76,000 is to be rais ed with which to purchase an am bulance plane by the State of North Carolina for Great Britain. On Wednesday morning of last week only $26 had been turned over to l{r. Dixon, who was named county chairman. This amount was receiv ed by a partial canvass by two of the four canvassers named to solicit the business section and manufacturing establishments. When it appeared that the canvassers could not leave : their work to make a thorough can- L vass, Mr. Dixon secured the services | of Mr. Pratt and early Thursday g, morning they had collected enough | V send the full quota. They exper i>. ienced little trouble in securing the jffc necessary contributions and the full 1 quota of SIOO has been sent to Oanra Ross Pou State treasurer of thefmid V &••• ' THE CHOWAN HERALD A HOME NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CHOWAN COUNTY ♦ Again Honored | ; :: ■; > mmm i§ * \ I m BP jjdK K ■B: ' % v • 8 * { J A'.-, ' - 't' fMsW JjjUMmf . - A Chowan County’s new clerk of court was on Tuesday informed that he had been appointed by Governor Broughton to represent North Carolina at the National Rivers and Harbors Congress to be held at Miami, Florida, on November 13-14. Army Plane Forced To Land On Bond Farm Bn Saturday Lack of Fuel Causes Pilot to Land In Pea nut Field Edenton. and Chowan County folk had the opportunity Saturday after noon to witness an airplane crack-up when a Curtis bomber was forced to land in a peanut field on the farm of W. E. Bond on the Suffolk high way, a few miles from Eden ton. The plane, operated by Ensign D. J. Roche, was being transferred from iSan Diego, Cal., to Norfouc, Va., and was forced to land when fuel became exhausted. Roche did a splendid job of landing, guiding the plane along the peanut rows, and peanut vines. No damage to the machine would have resulted but for the fact that he was unable to detect a ditch in the field. The plane could not be stopped until it ran into the ditch, causing a damaged landing gear and propellor. Roche communicated with Norfolk officials and a wrecking crew was sent to the scene of the accident, who during the night dismantled the plane and had it removed early Sun day morning. Roche left Dayton, Ohio, Saturday morning with a supply of gas which was calculated to carry the plane to its destination. Two other planes in the group were reported to have been forced to land also before reaching Norfolk. The pilot fortunately was not in jured and spent the night at Hotel Joseph Hewes. Edenton School Looking For New Football Coach With Superintendent John A. Holmes definitely assured that Jim my Maus, who last year was coach at Edenton High School, will not re turn to Edenton, Mr. Holmes is hav ing some difficulty in securing a suitable successor. Mr. Maus is managing the Mt. Airy baseball team in the Bi-State League and rumors have it that he will accept a position at the Mt. Airy schools. Men of his calibre are very scare at this time, says Mr. Holmes, and though he has several applications he is stQl angling for more material to choose a successor to Mr. Maus. Gov. Broughton Names E. W. Spires On Rivers And’Harbors Congress E. W. Spires, clerk of court, was notified Tuesday morning that he had been appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton as one of the official dele gates to represent North Carolina at the National Rivers and Harbors Congress which will be held in Miami, Florida, November 13-14. Mr. Spires expects to be able to arrange "his affairs in the clerk of * ■‘ >u j, "' • •. :• ‘ ‘f 3 . Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina, Thursday, July 31,1941. Little Confusion. As Edenton Goes Daylight Saving Some Opposition Voiced At First to New Schedule 50-50 AT POSTOFFICE , Business as Whole Con ducted Without a Murmur Although one hour has been lost and some folk think it will not be gained until after October 1, Edenton swung into the daylight saving wrinkle on Monday, most folks turn ing their clocks ahead one hour be fore retiring Sunday night. Though there was quite a bit of opposition voiced about town to the scheme, the town as a whole, is now going on as usual without a murmur. Town businesses got into the tenor of the change, and little confusion has resulted. The new schedule af fects the post office, where it is be ing observed on a 50-50 basis. The city carriers and Windows are ob serving the daylight saving hours, while it is necessary for the rural carriers to remain on Eastern Stand ard Time due to the fact that trams have not changed to the new sche dule of hoprs. In only one organization has there been any opposition to the daylight saving plan, that being Chowan Tribe of Red Men. In this organiza tion a large proportion of the mem bership is composed of farmers, who work from sun to sun and claim it will be impossible to attend lodge an hour earlier by the sun. The Tribe has, therefore, agreed to meet at 9 o’clock daylight saving time, which to the farmers will be 8 o’clock. But all the other civic bodies and clubs are recognizing daylight saving 1 hours, and so is the bank, and if' that doesn’t interest you ask Cashier Warren and his force, who especially like the idea of getting through af ternoon work while the sun is shin ing. Edenton has again proved that it is i a patriotic community, for the i change in hours will mean no con servation of electric power, but it Is loyal to President Roosevelt, who requested the observance of daylight , saving time and to Governor Brough -1 ton who called upon the State of , North Carolina to cooperate. And as the former