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V TXGZSnC THIS BUSINESS f vt SUSAN THAYER On "Amounting TO, new "hired girl" was due to arrive that afternoon. Her brother W driving her over from Batea ville, 6 miles away, and Grandr mother was getting her room ready. "The Wagners are substantial peo ple," Grandmother said. "They keep Mclean house and pay their tolls. Jm expecting this Mils 'to amount to something. Now that Poe girl . . . ,., tch . . . just look at the way eWfiht ififtS: swept under the bed the whole tune ahe was here." Grandmother had never approved f the Poe girL She had "raUed her hair and made eyes at the h red man and complained of bl jtujj on wash days even before all the sheets were on the line. And by the time she was hanging out the colored clothes, she would stop and rest, on her way in from the line, on the Eench under the apple tree and fan herself with her sun bonnet. he!t5irffirl who sot tired before the Monday washing was on the line was just out oi iuck u i.naiinid. Because aftei dinner to gel Krandfather and tne ooys " hired man. A big dinner of meat and potatoes and vegetables that had to bV brought in from the garden and a pudding or pie cooked over a wood fire in the range. Afterwards fliere were dishes to do, and the wash house to scrub. Later on id the afternoon the sweet-smelling clothes had to be brought in off the line, then sprinkled and tucked away iia in a bisr wicker basket. Ill uauip v --w , j Than there was supper to get ana more dishes to vwash; chickens to feed and water and the milk from cows to strain before the milk things could be washed and scalded. Tuesday was ironing day and no matter how hot the weather, Grand mother and the "hired girl" kept at it until it was done, their irons heat ing on the big cook stove. Grand mother always baked bread on iron ing day so that the fire might do double duty. Wednesday was cleaning day and Grandmother was not content until every square inch of carpet in her big house had been swept and all of tYiA wood work as well as the furni ture dusted and the 12 coal' oil lamps given more than their daily cleaning. Thursday was mending day and a girl might expect to get some rest while she sat darning sox and put ting big honest patches on torn blue work shirts. Only that Grandmother always found "extras" for mending day. VOTE IRVIN COUNTY Famneir Irlefiids: t FOR BETTER YIELDS FROM YOUR FIELDS SlO-66 Fertilizers Use There Is a SCO-CO Fertilizer Manufactured By ThSoutherntottonOaCo: TS3 FSSQUI25AJNS WES&LY, ES!!tTTC?A N. To Something" Friday - mornings . Grandmother spent weeding in her vegetable gar den and in the afternoon she hitched old Cleo to the phaeton and drove to the villaue to do her week's buy ing. The girl was expected to go along for company and to have a chance to look around the: stores herself. It was her afternoon off whether she wanted to go or not. Saturdays there was so much bus tie and Btir in Grandmother's house getting ready for Sunday that no on ever had time to so much as sit down even for 5 minutes. Bread and pies and cookies were baked. Chickens were killed and dressed; vegetables gathered and cleaned for two days instead of one. And if company was coming for Sunday dinner, there was extra cleaning to do. Grandmother worked right along with the "hired eirl". as was the necessary custom in those days. And it was no easy job for either of them to cook and clean and wash and mend for a household of six without a single piece of mechanical equip ment. In those days before modern con veniences had transformed her world, a woman, whether mistress or maid, jolly well had to "amount to some thing!" W. M. S. MEETS AT WOODLAND The Woman's Missionary Society of Woodland Church met at the home of Mrs. Clifford Lane with Mrs. Lane and Mrs. Carson Jordan as jomt hostesses on Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Elmer Wood conducted the de votional, reading the .Scripture from 27th Psalm. Prayer