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SECTION ONE—j 1% ■g’RdßNOdjd'fc ' Postmaster issues Request For Early Christmas Ma^mg J. L. Chestnutt Cans At tention Christmas Just Around Comer Upon assuming his duties as Eden ton’s Postmaster Monday morning, J. L. Chestnutt issued a reminder that Christmas is “just around the corn er” and urged patrons to get parcels and greetings in the mail early. Mailings for distant states should be made well in advance of December 11, Postmaster Chestnutt stated and greeting cards for local delivery not later than December 14 in order to assure delivery before Christmas day. Those who dislike to mail parcels early for fear they may be opened by the recipient before Christmas Day should not worry, the postmaster con tinued. Parcels may be marked, “Do Not Open until Christmas.” Patrons of the local office can save valuable time during the rush of the holiday shopping season by purchas ing an adequate supply of stamps at one time. Mail matter should be plainly and completely addressed, preferably in ink, giving street address, apartment number if any, post office box num ber or rural route and rural box num ber whenever possible. Sender’s re turn address should appear in the up per left hand comer of the side. Greeting cards should be sent first class to obtain best service. Such greetings sent first class may be seal ed and contain personal messages, they are dispatched and. delivered first and forwarded, if necessary, without additional postage. Patrons having a number of greet ing cards to mail are urged to tie them in bundles with addresses all faced one way to facilitate handling in the post office. Articles for mailing should be pack ed carefully and tightly in durable containers. Wrap and tie parcels se curely with good quality paper and cord, but do not seal unless name and address of sender are shown together with the usual parcel post inscription. Packages sent by air or parcel post are limited to a maximum of 100 inches in length and girth combined The weight limit is 70 pounds. CIVIC CALENDAR (Continued From Page One) dren” at the Junior-Senior High School library Tuesday night, De cember 1, at 8 o’clock. Chowan Tribe of Red Men’s fish fry Monday night at 7 o’clock at the Amoco Service Station on Windsor Highway, i W3IU homecoming day Monday afternoon, December 7, at 3:30 o’clock at the Baptist Church. Fifth Sunday Singspiration at Macedonia Baptist Church Sun day night, November 29, at 7:30 o’clock. Special Thanksgiving services at Edenton Baptist Church on Thursday morning at 10 o’clock. Edenton’s Christmas Party and Parade will be held Friday after noon, December 4, starting at 3:45 o’clock. Chowan’s quota in Christmas Seal Sale is $2,400. Annual Jsycee Thanksgiving dance Thursday night, November 26, in the Edenton armory from 9 until 1 o’clock. Chowanoke Council, No. 54, De gree of Pocahontas meets Friday night at 8 o’clock in the Red Men hall. Annual Negro 4-H Achieve ment Day Saturday, November 28. at 11 A. M., at Brown-Carver Library. VFW meets in Post’s home on old Hertford Highway Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. Edenton Lions Club meets Monday night at 7 o’clock. Third Degree Conferred By Masons Wednesday Unanimity Lodge, No. 7, A. F„ & A. M., will meet Wednesday night of this week in a special communication. The purpose of this meeting is to con fer the third degree upon a candidate. C. T. Griffin, master of the lodge, urges a large attendance. The regular meeting on Thursday night has been called off due to the Thanksgiving holiday. \ BOX Os JtO'f # Sold In Edenton By Mitchener’s Fliarmacy PHONE IN ; m n „ 1 i... -..liiJM, nit n.M ■ Page Twelve Christmas Flowers Grow From Bulbs Without Soil Beautiful flowers can be grown I In the home in decorative bowls I without soil. Even beginners can I hardly fail to succeed if a few I simple rules are followed. It la I even possible to produce flowers I tor Christmas, if the fragrant lily I of the valley is grown. I Florists grow “valley" the year I around for bridal bouquets. Spe- I cialists in Germany have long I produced “piP»” of this flower I for shipment to other countries. I Pips are not bulbs, but thick root I Stocks with an abundance of I fibrous roots. They are store- I houses of energy, needing only I water and a suitable temperature I to enable them to develop fra- | grant bell-flowers in clusters with attractive pale green leaves. Pips are shipped to this country in cold storage and kept at 28 degrees until planted. Decorative bowls three inches or more in depth may be used. Place the pips an inch apart in the bowl and pack sphagnum moss around them. Some