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Hertford County Herald ? ??>*?BB" ' , 1 - ?- ; . ' 1 ? HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER ' ' A PAPER WORTH WHILE NOT A BALKER, BUT A PUSHER VOLUME X. (EIGHT PAGES) AHOSKIE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 28, 1919 (ONE SECTION) No. 33. HISTORY OF CHOWAN COLLEGE AND CHOWAN ASSOCIATION AS GIVEN IN TWO DIARIES History of Chowan College as Given in Diary of First President. REV. A. MCDOWELL WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT J * History of Chowan Association as Given by James A. Delk. In 1848, Chowan Association be ing in session with the Ramoth Gil ead Church, received a communica tion form the Bertie Union Meeting relative to the establishment of a Female High School, and the follow ing resolution was adopted: -?a?n uoran ?rua* tag has proposed the establsibment of a female school of high order, to be under the patronage of this As sociation, and to be located at some proper place within our borders; and whereas ,the trustees appointed by said Union Meeting have sent out an agent to take subscriptions to ac complish that object and, whereas, that sgent hase nearly $1,000, the greater portion of which has been subscribed on condition of locating the* school in the town of Murfrees boro. North Carolina; and whereas, the establishment of such a school is justly regarded as having an impor tant bearing on our denominational interests, therefore. Resolved, that this Association most cordially approve* the enterprise .and recommends it to the liberal support of oar brethren snd friends Resolved, that only a few trustees have been appointed to manage and control the contemplated school, we now appoint trustees to compose a full Board, who shall have power to adopt such measures as they may think requisite for the school. Resolved, that the Board be in structed to obtain an Act of Incor poration from the next Legislature. TJie following persons were then elect r ed trustees: G. C. Moore, A. J. Per ry, J. W Barnes, of the Bertie Un ion Meeting; J. L. Tirrell, W. Shil lings, W. Riddick, of Yeopim Meet ing; J. Carver, W. P. Forbes, J. P. Morgan, of Camdeji and Currituck Meeting; J. T. Halsey, E. P. Melaon, J. W. Beasley, of Washington and Tyrrell Union Meeting. ? In 1849, the Committee on Educa tion reported that the trustees ap pointed had purchased the old Acad emy lot in Murfreesboro for $1,226. and had fitted it up for immediate use. They had selected Rev. A. Mc Dowell as Principal, who called to his aid the requisite assistants. The Institute was formally open ed October 11th, 1848, with 11 stu dents, the number soon increasing to 47. The school was soon sub jected to a severe trial, by the oc currence of smallpox jn the town in April, 1849, which induced the prin cipal to suspend the exercises of the school and subsequently to resign -his connection with the Institute. The exercises of the school were resumed May 1st., under the di rection of Rev. M. R. Fory, Pro tem. The number of pupils increasing, the limited accommodations proved insuf ficient to accommodate all that ap plied, Ihd a few friends uniting with several of the trustees, organized a joint-stock company, for the purpose of erecting a large and tasteful ed ifice to meet the demands for more ample accommodation. In 1861 the company purchased, a new site for the Institute and con tracted for the erection of the new edifice, was completed and occupied. The November 8, 1862, the building entire cost of premises, buildings and outfit was $84,002.09, and the Insti tute entered on this new departure , with bright auspices and the confi dent hopee of its many friends for i a brilliant future. In 1666, the Portsmouth Associa tion united with the Chowan Aaso ciation in carrying forward the work of the institution jrith their pa?ro 2 1 ? I nage and liberal contributions. The first contributor being Mr. Joseph Prince of Southampton County, then a young man, who grave one thous and dollars cash before leaving the Association grounds. Throughout his entire life he was always an en thusiastic and loyal friend to the institution. In 1854, Dr. Forey re j signed the presidency and Rev. Wil liam Hooper, D. D., was elected to fill his place. The first year of Dr. Hooper's administration was mark, ed by a most gratifying success. 