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iPSWiurd County Herald HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLYNEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA Volume X1L Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, May 13, 1921 One Section ' No. 2 STATE HEWS IN OKI WILED FOR READERS OF I Hi ??The North Carolina Tax Comrats- I '?ion it reviewing the horizontal re- I ductions of valuation* recently made by county commissioner! of the ma jority of the counties in the State. ?Major W. A. Graham, commission er of Agriculture, states that the new State Agricultural building whieh 1 has beeirtKT~suSject of much legis lative discuaaion is now in the process of development plans having been drawn and preparations being made for its construction. ?Raleigh employing printers, whose employees have been on a strike for almost two weeks, have declared op en shop, and all resumed work on Monday morning. The Mitchell Prun ing Company acceded to the union de mands and resumed work last week. The employers say they have no in-, tendon of granting the union demand and will operate their shops with the open shop principle in vogue. Many new printers have already been em ployed and a full force is expected to soon be at work in all of the shops. ?General Julian S. Carr, of Durham has announced that he prill be a can didate for Congresaman-at-large, in the event that North Carolina is giv en an additional congressman under the new apportionmet. Ex-Congress man John H. Small has also been men tioned as a likely candlate for the po sition. ?The executive council of the Amer ican Bankers Association, which was in session at Pinehurst last week, of fered resolutions asking that the Unit ed States government be represent ed at the Allied Conference on repara tion*. ?George Roes Pou, son of Congress man Pou, of Smithfield, has been ap pointed as superintendent of the Sta te Prison farm ,to succeed- E. P. Mc Cuuloch, who died a few days ago. ?Contracts for 14 different roads are to be let to contractors this week. ' V - I ?S. B. Underwood, Superintendent of Pitt County schools, has been ap-' pointed superintendent of the Raleigh city schools. ?Policeman Thomas W. McCuioton, one of the oldest members of the po lice force of Greensboro, was instant ly killed last Thursday night by boot leggers, when he stepped on to the running board of the automobile in which the criminals were riding. One of the men was captured and shot to death, another was placed in jail, while the third one escaped. The lat ter has been declared an outlaw and i a close search is being made for him. ?The North Carolina Corporation Commission has issued an order to 1 express companies operating in this [ state, requiring them to despatch ail express by wayJhejissrest route to its destination. ?Senator Gilbert Hitchcock will de liver ah address at the commencement exercises at Trinity College. - . v* ?The Modern Woodmen of the Wo rld of North Carolina held thefr an nual meeting in Wilson last week. '??"'TjiBac':i> ' '''' ' sWLV . .ss#y X ?Fertilizer sales in North Carolina dropped off fifty per cent this year, according to figures recently given out t>y the State Department of Agri / ?The North Carolina State Coun cil has authorised a loan of $50,000 for the exclusive use of the' State ( Highway Commission, in the constru ction of improved roads. M l ?The Federal Circuit Appeal Court j st Richmond has upheld the act of the Health officials of Alamance coun t ty in refusing to allow a circus to \ ?how at Burlington in* April, 19?1 , Scotland Neck has let a contract 1 for $20,000 worth of paving for the 1 town streets. j Mothers' Day was generally observ I id by churches throughout North < Carolina last Sunday. On Monday of this week memorial ' ?ervices were held in many North Ca- ' rolina towns and cities. It was a < legal holiday far North Carolina, and tanks were closed Many Tar Heels trill probably lose 1 V -r *?:*.?: v? ism -'??7 .?>?? ji'M * t. their ioto with the War Department about July 1st, owing to the recent legislative reduction of the Army. Professor John Graham, for many veara head of Warrenton high school, died last Saturday. was one of the foremost educators of the State. His neiee is President of Peace Instl-, tute at Raleigh. Pitt County has secured $300,000 , with which to improve the highways of that county. Rocky Mount is staging an auto-* mobile show this week. Tuesday a district meeting of both doctors and bankers wore held in that city. i Several young children of the Char lotte school recently became intoxi cated by eating candy. It was tho ught that alcohol was used in making the candy, which was bought in New York. I Two young girls of Roanoke Rap- i ids were assaulted by three men known as "American Rescue Work-, ers" last Saturday. The assailants are in the State Prison for safe keep- I Out of 8338 registered voters in Wilson township there were only 15 votes cast against the bond issue for $300,000 last Saturday. The money is to be used in behalf of the schools. ?Wadssboro voted $126,000 bonds for schools last Tuesday, by an over whelming vote. ?Naval reservists of North Carolina have beeh reorganised, with headqu arters at Elisabeth City. Cruises will be taken during the summer on the government