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Hertford County Herald PP A PAPER WORTH WHILE ?/ 1 Volnme XIV. Eight Paget ? Ahotkie, Worth Carolina, Friday, November 24, 1923 One Section No. 30 ENGINEER MAKES A SPEECHON PAVING J. C. Clark, Jr., of Wilson, Tells Councilman About Paving ' * Town Streets NO ACTION WAS TAKEN ' J. C. Clark, Jr., representing an engineering firm of Wilson, was here Monday night to pave Main street and explain the methods used by other municipalities in paying for the work. He talked to the board for an hour, and retired from the room to allow the city triumvirate to get breath and take whatever steps they elected to make. However, be advised early action; and hoped his firm might get an opportunity to do the consulting , engineering. Mr. Clark as he admitted, came here on the tip which had come to his attention that Ahoskie was now con sidering starting a long delayed pav ing program. Evidently, Mr. Clark reads the newspapers. His rough estimate of the money necessary to lay paving the entire length of Main street was $60,000, which included any and all extra work, such as moving poles, trees, and running pipe connections to the water and sewer lineal He did not give that amount as correct, although he believed it to be a pretty close guess. He explained that other towns fi nanced the paving through the is suance of bonds, designated "Assess ment Bonds" and "Local Improve ment Bonds" where issued after work was completed, or "Local Improve ment Bonds" only when issued prior to the construction. In either case, the .custom is to assess the abutting property owners, either on a 50-60 basis or the one-third ratio, street pays one-fourth of the cost, and Under the 60-50 plan, the abutting property owner on each side of the the town one-half. Each property owner pays a third and the town a third under the other arrangement Mr. Clark answered all questions and gave further information for the councilmen's benefit His firm bad done the engineering work for Ox ford, Henderson, Wilaon, and Em 1 poria, Va. ' ?nc piuniu _ wwb, me nexi hour and hair on routine matters, which, for the most part, was contin uing committees and approving bills. A motion was made to rescind the appropriation made by the former council appropriating $26 per month for the support of the Chamber of Commerce. Chief Justice Clark, in an opinion handed down a few weeks ago, ruled such action to be uncon stitutional. Heretofore, several chambers of Commerce had been fi 1 nanced by a special tax levy, among them being Reidaville. The opinion was rendered in an injunction pro ceedings against the council of the fcity of High Point, which had levied a special tax for the support of a . chamber of commerce. . . No action was taken on the paving matter, although a petition may be circulated asking for a test vote. ? BERTIE NEGRO WAS LOCATED BY LAWYERS ?The following interesting bit of news recently appeared in the Wash ington correspondence of the News A Observer: "Some time ago Senator Simmons received a letter from Gilliam ft Da venport, lawyers of Windsor, relative to one William E. Mountain, colored and son of an old colored woman who lives in Windsor. Several years ago William left his mother and went to the Phillipines. In 1902 his mother called on the War Department to help her locate him or to get information concerning his whereabouts. After go ing through the usual military chan nels she was advised that he was in the PhJllipines in the employ of the civil governments as a blacksmith. "In 1907 the mother received a lat ter from her son, which was the last communication she has had from him. "The mother owns a tract of land far the term of her natural life, end at her death it goes to her son, Wil liam, if he be living, otherwise it re? vdrts to the grantor. For this addi tional reason the mother was anxious to locate her son. . "Proceeding on the theory that Senator Simmons and Uncle Sam to gether can de almost anything any other combination could do especially when It comes to locating American negroes in the Phillipines, Gillam ft Davenport requested the assistance of Senator S mmons In locating the said William E. Mountain. "Senator Simmons took the matter up with the War Department and a search for black Mountain began. Now Senator Simmons' office is in re ceipt of a communication from the War Department, as well as one from Gflliam and Davenport, advising that the said Mountain is residing at No. 110 VUlaurel Pasay, Risal, Phillipi ine Islands. 8o, there you are! "If any of you Americans lose any body in the Phillipines, you need not go to the "Lost and Pound" column. | This is a concrete example." It .. kl ' S . ? .viv.. 