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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOfTED TO THE UPBUILDING Of HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
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Volume IVNumber 27. .
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, June 25, 1937.
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Hertford Woman's
Club
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Open Every pay Except
'4'- cciuraay xTom to
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. A The Hertford JnUic library will
' dm on FrldaT of this week.
i olentr of trouble. It Just didnt leak
;). ' The library, which is a project of
- 11 the Hertford Woman'! Club, lo-
ated in the Woman's Club Room of
',. W the Community House. It will be
' ;i!lU'pen every week day, except Satur-
IS day, from 9 until o ocioca.
'J 'V There are more than three hund-
'? -"red volumes on hand at the present
.-i... time, and the State library commis
? ion will loan the library a lot of
. :5 '' hooks for children this summer.
The women who are back of the
-work feel that the books they have
on hand are a small beginning from
which they are anxious to build, and
it is the hope that public spirited
citizens of the town will take an in-
-vf.' r terest in the library and give such
4i ' Aid as they can afford. Donations
- S. ' of books-wiH be gladly received.
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Destroyed By Fire
Fire destroyed the -old Towe home
Jlace afr Chapanoke on Monday after
jioon. . The house, a frame building,
was, owned., by Forest Towe, of
"'Charlottesville, Vs., and, was occup-
, V , Mr. and'Hrat;. PQulncyisH re
r - ideiice. . iilg
jti'- SotnetfatWe was dontftolteiieaf
rJ J-v by. dsaIliugT.ef Mr; anCEwoon
VA f '-Asbeli; whic U wned 't(f ttitCfcate
?V 'Jackaon'but the timely arrival of,
-j I'? help from -the-JElizabeth aty,Pire
'::. '"'.v Department saved this house and
probably outers. . ;
, The fire was, reported to have
oriarinated from a spark from, burn-
- ing trash In the yard of the Towe
f Home. There waa considerable ex
citement in the village, as there was
L some wind and the village was
" -threatened.
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"l Mis3Maywood Pierce
' . Wins Beauty Prize
Miss Maywood Pierce of Hertford,
Vwon' first prise in the bathing beauty
j'- contest which attracted a ? large
i crowd at the' State Theatre on Fri
- day night . , ; : C :
k ' The second prise was won by Hiss
' Freda': Hobbe of Tyner and Miss
Euth Hollowell of Hertford was the
winner of the third prise. , . "
- The prises, which, were donated by
h the following firms: J. C Blanchard
" & Company, Hilda's 3eauty,Shop, W.
i M. Morgan, Walkert," Simon's and
4 One Stop Service Station, consisted
of silk hosiery, a permanent wave,
candy, beach chair, beach attire
J and car service. rv -
, BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
4 Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thach
k of the Yeopim section, Thursday, June
,;17, ft daughter, Marjoria Ann,
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It .' Miss Blanchard at Home
v Hiss Sarah, Ferguson Blanchard,
1 ' whose marriage to Mr. Marcos Ed-
1 ' win Hobbs, of Durham, has been n
nouneed to take place on July 8, and
' tS? nas held. position- fat' the lib.
' at of Duke Unlversitf tat the past
..' - two rears, is at homo with her pa
' ' rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C Blanchard,
' . until after the wedding.
Ccnrztauty ; Houcca Assurpd In
1 . ; ope -Belyidcre Sections
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i;. " -s Buildin Costing Almost $3,C0O Will
, Dci nca July 1; When Completed Another
, TU Be Built
Construction ' of the community
: house at New Kope is to begin on
July finit, accordfej t L .Vf. Ander
son, County "Agent, v-.o, together
with Hiss Gladys . Ilrkk, Home
--nt of Perquimans, hrs l i the
T " -Tt to secure cor" 1 " '
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New Service For
Peiiimans Weekly
. Beginninr with this lasae, The
Perquimans Weekly offers to its
Madera and advertisers a Question
and Answer column on Social Se
curity. !
.-Through the column, thia news
paper will answer inquiries from
Its readers on the Social Security
law. All workers, employers,
housewives, others sre invited to
nse this service. It is not. a legal
service. It is an informational
service. Answers will be authori
tative. The Social Security Board,
through Mr. George N. Adams,
Manager of the Board's office in
the Post Office Building at Rocky
Mount, N. C, has consented, as
a special service to The Perqui
mans Weekly and its readers, to
answer all questions on the Social
Security law submitted to this
paper.
