PAGE FOUR
TONGUE
lit l lH'-i
is 7yooo year; old
1'
'Alphabet Reformed at Start!
of XhrisHan Eral
, " .. - i
-t Washington.' Revolutionizing the
: alphabet! -That la a daring deed In
Sony day an,afee... But the Ethiopians;
did It. What Is more, the clever old;
alphabet-Invention, of Ethiopia has!
been Invented" all over again In mod-;
rn America- with applause and ap
': provnl. ,
Ethiopia's alphabet Inventing took;
place a.way back at the beginning of '
the Christian -era, says Dr.. John P. '
Harrington, linguistic specialist of the.
Smithsonian Institution
"Ethiopians," explains Doctor Har-
rlngton, "Inherited "the old Semitic;
alphabet In common with the Hebrews,
Aramaics and Arabs. It was a cum
bersome system of writing consonants
fit words and then placing the vowels,
it, written at all, outside the contours
as dots and dashes not unlike some
forms of shorthand. Books in Hebrew'
are filled with this over-dotting, which
Germans aptly call 'eye-powder.'
Cut Out the Frills,
' "Ancestors of Emperor Halle Se-
Jassle did away with all this brlc-a-i
rac outside the contours of letters,;
' ' -. 1. n 1 I 1 4AII . . . .
UtTCi cuj - -n c
They noticed that each consonant let
ter had four corners, and their bright
'idea was to Join a tick to each corner'
to express one or another of the vow
'els following the consonant. This gave'
jthem an alphabet of syllables, but syl-.
tables easy to remember,
"Ethiopians also reversed the order-;
iaf writing, so that the eye moves from;
left to right as In modern English print!
'insieau oi uio rccioc i
and modern Yiddish."
When the Amertean Indian Se-i
auoyah Invented an alphabet for writ-,
Ing the Cherokee Indian language over';
h hundred years ago he was repeating
'the very Invention Ethiopians had
made some 2,000 years earlier, Doctor,
(Harrington finds. Sequoyah's alpha-;
Ibetlc symbols represent a consonant
plus a vowel. Unlike the Ethiopians,
however, the Indian alphabet maker
was weak on system, and his alphabet
;is about five times as hard to learn
las the old Ethiopian product.
' It Is quite possible, Doctor Harrlng-',
jton believes, that Sequoyah had heard
(something of the ancient Hebrew ana
Ethiopian systems from missionaries.
Repeated by Indiana.
Coming to still more recent times,.
French Canadian missionaries, among'
the Cree Indians of the Hudson Bay!
'region, repeated the same discovery In
the 1880s. Working In collaboration
with Cree Indians themselves, and
'er-talnly with some knowledge of
iBthljopIan and Hebrew writing in the:
bach? of their heads as Doctor Har
rington points out the missionaries In-,
jvenfled a system whereby Crees could
,wrlie their own language. Their sys
tem Is more like the Ethiopian than
iSuquoyah's had been. Using simple
geometric figures to represent con-
sonants, they turned the consonant;
symbols In various positions to indi
cate the vowel following.
While bok! In lmporving their writ
ten language, Ethiopians have conserv
atively preserved the spoken language
of their ancestors down through 7,000
years. Sounds of the oldest language f
tIn the world can be lienrd in the royal
palace and churches in the city of Ad
dis Ababa. The words are more primi
tive In sound and form, says Doctor
".Harrington, than the dialects of the
'Semetlc language Hebrew and Ara
maic in which the Bible was written.
"Proto-Semltle," the language student
would call these ancient primitive
speech forms heard In Ethiopia. By
iproto-Semltic he means the basic lan
igunge spoken about 5000 B. C, by peo
ple who founded civilization in the
Old world.
Hawaii to Try Growing
Giant Coconut Trees
Honolulu. Seeds welshing from 16
to 32 pounds are being germinated
preparatory to experimental cultiva
tion of "double coconut" trees In Ha
waali. In reality they are not coconut trees
at all but a species of fan palm pe
culiar to the Seychelles Islands In the
'Indian ocean, scientifically known as'
J.odoicea Seychellarura.
The seeds resemble huge coconuts
,and were long known as "coco dd
mer" or sea coconuts, because before
the tree was discovered, 200 years ago, j
sailors found the seeds floating In the:
ocean.
The tree, which reaches a height of!
60 to 100 feet, lives from 500 to 1,000
years. Available descriptions of the
peed indicate they are similar to the
coconut with a soft jelly-like meat
Uses of the tree are similar to those
pt the coconut palm the shells for!
bowls and the leaves for baskets and'
Itroplcal houses. The seed is still' used
for medicinal purposes In some parts
f the Orient.
