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THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD. N. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.
THE PERQUIMANS
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.
THIS WEEK'S BILLE THOUGHT
ANCHORED IN GOD: Be not car
ried about with divers and strange
doctrines. For it is a good thing
that the heart be established with
gracej Hebrews 13:9.
PERQUIMANS, TOO, HAS
BIG NEWS STORIES
HAD
Big stories of 1935 have been pick
ed by newspaper writers ail over the
country, and the list as compiled by
various editors setting forth the most
important stories wlflch have appear
ed in print is very interesting. It
contains "such events as the Rogers
Post crash, the Huey Long assassina
tion, the Italo-Ethiopian War, Ger
man rearmament, the sinking of the
Mohawk, the Midwest's dust storms,
the Hauptman trial, the Florida Keys
hurricane, the inaugural of air traffic
over the Pacific, Extension of the
New Deal, the invalidation of the
NRA, and so n.
There have been many local hap
penings of importance to us here in
Perquimans this year, from which in
looking through the files of The Per
quimans Weekly through the year,
we have jotted down a lew.
,sThW!!haye been tragedies, sad oc
tpiDd happy events.
:Thwas the tragedy of the
drowning of Jesse Lane and Elmer
Stallings early in the year, when the
jruck in which they were riding
rashed through the railing of the
bowan River bridge. Other trage
ies include the dettQi of Dr. G. E.
ewby, killed in aa'irtjtoniobile acci-
ent in August, near Tarboro, the
death of Thurman Whedbee, a boy
killedby a falling tree only last
month.
Many of our friends and loved ones
have been taken by death, each such
event a tragedy for some one.
And the old Belvidere Academy
burned in the spring. That, too, was
an unhappy affair.
But there were happier things.
The girls' basketball team of the
Perquimans High School, undefeated
throughout the school year, won two
tournaments and brought home a lot
of trophies. We were so proud of
our girls.
The paving of the road in the
Whiteston Community was of great
benefit to our people, and the highway
through the Town of Hertford was
widened.
We were given a county home
demonstration agent, too, and she has
been doing fine work among our farm
women v
The oil mill was re-built, which
was another big thing for this com
munity. And at the last we had a great big
snow, something which hasn't hap
pened before in years, and which had
not happened at Christmas before ir
several decades.
HIT OR MISS I
The death of Lizette Woodworth
Reese, which occurred several days
ago, recalls the poem "Tears," writ
ten by Mrs. Reese, to which H. L.
Mencken once referred as "the finest
sonnet in the English language." A
crreat many newspapers referred to
this poem in writing of the death of
Mrs. Reese, but I have only seen it
quoted once.
TEARS
When I consider life and its few
years
A wisp of fog betwixt us nd the sun;
A call to battle, and the battle done
Ere the last echo dies within our
ears;
A rose choked in the grass, an hour
of fears:
The gusts that past a darkening
shore do beat;
The burst of music down an unlisten-
ing street
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
Ye old, old dead, and ye of yester
night,
Chieftains and bards, and keepers of
the sheep,
By every cup of sorrow that you had
Loose me from tears, and make mc
see aright
How each hath back what once hf
stayed to weep;
Homer his sight; David his little lad!
Lizette Woodworth Reese.
J. M. Newbold went to Wilmington
to spend Christmas with his family.
In doing so it was his lot to miss see
ing one of his brothers, Shelton
Newbold, of Raleigh, who came to
Hertford to spend the holidays with
his mother, arriving here after Jerry
had gone. It looked like the two
brothers were not to meet this Christ
mas, since Shelton was obliged to
return to Raleigh before Jerry arriv
ed back in Hertford. Shelton told his
mother good-bye left Hertford
for the return tripEtoleigh. The
slippery roads made travel difficult,
and it happened that just before
Shelton reached Williamston, on that
narrow fill which is crossed before
reaching the bridge, a car had been
turned round in the road so that he
couldn't drivevtjmbing out o
his car to go $ffiS(rescue of the
driver who was fltrpuble, Shelter
saw another driver, coming in thir
on, also stop and climb out
rthe two men reached the car
whiSh.cwas turned across the road
they' 'greeted each other joyfully. The
other driver was Jerry. So the two
brothers had a few moments of con
versation, after all.
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The Perquimans River has been
frozen solidly enough to tempt more
than one of the less timid to walk
on the ice. Indeed, no less than four
adult persons are said to have walk
ed all the way across from Hertford
to Nixon's Point.