sub chasers. ?The Carolina Playmakera of the State University are making a great hit this year, at all the towns and ci ties at which they have exhibited. ?The Roper Lumber Company has sold out iu large lumber interests and mill? to the Rowland Lumber Co. North Carolina. Baptists have ? ndsed over a million dollars in the put year for the purposes of the Southern Baptist Convention, accord ing to statement recently issued by Secretary Maddrey of Raleigh. ?The validity of the Volstead Act to seise and sell private property caught in the making of whiskey will be tested out in the courts by seve eral liquor makers of North Carolina. Raleigh city officials will test the , validity of the Municipal Finance Act , which was passed by the late legisla- , tore. Attorney general Manning has ruled that it is unconstitutional. , Former Lieutenant Governor O. J Max Gardner was the Memorial Day : speaker before a large crowd of 0ml- . ford county folks, at Greensboro, on . Monday. ' ' ?The North Carolina State College f Summer School will open at West dm- ^ leigh on June 14, and continue until July 26. i ?Gen. Glenn E. Plum,, author of the < Plumb Plan of administration of the, railroads, spoka in Raliegh Wednee day night. He emphasised the fact , hat the present freight rates were ban > dicapping the nation's traffic. A - ??? J NEW POSTOFFICE RULING President Harding, according to as sociated preaa despatches of Wednla- * lay, has modified the civil service ru- ] lings affecting appointment of post masters. > Under the new ruling the three hi- , jhest taking a civil service examine- , iion will be certified as eligible for jj appointment ,and either one of theee three may be appointed, instead of jne highest, under" the ruling by the , Former President Wilson. A new rul ing also makes it optional whether an examination shall dm held at the aspiration of any tenure of office. The new ruling will, therefore, pro , jably affect the postmasterahip at j Vhoskie. The marks made by the re sent candidates at the examination tave not yet been made public.. j Remember the Herald .to pay your i PEANUT GROWERS NOW SIGNING UP SIGNERS ALMOST READY Farmers and Business Men Are Wskin| Up to the Necessity of Completing the Organi zation Under Way I Past Year Suffolk, Vs., May 12.?The peanut growers of Virginia and North Caro lina are now figuring on the perfec tion of their enlarged Exchange da ring the present month.. 'Within the past two weeks several hundred additional signers have been added and only a few hundred names are now necessary to give the Exch ange the required number of signers. The growers who have now signed thq {contract control over one million of the bags of peanuts. The growers themselves have at last awaked to the necessity of perfecting the Exchange and have pledged them selves to secure the necessary addition Jul signers. County Units have been organised in most of the peanut coun ties for the purpose of pushing this campaign systematically. Each county has its own president and secretary and there is a vice-president for each one of the magisterial districts or the townships. i The big drive for securing signers is now on ahd will be pushed till the required number is secured. At no time since the organisation was be gun a year ago have the growers ev fcr shown more activev interest in their organisation work.. .They are now confident that success is near at hand. From all over the territory come reports of a changed attitude on the part of the business public towards the peanut growers in their efforts to organise on the commodity basis. This is largely due to the fact that the tobacco and cotton growers of the South and the grain growers of the West are now organising on can tracts similar to the one the peanut growers are signing. In the beginning of this work there, was a general feel ing that the growers themselves won? 1 Id not sign a contract that bound th em to deliver their products to an or- I ganixation for a period of years. But now since-such large numbers of the I growers of these various products 1 have signed these contracts, the bus- 1 in ess public is thoroughly convinced ' that the growers of the South and of i the East as well as those of the far i West are determined to merchandise i their products instead of dumping < them as hertofpre and at present. The remarkable success of the Cali- j< fornia growers in marketing their | products during the present period of I business depression has grftltly mfy- 1 gthened the advocates of co-operative ' marketing in the East and is proving 1 a wonderful incentive to the growers eg all sections' to perfect plans for |1 bringing about such changes in the | system of distributing farm products as will save the strong from the weak ness of the weak and fcive to the Veak the strength of the strong. _ A ? V 11 ~ Sunday School Report for May 8th. Below find Sunday School report ] for Sunday, May 8th.: ] Colerain?Attnedance 124, collec- J don 843.60. < Christian Harbor?Attendance 116 collection 819.68. Harrellsrille?Attendance "67, col ection $2?.67. Christian Harbor collection for the i orphanage; Colerain collection for < ?tarring Chinese; Harrellsrille, with ( $8.15 mora, making $80.72 for the 1 Chinese sufferers. Christian Harbor 1 tent Chinese