' HOME AND GARDEN
TOUR THIS WEEK
(Continued from Page One)
of the Jaycees, who will aid in trans
portation. Members of the Girl
Scouts and Boy Scouts, assisted by
. juniors and seniors of Edenton High
School will act as guides.
A holiday air will prevail as the
Edenton Band parades Friday and
Saturday.
The Edenton armory has been
designated as a stop Friday and Sat
urday for busloads bringing box
/ lunches. Tables and toilet facilities
* will be available to the visitors. Tea
will be served from 2 to 5 o’clock at
Pembroke Hall by Mrs. William
| Rosevear and at Bandon Mrs. Inglis
Fletcher will serve refreshments be
tween the same hours.
Mrs. Earnhardt stated Tuesday
that reservations continue to come in
for the tour, so that she, as well as
club members and many other in
terested people, are anticipating one
( of the most outstanding affairs ever
held in Edenton.
Through the courtesy of Robert
Lee Humber of Greenville, a series
■ of etchings by Louis Orr will be on
| display at the Court House for the
benefit of visitors. Four of the etch
ings are on Edenton subjects. Mr.
Orr has been commissioned to make
50 etchings covering artistic, cultur
al and historical monuments of North
Carolina. After 10 years he has
completed 35 of the ultimate 50,
making it the most important work
of art ever executed on any state in
the Union. •
Mr. Orr lived and studied in France
for 35 years and is one of the two
Americans represented in the Louvre
Museum in France.
Mrs. Earnhardt feels that Edenton
is very fortunate to secure the etch
ings in connection with the tour and
urges every precaution in protecting
, them while here.
■ Mrs. Earnhardt also stated that
I a room will be available at the hotel
for overnight guests who may want
to play cards or enjoy a social hour.
Headquarters at Hotel Joseph
( Hewes will be open at 9 o’clock each
morning during the tour and any
information can be furnished by tele
phoning No. 560.
Attractive signs have been placed
at all places included in the tour and
arrows have also been placed along
the route to enable visitors to find
the places. A map also appears on
the back of the ticket, specifying
sites to be visited and about where
. they are located.
* Twenty-four sites are listed on the
tour as follows:
The old Bond House on Court
Street, occupied by Mr. and Mrs.
) Herbert Leary.
Hayes, home of Mr. and Mrs. John
G. Wood.
Martinique, in upper Chowan Coun
ty, occupied by Mrs. W. H. Win
borne.
Coke Farm on the Edenton-Hert
ford highway, home of Mrs. J. H,
Haskett.
Greenfield, residence of Mrs. Georg<
C. Wood.
Bandon, in upper Chowan Countv
now the home of John and Inglis
Fletcher.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on
Broad Street.
k Chowan County Court House or
East King Street.
Cupola House on Rroad Street.
I O’Malley’s Ordinary, hor-° of 'Tr
* and Mrs. J. W. Davis on East King
1 Street
% Joseph Hewes House, on West King
f Street, home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
k Conger.
Ip Sawyer House, West Eden Street
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Richard
F. Elliott.
Littlejohn House, West Eden Street,
home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Byrum.
\ Iredell House on East Church
Street, recently purchased by the,
Edenton Tea Party Chapter of Daugh-1
ters of the American Revolution.
Athol, home of Colon'el and Mrs. I
. Raymond E. Hopper at the Marine!
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Mulberry Hill, along the Albe
marle Sound, home of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas B. Wood.
Clement Hall on the Suffolk high
way, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam E. Bond.
Albania, home of Mrs. M. G. Brown,
near Brown Lumber Company.
Customs House on Court House
Green, home of Mrs. Clara Preston.
Beverly Hall, West King Street,
home of Judge and Mrs. Richard Dil
lard Dixon.
Booth House, North Granville
Street, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Le
land Plant.
Hotel Joseph Hewes, East King
Street, headquarters for the tour and
site of King’s Arms Tavern and Hor
niblow’s Tavern.
Strawberry Hill, East Churcji
Street extended, home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Boyce.
Pembroke Hall, West King Street,
home of Col. and Mrs. William
Rosevear.
April Term Chowan
Superior Court Ends
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Paul Partin as secretary.
