Hertford County Herald THE LARGEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN EASTERN KORTH CAROLINA. VOL. 7 * AHOSKIE, N. C.f DECEMBER 15, 1916. ~ NQ. 48 ?? - ? ? ? ? ffiiffU? If HBl ' ??? ? ? .. _ f ' I The Board of County Commia aioner* of Hertford county met on the 4th. day of December 1916, ?II member* of the Boird being oreaent; viz, 8. P. Winborne, C E Boyette. ii. H. Jonea, J. M. Eie.v, J. A. Powell end E. J. Gerock. the newly elected board. The Board elected S. P. Win borne ae Chairman for the ensuing term of one year after being aworn in office by D. K. McGlohon, Clerk Superior Court. Mr. E. J. Gerock is ,elected to over look the County Home and to adviae with the Superintendent Mr. M. M. Brown. The matter of Hating H, M. Outlaw land i* continued. Tlie Commiaaiouer of each town abip ia inatrueted to requeat their Koad Superviaora to comply with the law in reference to reporting. Mr. G. B. Story preaented bia bond aa Standard Keeper and aame waa accepted add Mr. Story aworn in office. fv a aa t_ _ _*t . ms ine following oiner omoerx presented their bonds which were unanimously accented; A. E. Garrett, Sheriff and C. W. How ard, Constable of St. Johns town ship. The bond of J, A. Northcott as Register of Deeds was presented but was not completed and the Board unpointed ?. J. Gerock and H. H. Jones as committee to receive said bond when same is ready and Mr. Nortbcott requested to take oath of office before the Clerk Superior Court. On motion, it was ordered that each Tax Collector be instructed to collect as much as $1,000 by Dec., 20th and turn same over to the Treasurer. On motion, H. H. Jones is given authority and instructed to rebuild Hills bridge. Report is received from D. R. Mc'.ilohon Clerk Superior Court of fines and forfeitures. Densities etc., to first Monday in Dee., 1916 and alto his regular annual report of funds in hand to the above date as required by law, and H. H. Jones and J. A. Northcott is ap pointed as a committee to check these reports with records of his office. On motion, W, D. Boone is elected as County Attorney for the ensuing year at salary of $60, 00. It having coming to the notice of the Board that one of lU mem bers, J. N. Hollotnnn, whose term of offise expired on the day of his death, it is on motion ordered that a committee composed of ?. J. Oerock, W. D. Boone and J. A. Nortbcott je appointed to draft suitable resolutions of respect on the death of Mr. Hollomon end present same to the Board at its next meeting. It is ordered by the Board that a phone be placed in the Superin tendents Home at the county farm for his oonvenienoe, and E. J. Oerock is instructed to have this done. Tliere being no Coroner elected at the regular election in Nov.. it is on motion ordered that Dr. P. H. Mitchell be appointed Coroner of Hertford County for the term of two years ending first Monday in December 1918, and Dr. Mitch ell is requested to present his bond next meeting of Board. All officeis made their regular reports which are on file. The Superintendent Health made reg ular monthly report. The following amounts turned oyer to the Treasurer by the sev eral tax collectors to wit; S. E. Vaughan, Ahoekie.l 541.10 B. N. Sykes. Harrellsyille 568.81 W. J. Hill, Maneys Neck 268.04 W.L.Mathews. Wmtun 339.11 T. T. Parker, M'boro... 296.89 M. R. Sumner, 8t. Johns 513.21 $2526.96 The following accounts present ed a do approved for payment to wit: 1>. L. Myers, services regis* trar $20.90 PI PICTURES 10 MO ttEtfBiCHBUU " As an aid in tbe tale of Red Croat Chriatmaa seal* and in tbe fight againat tuberculoaia, Dr. L. B. McBra.ver. executive secretary of the State Red Croat Seal Com miaaion, haa recently purchased a powerful motion picture film en titled, "The Great Truth." Thie film will be ahown at all the mov ing picture ahowa in the 8ute and then will be aaed by Mr. Warren H. Booker in bia educational health campaign through moving picturea in the country and amall towns. "The Great Truth" ia a thrilling drama and ia considered by movie expert* to be one of the beat pro duction*. regard leu* of subject or teaching, that are now being ahown. It was produced by the Plimpton Epic Pictures, Inc., of New York and is everywhere be ing well received. Dr. McBra.ver says: "Much good work was done last year by college boys and girla selling Red Cross seals and we Liooe to have their hearty co-operation again thia year". A uUHMUNlCATIUN e> ? The Confederate Woman's