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Hertford County ITeraed
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THE LARGEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
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Tale Machinery 4t Supply Co.,
littletea, N. C.
MACHINERY SPECIALISTS
Everything in Machinery and Suppliea
Dr. c. g Powell
DENTIST
OFFICE
OVER S.J. DILDAYS STORE
AHOSKIE. N. C.
Winberne 4? Wlnborne
* Benj. B. Winborna
Stanley V^jnborne
Attorneys-at-Law
MURFREESBORO, N. C.
Phonee No. 17 and 21.
Edgar Thomas Snipes
'AUorney-at-I^tw
Loans Negotiated
Real Estate Bought and Sold]
Office: 2nd Ptoor J. W. Godwin. Jr.. Bldg
AHOSKIE. N. C.
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R. R. ALLEN
Dealer In
BASH, DOORS.%LINDS, WINDOW
GLASS, HARDWARE. PAINTS
AND BUILDING MATERIALS
GENERALLY
Wholesale and Retail
No. 1127 Washington Square
HCFFOI.K. VA.
SASH. DOORS. HARDWARE.
PAINTS. LIME. CEMENT. SEWER
PIPE. CART MATERIAL. MILL
SUPPLIES. STOVES. RANGES
AND ETC. CLOSE PRICE8.
MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED
AND OBLIGE.
E- L. FOLK dO.
No. 017-910 Waahln*lon Square
SI KKH.K. VA.
W. W ROGERS
Attorney-at-Law
Prompt Attention Given la All
Beataaai. .
AHOSKIE. N, C.
C. Wallace Jones
Attorney and Counselor-At-Law
WINTON. N. C.
Practice in all eoorte. Loana negotiat
ed. Soeeial attention to eoilectiona.
Located in Bank of Winton- i
O. L. THOMAS
GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND
* BUILDER
Plan* and Specifications furnished upon
application
Cement and Tile Work
Brick Work a Specialty .
ahoskie. n. a;
Roawall C- Bridgir
Attorney-at-Law
WINTON. N. C.
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J. R. EVANS
Practical Tin Roofer and Sbeel
Metal Worker
Prices Right.
, MURFREESBORO. N. C.
FRANK Q. TAYLOE
Notary Public
Ahoskie, North Carolina.
J. L. PARKER
County Suveyor?Road Engineer
and Draftsman.
woTJk.aa-sr rujuc.
Office with W. W. Rogers,
Ahoskie, N. C.
Walter R. Johnson
Attornet-at Law
Ahoskie. North Carolina
Practices wherever service* deai red
I MR I*, i 2*4 riMr Itktr UIMIa*
G. J. NEWBERN,
Agent
Ford Automobiles,
Ahoskie. N. C.
Touring C*r ? $fr40.00
Runabout .... 300.00
F. O. B. Detroit.
DR. CHAS. J. SAWYER
Disease* of the eye,' ear, nose
and throat, including the fitting
'? of glasses,
Windsor, N. C.
Office Hour*?9 to 12?8 to 0.
A Colored Mao's Tribute to tbe
Late *. P. Tajlor.
It was not my pleasure to know
Mr. W. P. Taylor until about 80
years ago. Since that time until
Ilia death, I have been aasociated
with him in many waya, and by
reaaon of tbia intimacy I learned
to know him and appreciate him
almost aa well aa if we had come
un from boyhood together. Since
hia death my mental picture of him
ia chiefly as I saw him in the days
of bi? health?sitting in hia office
looking out across Main Street. I
can hear the alow measured tones
of bis voice and see the look qf
friendly interest on bis face aa it
was when adyised, admonished,
and encouraged. This picture ia
not unfamiliar to others, especially
the latter part of hia life, for I
know of no man who so constantly
manifested so deep and continued
interest in the wellfare of young
people or more willingly contribut
ed bis wisdom, influence and of
his goods for their advancement,
and their pleasure. ?
Underneath this memory picture
of him I feel should b$ inscribed
fn fadeless letters: "Where every
G?5i did seem to set hia seal to give
the world assurance of a man."
Mr. Taylor was gifted in high
qualities and fortuned in the en
dowment of manhood.
My regard for tbia man was so
deep that I have hesitated to at
tempt this tribute; which I wished
to pay him, realizing my inability
to express my appreciation of bis
splendid worth as a man, a gentle
man. a'chriatian. and a friend. In
conversation he was always enter
taining for as I have remarked,^
having seen with a clear vision
having caught all tones and colors
and meanings of things be saw.
For over a year he felt the fear
ful hand of dissolution, tearing
from him tbe vigor of life. Mr,
Taylor met each day with a smile,
and bravely oblivious of himself
and hia affliction, lived calmly and
ko nnilti in (ka liiuo g\4 liie lamilir
ua|'|iii,T. in nuc ii>vw vi ma ibuihj
and friend*, thinking of other*,
interested in others, doing for
others cheerful and unafraid.
