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t 7 '■ ’ SECTION B Yellowed Pages Os The Chowan Herald 30 YEARS AGO Chowan County Com missioners voted to put 520.000 more insurance on (he historic Court House. Final arrangements were made for Edenton Boy Scouts to affiliate with the Tidewater Council. Dr. F. H. Garriss, county health officer, expressed pleasure at news of a $1,000,000 gift from Z. Smith Reynolds Founda tion, Inc., for a war on syphillis dn North Carolina but he had no way of knowing how much would be received in Chowan County. Local Lions were proud cf the fact that the club was especially honored at a district meeting held in Raleigh for having repre sentatives present traveling the fartherest distance. Due to flood lights and reflectors being broken on Hicks Field, Kenneth Floars was instructed to dismantle the lights and store them until needed ( for the summer. Heywood Edney, 65-year old colored man, died as the result of injuries he received in an unavoidable accident when run into by John Saunders of Tyner. Mayor J. H. McMullan gave only a reprimand to I am interested in buying Bulk Receivables where payments are presently on a weekly or monthly basis. This includes time payment accounts on Appliances, Furn iture, Jewelry, Auto Supplies, Tires, etc. If interested, Please write: Manager P. 0. Box 364 Wilson, N. C. All replies will be confidential. Only Chevrolet puts so much in for the money you put out. Our lowest priced car—Nova Our lowest priced wagon—Nomad Chevrolet—low price is a tradition. 411 m .. fr~' " i ■*-* - c Nova Coupe and Nomad Station Wagon top, Impala Sport Coupe bottom. SB9 Be smart. Be sure. Buy now at your Chevrolet dealer’s. Mrnafietmr’u License No. lit GEORGE CHEVROLET CO., IHC 1100 N. Broad St Phone 482-2138 Edenton, N. C. DMlePa Franchise No. 669 THE CHOWAN HERALD six boys but were given a warning to discontinue rid ing their bicycles on the sidewalks. Town Council voted to pay full time firemen SI.OO each, the same as volun teer firemen, when re sponding to a fire alarm. Rev. Harry C. Hand of Cramerton preached at the Edenton Baptist Church for Rev. E. L. Wells. Through a letter written by Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, the Cupola House Museum had firmly estab lished its claim of possess ing two small parts of the original Wright airplane flown at Kitty Hawk. Mr. Wright said there could be no question as to what these much valued relics were, and asserted that he had examined them with much interest and was cer tain they could be identi fied as the cradle of the plane used by himself and brother Wilbur in the 1905 flights. Chowan Tribe of Red Men elected Asa Griffin as sachem of the tribe. Mrs. O. M. Elliott won first prize in the residen tial group and Quinn Fur niture Company first prize for the business section for the most attractive Christ mas display. Friends of Edenton Boy Scouts were right much concerned over damage done to the Boy Scout cab in, where windows were broken and doors broken cpen and minor damage done to the building in side. Delay in starting work on enlargement of the Edenton Fish Hatchery on Pembroke Creek was said to be due to fussing cf Congressional chieftains in Washington over the na tional budget. However, Congressman Lindsay War ren said he was confident that the work of construct ing a number of outdoor rearing pools would be completed in time to make them them available for use when the fishing sea son got under way next spring. 20 YEARS AGO Machinery was set ir> for a S4OO 000 bond elec tion calie.i by Chowan County Commissioners to provide class rooms for white and colored schools in Edenton and a physical education building at Cho wan High School. Ed Ballenger of New Bern was appointed per manent license examiner to succeed the late B. Henry Smith. Considerable damage was reported in Beaver Hill •Cemetery where hoodlums deliberately knocked away the entire side of a cinder block wall around one plot and three lambs were broken off in such small pieces that repair was im possible on another plot. John F. White announc ed that he would be a can didate for district solicitor in the Democratic primary election. L. S. Byrum was ap pointed chairman of Cho wan County Board of Elec tions to succeed the late Lloyd C. Burton, Town Council was called into special session to con sider leasing a portion of the Edenton Naval Air Station to Vernon B. Hill of Bridgeville, Delaware. Mr. Hill, a dairyman, said he was interested in mov ing his plant to Edenton. Edenton North Carolina, Thursday, January 18, 1968. At a meeting of the West Albemarle District Boy Scout Committee, George S. Twiddy was elected chairman to suc ceed Philip' S. McMullan. Mrs. Clarence Spruill, 49, passed away at her home on East Freemason Street after being bedrid den for about 10 years. Rev. W. C. Francis, pas tor of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, was installed as master of Unanimity Lodge No. 7, A. F. & A. M., suc ceeding William O. Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mc- Mullan announced the en-! gagement of their daugh- ' ter, Miss Carolyn Clarke McMullan, to Robert Lewis Grant of New York. Meeting in special ses sion, Town Council voted to sub-lease a portion of the Edenton Naval Air Station to Alfred Bridge-’ ford, Jr., of Brookfield, ; Mass., to operate the Eden-; ton Air Service. The entire community j was saddened when it was 1 learned that Mrs. Sarah i Harriet Brant Gilmer, wife j of Rev. Harold Gilmer, j rector of St. Paul's Episco- ' pal Church, died suddenly j as the result of cerebral i hemorrhage. The new automobile in spection law which went into effect was causing a good deal of confusion, but motorists were assured that it was really not as bad as it seemed. School boys in Chowan County were asked to grab a brush and run to smoke when seen in any wood lands and help foresters protect timber and wild life. . An impressive wedding took place in Edenton Methodist Church when Miss Willie Love Morgan became the bride of Charles Henry Shaw, Jr., of Riverside, R. I. Miss Annie E. Coffield passed away at her home near Edenton after being in failing health for many years. She taught school in Chowan and adjoining counties for 35 yeais. Many people attended the opening of the West ern A .to Associate Store, operated by Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Dunbar. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar said they were impressed with the hospitality showi} them and that they were of the opinion 'hey would like Edento 1 hey chose Eden ton to beg..i their business after visiting a number of G. E. & W. H. 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G SAVINGS on these and Model de-620b , man y other items ... Come in t 05127 $127 day and Save! * £ GOOD/tEAR ******** 412 E. Broad Street 482-2477 EdenSlOX Term * other towns where there was no Western Auto Store. At a meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Mrs. J. A. Moore was re elected president. Try a Herald Classified Optional A fraternity house had sent its curtains to be. laundered. It was the sec ond day that the house had stood unveiled and that morning the following note was received from the so rority ’ house acress the street: “Dear Sirs: May we sug gest that you procure cur tains for your windows. We do not care for a SECTION B course in anatomy." The chap who left his shaving to read the note promptly answered: “Dear Girls: The course I’d Like It “What have you against public libraries’.’” “I am an author. What’s jour business?” “I'm a grocer.’’ “How’d you like to see a free grocery store?"
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