THE PFIR
: A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume IL Number 30.
Southern
Eastern
Wrecked Mill Will Be
Rebuilt at Once By
New Owners
WEUXME NEWS
Industry Provides Em
ployment as Well as
Home Market
The Eastern Cotton Oil Company's
plant here has been sold to the South
ern Cotton Oil Co., and the oil mill
which was wrecked by a boiler ex
plosion on January 13, 1934, which
killed 6 men, will be rebuilt at once.
The plant of the Eastern Cotton
Oil Company located at Weldon was
also sold to the Southern Cotton Oil
Co. in the transaction. The purchase
price for the two plants, including
the oil mill, gin, fertilizer plant and
18 acres of land, in Hertford, and
tb,e oil mill, gin and 6 acres of land
at Weldon, was $100,000.00.
The other holdings of the Eastern
Cotton OH Company, which include
plants at Elizabeth City,, at Edenton
and at Freemont, are not affected
by the sale.
The announcement of the immedi
ate rebuilding of the oil mill here
will be gladly received in the entire
community. For many years the in
dustry played an important part in
the business life of this entire sec
tion, particularly to the Town of
Hertford and Perquimans County
Not only did the industry provide em
ployment for a large number of men,
but it was a home market which
was of inestimable value to the cot
ton farmers.
The reduced pay roll incident to
the .wrecked oil mill has been keenly
felt in Hertford, and its restoration
is an occasion for general thanks-4
giving,
TJie Southern Cotton Oil Company
is one of the -large corporations of
the country, owning gins and oil mills
throughout the entire Cotton Belt.
Prepare The Silo
For Fall Harvest
Many North Carolina dairymen,
not now using silage as a cattle feed,
would find it profitable to do so.
"We have come to recognize silage
as one of the best and most econo
mical home-grown roughages for
dairy cattle," declares John A. Arey,
dairy extension specialist at State
College. "Silage is succulent and
palatable. It is a good substitute
for grass in winter and m valuable
supplement to pasture in summer.
An acre of corn that will yield ten
tons of silage' when fed to dairy cows
in the form of silage will produce
about 400 pounds more milk than .if
the corn were zed in the dry state,
Then, too, the loss of feed sustained
during harvesting and feeding opera
tiona is almost eliminated when the
corn is converted into silageV
Mr. Arey urges dairymen to repair
their old silos or build new ones dur
ing the latter part of July arid
-through August while the rush of
summer work is over and fall work
lias not yet begun. This will avoid
serious delay when the silage crop is
ready to cut.
The dairy extension, office at State
College has plans and bills of mater
ial snowing now to Duiia.tne vertical
silo and Extension Circular 201 may
be secured telling how to dig a trench
silo. The silos dug in the State show
that the labor cost per ton of capaci
ty was about 50 cents. In some in
stances, the labor cost was not re
ported as the farmers said the silo
was dug during odd times.
The equipment used in filling the
trench silo also costs less. than that
used in filling :; the t vertical - type.
However, the vertical type is probab
ly better adapted to the needs of
dairymen with large herds of cattle.
The trench silo -will be suitable for
the men with a . few cows and who
has had no experience in feeding si-
Iage, Arey says.v ,. - .,-.-.
HOSTS AT DINNER PARTY !
Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Cox were hosts
..at a delightful dinner party on Wed
nesday evening at their home in
Hertford, their guests including Mr.
' and Mrs. Clinton Morgan of Chicago,
;.' 111., and Mr. and Mrs. C. W., Morgan.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETS
:W-Tne Minnie Wilson Missionary; So
ciety of the Hertford M. E. Church
f met on Monday night at the home of
Mrs. T. J. Nixon, Jr., wllh Krs. E.
W. Lordley, c' jr: 'V-j. '
Cotton Oil
Cotton Oil
lUAirnJUW -bain as
If 1 ritfllTTTTITT n A Trrt
PLACED IN JAIL
Charged With Criminally Attacking
Little White Girl; Caught In
Portsmouth
Matthew Banks, the 14-year-old
colored boy accused of criminally at
tacking the 8-year-old child of Mr,
and Mrs. Bob Ivey, was located by
Sheriff W. G. Wright in Portsmouth,
Virginia, on last Friday night and
was brought to Hertford and placed
in jail.
