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J'..' T IF V LYI " k 4 I j , . . . y.f. : A VTZIIDY NEWCPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUffiDINa C7 HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTYi Volume 111 Number 40. Hertford, Rerquimans, County, .North Carolina, : Friday; October 2, 1936. $1.25 Per Year ? f If IF it f - , . 'rff '1- 1 - AT IHGH SCHOOL Unique Rcccsvelt Page ant Is Arranged By MreCKooncer The date' of the biff 'Democratic Tally to be held U Hertford has been moved np cocple of days and will be held on October I5th, instead of on the a .13th; as. was originally an nounced. : The reason for the change is because- Congressman'' Iindsey Warren, who is to be the speaker of the occasion could not be here on the . first date, named. Mrs.' 3. G. Koonce, v who is in charge of the program, re ceived a letter from Mr. Warren on Wednesday stating, that he would be glad to speak on the evening of Oc tober 15th. v No charge will be made r.s4mitfen;;;;5 The affair is to be held in the au ditorium of the Perquimans cHigh School, as this hall will accommodate a larger number s of persons than be housed anywhere else in the county. w-;. ; ! In addition to the - Roosevelt pa geant whlchSlrs. Koonce is arrang ing fafttJte odcaslon, and which will be pented afterw Mr. ' Warren's speech, there' will ' be other special numbers. L. W. .' Anderson, whose name on any, program is always a drawing card, will sing special num bers, and Jt. S, Monds, Jr4 who is equally popular with Perquimans au diences, will alto sing. . Mrs. W. E. White will give "a feature reading. Those takbig aprt in the pageant will include such favorites as A. W. Hefren, Miss Kuth Davenport, Billy Tucker, HolloweU Cox Nixon, r Wil liam Hardcaatle, Mias Evelyn? Wd dick. Mist ' Elisabeth; Knowies, Mrs. Herman - Winslow, W. T. Elliott, James o Bobert ; White, i n4 Lucius Blanchard.i't'K;r--..''' - fi-v;: A number of attractive little chH dren will take part, including Pat Morris, ' Katherine Anne ; Holmes, Ruth Tucker, Ida Lee White, Dorothy Jordon Oakey and Peggy. Felton. In the chorus are ten pretty young girls, including Nit Newbold, Sarah ; Ward, Kathenne Jessup, Pouy .Tuck er, Alice Roberson, Marie Anderson, Maywood Pierce, Anne TulUs Felton, and Florence Darden.1 ' - v 5 f - ' P. P. Muth Dies At Edenton Home " F. F. i Muth; prominent Contractor of Edenton, dled at his horn' Wed nesday night following a year's ill ness. Mr. Muth, who was 76 yean of age, had many close ? friends in Hertford. .He did a considerable amount of work here, one of his con tracts calling for the restoration-of the historic Perquimans Court House. Funeral .services will be held at the home at 8 o'clock this (Friday) afternoon. ; - ? v . i . Layman To Speak :;A At Baptist Chuurch Rev. D. 3, Dempsey, pastor of the Hertford Baptist Church, i announces that the communion service will be observed at the church '. on . Sunday morning. - Hugh Johnson, ' 1 Scotland . Neck, will address the , congregation 'at the evening service. Mr. Johnson la' layman and a very ;able speaker ac cording to Mr. Dempsey, whose cus tom it is to invite a' layman to ad dress hie congregation at' one service J each year, - TTT' Servir z cr" r.c:l At ?Jif!Ei:c3;.Aurcli Rev. E. Tl Jillson, rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, ' : and 'Mrs. Jillson are expocW -to return'; Fri day from .Rhode Island, where they have spent the summer. Services will be held at Holy Trin ity'on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. MISS RELrE MEMCER SCHOOL" ' FACULTY AT ROBERSONYILLE , ,Miss Mary CMlla Relfe, who grad- ' uated f rom : Creensboro College for WoT"n in J""1 fcepted a posi tion to t. i . i--'--rsonville v and l;rt ' ' y to i-y'a ber rew d 1v , l'r j' 'ft, h f ', . J. mi. Advisory Committee An advisory committee of five community i r leaders to aid in child welfare work in Perquimans has been appointed to aBtdst Miss Meta Dowling, Child Welfare"; Assistont, the personnel of which is as follows: Dr. C. A. ' Davenport, ' representing the medical profession; W. ; H. Pitt, Judge of -the Juvenile Court, repre senting the legal' proft '"-'on; Mrs. Harry : Brougfiton, 'i representing the Parent-Teacher' Association; Rev. D. S. Dempsey, represneting the ministerial- profession, and