North Carolina Newspapers

County I'sws 1 By MRS. ROLAND EVANS j \- The YWA’s of Rocky: Hock Church Were recognized Sunday at church. The group sat in a body and rendered a special, message in song. They also placed -flowers in the sanctuary. I On Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock ttie YWA girls held a tea hori orfng the sponsoring circle, the Audrey Gordon Circle, mothers and the WMU president. There were 24 present The room was beautifully decorated carrying out a scheme of red and green, commemorating Valentine Day. Each guest was presented a red or white carnation. Mary Alice Perry presided at the punch bowl, assisted by other girls in serving of cookies, nuts and: hearts made of white with red center. Becky Harrell told of YWA activities. Those present were: Mrs. Lois Ashley, coun selor; Mrs. Bessie Peele, coun-j selor; Mrs. Geraldine Evans, di-j rector; Mrs. O. C. Long, Jr., WMU president, and Mary Alice, Perry, Mary Ann Hare. Ester! Layton, Becky Harrell, Loretta BuhCh, Carolyn Evans, Nancy, Spivey, Marjorie Harrell, Mrs. Kermit Perry, Mrs. Myrtle Hare, j Mrs. Hilda Layton, Mrs. Cora Harrell, Mrs. Eunice Bunch, Mrs. ! Milton Evans, Mrs. Alphonso Spivey, Mrs. Ruth Worrel!, Mrs. Lorene Ashley Mrs. Isaac Har rell, Mrs. Billy Leary, Mrs. J F. Perry. Extension Member for the Week at Rocky Hock is Will Dale. I Weefc of Missions Study and Missions Revival will be held at Rocky Hock Church February 26 through March 3. Mission Study classes begin at 7:30 each even ing and will be followed by a missionary speaker at 8:13. The various speakers follow: Sunday morning, the Rev. R. L. Smith; Sunday evening, the Rev. L. E. Blackmon; Monday everting. Jer ry Potter; Tuesday evening, the Rev. L. D. Culpepper; Wednes day evening, the Rev. J. J. Cow sert: Thursday evening, the Rev. Jtuu Privott; Friday evening, the Rev. R. L. Smith. The annual Tidewater Con ference ‘tournament will be held in Eljzabeth City High School gym, starting Wednesday night 1 and continuing through Saturday! night. Games during ttye fiistl three days will begirt at 5:30' and on Saturday start at 7:30. , Guests of the Gilbert Harrell family-*' on Sunday were: Mrs. I Lillie Saunders, Mr. and Mrs.! Sherwood Harrell of Norfolk,! Va., Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Har rell and family, Mr. and Mrs.! Thurman Ashley and Belva, Mrs. Effie Evans, Alvin and Beulah Evans. Mrs. Norman Keeter, of the Macedonia section, is ill in Cho wan Hospital. Mias Claudia Ann Sawyer spent the week-end with her aiirtt, Mrs. Roland Evans. Visit THE BIG YEARLY SALE IS HERE! • GLEN RAVEN HOSIERY M^ “get acquainted K values ” s' Buy now and save ■. {—. —! „ “ 1 BUY SEVERAL PAIRS AT THESE Lis den*', 60 giuge R«g. SUS El AQ .. . LOW, LOW PRICES! Especially Priced for This Event ' ors on Sunday were Chris and Jeff Keeter, Mrs. Barbara' Saw yer and Scottie. Mrs. Alfred Perry will cele brate her 88th birthday on Sun day. Mrs. J. F. Perry visited her mother Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Bristoe Perry. Mrs. Deb Leary celebrated her I birthday on Sunday at Mrs. Bes sie Harrell’s with «I1 her family. Sympathy goes out to the fam ily of John A. Holmes who pass ed away Sunday. The Rev. Lindsey Harrell will preach at the Emanuel Church in Elizabeth City, of which the Rev. Roy Harrell is pastor, on. Sunday. In last week’s write-up the I Scoutmaster’s name was omitted. I O. C. Long, Jr., is Scoutmaster! and Billy Leary is Assistant Scoutmaster. Rocky Hock Baseball Club minstrel will be presented to night (Thursday) at the Edenton I Elementary School. Proceeds | will go to the baseball boys and j John A. Holmes High- School • Band. j Miss Faye Ober, Betty Bunch and Kathryn Tynch of East Car olina College, Greenville, spent the week-end iat their respective homes. t I : Edward Warren Bey Continued from Page I—Section 1 citing chronicle of a country doctor