160 students matriculated that year. Of the thousands of pupils that htfre at tended the school during thirty-dhree 1 years of its existence, one-third, if not more, have beeh from Virgin ia; and of the one hundred and five graduates fifty-one were from Vir | ginia, showing that North Carolina and Virginia are sisters in education as well as in commerce. With colors flying, the enthusiasm and support of the people was all that could be desired, one winders what wouM have been the history of this school had not the Civil War broken out just when it was enter ing into its own. The fall of 1861 a goodly number of students assem bled with bright prospects. Or. Hooper bad associated with him such i teachers as P. S. Henson, M. L. Gwa I thmey and A. McDowell, who had re turned to the institution in 1855 as teacher of Mathematics and Science. ' When Roanoke Island fell into the hands of the eFderal troops in Feb ruary, 1862, such a panic was caused that the majority of the boarding students were called to their homes. I Dr. Hooper and several of the teach ers left at the same time. The in stitute, however, continued with the few boarders left and the day pu pila. In May, 1862, A. McDowell was elected President, which place he held until his death in May, 1868. lliese were the darkest hours through which the institution ever passed. God in his Providence raised up ma | ny friends who loyally stood by the President during the storm and stress of the recon*truction days. In the beginning, the amount of mon^y .sub scribed was not sufficient to equip , it as it should be, and Dr. Forey by the advice of the trustees had bought j much equipment on a credit. But i for the war, the debt would have been easily paid. However ,in 1868 the institution would have been sold ; by its northern creditors had not such men as W. W. Mitchell, Dr. A. J. Askew, W. Dunning, L. T. Spiers, : Rev. John Mitchell, M. R. Gregory, Edwin Fere bee, and W. T. Tayloe formed a joint-stock company and j paid all the pressing debts which by May 1869 amounted to $8,876.58, leaving a deficit of $3,000 still un paid. It was the object of these men to return the institution to the Association as soon as the money which had been paid out by them had been refunded. Under this or der, the institution continued to pros per, and by 1874 had built up a pa tronage of 17% boarding puipls; in 1876 ii graduated a class of twenty; ten of whom were from Virginia and ten from North Carolina. Proposition of the Stockholders In 1878, the stockholders submit ted the following: , The Stockholders of Chowan Bap tis Female Institute'beg leave submit the following statement and i propositiOYi to the Chowan and the Portsmouth Associations. The truitees of Chowan Female Collegiate Institute, at their sime annual meeting, February 15th, 1867 finding themselves embarrassed by i a large debt, created in the founding the interest to an amount whieh pre- 1 eluded the hope of being aMe at that time to pay off by voluntary sub- 1 scriptions, and being pressed by some i of the crediors for Immediate pay. 1 ment, resolved to transfer the Insti tute, with all of its appurtenances, I to a joint stock company, if such a company^coald he formed, upon the 1 condition of'their assuming the debts I and binding themselves to restore < the Institute to the two associations < whenever the money expended by ' them in paying debts and adding I improvements should be refunded to I i ?. ' . - ONE GAME MR. THRIFTLESS CAST PLAY them. Mr. Willie Riddick, the largest creditor being present, generously proposed, if the money could be rais ed in a short time, to compromise his claims at a discount of SO per cent., provided the others would do the same. Whereupon a committee was appointed to ascertain if the oth er creditors would consenf to the same compromise. Both committes were successful, and the company was organized on the 8th day of January, 1868, under ; charter bearing date of December 28th, 1867. The property was trans ferred to the company, and they paid j in accordance with the proposed terms all the debts acknowledged to be val id, amounting to stock to (10,500. Cash advanced by W. W. Mitchell, for which he holds th% note of the com pany, $1000. The company having received noth ing in the form of dividends or in- > terest on their stock, but have de voted the entire income of the Insti tute l? repair* and improvements. From this source they have made large additions to the appliances of instruction, thoroly repairing the en tire premises, which had been great ly depreciated during the war, con ducted ten years for the benefit of the denomination, with more than the former efficiency, and added the buildings and other permanent im provements to the value of 14,900. They think the denomination ought to share this benevolent work with them, and especially that the denom ination ought to oyn and control the institution. They, therefore, pro pose that an earnest effort be made as soon as possible, to raise the sum sufficient to redeem It, and restore it to its former and apropriate owners. All they ask is the return of the mo ney expended by them in the pay ment of debts, with simple interest thereon; and to raise the sum they promise to contribute liberally them selves. Their reasons for submitting this proposition are: 1. The institution needs all of its income to keep the premises in re pair, and to furnish the additional appliances demanded by the progress of the age. 2. It is not right that a few In dividuals should bear the whole ex pense of a public institution in the support of which all are equally in terested. 