F. T. Johnson, representing the Masonic Lodge and the Rotary Club. The duties of this committee are to locate and report problems dealing with children . to the child welfare assistant or to the welfare officer and' to act a a fteans of contact be tween the assistant and the local committee. Negro Youth Faces Very Serious Charge If the grand jury at the Novem ber Term of Perquimans Superior Court finds a true bill against James Skinner, Jr., New Hope Negro youth, he will be tried for a capital crime. Skinner was arrested on Sunday on a warrant sworn out by Jessie Hoffler, 19-year-old Negro girl of the same neighborhood, charged with as sault with attempt to commit rape. The case came up, for a hearing be fore Judge Walter H. Oakey, Jr., in Recorder's Court on Tuesday, at which time the warrant was amend ed, on motion of Charles E. Johnson, prosecuting attorney, to charge the defendant with . committing rape. and with assault with deadly weapon Probeile faue was found,, by Judge Uaxey and the attendant was oraerea to Jail without bond to await the ac tlon of the grand jury. The crime is alleged: to' have been ' committed on Saturday night. C R. Holmes repre sented the defendant Georare Armstrong and Lorenso Armstrong were found guilty of as sault with a deadly weapon and Dal las Rountree was found guilty of the destruction of :s personal property, each being .fined ten dollars, as a re sult of an altercation which took place at the home of James Fletcher, where' a i church:; festival ' was , being held on Saturday night. All of the parties wree.' Negroes. ( . C. A. Cooke, who plead guilty of the charge of being drunk in a public place, was fined two dollars. David DeDmpsey, Camden County Negro, plead guilty to the charge of recaiess onving anu wu kicu w days en the' roads, sentence to be . . . i , ;. on suspended upon payment of the court costs and vayuur thirty . dollars to Hudson Butler for repairs on his car, - f,iim ii i ji, mi n,!L -. . Clothing Is Subject 5 For County Clubs During October "The home demonstration ' clubs of Perquimans will study clothing in October, according -to announcement made by Miss Gladys ; Hamrick, Agent, who' says that there will be demonstrations of different accesso ries m the program, the subject of which is "Vhat'a- New-for Fall." The time and place of meeting of the various clubs, for the month set- out below, eH meetings to be held at 2:80 in' the afternoon s-; , Whiteston, Thursday, Oct 1, with Mrs. Maix.S.Winslow,.5 r h Chatanoke, Tuesday, Oct- ,? with Mrs, Henry Elliott . - .j . . WlnfaU,4 WednestoyrOctTtrttthe Club House. ' -- - Hunters r ori. Friday, Oct 9, with Mrs. R.; R.1 ChappelL - ,r iTX Mrs. P. E. Lane. ' Beech Spring, Tuesday, Oct 13, at the school house.' ; X H V New Hope, . Wednesday, ' Oct 14, with Mrs. Pauline Perry. White Hat, Tuesday, OctT20, at the school house. , , .. - i Belvidere.v Wednesday, Oct. , 21 with Mrs. Lola Copeland. i ' Helen Gaither, Thursday, Oct 22, with Mrs. C. F. Reed. t, " Bethel-Bureess, Friday, ; Oct 23 with Mrs. Dewey Perry., J ; ' Snow Hill, Wednesday, Oct 28, at the scliool house. " - - f Vo" 'ille, Thursday, Oct- 29,,. at lEOTOSDIFmnS BOOST DUSSESS Know What Customers Vtm ami HaVemt ADVTISE Believe That Trading at Home Is Bound to Help Each Other Following their usual custom, the Hertford merchants are advertising their goods in The Perquimans Week ly. A number of the more progres sive merchants of the town, in a buy-at-home program, are telling the public something of the advantages of shopping at home in a full page advertisement in this week's issue of this newspaper. These merchants know that they have the merchandise which will please the Perquimans public and they are anxious to get their mes sage across. In this group of merchants there are represented dry goods, grocer ies, farming utensils, drugs, confec tionaries, furniture, hats, clothing, ladies' ready-to-wear, hardware, au tomobiles, automobile equipment, gas oil, tires, automobile sales and ser vice. These merchants believe in cooper ation and they feel that when they trade with each other each is help ing the other. Every dime and dol lar spent with the local merchant comes rolling back in something more valuable than merchandise alone, because a community spirit is fostered. It helps the merchants