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1 ? 1 ) , 1 ' : THE raRQUHNS" WE :::-3fc:r0f Ccnf crcnce .:-";clii!l Tourney . .Ahoskie High School won both tl visions of the Albemarle Confei fe.ye basketball tournament, played last week at Tarboro. The Ahos lie irla copped top honors by de bating -Plymouth. 55.-48 invthe fi- ' AaiS) fehile the Ahoskie boys turned .: .. barkihe Edenton Aces 57-50. ; " - rfeWn?, top-ceded team of the boys "division," eliminated the Per- - qtfdlnnns' Indians in the semi-final "' rtrtlnd by a five point margin of 53 U$ 48. i . last-quarter spurt by the Aeea overcame a lead the Indians had maintained throughout the I ' filst three quarters of the contest. 3 ftaker led the Perquimans offen sive, scoring 13 points, followed by HpWell with 12, Bray 11, Williams ' 8nd Matthews four. The Indians led 18 to 14 at the close of the first quarter and were ahead 30-22 at halftime. Edenton, trailing by six " polltts at the start of the final per- t iott broke loose from the Perquim aas defense to score 22 points l,v, while the Indians collected only 11. , . (The tournament dosed ou, the i season for the Perquimans teams, and Coach Ike Perry is expected to begin baseball practice within ; th next few days. lioard Negotiating Removal Of Building j The Board of Education, this ' r week began negotiations for the re moval of the ruins of the Hertford Grammar School, which was des ' troyed by fire on January 9. i . Receiving no bids, at a public 1 ' auction of the ruins held last Sat urday, school officials then discuss ed the removal of the walls and .Contents of the building with sev eral individuals who offered to y y lcar the site for the materials to I be salvaged from the building. " School officials are hopeful ar fsngements can be completed im mediately and the site cleared with in the next sixty days. FFA Chapter Adds To Registered Livestock A registered Polled Hereford Bull, WTG Star Domino 3", of ex nuKs4:Ulent breeding has been purchased lhm Gray's ; Green Acres farm of . Ahoskie, andijadiled to registered ' " ajvestock of Perquimans by the lo- .. FFA f!ri;intnr. . - - - - . 1 This bull carries good charac- Isifcs of the Polled breed, is of Mqellcnt breeding and farmers in Kh8 county who wish to improve Their grade of beef cattle arc urged to Use him. i Hnrion Harrell, Route 3, is keep ' M of the bull. He was chosen be ' cause of his interest in beef cattle ' and good facilities for sheltering 'the. bull.' Sears, Roebuck Company 'donated this bull to the local chap iter as part of their livestock im provement program. This is the third bull donated to this county ' through the program. Clarence ' Chflppell and Thomas Chappell own ; the other two Hereford bulls. Winf all News " Mrs. J. E. 'Hollowell is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Temple of Newland this week. " Miss Polly Baker of Raleigh and Horace Baker, Jr., of Mt. Airy Visited their mother, Mrs. J. ' H Baker recently. J Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Roberson and Ion of Norfolk, Va., spent, the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lane. ' Mrs. W. G. Hollowell is on the AUTO REPAIR ' Used Parts For All Makes and Models Cerlton R. Nixon .!' GARAGE h WINFALL, N. C. ; rTr-- Phone 49S0 " ' eiclr, Uat this week. ' i. ' Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Pierce and daughter Fayc of Hertford, Route 3, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hol lowell Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Hollowell spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ward Hunter of Beech Spring. Pvt. John Earl Hollowell of Fort Knox, Ky., spent a few days with his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hollowell recently. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Miller and daughter, Joyce and Mr., and Mrs. H. B. Miller and son, Michael, visit ed relatives in Norfolk Sunday.- : Mrs. I. E. Halsey, Jr;, of Eden ton visited her daughter, Mrs. Dur wanl L. Barber, Jr., on Friday. Miss Evelyn Ann Stanton of Nor folk, Va., visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stanton for the week-end. Miss Emilie White of Greenville College spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. White. . Mrs. W. J. P. Earnhardt of Eden ton and Mrs. Ebert Bailey of Eliza beth City visited their sister, Mrs. W. G, Hollowell one day this week. CHAPANOKE NEWS Mrs. Herbert Eure of Hertford1 and Mrs. T. H. White of Winfalll spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Elliott. Miss Mildred Ann Lewis, stu dent at East Carolina ; College, Greenville spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Lewis. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Cary Quincy and children of Norfolk, Va., were din ner guests of his parents on Sun day. Mrs. George Whitehead is (mite sick at this writing with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Blanchard of Norfolk, Va., spent Monday with Mrs. G. W. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Quincy visit ed Mr. and Mrs. George Alexander at Nixonton Sunday evening. Curtis Powell of Corapeakp con ducted , services at Oak Grove Church last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Elliott spent Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Wel don Hollowell at Cross Roads. .IV Tourney In Progress At Edenton A Jayvee basketball tournament ias been scheduled to be played in. the Edenton High School gymnasi um beginning Wednesday night 124 YEARS OF SERVICE February 29 and games scheduled for Thursday and Friday nights, March 1 and 2. All games will get underway at 7:30 o'clock. Seven teams will participate in the tournament including Edenton, Elizabeth City, Hertford, Ahoskie, Bear Grass, Williamston and Scot land Neck. Two. trophies will be awarded in the tournament, one, going to the winner and the other to the run nerup. . . . , :. v.;.- - . . CLUB HOLDS SOCIAL . The Fidelia NCO, Wives Club met in the game room of the Staff NCO Club at 8. o'clock, Tuesduy night, February 21, for their social meet ing. '' Mrs. J. H. Ward and Mrs. John Stratton were in charge of the Mar di Gras. Each member brought 3 articles of old clothing and placed tthem together in a large box. the box and put them on after Mrs. A. T. Backherns blindfoSed each. Mrs. J. H. Ward, Mrs. LI fie, tick and J. S. Gasper won, useful prizes. ' ,'' . ' r- ;'' Mrs. C O. Turner and, J. R. Sparks served cup cakes and cof fee to the 16 members and a guest, Mrs. J. 'S. Gasper. j , CIRCLES TO MEET " Circles of the Missionary Society of the Baptist Church, will meet next week at the following times and places: '' The 'Vera Payne Circle will meet at the church Monday .afternoon at 3 o'clock; the Article Bratcher Cir-: cle will meet Monday night; 'at " 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. E. A. Byrum with 'Mrs. B. W. Penning ton as co-hostess; the . Inabelle Coleman Circle will meet Monday at 8 o'clock with Mrs. Charles Johnson; the Mary Ellen Dozier Circle will meet at 7:30 o'clock with Mrs. M. J. Gregory; the Mat tie Macon Circle will meet Monday' night at 8 o'clock with Mrs. Clar ence Dan; the Bessie Pritchard Cir cle will meet Monday night at 8 o'clock with Mrs. E. C. Woodard: the Rosa Powell Circle, will meet Tuesday night at 8 o'clock with Mrs. E. C. Woodard; the Rosa Pow ell Circle will meet Tuesday night st 8 o'clock with Mrs. Charles White with Mrs. Leon Harrell as co-hoatess. 1 ' " ' CLUfc MEETING The Beech Spring Club, met Tuesday night, February 14, at 7 olyck.wiMr?, X Perry. The husbands were invited and all en joyed -a weinerroa with hot cof fee and cold-drinks. ' V, lite "president, -aln; W. J. Perry, culled the. meeting, t order by all singing "America." . Mrs.' Willie Lamb had charge of the devotional, her subject jeing "The Garden," using the lth verse of the 4th chapter of Solomon and offered prayer.' The- secretary called the NEW LOW PRICES AT BLANCHARD'S SELF SERVICE MILK, Pet or Carnatibn,4 cans . . . . . ; -. --rSrc FLOUR, Famd Self -rising TO-Ib. bag. : . ....... ..63c SUGAR, 10 pounds. ... ... . ... . .... .,.S3c AGED NEW YORK Cheese, lb. , ...69c DRIED BLACKEYED Peas, 2 lbs. . ... . ... ....... . .29c MAXWELL HOUSE Instant Coffee, 6-oz. jar 49c Washo, quarts ... . . .29c WHITE HOUSE Applesauce, 2 cans 1 . . .29c Pig Tails, 2 lbs .39c Smoked Sausage, 3 lbs.. . $1.00 GWALTNEY'S : Pure Lard, 4 lbs. ...... . . . 69c MANNING'S 1 . vViWc..-; " . Hominy, 2cans. . . . .r . . .25c GIBBS' .; ".- '',. Pork and Beans, 2 cans... 35c REGULAR BRAND v ' Cigarettes, carton .. ... . .