5. It is not Kpod policy, npr is it creditable to the two associations < to allow an institution founded by I them remain subject to the contingen ] cy o fpassing entirely beyond their' i control. 4. This contingency exists, and becomes yearly more apparent by the death of the original stockholders, i and the passing of the stock in the hands of those who may feel no in terest in the work of the denomina tion. ? 6. The property is worth much more than the sum necessary to re deem it. In 1879, the committee presented the following: ? The committee appointed to sug gest a plan to meet the proposition ?ubmitted by the stockholders of the Chowan Baptist Female Institute at your last session, submit the follow ing: Committee met at Chowan Baptist Female Institute June 25, 1878. Af ter various plans were submitted and liscussed, the stockholders then , im int made the following proposition: rhat they Will donate the stock held by tHe mto the Baptist denomina tion, on the condition that they re ceive a certificate entitling them to keep one indigent young lady at the Chowan Baptist Female Institute per petually, free of charge for literary tuition, for each one thousand dollars of *atock donated. The present in debtedness of the institute is to be' paid with dqbts now due it. The stockholders present contribu ted stock as follow: W. W. Mitchell $4,000; M. R. Gregory $1000; J. W. W. Mitchell $500; L. T Spiers $250; J. W. Barnes $250; A. McDowell $600; Annie S. Askew $500; John Mitchell $100. All bearing interest from February 12, 1869. The following stockholders relin guish their stock on the condition that they are to receive on hundred dollars annually in tuition at the Baptist Female Institute until their stock, without interest, shall have been absorbed, vii: W. T. Brown $600; Wiley Riddic $340. The motion to receive the report was discussed by Elders McDowell Bailey and Savage and was carried. In connection with this subject el der Cohen oifered the following res olution : Resolved, that we appreciate theno Me generosity of the stockholders of the Chowan Baptist Female Insti tute in sustaining the Institute for | so many years, and for their recent act of unprecedented liberality in do-I nating their stock to the Baptist de nomination. Resolved, that while we cordially ! acquiesce in their prposal to give the Institute to the Baptist denomination instead of to the Chowan and Ports mouth Associations, we shall always feel the same lively interest in its prosperity and success, and we cor-1 dially commend H to the liberal sup port of the Baptists and to the many i friends of female education every where. Resolved? that w* appoint nin th* brethren as Trustees, to receive and conduct the institution in the fu ture; -the trustees to have power to fill vacancies between the sessions of the Chowan Association. Resolved, that all vacancies shall, be filled from persons nominated by this body at its annual sessions. (The HERALD is indebted to Miss Esther Wynne of the Chowan College Faculty, ior the copy of this history.)_ i Rev. Fred T.. Collin* Resigns Rev. Fred T. Collins, for the past two years pastor of the Ahoskie Bap tist Church, offered his resignation >n last Saturday, at the regular month ly conference. MMfTCollins giv** as his principal reason for resigning the apparent feeling that exists on the part of some of the townspeople. Rev. Mr. Collins has made a vig orous fight against the latter day evils in the town of Ahoskie since assuming Jiis pastorate here, and it is due to his uncompromising stand against those things that opposition ha* arisen. However, the people of his church hav* given him their co operation in the work here; and they ?re not at all willing t orelinguish him as their paator, after he has ac :ompllshed so much good for the town and community. His resignation has not been ac cepted by the church here, and the member* are exerting their power* of persuaiion over hifn to remain with th*m. Cotton Gin nod in Hartford County There were 1822 bale* of cotton, counting round as half bale*, ginned In Hertford County, from tho crop of 1919 prior to November 14, 1919 u compared with 13)1 '?*ies gim,c(f lo November 14, 1918. . ?A.., , : NATIVE TER RACE IS BEST FORTHESTATE i Extension Service Say* the Na tive Terrace is Best for This State TELLS HOW TO BUILD THEM SUCCESSFULLY Advantage of This Type is in Non-Corosion of Substan ces Used. j The broad.base graded-ridge ter race, known as the Mangum type, is the best type of terrace (or North Carolina conditions, says Mr. H. M. Lynde, of the North Carolina Exten sion Service. It is well adapted to all types of the soil and on slopes up to 12 or 15 feet to thehundred. Some of the advantages of the Man jjfum type, as given by the drainage expert, are erosion, which is reduc ed to a minimum in the terrace chan nel by carrying the water off the field in a broad, shallow sheet at a low velocity, and average soils are not washed much in broad-terrace channels where the fall does not ex ceed 6 inches in 100 feet. It is re commended that this fall never be exceeded. How to