Hertford County Herald
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February 26, 1910, at the postofflce
at Ahoaide, North Carolina, under
the Aet of March 8, 1878.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923
PRESIDENT HARDING
WHOLE-SOULED MAN?
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While the number of persons
in this vicinity who belong to
the late President's political
party are few, there is none
who does not feel that the Na
tion has lost one of its biggest
and best men. There are vary
ing degrees of greatness ascrib
ed to the dead President, but
none deny his bigness, both as
the Nation's Chief and as a
lovable, genial, and good
American citizen.
He was a man who sought
friendships. And, the univer
sal sorrow that has pervaded
the whole world since his death
last Thursday is strong enough
evidence of the esteem and
love all persons held for him.
It is plain proof of his popular
ity, his greatness, and his abili
ty to make and keep friends.
It has been said of him that he
died trying to bring the people
nearer to the government; and
by his own statements that is
true.
T.T ... -
ne might not have been as
keen in intellect as some of his
predecessors, and he might not
have been as aggressive as oth
ers; but, after all, his life was
rich in those things the average
American covets as the essen
tials of life. Human emotions,
love for one's neighbors, and a
closely knitted friendship are
some of the things typified by
the late Warren G. Harding's
life.
PAYING TAXES LAST
OBLIGATION OF SOME?
Several causes may be as
cribed for the habit some per
sons have of delaying the pay
ment of taxes until they are
forced to do it or lose their
possessions through' sale. One
of them is, of course, the len
iency with which officials have
annually dealt with the delin
quents, granting them exten
sions right up until the time
when another year's taxes are
due.
That, however, is not the sole
reason. Many of these persons
have overlooked their duty to
the government that provides
protection and education for
thefb. They take the business
of being a first rate citizen
lightly, and concern them
selves but little about what is
going on about them.
These are usually classed
among the great number of
American citizens who take
but little interest in their gov
ernment in any of its phases.
They "let George do it." And,
so when taxpaying time comes,
they fail to realize that George
is not in the habit of paying
other people's taxes, and are
brought face to face with some
of the realities of government,
whether they like it 6r not.
Most people who have paid
taxes at all should realize by
this time that "Taxes and
death are two certain things
in this life."
Daring the Farmer*" Convention
leet week, 707 farmers and their
wtrea registered tor room at the
College dormitories. Over a thous
and came in each dag in their cart.
V
"Old Farmer" Is
Boosting Ahoskie
Mister Editor:
That piece I writ you last week
come out 0. K., and you just as well
know that when the carrier come
along with the mail that I got out
to my mail box good and quick and
the first thing I looked for in the
HERALD was that piece I writ and
sure nuff it was in there. There were
a few slips but I did not know wheth
er you could read it or not but you
done pretty well and I make no com
plaint, after John C. Taylor says
folks have been making complaint
about his style of penmanship, and if
the folks have complained about his
handwriting what can I expect about
rpy fist except some cussin.
Tbe crops are looking mighty good
and I am sure in hopes that we farm
era will be able to help the merchants
out for a sight this fall on back
debts for say what you please the
store-folks have been at times mighty
good to us..
If nothing happens I am sure going
to Ahoskie on the opening day of the
tobacco market and f expect too to
take along some of my primings and
from its quality it ought to fetch a
good price. Right here let me say
that Northampton, Bertie and Hert
ford ought to sell every pound of to
bacco on the Ahoskie market and in
that way we could have a big market
which would attract all the folks
across the river to come here because
a strong market always helps. But
you folks know that some folks thinks
it lopks big to carry their tobacco to
Rocky Mount and Wilson and then
come back and claim big things after
losing three or four days and hotel
expenses. Phaup and them Emerson
boys are hustlers and deserve the
backing of us farmers.
We are curing tobacco now and
Mister Editor, I invite you ^nd Mr.
Vinson, and Mr. Green and the office
cat to come out and help us eat bar
becue next Thursday night at the to
bacco bams. Get here about nine
o'clock and don't forget that office
cat for I might happen to rub the hair
the wrong way on that varmint's
back sometime and I don't want to
see him hump up his back top high
So don't fail to bring him al^ng so
1 can make his acquaintance.
