Hertford Couivty Herald
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VOL. 8 AHOSKIE, N. C., MAY 4, 1917. ^ NO, 16
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BtiRineas.
AHOfKIE. N. C.
J. R. EVANS
Practical Tin Roofer and Sheet
Metal WorKer
Prices Right.
MURFREESBORO. N. C.
Walter R. Johnson
Attounft-at Law
Ahoskic. North Carolina
Practiced wherever service* desired
ill Ht?r J. W. ?*4wii 111 Mine
O. J. NEWBERN,
Agent
Ford Automobile*,
Ahoakie. N. C.
Touring Car ...$360.00
Runabout 345.00
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Roaw?ll C- Bridget
Attorney-at-Law
WINTON. N. C.
C. Wallace Jones
Attorney >nd Otjnaellor-At-Law
WINTOW. N. C.
Practice in all court*. Loans negotiat
ed. All mattera riven ororopt
and faithful attention.
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FIVE TRUSTEES
NOWJN WE
Convention of Monday Ni^Lt
Nominated Three Candida
tea for High School Trua
teea, W. L. Curtia Being
Nominee for Two-Year
Term?Barbee AttackaOld
Board. *
Th? voter* of Ahoskie High School
District'met a Rain at the moving
picture hall Monday night, and
nominated three candidates for the
positiori of trustee of the Ahoskie
High School. Only a small crowd
was present, and if. was half past
eight o'clock before enough voters
had (msembled to call the meeting.
However, when the meeting Was
called to order, W. W. Kogers was
unanimously elected chairman of
the meeting. He was placed in
nomination by E. M. Wooten. J.
H. Robertson was chosen secretary;
being the' nominee of Dr. J. H.
Mitchell.
Chairman Rogers in stating the
object of the convention, said that
the meeting had been called to nom
inate a candidate for the place made
vacant by the ruling of the Attor
ney-General that women could not
hold elective offices, and that in ad
dition to a nominee for a two-year
term, there were two other candi
dates to be nominated for six year
terms, r. u. r lyrne responaea
immediately by placing in nomina
tion for the two six-year term can
didates. Dr. P. H. Mitchell and W.
W. Rogers. A. E. Garrett then
placed the name of W. L. Curtis
before the convention as candidate
for the two-year term.
Right at this stage of the meet
ing A, T. Willoughby addressed the
chair and stated that the proceed
ings of the convention were out of
order, and that the meeting was
called to nominate only one candi
date to fill the place made vacant
by the ineligibility of Mrs. C. C.
Hoggard. His remarks were ruled
out of order by the chair. J. R.
Garrett and J. Roy Parker also ad
dressed the chair with similar re
marks, expressing the belief that
the meeting was called to nominate
only one candidate, two having been
regularly nominated at the regular
convention. C. C. Hoggard then
placed the name of J. Roy Parker
before the convention for the two
year term, and the nominations
were ruled closed.
At the conclusion of the balloting,
the count stood Rogers 21, Mitchell
22, Curtis 22, and Parker y>, the
former three being named as can
didates of the body assembled.
With no other business before the
meeting, the body adjourned.
Barbcc Makes Remarks.
Ere the entire crowd had dispers
ed, Chairman Rogers announced at
the downstairs entrance that Pro
fessor Barbee had p few remarks to
make relative to the schooty and a
small crowd assembled again to lis
ten to the speech of Professor Bar
i?
ucc.
The purpose and intent of the
speech was a clarion call to Ahos
kie'i citizens to awaken themselves
and oveqfhrow the regularly nom
inated candidates for six-year term
trustees, namely J. A. Williams and
M. D. Gatling. Professor Barbee
also attacked Dr. C. G. Powell for
the manner in which he had con
ducted the school, and accused him
of having "manned" the remaining
members of the Board. Before he
closed he strongly urged the voters
to busy themselves and help oust
the members of the old board, who
are to be given a trial at the ballot
box Monday.
Chairman Rogers spoke in very
commendatory terms of Professor
Barbee, and was followed by W. It.