The boy, who is a son of Sam
Banks, had fled when officers went to
arrest him after a report was made
a week after the attack is alleged to
have taken place. Although officers
had been looking for the boy in
Portsmouth, he had not been located
up to last Friday. Sheriff Winslow,
armed with a search warrant, went
to the home of the boy's father,
looking for evidence of the boy's
whereabouts. A letter written to the
boy's sister by another sister in
Portsmouth, led the sheriff to make
further search there. When he had
located the home of the boy's grand
father on Friday night nobody was
at home. Neighbors told the officer,
who was accompanied by a Ports
mouth officer, that the family had
gone to church. The officers waited
for their return and saw the boy in
the company of his people.
Sheriff Winslow reports that the
boy is very intelligent and fairly
well grown. He further said that the
boy admits his guilt.
Farmers' Convention
Has Been Called Off
In line with the general procedure
in the eastrn and central part of the
state of not holding public gatherings
on account of the infantile paralysis
situation, it has been definitely de-
cided not to hold the regular annual
Farmers' Convention at State Col
lege, Raleigh, this year, according to
an announcement made by L. W. An
derson, Perquimans County Farm
Agent.
Mr. Anderson has been advised by
I. C. Schaub, Director of the Exten
sion Work in Agriculture and Home
Economics at State College, that,
while conditions might improve suf
ficiently that the convention 'could
be held at the scheduled time in Sep
tember, it is believed wiser not to
plan to do so because definite ar
rangements as to speakers and pro
gram activities would have to be
made at this time.
This decision was reached after
much deliberation, as the organiza
tion officials were very reluctant to
give up the idea of holding this meet
ing at which hundreds of farmers
and farm women from all sections
of the state have been present regu
larly for years;
A larger and better Farm and
Home Week in 1936 will be planned,
according to Mr. Schaub.
Farm Agents Meet
In Edenton Friday
A wManrinif a fliA -fn phi AtnAnatmi-
rtion agents and the representative
peanut growers of this section will
be held- on Friday of this week in
Edenton, at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing. There will be representatives of
the AAA from Washington, D. C, as
well as from Raleigh,, and matters
pertinent to the peanut contracts, the
processing tax and other interesting
points will be discussed.
L- W. Anderson, Perquimans Coun
ty Agent, is very i, anxious that as
many peanut growers from Perquim
ans as possible will be present. .
Infantile Paralysis;
Victim In E. City
A case of infantile paralysis at the
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City,
the first to occur in J Pasquotank
County, haa resulted in a 'bait' of the
hospital being . quarantined. Accord
ing to a telephone message from the
hospital on Wednesday, the whole
hospital ls not under quarantne as
was first reported here.'' T' 1
The victim is Robert Harris, who is
said to have come to Elizabeth City
on a yacht the boat having been in
the Elizabeth' City barbed for six or
eight weeks. ' " v , "
ur. u.' wewoy, ; ferquimans
County: Health -Officer,, said -Wednes
day that there has not been a case
of "the disease in Perquimans. ,,,
More than 80 tons of triple sup
erphosphate supplied 4 by Z the TV A
will be ured on demonstration farms
in nandrrn C y .this' 8!."
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mUlWffV-i.Inc.
Anti-Semite, Anti-Catholic, Anti ?
Berlin, Germany With her for
eign policy on a securer footing, Ger
many has undertaken another inter
nal purge on not one, but two fronts.
Beginning with anti-Semite rioting
on fashionable Kurfuerstendamn, the
putsch was immediately followed by
the appointment of Count Wolf von
Helldorf as Berlin's new Chief of Po
lice. This fanatical Jew-hater suc
seeds the more conservative Admiral
Magnus von Levetzow who was ap
pointed in 1933. A day or two later
Hermann Goering, head of the Nazi
Secret Police, issued an injunction
not only against Jews but against
Catholics, warning them against po
litical anti-Nazi activity. On Sun
day, secret police -were said to have
been stationed in Catholic congieba
tions throughout Germany on the
alert to nab prechers of rash sermons.
But no arrests were reported. Priests
played safe and stuck to occlesiasti
cal subjects.
Railroad Lobby Alleged
Washington.D.C. Senator Black's
committee to investigate lobbying
heard charges, not against utilities,
but against railroads from Edward
Keating, ex-Congressman editor of
"Labor". The roads, he held had di
vided up New York State's Senators
and Representatives among them
selves, each line assuming responsi
bility for guiding and influencing
certain legislators. Representative
John J. O'Connor, supposed to be al
lotted to the Pennsylvania Railroad,
waxed skeptical: "My connections
with the Pennsylvania have been
very costlv to me. I estimate that
in the last year I have paid about
$1,500 in fares, and I have difficulty
in getting a reservation. I am aa
xiously waiting for the 'railroad offi
cial' to call on me so I may amplify
my opinion of the Pennsylvania."
