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nfWwf HaTWWawHi'g af"""1 " xrn?, 7A t ovn - i i " '--' . ' : Personals Society ?News 5KWJ yj ns,Tonuo AS TIE KMT UZm CMIEITITtl. 'IF Mill MU U;.. VTIM1 reus about - J aa t . a ino-Mignry j urn do Nil tO AITISTS CORPORATION' rJOMEBODY must have said to Phineas T. Barnum 'way J back "You ought to be in Pictures." He certainly ""B ought to be and it's a good job he's going to be, be cause any man who could do what he did with one elephant had a career regardless of the rest of his stupendous show manship. I never beheld the great Jumbo but the tradition of Jumbo is the elephantine elephant story. Why, the word Jumbo is part of the language we have jumbo shrimps, jumbo peanuts. It means big. And Jumbo was big so big in size and sentiment that he nearly started a war between Eng land and America. Really. Barnum bad seen Jumbo when be waa over in England touring with General Tom Thumb. Jumbo was the prise pachyderm at the Re gent's Park Zoo in London, where the Fellows of the Royal Geograph ical Society parade in white wes kits and chase the kids away from the monkey cages. Jumbo was an nusoally large elephant, and the pride of all London. Even King Edward VII bad, as a child, ridden on Jumbo's capacious back. Barn tun bid $10,000 for Jumbo and the London Zoo accepted the offer. In stantly there was terrific protest all through England. Jumbo be came a National hers, and selling him to a Yankee was a national in sult equivalent to selling Nelson's Ship Victory. There were violent protests funds were raised to buy Barnum off the dispute raged on both sides of the Atlantic. Of course, old Phineas T. Barnum hated that. It was more publicity than any act of his ever received. Suit was actual ly brought in the high courts of England to stop Barnum from get ting Jumbo shipped to America. But the British courts decreed that a legal bargain had been made and ihat it must be lived, up to. Jumbo had to go. Before he was shipped -undrads of thousands of persons craw-ad the Zoo to see him for the last Um as they thought for his majesty to spend a pretty thankless job, for the king would have it spent long before he could raise it. Sacred Whit Elephant One day, when the prime minis ter was at his wits' end to rake up fifty thousand dollars for his sport ing monarch, Barnum's agents pop ped in with the dough-ray-me and the deal waa on. He got his white elephant. They couldn't get native worship- Crate of Osaaaat i They bout a huge crate to cart Jumbo away he waa head and Wpa larger than the largest elephant ever before seen in captivity. But Jumbo refused to get into the crate and representatives of the animal-cruelty-prevention to society were oa hand to see be was not forced Into the shipping package. Barn aul's agent wired him in New York that Jumbo lay on the floor of his compound snd declined to go into the crate. Barnum cabled back to let Jumbo lie as long as he wished it meant all the more publicity on both sides of the Atlantic. And it did. When, finally, Jumbo was cart ed away for shipment to America thousands formed a parade. The first six months of Jumbo in America found Barnum richer by $300,000. The animal was a sensa tion. Scientists visited Jumbo to try to account for his enormous size. He could stick the nozzle of his trunk into a third story win dow. I've discovered why Jumbo was so bii,r. His favorite drink was beet'. He'd guazle it by the bucket ful and never bnt an ear. Barnum let his imagination run riot with Jumbo. He trained the huge beast to make friends with and act. as a protector for a dwarf Aug mm eould 4o at- h ti Bait owa tUplumt had a carter I elephant. The pal were ntarvelous to behold together, and Balaam voa went so far to plaster the countryside with hago Hthograpaa of Jumbo saving the little elephant from a devastating hoUcaoet which no fare department eouM recall ever having happened. But just as Barnum was pre paring to cash in on Jumbo's enor mous fame by a special tour of the British Isles, Jumbo, most likely after one bucketful of beer too many, barked into a moving freight train in Ontario and waa killed. But Barnum had learned from Jumbo that the public had a yen for big beasts. He wasn't going to get one of the biggest and most sacred beasts in the world. The Sacred White Elephant of Siam, worship ped by the Siamese. His agents were sent into Siam. There they quickly learned that it was as much as anybody's life was worth to at tempt to seize a sacred white ele phant, let alone to buy one and transport it abroad. But the agents were wiley fellows they had to be to work for Barnum. They discov ered that the king of Siam was a gentleman who lived beyond his in come, even though that was about all his subjects could dig out of their jeans. They greased their way into high councils, and finally got the premier of Siam on their side. His job was to get the dough pars of white elephants to handle the animal, so they want and