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Recreation Feature Os Negro Clubs For Meetings In August Since recreation is a vital part of family living, home demonstration clubs, during the month of August ] devoted their meetings to some type of planned recreation. These plans. were made in the July meetings with the home agent, Mrs. Onnie S. Charl ton. The August meetings were un der the supervision of project leaders and club officers as the home agent i was on sick leave. Leaders and offi-1 cers report a very good time, at the j various outings and fine cooperation] on the part of Home Demonstration j women. The clubs and their activities were: Edenton, family picnic; Cisco,' family picnic; White Oak. fish fry; St. John, family picnic; Hudson Grove, fish fry; Canaan Temple, family picnic; Trian gle, lawn party; Virginia Fork, Wien-] er roast; Warren Grove, husbands’ night; Green Hall, community picnic; Center Hill, community picnic; Ryans Grove, party for children, Cedar Grove, family picnic. LEST WK FORGET (Continued From Page One) South and brought fishing equipment] by railroad to Baltimore and by boat to Edenton (there was no railroad to] Edenton at this time. The Norfolk Southern did not come until 1881 ).; He established his fishery at Sandy | Point, known then as Paxton’s fishing] beach, and set the first Dutch or pound ] nets to be set in Albemarle Sound. In | a. bort time he brought his family! f,- .-i Pennsylvania to Edenton. He bought Snow Hill farm on Albemarle Sound and moved there. He also bought Long Beach and extensively fished the waters of Albemarle Sound. Tn those days riches were for the tak ing, not only were the adjoining wa ters teeming with fish, but the large tracts of land he acquired abounded with virgin growth of timber. So. John P. Hettrick set up and operated a caw mill at Snow Hill. He cut lum ber for houses, and for his fish boxes in which to ship his fish. He also cut and gave the lumber from his mill to the colored people of that section to build a church. This church is known as St. Johns and stands as a monu ment to John Penrose Hettrick to this dav down on the Indian Trail Road. Not for naught was John Hettrick a thrifty and ingenious Dutchman. He’ was also a smart Yankee and being a] man of much ingenuity he quickly perceived that his Dutch nets could serve a dual purpose. Not only from j the water hut also from the air could he reap a harvest. He had noticed j that in winter to his fields at Snow Hill and Long Beach came millions of { blackbirds 'to feed. This thrifty] Dutchman did not want to board them without some reward, so he carried his nets to his fields and set them in-1 verted, bottom side up, and baited them with grain. The birds would go in through the funnel by the thous ands and after they had eaten the bait | they would try to get out through the 1 sides and top of the net. Mr. Hettrick would throw the funnel, lift the side of the net and go in with a paddle and kill the birds by the barrels. He i would then bring them to Edenton and retail them for ten and fifteen ! cents per dozen. The Pennsylvania Dutch have al ways been famous for their good cook-, ing and as Edenton was without a bakery, Mr. Hettrick readily recog nized another lucrative opening and he established the first bakery here. | It was located on part of the site noW| occupied by the Quinn Furniture Store on Main Street. John Hettrick’s wife was before her marriage Amelia Shannon and she] was related to General George G. Meade, who fought a tie battle> against General Robert E. Lee at Baseball Game! -JI& In Edenton Hicks Field P. M. SEPT. 6th - 7th Edenton Sluggers V s. * Denville Red Caps Don*! Miss These Fine Games Gettysburg. John Penrose Hettrick and his wife had five children: George, Isaac, Em ma, Laura Meade and William. Laura j Meade married Demetrius Smith, a' long time police officer of Edenton and - i was the mother of Mrs. J. Frank Miller, Mrs. Elsie Mansfield of Jack- j sonville, Florida, and Herbert Smith I of Ahoskie, North Carolina It was on one of Mr. Hettrick’s many business trips to Baltimore, Maryland, where one of his sons was I in the wholesale fish business, that he I was stricken very ill. He died in ] Johns Hopkins Hospital on July 30, i 1894, and his body was taken to his j old home in Selensgrove, Pennsyl vania, for burial. During the time that John Penrose Hettrick was establishing himself and his family in Chowan County his younger brother, William H. Hettrick, who had been a sergeant in the Fed ] era! army of the Civil War (Com pany H, 68th Regiment, Illinois In fantry) made many visits to North Carolina and the Albemarle. He, too, was interested in Dutch net fishing and about eight years later (around 1878) upon the invitation of Mr. G. J. Cherry, who lived at Cherry’s Point on Edenton Bay (adjoining Hayes plantation) he came South and es tablished his fishery across the sound) 'near Skinnersville, the old Cherry! ] plantation. He lived with the Cherry; family as he was a bachelor and here he met and married the niece