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Volume XI. - Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, April 1,1921 One Section No. 48
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ME HEWS III DIGEST COMPILED
EI READERS OF 1HEOM
?Th/a people of Carthage School dis
trict will soon vote on a bond iaene
of $100,000 for the improvement of
their school plant.
?Emmett G. Tyndal, Republican, is
the sixth candidate to announce him
self for mayor of the town of Kln
ston, at the approaching primary.The
other Ave candidates'are democrats.
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?The Carolina Automotive Associa
tion, which met in Raleigh for two
days last week, went on record as
, opposing the recent increase on auto
mobile license fees in the State, by
reason of the Connor-Doughton road
act. , m
?Nearly*800 Superintendents of city
schools of Nofljfc Carolina held a nice
meeting in cKjnsboro last Wednes
day. SuperiniSdent E. C. Brooks, of
the State EM^tional Department,
was present 4m advised the super*
intendents rurding new legislation
passed by thKfcaent Legislature, and
affecting the|blf^l law.
-=*-H. B. Varner's attorneys have filed
their answer*-** the petition by his
wife's attorneys, which asked for the
setting aside of the recent decision
handed down in the Federal Courts
at Greensboro.'Judge Boyd, federal
judge has announced that he will ren
der final decision on the petition in
a few days hence.
?Mrs. B. H. Griffin, of Raleigh, pres
' ident of the North Carolina Division
of the United States Woman's Train
??in(J Camps, has announced that exten
sive plana have been made for the
annual encampment, which will be
held in Asheville, this summer, from
' July 6 through August 28.
?Preparations are now being made
to stage a history of Halifax County,
at a pageant to be given in Weldon
on or about the first of May. Halifax
County is ons, of the most historic of
tbs counties of the Sti^e.
?Mr. Richard C. Job .has been employ
ad as secretary of the Chamber of
v Commerce of Elizabeth City.
?Rev. H. H. Mitchell, a member of
the Western North Carolina M. E- '
Conference, has instituted suit again
st* G. C. Gentry,, of Winston-Salem, ;
for the alienation of his wife's affec
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?Frank Parker, Statistician of the
North Carolina Department of Agri
culture has announced that the to
bacco and 'cotton acreage in the state
has been reduced anywhere from one
fourth to one-* third less than last 1
^ year,
?The North Carolina State Sunday '
School Convention will meet in Ral- j
eigh April 12, 18, and 14, according .
to recent announcement. Extensive
preparations have alre^y been made )'
for a well arranged program.
?Lenoir Citizens Will till ^nelection j'
on the 18th of April, on the issuance j'
of about one hundred thousand dol- !]
lan for school improvement in that '
town.
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?An iron safe and one hundred and <
fifty dollars in cash were stolen from
a Tarborb cafe on last Friday night (
-?Several expert teachers have alrea- ]
dy been secured to serve as instruc- ,
tors for th? Wake* Forest summer i
school which wfll hold Us first see- ,
sion during the coining summer. <
?The Gas Rata Hearing, which was '
in progress before the State Corpora- 1
tion Commission at Raleigh for save- 1
rai days the past week, was concluded 1
op.Saturday. The members of the co- '
amission announced that they would '
reader their decision in a short while.
The Commission has before K this .
week the Telephone hearing. ,
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?Two hundrd bond measures were I
passed by the late General Assembly. 1
Two-thirds of the finount, or 186,246 .
000 was for state purposes, and too ,
remainder for county purposes, main
ly for schools.
?The total value of all property in
Edgecombe County, under the latest '
revaluation, totals $61,624,721.
?Certain interested speculators are
boring for oH In the region of too
Cumnock Mine, in Harnett County, ,
according to reports carried by the ,
local paper in that sesMoa. .
?A contract has been let for t?e ex
penditure of $834,000 on the reaorte
in and around Pinehurst, the major
portion of the amount to be need
by the Mid-Pines Country Club.
?School teachers' salaries have been
held up in Craven County on account
of- insufficient funds, due to slowness
ill tax paying.
?The Ralisgh Ppst of the American
Legion staged p series of motorcycle
races at the Fair grounds Easter Mon
day. The races were exciting, and
there were no fatalities. The annual
baseball game whch was to have been
played between North Carolina State
College and Wake Forest College was
called off on account of rain, a vio
lent rain storm breaking just as the
game got under way.
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?Citizens of Nash and Edgecombe
counties are making plans to cons
truct a hard surfaced highway, con
necting Spring oHps, iJashvlle, Rocky
Mount and Tarboro, the link of road
to be a part of the State Highway
system. A hard surfaced road has re
cently been completed from Rocky
Mount to Nashville.
