^Pl Hertford County Herald
Volume XIV. Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, June 1, 1923 One Section No. 5
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WOMEN OF COUNTY
HAVE FINE MEETING
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Council Of Betterment Organi
zations Have Interesting
Session At Annual
Gathering
fA REV. J. W. WHITLEY
MAKES GOOD SPEECH
(Special to The HERALD)
Harrellsville, May 30.?The
annual Betterment meeting
' 'was held at Harrellsville, May
24, beginning at 11 o'clock,
the program was as follows:
Opening hymn?America.
Prayer, Rev. Mr. Waters, pas
tor Colerain Baptist Church.
Address of welcome, by Rev.
R. B. Lineberry, Colerain.
Response to address, by Rev.
L. C. Larkin.
Annual address, by Mrs. T. T.
Parker, President of Hertford
County Betterment organisa
tions.
Repors from both senior and
*' junior betterments.
A talk by Mrs. R. C. Bridger,
in tbe interest of the marker for
the late war heroes.
An address, by Rev. i. W.
Whitley, pastor Murfreesboro
Baptist Church.
Community dinner at tbe noon
hour.
A concert in afternoon under
the direction of Rev. L. C. Lar
kin. i
This get-together meeting marks
the fourth year of the history of the
county-wide community betterment
work. It was gratifying to see the
fine co-operation among the womeq
of the different sections of the
county; it was encouraging to hear
the splendid reports of the women
and girls.
Each one making a report mention
ed improvement of schools and church
grounds, equipment for schools, so
cial activities for both young and old
people; also acknowledged, with ap
preciation, the services of their home
demonstration agent
The audience listened with keen
interest to the poem, "Co-operation/'
composed by the President of the
County Council, Mrs. T. T. Parker,
also the plea by Mrs. Bridger for
funds for the World War marker to
be placed at the county seat in the
near future.
The stirring address delivered by
Rev. J. W. Whitley, on the subject of
"The Pour Elements-of Community
| Life," which he defined as good roads,
schools, churches and homes, held
the audience spellbound. One lady
was heard to remark "I could listen
to Mr. Whitley on an on?even if I
were hungry."
Mr. Whitley gave a hearty endorse
ment to the big road movement, say
ing he accepted the plans of the di
rectors of the projects. He made a
strong plea for the schools, sayiqg he
and many other persons present
would be old and on the shelf before
twenty-five years and that the pres
ent generation must be prepared to
? take our places.
He spoke of the church as the "Df
rine Institution that God had made
for man" and defined the duties of
christian men and women who sup
ports its services. He added: "A man
who doesn't support the church js a
parasite."
Be spoke tenderly of the home and
it* Influence. He declared that home
making was a profession, that our
young girls should be trained for that
position in the home, as lawyers and
doctors are trained for their life's
work. He paid a beautiful tribute to
the work of the Home Demonstration
. and plead wjth women of the county
to cooperate prith the county agent
Next came <jthe dinner hour, when
we were invited to a most beautiful
1 spread that had been provided by the
Hatrellsville Betterment and others
of the county. The table was set in the
hall on the first floor of the splendid
new school building; such dainty,1
tempting food, and cold lemonade
soon quieted the Aowd. All wore
busy enjoyag the feast prepared by
the good cooks in Hertford county.
In the afternoon, Rev. and Ml*. L.
C. Larkin gave us a concert. They
wan assisted in rendering the pro
gram by Christian Harbor, Winton.
and Holly Springs betterments.
This day of inspirational talks,
good music and dinner ,had* to close,
but doubtless there was created a de
1 termination in the hotMs of 41 pAo
CONTRACTS FOR BRUCE
NOT AWARDED MONDAY
R#*d Board Holds Uninterest
ing Session And Spends Half
Day At Winton
Some of the suggestions
made, one of which was incor
porated in the form of a motion
and unanimously passed by the
members of Hertford County's
jroad board in session last Mon
day was to revertTto a purely
township system of spending
money and building roads, the
anticipation of another $10,000
payment on the bonds, and an
itemized report of the expendi
tures made in each township
since the new administration
took office.