of the long roots may be cut off if necessary. Wet the moss and keep it moist. Place the i bowl in a dim light, in a tempera ture of 70 degrees until the leaves and stems develop; then gradual ly increase the light, but avoid direct sun. Blossoms will develop in three to four weeks. Using three bowls and starting one every week, you can have a con tinuous supply of these fragrant flowers during the winter. Other flowers which are easily grown indoors are paper white pnrr-Uci, and Chinese sacred lilies. These take longer to flow er, and do best later in the sea son. Paper whites planted in No vember are likely to grow 16 inches tall, producing clusters of i star-shaped white flowers at the top of these long stems. But in December, they will be two or three inches shorter, and in Jan uary not over 12 inches talL It takes five or six weeks to pro duce flowers. Paper whites are placed in a bowl and held upright by pebbles packed around them. Water is poured in the bowl, and replen ished as needed. It is best to keep the bowl in • cool, dark place until roots form and top growth begins. Then bring them into the light and give a day temperature Vandy Parks Wins State 4-H Honor (Continued from Page One) the com was about knee high. Van dy cultivated his com three times with a horse and hoed it once. There were no soybeans interplanted with the com. It took a total of 27 man hours of labor, 6 hours of tractor la bor, and 13 hours of horse labor to produce the com. In order for Vandy’s yield to be of ficial, the acre was measured by J. M. Price, PMA chief clerk, and it was actually harvested by hand. Since the rows are very short, and two build ings are located at one end of the rows, it was almost impossible to har vest the com with a com harvester. Two of Vandy’s fellow 4-H club mem bers, H. T. Hollowell and Emmett Perry, came to his rescue and helped him harvest his crop one Saturday. Whit Parks, a neighborhood friend of Vandy’s, also helped. After the com was harvested, 100 pounds of com on the cob was weigh ed and then shelled to get the shell ing percent. A sample was taken to the Hertford Livestock Company in Hertford, to get an official moisture content. Ralph Sasser, Assistant , County Agent of Perquimans County, was the official in charge of harvest ing and weighing. Vandy and his parents are to be congratulated on his successful 4-H Club career this year. This is Van dy’s third year with a 4-H com pro | SALE I I Our Entire Stock of I I Children’s COATS I I Corduroy SKIRTS |j I Corduroy jumpers! I REDUCED I I Jack and Jill I Boys to Size 12 I Girls to Subteens I M _ m ♦ <i' • , S •. :.>•' »’ £ tVy *.. . v.vV,. j Awi ii s*» THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C- THURSDAY, I ■ 1 ■ ■ 1 Lilies of the Valley Will Flower in Three Wfceks. not over 70 degrees. Higher tem peratures may cause spindly growth, and prevent flowering. In the same way Chinese sacred lilies and narcissi solell d’or can be grown, both taking more time to bloom. These do best in a humid atmosphere. They make attractive decorations for the window in a modern kitch en, where the atmosphere usual ly is more humid than in other rooms. By mixing a small quantity of commercial plant food in com mercial peat moss, and using this instead of pebbles or sphag num moss to pack around the bulbs, all these subjects can be grown with good results. The mixture is known as bulb fibre and takes the place of soiL In it paiin lilies, and King Alfred nar cissi also can be grown. The fibre is packed around the bulbs, and the bowl kept in a dark place at a temperature of 55 degrees until roots develop and strong top growth begins. Then place the bowl in a window where it will have fresh air and sunlight, in a temperature ranging between 86 and 70 degrees. All these bulbs will bloom It given their simple requirements, and require much leu daylight than other flowering plants- H they disappoint you it will likely be due to overheated rooms. High temperature causes them to ! grow too fast and makes the growth weak. ject, and his perseverance has paid off. In addition to com, Vandy had forestry and wildlife projects this year. Appreciation is expressed to J. M. Price and Ralph Sasser for their co operation in measuring and weighing) the com. Congratulations are in or der to E. Y. Floyd and the Plant Food j Institute for sponsoring this worth while project. Planning to make money and get ting it into your bank account are two very different undertakings. Too Late To Classify LOST—PAIR BLACK SOFT LEATH er, fleece lined gloves. Finder please return to Chowan Herald. Reward. ltc FOR RENT OR SALE—2-BEDROOM house. No. 1 Albemarle Court. Completely furnished. Ted Bout well, 15 Rowell Circle, Havelock, N. C. ltc FOR SALE 1946 STREAMLITE house trailer. Excellent condition. 