Hertford County Herald
HERTFORD COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPA&R A PAPER WORTH WHILE , BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EAST CAROLINA
Volume Xlll. Eight Pages Ahoslrie, North Carolina, Friday, May 5, 1922 One Section No. 1
NITROGEN MAY
BE PRODUCED
AT-HOME
FARMERS CAN CUT FER
T1L1ZER EXPENSE HALF
About $27,000,000 Will Bo
Spent For Fertilizers In The
State of North Caroline This
Year. Farmers Are Urged
To Make More Fertilizer at
Home
BY JOHN PAUL LUCAS
Raleigh, N. C., May 4.?North Car.
olina will use this year probably
900,000 tons of fertiliser at a cost
of approximately $27,000,000.
That toal is nearly three times the
value of last year's sweet potatoe
crop in North Carolina; nearly four
times the value of the peantit crop;
?iore than one-third the value of the
tobacco crop; more than four times
the value of the wheat crop; two
thirds the value of the entire corn
crop; nearly twice the value of the
hay crop; and more than 40 percent
of the value of the cotton crop.
Of the $27,000,000 which North
Carolina will spend this year for fer
tilizer, something like $18,600,000
will be for nitrogen. This element,
the most costly ingredient of fertili
zer, may be produced at home instead
of being purchased if farmers will
but diversify their crops and produce
legumes, such as clover, vetch, cow
peas, velvet beans, soy beans and
' others.
On a farm which produces feed for
its livestock, particularly where a con
siderable number of cattle are kept,
the prouduction of ample legumes is
so altogether logical that it can hardly
be avoided, and of^burse, the legumes
are returned to the soil in the form
of manure. On farms where suffi
cient livestocks are not kept to con
sume the quantity of legume which
should be grown in order to provide
the nitrogen required for fertilizer,
clover, velvet beans, cow peas, or
other legumes should be grown simply
for green pasture to be turned under
purely for the benefit to be derived
from the fertilizer elements And hu
mus.
It is rather difficult for a short
sight farmer to make up hia fiind to
turn under a good crop of clover or
any other legume. If he could see
one, two, three or four years ahead it
would not be so hard. Land of com
paratively low fertility frequently has
its- productivity doubled through the
turning under of one legume crop.
The farmers who are moving ahead
most satisfactorily are those who not
only study means of making money,
but means of saving saving money,
and a fanner who can, in the course of
a few years, cut his fertiliser expen
ditures practically in half through the
use of legumes is certainly saving
money. He simply banks It in the
soil where it can be drawn out through
larger crop yields during succeeding
years. This is a big step in "Living
at Home" and in winning economic
independence. P
At the end of this year North Car
olina will have used more than 5,000,
000 tons of fertiliser during the past
seven years at a cost of $150,000,000
Unquestionably it pays to use fertili
zer, and North Carolina farmers have
gotten good results from the fertili
sers they have used, but it does not
pay to spend ten, twelve or fifteen
million dollars a year for nitrogen
which the farmer can himself draw
* from the ah- above his head through
the growth of legumes.
A
HOUSING IN CHICAGO
Twenty-Ate thousand families of
Chicago will move from houses and
apartmenta _to tents for the summer
in a fight against prohibitive rents,
according to an announcement of the
Tenant's Protective League of that
city. Ninety dollars is set as the
price of the camping equipment. Doge
are not allowed, but children are wel
comed.
0
The first Methodist Church, of El
Paso, will operate a large skating rink
in the basement of the church to off
set the dancing erase. It is to be a
I community proposition and no charge
will be made.
I '
GROWERS
STOCKHOLDERS ANNUAL
MEETING MAY 10th
Peanut Growers of North Caro
lina and Virginia Will Hold
Their Annual Stockholder*
Meeting In Suffolk May 10.
All. Stockholder* Are Urged
To Attend
May 10th will be a big day with the
member* of Peanut -Growers Ex
change aa the annual meeting of
stockholders will be held in Suffolk
that day. Dr. Poe, editor of "The
Progressive Farmer," has accepted an
invitation to address the growers in
their annual meeting. Dr. Poe ren
dered valuable service in the organi
sation of the Exchange and the grow
ers will be especially glad to hear him
at this time, as he has been right in
the forefront in the big campaign for
cooperative marketing.
