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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume II. Number 23.
Hertford Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, June 7, 1935.
$1.25 Per Year
WEEKLY
Rabi
les
A Named
A, A. Nobles and G. C.
Buck Will Vaccinate
All D ogs
stateIaw
Various Points Named
To Have Compulsory
Work Done
Rabies inspectors were appointed
by the Board of County Commission
ers on Monday, in accordance with
the provisions of an act passed at the
last session of the General Assembly
requiring all dogs to be vaccinated
annually for the prevention of rabies,
penalty for the violation of which is
a line of not less than ten dollars and
sot more than fifty dollars, or to im
prisonment of not less than ten days
nor more than thirty days. (
A. A. Nobles and G. C. Buck .were
4 appointed to serve for the entire
county in this capacity, with Mr.
Nobles having charge of the work in
the townships of Bethel, Belvidere,
. and Parkville, and Mr. Buck having
charge of the work in Hertford and
New Hope Townships.
It has been announced ' that dogs
will be vaccinated at the following
points in the various townships: At
Bethel and Burgess in Bethel Town-
: ship; at Belvidere and Whiteston, in
Belvidere Township; . at Hertford,
Beech Spring and Ballahack in Hert
ford Township, and at New Hope,
White Hat and Jackson's Store in
: New Hope Township.
The vaccine has been ordered from
'" the State Agricultural Department
and as soon as it is received notice
will be given of -the time for the
f vaccinations at the various points
designated.
.'.There will be no extra cost to dog
; owners who pay taxes on their dogs.
The Babies Inspector who does $he
work will collect 50 cents from the
dog owner, but the amount will be
applied on the dog tax. The Inspector
; retains twenty-five cents of the
I amount for his services, the other
J half being sent to the State Health
Department to cover the cost of the
vaccine and the metol tags to be worn
v by each dog vaccinated.
The Act provides that "it shall be
f the duty of the owner of every dog
to have same vaccinated annually by
a rabies inspector in accordance with
the provisions of this Act And it
shall be the further duty of the own
er of said dog to properly restrain
game and to assist the rabies inspec-
' tor m administering the vaccine."
The act further sets forth that, "it
shall be the duty of the Sheriff and
lis deputies to assist the rabies in
spector in the enforcement of this
Act."
And further, that "when the rabies
inspector has carried out the pro
- visions of this Act as to Section Five
in all townships in the county, it
shall be the duty of the sheriff with
the assistance of the rabies inspector
to make a thorough canvass of the
county and frequently thereafter to
determine if there are any dogs that
' are not wearing the metal tag pro
' vided for in Section Six. If such
dogs are found the Sheriff shall noti
'' y the owner to have same vaccinated
by a rabies inspector and to produce
t the certificate provided for in Section
Six within three days. IT the owner
shall fail to do this he shall be prose
cuted in accordance with the provi
ainns of this Act. If the owner of a
doft not '
fofk. it i
'offfifoto
doft not wearing the tag cannot oe
shall be tne auty 01 saw
destroy said dog."
Seeking To Have State
Take Over Wood's Lane
Recommendations will be made by
rmintv Commissioners to have
s f sfths road known as Wood's Lane, lead
inff from the Town of Hertford to the
Hertford Fork Road, taken over by
the State Highway Commission for
maintaince. This road, a private
VAftd belonarinc to the1 Wood ' Farm,
owned by Mrs. W. 0. Gaither.of
Hertford .has: for taany years been
'used bithe general public ? but has
never been maintained In -the. public
' system , Miss Helen Gaither appear-
ed biore tne voara on juuiumy wiuj
a request that this; do aone. ,
uritv Commissione'ra
Draw. New Jury list
A new, jury list for Perquimans
' Cmintv was made on Monday at the
V rblar meeting of the Board of
( Comity Commissioners, the major
nortion of the day betrj given over
? tins work. r.'irW-ih
-rtvi'ir" tl 1 c.
Inspectors
For County
of the
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Vtm IT. Inc.
What of the NRAT
Washington, D. C With the NRA
a dead issue so far as major industry
is concerned, large employers gener
ally have voiced their willingness to
retain the outlawed code provisions
as to wages and working hours. Few,
indeed, are the instances where ad
vantage has been taken of the open
chance to reduce wages, cut down
working hours, upset labor agree
ments. Prices tumbled in many di
rections. Reports from New York
indicate that the big stores -sold the
popular brands o fdgarettes as low.
as 64 cents- a carton. -- They cost the
stores 1.08, of which 60 cents is
government tax. Prices were ad
justed upward, however, as soon as
the first flurry subsided. Industry
awaits the President's plans for a
substitute fof the blue eagle.
