Hertford County Herald
HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE NOT A BALKER, BUT A PUSHER
VOLUME X. (T?nP>|?) AHOSKIE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1919 (ONE SECTION) No^32L
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PHAMPHLETON
ADULTSCHOOL
IS NOW READY
A Plan for Conducting Commu
nity School* for Adults
Outlined.
SCHOOL FOR ILLITERATE
ADULTS IS THE PLAN
Designed to Provide Instruction
for Those Above the Age
\ of Fourteen.
The plan for conducting commu
nity schools for adults, outlined by
Miss Elizabeth Kelly, State Direc
tor of the work, is given in a little
phamphlet called "How to organize
and conduct community schools for
adults." It is a very suggestive and
interesting explanation of the reason
for this creditable undertaking and
the method of attacking the ques
tion of adult illiteracy which has been
before the people of this and other
sections of the country with increas
ing emphasis for several years.
The primary purpose of a commu
nity school is to provide elementary
instruction for those more than four
teen years of age who for various '
reasons are Unable to read, write and ,
use figures intelligently and safely.
Another purpose is o provide instruc
tion for any people in the comihuni.
ty above fourteen years of age who
have for any reason oeen unable to
complete the subjects usually taught
in the primary and elemntary grades.
The first group mentioned above is
defined aa illiterate and state funds
(or teaching adult illiterates are
available under certain prescribed
rules for teaching anyone who co
mas within that group. The second
group mentioned is not considered
illiterate and no funds for teaching
adult illiterates are available for use
in teaching those who come within
the second claas. It has been con
I
sidered advisable, however, to reach
hrough the community school those
who come within the second cless
both for the purpose of helping them |
and for the purpose of reaching more
easily any adult illiterates in the com
munity.
The plan which Miss Kelly has
worked out should snlist the sympa
thy and cooperation of all the good
people in the State. If the plan that j
has been suggested is followed adult
illiteracy In North Carolina should
within a reasonable time be entire
ly wiped out.
The state pays one-half of the
expense incurred in the employment
of a whole-time worker for the coun
ty, the county paying the other half i
of the expenses. The worker organi
zes and directs these community 1
schools in cooperation with the coun- c
ty authorities and the teachers in i
the county whose Interest in the work i
is enlisted. 1
The plan calls for a survey of the
community and for the establishment 1
<4 schools according to community
needa.
The rules of the State Board of i
Education relative to paying for thfe i
work are included in the phamphlet, t
which may be had by addressing '
Misa Elizabeth Kelly, State Depart- I
ment of Education, Raleigh, N. C. I
Cotton Ginned in Hertford County
There were 1,306 bales of cotton <
counting round as half bales, ginned I
in Hertford County, from the crop i
of 1919 prior to November 1, 1.919, i
n? cnr.inared with 1,221 bales' aims 1 1
vcmber 1, 1918.
GIVE NAMETO
FARMS SAY
THE OFFICERS
Farmers Should Name Their
Farm*, Say* Extension
Service
HOW VARIOUS NAMES
ARE DERIVED, TOLD
Help* Not Only in Advertising
Produce for Sale, but add*
Character.
Raleigh, November 19.?With the
growing need for advertising farm
| products and identifying farms in
connection with community enterpri
sea, the North Carolina Extension
Service suggests that sll farms should
have distinctive names, and that dur
ing the winter when the family gets
together more frequently than at any
other seasons, the matter of a name
for the farm may be discussed.
Among the most common types
of names are those derived from some
topographic feature of the farm, such
as Riverside, Brookdale, Lakeside,
Hillcrest, Shady Valley, Woodside,
and the like. Other farms take their
names from trees and are called
Wodlawn, Shady Lane, Oakhurst,
Pinehurst, Live Oak Farm, and so on.
How Nans* A" Derived
A favorite form of name is made
by combining the old English words
"hurst" or "craft" which mean home
stead, with the name of the owner.
This practice gives rise to such na
mes asAldenhurst and Allanscroft.
sometimes the name of the owner
is suggested in a fanciful way, as in
the case of a farm once owned by
former dean Bailey of Cornell, the
farm being known as Bailiwick. IrT
another instance, Stonefarm denoted
the name of the owner and the char
acter of the land. In still another
instance, a man who had looked for
ward ail his life to acquiring a farm
in his own right finally celebrated his
ownership by naming his place Iona
Farm.
The Extension Service points out
that a name should be fanciful, but
should be dignified and descriptive.
In a majority of cases, it says, the
simpler and more commonplace the
words that are used, the better the
result may be.
