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U ! V 4 A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OflHERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume IV Number 22.
i Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, May-28, 1937.
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Hertford
Six Hundred Expected
At Sixteenth District
ri Gathering
: AT HIGH SCHOOL
r t Dr. Leon R. Meadows of
' , : Greenville Principal
I I ' Speaker
At least six hundred women are
' expected to come to Hertford on
. next Tuesday, June L according to
Miaa Gladys Hamrick, home demon
stration agent of Perquimans, -when
the annual meeting of the Sixteenth
District of Home Demonstration
Clubs will be held here. Dr. Leon
R. Meadows, President of East Car
olina Teachers College, Greenville,
will be the principal speaker.
For weeks the women of the home
demonstration clubs throughout Per
quimans have been making plans for
- the entertainment of their guests on
this occasion and everything is work
ing into shape.
The meeting will be held in the
Auditorium of the Perquimans High
School, and the first session will
convene at 10 o'clock, with , Mrs.
R. S. Harris, of Pasquotank County,
District President, presiding.
Mayor Silas M Whedbee will make
the address of welcome en the part
of the Town 'of Hertford and Mrs.
. Mi Perry, President of the Per
quimans County Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs, will welcome
the visitors' on the part of the coun
ty. Mrs. Everett Pritchard, of Pas
quounk County, will-make the tb-
- - sponse. There will be a number of
. other prominent: men and women
speakers. There will 'se be special
mi-hv TU -v.. WC Anderson,- Farm
Agent onrotmaiis. --..
Injorder that none .of tne.etnb wc
men will hnw- to absent themselves
' from any period of he meeting, the
luncheon, which, will .-be prepared by
the women of the Perquimans Coun
ty Home Demonstration Clubs, will
be served by the women of the Hert
ford Woman's Club.
Following is the complete pro
gram! v.'..
Sonar. America The Beautiful: CaU
lect of Club Women-'tf America; In
vocation, Rev. D. S. Dempsey; Wel
come Addresses: Perquimans, Mrs.
E. Mv 'Perry;. Hertford, SQas M.
Whedbee, Mayor; Response, - Mrs.
Everett Prichard, Pasquotank Coun
ty: Roll Call bv Counties: Minutoa
Of Ljllt Mee tin or: Annointmnt tt
committees; Greetings t C. F. W.
iifl C.,Mrs. W. W. Stinemates, President
a t 46th. District N C. Fed. Woman's
'1 , Clubs; N. C. F. H. D. C, Mrs. Her-
bert Boneyl President of NC. Fed.
'f' ' Home t Demonstration Clubs; Special
j . Music, L' W. Afiderson, County Agent
Perquimans County; Introduction of
Speaker,. Mrs. M. T. Griffin; Add
;' ress, Dr. Leon R. Meadows, Presi-.-
dent,' East Carolina Teachers College;
' Announcement; Song, Follow The
Weam ; Adjournment for Lunch.
,Afiernooa . Session Song, The
t Homemaker8 Song? Highway Im-
provement in N- C, F. H. Brant,
i ; Highway Landscape Architect ; Coun-
' I ty Reports, Dare, Currituck, Camden,
'? Gates; Special Music, R. S. Monds,
'Hertford; County Reports; Chowan,
Perquimans, Hertford, Pasquotank;
t Report Of Jane S. v.McKimmon Loan
- Fund, Mrs. Dudley Bagley; Report of
' nunittees; Election ; of Officers;
' Farm Equipment Co. Is
v ' Covered Wagon ''I Agent
--Toe Farm Equipment Company of
; jHertferd lias taken over the agency
., 'in this territory for the Covered Wa
i gon Trailer, and one of the late' mo
, ' ; dels is on display in Hertfoni :v
' - The trailer, which is of steel, con
i i struction, is rvejjr attractive in ap
) rsrnce and la equipped with every-
y thing possible in the way of conven-
- ience. t Hertford people have been In
" t te rested in looking over the attrac
' 'tive little house on wheeta 'withts
; i interesting gadget and applianiefc'
t.'N. HlIoW6:i; f ''Piriestoenil.'