America J.6 Nearer Recovery
Washington, D. C. Harry L. Hop
kins, federal emergency administra
tor, reports an encouraging drop in
the number of families on relief. In
March, 1935, 4,419,600 were receiving
emergency aid throughout the coun
try. This dropped Ho 4,260,423 in
April, a decrease of 3.6 per cent The
trend is fairly geiferal, being found in
all but ten of the states. New Mexi
co, with a drop of 20.7 per cent and
Mississippi with 17.1 per cent show
the greatest percentage of decrease.
Simon Silent On Hitler's Plans
London, England. Germany, sur
rounded by an antagonistic Europe,
is finding comfort in Britain's atti
tude toward a Western European air
pact In a secret conference last
week Leopold von Hoesch, German
ambassador at London, presented Sir
John Simon with a draft treaty from
Herr Hitler. Commons waited eag
erly for details, but they waited in
vain. Sir John hinted at an impend
ing international air conference, but
saw' no reason for interrupting Bri
tain's plans for air expansion. An
thony Eden, 37-yearold Lord Privy
Seal, insisted that Britain have air
parity with France, Italy and Ger
many. He held that she could not
depend on other powers to defend
her if she "got into trouble."
Quetta's Quake
Baluchistan, India. "For half a
minute," said a British officer who
survived, "the earth seemed to go
mad." At 3 a. m. one day last week
the town of Quetta, Baluchistan,
awoke to find the earth heaving be
neath it. Everywhere buildings were
crashing, burying scores of victims
in the tangled wreckage. More than
40 British aviators and a squadron of
planes were lost, when the Royal Air
Force barracks collapsed. Shrieking
natives stampeded into narrow streets
praying wildly to Rama, their god.
When the dust finally settled nature
had taken a heavy toll. An estimat
ed 80,000 natives and 200 whites lost
their lives in the quake. Quetta's
fertile valley was ravaged together
with surrounding telegraph and rail
road lines. Doctors and nurses work
ed themselves to exhaustion. Two
days later the Indian government is
sued a communique ordering aban
donment of Quetta. It is estimated
that 20,000 corpses remain beneath
the debris.
Funeral Held For;
Walter E. Jackson
Funeral services for Walter E.
Jackson, 44, a native of Perquimans
County, who has for the past .twenty
years been a resident of Portsmouth,
Va., were held from the home -of his
mother, ' Mrs. L. , R.- Howellr . near
WoodvUle, on Tuesday afternoon.
Burial took place in Cedanrood Cem
etery in Hertford. KV 4
Mr. Jacksdn, who was a volunteer
fat the World, Wat and served- asser
geant in Company E," 116th Infantry,
2Sth, Division,: and spent 18 months
overseas, died at the Veterans' Hos
pital, at Hampton, Va., on Sunday.' :
' He was a , member of the Free
mason Street Baptist .. Church Nor
folk,' Va and a member of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars, . Portsmouth
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. L
Howell, Hertford, Route 3, four
brothers, J. E, Jackson, of Edenton,
R. G. Jackson, f Charlotte,: G. W.
Jackson and D. M. Jackson, of Hert
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FOUR HERTFORD PEOPLE
HURT IN AUTOMOBILE
WRECK FRIDAY NIGHT
Miss Maude Turner Still
In Elizabeth City
Hospital
DRIVER llRRESTED
ilarrell Thach Fined
And License Revoked
For Year
No probable cause was found
against Harrell Thach, cnarged with
stealing an automobile and vgith re
ceiving an automobile knowing it was
stolen, in Recorder's Court on Tues
day, but the defendant, who was in
dicted upon three counts, was found
guilty of driving an automobile while
under the influence of liquor, and was
fined fifty dollars and deprived of the
privilege of driving an automobile in
North Carolina for the period of one
year.
Mr. Thach, who was arrested on
Friday of last week, was injured in
an automobile accident late that
night The accident occurred ner
Delight Nixon Fork, on the Hertford
Edenton highway, at about 11:30
o'clock. In the car, a Ford coupe,
owned by Charles Umphlett, Mr.
Thach's brother-in-law, were Mrs.
Thach and Miss Maude Turner and
Charles Umphlett, of New Hope, with
Mr. Thach at the wheel.
