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HSSkr Hon. Frank Page on Good Roads Hertford County Herald HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY HEWSTAFER A RARER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROUNA Volume XIL , Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, July 15,1921 One Section No TT .. _ ?? \ ? . . , 1 ? . ? - ? ?. ' * . ? v - ? ? ? * ,.. ?,i : ? ?Governor Cameron Morrison will be the principal speaker at a big cel ebration to be stayed at Rocky Mo unt today, Thursday, by the local post of the American Lerion. ?Lenoir Chambers, newspaper man or State University, has been added to the news staff of the Greensboro Daily News. ?The latest report of the Department of Agriculture showing the decreas ed acreage of tobacco, has caused to bacco men of this ^tate to believq that prices for tobacco will be much better this year than last. ?Several Nyrth Carolina cities have made complaint against the serviqs they are getting from the newly or ganised Southeastern Express Com pany. The American Express compa ny is failing to cooperate with the new company in routing express over the shortest route, thereby causing express tp be late jn arriving at its destination. Greensboro and Raleigh are among the complaining, cities. ?The Charlotte Automotive Associa tion in a recent meeting announced its intention of contesting the warr ants so freely served against autoists on the Wake County; highway* Officer Wiley Mangum arrested 107 speeders on one road in Wake County on the 4th. of July, each fine being for ten dollars. ?Wade H. Harris, of Charlotte, and Archibald Johnson, of Thomasville, have been appointed President and Secretary of the North Carolina rail road by Governor Morrison. Both are prominent neswpaper men of Gils st ate. ?E. C. Brooks, State Superintendent of Education has announced that the counties of the State will have to provide the same amount of revenue for schools before they will receive any aid from the State equalising board. ?The Southern Conservatory or Jnu sic will remain in Durham, thapks to the cooperation of the chabber -of co merce and other commercial organi zations of that city. ?North Carolina cities are being ur ged to file a* statement of their finan cial condition in order that the special session of the State Legislature may be duly called by the Governor. ?The Association of Superior Court Clerks held their annual meeting at Wrightrfville Beach last week. ?Vance County has signed up over fifty per cent of, the tobacco growers ? of that county in the cooperative mar keting association that is now in the process of organisation. ?Clifton Parriah, a IB-year aid boy of Durham, rescued a little eight year old girl from death at the etaoinci old girl from death by snatching her off e railroad just before being hit by an oncoming train. ?Although reports of many cases of Typhoid fever have been reported to the State Board of Health, there is no epidemic of this diabase in the St ate, according to the medical board. ?Business and professional men of Raleigh have gone on record as endor sing the efforts of the cotton and to bacco farmers to form a cooperative marketing association for the protec tion of the producer. ?Mrs. Clarence Johnson, prominent woman at Raleigh, has been chosen as Commissioner of Public Welfare for North Carolina. She succeeds Roland P. Beaaley, who resigned the position several months ago. ?Several delegations appeared bef ore the 8tate Highway Commission in Raleigh last week, trying to have the original routes of the state high way changed. In each instance the Commiaion decided to Met the routes remain as adopted in the bill passed by the General Assembly. ?Charles M. Upham, of Delaware, ar rived last week to take up hi. duties as State Highway Rnginser for North Carolina. Mr. Upham has had many yean of mceeasfal experience in con structing highway* and ia expected to make a good man for the position. ?W. B. Barrow, Sr., of Raleigh was fined |100 for gn assault upon R. EL Williams, reporter for the News and Observer. His son was also fined $50 for the part he took in the affray. ?The Durhaip Hosiery Hills have an nounced the completion and early op ening of another hisiery mill. This pl ant will manufacture silk hosiery ex clusively and will employ about one hundred and fifty laborers. ?John A. McSae, of Charlotte', was selected as the President of the North Carolina Bar Association, at