Hertford County Herald 1 , ? M. I V > I ? I THIRD NEWSIEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN STATE A PAPER WORTH WHILE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN EASTERN CAROLINA * . ??* . . ?. \ jjjf '' J' "> \ ' 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 ..(Continued on page 6) 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 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. - I * "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 \ ??? 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. \ * i 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. 1 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. eeeeeeeeeeee * MAYOR CURTIS HANDS * * IN HIS RESIGNATION * *? . ? * 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.