Johnson, who, addressed his remark?
directly to Barbee, whom he com
mended for the manner in which he
had handled the school. Mr. John
son, however, stated that his re
marks had no bearing whatever on
the action of the meeting which
had overturned the former conven
tion. A. E. Garrett also commend
ed Professor Barbee. With no fur
ther ado the meeting adjourned.
CONFEDERATE REUNION
AT JA1M
Confederate Veterans Will Hol4
Their Annual Reunion in the Na
' tional Capital June 4th to 8th.
The Confederate Veterans will
meet at Washington June 4th to
9th, inclusive, to celebrate their
twenty seventh annual reunion.
This is the first time the Reunion
has been held outside of the geog
raphical limits of Dixieland. At
this Reunion Washington expects
to outdo itself, for Waahinton is a
city where entertaining has become
an art. The visiting heroes of the
valiant Southland are assured hos
pitality that will remain in their
minds as a pleasing memory as long
as they1 and their friends live. Blue
will welcome Gray, and instead of
being a strictly Southern affair, it
will become a national event, and
one of National significance.
Washington is always beautiful,
a/id in its vernal glory and beauty
it is thrice beautiful, and every
Confederate Veteran and his friends
should not let this opportunity pass
to visit the first city in the land, and
one of the wonder cities of the
world.
Washington will welcome the
"Johnnies" with a hospitality -al-(
most Arabian. everything for
their pleasure, comfort and conven
ience will be provided. The Great
Plaza fronting the Union Station,'
practically under tne snaaow 01 uie
Golden Dome will be converted into
a camp of a thousand tent*.
Trolley lines, automobiles and
railroads will carry Veterans and
their friends to the many Civil .War
battlefields, and to Mount Vernon,
where are located thehcwie and tomb
of George Washington.
Washington is pervaded today with
the spirit of war: preparation for
the great struggle we are entering
into with the warring nations <?f
Europe makes the city doubly inter
esting.
The rebel yell, "Dixie" and the
"Star Spangled Banner" will blend
along Pennsylvania Avenue, and
awaken the echoes, arouse the pat
riotism as nothing else could.
The railroads are showing their
patriotism and interest in the mem
orable event by giving the lowest
rates ever offered, and it is believed
that this will be the means of bring
ing a large attendance.
In addition to this event, others
of importance will be held the same
week. The Sons of Confederate
Veterans, the Daughters of the
Confederacy, and the Confederated
Southern Memorial Association,
besides Regimental reunions, and
the social functions which always
are elaborate features of the Re
union. ?. -
A visit to Washington under such
circumstances will be both interest
ing and instructive, and especially
so coming at such a time when our
country is preparing for war.
-Notice of Sale for Taxea.
To be sold Saturday, May 12;
191*7, at, Mayor's} office;
Colored
Mary E. Newsome, House and
Lot on Maple St.
P. W. Holloman, Collector.
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We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any caae of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Med
icine.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been
taken by catarrh sufferers for the paAt
thirty-five years and has become known
as the most reliable remedy for catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts thru the
Blood on tne Mucous surfaces, expelling
the Poison from the Blood and healing
the diseased portions.
After you have taken Hall's Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see
a great improvement in your general
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Rheumatism
If you are troubled with chrome
muscular rheumatism ?ive Cham
ber In in's Liniment a trial.> The
relief from pain which it afford*
is alone worth many times it* cost.
Obtainable everywhere. Adv.
WIIITOIJAVELETTS
Quite a crowd-went from here to
Murfreeaboro Sunday afternoon to
hear Rev. K. D. Stukenbroke, pas
tor of the Baptist Church at Jack
son, deliver an address at Chowan
College on "Religous Conditions in
Germany." Mr. Stukenbroke is a
native of Germany and he made a
most interesting and most instruc
tive talk, and impressed on his hear
ers the great need of a change in
the government of Germany. We
who live "in the land of the free
and the home of the brave" cannot
realize the awful conditions that ex
ist in Germany
Mr. J. P. Mitchell went to Nor
folk Sunday afternoon to have an
operation performed for mastoiditis.
Mrs. C. S. Vann and daughter.