The last suggestion sponsored by J.
R. Garrett, was made a motion. Mr.
Garrett wanted to know who was
spending the larger amount of money
and wanted to knoW Who was getting
the largest returns from the money
spent. He strongly urged his motion
which met with no objection froih'
the remaining members. Dr. J. A.
Powell, chairman, was not present,
J. B. Worrell acting as chairman.
Dr. W. B. Pollard said he was just
about ready to parcel the m^ney out
to townships and let each unit at
tend to its own business. Mr. gar
ret* was quick to admit that he had
wanted it all the time, but was willing
to do either way. AH Mr. Garrett
wanted was an accounting of the
stewardship of himself and collea
(OM.
Commissioner Harvey Snipes sug
gested the sale of another $10,000
slice of bonds, in order to finance the
program 0f bridge building planned
by the board. He never made a mo
tion to that effect.
For the second time, awarding con
tracts for bridge construction was
postponed. The principal bridge un
der advisement is the one across
Stoney Creek. Two bids are already
in and another will be submitted be
fore the next meeting of the board.
Both of the bidders were present
Monday, and when the awards were
postponed, they calle^ for their bids.
Several other smaller bridges will al
so be constructed in the county,
either by contract or by the existing
read forces.
Little other business was attended
to last Monday except the approval
of payrolls and payment of bills
against the road forces.
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* CHAMBER COMMERCE *
? "GET TOGETHER" *
* BANQUET - *
? ?
* Meeting Tuesday Night *
* Mr. Chambliss To Speak *
* ? ' *
* The manban of tk. AHOS- *
* KIE Chamber of Commerce will *
* bar* a "tot together" banquet *
* on the occasion of their ragalar *
* meeting next Tuesday night. An *
* interesting program has been *
* prepared for the event and not *
* the least item of importance is *
* a regular old-fashioned fried *
* chicken menu, with all the trim- ?
* mints. ?
* The principal speaker will he *
* Mr. Merman Y. Chambliss. 'who ?
* is the president of the North Car- ?
* olina Commercial Secretaries *
* Association, comprising nil eem- *
* mercial workers in this state. *
* Mr. Chamhliss comes to speak en ?
* a topic ml general interest to the *
* local Chamber of Commerce ?
* and a fell attendance of its mem- *
* bership is desired. Masai rations *
* for the banquet should he made *
* at oaae by notifying Secretary *
* Frank Mnnd.es or Mr. Paul E. *
* Dukes, Chairman of the Eater- ?
* taiameat Committee. ?
Salt eenrea a* a apice or condiment
which wheta the appetite and in
creaaee the palatibiUty of feed for all
I'.. . ,? . -t,
llTMCOCKt
ent to accept the teachings #f the 4ay
?end to Incorporate the aame la their
daily actWtlea, thereby being inatru
menta of courage, progreee, and up
lift in their communMea.
Roswell Britton, Son Of Hertford
County Natives, Wins Scholarship
Roswell Sessions Britton, of
Hertford County parentage, has
been announced winner of one of
the three traveling scholarships
given each year through a Jos
eph Pulitizer bequest to the stu
dents in the School of Journal
ism of Columbia University.
' The scholarship carries with it
$1,500 for a year's travel and
study in Europe.
?-?Mf.'Britton is the son of Rev.
T. C. Britton and Mrs. Britton,
both datives of Hertford County,
who have been missionaries in
China, representing the Southern
Baptist Foreign Mission Board,
since 1888. He is a nephew of
N. W. Britton, superintendent of i
schools in this county.
Their son was born in China,
' but attended Mars Hill College
from ^1912 to 1914, receiving his
A. B. degree from Wake Forest
College in 9917. During the war
he was seaplane pilot in the U. S.