Even when the end was near and
the shadow of the twilight had set
tled upon him, with a sublime and
lofty courage be waited trustfully
for the touch of the 6nger of God.
1 never shall forget him as T saw
him last.
Mr. Taylor was one of the best
men I ever saw to the colored race
and to the poorer class of white
men. He employed more men and
gave them work, when all other
works were closed down he would
keep his going. He said men must
have something to do?that they
had their wives and children to
take care of. He was a great man
a$4 will lie long remembered,
Ffis influence will live for years
John R. Armstrong.
Be Careful in What You Say.
In speaking of a person's faults.
Pray don't forget your own, ^
Remember those with house of glass
Should seldom throw a stone.
If wfe have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
'Tis better we commence at home
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried,
Should we not like his company.
We know this world is wide.
Some have their faults, and who has not?
The old as well as young.
Perhaps we may, for ought we know
Have fifty to their own.
I'll tell you of a better plan
And flqd It works full well,
To try my own defects to cure
Before of others' tell.
And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,
My own shortcoming bids me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us all when we commence
To slander friend or foe
Think of the harm one word may do
To those who little know.
Remember curses sometims like
Our chickens, roost at home;
Pray don't speak of others' faults until
We have none of our own.
(Published by request of Mr. B. 8.
Barnes, Ahoskie, N. C.)
Textile Education at The A, 4
I. College.
A Textile Education is a valua
ble asset to a young man. During
the pant year graduates of the
Textile Department of the A. &
M. College, Raleigh have been ap
pointed to responsible positions as
follows: Overseer of Finishing in
a mill in Mass., making fancy
goods; Efficiency Engineer in
Engineering Firm. Fabric Peeign
er in mill; Assistant Superinten
dent in yarn mill; Superintendent
in yarn mill; Mill Inspector for
Federal Horticultural Board.
.This Textile Department is the
Textile School of North Carolina
and to make this school representa
tive of the State and thoroughly
up to date, the equipment will be
considerably increased during the
year by the addition of dyeing
machinery; knitting machinery:
plain and fancy looms; combing
machines for the manufacture of
fine yarns.
The addition of this machinery
will make this Textile School one
of the best equipped in America
for instruction in Cotton Manu
facturing.
The faculty of the Textile De
partment has been added to by
the appointment of Mr. Henry K.
Dick as Instructor in Carding,
Spinning and Knitting. Mr. Dick
has for the past five years been in
structor in these subjects at the
Lowell Textile School.
ResolDtioos to Tbe County Sup
erintendent.
w hereas, the tri-county summer
school at Chowan College. Mur
freesboro, N. C., has proven to be
so great a success, and each teach
es realizing the benefit derived to
be far superior to the single coun
ty institute marks unanimously
voted that the following resolu
tions be drawn up therefore be it
resolved;
1. That by the strong and ef
fective work of professor R. E.
Sent el le, professor G. E. Linebury.
Mrs. R. B. Green, and Miss Ethel
Kelly, we the members of this
summer school realize great and
lasting benefits.
i. That we express to the super
intendents of the three counties
Northampton, Hertford and Bertie,
our appreciation for their efforts
in making possible this summer
school.
3. That we petition you, as
superintendents, to exercise, your
influence in behalf of establishing
a permanent tri-county summer
school at Chowan college.
4. That a copy of these resolu
tions be set to Superihtendents,
P. J. Long, Jackson, N. W. Brit
ton, Winton, H. W. Early, Wind
sor, and to the state department of
education at Raleigh and tofthe
county papers. .
Signed,
M. Helen Outland,
Ersie Vinson,
Maooie S. Bauqham,
Huoh Griffin.
In FNutshell. '
Speaking for this section of the
Soutli it m?y bo put down as a safe
estimate that the debt the farmers
have carried over for payment this
fall is 25 per cent of the normal
liability of this kind in the past.
This excepts fertilizer accounts.
These will amount to 50 per cent.
On the other hand, the purchases
me at this time about 50 per cent
less than ordinary. Back of this
is to be placed the largest crop the
South has raised in many years
larger crop of wheat, corn, oats,
hay, but not a larger crop of cot
ton. The deficit in purchases
indicates that much more money is
held in reserve by the people.
Take thjs in connection with the
small average of debts to pay and
the strong fortification of big
crops, and one will have the situa
tion if this part of the South in a
nutshell. This report would do to
send the commercial agencies of
the country as a mirror of con
ditions hereabouts. ? Charlotte
Observer, 1 ..
Better Prepared to Stand Cheap
Cotton.