the an nual meeting held In" Chgrlotte last week. ?North Carolina leai! all Southern states in the amount .of revenue tax es paid into the Federal Treasury du ring the year ending July 1st. ?Many Shriners from North Caro lina Shriners attended the meeting held in Norfolk and Virginia Beach the past week end. A special train was run over the Seaboard from Raleigh. ?It has been announced by the farm loan bank at Columbia, S. C., that they now have two million dollars to loan. Many North Carolina towns in the fanning belts of the State are ma king efforts to secure a jjprt of that loaif. ?Residents of both Harnett and Cum berland counties are planning to pla nt fruit' orchards. The success, af the peach industry in the Sand Hill sec tion of the State has caused these two counties to. look towards this in dustry for relief from tlfe low prices of cotton and tobaeso. ?-The North Carolina Society of En gineers held a State meeting in the city of Greensboro last week. Among the chief topics was road construction in North Carolina. ?Major Horace C. Cooper, of Smith field, recently Appointed State Bank Examiner, was aenior officer at Paris Island, S. C., in 1916, when present Secretary of the Nayy Edwin Denby was stationed at the same camp. ?Edd Collins, of Dnnn, while walk ing in hi* sleep one night last week, fell through a second-story window and was seriously injured. . ?Textile manufacturers of the state met in Asheville last week. ?Judge W. M- Bond opened court in Raleigh Monday morning. ?Dr. W. L. Potest, President of Wa ke Forest College, is giving a series of five lectures at State College tM week. His subject is Eugenics. ?June was a large month for build ing in the city of Raleigh, more than $100,000 building permits being issu ed in that city for June. ' ?7(0 different suits, involving titles, to the land in and around Camp Br agg, are expected to be completed in Federal Coutr this week. ?The State fire loss during Jnne was considerably less than the May losses according to a recent report given out by Stacey Wade, Insurance Commis sioner of this State. He ia is making every effort to decrease the monthly loss by fire suffered in North Caroli ng. ?President Hurley, of the North Ca rolina Press Association, has recently given out the program for the annual midsummer meeting, which will he held at Morehead City July 27-29, in clusive. The principal theme of the meeting will be "Seeing and Knowing North Carolina." President Hurley Is also planning to have a two or three day railroad tour of the State. He is now ia conference with the railroad men making preparations for the eon templated tour. ?49 new doctors were licensed by the State Board of Medical Examin ers this week. Among the new doc tors was Dr. Mallory Pittman, of Au lander. He left this week for Panama whose he will be stationed for some time ,? ?Dan Hugh McLean, prominent bus ineas and professional man of North Carolina, died at his home in Isling ton last 8unday, following a brief ill ROAD BONDS -NO INCREASEIN TAXES * ? b&ow tbe HEKALD is publishing a table show ing how Hertford County can issue $500,000.00 in road bonds, at six per cent interest, to run for thirty ? years; and, how with the same amount of tax money as is now paid in the county, this County can pay the interest on said bonds and retire one bond each year for the period of thirty years. In other words, an analysis of this table but proves what the HERALD * has asserted in previous issues, namely, that this coun ty can float bonds to the amount of five hundred thou sand dollars for road building without any increase in taxation. In round figures, $50,000 was paid in tax es in the year 1920, for roads. Referring to the table, it is found that $46,666.00 will pay the first bond and the interest on the total, for the first year, which is the largest single payment that will have to be made. Thereafter, each year the amount of interest decreas es, until, when the thirtieth payment is made, only One Thousand Dollars will be paid in interest. It is estimated that at least three or four years will elapse before $500,000 worth of' dependabble highways can be constructed in the county, and, with this an assured fact, the entire amount of $500,000.00 i will not be issued in a block. The bonds will be issued as the finances are needed for the actual construction ?? work. Thus for three years, and probably longer, the county will not pay interest on the entire maximum amount. With this fact before us, further reductions in the amount' of taxes required to float the bonds could be made from the table as published below. Examine the table published below and you will clearly see wherein Hertford County can issue the $500,000.00 bonds without any increase in taxation. This tab^le was prepared by the State Highway Com mission,' at the instance of the County Commissioners, and it is sanctioned by public officials of oujr State, whose one interest is the welfare of the people whom they represent in an official capacity. YEAR 1 2 3 4 8 ? 