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Tru.t... of Chowan Collage Will
Moot oa Dwmbtr 2.
The tni#fct?'^f?Chowan College
will meet in Murfreesboro^ at the
College ,on Tuesday, December 2, at
which time the question of the re
moval of the College will be taken
up and probably disposed of. This
advice comer, from a local member
of the Board, Who states that the
call for the meeting indicates that
the meeting will be called exclusive
ly for the purpose mentioned above.
In the meantime, the Ahoskie
Chamber of Commerce halds its reg
ular monthly meting, which takes
pl^ce on Friday night, November 28
and at that time a final schedule of
inducements wil be mapped oat and
> representative or representatives
will be sent to the Meeting to try
to induce tl.c trustee1) to remove the
institution to Ahoskie
Home Economics Club
The Home Economics Club, of
which Miss Bettie Sessoms is Pres
ident, will hold its regular monthly
meeting in the high school building
?n Tuesday, November 25th. Visi
tors are invited and new members
trill be welcome.
CUT DOWN NEWSPAPER
SIZE AND RAISE RATE
Newspapers Are Consuming 10 Per
Cent. More Print Paper Than
IS Manufactured
Endorse Wartime Rules
New York, Nov. 12.?Material in
creases in advertising and subscrip
tion rates, limitation of the size of
newspapers and provisions in adver
tising contracts whereby rates can
be adjusted monthly or quarterly
were among the recommendations
made today by a special committee
of the American Newspaper Pub
lishers' association called to consider
the newsprint shortage.
The report of the resolution com
mittee, adopted unanimously, follows:
"Paper manufacturers have told
us there is a world-wide shortage of
paper. At the present rate of con
sumption the newspapers are using
about 10 p? rcent more paper than
is being produced. Thi? means an
annual shortage on the present ba
sis of approximately 200,000 tons.
Your committee reccomends:
"That regulation of htwera shrdlu
"That regulation of the war in
dustry board for the conservation
of newsprint be strictly adhered to
and that the full text of these re
gulations be sent to all the daily
and Sunday newspapers of the Unit
ed States .whether or not they are
members of the A. N. P. A.
"That publishers everywhere be
urged to materiaaly increase adver
tising and subscription rates and at
the same time limit the size of their
issues.
"That no newspaper enter into a
yearly contract for advertising at
a fixed rate, but make rates adjust
able monthly or quarterly.
"That the A. N. P. A- send out a
standard form of adjustable contract
for advertising.
"That the paper comittee strong
ly discourage the hoarding of print,pa
per.
"That the white paper committee
and the legislative committee of the
A. N. P. A. urge the enactment of
such legislation as will permit the de
velopment of waterpower so that our
timber lands may be made fully avail
able for the manufacture of wood
pulp, lumber and paper, and we al
so recommend that Congress be ur
ged to take steps that will induce
the Canadian Government to repeal
the order in council prohibiting the
export of wood cut from crown lands.
"We recommend that the Presi
dent appoint a committee on concil
iation for the purpose of adjusting
differences between publishers in com
petitive territories. That the mem
bers of this committee be selected
with the view to governing the en
tire Country. That this committee
formulate such plans and recommen
dations as will assist in adjusting
differences so far as is possible;
that each member of that committee
be given allottment over certain ter
ritory and be authorized to appoint
subcommittees to deal with conditions
i ncities or competitve territories in
that area.
"It is further recommended that
this committee keep the print paper
eratfcommittee of the A. N. Pj A.
informed as to problems and ita ac
complishments, that the entire mem
bership of the A. N. P. A. coperate
with this committee to the end that j
It may result in the greatest benefit
to all most vitally concerned.
In line with the recommendation
of Franklin P. Glass, president of the I
association, that publishers cooperate
with newsprint manufacurers ,a cm
mittee of the publishers conferred
with a committee of the American
Pulp and Paper associatoin .which be
gan a four day convention at the
same hotel. The result of the con
ference were largely embodied in
the resolutions which were adopted.
R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the news,
print Service bureau, told the con
vention that the mills were unable
to increase production, as they were
running at 100 per cent capacity.
Many Attainting Fair
Manw people of Ahoakie and vicin
ity are attending the fair at Wood
land this week. This is the first an
nual fair of the Roanoke-Chowan
Fair Association, and those attending
pronounce it one of the best held in
this section.
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COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
A COMMUNITY PAPER
Ohio Publication Saya Community
Nawapapcr Mora Apt Nama
Than Country.