was offered Dy Mrs. Ernest Cartwright. A respon sive reading was given by several members with Mrs. W. H. Cartwright as leader. "More Love To Thee was sung, and a reading, "The Pas tor's Place in Missions," was given by Mrs. Odell Cartwright. The leaf let was given by Mrs. Jack Benton, and the meditation, "My Lord Calls Me," was given by Mrs. Ralph Har rell. The president, Mrs. Jack Ben ton, presided over the business ses sion, after which the Lord's Prayer was repeated in unison as a bene diction. During the social hour ice cream and cakes were served by the host esses to the following: Mesdames J. T. Wood, Jack Benton, Odell; Cart wright, W. H. Cartwright, Ralph Harrell, Ernest Cartwright, George Jordan, Will Everett, Carson Jordan and Clifford Lane, Misses Sallie B. Wood and Elinor Jordan. Ui FOR NIXON FOR fl It 1'' COMMISSIONER m Law Af rests r ; .takers In Friiircry Registrar Is Required To Keep Record of All Those Voters He Assisted "V The 1939 General Assembly made a very drastic change in the use of markers in primaries.,,, - . The only voters who may be as sisted in the marking of their bal lots are those who cannot read and those who by reason of physical dis abling defect, are unable to mark their ballot. In an official opinion; the Attorney General ruled that only those illiter ates registered under the Grand father Clause of the Constitution were entitled to assistance by rea son of their inability to read. When a voter is entitled to assist ance in the marking of the ballot, he must obtain the assistance from a near relative, (husband and wife; parent and child; brother and sister; or grandparent and grandchild) but if no such near relative is present, he may then ask any other voter of the precinct who has not assisted any other voter, to give him the as sistance. If, however, there is pres ent no near relative, or other voter who has not marked another ballot, the voter may then, but only then, call upon the registrar or a judge of elections for assistance. The registrar is required to keep a record of all voters who receive as sistance and the names of the per sons giving assistance. It is not only unlawful for any person to give assistance, but also unlawful for any person to receive or permit assistance except under the terms of the Act. The Act does not prevent members of the same family (husband and wife; parent and child; brother and sister; grandparent and grandchild) from assisting one another, and no record is required of such. Electricity Put To Work On Farm Rural electrification has brought light and modern conveniences to thousands of North Carolina farm homes within the past few years. "Now," says D. E. Jones, rural electrification specialist of N. C State College, "farmers are learning how electricity can be put to work to lighten burdens and, economically operate heating and refrigeration units on the farm." He named the operation of brood ers for chicks, dairy equipment, and feed, grinders, and the heating oi plant beds as ways that farmers are using their new-found source of pow er and heat. Electric brooders are becoming popular, and among those who have expressed themselves as thoroughly satisfied with this modern equip ment are J. A. Rowland of Stanly County, John Workman of Cleveland County, and Mrs. J. C. Barber of Rowan County. Mr. Rowland figur ed his cost at slightly more than one cent per chick despite the severe winter just past. P. A. Irvin, a large retail milk producer of Mecklenburg County told Specialist Jones that his. total electric biU for the many jobs per formed in his dairy is no more than was his cost for ice alone before he installed electrical equipment, Ralph Scott of Alamance County, and Roy and Francis Siegman of Catawba County are enthused oyez their new feed grinding mills' oper ated by electric motors. Mr. Scott says: "I am convinced that the feed grinding problem on my farm is solved through use of this mill. 1 can grind nearly 60 bushels of ear corn an hour and use only five Kilo watt hours of electricity." , . Jones also reports that Ira f and High Bailey in Rowan County are using electricity to pump water for the irrigation of their truck. crops! and to heat plant beds to start let tuce, pepper and tomato plants. "A few farmers are also using electrically-heated . sweet potato , . plant beds' Jones stated. . , - CENTER HILL NEWS Mrs." Stoker has returned to her week's borne at Albemane, alter a . visit with her sister, Mitu '' Elliott TAla. HAw , ..CAlrA : Caii.vwIoTj I night and accompanied his wife home Sunday. 