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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
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HertfordTPerqujmans County, North Carolina, Friday, February 14, 1936.
ass Meeting Called For Friday Night, Feb. 2 1
Rotarian In England
Writes To Dr. Butler
Interesting Letter Re
ceived From Hert
ford, England
READ ATROTARY
Gives Data Concerning
Town of Same Name
In England
Hertford Rotarians were so much
interested in a letter which their
president. Dr. Luther H. Butler, re
cently received from the President of
ine notary Club in Hertford, Eng
land, that they turned it over to The
Perquimans Weekly for publication,
leenng that the entire citizenship
would also be interested to learn
about that other Hertford. The let
ter reads:
The Old Rectory,
Hertingfordbury,
Herts. Tel. Hertford, 471,
ZUth January, 1936.
Dear Mr. Butler:
I thank you for your interesting
letter of December 29th. I notice
you address me as Reverend, this is
an error brought about, I suppose,
hy my living in an Old Rectory. A
great number of Rectories and
grounds have been sold in England
-owing to the lessened value of mon
rey, income tax, etc. Also the great
ly increased cost and difficulty in
obtaining servants and other increas
ed costs or living.
I am actually a toothbrush manu
facturer with a factory situated in
Hertford and I am. a. descendant of
the maker of the first toothbrush,
which was made in 1780. I am his
seventh descendant and my son aged
30, now the principal of the business,
is naturally the eighth.
My wife, Mrs. Councillor Addis,
the first woman councillor in Hert
ford, (the council has been in exis
tence under different forms and
names for hundreds of years) and
my son recently visited Hartford,
Conn., for their tercentary Year.
I believe our town was first known
as Haeford, Saxon for "through the
ford" and its name is still pro
nounced Haaford. It was later
known both as Hartford and Hert
ford and is 'now spelt Hertford.
It is situated 20 miles north of
London and is on the River Lea, a
small river navigable for 90 ton
barges, practically a canal. The
Lea Valley was in ancient times a
valley from half to three miles wide
running from Hertford to the pres
ent London Docks and Danish Shi
used to travel up it and attack and
tod tne population of this district
King Alfred, more famous for
burning cakes, built a dam cutting
off the tidal waters at the London
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ena ana leaving tne Danish ships
stranded in mud.
A great length of this valley right
to London has been kept for public
use but the greater part is built on
now. Our end of the valley which fe
now 200 feet above sea level has
hundreds of f eres of glass houses
on it for growing tomatoes, grapes,
roses, etc. These are owned by
English, Dutch , and Danish garden
ers who are Much more prosperous
than our farmers.
To give you an idea of the impor
tance of these businesses, individual
owners buy anthracite coal in 500
ton lots. ' " '
There is also an artificial river
running from Hertford to London,
which was built by King George and
a city merchant named . Hyddleton
about 800 years . ago fori drinking
water, without this London, could not
have reached its enormous size. :
Hertford 'and its adjoining town.
Ware, were always malting " and
brewing towns but this industry ow
ing to prohibitive taxes, has practic
ally died out. At present the ' prin
cipal industries of Hertford, -Building,
Printing, Gloves, Toothbrush tm&
Envelope Making.
Haileybury College, , formerly the
East India Company's College, is on
the border of-' the town. ' The Blue
Coat School Christ's Hospital) for
girls is in tne! center of ;;the town.
The boys, i formerly ; in , Newgate
Street, City - of 'London, are at
Horsham, Surrey.. . ;."
Before the, war Hertford was the
center - of'Tromerons 'estates ' owned
by titled and wealthy men. .The War
has altered all this and - many of
these 'estates have become Dr. Ear-
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BY BAD WEATHER
Candidate For Senate! Hoped to Resume Regu
k, . 4 jar Schedule Next
Monday
COUNTY SCHOOLSlWORSsT WINTER
BADLY CRIPPLED IN MEMORY OF
sfesiippife
ROADS BAD
School Busses Have Dif -ficulty
In Covering
Route
OLDER RESIDENTS
Siege of Wintry Blasts
And Snow Since De
cember
City Improvements
ered
Will Be Consid
MERRILL EVANS
Merrill Evans, of Ahoskie, the
fifth to announce as a candidate
for the State Senate from the
First District.
