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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDINa (F HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
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"Volume III. Number 42.
Hertf ordfPerquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, October 16, 1936.
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WEEKLY
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Prospects Bright For
Perquimans Team
, Jorty-five Girlsv After 1
Berths Vacated By
Graduation
MYE TEAMS
Coaches Rogers and Ev
erett Pleased With
Players' Spirit
Another real girls' basketball team
is in the making out at Perquimans
High, to take the place of that unda
'i feated team : which for two years
M carried off honors in all games in
which .they participated, coming out
victorious in four tournaments dur
ing that time.
Carl Sogers, who, assisted by Miss
i( Joitn Everett, is coaching the girls,
-bb?b ma Ji8 never seen a oetier spin
among .player, in all his experience,
and that, instead of using only six
players as hut been the custom, he is
going to use just as many players in
each game as possible. ; -
When all but one of the old team
were graduated this year, it was
generally accepted that , the Perqui
mans High would be out of the pic
ture so far as girls' basketball is
concerned.
Coach Rogers Bays this is far from
true. Five separate teams are prac
ticing regularly and the girls are
:showiikr unusual determination to
carry otrch the old Style.
No less than 45 girls are out for
the team, and include: Sybil Roger
son, Fannie Foster, Margaret Jordan,
Hattie Pearl ; Nowell (only veteran),
Helen Coffield, Sarah Ward, Mertice
Goosey, Hilda Hobos, Florene Hurdle,
Mattie Butler, Thelma Baceus, Ellie
Mae White, Celia Blanche Dail, Mary
FeUd, :Eugeaia Gregory, Margaret
Mayes, Addfe Butt Morgan, Alice
Roberson, : Annie Lee Stafford, Lila
Budd Stephens, f Maie Anderson,
Blanche' Chappell, Ruby Smith,- Mary
Burgess, Inea Stokely, Nita Newbold,
Maywood Pierce, Dorothy Strange,
Elizabeth Trueblood, Eula White,
Catherine Campen, Katherine Leigh,
Margaret Ward, Nancy Coke Darden,
Florence Harden, Wilma Godfrey,
Ruth BcJlowell, Ruth Winslow, Dixie
Chappell, Mattie C. Reed, Dalton
Stranget Geneva White, Lizzie Lee
Hoffler, Shirley Elliott, and Ruth
Hendricks, c
4 Better Have Lights On
Horse-Drawn Vehicles
The : kerosene oil - burned, out of
Will Gregory's lantern on. Friday
morning while the mules were being
hitched to the street sweeper which
Will operates for the Town of Hert
ford, but Will took a chance that he
wouldn't encounter any cars 'on the
streets between 4'flve o'clock f and
dawn, as a (result ;of which h jnarr
rowly missed .being killed in a. colli
sion with a milk truck and he had to
pay the bill ; of fcosts amounting, to
$15.25 in Recorder's Court on Tues
day when he was tailed to answer
to the charge ' of driving . horse-
drawn vehicle on. the; streets with
out proper lights. 'V"1:" ; 4
'It would have - been cheaper ? to
have bought five cents worth of oil,'
Judge Oakey told - the v Negro who
plead guilty to the charge, and Who
nromised to keep . a lantern on the
peeper in future. ' ,
It developed that Gregory
hadl'
been warned recently by Night Officer
M. G. Owens in reference to driving
the sweeper without lights, -and .Will
admitted this. The prosecuting wit
ness, Leslie Sumner, testified that he
was forced to" drive his milk trod
up on the sidewalk-to: avoid striking
the sweeper and that he ruined two
tires of his truck and damaged the
truck' otherwise.' i. -u Li? &
" Only one other case" was tried dur
ing the very brief session ,of , court
on Tuesday, ;; S. B. Smith was tried
for reckless driving, the ease being
dismissed upoft payment of the court
costs, - , ' ' '
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More Ccttch Ginned
In County This Year
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,W. M. Harrell, , special agent for
the Bureau of the : Census, Depart
ment of Commerce, reports that
there were 860 bales of cotton gin
ned in Perquimans County from the
Of 1936 prior to October ,iAaa
compared with 689 bales ginned to
October 1 of the crop Of 1935. "
AT THE FAIR "
Miss Ruth Davenport atid Miss
Mary Helene Newby spent Wednes
day and Thursday in Raleigh, attend
ing the State Fair.. -.'