The election of the Board of Di
rectors will be one of the important
features of this meeting. The dis
trict meeting for the nomination of
the Directors to be voted upon at this
meeting have ail been held, with the
result that all the old Directors jave
been renominated with the exception
of Dr. I. A. Ward of Perquimais, who
will be succeeded by T. E. Langston.
In view of the stiff fight the cleaners
are making on the Exchange, the
members are' vitally interested in the
outcome of this meeting, which
promisee to be largely attended. The
Exchange has been under heavy fire
ever since announcement was made
that it had arranged to clean peanuts,
but it is going right ahead cleaning
peanuts, as it Manager and Board of
Directors consider this step absolutely
necessary to its success. Now that
the growers see that they are being
fought, they are rallying loyally to
the support of the Exchange, and will
stand by their guns till they win their
victory.
So many requests have come to the
officials of the Exchange for contracts,
and such fine response was made to
the .recent appeal for subscriptions
to preferred stock, that the Board of
Directors have decided to put on an
aetive campaign for securing new
signers and for the sale of preferred
stock. This campaign will be pushed
vigorously during the rest of this
month, and it is confidently expected
that many growers who remained on
the outside last year will now sign
the contract, as theyy have received
no special consideration from the
cleaners in the way of increased
prices.
The indications now are that the
market has about struck bottom. The
weekly report of the United States
Bureau of Markets shows that there
has been an upward tendency in shell
ed Spaniaji. The mills are quoting for
shipment in 30 days at 1-8 cents per
pound above prices for prompt ship
ment. It is also noticeable that here
in Virginia and North Carolina pea
nuts are being taken for the trade in
advance of the time specified in the
purchase. This indicates that pea
nuts are now moving more freely and
that the trade is somewhat more hope
ful.
n
THE FARMERS GOAL
BY HARRY GRADY
When every termer in the South
?bell eat bread from his. own field
and meat from hie own pastures and,
disturbed by no creditor and enslaved
by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming
gardens and orchards and vineyards
and dairies and barnyards, pitching
his crops in his own wisdom and grow
ing them in independence, making
cotton his clean surplus and selling it
in his own time and in his chosen mar
ket and not at a master's bidding,
getting his pay in cash and not in a
receipted mortgage that discharged
his debt but does not restore his free
dom, then shall be breaking of full
ness of our day.
0
The United States consumed 10r
548,461,00 pounds of sugar in 1921.
This represents 28.4 per cent of the
world production. jy J
W Master of human destinies am I;
B ?? Fame, love and fortune fcyun my footsteps wait,
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate
HI Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late,
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
H? v And those who follow me teach every state
s Mortals desire' and conquer every foe save death;
But those who doubt or hesitate,
Condemned to failure, penury and woe, ,
Seek me in vain and usely implore, S
I answer not and I return no more.
I AM OPPORTUNITY
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL CLOSES
WITH BEST YEAR IN ITS HISTORY
The Commencement exercises of
the Ahoskie High School, which for
mally closed Tuesday night, marked
the end of the most successful year
in the history of the educational pro
gress of Ahoskie and this part of
Hertford county. The musical re
cital, given by the music pupils of the
school, under the supervision of Mrs.
George Baker, the teacher, held
Thursday night, April 27, was the
first number of the Commencement
program. The Baccalaureate ser
mon, delivered by Dr. J. T. Riddick,
at the Baptist chruch Sunday morn
ing, was especially fitted to the occa
sion; being directed to the students
of the school, and especially to the
graduates. On Monday afternoon,
and declamation contests, of unusual
interest, were held. The winning
contestants were?best recitation,
Bessie Cowan, medal given by Barnes
Sawyer Grocery Co. Best declama
tion ? Claxton Earley. Monday
night, the essays of the Senior class
were delivered, on which occasion
the auditorium was packed to capac
ity. The Junior and Senior Athletic
contest* were held Tuesday after
noon, May 2nd. Those winning in
this event were?first prise in Senior
all-around athletics, John White.
