North Carolina Newspapers

1 1 AW iY NEWSPAPER DEVOTEt) TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY EKKJ Volume IVNumber 35. ?ord Perquimans County, North, Carolina, Friday, August 20, 1937. $1.25 ier Year Y r V h l .11. JA 11 J lrilE!i I I.' . . I I. f l.r II IllKII V"V. Ill m I Wl IUI I x- II t J 4 t l CITIZENS DESERT CITif TO SEE PRESIDENT Many Go to Roanoke Island to Hear His Address STAND FOR HOURS Record Number of Cars Pass Through Town For Big Event Practically half of Hertford, to say nothing of the folks in the outlying districts, took to the highway on Wednesday morning, many of them bound for Roanoke Island where "their chief aim was to hear Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, make the address at the cele - bration of the 350th birthday of Vir ginia Dare, first child born of Eng- ' lish parents in America . Those who did not go to Fort Raleigh went to Elizabeth City to Join the throngs waiting: to catch a glimpse of the President as he left his special train at the Norfolk Southern Railway sta tion and drove down the city's main street to the wharf where he em barked on the Coast Guard cutter for the last lap of his journey . They stood for hours, many of them, because they went early, before breakfast in most cases, to be sure , they got a good place to see the "President and came home happy to have had a glimpse of the chief - executive of the nation. Never have so many vehicles pass ed through the Town of Hertford in the same period of time as have passed this week. Many went through during the week-end, to spend sev eral days at the beach and to be com fbrtably situated for the great occas ion. But the rush began on Tuesday henvtr after car passed over the natis?fUvr' Bridge, headed Ji, ' An4,f.' night lorn cars pass ' . ,edf -urief intervals, with a rush in the hours juBt following the dawn. Changes Announced For Hunting Season With the approach of tha fall and winter hunting season, several new game regulations are called to the . attention of North Carolina sports men by J. B. Chalk, Commissioner of '. Game and Inland Fisheries. beer hunters are notified of a new ' regulation governing the taking of male deer. The open season, Octo- r ber 1-to January 1, .'dates inclusive, is statewide, except for seven coun- . ties .having no open season, and for Hote County, . which has a season extending from October 15 to De eember'lM The. closed counties are - fa tjw mountains; and, include All ghany, Ashe, McDowell,' Surry, Yad kin, Wilkes and Yancey. . Squirrel hunters will find the ' fol lowing regulations ' in effect: open ? season October 1 to January 15, with -, th$fotlowing ' exceptions? no fox ' squirrel may be taken; split seasons, . .September 1 to September 80, and November 20 $q January 31, will be WEDNESDAY -, observed Jn Alamance Alexander, ft Anson,' Caswell,"? Chatham, Davie, ! Durham, f Forsyth, ? Franklin, Gran yt 'ville, Guilford,; Northampton, Orange, . Person, Rockingham, Rowan, Vance, and Warrtn counties, The other ex- "J I ception affects western counties, where the open season on squirrel 'will be September 15 to December "l According to the new Federal Mi- ' I t gratory Waterfowl regulations, hunt- era may Bhoot during only one holi . j day this year, CHiri8tmai.;JrbeTte son does not open until after Thanks- ' giving, November .27,' and 'extends tto ,t ; December 26th. ..' . . ''iXr;': - 4 1 - The earliest waterfowl i Bhoting ?i will be for rails, gallinules, sora, and ',,) marsh hen, the,Beason beginning on 1 i September 1 and extending to Nd ' ;:J vember 80. The U, , S; vBiplogical ) Survey announces a nenfr split reason' V on doves: September 15 to s October ' l r i T 1 OA ' i' Tamaww 01 v j.o, Mia iecemovr m vj wu; ''. ?. jBag and possession limits pt, water tj fowl have been changed lit "several A instances: ' geese,, have Jjbeen raised front 4 to 6, coots ' from 15 i to 25; n 4 doves reduced from 20 . to . 15 and sora, which Includes ' marsh hen, jfronv 25 to 15. '. ' 4 Moving to Elizabeth City Mw. 