Hertford County Herald
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Volume Xlll. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, August 4, 1922 One Section No. 13
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"EARLY BELT" TOBACCO
f MARKETS OPEN
Report* on initial tales of tobacco
sold at auction on the opening day on
the early North Carolina markets in
the southeastern part of the state and
in South Carolina markets indicate
prices nedrly twice as high as they
were on the opening day last year. A
general average of from 16 to 19
cents a pound was reported as com
pared with five to ten cents a -pound
last year.
Reports from the first sales at Lake
City, S. C., one of the largest markets
in that state, were that more than a
half million pounds had been sold at
an everage of $21.83 per hundred
pounds.
Lumberton and Fairmont, two of
the largest North Carolina markets
near the South Carolina line, each re
ported sales of approximately 60,000
pounds at an average of 19 cents a
pound.
High prices in the "early belt" are
generally taken as indications of high
prices in the great bright leaf belt of
North Carolina where markets will
open within the next few days.
The Ahoskie market will open
Thursday, August 17th. The doors
? of the Farmers Warehouse under the
management of Mr. C. H. Phaup, will
be thrown open on that date for the
sale of leaf tobacco at auction. Mr.
Phaup assures us that he will have a
full set of buyers on the floor, and
he is doing all in his power to make
Hie Ahoskie market the best in the
state. Let's all get behind him and
push the Ahoskie tobacco market to
the front
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TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIA
TION MEET IN GOLDSBORO
Sanitorium, July 29th?The Exe
cutive Committee of the North Caro
lina Tuberculosis Association met to
day at Sanatorium to make prelimi
nary arrangements for the annual
North Carolina Conference on tuber
oalosis, which will be held early in
October. An invitation from the
Chamber of Commerce of Golds bo ro
to hold the sessions in that city was
unanimously accepted.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer, managing di
rector of the Association, was ap
pointed chairman of the Sociological
section and he has promised some im
portant and interesting papers dealing
with the relation of tuberculosis and
public health work. Dr. Charles L.
Minor of Asheville was appointed
' chairman of the Medical section,
which assures a fine program for that
section. Dr. Minor is especially well
qualified as chairman for this section
hiving spent a number of years both
in this country and abroad in the
study of tuerculosis and his message
will be valuable and authorative. Dr.
J. W. Dickie of Southern Pines was
named as vice chairman of the medical
section. Dr. Dickie is superintendent
of a well equpped sanatorium in
Southern Pines and thoroughly con
versant with tuberculosis work. Mrs.
Gprdon Finger of Charlotte, president
of the association, will preside over
seal sale session and Mrs. Charles
R. Whitaker of Hendersonville, vice
president of the association'will con
duct the modern health crusade ses
sion. ,
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inyiui general meeting 01 me
Association held in Greensboro was
productive of much good. The inter
est developed in tuberculosis work as
a result of the meeting gave the nec
essary impetus to carry a victorious
election to provide funds for a much
needed county sanatorium and it is
hoped that this year not only Wayne
but many other counties will profit as
a result of the meeting.
The Association has adopted a pro
gram for nutrition work to be inau
gurated at once among undernourish
* ed children. Fully thirty per cent of
the children in this State are malnour
ished. as has been shown by surveys,
and in such conditions are especially
susceptible to tuberculosis. By estab
lishing nutrition classes under the
direction of competent physicians and
nurses, the Association hopes to bring
a large number of these boys 'end
girls up to par. This work will be
launched with the cooperation of the
State Board of Health and if results
Justify, will be extended to every
county in the State. Many tubercu
losis experts contend that practically
all tuberculosis in adult life is the re
sult of childhood infection and If we
can keep the children in good physical
condition during the growing period,
they will not develop tuberculosis in
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AUTOISTS MORE CAREFUL
AT RAILWAY CROSSINGS
Louisville, Ky., August 2.?That
drivers' of automobiles are becoming
more careful is borne out by a recent
check made in Kentucky by the Safety
Department of the Southern Railway
System.
At three different crossings on the
Dixie Highway, observations were
made this month with the following
practices noticed.
