Hertford County Herald 1 1 ... i. ? HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA Volume X1L Eight Pages Ahoskic, North Carolina, Friday, January 13, 1922 Ope Section _ ^ No. 31 COTTON DELEGATES I WILL BE ELECTED DELEGATES'FOR MEETING ???- ? ^ Cotton Growers of County Who ' Hove Joined Marketing As sociation Will Moot tp Elect Delegate?Tobacco Sign-Up Campaign Has Been Extend ed Until February 2nd. Cotton growers of Hertford County are to meet in the coun ty court house, at Winton, on Monday, January 16, to elect a delegate(to the district con vention of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association. * This county is in the firs? dis trict and is entitled to elect one delegate to the district conven- i tion which will be held at W61 don on January 18, at half past ten in the morning. County meetings of cotton growers are to be held iu all the cotton counties on the same i day, as the first step in select ing the ten directors who are to guide the cooperative market- ? ing association through its first \ year. Delegates elected from 1 several counties gre to gath er in district Conventions and , name two men as candidates for directors from each district, j Following the district meetings ballots will be printed and then , mailed to each member of the ; ' association who yrill record his choice for the director either in , person or i>y mail at the district , headquarters the 31st. of Jan- , uary. Allotment of county delega- , tea, one for each 1,000 bales , signed up for cooperative mar- 1 keting, was fixed in accordan- , ce with signed contracts at Ra- j leigh headquarters on January j 1 . 1922- BTlH Will nrtf Ka - r ? , ?????? " *?wv wv vu???" ed but new members will be al lowed to vote at the county me etings on January 16th.. Tobacco Campaign Continued The campaigns for members of the Tobacco Growers Coop erative Assbciation is to be con tinued unitl February 2- when the boafd of directors assume control, according to a decis ion of ?he tri-state organiza tion committee made at its re cent Raleigh meeting. The decision to continue the campaign was made in view of the pressure brought on the or ganization committee from the sections of the counties whe' e growers had not yet had an op portunity to sign up the tobac co marketing contracts. Reports from Virginia, N. Pomlino ovtrl ftrtiifl* PabAlmo ?t?m >^vwvu vmuiniq show an overwhelming ma jority of tobacco growers in the three states have already join ed the tobacco association, that is now declared to be the big gest organization in the United States, exceeding by many mil lions of pounds the amount of tobacco to be handled by the Kentucky burley growers asso ciation. New members are to be al lowed to vote ?in the election of officers and directors but,, their contracts do not count in de termining the districts which have already been fixed for the year. ? *?** r j When in need of Job PHnt inf?think of the Herald at Aboekte. 0 m ?Let the HERALD quote you price* O your printing for 1922 > ROAD ASSOCIATION WILL NOT CEASE NEED GOOD ROApS^S'fi., Although Money Hu Been Pro Tided for Rood Construction Work of the Association Not Yet Orer Should Offer Aid to Counties in Financing and Planning Roads It is believed that the North Carolina Good Roads Associa tion should work toward the following ends: 1. Continue propaganda work to insure adequate funds for the maintenance of the Sta te highway system. There is a great danger that as more of the bonds are sold and interest charges increase, there will be a tendency to lop off the State maintenance funds beyond the point of adequacy. 2. Undertake a campaign for a constitutional amendment releasing the State's taxing po wer to incur debts, thiw-iasux ing the sale of all our boifds at the lowest possible interest ra tes and on the best possible terms. The present constitution al provision permitting a levy of only five percent on property for State purposes greatly lim its the Btate's credit. It is quite likdfy that her credit will be exhausted when twenty-five million dollars worth of the bond# have been sold unless a constitutional amendment is al so made. The constitution of only one other State besides N. Carolina limits the state's pow er to tax property for the pay ment of her debts if necessary. Fhe limit is rather placed on an amount of debt which can be ncurrted and this limit should' oe flexible. a. rne Association should continue to assist counties in bond campaigns for roads, in the. organization of road forces and in working out more effec tive administration of road funds. ,4. Act as an intermediary between the State Highway Commission and the public. In carrying out an understanding so vast as the construction and maintenance of 6,100 miles of State Highways in one hundred counties of such varying phy sical conditions, density of the population, etc., mhch dissat isfaction and misunderstanding will of necessity arise on the part of an impatient public. Some counties, because of the location, sparse population and smaller area will get less mil eage than others. This will na turally lead to sectional jealous ies and arouse criticism on the part of the people of the less favored counties. Another leg-, islature will likely face a de mand for more mileage for cer tain counties. This would bo fa tal unless additional, mainten ance funds were provided. The State Highway Commission has to do its work with human beings, some of whom may not always be efficient, some may not be tactful in dealing with the public. County officials are sometimes suspicious and crit ical; contractors are not al ways kind and helpful in their criticisms of the Commission. In other words .we are attempt ing a great public project whi ch will require patience, faith, and a measure of charity and goodwill if our State Highway Commission is going to be able* 1 to do the beet possible work. Because of these many factors and conditions, some of which i arise from'just plain human sel i fishndfcs and small vision, some .