Hertford Courtty Herald A PAPER WORTH WHILE i - -IWI HMM w I nmn-T-iT ' 'I Ijim-r - i-'-'T-r-Tii ?? HI wmn; ?TiPm im-niT :w-?rm I- r tT-n it inn-- n r?n ~ttiit VOLUME 9. AHOSKIE, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPT., 13, 191S. NUMBER 34 Herald,, 7V> fontitme Witty Improved Service Improved Service WU1 Be <$rr ipn to Herald Bga/wi High. nine With Thi. Imuu*?De spite the Absence of Prop rietors Hertford County Will Mot Forego County Paper. The Editor, although wear ing the uniform and being a member of Uncle Sam'a navy, ia glad to make the announce ment that the HEBALD, ?Hert County's orily paper, will con tinue to be issued at the office in Ahoekie; and that with this issue it will again be enlarged to six pages. Furthermore with the same support that has been given it, his paper will appear with eight paggs when condi tions will warrant; In fact, ev erything wil Ibe done at this office to make it an eight page paper. Mr. W?. H. Jackson, of Spring .Hope, an experienced newspaper man and printer of wide experience, assumed the position of Operator-Manager 4pn Monday morning, Septem ber and henceforth, togeth er with assistance of Mayon Parker, as wc'l ab the help of the former Editor, will publish the HBKAI D, with its improv ed service. Mr. Jackson kniowa \he printing game; and prom ises to ma!:e out of the HER ALD a real live, newsy, well printed paper, and indies" are that ho wjll do that very thing. The paper will be entirely a home enterprise, the composi tion being don? on our new li|otype machine ,and the pa per printed on the pride o fthe HERALD office?our late mod el two revolution press, not yet one yeiar old in our service. With the resumption of work on our typesetter persons in charge of the mechanical de partment, we are confident that the HERALD will lookj good to the people who have been constant readers of this! publication for th epast nine j years. ^ During the past summer, and since both proprietors of this paper have been in the service of their country, the paper has been struggling along with di minished force, all work being done by hand. We realized from the start that we could not give our people the paper that we should with this serv ice, but we have been doing our best, iir the face of present conditions. It is only by strain ing every point ?f vantage that we are now able to make the above announcement. But we , never did believe in trying to "give our readers.lt has been our our readers. It has been oar slogan to (dve oar. readers a pa per worth the money, and a pa per that fulfills the misstep of the weekly publication. And, thft is what we intend doing. With tfce announcement that the HERALD will be improved we are also pleased to announ ce* that the job-department of the HJE&ALD wHI now be able to/do batter and more work tun ever before since ita es tablishment. Being well equip ped with modern machinery and office fixtures, our job de partment will be one of the very best in point of service and capacity for work in this section of the State. We ?re now prepared to do all kinds of job work, and we hope to be able to take care of this business in increased vol ume. a?d with improved scrv jCfc. We are sure th?t the people of this county and section wiH welcome the above atinuuncr ments, and we believe that they will freely support this B HERTFORD COUNTY ' FAIR ASSOCIATION Tbe F^iir Bt^Mins Beit* Erec* ?d and Ground Ctttinf a General Clean Up. Enclos ure About Completed. New Race Track. Contractors at the Fair grounds are now pushing work in a speedy way so as to have everything in readm tor the 1918 Fair this fall. The grounds have been given a general clean up, bushes having been cut down and all rubbish burnt. The enclosure is practically completed on the front side and the buildings being erected. The contracts call for a main exhihit building, a poultry building, a live stock building, a grand stand, a judges stand and the enclosure of the grounds besides the building of a new up-to-date race track, which has been laid off and now being graded. When completed the grounds will show up second to none for the first year of a county fair. Prospects for the exhibits are very .good, numerous parties having already promised exhib its of various kinds and nev plans bfeing worked out every day. Chowan College of Mur xree'starp will be asked to have an exsQHt also .the colored Col 1 intojk, besides every oi%;?rtqgffi3 asked to plan ex hioltepruie Fair and lets put Hertford County's Fair right to the front from thfbeginning. Judges of the exhibits will be provided for by the State, ; also demonstrators. It is now hoped that the Governor of the 'State will be in Winton on the first day to open the Fair. This alone will attract aggest crowd oesides special attractions have been contracted for that will interest evry one, the most im portant special attractions be ing the submarine, the collec tion of War trophies from the war front and Palestine and nu merous large framed pictures that were taken right on the battle field. Besides new at tractions are being worked for that haven't been mentioned. Of course, the Midway will be full of the usual attractions that are sean at the best coun ty fairs, and a good band t j lead it all. Parties desiring space for lunoch counters on j for exhibiting should write the secretary at Winton at once for space on the ground as of course the best places on the Midway will go to the fii*t ap plicants, and some applica tions have already been receiv ed for space. 