to pay better wages to their employees and helps the employees to buy bet ter merchandise. Those interested in the buy-at- home movement and who believe that we must buy at home if our commun ity is to prosper, include: Roberson's Drug Store, Central Grocery, Simon's, HolloweU Chevro let Co., J. C. Blanchard, Inc., Walk er's, Carolina Hardware Co., Hert ford Hardware A Supply Co., Texa co Service Station, W. M Morgan, Joe A Bill's Service Station, H. C. Stokes. Darden Bros., One-Stop Ser vice Station, Hertford Banking Co. Edenton People Hurt In Automobile Wreck A party of seven Edentonians were painfully injured and badly shaken up as a result of an automobile acci dent about 10 o'clock Monday morn ing near Woodville." Those in the automobile at the time of the wreck were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Henry Bowen, Mrs. Cecil i Roughton and her son, Dick, Mrs. W. L. Shaw and her daughter, Dorothy, and Mrs. Erma White. Mrs.' Roughton was driving the car at the time, the group being on their way to Norfolk, Va, to attend the funeral of Mrs. Edith Bowen Parker, a niece of Mr. and Mrs. Bowen. Mrs. Roughton says that after passing the curve at Woodville a tire blew out, throwing the car off the highway and in attempting to straighten up the wheels hit the shoulder, turning it over. Mrs. Bowen was most seriously injured and was rushed to the Albe marle Hospital in Elisabeth ; City, but has since returned home. ; Mrs. Roughton, the driver, had two ribs broken and suffered a severe cut On one of her hands, while her son was badly cut above the' eyes. ! Mrs. Shaw had a rib broken as well as cuts about the face. .;v The remainder of the occupants were slightly cut and bruised', beside beinir orettv wen shaken vm. ; i The car, owned by Mrs. White, was badly damaged and was towed to Edenton Monday' afternoon." ; Looking' For Owner Of Week-end Bag i--:..4---.!' V I""" -vav ', X--,.. . ' A week-end bag 6r small suit case containing clothing and other articles of value was picked up on the Hertford-Edenton Highway on 1 Tuesday morning u by.N. H. Stalling,, of Belvidere, ' who. is very anxious to turn the property over to the owner. The bag has been left in the custody of J. G. Roberson, at ; Roberson's i Drug Store, in Hertford, and will be turned over to the owner ' upon Identification." i . r , - ' ' ' "' T'at '..'Jill ' ,''.! ; I, Alff MURES wmmm Dreary Bice Stresses Danrir In Starting SaoolToooon f BG PROBLEM Urges Pre - Vocational Training For Back wardChildren Dr. B. Bice, State Psychia- trist of e State board of Charities and Publl tal Hygi Welfare, division of Men- e, was the speaker at a of the advisory committee conferen to the unty welfare department held on Wednesday night at the court nouse. Dr. Bice was in Hertford two weeks ago and held a mental hy giene clinic. This is the first time such a clinic has been conducted in Perquimans, it having been brought about through the services of the Child Welfare Assistant, Miss Meta Dowling, and Miss Ruth Davenport, Welfare Officer of Perquimans. Problems arising out of the fact that all children are not equally cap able were discussed in the meeting held under the superivsion of the Superintendent of Public Welfare. Two groups in particular were brought to the attention of those present Some of the children who are examined are not well adjusted to their environments because of some fault in training. There are others who for some reason are not developing mentally as rapidly as most children in a community do. A large percentage of children in the public schools failed to pass their grades last year. The cost of this condition was indicated. On the one hand, there is the financial aspect. In addition to that the child who fails "feeosinea discouraged, unwilling to continue to work in the school. In many cases they become our delin quents. In order to meet this con dition, it was' recommended that some of the children who are not able to do first grade work at the age of six, be permitted to remain in the home until they are able to do that work. It was indicated that while some children learn readily to read, write and work problems in mathematics, others do. not do so. It would be a great saving to the county if these children who are better fitted for practical lines of