whose great talents .brought him many honors. He was born in Tyrrell County and moved with his parents to I Edenton four years later. After a happy boyhood here he re ceived his medical education -in Virginia and Pennsylvania and returned home to a practice ex -1 tending over three counties with his father, Dr. William Christian Warren. In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth Cotton Johnston, daughter of Samuel Iredell Johnston, rector of ' St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edenton. For a wedding gift his wife’s kinsman, Mr. James C. Johnston of Hayes, gave them a deed to Albania, a beautiful estate of six hundred acres situated nqar I Edenton. When it became appar- I e.nt that his beloved wife’s ill health demanded a change of climate, he sold his home and , accepted a chair in the Univer sity of Maryland. Primarily we are concerned in [this article with the valiant ser vices of Dr. Edward Warren to i the Confederacy. Perhaps its beginning was in Edenton when j the country was startled by the ! news of John Brown’s escapade jat Harper’s Ferry. Organizing I military companies was the or- ! | der of the day and one hundred j men were recruited in Edenton in “The Albemarle Guards" with j Dr. Warren as captain. He was ! living in Baltimore when war [ began, but this company left Edenton more than one hundred strong to participate in every I battle where General Lee’s army was concerned, and returned at THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1961. ~ - -- - - war’s, end with only ten men on its muster April 19, rioting broke out in Baltimore and in a torrent of frenzy over threatened invasion, volunteer companies were organized and he was mad«; surgeon-in-chief of municipal forces. After his re turn from carrying his family back to Edenton he was sent on a perilous undertaking with let ters to Virginia and North Caro lina asking for two thousand muskets. He left with a hand satchel, change of linen and tKe letters wrapped in an old news paper, expecting io be away only a few days, but did not return for four years. He found Rich mond crasy with excitement as headquarters of the Confederate Army. At Raleigh, Governor Ellis promptly granted the re quest for muskets. On learning that Butler’s troops were in pos session of Baltimore and that his college infirmary was trans formed into a U. S. hospital, he hastened to offer his services to his native state. A small navy was organized with a'number of ■steamboats and sailing vessels, and he was made surgeon-in chief with orders to report to Portsmouth Island near Hat teras. His mementoes from that area 'are uneventful except for “desolation, heat and myriads of mosquitoes which blackened the air by their presence and made it vocal by their eternal hum.” He next sought a place in the Confederate forces in Richmond and was commissioned surgeon. In Charlottesville, private homes, hotels, public halls and wherever a blanket could be spread, were filled with the victims of Beau regard’s victorious army. At one time there were more than twelve thousand cdses of typho? malarial fever. Back in Rich mond he was on Board of In spectors of hospitals and re marks on the devotion which the women of the South displayed for the “cause” and says that the attention they lavished .upon the sick and wounded has no paral lel in history. The surgeon-general offered Dr. Warren a position on the medical examining board, about to be established in North Caro lina. He was soon attending these duties and stationed in Goldsborough, when news came of an attack on New Berne. He went there for, duty and when a portion of the town burst into flames and utter confusion reigned, it became expedient to move the sick and wounded to prevent their capture. With im provised stretchers from doors and window blinds and the use of wheelbarrows, they were loaded on a train of open cars