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Hertford County Herald HERTFORD CfJtJNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA Volume XII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina,Friday, February 24, 1922 One Section No. 43 - i 1 ? 'Mf S ^ - " " ? ? fc- ? ^ y court iwLW | CONVENE NEXT WEEK, FEB. 27 ' SUPERIOR COURT BEGINS AT WINTON ON MONDAY Regular One Week Term Will Be Presided'Over by Judge O. H. Allen. Case Creating Much Attention 1* That of Three Ahoekie Citizen Char ' ged With Conspiracy Hertford County Superior Court will convene in Winton, next Monday, February 27th., with Judge O. H. Allen, of the city of Goldsboro presiding. The term will be for one week with the first two days devoted to the criminal docket, and the remaining days of the court to the trial of civil cases. Among the criminal cases are charges of forgery, passing worthless 'checks, larcency, house burn ing, and conspiracy. Three pris oners are now in the jail at the County Capitol?two negroes, and one white man. J. N. and Claude Vann, and Roberts Jernigan, prominent citizens of Ahoskie, have been supimoned to Winton on the opening day of court, to be ar raigned upon a charge of con spiraey, a criminal charge lod ged by J. H. Robertson, now awaiting trial for assault upon a fefnale. This is one j>f the nu merous actions brought in con nection with Ahoskie's major court attraction, others, being damage suits by Rev. E. L. Saw yer against J. N. Vann, a coun ter suit against the minister by Mr. Vann, and a civil suit insti tuted by Robertson against J. N. and Claude Vann, and Rob erts Jernigan* and Dr. L. K. Walker. The civil docket con tains none -of the other suits for this term of court. The civil docket for next week's term of court is as fol lows : Wednesday, March 1 Eddie O. Peoples vs Helen C. Peo ples.. L. M. Morns vs Annie Morris. Rosa Barnes vs Henry Barnes. Lee Howgrd vs Etta Howard. John D. Bridger vs H. C. Brett. E. 8. Wimbrow vs W. & P. Railroad Jenkins A Willoughby vs E. Fe:d -man. A. Feldman vs <3. C.. Willoughby. Farmers-Aatlantic Bank vs James Jenkins, Castelloe, et ala. Thursday, March 2 Sidney Cohn vs Goldburg A Rosen, blatt. I J. -W. Godwin vs Morris and John 'Dawson. L. T. Odom et ala vs B. T. Rawm. A. C. L. R. R. Co. vs L. Parker. J. T. Early vs A. J. Early and W. E.*Fenner. \ A. J. Dilday vs J. T. Early. Friday, March 3 G. C. Willoughby vs E. Feldman. Romie Hoskie vs J. B. Whitley. E. R. Evans vs Joseph Watson and McK. Valentine. J. J. Piland vs H- C. Brett. MOTIONS Herring A Beale vs H C. Brett A. W. Holloman vs Geo. W. Baker. A. E. Garrett vs G. W. Baker and C. B. Godwin. Ida Sears vs H. C. Faison. Mrs. W. H. Pittman vs J. B. Sumner and wife. \ Vaughan vs John Saunders. J. W. Godwin vs Bondy Early. Annie Mae Poindexter vs Horace 1 Poindexter. \ E. J. Bell vs Cling Newsome". \ Lixxie Baker ys R. C. Bridger. James Thomas vs Lonnle Joytier and Paul Eley. W. W. Rogers vs L. D. Powell Co. Smith Courtney Co. vs Board Road H. M. Bramberry vs C. D. Nicken v Jenkins A Wiltbughby ? L. W. Js gfej ? ? ? ?;> " * / ' ' ?/ mes. Bank of Ahoakie v? J. W. Godwin, J. B. Ruffln and A. D. Holloman. DIRECTORS OF FXCHANGETO BE SELECTED _____ ? DIRECTORS OF EXCHANGE WILL BE RENOMINATED Published Report of the Peanut . Exchange Shows That About One Million Dollars Already Has Been Advanced on The Crop and $400,000 of Their Loan Now on Hand The new directors of the Pea nut Growers Exchange, Inc., with headquarters at Suffolk, Va., and with a membership of over 5,000 peanut growers, will be nominated at district meet ings to be held March 8th, in each of the seventeen districts throughout the peanut-grow ing counties of Virginia and No rth Carolina. These district meetings will all be held on tye afternoon of that date, and all signers of the growers contract are expected to attend. The directors nominated at these district meetings will be the no minfees of their respective dis tricts to the annual meeting of the stock-holders to be held the secohd Wednesday in May, when the directprs for the en suing year will be elected. The following are the direc tors whose successors are to be nominated at These district pri mary electipns to be held Mar Nansemond, J. O. Cutchin, El wood, Va.; Isle of Wight, Dr. C. J. Bradshaw, Carrsville, Va.; Southampton, L. H. Brantley, Ivor, Va., and W. J. Story, Cou rtland, Va.; Surry, Wm, Albert Gwaltney, Spring Grove, Va.; Sussex, A. W. Holt, Wakefidjd, Va.; Greensville, J. C. Lifsey, EJhporia, Va.; Prince George and Dinwiddle, J. D. Webb, Jr. Disputanta^ Va.; Bertie, A. V. Cobb,' Windsor, N. C.; Chowan, M. S. Elliott, Mege, N. C.; Gat es, W. J. Rountree, Hobbsville; Edegecombe, M. C. Braswell, Battleboro; Halifax, J. H. Al exander, Scotland Neck; Nash, 0. K. Taylor, Whitjdkers; Hert ford, H. J. 