Recluse's Will Leaves
$8,000 to Little Boys
'- Bloomvllle, Ohio. Discovery of a
Will left by Milton O. Myers, Bloom
jf ills1' recluse, put an $8,000 estate with-,
a grasp of two local school boys. They ,
attracted bis attention, when as boys
Of four ana two, uey rompea snout as,
, fc ,rppalnted' the place a few years
acov'! Nell and Don Stiles were named
In the wlM, , discovered In a Tiffin
' (Oh'a) safety deposit box Just as prep
arsons were being made to divide the
fst 4 between tw sisters of Myers,
'- (Catena FaustrDf Detroit; and
' 'Cinderella Brook of Cleveland.
Elias E. Chappell
Dies In Indiana
In the Carthage (Ind.) Citizen of
January 17 there appeared a notice
of the death of Elias K. Chappell, a
j seventy-seven-year-old native . of
Chowan County who has lived at
Carthage for more than" fifty years,
Among the surviving relatives is
named a sister, Mrs- J. T. Hollowell,
of Tyner.
The notice reads in part:. ""He was
born in Chowan County, N.C., the
son of James C. and Mary Ann Chap
pell. Here he received his early edu
cation and graduated from BelvidSre
Academy, a prominent Friends
School of that period.
"In the spring of '81 he came to
Indiana to live and was married to
Emma J. Binford February 21, 1884,
who preceded him in death about ten
years.
"He was a birthright member of
the Society of Friends and served
efficiently as Clerk of Walnut Ridge
Monthly Meeting for a number of
years.
"He is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. Herman Gillis, of Hennepin, 111.;
Elsie E. Chappell, a teacher of Moses
Brown School, Providence, R. I.; Lu
cille E. and Ada Chappell, teachers
in Carthage School; two sons, J.
Merrill Chappell, of Carthage, and
Edwin J. Chappell, at home."
MERCURY DROPS QUICKLY
Without apprehension as to frozen
water pipes,. Hertford folks retired
Wednesday night, and many a house
holder got the surprise of his life to
find that the mercury which had
stood at 40 at 10 o'clock, had dropped
to 12, following a severe wind storm
after midnight, and there were many
hurry calls for plumbers to look af
ter frozen pipes.
MRS. SMALL VERY ILL
Mrs. P. H. Small, who has been
siok for several weeks, and whose
condition was improved temporarily,
suffered a relapse last week- Mrs.
Small is quite sick.
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCED
A marrijsje of interest to their
many friends throughout the county
took place December 81, 1935, when
Miss Edna Phthisic, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Phthisic,
became the bride of Mr. Nurney
Chappell, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Chappell. The ceremony took place
in Norfolk. Va., with the Rev. E. Q.
Russell officiating. The bride was at
tired in a brown swagger suit with
matchine accessories.
Mr. and Mrs. Chappell are making
their home with his parents near
Belvidere.
A wise man of our own time said:
"If God did not make you far a
talker, you can make a great hit
with everybody by keeping still."
National Forest Preserve
Our national forest preserve in the
continnetal United States is over
140,000,000 acres.
True flying fish can make gliding
flights through the air for more
than a hundred -feet.
Dead Snake's Tail Wiggles
The tail of a snake may wiggle
long after the snake is dead on ac
count of nervous reaction; there is
nothing to the notion that it will
continue to wigle until sunset.
Dr. T. A. Cox
HERTFORD, N. C.
OFFICE HOURS
9 a. m. to" 12 m.
2 p.n. to 5 p. m.
Taylor Theatre
EDENTON, N. C.
PROGRAM COMING WEEK
Today (Thursday) and Friday,
January 23-24
CECIL DE MILLE'S
THE CRUSADES"
Loretta Young
Henrv Wilcoxon
Spectacular - Romantic - Magnificent
Satnrday, January 2-
. ?NEW FRONTIER
John Wayne
Last Episode "Call of the Savages"
Comedy
Monday and Tuesday. Jan. 21-28
? "MILLIONS IN xHE AIR"
Wendie Barry
John Howard
Wednesday January 29':-
Warren William
Genevieve Tobin
THE CASE OF THE LUCKY
v LEGS" .:'...:.::??''
Attention!
On account of length of the pic
ture "The Crusades,", there will be
only two presentations daily at
3:30 and 8:15
THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY, HERTFORD,
"millions
Wendie Barry and John Howard
"Millions In the Air," which will be
Edenton, Monday and Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Darden had as
guests on Tuesday Will Norfleet and
his daughter, Miss Lucy Norfleet, of
Suffolk, Va.