Jj General Manager of the :Conpany,
t .who.invhes Inspection of the model
- 'oh hand, says that theie are motltls
f 1 to suit the pocketbook of everybody,
j Traveling m trailers h.s b'-
' amazingly popular,; as-is ev" "
by thettinber of'fciukri Uka t j
i r t ush-rn!-t-?rl,; 'ii v $
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Miss Gladys" iBemriek,4 ese
deaMnstratlset agent et Perqui
mana'Caenty w M eupervimnf
pians fer the- entertainment of
six hundred dnb wosten who
.are expected te attend the an-
nual district meet ing f Kerne d
ntenatratien clnbe . tk be held
het next Tuesday.
District Presideht
-Speaker At Woir.ln's
Club Meet Friday
Mrs. W. W. Steinmates, of Elisa
beth City, District President of the
Woman's Club, will be oresent at the
rmeeting of the Woman's Gub bn
Friday afternoon of .thls week end
will make an address.- ,
The regular, time of the meeting
or tneT otk 'Trrnnrflway mrteraoon,
but due' to the closing exercises of
the schools and so many entertain
ments of various kinds, the meeting
has been postponed until Friday af
ternoon.' The hour of meeting .is 4
o'clock.
All lumbers of the. club are urged
to be present at the meeting.
Milton Jordan Shows
Progress In Hospital
The condition ' of Milton Jordan,
the thirteen-year-old son of Mr, and
Mrs. W. C. (Bill) Jordan, of Bag-
leys Swamp, who is a patient in the
Norfolk General Hospital, is reported
as very satisfactory. .
Young Jordan underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis on Friday
morning. A little thing like that is
only an, incident to Milton, however,
who during his comparatively short
life has had more than one narrow
escape. .
Some four or five years ago, when
the boy was quite a little fellow, he
was very seriously injured by the
irate mother of a brood of little pigs
out at the Jordan farm. The sow at
tacked the boy and but for the time
ly arrival of his father ' the conse
quences would have been serious in
deed. Upon another occasion the boy had
one leg severely gashed by a splin
ter of window glass, necessitating
jurgical attention.
Teachers Elected For
Perquimans Schools
AH of the teachers of Perquimans
High School were re-elected on Wed
nesday with the-excention of Fran
cis Jennings, who waa not an appli
cant and refused to accept the posi
tion as athletic ? coach - and teacher
which he has filled temporarily since
Carl Rogers resigned several weeks
, The teachers in-the ''elementary
schools of the county and town -were
also reelected, subject to the allot
ment of teachers by the State School
Commission. i , : , J ,.-
It 5s " possible ' however ' thai ''one
nemberof the "nevr ' Winfall School
district faculty will he eliminated be
cause of the Uncertainty of the allot
ment of teachers tor that distrltj i;
.'Misa.thHolfwli ;"iryf.ef'pn-.
plls a picnic it the school ,U last
day, Thursday; Several of the,, ioJl
ers and children who will enter school
i 1 - - f."-4lthe''r!c"",'"'too.:.,:;
" i'. f f naiea were p'.yeJ, f pic-
! "a were iw.vd
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MID WEEK HALF
HOLIDAY BEGINS
NEXT THURSDAY
Stores Close at 1 P. M.
During June, July
vAnd Auguust
bankTtoo
Shoppers Urged to Co
operate In Making
Plan Success
Perquimans shoppers will take
notice that vacation time is here and
that, beginning with Thursday of
next week, Hertford merchants will
give their employees a half holiday
each week throughout June, July and
August.
Not only the merchants will close
for the afternoon on Thursday but
the Hertford Banking Company and
Johnson, White and, Co., Insurance,
and T.. S. White, Jr., Insurance,
also join in taking off Thursday
afternoon during the hot months.
Following is a list of all those
business houses which have agreed
to close their doors at 1 o'clock on
Thursday afternoon throughout June,
July and August:
. Hartford Banking Company, Da
ratMMrtriai Jttanehard. H. C. Stokes.
J. C.BleAcIwH;& Company, Inc., D.
Pender GroeJ$&ji Simon's,,
Mrs. Jake White; Gregory's 5, 10
26 Cent Store, Central-Grocery, R. S.
Jordan, Carolina Hardware Company,
Hertford Hardware A Supply Com
pany, W. M. Morgan, Morgan's Mod'
ern Grocery, The Smart Shop, John-
Son, White A Co., Darden Bros,
Rose 5, 10 A 25 Cent Store.
