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Volume XIV. Twelve Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, October 26, 1923 One Section No. 26
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TOBACCO AVERAGES
HIGH FIGURES HERE
September Report Give* Ahoa
kie Lead Over All Compet
ing Market*
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HIGHER THAN GREENVILLE
Claim* made by auction tobacco
warehousemen in Ahoakie that this
market was paying price* above the
? average in thi* belt during September
are borne out to the letter and to the
figure in the September report of the
Department of Agriculture on tobac
co sales in North Carolina. Ahoskie
made a higher per hundred average
in that month than any other single
small market in eastern North Caro
lina, and ranks right along with, and
only slightly below Wilson, the lar
gest market in the belt.
The average price paid here was
$11.51 per hundred pounds, which
is 45 cents per hundred pounds higher
than the average paid on the auction
floors of Greenville, one of the largo
market* of the East It trailed Rocky
Mount by the same margin that it
exceeded Greenville, and the differ
ence here and at Kinston, another
' leading market, was still less?29
cents per hundred.
Averages of other markets in this
belt and of Ahoskie's sixe were, as
follows: Farmville, $17.46; Roberson
ville, $18.19; Washington, $17.80;
Williamston, $16.78.
In other words, tobacco brought
better prices right here in Ahoskie
than any of its competing markets;
and prices here now are even better,
say the Warehousemen. In the South
Carolina belt, where several North
Carolina towns are located, the aver
ages have been higher than in the
East, which accounts in a large
measure for the higher State average
of $18.85. The higher grades are
being sold in that territory.
> A little less than a million pounds
were sold at Ahoskie in September?
- 921,916.
The report just issued summarizes
as fbllows:
Warehousemen were unanimous in |
remarking that the tobacco offered
during the past month has been very
poor. Sales consisted mostly of a
common quality of lugs and tips, very
little good tobacco being sold. Mar
kets in Wake report that the leaves
were damaged by rains. The crop is
not as good as expected and many re
port that the quality is not as good
as last year. This is evidenced by the
average price received during Sep
temfcer $18.96 as compared with
the September price last year,
($26.16).
LITTLE GIRL IS BADLY
BURNED BY LIVE WIRE
Cecelia Belle Earley, 7-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Magruder
Earley, of this city, received'severe
burns from a shock administered by
a live electric wire Monday afternoon.
^ She was rendered unconscious for
several minutes after touching the
live wire, which was wrapped around
a light pole on Church street, and
was dangling loose at the top.
The flesh on the little girl's arm
just below the shoulder was badly
burned, and a lesser burn was made
across her shoulder and down the
back. Attending physicians expect the
burns to heal.
> When the accident occurred, she
was playing on the streets with the
neighbors' children. She caught the
wire in her hand, pulling the top of
it down against the wire that furnish
es current for the homes along the
street, and which carried a voltage
of 110 amperes. When the live wire
was touched, a circuit was formed,
and the shock resulted. The loose
wire had been used as a "guy" wire
and had broken loose from its moor
ings, and some person had wrapped
the loose end around the pole.
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NOW. DIGGING PEANUTS
Farmers who were digging peanuts
week and who planned to finish
the job this week were halted for the
first three days of this week by a
cold rain, driven by a shifting wind.
It fell almost continuously from ear
ly Monday until late at'night Tues
day. ooler Weather and fair skies
are now prevailing and the business
of housing peanuts has been resumed.
The yield is reported as being from
fair to good. The market here has al
ready opened and buyers are offer
ing around five cents per pound.
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BARBECUE IS POSTPONED
UNTIL NEXT WEDNESDAY
The Pork, Judge Francis D.
Winston, and Congressman
Ward Headliners
Two days of rain preceding the
date set for the free barbecue and
speaking in Ahoakie for tobacco far
mers and their families caused the
postponement of the big day for ex
actly one week. The directors of the
Chamber of Commerce in session on
Wednesday night voted to stage the
barbecue and speaking Wednesday,
October Slot.
The event had been thoroughly adr
vertised for the 24th. and tobacco
warehousemen here were assured of
big breaks by farmers all over Hert
ford and Bertie counties who were
planning to come and eat the bar
becue, and hear Congressman Hal
lett S. Ward speak. Some came Wed
nesday but hundreds were kept away
on account of the roads and badl
weather conditions.