'The railroad has promised reduced rates to Tunis where the boats and ears will take pasengers for Winton and the far ground. Efforts are being made now to have the boat lines run excursions from tfea river, points during the fair. WAR SHOULD Bt' NO HAN DICAP TO EDUGA ? X*"' TIOK *\ ' % i? Winston-Salem, 8ept. 7.? 'This it not a time when boys and girls should feel that that they are, handicapped in get ting an education, says a Bul Jetin from State War Savings Headquarters. War has made it necessary that boys andi girls have a superior educa tion for the big things they >yill be called on to do in the tu [ton, only ipen and women who will have that ability to think clearly, to reason sound ly and to act wisely will be able to meet the tasks that will be awaiting them. Th Bullftin points out thati superior training will be need industries, Adjusting society SUBSCRIPTIONS TO .HER ALD MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE t> * _ After the first day of Octo ber in accordance with the ruling of the War Industries Board, all papers must discon tinue mailing papws to sub scribers who are not paid in advance, which, sifted down, means that every person who has not paid his subscription to the HERALD in advance, must be taken off our list af ter the first day of October. We hope that every one of our subscribers will pay us promptly, and that not a name will have to be stricken from our list. To do this none of us must lose time, as there yet re mains only a few daysbefore this law must be complied with. We are going to great Tx rense to publish a paper that "is worth while," and we hope that our faithful subscribers wtfl h?lpus ttwt bjr mail ing or bringing to us, JQHr sub scriptions at once. In order-to help us ?aSe faithfully carry out our gov ernment's wishes find that we may continue to publish a cre ditable paper, we ask that ev ery one of our jjihscribees see that their subscription is pqid in advance, and at the same time, caution them that this paper expects to foilow this ruling, which' has been made for the proper conservation of Taper. ATTENTION LIBERTY LOAN HOLDERS Ahoskie Herald, Ahoskie, N. C., Dear Sir: The following letter has been received from the Federal Re serve Bank of Richmond and explains itself: . H "We wish to bring to your attention a matter which pro bably affects the interest of. a large number of the readers of your paper, with the request that you help us to give it the widest possible publicity. "As you know, three Liber ty Loans has been issued. Of the first Loan there are now outstanding Bonds at 3 1-2, at 4 per cent, and at 4 1-4 per cent. Of the Second Liberty Loan there are outstanding Bonds of 4 per cent and Bonds of 4 1-4 per cent. "The holders of 4 per cent Bonds of the First Liberty Loan have u^til Nov, the 9th, and no longer, to present their bonds for conversion into 4 1-4 Bonds. Holders of 3 1-2 per cent Bonds of the First Liber ty Loan will doubtless have an opportunity later to convert them into Bonds bearing a higher rate of interest, if they wish to do so, but unless the privilege of conversion is ex ercised with respect to all 4 | per cent Bonds on or before November the 9th, 1918, that privilege will lapse forever. 'Judging by the considerable n amber of Bonds of the First L??n issued at 4 per cent and still outstanding, and the much larger amount still outstanding in .4 per cent Bonds of the Sec ond Loan* we are satisfied that the holders of these Bonds are not thoroughly acquainted with their rishts of conversion or with the fact that conversion, if affected at ml), must be made not later than November he 9th. we ha?e sent a n';n'?-?r if circulars and notices to banks, trust companies, and bond houses, of this District,"but evi dently the information has not reached, in all cases, the ac tual holders of the Bonds. 8 1-2 per cent Bonds and 4t per cent Bonds of the First Loan, and 4 per Cent Of thu Second Loan, should be presented for conversion through the banks which handled the . riginal subscriptions. All banks in the District are supplisd with the necessary conversion forms, or CAPITAL STOCK TAX FORMS BEING SENT t * OUT FROM RALEIGH Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 10.? Capital Stock Tax forms are being sent out from the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue at Raleigh this week to the 4,000 corporation* in the Eastern District. These forms must be prepared, sworn to and returned by September 30- Heretofore, only corpora tions, the capital stock of which was worth $99,000 were required to make these re ports. Now, however, by a rill ing from Washington, ALL corporations which were re quired jto file income tax re turns, even though not taxa ble, are also now required to file capital stock returns, re gardless of the value of their capital stock. The tax rate of 66lfaa the $1,000, fair value of cmtal stock above a speci fic ennption of $99,000. During the month o f August revenue officers in the Eastern District of North Carolina have been especially active in dstroying illicit stills. Under the direction of Revenue Agent T. H. Vanderford, of Greens boro, what is known as the "Flyina Squadron" has round ed up blockaders and cut up distilling plants in many cou? ties in this district. North Carolina officers were assisted by several deputies from Ten