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 20 21 22 23 ? 28 26 27 28 29 30 INTEREST $30,000.00 29,000.00 2$,000.00 27,000.00 26,000.00 28,000,00 24,000.00 23,000.00 22,000.00 21,000.00 20,000.00 19,000.00 18,000.00 17,000.00 16,000.00 15,000.00 14,000.00 13,000.00 12,000.00 11,000.00 10,000.00 6,000.00 8,000.00 7,000.00 6,000.00 8,000.00 4,000.00 . 3,000.00 2,000.00 I 1,000.00 - BONDS INT. & BONDS $16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,660.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 10,600.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 16,666.00 $46666.00 46,666.00 44,666.00 43,666.00 42,666.00 41,666.00 40,666.00 36,666.00 38,666.00 37,666.00 36,666.00 35,666.00 34,666.00 33,666.00 32,666.00 31,666.00 30,666.00 29,666.00 28,666.00 27,666.00 26,666.00 25,666.00 24,666.00 ' 23,666.00 22,666.00 21,666.00 20,666.00 19,666.00 18,666.00 17,666.00 "BONDS AND INTEREST PAID OFF IN 30 YEARS" Paying annually approximately $50,000 in "mud taxes," otherwise known as road taxes, as Hertford County now does, during a period of thirty years (the period covered by the proposed bond issue) $1,500, 000 will have been paid by the taxpayers of the coun ty for road*. Compare this total'($1,500,000) with the - amount of bonds and the interest accruing within the same period. There is a grand total of less than $1, ' 000,000, making a difference of a half million dol lars. This represents the difference in the amount of taxes requited to,issue $500,000 bonds for thirty years and the amount taxpayers will have to pay, under our present system. This amount could be saved to the County for maintaining a county system of roads, which will be constructed with the amount derived from the bond Issue. And, still there would be no in crease in taxes. 1 CHAIRMAN FRANK PAGE WILL fcf COUNTY K"/?* *?>, ?? ' !* ~-vT' "I Hob. Fremk P?f?, CUirau of the Stato Highway Commission, will address tka voters of Hart ford County at three different placoa ia tka couaty, Friday aad Saturday of this week. Ha will arrive ia tkis couaty on Friday, ?poshing at 8 o'clock at night ia MurfreesSoro. Oa Saturday mor ning ka will make aaotkar talk at Wiaton, tka kour baiag half past taa o'clock. Ia tka aftaraoaa at kalf past 3 o'clock ka apaaks ia Akoakia. All citiaaps of tka Coaaty, kotk man aad wemaa. arc urgad aad iayitad to attaad ana of tka speaking*. He will talk about tko propoaod road bo ad issua for Hartford Couaty; aad. witk kis experience and kaowladga of road building aad road financing, ba will ka aklo to aaligktaa aad eaariaca. Mr Paga kas had mock to do witk tka construction of stato highways ia North Carolina, hav ing boon Ckairasaa of tka old koard, and, by appointment of ? Governor Cameron Morrison, ia now Ckairasaa of tka reorganised State Highway Commission. Ha knows Ida subject; aad ka ia a good talker. A NORTH CAROLINA COTTON IS 26 PER CENT BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS YEAR Small Amount of Fertilizer! V and Decreased Acreage It The Reason Raleigh, July 11.?"A short cotton crop," remarked hundreds of the re porters of the Co-operative Crop Re porting Service. The stands are ir regular, plants late and small and conditions too dry in many countiei of North Carolina to offer encourage ment that the hot weather suggests. The acreage and fertilisers are great ly reduced. The state's crop averages' almost uniformity 67 per cent of a normal or full crop growth, this being 7 below last year and 17 below the June 26, 1919, condition. It is two per cent below the cotton belt's average of 69.5 per cent. The South's crop condi tion at this date was slightly (1,6 per cent) less than a year ago and almost ten per cent below the ten-year aver age. The condition in the state im proved two per cent during June and 3.2 per cent average over the South, while the improvement for the