'jF.1 M, - Weeks t moved this t- t'- has ,eiltl'iu.va i ilr parents, air. and Ka. I " ' H Elwbet5i Clr, 1 i 4 i kJ i I. ,4 c..; tX Kit her fcouss. . Lucius BMnchard Joins Weekly Staff Lucius Blanchard has recently joined the advertising'iistaff of the Perquimans" Weekly SB Assistant to ' the' Advertising Manager, Hec tor Lupton. Mr. Blanchard, who is a1 Hert ford boy, has had considerable ex perience in newspaper work, hav ing for the past several months' been employed as bureau manager of the Daily Independent in Hert ford, and for two years prior to that time was employed in the same capacity for the Daily Ad vance. PLYMOUTH MILL M( O. D. Layden Cutting Out Carload For Pulp Mill SOLD m"uNITS Much Cull Timber In County Suitable For Purpose C. D. Layden, Parksville Township farmer, is cutting out the first car load of pulp wood from Perquimans for the new pulp plant at Plymouth. Henry Schaub, a representative of the Plymouth concern, was in the county last week conferring with prospective patrons here. L. W. Anderson, County Agent, said Monday that, while Perquimans farmers should be very careful not to sell for pulp any good timber, that there is in the county a great deal of cull timber suitable for pulp which will never be fit for anythinsr else nd. from, whicji4apners could net .jl tray sum. me pulp mill will buy any green pine timber measuring from 4 to 12 inches, in diameter. Timber from 12 to 14 inches must be split in half, and any over 14 inches should be quartered. Pulp wood is sold in units, instead of in cords, a unit measuring 4 feet high, 5 feet deep and 8 feet long. In further connection with the sub ject of selling pulp wood, the County Agent stated that there is a lot of cull timber, the cutting of which would improve the stand of good timber about it, enhancing its value. In some places, he said, timber is too thick to grow properly. There are pieces of timber where the good tim ber so overshadows the poor stuff that this can never grow and be better than it is now and it will eventually die. This is retarding the growth and development of the good timber.. If the poor stuff is cut out and sold for pulp wood now, he said, ..the regf of the timber, will attain a much better and quicker growth . Any Perquimans farmer who is in terested in culling a piece of timber should get in touch with Mr. Ander son, who says he will be very glad to show such farmers- how the tim ber should be thinned and to give such other information and assis tance in connection with the matter that he can. t ; - Miss Carlyle on Vacation -. Miss Sarah Carlyle,: beautician at Blanchard's Beauty Parlor, is spend ing her vacation with, her parents at Lumberton. During her absence Mrs. Horace. Jones is in. charge of the RECORDER'S xmm i Bobby Chappell,' of ; the ChappelTs HiU Community was? sentenced to ten days in jail on Tuesday in Re corder's Court, upon: conviction of the aigirof assault with deadily weapon. ; George Butler was sentenced to 30 days in , jail upon the conviction of the. -charge of being "drunk and dis orderly. . 1 . - . ..The case ; against Horace Reed, colored, charged with::; assault on a female, was dismissed. , The , case -against Vivian -Dall, charged with transporting- intoxicat ing, liquor, was also dismissed. A pinjti Jbottle approximately three fourlths full of liquor was found on I s front seat 'of Kr.Dail's utorao-Ue,i-wMclh hadt'i SjA X lf"1 cf tiw State Theatre on Wednes-e-y trwnhrsr, the liqur being in fu'J BUYSVOODFRO PARKVILLE .i :t L Ci sot l it ,1 enjoy visit aeteiroE's KEYS BIG JIM FARLEY Stops Off Here Tuesday En Route to Fort Raleigh IN DRUGSTORE Accompanied By W. T. Culpepper, Owner of State Theatre Postmaster General James A.Far ley, who visited Hertford on Tuesday night while enroute to the big cele bration on Roanoke Island nesday, making stops at Roberson's ' are exPectea to come to the big an Drug Store and also at the State ! mai lj0g Rollin of the Tidewater Theatre, made a big hit with the lo-' A880ciat'on of the order, many of cal folks to whom he was introduced j tnem to De accompanied by their by W. T. Culpepper and with whom wiv3. and other members of their he engaged in friendly conversation. I families- Mr.t Culpepper, postmaster of- Mayr Silas M. Whedbee, who is Elizabeth City and owner of the I makin8T very effort to give the visi State Theatre in Hertford, went tor tors a nearty welcome and to make Fayetteville, where the Postmaster I thir atav in Hertford pleasant, is General made