Second best athletics, Rawdon and
Horace Garrett, an even tie between
the . two. Third prize in athletics,
Claton Earley. The winners id the
Junior Athletics were?First prise,
Cling Odom? Second place, Glenn
Whedbee. Third place, a tie between
Thee, Mitchell and-John Thomas.
Other medals and prises awarded
were as follows?Mosic.medal, Miss
Emma Wooten, music medal, Ifiiat
Emily Sumner, music medal. Miss
Elizabeth Hines; mimic medal, Miss
Louise Mitchell. Best High school
spelling prize given by Farmers-At
lantic Bank, won by Miss Estelle Vin
son, 8th grade. Best grammar grade
spelling; prize given by E. J. Gerock,
Feye Cowan. The English note book
prise was won by Mr. Thomas Baker.
Second note book prize won by Miss
Mary Snmner. The winner in the
etory telling contest in the primary
grades was little Ernest Thomas.
The graduating exercises .were held
Tuesday night. An address was de
livered by Congressman H. S. Ward
and tile medals and diplomas were
presented by Supt. N. W. Britton and
Dr. C. G. Powell. The seventh grade
pupils receiving certificates are named
in the list appearing in another col
umn of this paper.
The presentation of diplomas to
the graduates, 16 in number, was
presided over by Supt. Britton. Af
ter the awarding of medals; by Dr.
Powell, a token of remembrance was
presented to the principal,, Mr. L N.
Wright, and to the assistant principal,
Mr. KV T. Raynor, by the class presi
dent on behalf of the Senior Clasa
After this, the farewell song, by the
Seniors, closed the program, and In
cidentally, the best year in the whole
history of the Ahoalde High and
Grammar school.
The names of the graduating class
are as as follows?Miss Ethelynn
Cowan, Eleanor Dilday, Helen Mod
lin, Mary Newsome, Agnes Brett,
Vera Boxeman, Iva Parker, Pauline
Doughtie, Ruby Hayes, Margaret
Copeland, Earle Lawrence, Feye Ger
ock, and Josephine Cowan. Messrs.
Cyras W. Bazemore andvT. Rawdon
Garrett:."
Ifr^T offlalm'iT'i .-v. - .Jfto ?>..
PUPILS RECEIVING
7th GRADE CERTIFICATES
Following is a list of students in
the schools of Hertford county for
the session just ending, who have
completed the seventh grade and who
havh been awarded seventh grade
certificates.
Frank Jones, Lawrence Mitchell,
Edith Joyner, A1 Pearce, Sophie Fai
son, Willie Sue Mathews, Lillian M.
Buck, Myrtle Banks, Agnes Hare,
Hannah Picot, Rufus Darden, Rudolf
Barnes, Ralph Brown, Mary Sykes,
Mary Mitchell, Bettie Mitchell, Thel
ma Kewsome, Ethel Caltis, Earnest
MMM1, Olivia Lowe, Wade Baker,
i Maggie Burch, Bessie Grissom, Ruby
' Coleson, Merle Askew, Horace Taylor,
Cliffie Holloman, Helen Hoggard, Ru
ben Grissom, Ruth Sewell, Susie Hill,
Elsie Cowan, Ray ForbOs, Emma
Britton, James Brown, Alphis Phelps,
1 James Godwin, Emma Perry, Lyman
> Dickerson, Tennille Williams, Cath
erine Ellis, Julia Downs, Thallie Mod
lin, Etta Parker, Ruby Wynee, Nellie
Rawlings, Katherine Hedgpeth, Irving
Garris, Leon Alexander, Robert Hol
loman, Ben M. Williams, Nellie Mc
Keel, Mildred King, Alpha Newsome,
Henry Holloman, Jack Gatling, Eva
I Hoggard, Clarence Benthall, Gilbert
, Howard, Estelle Newsome, Hazel
Seasoms, A\ibry Dilday, E. C. Hobbs,
i Jr., Lock Craig Johnson, Roxie Flythe,
Goldie Lassiter, Alene Early, Dorothy
Dilday, Gilbert Slaughter, Ray Hog
gard, Merton Early, Isolind Slaughter,
Louise Underwood, Bessie Ferguson,
Kathleen Chitty, Norine Griffith, Zel
ma Liverman, Eva L. Wall, Mary
Liverman, John Parker, Nellie Pierce,
Beatrice Overton, Lee Wilioughby,
Myrtha Brinkley, Evelyn Kiff.