Make your questions brief and
to the point. Because of space lim
itations The Perquimans Weekly
must condense questions and an
swers. Questions will be answer
ed as quickly as possible in the
order received. Address your in
quiries to The Perquimans Week
ly. In keeping with! the Social
Security Board policy names wilt
not be published.
WHAT'S WHAT
ABOUT
SOCIAL SECURITY
As another service to its readers.
The Perquimans Weekly each week
will give authoritative answers to
questional on, the i";:-Sodat ; Security
UriirGimSn N. 'Adams i in Rocky
MountiJN1.(l, tbo,' fecial Security!
Board has consented to pass on the
accuracy of answers to questions on
Social Security, which may be asked
by employers, employees, and others,
through-The Perquimans Weekly
Address inquiries to the Editor. An
swers will be given hero in the order
in which questions are received. This
is an informational service and is not
legal advice or service. In keeping
with Social Security Board policy
names will not be published.
Question: Does a highyschool stu
dent have to get a social security
account number if he geta a job dur
ing the summer vacation!
Answer:' He does, unless he en
gages in one of the few employments
specifically excepted by4'the Social
Security Act itself j.
Question: , Does a wonvsn lose her
old-age benefits rights if she , gets
married and gives np her job?
Answer; She does not.'-The wages
she earned while employed are re
corded' in her individual,, ledger ac
count by the Social Security Board.
This wage record determines, the
amount of the benefits she will re
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Cooling System At
Theatre Repaired
Corrections to the cooling system
of the State Theatre,-which were
rntidiuttiut Mi4v . )n ilia wtuik. hava
been compieUd, and the place is ded""" h? had threatewi J4
lightfully cool throughout.
: Workmen were engaged in this
Work for several days this week and
whatever the trouble wai which fail
ed to make the interior of the build
ing cool enough for comfort has been
corrected. - " si, '
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tain a commodious auditorium,- with
a suitable stage, and will also eon-
tain a kitchen for nse in preparing
meals for cummunity affairs. . ;
- The cost o fthe completed building
will be $2330.40, the major portion
rf vliich sum is to be paid for out of
, A f ands. ' Land-ownen cf the
-litv are contributing ,t .ler
j '--I in the, conctruct: i and
nts ot the cor -innit j have
-y"to tags re ? tba
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HOLLAND HURDLE
IS DISMISSED ON
CHARGEUF RAPE
Judge Oakey Fails to
Find Probable Cause
By Testimony
MANYPRESENT
Curious Spectators Or
dered to Scat From
Court Room
No probable ' cause was found
against tiouana Hurdle, the young
white man of the Hickory Cross sec
tion of Perquimans who had been
held in jail since June 11. when he
was given a hearing in Recorder's
Court on Tuesday upon the charjre
of the capital crime of rape, and the
case was dismissed.
Representing the young man in
court were Whedbee & Whedbee. of
Hertford, and P. W. McMullan. of
Elizabeth City, with Hubert Eason.
of Gatesville. assisting Charles E.
Johnson in the prosecution.
The courtroom, which was packed
to capacity with a crowd of curious
spectators, was ordered cleared of
all except the witnesses in the case.
court officers, relatives of the prin
cipals and the representatives of the
press.
The presecuting witness was Thel
ma Modlin, seventeen-year-old Hobbs
ville High School junior, a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Modlin, of
Gates County.