Old Protocols Embarrass Britain
London, England Two secret An
glo-Italian protocols made in 1891
have bobbed up to plague British di
plomatists. For by them Great Bri
tain agreed that Italy should have al
most all Ethiophia as her sphere , of
influence. In 1906 Britain and Italy
reaffirmed this and included France
in the bargain. This makes it only
necessary for France to renounce her
rights, thus leaving Britain alone to
answer Mussolini s demand for pay
ment of the 1891 agreement. France's
displeasure at the Anglo-German na
val treaty may cause her to play
her hand in this way. If she does so,
Britain will probably seek refuge in
the stand that the League of Nations
Cocenant abrogates the old protocols.
The mazes of European diplomacy
each week become to unravel. Mean
while, Ethiopia's Conquering Lion of
Judah, Haile Selassie, urges his
countrymen to fight for their free
dom "to the last man."
Big Business
Washington, D. C. Franklin D.
Roosevelt runs the country's biggest
business.. The United States Govern
ment hires some 1,300,000 employes.
Last fiscal year its gross income
twice exceeded that of the United
States Steel Corporation, Pennsylva
nia Railroad, and the American Tele
phone and Telegraph's Bell System
combined. The chief executive gets
$75,000 a year salary. How many
private executives earn more? As
revealed by the Securities and Ex
change . Commission, " 58 . corporate
executives last year - received bigger
salaries than the President Last
year General Motors Corp. paid $553,
867 to its three highest salaried exe
cutives their identoty remained se
cret Highest ' salaried executives
whose names were published were
George C. Crawford president of
Jones ft McLaughlin Steel Co., and
Charles M. Schwab of the Bethlehem
Steel. Corp., each with: a yearly
$250,000. Sol A. Rosonblat, film code
administrator reported last summer
that 110 film folk received 1988 sal
aries higher than $75,000 One star
was said to earn $315,000. In 1933,
4,000 Americans enjoyed net incomes
higher;, than : the presidential salary.
But these' include returns. from in
vestments aud i other sources which
are also available to the President.
Four-H club hoys in Nash Countv
who are keeping " record : books on
their corn and tobacco projects find
they are. making excellent gains Vat
comparatively little cost ,t '
Carolina, Friday, July
COUNTY WOMEN
HOLD QUARTERLY
MEET SATURDAY
Home Economics Asso
ciation Sessions at
10:30 A.M.
ALL ARE INVITED
Meet In Community
House; Interesting
Program
From, all over Perquimans County
farm women will gather on Saturday
morning, to hold the quarterly meet
ing of the Perquimans County Home
Economics Association.
The meeting will be held in the
Community House, beginning at 10:30
o'clock, with Mrs M. T. Griffin, Pre
sident, of Bethel, presiding.
The Perquimans County Home Eco
nomics Association is made up of the
various clubs in the rural sections of
the county, there being particularly
large and active clubs at Belvidere
and at Winfall.
Miss Rebecca Colwell, Home De
monstration Agent of Chowan Coun
ty, will be present, as will also Miss
Helen Gaither, former Home Demon
stration Agent of Perquimans, who
is actively interested in all club work
for farm women. Mrs. Thomas Nix
on, of Hertford, who is chairman of
the National Organization of Better
Homes in America, will also be pre
sent. Everybody is invited and visitors
will be' gladly welcomed.
A bdffet luncheon will be served at
the close of the meeting, to which
each club member contributes some
part.
Church Social Results
In Charge Of Assault
Does it ever pay one to be greedy ?
It does seem that the person who al
ways picks the best for himself, and
who tries to get the most, so often
"comes out", as the saying goes, "at
the little end of the horn". This was
true in the case of Jesse Whedbee.
To be sure, every one inclined to be
greedy isn't served quite so harshly
as was Jesse. He got hit in the face
with an axe.
According to the information given
to Sheriff. J. E. Winslow, a church
social was being given at the home
of Claude Spellman, not far from
Chapanokej on last Saturday night,
and the merry-making went over into
the early hours of Sunday morning
Jesse Whedbee, so the story goes,
had been making music and helping
generally with keeping things lively.
Richard Stewart was in charge of the
refreshments which were being sold.