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?Governor Cameron Morrison has re
turned to the Mansion at Raleigh, af
ter spending a week at his old home
in Charlotte. Upon his return he an
nounced that the new and enlarged
highway commission, provided in the
Connor-Doughton Highway Act, will
be, called together on Monday, April
4th., for the purpose of organization
and such other business as may come
before the meeting. Rumors had been
current in newspaper circles that the
Governor, and his Council of State
had some misunderstanding regarding
the borrowing of money on short term
in view of the proposed bond issue for
roads.
?Iter. 3. D. Hufham, D. D., for ma
ny years one-of the most foremost
figures in the State Baptist Conven
vention, and a noted educator, died
at the home of his daughter in Me
baner last Sunday night.
?City commissioners of Baliegh hare
refused to accept the Rift of the late
Miss Josephine Green, of that city,
?rho donated her Raleigh home to the
county and dty for the purpose of
establishing a home for the upkeep
of destitute old maids.
?Peach and berry growers of west- a
ern North Carolina think that the re
cent cold snaps hare not injured the "?
nineteen hundred twenty one crop, u
?Vbters of Hillsboro on last Wednes
day by a majority of 170, out of a J,
registration of 400, voted to issue '
bonds amounting to $100,000 for the
Improvement of the town's school fa
cilities. 2
?Contract has been awarded for the
construction of a new girls' dormito- ~
ry at Trinity College, at a cost Of sp- ?
proximatelji $200,000. The new dor- 18
mitory will ne named the Southgate w
Memorial Building, i? honor of the _
ate T. S. Southgate of the Methodist jb
ienomination. M
-The RepubHCan State Executive "
committee and a host of other pie- >?'
ounting Republicans of North Carol!- J_
aa met in Greensboro last Thursday, 'g,
tor the purpose of making out the
date of Federal appointees for North ic
Carolina. Marion Butler, pwho came |
lown from his Waahngton home to ~
ake part in the gathering, has anno- Iff
jnced that he will take the matter of V
ippointment of. some of the defeated
contestants direct to President Har- _
ding; and he dubs the meeting at Ra- |t)
leigh aa "utterfy disgusting." ^ \h
?E. G. Moss, of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture says that it pays ^
to fertilise tobacco freely, as well as 0
to use the better grades of fertiliser. d
?The annual Easter dance* began "
at the Stat* University at Chapel HUl 8<
on Tuesday of this week, and will con
tlno* for three days. Ladle* from all
parts of the Statp and many oat of
the Slate are attending the daheea. e;
?An automobile show will be held '?
In Rocky Mount from May 10 to 14. 0
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-^Eastern North Carolina Republi- A
cans are somewhat sore at the action n
of tite* Republican Is*inn at the ei
meting in Creeasboro last week;?
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THE EDITOR'S EASY JOB!
FrpjatV'The Editorial: A Study in Effective Writing"
By L. N- FLINT
, ; Chairman Department of Journalism
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
- " An editor hu m Kuouble chance of succeeding
If he can learn to pick out of the day's jumble
the significant things suitable for editorial handling.
If he can sense maladjustments where every
thing is apparently going smoothly.
If he can appreciate excellencies that others are
too busy or too obtuse to see.
If he has enough philosophy of life to insure fun
? damental consistency in the positions he takes.
If he can pass by the non-essentials of a subject
to the tfeal heart of the matter.
If he knows when and how to be severe, kindly,
ironical, gay, sentimental, brilliant, serious. -
If he can adjust subieot to reader, putting the
right thing first and the right thing last.
If, through a sense of humor or any other means,
* he has developed a balanced sanity as regards his
g' own importance.
If he is strong enough so that he mat safely let
his readers see that he does not believe an the truth
to be on his side and all error on the othedfide
If he knows when to "stay on the fence" and
when to get off, and can do both corageeualy.
If he likes people ^well enough to enjoy seeing
them happy and to help make them happy, even if
he has to make them discontented at first.
If he is not too hungry for popularity nor too
much above caring for it.
If he is free from the itch of office-t-no matter
if it is true that there are usually fifty editors in Con
gress- He might make an admirable offi< al but not
while being an editor
If he can make the important interna ional ques
tions seem as real as the contest for the ppstofflce.
And. in case he is a country editor?.
If he'can run his typewriter with one land while
using the other to correct proof, write ad; :opv, make
out subscription receipts, keep the books, order pap
er stock, welcome visitors from Wild Can Township,
? take 8-line personals over the telephon*, open the
. mail, pay the freight bill, ward off the bri kbats, and
flag destiny. (Add operating linotype?E iitor.)
The American Press adds:
If he knows the cost of his. product and offers
that product for sale at a reasonable proffi.
If he has an advertising rate and stacks to it, tre
ating every advertiser impartially and juitiy
. If he closes the doqr against the space grafter ~'
and the press agent.
H he refuses for temporary and secret profit to -
undermine those who engage in work for his prosper
ity.