Usually Printed in Small Town
Don't call it a country weekly, but
a community newspaper ,because
that is what the hom? paper is, sug
gests the Ohio Newspaper, a new pub
lication of the department of Jour
nalism at Ohio State University, vol
ume one and number one of which
has just made its appearance. The
suggestion given above is contained
in an editorial "The Weekly Paper,"
which follows:
Why not call the weekly that is
published in a rural community a
community newspaper? The name
by which it has been called, "the
country weekly," has lost by misuse
something of its proper significance.
Strictly speaking, the newspaper so
referred to is not printed in the coun
try at all; it is printed in a town or
village, and serves the people of the
surrounding district. The word
"country" has been used to charac
terize a paper not printed in a city
and occasionally to mark a publica
tion that is of small importance.
The implication is wrong and off
ensive. No newspaper that is prop
erly conducted lacks importance. It
is the voice of the community in that
it circulates, reciting the news of the
locality and helping to form the pub.
lie opinion necessary to its progress
and its cooperation with other sim
ilar communities. It is not a thing
to be belittled or to be ashamed of.
The newspaper published in a town
1 or village is as important and necess
ary, in proportion to the size of its
field, as is the largest city daily, and
is may even be more worthy of re
spect.
OCTOBER HAD RECORD
TOBACCO SALES
Raleigh, N. C.?"Of North Caro
lina's present tobacco crop, estimated
by the Federal Bureau of Crop Es
timates at 286,000,000 pounds, al
ready 207,206,653 pounds have alrea
dy been reported sold,", states the
Co-Operative Crop Reporting Service
of the Department of Agriculture in
the Monthly Tobacco report issued
I last week. "Estimating reasonably,
for the few warehouses that have so
far failed to report, 214,115,735 lbs.
or 75 per cent of the farmers' tobac
co crop, has been sold at an aver
age seasons' price of $48.36 per hun
dred pounds. About two Ihundred
million pounds producers sales for
September and October makes a fine
record for the State. This matches ,
Kentucky, our only rival, as they are
first in production and North Caro
lina first in value. \
"The October sales report amount
ed to 102,635,197 pounds. The to
tal sales were 117,540,363, averaging,
$56.85 per hundred weight. Dur
ing October, 1918, there was but 23
pei- cent as much reported, October
1917 had 54 per cent as much, and
in October, 1916, there was 45 per
cent of this year's October first hand
sales. The warehouses estimated that
of last month's sales 63 per cent was
grown in the counties where sold
the larger markets drawing from ma
ny counties. Those that sold over
five million pounds of first hand to
bacco sales were Winston-Salem, Wil
son, Kinston, (Jreenville, Rocky
Mount, Warsaw, LeGrange, Bailey
and Snow Hill, averaging the high
est.
"The fourteen markets selling ov
er five million pounds producers to
bacco for this season are Wilson,
Winston-Salem, Kinston, Greenville
Rocky Mount, Fsfrmville, Warsaw,
and LaGrange. There have been
190 warehouses operating on 65 mar
kets this season.
The estimated yield of this sea
son's tobacco crop is 550 pounds per
acre, averaging 80 per cent quality.
The final condition reported was 68
per cent of a full crop .
"The farm yield per acre of the
general crop for the United States
is 742 pounds ,the quality averaging
82 per cent. The 1919 estimated
| forecasted production is 1,316,563,
000 pounds, and last year's crop 1,
340,019,000 pounds total production
[ North Carolina producing 320,000
000 pounds of this.
RAILROADS TO
BE RETURNED
TO OWNERS
Houm Has Pasted the Railroad
Bill After Delay of Sev
eral Months
STRICTLY A PARTY VOTE
CAST ON MEASURE
It Provides for Private Owner
ship with Federal Control
of Rails.
Washington, Nov. 8.?The railroad
bill providing tor private ownership 1
and operation of rail carriers, under
broad federal supervision, was pass
ed by the House, 203 to 159. Now
the measure goes to the Senate but
it will not be taken up there until
the regular session in December.
A majority of the Democrat mem
bers opposed the bill, after their fail
ure to eliminate the provision for
govermental guarantee of revenues
of the carriers for the first six months
of renewed operation under private
control. s
Representative Sims ,of Tenness
ee .ranking Democrat member of the
house interstate committee that fra
med the measure, led the fight on the
guaranty, declaring it a "subsidy".
A motion to eliminate it was defeat
ed, 200 to 165, on substantially a
political division.