sufferers $97.00, thus 1 hose churches sent the starring Chi- 1 isse $101.82. I ?0 3 DR. NORTH TO PRAECH 1 Dr. Harry M. North/ of Raleigh, t rill preach in the Methodist church ?, n Ahoskie next Sunday nigh* The Herald is "fitten" to | read. Send us your subeerip- i ion to-day. < MS Casus Ml....... Sdu. GUARANTORS ARE | SELLING TICKETS SEASON TICKETS ON SALE ? ~ Guarantors Expect to Make A Hundred Per Cent Sale of \ Tickets This Year, With The Cmpaifn Under Way Friday * ' ; ' ? A meeting of the guarantors of the Swarthmore Chautauqua will meet tonight to make plans for the ticket selling campaign, which will begin tomorrow, Friday, and continue until the opening date of chautauqua, which is on Wednesday, May 25. Seasop tic kets kill be sold at two dollars and a half, and will entitle the holder to admittance at every performance, there.' being 18 in all, including the junior chautauqua for the yonng boys and girls each of the five mornings the chahtauqua is here. Children's tic kets will be sold for one dollar. The local backers of-the chautau qua are working hard for a hundred per cent sale this seadbn and hope to go over and beyond the top in the sale of season tickets. By buying a season ticket $8.25 is saved, single admissions to all the performances to talling $6.25; the admission in the afternoons being fifty cents And at night seventy five cents. The contract with the chautauqua does not allow the guarantors any. art of the sale of aipgle admissions, and no season tickets can "be sold after the opering of the first day t program. Those who - contemplate attending chautauqua this year should not over look the saving effected by the pur chase of season tickets: as well as the fact that the guarantors are sole y do pendent upon tho sa'e of season tiic eta* BF-order to break ever . If you cannot attend every perfor mance let some on who has no ticket use your season pass; they are trans ferable. 0 MISS EVANS GIVES VERY BRILLIANT RECITAL Murfreesboro, May 11.?On Tues- 1 day evening, April 26th.f the public ; was favored by a graduating recital < in piano, given by Mias Nettie Evans | Throughout her carefully choeen pro- ' gram, Miss Evans displayed skillful < technique and wonderful interprets- P tion. The variety of the program of- P fered an excellent opportunity for the | full play of the pianist's talent. By P its hearty applause, her audience ev- )' idenced its appreciation of her well 1 directed efforts. ~ P This was the second recital given I during the month of April by the jj graduating pupils Of Miss Sarah Hu ghes White. Both Miss Chitty and j] Wins Evans have honored Chowan College, and have done credit to the |i training or Miss White. ' Miss Evans's program was as fol lows: < Sonata (Jo. 12 Op. 26 Beethoven 1 Andante Con Varjaxioni S Scherzo < Marcia funebre Sulla Morte d'un Eroe 1 Prelude, Op. 9. No. 2 ; v Rachmanionoff Prelude, Op. 28, No. 16? Funeral March, Op. 85 Chapin I kforgenstimmung Torjussen f Fruhlingsranschen.. Linding 1 Conceratuek Op. 79 Weber 1 _n !, COPELAND-MYERS t Mr. William L. Cope land, young man >f this town, and Mia Lola Myers, , >ldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. ( 3. Myers of Bertie county, were quiet ( y married at the home of Res. J. J. , Sarker, last Sunday afternoon, Rev. j Ir. Barker performing the ceremony. t dr. Copeland, formerly Of Winton, < las resided in Ahoskie tor several rears, and is an enterprising and well Iked young man. Mrs. Copeland, el hough not generally known here, is he attractive daughter of a well kn rwn family of Bertie. 1 Mr. and Mia. Copeland are making < heir home with Mr. and Mis. Walter i barker in church street Mr. Cape- { end is now employed by the Fepei lola Bottling Works. teh.My.TlMn ernes eases.?ade. ? ROANOKE SOON BE READY TO TRAVEL BRIDGE OVER ROANOKE Roanoke-Chowan Section Will Soon Be Linked up With the That Section Around Mar tin* and Adjoining Ter | ritory by Bridge The following extract was clipped from the William*ton Enterprise: "The State Highway Commission's great Roanoke river bridge project and master engineering feat of road building over Connie Swamp is mak ing splendid progress and before the . year has fully passed, it is likely that j we will have direct communication | with our friends and neighbors across : the river in Bertie County." The engineering feat referred to in , that extract is the bridging of the Ro anoke river, from a point near the I town of Williamston, on the further side, to a point near Windsor on the 1 Roanoke-Chowan section side. This ' work has been under way some time,1 under the direction of the State High- 1 way Commission, and, as home out ' by our contemporary at Wtfitamston, ' will open an avenue of direct com- I munication with our' sister counties across the river. j The fact is, ^e people in this strip ' have already been too long cut off < from the outside territory, both acr- j oes the Roanoke, and the Chowan riv-' ers. Hertford County looks forward | to the bridging of the Chowan at the town of Wifiton, and the consequent opening up of the extreme northeas tern counties of this section. When 1 that is done, travel through Hertford;1! County will pick up considerably and 1 we may look for better roads. 