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Hertford County Herald HERTFORD. COUNTVS ONj,Y NEWSPAPER A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING*MEDIUM .N EASTERN CAROLINA Volume XIII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, August 18, 1922 One Section No. 15 CITIZENS MET FRIDAY NIGHT TO ORGANIZE Enthusiastic, Practical Meeting Of Citizens Held Friday To Organize a Chamber of Com merce For Ahoskie?Have You Joined, If Not See The Membership Committee At Once,?It Is A Good Thing About thirty public spirited citizens end business men of Ahoskie met in tjbe director's room of the Farmers Atlantic Bank Friday night, August for the purpose of organizing a Cham ber of Commerce for the town of Ahoskie. The meeting was called to order by Hon. W. R. Johnson and Y. D Strickland was appointed temporary chairman. After a few minutes dis cussion the following gentlemen were unanimously elected to the following ?fflces. President, V* D. Strick land; Vice-President and Publicity Manager, James S. Vinson; Secretary and Treasurer, James I. Crawford. ? A Social Committee consisting of Messrs. S. M. Applebaum, Paul E. Dukes and R. H. Jernigan was ap pointed by the president. Dr. C. G. Powell, Presftent of the Farmers-Atlantic Bank, speaking for the directors of the Bank, tendered the use of the director's room for the meetings of the Chamber of Com merce so long as it was large enough to accommodate the members. Mr. W. L. Curtis expressed his views on the organization of a Cham ber of Commerce for Ahoskie and also his experiences with other bodies of this nature organised in Ahoskie dur - ing the past. Mr. Curtis stated that in his opinion, it would be necessary and desirable for the Chamber to em ploy an all-time paid secretary. However, he stated that he would concur in any decision reached by the ^Assembly. A motion was adopted which contemplated the employment of an an all-time eecretary aa sug gested by Mr. Curtis. The chair named a committee consisting of Mr. Curtis and Mr. R. H. Jernigan and the committee was instructed to can rase the town to secure the amount of $16 from individual subscribers uqtil 100 subscribers were obtained. Ia receiving subscriptions the com mittee was instructed to take checks drawn to read"to,be cashed only along with 99 other individual checks for like amount and purpose." The pur pose of this fund collected in ad vance is to assure at least one year's salary to an all-time secretary, same to be paid to the said secretary monthly, and if he failed to produce results his salary was no longer to be paid. In other werjs if he failed to produce results, his salary would not ' be guaranteed for any definite time; also with the understanding that any part of the fund not used in fhis respect would be refunded to the in dividual donors. An accurate list of the subscribers is to be kept by the canvassing com mittee, and later by the Secretary after the checks have been turned over to him to be handled as cpsh. Said checks not'to be delivered by the canvassing committee until the 100 checks from individuals for the amount of,f 16.00 eaeh are in hand. Thosi present and giving in their names as subscribers to the proposi tion as outlined were W. L. Curtis, V. D. Strickland, James S. Vinson, F. D. Flythe, H. C. Reynolds, James W. Green, K. T. Raynor, Dr. C. G. Pow ell, W. J. Myers, C. H. Phaup, S. M. Applebaum, J. W. Godwin, Jr., C. W. Casper, John A. Britton, James I. Crawford, R. H. Jernigan, W. M. Corwin and S. E. Vaughn. The canvassing committee has se cured the following additional names since the meeting of Friday night: In this connection let us say that it is to the interest of every citixen of the town to Join this organisation and we are glad to promote it to the fullest extent. There are citixens of Ahoskie who sign up practically every ypar to have a Chatauqua come lftre and they lose anywhere from five to twenty dollarsf each year and yet they have not signed their names to a check for the Chamber of Commerce. Honestly, if you. do not expect a Chamber of Commerce to do more for Ahoskie than any Chautauqua has ever done, we eould# not expect you c 128,000 POUNDS TOBACCO SOLD OPENING DAY Market Opens Thursday Morn ing, August 17th With Large Crowd Of Growers On Hand. Over One "Hundred Thous and Pounds Of Tobacco Sold With Average of Nearly $23 Per Hundred The Ahoekie Tobacco Market open ed Thursday morning, August 17th as per schedule. As early as Wednes day afternoon farmers coming from long distances were bringing their tobacco in the big iron warehouse and preparing same for the opening sale. By midnight the house was nearly half full and a good sized crowd of