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PAGE EIGHT SOCIETY NEWS Mrs. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Mrs. James Cordon and Mrs. James Cor don, Jr., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George C. Wood at -their home at Greenfield. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Belch and Mrs. C. S. Cozart of Newport News, were Sunday gusts with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cozart. N. J. George expects to leave early next week for Pittsburgh, where he will attend the Jock Sutherland Coaching Institute. Later he plans to visit his parents at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Mrs. John Byrum and son, John, Jr., are visiting relatives in Williams ton. - Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Dail and daughter, Barbara, spent the week end in Washington, D. C. West Byrum, Jr., returned Sunday from Scarsdale, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Brantley Aycock and their young son of New- York, have arrived in Edenton to spend a vaca tion. Aycock will be remembered as Edenton Colonials’ star catcher who was injured earlier in the season. He has come back to Edenton to witness his former teammates battle for the Albemarle League championship. Coach Tex Lindsay on Saturday returned from Chapel Hill, where he attended the Carl Snavely Coaching Institute. Ernest Ward, Jr., who is attending summer school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, spent the week-end visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ward. William Leary, who has been at tending summer school at State Col lege, Raleigh, is spending a vacation With his mother, Mrs. J. C. Leary. Miss Helen Asbell spent the week end in Nashville, N. C., visiting rel atives, and attended the Tobacco Fes tival Dance in Wilson on Friday night. Mrs. W. W. Porter returned Fri day after a week spent at Toms River, New Jersey, visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Perkins. Charles H. Bufflap y£ York, Pa., left Saturday for Baltimore, where he will spend a week or two before returning to his home. He has been in Edenton six weeks visiting his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Bufflap. Emmett Eason, son of Mrs. W. W. Porter, is spending this week in r G&W William fe Penn r? Blended i Whiskey $1.90 L Vi ?en* V Pln,i 86 Proof THE STRAIOHT WHISKEYS M IMS PtOOUCT ARE 4 YEARS OR MORR 010. M® STRAIOHT WHISKEY, U% NEUTRAL SPIRITS, DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. GIMEIMN t RUTS LIMITER. PEEEU, RUMS j r v MACHINERY SERVICE “International Industrial Power” 11 CONSTRUCTION AND INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT Let us give you the facts on equipment requirements for vjryffi ßjhjT your Construction Job, Industrial Plant, City, Town, Mine, Quarry or Lodging and Lumber Operation. ~ We now have many items of equipment in stock. Your Galion Dump Bodies InStock patronage will be appreciated. % HAMPTON ROADS TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT CO. West 39th Street and Killam Avenue | NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. - Richmond visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. N. E. Hollowell returned home recently after spending a brief vaca tion with her sister, Mrs. Jack Gil bert and family in Panama City, Florida. Mrs. Hollowell was accom panied by Mrs. Harry Spruill and her son, Harry, Junior. Miss Bettie Jane Andrews, daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Andrews of Washington, D. C., is spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Car ter prior to the nuptials of their daughter, Miss Helen Carter. Mrs. W. D. Holmes and daughter, Dorothy, Mrs. R. N. Hines and son, Richard, Jr., returned .Saturday night after spending a week in the moun tains of Virginia. Mrs. F. G. Morgan and daughter of Durham arrived Monday evening to spend a few days with Mrs. Mor gan’s mother, Mrs. W. D. Holmes. Charlotte Bunch Given Scholarship Popular Local Girl Will Enter Woman’s Col lege at Greensboro Miss Charlotte Bunch, daughter of Register of Deeds and Mrs. Maurice L. Bunch, has been awarded a four year scholarship at Woman’s College of the University of North Carolina, the award being made by the North Carolina Veterans Commission and announced by Stephen Alford of Elizabeth City. The scholarship was one of 10 awarded in North Carolina this year to children of veterans with 30 per cent or more disability. The scholar ship pays all tuition, fees, room and board for a four year course. Mr. Alford stated that students who are children of disabled or de ceased veterans can secure necessary information for making applications for scholarships at his office in the Kramer Building in Elizabeth City. Cecil W. Fry New Teacher hi Edenton Effort Now Under Way To Find House For New Family Cecil W. Fry of Raleigh has been employed to teach Industrial Arts in the Edenton High School. Mr. Fry is a graduate of North Carolina State College and a veteran of World War 11. He comes highly recommended by Dr. John R. Ludington, Professor of Industrial Arts Education and State Supervisor. Edward W. Bos hart, former head of the Industrial Arts Department at State College, also recommends Mr. Fry very high ly. Mr. Fry played football at North Carolina State College before the war. Mr. Fry is married and has two children. It will be necessary for him to have a house or an apartment. He prefers a downstairs apartment if he cannot find a house. Anyone who knows of a house that will be avail able by the first of September is re quested to communicate with Super intendent John A. Holmes. ' THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1M7.. y ■■ ■. —1 - ■— | ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED | 'lip;, . , iPlf ‘ 1 Miss Hazel Pocahontas Shaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benja min F. ShAw of St. Pauls, whose engagement to Logan Rawlinson Elliott of Edenton, is announced by her parents. Mr. Elliott is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Elliott. The wedding will take place on September 7. Miss Shaw is at present assistant home demon stration agent in Chowan County. Methodist Picnic Next Wednesday Youngsters' Will