'f ? v -- Vc ""'" Mrs. Kosser ! Bunch tahd Von, Ros ser, spent the week-end' with Mrs. Bunch's "mother, Mrtj. Ownley,rof near Hertford l 1 Mrs,-' Ownley : has been in, ' Mr. and Mrs. Enunett Jones, "of Norfolk; Va spent Sunday with Mrs. Ida Reed." Rev., and-Mrs. J. T. Stanford and their jiephew,H.' Pickett,' Mr' and Mrs. H. E Lane,' Mrs. W. H.Lane, Mrs. E. B. White, J. S. Turner and Mrs. - J. 3. ,White attended the. Dis trict ; conference at the , T. Jenton Methodist Church last Thursday.. "- Rev. and Mrs. R. E. Walcton, of Pir.k Hill. w?re visitors in t' e com munity luursday afternoon. - ' ' Miss Bettie -Howell, of Norfolk, C F3XDAY, HAY 24, 1H' " , . r T . v, . 'ns ,f . - .77" T ' T" . .iiii hi i iNwiMi)iiiiiia,m)TgjjjBE"!Bsrgr -"--i'"'"" mm .. i '-mrrfrfmh.li.-Um.KS I I aunt, Mm. N. Bunch. ' , - . ' Mrs. Mollie Bunch ' has returned home after spending - last - week in Edenton with her son, Sheriff J. A. Bunch, and Mrs. Bunch. " Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner and two children; Peggy and Robert, visited Mr. and Mrs.. Joseph HolloweU, at Sunbury, Sunday afternoon.- Miss Tommie Goodwin has return ed home after a visit with -her. niece. Mrs. Bufus Garrett, in Norfolk, Va Mr. and' Mrs. Garrett accompanied her home. " Mr. and Mrs. Westbrook, . of Cin cinnati, Ohio, were week-end. 'guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Barnett. Mr. and Mrs. Cotter B.. White and son, C. B.; Jr., Mrs. J. G. White and Miss Mamie Byrum spent Wednesday in Durham. . . Miss Beulah White returned home Thursday. ; After: the closing, of the school at New Salem, Miss White entered the Charlotte hospital for an operation. She is now getting along nicely. " Mrs. J. S. Turner, Miss Lennie Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Winslow and daughter, Miss Eleanor, visited Miss Beulah White Saturday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. " Carey HolloweU, Mr. and Mrs. . Lindsay Evans, of Cross Roads, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. 0. Furry Sunday evening. Mrs. Bernice Smith and daughter, Betty, of Fort Royal, Va., are guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. a. Goodwin. Mrs. Lloyd Bunch and son, Dallas. are visiting her parents, Mr. end Mrs. Hassell, at Columbia, this week. Mrs. J. S. Turner, Miss Lennie Wilson, Mrs. J. P. McNider, Mrs. Nealie Bunch, Mrs. Herman Lane, Mrs. Jesse Dail visited Miss Mamie Byrum Saturday afternoon. Miss Byrum is very ill. Mrs. Henry Goodwin and daughter, Mary Ellen, . of Greenhall, visited Mr. and Mrs. R. 0. Furry Wednes day afternoon. Mrs. Edward Byrum and daughter, Doris Jean, spent Monday with hei parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Byrum, of near Cannons Ferry. Mrs. J. T. Stanford visited Mrs. Ida Reed Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. White and two children visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. White, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Byrum visited 666 checks MALARIA in 7 days and relieves COLDS symptoms first day LIQUID TABLtTB ALVE-HOBE DfiOFS THY 'HUl-MV-THM'-A WONDERFUL LINIMENT Lenten Juice Recipe Checks Rheamatic Pain QsicJdy If you luffer from rheumatic, trthritis or neuritii pain, try thu timple inexpen ive bomt recipe that thousands are using. Get a package of Ru-Ex Compound today. Mix it with a quart of water, add . the juice of 4 lemon. It'a easy. No