An equally large number will now
make their plans to come next Wed
nesday. And, in the way of adding
another attraction for those who are
the guests of Ahoskie that day, Judge
Francis D. Winston, of Windsor,
down in Bertie whence much of the
tobacco will come from, will share
the platform with Congressman
Ward. Eight hundred pounds of sea
sonable pork have already been se
cured and is now ready to be turned
into barbecue, and a barbecuer of
fame has been secured to do the job.
Large tables, arranged for both whi
tes and colored will go up on Cope
land's lot early next week. A local
committee on serving has also been
subpoenaed, one for the white sec
tion, and another for the colored
tobacco farmers. ?
Tobacco averages are high on the
market here now, and this market is
maintaining the pace she set in Sep
tember when its average was higher
than any other competing market in
this belt. On this particular day, Wed
nesday, October 81st., the farmers
are invited to bring a load of tobac
co and get a good price for it; then
take themselves down town to Cope
land s lot and eat aome of the best
barbecue they've ever stuck a tooth
in, and stand by to hear two of the
State's best platform talkers give
them speeches that'll set oif their din
ner to perfection. Barbecue, Con
gressman Ward, and Judge Winston
are three products of eastern North
Carolina that make a combination
calculated to appease appetites, ton
entertain, and to instruct.
The strings to the latchkey in Ahos
kie will be unloosed next Wednesday
and the visitor is bid come in and
take the town and everything they
can get away with.
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* PEANUT HULLS ARE *
g pur jo GOOD USE *
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* Coal crises may coma ?ad they *
* may go, but the Ahotkie light *
* plant will go oa forever, so Wag *
* as farmers continue to raise pee- *
* nuts and the cleaners and Pea- *
?nut Association don't Ml out *
* and both quit business. *
* Peanut hulls are now being ?
* used to furnish stoam at the lo- *
* cal power plant, and they arc *
* taking the place of ooal or wood. *
* They have boon used in varying *
* quantities for two weeks or more *
* and sufficient steam has been ?
* generated by them to turn gins, *
* print newspapers, make "pop," *
* and light up the town. *
* The Columbian Ponnut Com- *
* pony has also boon using bulls *
* for fuel for seme time and they, *
* too, have found them readily *
* available as a coal substitute. ?
MEETING OF THE PARENT
TEACHER ASSOCIATION
The Parent-Teacher Association
will hold its regular monthly meeting
in the school auditorium Friday even
ing, November 2nd, beginning at 7:80
o'clock. A special program is being
prepared, and all patrons of the
school are urged to attend. A report
of the first month's work will be ren
dered, and other business matters
discussed.
Program will last one hour only.
Let all friends and patrons <ff the
school attend, and let us all work to
gether for ? bigger and better school
this year.
K. T. RAYNOR, Superintendent.
FOUNDERS' DAY TO
BE A GREAT EVENT
Anniversary of Chowan College
Will Be Celebrated Next
Wednesday
SPEAKING AND PAGEANT
In s joint meeting with the annual
session of the West Chowan Bap
tist Association, Chowan College
alumnae, students, faculty, and its
many friends will celebrate formally
the seventy-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the College, next Wed
nesday, October 81. A speech by Hon.
J. William Bailey, of Raleigh, and
the staging of a huge pageant will
feature the day's program.
October 11 was the date of the
college's birthday, and is known as
Founders Day in the college annals.
But, the "heavy" exercises were post
poned from that date until next week
in order to merge it with the Baptist
Association which was scheduled to
be held on the 30th., which is next
Tuesday. Hence, there will be two
day of meetings, speeches and epoch
making events in the history of the
Baptist college. The Association will
attend to its business the day preced
ing, and the crowds will stay over the
Founders Day celebration.
Mr. Bailey will speak Wednesday
morning. A general meeting of the
alumnae will be held that afternoon,
and at night "The Diamond pageant"
will be given in the splendid new au
ditorium. Eighty-five persons will
take part in the pageant,and it is de
scribed as a gorgeous affair, portray
ing in detail the history and life of
Chowan. New curtains and other ac
cessories for the large, well arrang
ed stage in the auditorium will be in
place for the first time, and persons
who have known Chowan for these
many years will wonder how it all
came about?this great improvement.
