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Mr. J. W. Powell spent lest Satur
day in Suffolk on a business mission.
Mr. H. Clay Sharpe of Harrellsville
was a visitor in Ahoskie last Monday.
Dr. Paul H. Mitchell and daughter
spent last Saturday in Norfolk.
Mr. Talmake Baker of Norfolk
spent Sunday in Ahoskie with home
folks.
Mr. Hugh Dukes wf Elizabeth City
spent last week-end in Union with his
mother.
Among Monday's visitors in Ahos
kie was Mr. L. B. Jenkins of Mur
freesboro.
Professor C. C. Perry, of the Cole
rain Graded School, spent last Friday
in Ahoskie.
Mrs. Arthur W. Greene and rMa.
Hallie Baker were shoppers in Suf
folk last Saturday.
Mr. O. L. Joyner, prominent plant
er of Greenville, spent several days
in Ahoskie this week.
Miss Myrtle Swindell, County
Home Demonstrator, was a visitor in
Ahoskie last Saturday.
Mr. Hugh Harell and Miss Thelma
Jewell spent last Sunday with friends
at Murfreesboro and Como.
Messrs. John O. Askew, Sr., and
Grady Askew of Harrellsville were
visitors in Ahoskie Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Julian Thomas were
the guests of relatives and friends in
Norfolk last Friday and Saturday." ,
Misses Lucile and Joyce Hines of
Suffolk, Vs., were the Week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Otis Carter.
Miss Emily Gayle, of the Ahoskie
High School faculty, was the guest of
friends in Norfolk the past week-end.
Miss Willie Mae Horton of Chowan
College was the guest of her mother,
Mrs. John W. Overton, Jr., last week
end.
Sheriff and Mrs. BUmark Scull and
daughter, Myra, were guests of Mr.
/snd Mrs. W. A. Miller st Union last
Sunday.
Miss Louise Buffaloe and J. Roy
Parker spent last Sunday in Seaboard
as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Maddrey.
Among last Saturday's visitors in
Ahoakie were Messrs. E. V. Grisaom,
W. J. Newsome, and Starkey Hare of
Harrellsville.
Miss Jessie Morris was in Ahoslde
for a short while last Saturday en
route to her home in Windsor. She is
a student at Chowan College.
Miss Annie Laurie Sessonls spent
the week-end with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Sessoms. She is
teaching school in Harrellsville.
Miss Ethel Futrell was the guest
of her parents at Woodland last Sun
day. She was accompanied to Ahoa
kie Sunday evening by Mr/ W. B.
ForbOs.
Mr. J. J. Piland of Winton was a
visitor In Ahoskie Monday morning.
He was about the 200th person to take
advantage of our special offer to new
subscribers during the month of Oct
ober.
The Roanoke-Chowan Fair at
ffoodland is being liberally patroni
sed by Ahoskie people this week. On
Tuesday and Wednesday nights fif
teen or twenty automobiles went
there from here.
Mr. and M.rs J. Bailey Barnes and
two children spent the week-end in
Norfolk and Portsmouth as the guests
of relatives and friends. Mr. Barnes
attended the A. A E.-V. M. I. foot
' bal game in Norfolk Saturday after
noon.
Miss Josephine Cowan left this
week for Airiee, where she will teach
school this session. Miss Ethylin
Cowan also left for Enfield to teach
school. They were accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Newbern,
making the trip by automobile.
METHODIST MISSIONARY
SOCIETY PLAN BAZAAR
The-Woman's Missionary Society of
the Ahoskie Methodist Church will
hold a bazaar Friday, November 24?
for the benefit of the church building
fund, in the building formerly occu
. pied by Miss Nannie Newsome.
All kinds of fancy articles suitable
for Christmas gifts, the bride's tros
seau, etc., will be on sale, and also
many tasteful eatables will be sold.
Six o'clock dinners will be served.
The church women have been con
ducting rummage sales on Main street
for several weeks, anil have realized
more than a hundred dollars in the
Saturday sales.
NOTICE
I will offer for sale all household
and kitchen furniture, chattel and
personal property of the late E. "W.
Waters, on November 17th, 1922, at
the home place of the late E. W. Wat
ers near Murfreesboro, N. C.
Date of sale :NOVEMBER 17, 1922.
