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y’ ANDREW J. CONNER, PUBUISHER OLUME XXXV SEABOARD NEWS "CAROUNA, CAROLINA. HEAVEN'S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER* RICH SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926 SUBSCRIPTION PER ANNUM $1.00 NUMBER 30 Abundant Rains Relieve Crops--Re vival Services-District Conferl- ence-Oiher News in Brief / MILWAUKEE NEWS SEVERN NEWS Mr. and Mrs F. C. Weaver and daughter Margaret left ^un- day for Norfolk to visit iMr. Weaver’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Weaver. While away they will have Margaret’s tonsiljs re moved. I Misses Mary and Bettie Spen cer returned home Saturday af ter spending six weeks at Wake Forest College attending summer school. 1 Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Lon« and sons, Thomas and William, spent Sunday at Lawrenceville. guests of Mrs. Long’s brother. Mr. John Ivey. They were acbom panied home by their daughter, Miss Mary, who spent two weeks there visiting relatives. Miss Alma Matthews returned home, Monday after spending six weeks at N. C. C. W., Greens boro, attending summer school. Messrs S. L. Yates and Gordon Maddrey returned home Monday after a ten day motor trip through Western North Carolina. Mr. Roland Gay returned home Monday after spending six weeks at Wake Forest attending sum mer school. Mr. Elliott Harris, Cairo, Ill., is expected home Thursday and will spend his vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Harris. Mr. J. D. Pope spent the past week in Portsmouth visiting rel atives and friends. Miss Ruby Worrell, Weldon, returned home Friday after a two week’s visit to her cousin, Mrs. C, E. Barnes. Mrs. Wm. A. Vincent and dau ghter Barbara of Vultare were guests of her mother, Mrs. Bettie I, Pruden, Friday. Mrs. Bena Crocker and daugh ter, Mrs. Richard Carter and her little son Hugh, Weldon, were guests Thursday of Mrs. Nettie Crocker. Little Miss Carolyn Stephenson of Franklin returned home Sat urday after a few days visit to Miss Virginia Jdaddrey- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Knox Ferrell, Durham, left for their home Tuesday after a few days visit to Mrs. Ferrell’s sister.Mrs. Frank Culbreth. Mr. and Mrs. G. F, Crocker of Wilmington spent the week end here. They were accompanied here by Master George Harris, who had been their guest two weeks. Mrs. Mollie Lassiter, Ports mouth. returned home Monday after a few days visit to her son Herman and Mrs. P. L. Garris. Mr. and Mrs. J. K, Long ar rived Saturday from U. N.»C., Chapel Hill, where they spent six weeks attending summer school. Mr, and Mrs. Matt R. Stephen son spent the week-end at Vir ginia Beach. Miss Lillian Rector. Chilhowie. Va.. arrived Saturday and will spend this week here visiting her friend and classmate. Miss Alice Kelly Harris. A goodly number from here attended the District Conference of the M. E. church which was held at Windsor the past Wed nesday and Thursday. Dr. Carl P. Parker was elected a delegate to the annual conference which will be held at Durham in No vember. Mrs. Russell Candill and dau ghter Venita, Durham, spent Wednesday and Thursday here (Continued on page four) Mr. R. A. Woods of Norfolk spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs, John Woods. Messrs R. M. Coggin and Wil liam Mitchell of Portsmouth were week-end guests of Mrs. M. L. Coggin. Miss Margaritte Pierce of Ahos- kie was in town last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewter McDan iel of Woodland were Sunday af ternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Lassiter. Miss Brownie Martin returned home Sunday after visiting rela tives and friends in Windsor.Va. Mrs. Ellie Britt and son M. D, Jr. and daughter, Mercilla Reams, spent Friday with Miss Susie Britton near Handsoms, Va. Mrs. Etta Wade and Messrs Robert Wade. Grant, and Wig gins of Suffolk were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J, S Britton. Miss Mary Lassiter has return ed home after undergoing an op eration at Roanoke Rapids hos pital, Mr. W. J. Wilson was in Nor folk Monday on business. Mr. Frank Coggin of Ports mouth has concluded a visit with his mother. Mrs. M. L. Coggin. Mr. George Parker, who is putting down machinery for Woods Basket Mfg. Co., spent Saturday and Sunday with his family in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Johnson left Tuesday to spend several days with Mrs. Johnson’s par ents in Mebane, N. C. Miss Selma Johnson spent the past week with her brother, Mr. Luther Bridgers. of Conway. