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County I YIELD OF FODDER IS UGHT HERE I Condition Of Tobacco And Other Crops Also Shewn In Government Report lv Peanuts of which is heard little I these days except tor the big suit ? the Aaeociaton is waring against the I cleaners at Norfolk this week have a I 84 per cent average condition in the I State, according to the September I crop report issued from Raleigh. This I district, which is called the Northern ? Coastal and which furnishes practi I cally all of the commercial peanuts in I North Caroline has an average Crop I of 84 per cent normal. ? In ths report, corn foder, as it is I recognized in the South, is given con ? aideration for the first time. The I average yield of corn fodder aa re H^ported for September 1 in the State, ? mcltfing leeves end tope, wee 820 I pounds per sere. It wee estimated I that 481 pounds was the yield where ? the leaves only were pulled. Seventy I two percent of the corn was reported I to hev# the leaves pulled the western I counties having the largest pereent I age. The state percentage pulled I wag 82 per eent of the corn crop. In I this county, there wee en avenge I yield per ecr* of fodder of 408 I pounds, with en approximate value I of 8148 per hundred pounds. Seven I ty per cent of the corn acreage had I been stripped in this county. Other sources of hey end the per centage harvested as of September 1, in Hertford County included: cow peas alone, 11 per cent; combination cowpeaa and sorghum, 3 per cent; peanut vines alone, 81 per cent; clov t er ell kinds, 4 per cent; soy beans alone, 20 percent; grains cut green, 8 per cent; other tame hays, 8 per cent These percentages show the total hay scrags harvested that is taken from the several crops shown, the total of all columns being 1001 per cent Condition or tne principal crops or this county, other than, the three "money crops"?cotton, peanuts and tobacco?are herewith given: corn, 9 per cent; oats, 87 per cent; Irish potatoes, 78 per cent; sweet pota toes, 88 per cent; apples, I per cent; pasture, 78 per cent; eowpeas, 78 per cent; soy beans 88 per cent Tobacco Crop Conditions "With a condition of 88 per cent for the North Carolina tobacco crop, the forecasted yield is 865,000,000 pounds or 006 pounds per acre for ?10,000 acres. The quality, except where the conditions have been too wet, is good. More than the usual amount of wax was found at harvest The crop seems ho be curing fairly well, except in certain regions where the quality is faulty. In the eastern part of the State the yield and quali ty are not as good as was expected, the continued wet weather being largely responsible. "The U. S. Crop has a condition of 86.7 per cent and total crop of 1,551,000,000 pounds. This means that tiie national crop has improved about.180,000 pounds during the past month. The present forecast appears to be 88,000,000 pounds more than last year's crop.'' The Case Csep "North Carolina's corn crop with 1 almost (4,000,000 bushels prospect, is the best for four years. The con dition over the state Is estimated St 80 per cent of a normal or full crop with 8,526,000 aWee. During the last month the crop increased 4 per cent in condition; a year ago the prospect was 8 per cent lower than at the present tfcn* The present outlook for the crop is 8,600,000 bushels as compared with last year and last month. The average price in North Carolina last year was 6.96, while at the preset time it is much better than that "The national yield per acre is reckoned at about 80 bushels which is almost 2 bushels better than last year or the Ave year average. Mail your check beck to the HER ALD offlce now, dating it October L will not be cashed until that time. J9 ?TH ? ?' Young People Will Hold Big Meetings Organzed Classes And 3. Y. P. r* Will Hold Gotaventiona This Month Tbs Third Annual Organized Class and B. Y. P. U. Convention of the 'Wast Chowan Association will be held j with Mt. Tabor Baptist church, Fri day and Saturday, September 28 and 28. Delegates from all organisations have been invited to attend the meet ing. The tint day of the meeting wOl be devoted to organised classes; and on Saturday, the B. Y. P. U. conven tion will be held. Besides the members who will take part iii the programs