AHOSKIE MAN IN
SENATORIAL RACE
IN FIRST DISTRICT
Merrill Evans Announces Candidacy
ror Senator From First District;
rive How Running
What appears to be an interesting
race in the earning primary elections
will be the naming of the two sena
tors for the First District of North
Carolina. Merrill Eyans, of Ahoskie,
this week announced his candidacy
for the office, which brings the num
ber of candidates to five, as follows -Miss
Ethel Parker.
Jerry Hughes, of Elizabeth City; w!
i- naisteaa, of South Mills; W. T.
Brown, of Hertford.
f ilitl 1111
kvans, of Ahoskie.
Mr. Evans, a nat.fve of r.imit,,
County, has spent the past five years
in AnosKie, and bv business nccnoig
tion has become well and favorably
known all over the district. He is in
the fertilizer business and has trowel
ed extensively over the eastern sec-
won oi tne state, being in Hertford
Monday when he i
that he would enter the senatorial
race. It is Mr. Evans' first attempt
at public office, and though a young
man, he is thoroughly acquainted
with the district and promises to
work unseasinriv for the welfare r.t
tne district as a whole if elected.
No school-, have been hefti in Per-
quimansK except for three half day
sessions last week, in more than two
weeks, due to the extremelv dis
agreeable weather conditions.
The schools opened last Tuesday,
after having been closed for several
days, but there was a sreat deal f
difficulty in some of the school buses
making the trip' to Hertford and the
weather continued very cold and dis
agreeable. Only half day sessions
were held on Tuesday, Wednesday
anu inursday of last week, in order
to auow the children traveling in the
busses to reach their homes before
nightfall. On Thursday night there
was a very severe snowstorm ond
all day Friday there was snow and
sleet, and schools were not opened
that day. It was announced tw tVio
schools would open on Wednesday of
mis weeK, but on Tuesday Superin
tendent if., t. Johnson announced
that the opening would be postponed
aiiuseiner until Monday of next
week, when, if weather conditions
improve, the schools will resume nor
mal activities.
New Beauty Parlor
In Blanchard Store
A modern and nn-to-date henntv
shop will be opened in the store of
j. Kj. uiancnard & Company about
the first of March.
Miss Elizabeth Nnwell Jo a
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daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Nowell, and who lives near Winfoll
win do the operator of the shop.
Miss Newell is a graduate of the
Marshall's School of Beauty Culture,
in Norfolk, Va.
The shoo, which vffl Im
we seconq noor of , JBIanchard's will
be eauiDned with tfiA lntaat i.
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modenr equipment vaftd appliances;
according to j, U. Blanchard, who
Stated this Week thAt immediate ar
rangements were being made for the
opening oi tne shop and that he
hoped to have everything ready by
the first of the month.
Mrs. Tucker Injured
By Fall On Tuesday
Mm. P.. TnnlrtVF'tiraa vAitr wiafnJ.
fully hurt; when she slipped and fell
on ., tne rront i steps of her home in
Hertford On Tneadav. A nhvsirian
was summoned at once and while her
injuries were found to be very pain
ful, it was reported r.that no bones
Were broken Mrs. TnpVr waa re
ported as resting:1 fairly comfortably
on weanesday.v v . 4
CONCERT TO BE .'GIVEN BY -
PIANO AND RYTHM CLASS
her piano and rythm c'hss will srive a
George Washington j ogram at the
Hertford Grammar Krhonl ah IMdow
evening at 8 o'clock. The public . Is I
Large Crowd Attends
Womanless Wedding
"Just Before the Battle. Mother"
was the song they chose to sing im
mediately before the and i -f
there hadn't been another funny fea
ture oi the Womanless Wedding
which took place at the Community
House in Winfall
night, it would have been worth twice
the price of admission to see and
hear the singers. Durwood Barber,
looking like "a perfect lady," never
once changed his expression while he
sang in a high soprano voice, with
Jesse Stanton, pretty and demure in
a drooping Dink hat
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alto.