Canning .Contwt In
Court House Saturday
Some Perquimans housewife is
going to receive a prize of five dol
lars on Saturday, provided there are
forty of them who enter the contest,
and others will receive prizes of fruit
jars.
The Kerr and Ball Canning Contest
will be held in the courthouse. Those
entering the Ball Contest are re
quested to bring a canned quart of
soup mixture and one quart of snap
beans, using any kind of jars and
lids.
Those entering the Kerr Contest
are requested to brims either a quart
or a pint of fruit, the same of vege
tables and the same of meats.
Miss Gladys Hamrick, under whose
supervision the contest is held, is
expecting many of the club women of
the county to bring canned goods to
be entered in the contest.
Miss Rebecca Col well, Home Agent
of Chowan County, will be the judge.
North Carolina Leads
In Vegetable Growing
North Carolina leads all other
states in the value of garden vege
tables grown for home use.
That is the conclusion reached by
M. E. Gardner, extension horticultu
rist at State College, after studying
figures recently released by the bu
reau of the census, U. S. Department
of Agriculture:
The figures did not cover Irish and
sweet potatoes, but they included the
other principal vegetables grown in
American gardens. Mississippi stood
next to North Carolina, and Tennes
see ranked third.
The value of North Carolina's, crop
of vegetables grown for home use
was placed at $9,631,010. The Miss
issippi and Tennessee valuations
were between eight and nine million
dollars.
In 1935, North Carolina farmers
also raised 95,684 acres of garden
vegetables for sale, not counting Irish
and sweet potatoes, Gardner observed.
This acreage was divided thus:
Beans, 22,009 acres; cabbage, 8,518
acres; sweet com, 9,619 acres; toma
toes, 5,420 acres; watermelons, 20,
240 acres; and other ; vegetables ex
cept potatoes, 29,878 acres.
Gardner pointed out that the in
creased production and consumption
of garden vegetables over the nation
indicator a change in the dietary
habits of the American people.
This is particularly true in North
Carolina, he went on, where the peo
ple are paying more attention to a
balanced diet, and Where farmers are
seeking to live at home by producing
on the farm, as much of their food
requirements as possible. ,
"The greater consumption of garden
vegetables is hot only conducive to
better health, he added, Aut it is also
providing many families with another
welcome source of cash income.
Examination Called v
ForfPostoffice Sub
The .United r $tatea' Civil ' Service
Commission announces an open com
petitive examination for the position
of substitute clerk-village carrier for
filling 'vacancies in the Post .Office at
I Hertford, -North Carolina. '
Applications' for this position must
be .on file "with the Manager, Fourth
U, S. Civil Service District, - Wash
ington, D. C, not later than October
24,-1086.' wP fyi'-nv
ThO examination 'is being held to
fill a vacancy in the Post Office ser-
Competitors ! will W required to
resort for written examination; which
will , be, held ; approximately 15 days
receipt of applications. JFull ; infor
mation - and application t, blanks may
be obtained from , the ' Secretary,
Board of U.'S. Civil Service Exami
ners, Post Office, Hertford,' N. C; ? '
CoiintyJs,AlottedC!