The house re-afflrmed, 263 to 112
the stand on the labor sections, pro
viding only for the voluntary concil
Iiation of labor disputes. Represen
tative Kitchin, of North Carolina,
former Democrat floor leader, attack
ed the labor section as leaving the
settlement of disputes largely with
the railway unions. He declared
"the brotherhoods could nullify the
provisions 10 days after passage of
the bill by refusing to appoint rep
resentatives" to the boards, created
to settle controversies.
Preceding the final showdown by
separate roll calls, the house spent
| the day in considering numerous ex
[ tensions of the powers of the Inter
state Commerce Commission. Its i
last important act was to place the {
commission in control of all capital
issues of the roads, after members :
had declared that a similar provision
had been made in th4 law some years
ago, none of the "disgraceful financial ^
disasters" would have befallen the
several big systems.
The proposed new rule for rate '
making waa?liaurj fed after a~bit?er~
fight. Efforts to prevent the Inter
state Commerce Commission from be
ing given authority to control intra
state rates, imposing an "undue bur- j
den" on the interstate commerce, j
were defeated. By this section, the
house enacted into law the famous
"Shreveport case" after which intra- '
state rates in the southwest generally
were increased to remove a discrim
ination found to have existed against
Shreveport in favor of Dallas.
Horn* Coming Day at Aliocki* Bap
tist Church.
Sunday, November 30th. will be
Hom?-Coming Day at the Ahoskie
Baptist Church. On that day the
entire membership of the church is
aske<T and requested to l?e present, at
which time the church roll will be
called.
It being the inauguration of the
drive for subscriptions to the Seven
ty-Five Million Dollar Campaign, all
members are urged to attend in or
' der to facilitate the work of the sub
scription committees.
"ubfcr'bo ta lh? tUrxld
(herald will
issue holiday j
publication
The Herald Will Iuue Special
Christmas and New Year
Edition.
WILL BE PUBLISHED ON
19TH. OF DECEMBER
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Special Holiday Feature* and
Hithly Illustrated Cover*
Featuring.
The HERALD will issue ap entarg- )
ed Christmas and New Yeift Edition
on December 19, 1919. This paper
will contain from twenty to forty
paces of illustrated Christmas and
New Year stories; all the material
for the issue being especially pre. <
pared for the holiday season. The
management has been fortunate in
securing the local rights to several
pages of especially designed Christ
mas and N?W TW jwUimiu al'
which will be included in that is
sue of the 19th.
Another feature of this edition will
be a highly colored illustarted cov
er, drawn especially for the Yule
tide, and which will be printed in
many colors. These covers are al
ready in the house ,and .in addition
to our regular number of subscrib
ers , several hunderd extra copie*
have been placed in stock, the man
agement having in view the issuance
of several hunderd extra copies to be
I mailed to those who do not?but who
should be?regular subscribers to the
I HERALD.
The work of publishing this edi
tion will necessarily entail more stern
uouh efforts on the part of those who
have the paper in charge. Realizing
the large volume of business that
will have to be taken care of, the
HERAI.D is making this announce
ment far enough in advance for all
those who may wish to secure some
advertising space in this issue to re.
serve enough to take care of their
wants, make ready their copy and get
it in this office at the very earliest
possible dste.
While making extensive prepar
ations for the issuance of this paper
the management has taken into con- ?
sideration Its advertising customers'
needs, and has caused to be placed
in stock many brand new advertising
cuts and electrotypes .especially pre
pared and designed for the holiday
advertising. Proofs of these cuts
will be gladly supplied to our eaa
tomers, and this office will be glad to s
offer any needed assistance in the pre
pa ration of copy for this edition.
We urge all patrons and customers
to place their order for space in this
issue just as soon as possible, in or
der that the edition may be made
ready and printed in sufficient time
to insure its publication several days
before Christmas. This will work to
the advantage of the advertiaers who
can tell the holiday shopper* what
they have for the ChVistmaa trade.
Watch the columns of thia paper
for further particular*. And, In the
meantime, remember that the col
umns of this paper will afford yo?
an excellent advertising medium.
Mr. P. LaDuke, Farmer, Says. "Th
Bet Rati Caa Bite Tlireagfc Metal
"I had feed bins lined with sine
last year, rats got through pretty
soon. Was out *1>- A $1. package ?
of Rat-Snap killed so many rats that
I never have been without K since.
I collie doit never touched RAT-SNA
You try it. Three siiea, 5^
snd SI Sold and guaranteed by Z.
V Re'lsmv. F. J. Heroell and E. J.
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