Memorial Day Will Be
Observed On Monday;
' Memorial Dey falls on Sunday
postoffice rules and regulations, the
holiday Willi be observed on Monday, 1
May 3V The Hertford postoffice
will be dosed all day Monday, with
no rurai or city delivery. The stamp
window will, however, be open one
hour, from 11 a. m. to 12.
The Hertford Banking Company
will also observe the national holi
day. Tim Rufus Brinn
Receives Gold Star
The final averages for the aca
demic year revealed that thirty-four
Marion Institute students, among
whom is Tim Rufus Brinn, of Hert
ford will be awarded gold stars for
having .averaged 85 or above with
no grade below 80 in all subjects for
the second ' semester of the school
year 1936-37, Major L. H. Baer,
Dean announced today.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Stanton, at their home in Winfall on 1
Monday, May 24, a daughter. Mother J
and daughter are getting along nice- j
ly. I
Visitors During
With one of the biggest summer I
seasons in the three-county history of I
Manteo and historic Roanoke Island
are looking toward July 4 and" the of
ficial opening of the 850th anniver
sary celebration at Fort Raleigh of
the landing of Sir Walter Raleigh's
first English settlers in America
which will bring hundreds of thou
sands of visitors to the place where
the Nation's history had its begin
ning. .
, ' President , Franklin D. Roosevelt
will lead-the largest , pilgrimage to
Fort Raleigh on August 18, the birth
date of the baby Virginia Dare, first
born of the English, in America,: but
officially the celebration will open
On Sunday morning, July 4, with re
ligious Services in the little log cha
pel at Fort JRaleigh conducted by the
Rt. Rev.. Thomas C. .Darst,- of Wil
mington, ' Episcopal' Dishop 'ofl the
Dioaeae of East Carolina, who dedi
cated' the chapel three yearn ago., ' ;
Paul . Green5t' dietingaished forth
Carolina playwright and : winner of
the coveted Pulitzer prise for; drama
in 12Z : will "be on Roanoke Island
beginning Jane 1 .busy rehearsing the
players .who are to appear in his hew
& .t't pageant: "Th Lost Colony",
wl.di will be p i tasted for the first
t' 3 e-r'y in J- 'y on the sound shore
tt I . -. I " ' h a hi'cre, natural
amphitheatre carved from the same
OWNERS OF DUGS
IN TROUBLE OVER
LAWJIOLATION
Brought In Court For
Not Having Dogs
Inoculated
FOUR TRIED
Warned That Arrests
Would Follow Three
Days Notice
The case against N. N. Trueblood,
of Hertford, charged with failure to
have a ddg inoculated for the pre
vention of rabies after being noti
fied, was dismissed by Judge Walter
H. Oakey, Jr., on Tuesday, after it
was shown that the dog had been
inoculated by an Elizabeth City ve-
tenarian four days before the war
rant was served, but the defendant
was told by the Court that he was
not sure he was not in contempt of
court. "It does seem to the Court",
continued Judge Oakey, "that you
could have cooperated with the offi
cers by simply stating that you had
already complied with the law, in
stead of carrying a chip on your
shoulder and attempting to take up
the time of the court in trying the
case."
There were four such cases in
court on Tuesday charging failure to
comply with the anti-rabies law.
May 15 was the date set for the
closing of the campaign for inocu
lating dogs in Perqeknwm,- since
which time officers have been warn
ing such dog owners as have failed
to comply with the law that if their
dogs were not inoculated within three
days they would be subject to ar
rest. Mr. Trueblood failed to have
his dog inoculated by A. A. Nobles,
the county rabies inspector, but had
the . work done by an Elisabeth City
vetonarian. When officer M. G.
Owens on JH ay 17 ( saw Mr. Trueblood
and informed him that he would be
arrested if he failed to have his dog
vaccinated within three days, Mr.
Trueblood admitted on the stand that
he did not inform the officer of the
true state of affairs but told him to
go ahead and make the arrest. The
law provides that the officer shall ex
amine the dogs to see if they are
wearing the metal tags provided by
the rabies inspector. The officer did
not see Mr. Trueblood's dog.
Mr. Trueblood conducted his own
case in Recorder's Court, cross-examining
both the state's witnesses. If
was only after he took the stand in
his own behalf that he displayed the
certificate and tag from the veter
narian. le stated that his reason
for withholding the information from
the officer was the officer's attitude;
that the officer told him that if he
did not have the dog inoculated he
was going to swear out a warrant.