Obviously nervous, the young girl
spoke clearly and distinctly in an
swer to the questions put by the at
torneys. She testified that she had
known the defendant about three
years: that he had been in the habit
of visiting at her home at intervals
for some time, that before the alleg
ed crime was committed he came
about once a week for some three
weeks; thaf on Sunday, May 80, h,
drove- ud-?,& her-homo at about-lU
O'clock in the morning and asked her;
to so down to the filling station a'
mile from her home and have a Coco ' Mr. Winslow and Mr. Thach. with
Cola; that she told him no, that she Mr. Winslow accusing Thach of tak
was baking pies and couldn't go; that' ing too much' change, whereupon each
later, in about an hour, he returned called the other a vile name, and that
and again asked her to go with him Thach struck at Winslow with his fist,
for a Coco Cola; that she asked her missed and grabbed a chair; that he
mother if she might go and was told
yes, but to come right back; that ha on his, Brown's head. Mr. Brown's
did not stop at the station but took j head was still bandaged and he ap
her farther; that he drove up a woods peared to have been very severely in-
path; that he had previously made
improper proposals to her which she
had rejected; that she tried to turn' good deal of blood, and was conim
the steering wheel from the wood's! ed to his bed for three days. He ex
path but was unable to; that he drove
into the woods and stopped the car;
that he threatened to "draw- a gun"
on her; that she was crying and that
ha told ner she wasn't the first girl
be had done that way or the first
one, who had cried; that he intended
carrying out his purpose. She testi
fied ho locked her in the car, got
out and went to the other side of the ;
car and unlocked the door and got in;
that he told her he would draw a gun
on her and that he reached in the
side pocket of the car and she turn
ed her head away because if he shot
her she didn't want to see it, and
that she didn't know whether he took
out a gun or not. ' She further testi
fied thai he forceably held her and
accomplished his purpose. She said:
this was the first time she had ever
been alone with the .young man.
She testified that she did not tell
her mother until 11 days later; that
her . reason for not telling was bo-
her mother was nervous' and she 1nrt-
ed to upset her.
' Her mother took the stand and
testified that she noticed her daugh
ter did not eat or aleep and that
she kept insisting that aha tell her
what was the trouble, whereupon she
told all, and the arrest of the de
fendant immediately followed.
: Or. T. .W. Blanchard, of HobbsviUe,
testified. to' making an examination,
on June 11, but his testimony failed
to incriminato the defendant I
After all tho State's testimony
was in and the defense had indicated
they did not intend to offer any evi
dence, Judge Oakey called the young
girl back to the stand and asked her
if she did not know, as a matter of
fact, that there is no pocket on the
side of the door of a Plymouth Sedan
suchaa she described was driven by
Holland Hurdle, and also that it was
impossible to be locked, in the car
so one could not get out She said
she tried to get out and couldn't, and
also said there was a pocket in this
particular car.. "
In (?""niwing the' ease Judge Oa
k:y fs i "I am going to depart from
the bl :.I f-ct.e of this court to
say C.t I h-ve nothing but the ut
most pity for bota families in this
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INJURY EXPOSES
GAMBLING DEN
IN LOCAL HOTEL
W. t. Brown Confined to
Bed as! Result of Blow
On Head With Chair
NINE ARRESTED
Harrell Thach Misses
Road Sentence But
Costs Him $90
Those patrons of the gambling
place in the Hotel Hertford, which
witnesses swore in Recorder's Court
on Tuesday they had been in the
habit of frequenting, who happened
to be among those present on the
occasion when W .T. Brown receiv
ed a severe head injury, at the hands
of Harrell Thach. as he caught a
blow from a chair aimed at H. R.
Winslow, were summoned into court
by a bench warrant charging garabl-
j ing, after some half a dozen had
: testified in the case charging Harrell
Thach with assault with a deadlv
' weapon.
j The nine men. who Jir. Brown and
other State's witnesses testified were
j piaying poker, and who had been
I subpoenaed as witnesses in the Thach
case, were W. T. Brown. H. R. Win
j slow. Atwood Lassiter, Raymond
! White, Ellis Miller. Tom Gregory,
Wallace: Umphlett, Roy Chappell and
Harrell Thach.
All nine submitted and all but
I three were fined five dollars each
The three who did not leave but aid
ed Mr. Brown in receiving the at
tention oi a physician, who included
Winslow, Miller and White, were
fined only $2.50 each.
i Harrell lliach was tried tirst. on
' the charge of assault with a deadly
weapon, to-wit, a chair, and the
first witness.-placed upon the stand
' was Mr. Brown. He testified that he,
together with the otner eight, were
in a room ft the Hotel Hertford on
the .night of June U, playing cards:
that a .Contriversey arose between
swung the chair and the blow landed
jurod. He had, he testified, been
knocked out by the blow, had lost a
hibited a doctors bill for J10.50.
