From The Yellowed Pages Os The Chowan Herald
-39 YEARS AGO
Congressman Lindsay
V Warren was notified at his
ft ome in Washington,
N. C, by Harry Hopkins,
WPA administrator, that
President Franklin Roose
velt had approved a WPA
project for a community
building at Small’s Cross
Roads amounting to an ex
penditure of $5,448.
Lively interest was tak
en in the recently organiz
ed Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation when 75 were pres
ent at the high school au
ditorium. Mrs. James E.
Wood, , president, reported
that 40 new members had
joined the organization.
A big show was staged
in Edenton’s business 'sec
tion for taking pictures
for use in Fox Movitone
News reel. A large pile of
peanuts was placed at the
comet of Broad and Eden
Streets by the Albemarle
Peanut Company. The
street was closed to traffic
and lined with white
stripes to King Street as
25 contestants propelled
peanuts only by their nose.
James Small nosed out
just a little ahead of Em
mett Wiggins to win the
contest.
A change in ownership
of one of Edenton’s gro
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cery stores was effected
when Guy Boyce purchas
ed the J. A. Curran Gro
cery in the heart of Eden
ton’s business section.
Edenton Rotary Club’s
bowling team had little
difficulty in defeating the
Red Men in 5 the first of a
series of gamds in a tour
nament held at Chappell’s
Bowling Alley.
Fireworks was injected
into an otherwise un
eventful meeting of Cho
wan County Commission
ers when the Board of
Education made an effort
to persuade a loan with
which to erect a new
building at Chowan High
School. The Commission
ers turned thumbs down
on this proposal.
Right much interest was
evidenced when it be
came known that Hotel
Joseph Hewes was pur
chased by Grayson M.
Harding from the South
ern Loan and Insurance
Company of Elizabeth
City, which concern was
trustee for bondholders.
As one of 18 meetings
throughout North Caro
lina, the North Carolina
League of Municipalities
met in the Chowan Coun
ty Court House with May
or J. H. McMullan presid
THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26. 1968.
ing.
Civil damages totaling
$19,117.35 and punitive
damages totaling SIO,OOO
more were claimed in a
suit filed in Superior
Court growing out of the
automotive death of P. J.
Warner. The action was
brought by the widow
against Gilbert Hollowell,
driver of the truck caus
ing the fatality, and Eden
ton Ice Company, by whom
Hollowell was employed.
R. N. Privott, as he drove
his car to a peanut field,
alighted from the car and
walked around it, fell dead
as the result of a heart
attack.
A Young Democratic
Club was organized with
John W. Graham elected
president.
F. W. Curran, one of
Edenton’s oldest residents,
was very ill at his home
on West Queen Street.
John A. Holmes was
elected president of the
Northeastern District of
the North Carolina Edu
cation Association.
Little Shirley Mizell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
E. B. Mizell, had a narrow
escape when she was
struck by a highway
truck in front of her
home on East Eden Street.
Following three years of
service with the local
Methodist Church, Rev.
George W. Blount was
transferred to the Spring
Hope Methcdist Church in
Nash County. Rev. W. C.
Benson of Mount Olive
succeeded Mr. Blount.
Funeral services were
held for Patrick Dale, who
died at his home near
Center Hill. One of the
county’s oldest citizens,
Mr. Dale was 88 years old.
J. C. (Dick) Leary, after
a courageous fight against
angina pectoris, passed
away.
Edenton National Guard
men and members of the
Fire Department were
planning for enlivening
functions in the armory
for an entire week with a
grand ball scheduled to
choose “Miss Albemarle.”
James Cozzens was se
lected as the moat valu
able player of the Edenton
High School football team.
The team closed a season
in a blaze of glory by win
ning eight out of nine
games.
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20 YEARS AGO
Chowan County citizens
voted 5 to 1 for the reelec
tion of Harry S. Truman
as president of the United
States. Truman won over
Republican Thomas E.
Dewey in one of the clos
est presidential elections in
the history of the nation.
Thomas Byrum, chair
man of the local Little
Symphony Association, an
nounced that a drive was
under way to secure mem
berships.
Portable bleachers for
Hicks Field caused a very
lengthy discussion at a
meeting of the Edenton
Varsity Club and the club
voted to construct one
section of the bleachers in
the near future.
Clara Dixon and Her
bert Raye Lane were list
ed among the county win
ners in the North Caro
lina 4-H Club Better Meth
ods Electric Contest for
1948.
Dr. Lloyd Hobbs, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Hobbs,
was elected president of
the Appalachian State
Teachers College Alumni
Association.
Members of William H.
Coffield Post No. 9280,
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
were appealing for contri
butions to build a home
for the post.
Miss Mary Evans Good
win, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H. C. Goodwin, and
Jefferson Davis Sewell,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Sewell of Monroe, were
united in marriage in
Edenton Baptist .Church.
Judge Richard D. Dixon
was principal speaker at
the Chowan Ruritans’ an
nual ladies’ night banquet.
Clifford Overman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Over
man, carried off top hon
ors at the 4-H poultry
show and sale held at the
armory.
At a very enjoyable
turkey dinner at the Par
ish House the Edenton
Business and Professional
Woman’s Club received its
charter.
In response to a called
meeting of the Edenton
Country Club, a goodly
number of golf enthusiasts
met to consider the future
of the golf course after
the Marines occupy the
Edenton Naval Air Sta
tion. J. H. Conger, presi
dent, presided over the
meeting and was very op
timistic that the local club
would have use of the
golf course after the base
was reactivated.
Students of Edenton
High School took over the
town’s government as a
feature of the observance
of American Education
Week.
Out of a total of 353
live births in Chowan
County in 1947, records
proved that 80 occurred
outside a hospital or in
circumstances unknown.
This meant that 77.34 per
cent of the county’s live
births occurred without
benefit of hospital facili
ties for mother and child.
R. C. LeHew, who suc
ceeded Henry G. Quinn as
manager of the local Co
lonial store, returned to
Richmond and was suc
ceeded by George Paulos.
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with deep appreciation, we send along
onr many thanks for yonr thoughtfnl consideration all year.
Serving yon has Indeed been onr deepest pleasnre and privilege.
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As part of Town Coun
cil’s proposed plan to hard
surface a street or two
each year, North Edenton
residents were enjoying an
asphalt street on Johnston
and Cabarrus Streets from
Park Avenue to Oakum
Street and Park Avenue
from Broad to Cabarrus
Street.
Mrs. R. F. Cheshire, 88,
had the misfortune to fall
at her home on Broad
Street, resulting in a brok
en hip.
The vestry of St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church elected
Graham White as church
treasurer to succeed Fred
P. Wood, who resigned due
to ill health.
“Buck,” an English set
ter, won first place at a
bird dog field trial at the
Edenton Naval Air Station.
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tion with the trial was the
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sudden disappearance of
Ernest Kehayes’ winning
dog after the contest.
A robber broke a hole
in the window of T. M.
Forehand’s Jewelry Store
and made away with a
number of watches.
Sponsored by the Par
ent-Teacher Association of
Rocky Hock School, a Tom
Thumb Wedding was held
at the school.
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“Dave,” a hound owned
by John and Will Bunch,
captured the All Age stakes
at the Virginia Fox Hunt
ing Association field trials
with the unusually high
score of 160 points.
Treason is in the air
around us everywhere. It
goes by the name of pa
triotism.
—Thomas Corwin.
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