pro cured a few roughneck Moslems, who saako it part of their religious doty to have nothing hot contempt for the worshippers of white ele phants. The white elephant was smuggled out of the country disguised and under wraps but when it arrived in America, Barnum was bitterly disappointed. It wasn't white. It waa a pinkish-grey.. Resourcefully, he had. authorities even the great philosopher, Ljouis Agassis, assist him in letting the public know that the Siamese thought ' greyish-pink or pinkish-grey was white. Any how, thfe pachyderm was the real McCoy worshipped in Baugkok. The public fell for it in large num bers, and Barnum's woes were over until some designing blokes, also in the circus business, actually pro duced a white elephant and dis played it. Although there's reacon to suspect that that elephant had a whitewash bath every day. Barnum, the pachyderm of show business, bad a natural love of pa chyderms and, besides giving Americans a sight of the biggest beast of modern times if Barn um's times may be considered mod ern in view of all that's happened since he added that word Jumbo to the dictionary and thcro It sticks. C I SrOKTS TALK v By "Whitie" The Perquimans boys' and girls' basketball teams are starting to prac tice after the Christmas holidays. Coach Hughes is putting the boys through plenty of practice in prepara tion for the conference games which start soon. He played basketball last year Stokes measures 6 feet in height and tips the scales at 165. His favorite food is ham and ham. Next week another Indian. The Perquimans boys' team played the locals on Tuesday night in a prac tice game. The P. C. B S. boys showed that they were improving fast. The Indians did some good shooting and some excellent passing during this game. On Friday night the Perquimans girls will meet the Whaleyville team it Whaleyville. The girls are in fine shape) and expect to run up a high score: - The boys' team will also clash with Whaleyville and if they play as well as they have been showing up in practice they stand a very good chance of winning. .' ' Among the twelve Indians playing basketball this year we have some very good warriors. Let's take a look at few Of them. ,. rt;; first, we will take the captain, -leap Big Chief,- Claude (Snort) Urinn. Claude plays guard and plays it well. He weighs 174 pounds and is 6 feet tall. His favorite dish is hot tisctdts. Claude is very fond , of rtucic end his favorite orchestra is Little Jack Little. ' -"' Another guard who is showing up j - y well is Henry (Ladies' Man) . J ry is a junior this year. Control Animal Disease By Quarantine Method Diseased animab should be quaran tined to prevent the spread of infec tion, says Dr. C. D. Grinnells, in charge of dairy investigations at the N. C. Agricultural Experiment Sta tion. .Quarantine not only protects the healthy animals, he says, but it also facilitates the treatment of diseased animals. Grinnells also warns against intro ducing new animals into a herd with out quarantining them for a period of SO or 40 days. If at the end of the period they are found to be free from disease, then it is considered safe to place them in the herd. While in quarantine, the animals should be watched closely for any trace of disease. The period neces sary to keep the animals under close observation varies, Grinnells says, de pending upon where the new animals came from, the type of animal, and its physical condition. , Animals -, collected from' different farms, assembled in public stock yards, , and shipped long L distances are dangerous sources of infection, he points out, as they are exposed to many chances for catching disease at a time when their resistance Is lower ed, j ' "' ."-- 'ijc'' 'VV ' But animals which . have been haul ed only short distances are abio liable to become infected, while many come from herds where disease. is present, GrinnelU warns in stressing the need for precaution whenever bringing new stock into a herd. A few infected animals can spread disease through a whole herd in a few days, he adds, and it is risky to wait a day or two before putting the new stock into quarantine, even though there is no apparent indication of disease. More Hours Increases Pay Roll For Relief ,assMM Indications are that a good pay roll will come from the ERA organisation to workers in Perquimans this week. Last week, with a short week, ending on Tuesday, there was a pay roll of 1403.60, with 72 men and women em ployed. . This week the number has been increased to some extent and Wore hours will be made,- radicating an increase in the pay roll. mA IXKN KNII I1K THIIHH : t . George Alexander, prominent f arm- er of the Chapanoke Neighborhood, had the misfortune to cut off the end of the thumb of his left hand last week. The; iaccident S occurred while Mr. Alexaender was working with wood saw at his home. . i , . ' A SHORT APPLE CROP , t TVflkea ; county., apple growers, re port 50 percent of a norma) crop har vested last