Home of North Carolina is situat ed near the historic town of Fay etteville. The building is of brick and plaHer. having twenty-three bed rooms. These ro>>ms with the exception of three are furnished by different U. D. C. Chapters of the State, each room having a nice suite of furniture, bed linen and blankets. The sitting room was furnished by Mr. Julian Carr. The reception hall by the Ashley Home's, the dining room by the general division of the D. D. C's., consisting of necessary furn iture and nice table linen. There are about fire acres of garden, etc. The President of the Advisory Board is Mrs. Hunter Q. Smith, who, with. ber loving kindness and christian symnatby, is truly our guardian angel. Thanksgiving day was a bright, beautiful and peaceful day with us. We had the proverbial Thanksgiving turkey, with cran berries, and ice cream and cake. The day before Thanksgiving Mrs. McKethan came with Mrs. Hunter Smith and brought a box of fruit, much to our enjoyment. The Rocky Mount and Enloe Chapters sent splendid donations, consisting of every good thing to eat, for which the borne is very thankful. The Fayetteville people giye us many pleasant surprises, such as auto rides and fruit. Mrs. G. B. Sessoma, our matron, is untiring in ber efforts to please, and in see ing: to our comforts. We one and all, say, we thank the Grand Old North State for this beautiful borne, the D. D. C.'s for their kindness, and our beloved Mrs. Hunter Smith, who ever watches over us tf ith her aweet christian sympathy and love. An inmate of the Home. H. A. Hobbs, services Judge of election 2.00 8.' J. Dilday, services Judge election ... 2.00 B. Scull, services Registrar 18.77 J. H. Futrell. Lumber for bridges 46.91 S. L. Marsh, Judge election 2.00 Winborne A Winborne, County Attorneys.. 60.00 8. P. Winborne, services County Comtnr.,........ 58.20 8. P. Winborne, hauling timber for ferries 16.00 Hertford Co. Herald, publishing proceedings etc. 20.00 Browne end Browne, Sup. to Co. Home.... 15 70 M. M. Browne, Rup, to Co. Home... 8.95 Willis Pierce, work at Co. Home '. 13.00 J. E. Mathews, Sup. to Co. Home 10.66 Lawrence and Riddick, Picking peanuts etc...... 16.10 A. P. Sears A Son, Sup. to Co. Home 18.25 J. H. Lawrence, services Judge election 2.00 J. E. Jones, board prisoners (Continued on page four) WHY Hi \l NECESSARY WHEN HIM II8011 ? ' The following inquiry has re cently been received by the Ag ronomy Divieion of the Extension Service from e farmer in Wake County. Ae it ia typical of a good many inquiriea. it ia inserted here with a reidy from the Divie ion: "How can my aoil need lime when the publialied analyaia of it ahowe it to contain more thau f. 000 pounda per acre in the surface 3 2 3 inches'" Lime may be p-esent in the aoil in many forma. Moat fre qufn'.l*, however, with North Car olina eoila it ia combined in the form of comolex silicates. Aa a matter of fact, with Piedmont aoile, practically all of the lime ia combined in this form. The quantity in the form jf carbonates ia so small usually that it cannot be detected b.v the common meth ods used in the chemical laboia tory io detecting soil acidity. That lime in the soil contained in the form of a silicate ia not. without being changed, able to sweeten soils that are eour. It might be aaid in a general way, therefore, that such has but little, if any, value for correcting sourness of the soil. The only commercial forms that are suitable for this ourpose are calcium carbonate and calcium oxide. The latter material is found on the market in the form of burnt lime. This, when added to the soil, is chanced in a com paratively short time, to calcium carbonate by absorption of carbon dioxide fro<?s the air. The staple form of lime in nature of sweeten ing soils is ealcium carbonate, which is contained in oyster shells ground limestone, marl, ashes, etc. The lime contained in the form of silicates, upon the decom position, is probably chanced into farms in wbicb the plant may use them to some extent. Kven though the soil micht contain 6, 000 pounds of lime to the acre, larcely if not almost entirely in the form of complex silicates, it will not assure the crowtb of leg uminous crops as are used in rota tion with the cotton, corn, and small gruina. This assumption is borne out by several tests of the soil, showing it in every case, at tbe different points at which samples were tak en, to be decidedly fecid by the lit ma test. In order, therefore, to