< organization not connected at ] all with the State Highway Co- 1 mmission in any way will be 1 needed to investigate many sit- 1 uations, collect the facts and al 1 so straighten out the tangles Ht should be in a position to crit- 1 icise the Commission in a con- < structive way, when criticism is ] warranted, and , to show the I people of a county or commu- 1 nity wherein they have been 1 misinformed by those whose aim is to destroy the Commis rion. The North Carolins Good Roads Association has been ab le to render some very effective work along this line |nd simi lar situations will constantly urise. S. Continue to furnish infor mation to the public, invite and iirect tourists through the state let the outside world know of the progress North Carolina is making and carry on the gener al routine of the Association, j NO APPOINTMENT OF POSTMASTER AT AHOS KIE HAS BEEN MADIJ Although Two Examinations Have Been Held, No One Has Bden Ghren Permanent Ap pointment, While Many Oth er Postmasters Are Being Na med in State ?The following article appear ed in the Washington letter of the News ?* Observer Wednes day "At last there is a report on the eligible list for postmaster at Ahoakie. First on the list is the present postmaster, Arthur T. Willoughby,' a Democrat; next is James O. Carter, a Re publican, and third is B. E. Copeland, understood here to be a Republican. Under the or ders that will in all probabil ity be issued by Republican na tional committeeman More head, the outlook for Democga' tic postmaster Willoughby, first on the list landing the iob is not brijght. ..^Although patrons of the lo caT&ffice are not worrying over the peculiar situation, it is nev ertheles mystifying why no ap pointment of a postmaster has been made here. Two examina tions' have been held, and still .there remains a vacancy. In the meantime, Mr. A. T. Willough by is serving satisfactorily as acting pbsmatster, under a tem porary appointment, since L. T. Sumner gave up the office as the appointee of President Wil son, which has been more than a year ago. It is reported that the first examination held last spring failed to produce but one suc cessful applicant, necessitating the second examination. The last examination was held in Oc tober, but no marks have been given oat, and nothing is known of the relative standing of the applicants. In the meantime, while Congress is approving many of Harding's appointees, nothing is heard about the lo cal office. Inquiry from disinter ested parties have so far failed to elicit any information at all. There were only four appli cants to take the latter exam ination, namely, A. T. Willou&h byt B. E. Copeland, J. O. Car ter, and H. B. Chapin. It is well kn6wn, however, that I. Finley Snipes, former postmaster here and prominent among the Re publicans of the County, is also seeking the appointment here, although he did not take the examination. It is supposed that the delay in appointment is a natural consequence of his ef forts to secure the appointment by some other route than an ex amination. It is solely a fight or friendly , contest between the applicants , themselves, as the partons of ; the office are taking no part in i it. I HERTFORD COUNTY ROAD BONDS WILL BE DELIVERED THIS WEEK ^bidrman and Clerk of Board of County Conunisioners Are in Toledo, Where They Went to Delhrer $250,000 of The County Road Bonds Mr. J. M. Eley, Chairman, and J. A. Northcott, Clerk, of the Hertford County Board of Commissioners, left Tuesday for Toledo, Ohio, where they will deliver a quarter million dollars worth of the county'B road bonds, to Spitzer Rorick & Co., of that city, successful bidders for half of the total is sue $500,000.' The bonds were sold several Weeks ago but had not been de livered, pending the outcome of correspondence between the purchasers and the county bo dy, relative to the bond to be supplied by the Spitzer Rorick Company, as a guarantee for the faithful performance of the' contract. The purchase price was par and accrued interest, but the conditions surrounding the hale, whereby the purchas ers will pay for the bonds in in stallments, make the bonds net the county less than par value.' An additional sum of these bonds were sold to the Bray Bros. Co., bond dealers, of the city of Greensboro, at the De cember meeting of the county Board. $50,000 were mar keted at that time at par and accrued interest. The proceeds from this sale will be used to clear the county road commis sion of'som^debts made before any of the purchase price of the bonds were made available. Although the HERALD has not seen a copy of the act pass ed at the late special session of the legislature, it is known that the situation as regards bridge construction in the county has been cleared up by the new act passed at that time. Under the provisions of the law as enact et, the county commissioners are authorized to appropriate money for the construction of bridges in the county. The new county road law passed last spring placed the burden of the bridge construction work upon the newly created road commis sion and made no funds avail able for the work, except such funds as the commission receiv ed for road maintenance. How ever, for the past several mon ths the commissioners have ap- ? propriated sums of money for this work, in the nature of loans I to the county road fund. ? ?