an address on Monday requesting the residents of the town night, and returned with him to! to refrain from parking their cars Elizabeth City where Mr. Farley re- mained until the arrival of President Roosevelt's special train on Wednes day morning, when the entire party1 embarked on the Coast Guard cutter for Roanoke Island. I Reaching Hertford in the late evening, the party stopped at the drug store. Mr. Culpepper introduc ed, J. G. Roberson, who in turn pre sented the local folks in the drug store to the Postmaster General, the mA Jt u t v. c .l k. u r, . j r, ' ' made of the further activities of the only member or the President's party day who came further south than Eliza- ' , . beth City on their way to the big' 7,16 Proram for the occasion will day at Fort Raleigh, where the 350th not he. f'nalIy arnged until Thurs birthday of Virginia Dare was cele-1 day m?ht of this week- makin il brated on Wednesday. i imP08Slbl! for the names of the speakers to be announced in this is After leaving the drug store, an- sue of the paper. However, a full omer siop was maae at the State, LJ8& Jfenaj Jones .and his assistant William E. White, were introduced. There was a bunch of young fel lows who met Mr. Farley and they were all impressed with his genial personality. "A fine fellow", they said, and "My, but he is a big fel low!" Big Jim Farley is a big fel low. Revival At Pilgrim Church Announced Revival Services are announced to begin at Bagleys Swamp Pilgrim Church "on Friday, August 20, by the pastor, Rev. Wray Smith. Rev. W. F. Paige, of Elkin, Va., evangelist, will preach at the ser vices which will be conducted on Friday night at 7:45 and on Satur day and Sunday night at the same hour. There will probably be three services on Sunday, certainly one in the afternoon at 2:45 and one at night. After Tuesday of next week the services will be held twice daily, in the afternoon- and at night and will continue through August 29. Miss Frances Massey, song evan gelist, of Shackleford, Va., wijl play the guitar and sing. Chewing With Lucius , Hertford, Aug. At last a material use for confiscated and not-so-good bootleg liquor. If Ruth Davenport, county welfare officer, is granted the privilege she will convert the moon shine from a stomach upsetter to serve more humane needs as cam phor given to the county's underpri vileged for rubbing purposes. Very limited equipment is necessary to change the rottenest whiskey into soothing camphor and several needy persons on, the. welfare rolls are. un able to purchase the remedy. Two quarts of ''corn,r to one cake of cam phorand ,you've got something. The .bottles for dispensing, together with the liquor, are already in the clerk's ' office, . confiscated one t Sun day" night recently. Enough moon shine to soothe many a pain (as camphor) is contained 4n the two five gallon jugs. v y Hertford! newest pastime! soft ball, b proving not so sofon. some of ns unused td. t.s rather strenuous exe'-fse. '' Introiac-1 ' the . welt every n;v.t has seen at least one r". t s of extreme sore- '-MMfy Ai up- to l k.. . .Ufatae'M&st NEXT THURSDAY Five Hundred Expected To Attend Annual Log Rolling STARTSTO A. M. Mayor Whedbee Plan ning Hearty Welcome For Visitors Next Thursday is to be a big day in Hertford. They keys of the place will be turned over to the Woodmen of the World, five hundred of whom down town on tnis occasion, in order ' to Ieave P'enty of parking space for the visitors. The town parking lot will be at the disposal of the visi tors, and the Mayor is anxious that there be plenty of parking space on the down-town streets for the con venience of the visitors. The first session of the convention will be held at 10 o'clock, the pro ceedings to be conducted in the State Theatre, when announcement will be program will appear in next week's issue, 4rkh 4a to- appear a day ahead of the Tegular schedule in honor of the occasion. Seeks Whereabouts Long Lost Brother Who knows the whereabouts of a colored Baptist preacher by the name of Stephen S. Sutton? He left Hert ford many years aso, and for a long, lonp: time has not been heard from by his sister, Mary J. White, who lives on Route 3, Hertford, and who is anxious to locate her brother. The man was in New York City when last heard