North Carolina Newspapers

Hertford County Herald ' 11 1 1 " ' - ' t ~ f. ? 1 ; - 1 ?? r """ ITFORD COgNTVS ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA flqgq?gjq?? I I I ???1I I 11 I ill I ?? umc XII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, November 25, 1921 One Section No. 30 UsM ' ?: -T -: : ~ " ? V . ?"j- a - . il.L Lxi.iL I . I ' ' T-rrrrrni [ATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM-, ?PLIED FOR READERS OF THE I HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD ? ? tudents of the University of rinia will receive a report by plav. of the Virginia ;h Carolina football game to ilayed in Chapel Hill today. | report will be received by (less. Ibmen were last week ad ed to full standing in the tist State Convention which held in Rocky Mount. Very e opposition was made to motion granting thern full ers in the Convention, udge McElrov, holding su ior court in Iredell Cotinty week, sentenced several of le guilty pf the liquor laws he chain gang, overnor Morris n and J. W. ley made addresses before State Convention of the N. Farmers Union, which was d in Raleigh last week. >r. B. W. Spilman, cf Kin 1, has been relected as pres lt of the North Carolina Rap State Convention, 'wo persons were killed at dsboro, last Monday, when caffolding on which they ?e working suddenly collap 'he 1922 session of the M. E. iference of the Eastern Dis t will be held in Raleigh, spresentative Zebulon Wea , of the Tenth Congression listrict, is trying hard to eon I the appointment of post sters in his district. Hi; has en up each prospective ap ntment with the Civil Service mmission at Washington. Dver 200 candidates for the cient and Accepted Scottish e of Free Masonry were ini ;ed at Charlotte last week. Srnest Dymott, of Winston em, convicted on a liquor of se, chose to serve six months the chain gang rather than banished) from that city fw ?r. W. A. McGirt, prominent cit tn of Wilmington, in a tele im to Secretary Hughes, ma b the point that the Secretary 1 not go far enoitgh in his pro salt to limit armament. The town of Thomasville for e third consecutive year was e first town in the United Sta i to go over the top in the Red oss Christmas Roll Call. 406 Atlantic Coast shop em oyees at Rocky Mount went t on a strike for one lay 1 -.st sek. A new classroom b liidrng, ree stories in heighth. will be lilt at the State University the >rk to begin some time soon ter the first of the year. ?Greensboro's newest and the ty's largest theater, the Na >nal, opened its doors to the iblic on Wednesday. -Henderson masons have rais I over eight thousand dollars ithin, the past few months, for e new hospital to be erected the Oxford Orphanage. -At a meeting of the Virginia sague moguls last Saturday ev ling, new rules were adopted hich will practically eliminate iff oik and farboro from the rciiit next year. -Jfews articles emanating, out : Dunn state that Harnett ounty furnished the first wo kan juror in North Carolina. I woman sat on the jury in that ounty over a year ago, accord ig to the files of the Dunn pa er. --Marshal Foch will visit the ity of Charlotte on the ninth f December. -A. W. McLean, of Immber on, reports say, will be nexl emocratic candidate for the rovernorshinof the State. -Miss Beall Woodward, young sdy of Washington, D. C., wai utantly killed at Chapel Hill sat Sunday, being run over bj n antomobile driven by a man t that town. Owing to the slip, ery conditions of the streets ir hat town, the car skidded aj he brakes were applied, caus ng it to knock the lady down and fracturing her skull. ?B. L. Lyda, a magistrate of Asheville, has been bound over to Superior Coutr, to answer a charge'of aiding in the'trans porting of liquor for sale. ?Carolina State College, by winning from the Wake Forest College football team last Sat urday, won the undisputed championship of the State. ?Eastern Carolina Methodists in their annual session at New Bern last week, elected a wo man as delegate to the General Conference, which is to be held ! some time later. ' ?Congress may appropriate a sum of money to help build the concrete road from Greensboro to the Guilford battleground, a historic spot of the Revolution ary period. ?Reprsentatives of the daily newspapers of the State held a meeting in the new Robert E. Lee hotel at Winston-Salem on last Saturday. ?The North Carolina Teachers Assembly convenes in Raliegh today. A record breaking atte ndance is the outlook, accord-^ ing to the advance reservations made by those who expect to attend. ?Join M. Galloway, of Greens boro, the largest raiser of to bacco in the world, has recent ly become a member of the N. C. branch