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- ' A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Vohime III. Number 25.
AUTO VIOL ATIONS
MANY IN
RECORDER COURT
Charges Range From
Improper Lights to
V .W Recklessness
someTined
One Must Shdw Knowl-
edge Driving Laws
' By July 7
An unusual number of defendants
were hailed in Recorder's Court to
answer to the charge of violation of
minor traffic regulations on Tuesday,
the charges;; including improper
lights, insufficient brakes and operat
ing without license, as well as reck
less driving.
Earl Jones, charged with operating
a car with imnroner liarhts. nlH
Xi fhe case was dismissed upon
- o r-w
payment of court costs.
Herbert Edward Bass plead guilty
to the charge of driving with im
proper lights, and the case was dis
missed upon payment of the court
costs.
Leslie Wmslaw, colored, charged
with assault on a female, was found
not guilty.
Addie Webb, colored, charged with
assault with a deadly weapon, was
given sixty days in jail. The prose
cuting witness in this case, Ethel
Lee Winslow, was given thirty days
in jail. The two women were given
until August 4 to begin serving sen
tences, which were to be suspended
if they paid the court costs by this
time and if, in the case of Addie
Webb, she paid' the doctor's bill in
curred by the Widslow woman.
In the case of Maggie Taylor and
Mike Wright, charged with assault,
the State took a nor press. 1
Tom Wilder, colored, was found
guilty of receiving stolen property
and was sentenced to 6 months on
the roads. He was also found guilty
of selling liquor and was given 60
days on this charge. Wilder appeal
ed, his bond being fixed in the sum
of $150.
Tom Trueblood was found guilty
of larceny and was sentenced to six
months on the roads, the sentence to
be suspended upon payment of the
court costs and upon good. behavior
for two years.
J. H. Towe, charged with the ille
gal operation of a motor vehicle, was
found not guilty.
Edwin S. White, charged with
driving a car with insufficient brakes,
- .was found not guilty.
Wilder Gregory, colored, charged
with operating a car with no license,
was dismissed upon payment of the
court costs.
C. C. Elliott, charged with operat
ing a car with no operator's license,
was fined ten dollars.
Roy Lane, charged with; reckless
-driving, was found guilty and fined
twenty-five dollars and ordered to
appear on July 7 and show proper
knowledge of the waffle laws -
Andrew- Blanchard, charged with
operating a car without operator's li
cense, was dismissed upon payment
of a five dollar fine.
Rufus- Barclift, colored, charged
with driving a car with no opera
S tors license, was dismissed upon
serving three hours in jail.
John Moore, charged t. with operat
ing a car without operators license,
was dismissed. i : j ; s ;
Rose Jordan, colored, charged with
X assault with a .deadly weapon . and
trespass, plead guilty, and was given
'' thirty days in jaJL the sentence to be
'- . suspended upon payment of the costs
"and upon; condition . that she remain
' -i off of the premises of TV G. Forbes,
Tim Perry, charged with trans-
"-porting, was found not guilty.
Children Undergo
Tonsil i Operation
The foUowing children underwent
operations for the removal, of tonsils
at the tonsil clinic conducted. by Dr1.
I. A. Ward, at his office in Hertford,
last Thursday: Louise White, -Moody
Mathews and Sonny Rogerson.' On
Tuesday Willard Stallings was oper
ated upon for the.-' removal of 'his
f tonsils also. ' ' ?
. Several others . are to enter s the
clinic on Thursday of this week. 'Dr.
Ward is conducting -a tonsil clinic
on each .Tuesday and Thursday dur
; ing the month of Juner V . ,
Missionary Society
J V Meets .At Winf all
The Winfall Cedar Grove Mission
ary Society met with Mrs. E. M. Mil
ler Tuesday evening.
.' The dc:" il was led by
. Mamia f r1 v"7 i ' -estin:
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pC' ' ' ' ' vers
Hertford,
First row: Carlton Barclift, class president; Lillian Rae Perry, vice president; O. C. Long, Jr., secretary-treasurer; Annie D. Hollo
well, Marion Raper, Dan Sharpe, Tim Rufus Bnnn, Hazel Pike, Mary Wood Koonce, Lloyd Nixon, Maude Turner.
Second row: Mabel Spivey, Onella Winslow, Minnie Umphlett, Edith Everette, Eula Nixon, Roy Reed, Carolyn Lambe, Syble Lambe,
Clara Winslow, John R. Eure, Esther Ward.
