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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DSVOTED TO THE UPBUELD1N0 OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume IV; Number 37.
Hertford,Perquimans County, Northl Carolina, Friday, September 3, 1937.
$1.25 Per Year
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All-DSy Holiday In
PostoQce, ; Bank and
Stores to Observe
Labor Day
NO MAIL
Most All Stores Sign
Agreement to Close
For Day
Not only, the postoffice and bank
will be closed Monday, Labor Day
bat all the principal business houses
of the town have agreed to keep their
places of business closed all day, as
v-woU...,-
The alfcday holiday will, besides
giving sportsmen a final shot at
their f favorite pastime,' soft ball,
fishing:, or what not, provide
.Twhat may be their last opportunity
W for many to view Paul Green's musi
,al drama, "The Lost Colony" which
has been shown at regular and fre
' quent intervals through the past two
' months.
An agreement which was circulated
on Wednesday in Hertford, and which
reads "We the undersigned, agree to
close our doors all day .Monday," was
signed by the following: Winslow
"White Motor Co.; Simon's; Mrs. Jake
v White; Rose's; Gregory's; Hilda's
Beauty Shop; Darden Bros.; H. C.
Stokes;' Pender's; R. S. Jordan;
Carolina Hardware Co.; Bill Jordan's
"Barber Shop; Johnson, White ft Co.;
Hertford Banking Co.: Divenoort A
Blanchard; H. G. WinsjoW;, Louis
Winslow; W. M. Morgan; ! Morgan's
Modem Grocery; Sanitary' Barber
Shop; Central , Grocery; Hertford
f Hardware ft Supply Co.; Towe Motor
Co.; J.' C. Bmehard ft Co.; White's
' Electric Shoe Repair Shop; Farm
. Ikjuipuseni Ce Hollowell Chevrolet
jp,'9rHora postonice wui oe
closed "alt day. There will -be no de-
iTeries, either city or rural. Man
r will, however, be dispatched as usual,
and the stamp window will' be open
from 11:00 a. m. until 12:00 a. m.
Two Weeks Vacation
For Recorder's Court
The Recorder's Court is having a
two-weeks vacation.
There will not be another session
of Perquimans County's Recorder's
. Court until September 14. Walter
H. Oakey, Jr., judge of this court, is
out pf town, and will probably not re
turn' before this date. ,
No warrants - have, been issued
during the past week, according to
W. H. Pitt, Clerk of the Court, and
any warrants which may be drawn
during the absence of the Recorder
will be made returnable September
14.
ROTARY MEETING OFF
Hertford Rotarians attended an in
ter-city meeting held in Elisabeth
City on Monday night. No meeting
being held here this week. :
Begins This Week
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Perquimans Weekly
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SCHOOLS SHORT
THREE TEACHERS
Supt. Johnson Experiencing Much
Trouble In Securing Teacher
To Act as Coach
The schools of Perquimans
are
short three teachers, wKh the op
ening of schools set for Wednesday
of next week. Twice Superintendent
F. T. Johnson has had the position
of science teacher and coach for
boys athletics arranged for, each
time the applicant resigning. The
last one handed in his resignation
last week, leaving a vacancy which
the superintendent is having trouble
to nil. There is, according to Mr.
Johnson, a shortage of male teachers
in the state.
In addition to the vacancy in the
high school, there are two in ele
mentary schools in the county yet to
be filled.
Mrs. Mary Lucille Britt Sutton,
former teacher in the Hertford
Grammar School and this year as
signed to the Bethel School when the
grammar school lost a teacher, has
resigned and will teach at Clayton.
Miss Rebecca Webb, principal and
teacher of the sixth and seventh
grades of the New Hope school, has
resigned to teach at Robersonville,
taking the place made vacant in that
school by the resignation of Miss
Mary Onella Kelfe, of Hertford, who
will teach this year in the Perqui
mans High School.
With the exception of Miss Relfe
and the new teacher yet to be as
signed, the personnel of the high
school faculty remains as it was last
year. Mrs. T. L. Jessup resigned her
position on the faculty and will not
teach .this vear. This vacancy is fill-
p&:byvMW,Refe. The position of
science teacher and- coach for boys
aAietica. wa ew 4ast year &y;tri
lcitll)a'W' spring: "
Hertford Included
On Itinerary Of Tour
Travel Counsellors
A tour is to be conducted by the
Department of Conservation and De
velopment from October 9th to 20th
which will include as guests some 85
to 90 leading travel editors and coun
sellors from all parts of the Eastern
and Mid-western states.
Leaving the mountains, the motor
cade will visit leading communities
in the Piedmont, thence through the
Sandhills and the State Capital. Con
tinuing, the trip will extend eastward
into Rocky Mount where it will turn
southward to Wilmington and nearby
points of attraction. . The tour will
turn northward from that point
through New Bern, Washington, Ed
enton, Hertford and other towns to
Elizabeth City and Roanoke Island.