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SITUATION IN SOUTH DIFFER
ENT FROM LAST YEAR.
United State* ,Chamber of Com
merce Take* Optimistic View of
Buaine** Otftlook ? Gloom
Ha* Disappeared
Washington, D. C.. Aug. 8.?A
statement issued tonight by the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United State*, After a careful in
vestigation by ita committee on
statics and standards, takes opti
mistic view of the business out
look in general and announces that
the former falling of apprehension
of "something is going to happen"
because,of the Europeau war, has
almost entirely disappeared.
The statement has the following
to say regardiog the cotton situa
tion in the Southern States. "The
reduction in the Cotton acreage as
compared with last year is approxi
mately 16 per cent and combined
with this is about 40 per cent de
crease in the use of fertilizer be
cause being confined largely to
South Atlantic States. A tenta
tive long distance forecast on so
uncertain a matter as the total
yield of cotton indicates a produc
tion tbis year of about 12,000.000
bales, exclusive of linters, which
possibly will run up 600,000 more
though needing rain in central and
southern Texas, (?wing to the
wet season in some sections, there
are a number of complaints of boll
weevil, though it is not possible
yet even to approximate the
damage done. . _
"Even with low priced cotton,
however, the salutation in the
South will be radically different
from last. Enforced economies
have everywhere prevailed in the
agricultural sections, old material
and implements are being used in
cultivating, and the cotton crop
this year will be the cheapest rais
ed in the way of production for
many years. Consequently, the
South will be in a much better
condition to stand low priced cot
ton this year thau last.?P. R. A.
in tbv Wilmington Star.
Annual Won Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Association
Meet ia Ahoekie Thursday, Auf. 19.
Rich Square. N. C., July 28?
The directors of the Farmers Mu
tual Fire Insurance Association of
Northampton, Hertford and Bertie
Branch, meet in Rich Square on
the above named date in annual
session.
The directors beg leave the state
that they have made a careful ex
amination of the affairs of the
Association and find them correct
and in good order; The Associa
tion, we are glad to say, continues
to grow, and its affairs are in bet
ter condition than they were a
year ago.
We hereby appoint Thursday
the 19th. day of August 1915, as
the day for the members of the
Association to meet in annual ses
sion and Ahoskie as the place, and
we hereby beg every member of
the Association who can possibly
attend to do so, as your interest is
the life of the Association.
We recommend that the annual
assessment be 40 cents on the one
hundred dollars worth of property
iqsured.
Thos. S. Nokflekr,
D. N. Stephenson,
T. C. Public, '
J. W. Boone.
Ufl ......
t? iieuevei %yuu moct n icuuw
with a bright smile and a cherry
"How d'u do," you will know
that he is a home town booster and
a good example for you to follow.
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. Yon know
what yon are taking, as the formula ia
printed on every label, showing it ia
Quinine and Iron in a taateleas form
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. SO cents
Hertford Gcuntj Re-Uoion ol j
Confederate Veterans. I
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Win ton. Thursday. August Twelfth. 1
Arrangement* for the 191 & He
Union of Confederate Veterans of
Hertford County are being com- 1
oleted. Dr. E. W. Sikes, dean of
Wake Forest College will be the
speaker of the day. Those who
have heard Dr. Sikes are expect
ing hiuo to keep up the high stan
dard set by our sneakers on form
era re-union days. Music will be
furnished by a brass band.
The committee on hosnilatity is
as follows:?Winton; H. 11..tones,
B. O. Williams, J. W. Boone. },
R. Norton, and P. Hollomun;
Mane.v's Neck; S. P. Winborne,
Q. C. Picot, R. A. Majette, W.T.
Taylor and J. B. Worrell; Mur
freesboro; E. B. Vaugban, Stanley
Winborne. T. M. Forbes, Tybee
Parker and J. J. ^Parker; St.
Johns; D. L. Minton, J. E.
Matthews, W. P. Futrell, T. J.
Teaster and J. N. Holloman;
Ahoskie; E. J. Gerock, A. E.
Garrett, J. A. Copeland, John
Early and R. A. Holloman; Har
rellsville; Edmund Jones, JohtrO.
Askew, W. A., Perry, B. Scull
and W. A. Thomas.
Everybody is invited to come to
Winton next j'fhflrsday, August
twelfth, and join in the annual
gala day for "the boys of '61 65."
A. 1. Parker,
Chm. Ex. Com.
A. C. Vann, Sec.
Lost One oLHis Very Best Friends
t
I wish to speak a word in regard
to the death of Bro. J. T. Williams, Q
a man whom 1 loved. I commenc
ed work for him in 1893 and
worked for him about four years.
It was then that I learned to love ]
him. His manner of working and ;
treating his hands would make '
anyone love him. He was always ;
ready to help me when I asked
him for an accommodation. When !