The whole thing was so funny that,
even though the crowd had to travel
through the heaviest snowstorm of
the winter, they felt it was well
worth the trouble. The costumes
couldn't have been more nerfert and
most of the characters were "eood
looking women."
There was a full Jiouse. and the
sum of fourteen dollars was cleared.
WAVE GENERAL
Stephen Elliott of Bethel
bays Worse Than In
Winter of 1892
The fifth heavy snow fall of the
winter came on Thursday and Friday
of last week, and though there has
been considerable rain since, and two
days of sunshine, the temperature
has remained so low that there is
still at this writing a good deal of
snow on the ground.
Never in the life-time of even the
oldest inhabitants of this part of the
country have we had a winter like
this one. A great part of December,
all of January and thus far into
February we have had bitter cold
weather, with snow, ice and sleet.
That the winter of 1917-18 was a
severe winter, is remembered by
many. Older residents recall other
cold winters. Stenhen Rlliott who
lives in the Bethel community, and
wno has seen seventy winters iq
Perquimans, manv cold
this week, that the winter of 1892,
which others have recalled as a long,
cold winter, was indeed a severe
one, but that could not compare with
tne weather we have had this year,
and that in all his life he had never
known one as severe as this has
been.
The cold weather has nrevailed
over practically the entire United
Stat. The recent cold wave which
swept the Middle West was described
as the worst blizzard which has oc
curred within the Dast centnrv Tn
many of the states of the Midriio
West roads were impassable, trains
were tied up and travel of any kind
impossible. Snow drifts of five feet
depth were described in some places.
Officer Owens Uses
Fingerprint Device
The new fingerprint eauipment re
cently furnished the local law en
forcement officers, was nut into use
this week by Officer Melvin Owens.
who believes that the chicken thief
he apprehended this week in Hertford
is wanted somewhere for a more se
rious offense.
Mr. Owens arrested the man, a
Negro, who gave his name as Charlie
Williams, and whd says he is from
Birmingham, Alabama, and that he
has lived in various places, inrhidinir
Charlotte, as well as Miami, Florida.
ihe hngerpnnts will be sent to the
United States Department of Jus
tice this week.
Chowan High School
Destroyed By Fire
Fire of undetermined origin de
stroyed the Chowan High School
building on Wednesday night.
The Chowan High School is lo
cated at Small's Cross Roads,
twelve miles from Hertford, and
the light of the blaze was plainly
visible here.
The fire was discovered at about
8 o'clock and appeared to have
originated in the roof above the
office occupied by Principal Pearly
Baumgardner.
The Edenton fire department re
sponded to a call but were power
less to save the building because
of lack of water supply. They did
succeed, however, in saving a
small frame building nearby.
The school was re-opened on
Wednesday after having been clos
ed for esveral days because of
weather conditions.
The building, which was erected
more than ten years ago, was in
sured in the amount of twenty
thousand dollars.
The Chowan High School was a
consolidated high school, with 378
pupils enrolled.
Miss Marjorie Hefren, of Hert
ford, was a member of the faculty.
AH Necessary Informa
tion Will Be Placed
Before Citizens
7:30 O'CLOCK
American Guide
Seeks Information
What has your locality to offer
that may be of special interest to
travelers or students ?
What points of historic, natural,
scenic, legendary, unusual or amus
ing interest are found in your local
ity? Have you any folk customs, festi
vals, fairs, singing schools, tradi
tions, stories, colloquialism, dishes,
etc., that are particularly character
istic of your neighborhood ?