trouble at all and pleasant. You need only 2 tabtespoonfuls two timet a day. Often wjthin 48 hours sometime! overnight splendid results are obtained. If the paim do not quickly leave and if you do not feel better, Ru-Ex will cost you nothing to try at it is sold by your druggist under an absolute money-back guarantee. Ru-Ex Compound it for sale and recommended by Roberson's Drug Store Prescription Druggist 1 "On The'Corner" HERTFORD, N. C J ON Ik na ' At'"! A" fc WtMlnghetiM a(rlgritrj , t- f ha -MANY OTHER JlkiUl Mr. and Mrs.' -E4 Byrum and-Loss Mamie, Byrum Sunday, - Miss Kathleen Ward spent Tues day with Mrs. Otis Ellis.-- ----- ; "' Misses Mary and Pasco HoUoweB and a friend, of Hobbsville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Boyce Sunday evening. Mrs. Ira Perry spent the week end in Rocky Hock with her daugh ter, Mrs. Herbert Byrum, and Mr, Byrum. " Mr. and Mrs. Willie isyrum and daughter, Shirley, - spent Saturday night with Mr.' and Mrs. J. "P. Byrum. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Byrum, jdl near Cannons Ferry, visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Byrum Sunday evening. Miss Frances Dail has returned home after spending last week with her sister, Mrs. Nearest Jordan. Jordan and chUdren visited Mrs. J. f Mrs. Oliver1 Jordan, Mrs. Nearest P. Bvrum Saturday eveninir. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Winslow and daughter, URuth, of Elizabeth City, spent .Sunday with Mrs. Winslow's mother, Mrs. J. M. Turner. Miss Lucy Myers White is visiting relatives in Norfolk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Arrfiie Lane visited Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lane on Sunday evening. Auto Body and Auto Painting Body and Fender Straightening Wrecks Rebuilt AUTHORIZED DuPont Shop 312 N. Poindexter Street ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. Johnnie Pearson MANAGER ETdDTTIKCE The Hertford Clinic announces that beginning June 1, there will be no office hours on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday nights. , - - : Olt OPERATING COSTfl . with the famous WettinghouM ECONOMIZER Msled-in-ited mchsnlarn 10 hows out 12, it 'HMa m imMn n all. ... .;...'" nc f OOO SPOILAGE . with aw - TRU-Z0N2 COLDI It rives tou ttuf dv low temrwMtures. the "rif-V cold "3; numiaity for food. ; . . ON. UPKEEP, ALSOI .'. . with tmwihx new FTZX GLA3, the "Ufetlme" ins.'.o: n. It adds years to the efficient L.e of , your refrigerstor cabinet. - v ADVANTA6EJ tm eHarl ii: ohd, n. c. .'1)L. I. .... ImIjui.i 'f.MMMur, participating in the AAA farm pro-s !-,. k AnA AAA .,;J ., 7 gram increased - irom. ,uuu,uuu in r 1934 to . approximately .6,000,000 InA 1939, a 100 percent increase, BRITISH BUT CORN . f The sale of 20,000,000,000 bushels of surpjus American " Corn to the British under a newly organized, ex port subsidy program has' been . an nounced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. ",.;. JS THERE LIFE ON MARS? C " A distinguished astronomer tells of - astoniahlnir chamres he observed: on the face of our puizling neighr bor planet during its recent close visit to the earth. Read this un usual story in the May .26th issue of The American Weekly the Ibig magazme distuibuted wlth the Baltimore American On Sale at AU Newsstands TAYLOR THEATRE 1 EDENTON, N. C Friday, May 24 Brrol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins and Randolph Scott in - "Virginia crrY" Saturday, May 25 Jack Randall in "OVERLAND MAIL" Sunday, May 26 Double Feature Laurel and Hardy in "SAPS AT SEA" Weaver Brothers and Elviry in "IN OLD MISSOURI" Monday. May 27 . Loretta Young and Ray Milland in THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE Tuesday, May 28 George Brent and Merle Oberon in "TIL WE MEET AGAIN" Wednesday, May 29 Zane Grey's "Light ef the Western Stars" May 30-31 "REBECCA" f jx ' A 3 u;5fi; l-r lyhik; A I: Va was the'weei-end guest of her
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