of Mrs. Cherrv. Miss Alice White of Perquim ans County, daughter of Elizabeth I Parker White, a descendant of the (founder of Martinique plantation here jin Chowan County. To this union was 'born two children, Ernest F. Hettrick of Atlanta, Georgia, and Mrs. Alice Hettrick Shaffer of Norfolk, Virginia, William H. He ttrick, or “Captain Bill" Hettrick, as he was better known, joined his brother in advancing the use of Dutch nets on both sides of Albemarle Sound. He also was a very successful business man and ac-i quired much property in and around 1 Edenton, as well as his holdings in j Washington County. He owned the 1 old Brnnning Commissary Store, thej old Ziegler Furniture Store and i White’s Meat Market, formerly oc cupying most of the center section of | the West side of Main Street between j Eden Street and the Bus Station. He ; also owned the Skinner farm one and one-half miles East of Edenton. “Contain Bill” and his f -milv lived 'on Haves plantation in the house now I owned bv Miss Sophie Wood and it i I was here that his son, Ernest F. Hett-1 rick, was bom. “Captain Hettrick” I died in 1895 and was buried in Beaver Hill Cemetery here in Edenton. Four vears nrier “Car> fr >ir>” Wil liam Hettrick's d-’oth m 1895. Mrs. moved to Norfolk. She was ( ] quite a wealthy woman and was a charter investor in the Edenton Cot ton Mills. I recall that she still owned ] the Branninn stores when I came to , Edenton in 1899. Later she married [ Captain M. E. Mott, master of the Branning Manufacturing Comnnnv tug t boat. J. W. Branning. After her death several years later, her body was brought to Edenton and buried beside her first husband in Beaver Hill Cemetery j Prior to 1869 th» o*dv moft-od of ! taking commercial fish from the wat ers of Albemarle Sotmd and tho Cho-j | wan River was by the operation of long seines. These seines averaged I from 2.000 to 2.700 yards in length and dragged the bottom of large areas of water. Tn the 1890’s and earb' 1900’s there were five of these large | seines in operation, at Drummond’s | Point, Bluff Point, Greenfield, Sandy Point and Avoca. Their operation re | quired the services of from twentv to thirty men, consisting of a full time [ carpenter* and blacksmith and were quite expensive to operate, whereas, a ' crop of twenty to thirty pounds of Dutch nets only required from four to THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1954 six men to attend them. On account of the expensive costs of operation the seines gradually went j out of business and pound or Dutch ! nets were readily adopted. At one : time there were setting in .Croatan and Albemarle Sounds and Chowan ! River more than 5,000 pound nets, ex tending from Oregon Inlet to Winton on the Chowan River a distance of I about 100 miles. Today the principal method for taking fish is by the pound net. Too much cannot be written about i the Hettrick brothers’ contribution to the economic welfare of the Albemarle alone. I wish I could portray by comparison the number of fish taken from our waters by pound nets, as we speak of them today. These nets are made from heavy twine with 114-inch meshes and con sist of a lead or straight line leading to the funnel of the pound, then also there are hearts or wings extending from the sides of the pound to help steer the fish into the pound. These nets are set in rows extending from near the shore line out in the sound in water from 10 to 25 feet in depth. Long poles or stakes are driven in the mud underneath the water to hold them. The writer has seen more than 10,000 herring taken from one pound, and has known when all the pound j nets were operated for more than \ 500.000 herring to be landed and cured 'in Edenton in one day. Not only her ring by the thousands were taken, but shad, rock and even ten and twelve foot sturgeons were caught in these nets. Tn thinking of the achievements of the Hettrick brothers, T am reminded of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Builders,” for builders, indeed, were they: All are architects of fate. Working in these walls of time Some with massive deeds and great i Some with ornaments of rhyme. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled. Our todays and yesterdays Are the block with which we build. ’ Legal Notices | NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE 1 REAL ESTATE j The undersigned, representing the heirs-at-law of the late P. M. Fore hand, deceased, all being over the age of 21 years, will offer for sale Jto the highest bidder at public auction at , the Chowan County Court House door, (Edenton, N. C., at 12 o’clock noon, Saturday, September 4, 1954, the fol • lowing described real estate in Second Township, Chowan County, North Carolina, to wit: That tract of land known as the I’. M. Forehand homeplace lands and bounded on the north by Cisco Road— Latest official new-car registration figures * for the 6-month period ending June 30, 1954, show Ford is first in sales Ford is first in sales because it's first in value! It is the only car in the low-price field that offers ... a V-8 engine... Ball-Joint Front Suspension ... Trend-setting Beauty! With Ford Dealers selling more cars than any other dealers . . . with Ford sales up 48% when the industry as a whole is selling fewer cars . . . with more people buying more Fords than ever before, there can be little doubt that today’s Ford is your best buy, too. For what other car at Ford’s price offers you V-8 power? What other car at Ford’s price brings you Ball-Joint Front Sus pension and trend setting beauty? And what other car at any price returns you so high a share of your money at trade-in-time as Ford? The answer is simply this: no car at any price brings you so much of what you want most as does Ford. Test Drive the Ford of your choice and see! _ Ira Mont far January through Juno, 1954, latwt month for wfcldi ftggro* or* avoHablo. See your Ford Dealer for Today’s buy... Tomorrow’s best trade M.A.r. lands of G. O. Toppin estate and N. B. i Toppin; bounded on the east by the lands of Mildred Jones-Moses Boyce and John Parrish; bounded on the ] south by the lands of John Parrish- Ray Boyce and Byrum lands; bounded on the west by the lands of Henry Nixon estate-B. W. Evans and N. B. Toppin; containing 115 acres, more or less, and being the same lands de ] vised by will of Joel Forehand to Wil-! liam T. Forehand, in Item 4 therein 1 said will, and recorded in Will Book E, page 67, in Clerk Superior Court’s] office, Chowan County, North Caro lina; and being the same lands devised by will of W. T. Forehand to P. M. j Forehand in Item 8 therein said will] and recorded in Will Book E, page] 385, Clerk Superior Court’s office,] Chowan County, North Carolina, to j which reference to said wills and in-! struments mentioned therein are hereby made for further description j and chain of title. Prospective allotments of year of 1955 are as follows: Peanuts Cotton Corn 5.2 Acres 3.3 Acres 9 Acres Owners reserve the right to reject all bids. Terms of sale cash, ten per cent (10 r /r) purchase price payable on day sold, and balance payable on de-‘ livery of deed, said delivery to take ] place not later than January 1, 1955. Sale subject to crops growing on said land for year 1954. Dated and posted this 21st day of | August, 1954. WELDON A. HOLLOWELL, Aug 26, Sept. 2 Attorney. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator ] f the estate of Addie Mae Brabble, de- j ceased, late of Chowan County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons 1 having claims against the estate of ] said deceased to exhibit them to the | undersigned at Route 2, Edenton, I North Carolina, on or before the 12th day of August, 1955, or this notice will j be pleaded in bar of their recovery. 1 All persons indebted to said estate will iplease make immediate payment. This August 12, 1954. J. THOS. BRABBLE, Administrator of Addie Mae Brabble Estate. Aug12,19,26,5ept2,9,16e ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualified as Administrator] of the estate of Clara L. Bunch, de- j ceased, late of Chowan County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons , having claims against the estate of ] said deceased to exhibit them to the . undersigned at Edenton, North Caro lina, on or before the 29th day Os July, ; 1955, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons! indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This July 29th, 1954. HORACE E. BUNCH, Administrator of Clara L. Bunch Estate ‘ Ju1y29,Aug5,12,19,26,5ept2p I. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as Administratrix CTA of the estate of William A. Mun den, deceased, late of Chowan County, North Carolina, this is to notify all ) persons having claims against the es tate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned at Edenton, North Carolina, on or before the 7th day of j August, 1955, or this notice will be ; pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment, i This August 7, 1954. MILDRED G. MUNDEN ] Administratrix CTA of Wm. A. Munden Estate ' Aug12,19,26,5ept2,9,16c j 1 ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE i Having qualified as Administrator of the estate of Emma Baker, deeeas jed, late of Chowan County, North 'Carolina, this is to notify all persons] lhaving claims against the estate of j said deceased to exhibit them to the! undersigned at Tyner, North Carolina, ] or or before the 12th day of August, j j 1955, or this notice will be pleaded in, bar of their recovery. All persons | indebted to said estate will pleas make immediate payment. This August 12, 1954. TAMES'E. BAKER, Administrator of Emma Baker Estate. W. A. HOLLOWELL, Atty. 1 Aug19,26,5ept.2,9,16,23c costs scarcely more than the lowest- nip ** RALPH E. PARRISH, Inc. “Your Frigidaire Dealer” Edenton, North Carolina - VVWWWWVWWWWWVVWWWW\~VWVVW\ V vWVWWWW^ SECTION ONE- ms Wm : . J- • ;• - s - ... , 86 Proof i THE STRAIGHT WHISKEYS IN THB HO—O ARE 4 YEARS OR MORE OLD. 35% STRAMNt WHISKEY, 65% NEUTRAL SCItlT*, DOTH— moM MAM. 1 TRY A HERALD CLASSIFIED AD Page Nine
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