Third row: Miriam Lane, Blanche Davenport, Fannie Eure, Robert Morris, Prue Collins Newby, Robert Wilder, Onella Umphlette,
Louise DeLaney, Alice Hurdle, Thelma Chappell, William Dimmette.
Fourth row: Jeanette Fields, Allie Mae Trueblood, Henry Stokes, Jr., Adalaide Layden, Paulette Perry, Emerson Asbell, Kenneth
Hgndren, Burnette Winslow, Mary Elizabeth Winslow, Dorothy Whedbee, Haywood Umphlette.
Fifth row: Beulah Bogue, Frances Lambe, Jean White, Jesse Lee Harris,' Russell Nixon, Mary Elizabeth Layden, Helen Morgan,
Azile Godsey, Elliott Layden, Ruth Nachman. Naomi Spivey. (Photograph! by Long's Studio, Norfolk).
E. McM Newby Now
"Paying Off Same
Boys He "Hired"
E. McM. Newby, of Hertford,
might be said to be finishing up a
work he began some twenty years
ago, inasmuch as the work he is do
ing this week in connection with the
delivery to the veterans of their
bonus bonds and checks seems to be
carrying on the job he started in
1917.
Mr. Newby was a member of the
Perquimans County War Board back
in the days of the World War, and
helped to sign up the boys who were
sent to the camps in preparation for
going overseas. After nearly two
decades, when the ' young men who
took part in the big fight and came
back home after it was all over are
now in or approaching middle age,
Mr. Newby is a rural letter carrier,
and this week he has been delivering
the bonus bonds and checks to the
soldiers on his route.
The belief is expressed by Mr
Newby. that, he is one of few who
have the distinction of having per
formed the service on the War Board
and who later paid off the boys, so
to speak. - -
Miss Hamrick Hurt
In Auto Accident
Miss Gladys Hamrick, Perquimans
County Home Demonstration Agent.
is recovering from the injuries she
received in the automobile accident
in which she figured on Friday after
noon of last week, though she is still
wearing a bandage across bar nose
and, her eyes are still badly discolor
ed, as a result of the accident, fn
which not only - Miss. Baanisk, bat
Miss Fannie Mae Cofiieid and lbs.
R. B. Klrby were also painfully bv
jurea. - .
- The aeddent occurred on the main
highway between Hertford and Win-
fall, at the intersection of the lane
leading to the mill of Major - A
Loomis Co. . Miss Hamrick, driving
her Ford V-8 coupe, was headed to
ward Hertford, . and Mrs. Kirby,
driving her Chevrolet coach, was go
ing to the mflL The cars collided
practically head-on, according to
Miss . Hamrick,- who said that Mrs.
Kirby turned in to. the left side of
the road. -V --.-
Both cars were 'r badly damaged.
Miss Hamrick Was hurt about the
nose and eyes, her Bide was injured
and she was also injured on one knee.
Miss Cofield, who was a passenger
in Miss Hamrick's : car, received a
painful but not serious injury to her
head, and Mrs. Kirby- was also pain
fully bruised and shaken up.
BIKTII ANNOUNCEMENT
Born to tlr. and Mrs. J. C Byrum
of Nprf.:":, Va.,, at the Memorial
lei, i S, a daughter, Mar-
1 .-:.. tyrurn was ' the
III ' :.t Elliott, , of
Perquimans County, North-Carolina, Friday, June 19, 1936.
Perquimans High's
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Receipt Of Vet Bonds
Recalls Experiences
H. A. Whitley First Ex-service Man In Perquim
ans County to Receive His Adjusted Service
Bonds; In Thick of Battle But Unwounded
H. A. Whitley was the first Per
quimans County veteran to receive
his bonus check on Tuesday. It was
carried to him before the postoffice
opened and delivered by Capt. C. F.
Sumner, Jr., Hertford letter carrier,
who, with the exception of Jimmie
Smith, and Mr. Whitley is the only
other veteran of Hertford who was
with the 80th Division Over There.
These three weie In three of the
big battles, that of the Argonne, St
Meheile and Chateau-Thierry. These
were the big engagements; there
were other lesser affairs.
