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[Net Farm Income I Down 2 Per Cent Prices Will Drop But Production Costs Remain High P Although the nation’s gross farm last year was 3 per cent great er than in 1947, production costs were j>B per cent higher and net profits were 'therefore lower than>jn the previous year, says Moyle S. Williams, farm management specialist for the State College Extension Service. Latest estimates by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics place the 1948 net farm income at 17.4 billion dol lars, about 29c less than in 1947. The decline is the first in 10 years. At the present time, says Williams, ; indications are that farm prices will ' decline further but production costs will remain high. The result is that the average farmer can look forward to a favorable year in 1949, but less favorahle than in 1948. Net farm in come, the specialist adds, will be small this year unless increased ef ficiency and better management are employed to hold down costs. Average prices received by farmers in January of this year were about 13 per cent below the record set in Jan uary, 1948. The index of wholesale commodity prices has continued down and in early January was 6 per cent below mid-August. Nearly all of the decline in wholesale prices has been on farm products and food; non-farm commodities have changed little. MASSES SUNDAYS, STATIONS FRIDAYS IN EDENTON CHURCH The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered every Sunday at 9 and II A. M. in St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Edenton, each including sermon (April 3, Passion Sunday, on “Pope Pius Xll’s Priesthood Golden Jub ilee”), Holy Communion, concluding | in 45 minutes, followed by Rosary, t Sunday School, with confessions 8:30 to 8:55 and 10:30 to 10:55 A. M., stat ed Father F. J. McCourt, pastor, who invites everybody to all services. Choir practice 7:30 P. M.; Holy Hour, 8 to 9 P. M. Lenten Fridays 7:30 P. M., choir rehearsal; 8 P. M., Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Benediction. First Fri day, 7:30 A. M., Mass, Communion, Rosary. I GARDENERS AND VEGETABLE GROWERS | \ \ We have leading varieties of Vegetable I 33 Seeds and Plants ready for your plant- I ; | ing now. I i 3 Snap Beans, Butter Beans, Lima Beans, I 33 Beets, Carrots, Salad and Kale Seeds, Cu- I i: cumber, Cantaloupe, Watermelon, Roast- I 33 ing Ear Corn. Also Insecticides and | ; 3 Fungicides. I 3; We Specialize In Select Strain of Vegetable 1 ;; Seeds and Plants f I * % 3 3 • SEE, PHONE OR WRITE I I E. L. PEARCE 33 PHONE: ROCKY HOCK 123 EDENTON | |! BETTER GRABE PEANBTS g BEGIN WITH ARMOUR’S y # * ( > ;; Peanuts are heavy-feeding crops, and require generous ap- ~ 3 I plications of the best fertilizer to make the finest quality. ; j For years, growers in this section have improved their crops J [ it with ARMOUR’S BIG CROP FERTILIZERS. Experience 33 31 has shown them that their fields make more tons of higher ;' ;; grading peanuts when fertilized with the essential plant foods I 3 31 contained in ARMOUR’S. The crop gets a rich, balanced ra- ; > <; tion of the important minor plant food elements, as well as the 3; ; [ major ones, Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid and Potash. 33 3 3 31 ARMOUR’S is produced in a modern factory not far from < > 3 > where you farm, so that your fertilizer comes to you fresh and ; | ;3 drillable —stays that way, too, after long storage. You can buy 3 3 3 3 ARMOUR’S BIG CROP FERTILIZERS, in the analyses that ; 3 < > are best for peanuts, at your friendly 31 JE&EfeHBajB ARMOUR Agent’s. See him right away ;; Bfraiettrlll f° r y° ur requirements. Make every acre 3; do its best with ARMOUR’S BIG CROP 3 3 FERXILIZERS . ; p-l ARMOUR , : fca FERTILIZER WORKS = h :. NORFOLK, VA. 3 3 II ••••» Captain Patterson’s Homes Are Started First Group of Eight Ex pected to Be Done Within Six Weeks Ground has been broken and con struction started on the first group of 35 houses to be built by Capt. L. A. Patterson on his plot of ground on the Windsor highway near the U. S. Fish Hatchery. Mr. Patterson ex pects the first group of eight houses to be completed within six weeks. The houses are being built by ■ C. B. Mooney, local contractor, and Mr. Patterson stated early this week that all eight have already been sold. ~CARD*7)F^rHANKS We wish to thank our many friends for the sympathy expressed and deeds of kindness tendered us during the : death and funeral of our husband and father, H. T. Layton. Especially do 1 we appreciate the many beautiful floral tributes. —-Mrs. H. T. Layton and Family. Commissioners’ Proceedings The County Commissioners met Monday, March 7th, 1949, with a full Board present. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The following bills were ordered paid: M. P. Wilson, Judge Recorder’s Court, salary, $100.00; Weldon A. Hollowell, prosecuting attorney, Re corder’s Court, salary, $100.00; George C. Hoskins, salary as treas urer, $60.00; Miss Rebecca Colwell, salary and expenses, $115.00; C. W. Overman, County Agent, salary and expenses, $166.66; J. B. Small, colored county agent, salary, $45.00; M. L. Bunch, bill and services, $57.95; Carolyn C. McMullan, supt. welfare, salary, $200.00; Martha E. Bunch, junior stenographer, clerk, salary, $110.00; Annie Newsome, janitress, $2.50; N. C. Tel. & Tel. Co., Feb. service, $5.30; Herbert Small, Feb. rent, $50.00; Mrs. Carolyn C. Mc- Mullan, travel, $35.00; M. A. Hughes, per diem July 1948 to April 1, 1949, Welfare Board, slß.ooj Leggett & Davis, bill, $1.00; Suffolk Community Hospital, Inc., bill for Evelyn Boone, THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1949, $30.00 and Ethel Marie Bonner, $16.00; A. N. Bateman, bill to apply on contract plastering work in Court House, $225.00; Mrs. Gene B. Collins, extra in tax office Feb. $18.20; Mrs. Eloise B. Jordan, help in tax office in Feb., $35.00; Felgar Indexing Co., to apply on contract for indexing records in clerk Superior Court’s office, $450.; Junior Woman’s Club, appropriation for advertising in connection with N. C. Garden Club tour (authorized at Feb. meeting of commissioners) $75.00; Herman F. White, Jr., salary as foreman malaria control work, 88 hrs. @ $1.25, $97.60; Edythe Nix on, salary as janitress court house, Feb. $40.00; Alfred Bateman, labor, work on jail and court house $14.25; Brown-Carver Library, state aid to public library, $69.44; Shepard-Pru den Library, state aid to public' library, $138.89; Chowan Hospital, to apply on county’s part for fiscal year 1948-49, $2500.00; Dr. J. W. Warren, county physician, bill and salary, $40.00; Mrs. J. E. Lassiter, bill for! Lena Bond, $3.01; Tom Riddick, gen-1 eral assistant, $20.00; Lula White, I general assistance, $20.00; Joe Aust-I in, general assistance, $25.00; Lizzie Jordan, general assistance for one in digent person, $15.00; Mrs. George . Harrell, boarding home care for two indigent persons, $75.00; Esther B. Rascoe, bill, $2.34; The Chowan Her ald, bill, $15.90; Norfolk Southern Bus Corporation, bill, two bus tickets to Charleston, S. C-, $16.68; J. A. Bunch, sheriff, salary and bill, $311.80; Harrell & Co., bill, $23.00; J. N. Pruden, to retainer fee as County attorney from Dec. 1948 to Dec. 1949, $150.00; E. W. Spires, bill and services, $231.70; Hughes-Holton Hdwe. Co., bill, $13.68; Edwards & Broughton Co., bill, $16.64; The Har rison Co., bill, $7.50; J. H. Conger, 468 gals, fuel oil, $58.03; Harrell’s Wood Yard, bill, wood for jail, $30.00; Owen G. Dunn Co., bill, $48.22; State of N. C. Conservation and Develop ment, $218.07; Town of Edenton, bills, $14.69; The Norfolk & Carolina Tel. & Tel, Co., bills, C. W. Overman, —^—— I BABY CHICKS I PTI2JW Per 111 | Superior Hatchery | I WILLYS-OVERLAND I Jmm Jjsw MM Mm Jm Mm JUT _ * s mm « 11 / | new low prices that car and truck buyers will NOW America S most Useful welcome. You’ll keep on saving, month after _ _ . n month, year after year, with these vehicles Vehicles Cost Less to Buy that are world-famous for low-cost operation *■ _ and maintenance. Owners of the 360,000 As Well As less to Run! Willys-Overland vehicles built since the war will vouch for that! Willys-Overland’s policy of avoiding wasteful Come in now and see the money-saving yearly