Naval Flying Corps and in the
summer of 1922 was a reporter
for the Asheville Times. About
two years ago he married Misss
Blanche MeConnell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McConnell,
of, Asbeville, who has also been
taking-work at Columbia Univer
sity during the present year and
will accompany him on the Euro
pean trip. Their New York ad
dress i# 414 West 121st street.
Mr. and Mrs. Britton will sail
oif the Cunard liner, Assyria, on
Jufie 16, for Londonderry and
Glasgow, accompanied by Lee M.
Merriman, of Chicago, and Miss
Geneva Seybold, of Topeka,
Kansas, the other two winners of
scholarships. ,
After spending a brief vaca
tion in the highlands of Scotland,
Mr. ami Mrs. Britton go by way
of London and Paris to Geneva,
Switzerland, to attend the
Fourth Assembly of the League
of Nations. Later they will visit
Germany, Austria, Czecho-Slo
vakia, Latvia, Russiafi Poland.
France and Italy.
Mr. Britton is specializing in
Foreign relations and has recent
ly written special articles for
the New York Times on the po
litical significance of the Shan
tung bandit raids in China.
Public Hearing On Chowan
River Bridge Held In Winton
? DO YOU KNOW OF ANY
? "SPOTS OF INTEREST"
?
* Ahoskie and Hertford County
* stand a nice chance of "getting:
* on the map"- with tourists from
* every section of the Atlantic
* Seaboard and even farther re
* moved. The HERALD recently
* received a letter from a New
* York advertising agency, asking
* for information about "spots of
<# interest" in this section.
" I Prank P. Meadows, secretary
* of the Ahoskie Chamber of Com
* merce, has also received one of
* these letters, and is anxious to
* compile facts about any places of
* interest known to any person in
* Ahoskie or Hertford County.
* Anyone having any information
* that might be of interest is re
* quested to tell us about it, or
* or drop in at the Chamber of
* commerce office and give Mr.
* Meadows the "dope." N
* The HERALD will be glad to
* publish letters describing spots,
* and could use photos.
* The letter from the advertis
* ing agency follows:
* . ?
* THE H.K.McKANN COMPANY
* 61 Broadway, New York City,
* April 80, 1928.
* Secretary of ,
* Chamber of Commerce,
* Ahoskie, N. C.
* We want to compile a series of
* tours for motorists and we are
* looking Jor "spots of interest"
* in your vicinity.
* Not just the celebrated histori
* cal places that are rather well
* known, but Obscurer spots of
* local interest, whether the work
* of -man or Nature. Falls, cliffs,
* gorges, bridges, churches, birth
* places, first settlings, first meet
* ings, first elections, first any
* thing.
* We think this will be a most
* interesting compilation, and will
* get motorists to seek out places
* of real beauty and interest that
* are off the beaten track. We do
* not ask you for. photographs?
* simply a list of spots with any
* explanatory words you wish to
* add. Of course if you can fur
* nlsh views, so much the better,
* but we are willing to send our
? * own man to the spot after we
* know what and where it is.
* Thanking you for your CO7OP
* eration in this matter, which
* ought to be of mutual benefit,
* we are
* Yours sincerely,
* E. W. MANN,
* Vice-President.
CHESTER HARRIS SUSY
Chester O. Harris, former secre
tary of the Ahoekie Chamber <ff Com
merce, in a communication to a*
Ahoekie man says he is now secre
tary of the chamber of commerce at
Harriman, Tenn., a town of 6,<KK
inhabitants.
District, Engineer D. D. Pullen,
U. S. Army, War Depart
ment, Listens To Navigation
Officials And Others?Large
Delegation. From Suffolk At
tends Meeting And Make
Speeches
First visible signs of the exe
cution of Commissioner W. A.
Hair's promise and obligation
to erect a steel and concrete
bridge across the Chowan Riv
er at Winton were in evidence
fast Friday afternoon at the
county seat town. Navigation
officials, a few citizens of Hert
ford County, and a large dele
gation of Suffolk, Virginia, citi
zens met Major D. D. Pullen,
, U. S. Army Engineer, there and
discussed the plans for a bridge
j as submitted by E. N. Gardner,1
District Engineer for the State
! Highway Commission.