which he had to follow on a raw-boned horse. Along the ' route to Kinston was ■ a pitiful mass of fugitives. In the summer of 1862 when on business in Virginia he joined an operating corps for the plan ned attack on General McClel lan. On the battlefield at Elli son’s Mills he was personally re quested by General Robert E. Lee to act as medical director. Throughout the • terrible “seven days” fight, concluding with the battle of Caivern Hill, a con tinuous stream of wouhded and dying poured in. The field was literally gray with southern jackets of the fallen. At one time he encountered a burial , party from the Edenton company and assisted in interring sev eral of its members boys he had known since childhood. Returning to Goldsborough, he prepared a manual of military surgery, which was published in Raleigh and ran through a second I edition. The Honorable Zebu | lon B. Vance appointed him sur geon general of the state of i North Carolina. He organized a medical staff, established way side hospitals, purchased instru ments and stores and fought a threatened smallpox epidemic by having seventy thousand people vaccinated. His friendship with Governor Vance ripened into i intimacy. He made many visits jto Wilmington with him to meet “The Advance” bringing in supplies, after successfully run ning the blockade. In the win ter of 1863 he accompanied ‘him |to Orange Court House to wit ness a general review called by Lee in special honor of “Caro lina’s illustrious Governor. Mr. Vance made a stirring address which Lee remarked was equiv alent to re-enforcement of the army by 50,000 men. The last chapter of Dr. War ren’s 'Confederate service was as a member of a mission to Gen eral Sherman, asking protection for private and public property in Raleigh. Ex-Governor Gra ,ham and ex-Governor Swain were two others of this commis sion. With an engine, a tender and a passenger car over which a white flag floaed, the train moved toward federal lines. Just as they were entering hos tile territory, a galloping mes senger brought orders for their return. On their way back they were captured by U. S. Cavalry and as prisoners of war were sent on hand cars, suffering many indignities, to Sherman’s i headquarters. However, they were received with marked con sideration and sent home bearing an order for- the protection of Raleigh. After the war Dr. Warren went to Egypt as medical adviser to the Khedive and had many exciting experiences there. Then came residence in France, where i he was associated with many fa mous physicians, including the j illustrious Charcot. He died in Paris in 1893, without returning to his beloved Edenton, describ ed in 'his words as a place “beau tiful beyond compare in luxuri ant gardens and shaded streets, where public sentiment possessed a healthy and vigorous tone and renowned for the education and culture of its people.” Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and great er ones invariably slink in after it. —Baltasa Gracian. William B. Gardner Named Town €lerk Continued from Page 1, Section ) with a BS degree in political science. Upon his return to Edgnton he was associated with Spedic Food Products in Eden ton and later was representative of Hospital Care Association of Durham, a position he now holds. He is the son of Mrs. W. H. Gardner /and the late Henry Gardner. He is married and is the father of two daugh ters, one two years old and an other nine months. Mr. Gardner plans to assume his duties as town clerk on or about March 15. At the meeting Town Coun cilmen also considered the pur chase of equipment to be used at the land fill garbage dis posal area, formerly a part of the Edenton Naval Auxiliary Air Station back of the former C. Y. Parrish residence. Two salesmen attended the meeting to explain caterpillar type ma chines for the purpose of dig ging trenches, packing the gar bage and covering with dirt. No