of the two con ventions, there will be several visit tors to nuke addresses and partici pate in the conventions Among the visitors will bo Dr. Chas. Weaver, President of Chowan College; Rev. J. C. Powell, missionary of Oyo, Africa; Perry Morgan, secretary of the State B. Y. P. U.; Miss Elms Farabow, State Junior leader; and Rev. R. B. Lineberry, pastor of the Wlnton Bap tist church. The morning session Friday, of the organised class convention will be gin at half past ten o'clock, with din ner recess at noon. The next morn ing's program begins at 10 o'clock, the dinner recess coming at 12:16. Afternoon sessions begin at 1 o'clock, adjournment being set for 8 and 8:80 p. m., respectively. Besides those named, the follow ing will take part in the programs: L. J. Godwin, 8. B. Adams, J. J Taylor, and J. C. Edwards, in organ ised class convention; Thomas Ben thall, Murfreesboro Junior B. Y. P. U., Miss Bettie Spencer, Joe Tom Ricks, Joe L. Venn. Miss Jane Hollo well, Miss Cleo Sauls, E. N. Gardner, Meherrin Intermediate B. Y. P. U., and Mount Tabor Senior B. Y. P. U., in B. Y. P. U. convention. ATTORNEYS SEEK EXTRA SESSION SUPERIOR COURT Congested Civil Docket Causes Bar To Ask Session First Monday In December Haying withdrawn a bill creating a 1 recorder's court in Hertford County, i and with more than 200 civil cases on docket for trial in superior court and little hope of their trial any time soon without a special term of court, tiie lawyers of the county last Hon- ' day passed resolutions unanimously urging the county commissioners at ' their meeting on the first Monday in October to request Governor Morri- : son to order ? special term of super- I ior court, commencing December 3 1 and lasting for two weeks, for the trial of civil eases only. The members of the bar were air ' most bewildered in the face of so < many eases needing to be heard, ' with so little time in which to hear them. The next term of court will I convene in Oetober, the calendar for f which was made up in Winton Mon- . day. It will be a two weeks term, de voted to criminal and civil dockets. 1 However, with another formidable amy of criminal actions to be tried before the civil docket is touched, there is slight chance of the court i disposing of one-fourth the civil cases ra*dy for ttiaL ,, f *<?+&,?! The Carey Vaughan murder case last April set the superior court at this county behind even its regular schedule, and it has never caught up. But, even before that, many cases , ware resting dpon the docket with slight chance of trial. No headway was made at the July term of court, { and the mpay old cases, together with the new ones, have the docket crowd ?* It will require a special term of court to set the court in order, and the Commissioners will be asked to ' provide for the litigants, many of . whom want settlement of their cases. ______________ < SECURES RIGHT OP WAY ' Citisens of PuweUsville were In i AhooUe Monday to* meet Messrs. i Jno. 0. Askew, Sr., and W. P. Shaw, ? Jr., and secure their signatures to ? contract providing right of way for 1 the erection of electric light poles, 1 connecting that town with the Ahos- t kie light plant Bids on the con-Ic struction of line will be open within ? the next few weeks. a J" ? - Below is given the order of exercises for the unveiling of the monument to the Wojld War dead of Hertford County, which will take place in^inton, next Thursday, September 27. Hon. J. C. Bjfehring haua, of Elizabeth City, prominent attorney and for mer solicitor, will deliver the address. The Bank of Harrellsville is the third bank in the county to send Mr. Bridger its $10-00 donation for payment on the marker. ORDER OF EXERCISES ? SONG J.ij...:,. "Old North State", Schools. MASTER OF CEREMONIES ? Hon. W. R. Johnson PRAYER....... Rev, R. B. Linebcrry , SONG, SOLO....?... ?: ^14?M*C4Bv* INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER -.Hon R. C. Bridget A ADDRESS ??J.?.? Bon. J. C. B. Ehringhbes ' *1 SONG, "DIXIE" L *.?