of the Co-operative Marketing Association of tobac co growers. Rapid progress is being made all over the State in the completion of the contr act for the marketing associa tion. i ?Rev. S. E. Mercer is the new presiding elder of the Weldon District of the Eastern North Carolina Conference of the M. E. church, South. ?Announcement" was made in the press Wednesday morning that the annual'football game between the universities Qf N. C. and Virginia would be call ed off, on account of some mis understanding as to the eligibil ity of half-back Johnson of the Carolina team. However, Wed nesday night papers carried the announcement that the annual classic would be staged at Cha pel Hill, which town is today the mecca for many thousand sport loving people of the two states. ?The Southern Railway anno unces that it will immediately construct a new station at the city of Greeifsboro, if'the citi zens of that city will approve a bond issue, to be advanced by the city to the railroad as a loan to pay for the structure. ?McDowell County has mar keted $150,000 worth of court house bondB at a handsome pre mium.v * ?Representatives of forty of the state high schools will com pete in the declaimers contest to be held at Trinity College on Friday night. ?Rev. Livingston T. Mays, the President of the Ridgecrest As* sembly, will soon begin editing a religious paper to be publish ed at Marshall, N. C. ?Allegations were recently made in the city court of Ashe ville that about sixty nude pic tures of Asheville school girls were on display in the studio of a photographer of that city, but upon investigation by the offi cers only three pictures that > could be classed . as indecent i were found, and these were pic tures taken of-the girls in cos ? tumes worn in a play given in : that city. 1 ?North Carolinians will be in terested to learn that Link John > son, a prominent Republic-an i leader of the negro race in the I State of Georgia, has been re f jected by the Senate for the po 1 sition of Recorder of Deeds of - the District of Columbia, a po* i sition to which he was nominat ' ed by President Harding. Sena ? tor Watson, of Georgia, led the > fight against his confirmation. THE HOMEJTOWN PAPER When the evenin' shade js /alien' ?* th* ?' the_day, An' a feller rests froip labor smojuh" afcL.^ ^?pe o" clay, There's nothin' does so much good, be fortune up, or down, As, the little weekly paper from his 'ol home town. If it ain'J a thing of beauty an' its print ain't always clean, Yet it straightens out his temper when a feller's feelin' mean It takes the wrinkles off his face and drives away the frown, That little weekly paper from his ol' home town. it tells of all the parties an' the balls of Squash Pie Row, 'Bout who spent Sundky with his girl, an' ho wthe crops grow How it keeps a feller/posted 'bout who's up an' who's down! ' That little weekly payer from his ol' home town. Now I like to read the dailies an' the story papers too, An' at times the yaller novels an' some other trash; don't you But when I want some readin' that will drive away a frown, I want that good, ol' pap.er from my ol' home town. FARMERS SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SUGGES TIONS TO IMPROVE FARM (By H. L. Miller, Co. Dem.) Have you taken advantage of all the opportunities that have been offered you this year Mr. Farmer? If not, don't you waste time jn useless regretting but rather, resolve and do bet ter next year. Do you know that jyoo can increase your crop yi eld on average of about one third, by the use of seed at a cost of only about one to two dollars per acre? Did you know that deep fall and winter plow ing Almost doubles your chan ces of making an average crop? Did you know that you can buy the raw material and save about one-half of your'fertili zer bill? Did you know that you can have, free, the services of ah expert Drainage Engineer, to map out a drainage. system for your farm? Did you know that a little time and money spent in pruning and spraying will double your qauntity and greatly increase the quality of your fruit?. With the boll weevil almost upon us, have you carefully planned how to meet and fight him, so as not to lose too heav ily? Have you sodded down a permanent pasture yet, for your live stock? Theae, and any other farm problems that you may have, your County Agent will be glad to assist you on if you will call him. He can't possibly hunt ev ery one up and ask them if they have a problem, but he can and will help you if you let him kn ow that you need him. 0 Thanksgiving Holiday at School Teachers and students of the Ahoskio Graded High School will take a rest this week end, Suspending work for the week on today, Thanksgiving Day. There will be no'work done at the school either on Thursday or Friday, work being resumed ?next Monday. Service* at The Baptist Church Thanksgiving services will be hpid at the Baptist church here tonight, Thursday, at the usu al hour for evening services. The service will be a praise one and a collection will be taken for the Thomasville orphanage. 