Walter Cohoon served as solicitor
for the first term in Edenton.
Results of the criminal cases tried
were as follows:
Henry W. Ewing, colored, was
charged with murdering his common
law wife, Dorothy Lee Hodges. The
State accepted a plea of second de
gree murder and Ewing was sen
tenced to not less than 20 nor more
than 25 years in State prison.
Gordon Duncan Cummings was
charged with operating a motor ve
hicle wHile under the influence of
intoxicants. .John W. Graham, coun
sel for the defendant, asked that the
case be remanded to Recorder’s
Court. Hie State accepted the mo
tion, but Cummings was required to
pay costs which have accrued in
Superior Court.
Stancil V. Davenport, who was
charged with reckless driving, was
found not guilty.
James Lee Holley, colored, charged
with assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill, inflicting serious
injury, entered a plea of guilty of
assault with a deadly weapon, which
was accepted by the State. Holley
assaulted Clarence Holley with a
knife. The defendant was sentenced
to 18 months on the roads, sentence
to begin on the expiration of a term
of six months formerly imposed in
Recorder’s Court on March 25, 1944,
for assault on a female.
Mattie Gilliam, colored, entered a
plea, of guilty of assault with a dead
ly weapon on Evelyn Perry. The
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Chowan County.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
The undersigned, having qualified
as Administrator of the estate of
Mrs. Mattie E. Evans, deceased, late
of Chowan County, N. C., this is to
notify all persons having claims
against said, estate to present them
to the undersigned on or before the
6th day of April, 1950, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recov
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tate will please make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned,
j This 6th day of April, 1949.
ROBERT E. EVANS,
Administrator of Mrs. Mattie E. Ev
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latter was stabbed in the breast with
an ice pick. The defendant was
sentenced to six months in the county
jail, assigned to work around the jail
under the supervision of the sheriff
and jailer.
Morgan Hudson entered a plea of
guilty to breaking and entering and
was sentenced to eight months on
the roads, execution of the sentence
suspended on remaining of good be
havior and not violate any law for
12 months and upon further condi
tion that defendant agree in open
court that should he be convicted of
public drunkenness at any time dur
ing the next 12 months, the solicitor
may pray for judgment, putting the
sentence into effect in the same man
ner that probation judgments are
put in effect, to which Hudson agreed.
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Hollingsworth, charged with
larceny from Elliott Cleaners, the
State accepted a motion for a nol
pros with leave.
Mack Robinson, colored, was sen
tenced to two years on the roads on
a charge of breaking and entering
the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. W.
Taylor.
The five civil cases continued were:
Town of Edenton vs. J. T. Gibbs; the
matter of the purported will of Nellie
E. Jones, deceased; J. Roy Winslow
vs. G. B. Morgan and Brooks Mor
gan; Ralph Peele vs. J. C. Nixon, ad
ministrator, and others, and Willis
Ray Peele vs. J. C. Nixon, admiris- '
trator, and others. Clerk of Cdurt
E. W. Spires informed The Herald
Tuesday night that there is a pos
sibility of some of these cases being
settled out of court. I'
Os the eight divorces granted, two
were white couples, Grace D. Swain
from George C. Swain, and Mary
Leggett Browning from David C.
Browning. Mrs. Browning was giv
en custody of the two children.
Colored divorces were Mattie Ty
son Tucker from John Tucker, Mary
White Holley from Joseph A. Holley,
Margaret Granby Sills from Warren
T. Sills, Nelson Lowther from Mamie
Roberts Lowther, Mary Pauline Bak
er from Hudson Baker, and Geneva
Green Johnson from Oscar Richard
Johnson, Sr.
The Grand Jury fin'shed its work
Tuesday and in the report it was
found that the county’s affairs were
in good order.
Minor repairs were found neces
sary at Hudson .Grove, Green Hall,
Yeopim, St. John’s and Ryan’s Grove |
schools, at Edenton High School a
few repairs were listed and at both
the white and colored high schools
the Grand Jury found the buildings
overcrowded. The report listed the
need for a new’ building at the Free
mason Street colored school.
Fire drills were held in Edenton
and three buildings were cleared in
two minutes.
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