decision was reached as to which type to purchase and a commit tee was appointed to visit near by towns to inspect compaction units for use in transporting garbage and trash from Edenton to the landfill area. Mayor John Mitchener also in formed the Councilmen that he had made an appointment with the State Stream Sanitation Committee for Thursday, March .2. Edenton’s temporary exten sion to permit dumping of raw sewage into local water expires February 28. and it is hoped more time will be allowed in order to hold another election to provide funds for a sewage disposal system as required by the state agency. Several towrf officials are expected to accom pany Mayor kitchener to the meeting in Raleigh. Milton E. Bass Sent To Raleigh Continued from Page 1, Section 1 has headed the office here, which is headquarters for an area composed of Tyrrell, Per quimans and Gates counties, in RESERVE I SOSO mM $095 S pint : s’ WM “X FIFTH W ** jMjgHMfc 1| rfp&t e/*</z>///rej£n ■ Qtfa mm Mf&i/y >y/t& I SC**FY. f>*. Hit Sac, M* Jf I ;***«OMi alawwwoburg mj^r WggtM- Gxclo«Te DncovemMil ■■■|w^jS!!|LSLS2**!!22lSSSS^b^L« MU MT.M. &i • mm «nr • a ntCF, u% tun kstul smut* addition to Chowan, since May 10, 1955. He succeeded Mrs. Corie B. White. Bass will go on a special as signment as occupational analyst and will travel through the State. The work which he will be doing will be a part of a spe cial federal project of validat ing information on a new dic tionary. North Carolina was one of the five States in the United States whose technical staff was considered of such professional excellence that they were cho sen to participate in this pro ject. It is of special interest that in this connection, North Carolina was the only State without large metropolitan areas that was so chosen. Upon assumption of his new' duties, Bass will be sent for a period of two or more weeks training in the Washington, D. C., area. Hospital Auxiliary To Buy Equipment Continued from Page I—Section 1 Scrapbook—Mrs. Richard Good win. Membership—Mrs. J. H. Con ger, Sr., and Mrs. R. T. Har rell, Sr. Program—Mrs. Frank Holmes. Grounds —Mrs. J. G. Wood, Sr. The Auxiliary membership drive is now in progress and it was noted that the Enterprise Home Demonstration Club with Mrs. Fred Bunch, president, was 100 per cent in joining the Hos pital Auxiliary. The Auxiliary voted to buy a flame photometer that will al low the hospital to determine accurately the amount of vari ous chemicals in the blood, so that patients can be better cared for. In addition of this instru ment to the hospital laboratory will also allow the local phy sicians to do many tests for which patients have previously had to go to Chapel Hill or Duke to have done. The Auxiliary also voted to purchase a portable deodorizer. LIONS MEET MONDAY Edenton Lions will meet Mon day night, February 27, at 7 o’clock. James Griffin, presi dent, urges all members to be present. Large Crowd At CHS Homecoming Continued from Page I—Section 1 Copeland, principal. Miss Elliott had as her at tendants, who were accompan ied by escorts, Normaleen Hol lowell, Nancy Ward, Nancy Par rish, Brenda Perry and Mary: Privott. The crown bearer was little Randy Hendrix and the flower girl was Chris Hollowell, both of whom won the hearts of the audience. Two other youngsters, Robin Hendrix and Tony Leary, also were very sweet as they sang “Let Me Call | You Sweetheart.” D. J. Johnson, senior advisor, was master of ceremonies. The gymnasium was beautifully dee-j crated for the occasion and after Classified Ads EASE THROAT! Buy soothing,/ sanitizing, OLAG Tooth Paste at the drug store. SO little to pay . , . try it today. Blue Lustre Carpet and Uphols tery Cleaner. Quinn’s. HELP WANTED MALE OR female —full or part time need ed for Watkins Route in Eden ton. 21 to 70. Bonus Plan. No investment needed. Ex-> perience unnecessary. Above j average earnings. Write Wat