The tour will terminate after the re
turn of the guests to Elizabeth City.
Special entertainment features have
been prepared for the visitors at
virtually every stop. Bus compan
ies, hotels, chambers of commerce,
cities, and many other organizations
which will be mentioned later are
cooperating, toward making an ex
traordinary occasion of the tour.
Roshishono, Jewish
; Holiday, On Monday
Observing the Jewish New Year,
"Koshashono", the store of . Simon's
will be closed all day on. Monday.
The proprietor, Simon . Rutenberg,
accompanied by Mrs. , Rutenberg,
will go to Norfolk on this occasion.
as i 4Aeir. custom .to vattend. serH
vices Mt Omt holom Temple, where
the Rabbit Dn JLvD-.; MendoUtrrQ!
eonduci. Mnricea. . S c -&M
On Wednesday following; which -is
September -8. the jgrtHrewishhol
iday; omkipt.or:Dy: of ;Atone
menf, 'will be" observed."; This is fhe
greatest of all the Hebrew holidays.
Mr. Rutenberg, following a life-long
custom, will fast from sun-set on
Tuesday .until sun-set on Wednesday,
neither eating nor drinking anything
at all during this period, . -g
"Yomklpur", is a time of J feasting,
"Succoth'V" " when; mahyj ; delidous
foods, ', particularly weetmeats,r are
served in Jewish homes. Th8 period
lasts for -eight ; daft following the
Day of Atonement. ... 2?--m11'
- Mr. Rutenbergs store will be dos
ti'.on holidays, Monday and
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- Tis I jx4 Cardare ft Supply
Cn?v ' tt'! rt?se4 up for fall,
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I Miniag Camp" at the rip Wlosv
NEXT WEDNESDAY
SET FOR OPENING
COUNTY SCHOOLS
New School at Winfall
Attracts Consider
able Attention
PATRONS INVITED
Colored Schools to Have
A Month's Holi
day ?-Perquimans Coony schools wjll
open on- Wednesday, September 8.
This means the Perquimans High
School, the Hertford Grammar
School, the small elementary schools
of the county, and the new consoli
dated school at Winfall, which is
opening for the first tjme. This
building, which is a handsome brick
structure, was finished shortly before
the schools closed last year but it
was decided, for various reasons, not
to use the building until the begin
ning of the new term.
The Winfall school takes the nlace
of the old Winfall school, also Belvi
dere, Whiteston, Chapanoke, Wood
ville and Snow Hill.
There will be opening exercizes at
the schools at 9:30 o'clock when,
according to Superintendent F. T.
Johnson, parents and friends will be
cordially welcomed.
The bus drivers for the Perqui
mans High School and for the Win
fall School were given an examina
tion by State Highway Patrolman
Clyde W. Gibson on Wednesday of
this week, preparatory to taking
over the work for the new school
year. Each driver was given a se
parate road test and an examination
on signals and laws of the highway.
Though the colored schools of the
county opened on Monday, August
30, ten days .before the opening of
the white schools, these schools will
continue in operation for only one
month and then .will take a holiday
oi a month to allow the children time
for picking cotton. The schools will
resume .operation at the end of the
month's holiday.
The colored bus drivers have also
been given an examination by patrol
man .Gibson. . .
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.i. . yv wbiow, o tteiviaere,..ana Mr.
ahdvMJohn j?T;f Law and J. t.
Lane, of Whiteston, are among the
Perquimans people who are attend
ing the AU Friends World Conference
at, Swsrthmore; and Haverford Col
leges Ijn Pennsylvania this week.
.RIFLE MEET
WaHer-H."" Oakey, Jr., is at Camp
Perry, Ohio, attending the annual
rifle'nisesrAII:''' v . "; :
Mr. Oakey who ia'a crack shot at
tends the rifle meet each -year. , Two
yearsA'agos hewon Ihe-Hercules Trd-
: -MRS. ERITT IS ITOSPltiii l !
V Mrt. ; VXtip, BrftfeMinderwent in
operation cn last "Thursday ' at the
Norfolk Cncl ." Hospital ' and Mt
condition is reported - as . favorable.
Hies EJlth Everett; ia subetltutisj
for lis. Crl'.t ia tie ozce of ta
DE LUXE
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M4Tof Zee DeU tantis, prettyi
vMioittl Exposition, aid Sam
Calif., Boosters' Club, who Is
ay dirt in the nasi MIm Lantls
puns for a "Forty-aines?