'iv it GOOD ATTRACTIONS AT COUAGE ARESCHEDULED Swarthmore Chautauqua And Student Minstrel At Cho wan Next Few Days Murfreesboro, Nov. 21.?The Swarthmore Chautauqua will present s three-day program in the Chowan College chapel, beginning Monday af ternoon, the 20th and running thru Wednesday evening following. The afternoon programs will begin at 8 o'clock, and the evening programs at eight. Season tickets are now on sale by the committee which has been ap pointed by the guarantors. Miss Mary Parham is in charge of the campaign to sell tickets. The following is the program of attractions: MomIAT AFTERNOON?Lecture, to be an nounced; concert, Victorian Maids; Junior Chautauqua. NIGHT?Victorian Maids concert; lecture, Harry Hibechman, "The Law and the Profits". ? * Tuesday AFTERNOON?Lecture, to be an Jounced; concert, Andrew Visocchi; unior Chautauqua. NIGHT?Concert, Andrew Visso chi; lecture, Arthur Walwyn Evans, "What America Means to Me." Wednesday AFTERNOON?Junior Chautauqua Pageant, "Her Family on Display"; Concert by Happy Hawaii Company. NIGHT ? Illustrated Travelogue, "Happy Hawaii"; Mildred Clemens and Company, Student Minstrel The students of Chowan College will present a full .fledged minstrel, including black face comedians and all the other accessories in the col lege chapel Friday evening, the 2Srd at eight o'clock. Besides the minstrel the program will include "Amateur Night," a con test in stage ability open to all the students in college. A number of stu dents have entered the contest, and the program will be well worth see ing. Three prizes will be awarded to those making the most creditable showing in the contest The entire program is presented under the auspices of the college B. Y. P. U., and the public is cordially invited. An admission fee will be charged. REV. MR. LARKIN IS RETURNED TO FIELD The North Carolina Conference, which wag held in Elizabeth City, ad journed Monday morning after one of the most pleasant and successful meetings of that body. The members of the Methodist ahurch in Murfrees boro as well gs the many friends of Rev. L. C. Larkin are delighted at his return to this field. Under his leadership the church in Murfrees boro has made remarkable progress in every department and is entering upon the new year with unusual en thusiasm. During the absence of the pastor, the younger children pt the Sunday School save a program on Sunday night The church was attractively decorated with autumn leaves, cut flowers and potted plants. The pro gress consisted of interesting songs and recitations, and was well render ed. All credit is due to Miss ?ue Law rence who had entire charge of -the training of the children.?Reported. REPAIRING HIGHWAY WITH NEW GRAVEL Part of the gravel recently ordered by the county road board for the use ef J. R. Garrett, Ahoskte commis sioner, has arrived and is being used to patch up the roads in this township. Some of it has already been placed on the highway running through the town. > ' * The new road equipment lately put to work on the roads in this township is steadily plugging away, shaping ?P the roads and putting them into proper shape for the winter month. The. Ut&Efe ixpects to run a pic ture of the machine at work in an early Meae. \ Professor A. G. Otwell, Mi seas Mine HoDoman, Mary Thomas, Amy Riddiok, and Emily Gayle motored to Greenville laat Friday morning, and attended the group meeting of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, which was held at East Carolina Teachers College Friday and Satur day. Miss Gayle spent the Sunday at her horn# in Farmvllle, returning here Sunday afternoon by train. WILL ATTEND GAME Several persons from here and other sections of the county are plan ning to attend the annual Thanksgiv ing football game between the univer sities of North Carolina and Virginia at Chapel Hill next Thursday. The dope favors the former ae winners of the annual clash. New* that the State Highway Commission will let contract | for construction of a stool bridge across the Chowan River at \ Win ton has found the HERALD again on the job, with a snap- I shot taken by its Staff Photographer, of the Hertford and Gates | approaches to the bridge. The picture shown above was snap- , pod from the brink of the hill leading to the river from the Win- ? ton side. On the other side can be seen the Gates county por- 1 tion of the State Highway which is now under construction, < Bacon & Moore, doing the job. ? ? ' 1 ? ' ' .. . . . ,1 III. ,11.. \ ?? .... L .'I 1 . I 1 " -"I ... ' i ??????? ? ? '?????' ?'