Enjoy Afternoon at Swim ming Pool Plans are about complete for a pic nic to be held by the Methodist Church school next Wednesday after noon, August 27. Those attending are requested to meet at the church at 3 o’clock, from where the group will be taken to the swimming pool at the Naval Air Station. The young sters will enjoy bathing in the pool, after which a picnic lunch will be served outdoors and other games enjoyed. Everyone attending is ask ed to bring lunch and drinks will be provided. have been made to have a group of adult members of the school present at the pool to look after the youngsters, as well as a group of Boy Scouts, so that with these being on hand, together with the regular life guards, ample pro tection will be provided to prevent any accident in the water. Members of the school will not be obliged to pay the fee for use of the pool, this expense being taken care of by the Church school, so that it is hoped many members of the school will attend the picnic. METHODIST SERVICES Preaching service will be held in the Methodist Church Sunday morn ing at 11 o’clock, at which time the pastor, the Rev. H. F. Surratt, will preach on the subject “The Demand For Reality”. Church School will be held at 9:45 o’clock Sunday morning, the Youth Fellowship meeting at 7 o’clock Sunday night, and the mid week prayer service Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. Group Os County People Plan Attend Farm - Home Week Reservations Made For 15 Local Club Women In Raleigh Final plans are being made for Chowan County people who will at tend Farm and Home Week at State College, Raleigh, August 25-29. “However,” says Miss Rebecca Col well, home demonstration agent, “it isn’t too late to include others for this week of excellent programs plan ned for farmers and farm women. There will be separate classes and demonstrations on better farm and home making practices, joint ses sions with outstanding speakers, and recreation programs each evening.” Those who cannot spend the entire week in Raleigh are urged to attend Thursday, August 28. On that day men will have special meetings and the women will hold the 22nd annual meeting of the N. C. Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs in the Raleigh Memorial auditorum begin ning at 9:00 A. M. At this meeting the principal speaker will be Miss Dorothy Thompson, columnist and world-wide traveler. State officers, county presidents and special guests will be entertained at a luncheon at the Carolina Hotel. The afternoon session will be held in Pullen Hall, State College, followed by a garden, party on the campus at 5 o’clock for all those who attend all or part of the farm and home week program. On Thursday evening General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff, will address the group in Riddick Stadium. In case of rain this meeting will be held in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Reservations have been made for the following Chowan County women: Enterprise Club—Mrs. W. A. Har rell, Mrs. R. T. Harrell, Mrs. H. C. Goodwin and Mrs. C. W. Tynch. Byrd Club—Mrs. J. W. Skiles and Mrs. S. F. Small. Chowan Club—Mrs. R. H. Hollo well, Mrs. W. J. Bunch, Mrs. Fred White, Mrs. E. E. PriVott and Mrs. t Drew Welch. Ryland Club—Mrs. T. L. Ward and Mrs. William A. Ward. Mrs. H. B. Jones, Miss Rebecca Colwell, home agent, and C. W. Over man, farm agent, also plan to attend the Farm and Home Week. R. T. Harrell will take part of the group Monday and return Thursday to bring them home. Miss Colwell is especially anxious for each home demonstration club in the county to be represented. Anyone else who plans to attend all or part of the programs should no tify the farm or home agent at once, or write Miss Maude K. Schaub, State College Station, Raleigh, N. C., for reservations. Rooms will be 50 cents per night and each person takes bed linen and blanket. Any women who plan to attend the meetings oh Thurs day only should notify Miss Colwell by Saturday of this week. , MARITAL JROBLEMS OF A MOVIE GLAMOUR GIRL Conceded by artists to be the out standing beauty of a decade, a well known Hollywood screen star is hav ing marriage difficulties. Read about . them ina revealing story in the Aug ust 81st issue of THE AMERICAN WEEKLY . Nation’s Favorite Magasiae With THE BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN | Colored Pictures Os Peanut Operations Taken In Chowan Group of Slices Will Be Used For Educational Meetings In State A series of colored pictures is being taken of the various operations involved in peanut production with 4-H club peanut growers in Chowan County. These pictures started with the land before the first breaking was made and involves the following'" steps thus far: selection of the acre, taking of the soil sample for testing, applying lime, soil preparation, sel ection of good seed, treating seed, planting, cultivation, dusting with sulphur to control the leaf-spot dis ease, applying landplaster and the last cultivation. Final pictures will be taken at har vest and selling. L. R. Harrill, State 4-H Club leader, is assisting with the pictures and plans to make a set of slides foi* educational meetings on peanut growing. Sherwood Chesson of the Edenton 4-H Club is the mem ber being used. Use A Pressure Cooker irS EASIER-QUICKER-SURER \ A SIZE FOR YOUR NEED | 7-Quart Capacity 4 1 / 2 -Quart Capacity i- We Also Have Canning Supplies JARS RUBBERS CANNERS i ; TOPS POTS ; KNIVES FUNNELS . STRAINERS ! PANS BUCKETS f HOT'PLATES TUBS OIL RANGES Other Miscellaneous Related Items 3 > f Byrum Hardware Co. \ EDENTON SUFFOLK s 1 C PURINA fit —F Halsey Feed & S I i Seed Store' iM Uextra finely ground to cov«r I P Phone 273 (1 me* [Atso soto »y; Boswell Grocery * Byrum’s Grocery Hughes-Holton Hardware Company Jim’s Place Everett’s Grocery Harrell *& Company 1 M l I!■I. ■ I ■■■■lll ——E—' - t r - ■■ »~' \v 11 Ipil J|||f ■> .vvßw * KENNETH C. ROYAL! Secretary of War Kenneth C. Royall will be the principal speaker at Friday evening’s ses sion of the* Fifteenth Annual State 4-H Club Week at State College. Mr. Royall will speak in Riddick Stadium at 8 o’clock, his subject being “The Food Sit uation In Germany.”
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