Miss Myra Vann, were guests in the
home of Mrs. Martha Vann the
past week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Williams, of
Suffolk, spent Friday and Saturday
with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lee.
Mr. and Mi's. Luther Hale and
ohild, of New York City, will arrive
Tuesday to visit their parents, Mr.
Mrs. D. D. Hale.
The W. M. Si'of the Winton Bap
tist Church observed last week as
Week of Prayer and thank-offering
for Home Missions.
Several members of the Mission
ary Societies of the Baptist Church
es of Winton will attend the Hert
ford County Union, which meets at
Mt. Tabor Tuesday, May 1st.
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Miss ttmioii cMiaw, wno naa uet'Il
visiting in Suffolk and Raleigh, re
turned horn? Monday.
Miss Ruth Davenport, who has
been teaching in the high school at
Rich Square during the past session,,
returned home Fifclay to spend t^re
summer vacation-^' - /
Mrs. M. R. Herring and, Itath
Vann were in Norfolk Tuesday and
Wednesday shopping.
_ Graves Vann, of A. and E. Col
lege, has enlisted in ,the U. S. A.
and-will go with the Coaat Artillery.
Willie Britton "Went U- Norfolk
last week to enlist in the U. S. A.
Mr. Charlie Parker, of McRae,
Ga., is visiting his brother, Mr. A.
I. Parker/
Mr. J. S. Shaw, who has been at
Southern Pines for the past six
weeks, returned home Friday. "Mr.
Shaw is very much improved.
Mrs. A. J. Pearce spent Tuesday
in Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Wallace Jones
spent'Monday in Suffolk. They
made the trip in their car.
Mrs. G. L. Banks went to Suffolk
Monday. Mr. Banks went on to
Norfolk to bring back a car load of
Ford automobiles.
Mrs. Alfred Eason and baby,
Irene Clark, are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. J. N. Clark.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lowe went
to Norfolk Monday.
Mr. J. R. Vann spent Sunday in
Norfolk.
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A GOOD MARKET FOR CRAPES
Growers of Scuppernong Grapes
will be gratified at the news that
Garrett & Company of Norfolk, Va.
will be in the market for choice
grapes in large quantities.
While the Garrett plant will be
moved in the early Fall from Nor
folk to New York City, they . will
continue to receive grapes for press
ing at Wilmington, Plymouth,
Tokay, Medoc and other points.
Their advice to Scuppernong
Grape growers is to fertilize the
vineyards liberally and keep the
vines in the acme of perfection for
a big yield and a good profit.
Scuppernong grapes in the past
have yielded big returns to South
ern growers and the present out
look is that' their use will be very
largely extended.
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HOW TO SELECT FOODS j
The following suggestions on get
ting the most food for one's mon
ey are from United States Depart
ment of Agriculture Farmers' Bul
letin 808, "How to Select Foods."
Use cereals (flour, meal, cereal
breakfast foods, etc.) freely, taking
pains to vary the kind used from
day to day if necessary to keep peo
ple from tiring of them.
Remember that a quart of whole
milk a day for each child, to be us
ed as a beverage and in cookery, is
not too much.
Plan carefully in both buying and
serving.
_ Do not be ashamed to plan close
ly. Thrift in food means providing
enough food, neither too little nor
too much.
Notice carefully how of such
staples as flour, sugar, milk, cooking
fat, etc., is used each week for a
month, and see if there are any
ways of cutting down the quantity
needed.
Buy nonperisl.able materials in
quantities if better prices can be se
cured and there is a good storage
place in the home. Neighbors can
sometimes club together to get low
er rates.
Estimate carefully how much of
any material will be needed before
laying in a supply, then see that
none is wasted by careless handling
Try to make the dishes served of
such s*ize that there will be enough
to satisfy the appetite of the family
and no unnecessary table and plate
waste. /
Do not be above noticing whether
anything usable is thrown away with
the, garbage, which always shows
ho# thriftily food is used in a house
Many inexpensive materials can
be made attraclivejmd the diet can
be .pleasantly varied by ? wise use
of different flavorings.