Above are the questions which
newspapers are asked by Edwin
Bjorkman, State Director of the
federal Writers' Project, to print,
in an effort to secure information to
be used in the American Guide.
The American Guide, which is an
undertaking of the Works Progress
Taxpayers Urged to Be
Present and Express
Their Views
A mass meeting of the citizens of
the Town of Hertford is called for
Friday night of next week, Febru
ary 21, by the Board of Town Com
missioners, in order that the town
officials may learn the sentiment of
the tax payers as to whether or not
certain sidewalks of the town shall
be paved, and probably other public
improvements made, if WPA grants
can be obtained.
E. N. Hines. Commissioner of Pub
lic Works, stated Tuesday that by
the twenty-first all necessary infor
mation regarding the matter would
be in hand, and will be set forth in a
statement to be made at the mass
meeting, when every interested citi
zen is urged to be present.
The basis on which these grants
have been made in the past has been
that the government will furnish all
labor and one third of the cost of
the material, provided the material
used does not exceed in cost thirty
per cent of the total labor cost.
Corbin Dozier, who is in charge of
the local WPA office, and who is an
experienced engineer, is making sur
veys and preparing estimates on the
proposed projects and acauirinir such
additional information as mav he
necessary.
Ihe meeting is to be held in the
courthouse at 7:30 o'clock.
Miss Frances King
Voted Popular Girl
Of interest to her manv friends in
Hertford will be the following, clip
ped irom the Weldon News:
"Miss Frances Kinc. daughter nf
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. King, was voted
the most popular girl in the Junior
Class at Greensboro College when
the junior class superaltives were se
lected at a recent class meeting
Administration, is to he nrinted in Miss KinE is president of Greens-
five volumes of 600 pages each and 0 Co,,eSe hiding Club, member of
win carry, insofar as the workers are
I Echoes From Recorder's Court
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"No. sir. I have iest been in court
so much seems like I have jest got
clean against it." explained Pinkv.
which goes to show just what satietv
will do.
Pinky, sometimes called Pankv.
who must have grown too fast for
her Tears, is tall, and lank. nH an
gular, utterly without self -consciousness
and somehow always stumbling
into trouble.
It isn't that she tries to evade the
truth. Pinky is the soul of candor.
She telle it alL with trimmimrs. and
if the trimmines hannen Rometimen
to be more ' profane than polished,
that Is a matter for the listener to
worry about, not for Pinky.
It is, however, difficult to rat the
truth from- Pinlrw; it h vemilor
procedure of auestioninir is followed.
for Pinky becomes incoherent when
confined to merely the answerimr of
questions, Judge Oakey has learned
from lone experience with Pinkv.
for Pinkv. be it said, in a reneater
that the only way to make any head
way whatever in the examination of
Pinky ia to allow her to tell the tale
in ner own way, which may or may
not mean going , back to : the begin
ning.
Pinkv is at her best when nhn re.
bites' the details of the cmarrell which
led up to the trouble and quotes
verbatim the cussing the ether party
did. which invariAhle In a, nnvf nt the
I Story, and Pinkv's vestures am fur
more expressive than the string of
oaths which she repeats with so
much vigor.
As usual, Pinky waxed eloquent
on Tuesday when she took the stand
in her own defense and told graphi
cally what happened at her house on
Thursday evening when the prosecut
ing witness, rmkj'B aunt, claimed
Pinky threatened to attack her with
a butcher knife. Pinkv said it was
snowinsr. and it was snowinc on
Thursday afternoon, and douthless
his honor, Judge' Oakey, remembered
Jiat, and rinky has a way of making
you 3ee the snow outside.
Pinky leaned from the witness
chair to peer through the window,
stoooinar low. lust as nh noid BW
did when she saw a car coming with
such bright lights, "I knowed it was
the Sheriffs car."