'Vann, Como; Martin Dr. John D. Biggs, Williamston Northampton, J. B. Stephenson Severn; Perquimans, Dr. I. A. Ward, Belvidere; Washington, T: J. Swain, Mackeys Ferry. In addition to the above 19 directors from 17 districts, the re is one director at large for each of these two states. Vir ginia, Hon. E. Frank Story, of Franklin; North Carolina. B. B. Everett, Palmyra. Their suc cessors will be nominated by the deans of the College of Ag riculture for their respective states. The fine character and business integrity of the 21 men forming the Board of Directors is so fully appreciated by the growers that few, if any, chan ges are anticipated. 'According to the,Exchange's official publication, the Peanut Grower, which is being sent out this week to all its members, the Exchange now has on stor age about 600,000 bags of pea nuts, and counts on getting ab out 200,000 more bags. Its re ports also show that the peanut crop of thte past year was 80 per cent larger than the 1920 crop, and that, nqtwithstand ing the fact that much of the crop was poor quality, as .large percent of it will fall in the two higher grades as in the two lo wer grades. Its published finan rial report shows that the Ex change has already paid out for peanuts over one million of dollars, and that it still now has available about four hundred thousand dollars more million dollars loan secured through the War Finifice Cor poration. 0$ the total amount paid out, four hundred thous and dollars has been secured from Ideal banks here in Suffolk and other places in the peanut growing counties. The Peanut Grower also an nounced that the Exchange has sold no peanuts, and that it will not sell any at the low prices, prevailing at tt\e present time. ; 0 More Than Knowledge in These Books -i ? - ' Anyone with a "tWrat" for information or liquid refreshment would be rewarded by peruaai of these interesting "wlinnes." They were found hidden on the steamer Hoboken at South Boston by customs oliioers and seized under; the prohibition enforcement law. ROBERTSON AGAIN GETS EXPULSION MASONS EXPEL MEMBER Robertson Is Expelled by Local Masonic Lodge for Second Tiftie for Offense Against The Home of Brother Mason Luke McGlaughan Lodge of A. F. & A. M., of Ahoskie, held an extraordinary session in the lodge roomalast Monday night for the trial of J. H. Robertson, one of their members, upon the charge of violating the obliga tions assumed as a Master Ma son. The specific charge was as sault upon a woman. Robertson was expelled from the Lodge last fall; but, through an ap peal to the Grand Lodge which met in Raleigh last month, he gained the right to another trial on technicalities. The re sult of .the trial Monday night was as before?expulsion. Robertson will face trial in Gates County Superior Court for the same offense during the last week in March. The former trial at' Gatesville, which con sumed three days of the court's time, resulted in a hopeless deadlocked, with the jury un able to agree on a. verdict. It will be remembered that Judge Calvert ordered the case re moved from Hertford bounty, when jt came up for trial last October, at Winton. The remo val was granted on the plea of Hie defense that public opin ion was against Rbbertson in his home county of Hertford. . 