He further testified that Thach
had threatened to kill him if he,
Brown, testified to anything which
would send him to the roads.
up there, playing poker." He testi-
stand he said: "We were gambling
When H. R. Winslow took the
fied to practically the same happen
ing's that Brown had testified to.
Asked aoout how the hotel room was
rented, the witness said it was not
rented, that the players chipped out,
explaining that this meant taking a
certain amount out of each pot for
the hotel; that Roy Chappell was
chipping out that night. Asked how
much was taken out for the room
rent during the 20 or 30 minutes hu
testified he played, he said "I rec-
kon half a dollar." He said that he
thought that about ten years ago a
bunch used to rent a room in tho
hotel for the purpose of playing
poker,, but that they do not do so
now, hadn't for the last three or
four years.
At this point a bench warrant was
asked by Prosecutor Charles h
Johnson for Harry Williford, charg
ing him with operating a gambling
place. Mr. Williford plead not guilty
and asked -that his ease be taken up
later. , Ha was represented, when his
com cam to triaL some hours later,
by Silas M. Whedbee and was found
not guilty, there being no evidence
that -Roy Chappell, who was alleged
to have been looking out for the
room rent, had over paid anything
to Mr. Williford, or had agreed to,
Harrell Thach was not placed on
the stand In his own defense in the
aasault,cas6 against him. but allow
ed by the court to make a statement
without being sworn, at the time
sentence; was passed, he denied that
he had threatened Mr. Brown. Thn
defendant had . plead not guilty
through his attorney, C R. Holmes.
?I was disposed to send this boy
to the road," said Judge Oakey. Re
marking that he.-. ws sorry there
were not better weapons - than the
roads for fighting crime, he said that
if e thought it- would help him he
wouldn't hesitate to. send him to the
roads, but that while he thought he
needed improvement he doubted if A'
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Plans Outlined For
"Hertford Council"
Old Age Assistance
Blanks Now Ready
Blanks for malting application
for Old Age Assistance under the
Social Security Act have been re
ceived at the local Welfare Of
fice and Miss Ruth Davenport. Su
perintendent of Public Welfare for
Perquimans, wishes to notify all
those who wish to make applica
tion that they may now do so.
Many have applied to Miss Daven
port' and were told that they would
be notified through The Perqui
mans Weekly when the blanks for
making formal application, as is
required by law, were in hand.
Former Resident
Weds In Richmond
Of interest to the many friends of
the bridegroom, a former Hertford
resident, was the marriage of Miss
Etta Whitehead to Henry Dudley
Nachman. which took place in Rich
mond, Va.. on Monday, June 21, at
the home of the bride's parents, at
11 o'cloc'.: in Uie looming.
The ceremony was performed be
fore an improvised altar of palms
and white flowers, arranged in the
living room of the home, in the pre
sence of about 60 guests. Rev, W.
C. James, pastor of the Grove Ave
nue Baptist Church, of Richmond,
who also married the parents of the
bride, performed the ceremony.
Miss Hazel Moses, of Richmond, at
the harp, played the wedding music,
rendering several appropriate selec
tions before and after the ceremony.
The Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
was used as a processional and the
bride entered the room on the arm
of her father, by whom she was
given in marriage.
The bride wore her mother's wedd
ing gown of white satin, trimmed
with rose point lace from her grand
mother's wedding gown, her flowers
being an arm bouquet of Bride's
roses and valley lilies.
Her only attendant was Miss Ger
trude Dyson, of Richmond, who wore
an old fashioned dress of acqua ma
rine dotted swiss, made in the style
to match the period of the bride's
dress. She also wore a bandeau of
flowers in her hair and carried an
arm bouquet of daisies.
The bridegroom had as his best
man Richmond McDearmon, of Rich
mond. Immediately after the ceremony a
wedding breakfast was served and
the. newly wedded couple left short
ly after for a trip north. Upon their
return they will reside in Richmond.
The bride is the attractive daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard G.
Whitehead, of Richmond. She was
graduated from Westhampton Col
lege for Women and is a popular
member of the young social set in
Richmond.