ILLIAM MRDRE
L
ST SURVIVING
V
IRAN, IS SICK
it
Aive Physically and
Mentally Until Very
J Recently
I IS NEARLY 93
Recalls Laying Corner
Stone at Baptist
v Church
iaro Mardre, last . surviving
Confederate veteran in Perquimans
County and believed to be the only
Southern soldier left in the entire
Albemarle, has been quite sick at
his home in Hertford for the past
two weeks, having been confined to
his bed for the past month.
Mr. Mardre, who is in his ninety
third year, has until comparatively
recently been in a fine condition for
a man of his years, active physical
ly and his mental faculties unim
paired. But he has been failing for
some time and his condition is now
regarded as very serious.
A native of Perquimans, having
been born in the Bethel community,
Mr. Mardre has spent most of his
life here. As a small boy, Mr. Mar
dre attended with his mother the
ceremony of the laying of the corner
stone of the Baptist Church in
Hertford. For many, many years he
has been the only person living who
remembered this occasion.
His only child, Miss Harriet Fran
ces Mardre, who recently returned
from a trip abroad, is at home now
with her parents.
Vacationists Starting
Trek Toward Home
With the advent of September,
most of the Perquimans folks who
have been staying at the sea-side are
returning home, though there are ex
ceptions, as Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Nixon and Mrs. Walter H. Oakey, Jr.,
and her two daughters, Dorothy
Gordon and Mollie, who lift this week
to spend a few weeks at Nags Head.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. White, who
have been spending the summer at
Nags Head, are remaining there until
the middle of the month.
Among, those who ' 'returned home
this- week:; are -Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Sumner and their son",-. Tommy, Miss
Mary WoodKooncOi --Ben . Koonce,'
Jr.,: Miss- Catherine Jessup and Bill-
Jessup. J " .
Mrs. S. P. Jessup will lie up in time
to begin her work as teacher in the
Hertford Grammar School. The Jes
sups have been occupying their new
cottage which was completed early
in the summer.
Mrs. C. W. Morgan, Mrs. G. E.
Newby, Mrs. W. H. Pitt and Howard
Pitt, Jr., also came up from Nags
Head this week.
Dr. and Mrs. T. P. Brinn and their
litUe daughter Mary Ellioit, return
ed home also on Wednesday. K,iVt
. Mrs. F. Winslow and her daugh
ter, Miss Mae Wood Winslpw who
have been staying- at their cottage at
Nags Bead daring July and Aftgnst,
will probably return home next week.
Mrs.:: J. O. Felton and herfamlly
wW have been spending the ummer
at - Ez Head, nave' " also returned
Woodmen Meeting
Proved Big Success
OIL COMPANY TO
START BUYING
COTTON SEPT. 15
Beginning of Oil Mill Season Brings
Optimistic Feeling Among Hert
ford's Merchants
The Southern Cotton Oil Company
will begin to buy cotton about the
15th of September, which means that
the cotton gin will then begin ope
ration, and following this, in about
ten days, the operation of the oil mill
will begin.
With the beginning of the season
for the oil mill, business in Hertford
assumes a different tempo, practical
ly everybody being affected in one
way or another by the cotton and cot
ton oil mill activities.
The pay roll means a good deal to
the business of the town, as some
70 extra men are put to work at the
plant, to say nothing of the money
which flows into local business from
the returns to the farmers of the
county from the sale of their cotton.
Very little cotton has been picked
in Perquimans, and none as yet of
fered for sale. Due to the frequent
rains of the past few weeks, little
cotton will be open for the next week
but following that cotton picking
should be general all over the coun
ty. Many Students Plan
Leave For Colleges
Perquimans girls and boys, along
with the young people everywhere,
will shortly be leaving for the var
ious schools and colleges, most of
the Perquimans girls and boys at
tending schools and colleges in the
State of North Carolina.
Two Hertford girls and one young
man will be seniors at the University
of North Carolina. They are Miss
Eloise Broughton, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Broughton; Miss
Louise Payne, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Payne, and Herman Ward,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ward. Guy
Newby, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Newby, will be a junior at the Uni
versity. Jesse Lee Harris, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Z. A. Harris, goes to
the University also.
Miss Ruth Elliott, youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. El
liott, will be a senior at the Woman's
College of the University of North
Carolina, at Greensboro.
Miss Joyce Harrell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Harrell, and
Miss Prue Newby, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. G. Newby, will return
to East Carolina Teachers College,
at Greenville. Miss Harrell is a
senior this year.
Miss Patricia Stephens returns to
Atlantic Christian College, at Wilson,
and Miss Katherine Stephens has re
turned to the University of Mary
land Hospital in Baltimore, where
she is taking a course in nursing.
Both these young ladies are daugh
ters of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Stephens.
Miss Ona Mary Stehpens, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Stephens,
is returning to Elon College.
Claude Brinn, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rosser Brinn, and Henry Stokes, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Stokes, are
returning to Louisburg College.
Frank Jessup will probably return
to Oak Ridge Military Academy.