! Another Teacher
; Perquimans County has beei ,, al
lotted ' one,''adaitiona1 'elementary
school teacher by the 'State School
Commission. The ' extra s . teacher is
allotted by reason of the gepgraphi
cal condition of ' the county. It is
necessary, because of this 'condition,
to maintain schools in places where
there is low atten.! nce , "j' '
Superintendent F. T, Johnson will
make an efTort to secure an addition
al teacher for the Perquimans High
School, where another .teacher is
much needed. - '
Tiny Horse Has
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3.. 4- ft'
Tiny mile,' tunallcMi. horse in thu world, wa ehirietaiied at the Texas
Centennial Exposition) ceent1tr The 2S peandi psnjr a chosen mascot for the
Southwestern All Stars in tlteir gam against the- Chicago Bears at the Expo
sition. "King," 2.400 pound) Clydesdale- httetnationat hampion one ef the
biggest horses in America,, acted) as. god a tiler. He i owned ty Thomas E.
Wilson. Chicago packer Ann- Ctmrbs wt&s aastedi "Tiaynrii."' m saewa hold
ins him in the picture-
REVIAL BEGINS AT
BAPTIST CHURCH
SUNDAY MORNING
Rev. H. T. Stevens of
Newport News WiE
Be the Preacher
LASTS ONE WEEK
Special Music Arranged
For Both Services on
Sunday
A series of meetings; will begin on
Sunday morning alt the Hertford
Baptist Church which announces the
pastor.the Rev. D S. Dempsey, it is
hoped will result iu a revival meet
ing and a great ingathering of souls.
The Rev. H. I. Stevens, pastor of
Orcutt Avenue. Baptist Church, New
port News.' Va. wUl be here on Sun
day night for the first service and
will remain through the week, his
last service being; on Sunday morn
ing, October 25. ;;
There will be two services daily
throughout the week, at 7:45 in the
morning and at 7:80 in the evening.
The morning services have been
carefully planned with the school
children in mind.: Plenty of time
will -be given for the children to
reach school on, time.
Special music has been arranged
for both, services on Sunday. The
auartet from the Windsor Baptist
Church will sing at the Sunday even
ing service-
A welcome awaits every one at all
the services
Weekly;Finds Owner ;
i- Lpst JWeekrend Bag
The .owner of the week-end bag
found by'NrH; Stallings on the road
between Hertford and Edenton some
weeks ago has been found. - The bag
was lost. by . Miss Margaret Gilliam
arviso Moyock. ? Miss Jarvis, who
is a daughter;iOf Mr. and Mrs. W, Wj,
Jarvis, fif. Moyock, and a niece of ji.
M. Jarvis, former Hertford resident,
lost .thf bag v while on her way to
GreenvUle io venter E. C T. C' U
was picked up on the road by Ni H.
Stallbtgs, of Belvidere, who left It . In
Roberson's Drug . Store and adver
tised -the? loss i jn ; The Perquimans
VMr. andiflirs. w.rjarvis came
to Hertford ,on! Wednesday and iden
tifiek 'thO bag satisfactorily. They
were naturally very happy, to find the
bag and extremely grateful to
Stallings and those who: helped
irace the owner. . f-
Giant Godfather
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REPORT OF DEAD
HOBO AT YE0P1M
EXCITESOFFICERS
Sheriff and Others Rush
To Scene to Make on
Investigation
IMAGINATION
Indications Were That
Nobody Had Been In
Abandoned Station
It was possible that death resulted
from natural causes, but there was
also a probability that the man re
ported found in the abandoned rail
road station at Yeopim had met with
foul play. Sheriff J. E. Winslow
took along Dr. T. A. Cox, the coro
ner, when he was called to investi
gate the matter.
Deputy Sheriff F. C. Winslow and
others also went along, including the
alert young newspaper reporter, Lu
cius Blanchard.
W. K. Moore, of Yeopim, reported
the matter to Sheriff Winslow around
noon on Tuesday, some children in
the neighborhood having told Mr.
Moore of seeing the dead man in the
railroad station.
It is quite a little drive to Yeopim,
and the men had time to speculate
a good deal as to the case. The
theory was advanced that the dead
man had been a tramp, a hobo who
had probably alighted from the train
at this point and gone into the aban
doned station to sleep. He might
have died suddenly or it was possi
ble he had been sick for some time
before he died in the lonely, out-of-the-way
place.