growers was in town. Early Thurs day morning the warehouse was filled and the streets adjoining the ware house congested with vehicles of the growers who had toiled all the sea son'and were now putting tobaeco on the floor for the opening sals. Mr. C. H. Phaup, proprietor of the Farmers Warehouse, the iron house, had made ample arrangements to take care of his customers, plenty of help for weighing and handling of tobacco was available as well as ample room and other acommodations. , Shortly after ten o'clock Thursday morning, the sales commenced with a full set of buyers representing all companies. By two o'clock and just before going to press, about half of the tobacco had been sold. Something over two thousand piles of tobaceo were listed as being on the flobr and the estimated weight of the total was 128,000 pounds. TV.: it?'a ? - - ? ? rnces realized avemgea as a WllOie ?round $23.80 per hundred pound*. Prices on individual pile* ranged froth 61 cent* to 4 cent* a pound. Good quality tobacco was in demand and brought a good price. A* a whole the tobacco offered, showed the effect* of the extremely unfavorable weather which the grower* have experienced. There was much tobacco of ?' poor quality and which showed the result of too mueli rain on the plhnt. Uniform satisfaction was expressed by the growers aa to the average of prices received, qualify considered. Mr. Phaup is known all ever the eastern part of North Carolina as be ing a good tobacco man, a good judge of tobacco and an experienced ware houseman. He expressed himself as being* pleased with the success of the opening sale and that the prices were satisfactory to the growers. Messrs. John W. Emerson ? Co. of Greenville,1 Tenn., experienced to bacco men of that section, acquired the Basnight warehouse this week and will also sell tobacco at auction. Their warehouse is open now to receive to bacco, their first sales will be held Monday, August 21st. * 0 Mr. A. D. Watts, Commissioner of Revenue for North Carolina is recov ering from a serious Illness in a hos jital at Richmond, Va. 0 ? Did you ever win $5.00 in gold? If not now is your c ha nee. Call at the Herald office. I to promote a Chamber of Commerce. Now don't think we are knocking Chautauqua, but we Jeel like a live Chamber of Commerce will do . more rood to the town in one month than i hundred Chautauqua* will ever do. Ahoakie must be a very good town when we atop to conaider the many mterprises that have landed here in tome way, certainly the people of the ;own have not ever gone out after . tuch thinga. It looka aa if they nat 1 rally drift here and no one knowa ( tow it happened. What we want to do ia to organiaa . ind present the many advantagea of | \hoskie where they should be pre J i en ted. Ahoslde is the largest town , n the Roanoke-CKowan section, and ( f we will only take advantage of j >ur opportunities, there ia every rea ton to believe that it will be twice ( is large as it is in a few yean. Some | >f the thinga we will have to provide , >efore that day arrives are equitable ax rates, good and economical town , rovemment, day electric current, and mved streets. Are ail these things mposaible? They are if we db not i >rganhce. LETS ORGANIZE t 1 THE Y. W. A. RALLY * AT WOODLAND The Y. W. A. Rally Day of North ampton, Bertie and Hertford coun ties wai held in Woodland Baptist Church, August 9th. Owing to the disagreeable weather, the representa tion-of many societies were denied the privilege and pleasure of attending. The meeting was presided over moqt graciously by Miss Estelle Beale of Potecasai. The devotional exer cises of the morning were conducted, by Mrs. Herbert Jenkins of Aulander. A most cordial welcomr wi tended by Miss Marie Griffin in the absence of Miss Bessie Lee of Winton. Miss Ella Earley of Aulander re sponded to this welcome. Greetings from the Association Superintendent, Mrs. A. L. Lassiter of Potecasi were read by Mrs. Doffermyre. In a very impressive way, Miss Minnie James Futrell of Ashleys Grove told "What Our Auxiliary Should Mean to the Girls of our Church." A very de lightful feature of the morning pro gram was a play based on Home Mis sions, given by the Potecasi Y. W. A.s! A bountiful lunch was served and a pleasant social hour enjoyed by the young ladies present. The devotional exercises of the afternoon were conducted by Miss Ella Early. Mrs. A. L. Lassiter having resigned as Association Superintendent, Mrs. P. S. Vann of Chowan College, the recently elected Superintendent, was presented and in a very earnest way, told the young ladies of some of her aims and plans for the coming year. The main feature of the afternoon program was to have been a pageant by