?"" ?? amn ? ? "Ahoskite * * Breaks Into \ Print With Contribution j OCTOBER TOBACCO SALES THREE-QUARTERS MILLION Auction Warehouse* In Ahos kie Make Nice Average During Month Ahoslrie sold 798,330 pounds of tobacco on it* suction warehouse floor during the month of October. The average price paid was 121,57 per hundred, as compared with an average of $23.00 the same month of 1922. The average made here was slight ly above the average made in the State, it being $21.52, which is prac tically $8 per hundred less that the 1922 average for the State. Parm ville leads the list of all markets in the State for October in price paid, the average being $26.07 per hun dred. However, with the exception of Farmville's average which is larg er than the big market*, Ahoskie ranks ahead of the other smaller markets in this territory. The aver age of Willis mston was $20.87; Rob erspnville, $19.58; Tarboro, $20,50; Goldsboro, $20.60. On the larger markets, the following averages were made: Greenville, $23.32; Kin9ton, $22.39; Rocky Mount, $22.20; Wil son, $23.74. The fololwing information is given out by the Reporting Service of the Department of Agriculture* ' <<mi ^ * ine nunn varuuna mjdbcco crop for the present year will have a prob able total value of about $80,000,900 oft a basis of between 22 and 23 cents average for the year. Our probable 367,000,000 pounds production in comparison with Kentucky's 476,000 000 this year, if sold at the same ra tio of value per pound as has been experienced for the past three years, will still give us the lead of first place in the total value of the crop. The October sales show an increased value per pound over the previous month. With the season's average to date approximately 21 cents per pound and one-third of the crop sold, It may be safely assumed that the crop will average 23 centa. On this basis our present estimated crop, al though 106,000,000 pounds more than last year, will aggregate in value only about the same as last year's crop, according to the Government esti mate of 30 cents por pound for that crop. "While the quality averages low, , the yield per acre is 110 pounds more than last year's production of 600 pounds. There is also some doubt as to the acreage as compared with last year, which preliminary govern ment figures show to be 99 per cent. IjpThe auction warehouses in North Carolina have reported producers sales to November 1st amounting to 138,000,000 pounds. This is about 38 per cent of the estimated 1023 crop. Last year about 20 per cent of the year's crop had been sold by Nov ember 1st. Neither of these figures Include receipts from the Co-opera tive Association. The avearg# price of all sales reported to date is $20.66 per hundred pounds. Warehouseman are unanimous in the remark that the quality of tobacco sold during Octo ber is from average to poor. The quality of tobacco sold during Octo ber is not equal to that sold last year. "On the same basis as previous years, North Carolina will probably maintain ita rank of first In value of the tobacco crop.* DR. SAWYER TUESDAY Dr. Charles J. Sawyer, ear, eye and nose specialist with an office in Ahoa kie, will be here next Tuesday, in stead of Wednesday, on account of Thanksgiving holidays. Anonymous Letter Has Good ' Enough Luck To Escape < Assignment to The Office j Trash Receptacle PARTY TOOK JAUNT OVER NEW HIGHWAY Suggests That This Town Be Named and That Signs Be Constructed Here The HERALD is breaking \ newspaper office rules this !, week by publishing an anony- J mous contribution by some per son who signs his (or her) , name "Ahoskite." Since the : piece does not contain anything of a nature to offend, on the \ contrary, is calculated to do all ) of us good, the rule requiring 1 signature of person writing it 1 will be dispensed with, and the good tidings spread upon the pages of this newspaper for reading by the thousands who name the HERALD as a com- 1 ponent part of the week's 1 menu. i 1SV.- ? A La-L:4??-M l di J *? wi vuc auub&uc o ut; lie lit, j we might add this bit of news, j The Chamber of Commerce is , going to put up those "This is ? AHOSKIE" signs, and, the ] town administration having no , objections, it will also place I signs of welcome at every ap- j proach to the town. The State i Highway Commission has also < advised that it will see that j Ahoskie is included on its num- 1 erous guide signs along the < highway in this section. The ] Chamberpot Commerce started , the ball rolling. "Ahoskite's" letter follows: * Ahoskie, N. C., Nov. 20, 1923. t Dear Mr. Editor?If youll spare me , a few minutes of your valuable time I j wanter tell you 'bout my trip. I've been a travelin' and I just wisht and ( wisht Old Farmer hader been alone so <j he could write this stead *0 me. Well, a crowd o' us went all down , around Greenville, Kinston section ^ and I wanter tell you right now I feel just near to bustin' with pride when I \ see the progress of the "Old North < State." | Now old Williamstown don't even . look like herself to me since all that j new dam and bridge 'n everything j has been made. Befo you even get in town you come to great big sign ; boards tacked up in full view with < things like this wrote on 'em: "You are entitled to courtesy and a service, we will see that you get it" , (Signed) Chamber of Commerce. ) There are lots of other big signs , around all the towns with nice things j wrote on 'em and all the towns have j a big sign telling you what town ( you're in like; "This is Roberson vilie." ' I I wanter say here none of 'era are any better'n old Ahoskie so I wish somebody*d get busy and tack us up i some signs. 