The Chowanian, newspaper pub
lished fortnightly at the college,
is featuring the Founders Day cele
bration in its current issue, which
made its appearance Thursday of this
week. Many stories on the events
planned are printed in the publica
tion; and valuable and interesting
data on the history of the college, to
gether with that of its alumnae, are
contained in the third number of the
college newspaper.
In this connection, Dr. Weaver who
was formerly head of the department
of journalism at Wake Forest College
has just organized a Press Associa
tion among the Chowan students, and
news of the college is finding its way
to the newspapers of the State.
Another event planned in connec
tion with the Founders Day celebra
tion next week is the banquet to be
given in the college dining hall for
Hertford County alumni of Wake
Forest College. President William L.
Potest, of Wake Forest College, Hon.
J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh, and Rev.
J. Arch McMillan, secretary of the
general Alunmi Association of Wake
Forest, will make talks to the alumni
who attend the banquet. There are
many alumni of Wgke Forest College
in the county, and an attempt will be
made there to organise a county
alumni Association. Doctor Weaver
is sponsoring the county organisation
and he is meeting with hearty amens
from all alumni and former students
of the college.
All friends, alumnae and interested
persons are invited to attend the ex
ercises next Wednesday. The new au
ditorium will seat 800 persons.
COMMERCE COMMUTE
INSPECTS COTTON MILL
Rev. E. J. Isenhower, Messrs. E. J.
Gerock, S. M. Applebaum, and J. Roy
Parker spent last Friday in Peters
burg, Va., inspecting a cotton mill,
of a 0,400 spindle capacity, as repre
sentatives of the AhosMe Chamber
of Cemmerc, which has under consid
eration the location of a cotton mill
in Ahoskie. This mill will consume
2,000 bales of cotton per year and
work 200 persons, on a daytime basis
only, with 4,000 bales and 400 per
sons working day and night
At a meeting of the directors of
the Chamber of Commerce Wednes
day night, the committee gave its
report. The directors then voted to
i ask Mr. L. R. Gilbert, superintendent
of the Caraleigh Cotton Mill in Ra
leigh, to go to Petersburg, and ap
praise the machinery, and visit Ahos
kie on his return, to give a report on
the proposition. He will be joined in
Petersburg by a representative of the
Chamber of Commerce.
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AHOSKIE TOWNTAXES TO
BE DUE IN SHORT WHILE
One Per Cent Discount Allow
ed For Payment Before
December First
Thtre will be compulsory connect
ion with the town's sewer lines with
in a short time from this date. The
council has ordered that an ordinance
be drafted for final enactment, and
when presented it will receive the
unanimous vote of the three mem
bers.)
Sanitary Inspector Hastings, of the
State Department of Health, has been
doing some work in the colored sec
tion of town, and made a report to
the council about existing conditions,
which are none too good. Compliance
with the State law has been in many
cases ignored.
Tax receipts for 1923 taxes have
also been ordered printed, and the
collector, M. O. Gerock, will soon
have them in his posession. A dis
count of 1 per cent on taxes paid be
fore December 15th has also been
granted on the council's motion. Ap
proximately 518,000 will be realised
from 1928 city taxes, according to
Mayor Williams, who is now comput
ing the lists.
A contract for coal has been' en
tered into by the town with the W. H.
Brown Coal Company of Norfolk, to
continue in force until next April.
The council has been negotiating with
several companies for some time, to
execute a contract which will pre
clude the possibility of running out
of fuel during the winter months. The
new contract will take care of that
feature.
Th* council has also granted full
police powers to A. C. Waters, who
has been guaranteed a salary by local
business houses to serve as night cop.
Policeman Waters has already taken
up his duties.
MR. PARKER TAKES ONE
MORE WHACK WRITING
Edito* HERALD:
I did not intend writing another
article in some time, but I decided
to write one more. The two last arti
cles were on things of the past?those
crude things in my childhood.
