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Volume XIL Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, June 17, 1921 One Section No. 7 me hews ii digest compiled mm if i wo, ?In an election held at Mount Airy laat week for school bonds, the wo men voters turned out in Urge num bers and carried the election by a large majority for the schools. ?The North Carolina Press Associa tion will hold Its annual mid-sumn.er meeting in the new Bedworth Hotel at Korehesd City, during the month of August, according to n recent de cision of the executive committee, in session at Raleigh. ?News dispatches from Kinston in dicate that crops in that section are good, and that many farmers will re trieve the losses on their crops of the past year. ?Mrs. Sidney Cooper, of Henderson was last week elected as the head of the North Carolina Federation of Wo men's Clubs, at the annual convention held at WrightsviUe Beach. ?North Carolina Elks held their an nual convention in the city of Golds ^>oro last week, and they were give" royal entertainment by ?bc conven tion city.." ?The street railway company of Ra leigh has petitioned the State Corpo tion Commission for an increase in car fare, the rate being asked eight cents. ?Judge W, C. Harris, of the Munici pal Court at Raleigh, has recommend ed that the Capitol Hotel at that city be closed by the city commissioners. The proprietor of the hotel has been arrested for allowing immoral practi ces to go on within the hotel. ?Sixty-five white Women and five ne gro women took the examination at Raleigh Jast week for registered nur ses. V" ? - ?Jim and Mitchell Sharpe, who are in the Halifax County jaU charged with the. abduction of two young la dies of Roanoke Rapids, will as]t thht the trial of their cases be removed to another eounty, owing to the feel ing against them in Halifax. M ?The teachers school at Boone, N. C., began last week, with a large wn rollment. ^President Wright, of the East Ca roline Training School, in his talk to the graduating class last week, stated that the remedy for lawlessness was more and better trained school teach ers to teach higher ideals of living and cltlsenship. ?The Dunn Chamber of Commerce, in a protest filed with the Intersate Commerce Commission, states that the watermelon crop in that section will be almost a total loss, owing to the high transforation charges. > _ ?A Wake County jury, in its report to the eourt authorities last week, re commended that the solicitor draw up bills of indictment against the per son or persons rssponsible for the "un spue Irs hie conditions" existing hi the city pail of Baleigh. ?C. H, McBride and E. J. Yates, of Washington, D. C., both connected' with the Intonate Commerce Commis sion, were drowned at Wrightsville Beach, while in bathing last Wednes day. ?Dr. Peacock, who was on trial for murder in the first degree for the killing of the Chi*f of PdKco of the town of Thomasville, was declared j not guilty by a Rowan County jury at Thomas ville this weak, on the grou nds of temporarry insanity at the time ot the killing. The widow ot.thge rdead man, and another man who was wounded by Dr. Peacock are suing the latter for damagoa. ?Senator Gilbert Hitchcock spoke to the graduating class of Trinity Col lege at the annual commencement ex ercises last waek. ? ~ iv'? . ?North Carolina community workers of the State Welfare organisation are planning a hugs pagaant to be staged on Roanoko Island soma time during the current summer. Many newspaper men and others will go down to the island and help stage the pageant, which will portray dm life on the is land during the days of the Indian. Moving pictures will be taken of the ?The town of Csrthoge, according . ~.r ? - to the Moore County Newt, is proud of its new town commissioner, who is ,}fn. N. A. Blue. !?Former Lieutenant Governor E. L. Daughtridge, of Rocky Mount, died I last Sunday. He first introduced the bill in the State legislature, creating the State Department of Agriculture. Besides being a' prominent public cit izen of the State, he was a "dirt" far mer and large land owner. ?A. J. Honeycutt, prominent merca ant of Wake County, was convicted [for the second time, on charge of re ceiving stolen goods, the conviction [being in the Wake County Superior Court this week. He was sentenced to serve five years in the Federal peni tentiary. ?According to W. C. Thomas, of the 8mith-Hughes Tobacco Company, of Greenville, who has Just returned to his home from an extensive Euro pean tour, business conditions in that country an very discouraging. ' ?The State meeting of the Christian Endeavor Societies met in Wilming ton the first three days of this week. ?The State Corporation Commission has declined to grant another hearing to the Southern Bell Telephone Co. ?