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Warren of Murfreesboro spent a short while in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Boone Sunday afternoon. Miss Mary Sue Wigley, home demonstration agent, met the club girls last Friday. Messrs Percy Johnson, Frank Coggin, Joe Rose and Emit Cog gin attended the ball game at Ahoskie last week. Miss Doris Lewis of Ports mouth is spending several days with Miss Georgia Coggin. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rose visited friends and relatives at Seaboard last week. Mr. and Mrs, S. G. Askew were in Jackson Sunday visiting friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Timberlake of Woodland were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Timberlake Sun day. A ball game was played here last Friday between Milwaukee and Lasker. Score was 8 to 15 in favor of Milwaukee. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Little of Portsmouth spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Martin. Mr. Jesse Taylor left Saturday to spend several days with rela tives in Philadelphia. Several families from here en joyed a picnic at Tuscarora Beach last Thursday. Class Coming-Drowned In The Meherrin- -Considering Light Proposition-Personals MDDERN FARMING A Planiation Where Hogs and Soy beans Are Taking the Place ot Cotton NEWS FROM KELFDRD Mr, and Mrs. Pruden of Suf folk, Va., spent last Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cherry. THE CROPS Throughout Northampton, Ber tie and Hertford the crops are good. Corn suffered much dur ing last week for lack of rain, but good showers came on Satur day in a considerable territory. Rich Square seemed to be the center of the dry area. Cotton has a good growth and many were of the opinion that the dry weather was helpful rather than hurtful to cotton. Corn continues to give prom ise cf a large crap. The Concert Class from the Odd Fellows’ Orphan Home at Goldsboro will give a concert here on Monday, August 9th, to which the public is invited. Mrs. M. M. Long, Jr., and Misses Ada Alice Long and Mar ion Woodard returned Thursday from a visit to relatives in Ports mouth. Va. Mrs. J. N, Stephenson is spend ing this week with her sister, M^s. C. M. Dennis, at Willough by Beach, Va, Tne Y, W. A’s, held a picnic at Coleraine Beach last Wednes day. Mrs R. T. Woodard was chaperon. Mr. Robert Hughes U, S. N. was a guest in the home of Mr. W. E. Glover Sunday. Miss Sabrina Holder, student King’s lousiness College, Raleigh spent the week end with her sis ter, Mrs. D. S. O’Neal. Mr. Truman Gaskins of Nor folk. Va.. was the guest of Messrs H. C. and K. E. Rogers several days last week. Mr. and Mrs. J, R Nixon and sons, Joseph and George, after spending two weeks with Mrs. G. W. Pruden left for their home at Cheeryville last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stephen son, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Steph enson. Misses Hazel and Linda Grant and Mr. Moring Stephen son attended the District Con ference at Windsor last Wednes day. Boston Rogers, a colored boy. aged 14 years, was accidentally drowned in the Meherrin River near here Iqst Friday afternoon. Mr. W. D. Lewter of Fayette ville, was a guest of his father, Mr. E. T. Lewter, last week. Messrs J. M, Alston, Glenn Davis and Mahlon DeLoatch spent Sunday at Ocean View, Mrs. A. I. Hines and little son of Suffolk, Va., spent seyera days last week with her father, Mr. W. H. Howell. Miss Bettie Starr Howell, Nor folk, Va , was a guest of the Y. W. A’s. on their picnic at Cole raine last Wednecday. Mrs. D. S. Barnes left last Wednesday for New York City and Poughkeepsi to visit her son, Mr. E. K. White, who is a stu dent in Eastman’s Business Col lege. Rev. A. W. H. Jones filled his regular appointment here Sunday morning and night. His sermon from Prov. 18:29, “Where there is no vision the people perish,” was very timely. The Fidelis Class presented the carpet to the church at the morning services Several representatives of the Virginia Electric and Power Co., of Richmond, Va., and Roanoke Rapids, were here last week. It is to be hoped they and the busi ness men of the town can get together on the lighting proposi tion. It means progress for both town and community. Mr. U. S. Grant. Jr. arrived yesterday from Lakeview Hospi tal, Suffolk, Va., where he had been for treatment for appendi citis. Miss Marjorie Fleetwood of Jackson spent last week with her cousin Miss Jay White. Misses Willie Maddrey and Evelyn White and Messrs J. B Stephenson and Leon Joyner