Build the Mangum Terrace t The Mangum terrace is a broad bank of earth about 20 feet wide at the base with gently sloping sides. The top of the terrace should be from 15 to 20 inches higher than the bottom of the channel above the terrace. It can be cultivated and can be crossed readily by large farm machinery without injury to the ter race. A vertical distance or drop of 3 feet between the terraces is recomen ded for slopes up to 6 feet in the hundred; 4 feet for slopes between 5 and 10 feet; and 5 feet for slop es between 10 and 15 feet to the hundred. These figures represent the best practice, itatea Mr- Lynde but an average vertical drop of 4 feet between terraces; gives good results on any slope up to 10 feet to the hundred. Thia means a horizontal spacing of 80 feet on a 5 per cent, slope and 40 feet on a lOpercent. slope. The fall or grade of a terrace may be either uniform or variable. By uniform grade is meant that the fall in- each 100 feet is the same from the upper to the lower end of the terrace. The variable graded terra cea are much superior to a terrace with uniform grade, since it removes the surface water with lass washing in the terrace channel and with leas probability that the terrace will break near the lower end because of the piling up of the run-off water. A i good practice is to change the grade | every 300 feet along the length ^ of the terrace, until a maximum of 6 inches to the hundred feet is reach ed. The steeper the slope of land, the greater the fall required, since the sir.e of the channel above the ter race grows smaller as the slope in creases. A long terrace should have more fall than a short one, because the volume of water to be removed increases as the length of the ter tiea as the length of tha terrace In race grows. Since the volume of water increa creases, there ia a limit to the length of the graded terrace where ? fall of 6 inchea per 100 feet is not ek ceeded. A variable graded terrace should not exceed 1600 feet on land with a S per c?nt slope, nor 1100 frtt oh Inrid with a 10 per cent slope. A uniform graded terrace with]6 PROHIBITION INFORCEMENT LEFT TO STATES Enforcement of Prohibition To Be Left To the Individual States. ACCORDING TO THE PRO HIBITION OFFICERS That Is Policy to Be Pursued ~By Agent* of Federal Government. ? (From Associated Press Dispatch Washington, November 25.?En forcement of constitutional prohibi tion will be placed squarely up to state and municipal authorities and the federal government machinery will not intervene until obvious in efficiency on the part of load offi cials makes such action necessary; the board of temperance of the Meth odist Episcopal church was told here today by John F. Kramer, federal prohibitionist comraisioner. It was Mr. Kramer's first announce ment of policy since he assumed of fice a week ago. Mr. Kramer said the people of the country could be divided into two classes. "Heretofore the line of demarca tion has been between those who fa vored the prohibition of the liquet traffic and those who opposed it," he said. "From now on the line of demarcation will be between those who are in favor of obeying the law whether their personal views are in harmony with the law or not, and those who will be ready and anx ious and ready to violate the law." I o fcnlul Aid of State Officials Describing the machinery being let up for the enforcement of prohibi tion laws, Mr. Kramer mays: "The first step would be with the various state inspectors. They will keep themselves informed as to the condi tions in their states and will report to the state federal director who will investigate and arrest if evidence warrants. One of the chief duties of the state federal director wil be to enlist the aid of all state officers He will also endeavor to secure the backing of all civic, moral and re ligous bodies." Affirming the belief that the great er mass of American people were at heart law abiding. the prohibition chief declared that "this fact will tell mightily in the matter of getting results from the law." He declared that local authorities should be "jeal ous of their rights of enforcement and sealous in their performances of their duty. "The highest success will be at tained only if the great mass of law abiding people make their Influence and power felt." Mr. Kramer said "obedience to law should be preach ed from every pulpit, taught in ev ery school room, urged from every platform. inches fall to the hundred feet, should not exceed 1200 feet and 900 feet in length on T> and 10 per cent slopes, respectively. It will thus be see? that a variable graded ter race can be made longer than a un iform graded terrace. If it is nec essarjf to lay out the terrace longer those limited lengths, without using a greater fall than ? inches per 100 feet .then the terrace should be built higher for the additional length near the lower end, or the terraces should be placed closer to- ' ,j gether. Methods of laying o?t aad constructing teraces will be deecrlb od In subsequent articles.