I will mention some of the Home
Remedies our mothers used when we
got puny and out of shape. The chil
dren generally were unhealthy 40 or
60 years ago. One of the main medi
cines used for the children were worm
seed weed. Some called it O'key Je
rusalem. They pulled this weed up in
the fall of the year, hung it up in a
dry place and kept it for the spring
tonic. Our mothers in the spring rub
bed out the seed and cooked in mo
lasses. The children were called out
of bed early in the morning and put
to eating this compound. They were
not allowed to eat any breakfast.
Along in the day, the children would
have to take a big dose of Castor
Oil. About the second dose, the chil
dren began to cry because those
old worm seed would almost heave
me to think about them now. Anoth
er home remedy was vinegar and
nails. This was to whet up the appe
tite. Let me tell you it was some dose
too. Ask Dr. Jess if he didn't have to
take these tonics, too. I am sure he
did.
Nearly everbody used to have chills
and fever in the summer and fall. Red
pepper Tea was the remedy resort
ed to. Some used Dogwood bark Tea
and various remedies. A doctor wont
sent for often unless somebody al
most about to die. He couldn't afford
to make many visits. Our parents
weren't able to pay his bills. The doc
tors only charged about $1.60 a visjt,
for four or miles trip. He couldn't
afford often'to go see a patient and,
too, our parents wont able to pay for
many visits either. Folks would get
sick and die; of course, lota of peo
ple died from what those old doctors
called Cramp Colic. They did not
know anything about appendicits
the folks died from. They would
drench the patient with Castor Oil
and give Blue Mass; and they would
leave the patient to die.
The doctors were about as crude
as other things around some other
things. I will also mention other hap
penings during the Civil War and af
terwards for several years.
Our clothing was all made at home
or manufactured there, I might say.
Those old looms?I can almost hear
them now. Bum, Bum! weaving one
thread at the time. It was mighty flne
work for a woman to weave 6 yards
of cloth per day and part of |)ie night
for the outer garments the cloth was
(Continued on page 7)
The Herald's Dollar Offer Has
Met With Generous Response
Tuesday Night's Check of Records Showed Approximately 275
Persons to Have Paid For Subscriptions?Many New
Names Being Added Daily During Remaining
Days of October
That Hertford and Bertie county people will give a loyal
and liberal support to a local weekly newspaper that equips
itself to meet the modern demand for a newsy paper is strongly
borne out by the experience of the HERALD since it inaugur
ated a special One-Dollar-A-Year subscription drive. Tuesday
night when the records of the office were hurriedly checked up
to determine the approximate amount of cash received volun
tarily within the last three weeks, it was^tound to be in the
neighborhood of |300, representing 275 individual subscribers,
old and new.
For years, this newspaper has conducted some sort of spec
ial offer, in the form of premiums, reduced rates, or Pay-Up
periods along about harvest time, when most of its subscriptions
are due. Each year there has been a generous response to the
offer; but the records this year will eclipse them all. New sub
scriptions have been coming into this office at the rate of from
ten to twenty-five a day since last Saturday. A large majority
of our old subscribers had already paid up one, two, and in a few
cases, five years in advance even before that time.
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* wbo have seat remittances to this *
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* should examine the labels on the *
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* no mistake has been made in'this *
* office. In the rush of receiving *
* dollars and making entries, some *
* mistakes in dates or addresses *
* might have been made) hut, if *
* you will call our attention to it, *
* any error will he promptly and *
* willingly corrected. *
* Last minute subscribers are *
* coming thick and fast, and, if the *
* present record continues, the *
* subscription list of the HERALD *
* will soon look like a complete *
* roster of the heads of families *
* in Hertford County, and at the*
* Colerain and Powells villa post- *
* offices in Bertie county. *
* It's a good time to buy a news- *
* paper cheap not a cheap news- * .
* paper. So long as this newspa- *
* per maintains its' present posi- *
* tion among North Carolina *
* weeklies it will never be offer- *
* ered for less than $1-50 a year, *
* after the night of October 31, *
* which is next Wednesday . *
YOUNG NEGRO BOLD
DAY-TIME ROBBER
Horace Newsome, 12-year-old col
ored boy of this place, ia now under
arreat for the larceny of a wrist
watch valued at $18, a gold band fing
er ring, valued at $9, and 87 cents in
cash from the home of Henry Picot.
