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|Volume XIV. Eight Paget Ahotkie, North Carolina, Friday, September 21, 1923 One Section No. 21
?report is issued
i on peanut yield
i' in thisterritory
I Crop la 84 P?r Cut Normal In
Northern Coastal Counties,
Which Includes Hertford
? 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.
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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
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