It was his duty to look out for the
eats and he had some difficulty in
keeping Jesse Whedbee from snatch
ing a hot dog now and then. He
said he thought Jesse had had
enough. As every body knows, if
there is too much of that sort of
thing the profit is all eaten up. One
witness told the Sheriff that they
had hoped to make enough to pay
him a debt the church owed at the
hardware store.
After a while the host) Claude
Spellman, took a hand at trying to
stop so much interference with the
food by Whedbee, and from one thing
to another the two finally went to
gether. Just what provoked Stewart
to resort to arms is not explained.
Possibly Jesse was attempting to use
a weapon himself. Maybe he was
too much for his opponent. How
soever that may be, the fact is that
Stewart stepped up and tapped Jesse
Whedbee. none too gently in the face
with an axe.
It was at this point that somebody
telephoned the Sheriff that a man
had beeA killed. The Sheriff found
the supposedly dead man very much
alive but bearing the marks of bat
tle, at the home of Dr. W. G. Hog-
gard, where he was given surgical
attention.
Whedbee'a condition Is said not to
be alarming and he is expected to
appear oq Tuesday in Recorder's
Court to testify against Stewart,
who i under bond, charged with as
sault with a deadly weapon.
Rapid Progress Made
In Pouring Concrete
The-work , of laying concrete on
the streets .:l under ; construction in
Hertford has been rapidly going for
ward 'for the past week, with favor
able weather conditions. The force
is at work early and late and are
making splendid time. , With the fair
weather continuing it Will -only be
short tune before . the concrete will
all be laid.- . , . - ;
WF.F.
KLY
26, 1935.
Approve Application
For New School Loan
FHA LOANS STILL
BEING APPROVED
Nine Applicat'ons Totaling $9,200
Made In Hertford; Two New
Houses Being Built
FHA loans are still being approv
ed by the local office, according to
the secretary, Mrs. P. H. Small.
Nine loans have been granted up
to the present, aggregating $9,200.
The largest of the loans made was
$3,000, and the smallest amount loan
ed was $150.
While most of the loans are for
the purpose of repairs and improve
ments, two have been used for build
ing, two new houses being in process
of construction in the Town of Hert
ford. The canvassers are still at work
in the county and more applications
are expected to be made by the time
all of the reports are in.
Two Cases Before
Judge Oakey Tuesday
His reputation stood Eddie Jones
in good stead in Recorder's Court
on Tuesday, when he was tried for
driving a car while under the influ
ence of liquor and while driving with
insufficient brakes.
The defendant was placed on the
stand by his attorney, Jmes S- Mc
Nidaer, and tendered to the State
for cross examination without the de
fense asking a question. When W.
G. Edwards, County Prosecutor, re
fused to question the defendant,
Judgs, Walter H. Cakey, Jr., took
over the examination.
It developed that Jones was em
ployed as a foreman at the mill of
Major & Loomes Co., that he has
worked there since he was about 9
years of age. It also appeared that
he was returning home alone t 1:30
o'clock in the morning. He said
some friends had called him out of
bed for the purpose of bringing them
to a dance over here and that they
wouldn t go home and he had to r
because he had to work next day. He
admitted that he and the others had
drunk half a pint of liquor. Jones
seems to have a "trick" tongue. The
Judge had some difficulty in under
standing. The fact seemed to point
to a possible misapprehension on the
part of the arresting officer who
testified he talked like he was drunk.
Asked why he fell at the cell door
when placed in jail, which fact had
been mentioned as an indication of
his state of intoxication, Jones said
there was a step at the door, that it
was dark, and that he hd never been
in the jail before.
The arresting omcer nad testified
that Jones was driving at a rate of
speed of only about ten miles an hour
when arrested, and that he was pick
ed up because it had been reported to
him that the driver of a car which
answered to the descripaion of his
car had passed some men whose car
had broken down and that the driver
had cursed the men. The officer ad
mitted that the men had failed to i
dentify Jones when he was taken be
fore them prior to placing the man
in jail. "
"I am not going to send this man
to the roads. He doesn't belong on
the roads", said Judge Cakey.
He was found guilty of driving a
car with insufficient brakes and in
structed not to drive the car again
until the arresting officer had exa
mined and passed upon the brakes
fter they are repaired. He was fin
ed twenty-five dollars and taxed
with the court costs on the insuffic
ient brake charge.
He was found guilty of driving
while under the influence of liquor.
The case against Willie Jessup,
found guily of etspeeding on the
streets of Hertford, was dismissed
upon payment xt the court costs.