Ellie Sutton, colored, of 3ethel
Township, was sentenced to the roads
for thirty days upon conviction of
failure to have his dog inoculated
after being warned by an officer.
Sutton was also given a sentence of
(Continued on Page Five)
Big Celebration
low sand dunes the first colony of
Englishmen, women and children
trod three centuries and half ago.
Prof. Fred Koch, also a prominent
figure in the field of dramatics and
hailed as the father of the Little
Theatre movement, will come down
from Chapel JIill to assist in, direct
ing the. pageant-drama. ' More than
130 players, 'many of them profes
sional artiste recently recruited from
the Federal theatre project in New
York,. will take the leading roles.
Beginning July 4 and continuing
through Labor Day, September 6, D.
Bradford Fearing, executive secre
tary of the Roanoke Colony Memorial
Association, has arranged as unique
a series of celebrations as has been
the privilege of North Carolinians to
witness. . Special days have been set
aside for various civic, religious and
patriotic organizations who will part
icipate in the celebration of the 860th
anniversary at Fort Raleigh, For
instance, : July 28 has been set aside
as National Aviation Day during the
celebration when tribute will be paid
to Orville Wright, co-inventor of the
first airplane to fly successfully a
cross the sands o nearby y Kitty
Hawk, no great distance from where
Raleigh's, first colony landed. August
4 will be U: t: C. Day at Fort Ra
leigh with Mrs;; John H. Anderson,
of Raleigh, State regent, in atten--r"
(Continued Page Five) .
Closing Exercises At
P. C. H. S. Wednesday
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SPEAKER
JUDGE 1. M. MEEKINS
Perquimans County was high
ly honored by having Judge
Isaac Meekins as commence
ment speaker at the Perquimans
High -School Wednesday night.
Poppies On Sale In
Hertford Saturday
Saturday, May 29, will be Poppy
Day in Hertford and in thousands
of other cities and towns throughout
the United States. Millions of bright
red DODOies will be worn in Ameri
ca's annual tribute to the World War
dead.
Members of the Unit of the Ameri
can Legion Auxiliary of Edenton will
be on the streets Saturday morn
ing with baskets of the memorial
flowers, offering them in exchange
tor contributions to aid the war s liv
ing victims, the disabled veterans,
their families and the families of the
dead. They will continue working
throughout the day, giving everyone
an opportunity to "honor the dead
and aid the living" by wearing a
poppy.
Preparations for the observance of
Poppy Day in Hertford have been
completed by the Edenton Auxiliary
under the leadership of Mrs. J. W.
"wive, general cuairman. roppies
will be distributed bv several women
White, general chairman
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and girls, all working as unpaid i ,,ve' to teacli obedience to ami. em
volunteers. Monev received fnr thp forcement of its laws: to satafr fm.
Ml l i ... .1
jiuwcrs win oe usea io neip main-
tain the welfare work of the Legion
And Aliviltnrv amnntr HiooKIa imtA
rans and fatherless families during!
the coming year.
"The little red doddv worn above
our hearts Saturday in the trust avm.
bol of our remenbrance for thosjl
who gave their lives in the nation's
service during the World War," said
Mrs. White. "It is their flower. It
grew on the fields where they died
and it was' the only floral tribute on
the bare battle graves where they
were buried. We of the Auxiliary
are hoping that everyone in Hert-
ford will understand the poppy's sig -
nificance and wear one with pride
Saturday."
Baptist Assembly
Convenes June 7th
Announcement is made that the
Chowan Bantist Assembly. whiVh i
held nnuilv t n,nw.n rn
held annually at Chowan College,
win convene on June 7 and continue
through, June 12.
The entire list of the young people
of Hertford who will attend the as
sembly this year is not complete, but I
a aozen of the younger groups will
probably go.
Teachers this year include Dr. Her
sey Davis, who is Professor of New
Testament in the Southern Baptist
Seminary in Louisville, Ky.; Dr. B.
W. Spilman, Field Secretary of the
Southern Baptist Sunday School;
Rev. M. O. Alexander, member of
the North Carolina Baptist State
Board, and Dr. C. G. McDaniel, who
was for 35 years a missionary to
China.
Oscar Creech is Director-in-Chiet
and Rev. D. S. DemDsev. nastor nl
the Hertford Baptist Church, is As-j
sociate director.