motored to Elizabeth City Sun day. Mr M. L. Martin and family and Mr. J. B. Stephenson and family attended services at Con way Sunday evening. Mr, and Mrs. A. R. Hodge of A visit to Mr. Ira J. Hoover’s plantation last week revealed that the old method of all cotton and peanuts in farming is pass ing. Mr. Hoover owns one of the finest farms in North Caro lina, situated on the Roanoke, and it will produce almost any crop; but he is getting away from cotton, which has been king with us. Mr. Hoover came here some seven or eight years ago from Iowa and bought a 3000 acre farm. Farm land in Iowa not as good as this, where corn and small grain are about the only crops they can grow, soils for live hundred dollars an acre. Mr. 'cover’s father owns such a rarm. Here almost any crop on the agricultural list can be grown. As much corn, wheat or oats can 36 grown here per acre as in owa, the great corn State. We lave a more favorable climate for stock-raising. We found on Mr. Hoover’s farm about 600 hogs and a num ber of cattle. He has a large pasture (several hundred acres) and for nine months in the year lis cattle do not have to be fed, and his hogs through the spring and summer require but little feeding. On the part of the plantation that Mr. Hoover cul tivates himself were fields of soybeans. They are planted in all his corn besides fields for hay. He has found by growing soy- leans and let corn follow them he does not have to use fertilizer. We saw fields of corn that fol- owed soybeans, and corn that :'oliowed other crops and there was as much difference as “be I'ore and after” in the medicine advertisements. It is just won derful how soybeans improve and. We also found fields of alfalfa which make the finest hay and which is mowed three or four times a year. In walking over the field we found a six acre lot in artichokes, planted for hogs. They are very fine and give promise of producing a bumper crop. Mr. Hoover made a success with hogs in 1925. He had hogs ready for the market all through the year and obtained the high est prices. He was away at the time of our visit, but Mr. Paul L. Grant is superintending for him. He and Mrs. Grant make a visit to this fine plantation one of pleasure and profit—profit in that you get new ideas about how to develop the farm re sources we have. We have the climate, soil anc rainfall to make this the garden spot of the world. We only neec to get out of the old notion that cotton is our only salvation. Good-Work on Higlr- way 12—Dr. Barton to Londuct Revival Servlces-Other Nevus Knightdale spent several days last week with Dr. and lyirs. A R. Hodge. Mrs. Mitchell of Wake Forest, Mrs. Neva Mae Saunderson of Raleigh, Mrs. Smith of Branch- ville, Va., were guests of Mr and Mrs. H. W. Maddrey Satur day evening. The Odd Fellows District Con ference meets with the local Lodge next Thursday afternoon and evening. Miss Lizzie Stephenson of Pen dleton and Mr. W. A. Stephen son of Raleigh were guests of Mrs. Lula White Monday morn ing. Misses Annie Mae and Janice Martin are visiting relatives in Richmond. Va,, this week. Miss Louise Soms, of Newport News, Va., is spending the week with her aunt, Mrs. J, E, Tyler. Mr. C M. Parker is spending the week with friends in Raleigh and Wake Forest. Miss Louise Cherry, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cherry, is spending the week with her aunt, Mrs. Pruden, of Suffolk. Va. The splendid programs at the evening services of Kelford Bap tist church were charmingly car ried out last Sunday evening. The beautiful program of the B. Y. P. U. led by Mrs. W. C Evans, was highly pleasing as was the preaching service con ducted by the pastor. Special music rendered by Mrs. L. R. Modlin, on the piano accompan ied by Mr. W. H. Parker, on the Saxaphohe, and two duets, one by Mrs. W. W. Wilkins and Mr. L. R, Modlin and one by Miss Willie Harrell and Mr. Modlin were perfect gems in the art of entertainment. Miss Harrell is a student of Chowan College and has a lovely soprano voice. Mrs. Wilkins is a specialist in vocal and instrumental music, singing a beautiful soprano as well as a delightful alto. Mr. Modlin is choir leader of Kelford church and also sings a splendid tenor. Last Wednesday afternoon while the thermometer was play ing around a hundred and four teen at the Front Street crossing of the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road and a hundred and six in the shade, Kelford moved down to Colerain Beach to enjoy the picnic planned by Mrs. Paul Lei cester for her Junior Class of B. Y. P. Us. and