Number of vehicles passing over
crossings ... flfll
Number stopped before cross-ing
tracks 221
Number where driver looked in
one direction ..354
Number where driver looked in
both directions 55
Number where driver crossed
without taking any precau
tions 56
Number crossed at speed exceed
ing twenty miles per hour.. 28
This cheek discloses that one driver
out of every four actually stopped to
make sure that no trains were ap
proaching before crossing the tracks,
57 per cent looked in both directions
and 37 per cet looked in one direction
before crossing tracks, while only 6
per cent failed to consider care at
crossings and crossed without taking
any precautions whatever.
"It takes very little of one's time
to make sure that no trains are ap
proaching before crossing railroad
tracks," says a statement issued by
the Southern, "and it is hoped that
you, Mr. Autoist, will ever bear in
mind the warning that is displayed
throughout the country, "Cross Cross
ings Cautiously,' and never be listed
as crossings without taking due
thought of the danger. It is by far
wiser to be careful than to ignore any
of the many precautions necessary."
COTTON REPORT
By Frank Parker, Statistician U.
8. and N. C. Department of Agiltul
< tare.
Raleigh, August 2.?"Cotton is
holding its own in spite of the bool
weevil and bad June weather" re
porta the Ccooperative Crop Report
ing service of the Departments of
Agriculture.
"The latest condition of the crop in
Hertford county is reported at 61 per
cent of a full crop with the state av
eraging 78 per cent or a crop of
849,00 bales, this being about 7 per
cent of the south's forcasted produc
tion.
were very poor to begin with but the
late summer and fall were unusually
favorable, with a large reduction in
acreage. North Carolina perhaps
made her largest per acre yield and
that with reduced fertilizers."
"Last year, the cotton conditions
"This year, the wet weather has
done considerable damage In the
eastern counties, and the boll weevil
along the south border is destined to
receive full recognition from now
until Oetober.
"This year's 18 pey cent increase
in this state's cotton (1,601,000
acres) brings the total area almost
back to the 1920 large crop/ A month
ago, we had an average condition of 1
the belt. North Carolina ranks first
as the largest user per acre of cotton
fertilizers 406 lbs and of the percent
age of the acreage fertilized 95 per
cent.
Cotton Conditions by Counties?basis
July 25, 1922. Northern Coastal
Division
Bertie 1 69
Camden 74
Currituck 75
Chowan . ._ 69 <
Edgecombe .. ... 73 i
Gates rn 68 i
Halifax 78 j
Hertford 61 1
Martin ....... 76 1
Nash - 85 1
Northampton 74 i
Pasquotank ... 70
Perquimans 69 i
Tyrell 75 I
Washington 74 i
North Carolina?May 25th; 84. i
June 26th; 79. July 25th; 78. !
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More than 17,000 school children I
in Harlem, a borough of New York, i
populated chiefly by aliens, are ad- ]
dieted to the use of drugsi, according 1
to police statistics. i
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later life. The nutrition work is a j
step in this direction and who knows <
how far-reaching the results might i
be?
GOVERNOR FLAYS
PRESS OF STATE
Coming into a hastily re-assembled
session of the North Carolina Farm
ers' and Farm Women's Convention
that had already adjourned''for the
morning after adopting scientific
marketing and some way to combat
the boll weevil as the "burning Is
sues" of the convention, Governor
Cameron Morrison launched into a
56-minute arraignment of the news
papers of the State that left a thou
Mnri or mn firmnr. . >.l ?,ki?ir wives
breathless.
Bitter denunciation of newspapers
and newspaper men that at times be
came personal to the point of shak
ing his clenched fist at two reporters
sitting a few feet away from him,'
and justification of his reply to the
Harding telegram and his whole at
titude toward the present strike sit
uation consumed all of the Governor's
time. His speech bristled with "fools"
^d "Bolsheviks."
: According to the program the Gov
ernor was due to address the conven
tion at 11:50 o'clock. The other for
malities of the morning had gone
through without a hitch, and time for
the Governor's address came and
passed. President Blacock announced
that the Governor had neither ac
cepted nor declined the invitation to
speak. He suggested that the audience
wait ten minutes and at the end of
that time, he adjourned the meeting.
Hardly was the crowd half out of
Pullen Hall when the Governor "ar
rived. The audience was hastily re
assembled, though it never quite
reached full strength. The Governor
was presented by President Blacock,
and the crowd settled back expecting
to hear the Governor's views in mat
ters pertaining to the agricultural
welfare. It took him less than thirty
seconds to indicate that he was not
going to talk agriculture, but news
papers, and his attitude toward the
strike.