27 feet long, refrigerator and Bu tane gas. Tandem wheels. Price $1,050. James Docherty, Bertie Trailer Park, U. f?. 17, north at Windsor, N. C. ltp Building Materials Genuine aromatic red cedar lumber Genuine aromatic red cedar closet lining. P. E. Cayton, Edenton. Phone 466-J. tfc bifffOwra Combined Sales In North' Carolina $3,761,477 For Month Combined sales of Series E and H United States Savings Bonds in Cho wan County for the month of October totaled $3,697.75. This sales announce ment is made by County Savings Bonds Chairman A. B. Harless, ac cording to the monthly sales report TAYLOR THEATRE I edenton, n. c — Week Day Shows Continuous From 3:30 Saturday Continuous From 1:30 Sunday 2:15, 4:15 and 9:15 —o Thursday and Friday, November 26-27 Jane Wyman and Sterling Hayden in “SO BIG” W. C. BUNCH Saturday, November 28— Wild Bill Elliott in “TOPEKA” ■CLYDE HOL'UOWEIU. — Sunday and Monday, November 29-30 William Holden and Don Taylor in “STALAG 17” MRS. ANNE CATES Monday and Tuesday, November 30-December 1— Late Show 11:30 All Colored Cast “PENNY WHISTLE BLUES” Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1-2 Double Feature Glenn Ford in “PLUNDER OF THE SUN” —also— Marjorie Main in “FAST COMPANY” EDEN THEATRE o Friday and Saturday, November 27-28 “PHANTOM FROM SPACE” HUBERT WILLIFORD HI-WAY 17 Drive-In Theatre Friday and Saturday, November 27-28 Cornel Wilde in “TREASURE OF THE GOLDEN CONDOR” ANDREW HAWKINS O Sunday, November 29 William Lundigan in “DOWN AMONG THE SHELTERING PALMS” MRS. GEORGE HOSKINS Note: If your name appears in this ad, bring it to the Taylor Theatre box office and receive a free pass to see one of the pictures y_ r _ —■ , _ LAST LONGER and WORK REITER tong life and good work.are the words most Often used when farmers talk about John Deere Spreaders The reason: John Deere Spreaders have a combination steel end-wood box that will outlast an all-steel box by far. High-grade pine that resists manure and phosphate adds and cannot rust is used in the sides and bottom The heavy steel frame and trussed steel box-supports . . n heavy armored rolled •ted side-flares ... and rugged steel arch ftps over the beaters absorb the Jars and Jolts of mechanical loading. The strong, live-speed conveyor drive . • . hardened Hobbs Implement Co., Inc. “YOUR JOHN DEERE DEALER" Guy C. Hobbs, Prop. Edenton, N. C. H Bonds for North Carolina’s 100 counties for the month of October to taled $8,761,477.50. In announcing the above county and state sales figures. Chairman Har less stated that the sales of Series E and E Savings Bonds in North Car olina were 17 per cent higher in Oc tober 1953 than during the same month a year ago. The nation as a whole achieved a 15 per cent increase for the same periods. Sales during the first ten (10) months of 1963 showed an increase over the corresponding months of 1952 of 24 per cent for North Carolina, and 23 per cent for \oN BRAND NIW 1954 / \PH I liCO// \ TELEVISION 7 / NEYER BEFORE COULD YOU BUY ON SUCH CONVENIENT TERMS ■ls 1 ilifafc if/iE I j m$ m > WMBW WwHßPir IPPPIi &si £ ./ 1111111 l|Pi§ ■niy ... Jiff i - —« PHILCO 3000 ALL THESE EXTRAS! P] _ ★ Big screen TV plus new J TVorfcs I brighter picture. / fa | I ★ New advance-engineered [ p JV Philco Duplex chassis. 1 ‘ ★ Richly-styled cabinet. / Convenient I Special Shipment Just Arrived. Payments I Delivery now, while they last. I KENNAN & COREY PLUMBING CO, INC. We Sell It We Install It We Guarantee It WEST EDEN STREET EDENTON, N. C. steel roller chain drives . . . and roller bearings on all three beaters take the wear and tear of faster tractor speeds. Two easy-running, roller-bearing, shred ding beaters do an outstanding Job of pul verising the manure, for distribution in. a wide, even spread by the improved wide spread beater. Come in and see the 2-wheel Model "L" Tractor-Drawn Spreader and the 4-wheel Model "M" Horse- or Tractor-Drawn Spreader. They are both tops in good work and long life. thenatkm. _ - that these sales increases are proof that investment by individuals in U. S. Savings Bonds is growing in popu larity year by year throughout both the State and the nation. Bed Men’s Fish Fry b . Postponed For Week Due to Sunday night's rain, the fish fry scheduled for Monday night by Chowan Tribe of Red Men was postponed. The rain caused the grounds at the Amoco Service Station on the Windsor highway to become too muddy, so that the fish fry it scheduled to be held Monday night of next week at the same place.
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