all others that wished a day of genuine pleas ure. In planning a successful picnic, there are several very im portant accomplishments neces sary for the planner to be en dowed with, and in this case Idrs. Leicester seemed to have them all. However, she was not eft alone in this matter as was demonstrated by the combined cooperation of practically the whole town in her most success ful effort, and when the seven o’clock dinner was served there was not room enough on the thirty foot square table to hold all the good things that the la dies had prepared for this happy occasion. The picnic spirit was running high and everybody hac a good time. The river water was in a most receptive moot and quite a number went bath ing. Th^old folks of three score and more as well as the children of less than ten, seemed to enjoy the fine waters with supreme de light, The lovely blonds, with golden tresses and the charming brunetts with wavey ringletts of Raven curls, clustering around beautiful brows, above lovely pink cheeks, were all there.cloth- ed in most becoming costumes, and presenting a picture that Venus herself would have envied in her palmyest days. As the scores of bathers basked in the gentle waters of the historic Chowan River, the panorama as viewed from the shore line pre sented a picture of a lovely flow er garden planted upon the sur face of a plate glass mirror. Af ter refreshing the appetite to the fullest extent and enjoying the merry-go-round, the crowd turn ed their steps homeward, arriv ing back in Kelford iate and tired but happy. Mr. A. W. Brown and daugh ter, Miss Janie, are spending sometime in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Taylor, West Chester, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Councill and children, Franklin, were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Winslow Sunday. Mrs. Paul Purvis and children, Anna Rebecca and Ruth, are visiting relatives in Ithaca. N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. E. G. GriflBn and family and Miss Ruth Brown are at their summer cottage at Ridge crest where they will spend four weeks. Mrs. C. G. Parker, who has been in Sarah Leigh Hospital for nearly two months, returned home last Saturday to the de light of her family and many friends. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Gunter,, who were visitors here, left a few days ago for their home at Fuauay Springs, where Mr. (Jun- ter has opened a law office for the practice of his profession. They were accompanied by Mrs^ Gunter’s mother, Mrs. Jane E.. Brown. ^ Several from here are spend ing this week at Ed^nhouse, a popular summer resort. Revival services will begin at. the Baptist Church berr next Sunday. Dr. Barton will assist the pastor. Rev, C. M. Billings, with the preaching. The public is cordially invited to attend all the services. The supper which was served lere last Saturday afternoon by the Methodist ladies of the com munity for the benefit of the beautiful new church which they are building, was a decided suc cess despite the fact the shower of rain drove them in off the lawn. The supper was com pleted on the large front porch of Mr. and Mrs, W. H. S, Bur- gwyn. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Griffin, Raleigh, after spending some time here with relatives, left a few days age for their home. Mrs. Mattie Griffin spent the past week with relatives in and around Ahoskie. Mrs. W. R. Parker took her little daughter to a specialist in Norfolk last Friday for treat ment. Mrs. Henderson, Charlotte,and Mrs. Jenkins, Aulander, spent last Thursday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Copeland. Mr. Jesse Brittle, a former citizen of our community, now of Burlington, is spending some time with relatives hare. Misses Beulah Bryson and Mary Payton, 0wings, S. C., spent the past week here with Mr. and Mrs. Roy M. Griffin. Rev, and Mrs. R, E. Brick- house who have been spending some time with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Holloman, left a few days ago. Mr. R. C. Benthall has just, completed one of the nicest homes in this part of the Slate which adds much to the looks of our town, Contractors began work this week on a modern new brick home for Mr. J. P. Brown, whose house was completely destroyed by fire a few months ago. This is the old home place of the !ate Benjamin P. Brown. Work has begun in earnest oa highway number 12 which passea through our town. It is univet^ (Continued on page eight)
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