The accident is said to have been
the reesult of the slowing down of a
truck loaded with strawberries which
Mr. Thach was trailing, the car be
ing driven into the rear of the truck.
All four of the occupants were
hurt, Miss Turner, who is still in the
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City,
being the most seriously injured.
Mr. Thach suffered painful injuries
to his head and a badly lacerated ear.
Mrs. Thach and Mr. Umphlett
were both painfully but not serions
lylnjared. Miss Turner suffered very severe
lacerations about the face and a se
verely injured knee.
The car was badly wrecked.
The car which Mr. Thach wa3 ac
cused of having stolen in Recorder's
Court was the property of L. N- Hol
Iowell. It was in the possession of
Mr. Love, who is the head of the road
construction work at Belvidere. Mr.
Love testified that he parked the car
in front of the Hotel Hertford the
previous night and it was gone the
following morning. It was later
found in' front of Anderson's Church,
where it had been abandoned.
There was no evidence offered to
link Harrell Thach with the stolen
car, except the testimony of Henry
Clay Sullivan who works nights at the
One Stop Service Station, and who
testified that Thach came into the
station that night between one and
one-thirty o'clock, and that he was
under the influence of liquor. He
further testified that he .saw Mr.
Thach get into a car which had been
left down at the corner of Front and
Grubb streets and drive off, and that
the car had cream colored wheels.
The stolen car had cream colored
wheels. But there was no evidence
to show that Mr. Thach did not own
a car of that description.
No evidence was put on by the de
fense. Norman Haskett Has
First Local Peaches
The first peaches U appear on the
local market were grown by Norman
Haskett, of New Hope. The peaches,
very fine ones, were sold in Hertford
on Monday o fthis weefc.
HOME FROM DUKE
Robert Hollowell, who is a student
at Duke University, ; returned home
for the summer vacation on Tuesday.
Robert has recently undergone an
operation at Duke Hospital to correct
Bonta trouble following a broken arm
a, year ago. He. is reported, ; as con
valescing sawsiactoruy. .
Hertford Wctoan Catches Snake
Iii Mousetrap
A snake caught in a mouse trap
waa- found by- Mrs, J. J., Fleetwood,
prominent Hertford woman,; in the
bedroom of her home on Front Street,
on Thursday, , t l( : . T 1
Mrs. Fleetwood set a mouse, trap
on. the hearth in the bedroom, close
by a small hole at the base of the
fire board, where k looked like a
mouse might, enter, last week. On
Thursday mornfe; Mrs. Fleetwood
took a look at the trap to find out
whether or not a mouse had .been
FARRIERS URGED APPLY
IMMEDIATELY TO GET
BANKHEADJLLOTMEKT
County Agent Notifies
Cotton Farmers of
Filing Places
THISWEEK
Unless Signed Tax Must
Be Paid on Ginned
Cotton
Perquimans County cotton growers
interested in signing applications for
a Bankhead allotment are' asked to
do so on Thursday, Friday or Satur
day of this week. L.. W. Anderson,
County Agent, sent out noteices to
cotton farmers this, week to this ef
fect, designating the place to apply,
and stating that if they fait to sign
such application they will have to
pay tax on all cotton: ginned
Farmers of Bethel: and Hertford
Townships wilt apply at the Court
House in Hertford, wher the follow
ing members of the committee have
charge of the sign-upc Miss Mae
Wood Wihsiow, R. T. Berry, C E.
White I. m Newtek A. D. Thach,
and A.. H Lanev
Belvidere; Townshfpi farmers should
apply at Belviderey where Dr. E. S.
Whitey 6. W. Nwett, J. R. Jolliff,
and K- L. Wittiama are in charge.
Winfall is the point designated for
the Parkville Township farmers to
Jpply, and those in charge at this
race are B. W. Thach, John A. Bray,
JL K. Matnewsv and A. J. Jordan.
New Hope Township farmers will
apply at New Hope, where J. T. Ben
ten, C. W. Umhplett, S. D. Banks,
and J. 6. Rabbins have charge.
Belvidere Gardener
Grows Big Lettuce
Miss Clara White, who l.s quite a
local celebrity as a gardener, grows
very successfully the choicest of flow
ers and vegetables in her fine garden
at Belvidere. Last week she gave
some unusually fine heads of lettuce
to friends in Hertford. One hearl
was of such enormous growth that its
recipient weighed it and found it
weighed 2 pounds and 11 ounces.
So far as has been ascertained, this
is the heaviest head of lettuce grown
hereabouts.