the Ahoskie Y. W. A.s In their absence the program was necessarily short The absence of Miss Ella Pierce of Ahoskie was .Uso deeply re gretted. Mr. P. S. Vann of Chowan 'College took this opportunity to tell the young ladies of the wonderful advantages of Chowan College, and how the future of the College de pended up?n them. Delightful musical number* were furnished by the Woodland Y. W. A.s Missis Mary Lee. find Dorothy Bridgets of Lasker and the Lewiston Y. W. As The 'following officers were elected for the ensuing yesr. President, Miss Estelle Beale, Potecaai; Vice President, tyiss Mary But ler, Lewiston; Secretary, Mise Alice Mitchell, Aulander; Treasurer, Mise Nancy Parker, Murfreesboro. The next meeting will be held with the Y. W. A.s of Aulander. The meeting was a most inspirational one, and marks the beginning of a very important day in the missionary work of the young ladies of these counties. O CHOWAN COLLEGE President Preston S. Venn has just returned from Raleigh where he had a conference with the State Board of Education regarding the standard of Chowan College. The State Board unanimously voted to raise the stan dard of Chowan from Class "C" to Class "B". The College is now with in one year of being rated with the highest educational institutions of the State, and this highest rating will be given Chowan within the next year or two. So that a girl entering there now will have all the benefits of the "A" rating before time for her grad uation. As the rating now stands a year's work done by a girl in Chowan is recognized by any college in the State, and the grade of work is not questioned by the various colleges, nor by the State's accrediting com mittee. The thousands of friends of Chowan will welcome this good news with great rejoicing. The friends of the- College can now take heart to work for Chowan, since this raise of rating, and knowing that within the course of one or two yearn she will itand second to none in the State. And the getting of State recognition, as Chowan now 1ms, gives her stand ing with the colleges and universities throughout the south and north. This means that more of her graduates will go on and get degrees from the lead ing universities in the north. The work on the new auditorium, gymnaseum, and swimming pool has Seen delayed by the architect; but the contract will be let in Ahoekie, Aug. 18, and"the building will move for ward to completion. Did you ever win $6.00 in gold? If aot now is your chance. Call at the Herald office. WEEKLY CROP NOTES WEEK AUGUST 1-7 WEATHER / There is still much ruin in the eastern part o? the state, with hail storm doing much damage in Caldwell county. The Piedmont area is dry and cool, excepting in southern coun ties where the weather is favorable. In the mountains it is rainy and cool. WHEAT Wheat is poor to fair. Very little is grown in the eastern counties. Rust was general and destructive. CORN Corn is poor in eastern areas with ^improvement reported in Jones, Wil son and in southeastern counties. Rain has retarded growth and devel opment. Mention of much improve ment in the Piedmont plateau, with prospects of a good yield. It is good in the mountains, but harvest will be late. COTTON General improvement in cotton is noted in Piedmont The boll weevil is doing considerable damage in the southern border counties. Heavy fruiting is reported in spotted locali ties. Cotton in eastern areas is re covering from the rainy seasons to some extent, with prospects for a bet ter yield than was anticipated. Boll weevil is prevalent over southern half of coastal belt,?fruiting poorly in some sections. HAY Generally good al) over state for hay and grasses. Continued rains have been favorable to growth of these crops. TOBACCO 1 Tobacco indicate* a fair prospect in the northern Piedmont counties. Some good in eastern section but much is very poor there. Curing is well advanced. Too much rain has affected tobacco, as well as other crops. . , TRUCK Truck is reported to be fair in the mountains. Potatoes are somewhat blighted, krfarkets flooded in sections I of Piedmont, where truck crops are I grown. Increased attention at tracted^ truck in some localities of the Coastal belt. Harvesting is in full swing. PASTURES As with hay, pastures are generally good, due to favorable and wet sea son* PRUIT Frost in the mountains caused ir regular fruit crops. Northern Pied mont fruits only fair while Sand Hill pection has excellent condition es pecially peaches. 