Important aa is farming, and as
important as is industry, these things
are worthless when liberty is lost, he
declared to the crowd. He surmised
that many of the audience had not
been made acquainted with his recent
utterances, "because quite a number
of. newspapers have represented me
as saying things I never dreamed of
saying. I am surprised that a man
with intelligence enough to edit a
newspaper would say such things
about me," he added.
The Governor was aroused over an
editorial appearing in yesterday's
Greensboro News that declared his
recent address to the press associa
tion was worth no more than a Con
federate ten dollar bill. He referred
time and again, to it, interspersing it
with a re-statement of his published
proclamations and statements outlin
ing his attitude toward the law, State
sovereignty, and his determination
that the State shall take no part in
the settlement of disputes between
employer and employee except to
maintain order while they fight their
fight to a finish.
Pledging himself to a God-like en
forcement 'of the law and a fearless
courage, he denounced newspapers
that have criticized his as advocates of
social despotism, who think only of
industry and forget liberty. "No
board set up, not in law but in be
nevolent foolishness, has any right to
fix wages," he shouted. Solution for
the strike is in obedience to the law,
he declaimed.
"It is the only way, Mr. Newspaper
Men of North Carolina," he exclaim
ed. "You are preaching nonsense
when you aay that Government
ought to interfere between employer
and employee when there is no law,
and I don't care how arrogantly you
ridicule me. The only protection of
the public is through enforcement of
the law, and to see that no man does
those things that interfere with the
rights of others."
Wage Boards and the like founded
an the "benevolent dreams of fools,"
he' denounced roundly, and returned
again to the Confederate bill. There
are editors who want to rule the
9tate, he declared. At this point he 1
became personal to the extent of
leaning far over the platform and
thaking his fist at the Greensboro
News man, declaring that "not a day
has passed that you have not hounded
me. You stirred up hell in North
Carolina over the Harris case, and
irou tried to browbeat the Governor
>f North Carolina but you didn't do
*!"
At the end of 25 minutes the Gov
TUBERCULOSIS TEST
ING OF CATTLE
Some time ago it was announced in
this paper that we expected to have
a vetenarian down here to test cowa
for "T. B.." White we have received a
number of applications for this work,
yet we feel that as important as the
matter of health is, that more people
ought to be interested in this matter
and we take this opportunity to again
bring this matter before you and ask
that you get in touch with us at once
if you desire your cattle tested. If
at least one farmer in every com
munity will co-operate with us in
getting these applications in for the
testa, then we can make our campaign
against tuberculosis worth while. We
J are going to delay these tests for a
| short time so as to allow more farmers
to avail themselves of this opportun
ity. Remember the tests are free, and
it certainly seems to me that you owe
it to your family to at least see to
it that your milch cows are free from
the most dreaded of all human dis
eases. Write or see me at once if you
desire this test made on yoar cattle.
H. L. MILLER, County Agent.
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TO Y. W. A. MEMBERS OF
WEST CHOWAN ASSO.
Dear Girls?I have already written
to every Y. W. A. organization in
West Chowan Association concerning
the Rally we are planning to have
at Woodland August 9th, but lest
some have net heard or perhaps for
upon your minds and hearts more
gotten, I take this medium of laying
foreiUy, urging and stressing the one
fact, if nothing more, that we must
have every Y- W. A. girl and G. A.
girl with all the leaders of these or
ganisations present at Woodland
August 9th if possible. This is your
day, we've planned it for you, and
we're depending upon you for its suc
cess. I am sure every one of you are
prqpt? that we are to really have a
day aH our own very own. The
"grown folks" will be at home that
day. See program in another column.
Each of you remember to bring
picnic lunch and let us all have a
good time together, all in the Master's
name.
With love for each of you and a
sincere desire that God will use us
for His service. Sincerely,
MRS. A. L. LASSITER,
Y. W. A. Association Supt.
Potecasi, N. C.
ernor declared that in conclusion, he
would say some few things about the
necessity for diversified fanning, but
he worked back again to newspapers
and newspaper men, declaring that
law was the supreme thing in Amer
ica, reiterating the position set forth
in his proclamation and in his Con
cord speech.
