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From The Yellowed Pages Os The Chowan Herald
M TEARS AGO
» Final touches in efforts to
; make Chowan County's an
cient Court House more at
tractive were completed
when 12 new chairs were
placed in the jury box for
the use of jurors. Several
grand juries previously had
recommended the addition of
more comfortable chairs.
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
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mouth claimed that an effort
to create discord between
Edenton and Plymouth re
garding re-routing U. S. 17
over Albemarle Sound bridge
was caused by Herbert Peele,
editor of the Daily Advance
in Elizabeth City, due to a
casual suggestion in his criti
cism of the road program of
the Greater Albemarle Asso
ciation.
t J. G. Dampen, president of
t the newly organized Merch
ants Association, returned
f ftom a trip to Raleigh, where
i he had a conference with
i Willard Dowell, executive
: secretary of the North Caro
lina Merchants Association,
and was very enthusiastic and
optimistic over the prospects
for the future of the local
association.
i Over 100 Red Men and
their wives gathered in the
Community Building at Cross
Roads for an annual banquet.
Walter W. Cohoon of Eliza
beth City was guest speaker
and dwelt upon the tenets of
the order.
Sponsored by Ed Bond
Post of the American Legion,
a public forum was held in
the high school auditorium,
when Dr. Ralph McDonald, a
former gubernatorial candi
date, led the discussion.
W. T. Perry, prominent
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Robert McDuffie
Robert McDuffie
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MACON, Ga. —Robert Mc
jDuffie, Jr., a violin student
■at Macon, Ga., won the
Georgia state scholarship to
the Transylvania Summer
Music Camp, Brevard, N. C.,
i given by the Georgia Federa
tion of Music Clubs which
had its junior division state
meeting in Atlinta March 6
and 7.
Robert, who is 11 years old,
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William R. McDuffie, 772
Malwood Drive, Macon, Ga.
Mrs. McDuffie is the former
Susan Thigpen of Edenton.
He is a violin student of T.
Henrick Schwarzenberger. He
began performing publicly
when he was seven and is
the youngest student ever to
have won this scholarship,
according to Georgia Federa
tion officials.
He has been invited to per
form at the State Senior
Convention Scholarship lunch
eon to be held in Atlanta on
April 3.
Robert is a member of the
Macon-Wesleyan String Or
chestra under the direction of
Walter Steinhaus, a member
of the Mozart Music Club and
is an avid golf and baseball
player.
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Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, March 19, 1970.
farmer of the Rocky Hock
section, was rushed to Nor
folk General Hospital as the
result of a kidney ailment.
J. R. Byrum, one of the
partners of Quinn Furniture
Company, was honored by
General Electric Company by
being awarded two very at
tractive medals for his rec
ord of General Electric re
frigerator sales.
Mrs. A. S. Bush was pain
fully injured near her home
at Cross Roads as the result
of an automobile accident.
Arthur Chappell made
considerable improvements to
the second floor of Chappell’s
Recreation Parlor on Broad
Street for the purpose of pro
viding a place to hold private
parties and dances.
Local fishermen were in
vited to attend a bait casting
tournament in the Colerain
High School gymnasium.
Suit was filed in Chowan
Superior Court by Mrs.
Gladys Smith against the
Virginia-Carolina Joint Stock
Land Bank in which she
asked damages in the amount
of $5,000. The suit was the
result of an accident at the
intersection of Oakum and
Queen Streets, when she was
struck by a car owned by the
defendant.
About 300 people jammed
in the J. H. Holmes Com
pany store to attend a fash
ion show.
About 80 grammar grade
children presented an oper
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etta, "A Little Bit of Hol
land,” in the school audi
torium.
Cherry Briggs, nephew of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Daniels,
and former Edenton High
School student, was elected
publicity manager of the
Forestry Club of Oregon
state foresters.
Over 50 farmers were
guests of the Edenton Rotary
Club when the Rotarians ob
served “Farmers’ Night.” W.
Kerr Scott, Commissioner of
Agriculture, was the guest
speaker.
Members of the T. E. L.
Class of Edenton Baptist
Church elected Mrs. B. F.
Francis president.
20 YEARS AGO
At a meeting of the Cho
wan Hospital Auxiliary,
Marion A. Ham, architect for
the new Chowan Hospital,
reported that the hospital was
80 per cent complete.
Edenton Lions Club spon
sored a new club at Cole
rain with 19 members en
rolled. W. E. White was
elected president.
Congressman Herbert C.
Bonner announced that he
would not ask for appropria
tions at a session of Congress
for the artificial propagation
of shad at the Edenton hatch
ery. The announcement fol
lowed an investigation into
such a program-and a memo
randum from the Fish and
Wildlife Service which deem
ed artificial propagation of
shad inadvisable at that time.
Joe Wheeler, former star
of the Edenton Colonials,
signed a contract to play with
New Bern in the Coastal
Plain League.
Capt. RoDert L. Pratt, vet
eran member of the Edenton
Police Department, was tak
en to the veterans’ hospital
at Kecoughtan as the result
of a heart attack.
Hearings were begun in the
Chowan Court House in a
suit brought by the U. S.
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given by C. B. Mooney to
L. A Patterson in connection
with the construction of 35
houses at Westover Heights.
Determining a site for a
new white high school un
covered ancient documents.
First that Hicks Field was
sold to Commissioners of
Edenton in 1723 and that an
instrument executed in 1914
SECTION B
established the fact that the
tract was the property of the
town.
The Wake Forest Choir
presented a delightful pro
gram at Edenton High School
under the direction of Prof.
Thane McDonald.
Edenton High School’s
basketball team was included
in a basketball tournament at
East Carolina College.
Miss Charlotte Bunch was
one of the show committee-
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