World War song i went “Everybody’s doing it, doing It, ( doing it,” so stop your scowling, if l you are, and realize that October 1 i is not far off. 1 Club Members Plan Attend Farm \ i And Home Week [ Mrs. R. HT Hollowell » Among Number to ! Graduate Next Monday seven Chowan Coun . ty home demonstration club members 1 will leave for Raleigh, where they will attend Farm and Home WeeK. Os this group one, Mrs. R. H. Hollo • well, is scheduled to graduate by reason of the fact that she will have L attended the Short Course for four consecutive years. Os the others at -1 tending the course, Mrs. M. L. Hof fler, who is county president, will be 1 attending for her fifth year. The following ladies, who tms week expressed their intention of ac • tending the course, are: Mrs. R. H. Hollowell, Mrs. W. J. • Bunch and Mrs. Fred White of the ! Chowan Club. 1 Mrs. M. L. Hoffler of the Beech ■ Fork Club. 1 Mrs. Elsworth Blanchard of the Ryland Club. 1 Mrs. John Perry of the Enterprise ‘ Club. Mrs. S. E. Morris of the Byrd Club. Four 4-H Club Members i At State Short Course Four Chowan County 4-H Club 1 members left Edenton Monday for , Raleigh, where they will attend the State 4-H Short Course. The quar tet, (who were accompanied by County i Agent C. W-. Overman, will return i Saturday. The group, which was composed of i two girls and two boys, comprised 1 Charlotte Elliott, Thomasine Ward, i J. IX Peele and John Winbome Privott._ Carroll L Wilson Speaker At C. Os C. Meeting Tuesday Membership Urged to Meet at Hotel Joseph * Hewes AT 8 O’CLOCK lions and Rotary Clubs Will Also Attend Meeting Next Tuesday night at 8 o’clock, a membership meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce will be held, at which the Rotary and Lions Clubs will be special guests of the com merce group. The meeting will take place at Hotel Joseph Hewes, be ginning at 8 o’clock, both civic clubs abandoning their regular weekly meeting to meet with the Chamber of Commerce. As a special feature of this meet ing, the guest speaker will be Car roll E. Wilson of Roanoke Rapids, State highway commissioner for the i First Division. Mr. Wilson, who lias been intending for some time to be in Edenton, assured Secretary C. L. McCullers that he expected to be able to attend the meeting, and for this reason, principally, the members of the two civic cluhs were invited to join with the Chamber of Com merce in meeting with the new high , way commissioner. Ibis will be the first meeting of the new Chamber of Commerce year . since all the officers were re-elected last month and it is hoped every , member will make a special effort to be present. . Secretary McCullers desires all i members of the organization to re i member that memberships expire on August Ist, and due to this fact, it ; is hoped that all dues are paid • promptly.) >. . All Women Invited To Missionary Meeting At Baptist Church i s All women of the Baptist Church, • as well as those of other churcnea, i are invited to attend the meeting > of the Woman’s Missionary Society ! at the Baptist church Monday after ■ noon, August 4, at 4 o’clock. ■ Mrs. Mattie Macon White will be the guest speaker. Mrs. White re : turned from the mission fields of , China several months ago, and her f husband, the Rev. Philip White, is still in China. Harding Appointed To Financial Duties : For Ocean Highway . Annual Meeting of As sociation Held In .Elizabeth City In addition to re-election as a di - rector of the organization, G. H. ( Harding, of the Hotel Joseph Hewes, ’ was further honored at Monday^ . meeting of the Ocean Highway As ■ sociation held in Elizabeth City, by i being designated as the Association’s s financial chairman for the entire : State of North Carolina. While not ■ present at the time he was chosen, - Mr. Harding said on Tuesday that ! he would accept the post, and would take steps at once to accomplish the i collection of all 1941 and back dues ■ that may be owing. Besides Mr. Harding, Mayor J. H. . McMullan and L. S. Byrum were s again re-elected directors of the As sociation. Robert Clark, of Charles l ton, S. C., was named as president to succeed W. Louis Fisher, of Wil : mington, and resolutions endorsing bridge construction work between ! Savannah and Charleston and re questing the N. C. Highway Commis l sion to widen No. 17 from the Vir ginia line to South Mills, were pass ed. The meeting Monday was largely I attended by representatives from ail k along No. 17. Edenton had six mem bers on hand, these besides Harding, McMullan and_ Byrum being Guy [ Hobbs, C. L. McCullers and, J. Edwin ; Bufflap. Naturally, the latter spoke ! feelingly of the excellent buffet ‘ luncheon served the delegates at the | Hotel Virginia Dare. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT I , Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cobb announce i the birth of a son, Clyde Cobb, Jr., on Thursday, July 24. Edenton Named One of Six Concentration Centers For Delivery Scrap Aluminum ♦ | C. Os C. Speaker ] 1 fl - j m. ■ I CARROLL E. WILSON Commissioner for the First Divi sion, Mr. Wilson, Roanoke Rap ids publisher, will speak at a (joint meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Lions and. Rotary Clubs next Tuesday night at Hotel Joseph Hewes at 8 o’clock. Rambling Negro Killed By Blow Df Axe Sunday James Holley Ends Ca reer of General Baker For the first time in about six years a murder occurred in Chowan County about 1 o’clock Sunday morning on Wallace Goodwin’s farm in the Green Hall section, when General Baker, colored, was instant ly killed by a blqw of an axe in