"The imperial military forces of
North Carolina will be used to main
tain order," he declared. He went |
on to say that those newspapers who
talked about him for not sending
troops didn't know what they were j
talking about. He had placed troops
in every stragetic point in the State
to maintain order.
"If they had enforced law in West' '
Virginia like I have enforced it in1 '
North Carolina they would have no
strike there now. All Congress has
done about it is to try to pass an
anti-lynching bill for the South and
already they have murdered more
people hi their strike up there than'
we have lynched down here in fifteen
years. It is enough to make an ele
phant laugh."
The Labor Board caused the strike
by meddling in things without any
law to back them up, he declared. It
is now their duty to postpone the
railroad strike until they have set-j
tied the coal strike. He promised the
audience that he is not going to get
the State in any conflict with the
Federal Government. He ridiculed
the "pretty spectacle of President
Harding and his board running
around trying to get somebody to do
something."
Hoover's administration of coal
came in for a round of bitter ridi
cule. The Governor recounted the
exchange of telegrams, and declared
that it was the first time in history
that a Governor of a Sovereign State
had been directed by a cabinet offi
cer to do something. "But he told
me that I had to do it or freese," he
added, "and I don't want to freete."
?Raleigh News and Observer.
STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM
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HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD
During the severe thunder storm
last Thursday morning, about nine
o'clock, Ed Eskew, electrician tor the
Piedmont Power and Light Company,
was instantly killed at Graham, com
ing in contact with a high voltage
wire. ???
Maurice Neejey, seven-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Neeley, of
Gastonia, was seriously injured ? in
Greensboro, last Saturday afternoon,
when a truck -backed into an automo
bile on the running board of which
he was riding, the body of the truck
striking him in the stomach. The
driver of the automobile saw the truck
and signalled for it to stop, but the
driver of the truck evidently did'not
see the signal and backed into the car.
On returning from Chimney Rock
last Friday afternoon, Miss Myrtle
Prevatte, editor of the Maxton Scot
tish Chief, was thrown through the
windshield of the automobile of Ralph
Hoey, about five miles from Shelby.
Another automobile side-swiped the
car driven by Mr. Hoey, and threw
Miss Prevatte through the windshield.
She was cut in the back of the head
and on the cheek. She was taken im
mediately to Shelby where seven stit
ches were taken in the back of her
head and two in her cheek. The cuts
were not serious and Miss Prevate is
getting along -nicely.
The contract has been let for the
new $25,000.00 church by the mem
bers of the Second Baptist Church,
of Mount Airy. The auditorium of
this church will have a seating capa
city of about seven hundred, and
there will be SO class rooms. The con
tracts call for the work to be done by
the first of the year.
Walter D. Deal, of Alexander
County, 25 years old, who was arrest
ed in Tayloraville, on July 3, and
held in jail to await the next term of
Federal Court, is wanted by the army
and navy for desertion, it is learned.
Three hundred interested fans
were present last Wednesday after
noon, to see the first crossing of bats
between Rotary and Kiwanis when the
two clubs battled for the city cham
pionship of Elisabeth City. Kiwanis
won the game by a score of 22 to 6.
Ernest Stevenson, a well known
white man of Thomasville waa arrest
ed last week, charged with crimnal j
assault on a colored woman named
Mary Love, wife of P. C. Love, and j
placed under bond of $1,000. for his|
appearance at a hearing of the case
set for next Saturday. Stevenson
denies the charge and will put up a
strong fight to defend himself against
the accusation.
The first co-operative shipment of
hogs ever made by farmers of Col
umbus County, was carried over the
Coast Line t? Richmond, Va., last
Thursday. In the car were 69 hogs,
ranging from six to eight months of
age and weighing from 126 to 300
pounds.'
Ralph S. Murril, reported killed
in an airplane in Germany, is a son
Df Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Murril, of
Charlotte. He left some weeks ago
for a tour of Europe in company with
i party of Princeton students. He
was graduated from Princeton in
lune. The last word that came to .
iiis parents, was to the effect that he
bad landed in Breman, two weeks
igo.
North Carolina exceeded its Near
Bast Relief quota of $200,000 by be
tween $5,000 and $10,000 for the
iscal year just ended, according to
inofficial Agures announced last Sat
irday night by Col. George H. Bel
amy, state chairman. A final check
IP will be made this, week and exact
-esults in each county announced, ,
3ol. Bellamy declared.