[On Thursday of this week Gover nor Morrison will rsceive a delegation of mayors of North Carolina citites. The mayors are asking for a special session of the legislature. ?Thomas E. Holding, Jr., young druggist of Wake County, was freed Tuesday on the charge of receiving tolen goods, knowing that they were stolen. At the first trial which was held a few months ago, he was found guilty. ' ?Mosquito experts of the Federal Department of Health, have begun their campaign against the pests & the northeastern section of the State which is d{satisfied with the recent in crease that was granted them. ??Durham County will build a cot tige for indigent children at the Stone wall Jackson Training School at* the t>wn of Concord. ? : ? ....' *-?' . ?Work on the outing camp for wo- I men near Aaheville is being rushed. Mn. TV W. Bickett, who is one of the officers of the training unit, has ar rived on the scene, and is superinten ding the work. The camp will open one time during the month of July. ?The Baptist Mountain Assembly I for North Carolina will be held at ] Bidegcrest this year, beginning July 27, and continuing through the 6th. of August. Many prominent Baptists will take part in the assembly. ?Both the peach and dewberry crops of Moore County are a success this year, both as to production and as to prices received. ??The 126th. Annual Commencement of the State University is being held at Chapel Hill this week. ?Three native North Carolinians who have been away from the State ' for several years, have returned this year to take up their duties as pro'e:- , sors at the State University. They are Jamea Finch Boyster, who will teach Biology; Louis Graves, who will head the department of journalism; and B i D. W. Connor, who will become the Kenan professor of Philolgy. I ?Optometrists of North Carolina ire j holding their annual State Meeting In Gfreenaboro this wepk. ?Judge T. D. Bryson, superior court judge, holding a term of court at the city of Winston-Salem, charged the grand jury to see that the prohibit! i laws were Srtrictly enforced; stating that a very larg* per cent of the pres ent day crime was directly traceable to whiskey. ?Cot. Albert Cox, of Bhteigh, has 1 been choeen as the head of the alum ni Association of the Noijii Carolina State University, t ?Statesville voted to issue *160,000 worth of school bonds this week. opposition was registered against the 1 "THE OLD SWIMM1N' HOLE" I (By JAMBS WHITCOMB RILEY) || Ob, the old swimmin' hole! where the crick eo (till end deep |3 B Looked like a baby river that was laying half asleep, ?' ? And the gurgle of the worter 'round the drift jest below Kh Sounded like the laugh of something we onc't ust to know g Before we could remember anything but the eyes Of the angels lookin' out as we left Paradise; But the merry days of youth are beyond our control, And it's hard to part forever with the old swimmin'-hole. Oh, thy old swimmin' hole! In the happy days ol yore, ' j? When I ust to lean above it on the old sycamore, S Oh, it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide That gazed back at me so gay and glorified, B It made me love myself, as I leaped to caress My shadder smilin' up at me with, such tenderness. But them days is past and gone, and old Time's tuck his toll From the old man come back to the old swimmin' hole. I Oh, the old swimmin' hole. In tha> long, lazy days When the humdrum of school made so many runaways, , How pleasant was the journey down the old dusty lane, ?| Whare the tracks of our bare feet was all printed so .plane |H You could tell by the dent of the heel and the sole They was lots o' fun on hand at the old swimmln' hole. But the lost joys are past. Let-your tears in sorrow roll , Like the rain that ust to dapple up the old swimmln' hole. ass SB Thare the bullruahes growed, and the cat-tails so tall, | And the sunshine and shadder fell over it all; - I And it mottled the worter with amber and gold HI Til the glad lilies rocked in the ripples- that rolled; And the snake-feeder's four gauzy wings fluttered by ?B Like the ghost of a daisy dropped out of the sky, Or a wounded apple-blossom on the breezes' controls |gj As it cut aerdst some orchard to'rds the old swimmintiole. Oh, the old swimmin' hole! When liast saw the placti* The scenes was all changed, like the cbhnge in my face; HI The bi^dge' of the railroad now crosses the spot g| Whare the old divin'-1og lays sunk and fergot. And, I Stray down the bankq whare the Srees shelter me. And, I wish in my sorro^r T could' strip & "the soul, "T" ? ? And dive off in my grave like the old swimmin' hole. IlUIIIBIIIlllllllllllllllllllllBHllfllllillltllillllWillililllilllllUlllllllilllillilllllllllllllllilllllltlllilltlllllllllllllllilllllllilllljiiil STATE ROADS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED IN ALL SECTIONS STATE Counties Are Furnishing Mon et for Building State > Highways ' ?? ' EIGHT"N MILLION DOLLARS \. - *..'s ' ? Practically Every County of the First District Has Approved Roads Except Hertford and ?Gates?Work WH1 Begin in Other Counties At Once and