The expenses for the week are
moderate and any information as to
the necessary equipment to take will
be furnished by Mr. Dempsey.
Perquimans was well represented
at the assembly last summer.
Mrs. Hathawav Here .
r Mrs. Bv W. HathaWay, of Edenton,
was the week-end guest of Mrs. W.
H. Hardcastle.
Judge Isaac M. Mtekins
Makes Addrega ta
Graduates
48 IN CLASS
Large Audiences PttSr
ent Each Night d
Commencement
Hon. Isaac M. Meetin. )SAbb
beth City, addressed, the UTadsjiltfU
class of Perquimans High. &yMl fA
the presence of a house pagkftd t
capacity on Wednesday nigktk Kailfl.
the closing exercises o iekil
were held, and 48 young pejlMMt lw
ceived their diplomas, prejaft4
T. S. White, chairman of. a jtfj
of Education.
Judge Meekins charmed; k
ers with his usual eloquent QttnV
mg the words of Jeremiaj Hfc jprs
phet, "Set ye up a slan.d.aj4 is tfce
land," the speaker said, yJ
not a command to halt, buA 'e. MaV
mand to march; not a cejajaja &
retreat, but a command to flsMffe
not a cry of defeat, but a. aJsMIt
victory."
Telling his audience kM tfc eas
ting up of standards by the iaitifeB
of the world and by each faesB?isMd
is as timely now as was tise) Utf $t
the old prophet then and tkfc ajMfc
individual must have a staaiajrA ftft
guide his life purposes, that he :
understand people, their
of life, modes of though
of conduct: their envir
their proneness to selfish
tions, must understand ike
phy of the mind, the ranam eC
man action, the real science ee: ,
ernment and mankind itself.
In closing he said:
"And now I leave for tato
eration of each member of she
graduating class, Truth, Lowe, Osart
esy, Frankness and Preparation
Consider them all and thea accept
them. Ifs you keep these five simple
requirements fresh in year asinda,
you will gradually grow iaie good
citizens of the Commonwealth. Anal
good citizens of the Coinmonweatta
are more important than great citi
zens. A great citizenship as desir
able, but a good citizenship is aaaie
pensible. The noblest aim ea the
good citizen are to kindle
"
i lylty for the Republic in taWek we
rAftllv rpnMttanttitiira a.ammmm 4
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I PrinciP'e8 of freedom aad
which our forefathers dtei
ther den!d the tell tirebesB tt
young land and built tbesr
I alon its streams."
1 Commencement pYprriam
Sunday night, whn the Kef. D. S.
Dempsey, pastor of the Hi
Baptist Church, preached, tike
laureate sermon. There
services at any of the esoatf r
town churches and a large amfefniwr
. was present to hear Mr. Demgwey ami
to take part in the service-..
On Tuesday night, when eiatffl y
: exercises were held, the hovmn was
packed and standing room a at
nrmium.
Following is a list of tiue gfejjs
and boys who were graduated tinam
Perquimans High:
Hollowell Nixon, Maude WnisHsay
Hazel Mathews, Thelmai "fx
James Boroe' Blanche Bufflear; OBsatte
i Butler, Helen CofReld, MSittam
Thelma Dail, Waverly D'Qnsft,
nie Foster. Marie Fowtoc
Harrell, William H. Hatdaaaslev -
Hilda Hobbs, William ITillsss.
ence Hurdle, Margaret
die Lane, Mary Lane, Kos
Doris Lewis, Myrtle
Hattie Pearl Nowell,
Hasel Pike. Sybil He
min Smith. Mifr Smiih
Standin, Margaret Tllii llH . Oatf
Turner, Sarah WardH wr'mitr
White, Evelyn White. Virsdiriia,ailan.
AlcesU Whitehead, Rutin
Daphne. Willey, Alcora Wiim0iM-;CB-don
Winslow, Katherine Khn&n,
Joyce Winslow, Maude WmBtmb
Minnie Lee Winslow, Teresa. TOhw
low and Sallie B. Wood.
On Honor Roil M
University Off BK.C
Louise Pavne. nf Hrtffmii.i
montr 348 students makinr tflss i
lastic honor roll last quartaw att I
University of North Carcuiasv
n nuuee tne nonor rou s i
must make an average
(90-96) en all courses.. - 1 ' 1
' - Miss Pavna ia the daaulitaaenta'fciB.
and Mrs. S. E. Payne. '