the hands of James Holley, also colored. The murder, from what can be learned by officers, was the outcome of an argument between the two men over domestic affairs, Holley claim ing that he hit Baker in self-defense when the latter attempted to hit him with a chair. Baker, who claimed to have been in practically every state in the Union, was about 30 years old, and claimed to have come here from Florida several months ago. His mother lives in Conway, S. C. Holley, who has the reputation of being a splendid farm hand, is a tenant on Wallace Goodwin’s farm. Shortly after he killed Baker he dis appeared, but later in the day he was picked up by Sheriff J. A. Bunch in the Cowpen Neck section, and at once confessed to having hit Baker and giving as a reason that he did it in self-defense. Holley is confined to the Chowan County jail, with no bond set early this week. He has previously work ed for several Chowan County farm ers before being employed by Mr. Goodwin and each one gives him a good reputation. He will be given preliminary hearing some time be fore September, in time for trial at the September term of Superior Court. McCullers Going To New York Friday C. L. McCullers, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, together with Mrs. McCullers, will leave Edenton Friday for New York City, where Mr. McCullers will go in the interest of Chamber of Commerce activities. They expect to return to Edenton Sunday. Legionnaires Meet Next Tuesday Night The regular ineeting of Ed Bond Post of the American Legion will be held next Tuesday night, August 5, in the Red Men Hall. Ibis will be a very important meeting due to the fact that delegates to the State Legion Convention will make their report, and a discussion of Boys’ State is scheduled. Commander John Holmes desires to inform the members of the post that the recent installation meeting did not take the place of this meet ing and that they are especially urg ed to be present. TUt tumpafm k 'Am- IhAmA. !■ iL rm it# good nadti. $1.25 Per Year Collections From Seven teen Counties Will Be Brought Here ENDS AUGUST 2 Local Results Pleasing To Chairman E. W. Spires Edenton’s part in the national aluminum drive on Tuesday was a glowing success. Shining forth in great quantity in front of Jhe Muni cipal Building is visible evidence of how local patriotism responds when the government calls, and Chowan Defense Chairman E. W. Spires has expressed himself as greatly pleased and gratified over the town result. In the county the drive has been continued through this week. Thff county supervisors, Farm Agent C. W. Overman and Home Demonstra tion Agent Miss Rebecca Colwell were interfered with, by their ab sence, in getting the campaign start ed last week, but are on their toes now and a goodly return of the scrap metal is expected before the drive finally ends Saturday night. As every one knows, the national campaign was directed owing to the shortage of aluminum in the manu facture of airplanes. The govern ment expressed the belief that if tne waste metal was collected through out the country and thrown into one big pool, the shortage would be over come, and, besides, expenses would be lessened. The appeal was general and from every source the response has been notable. Edenton’s share in the campaign, on view to everyone, has, of course not been weighed but when the one day drive ended Tuesday night, it was generally commented that suffi cient waste aluminum had been se cured here, which after melting ana refining would produce enough carat aluminum to go well into '~ie building of ail necessary aluminum parts on one complete airplane. Which, if correct, is something real for the town to have accomplished, and along with what is expected from the county canvass will be even more so. And in addition to Edenton’s and Chowan’s cooperative drive, Chair man Spires has been notified that Edenton has been further honored by being chosen as the collection or concentration point for all the coun ties in the entire Albemarle, seven teen counties in all. These are Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northamp ton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Pitt, Tyrrell and Washington. All the donated metal from these points will be trucked here by the State Highway Commission for later weighing, boxing or baling and trans shipment to Raleigh, or, perhaps, to Washington direct. Receipts will be (Continued on Page Five) Kramer All Ready For Air Warning Program In County Chief Observers Named Who Will Be on Alert To Hear Planes According to C. E. Kramer, Chow an County director for the air warn ing program which will go into ac tion early in August, this county is ready to operate. Mr. Kramer re ports the appointment of chief ob servers who will be located through out the county in an effort to dis cover airplanes coming over the ter ritory. In his organization he re ports splendid cooperation, both on the part of volunteers and the obser vers as well as the able assistance tendered by Mrs. E. N. Elliott ana T. L. Ward, both of whom were nam ed as assistant directors. All reports of the progress made iii Chowan County have been furnished to the commanding general at Mitch ell Field, Ntew York, and now all that Mr. Kramer is awaiting is the word “Go.” Chief observers named by <Mr. Kramer, who will serve in their re spective communities are: Bembry Wood, Thomas Wood, C. W. Over man, Raymond Mansfield and J. R. Byrum, J. G. Perry and Percy Perry, Henry Goodwin, Hutchings Winbome Mid Medlin Belch.
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