0? Cape Jessamine Blooms Mrs. R. C. Bridger, of Win ton, advises the HERALD that she discovered a Cape Jessa mine in full bloom on the 20th. of this month, the plant being one among her collection oi potted plants in her house. The bloom is rather unusual for this timf of year; and is, no doubt, due to the warm weather that has prevailed during the most of this fall. 0 Hartford County Ginning Re Port There were 1,972 /bales ol cotton, counting round as hall bales, ginned in Hertford coun ty from the crop of 1921 prioi to November 1, 1921, as com' 8ared with 522 bales ginned tc ovember 1,1920. FEW HOLIDAY GOODS ARE ON DISPLAY IN AHOSKIE BUSINESS HOUSES NOW Local merchants, judging by their window and counter dis plays, are stocking up but light on Christmas goods, in anticipa tion of the many and varied wants of old Santa Claus, who is headed this way. With the gradual but slow return to nor mal conditions, the reindeer driven representative of St. Nicholas will enlarge his pro gram of distribution this year, and t^e little folks are antici pating just such a program, too. They will not be satisfied with the meagre output which old Santa has handed out for the two last Chrismas's. The kid dies are looking for announce ments of the arrival of the hol dajr offerings. In this connection, attention is oailed to the advertising of Smith * Welton. of Norfolk, Vs., who are offering a varied line of Christmas goods. You will find their advertisement in HRRAI.T) ^ o PEANUT MARKET DULL Running true to form, peanut I cleaners of the Virginia cities, j where the Virginia and North Cardlina crop of peanuts is mar keted, have clamped down on the marketing of the local in dustry. The market here began with a rush, and prices rang ing from five to seven cents, per i pound were paid for the first few days of the season. Grad ually, the price dropped, until now four cents is the prevailing price bffered by the cleaners, through their local buyers; and even at this price, there seems to be no demand for the 1921 I crop. Farmers who are members of the Exchange, continue to ship their crops to Suffolk?headqu arters, for storage; or they sto re them at home, at the call of the Exchange, the latter organ ization advancing a certain per cent of the prevailing price at the time the transfer is made to the Exchange. 0 I- Two Color Potato** on Hill Mr. Edmund Jones, of the Harrellsville section of the County, was in Ahoskie Tues day on business. A representa tive of the HERALD, in con versation with him, learned of a rather peculiar phenomenon, wherein one potato "hill" gath ered by Mr. Jones in October , contained eipht nice potatoes, 6 of them being of the yam va ; riety?a deep yellow in color? i while the other two were of the ?t white or Hamon variety.. Each 1 potato was well developed and 1 of sufficient size for cooking. ; Mr. Jones said that this was the ; first time he had ever observed ' two specie of potatoes on one vine; and, the collection of po tatoes were so different from ' what he had ever seen before, that Mr. Jones has preserved r the hill to show to his neighbors r and friends, as proof of the pro ductivity and versatility of his J soil. RN4 # IMMM Attdl SMELLS OF POVERTY " (Walter H. Page) _ Thj> man who, are too poor to intfaui' our taxes for education is the perpetuator of poverty. It is a doctrine that has kept us poor. It smells of the almshouse and the ho vel. It has driven more men and more wealth from the state and kept away more men and more of the wealth than any other po litical doctrine ever cost us ?more even than the doc trine of Secession. Such a man is the victim of an an cient and harmful false hood. Even if you could re spect the religion of the man who objects to the el evation of the forgotten masses by public educa tion, it is hard to respect his common sense; for does church not profiet by the great enlightenment of and prosperity that every educated community en joys? This doctrine smells of poverty?poverty in liv ing, poverty In thinking, and poverty in the spirit ual life. ? '? . , ' .- . 