1 When we struck Bethel, we found < the paved road had been finished that i far and believe me son, it is some ] smooth sailing on them "city" roads, i They're workin* right on too comin' ] towards 'Hoskie all the time. Mr. (Continued on page 4) < MJjjji'Mm n8fcV%f , i'' .'le-l&Tk r.-i attifilESH METHODIST PROPERTY IS SOLD AT GOOD FIGURES Average for ISO Feet on Main Street Was $81; Total Sale $8,035 One hundred and fifty front feet ?f Ahoelde Main street property sold for en average of *51 per foot at the suction sale conducted here for the Methodist church last Friday. The lota are 80 feet deep, and provide lor a 10 foot alley in the rear. The >ld church building was sold for SS85. The price paid for the property ex weds the expectations of the church l>eople. Not alone was it a good day for the church but it if a pretty good indication that Ahoskie real estate has not slumped to a point where every person can grab it off for a long. Bidding on all lots was spirit ed, and buyers seemed eager to se cure a portion of the choice prop erty. Beginning at the corner lot, on which the building is located, the lots were sold to the following parties: Nos. 1, 2, and 4, H. S. Basnight; No. 3, E. J. Gerock; No. 6, S. B. Freeman, Df Colerain; No. 6, W. S. Cowan, Powellsville. The total considera tion for the lots was |7,660, which, with the purchase price of the church, imounted to 18,$85. Claude Greene now owns the church building. Alien Bros., Inc., of Raleigh con ducted the sale. The advertised sale of the Bell A Eley residential prop erty and the W. W, Rogers farm near town was called off. The "brass hand" accompanying the auction company was composed of the follow ing persons: S. A. Braxton, leader; Bob Bynum, T. B. McDowell, Jack Perry, Chief Moreland and Riley Dean. Mr. Freeman, who purchased lot No. 5, has also bought a lot in East Ahoskie, on Catherine Creek road, on which he will soon erect a home. He will move here from his present home in Colerain. Although he has made no statement about his business plans, he i$ expected to develop his business property and become affiliated with the business life ?f Ahoskie. There will be other additions to the town's population the coming year, through the moving in of persons from outside. Among the new resi dents will be Mf. and Mrs. J. M. Eley, of Menola. One or two residences will be constructed by Mr. Eley and he will move to Ahoskie as soon as his home is completed. It will be begun toon. I FARMERS WRITE FOR 300 BULLETINS EACH DAY Raleigh, Nov. 20.?During Octo ber, the Division of Publication! of ;he State College and Department of Agriculture eent out a total of 7,762 bulletins from its mailing room to farmers, home makers and others in terested in farming within North Carolina. This is at the rate of nearly 300 bulletins each working lay of the month. The outstanding thing about these requests is that the Division now maintains no mailing lists to which ?ulletins are sent indiscriminately as formerly. For the past few years, the bulletins have been sent only in -espouse to individual requests and ;his means that the publications go >nly to those people who feel a need for information about certain prob ems and want this information badly >nough to write in to the College and Department for it. This figure also loea not include the monthly maga zine of the extension division, Exten lion Farm News, which is mailed to >ver 16,060 dub leaders, farmers and educators each mouth and which gives imely news and information from the igricultural leaden of North Caro ina. According to Assistant Editor, A. ). Alford, who h"fi charge of bulletin listribution, the requests received are ibout evenly divided between the rablications of the experiment sta ion and of the extension division, rhert has been a great demand for >ulletins on Judging livestock, since Dctober was the month of fairs, but nformation was also desired about wultry, pruning, fertilisers, garden ng, foods, swine growing, boll weev I and various other topics. The Division of Publication wants t made dear that the bulletins of the State College and Department are free to residents of North Carolina tnd H authorises the Herald to an lounce to its reader* that a list of mlletins (Folder 4) will