$1.78 MRS. FILBERT'S Oleomargarine, lb. . . . . . ,29c Sausage Meat, lb. . . .. ...39c . ALL TYPES : ' " FIELD aiid GARDEN SEED J.C. Blanchard (St J. C. BLANCHARD & COMPANY, INC. GENERAL DEPARTMENT STORE . JOHN DEERE FARM IMPLEMENTS "BLANCHARD'S" SINOE 1B32 HERTFORD, NORTH CAROLINA March 1, 1956 Dear Friend and Customer: For a Jong time we have toyed with the idea of majng ourroajiy. department a self-service system. We are pleased to announce that we have done this. . We hope for your conveni ence and better service. We will continue to operate on the sam Qld cpuntry. store tyle. Your, credit is good, HP if anywhere; we will be glad to serve you in this way as we have your welfare and wishes qp permost in our minds. To those of our faithful and regulapitqmeVs wc want you to know that we appreciate you more than anything else and will always grateful for your considera tion. Without the patronage of you good I folks and others, whom we wish to Attract to our"1 stoic, we could not stay in business. For we thank you and shall always strive to let your desires guide our business in the future. . K . It is our hope and desire to sell you goods at an even lower price than wC have in the past' as we expect an increase in our volume to offset this. We have gone over our stock and put cur prices down to compare with anyone. We have always been low on our prices as.you all know but now we feel that we can beat most prices and certainly not charge any more. You can trust us for having this uppermost in our minds in making this change and for carrying SKI5' S over ; to Mr. Thompson, county , farm agent and Mrs. Webb, county j home agent. They gave a very in teresting demonstration on "Meat Cutting and Wrapping." Mrs. ,A. E. Layden had charge of the rec reation which everyone enjoyed wiht Mrs. Willie Lamb and Way land: Howell winning prizes. ? roll :jred th? minutes f the H . . - y- '.'( 'l-i January meeting. Sixteen were I P - T T t t 1RT4 ' ''j' Uscd(Uars& 1 ruck 1955 jFORD Custom 2-door . Radio and heater. , Like new. Only 7,000 miles. ' 1954 FORD Victoria Skyliner Radio and heater; Fordomatic , 1954 FORDCustom2-d6or ; RadiQ and heater; Fordpmatic. Like new, , ' 1952 FORD Custom 4-door Radio and heater. ' 1952 STUDEBAKER Champion Overdrive; heater. 1951 FORD Custom 2-door Radio and heater. 1951 CHEVROLET Deluxe 4-door Powerglide; heater. 1950 FORD Custom 2-door Radio, heater; two-tone paint'. ' 1949 FORD Custom 4-door Radio and heater. 1947 FORD Deluxe 4-door v Radio and heater. . WINSLOVWCHARD MOTOR CO. :; II lays, "for tht btsl itrvUe cheikth diraclory btfort tailing" v Whtrvr you go you'll gel bMr talephont lorvict U you htk III dlrtctory bofor catling, ty looking beforehand you lav yourielf time, trouble and the embarraiiment of wrong number. Check flnl. It'i belter for tervice. THE NORFOLK & CAROLINA TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH t COMPANY ii E. Cilr . Edenton . MaittMt PHONE :i5SW DEALER'S NOi i741 '"ERTFORD, N. C, it out. We are sure that you always try to be loyal to our town. andlcobntyitliaiMft iwlttHy'!;-'; cannot stay in business without your help and patronagi;. We; 'always ttyl tosferyfe'yb'u jbeiter ) -':-and better to merit this confidence. Nothing can endure without thVhefp trim and coopera , ) tion of each other. Leave it to us to justify.your faithjn us ktwMyij'- , , ter from this confidence we so hope you have in us.v " ' ' ' ' , ",' .lijil wti.- s.w' u , , - '" ' . j . .' ( V )'-!! i,-Ml K With our every good wish and with deep humility and appreciation of yolir'pt'rfjnage' we are, ' v Sincerely yours t W T. C. BLANCHARD & CO.. INC. TS Remember our prices on men's wear and dry goods cannot Jbe beat. ' Vott Will fiiid this to ' be a fact so come see us for your complete needs, . , 1 . ,f ti ,f ' t Building Materials SEE US - WE HAVE IT! BRICKS - COr 'CRETtt BLOCKS SAND AfD GRAVEL BRIX MENT ' -if sheetrock -rocklaths ceiling panels -rock wool vindows-boors-lociis-ioi;ges johns manville siding amd siil'igles composition sii!f;gles-f,;etal roofing all size nails-wall ties ATHEY'S PAIffliSTOllPBjTIhE ' UNSEED OIL-PAINT BRUSHES CARPENTER'S TOOLS We Have v Congo Watermelon SEED A shortage of this seed is expected this season... so ,buy your seeds now 'while! our supply lasts . ;-.', Price is reasonable! i , i SEE US FOR , ' YOUR NEEDS! ' HEADQUARTERS FOR FINE COOKING WARE... Nothing dresses up the looks of your; kitchen like fine cooking ware. We suggest you see our line of complete stocks which include: The famous REVERE Cooking Utensils GRISWOLD Cast Iron Ware, Griddles, ' Fry Paris,' Dutch Ovens and Chicken Fryers PYREX; WARE i in beautiful pastel colors ' " PRESTO COOKERS... 4-qt. and 6-qt. sizes ' $ j Cariners and Preserving Kettles, ATHEY'S TOP GRADE j ' T77 "7 Outside White Paint $5.50 Per Gallon Hertford Hardware & Supply Co. PHONE 3461 'lihRTFO" a; us? r t ' - rT m, m i rarTinenrrTTTrTri
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