Miss Kate Wade, of Goldsboro,
was in Hertford on Tuesday. Miss
Wade, who is a court stenographer,
was here to take the testimony at
the special hearing held in a Carteret
County matter before a referee.
Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Raper, of
Piney Woods, were shoppers in
Hertford on Wednesday.
Miss Mamie Stallings, accompanied
by her house guest, Mrs. H. I. Esty,
of Washington, D. C, Mrs. C. O.
Fowler, of Hertford, Mrs. W. Harri
son, of Portsmouth, Va., and Pool
White, of Elizabeth City, spent a few
days last week at Chesapeake Beach,
near Norfolk, Va., with her niece,
Mrs. Maurice Hodges, and Mr.
Hodges.
Postmaster J. E. Morris, accompa
nied by Dr. E. S. White, of Belvi
dere, W. E. White and R. T. Brinn,
have returned from a trip to Wash
ington, D. C.
Miss Carolyn Riddick, who is a
student at E. C. T. C, Greenville,
and who was at home for the week
end, had as guests Miss Frances
Chamblee, of Spring Hope, and Miss
Sallie Lee Brewer, of Windsor.
Miss Evelyn Riddick was the week
end guest of Mrs. Frank Kugler, in
Elizabeth City.
Lloyd Turnage, of Ayden, made a
business trip to Hertford on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Futrell and
their little son, Richard, Jr., of Rich
Square, spent the week-end with
Mrs. Futrell's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. D. Elliott. '
Carlton Davenport, Jr., spent the
week-end at Mackeys as the guest of
his grandmother, Mrs. W. S. Daven
port. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Basnight, of
Burgess, spent Sunday at New Hope,
visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Spivey.
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Hollowell and
Mrs. V. N. Darden will return today
from a trip to Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. Trim Wilson had as
dinner guests on Sunday night Mr.
and Mrs. P. G. Sawyer and Phil, Jr.,
Mrs. Lquise Freeman and Hubert
Toxey, all of Elizabeth City.
Mr. and Mrs. T. S. White spent
the week-end at Petersburg, Va.,
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Toms.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Blanchard, Mrs,
J. A. Perry and Edward Weeks spent
Monday in Richmond, Va.
Miss Carolyn Riddick, who is a
student, at E. C. T. C, Greenville,
spent the week-end with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Riddick.
. Mrs. V. N. Darden had as guests
for Tuesday afternoon and night
Mrs. Raymond Fuson, -Mrs. A. J.
Flowers and Mrs. Horace Hill, all of
New Bern.
Mrs. F. A. Banks, who spent sev
eral days with her mother, Mrs.. R.
Q. Skinner, following the burial of
her husband in Hertford on Thursday
of last . week, has returned to,, her
home in Norfolk, Va. -Hi I
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Howell, Mr. and
Mrs. Gene Howard, of Suffolk; Va,
wete-guests 6f Mr. and Mrs. J G.
Roberson, on Sunday. '".litfjp
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Winston and
their ; daughter, Ruth, Misses Spivey
and Alice Roberson spent Sunday; at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. ' R. L.
, After February 1st
are.subject to penalty
pay same promptlylto
N. a, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1936.
ifr thaiii
w
4.J
who take the ' leading roles in
screened at the Taylor Thearte, in
NLfV
Spivey, Jr., at New Hope.
Clifford Simpson, who has & posi
tion in Greenville, spent the week
end with relatives a t New Hope.
Mrs. J. H. Pruden is very sick at
her home on Front Street
Mrs, Clifford Banks and her little
daughter, Margaret Anne, of New
Hope, spent the week-end ia Hert
ford with Mrs. Banks' parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Divers, Sfc.
Little Miss Jane Kugler, of Eliza
beth City, was the week-end guest of
Miss Ellie Mae White.
Miss Martha Elizabeth Jordan,
who is a student at the Norfolk
Business College, Norfolk, Va., spent
the week-end with her mother, Mrs.
R. S. Jordan.
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Davenport had
as recent guests Dr. Davenport's
mother, Mrs. W. S. Davenport, and
Mrs. C. W. Blount, of Mackeys.
MISCELLANEOUS SHOWER HELD
IN HONOR OF RECENT BRIDE
Mrs. J. V. Roach, Mrs. J. R. Roach
and Miss Celeste Godwin delightfully
entertained at the home of Mrs. J.
V. Roach, near Winfall, Thursday
evening in honor of Mrs. George
Roach. , Before her marriage on
Christmas Day, Mrs. Roach was Miss
Alice Simpson, daughter of Mrs. C.