0 MR. D. C. BARNES TO WED Mrs. Alexander Hall Smith hnnouncea the approaching marriage j of her daughter Irene Augusta to Mr. David Collin Barnes ? The announcement above will be of keen interest to the many friends of Miss Smith in Martin County and Eastern Carolina. The wedding will take place some time in Jupc. Mr. Barnes is n native of Mnrfreesboio, snd is an attorney in law known 1 throughout*the state.?Williamston < Enterprise. The above announcement will be ' read with interest here in Hertford County, where Mr. Barnes is so well ' known. He is one of the leading bus- 1 iness men and bankers of this section, 'f ? well as an attorney of no mean abil-1 ty. He has represented Hertford Co- j mty two or three times in the State { Legislature, both as Representative t md Senator. His family connections , nclude some of Hertford County's t nost illustrous families. Miss Smith's father, who is now a lead, was an attorney, practicing at t Williamstonbut descended from the 'fl Smith family of Halifax County? one | if that county's first settlers. 'l U T iNTERTAINMEN BY BRANTLEYS t GROVE SCHOOL t "The Skule of Long Ago," a play t >y Brantley* Grove school talent, was | fiven in the Richard Theater here on ( ruesday night. The Theater was pac- i ted with a large audience. The play res full of comedy, and waa excep-' ionally well performed by the young 1 ichool children. 'a The girl quartette, which won the ,c ringing prise at the county common- t ;ement, topped the program, and br- ,s night 'down the house with generous It ipplause. A one-reel feature of Fox n lews waa run by the management of ja he Theater. The receipts amounted .? it fifty dollars. ? 0 t Moved to AMI* <1 Mr. and Mrs. BQl Raynor and son, ? Professor Kenneth Raynor, formerly 8 it Colerain, have moved to Ahoekie c md will make their home in the fu- '* are. t They are well known hare and Ah- 1 ?kie welcomes them as future eM> 1 waa of the town. ? c 0 BASEBALL CLUB IS ORGANIZED HERE WANT TO HAVE BASEBALL ??? Work on Grounds Has Boon in Progress This Week end Did yl Practice Will Soon Be gin?First Game Not Scheduled The baseball enthusiasts of Ahee kie held a meeting one night last we ek, in Copeland's Drug store, and or ganised for the promotion of a club here this season. L. C. White was cho sen as manager of the team. Be is now seeking games with other teams of this section, and, in fact, already has several games in prospect. Mom games than in any other season will be played on the local lot, unless the present plans of the management go awry. ? At the meeting last week a grounds committee was appointed, to secure a suitable site, and put the diamond and field in proper shape. They secur ed .a field in the northwest section of the town, in front of the home of Mr. Paul Brett. Work has been progress ing on the new grounds every day this week, and the diamond has been well taken care of by a small army of baseball fans, who are evidently hungry for baseball. When it has been finally put into shape, the new ground will be the beet Ahotkie has had in many years, especially the diamond. J. C. Brett, former Wake Forest ball player, will captain the team this year, and daily practice will begin within the next few days, or as soon ss the diamond is in proper shape. Others who are expected to make strong bids for positions on the team are: Lee Copeland, George Burgess, Graham Newsome, Dewey Cherry, C. end P. Dukes, C. C. Sessoma, Horace Garrett, as well as others. 0 . PROHIBITION INSPECTOR PAYS AHOSKI&Wftl Col. Cunningham Visits Ahos kie in Interest of Enforce ment of Laws Col. John S. Cunningham, Federal Prohibition Inspector, paid Ahoskie in official visit Monday of this week. Colonel Cunningham, as inspector, is raveling throughout the State, calling ipon the county and municipal offi cials to help enforce the laws against nanufacture and sale of alcoholic brinks. Col. Cunrfingham stated, on his vis t here. thgt the superior court jad :es and city court judges are aiding he prohibition forces materially by ubstituting road sentences for fines, ipon the violators of the prohibition sws. He is asking that both county ,nd town officials of Hertford Coun y make a determined effort to drive mt the makers' of illict liquors. He also commented on the great ?enefits the public generally had de lved from the prohibition laws of he State and Nation. He pointed o the lessening of crime traceable 0 whiskey and its allied drinks, since he prohibition laws went into effect. 0 MPORTANT MEETING OF BAPTIST BARACA CLASS The Baraca Class of the Ahoskie iaptist Sunday school will hold a sp cial meeting in their rooms at the hurch next Sunday morning, when he class will be reorpanised, apropos 1 more definite work and greater Ev erest. The class hopes to add many isw members and expects to make i record breaking work within the ,|| text year in average attendance. Oth ir phases of work wili also be under ?ken. It is the hope and desire of the bf icers and members of the class that . large attendance will be on hand lunday morning, whether yon are a embers or not The Ahoskie Bar* a Class is going to get down to work nd endeavor to bring back the prise ?nner from the IMS convention of iY VI *th the less Sunday morning. ;U * " .% ***,,? J* ' i-V W' Y ^ v? ?
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