Be Completed Immediate construction on 482 miles of roads in North Carolina, cost ing over seven millions of dollars, has ( been ordered by the State Highway , Commission, ? and much'of the road will be completed^and put into service before the end of the year. Every dis trict in the State, and almost every county in the State, is included in tye list of projects approved ?or imme diate construction. Altogether the commhAion has ap proved the building of more than 18 million dollars worth of road, with a total of more than 1,000 miles, since reorganisation was effected following the enactment of the new read legisla tion by the last session of the general Assembly. Limitations of material supply and construction forces make H necessary that some roads be given preference. .. V A near as possible, construction wil proceed sBnultaneously in each of the Bine districts, with an equalised dis tribution of the State money. Many of (he counties in the State have come in under the Guilford-Forsyth resolu tion, and in some instances this tact gives one district a larger immediate mileage than others. Particularly is this true of the Sixth district, which Continued on page eight LOCAL ATTORNEY MAKES A GREAT SPEECH IN VIRGINIA Hon. W. R. Johnson, of Ahoskie Delivers An Address at ' Phoebus, Vs. WAS CLASS DAY ORATOR *?'> ' ?.v I Speech by Local Attorney De clared by School Authorities Tc Be the Best Ever Deliver-, ed There?He Was in Fine Fettle and Won Great Ap 4 plause The following article will be of in ternet to the people of Hertford and Bertie counties, proving, as it does, that we not only have fertile soil* for crop-growing, but that we also have a good mill for grinding out distinguished orators, whose fame is heralded to the distant lands. The following account of an ad dress by Hon. Walter R. Johnson, ap peared in the Newport News, Va., daily papers of last Friday: "The Wonderful Opportunities" coming to the children in the public schools ware brilliantly brought out last night at the commencement, ex ercises at the Phoebus Graded schools by W. R. Johnson, a prominent law yer of AhoaUe, N. C., who was the orator before the graduating class. The exercises were held in the thea tre at the National Soldiers' Home, and were attended by an immense au dience.' ,r Mr. Johnson, who is a brother of (Luther L. Johnson of Pheebus, and |a lawyer of prominence in the old North State, was In flub voice and Ma Address was declared by the school authorities to have boon one of the Continued on page eight HERTFORD COUNTY WAS HOST TO HIGHWAY OFFICIALS WED NESDAY ?nm ? ROADS Good Roads Are Discussed and Commissioners Call An Election HALF MILLION DOLLAR BOND ISSUE FOR ROADS Miss Berry, Attorney W. L. Ga boon and Commissioner Hart Make Addresses to Hertford.! County People on Good Road Wednesday?"Lost Colony"! of North Carolina Will Be Re claimed by the Construction of A Highway leading to Otb.r Sections of tb. S..U With two women voters of the j county present, and the courthouse about two-thirds filled with the male 1 population of the county, a good roads j conference was held in Winton Wed- | nesday, beginning at hall past eleven j o'clock in the morning. Commissioner Hart, of Tarboro, and Attorney Wal ter L. Cahoon, -attorney to the State Highway Commission, and Miss Har-, riet Berry, of the Good Roads Aaso j ciation, were in attendance at thtf j meeting and all made speeches before the Hertford County audience. Sena tor Stanley Winborne, of Murfrees boro, acted as chairman of the meet i ing, introducing all of the speakers. Miss Berry was the first to address the voters and she told her hearers just a portion of what she knew about roads. She stressed the importance of improved roads, and their vital re]a tion t? the progress of the State and of the county. She pointed to the Sand Hill section of the State as a concrete example of what good roads meant to a community There, she pointed out, roads had opened up one of the ricnest possibilities of the en tire State, in the adaptation of the peach growm,; industry; and t~>day that is one of the richest spots in the State?simply because a few good roads were constructed into those counties, and discerning business in- ; terests coul ' go in and develop the hidden pojsiabilities. She also pointed to the other coun ties of the State that were building good roads, and the amounts they were spending for roads Hertford County, she said, was fortunate in ; that she had already a good founda- j tion for roads; pointing out "that the ] cost of construction here would be less than in the far eastern coun ties or in the western counties. Attorney Walter L. Cahoon, of Elix j abeth City, followed Miss Berry; and .throughout his talk of about twenty I minutes, he recited facts about North Carolina, about this northeastern tec-1 tion of the State, and about Hertford ! County, which, if they were not start ling to the wary, proved convincingly