ijmi i nursaay Jim cranked up our
jonnyford and we went to Coleraiine
to the big picnic. Well, sir, when
we got there and parked our car and
walked up to tfce place where the
folks go in swimming, the old woman
stopped plum still when ge got to the '
beach where all them- half-naked
women were strolling around and by
jingt she come near fainting. I sup
pose she was horrow-etruck. When
she got so that she could breathe right
good and e&sy, she said "let's get
away from here, this is no place for
me." Then Jim he come up good and
close to,his mama and he said to her
for her not to say one word for if she
did the folks would know that the
whole kit and hilin of us was from
the back woods, and that she must
not let the folks know that this was
the first time she had come to the
outskirts of civilization. And then
the old woman ups and wants to
know if the women in the outskirts
of civilization didn't wear any skirts
and if that was the way you told yon
were on the edge of civilization. She
carried on for a sight but after a
while she got quieted. But she said
that she did'nt want to get so far
in civilization that the modesty which
her-grandmother taught ceased to be
a virtue. I didn't raise any fuss my
self about how the gals dressed or un
dressed, but I believe I would like to
go down there again, when the old
woman aint along. I told her it was
sure awful but I went one eye on 'em
just the same. The old woman said
on the way back home that she tried
to learn something every day and
that she had always felt sorry for
poor old mother Eve because she
knowed that she felt embarassed to
be in the presence of Adam in such
scant clothes and always wished Eve
had had a shift of homespun dresses
but if the precious old dear could
drop down to Colerain Beach one day
and see what she had seen she would
not have any cause for further em
barresament* in the presence of
Adam.
Don't forget the barbecue next
Thursday night and all you Herald
felows including the cat be sure to
? come. OLD FARMER.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Green and
children are leaving Saturday for
an absence of two weeks. Mrs.
Green and children will visit their old
home in Culpeper, Va., while Mr.
Green, as a reserve officer of the
United States Army, will attend a
military training camp at Camp
Meade, Md.
A bell dating back to the time of
St. Patrick hai been found in the
ruins of Nendrum Abbey, in Ulster,
Ireland. *
I OFFICE CAT
?maoimakr
I e?nr?iowt iml. w tow mm mom.
"Old Farmer" has struck a respon
sive chord in the mind and breast of
one of Hertford County Commission
ers. E. W. Whitley, Murfreesboro
member of the board, wants to know
the fellow who writes incognito. "He
has got this thing just about right,"
Mr. Whitley says.
K-A-T
"I am about to discover that you
commissioners have borrowed just
about half enough money to pa$ for
these dipping vats," said Clerk John
A. Northcott to the county board
Monday. He had just finished read
ing the maze of bills for cement, lum
ber, services, etc., all of which were
to be charged against the dipping
vats. The total cost figured to the
first Monday in July was $10,600.
This week probably $750 or $1,000 in
bills wire approved for the dipping
vats. The cost will be around $12,
000. ^The commissioners have bor
rowed $10,000 for the purpose of
paying for them.
K-A-T
Reading the 1921 figures as lately
compiled by the University bureau, it
appears as if Hertford county's edu
cation is costing its citizens pretty
dearly. There seems to be few coun
ties in the State that pay more for
education than does Hertford. At
least, the per capita tax paid in this
county put us right near the top.
K-A-T
One day last week three new citi
zens were added to Ahoskie's popu
lation within a period of twenty-four
hours, Every now and then that
very thing is duplicated, until Paul
Holloman, birth registrar, is begin
ning to believe he has a regular job
keeping track of the new ones.
K-A-T
The advertising manager of this
sheet has made a special request of
the writers in this column this week.
He wants everyone of us to hammer
away at the idea that the HERALD
expects to;is?ue a banner edition next
week?addressed to the tobacco
growers of Hertford, Bertie, Gates,
Chowan, and Northampton counties.
He Sayg advertising rates will remain
at the regular rate, despite the fact
that not less than 1,000 extra copies
will be mailed to the very fellows who
are going to spend some money in
Ahoskie during the tobacco season.
SALLY wants to chime
in with a little admo
_ nition t o business
houses. "Advertise 1"
| Don't stop to ask her if
it pays; she says it
does. In that belief
she is sustained by every business
house that has. consistently and con
tinuously tried it the newspaper way.
K-A-T
PATICA says he is
rearing to go on this
advertising proposi
tion. "It's high time
the business person be
gan to bestir himself,
herself, itself, them
selves or wnat not if the fall business
is wanted," he says. The modern
ruralite, like the townsman, has al
ready gotten into the habit of shop
ping by advertisements. < It saves
time, worry, and often times money.
Remember, he is not saying the fel
low who does not advertise hasnt
just as fine stock of goods as the ad
vertiser; often that is true, but the
customer is saving time when he
glances over the columns of adver
tisers and goes directly to the place
where he knows he can get what he
wants.
K-A-T
TOM, JR., apologises
for the conduct of sis
ter and brother, for
having taken up the
readers' time with little
talks on advertising.
However, he wants it
firmly stamped into the inside stuff
of every person's cranium that he is
eternally for that advertising pro
gram himself. He also urges the ad
vertiser to get his copy in early for
next vieek's issue.
N K-A-T
I don't know what's the matter with
this here reporter on the HERALD.