Major Pullen presided over
| the meeting, first reading the
' laws regulating the construct
ion of bridges and draws across
naVigable streams, and stating
the object of the public hear
ing. -In response to a request
from the Army Engineer, At
torney Walter L. Cahoon, of
Elizabeth City, concisely sum
med up the reasons why the
bridge was desired by the State
Highway Commission.
Mr. Cahoon said "six of the I
richest and most fertile count
ies of the northeast will be giv
en an avenue to the other sec
tions of the State when this
bridge is built. They are:
I Camden, Currituck, Pasquo
tank, Gates, Perquimans, and
Chowah. They have no other
way to get to other sections of
North Carolina except it be
over the Chowan river, and all
of us have long ago decided
there is no other place at which
the Chowan can be bridged.
Winton, then, will be the gate
way for all those going Into or
coming out of those six coun
ties."
He farther stated that this bridge
wm neeesery becadbe at least twen
ty counties of Hoith Carolina would
be directly dependent upon it for
commnnieatien with Norfolk, the ad
mitted trading center of the Hfct
His third reason was because it was
a link of the State Highway Com
mission, connecting Hertford and
. Gates counties; and it is not only a
, part of the State system bat it is one
. of the most important links in the
i Bankhead National Highway, coming
, from Wilmington, via Now Bin,
(Continned on page 8)
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EXTENSION SERVICE NOW
EXPERIMENTING LOCALLY
Tests Are Being Made To De
termine Best Rate Of Nitrate
Application
The North Corolina Exten
sion Service is carying on some
interesting and valuable exper
iments this year, in the various
cotton counties, to determine7
under local conditions, which
is the most profitable rate of
application of nitratef of'soda
and also at what time during
the crop's growth, that it
Bhould be applied.
The County Agents are conduct
ing these testa, and with farmers
who live along public highways, at
points most convenient for the poet
people to see. The soda for these
experiments is being furnished free
by the Extension Service, and the
plots to which it is applied are meas
ured and the soda weighed out ac
curately so as to get some dependable
results at the end of the year.
The farms in this county on which
these tests are being carried on are
as follows: Tom Vaughan, Ahoskie;
Taylor farm at Fraxiers Cross Roads;
T. T. Parker, near Murfreesboro;
Jethro Majette, Como; Henry Jones,
Cofleild and B. N. Sykes, Harrells
ville. These farms pretty well cover
all of the general soil type in the
county, so by watching the farm that
is nearest like yours in soil, you can
get a very good idea as to what you
might expect on your own. farm un
der similar conditions. Soda (ni
trate of soda) is highly recommended
for the growth of cotton under the
boll weevi] conditions, and we hope
by these tests to prove to the farm
ers' satisfaction, why and how it
should be used. If you are farming
or are interested in farming, you owe
it to yourself to keep in close touch]
with one or all i the above mentioned
farms; for the tests are being car
ried on as much for your benefit as
for the benefit of the farmer who is
actually doing the work. The ow
ners of these farms will be glad to
show you the location of the differ
ent plots and its treatment, etc.
DIRECT ROUTE NOW
SEEMS IN PROSPECT
Late ad rices from persons in
Gates county and from others
living in Virginia near the
North Carolina line indicate a
probable change in the routing
of the North Carolina highway
to meet the Virginia highway.
The route now approved is at
Corapeake; but, by Commis
sioner Hart's own statement, it
is subject to change, based up
on the will of the people of
Gates county.
Suffolk wants the Somerton
connection, Hertford and Ber
tie counties want the Somerton
route, and nil of southwestern
Gates favors it. Only a section
of Gates, and Chowan County
favor the Corapeake road.
Counties beyond the Roanoke
river at Williamston, whose
only exit into Virginia is via
Win ton favor the Somerton
highway.
