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f 1 1 I T MAMS y U U '1 f liHiTl M 3JJ1 l JL A' WEEKLY, NESPAJER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF to&gfifoRD AND PERQUIMANS COUKTY Volume II. Number 36. Hertford; Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, September 6, 1935. $1.25 Per Year POOR REVERTED S. S. Convention At Anderson Sept. 11 TOWN FATHERS FOR SUPPORT AID to courrrrs list Includes Unemployables Formerly on ERA Relief Roll PATHETIC CASES Unfortunates WH1 Re ceive Average $2.83 Per Month The County will pay this month to the unemployable persons formerly on the direct relief rolls of the Emer gency Relief Adminstration half of the sums they have' been receiving, according to an order made by the "Chairman on Monday, or an average .amount of $2.83 per ' person per montn. --iq.:j -v The list turned over to the County on Monday by Charles E. Johnson, of the local ERA office, includes 45 names, mostly ' of old persons, all in capable of worlc'Tw lof these have died during the month, leaving 43 for the county to provide for. These unemployable have been re ceiving from the ERA monthly sums ranging in amounts of from two to ten dollars, which means that some of these old persona will receive only a dollar a month now, and that in no case but -one 'will any one be paid more than four 'dollars. One man was receiving ten dollars per month. He will now get five. On this list are a number of pathe tic cases of helpless old,., persons. There is an old colored man who is almost totally blind. His wife who is also very old, is mentally afflicted. This old couple live alone. There is another old man, eighty four, whose wife is eighty, both are feeble. The boy who was their only help died this summer. In addition to this list of 43, seve ral other old persons applied for aid to the commissioners . on Monday. Three vere placed on the. rolls. Some were turned away and toid to try to get along until cold weather, when the county will help them. When the Emergency Relief Ad ministration relieved the county of the burden of caring for the "outside poor7 in the fall of 1932, there were en the list 24 persons, who were being paid by the county monthly sums ranging from $1.33 to $15.00. Only one on the list received $15.00. J One other received $10.00. Most of . them were paid sums of four or five dol lars per month. The average amount which the ERA paid last month per person was $5.60. : Cut in half, this amounts to $23 per person per month, as against $40 which ' the county wag averaging in 1932. . Perquimans County provided $1504. -00 for the outside' poor fund during the last fiscal ' year, turning ' the amount over to the ERA for the purpose. ' This amount was largely supplemented by ERA funds. E. F. Mann Manager Of Blanchard Stote E. F. Mann, of Salisbury,, has ac cepted the position of Store Manager with the firm of ; J. C. Blanchard & Co.; and took over his new duties on Monday. , - Mr. Mann, who is a native of Vir grj, has had wide experience in the management of retail stores in North Carolina and . comes . to Blanchard's highly recommended. " '' ' The Mann family consists or Mr. and Mrs. Mann and one young 'son. They are at present making their home at the' boarding house of Mrs. J. E. White. ' , 4 (',' Blanchard's "is the oldest-mercantile firm in existence in this section having celebrated, ; with a very ela y borate sales event and special county wide exhibition, the one hundredth anniversary of the business in 1932. In addition to the store, which car ries a full line of general merchan dise, including . dry goods,- clothing, ladies ready-to-wear, notion, grocer ies and hardware the firm deals ex tensively in farm produce. 1 J, C. Blanchard the present head of the business is a grandson of the founder of the business. , . ' . Rev.B. 7. Gcilhc? ! Visits richer Here - Rev. B. W. Gaither, of Dalhart, : Tex., was a reccr.t guest of his moth er, Mrs. W. G. Gaither in Hertford. ' Mr. Gaither, a native Hertford boy ho was for a nr-nber of years a -riasionary to !:a from the Pro t nhnt Eplsccr v. vrh, has for the - j ' five yr--s I 1 -ctor of Crace t ', rt r , I'y. Ka I-i A. w. hefrEn The three gentlemen shown in the group above represents the Board of Town Commissioners of Hertford. Left to right, they are A. W. Hefren, Dr. C. A. Davenport and W. H. Hard castle. i Each member of the Board is an Outstanding citizen, ' each prominent in his line, and all possessing the confidence of the people. Mr. Hefren, who has served for 13 Oil Mill Expected To Be Ready To Operate During December Contract Let For Rebuilding Plant Which Was Destroyed By Fire In January, 1934; Personnel Named That the oil mill will be ready to begin operation in December was stated this week as' the' opinion of H. E. King, Mechanical Engineer for the Southern Cotton Oil Co., who is taking the preliminary steps toward the actual rebuilding of the old East ern Cotton Oil Company's plant here. The contract will probably