0-. GOVERNMENT ADVISES AGAINST SPECULATION Postmaster M. R. Taylor of Harrellsville, N. C., is engaged in an effort to protect the citi zens of his community from the dangers of speculative invest ment which last year cost the American public $500,00Q,000. To. counteract this menace, the Postmaster has addressed a strong letter to a number of representative citizens urging the safe-guarding of their sav ings by investment in United St ates Treasury Certificates. The Postmaster's letter sta ted a "Nest Egg" for future fi nancial success was waiting at the Post office in the form of the United States Treasury Savings securities exactly suited to e tr igone's pocketbook as they are issued in denominations of $5, $25, $100- and $1,000. These securities are assurable with out nost against every form of loss to the purchaser and bear four par cent interest, compou nded quarterly, if held to matur ity. They are particularly attra ctive, not only in their security, but they are subject to market fluctuation and can be convert ed into cash at any time at a higher price than is paid for them. The Postmaster will be glad to answer inquiries about Gov ernment Savings Securities and invites the public to call at the Post Office for further informa tion. -0 School Will Present Play (Special to the Herald) Wingate, N. C. Nov. 17.?On Thanksgiving night the stud ents of the Wingate School are presenting "The Colonel's Maid a play. The characters are Miss! es Alma Moose of North Char lotte, Mildred .Smith of Ruby, S. C., Jeanette Morgan of Mar shville, and Messrs. Howard Williams of Monroe, Walter Myers, of Jefferson, S. C., Clyde Lippard of Thomastflle, Nor man Peel of Clarendon, Hazel Wright of Wingate and Irving Sawyer of Camden, N. C. This promises to be a very lively com edy full of fun and surprises. In addition to the play there will be services at the church at 11 o'elock. and a basket ball game at three-thirty. Many of the friends and relatives will be here and the students are pre paring to give them a royal wel come. 8. G. Britt. -fofr '*? ' * ?' ?'*?1 CROP REPORT | ISSUED BY THE F'- iiUAAiiatni RAINS HAVE BEEN THE RULE FOR PAST WEEK County Agents in The State Re port That Recent Rains Have _ Helped the Winter GianrTo Large Extent. Report of Corn, Cotton, Wheat and Tobacco Is Published by The Report ing Service. According to the reports of the County Agents in cooper ation with the North Carolina Crop Reporting Service the weather during the past week has been generally favorable throughout the greater portion of the state for all fall sown grains. Light warm rains have brought up much of the wheat sown in thp dust in the earlier jlart of the season, and good I progress by that already up is noted. The reported reduction in the wheat acreage, previous ly mentioned, is verified by the [later reports, and the present indications are that the acreage | this year will be about ninety per cent of last year's. The av erage weight per measured bu. of wheat this year is 56 pounds which is 1.9 pounds less than the ten year average for the United States. * CORN The average North Carolina yield of corn per acre for this year (Bu. of 56 pounds shelled which is equivalent to 70 lbs. in the ear) is 19.2 bushels, and this is .7 bushels less than the ten year average for the state, and gives an estimated produc tion of 56,122,000 bushels. This represents approximately 1 and 1-8 per cent of the total 1921 estimated production for the en tire United States. Practically the entire crop has been har vested in this state, 87 per cent of which being of merchanta ble quality, and only 12 per cent having been marketed up to November 1. COTTON A special cotton inquiry of November 1, covering over 13, 000 shows that the final condi tion of cotton was 60.6 per cent of normal; giving an average I per acre yield?all cotton - if ! 617. pounds, which is only 67 per cent of last year's crop. Ei ghty one per cent of the crop is ginned and 67 puer cent of that ginned has been marketed The average amounts of fertilizers used per acre of cotton was 368 pounds. Unfertilized cotton de preciated considerably more | than the fertilized; and though | it is to be noted that due to the dry summer the plants were not able to receive the maxi mum benefits from the fertiliz ers applied, yet the fertilized fields withstood the unfavor able weather 35 per cent bet ter than the unfertilized. The per acre yield of seed cotton where no fertilizers were used was 885 pounds, where only a a small amount used, 553 lbs., and where liberal amounts were used 868 pounds. This in dicates that despite the high price of fertilisers most of tile fields received liberal applica tions. TOBACCO Marketing of tobacco contin ues with prices showing a sli ght increase over thort last re (Conutinued on put vicht)