past ten years has averaged two per cent during the month of June. The acreage reduction of North Carolina is estimated at 26 per cent, and of the belt 28.4 per cent. Thff least reduction is 26 per cent by Mis sissippi and Texas and the greatest in Arizona at 62 per cent. The south eastern section of the state made the greatest reduction. The total crop forecast is 8,483,000 bales, or 87 per cent less than last year's crop of 18, 365,764 bales. The cotton fertiliser features show that the total used in 67 per cent of last year's quantity and that 59 per cent of it was so-called low grade in quality in North Carolina. The av erage per acrp was 345 pounds at a cost of $6.05 per acre and the aver age cotton fertiliser used averaged $32.70 per ton, while last year it was | >530 pounds, costing $14.60 ^ter acre. Of. last year's crop on June 2Gth. 28 per cent was on farms, and 13 per eent of It not tenderable. A dry June is usually a good pros pect for cotton. It permits of clean cultivation, deep rooting and* stimulo' tes fruitfulness. The prsbent color is good and cotton can stand much ad verse weather if the coior is good. The average fertlisers used by the cotton belt averages 66 per cent of the average for the past four years. 0 I Y. W. A. Will Mm* Tm*4ay The Y, W. A. of tho Ahoskie Bap tut Church will moot with Mn. C. 0. Powell, in Sost Church Street, on next Tuesday evening at eight o' .... . IJP^ PEApiEX^*^ WILt SOON BE IN SHAPE FOR BUSINESS DIRECTORS OF EXCHANGE HAVE BEEN SLLECIEU? Nineteen Directors FrorfVirgi* nia end North Ceroline Al ready Named for New Pea* ^ nut Exchange?Others to Be Chosen by The Agricultural Colleges of Two States Suffolk, Va.. July 12.?The nias teen directors for the enlarged Peanut growers Exchange for Virginia and North Carolina were elected at the district primaries held on Tuesday, July 5th, as follows: VIRGINIA? Dinwiddle and Prince George?J. D. Webb, Jr., Disputants, Va. Greeneville?J. C. Lifsey, Emporia, Va. Isle of Wight?-Dr. C. J. Bradshaw I of Carrsville, Va. I Nansemond?J. O. Cutchin, El wood Virginia. Southampton?L. H. Brantley and W'surn^?win. AiWi^'jQksaltney, of i Spring Cove, Va. Sussex?A. W. Holt, Wakefield, Virginia. , NORTH CARPLINA*? Bertie?A. V. Cobb, Windsor. Chowan?M. S. Eliott, Mege. Gates?W. J. Rountree, Hobbsville. Edgecombe?M, Braswell, Bat tleboro, North Carolina. , , Halifax and Nash?J. H. -Alexan . def, Jr., Scotland Neck, and O. K. . Taylor, Whitakers. Hertford?H. J. Vann, Como. , Martin?Dr. John D. Biggs, Wil , liamston. Northampton?J. B. Stephenson. Qe ?vern. Perquimans?Dr. I. A. Ward, Bel videre. Washington?T. J. Swain, Mackeys . Perry. In addition to these nineteen fftfeo tors, two directors are to be nomi nated by the deans of the agricultural colleges of the two states, All nomi nees will be confirmed at a general stockholders meeting to be held some time in the near future. Seven of the nominees for members of the board of directors' of the new J Exchange were members of the board of directors of the present Exchange at the time of its reorganization. Of the other two members of the origi nal board one was forced to resign on account of ill health and the oth er is disqualified for membership be cause of his having discontinued the growing of peanuts more than a year ago. The fine loyalty of the directors of the present Exchange has beei. a . big faetor in making possible the or ganization of the new Exchange. 0 U !- ??< ?- """ ? ? ??? "1" M nam bolmi* The Annual Masonic Picnic, Jfhich for many years has been held at Sto ney Creek, will be held at the Chow 'an Pleasure Beach, at Colerain this year, on the last Thursday in July. | Plans are already under way for the . day, and this picnic is expected to be . the largest and best ever held by the Masons of the Roanoke-Chowan sec tion, under whose auspices it is al ways given. '!"? o Notice of Registration .?> The registration books for Ahoekie Township will open on Friday, July 19th., and will remain open until the 6th. of August, 19X1, for the registra tion of all voters, otherwise qualified, who expect to cast ballots on the Road Bond Issue of August lTth. Under theealhof election a new registration is ?ordered, and it is necessary for all to register in order to vote. I This 14th day of July, 19*1. Panl W. Holloman, Registrar, Ahoekie Township. o 1'i Read your bom* paper sad KMp up WIU your Mifnvor. ?. ?21
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