This is the first time the Perqui
mans has been frozen over since the
year 1918. It was hard enough then
for skaters to enjoy the sport of
skating-
"I wasn't the least bid afraid,",
stated one young fellow who walked
across the river on Tuesday and who
was told afterwards that he had done
a dangerous and foolhardy thing.
"No, and I wasn't afraid, either," re
torted another, "until I went
through." The second speaker had
been one of the eight persons who
fell through the ice on the Perqui
mans back in the year 1912. It's a
safe bet that none of that number
will venture upon the ice this winter.
And so we had our snow at Christ
mas, everything all covered in white,
just like a picture post card!
We had wished for such a Christ
mas for so long. Most of us had
TAYLOR THEATRE
EDENTON ,
P ROCK AM COMING WEEK
Today (Thursday) ajicl Friday, January 2 and 3
NORMA SHEARER - FREDERIC MARCH
"Smilin' Through"
Brought back by popular request
Saturday January 4
JOHN WAYNE
"Paradise Canyon"
"CALL OF SAVAGES '
COMEDY
.Monday and Tuesday, January 6-7
V "Broadway Melody of 1936"
JACK BENNY -TtOBERT TAYLOR
: ELEANOR POWELL - UNA MERKEL
- '(, The champagne of all a croon musical comedies
Wednesday, January 8
V- LAUREL and HARDY
; ( "Bonnie Scotland"
Ihnrwlay and Friday, January 9-1
JOAN CRAWFORD
"I Ore My life
never seen 8 white Christmas, and
how we had longed every year for a
snow to fall around Christmas Eve.
Well, we had it, and then some. It
has lasted into the New Year. On
the Sunday before Christmas we had
a heavy fan of snow, everything was
wrapped up in white, and the weather
continued to be cold. Then, on the
Sunday following Christmas we woke
to find another snow had fallen on top
of the piRTwhich hadn't melted a bit.
Rain fell after .that, and then the
mercury dropped lower and the whole
thing froze.
The streets have been slippery and
dangerous, with everybody afraid to
walk, lest they get a nasty falL
At this writing the snow is begin
ning to melt, and it is safe to say
that practically everybody is hoping
that the rise in temperature is not
temporary, for everybody will be as
glad to see the snow go. as they were
to see it come. Most folks seem to
have had plenty of snow to last for a
long timer
But there is still a lot of snow. In
fact, very little seems missing. It
is beginning to seem natural, after
twelve days, to see everything out
side covered in white.
She said, "I suppose you have seen
'The Beautiful Spring I wrote thai?
He answerjsd.-'VYeB,' I suppose, you
have seen The" Beautiful -Snow,
shoveled that." .
Planet May Solve
Age-Old Argument
Washington! The conflict be
tween observational astronomers
over whether Mercury has a layer
of atmosphere Is expected to be
solved within the next two years,
when the tiny planet, Innermost
member of the sun's family, Just
barely skims the face of the sun
May II, 1037. The presence of
atmosphere should show itself by
a ring oj light about the planet-
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P4at of Interest '
"Whnt's th& principal point of lote
est In Crimson liulch?" asked the trav
eling man. M . , . ,
" "The gas tolling station," answered
Mesa Bill. Jt8 the only place with
enough, cash tyi hand to make It worth
while' for atbold-up man to stop and
notice us." '
' "Wealthy Preacher"
"Have you a good biography?" asked
the minister at the bookstore.
?Yes Indeed, sir," replied the clerk.
"Have-you read The Wealthy 'Preach
erT "Perhaps , you misunderstand me,"
Insisted the minister. "I never read
lictlon." Windsor Star.
Snjf Was Ahead
. Sunday School Teacher Why do you
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sunrto stand still t All right, Mickey,'
yftu may tell us.
MlckeyI. 'spect It was 'cause It
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Patient Yes, and have It turn Into;
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H. G. WINSLOW
- HERTFORD, N. C
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Mrs. R. M. Riddick announces the opening i
of new piano classes next week at prices that
!11 J i- : t til l
win m everyone s pocKetroooK.
1 Class Lesson a Week......$1.25 per month
. 2 Glass Lessons a Week..$2.50 per month
Mndindual Lessons ..........$4.00 per month
Rhythm and song classes for pupils from f
pre-school to Fourth Grade, 50 cents monthly.
Weekly Theory Classes
Mrs. R. M. Riddick
Hertford, N. C.
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