A death-like quiet reigned over the
little house, ' as officers and men
drove up but there was nothing to
indicate that a man lay stark and
cold in death in the shabby little
old building at the side of the tracks.
Pushing their way through the dense
weeds which grew about the door,
they went In.
. Coming from the bright sunlight
into- the dim lit interior of the build
ing the men peered into, the gloomy
corners in a vain; search for the grue
some sight, they expected,' No dead
man was there. There was nothing
there, except some spiders, which, in
terrupted 4n the weaving of . their
lacy webs to make a curtain for the
broken - windowpane, scurried to .cov
er as . the men . advanced, . and a
mouse 'engaged In storing its .winter
supply of peanuts beneath tne noor,
whkh also made , a hasty retreat
Outside, a cricket chirped cheerfully.
There was nothing to indicate that
a man had been there.
The heavy
Loafers In Hertford
Must Work Or Else
HIT OR MISS
By M. L. W.
It didn't make any difference to
Queen that the little waif was a pig.
It was motherless and alone and
Queen, the big Airdale belonging to
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Best, near Win
fall, is a natural mother.
The squealing, grunting little pig
arrived, with a lot of others, on the
wings of the storm three weeks ago.
All of the litter except two died
from cold and exposure, and to save
these Mrs. Best carried the poor lit
tle creatures up to the house. After
wards their own mother wouldn't
have them back. She disowned her
babies and shed all responsibility for
them. So Mrs. Best had a problem,
which was only half solved when one
of the little pigs died. The other
was placed in the dog house and a
hot flat iron wrapped in rags was
placed near the shivering little body.
Then Queen came home and went
into her house. Queen's babies are
all grown up and out of the way.
This alien waif, by no stretch of the
imagination, could lay any claim to
a relationship to Queen. But the in
stinct of motherhood, which by the
way often has nothing whatever to
do with the physical relationship,
was strong in Queen. Some sixth
sense must have told her that the
little pig needed mothering. She
sniffed the motherless little creature,
sniffed and sniffed, and then lay
down beside him and literally took
him to her heart.
And the little old pig just nestled
right up to the dog and immediately
made himself right at home, making
a desperate effort to extract suste
nance for himself from the body of
his adopted mother.
So the little pig abandoned by its
mother and the dog whose pups are
grown up are living in the dog house
out at the Peter Best farm in a re
lationship which is apparentlv highly
satisfactory to both.
Heaven is not reached at a single
bound,
But we build the ladder by which we
rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted
skies,
And we mount to the summit round
by round.
Selected.
Surprise Party For
Rev. And Mrs. Butler
Rev. A. A. Butler and Mrs. Butler
were given a delightful surprise on
Saturday night when a number of
their friends, members of Whiteville
Grove Baptist Church, of which Mr.
Butler is pastor, called at the home
bringing numerous gifts of all kinds i
of good things in the way of food,
There were hams and chickens and
other good things from the farm, as
well as all kinds of fancy and staple
groceries found at the stores.
District Meeting In
Gatesville Saturday
A number of women from the
Hertford Woman's Club will attend
the annual district meeting of Wom
en's Clubs of the Sixteenth District
at Gatesville on Saturday.
Mrs. W. W. Stinemates, of Eliza
beth City, District President, will
preside and will make an address.
The principal speakers will be Mrs.
Geo. E. Marshall, of Mt. Airy, State
President, and Mrs. John D. Marsh
all, of Wallace.
An interesting program to include
special music has been prepared, the
topic of which is "Education for
Living."
The Sixteenth District is made up
of ten clubs, representing eight
counties, as follows. Elizabeth City,
Camden, Chowan, Moyock, Hertford,
Murfreesboro, Winton, Ahoskie, Man-
teo, Gatesville, and Elisabeth City
Junior.