The alleged robbery took place Mon
day afternoon, entry being made, ac
cording to the boy's own confession,
through an open window in the
house.
Matt Bowers, one-time star base
ball pitcher for the local colored
nine, and who lately completed a
stay of several months on the county
roads for a hold-up performance, was
first arraigned for the larceny, bat
was able to prove an alibi. The find
ing of the wrist watch by another col
ored boy with whom the Newsome boy
had been playing was the clue that
caught the latter.
He was taken before Judge D. R.
McGlohon at Winton, who postponed
the hearing until after superior court '
this week.
NATIVE AHOSKIE BOY
WEDS A SUFFOLK GIRL
?The following announcements have .
been received in Ahoslde:
"Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Bradshaw an
nounce the marriage of their daugh
ter, Edith Gibson, to John Spurgeon
Alexander, Monday, October the
twenty-second, nineteen hundred and
twenty-three, Suffolk, Va. At home,
after October twentitnn-y wo hrdd
after October twenty-ninth, Kinston,
N. G."
Mr. Alexander is the second son of
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Alexander,
of this city. He lived here for several
years before accepting his present
position as foreman of the Geo. Wells
Printing Plant at Kinston. He is a
young man of steady habits and is
proficient in his chosen work. He for
merly worked on the HERALD force.
Sample copies mailed out during
the last three weeks, followed by ap
peals by mail have brought the new
subscribers in flocks. The next few
days as. the offer draws to a close is
expected to bring into this office an
even greater volume of new sub
scribers, with a liberal sprinkling of
renewals, until this newspaper shall
be able to exhibit a paid-in-advance
subscription list that will stand com
parison with any of the larger and
leading weekly newspapers of the
State. Then, this newspaper shall
begin another year of strong effort,
directed solely to the one purpose of
issuing a weekly newspaper that lives
up to its motto, printed just below its
masthead?"A Paper Worth While."
Our pride and hearts have swollen
to such an extent lately that we are
bound to let our readers see in print
some of the good things our subscrib
ers have been saying to us. Some of
the letters are printed below.
Says It Gats Better
"I am enclosing check for $1 for a
year's subscription to the HERALD,
I will say I do not know where I could
invest a dollar and get a greater value
for the money, or more pleasure from
the investment. Seems that your
paper gets better each week, and
Mrs. ?- and I look forward each'
week to its'arrival."
Can't Do Without It
"Enclosed you will And check for
One Dollar for which you will con
tinue the HERALD, as I feel like that
I could hardly be without it now. I
sent in my subscription last year. You
sure have improved its columns."
Who Ar.Th.yT
"Put me down for $1.60. I am
going to move in December, but
where I'm going to, I see no better
way of keeping up with some of
these crooked guys than through your
paper."
Mr. Joyaor Lik. It, Too
Mr. N. S. Joyner, a Hertford
county man who has moved to what is
sometimes called "Bloody Madison"
county, writes us an interesting let
ter, commending the paper for its im
provements in features and suggest
ing other features. His letter will be
found in another column. The
HERALD appreciates these suggest
ions, and would like to have others.
The Opinion I. General
Whether they write nice letters or
not, the fellows who run the HER
ALD know every dollar sent to this
ofllce is an approval of the policy and
character of the newspaper, and is in
itself an endorsement. They accept
every subscription in that light
Many have been the expressions made
to us in person^ and others not listed
in this article have written to us and
told about the enjoyment they get out
of every issue.
Folks, this newspaper has no other
way of doing it than by saying
"Thank You" to every person who
reads this article.
BIRTH OF A NATION
"The Birth of A Nation," the
screen production of Tom Dixon's
Clawman, will be played at the Rich
ard Theater tonight,Thursday, Friday
and Saturday nights. Many persons
here and elsewhere have seen this
picture before, and these and others
will pay the price of admission on
one of the three night# this week.
Gladys says men are like the moon;
shine best at nl*ht, and down to their
last quarter a rood part of the time.