It seems that he can't keep out of hot
water. Here he is this week having
to tell folks the motives that have in
spired him to writ* about "Hertford
County's Busiest Mm" It does
seem to me that he could, after years
of experience, know enough about
writing to frame an article to suit
somebody's idea. It is by me, folks.
K-A-T
I do feel sorry for the fellow,
though, for he affirms and re-affirms
that he was red hot after a feature
story for his last week's paper and in '
picking up the one he did, thought it
was a corker, written in a light vein,
with no malice or thought of malice. ,
That's his business, however; I don't
want to get mixed up in his trouble.
I have mine.
When the people refuse to be up
lifted the uplifters start another drive
for funds to continue the work.
Man spends half his life cussing
the old fogies and the other half
worrying about the rising generation.
Movie Ad.
Georgous Pageant
5,000 People
4,000 Costumes
Scientists say we are what we eat
What a lot of people there ire that
eat nuts.
You Tell 'Cm
The robin is dearer than all the
rest; the peacock can boast' of the
finest frill; the yellow canary can
sing the best, but the stork is the
bird with the longest bill.
Automobile owners are getting so
lazy that they will net even walk in
their sleep any more. They call a
taxi
Cheer Up
This world is full of sunshine
This world is full of cheer
If we but tried to find it
Throughout each day and year.
There seems to be too many people
interpreting the liquor laws, says Ras
Wooten, and not enough observing
them.
How long does a dream last? won
ders Paul Dukes. It took us twenty .
years to find out we couldn't sing. ^
-Correct this sentence: "Don't dis
tress yourself about it st all," said the
banker, "we'll be glad to renew it."
Say, cull, don't git gay wid me?
I'm so hard I scrathes de bathtub.
Dat's nuttin'. I'm so hard I shaves 1
wid a blow toreji.
"You don't know your eggs!" said
the rooster to the old hen as she sat
down on a glass one. I
Still, the knights of old who stood
up for women didn't go so-far as to
do it in street cars. I
THE TWO MIDDLE LETTERS
MAKE LIFE UNCERTAIN.
We know of a man who is so thin
that he makes his living by diving
in bottles and pulling out corks. -
A man who complains that his wife
can not take a joke forgets that she
took him for better or worse.
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If a woman admits that she
trimmed her own hat, oomments
Johnnie Britten, there usually are
those present who .will remark later
that it looks it.
What man doesn't feel weak when
some lovely little girl tells him how
big and strong she thinks he is?
If a man tells his wife everything,
it may be that he loves her. And then
it may be that he merely loves a fight.
Say It With Melody Z
"Our Earnest"?
"Are You Playing Fai*" You
are away down there "In Yama,"
while I am oh the "Gin 'Gin Ginny
Shore."
It was "In Rosetime When We
feaid Goodbye," back there in "Ohio".
"Oh Loveable Eyflfs," on this
"Mystic Night" I realise that "No
body Lied When They Said that I
Cried Over You."
"I often have a dream of your
"Smiles" and Wonder if you could be
happy with me in a "Jungle Bunga
low" underneath a "Hindu "Moon."
L "My Sun God," I'd Rather Loved
You and Lost You than Never Have
Loved You at AH."
"Don't Forget," you promised
"Over the Radiophone," to be "My
Buddy.
"Do y<Su ever see "Georgette,"
"Mary O'Brien," "The Sneak", "An
gel Child," or "The Dancing Fool?"
We all seem to "Toddle Along,"
some to "Chicago," some to "Califor
nia," some to the "Dixie Highway,"
others to "Argentina, or "Bamboo
Bay". Some have even gone "Down
Virginia Way," while "Someday," I
hope to get back to "Sweet Indians
Home."
The other night at a dance while I
was "Stumbling" with some fellow I
had to tell him to "Keep Off My
Shoe*." He lure was an "Agrava
tin' Papa."
Well, I must stop as it ia "Three
O'Clock in the Morning."
?"Tenement Rose."
Well, Weill
Bill gets paid for what he knows
And that's the reason, we suppose.
That so often we hear him say
That he cannot live on such small pay.
*
"I've got that dope down Pat,"
said Mrs. Murphy, as die laid down
the bottle *of castor oil.
Getting old ia just a slow business
of reaching the point where a giggle
gives you ? pain.
The biggest gatherings of farmers
in Piedmont North Carolina will be
held at the Branch Station Farm near
Statesville on July 19. County Agent
R. W. Graeber and Superintendent
F. T. Meachum are in charge of the
picnic. _
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August 4tfi to 14th
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I must make room for new goods, so am offering my
ENTIRE STOCK AT COST
Take advantage of this opportunity to get a Sum
mer Hat, your Ribbons, Hose, Laces, Etc., At Cost
I can save you money now while goods are
advancing.
Don't Forget the Dates
August 4th to 14th B
Everybody Invited
Miss Nannie Newsome
AHOSKIE, N. C
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