Terms of Sale?Cash.
Hour of sale eleven o'clock.
H. C. WATERS, Adma.
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ROAD BONDS NOW J*
HANDS OF \^>MPANY
All of Hertford County'* road
bond* ar* now in thev possession of
bonding companies. J. If. Eley,
chairmen, and Jno. A. Northcott,
clerk, of the County Board of
Commissioners, delivered the last
batch to Prudden A .Co., Toledo,
Ohio, last week, the amount being
$200,000.
Under the terms of sale made
Monday, October 16, a premium
amounting to approximately $17,
' 000 will be realised from the bonds
delivered last week. The purchas
ing c<dhpany will pay the money
for bonds in montllly installments,
beginning January 1, 1924. Twen
ty thousand dollars wil be paid in
cash March 1, 1923.
Mr. Ndrtheott say* he saved the
county more than $600 by making
the trip to Toledo, The saving was
effected'by requiring the purchas
ers to pay accrued interest to date,
instead of paying up until the time
when the contract for sale, was
entered into.
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Among those from here who wit.
nessed the football game in Norfolk
last Saturday afternoqn between N.
C. State College and Virginia-Military
Institute were W. A. Crafton; C. fL
; Phaup, H. B. Chapin, and Roy Parker.
ATTEND VIRGINIA WEDDING
Misses Hiiday Bailey and Hettie
Hargrave, members-of the graded
school faculty, went to Wakefield,
Vs., last Friday afternoon. They at
tended the wedding of Miss Ray
Bailey who was married Saturday
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J. W. HOWARD MOVES
J. W. Howard and family have re
cently moved into the Basnight resi
dence hi Church street, the home fop*
merly occupied by Mrs. H. C. BenthaH
and family who haye moved to Nor
folk.
RETURN kROM AUTO TRIP
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Thomas Sear^j of Union 4nd Jim
Seasoms of Ahoslde returned to their1
homes last Friday night, after* a
week's automobile trip to Asheville
and other towns in the western part
of the State. Mr- Seasoms was thrf
guest of his brother, John Sessoms,
while away.
COTTON IN HERTFORD COUNTY
' According to the report of J. A.
Parker, special Reporter for the De
partment of Commerce, there were
1,132 bales of cotton counting round
as half bales, ginned- in Hertford
County, from the crop of 1922 prior
to October 18, as compared with
1,176 bales ginned to October 1$,
1921.
Ex-Senator Marion Butler, Repub
lican, is in North Carolina makilTg
speeches, for his party in the cam
paign now about to end.
NOTICE
North Carolina?Hartford County:
Superior Court, Before The Clerk.
GEORGE BEVERLY vs. MARY
BEVERLEY.
The above named defendant trill
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Hertford County,
North Carolina, to obtain a divorce
"A VINCULO MATRIMONII", and
the said defendant will farther take
notice that she is required tto appear
before the Clerk of the Superior
Court of Hertford County, at _ his
office in the Courthouse in Winton, N.
C. on the 27th day of November 1922,
and answer or demur, to the com
plaint in said action, or the plaintiff
will .apply to the Court for the relief
demhnBed in said complaint
This the 28th day of October, 1922.
. This the 28th day of October, 1922.
D. R. McGLOHON, /
Clerk of Superior Court.
C. W. JONES, Atty. for Plaitiff.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
tor of the estate of Virginia O.
Baugham, deceased, late of Hertford
County, North Carolina, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersigned at
his home in Cofleld, N. C. on or be
fore the 24th day of September, 1928,
or this notice will be pleaded .in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please make
immediate payment.
This 23rd day of September, 1922.
C. J. JOYNER,
Administrator of
Virginia 0. Baugham.
C. W. JONES, Attorney for Admin
istrator. 9-29-St.
RICHARD THEATER
AHOSKIE, N. C.
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MORTGAGE SALE
Pursuant to the provisions 4f a
deed of trust executed by G. O. Hare,
(unmarried), to IK-C. Barnes, Trus
tee. on the 30th day of April, 1922
and registered in the office of the
Register of Dheds of Hertford County
in book 65, pige 325. Default hav
ing been made in the payment of the
bond therein set forth and at the re
quest of the holder thereof, the un?
dersigned will sell all public auction,
for cash, in the town of Murfreesboro
N. C-, in front of the post office, on
the 4th day of November, 1922, at
11 jp'clock a. m., the following prop
erty: Those two several tracts or
parcels 'of land situate in Murfrees
boro Township, Hertford County,
North Carolina, and being the share
|0f the land inherited by the said G.