SURPRISE PARTY HONORING
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
A surprise birthday party was giv
en on Thursday in honor of Mrs.
Louisa Elliott at her home at Win
fall by her children. Ice cream and
pound cake was served.
The honoree received many useful
gifts.
Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Elliott, J. T.. Elliott, Mr. and
Mrs. A. B. Elliott and children, Iris,
Alphonsa, Willie, Joseph, Margaret,
Louise, Jarvis, Hubert, Hattie, Gert
rude and little Annie Beatrice, Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Elliott and daughter,
Joyce, O. C-Elliott and children.
Marie, Cecil and Elizabeth, Mrs.
Pearl Stallings, Mrs. Willie Hurdle,
Harvey and Alice Stallings, Mrs. Eu
nice Fox and children, Gwendolyn and
Richard, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Jordan
and Miss Rosalie Griffin. ' - -
$1.25 Per Year
Present Plans Call For
An Expenditure of
$77,311
TWO NEWPLANTS
County Commissioners
Believe Cost Can Be
Cut Down
Application for a $44,00000 bond
issue was approved by the Board of
County Commissioners, which met in
special session on Monday afternoon,
when the Board of Education of Per
quimans appeared before that body
and presented tentative plans for the
schools to be built at Winfall and at
Belvidere and improvements to other
county schools. If the application
for the loan is approved by the Local
Government Commission, the amount
borrowed will be $36,000.00, if the
commissioners finally decide to bor
row this entire amount.
A. J. Fox, representing a Raleigh
firm of architects, appeared before
the Board and explained the draw
ings which his firm had made of the
proposed buildings and improvements
and outlined the procedure with res
pect to application for the loan to be
applied for from the PWA and the
grant which the PWA will make of
$45 of the amount borrowed.
The plans as submitted, which were
only tentative, called for the expen
diture of $77,311.00 as the approxi
mate cost of erecting a new school
building at Winfall and one at Belvi
dere, each to cost approximately
$26,000.00; repairs and improvements,
to the Hertford Grammer School, to
include a new auditorium built on the
ground floor and fire escapes, of
$17,000.00;, repairs and improvements
to the New Hope School, including
a new roof and a new auditorium, of
$5,790.00, and a garage for the Per
quimans High School.
The opinion was expressed by the
members of the Board of County
Commissioners, which opinion ap
peared to be unanimous, that the cost
of the buildings and improvements
could be materially reduced. It was
pointed out that, to borrow this a
mount, even if the Local Govern
ment Commission will allow the coun
ty to do so, will necessitate a con
siderable increase in the tax rate of
the county, probably something like
a ten-cent increase on the one hund
red dollars.
E. M. Perry, Chairman of the
Board of Commissioners, asked wheth.
er or not each of the five members
of the Board of Education would be
willing to raise the tax rate to this
extent. No direct reply was made,
except that one member said it look
ed like we would have to do so.
However, Mr. Perry pointed out that,
while it was necessary to build two
new schools and to make some im
provements, it might be done on a
cheaper scale, a suggestion being
made that frame buildings might be
errected.
After Mr. Fox had explained that,
even if the entire amount of eighty
thousand dollars could be secured,
this would not mean that the entire
amount would have to be accepted.
It was on this condition that the
commissioners finally agreed to ap
prove the application for the loan,
stipulating that the Board of Coun
ty Commissioners are to have the
right to decide, after it is determined
whether or not the entire amount is
forthcoming, how much shall be used
and what plans will be accepted.
As outlined, the plans call for two
school buildings, each to have 7 class
rooms, offices, an auditorium, a lib
rary and toilets, the class rooms to
be of standard size, 21 by 32 feet.
Regular Serrices At
M. E. Church Sunday
The regular services will he held
at the Hertford Methodist Church on
Sunday, with preaching services at
11 o'clock in the morning and at 8
o'clock at night The pastor, Mr.
Robinson, who has been attending
the Pastors' Conference at Lake
Junaluska, will return home the lat
ter part of this week.
MRS. SUMNER ENTERTAINS
BRIDGE CLUB AT NAGS HEAD
Mrs. T. B. Sumner, who is spend
ing the summer at Nags Head, en
tertained the members of her bridge
club at a delightful bridge luncheon
on Friday at Nags Head, the guests
including Mesdames S. P. Jessup, E.
W. Lordley, B, G. Eoonce, V. N.
Darden, Howard Pitt, W. T. McMuI
Ian, J. H. Newbold, T. S. White and
Miss Kate If. Blanchard. . ,
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