Robert Hollowell, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. N. Hollowell, and Bill Jes
sup will return to Duke University.
Carl Britt, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. Britt, will return to the Tex
tile Industrial Institute, at Spartan
burg, S. C.
Of the' Perquimans High School
graduates of 1937, Miss Katherine!
Winslow daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. Gi Winslow, will enter Converse
College, in ' South Carolina; Miss
Sarah Ward, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Ward, will enter the Wo
man's College of the University of
North Carolina, at Greensboro; Wil
liam Hardcastle, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Hardcastle, who has received
an appointment as third alternate to
Annapolis, will be a student at Se
vern School, at Severn a Park, Md.:
and Miss Virginia White, daughter
of Captain and Mrs. T. S. White,
will probably enter the University of
Maryland Hospital, in Baltimore, to
laice a course in nursing, same a
Wood And Maudo Keaton will enter
Louisburg, College. . - v
Dick Payne, son of Mr. and Mr.
E. E. Payne, will be a senior at State
College, Raleigh, and Roy Reed, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C, W. Reed, and El-
don Winslow, ton oTMr. and Mra,
T. R. Winslow. will enter State this
E. A. Wright of High
Point Principal
Speaker
BIG FISH FRY
Many Congratulations
For Hospitality Ex
tended Visitors
A. O. Kiff, of Ahoskie, District
Manager of the Woodmen of the
World, presided at the annual con
vention of the order which was held
in Hertford on last Thursday, when
hundreds of the "woodchoppers",
many of them accompanied by their
wives, from all over the district
known as the Tidewater Association,
were present for the "log-rolling."
The local camp was hospitable
hosts and there was a general air
of welcome which the guests appear
ed to feel, and it was a friendly,
genial group of folks who gathered
down on the town lot for the fish
fry at the noon hour.
The morning and afternoon ses
sions of the convention were held in
the StaJ:e Theatre, which was thrown
open for the convenience of the
Woodmen, the first session being
held at 10 o'clock. Rev. D. M.
Sharpe, pastor of the Hertford M.
E. Church, pronounced the invoca
tion, after which there was a brief
entertainment program, when R. S.
Monds, Jr., whose singing is always
a treat on any program, sang the
lovely old song, "Annie Laurie",
with Mrs. R. M. Riddick accompany
ing. Mrs. W. E. White gave a
humorous reading, which was follow
ed by two song and dance numbers
by the popular Fearing children,
Julia and Jane, of Elizabeth City,
with their mother, Mrs. George Fear
ing at the piano.
Mayor Silas M. Whedbee made the
address of welcome, in which he
welcomed most heartily the visitors,
assuring them that the people of
Hertford were honored to have them
as guests and hoped that they would
enjoy so much their visit to Hert
ford that ihey would shortly come
again.
T. E. Newton, of Kinston, State
Manager of the Woodmen of the
World, responded with a few cord
ial remarks, paying high tribute to
the folks of this section of the State
and expressing the pleasure of the
visitors at being present.
The speaker of the day, E. A.
Wright, of High Point, who took the
place of the Charles Hines, of
Greensboro, who was unable to ap
pear, was introduced by Mr. Kiff.
Mr. Wright spoke highly of the
fraternal side of the WOW and out
lined to his hearers some of the
benefits to be derived from affilia
tion with the order of Woodmen of
the World, apart from the financial
aspect.
Forming a line in front of the
State Theatre, headed by the Ahoskie
Band and followed next by the De
gree Team of the Order, the entire
company paraded to the town lot for
the fish-fry lunch which had been
prepared. Delicious fresh fish, pip
ing hot from the large frying pans
arranged near the river shore, were
served, with other good things to
eat.
A business session Was held imme
diately after lunch, following which
the Woodmen and their wives were
entertained by the local camp at a
special matinee at the State Theatre.
The last session was held at night
in the W- O. W, hall. ,
Not only Roy SCh'appell, Council
Commander, and A. W. Hef ren, Secretary-Treasurer,
of the Hertford
Camp, who were introduced by Mr.
Kiff at the mornintr seMinn. hut the
entire group of Woodmen who work-
ea so hard to make a success of the
affair, and whose plans were car
ried out so well, as well as Mayor
Whedbee, Horace Jones, Manager of
the State Theatre, and other busi
ness men in Hertford, were congratu
lated fqr the success of the conven
tion. ATTEND FUNERAL
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Holmes have
returned from, Farmyille, where they
attended the funeral services for Mr.
Holmes' motherJMrs. , J. H. Holmes.
".- Mrs Holmes died on Monday night
at th'r-"? 'Mount. Hospital, where
she ha l .i'e patient -for some time.
Having ae, critically ill two week
ago and.' the end momentarily expect
ed, she rallied and improved to such
an extent that shonras expected last
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