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 ? ~ ' " " - ' 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. ? 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. '4 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 v , :: 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. $?!! ? Conirany.?adv. ~

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