be sent to iny who may care to see what sub ects are available. They may choose rom that list any bulletins they need is long as the supply last. MRS. FIELDS ARRIVED Mrs. C. J. Field* of Southport ar rived in Ahoskie this week to join ler husband who is now superinten lent of the W. A P. Railroad. They (rill soon occupy the N. E. Greene bome, now owned by J. R. Garrett^ n East Ahoskie. Mr. and Mrs. J. Roy Parker, who now occupy the house, will move to the residence of J- R Uarrett, to do light housekeeping. GASOLINE STATIONS ARE SPRINGING IIP Two Brick Gasoline Dispenserm Now In Process of Construc tion Here BREWER STARTS IT OFF Bill Brewer started something in Ahoskie when he erected his gasoline filling station at the intersection of the State Highway and The Frasiers road. Two other modern gasoline stations are already under construc tion, and a dozen other persons are "talking" still other stations, princi pally at the East end of town. Brewer's station was just complet ed this week, and as it stands gives Ahoskie an appearance of "big town" stuff. It has been painted in varied colors and hues, with the Texaco Star bedecking every side, in front, and on the post. A large sign has also been erected on the roof, advertising his wares and telling the world that this is Ahoskie. The brilliant lighting from the numerous ? lights give it a fine night appearance. On the corner lot of the R. J. Baker heirs' property, Main and Mit chell streets, the excavation has al ready been made for the second sta tion. It will be owned and run by Talmage Baker and Carl Mitchell. It will be of brick throughout, since it comes within the city's Are district. The size of the enclosed section at the rear is 24x32 feet, with a wide shelter extending out almost to the sidewalk on each street, and support ed at the end by large-brick columns. | Two driveways will be available, with egress and ingress from both streets. A ladies' rest room will be induded and the station will be plumbed throughout. In one section of his building will be an accessory room. Gas, oils, air, water, and tire patching and changing equipment will be included. The station will take up practically all of the lot. Brick laying will begin the last of this week, and work will be completed as soon as possible. Sessoms Bros., local garage men, are also making preparations to erect a station of somewhat similar propor tions on the West corner of the same block, just beyond the garage build ing in which they are now doing busi ness. Some material has already been placed on the ground. Activity in this business has also heightened the local competition be tween the wholesale distributors of the gasoline products companies which operate here?The Standard Oil and Texaco Company. Brewer's station is using the tatter's products exclusively. Both companies are bidding on the business of the other two stations. H. M. Burden of Aulander, distri butor for the Texaco Company, says a requisition is now in the New York oiBce of his company for a Texaco distributing station at Ahoslde; and that a location has already been se cured for the plant. The Standard Oil Company already operates a dis tributing station here. It is located just South of the Ahoslde Ice and Coal Company. RED CROSS DRIVE NOW IN PROGRESS IN TOWN Mrs. Francis D. Winston and Miss Sue Harrie, of Windsor, came over to Ahoakie Wednesday afternoon to meet members of the local chapter of the American Red Cross, and put on a campaign for the Annual Roll Call of memberships. They were met here by three persons, Mrs. D. L. My ers, Miss Ruby Myers, and Roy Par ker, who composed Ahoslde's sole, rep resentation. However, the women of the crowd went immediately to work and within an hour had secured more than fifty members in the One Dollar member ship class, which was the only kind sought. Mrs. Myers and Miss Myers began work on the streets, with the former as chairman. Mrs. Winston and Miss Harrie also assisted. Headquarters of the Red Cross had sent a 8. O. 8. call to the Ahos lde chapter, which was slated to lose it charter by forfeiture on ac count of its lack of work. It has lag ged here for two years and only the efforts of the visitors and the two lo cal woipen saved the organisation. Mr. Walter L. Curtis ia now pres ident of the Chapter. MI88 GREENE TO WED The following announcement re cently appeared in the Norfolk, Va. papers: "Mr. and Mrs. N. E- Greene of Nor folk county announce the engagement of their daughter, Hflfrnice May, and Harold Hughes Addenbrook, of this city. The wedding will take place in January." Miss Greene was formerly a resi dent of Ahoslde, her family moving from here to Norfolk County, where Mr. Greene is ndw engaged in truck farming. .
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