'More fruit in east ern belt than usual. LIVESTOCK Incoease in cattle in some sections. Good condition in Piedmont and Coastal sections. Good demand for dairy cattle. Reports on hogs show more activity in east,?in fair condi tion all over the state. PROGRESS . ? - * Farming is becoming more diversi fied. Much progress is being made in dairy lines. Farmers have done well in keeping up with their crops, con sidering the bad weather conditions. Labor is generally plentiful but not efficient. Urban demands hurt the fanner near towns. ?By Frank Parker, Agricultural Statistician, Noorth Carolina De partment of Agriculture. - n MISS MINA HOLLOMAN ENTERTAINS ON MONDAY Miss . Mina Holloman delightfully entertained a number of young people of Ahoslde Monday afternoon from four to six at her home on Church street in honor of her nieces, Misses Susie Vann and Sarah Floyd. The main attraction of the afternoon was "Progressive Hearts" in which Miss Feye Gerock was the winner of the prize, and Miss Sarah Floyd received the booby, a pottle of catsup with the wish expressed that the would be more 'successful next time. Delight ful refreshments were served which cohsisted of a course of fruit salad and fresh fruit. The Southern Railway System which up to this date has refrained from employing men in their shops to take the places of their force out on strike, has announced that com mencing at once they will employ all help available to combat the strike. The president of the road states that it is the only course available for the road to follow under the - circum stances. STATE NEWS IN DIGEST COM PILED FOR READERS OF THE HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD Seven minutes after they had re tired the jury in the case of Angus Murphy and Joseph Thomas, negroes charged with criminal assuait upon Mrs. A. E. Ketcham, the jury was back in the box and declared to the court that both defendants had been found guilty of rape. Judge Long at once sentenced the guilty men to be executed September 16th. A third negro, John Lee, age 16 years was awarded twelve years in the peni tentiary. The crime was committed Friday morning, August 4th upon Mr. and Mrs. Ketcham and infant child as they were in an auto camp near Southern Pines. Mr. Ketcham was 0>ot while he lay asleep, robbed and a criminal assuait committed upon his wife. The party was from a New England state and were touring this section of the south. * ? Several passengers from North Car olina were on trans-continental trains abandoned by strikeng railroad em ployees in desert places in Arisona during the past week. This feature of the railroad strike has been largely confined to western states. Engi neers, firemen and other employees have been leaving trains as a protest against maintaining armed guards around the railroad shops for the protection of men employed to take the place of men on strike. R. O. Self, director of coal distri bution for the state of North Caro lina, headquarters in Raleigh, an nounced Wednesday that applications had been received for 2,282 cars of coal. AH applications are classified by the director upon the basis of the purpose for which the coal is intend ed. Essential purposes are given preference; under this head come light plants, hospitals etc. The out look this week for the settlement of the coal strike and coal supply, is much brighter due to the reported partial settlement' of the strike in some fleldl. t?U.-? ??' - ?* i * vuawv waixuuaaca oi eastern North Carolina selling tobacco at auc tion have been opening up over the state for the past week. The amount of tobaeco sold and the price aver ages have varied greatly due to the condition of the tobacco, it is report ed. Some of the markets have .re ported as follows for the opening day. Kinston, 400,000 pounds sold which averaged around $20 per hundred. Greenville, about 600,000 pounds sold averaging $26. Wilsop, 600,000 pounds sold which averaged at from $26 to $26 per hundred. Rocky Mount reported sales as around 350, 000 pounds at an average of $22 per hundred. The quality of the offerings is reported to have been poor as a whole, damp weather also helped to keep averageq down. Good tobacco brought spirited buying and good prices. Davidson county will conduct a six month's free public health dental clinic commencing in September. It is proposed to examine and treat the teeth of about 4,000 school children in the county as a part of the work. Dr. Edwin E. Jones, age 63 years, a prominent citizen of Rocky Mount, died at his home in that city Sunday morning. T. H. Shockley, age 74, father of Mrs. Frank Taylor, has been missing from the home of his daughter on Cokey Road near Rocky Mount since late Saturday afternoon. AH efforts to find the aged man have been with out success and grave fears are felt for his safety as he is very feeble and at times mentally deranged Rev. Tom P. Jimison, Methodist minister