L. Godwin.
The evening was pleasantly spent
playing games. The bride was pre
sented with a wagon filled with use
ful and beautiful gifts. Delicious re
freshments were served.
Those sending presents were: Mr.
and Mrs. Joel Hollowell, Mr. and
Mrs. D. L. Barber, Mr. and Mrs. E.
N. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. O; B. White,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Nixon, Mr. and
Mrs. J. V. Roach, Mr. and Mrs. J
V. Stallings, Mr. and Mrs. A. M
Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis God
win, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Simpson,
Mrs. Erne Miller, Mrs. Mollie Barber,
Mrs. L. M. Godwin, Mrs. John Lane,
Mrs. J. J. Lane, Mrs. Charlie Lane,
Mrs. Susan Etherldge, Mrs. J. H,
Baker, Mrs. Walter Umphlett, Mrs,
B. M. Jones, Mrs. Claud White, Mrs.
David Trueblood, Mrs. R. S. Jordan,
Misses Beulah Rdach, Frankie Bar
ber, Addie ,-White, Myrtle Umphlett,
Celeste Godwin,- and ; Dons Miller:
Messrs. Kenneth M&cr,. Ralph Miller
an1 Durward Leigl! -Barber.
MRS. WILLIS . IMPROVING
The; condition of Mrs. W. H. Willis,
of Hertford, who is a patient in a
Richmond, Va.; hospital, is reported
as slowly improving.
GREGORY'S
CLEANING WORKS
(Formerly Wfatslow's Cleaning
Work).
AH . kinds of . Cleaning,- Altera
tions and Itepair Work.;.'
7 Your patronage will . be appre
ciated. . eksS--k& .v
- ' - 'AAr'
Mrs. Lena Gregory
.I,)coprie4rei:f";'.. :..:.
If- ;t,i:HERRN5cS:, -X
MM
Cue
next," 1935:TovvTi ftaxes
of 1, per. cent Please
avoid this penalty '(
' '
i Be Reidy for "The Bij Run1
Tanglefin Linen Netting
Wall Fisherman's Rope
All Types Seine Twine
Anchors Gloves
Corks Boots
Rings Pyrene
Boat Equipment and Supplies
Special attention, given mail orders. When
it is inconvenient far you to come in and see
us, just write, phone or telegraph your order
for quick service.
Byrum Bros. Hardware Co.
"Everytbiaf In Hardware and Sn&Q&r
PAONE4 EDENTON, N. C PHONE A
STATEMENT
HERTFORD BUILDING & LOAN
ASSOCIATION
! V
Of Hertford, N. O, as of December 31st, 1935.
(Copy of Sworn Statement Submitted to Insurance Commissioner
as Required by Law)
ASSETS
The Association, Owns:
Cash on Hand and in Banks $ 1,273.95
Stock' in Federal Home . Loan Bank , ; : - None
Mortgage Loans , 65,300.00
Money loaned to shareholders for the purpose of enabling them
to own their homes. Each loan secured by first mortgage on ,
local improved real estate.
Stock Loans . J ' - 9,265.75
Advances made to our' shareholders against their stock. No
loan exceeds 90 per cent of amount actually paid in. '
Accounts Receivable : 66.00
Temporary Advances for Insurance, Taxes, etc.
Office Furniture and Fixtures '. None
Real Estate Owned ; None
Other Assets . None
Total 465,905.70
LIABILITIES
The Association Owes:
To Shareholders
Funds entrusted to our care in
ments on stock as follows:
Installment Stock
Matured Stock
Running Stock
Prepaid Stock
Paid-up Stock
Notes Payable, Federal Home Loan
Notes Payable, Other
Money borrowed for use in making loans to members, of re
tiring matured stock." Each note approved by at least two-
thirHa nf MitlfA Rnnml nf nirootnra on nuiniivul Vvw law
Accounts Payable ,.-..:. , , , ;,. None
Undivided Profits ' . ; 7,687-45
Earnings held in trust for distribution to share-holders at ma
turity of stock.
Other Liabilities ; . None
Total
State of North Carolina,
County of Perquimans as: .
j Wmj H. Hardcastle, Secretary-Treasurer of the above named Associa
tion, personally "appeared before me this day, and' being duly sworn, says
that the foregoing report ta true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
' .WM. H.' HARDCASTLE.
! Sworn to and subscribed before toe, this 21st day of January 1 1936.
'. My commission' expires November SO, 1936.
Unexcelled:.
I 1 1 - ' r -
OF CONDITION
.-.a..
the form of pay-
$47,118.25
None
None
11,200.00
None
58,318.25
None
None
Bank i : ,
$650J5.70
Workmanship
Low Prices
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