Tobacco Survey Is
i Being Conducted
Farmers Requested to
Send Information to
County Agent
A tobacco variety performance sur
vey is being conducted in Chowan
County to determine how various va
rieties compared in yield and value
during 1953 on tobacco farms, says
C. W. Overman, County Agent.
As many farmers as possible are
being contacted so that the informa- t
tion gathered will represent a siz- £
able portion of the tobacco grown in c
the county. Growers are being ask- i
ed what total yield and value he re- 1
ceived from each variety he grew in 1
1953. . i
Cards are being sent to a repre- 1
tentative group of growers in the,
county and the growers who receive
cards are urged to fill out the card .
accurately and return it to the coun
ty agent’s office. Everyone who re
ceives a card should send it in re
gardless of whether his yield is low
or high. This is essential if the sum
mary of the variety data is to rep
rent the actual performance of a giv
en variety in the county and state.
This information is also being ac
cumulated by other counties, and a
summary of the county, belt, and t
State results will be available for c
growers to see as soon as it has been )
summarized. t
1
Miss Flizabeth Hurdle ‘
Dies After Long Illness c
s
Miss Elizabeth Hurdle, 30, died in
the Norfolk General Hospital at 2:30 ;
o’clock Friday morning. She had been f
in ill health for a year or more and ,
had been a patient in the hospital in ,
the neighborhood of three months. ■
She was a native of Edenton, daugh- ,
ter of Mrs. R. W. Hurdle and the j
late Mr. Hurdle. 1
Miss Hurdle was a member of the i
Methodist Church, the VFW-Auxiliary
and the American Legion Auxiliary,
and since the death of John Griffin I
about 10 years ago she has been pro- (
prietor of Griffin’s Grocery on East :
Queen Street. 1
Surviving are her mother, Mrs. R.
W. Hurdle; a brother, Horace R. Hur- j
die of Gatesville and two sisters, Mrs. j
Wayland Bateman of Cross Roads !
and Mrs. Raymond Everett of Nags I
Head and Edenton. !
Funeral services were held in the ,
Edenton Methodist Church Sunday as- \
ternoon at 3 o’clock with the pastor, (
the Rev. E. B. Edwards, officiating. ]
Burial was in Beaver Hill Cemetery. .
Pallbearers were Murray Rountree, ,
Lindsay Hurdle, E. L. Hurdle, Royce j
Hurdle, Douglas Sprui'i and L. C. El- ]
liott. (
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TEXT: “Be not simply good; be
good for something.”
—Thoreau.
A farmer sent his new hired hand
to a little railroad station to pick up
a portable chicken coop which was
coming by freight. Arriving at the
railroad, the hired man saw a house,
loaded it on his wagon and started
for home. On the way he met a man
in uniform with the words “Station
Agent’’ on his cap.
“Say! Hold on! What have you
got on that wagon?” he asked.
“Why, our chicken house, of
Weekly Devotional
Column
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By James Mackenzie
— - i
It is related of Sir Walter Scott
that as he lay on his death-bed, he
called to a servant, “Bring me the
book.” “Which book, sir?” answered
the serwant, thinking the great man
had reference to one of his own.
“There is but one book,” answered
Scott, “and that is the Bible. All
other books fade into nothingness be
side it.”
The Bible is the most unique book
in the world. It was written by sin
ful, fallible, finite men, prone to make
mistakes; yet it was not written by
men, but by God, and is without error
and with contradictions. It satisfies,
yet it never satisfies, for the more we
feast upon the written Word of God,
the greater becomes our hunger for
it.
The Bible speaks to today, yet it
has a message for etemitv: it con
demns. yet it comforts. William Ev
ans tells of a wayward boy who ran
away from home, and was not heard
of for years. But in some way word
came to him one day that his father
had just passed on, and- he returned
home, where he was kindly received
by his mother. The day came for the
reading of the will, and the family
gathered to hear it. To the great
surprise of all present, the document
told in detail of the wavward career
of the runaway son. In anger the
bov arose, stomned out of the house,
and never heard the rest of the will,
which bequeathed to him $15,000. Tt
is so with many who are unsaved: the
Bible denounces their sin, condemns
them to hell for etemitv. and they lay
it down in desnair. But there is a
message of comfort as well of con
demnation to be found in the Bible:
comfort in Christ who offers rest to
those who are weary of sin, healing
to those who are sick with sin, sal
vation to those who are lost in sin,
and a pathway and a goal to those
who stumble about in the quagmire of
sin. For, in reality, the Bible is a
finger pointing to Christ—He is its
Hero, its Central Character. The Bi
ble was written to reveal Jesus Christ
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. N. C, TggggPAT NOVEMBER 12, 1953.
b course,” was the eeply.
“Chicken house, nothing!” explod
ed the station agent. “That’s my sta
tion!!”
* Do folks know who and what you
? are? Or will you be mistaken for
3 something else by any stranger who
B happens along? Whenever you build
> a belief or an ideal, let those around
1 you know where you stand. Be good
for something. Put a label on your
-3 self. Be identified in a positive way
with your beliefs. When you are, you
l won’t be carted off by anyone who
comes by with a vehicle to carry away
f you and your ideals.
to sinful men, to convince them of
their desperate need of Him and to
lead them to place their faith in Him
as Saviour and Lord. To really be
lieve the Bible, one must believe in
Jesus; to know the Bible, one must
1 know Jesus; and to love the Bible, one
r must love Jesus. For the Bible was
t written that we “might believe that
e Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God;
® and that believing (we) might have
“ life through His name” (John 20:31).
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Annual Farm Bureau
Convention Nov. 15-17
North Carolina Farm Bureau head
quarters has announced the official
program for its 18th Annual Conven
tion, which will be held in Raleigh,
November 15-17.
Headquarters for the convention
will be the Sir Walter Hotel, and all
indications point to an attendance of
between 1,500 and 2,000 persons rep
resenting the 71,000 families of the
1 organization, the announcement stat
ed.
Outstanding guest speakers on this
year’s program will be Governor Wil
liam B. Umstead, Congressman Gra
ham A. Barden of New Bern, Third
North Carolina District Representa
tive, W. R. Ogg of Washington, D.
C., American Farm Bureau director
|of International Affairs; E. Howard
| Hill of Des Moines, lowa, president of
jthe lowa Farm Bureau Federation,
'and Mrs. Paul Palmer of Moscow
Mills, Missouri, former vice-president
of the American Farm Bureau Wo
men.
Our grand business undoubtedly is,
not to see what lies dimly at a dist
ance, but to do what lies clearly at
hand. —Carlyle.
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’Marine Recruiter Visits
Edenton Second Monday.
Sgt. Clifford A. Jackson, the Ma
rine Corps Recruiter for this area,
who has recently opened the recruiting ,
office in Washington, discloses that
he will visit Edenton for the purpose
of selecting qualified young men for
enlistment in the Marine Corps. Sgt.
Jackson when in Edenton on the sec
ond Monday of each month will be at
the Post Office. The sergeant is pre
pared to offer young men between the
ages of 17 and 28 enlistments of three
or four years and the sergeant also
states that he is able to accept one
man a month for a two year enlist,
ment. If you are interested you can
find the sergeant when he is in Eden
ton at the Post Office between the
hours of 10 to 3.
The men Sgt. Jackson finds accept
able will be sent to Raleigh for their
final thorough examination. If en
listed the men will be sent to Parris
Island, South Carolina, for ten weeks
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