of Spencer, where the big shops of the Southern Railway are located, has been in demand over the state to address assemblies of striking railroad shopmen. Shortly after the strike was called, Rev. Jimison creat ed a sensation by energetically taking the sides of the strikers. Since then requests have come in for him to ad dress other meetings of strikers over the state and it has even been propos ed to make him State President of the North Carolina Federation of Labor. The notorious "Hill House" located in New Bern is to be torn down. The chief of the Fire Department made an inspection of the place last week and ordered that it be rased. The house is a large one and stands in the heart of the residential section of New Bern opposite the court house. The place ia a very old one and has long been associated with vice and crime and was the scene of a double murder and suicide in April of this year. A force of sixty men have been at work for the past three months drilling holes, digging excavations, etc. in the face of Rocky tain located in Alexander county. The operations are in charge of the Hid denite Granite Company. The blast was set off Thursday afternoon and clouds of stones weighing as much aa ten and twenty tons were hurled as high as 500 feet in the air. Six tons of black powder was set off at one time in the 500 holes which had been drilled. The granite company is en gaged in shipping stone for curbing, ballast, monumental and other pur poses. Bishop John C. Kilgo, long a promi nent and noted figure in the Methodist Conference of North Carolina and the south, a distinguished preacher and a prominent educator, died Friday morning at his home near Charlotte. Bishop Kilgo had been critically ill for about two months and his death | was not unexpected. He was sixty one years of age having been born in Laurens, S. C. in 1851. Bishop Kil go entered the ministry when twenty one years of age and was made a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1910.. The city of Rocky Mount is con templating the expenditure of the sum of $760,000 in paving, laying large water and sewer mains and otherwise improving Main street of that city. Lewis Poffer, a white farmer living four miles from LaGrange was shot with two charges of buckshot while watching his tobacco barn Saturday night. One charge of shot struck him in the face and the other in Ma thigh. There is no clue to the per petrators of the crime. It is thought the wounded man will re cover. ' Sunday School workers of Warren county concluded an enthusiastic two day program at Norlina Sunday.Two hundred delegates representing fifteen Sunday Schools constitute the organi sation known as the Warren County Sunday .School Association. The county president reported the beat meeting held in years. n The postmaster at Goldsboro re port# an increase of 22 per cent in the receipts of that office for the months of April, May, June and July of this year. ? Catawba county democrats held aa enthusiastic meeting last Saturday, named a county ticket and in addition announced that Catawba county would be reclaimed for the Demo cratic party this year and would again join her place in line. The meeting was equal to meetings of the old days when nomination on the Democratic ticket in Catawba county was equivalent to election. A negro man, Charlie Tillman of Concord, was instantly killed in an automobile accident on the Greens boro-High Point road Monday morn ing. The car which he was driving turned over breaking his neck and crushing his skull. A second negro was in the car at the time of the ac cident, whether he was injured or not is unknown as he disappeared im mediately after the accident and has not been located. Greensboro leads all cities of North Carolina in building operations for the first six months of 1922, The to tal amount represented in building permits equals 93,158,00; Charlotte comes second with an amount of $2,062,000. Only three cities in the south exceeded Greensboro, they were Washington, D. C., Kansas City, and St. Louis. After a heated session of the City Council, Edgar H. Bain, City Mana ger of Goldaboro tendered hia resigna tion which was accepted. The city manager had requested the discharge of two policemen, it was his request that precipitated the row. The City Manager gave it as his opinion that the Goldsboro police department was rotten from the assistant chief down. The monthly report of the Phohibi tion Director R. A. Kohloas for July was made public this week. The re ports shows that UO stills were cap tured, about 100,000 gallons of liquors poured out and ninety-one per sons arrested. Property siezed was valued at about |36,000. p. / " ? ' ,, /?' ?