model changes —plus new economies price tags on 'Jeep’ Station Wagons, 'Jeep’ in manufacturing and materials—make possible Trucks, the Universal'Jeep’and the Jeepster. COLONIAL CITY MOTORS ERNEST J. WARD, JR., Owner 112 West Water Street Edenton, N. C. Phone 506 NEW LOW PRICES ON All MODELS county agent office, $15.86 and Miss 1 Rebecca Colwell, home demonstration 1 agent office, $10.64; Elliott Bunch, 3 grown geese killed by dogs, $6.00; Burkhead DeVane Printing Co., one ledger, postage tax office, $60.67; Mitchell Printing Co., bill, $32.13; i Commercial Printing Co., bill, $6.17; 1 The Norfolk & Carolina Tel & Tel. Co., bill, J. B. Small’s office, $5.28; ' State commission for the blind, $55.35; By motion of E. N. Elliott, seconded by A. S'. Hollowell that the chairman be authorized to pay school ' bonds due March 15, 1949, $5,357.38, 1 and April Ist, 1949, road and school 1 bonds, $13,230.02; M. S. White, bill, ; care of prisoners, $128.00; Modern Typewriter Service, Inc., bill, $12.75; Edenton Ice Co., Inc., bill, $78.63; P. W. Melick Co., bill, $1.39; Hooper ; Bros., bill, $3.50; A. N. Bateman, balance due on plastering in the], court house, $500.00. The following names were drawn for jurors for April term Superior i Court: Clarence Lupton, C. B. Boyce, Im. D. Baker, J. F. Harrell, Glenn Bunch, J. E. Ashley, Isaac Byrum, I Henry Brabble, J. C. Lane, C. F. Boyce, Carey A. Privott, C. Eston Baker, T. E. Parker, C, B. Davenport, Herman Layden, W. E. Jordan, Jr., C. E. Byrum, M. C. Hobbs, Paul M. Wallace, A. C. Boyce, Haywood Phthisic, James Swindell, Jimmie Jordan, J. B. Harrison, Howard Over ton, J. W. Baker, E. M. Ward, J. D. Ward, W. S. Perry, W. H. Pearce, William Corprew, W. B. Hassell, George W. Bunch, G. A. Boyce, C. M. Asbell, W. S. Bass, Ervin R. Saund ers, J. Louis Harrell, A. D. Ward, John Parrish, John M. Elliott, J. H. Thigpen, Robert J. Boyce, Milton Copeland, Jesse W. White, W. C. Bunch, R. B. Hollowell, D. T. Ward, Jr., Paul L. Partin and Vandy Nixon. “On motion J. R. I’eele, duly sec onded by J. A. Webb and unanimously carried, it is ordered that the County Treasurer transfer the sum of $lO,- 000.00 from the School Building Bond Fund to the Chowan High School Gymnasium & Garage Building Fund, this representing the final payment to said gymnasium and garage build ing fund”. A motion of A. S. Hollowell, sec onded by J. R. Peele that the follow ing resolution be adopted: Be it re solved that the Board of Commission ers of Chowan County, North Caro lina does hereby select and designate The Bank of Edenton, Edenton, North Carolina, as the official depos itory of the funds of said county, which funds shall be secured by bonds of the United States of America, Chowan County, The Town of Eden ton, or otherwise in accordance with Section 159-28 General Statutes of North Carolina, and amendments thereto. By motion of A. S. Hollowell. sec-1 onded by E. N. Elliott, that W. H. Roberts and W. E. Charlton be ap T' ' | i Better Shirts i j i WE HAVE INSTALLED NEW PRESSES | AND ARE NOW ABLE TO OFFER A j j MUCH BETTER SHIRT SERVICE ( ! j j FAST COLOR SHIRTS PICKED UP FRIDAY MORNING j AND DELIVERED 5.4 TURD A Y I | j Edenton Laundry j | PHONE 278 j . ■ ■■ - RJW Fathers I HniSKics w IS jh, Y ‘ j 6 fKOOr - fHf stdaicht ' !; nxrrl to ~lt ßoDucr^s l Z \ t »Xw»B«fr‘ < 4.S"; cr,rE «*wo- / 1 • *3?o vt ~~~ . / —*** ——— / Three Feathers Distributors, In<\, New V»rk. . pointed to the Brown-Carver Library Board. The following reports were accept ed and ordered filed: Lillian Swin son, assistant home agent; Dr. J. W. Warren, County physician; Supt. Pub lic Welfare, Treas., assistant county agent, county agent, Miss Colwell, home demonstration agent, J. A. Bunch, sheriff, Esther B. Rascoe, Negro home demonstration agent, J. B. Small, Negro County agent, letter from State Highway & Public Works Commission approving addition to County highway system known as “Oak Grove Road”. There being no further business the board adjourned to meet March 14, 1949 as a tax Board of Equaliza tion and Review. M. L. BUNCH, Clerk to the Board. _ A PAGE FIVE
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