kins Products, Inc., P. O. Box 1071, Dept. S-3, Richmond, Va. Feb23,Mar2pd FOR SALE—ONE MARE MULE. Good worker; 13 years old. Contact J. L. Evans, Route 1, Hertford. Feb23,Mar2p WANTED—GOOD USED BABY crib from white family. Con tact J. L. Evans, Route 1, Hertford. Feb23,Mar2p FOR SALE OR RENT—FIVE room brick house on Windsor! Highway. Call 3960. Feb23,Mar2,9,l6c' FOR SALE ONE SET planters, less than 1 year old. Like new; very good condition. Price $85.00. Carl Ober, phone 2869. ltp FOR SALE 5-ROOM BRICK house with spacious garage and screened side porch. West over Heights; corner lot. Call 4055, 4118 or see Bill Bunch. FeblOttc "KING OF SWINE” Cross your sows to meet type OIC boars, world’s fastest grow ing hogs; juicy flavored meat. | Easy control, Minton’s Ranch,' Merry Hill, N. C. expMarl6c | FOR RENT—FRESHLY PAINT ed two-bedroom house. West- j over Heights. Call F. Bout well, 3561. tfc j FOR SALE—MAYTAG WRING-j er washer. Aluminum tub. | $189.00 when new. In excel-j lent condition; will sell rea-| sonably. Call 2136 or see it j at 804 Cabarrus Street. Feb9tfc| t YOUR LESCO HOME BUILDER SEZ: YOU'LL ORBIT IN SPACE IN <<&<? V A LESCO HOME... All th* lovely, livable spec# you've ever dromed of. PHONE 2163 Warren J. Twiddy District Representative ■ ’ <SUMOCO> OFFERS YOU AN Outstanding Opportunity This is for the man who has always want ed his own business but has not had enough capital. If you have an excellent credit record and very minimum capital investment, you can lease the SUNOCO Service Station in Edenton, N. C., and receive: 1. Paid Training 2. Financial Assistance 3. Guaranteed Income FOR PERSONAL INTERVIEW CONTACTS Sun Oil Co. C. R. Wilhelm P. O. Bex 1110 An 403 N. Parker SL NORFOLK VA. UK ROCKY MT„ N. C. KI 5-2421 Gl 6-4020 j t • V' -SECTION ONE PAGE THREE the crowning ceremony * the young people enjoyed dancing. Edenton Jayvees Have Fine Record Continued from Page L Section I 23; Scotland Neck 33-30. The Jayvees will play a return game with Scotland Neck Friday night. Members of the Jayvee squad are Dickie Cobb, Hurley Mitch ell, Jay 'Ross, Warren Elliot*. Jack Ashley, Bill Bootwright, Billy Voliva, Jim Partin, Frank Johnston, Johnny Aexander, Bruce Whitehurst, Douglas Sex ton,, Tommy Leary, Billy Twiddy and Douglas Twiddy. The local team will participate in an invitational tournament after the regular season ends. PLANTING GUIDE CATALOG in color Free on request. Of fered by Virginia’s Largest Growers of Fruit and Nut Trees, Berry Plants, Grape Vines, Flowering Shrubs, Ever greens, Shade and Flowering Trees, Roses. WAYNESBORO NURSERlES—Waynesboro, Va Feb2,9,16,25c HOUSE FOR SALE—LOCATED at corner of East Queen and Court Streets. Seven rooms, bath and a half. Central heat, basement and garage. Priced to sell. W. P. (Spec) Jones. Phone 2174 or 3793. Decltfc FOR SALE—GOOD USED GAS ranges as low as $35.00. West ern Gas Service. Phone 3122, Edenton. ;une2tf FOR QUICK AND EXPERT service on your radio and phonograph, call the Griffin Musicenter, phone 2528. We carry a complete line ol phono needles. DUPLEX APARTMENT FOR rent Three bedrooms. At Pine Grove Terrace on U. S. 17 north. Phone 2077. FebStfc HELP WANTED AT ONCE— Rawleigh Dealer in Chowan County. Write Rawleigh’s, De partment NCB-210-3. Rich mond. Va. Feb2,9,16,23p CABBAGE PLANTS FOR SALE. Early Jersey Wakefield, Charleston Wakefield, Ferry’s Round Dutch, Flat Dutch. Al so Heading Lettuce. Set now for early spring heading. ' E. L. PEARCE, Seedsman Phone 3339 Edenton WATCH REPAIRING —JEWEL, ry repairing and engraving Prompt service. Ross Jewelers. Phone 3525. tfc PICTURE FRAMING—FOR THE best in custom picture framing see John R. Lewis at the Eden ton Furniture Company. Com plete line of moulding to choose from tfe I BULLDOZER WORK LAND clearing and dirt pushing Phone 295.6, Clarence Lupton tfc FOR RENT The Mexicana Club 1 Mile West of Edenton on Highway 32 SEF. T. C. Roberts