*?._ Schools PRESENTATION OF MARKER TO "bOUNTY, Hon. J. E. Venn UNVEILING Vastine Edwards Bertha CMtty Helen Barber Catharine Brett Rnby Futrail Ella Itorker Gene Parker Rachel Hill Marietta R. Bridger RECEIVING OF MARKER FOR COUNTY Hon. W. Dare Boone ..U . ... t,f? PLACING OF LAUREL WREATH Miss Rachel Hill SONG, "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" ?Schools BENEDICTION Rev. L. C. Laririn DINNER i MRS. MARY R. SHAW DIED AT WINTON LAST FRIDAY Wife Of Former Representative W. P. Taylor And Member Of Prominent Family Mi*. Mary R. Shaw, 77 year* old, died at the home of her son, John A. Shaw, in Winton Friday, September 14, ?t half past one o'clock. Funeral services were held Saturday after noon at two o'clock, and were con ducted by her former pastor, Rev. D. P. Harris, of Portsmouth, Vs., assist ed by her present pastor, Rev. R. B. Lineberry of the Winton Baptist church She was the widow of the late Hon. W. Patrick Taylor, prominent in busi ness and political life of the county, who died early Thanksgiving morn ing, November 27, 1918. like her husband, Mrs. Shaw was a member of on* of the county's first families, and during her lifetime, when her health permitted, she was a faithful worker in community and church circles. Although in declining health she was not confined to her room un til the day of her death, which was hastened by a fall sustained last Thursday. Mrs. Shaw was the daughter of Jno. O. Askew, the 2nd, and Mrs. Sarah A. Askew, and was born on the old Askew farm at Pitch landing. She was married to the late W. Pat rick Taylor on Setember 29, 1889, by Dr. Johnnie Mitchell. Two broth ers survive, Jno. O. Askew, 8rd, of Harre lis villa, and W. S., Askew, of Powellsville. There are three child ren living: W. P. Shaw, Jr., and Jno. A. Shaw, Winton; and Mrs. D. R. Britton, of Colerain. She was buried in the family bury ing round on the Piteh Landing Farm, where on July 9, 1846, she was born. YOUNG COLERA1N MAN IS KILLED BY PHONE POU He Was Working On Line Near Union Tooodor When Hor rible Accident Occurred Henry Phelps, 22 years old, was instantly killed Tuesday morning about nine o'clock, when a telephone pole to which he was lashed while re pairing the phone lines near Union, suddenly snapped off seen with the ground and fell to the ground. He was unable to jump or escape when the pole began falling, his head and face being crushed into a pulp as it struck the ground. The young man'i brains were scattered for - yards around the scene of the accident. He was working on the lines of the Chowan & Roanoke Telephone Co., and was alone when the accident oc curred. A negro helper was a few hundred feet away, but, although ha heard Abe young man's cry for help as the pole broke, he could not reach the scene until too late?Phelps was dead. The accident occurred almost directly in front of the old Joe Hor ton place near Union. Phelps' body was carried to Colo rain to the home of his mother, Mrs. Paul Pratt soon after the accident by Union persons, and turned over to his parents of that town. He was a popular of and in Aboekis where he had been work ing for some time, he was well liked. It eras thought that the pole to whch he was lashed gars way when he cut the wire which was strung from it to other poles along the line. Examination of the pole gtfotred that it had decayed rifcht at the top of the earth. It waa one of the larger poles and was solid through and through except far the spot which gave way. Calls For Protest Against Action Of Commissioners Concerning Agents Mr. Venn Think* This, Of All Times, Is Not The Occasion To Dispense With Services Of Trained Agriculturist, When Boll Weevil Is Making New Inroads Upon This Section \\ js> TSm i The action of the County Board of Somniaaiononi ia dispensing with a laid demonstration scant is to bo amented by the taxpayers whose >nly source of making ? living is on he farm. The popular boll weevil has made la presence recognised by Its rav ages of cotton Holds for the first ime in history in this county, insofar tt we know, which, without remedy, >ids fair to spell disaster to the fsl ow who follows his regular routine rf growing cotton as his chief money sup. It would eeem that with every acre frown for cotton in the county ihowlng presence of the weevils, and vith every Indication for their in mass another year, if the County iver needed a competent field agent lis assistance, is most needed now. farming under boll-weevil conditions o the beet advantage will require ommunity and county programs, and 1 oncerted co-operation