C. F. Sumner, Sr., of Hertford,
another very successful gardener,
weighed a lettuce head grown in his
garden last week which tipped the
scales at 2 pounds and 2 ounces.
Many lettuce growers have difficul
ty in getting lettuce to head, but
these two gardeners seem to have
solved the problem, as their let:uce
is beautifully headed.
June 27 Time Limit
For Loans On Homes
Attorney James S. McNider, of
Hertford, who is fee attorney for the
Home Owners' Loan Corporation, has
received notice from the department
that the corporation is authorized to
receive new applications for the re
financing of home mortgages. Re
ceipt of such new applications will
terminate at midnight, June 27.
Notice is given to all parties who
have spoken to Mr. McNider in ref
erence to this matter, in order that
no delay will be made in getting the
applications in. Applications which
are not received before midnight,
June 27, cannot be favorably acted
upon.
BACK FROM WESTERN TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Gregory and
their daughter, Eugenia, returned on
Tuesday night from a trip to Ashe
ville and other points in western
North Carolina, and to Anderson, S.
C. They were accompanied home by
their daughter, Doris, who has been
a student this year at Mars Hill Col
lege.
caught and was horror-struck to dis
cover the' snake.,r It bad been caught
and killed, by- he ' springing : of the
trap. The snake, which was a small
one of undetermined and probably
non-poisonous' variety, measured 21
inches in length.-- w-vwi
Last summer : a member of the
Fleetwood " family " found f , a copper
head snake' on the back porch of the
home, ?The snake found in the trap
in thehouse was not of this variety,
howe
County To
$50
,000 From PWA
Thieves Enter Post
Office Get Nothing
Center HH1 had a thrill, and
has still, yesterday morning when
thieves broke in the post office
and got nothing, and then crossed
the street and forced a door in the
general store of L. W. Belch.
There they appropriated two dozen
pairs of overalls and a lot of can
ned goods to say nothing of a
cheese front the ice box. The back
door of the post office was found
forced when Postmaster H. E
Lane entered around 7 o'clock. A
quick examination disclosed noth
ing had been taken.
Lawn Party Friday
At Baptist Church
A delightful lawn party was given
by Mrs. T. W. Perry to the members
of the Girls' Auxiliary and of the
Royal Ambassadors of the Baptist
Church on Friday night.
Many novel and delightful games
were played, and there was a pro
gram of readings, story-telling and
other interesting numbers. Refresh
ments in two courses were served at
attractively arranged tables on the
lawn.
Those present included Mrs. Josiah
Elliott, leader of the G. A.'s; Misses
Lizzie Lee Hoffler, Mabel Spivey,
Margaret Mayes, Shirley Elliott,
Marie Lane, Sarah Ward, Jeannette
Perry, Jean White, Catherine Cam
pen, Dorothy Strange, Reba Spivey,
and Billy Pritchard and , Raymond
Sawyer, of Elizabeth City; Zack Har
ris, Ray Jordan, Carl Perry, James
Divers, Thomas Phillips, Cleveland
Buck, David Broughton, Fred Cam
pen and Eldon Winslow.
Children Confederacy
Likely To Organize
A group of young girls, all eligible
for the Children of the Confederacy
Chapter which will probably be or
ganized in Hertford in the near fu
ture, assisted the hostesses in serving
at the lovely tea given in honor of
the birthday of Jefferson Davis by
the ladies of the U. D. C. on the lawn
of the home of Mrs. T. C Blanchard
on Monday afternoon.
The girls included Mary Wood
Koonce, Prue Newby, Katherine Jes
sup, Ellie Mae White, Mary Thad
Chappell, Anna Penelope Tucker, and
Ruth Nachman.
Marjorie Buck, winner of the prize
in the Jefferson Davis essay contest,
read her essay as a part of the pro
gram. C. R. Holmes made an inter
esting address on the subject.
The club song was nunr in unison
by the members of the TJ. D. C.
Cotton Growers Must
Exchange Certificates
In order to realize anything from
the cotton tax exemption certificates,
otherwise known as cotton allot
ments, issued last year, the holders
must bring such certificates to the
office of L. W. Anderson, the County
Agent, and exchange them for new
certificates.
These exemption certificates were
issued to farmers last year and pro
vided that the holder might sell a
certain amount of cotton free of tax.
They are worth about $5.67 per one
hundred pounds of cotton in taxes
While probably most of the certifi
cates were used, there are, scattered
throughout the county, a number of
certificates. Mr. Anderson has no
means of ascertaining who holds
these certificates. He is, . however,
very anxious that nobody shall fail to
get the information that the certih
cates must be exchanged immediately
for new ones if they are to be of any
value.