* ? ' U Card of Thanks W e want to thank the friends sf our dear father, John Ran-' iolph Phelps, for their many: kindnesses shown him, before and after his death, also for the beautiful floral tributes. HIS WIFE & CHILDREN. Jan. 8,1922. '/?:?? . - ??- '' STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PILED FOR READERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY' HERALD ?Of the sixty-five counties in the state that raise cotton fifty of them raised more in the year 1921 than in the previous year, and only fifteen less. The en tire crop for 1921 was 767.144 bales while in 1920 the crop to taled 690,664 bales. ?A new morning daily will begin publication in Goldsboro about February 1st. Roland F. Beasley, former Welfare Offi cer of the State, will be editor of the new daily. Red Powell, a newspaper man of Raleigh, is also connected with the paper. ?"Pussyfoot" Johnson, speak ing in Warrenton last week sta ted that there was no chance for Congress to insert the beer and light wines provision in the prohibition laws. ?Professor Kader R. Curtis, Superintendent of the Kinsto* schools, states that no less than five of his high school and the grammar grade girls married during the holidays. ?The one hundredth anniver sary of the founding of the Prqs byterian church at Edenton was celebrated last week, thei exerecises lasting two or three days, and attended by several leaders of that denomination. ?Rev. Lee McBride White, the Baptist pastor at Kinston, has recommended to that church the construction of a swimming pool, a pavilion and a moving picture machine for the recrea tion of the members of that church. . J. Ed Albright, prominent in Greensboro, was instanly kill ed by an explosion of a pres sure tank, which he was repair ing last Wednesday. ?The district attorney's office of /the Eastern District of this State has been moved from El izabeth City to Raleigh. '?Raleigh is making every ef iL. ~ H it. awxw w ictain tiic unite ui ine Collector of Internal Revenue, whose headquarters will he mo ved to Winston-Salem, accord ing to present plans of ^Collec tor Gilliam Grissom. ?Home renters in Durham are entering suit against the land lords for extortionate rents. ?A leaden pijpe bomb explod ed in one of the Trinity College dormitories last Thursday. It is thought to have been the result of one of the mischief-making students. ?Governor Morrison invites all North Carolinians to raise more gardens and eat less "tide meat molasses and cornbread." ?The Newport Shipbuilding Company, of Wilmington, has made a bid to the Federal Giv ernment for the purchase of the Muscle Shoals project, which Henry Ford is seeking to obtain from the government. ?Two members of the faculty of the State University, were recently made vice-presidents of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America. ?Winston-Salem was host to the editors of North Carolina laqt Thursday and Friday. The mid-winter session of the North Carolina Press Association wasj held in the new Robert E. Lee | Hotel, there. ?Moonshiners in Pitt County are being held for superior cou rt to answer to an indictment charging them with the dyna miting of the home of a consta ble of that cpunty. ?$700,000 will be spent on Ot-j een hospital at Asheville, one of the government institutions that is to be made a permanent government hospital. ?Armed citizens are patroll-1 ing the streets of New Bern, in an attempt to check the wave! of burglary which has been so prevalent there since the week befpre Christmas. A band of gypsies were invited away from the town, with the thoughts of reducing the number of offen ses, without avail. ?Over five million dollars of State bonds were marketed last, week, at a good pride. ?Paul Wheeler, a dairyman of Durham, is proud of the re cord of his flock, since two- of his full blooded cows gave birth to twins last week. ?The superintendent of school at Lumberton is having a num ber Of business men, of that city speak to the high school stud ents on the manner in whieh their businesses are run. A dif ferent business is chosen for ev ery week, and through this met hod, the superintendent hopes to tea over four thousand men hare been secured positions by the State Employment Agency, un der the supervision of M. L. Shipman, of Raleigh. ?Judge W. A. Devin, speaking to the grand jury at the open ing of Superior Court in Ral eivh Monday morning, suggest ed that the manufacturers of distileries be brought to trial, as one way to aid in the enforce ment of the dry laws. ?An election has been called in Rockingham to vote on the is suance of $100,000 bonds, to be used for school purposes. ?Scott Dillingham, used-car dealer of Asheville, who ab sconded several months ago A left his creditors in the lurch, has been nabbed in a western State. He was brought back to Asheville, where he will face I 'several charges.