with the as- i istance of a competent farm demon atrator who ho* knowledge end prac tical experience in fighting the wee 11a. It la an undiaputed fact that cot ton la the moat profitable, money crop yet discovered lor this vicinity. "The nigger and the nude" is edu cated in the roduction of cotton ae they are in no other staple commod ity. Therefore it should be our,aim to keep op and increase the yield of cotton. Whenever production is lowered by any cause hi practically the same ra tio will the taxpaytng and buying rila. f power of the farmer be redueed. The program of retrenchment fol lowed by our Board of CommiaSlon ers can be carried to exceas. I be lieve thia ia fully illustrated by their action in abolishing the job held by Mr. Miller. There is not a tingle member of the Board of Comraiseioners whose tnlysource of income ia farming, and (Continued on page 2) Sentiment Favor# Retaining Agents j Fight Will Be Waged Before Commissioners For Another Appropriation "We expect to mske It herd for the commissioners when they attempt to withdrew ell epproprietions for dem onstration work in Hertford County," seys one ledy of this county who ie vitelly interested in whet Miss Myrtle Swindell is doing end hes been doing the Are yeers she hes been In this county. "It looks like the county needs e farm demonstration egent now, if it ever did, with the boll weevil's presence demsnding e change in our framing plsns," seys another citizen, farmer of Hertford County. /'!:-? illil These two statements about repre sent the sentiments prevalent among many farmers and farm women in the county; end their assertions ere com ing at this particular time on account of the apparent acquiescence of other members of the board of commission ers te the arbitrary statement made to the district agent by Dr. J. H. Mit chell, that Hertford County couldn't afford an agent, and would not be able to make appropriation to secure an agent to replace H. L. Miller, whose resignation will take effect October 1. Not a voice was lifted in the meeting for the continuance of the work, but there were remarks passed which forecasted even more curtailment of service by the with drawal of money for the heme agent. At least three of the members of | the board are not favorably disposed , to the demonstration work, among farmers or farm w<jmen. They are Chairman Mitchell, John 0. Askew, Jr., and W. J. Vaughan. Messrs. j Whitley, Tayloe and Euro have here , tofore supported the work whole , heartedly. How they stand since I county expenses have gone beyond the income is not quite so certain. COUNTY RAISES 25 PER CENT NEAR EAST QUOTA Near East Relief Fund Has Received Only $610 From Hertford People Hertford county raised $510.90 for Near East Relief this year, according to official figures just announced from Raleigh by Col. George H. Bel lamy, state chairman of this great humanitarian organisation. ?This is about 25% of the county's $1980 quota. Official figures were $165.86 in cash, $8.60 in unpaid pledges on June 80 last, and $848.00 in clothing. There were many difficulties in the public mind as to the continued need in the Bible lands. As the Near East Relief, n its definite child-saving program, works from year to year, results of work from July 1 to the following June 80 only are announced. During the past fiscal year, it*-w?? hoped that Hert ford county would raise the $1980 required to feed, clothe and educate the S3 little children now in North Carolina orphanages in the Near East, and dependent on Hertford county for their very lives. Sixty dollars takes complete care of a child for a year, so efficient is the work of the Near East Relief overseas. The report will show also that North Carolina greatly over-subscrib ed its quota. Over 1,000 volunteer workers,, good Christian men and women, marshalled together and di rected by Morris A. Bealle, state di rector, made possible the raising of this magnificent sum, Col. Bellamy declared. He stressed the fact that the end of this great work is not yet?that until the Allied Powers make some provision for these homeless Christ ian wanderers who made such great and successful sacrifices during the World War and were abandoned to a fate worse than death by their for mer allies, they cannot become self