Mr. Whitley says that, while the
Battle of the Argonne was, as every
one knows, the big affair, the tough
est part of the year he spent Over
There was during the Battle of St
Miheil. During the fight in the For
est of the Argonne, which lasted for
months, there were periods of relief,
when he would not be at the front,
but during the St Mehiel affair he
did take part in some long drawn
out fighting, and it was pretty
tough. However, Mr. Whitley never
received a scratch.
like most of the fellows who went
-, Mr. Whitley will not talk much
about what took place during the
five months he spent at the Front
But that keen sense of humor which
canst him always to Bee the funny
rids, did prompt him to tell about a
little happening in which he thought
bt got a lucky break.
About what came before he says
nothing. - You have to drag from
him the admission that at the time
of this happening, r during a long
march while the Battle of the Ar
gonne was in progress, his company
was without water for two days.
That the men were suffering agony
from thirst goes without saying, but
he doesn't touch upon that when he
smilingly tells the story. You have
to use your imagination there. It
Fordie Feild Cuts Foot
While In Bathing
Fordie Feild suffered a severe cut
on one foot on Sunday afternoon
while in bathing. The youngster
stepped on a broken glass bottle on
the river bottom, which resulted in
severe gash.- Fordie is the second
member -of the Feild family to be
similarly injured this summer, his
older brother, Bill, only now recov
ering from a laceration' of the foot.
Annie Bullock, of Creedmore, is
1936Graduating
doesn't take much imagination to get
the picture of the tramp, tramp,
tramp of the tired men, marching
with empty canteens, steadily march
ing to an unknown destination, their
throats dry, their lips parched, with
thirst.
.They came to a little stream, he
said, just a shallow stream. The
water was only about waist deep.
With the bridge gone, it was nec
essary for the soldiers to wade the
stream, and right here arose a situa
tion which had to be handled with
care by the officer in charge. There
was danger. Drinking polluted wa
ter was a menace which had to be
guarded against The lives of the
whole company might be endangered
unless the men were prevented from
drinking of this not-too-clean-looking
water.
"Do not drink of the water of this
stream." The order was passed to
the men by the Captain. Well, that
was that, apparently.
But Mr. Whitley says he was thirs
ty. It didn't make any difference to
him then how impure might be this
water, he was willing to take
chance. He meant to have a drink,
come what might. He had to think
quietly. There wasn't much time.
Hastily lowering his canteen on its
strap suspended from his belt, he un
screwed the top, and as he stepped
into the stream, muddy - now and
made foul by the sweat-soaked bod
ies of the soldiers, he allowed the
water to flow into his canteen as he
marched. .'After he reached dry
ground he drank.
Like the water described by Mr.
Kipling in Gunga Din, "It was crawl
ing and it, stunk," but, says Mr.
Whitley, with a laugh, still quoting,
but evidently meaning every word,
"of all the drinks I've drunk, I'm
gratefulest for that"
Perquimans Vets
Receive $115,000
Veterans of Perquimans County
will receive approximately $115,000
in bonus bonds and checks, according
to Postmaster J. E. Morris, of Hert
ford, who says that about $40,000
of this ' amount' has already been re
ceived through the Hertford post-office.-
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RETURNS HOMES iv,,-:v;
Miss Valmore Powell- has returned
to her home at Hillsboro, after a vis-
it to I'Jra I'arie Scott, in. Hertford.
WEEKLY
Class
Secret Wedding Of
Year Ago Comes As
Surprise To Friends
The announcement this week of a
marriage of a Hertford couple which
had been kept secret for a year
came as a surprise to their friends.
Miss Wilma Parker and Charles
Williford were married in Ports
mouth, Va., on June 12 of last year.
and the marriage had been kept se
cret until Monday of this week.
when the announcement was made.
Mrs. Williford is the attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
W. Parker, who live near Hertford.
Mr. Williford is the son of the late
C. V. Williford and Mrs. Williford,
of Hertford. The couple are making
their home at the Hotel Hertford.
R. M. Riddick Attends
Bermuda Rotary Meet
R. M. Riddick, cashier of the Hert
ford Banking Company, and a Hert
ford Rotarian, attended the Rotary
meeting in Bermuda on last Wednes
day. Mr, Riddick was in attendance at
the Annual Convention of the North
Carolina Bankers Association at the
world-famous resort.
After the Rotary meeting, at
which' there were present a number
of other North Carolina Rotarians,
the President took the visitors to
the General Assembly Hall, where
court proceedings were in progress,
and where, in accordance with the
decorus English custom, the judge
wore the conventional robes and a
wig.