:?o
THE NATIONAL BEVERAGE
The quantity of coffee imported by
the Uaited States in the calendar year
1921 was 1,345,000,000 pounds, an
increase of 44,000,000 pounds over
the imports for 1920 and nearly 500,
000 pounds more than the average im
ports in the years just before the war.
Afer deducting the 84,00,000 pounds
rexeported in 1921, the amount which
went to satisfy America's demand was
1,311,000,000 pounds.
Tea imports declined 14,000,000
pounds and cocoa 40,000,000 pounds
compared with 1920.
Our parents and grandparents were
not the prodigious coffee drinkers we
are today. Divided into individual
portions, the average annual consump
tion in the last decade ended with
187Q, according to the National City
Bank, was less than Ave pounds per
capita. In the Ave years preceding
1895 the annual per capita consump
tion was eight and one-half pounds;
in the six years preceding 1912 it
was nine and one-halfpounds; from
the beginnig of the war up to 1921 it
was ten pounds, and the last year the
average individual consumption was
twelve and one-half pounds.
Measured in dollars the annual cof
fee bill has reached the substantial
sum of 1143,000,000 compared with
an average of $75,000,00 just before
the war.
If coffee is Vhe enemy of sleep
America ought to be a wide-awake
nation.?New York HeraM.
, v ; _ , " _ *?
^PILED FOR READER^ OF THE
HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD
According to careful investigations
made by authorities, who have given
the question much attention, the con
dition of the state's unemployed
workers are constantly on an uywanl
trend, and from present indications,
North Carolina will have less pro rata
unemployed workers than any other
state, in the course of the next few
months.
Docie Locklear, an Indian of Robe
son County, was shot and seriously
Injured by a fellow Indian, Sunday,
near Lumberton. Scrimmages and
similar disturbances are frequent
among the Indians in their reservation
in that county.
The Fourth Annual Eastern Caro
lina Automobile Show opened at
Rocky Mount, Monday night, contin
uing throughout the major part of
this week. This is an affair of no
little interest in Rocky Mount and im
mediate vicinity.
C. B. Braswell, former prominent
citizen and cotton buyer of Rocky
Mount, died at his home in that city
Saturday, after a long illness. Mr.
Braswell was one of the oldest and
most respected business men in that
section.
Colleges all over the State are mak
ing good their last few Weeks chance
at baseball. Collegiate teams, now
in intensive training, are in many in
stances, intending to develop into
semi-pro teams after.the close of the
college terms.
The "Pine Burr" Society is the
latest one formed at the State College
for the purpose of fostering a greater
love of Alma Mater; as well to es
tablish a rifcid code of ethics^by which
all student members are to governed.
The membership at present is said to
be large.
Arthur Coleman, captain and owner
of a moored British schooner at New
Bern, was convicted and placed in the
local jail Saturday, on charges of deal
ing n illicit liquors, and otherwise
violating the yolstead Act. Liquor
smugglers in and around other coast
towns are also giving the revenue
forces no end of trouble.
John Paul Lucas, agriculturist, ad
vises North Carolina farmers to econ
omise on fertilizers this season, and
plant more clover, legumes, and other
soil-improving crops. This will mean
a great step toward "Living-at-Home"
and more progress towards economic
independence for North Carolina
farmers.
Frank Fooshe, manager of the pea
nut Exchange, says that North Caro
lina peanut growers are expected to
go over the top this year, in the num
ber of signers, as compared with last
year's number.
The May pea shipments to north
ern markets, as well as other early
produce from the Elizabeth City
tracking section, are showing up well
this season, according to reports re
ports received from that section.