supporting. The spectacle of an entire nation i being saved by another people 8,000 i miles way is without parallel in his tory, Col. Bellamy pointed out. In conclusion he declared that if Ameri- ] ca does not feed them and keep them alive now, they wil starve, and our 1 splendid work of the last five years I will have been in vain. No other na- i tlon in the world appears to be ho- 1 mane or Christian enough to do this, ] he stated. AHOSKIE CAPITAL IS SOUGHT TO ERECT TOBACCOJACTORY Wall Street Company Require* Subscription To $180,000 Sin Per Camt Preferred ; .t '? Stock To Locate ?? FOUR LOCAL MEN TO WORK WITH OFFICIALS President, First Vice-President and Treasurer Spendinc See* oral Days Here Ahoskie parsons mealing id the director's room of the Farmers-At lantic Beak this moraine, Thursday, rated unanimously to begin a cam paign for the sale of f180,000 of pre ferred stock to a corporation to b* fanned here and to be known as the Wall Street Tobacco Company, Inc., affiliated with the New York corporaton bearing the same name. E. J. Gerock, V. D. Strickland, Geo. J. Newborn, and S. M. Applebaum were appointed as a working commit tee representing Ahoskie, with the former as spokesman. Under the plan outlined and pre sented at the meeting by Mr. L. Mos quera, president of the Wall Street Tobacco Corporation of New York City and the State of Deleware, his company will organise here, offering $300,000 preferred stock for sale, of which one-half Is to be taken in Ahoalde end its territory. The Re mainder will be marketed elsewhere by the New York office force, which will also aid in the stock selling cam paign in Ahoskie end vicinity, i i For every 1100 share of preferred stock a share of common stock will be issued, which be held and owned by the purchaser after the preferred stock it retired, The mother com pany of New York and Deleware will retain the controlling interest in the common stock. In consideration for the amount of preferred stock sold here, the company will sell this local company its exclusive right to sell and make cigarettes in the United States, and guarantees this as the only plant in this country. It also turns ovsr its process of manufact ure, and takes care of the sale and distribution of cigarettes manufact ured here. Raising the amount of money nec essary to bring the plant to Ahoalde will require an active and honey combing campaign, and details of how to do it will be worked oat by the local committees, .working in con junction with the officials of the main company who are still in Ahoslde and will remain hens to assist in every way possible. The decision reached in the meet ing this morning followed two other conferences that have been held here within the past thro days. Mr. W. F. Raab arrived in Ahoskie last Sunday afternoon. Upon the call of the sec retary of the Chamber of Commerce, a meeting was held in the bank Mon day morning, when Mr. Raab outlin ed in a general way the plans of his company to expand into larger things and eventually become one of the country's leading tobacco compan ies. At that meetipg, he told of the great tobacco industry and explained that all the domestic tobacco bought by the Wall Street Tobacco Corpora tion would be sent to the main fac tory (at Ahoskie or some other North Carolina or Virginia town) for the flavoring process, and shipped from that faetory to other factories for fital manufacture into cigarettes. At least 1,000,000 cigarettes per day will be the output at the main fae tory. Other additions would be made as the profits of the company permitted. Mr. Raab was unable to make a definite statement of terms ef con tract and left the first move up to Ahoskie. The directors of the Chamber of Commerce upon consult ation pledged to work for $150,000 in stock and a free site, to match whatever proposition the corporation Itself might offer. Mr. Raab could give no definite answer, but immed iately wired for Mr. Mosquera, the President and founder of the com pany. Another meeting was held yester day afternoon, when and where the President presented his plans in a speech before several citisens at the Richard Theater. Following the ex planation by him, he and the other (Continued on page ft)
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