fall but good prices larougnout tne winter. . ' This week Graham McNamee tells about ."The Mighty Barnum.". There are still a few more of this series of articles, and we hope you're enjoying them. , , 4' ,,'-" r Mrs. Hurley Hoffler, who has been sick with flu, is convalescent and has resumed her duties as saleswoman at Darden Bros. - 1 f. "j Mrs. R. S. Jordan is on the sick list this week, Mr. and Mrs. V. N. Darden, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Darden attended the fu neral services of a relative, Mr. John Harris, in Norfolk, Va., on Sunday. Leslie Dail, of Henderson, was the guest of his brother, Walter Dail, this week. Mrs. E, J. Broughton, Mrs, R. T. Clarke and Mrs. J. C. Blanchard have returned from a trip to Durham. William C. Chappell, of Belvidere, was in Hertford on Monday. J. C. Baker, of Whiteston, made i business trip to Hertford on Monday, Mrs. T. N. Gregory is sick with an attack of flu at her home on Grubb Street. J. H. Miller, of Parkville Township, was in town. Monday to attend the meeting of the Board of Education, of which he is a member. Mrs. R. M. Riddick has returned from a trip to Durham. Mrs. Frank Kugler and her two little daughters have returned to Hertford after a month's absence, during which they visited relatives at High Point and at Washington, N. C. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Leggett have re turned home after a ten days' ab sence, during which they visited their son, Lanier Leggett, at Elizabeth City, and their aunt, Mrs. Ursula Carter, at Fentress, Va. R. M. Riddick visited relatives at Gatesville on Sunday. J. C. Baker, of Whiteston, was in Hertford on Monday to attend the meeting of the Board of County Com missioners, of which he is a member. R. S. Monds, Jr., who holds a posi tion at Roselle, N. J., is visiting his parents, Rev. R. S. Monds and Mrs. Monds. Mrs. J. R. Hooks has returned to her home at Freemont after attend ing the funeral of her. father, J. T. Brinn. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Asbell and fam ily spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Winslow at White ston. Mr. and Mrs. Wayland White and family and Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Wins- slow spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Greogory at Sandy Cross. Mrs. Cecil Forbes and children, Mar- jorie and Cecil Jr. of Norfolk, Vir ginia, spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Forbes. Mr. Roy Chappell and Miss Attie Chappell returned to Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday, after spending the Christmas holidays with their parents Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Chappell. Miss Anna Forbes spent Thursday in Norfolk, Virginia. Those visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jim Corbitt Sunday afternoon included Mr. and Mrs. C R. Chappell, of Bethel; Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Cor- prew and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Corprew, of near Edenton. Miss Lilly Jolliff, of Pennsylvania, is spending a few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Jolliff. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Hollowell had as a guest last week Mr. Hollowell's brother, N. M. Hollowell, of Hender-sonville. Dr. T. A. Cox, who has been sick with an attack of flu, is convalescing and able to be back in his office. Mrs. T. C. Blanchard and her daughter, Miss Kate M. Blanchard, are spending a few days in Norfolk, visitinsr Mrs. Blanchard's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blanchard. W. T. Brown, Perquimans County's representative, is in Raleigh, attend ing the Legislature. Hon. Chas. Whedbee left Wednes day for Raleigh, where he will spenc- sometime on professional business. Mr. and Mrs. T: G. Hurt had as a guest on Tuesday Mrs. Hurt's broth er, Carl Malpass, of Goldsboro. - C. E. Thompson, Elizabeth City at torney, was in Hertford on profes sional business on Wednesday. NEW HOPE NEWS ,1 Mr, and Mrs.' J. T. Robbins r and family, of Smithfleld, Vav visited relatives at Durant's Neck Sunday, Ut. and Mrs, ? Mack Ward c and children, of Edenton, jpent Sunday with Mrs. Wsjfd'g parents,-; Mr. and Mrs; Li R. Webb, '&-N$:JWi Via JfebeccaKWebb has feturned to Conway to take up her duties as ieacher after spendlrj the holidays wth.elatiyes;t' NeW'JSume.iif Mrv end Mrs, Elmer Banks enter tained a number of friends at their home on; Friday night ia honor ef Mr. and Mrs. Buchannan Banks, who were recently married. Those present in eluded Mr. and Mrs." J. Vf. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs.. Clifton Haskett, Mr, and Mrs. J. A. Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Webb, G. L, Turner, Mr.