from. Change In Service Station Management Heywood Butler, a former resident of Hertford who for several years has lived at Wilson, has recently moved to Hertford and has taken over the management of the Texaco Service Station at the corner of Church and Grubb streets, with Hey wood Divers as assistant. Mr. Butler is the youngest son of the Rev. A. A. Butler, of Hertford. Paul Green, who recently managed this service station, has returned to Gatesville, his former home. The Rag Blanchard, Jr. go on. The more severe conditions so far include; Mayor Whedbee, one arm, skinned from wrist to elbow, Recorder Oakey, one sprained finger, one very touchy instep where some baserunner stepped on it, and one sore hip joint, Constable Owens, one painful hip developed through put ting all . he had in his pitching. Scores of people have gathered at the lot to watch the play every night and nearly everybody takes part in the game at one time or another. Short-windness forces' many a play er from the affray but there's always somebody to take his place. Have you noticed the extremely large number of water craft in the river -this summer. Everybody agrees that its becoming a river conscious-' town. Especially on Thursday afternoons, when business : bouses lose, the blue r; Perquimans, is becomingly-decorated with the .whfye saihi' Of every' type of wind: propeH &i&hOa a or two ; lumpttyns yatchs re there, rstcfcs aoti:Wp tious, o lioats,? speed boacboats not-so speedy U ?te bJI forming, beautiful picture, entirely iaAoepUit with Um settiag. If I may say xr Young Pecan Tree Loaded With Nuts A four-year-old pecan tree in the back yard of the I. A. White home, on Church street in Hert ford, is loaded down with nuts. Mr. White is very proud of his tree and takes every precaution that the heavily loaded branches are protected when the wind rises. Many have viewed the tree, among them the County Agent, L. W. Anderson, who says he never saw a tree of this age have on it so many pecans. PLAN START NEW HOPE COMMUNITY HOUSE OCTOBER 1 Part of Material to Be Used Has Already Been Delivered WPA LABOR Another Building Sche duled to Be Erected At Belvidere Construction on the New Hope Community House, the first of two community buildings which are to be erected in Perquimans County, is to begin about October 1, according to the latest information. Farmers of the communities who are furnishing the timber for the rough material to be used in the' frame work of the buildings are now , getting out logs which will be saw-1 , , s., . 6 ., , ... ed for this purpose. Already ceiling I and shingles have been delivered by ! the WPA on the site recently pur- chased at New Hope. , Hope The labor necessary for erecting ' the buildings is to be furnished by, WPA, and all of the local men avail able for this type of work are now engaged in work on the Armory ! under construction in Edenton. Prob ably another month will be required to finish the carpentry work on the Armory, after which time the work on the community buildings in Per quimans will tegin. The buildings are to Le frame structures and each contain, in addi tion to a commodious auditorium for holding community gatherings, with a suitable stage, a convenient kitchen for preparing meals. As soon as the New Hope building is finished, a similar building will be erected at ISelvidere. It will probab ly require from two to three months to construct each building. While both these buildings will be a great convenience to the people of the two communities, the one at Belvidere will be particularly so be cause of the fact that there has been no place for public gatherings other than churches since the old Belvi-1 dere Academy building, which had for many decades been a community center, burned more than a year ago. The people of these communities raised the funds necessary to sup plement the WPA aid in the erection of these buildings, under the leader ship .of Miss Gladys Hamrick, home demonstration agent, and L. W. An-, derson, farm agent. i Howard Goodwin Is Now On Market St. Howard Goodwin, who conducts a shop for the repair of chairs, making all kinds of cane and fibre bottoms and backs for chairs, and doing very satisfactory work, announces that he has moved his shop from the former