W. A. Smith, rural policeman of i
Xoberson County and G. M. Williams
ind N. A. Smith captured a large
'opper still in Raft Swamp last Sat- j
irday. The still was in full blast. i
Jne negro, John Steele, was captured
ifter a gun battle. No one was hurt. ,
rhe negro was tried before the re- j
:order at Red Springs on three counts ,
ind given one year on each. The ]
vhite man in the case got away.
Daily radio concerts will be a novel ]
'eature of this year's Albemarle Dis- i
rict Pair to be held in Elisabeth City, i
)ctober 10-13 inclusive.
J. Ellie Waters, Lumberton avia
tor, on returning to that city from
Wrightsville Beach, with one passen
ger, Raymond Musselwhite, of Lum
berton, made a forced landing in a
corn field near East Arcadia, when
the engine of hi* plane stopped at an
altitude of 3,500 feet. Walters pick
ed his field after the engine stopped
and landed some three miles from
where it "went dead." Both of the
passengers escaped injury, though the
propellor of the 'plane was broken,
this resulting when the wheels sank
to the axle in soft ground.
Just as they leaped into the door
of their home, after they had run out
to meet their mother and carried her
a wrap to shield her from the rain,
Paul and Alphonse Carrol, aged 12
and 7, colored children, of Henderson,
were struck by a bolt of lightening
and instantly killed last week. A
daughter, Hettie Carroll, aged 16 was
stunned and rendered unconsious by
the same bolt of lightening, and the
mother was struck in the feet and
suffered a severe shock.
Six diamonds, ranging in site from
.70, to 1.7 karats and valued atfS.000
were stolen from the Baxter Jewelry
Store, of New Bern, during the past
few days, according to J. O. Baxter,
proprietor of the store. The stones
were mounted and kept in a small case
which disappeared with them.
James F. Paxter, for ten or twelve
years member of the police force of
Charlotte, was killed Sunday after
noon and his cousin, Joe Paxter, se
riously injured by the breaking of
both of his legs, in a motorcycle
accident.
James Owen a negro laborer, wae
seriously injured, when the "pari" of
a giant concrete mixer fell on him in
street paring operations in the north
ern part of Kinston last Saturday.
Owen suffered a badly fractured leg
and other bruises. No internal h>
i jury had been discovered.
Mrs. E. R. McAuley, of Bethany
township, Iredell County, is suffering
from bruises received from a broom
in the hands of her husband last
Thursday night when he misstook her
for a burglar. Sometimes during
the night, Mrs. McAuley got up and
went in another part of the house for
some reason, her husband being as
leep at the time and not missing her.
A short time later he heard a distur
bance in another part of the house >
and got out of bed and seised a broom.
As his wife, who was returning to
the room, opened the door, he struck
her several times with the bsoom be
fore she could make known her ident
ity.
New Jersey spends $2,000,000 a
year keeping down its mosquitoes.
Construction on the Woodville
road, the second hard surfaced road
project to be undertaken in Pasquo
tank county by the State Highway
Commission, will be begun in the near
future. The contractors are Williams
A Williams.
Dispensers of "monkey rum" and
"honest to goodness" corn whiskey,
figured prominently in a series of
raids by members of the Greenville
police department Saturday and three
white men and one colored man found
themselves in the clutches of the law.
They are Jack Corey, Joe Little,
Heber Sutton, white, and Sam Short,
colored transfer driver.
In a raid conducted by Sergeant A.
C. Wall, plain clothes policeman, on
the home of Press Grier near the cor
ner of Vine and Fifth streets, Wins
ston-Salem, late Saturday afternoon,
about $1,000 worth of cocaine was
Biased. The opiate was contained in
small bottles and was found by a
member of the raiding party when a
secret drawer was discovered in the
wall of a rear room in the house.
The Carolina Films Corporation,
maintaining headquarters in the Cen- ?
tral Loan and Trust Co. building,
Burlipgton, is the name of a new
concern that has been organised
for the reproduction of historical edu
cational and theaterical films of
Worth Carolina.
The new hospital board of the M.
E. church. South, of Asheville, has
ander consideration a plan to erect a
modern and up-to-date hospital near
Asheville.