Hertford County Herald
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Volume XIII. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, November 17, 1922 One Section Nq. 28
COLLEGE OBSERVES
ARMISTICE DAY BY ?
FITTING EXERCISES
Patriotic Songs And Talks
Mark Celebration At Cjiowan
Last Saturday
STUDENTS AND FACULTY MEMBERS
( . JOIN IN GIVING VARIED PROGRAM
Many Girls Spend Week-end
At Home; Faculty Enjoys
A Picnic
Murfreesboro, Nov. 14.?Armistice
Day was celebrated at Chowan Col
lege with a program marked by
beauty and dignity befitting the oc
casion. Mingled with an appreciation
of the great event commemorated,
and a reverent tribute to those whose
sacrifice had made it possible, was an
appeal to the patriotism of the living
and a call to noble fulfillment of the
purposes of the past.
After the opening of the exercises
with the song "My Country, 'Tis of
a Thee," the poem, "No Better Land
than This," by Gueste, was recited in
a spirited manner by Miss Willie Mae
Horton. An excellent review of the
causes of the participation in the
Great War by the United States, the
events leading up to the close of hos
tilities, and the significance of -the
armistice, was given by Miss Beryl
Souter.
A brief address, '"Patriotism and
Democracy," was delivered by Miss
Eloise Merony, of the faculty of the
College. In this the worthy political
aims and the true ideals of national
(life were so presented as to stimulate
the youthful minds before the speak
er to higher purpose. The selection,
"The Colors," by Andrew, was grace
fully interpreted by Miss Rutlf Wil
. - kins. The dramatic rendering of
MacCrae's "In Flanders Field," by
Miss Gertrude Knott, the teacher of
public speaking, made a moving ap
peal to the audience. The beautiful
solo, "The Americans Came," by
Forster, was sympathetically render
ed by M". T'oyd Lawrence. In a
brief parrs'' showing typical charac
ters were -resented notable facts of
our national history, the recognition
of our ideals of true liberty by an
admiring world, and the dawn of
pe^ce.
After the singing of some songs
made precious during the Great War,
the National Anthem was sung and
the exercises closed with a benedic
tion pronounced by Rev. J. W. Whit
ley.
PERSONALS
The members of the faculty en
joyed a picnic near the rHrer on Mon
day. The students who remained at
the college for the week-end also
went on a picnic.
Misses Eudoro Joyner and Ethel
Farmer of Rocky Mount returned to
day after having spent some time with
day after having spent some time
with their parents.
Misses Hilda Matthews and Gene
vieve Taylor spent the week-end with
I Miss Matthews' parents in Windsor.
Misses Marie and Hazel Griffin
^ have returned to the college after
having visited their parents in Wood
land.
Misses Wilms Durham, Mattie
Macon Norman and Elizabeth Turnley
spent the week-end in Raleigh. While
there they witnessed the football
game between Wake Forest and
Trinity.
Miss Minnie Dunning spent the
week-end with her parents in Aulan
der.
Miss Beryl Souter visited Miss
t Nancy Parker in Murfreesboro, Sun
day. \
Miss Marietta Bridger spent the
week-end with her parents, Hon. and
Mrs. Roswell C. Bridger of Winton.
Mr. J. Roy Parker was a visitor at
the college on last Friday afternoon.
Miss Glenn Smith and Ruth Wil
kins visited Misses Smith's parents in
Gates the past week.
Miss Thelma Griffin spent the
week-end with her father in Wood
land.
Miss Adalia Futrell was a visitor
in Woodland last week.
Mr. Frank Lewis of Kerr, visited
his daughter. Miss Mary Henry Lewis
at the College last week,
t Miss Mary Henry Lewis and Miss
Mary Eakins spent a few days with
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75 MILLION CAMPAIGN
NOW MAKING HISTORY
Half ' Million New Members
Have Been Added To
Church Rolls
The Baptist 75 Million Campaign,
launched three years ago, has marked
an epoch in the progress of this de
nomination in the South. During the
first half of the five-year period, end
ing May 1st, more than 35 million dol
lars had been raised for the different
objects fostered by the Campaign, in
cluding state, home, and foreign mis
sions, christian education, orphanage,
ministerial relief, and hospitals. This
was 18 millions more than was raised
in the two and a half years prior to
the Campaign. Each department of
-the work at home and abroad has been
greatly strengthened. A half mil
lion new members have been added. ,
Many who subscribed to the Cam
paign three years ago have died.