If he has sufficient poise not to be swept off his
feet by flag wkvers, political opportunists, bigots,
cranks, sensational reformers and world beating en
thusiasts.
If he realizes he must work for the development
of the country press as a whole, and that no country
newspaper can stem the tide by playing a lone hand.
hen only western Republicans were
iven endorsements for the Fedral ap
ointments. Easterners aay that, if
lit Republican Party ia successful in
le State, the reeruita must come out
f the Seat, and that the East should
sceive recognition at the hands of
te party leaders. -
-The snaps! session of the Woman's
Missionary Union of North Carolina
in session at Rocky Mount this
eek.
-The Easter Monday baseball game
stween State Colloge and Wake For
it college, which was broken up in
is first tnniag by rain, will be played
f in Raliegh on next Monday.
-Governor Morrison spoke to the
sthering of North Carolina Bankers
t their annual banquet held in Ra
igh on Tuesday night.
-Durham on Tuesday voted to inau
urate the City Manager plan of city
overament, the majority being 806
itt of a registration of 1811.
-Fayetteville citisens on Tuesday to- J
kl to issue $226,000 in bonds for the
nprovement of thear city schools.
-Henry E Bo nits, prominent archi- 1
set of Wilmington, died at his home
n last Sunday morning. Mr. Bonifs
rew the plana for the first brick build
ig constructed on the present high
:hool site in Ahockie.
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COUNTY BUYS FORD SON
Hertford County on MoiAay pnr
hasod a Fordaon from tbo local doa
ira, and will m it in tha working
f ?ie county's roads. The now tractor
as demonstrated on the streets of
Jioalde on Tuesday, under the di
sc tion of Mr 0. H. Britten, who le
tidaavoriag to rahahffltete the straste
r the town.
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OFFERS EXCELLENT OP
PORTUNITY TO HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS
Valuable Prizes Are Offered to'
Amateur Artist of State
Schools.
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Get oat the India ink and a fine
pointed pen fop? " ..
The Cotton and TobaCco Coopera
tive Marketing Associations are of
fering prises for cartoons made by
amatenrs.
Students of any school in North
Carolina are eligible and while fin
ished cartoons are desired rough ske
tches will be considered if they con
tain ideas that can be worked oat by
regular artists. L&g.sv . ,
The Cooperative Marketing Asso
ciations announce that they want ma
erial that can be used in the coopera
tive marketing and the advantages de
rived from it by the farmers business
and professional men. In other words
of a familiar song "There's a long,
long trail a winding" between the far
and the eatton mill or the tobacco
factory under the present system of
selling. The growers' cooperative as
sociations are m?w paid for send
ing cotton and tobacco over it.
Cartoon conteatants can find plen
ty of literature at libraries-on coop
eration among farmers and especially
cooperation in California where last
year the growers marketed crops that
wars worth about $275,000,000 thru
their own organisations.
Prises for cartoons or skstches that
can be used by the North Carolina
associations are: First Prise $15; se
cond $10; and third $6. The contest
closes April 16 and all drawings must
be sent to Campaign Director, Coop
erative Marketing Associations, State
Department of Agriculture, Rallegh,
North Carolina.
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TOWN ELECTION TO
BE HELD ON MON
DAY, MAY SECOND
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TOWN ELECTION WILL
BEHELD MAY SECOND
Registration 'Books Will Be Op
en During the Month of April
With Mr- Paul Holloman as
Registrar?All Women Must
Register?Old Board May
Consent to Stand for Reelec
tion and Is Popular Choice.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found ? notice of election for town
officers of Ahoskie; also a notice by
Paul W. Holloman, Registrar, annou
-
cing the opening of the registration
books to all who have not previously
registered in the town. The latter an
nouncement should be of particular
interest to the newly enfranchised wo
man voters, who will have to register
if they expect to vote in the city elec
tion 4n May. Those ladies who reg
sitered for the State and County pri
maries last year will also have to reg
ister upon the town's books. Those
entitled to register'must have resided
within the town for six months prior
to the date set for election in May,
whi<jh will be Monday, May 2nd.
The town charter does not provide
for either a primary or a convention
in order to select the nominees for
office. In fact, the charter permits any
person, after announcing himself or
hdrself for office, to make the race
for either one of the offices, the vo
ters to write in the name and office for
which such aspirant may seek. It has
not yet been decided what course will
?e_taken in selecting the candidates.