The recent fires in the city of Hen
derson have now been proved to have
been of incendiary origin, the matter
having been given a thorough airing
in the Henderson courts, and evidence
found proving the fact.
Agricultural topics were the prin
cipal points covered by the recent
Convention of North Carolina Bank
ers at Pinehurst. Many progressive
steps were taken to further the work
of the Co-Operating Associations of
this state; the attending bankers hav
ing pledged themselves to promote the
movement in tfieir respective towns,
in every way possible.
General John J. Pershing, will be
the guest of the Reserve Officer's
Association of Western North Caro
lina, Sunday, May 7. The arrival of
General Pershing on bis visit to the
Association is anticipated with pleas
are.
Hundreds of tourists on their way
back from Florida to their homes in
the north for the summer are passing
through Raleigh and that part of the
State every day. They represent in
part, the great migration of northern
people who go to Florida every win
ter, returning in the spring.
ail' 'fii HI- tn-itam
Eighteen conventions are booked
for the convention season at Wrights
ville Beach this summer, which opens
June 1st. The Southern Textile
Will open the season with a three-day
session.
The North Carolina Olympic games,
are to be held in the city of Durham,
May 4-6-6. This is the first season
of this new organisation.
The Tobacco Growers Co-Operative
Association will attempt to utilise all
the drying plants in the state, not eon
fining the business to any one con
cern. This was staded recently by
the management.
The North Carolina Imperial Order
of Red Men met in sesiosn in Greens
boro, May 2nd. The session came to
a close today, Thursday.
Richmond county is to erect a new
two hundred thousand dollar court
house in the near future. The site
and plans have been fornjally decid
ed upon.
Fifty of the finest Jerseys in Ca
tawba connty will be sold to the high
est bidder at Hickory today, Thus
day. Fanners of this county are bo
coming more and more interested in
pure-bred stock, and much progress
along this line has been made in the
past two months.
J. J. Burt, one of the best known
farmers of the Apex section, died at
his home near this city Sunday.
The North Carolina Federation of
Women's Clubs met in annual session
at Greensboro Monday, continuing
throughout the week, up until today,
Thursday.
The corner stone of the new X.
M. C. A. building in Fayetteville was
laid Monday with impressive cere
monies. This is to be one of the
largest and most up-to-date buildings
of its kind in Eastern Carolina.
Reports from Raleigh indicate that
the number of delinquent taxpayer*
all over the state in general are leas
than that of last year, although in
some particular sections conditions
are not appreciably improved.
Nat L. Finch, prominent business
figure of Wilson, is now recovering
from a serious illness. Mr. Finch is
connected with various enterprises of
Wilson and manager of the Tomlin
son Chain stores of Wilpon and near
by towns.
Masons of Durham have started a
movement to build a $100,000 Mason
ic temple in that city at an early date.
Mrs. Martha Monger, of Newborn,
is suing for damages, amounting to
a half million dollars, for alleged
property loss i^ a recent bankruptcy
case of a New Bern lumber company,
in which she was connected in part
nerjhip. The courts are giving the
case a thorough investigation.
State workers promoting the "Live
at-Home" movement, are making
special efforts to reach the remote
sections of the state, that social and
economic conditions may be improved
in the communities where the people
do not have educational and social ad
vantages equaf to some of the more
progressive sections of North Caro
I lina. The "Live-at-Home" move
| ment will do much toward accomplish
ing this end, if put into practice.
0
WINTON HIGH SCHOOL
The commencement exereiaes, at
the close of the Winton High School
will begin with the class exercises
on Friday evening, May 6th, at 8:0?
p. m. On Sunday the 7th, the ser
mon will be preached in the Audi
torium. Monday evening the gram
mar grades will give their enter
tainment, consisting of an operetta
and other features. Tuesday a. m.
at eleven o'clock, Hon. J. W. Bailey
will deliver the address. Tuesday
evening the music department will
present "Hiawatha dramatised" and
several musical selections. On Wed
nesday evening at 8 o'clock, the high
school department will preeeut a first
class "Borrowed Meney." Every
body is Invited to everything free of
charge.