Many others have lost their health and
their earning" capacity. Still others
have fallen by the wayside for other
reasons. So in -order to reinforce the
weak places, a whirlwind campaign is
being put on in all the Baptist
churches, not only in North Carolina,
bht throughout the South, during the
month of November, the last week,
from'November 26-to December 3, be
ing known as Loyalty and Victory
Week. *
Each of the 65 district associations
in th? state and each local Baptist
church is being thoroughly organized
with a view to collecting the unpaid
pledges made in the^original Cam
paign, and also to secure a cash offer
ing and a pledge for the next two
years of the Campaign from the large
number of new memtfers that have
been received into the churches since
1919, and from those who did not
make pledges during the other Cam
paign.
It is felt that this large number
of new members and the others de
serve to have an opportunity to share
in the. great forward movement of the
denomination, and in the victory that
is expected to crown their efforts,
November 26 to December 3.
MISS HOWARD ENTERTAINS
Miss Nancy Howard delightfully
entertained a few friends at cards at
her home on Church street Friday
evening, November 10.
i Those enjoying Miss Howard's hos
pitality <were Missaj Myrtle Powell,
Lena MoOre-Rawles, Ethel Futrell,
Messrs. G. C. Britton, Graham New
some, Stafford Bates and John ^
Barker.
Delicious chocolate and wafers were
served. At eleven o'clock the guests
departed proclaiming Miss Howard a
delightful hostess.
CdTTON IN HERTFORD COUNTY
According to the report of John A.
Parker, Special Reporter for the De
partment of Commerce,,there were
1,984 bales of cotton, counting round
as half bales, ginned in Hertford
County, from the crop'of 1922 prior
to November 1, as compared with
1,972 bales ginned to November 1,
1921.
OPENS PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
Announcement is carried in this is
sue of the opening of offices at Nor
folk, Va., by Dr. Robert Matthews,
specialist In children's diseases. Dr.
Matthews is a brother of Mrs. E. C.
Hobbs, and is a native son of Hert
ford. He is a graduate bf the Uni
versity of North Carolina, a former
student at Trinity College, a graduate
of a northern University of Medicine,
and has tBgnt several months in Eu
rope making a study of ^ldren's dis
eases.
ACCEPTS POSITION HERE
Mr. W. J. Bateman has accepted a
position with the W. A. P. Railroad
Company at Ahoskle, and has moved
here to make his home.
HOLIDAY AT SCHOOL
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Wednesday was a holiday at the
Ahoakie High School, being Educa
tional Day at the Hertford County
Fair IS Winton. Many of the school
children and teachers attended the
fair. The management of the fair
gave all achqol children a fifty per
cent cut in admission on thai day.
AHOSKIE'S BUDGET
TRIMMED CLOSELY;
BONDS BECOME HUE
Taxable Property Amounts To
$1,296,841; Rate Is $1.25
On $100 Value
CONSTABLE MUTTON INSTRUCTED TO
COLLECT TAXES BY JANUARY FIRST
Much Property Has Not Been
Listed; Others Not Listed
High Enough
According to the tax list of the
town of Ahoskie, there is $1,296,841
of taxable property, including, both
real estate^ and personal property, in
t^e tbwn in 1922. - This is a reduction
of approximately $2*00,000 as Com
pared with the list of 1921. More
than one million of the taxable prop
erty is listed by whites, the exact fig
ures for the two races being, whites
$1,180,694; negroes, $166,147.
Ninety negtops listed in Ahoskie
this year as against 152 whites. In
addition to the revenue to be gained
through property tax, 242 persons
will, pay a poll tax of $3.75 each.
The property tax will amount to
more than $16,000, with a levy <j>f
$1.25 on the $100 valuation, which is
the same as that of 1921. The com
bined total of poll and property taxes
will be more than $17,000 irff'bulk,
although some sf it will be non-col
lectible if tfie record made in 1921
collections is any criterion. Several
thousand dollars remain uncollected
from the 1921 tax books, and will be
turned in as insolvent. -
An examination of the list books of
Ahoskie shows many discrepancies in
comparative values,' as well as sur
prising number of persons who have
failed to put all theirproperty on the
list books. -The total value-of prop
erty in Ahoskie could be materially
boosted if the town officers can round
up the delinquents. An effort will be
made to do that very thing, and every
person who has failed to list .will be
double taxed, or he must show a good
reason for not having done so. The
town' commissioners have already de
cided that point.