be let this week, according to Mr. King, and the construction work will begin at once. The main oil mill building which was wrecked by a boiler explosion in January of 1934 will be reconstruct ed much along the same lines of the old mill. Modern machinery will replace the obsolete machinery and that damaged by the explosion. The mill will be entirely electric driven, instead of partly electric and OLDEST RESIDENT ;A3TUNTY HOME Tom Williams, Though Blind, I. Hale Aad;Hearty; Remains Loyal to -. Old Church . Probably the oldest resident of Perquimans County is Tom Williams, colored, who for the past six years has lived at the County Home. Tom is hale and hearty, able to get about and would be able to help himself but for the fact that he is stone blind- It was when he became blind that he went to live at the County home. - :'J : Simon S tailings, the kindly keeper of the Home, eays Tom is a good man, and that he has a great many friends - among the .white , people in the community where, he formerly lived, as well as among his own race. Every summer Mr. Stalhngs car ries Tom down to ;Bethelv his former home,.fwhere he visits for a week during the revival meeting at his church. Tom. .thinks a lot of his church. - The present building is a large frame building,. modern and at- tractiyeY'S ttt' The first church Tom remembers at this place was .what Tom describes as a bush shelter ; That - was away back in the early days of-Tom's life. This was replaced by a log house, in which the colored people of Bethel worshipped for a long time. Later a frame building -was - erected, and within the past few years the pres ent church was built , Tom helped to build them all. '" 4 - ' C. Morgan Patient;' . In Norfolk- Hospital C. W. Morgan, prominent Hertford resident, is a patient in "the Protes ted Hospital in Norfolk, where -he was taken last Friday. , . ' Mr. Morgan has been in ill health for some time, his condition growing worse recently. - While he will have to undergo an operation'' hie condi tion is such , that he wilt:; be ', given treatment for some time, before the operation is performed. r.-. Z' i is s'Eyi in Nor J - ' - -' r 1 ' .i while he DR. C. A. DAVENPORT years on the Board, is office mana ger of Major & Loomis Co. He is also President of the Hertford Build ing & Loan Association. Mr. Hefren is a native of the State of Pennsyl vania, having lived in Hertford for the past twenty-five years. Dr Davenport, who is serving his second term on the Board is a pro minent physician. The Docter is the only native North Carolinian on the partly steam driven, as was the old mill. Mr. King stated that his company expects to establish the business here on a big scale, hoping to make a bet ter mill than ever. The same kind of business in every particular will be run, with an oil mill, ginnery and fertilizer plant in operation. The company will buy cotton and cotton seed and sell cot ton, and cotton seed products, and manufacture and sell fertilizer, just as the old Eastern Cotton Oil Com pany did. In fact, according to J. A. White, they expect to begin to buy cotton next week. C. P. Morris will contiue as Mana ger of the business, with J. A. White as cashier and J. R. Elliott as super intendent Perquimans Boy Makes Good In Dare County In a recent issue of the Dare Coun ty Times there appeared an interest ing article concerning a Perquimans boy, Carson W. Davis, who has made good in Dare. Mr. Davis, a prominent Manteo merchant, who instituted the first ex clusive clothing store in Dare County, is a native of Winfall and is a broth er of Mrs. J. H. Towe, Sr., of Hert ford. After outlining something of the early history of Mr Davis' business career covering a period of some thirty years or more in Dare, the writer has this to say: "Of course, it is no accident or stroke of luck that brought about this succeess. It was hard work and strict attention to business. Carson' W. Davis has never been known to get mixed up in politics, religion or community squabbles." In closing, the writer further says: "He is very conservative and not inclined to boast about his business, but his was the first business place in the county to install modern glass cases, and fixtures, . electric , lights, and initiate window displays. He knew: how to keep his help, interested and some of his force have been with him for fifteen or twenty years. He made himself popular with the trade, made money and. prospered." Road Delegation Goes 0. To .Raleigh, Today A large ' delegation of Perquimans County folks made up largely of Du rante Neck residents but with seve ral representatives from other, local ities also, will go to Raleigh today tQ lay before the State Highway ft Public Works Commission the matter of extending the. hard surfaced road from New Hope to Durante Neck.' (Mr. and Mrs. C WV Griff inV of Du mnts Neck, who'; fiave been active in the matter, were in Hertford on Monday, soliciting other signatures to; supplement the large number al ready secured to