The bridegroom is the eldest son
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nachman of
Hertford. He was graduated from
Perquinjans High School and attend
ed Duke University for three years,
at the end of which period he took
a position with the First & Mer
chants Bank of Richmond, with which
he is still connected.
Among the out-of-town guests pre
sent at the wedding were the follow:
ing members of the bridegroom's
family: Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nach
man, Miss Ruth Nachman, of Hert
ford; Miss Leah Nachman, of Rich
mond; Mrs. Fred Morrell and her
daughter, Anne, of High Point.
Library At Whiteston Boasts
Over 1500 Volumes On Shelves
Located In Section Where Education In Perquim
ans Got Its Start; Rev. Charles E. Peaslee
Liberal Contributor
Perquimans County has a public
library which boasts already over
1,500 volumes, and a donation of
fifty dollars has recently been made
for the purchase of more books.
. This Is not the new library which
the women of the Hertford Woman's
Club recently organised . and which
opens this week In the Community
House in Hertford. v
It is the Whiteston Public Library,
located on, the grounds , of the Hp
River. Friends Church, In the White
ston Community, in the section where
Objective Will Be To
Make Better Place
To Live In
YE)ARLYDUES $1.00
Organization Is Out
growth of Agitation
In Rotary Club
An organization, not to be a
chamber of commerce, but The Hert
ford Council, perhaps, which organi
zation shall have for its objective
making the Town of Hertford a
better place to live in, and incident
ally to promote progress, is in the
process of evolvement, the plan for
which was outlined at a public meet
ing held in the courthouse on Friday
night of last week.
The movement started when the
Hertford Rotary Club called a public
meeting of the citizens of the town
on Friday night of June 11, for the
purpose of forming a chamber of
commerce. At that meeting there
was some discussion and comment
and the chairman, Silas M. Whed
bee, appointed a committee, compos
ed of A. Y. llcfro... C. A. Dav
enport, Rev. E. T. Jillson, Judge
Walter H. Oakey, Jr., W. T. Elliott,
Simon Rutenberg, and Mrs. Mattie
Lister White, requesting that they
decide on the type of organization
desirable for the welfare and up
building of the community and bring
to a meeting to be held on the fol
lowing Friday night a definite plan
of organization.
Rev. E. T. Jillson was chosen to
presentthe plan and on last Friday
night, when a fairly representative
group met, he made the report of the
committee, which was, after some
discussion and a few questions from
the floor unanimously adopted.
Mr. Jillson stated that the com
mittee had decided that a chamber of
commerce is not desirable or adapt
able for an agricultural community
such as this, pointing out tha, even
if a chamber of commerce, which is
better suited to an industrial com
munity, were desirable, it would be
impossible to secure a paid secre
tary for less than five hundred dol
lars per year, which is too expen
sive a proposition for Hertford at
the present time.
"We are not and never will be an
industrial community," said thfl
spokesman. IHowever," he contin
ued, 'there will always be industry
here, and if the men who are to be
at the head of the organization which
the committee proposes are on tho
alert we will have more industrv
here, of the desirable kind "
It was pointed out that Hertford
is primarily an agricultural commun
ity, existing to serve one purpose,
and that to supply the needs of an
agricultural community, to-wit. Per
quimans County, and that if w are
to make the community a more satis
factory place to live in we must
make it one which better serves the
farmer.
With respect to the proposed or
ganization, the speaker said "We
feel the need, and have felt it for a
long time, of a group of men who
are honestly and sincerely interested
in the community and who are will
ing to do something to see Hert
ord made a better place to live in,
and during the thirteen years that I
have lived here I believe there has
..never been a more opportune time to
improve the town."
It was suggested that an organiza
tion be formed, with the tentative
suggestion that it be called the Hert
ford Council; that at the head of tho
Organization there shall be a com
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education in Perquimans got its
start, some five miles from the lo
cation of the old Belvidere Academy,
the institution begun over a hundred
years ago by the Quakers, or Friends
the seat of learning in the Albemarle
section for many years.
The Whiteston Public Library is
about four years old, though few out
side of the neighborhood are aware
of its existence. Never before has .
one word ever -appeared in print
about the institution. .The people of
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