' In December the town of Ahoskie
will have to pay in interest and pay
ment on municipal bonds the sum of
$5,000. This will dig deeply into the
revenue for the coming year. With
an electric light plant that is a losing
proposition financially, the bond pay
ment on hand, and water and sewer
extensidns to be made, there is going
to be little left with which to main
tain the streets of the town.
The tax books for 1922 are now in
the hands of Constable O. H. Britton,
and he has been instructed by the
Town Council to get out and get the
money by January 1. Taxes must be
paid, say the officials, unless Ahoskie
is to continue to besmirch its credit,
which is geeting down to a pretty lqw
ebb now.
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* "SKYPILOTS" DEADLOCK ?
* THE "TOBACCO WEEDS" ?
* Preacher Stimson and hie Win- *
* ton "Skypilots" battled furiesly ?
* with the Ahotkie "Tobacco *
* Weeds" Thursday afternoon at *
* the Winton Fair grounds. *
* TwentjMwo warriors see-sawed *
* up and down the field for a full *
* forty minutes, while the sport- *
* toying enthusiasts watched the *
* first football game ever played *
* on the Hertford County Fair *
* grounds. *
* In ground gained ^there was *
* little to choose between either *
* team, and neither succeeded in *
* penetrating the defensive wall *
* facing them. It was one of those *
* "hard fought battles" readers of ?
* sports pages are accustomed to *
* reading about. Aheekie -kept *
* Winton on the defensive for the *
* most part, although the Skypilots *
* threatened in the third quarter *
* when they blocked a punt and *
* recovered. ?
* Both tedfns were in "fine *
* shape", tkht is, before tfce game *
* began. The editor of this paper *
* is reminded of the fierceness of *
* the struggle by a busted lip, a *
* skinned shank, and a wrecked *
* knee cap. ^ ?
Old Hertford Is
Progressing Says
Fortner Resident
Readers of the HERALD will
recall tfie publication of a letter
from L. W. Holloman, Elizabeth
City, a few months ago. Mr.
Holloman was seeking some in
formation about his Hertford
County relatives. One day this
?week, he sent the following let
ter to the HERALD:
"I would like to make a report
of some experiences I have had
with your paper.
"Some time in the spring of
1022 1 wrote you about some of
my people' in Hertford County.
Not long after writing to you I
heard from several, and out of
that number none was the one I
was looking for, although I was
glad to hear from all that an
swered my letter that came out in
your paper. I must say that
rendered me a service that I
probably could not have gotten
in any other way. %
"On Saturday, September 23,
I left Elizabeth City for the old
home county of Hertford, via
Norfolk,rVa.; and Sunday morn
ing early started for.Aulander.
Arriving about noon, the 24th,
my wife and myself were met
at the train by the dear loved
ones and two autos.
"Seeing this it carried nje
? back to the boyhood days, with
this welcome 'Come in, you are
welcome.' How my heart did re
joice to get back with the old
folks; and now, when I crossed
the old Chowan at Tunis, I did
not see much change, but when I
passed through Cofield, every
thing seemed different. Welldo
1 remember when there was
nothing but a cross roads?now
a town.
"Then, Ahoskie stretched out
> in "every direction, with lights
and sewer, tobacco warehouses,
a .creditable newspaper, and
many other things of notice. I
wanted to get a peep at the edi
tor, but, owing to sickness at
home, I had to make my visit
short and could not see them and -
others.
"The ope thing I noticed was
the .improvement in the farm
land and the homes. Some have
improved and others have built
new. Altogether, I found njuch
improvement, and I am hoping
that I will be able to make the
same trip again and see more of
the old county and the home
folks."