A gathering of interested
persons was held at Whaley
ville Monday afternoon. Plans
for sounding out sentiment
were outlined, petitions drawn
up, and program of action
planned, hy the proponents of
the Somerton route. It is re
ported locally that petitions
win be circulated in several
counties dependent upon the
highway to connect with the
Virginia highway, i
tplancbut,s- vy
.
ATTENDS COMMENCEMENT
Mrs. B. E. Copeland legves Friday
for Qreonoboro, where she will at
tend the commencement at North
Carolina State College for Women,
formerly known at the State Normal.
Mrs. Copeland will accompany her
daughter, Miss Margaret Copeland,
home from the college. Mrs. Cope
land is a graduate of the class of *9S
at the State Normal.
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TWO BOARDS HAVE
A LIVELYSESSION
County Commissioners Are
Asked To Approve Budget
For County Schools In
Ensuing Year
TAX LEVIES WILL
BE MADE MONDAY
Hub-bub reigned for a while
last Monday in the courthouse
&t Winton, during a joint ses
sion of the county board of edu
cation and the county commis
sioners. Dr. J. H. Mitchell
started the ball Tolling when he
fired the first verbal shot at the
administration of the county's
school affairs. He 'wanted a
statement of expenditures from
the board for last year's opera
tions, and he thought it should
be published in a newspaper in
the county.
In accordance with the 1923
school laws, the meeting Mofi
day was for the purpose of se
curing the commisssioners' ap
proval of ? school budget for
the ensuing year. Because the
school board included in the
11923 budget appropriations for
additional trucks to carry pu
pils to schools and a few extra
teachers the commissioners
hesitated to approve the expen
ditures; and, at least, wanted
to know how the finances had
been run heretofore.
Jno. E. Vann, member of the
board of education, sharply replied to
Dr. Mitchell after the latter had call
ed for a statement and had farther
muddied the waters by delivering
himself ?f a lecture about bow little
education had ever been engendered
by gasoline trucks. Mr. Vann upheld
the work of the school board, told the
comissionerg and room full of listen
ers that education had suffered for
lack of funds, and.asked for addi
tional appropriations for work to be
carried on in 1928.
There was a considerable gathering
of citizens on hand for the meeting,
many of whom/came from the Har
rellsville and Cnristian Harbor school
districts. The committeemen of these
tWo districts have asked for a raise
in their special tax rate for schools.
A partial approval was given to the
education board's budget, although
the commissioners reserved the right
to further re#ae the appropriations
when they meet next Monday for the
regular Session. Members of the
board of education are looking for
still more verbal sessions next Mon
day when the commissioners meet
The Jlrst Monday in June is set ,
aside as the day for the commission
ers to make tax levies in the special
school districts in the county. The
general county expenses and road ,
tax rate will also be set on that day.
There will probably be no change
In the road tax rate, but the 1923
levy for county expenses is tfpected
to be boosted, principally to take
care of the expense of constructing
dipping vats and the work incident to ?
the dipping of cattle, and horses.
A lively session is in prospect fog
next Monday when the levies are
made, for, when taxes cannot cause
j lively discussions, all other things are
hopeless as interest-makers.
STILL CAPTURED ON
GOOSE CREEK ISLAND 9
Revenue Officer Snell, Sheriff Bis
mark Scull, ?nd Deputy John Tayloe
captured a 20-gallon still and all ac
ceaaorlea on a small island on Goose
Creek, below Harrellsrille, last Tues
day afternoon. Approximately 000
gallons of maah was also found near
the still. No whiskey was discovered,
although the still was warm when
taken by the officers.
E. L. Farmer, well known to offi
cers of the law and said to be an
alias, is owner of the captured still.
He made his getaway while the offi
cers were seising the outfit He was
in custody the day prior to this, but
the officers could net locate the Still
en that day and he Was turned loose.
The still was captured the next day,
but Farmer had scented trouble, and
boat ft
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