work, were given a chance to have some pre-vocationai training. The problems are not however, solved by merely fitting the child to the work, or the task to the child. The children who are continually failing in school this year, will in a very short time, be the parents of future failures unless some preven tative measure is taken. Therefore, the case for sterilization was pre sented. In this State, epileptics, the mentally deficient and the insane may be sterilized. The cost is small com pared with the cost of failing to adopt such a program. J. Emmett Winslow Chairman Roosevelt Electors Committee The appointment of J. Emmett Winslow as chairman of the Roose velt Electors Committee has been an nounced by A. D. Folger, State Fi nance Director and National Commit teeman for this State, irora us headquarters at Raleigfe. , 'The Roosevelt Electors Commit tees, of which there will be one or more in' each 'county, is the official agency designated, by the Democratic Nationay Committee to raise funds for the !" re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt In selecting Mr. Winslow as one of the Committee Chairmen for this county, Mr. Folger pays a fine tribute to the qualities of leadership, ability, and Party loyalty that are possessed by Mr, Winslow. . . As Chairman of the Roosevelt E- lectora Committee he will be in charge of the work of raising funds in his section for the campaign. Every person contributing will be en rolled as a member of the Roosevelt Electors Committee and presented with an Elector's Certificate. De tails of the drive for funds will be explained by Mr. Winslow who asks the help and cooperation of the peo ple of his section.' Hairy E oi Amendment Would Allow More Judges ' ' s Public Library Is Major Project For Local Woman's 0ub The Hertford Woman's Club has assumed the project of a public li brary as the major work of the club this year. Mrs. F. T. Johnson, president of the Club, took up the matter of es tablishing a library in Hertford last year, but beyond securing certain necessary information and discussing the subject with club members noth ing was done. However, the matter has been re vived, and the Club at its first meet ing of the fall decided to work for a library this year. As an initial step in securing books, a book shower will be held at the next meeting of the Club and each member is requested to donate a book. Any one, whether they be Club members or not, who would like to give a book to the li brary is requested to get in touch with Mrs. F. T. Johnson or with Mrs. V. N. Darden. Mrs. Johnson told the club mem bers something of the splendid work of the club women of Manteo, who have established at that place a fine library. Mrs. Johnson, who lived in Manteo at the time of the beginning of the work, and who worked with other club women there, feels that the women of Hertford, if they real ly get behind the idea, can accom plish as much as has been accom plished at Manteo. Local Glee Clubs Off To Good Start The Hertford glee clubs got off to a good start this week under the di rection of Miss Kate M. Blanchard, who announces that 36 high school students are enrolled in the High School Club and 20 children of the Hertford Grammar School are in the junior club. The club meets with Miss Blanch ard twice each week. Already prep aration is being made to contribute to the Armistice Day program by learning appropriate songs for the occasion. Miss Blanchard said this week that the clubs would also take part in the community Christmas celebra tion such as was given last year. A Christmas program of an original character was given at the Baptist Church last year when beautiful liv ing pictures were shown in connec tion with the birth of the Savior and Christmas songs were sung. Guild Plans Turkey Supper October 29 A big turkey supper is already planned for the early fall. At a meeting of St. Catherine's Guild, which was held at the home of Mrs. Nathan Tucker on Tuesday evening, plans were made for giving one of those good turkey suppers on Octo ber 29th. Tentative plans were also made for a subscription bridge party, which will probably be given in the near future, although arrangements have not yet been completed. This was the first meeting of the Guild this fall. Mrs. Thomas Nixon, president presided. Mrs. Madre