DEBATE FEATURES MEET
OF PARENT-TEACHERS
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Special Program Rendered, Un
der Supervision of
Faculty
(By K. T. RAYNOR)
The Ahoskie Parent-Teacher Asso
ciation met Friday evening, Novem
ber 10th, in the school auditorium:
The meeting was called to order by
Miss Mina Holloman, president; after
which some matters of business were
brought up and discussed. Then the
association was very pleasantly en
tertained by a splendid program ar
ranged by Miss Emily Gayle, teacher
?of English in the local High School.*
The outstanding feature of-the pro
gram was a*debate: "Resolved that
Nature has done more toward dev^
oping character than education has
done." The affirmative was upheld
by Misses Sybil Myers and Mabel
Claire Hoggard, Messrs. Horace Gar
rett and Lowell Powell. The nega
tive was championed by Misses Emma
Wooten and Mary Hoggard, Messrs.
Columbus McKeel and Spurgeon Isen
hower. These judges, Mesdames A.
W. Greene and B. E- Copeland and
Miss Bessie Tayloe rendered their de
cision in favor of the negative. The
debate made ' a splendid impression
upon the Association, showing what
'kind of work is beiYlg done in the
Columbian and Hesperian Literary
Societies.
The public is cordially invited out
to these meetings, due notice of which
will be given both by announcement
and through the press. Some fea
tures of special entertainment will be
given at each meeting.
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FARMERS ARE URGED TO
UPHOLD THE EXCHANGE
Banks And Merchants Should
Get Behind Movement For
Cooperative Marketing
Now, the elections are all over, the
political fights having been fierce in
some places, summing (he whole thing
up I believe the country is safe. Both
of the major parties stand for the
best principles.
The question of the Peanut Ex
change I shall attempt to discuss
now. As a loyal member of the Ex
change, I feel free to express myself.
We have had a hard battle, but I feel
now that "The Hindenburg Line is
Broken," and a few of our members
have been disloyal to the organiza
tion, selling their peanuts to the'
cleaners who have been and still are
our enemies.
Later they will have to account for
their breach of contract. We have
had a hard fight. Some few mer
chants have been hostile towards the
Exchange and a few professional men
also. I was talking to one of our
merchants not long ago and he was
bitter against the Exchange. He ask
ed me if I was going to deliver my
crop this year to the Exchange, I told
him certainly I was going to?nothing
else to do. I asked him if he wouUL
have any respect for me if I wilfully
broke my contract.
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I have received 2 1-4 cents on ihy
1921 crop. If I knew I wouldn't get
any more for my 1922 crop of pea
nuts, I would certainly deliver them
according to my obligation. I feel
that I received about all I could have
gotten had there been no Exchange,
but under the new management
merchandising peanuts instead of
starting a speculating proposition, 1
believe I am sure pf getting a good
price for peanut* this year.
To the farmers who have not signed
the contract, get in line with us?get
on the ground, or line up with us.
Don't need any fellow "who wait and
see what happens." When we get
things going, we don't need you much.
Then, after the battle is won, we
won't need you.
It is something like the following
anecdote: Jack and Sallie Ann lived
in a little log cabin, I reckon, near
Dismal Swamp. A huge bfcar went
into their house, and Jack slipped up
the loft, leaving the bear and his wife
?h fight the battle. Sallie Ann soon
killed the bear. Next day Jack was
going around telling b'1 neighbors
what "fie" and Sallie Ann had done?
killed a big bear in the house.
What we need now is more peanut
farmers in the Exchange, so sign up
the contract. We don't need you af
ter the battle is won. I tell you Mr.
Editor, when farmers can make some
money on their crops, you are going
to see things hum. Merchants and
banks and all other business wijl
move, so' don't fight us, no % matter
what you are engaged in.
Your success depends upon the suc
I cess of us farmers. The business men
and panics ought to get behind this
cooperative movement and help to
make it go. The only way the farm
er can hold out longer when nobody
is making any money, is that he can
keep eating if he is any account.
JOHN A. PARKER.
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* MAYOR CURTIS HANDS *
* IN HIS RESIGNATION *
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* W. L. Curtis, for imnl yetri *
* mayor %f Ahoskie, ha* tendered ?
* Kit resigination to the Town *
* Council, consisting of *H. W. *
* Stokes, Dan P. Boyette, and J. *
* Roy Parker. The commission- *
* ars moot tonight, Thursday, to *
* act upon the resignation of *
i * Mayor Curtis. *
* ' Mr. Curtis says ha is not -able *
* to de-rote any time to the dutias *
* of mayor and realizes that to *
* conduct the affairs of the town *
* will require more time than ho is *
* able to giro it. *
* Who Ahoskie's next mayor will *
* bo is a problem yet unsolved. *
TRANSFERRED TO TARBORO
Mr. J. Otis Carter, who is employ
ed by the Tobacco Grower* Co-Oper
ative Association, has been transfer
red from the warehouse here to Tar
bo ro. He left Sunday, taking his
family with him to his new location.