0 % NOTICE On Friday evening, March 3 there will be a Barbecue Roast and. Coon Orchestra at Chris tian Harbor School. You will find at eight-thirty o'clock a barbecue awaiting you. There will be refreshments and other things to sell, and a "Coon Orchestra" to enter tain you as well. So, we extend to both great and small as well a kind invitation to come and join us. 0 ? Tanlac is. appetising, invig orating and strengthening. Try it and be convinced. C. H. Mit chell/ Advertisement. ERNEST CARPENTER MAKES GET-AWAY CARPENTR MAKES ESCAPE Hertford County Moonshiner Together With Another Pal Gets Away From Officers of Craven County. He is Serving Two and Half Years Ernest Carpenter, Hertford County moonshiner, has escap ed from the chain gang in Cra ven County, and is stil at large. He was convicted of moonshin ing at the last August term of Superior Court, and was senten ced to two and a half years on the chain gang. The following account of his. escape appeared in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot of last Friday: "New Bern, Feb. 16.?Levi Jones, of Carteret County, ser ving sentence on the Craven County roads forcmoonshining, and Ernest Carpenter, of Hert-j ford County, serving a two-and a-half years' term on the Cra-! ven chain gang fof making andj selling whiskey, are at large today, after cutting away their, shackles with a file believed to! have been secreted to them in the stockade. George Conway,! a Colored trusty, is in jail here charged with having supplied! the white men with the file. * Ernest Carpenter, about for-i ty years old, was sent to the Craveh County roads six months ago with the reputation of be ing the most dangerous moon shiner in East Carolina. His es cape from the chain gang bears out the statment he made to a newspaper reporter when first brought to the county. He gave an interesting account of some: of his experiences in moonshin ing, and swore he would not stay on the gang force. He went further to say that he expected to go back to Hertford County an4 "even up things" with the1 officers. ' 1 S. E. Tilton, superintendent of the bounty's road force, noti-, fled city and county officers on yesterday of the prisoners' es-1' cape the night before, and all' are on the alert for them.* Up until today no trace of their whereabouts has be.en found. -4, ; If you once give Tanlac an honest trial, you will add your voice to the thousands of others who are praising It. C. H. Mit chell. Advertisement. , ? i i . ?? ? I Watch that label on year paper 1 STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PILED FOR READERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD ??Mrs. Eleanor Dowell Conn, of Raleigh, sister of Rev. C. L. Dowell, former pastor of the Ahoskie Baptist church, died last Monday, in her 70th year. ?The annual report of the Car negie Foundation compliments the efforts of North Carolina education officials in their pro gram to elevate the teaching profession of the State, through the newly enacted legislation for the certification of teachers. ?A recent news item says: "All Wilmington traffic cops now need to be perfect beauties are powder puffs a^d lipsticks. The lStest order from the com missioner of public safety pre-1 scribes white gloves for sum mer wear. Harem veil ponchos were recently added to the wet I weather equipment of force. ?Major Stedmaii, of the Fifth Congressional District of North Carolina, announced last week that he would be a candidate for renomination. Representa tive Doughton authorizes the statement that he will retire at the end of his present term. ?The Wilson tobacco market closed last Friday. The year's average price was $21.61 per hundred pounds. ?Allen Umstead, colored jan-| itor of Meredith College, is be ing held on a charge of first! degree burglary, pending the outcome of a comparison of his finger prints with those found >on the ledge of a window in one of the dormitory rooms, oc cupied by two of the girl stu dents. The negro entered the room early last Friday morning hut was frightened away thru the screams of the two your^g ladies. ?State Measurer Ben Lacy, of Raleigh, has been seriously ill for the past several days, but he is holding down his job. ?