Cards have been sent out this week
by Mr. Anderson to the cotton grow
ers, furnishing this information.
CHANGE RESIDENCES
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. White have
moved from Winfall to Hertford and
are occupying the residence on Grubb
Street recently vacated by Mr. and
Mrs. H. T. Bond. Mr. and Mrs. Bond
have moved into the house on Penn
sylvania Avenue which was vacated
by Mr. and Mrs.' W. E. Smith when
they moved to Gates County.
MRS. REED RETURNS
. Mrs. Dan Reed, who was recently
a patient at Duke Hospital, Durham,
where she received treatment, has re
turned home. j
Apply For
Commissioners Approve
Amount Asked By
Board Education
FORSCHOOLS
New Buildings Needed
At Belyidere and
Winfall
Fifty thousand dollars wirT be ap
plied for from the Public Works Ad
ministration,. . to be used for erecting
new school buildings and for repair
ing old buildings in Perquimans
County.
Forty-five per cent of this amount
will be a. grant from, the PWA, the
remainder to be a loan to. the county.
Approval was given, by the Board
of County Commissioners, before
which the- Board: of. Education ap
peared in reference to this matter on
Monday, for application to be made
to the PWA for. the; sum of $50,000.
The burning , of the Belyider' school
in May gave.' rise to the necessity of
erecting a. new school at this point.
Winfall has been in dire need; of a
new school! building for a long time.
In all probability a. new school will
be built at Winfall! and: alsoi on at
Belvidere, and repairs, will be made,
as well, to .other-schools' ih the county
this, summer.
Junior Boys And Girfer
Organize Social Club
A social club was formed by the
junior- boys and girls on Monday
night;, when- the group met at the
home of Miss Ruth Nachman..
Officers elected included Mary
Wbod Koonce, president; Prue New
by, vice president, ami Katherine
Jessup, secretary-treasurer. Plans
were made to meet each Tuesday
night.
Dainty refreshments wers served at
the close of the evening:.
The boys and girls, rompoefiig the
club include Ruth Nachman, Mary
Wood Koonce, Prue Newby, Polly
Tucker, Lila Budd Stephens, Sarah
Ward, Katherine Jessup, Hollowell
Nixon, Tim Brinn Frank Jessup,
Jesse Lee Harris, Henry Stokes, Zack
White, James Divers, Rilly Hard
castle, and Eldon Winslow.
Funeral Sunday For
Mrs. Isa Elliott White
Funeral services for Mrs- Isa El
liott White, wife of the late D. R.
White, of Hertford, who died at her
home here early Saturday morning,
were held from the home on Sunday
afternoon, with the Rev. B. P. Robin
son, pastor of the Hertford M. E.
Church, officiating. Music was fur
nished by a choir of selected voices.
Active pallbearers were C. B. Park
er, E. L. Reed, R. A. White, H. D.
Elliott, J. R. Elliott, and C F. Sum
ner, Jr.
Honorary pallbearers included D.
S. Darden, V. N. Darden, Rosser
Brinn, Beverly Tucker, Charles Skin
ner. Matt Mathews, 1. L. White, F.
M. Weeks, Shepard Owens, W. G.
Newby, J. E. Winslow, Herman Jen
kins, Dr. C. A. Davenport, and Irving
White.
Mrs. White, who was 49 years of
age, was a native of Ferquimans
County and had lived all her life in
the county. She was a woman of
splendid Christian character, honored
by all who knew her, and leaves many
friends to mourn her Joss.
Surviving are three children, Mrs.
Hurley Hoffler, Miss Nell White, and
McMullan White, all of Hertford, and
one brother, H. D. Elliott, of Route
2, Edenton.
Opening Camp Leach
Has Been Postponed
Camp Leach will not open on June
17, as was scheduled. The opening of
the camp has been indefinitely post
poned by the management, at the re
quest of the State Board of Health,
according to a notice sent to Rev. E.
T. Jillson, in Hertford, by Rev. Steph
en Gardner, business manager of
Camp Leach, this week.
Mr. Gardner stated also that all
registration fees which had been
sent in would be returned, in a few
days.
It is understood that the State
Board of Health is taking this step
as a precaution against further out
break of infantile paralysis. There
have been more than fifty cases of
this disease in the state during the
spring, the various eases . being scat
tered ever the eastern section of th
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