Luncheon will be served by the
Home Demonstration Clubs of the
Gates county.
coat of dust which covered the floor
was proof that the place had long
been untenanted.'
The dead man had existed only in
the over-active imagination of chil
dren who probably became frighten
ed as they passed the abandoned
house in the late evening as they re
turned from . school, and peeping
through the window they , thought
they saw in the dim shadows a man,
a dead .man. . V"
Will Be Refused Help
When It Is Needed
Later on
PLENTY JOBS
Oakey Threatens to Put
Some Where They
Will Work
Loafers who won't work when
they are offered jobs on the farm
are going to stand a poor show next
winter when they apply for relief, if
the efforts of Recorder's Court Judge
Walter H. Oakey, Jr., are productive
of results.
"A man who won't work in Octo
ber need not expect to get help
later on," said Judge Oakey, in re
ferring to the fact that the farmers
of Perquimans are in need of labor
ers just now in the harvesting of the
crops. Very prompt action is neces
sary to save the crops and the de
mand for cotton pickers, peanut dig
gers and other harvesters is very
great.
Information came to Judge Oakey
a few days ago that the farmers were
having considerable difficulty in in
ducing men and women to work.
Word went out that such as would
not work and who had no visible
means of support were going to be
picked up on vagrancy charges.
That the usual crowd of specta
tors in the court was conspicuous by
their absence on Tuesday morning
would seem to indicate that the
grapevine telegraph had conveyed the
information where it was most need
ed. From the bench Juage Oakey
made the statement that he wished
any farmer who has any difficulty in
getting labor, who offers jobs which
the unemployed will not accept, to
report such refusal to work to him
or to the police officers, promising
that something would be done about
the situation.
"If a list of the names of these
persons who refuse to work is kept,"
said Judge Oakey, "I will see that
the list is turned over to the relief
agencies and they shall not receive
help."
Judge Oakey then called attention
to the fact that there was a shortage
of labor on the farms of Perquimans.
"There are," he said, "a great many
persons being helped who will not
work, and I expect to send some of
these over to Williamston, where
they will have to work."
Handing a paper containing a list
of names to an officer, he said, "Here
is a list I wish you to check on. If
you find any of these men not work
ing, who have not been working for
the past month, I want you to bring
them in here. Bring them in court
and I will send them on the roads."
When Judge Oakey was informed
j that there were men refusing to go
to work allegedly because they were
sick, he said, "All right, but they
must have a doctor's certificate to
that effect."
Funeral Saturday
For Whit Mathews
Funeral services for Whit Math
ews, 75, of Burgess, who died in the
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City
on Thursday afternoon, were held
at the Hertford Methodist Church on
Saturday" afternoon, with the Rev.
D. M. Sharpe, pastor, officiating, and
burial took place in the Mathews
family burying ground.
Mr. Mathews, who was a promi
nent farmer, is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Alpine Mathews, and the follow
ing children: Moody Mathews, Thos.
Mathews and Mrs. Matt Mathews, of
Hertford; Mrs. Preston Dennis, of
Parsonsburg, Md.; Mrs. George Par
sons, of Salisbury, Md.; Mrs. George
Bateman, of Elizabeth City; Wood-
row Mathews, of Maryland; and
James M. Mathews, of Elizabeth
City. Two brothers and three Bis
ters also Burvive as follows: E. D.
Mathews, W. E. Mathews, Mrs. Geo.
Benton and Mrs. Anderson Russell,
all of Perquimans County, and Mrs,
J. B. Williams, of Elizabeth City.
ATTEND FAIR
Miss Gladys Hamrick accompanied
by Mrs. L. W. Anderson and Misses
Blanche Everett and Helene Nixon,
attended the State Fair on Thursday.
Mrs.' Anderson is remaining in Ra
leigh for a few. days!
BIRTH -ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. land Mrs. Clarence Byrum, of
Chapanoke, are receiving ; congratu
lations on the birth of a daughter,
on Wednesday, Oct 7,' 1936. ?
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