HERTFORD COUNTY
FAIR IS DRAWING
A BIG ATTENDANCE
Ideal Weather Conditions Have
Prevailed During Fifth
Annual Project
? RACING MAIN ATTRACTIONS DAILY
Lovers Of Entertainment Are
Well Helped Up With Shows
And Devices
Favored with an unusual brand of
weather for mid-November, the Fifth
Annual Hertford County Fair opened
at Winton Tuesday. With the ex
ception of the first afternoon attend
ance upon the fair has been large, and
receipts will probably reach the larg
est figure of any of the former fairs.
Tuesday and Wednesday were regular
September days, and today, Thursday,
promises to be another ideal day, with
the temperature several degrees low
er, after a slight wind and rain stohn
Wednesday night.
Exhibits of farm products, canning
clubs, and livestock have all available
Bpace in the exhibit' buildings and
stables filled, and among them are
some that have aready taken prises
at the State Fair, and the Coastal
Plain Fair at Tarboro. > Especially
impressive is the .exhibit by B. N.
Sykes of the Riverside Farm, Har
rellsville; and that of Mrs. Sykes, who
has one whole section filled with can
ned goods of all kinds, each in stan
dard containers. Mr. Sykes' exhibit
is unique in that it contains samples
of a wide variety of farm products,
each being of healthy growth. His
exhibit is easily the outstanding fea
ture of the farm products exhibit.
Upstairs in the fancy work booths
are some excellent samples of what
the dexterous hands of Hertford
County women and girls can do. An
interesting curio exhibit has also
drawn many spectators.
There is nothing lacking in the way
of entertainment on the midway.
With Billie Clark's Blue Ribbon
Shows, merry-go-round, a raft of
games of chance, gypsies, and an hon
est-to-go'odness wild west show on
hand, the fun lovers are well helped
up. The "Forty-Niners" are also
there.
Wednesday was Educational Day
at the fair. School children from all
over the County were admitted to the
grounds at half the regular price.
Many of the schools gave holiday, and
let the children attend the fair. No
special program of entertainment was
arranged for the day.
With every stall filled, forty horses ?
entered in the races, and the veteran
starter Tom Cannon on the job, the
racing programs have been the main
attraction for a large -part of the fair
attendants. The track has been in
excellent shape, and with the rain of
last night, even better records are
expected.
The results of the races Tuesday
and Wednesday are as follows: Tues
day, 2.25 Trot: Jakey owned by E Up
shur of Eastville, Va., first, winning
three heats out of four; Mary Peter,
owned by F. W. Bolton of Norfolk,
second; Rose Dot, owned by A . W.
Holloman of Ahoskie, third; Marching
Boy, owned by R. Harris, Ports
mouth, Va., fourth; time 2.24 1-2;
2.20 pace: May Direct, owned by Fos
ter pf Suffolk, Va., first, winning three
straight heats; Clifton L., owned by
H. Smith of Suffolk, Va., second;
Rolit R-, driven by J. W. Taylor of
Ahoskie, third; Alice Arsworthy, own
ed by H. Evers of Portsmouth, Va.,
fourth; time 2.19 1-2.
Wednesday's results: 2.15 'trot?
Norman Axworthy, owned by M. N.
Walker of Belhaven, N. C., first, win
ning in 'three straight heats; Old
Hickory, owned by M. N. Walker, sec
ond; Miss Toddles, owned by H. L.
Upshur of Eastville, Va., third; Wil
bur The Great, owned by Daughtrey
Bros., Suffolk, Va., fourth; time 2.18
1-4; 2.24 pace?Alice Armsworthy,
owned by H. Evers, Portsmouth, Va.,
first, winning three straight heats; Lee
Harrell, owned by T. S. Jessup of
Winfall, second; Darnell, owned by
R. R. Keaton of Woodville. Va.. third;
Searchlight, owned by P- J. McMil
lian, Henderson, N. C., fourth; time
2.24 1-4.