"No, I didn't call her that." said
Pinky, "but when she called me one
I jest laid it rieht back on her." nod
the wave of Pinkv's hands and tho
nod of her head indicated just ex
actly how she "laid it on."
Pinky stretched out her long right
arm in a sleeve justa little too short,
and doubled up her fist with deliber
ateness to show the judge just what
she wouldvhave done to her aunt "if
I had really wanted to hurt her."
She wouldn't, she said, have used
the butcher knife.
,. And, somehow, Pinky's tones were
convincing. Pinky didn't pull any
time. ( She 'had spent two dava in
Jail, anyhow; The verdict was not
guiltjr.f - y ii :-
enabled to secure the information
scenic, historic, racial, botanical, o-en
logical, commercial, and other facts
about every section of the rnnntrv
The original verified articles which,
oi course, will be greatly condensed
for the national publication will ha
left With maps and illnst.rationo -fnr
tne iocalties to use in compiling local
guides.
Relief labor is heine- emnlovod Jn
the writing of the American Guide,
but there has been no provision made
forany of the work to be done by
any one in Perquimans, and if the
county is to be represented as it
should be it will have to be done by
the voluntary contributions of t.hoae
persons in the county who are inter-
estea in tne matter.
Mr. Bjorkman has renneqted thio
newspaper to either print the contri-
Dutions which may be made on the
matter and send him clippings, or to
transmit tne articles to him.
As it is nointed out.
letter from the WPA at Washington,
there are some communities ri.v.or
vu
than others in scenic, historic, com
mercial or other resources. Perqui
mans happens to be nnA nf trio AAim.
ties rich in historv.
stories and traditions which should
be kept alive.
All data or stories sent tn n,o
Perquimans Weekly will either be
published in this newspaper or trans
mitted to the State Director to be
used as he sees fit. The clippings
of any published will also be sent to
him.
the Irving Literarv Sorietv
Greensboro College Player, and is in
charge of the Dramatic wardrobe at
the college.
"She was a graduate of Weldon
high school in 1933- This article
was sent to us this week by the
Greensboro College News Dept."
The King family lived in Hertford
for severalyears, where Frances was
very popular.
Seven Employed
By New Rose Store
The following young ladies com
pose the corns of clerks t
aiTV
Rose's 5, 10 & 25 Cent Storer Miss
Hazel White, of Belvidere; Miss
Myrtle Monds, of Tyner; Miss Pattie
DirametlEe, of Winfall;.' Misses Pai
tricia Stephens, Bennia Wood and
Edna Ruth fbnnim f tA'nr
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Miss Ruby, Keaton, of Bethel, is
bookkeeper. . -..,
Double Wedding At
Home Baptist Pastor
Two young couples figured in a
double wedding which took place at
the Baptist Pasronave in Hertford
on Sunday morning, with the Rev. D.
a. uempsey, pastor of the Hertford
Baptist Church, officiating.
Miss Thelma' Stanton, who ia n
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Stanton, of Winfall. and Mr. Thomna
Harrell, who live near Edenton, were
joined in matn'monv nnd Mien
Mae Harrell, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Harrell. and Mr T.uthai
Barrington, who lives near Edenton,
were also married.
Immediatelv after the
the two couples left for a wedding
trip to Raleigh and other points.
Improvements Being
Made At Simon's Store
Extensive repairs and improve
ments are being made in the Store '
of Simon's. A re-arrangement ' of
cases and shelves is
allow more room to be utilized, and
otner improvements are being made
and the store, is being painted.
HAVE CHANGED RESIDENCE
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lordley and
family, who formerly occupied apart
ments In the residence of Mrs. R. T.
White, have moved to the boarding
house of Mrs. J. E. White.
GOES TO'FLOWDAv ;
D. S. Darden. Hertford tneMiknt
left Monday to spend a couple of -
weeks in Florida. , ; -w' - ' . 4
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