Usually, "they have been selected "by
the convention method but it is, at le
ast, not the most representative way,
and there are many who favor its ab
olition. On the other hand,, a prima
ry is rather expensive and long dra
wn out for the minor offices such as
the Ahoskie city offices. This' prob
lem has been solved in many of the 1
smaller towns of the State by desig
nating a few hours of a selected day, '
during which the primary may be con
ducted. The course of action has not 1
yet been decided upon, but there is 1
a decided tendency against the con- 1
vention system, especially since the
.women of the town are expected to 1
take a leading part in the selection of
the next council and mayor. '
Of equal importance with regis- 1
tration Mid nomination is the person- <
nel of the next board of commission- 1
en and Mayor. There are a -large nu- |
mber who would retain-the present ,
board in toto; in fact, a majority of ]
the voten of the town are believed |
to favor their retention in office. How (
ever, these men say they will not
stand for reelecton; at least some of 1
them have made that assertion. The *
members of the present council who ]
have served as much as two or four ,
gears are emphatic that they will not
have Hie office again. However,' with 1
the proper amount of pressure brou- 1
ght to bear upon them, it is more 1
than likely that they will stand for ,
reelection again this spring. There is
an abundance of argument in favor ,
of their reelection; and facts that are
self evident to the most wary. They '
have put over a program of munici- .
pal improvement that eclipses all oth- .
sr town improvements before their ,
time; and they have done irwith lit- ,
tie friction, lie Herald is not in the ?
nominating business, but it heartily
okehs the suggestion that the present
board be re-elected to office.
This newspaper baa Been doing all
the publie talWhg about the approach
ing election, it seems; but H has not
done all the private talking and slate
making. Xp tact several local persons
have been mentioned for the offices,
among them being Robert Holoman
and /. R. Garrett, for mayor. Voten
generally take kthdly to the suggesfn
that a woman be alerted to one of the
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town omces.
Unless opposition develops, it is ve
SOCIAL EVENT OF
MUCH INTEREST IS
,GIVEN IN AHOSK1E
THE METHODIST PEO
PLE DRAW CROWD
"Womanless" Wedding at The
School Auditorium Brings A
Handsome Sum to the Meth
odist Church?One of The
Most Brilliant Occasions of'
The Season?"Sweet-Adelin
ers" Top the Bill
"The Wo man less Wedding", with
Mil* Charlie Conger and Mr. Bob
Taylor as the contracting parties, was
solemnised at the school auditorium
here last Friday night, in the pres
ence of a vast throng of friends and
relatives of the principals. The "Eight
Reverend" Billy Rogers fastened to
gether the man and so-called woman
in the "nasty bonds of padlock". Hie
building, long before the opening of
the ceremonial, was packed and some
were forced to stand to witness t?e
farce.
Immediately preceding the proces
sional, Marion Basnightwang "I Love
You Truly," Mr. Earle< Larence be
ing the accompanist. Then, as the
strains of Mendelssohn's Wedding
March pealed forth its meaningful
tones?"Here Comes The Bride"?
the georgeously gowned lady attend
ants (with richly .painted mannish
cheek bones, their lips not untouched
by the "lip-stick", and eyebrows bor
rowed from the cabaret of anti-prohhi
bition times), marched slowly down
the aisle, while the groomsmen prod
ded down the opposite aisle. They met
at the steps to the stage, the grooms
men lightly touched "their lady's"
muscled arms, bared as if ready for
a pugilistic encounter, both stepped
upon the styge, and took their
places on opposite sides of"the hyme
nal altar. In the meantime, while the
ladies were having their "coming out'
the spectators almost broke up the
solemn ceremony, breaking loose lit
s pandemonium of shoutings, laugh
er and otherwise marring the solemn
ity of the occasion. Even the atten
dants so far forgot themselves as to
snicker, grin, and now an then would
mile.
Then came the little flower girls,
>nd the ring bearer. And, they were
'swfuUy hate." However, notwithstan
ling their "cnteness", they were soon
Forgotten by the aedience, whose ey- J
m were the next instant rivtede upon
;he bride, who entered the aisle (that
ed to her life slavery) leaning on the
itrong arms of her devoted father,
lev. E. L. Sawyer. The charming
Mde was gowned in an imported
Frock of white late (borrowed off
K>mebody's window), with long court
trail, carrying a large boquet of bride
roses (picked from another friend's
sollard patch). She was lovely, win
some, charming, and otherwise su
perlatively attractive. (In fact, she
would 'attract' most any kind of mis
tile, it seen upon the streets.)
The groom entered from the ante
room, attended by Bfeother, Waiter
Johnson, the coaple meeting ss they
spproached the presiding minister,
who reed the ceremony which tied
them together in loud, sonorous ton
es. The ring ceremony was used,
the groom saluted the bride, and the
bridal party marched out the aisles
as the recessional was played.
Much more could be written about
this marriage, but little could he said
about the lady attendant's diimis,
for, the reporter confesses, there was
hardly enough of each drees to utter
a deep breath (one breath would have
been sufficient to make out of the
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ry likely that the old board will stand
for re-election, with the pesdhie ex
ception of one msmbsr, whose plsec
will probably be filled by a lady can
didate, now in the making.
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