stand next door to Winslow's Store, on Edenton Road, and is now at 82 Market street, where he will welcome old and new customers. Though blind, Mr. Goodwin, who received his training at the tate Institution for the Blind at Raleigh, is capable of doing the best of work and solicits the patronage of the public. I Revival Services At AsSMllhlv Church " Announcement is made that revi val services will be held at the Hert ford Assembly Church beginning Sunday, August 22, with Miss Marie Wilson,, evangelist, , of. Green LmIkb, Pa, 1 in charge of the ervirea. The pubfe-ii' eotdlally invited to attend. :fr?i"!l Ji.:iv:rV Spring, in the' pastor of the canrchj PERQUIMANS TAR HEEL FARMERS GET HIGH RATING i Awarded Second Place In August Issue Offi cial Bulletin 30 AT CAMP Lack of Proper Equip ment Prevents Better Standing The Perquimans Chapter of Young Tar Heel Farmers is given second place in the rating in this dictrict in the August number of the official bulletin sent out by the Vocational Education Department of State Col lege, which is the highest rating they could make under the circumstances. If shop work could be included in the department, where the boy3 could be given manual training, home repair work instruction, instruction in rope work, the use and care of tools and the care of farm machi nery, general repair of farm tools, and instruction in electrical appli ances, it would be possible for this chapter to make first place, accord ing to G. C. Buck, teacher of voca tional agriculture in the Perquimans High School, who is head of the boys' organization. Thir)y of these members of the Perquimans Chapter of Young Tar Heel farmers had a grand time last week when they attended the State Camp at White Lake. They enjoyed the distinction of having the largest representation Dresent of anv of thP twenty schools represented. r,.. . , , The group was accompanied by Mr Buck Buck Mi8Mariori' D i J j I.- . 'nend'ThM ' ShS Margaret Gray' f KlnSton- The boys were: fcjmerson Asbell, George Baker, Hen ry Barber, Cleveland Buck, John Bundy, Lloyd Chappell, Maynard Fleetwood, Jr., Thomas Fleetwood, Guthrie Jolliff, Winfred Lane, Em mett Long, Julian Long, Morris Grif fin, Jr., Wallace Hobbs, Thomas Ni xon, Erwin Perry, Lawrence Perry, William Pierce, Bill Corp Reed, Archie Riddick, Lloyd Kogerson, Tho mas Rogerson, Earl White, Rollo White, Herbert Ward, George Win slow, Tracy Winslow, Ruben Wilder, John Elmer Wood and Calvin Lane. William Nixon, 34, Drowning Victim, Buried Wednesday Funeral services for William Nix on, 34, who was drowned on Thurs day morning of last week in Albe marle Sound, were conducted at the funeral home of E. S. Pierce in Hert ford on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and burial took place in Cedar Wood Cemetery in Hertford. Mr. Nixon, cajain of a barge owned by Nichois Bros., lumber deal ers of Norfolk, Va., was drowned when he fell from the barge in Al bemarle Sound, at a point described as lying between Reids Point and ; Laurel Point, before dawn on Thurs day morning. News of his death reached Hertford on Friday, since which time fruitless search had been ' conducted for the man's body in the sound. A party from Hertford and Winfall searched all day last Sunday i to no avail. , ' The body was found at noon on Tuesday by Lloyd Dunbar, a former ' ship-mate of the drowned man, who merely happened to come across it where it had washed ashore, just north of Leonard's Point in Washing ton County, some four or five miles from the place where he had fallen from the barge. 1 A cousin of the dead man, LeRoy Nixon, of Winfall, accompanied E. S. Pierce, Hertford undertaker, to Ply i mouth, where the body had been t taken following a coroner's inquest, on Tuesday afternoon, and upon iden tification it was brought to Hertford. Mr. Nixon was a native of Per quimans, a son of the late Cornelius Nixon and Mrs. Nixon, who lives near Winfall. Surviving are his mother, a brother, Cornelius Nixon, Emporia, Va., and three sisters , M T ...111- Ci-l 11 XT. D Miss Mattie Nixon, of Upper Darby, Pm., and Miss Ethel Nixon, of Wins tonvrWeBt Virginia. Attended , Pageant those "who' went to Nan Bead oif Sunday - nd saw' the -pag- Keffirl&ir Bhtndw Everett, EdiUt mum.- beth' City. 4 A ' -A f .3'