Mr. Riddick, who is one of a very
few 'Hertford citizens to have visited
the beautiful and picturesque Island
of Bermuda, was delighted with the
place. That there isnt an automo
bile on the island, and that the only
method of travel is by foot, by bi
cycle, or by horse-drawn vehicles,
did not seem at all inconvenient, ac
cording to Mr. Riddick, who insists,
however, that he did not ride a bi
cycle, but rode about in carriages
during his entire stay.
All of the buildings are construct
ed of white coral. Even the roofs
are white. They are of necessity
clean, Mr. Riddick says, because it is
on the roofs of the houses that the
water supply is taken care of. They
have only ram water there.
A climate which never varies more
than 18 degrees, never warmer than
18, never colder than 60, Mr. Rid
dick says it is no wonder this island
in the path of the Gulf Stream at
tracts so many visitors to its shores.
COLORED WOMAN DIES
Alice Purvis, a -well-known and
highly respected colored woman, who
lived near WinfaU, died at her home
on Sunday. Funeral services were
held on Wednesday and burial took
place la the family burying grou'l.
$1.25 Per Year
FARM WOMEN TO
MEET IN RALEIGH
ON JULY27 TO 31
Miss Hamrick Anxious
For Large Delegation
From Perquimans
MANY SUBJECTS
Those Who Plan to At
tend Should Select
Classes to Join
That a large number of the mem
bers of the various home demon
stration clubs throughout Perquimans
will attend the annual meeting of
farm women to be held at State
College, Raleigh, from July 27 to the
31, is the plan of Miss Gladys Ham
rick, Home Demonstration Agent,
who reports that this year's observa
tion of Farm and Home Week in
cludes plans for practical, inspira
tional and recreational nrtiviHpa
i which all the women will enjoy.
There will be classes in Parent
Education, food preparation demon
strations, nutrition studies, a special
course in dyeing with native roots
and herbs, and many other interest
ing studies. Miss Pauline Smith will
give "Beauty and Charm in the
Home Grounds," in which so many
women are becoming more and more
interested as the subject of better
homes and gardens is stressed.
"Secrets for Clothing Leaders," to be
given by Miss Willie N. Hunter, is
another subject in which every wom
an will take an interest. "Purchas
ing and Buying Practices," given by
Miss Vie Dowdy, will give worth
while hints to all women.
There will be the study of refmish
ing furniture, of making jelbes,
jams and juices, the selection and
the hanging of pictures, problems in
painting the home, and other sub
jects. All of these various subjects will
be under the direction of experts,
some with national reputations, and
Miss Hamrick feels that the oppor
tunity to hear so many outstanding
authorities on the various subjects
is one which should be taken advant
age of if possible.
The women who plan to go are ad
vised to select the classes which thev
wish to join in advance of the meet
ing, and Miss Hamrick will discuss
the matter with those who plan to
go.
PWA Projects In
County Held Up
All of the PWA nroiects in Per
quimans, with the exception of thn
clerical project, that of the re-indexing
of the records in the office nf
the Register of Deeds, and the Ag
ricultural Building project, have been
discontinued indefinitely, according to
information given out by Miss Edna
Feilds, Supervisor of Women's Work.
The work which is suspended in
cludes the sewing rooms throughout
the county.
Plans are being made for a new
program, which it is believed will be
put in operation around the first of
July.
Fire At Oil Company
Seed Room Sunday
Fire, of possibly incendiary orrigin,
caused a damage of from seventy
five to a hundred dollars in the seed
house of the Southern Cotton Oil
Company's plant on Sunday night
That the loss was no greater is
attributed to the fact that the fire
was discovered before it had gained
much headway. The automatic
sprinkler, which is a part of the fire
protection equipment of the plant
kept the fire under control until the
local fire department arrived.
The fire occurred around 8 o'clock
in the evening.
ENTERTAIN AT HOUSE PARTY
Miss Spivey Roberson entertained
a house Dartv last week-end nt
Camp Perquimans in Old Neck. Her
guests included Miss Esther Mae
Brown, of Gatesville; Miss Helen
Williams, of Wilson: Miss Selma
Griffin, of Durham. Charles Avcock.
of Norfolk, Va., Claude Brinn, Billy
lucker, James Robert White and
Jack Brinn.
ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Parker.
of. Hertford,' announce the marriage
of their daughter, Wilma, to Mr
Charles Williford, on June 12, 1935V
in Portsmouth; Va. . v ; J ,
Mrs. J. C Blanchard. had as guests
on Sunday Mrs. Herman Cohn . and
her .daughter, Charlotte, qf Princess