I asked him for advice he was al- !
ways ready to advise me and I 1
have never seen where he made a |
mistake in the advice he gvae.* I $
feel like there is only one who has |
been a greater help to me in m.v $
success in making a living and <
that one is Jesus Christ who helps -
us do all things. In his death I (
know I have lost one of my very
best friends. I take this way of
expressing m.v appreciation of
Bro. William'* life and character
as I could not do it publicly at his
funeral.
I. M. Tayi.ob,
Ilarrellsvilie. N. C.
Southern Fanner.
A Southerner is said to be re
sponsible for the following com*
ment anet the camoaign te diver*
sify crops in the cotton belt:
The Southern farmer gets up at
the alarm of a Connecticut clock,
buttons Chicago suspenders to De
troit overalls, washes his face with
Cincinnati soap in a Pennsylvania
pan. He then sits down to a
Grand Rapids table and eats
Chicago meat and Indiana hominy,
fried in Kansas lard cooked in a
Kalamazoo range. He goes to his -
stable and puts a New York bridle
on a Kentucky mule fed on Iowa <
corn, plows a farm covered by an ^
Ohio mortgage with a Syracuse jj|
plow. When bedtime comes he if
reads a chapter from a Bible if
printed in Boston and says a pray- if
er written in Jerusalem. Then he /I
crawls under a blanket make in if
New Jersey, only to be kept awake if
by a North Carolina dog. The (f
dog is the only home product. (I
And then he wonders why he does t\
not make money raising cotton.? t
Rocky Mount Bulletin. if
And when this man dies he will i
probably be buried in a coffin i
made in a northern establishment i
and when the grave is filled he will /
have erected at his head a stone i
queried from the hills of Vermont i
and the only thing used at the (
funeral made in North Carolina
will be t bole in the ground.
'free protecj
_ - -^AGAINST-'
TYPHOID FEVER
Every Citizen in This County Should Be Immunized
It Causes No Sores. No Distress, sad No Loss o( Time. It is Sale,
Certain. Convenient. Practically Painless and Free. TYPHOID
Has Been ERADICATED Wherever Vaccine Has Been Used.
The average annual toll of typhoid fever in our army be- [
fore vaccination was begun was 536 cases and 37 deaths per |
100,000 soldiers. In 1910 the treatment was made optional and |
the rate fell to 232 cases and lti deaths. In March, 1911, the a
the treatment was made compulsory and the rate fell to 80 cases |
and 11 deaths, in 1912 there were only 26 cases and 3 deaths, j
There have been no deaths from typhoid io the army since 1912. |
Immunity Lasts for Throe or Four Years, Perhaps Longer. I
Take Your ENTIRE FAMILY to the Most Convenient Dispensary M
Point and be Immunised. Three Treatments Are Necessary to H
Give Complete Immunity. Therefore, be sure to visit a diapen- ?
sary on the opening date to secure all three treatments free.
Free Anti-Typhoid Despensaries Will be Open to E
the Public at the Follow ing Places and Dates:
Winton. Court House, August 16tb, 23rd and 30th, from |
10 A. M. to 3 P. M.
Como, August 17th, 24th and 31st from 10 A. M. to 1:80 I
P.M.
Murfreesboro, August 18th, 25tb and September 1st, from I
10 A. M. to 1:30 P. M.
St. John's, August 19th, 26th and September 2nd, from [
10 A. M. to 1:30 P. M.
AhosVie, August 20th, 27tb and September 3rd, from 10
to 2 P. M.
Harrellaville, August 21st, 28th and September 6th from
10 A. M. to 1 P. M.
By order Hertford County Commissioners,
W. B. POLLARD, Supt., Health,
Hertford County.
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- AHOMK.IK N. C.
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It'a the choice of mother, father, sister and brother?and
the boarders, if there be any. It's one subject upon which
the whole family agree. That's because Montauk Ice
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275 Granby Street ' NORFOLK. VA.
MOST PEOPLE
in this community cary accounts at this bank. Some are check
ing, others are savings, while still others are both.
Wo invite YOU to become a member of our happy family.
Checking accounts are the most convenient me thod of paying
bills, and they discourage extravagant habits
Saving accounts draw 4 per cent interest.
Merchants and Farmers Bank
Winton, N. C. J
a is often no harder to find than a dollar tj|jr
K when you want one in a hurry. W ,
Annex a check book by opening an ac
^ count at this bank, and protect yourself
P from such annoyances is the future.
a We carry many accounts at this bank. up
i Possibly we have yours, too. $
|\ If not. we invite you to open an ac- ? W
ft count today.
P We will serve you faithfully.
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^ MURFREESBORO.N. C.