Entertains Demonstration Club Mrs. T. E. Madre was hostess to the members of the Helen Gaither Home Demonstration Club at her home near Hertford, on Thursday af ternoon. . Mrs. W. O. Hunter, president, pre sided. - Under the direction of Miss Gladys Hamrick, Agent, sour kraut was canned, and also apples. An entirely new idea in the canning of apples was introduced. Mrs. Hunter passed on to the members of the club some ideas she had gathered at the clothing leader's school held on Saturday and showed the new scarfs which had been made. The hostess served dainty refresh ments at the close of the session. U. D. C. MEETS The Skinner-Jones Chapter of the. United Daughters of the Confeder acy met on Thursday night of this week at the home of Mrs. R. T. Clarke. Records Show Work Disposed of Has Been Doubled NEEDSEVEN Charles Whedbee Work ing For Adoption of Amendment Hon. Charles Whedbee, of Hert ford, is chairman of the First Judicial District for the promotion of the adoption of the amendment to in crease the membership of the Su preme Court. For the benefit of the voters to whom the question will be submitted in November, some reasons why our Supreme Court needs two more members as outlined by the Commit tee on Amendment to Increase Mem bership of the Supreme Court, are set forth below: The constitution of 1868 provided for five members of the Supreme Court of the State, but the conven tion of 1875 reduced the number to three, and at the election of 1888 an amendment was adopted which added two Associate Justices, restoring the membership to five. Since the spring term of the court in 1889, the mem bership of the court has remained at five, consisting of the Chief Jus tice and four Associate Justices. During the intervening period of nearly fifty years, the entire struc ture of the State in population, in transportation, in banking, in busi ness, and in all methods of commun ication has been doubled, and in many cases more than trebled. The census of 1890 gave North Carolina a population of 1,617,947, whereas the official estimate for 1935 is over three million, three hundred thousand or an increase in popula tion of more than 100 per cent. In 1889 the State had twelve regu lar Superior Court Judges, with a few Special Criminal Courts. At the present time there are twenty regular Superior Court Judges, three Special Judges, and three Emergency Judges, or a total of twenty-six Judges hold ing terms of the Superior Courts. In addition to these, there are many County Courts in several of the coun ties of the State, and practically every county has one or more Record er's Courts. AH of these courts are busy each week in the trial of causes, civil and criminal, important and triv ial, a part of which at least must reach our highest appellate court for final decision. The State has, there fore, more than doubled the machin ery of the courts inferior to the Su preme Court, and has provided no additional help for our highest ap pellate court. Our State constitution makes no provisions for relief of the Supreme Court, should an emergency arise on account of sickness, or other dis ability of any one or more of its members. Figures, tabulated from the records in the office of the Clerk of the Su preme Court, conclusively show that the normal amount of work disposed of by the Supreme Court has been practically doubled; and this has re sulted in spite of the necessarily stringent rules of the Supreme Court which tend to discourage appeals, except in important cases. Funeral Thursday For Mrs. Turner Mrs. Dora Evans Turner, wife of J. E. Turner, died at her home in Durante Neck at 4 o'clock on Wed nesday morning. Funeral services were conducted from the New Hope Methodist Church on Thursday afternoon and burial took place in the family burying ground. Surviving are her husband, J. E. Turner, and five children, George, Butler, Rob, Fred and Maude Turner. Dairies Furnished GradeBy Chemist Milk grades for dairies selling milk in Hertford have been an nounced by the city chemist, R. M. Potter, for the period beginning Oc tober fir6t, as follows: Perry-White Dairy, Grade A. Brite-Cannon Dairy, Grade A. E. H. Simon, Grade D. These three dairies are the only ones offering milk for sale in Hert ford. , . 4 2 ;1
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