the petition asking for tLe carrying out of this project iitiillilli sm - 'is '-i i - S0i W. H. HARDCASTLE Board, hailing from Mackeys. He has been practicing medicine in Hert ford for the past eight years. W. H. Hardcastle is Assistant Cashier of the Hertford Banking Company and Secretary of the Hert ford Building & Loan Association Mr. Hardcastle has held his position at the bank for the past 15 years, coming to Hertford from his native State of Maryland. COUNTY SEEKING LAST MINUTE PWAPROJECTS Includes Draining Pro jects Requiring Large Number Laborers ASK DREDGING Applications Approved And1 Sent to District Office In E. City Last minute projects to be brought before the Board of County Commissioners on Monday may re sult in several improvements which will be of much benefit to various rural communities ana furnish work for a number of laborers. Two of the projects involved draining. The Board approved the applica tion to the proper authority to dredge the Little River River Run from the bridge at Woodville to the Suffolk & Carolina Railroad, at Park ville, a distance of approximately 8 miles. A drainage project was presented by a number of the residents of the Hickory Cross Community in the form of a. petition which was signed by many other residents of the neighborhood. Miss Mildred Hinton presented the matter to the Board, asking that a canal which leads from what is known as the fields, causing a condition that is a menace to the health of the community. It was stated that there are at present sev eral cases of malaria in the immediate neighborhood. The roads in this sec tion are represented as being flood ed. It was in this section of the county that reports came in some weeks ago that boys went swimming in the road following a heavy rain. Others who appeared in the in terest of this project were Mrs. J W. Hinton, William C. Chappell and Willie G. Stallings. The approval of the commissioners was given for this project also and the petitioners went immediately to the District Office of the PWA in Elizabeth City to make application. Virginia Tucker Is Junior Computer Miss Virginia Tucker, a local girl who has for the past' .three1 years been teacher, of mathematics; in the Perquimans High ' School, has receiv ed an appointment aft Junior Compu ter for the National Advisory Com mittee for Aeronautics at Langly Field, Hampton, Va. ' Miss Tucker took over her new duties on Tuesday. Having been notified by wire while visiting in California of her appoint ment to the position at Langley Field. Miss Tucker cut her visit short and returned home last week. ; ) S. S. CLASS HAS PICNIC - j The members of the Judson Memo rial Sunday School Class of the Hert ford Baptist Church went: on apic- nic to Eden. House on Thursday J of last week. ,. Jurors Drawn For Superior Court The following list of jurors were drawn Monday to serve at the fall term of Perquimans Superior Court, which will convene on Octo ber 28: Dallas White, D. W. Simpson, J. Mood Copeland, John R. Hen dren, W. T. Russell, E. S. Wins low, Jr., Alfred Rountree, J. A. Goodman, J. A. Perry, D. J. Prit chard, Dockey Cartwright, G. E. Gregory, W. M. Humphries, A. W. Jordan, Nerus W. Chappell, J. D. Chappell, Lloyd E. Winslow, W. A. Elliott, Zack Phillips, H. A. Whit ley, R. C. Skinner, Thomas Deal, J. E. Twine, C. A. Boyce, George L. Sutton, Jr., J. Elmer Wood, Joe Dail, G. E. Benton, R. B. Kir by, Herbert J. Winslow, L. R. Wil son, E. R. Stevenson, J. L. Cart wright, Eugene Ward, C. L. God win, L. A. Smith. DISTRICT MUSIC CLUBS WILL MEET IN LOCAL SCHOOL Everybody Interested In Music Urged To Attend First Meeting of Northeastern District The first Districte Meeting of the Northeastern District of the State Federation of Music Clubs will be held in the auditorium of the Hert ford Grammer School on Saturday of next week. The morning session will be pre sided over by Mrs. V. A. Ward, of Robersonville, District Director. Mrs. R. M. Riddick, Junior Counse lor for the District, will preside at the afternoon session. An address will be made by Mrs. J. S. Correll, of Raleigh, State President, and other state officers are expected to be pre sent. The Northeastern District is a new district, organized through the in fluence of the Hertford Music Clubs. Prior to the organization of this dis trict there were only five districts in the State, and when music clubs of this section of the state wished to take part in preliminary contests it was necessary to travel to Wilming ton. This new district will be of great convenience to the members of music clubs who wish to take part in district and state contests. All music club members and others interested in musical programs are invited to the first meeting of the Northeastern District of the State Federation of Music Clubs. Ask"PWA Project To Re-Index Rooks Among the projects applied for by Perquimans County from the PWA is the re-indexing of the deed books in the courthouse. The index system in effect in the office of the Regis