secure tbe best results with clov ers, soybeans, etc., it will be nec essary to sweeten tbe soil by the uae of groud limestone, burnt lime marl or some other ecomieal car rier of lime. Taking everything into consid eration, it will be found that the ground limestone or ground marl are tbe cheaper forms to purchase at tbe present time. They are the ones that can be moct easily ap plied. and the ones which less pre cautions have to be observed in making the applications. Ordi narily with the Durham coarse Jindy loom soils, which is quite eficient in organic matter, in or der that tlie best returns in tbe growing of cotton, corn and small grains may be obtained, it will be absolutely necessary to add some organio matter to the soil. There is no question bat what legumi-< nous crops and crop residues will be found to be tbe moat economi cal way to supply this deficiency. Tbe legumes, too, will take nitro gqn from the atmosphere if the soil is properly inoculated, and when they are plowed under will add this costly and expeniive con stituent to the soil. At the same time the organic matter supply is being built up. Nervous Wom.n ! ? When the nervousness iscaus ed by constipation, as is often the esse, you will get quick re lief by taking Chamberlain's Tablets. These tablets also im prove the digestion. Obtainable everywhere. 111111 I (ft H U O Newly $2,600,000 has been rein ed by Red Cr"#s Christmas Seels in the lest seven .veers, end yet many people who will buy these holiday stickei* at this eighth an nuel sale do not know how the charity stamp idea originated. It was war that brought forth the charity stamp?our Civil war of'6l to '66. Some ot our grand mothers first played "Post office" with stickers similar to Red Cross Seals 'way back in 1862, when they conceived Uie idea of selling stamps at fairs for the benefit of the relief funds fur the soldiers' hospital in Brooklyn, Boston and elsewhere. Nearly $1,000,000 was raised in this way before 1865 After the war this method of rais ing money was discontinued in this country for a generation, al though it found vogue in Portugal, Switzerland, Austria. Prance. Spain, Denmark. Norway. Russia, Sweden and other European coun tries. There are now several thousands of different types of charity stamps used in all parts of the world, as many as forty being in Austria tc children's hospitals alone. sumps or seals ware first used to set money for the anti-tubercu losis crusade itf Norway and Swed en in 1904. To Jacob Ktis, the well known social worker of New York, and to Mias Emily P. Bis sel, the energetic secretary <>f the Dele ware Red Cross, jointly be long the honor of originating cur ? American Red Cross Christmas seal. In 1907 Mr. Riis's interest < was aroused by the receipt of a < Chi istmas tuberculosis stamp on a * letter from Norway. He publish- * ed an article about this queer look < ing stamp in the Outlook and sug- < gested some possible uses for it in < this cpuntry. Mias Bissel at once * saw an opportunity here and pre- * pared a stamp, from the sale of which her society realized $3,000 . for tuberculosis work. So im pressed was she with this success that she induced the American Red Crcjss to Uke up the sale in 1 1908 on a national basis. With ( very little organization and with hardly any attempt at careful ad- " vertising the sale that year brought ' in over $135,000 for anti-tubercu losis work in various parts of the United States. In 1909, with more thorough organization, the sale wa| increased to $230,000, in 1910 to nearly $310,000, in 1911 to over $330,000 and in 1912 to over $400,000. In 1913 the sale was increased to nearly $450,000, and last year, in spite of war and hard times, 22 per cent more, or ' 65.000.000 seals were sold, totaling ' $550,000 for the anti-tuberculosis j war. _ I Notice of Land Sale! We wiH, on the 1st day of Jan uary, 1917, offer for ttale to the higest bidder the following deacrib ed real estate, viz: lit tract?The J. H. Doughtie Home Place, attuated on the Win ton and Harre)l>ville Road adjoin ing the landa of O- J. Harrell, W. S. Perry and Mra. D. Bazemore, containing seventy (70) acres more or leaa. 2nd. tract?The Harrell place situated on Wiecacon Creek, ad joining the lands of Armistead ?Sessoms. Day id Bazemore snd others, containing one hundred and thirty (130) acre; more or less. This place is well timbered. Place of sale, at the Court House door, Winton, N. C, Time of sale between the hours of 11 A. M. and 1 P. M. Terms will be made known at tM sale. Mrt. J. H. Doughtie, Miss Essie Doughtie, W. D. Burden, Mrs. W. D. Burden, II, C. Hollomon, Mrs. H. 0. Hollomon. Heirs. Good lor ComtiiMtlon Chamberlain's Tablets are ex cellant for constipation. The.v are pleasant to take and mild in effect. Obtainable everywhere. ! 