$350,000 will be spent on im provements at Oteen Hospital at Asheville. ?Leathers, Wood and Co., of Greensboro, ailarge wholesale cigar house, hab been adjudged, bankrupt. ?Trinity College won a dual debate from debaters represent ing Richmond College on last Friday night. ?The sixth annual intershol-j astic declamation contests will be held at Wake Forest College on March 16th and 17th. ?North Carolina leads the South and probably the entire Nation in the development of ?Selma city fathers have re their Y. M. C. A.'s. cently awardeda contract for! the paying of streets in the bus iness section of ttyat town. ?The state leads all others ofj the country In the percentage! of money paid in for the Wood row Wilson Foundation Fund. ?Canadian officials have again refused to extradite Matthew Bullock, negro wanted in War ren County for inciting a riot. ?North Carolina leads all oth ers in the country in having the highest birth ratef, the lowest death rate, most stable business! and agricultural conditions,' with progressive program of; institutional and highway con struction and maintenance. ?Judge W. A. Devin, holding; Superior Court in Raleigh last, week, discharged a juror from duty, the juror being found in conference with two of the wit nesses in the case. Eleven ju rors decided the case. ?Reports coming to the State from Kentucky indicate that the Burly Tobacco Growers' Association of that state is rap idly succeeding, during their first year of operations. -^-Edward E. Martin, former Clerk of Court in Pamlico Co tinty, has beeta charged with a shortage of funds, and is now under bail awaiting trial. ?Dr. C. Banks McNa^ry, Sup erintendent of the Caswell Tra-. ining School at Kinston, has re cently installed musical instru ments in his cow stables, and to cause, his cows to give more milk will feast them on music. ?Wake Forest College cele brated the anniversary of its two literary societies on l?fcl Friday. It is the year's biggest social event for the'college. ?Dr. L. B. McBrayer, of San itorium, enjoys the distinction of being one of the appointees of the Republican party, hav ing been appointed postmaster at the State institution of which he is the head. ?The LaGrange Banking and Trust Co., which was closed se veral months ago, has reopen ed for business under new man agement. - :|K ?Durham city officials plan to have a test vote on the exten sion of the city limits. ?Mrs. D. V. Musten, telephone operator at KernersviHe, pre vented a bank robbery there last Thursday night, by phon ing police .headquarters before the three' would-be-burglars could get away. The telephone office was located" above the bank building. ?Cap Bragg officers are now seeking recruits. ?The town of LaGrange re ports an epidemic of births at that town during the mqpth of January. A pews items says: "LaGrange had many births, but funerals are out 61 fashion. ?Congressman Claude Kitch in says that he hopes to secure an appropriation for the con struction of a new postofflce & Federal building in Wilson. ?P. T. Eliott, real estate man of Durham, charged with char ging excessive rents, has an swered complaints on the part of his former tenants. ?Tne University of North Ca rolina will add a new course to teach the principles of sound investment. Federal funds are available for the new course. ?Gipsy Smith will cdnduct re vival services in Raleigh during the past two weeks in March. ?Herman Jones, a young man stopping at Wright's Hotel in Raleigh, was on last Wednes day fined twenty-live dollars on the charge of being in his sisters room. ?An epidemic of scarlet fever has recently caused nine deaths in Onslow and Craven counties. ?Three and one half inches of rain fell at Raleigh for twenty four hours prior to last Wed nesday night. A corresponding downpour of rain fell through out North Carolina during that period. Major Hale, of Fayetteville, veteran newspaperman and a former U. S; Minister to Costa Ricff, died last Wednesday. ?James B. and Benjamin J. Duke, of Durham, have donat ed $75,000 to a negro hospital to, be erected in that city. ?-Contracts will, be' let March 7th. for the construction of the new home for the State Depart ment of Agriculture, in Raleigh ?The Planters Tobacco ware house at Wilson burned to th? ground Tuesday, entailing a loss of $100,000. ?If is now doubtful if the de positors of the defunct Central Bank & Trust Co., of Raleigh, will receive fifty per cent on their money in the bank. ?The largest blimp in the en tire world, recently purchased from the Italian goverment by the United States, was totally destroyed near Hampton Roads Monday, when it crashed to the earth, killing-thirty four of its crew, and wounding several of the' others. , ?A man was arrested in Con cord Tuesday, suspected of be ing Edward Sands, the missing butler of Williams Desmond Taylor, murd*??d moving pic ture director of Los Angeles.
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