ter of Deeds is incomplete and very unsatisfactory. To install an adequate index sys tem would entail expenditure of much money and employment would j be given to a number of persons for a considerable period of time. County Commissioners E. M. Perry and E. W. Mathews, accompanied by Chas. Whedbee, County Attorney, and J. W. Ward, Register of Deeds, made a trip to Elizabeth City on Tuesday and cousulted officials of the PWA in reference to the project. Hertford Negro Jailed For Entering Store Josephus Wilson, Hertford Negro, is being held in jail charged with en tering the store of L. J. Winslow, at Belvidere, on Tuesday morning. Mrs. Winslow. who entered the store from the rear door, surprised a Negro man in the act of attempt ing to open the cash register. No body else was in the store at the time Mr. winslow having stepped out the front door. The Negro intruder past Mrs. Winslow and ran away, making his escape through the field. Wilson, who had -ridden to Belvi dere on an ice teruck and had been seen about the store a short time be fore, was picked up later. He has served a term on the roads for lar ceny. 1 BACK FROM WEDDING TRIP Dr. T. P. Brinn and his bride, who was the former Miss Mary Glasson, of Durham, have returned from their wedding, trip and. are making their home in. apartments in the residence of Mrs. C C. Winslow on Market street. - 1 , ' ,"-'"". Interesting Program Is Prepared For Church School Workers AWARD PENNANT Rev. Shuford Peeler To Discuss Phases of Work The Perquimans County Sunday School Convention will be held in Anderson Methodist Church on Wed nesday of next week. This is the annual county Sunday School conven tion and is especially planned for all those interested in the Sunday Schools of all denominations. The program as scheduled for this year calls for a two-session convention, beginning at 9:45 and continuing through an afternoon session. Be tween the two sessions there will be a fellowship dinner on the grounds, and everyone is asked to bring a basket lunch. The morning and afternoon ses sions will consist of addresses center ing around the various phases of the convention theme, "Building a New Community," as well as special mu sic and study groups. These study groups are especially designed to meet the needs of teachers, officers and all other Sunday School workers or members. Mrs. J. W. Dimmette, of Winfall, will direct a study group in the afternoon on "Training Chil dren and Young People In the Church School Through Worship." Rev. Shuford Peeler, general secre tary of the North Carolina Sunday School Association, will lead discus sion groups, one in the morning on "The Effective Adult Class," and one in the afternoon for superintendents, teachers, pastors, adults. Many local people will participate. The complete program for the con vention follows: Morning Session 9:45 Song service, in charge of local choir; song leader, Mrs. Joe Perry; Scripture and prayer, W. F. B. Sawyer, superintendent. 10:05 Address, "Building a New Community Through Developing Christ-like Personalities." 10:25 Special music, quartet by local choir. 10:30 Discussion groups r "The Effective Adult Class," Rev. Shuford Peeler, Salisbury. 11:20 Reassemble, business, at tendance, reports, committees. 11:30 Address, "Personal Evange lism In Building Community Life," Rev. Shuford Peeler. Offering for Sunday School cause. 12:10 Hymn. Benediction, Rev. J. W. Dimmette. Fellowship dinner. All bring bas kets. Afternoon Session 1:45 Song service. Scripture and prayer, Rev. Miss Bertha V. Smith, Piney Wood Friends Church. 2:00 Discussion groups: "Train ing Children and Young People in the Church School Through Worship, Mrs. J. W. Dimmette, Winfall; for superintendents, teachers, pastors adults, Rev. Shuford Peeler. 2:45 Reassemble. 2:50 Special music, duet by local choir, 2:55 Address, "The Value of Sun day Schools In Building a New Com munity." 3:30 Hymn. Benediction, W. E. Dail, New Hope church. At the close of the afternoon ses sion a pennant will be given to the Sunday School making the best rec ord of attendance, based on the num ber of miles traveled. Mrs. Eunice Winslow is president and Mrs. B. W. Thatch, secretary of the association. Local Men Attending National Rifle Meet Judge Walter H. Oakey Jr., and M. G. Owens left on Saturday for Camp Perry, Ohio, to take part in the Nat ional Pistol and Rifle Matches being conducted by the War Department These two Hertford men, both crack shots, won places on the Civi lian Team of North Carolina at the preliminaries held at Fort Bragg some .weeks ago. There are only 12 men on this particular team. Messrs. Oakey and Owens have been doing a good deal of practice work of late in connection with the Hertford Rifle Club, which has held regular meets since last spring. t ' The matches began at Camp Perry on September 1 and will continue through .September 19, with numer ous, teams participating In the yaK loua matches. '
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