- and Mrs Buchannan Banks, - Carson . Banks Roulhae Webb, Misses Mary Yefcb, Marybelle Tprner, Evelyn Webb, Etta Long Webb, Evelyn :' Simpson, Vida , Banks IT- T. re YCzri Making The Home More Livable " ' : The Correct living Room Table lamp Does Its, Share ,T s& SfeZft. By JtanPrentitx IT ISNT that husband or wife is selfish but sometimes when they settle down in their chairs beside the living room table for an hour or so of reading, one or the other unconscious ly reaches out to pull the lamp closer. And their mate is left out in the dark! We'll have to blame the lamp. For that doesn't happen to the persons who inhabit the living room sketched above. When the two chairs are occupied, and books or newspapers are opened, this lamp it at kind to the eyes of the one as to the other's, and serves each reader equally well It "stays put" in the center of Ihe table. I wonder if the lamp OfTyour living room table has the good traits of this one? Your tape measure or ruler will help tell you. Height of this lamp is from 23 to 26 inches and the bottom diameter of the shade (which, by the way, is of course open at the top) is between 16 and 18.. And how important are the height of the standard and the width of the shade, say lighting scientists V Upon them depend the proper spread and softness of the light, -so necessary to easy seeing. Too many table lamps are so small that at best they are only ornamental, and entirely inadequate for the major task of properly lighting two chairs. The lamp needed here, as illustrated above, should have several sockets since the spread of light is thus greater and the actual amount 'of light to the page is usually more. If -mere are two sockets they should, hold .64 or 75-watt bulbs. Particularly good for the table is' one of the .Better Sight Study and -Reading Lamps, manufactured by many concerns in a wide variety of styles and bearing a tag of approval showing they have -been built acccrdint; to the wise specifications "of the Illumi nating Engineering Society, national . lighting group. r : - Scientists have designed, its lamp standard and shade of correct height and spread. . The shade is white-lined, thai economically reflecting snore light-. A glass bowl holding a 100-watt bulb distributes soft and glarelesa light ur and down. . . Golden hours of reading. beside table have a good companion h i wt' designed lamp tike this one! phonso Nixon and Mrs. R. R. Perry. Banks Sutton A quiet weddinc took nlace at the home of Rev. E. F. Sawyer, in Eli zabeth City on Thursday, January 3, when Miss Geraldine Mae Jenninm. of Chapanoke, became the bride of Mr. Buchannan Sutton Banks, of New Hope, the ceremony being performed oy Mr. sawyer and witnessed by only a few intimate friends. Have you subscribed to the Per quimans Weekly? You could hardly better invest the amount it costs. Oerk Of Court To Purchase Office Code The Comity Commissioners decided to allow the Clerk of the Court to purchase a North Carolina Code for his office at their meeting on Monday It developed that practically all of the counties in the State have this work, which lit" necessity to the courts and the county officers, and that the .one in use in Perquimans has been out of date for many years. The cost of the book is $45.00. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF ' The HertiFord Banking Co. At Hertford, North Carolina, to the Commissioner of Banks, at the close of business on the 81st day of December, 1934, Resources - Cash, checks for. clearing and transit items . Due from approved depository banks Due from banks not approved depositories United States BondB, Notes, etc. North Carolina State Bonds, Notes,'etc. Other stocks Anil twtnrta Loans and discounts other Banking nouse and site Furniture, fixtures and equipment ' 16,021.30 74,871.0a 6,181.88. 827.00 . 60,000.00 159,291.68 6,232.18, 249,103.82 10,000.00 6,000.00 Total resources Liabilities and Capital 687,028.89. Demand deposits due public officials uemana aeposits aue otners Cashiers checks, certified checks end dividend checks Accrued expenses, taxes and interest Time certificates of deposit due others - - Savings deposits due public officials Savings deposits due others , ,.. lL. Bills payable J Rediscounts , ,: ,1,1.l,r.in,..,.,l, - .16,421.37' . 236)25.76 10,566.78 . . .8486.04 " " J.603.88 1 117.71 . 248,692.27 ; , None v.r None .' Total liabiUties , Capital stock Common - -.-, Capital- stock prt?erred 6 cumulative Surplus--ner',rojrIated' ,' , . , . Undivided promts Tn-M 'J,,. . ' . Unearned discount .$ 512,618.76 Reserve for depreciation fixed properties . - v Total capital .J..'..; ' $. 5,000.00 i rs ri " ' : -5sCv0C3 , 12.E01.C) . -,c U -, , U7. ! .; 2,lC:.li $ 74,4i:.13 'libiliaes aWcaplttl , State of North Carolina. , County of Perquimans- t' ',.; - " r - : , " i' M Ri M;JMddick, Jr., Cashier'Chasi Johnson,' Director, and Thomas Nixon,' Director of the Hertford Banking Company, each personally appeared be":re me thie day, and, being dulyNsworn, each for hims-'f, saa that tue for.jo fcS report is true to the best of his krowle ' irl W ?. . Jv. 4 . , Sworn to and subscribed before ie r ' (Seal) - . - 1 '. 1 ,1 ull.c. f
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