nessee and other States,and the drive has been successful to a degree. In all 78 illicit stills were destroyed, of which 38 ? wereytaptured and cut up by Deputy Collector E. G. Rich ardson qnd the officers of the "Flying Squadron" associated with fifth. Deputy Richardson's force ako captured two auto mobiles transporting illicit spir its, made six arrests at block ade stills and instituted 29 prosecutions. Of the 78 seizures made Johnston county contributed 12 Wake 10, Beaufort 7, Chatham 6, Sampson and Moore 5 each and Cumberland 4, Harnett, Montgomery, Orange, and Le noir each yielded up 3 stills, while "two of a kind" were cut up in Wayne, Jones, Hoke, and Durham, and one each was de stroyed in Wilson, Brunswick, Nash, Person, Franklin, Robe son, Columbus, Duplin, and laden. The Internal Revenue collec tions n the Eastern District of North Carolina, for the month of August, amounted to $1, 552,598.45. This was an in crease of $763,553.05 over August 1917, when the col lections amounted to $798,045. 40. ' L. C. WILLIAMS IS DOING TRENCH. DUTY A letter received this week from Luther C. Williams, for merly an attorney, and may or of this town at the time of his entrance into the service, states that he has already been engaged in the warfare in the latter day "trenches". He des cribes his feelings as onto of mixed emotions, and hardly knows what he thinks of mod ern warfare. However, he gives glowing parise tO*he American heroes, who ara under Persh ing in France,, and states that he is glad to be a part of this fighting machine, which is now grooming to sound the death knell for Germany and Prussianism. In this communication, Ser geant-Major Williams also speaks in warm terms of the great and noble work that is and has been donejby the Am erican Red Cross workers. He says that one never knows that they ar? really doing for the boys until one has been there and seen the workers on the fields administering to the wounded and caring for the wants of those who are doing the ftshting.And he calls on the women at home to continue ??s&xjm tin ills of warfart' The Herald G^FliU1 ^? ? ? would b? fifcd to rae?iv? pic turea of ih? boys whoara ovar . . ' j, V ? B there, and arrange to (hr? space in the paper to every Hertford county boy who la ov HarrellaviUe New* Mr. J. D. Askew, Sr., return ed home last week after spend ing several days atSeven Springs. Miss Alee Sharp left Tues day for Oxford Seminary, Ox ford, N. C., where she will at tend school this year. Mrs. Essie Bretlow, of Nor folk, Va., spent a few days hare last week wit^^^ives. Miss Conner, ?fr?Kimore, Md., arrived lilftjl'week to ac cept a position with Mrs. Min nie Newsopte for the coming season. Mrs. Lin Culling and son left Tuesday/for her home in De troit, Mich. Mrs' Addie Williams return ed heme last week from Ahos kie, where she has been visit ing her daughter, Mrs. A. W. Green. Miss Louise Toller, of Rocky Mount, and Miss Essie Askew, of Farmville were the guests of Miss Clarine Scull last week. Messrs. M. R. Taylor and H. H. Taylor spent a few days last week in Baltimore, M. D. 96 COST TO THE CONSUMER OF A POUND LOAF OF BREAD i ' ''?* Since 1913 farmers have been receiving for their wheat a gradually increasing propor-j ' tion of the price paid by the consumer for bread. The amount received by the wheat j grower for this contribution to the average pound has increas-: ed from less than 1 1-2 cents per loaf in 1913 to more than 3 1-2 cents early this year. Tlje proportion to the whole price is show nby the relative length of tne black columns of the chart. The middle portion of each column shows what the miller received for his milling cost and profit. This has b len a somewhat variable factor, but is now at the minimum (6 per cent.) In this (six per cent, however, is included the cost of the containers (bags, sacks, etch.) shown as dotted irea which has increased very near ly in proportion to the price of bread itself. Bags now cost about 50 per cent n m than in 19;3 'and 1914. The shaded portion of the column represents the expense of distributing the flotir, mak ing it into bread and getting the loaf to the consumer. Th chart shows that the far mer is now receiving a much larger share of the final price for his pn?d\i?t than in the past and that a considerable amount of "spread" has been taken out of other expenses. Important Business r >iir ? Deal Is Announced _t\ . , . , * i. i ft t.i --H- * t .? - <.att.rV* Carolina Northeastern Rail road Company PureluMee In terests at Albemarle jtpMi Navigation Company, Ply ing Water, ja Hertford County?Means Muck for Ahoskie and Hertford Coun ty. Hampton Roads, Va., Sep tember 9.?The Sunday morn ing: Norfolk paper carried an announcement of on important business deal that was negotia ted Saturday between the Car olina Northeastern Railroad Company and the Albemarle Steam Navigation Company, whereby the former concern takes over the interests of the latter corporation. The Albe marle Steam Navigation Com pany, with headquarters at Franklin, Va., has for several years operated the steam boat lines from Franklin to Edenton and from Murfreesboro, in this county, to Edenton. In fact, this boat line has furnished the only nuUUUI /\f t I'Ulimni^ f/ia aaa . pHwwtw trait?|joriaiiun iur bct eral towns of this county, there being no railroads at the above referred towns. The people of Ahoskie and Hertford county have been pre viously apprised of the *