O. Hare and the share inherited by
his sister, Coleuo Benthall (nee Hare)
Hi the division among the heirs of the
lands belonging to John Hare, father,
and Jackson' B. Hare, grandfather, of
the G. O. Hare and Coleus Benthall,
and described and designated as fol
.lqns:
fTRSt?Lots No.-6-A, 6-B and ?-C
as, set apart to the said >G. Ox Harp in
deed or division between himself and
the other heirs, containing one hun
dred ten and one-sixth acres, refer
ence being made to th^ deed to said
Hare which is duly recorded in the
Register's Office Of Hertford'County
SECOND?rliots No. 1-A and ?-B
as deeded to Coleus Benthall (nee
Hare) In the division of the above
described land as her share in the
same, which was later conveyed by .
deed to Sliid'G. O. Hare, containing ~
one hundred-and eleven and one-sixth
acres, reference being made to the
deed to the said Coleus Benthall for
the same, and also tc? deed from the
said Coleus Benthall to G- O. Hare,
both of which are dulyprecorded in
the Register's Office for Hertford
.County conveyed by the said G. O.
Hare to satisfy the debt and interest
provided for in said Deed of Trust.
' This 4th day of October, >922,
10-13-41. D. C BARNES, Trustee.
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NOTICE
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By virtue of the powers contained
in a certain Deed of Trust executed
on the 6th day of June, 1918 by A
B. Whitley and wife Annie C. Whit
ley to John E. Vann, Trustee, which
deed of trust is duty recorded in the
Register of Deeds office for Hertford
County in* Book 64 on page 264.
The conditions set forth in said dee<^
of trust have not . been met, the un
dersigned Trustee will therefore on
the 6th day of Novefnber, 1922, offer
for sale at the Court House door of
Hertford County, to the highest, bid
der for cash, the following described
real estate, to-wit: A tract or parcel
of land situate in Maneys Neck
Township, Hertford County, N. "C.
Beginning af a corner post on the
road, a corner for H. S. Littles heirs;
thence along the Murfreesboro and
Riddicksville road an easterly course
188 feet to a cdrner post; thdnce
along P. C. Taylor and R- A. Majette's
line a southerly course 482 feet to a
corner post; thence a westerly course *
along R. A. Majette's line 188 feet _
to a post Little's line; thence along
the Little Hne a northerly course 492
,feet to a corner post at beginning.
Containing 1 and 1-2 acres, and
known as a part of the old R. R
Savage land.
This the 20th day of Sept, 1922.
10-18-41. JNO. E. VANN, Trustee.
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NOTICE OF LAND SALE
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By virtue of authority contained iii
a certain mortgage deed executed on
the 2nd day of May, 1921,^by J. L.
Bellamy and wife, to P. S. Bellamy,
which mortgage deed ia duly recorded
in book 72, page 49, office of the Reg
ister of Deeds, of Hertford County,
default having been made in .the pay
ment of the debt therein secured the
undersigned nfbrtgagee will on th$,
s18th day of November, 1922 between
the hours of 1 p- m. and 3 p.m id
frhnt of the postofflce door, Ahoskie,
N. <?., offer for sale.to the highest
bidder for cash the following describ
ed real estate. On the north by
North street, on the west by the lands
of W. C. Liverman, on the south by
the lands of J? 8- Leary, on the east
by the lands of W. A. Brown and E
W. Sessoms, and more fully described
as follows, vis: beginning at corner'of _
said lot on the side of North street, at
corner W. G. Liverman lot; thence
southerny along said Liverman line
one hundred and fifty feet to J. S.
Leary line a corner; thence easterly
along said Leary tyie fifty feet to W.
A. Brown, line a corner; thence nor
therly along said'Brown.line fifty feet
to E. W. Sessoms line; thence along
said Sessoms line one hundred feet
to North street, a corner; thence
westerly along said street, fifty feet
to first station.
This the 14th day of October, 1922.
P. S. BELLAMY, Mortgagee.
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