1 ' WANTED Mine Prop*, All Siaee. Cell or Write to Sterling Mine Prop Co. AULANDEK. N C. Any one desiring to purchnse ? WHBbe?lniiea of any deecrsption, , aee or write J. B, MODLIN, Alioekie, N. C. Agent* for United Mules Murbel Co. DR. C. G POWELL DENTIST PHONE NO. 10 AHOSKIE. If. C. A/inborn* dt WmbarM Bsnj. B. Wlnhornc Stanley Winborne Attorneys-st-Lew IIURPREESBORO, N. C. Phones No. IT snd 21. Edgar Thomas Snipes Attorney ?? t-fuw Loan* Negotiated Real Estate Booght and Sold* Office: Snd Floor J. W. Godwin. Jr.. Bldg AHOSKIE. N. C. i R. R. ALLEN Dealer In ? ASH. DOORS. BI.INDS. WINDOW GLASS. HARDWARE. PAINT8 AND BUILDINO MATERIALS GENERALLY Wholesale and Retail No. V27 Washington Nqeare SUFFOLK. VA. RASH. DOORS. HARDWARE. PAINTS. LIME. CEMENT. SEWER PIPE. CART MATERIAL. MILL SUPPLIES. STOVES, RANGES AND ETC. CLOSE PRICES. MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED AND OBLIGE ?? L. POLK CO. Na. 917-919 W?.hln?f.>n Kq.ar* SUFFOLK. VA. ROGERS A WILLIAMS Attornejrt-at'Lmr Prompt Attantion Given to All Boeineu. AHOFKIE. N. C. ? ? I J. R. EVANS Practical Tin Roofer and Sheet Metal Worker Price* Riirht. * MURFREESBORO. N. C. Walter R. Johnson attobnhttat Law . Aiioskib. Nobtr Cabolina Practices wherever services desired fit n*sr J. t.Mwta Uiltl.r O. J. NEWBERN, Aiut ? Fokd Aotomobilim, Ahoskie, N. C. Touring Car $330.00 Runabout ... 345.00 F. O. B. Detroit. t ? '? ? ,. * ? ? Roewell C- Bridger* Attorney-at-Law WINTON. N. C. C. Wallace Jones Attyney and Counsellor-At-Law WINTOW. N. C. Practice in all courts. Loans negotiat ed. All matters given orompt and faithful attention. Located In Bnnk of Win ton* RUB OUT PAIN with food oil liniment. That'* the ?ureft war to stop them. The heat rubbing liniment ia MUSTANG LINIMENT Good for the Atlmknb qf Horaea, Mule*, Cottle, Etc. Good for your own A chet, Paine, Rheumotum, Spraini, Cut*, Burn*, Etc. 25c. 50c. *1. At aB Daaki*. UICUEB SSI) STILL HlliHEIl t The cost of living is becoming serious. Prices i for the necessaries of life continue to soar, and ex- U penses generally run higher and still higher. The B hour for entrenchment is at hand. Waste must be ? cut out and saving introduced as its substitute. No better means of Saving can be B foune than a Saving's Account in a good I banking hours. * CITIZENS BANK I of Murfreesboro, N. C. invites our account, large or small. A small ac- I count beaomes the foundation for greater things, as E "large oaks from small acorns grow." Open an Account With Us. DO IT NOW! Citizens Bank. Murfreesboro, N. C. I Fall and Winter Goods. || f A grand assortment of Fall and Winter Goods now i ? 0 adorns our theirs. Everything sold at same old prices. < ? W ??????? < ? 1 Buy your Garments here. <? I J. P. BOYETTE, Aboskie, N. C. J[ ? - Fire Insurance. Rental Hflents* f The Guarantee Company, Inc. \ W. L. CURTIS, Pres. J. O. CARTER, Secjr. ft Trau J ?i * 1 -? z? ?i zzib 1 FLOWERS for all occasions. Wedding flowers, funeral designs, com mencement flowers etc. Place your order with Boyette ft Blount, our local agent for Ahoakie. BUCK'S Norfolk's Oldest Florist. NORFOLK, VA. ? I i II l& i I ?? NOT ONE MAN IN A THOUSANID' j That ever gets a Start in Life does ao outaide of the beaten peth of regular Saving. It ia the one sure tray of getting on yonr feet. Oet a few hundred dollars ahead. It will open the way to N better things. jj Labor judiciously directed and Capital intelligently employ- | ed from the bedrock of private fortune. Accounts can be atart- I ed with ua with any sum from $1 upward. FOB SAFETY. Merchants and Farmers Bank Winton, N. C R HORSES AND MULES J 1 ANNOUNCEMEUSTTJ I We wish to inform toe public that beginning Decem ber the 20tb, we will have on band for aale and ex change a full stock of good Horaea and Mulea which will be kept replenished with fresh stock daring the entire season. We appreciste your patronage in the past and shall endeavor to warrant the continuation of same by keeping only first class stock. HAMELLBROTHERS | Murfreesboro, N. C. Located in Stables at Rear of Peoples Bank.

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