"Finicky" tastes in food often
prevent the use of many valuable
materials which might be tyie means
of saving money.
Good food habits are an impor
tant part, of personal hygiene and
thrift. Children get such habits by
suitable amounts of suitable foods
served to them and then being ex
pected to eat what is set before
them.
True economy lies i\ot onlv in
buying wisely but also in making
the fullest possible use of what is
bought.
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THIS STATE MAKES RECORD
North Carolina has been one of
the six states to j^>t honorable men
tion for the record she made in the
sale of Red Cross Christmas seals.
According to information received
from Charles M. DeForest, sales
manager of the National Tubercu
losis Association, North Carolina
came in for second place in her class
of States having a population of
between a million and a quarter to
two million four hundred population.
Her per capita sale was .999, not
inilivitluftl ?
The states winning first prizes in
their resJJeetiveclasses were Wyom
iff i. j vr \r _ __i
ing, Minnesota ana /New iorK.
Those winning second prizes were
North Carolina, Connecticut and
Wisconsin. The towns getting the
Urgent per capita sales were Her
shey , Pa., with a sale of 78.6 per
capita; Thornburg, Pa., 30.7; Holt
ville, Cat., 29.2; and Broadview,
Mont., 24.8.
In regard to North Carolina's
sale record, a letter to Dr. L. B.
McBraver from Mr. DeForest says;
"I take great pleasure in informing
you that your State has attained
the honor of second place in the
sale of Red Cross Seals throughout
the United States in Class B for
cities and towns with populations
from l,2.r>0,000 to 2.400,000.' Yotir
per capita sale, according to our re
cords, is .999.
"We congratulate yon and the"
cititizens of your community on
this splendid record, and trust that
next year you will attain to flrat
place, and win a pennant. We feel
that it is a real distinction for any
state in the United States to place
its name on the health map of the
country by selling seals in so con
spicuous a manner as you have
done."
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mm cam-"
paiu summer
State Board o( Health Makes Chan
ces in Work? Phyaiciana in Coun
ty WiU Do the Work.
While tbe State Bbard of Health
is planning to conduct twenty coun
ty anti-typhoid campaigns this sum
mer, it announced yesterday that
there would be a slight change in
the Board's plan for conducting
these campaigns during the summer
months. Instead of sending physi
cians into the country to do this
work as has been the plan of the
Board heretofore, the phyaiciana of
the county will be given the work
at a coat to the county to be gov
erned by the expense experience in
curred in other counties in which
the State Board of Health has pre
viously done th's work.
Only the coat of administering
the vaccing and local newspaper ad
vertising will be met by the county,
while the Board will furnish fee all
vaccine or sufficient quantity for
twenty county campaigns, advar
vertising placards and posters, re
cord blanks, and free health litera
ture. It will furnish also the ser
vices of an- experienced organizer
who will direct the organization and
conduct the advertising preparatory
to beginning the w.prk at the ap
pointed time.
The Board makes the further an
nouncement that the first twenty
counties to arrange with their phy
sicians as to this work will be the
first counties accepted. The State i
Laboratory of Hygiene promises to
furnish free vaccine for only twen
ty county campaigns and for this
reason only this number will be ac
cepted. The Board will still have j
supervision of the work, as this will
be necessary from the Board's ex
perience to ' insure the keeping of |
records as the oniformity of the re-'
cords that they may be of service in
referred matters.
The questions for the county to '
settle, advises a health bulletin, is '
not whether or not the county can
afford to {pve it to its people free,
but how soon can it arrange to get
it. Counties which put on cam- (
paigns against typhoid fever in
1915, with a result that only 13 1
per cent of the people took the (
treatment, reduced the typhoid
death rate 25 per cent or 43 deaths. ^
The reports for the counties doing ,
this work in 1916 show a still fur- (
ther decrease of about 30 per cent.
The nearer summer and flv time
approaches, the more insistent be- (
comes the question of typhoid pre
vention.
FACTS ABOUT PORK KA1SING !
' Bacon is a valuable financial crop;
it may be produced cheaply and dis- ,
posed of easily. i
North Carolina does not produce ,
enough for its own use. All of its
meat products should be increased.