the imperative necessity of building roods that would unleash this section often referred to as "The Lost Col ony of North Carolina." One fact 'recited by Mr. Cahoon was that North I Carolina woe the only State in the Un ion which filled in every blank in the | last census report, thus evidencing tlist this Stats was the most versatile of all states in the Union. Mr. Ca hoon was eager to carry homo the id ea that this lost colony was soon t be linked up with the rest of the State; and he stressed the importance of the bridging the Chowan River "at Winton, and provide an avenue by which this section might get-in c]'irer contact with the other part of North Carolina. He also told of the efforts now being put forth in his county (o do their share in providing the link of roads, and invited Hertford County to join in with the other counties in building this rood and bridge. Commissioner Hart in a most prae tic?l manner, then, told the gathering something about what the State Com minion was doing, and what they in tended to do in road building. In the beginning, he emphasized the neces sity of a greater interest among the women of the eeunty, and, although, himself an (opponent of woman suf frage, he pointed out that this matter of roads and the carrying of a bond issue for highway construction could be done by eliciting the support, the enthusiasm and the hearty cooperation of the women voters of the county. In a plain, business-like way, Mr. Hart explained that the State Com mission could not sell its five per cent bonds today; and thus, he said, coun ty road building was dependent, for the immediate present, upon the indi vidual counties. He told the Hertford County people that, in order to se cure immediate construction of roads, they must raise funds within the county, and loan It to the Highway Commission, which would build the goads, refunding every cent of the*mo ney to the county within four instal ments, covering a period of four years. This plan, he said, was meeting with hearty response from many of the counties all over the State, who were ready for roads, and counties that were willing to co-operate to that extant, in order to secure their share of the State roads. And, Mr-. Hart said, these counties would be the ones to get the roads first Commissioner Hart was enthusias tic about the prospect of these east ern counties" receiving their due from the State, for, said he, they had been too long neglected. Their money had been carried to Raleigh and spent in the more progressive counties, in stead of being applied here, he said. This very thing, according to Mr. Hart, was no longer to be trap, so [long as he was commissioner of the roads in the eastern district In this connection he called attention to the fact that this district has the largest allotment of any district for the first ! year's road, building program. He was anxious, eager, and enthusiastic over the coming emancipation of eastern North Carolina, Jn the matter of road building. Churches, Schools, and Good Roads he linked together; and stated that religion was vitally connected with good roads, for, attendance upon the church services was increased in a good roads section?and the same was true of schools. He could not blame the person for sleeping in church, af ter bumping over roads like the one between Ahoskie and Winton over which he had just ridden. The same, he said, was true of the children at tending schools. The one great desire of his life, he stated, was to build a bridge across Chowan Rover at Winton, and thus redeem the "Lest Qolony" of North Carolina. He spoke feelingly at this juncture, saying that there was only * one thing on this earth on which he wanted his name printed?he wanted HART written on that bridge. And, he reiterated, "I am going to build that bridge." He would make neigh bors of Hertford and Gates people; and have all alike become North Ca rolinians in something besides polit ical boundaries. With roads through the seven counties beyond the Chow an, and a bridge over tha river. North Carolinians would be made out of the population of that section, the section whose people are now and "have been more nearly Virginians. This successful business man and ex tensive farmer firmly impressed the voters present in the courthouse, and concluded his heart-to-heart talk in an outburst of appreciative and enthusias tic applause. Attorneys A- Pilston Godwin, of Gates County, and J. H. Matthews, of Bertie, made short talks, in which they pledged their counties in the co operative effort to secure good roads for this section. After the lunch hour, the Hertford County commissioners met in the cou rthouse, and, in open session, issued a call for an election to be held on July 28, at which time the voters of the county will be given an opportu nity to vote en a Five Hundred Thous and Dollar Bond Issua for reads. kaap
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