One of the best ways to do this, ,
now, is^KaTevety aowln*the Sitate "
be bred for a fall litter of pigs. ,
ma ? '? ? nAA J- ? - *
inis menus zuu pounas 01 meai ,
per pifr from each titter of six pigs;
1,200 pounds of meat will provide
the meat fqr five families. r
But when the sow is bred, feed
should be provided. Grazing crop*
pasturage is necessary in this. ,
Pastures are ready generally
about May 1. Fall fattening crops
should be ready after the pastures
have been grazed.
Peanuts and soybeans are fine on
the coast, and soybeans, alone, are
valuable in the Piedmont section.
Many other crops are valuable,
as cowpeas, chufas, velvet beans,
and sweet potatoes.
But information secured at the
branch stations indicates that peg
nuts and soy beans are the most val
uable fall and early winter grazing
crops.
Cowpeas afford about one-half as
much grazing per acre as soybeans.
When these crops are planted
May 1st, the soybeans are ready for
grazing during the first week in
September.
The peanutafollow about a month
or so later. '
WHO SUPPORTS
TBE_ STATE? |
According to University News
Letter North Carolina is
One of the Most Inexpen
sively Operated States in
the Union?No Reason for
Grumbling at Excessive or
Burdensome Taxes.
The average tax payer in North
Carolina demands a great deal but
pays very little in comparison with
the benefits he derives from living
in the state, as was shown by A. O.
Joines, of Alleghany county, at the
regular meeting of the North Caro
lina Club Monday night.
"The greatest source of revenue
in the state," said Mr. Joines, "is 1
the general property tax. Who
pays it? Two-thirds of the whites
of all ages own no property and pay
no taxes, unless it be poll tax; two
fifths of the whites who pay prop
erty taxes pay on less than $500,
or less than $2.36 apeice for state
support; thre-fifths of all the white
property owners pay on less than
$1000 or less than $4.76 per year;
and, most amazing of all, six per
cent of the white tax payers of the
state own more than half of all the
real and personal property, and
therefore pay more than half of all
the general property taxes that
reach the state treasury. The other
tax revenues come from poll taxes,
special taxes and business taxes.
idc iu rayer'8 uollar.
"But what goes with the tax
payer's dollar? It ia expended as
follows: Public education and li
braries 33.2 per cent; charities,?
hospitals, and corrections 18.3 per
sent; pensions and the Confederate
tome 10.9 per cent; public buildings
ind equipment 9.4 per cent; inter
sst on funded and floating debt 8.3
per cent; the civil establishment 6.6
per cent; conservation of natural
resources 5.2 per cent; protection
>f persons and pioperty 4.4 per
:ent; conservation of health 2.4 per
:ent; incidental .7 per cent; educa
:ional recreation .12 per cent; and
public high ways .10 per cent. -
A glance at this list will convince
the dullest tax payer that the taxes
le pays are spent directly for the
jenefit of his home and family,
rhe schools educate his children,
the courts protect him from violence
md fraud; the afflicted and unfor
tunate members of his home circle
ire being cared for at Morganton
5r Raleigh; the state board of health
is busy the whole state over fighting
preventable disease and postponable
death.
Cheap Government.
"Nor is this a wasteful, extrava
gant state government because only
S 2-3 cents of every dollar in the
st%te trejliry went to pay the men
who carry out the will of the people,
while 93 1-3 cents were devoted to
creating better opportunities and
greater safety for the people of the
state. The operating cost of the
state government in North Carolina
In 1914 was the smallest in the
union, or only 14 cents per inhabi
tant. |
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in ure uuivu ia av
ed more inexpensively than North
Carolina. No atate government re
turn* to the people larger benefit*
for the taxea they pay. The bene-.
fits have been small because the
state revenues have been small; and
the state revenues have been small
because the average tax payer'*
notions of taxation have been small.
Only recently have we begun to
realize this fact and to vote more
liberal appropriations. The legis
lature of 1917 has just written the
most hopeful chapter in the history
of Nortffi Carolina in a hundred
years." '
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