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Pcea ;PByp-WiiniBUEi of Hertford and perquimans county
: Volume IVi Number 31.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, July 23, 1937.
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Gala Day In Hartford
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County Club Women to
Hold Annual Picnic on
Court House Green
FINE MENU
Hundred Per Cent of
Membership Expected
To Attend
The eleventh of August is to be a
.gala day In Hertford, when visitors
.from all over the County will be pre
sent to atten the annual picnic of
the home demonstration club mem
bers, to be held on the courthouse
- (teen.
Mrs, E. M. Perry, who is president
of the Perquimans County Federation
of Home Demonstration Clubs, is in
charge of the' affair." according to the
3iom - demonstration agent, Miss
Gladys Hamrick. and each club in
the county is expected to be present
one hundred per cent and in addition
to the club members, husbands and
children are expected to come along.
There are around 175 home de
monstration club members, and they
represent each section' in the county.
Last year they held their outing at
the Leigh Farm in Durante Neck
and the affair was a fine success,
Hertford is more centrally located
and it is believed that there will be
an even better attendance this year,
There will be a morning program,
when the principal speaker will be
B. Troy Ferguson. District Farm
Agent, of State College. After the
picnic lunch, which; will be spread on
tables to be provided byfte Town of
Hertford, which also will provide
oima for tne.occaaion, inere
tional program, wlien
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4-HXIub Leader in the SUte,
One of the features of the after
noon will be a singing contest -This
was enjoyed by every one last year.
The members of each dub wBl sing
song and the winner will be given
prise. Those who wish may take
a dip in the river.
The affair is over two weeks off
but already plans are being made by
the women for the lunch, when chick
ens will be slain; good old Perqui
mans County hams prepared, and the
best of home-made cakes will be
served.
Mrs. Skinner. Dies
Suddenly Friday
Mrs. Josephine baker Skinner died
suddenly on Friday morning, July
16, of a heart attack, at her home in
Hertford. : f
Funeral services were conducted at
tin home on Gruob street on Sunday
morning, at 10 o'clock, with the Rev.
D. M. Sharpe, pastor of the Hertford
Methodist Church, of which Mis.
Skinner was a member, officiating,
and burial took place in the family
plot in, Cedarwood Cemetery.
.Pallbearers were her six grand
spns: Skinner , and ' John- Richard
White, Edward tWoxelka and Caleb
Goodwin,' of Edehton; Richard Chalk,
ofvStatesville,' and Fred Chalk, of
Hertford. f-,,,r
Mrs. Skinner, whose seventy
fourth birthday was celebrated on the
Sunday prior to her death, when all
of her children gathered at the home
for a family re-union, was a native
and life-long resident of Perquimans
County, being a daughter of the late
" Rev. William Andrew Baker And Mrs.
SalUe Ann Elliott Baker, In early
girlhood she waa, married to Rich
ard Quinton Skinner, of Hertford,
. who died In 1911 " )'
, She was -a woman of fine Chria-
tian character and .was loved by a
host-of friends. J ,n .
surviving are ?tne louowing cnua-
ten: Mrs.. S. A.' White and Mrs. n.
C Woielka, of denton Mrs. Pearl
S. Banks, of Norfolk, i Va.; Mrs. 0.
Frank Young, ef . Asheville; .Mr.
Owen Morgan, of Raleigh; Mrs. An
nie Chalk, Ura. - A. W. Hefren,
Uiarief T. thinner and unwood skibt
aeiv of ; Hertford. Fifteen i grand-
; children and three great-grand-cnikU
; ten also sumvel'-vi 'JB
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Mrs. Cart. Godwin was a d-sr- '-g
hostess to her bridge club Tl. y
afternoon at her home at Bel&. i.
I' i. J. B. Easnight made- top sec
-i ! i r-;-"t were Mrsv C. E.
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Sixty Perquimans
Farmers Attended
Wenona Field Day
Perquimans farmers turned out
sixty-strong to the Annual Farmers
Field Day held at Blackland Station,
Wenona, on Thursday, with L. W.
Anderson, County Farm Agent.
This was the twelfth annual field
day held at this station, which is one
of experiment stations of the North
Carolina Department of Agriculture,
cooperating with the United States
Department of Agriculture.
There was an interesting program
which included music by a string
band, as well as addresses by such
notables as Hon. W. Kerr Scott,
Commissioner of Agriculture of
North Carolina; Dudley W. Bagley,
Director of Rural Electrification in
North Carolina; D. S. Coltrane, As
sistant to the Commissioner of Ag
riculture and Dr. R. Y. Winters, Di
rector of Agriculture at the North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment
Station..
In the afternoon, after a picnic
lunch, there were contests in which
women as well as men were contes
tants, the women's main contest being
a nail-driving contest.
There were interesting livestock
exhibits and displays of improved
farm machinery and equipment.
The Perquimans people attending
included L. W. Anderson, Joshua Sut
ton, C. E. Sutton, Elsbury Lane, John
T. Lane, L. L. Lane, J. L. Lane, Ar
chie B. White, H. L. Williams, Wil
son Hollowell, Howard Williams, Roy
w.1w u.rh.rt wiiium. rarmii
Wiliamg r. E. S. White, Wm. C.
1, J. M. Copeland, Wayland
Elmer E M p H
n. Elliott. W. C Hurdle. Banks.
wi4f: ftiimn' WwSntnW WoK4
Window, S. P. Mathews, Mrs. S. P.
Mathews, Mrs. W. 0. Hunter, Glynn
Mathews, N. C. Haakett, Edgar Has
kett, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Proctor, Mr.
and Mrs. A. L. Gray, J. O. Hobbs, E.
L. Goodwin, Freeman Long, Wilson
Hobbs, .Wallace Hobbs, Seth W.
Long, $rnest Long, Howard Long, T.
R. Kirby, John Adams, Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Fleetwood, Miss Frances Fleet
wood and two young sons of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Fleetwood, Nixon Hollo-
well, F. T. Evans, John Hollowell,
Thomas Hollowell, Joseph Evans,
Hallett Evans, Llewellyn Ward, Ne
rius Chappell, Hatteraa Ward, Ru
dolph Jordan, Toady Ward, J. T. Ben
ton and Jack Benton.
Six 4-H Oub Girls
Going: To Short Course
Half a dogear members of the Per-
quimans .uniy- -M, uuos, accom
panied by ;Miss Glayds Hamrick,
home demonstration agent, will at
tend the annau -Short Course at
State College; next week.
: The girls -will leave for Raleigh
early Monday morning, in order to
be on hand at the beginning, of the
activities,
Those who will go include Florence
Darden, Wilma Godfrey, Evelyn
Long, Ruth ' Hollowell, Ruth Win-
slow and Marjorie Proctor.
There-will be various courses, in
cluding ' foods, clothing, handicraft
and others.
White Schools Will
Open Sept. 8 Or t
. The schools for; the white 'children
will open this year on the 8th or 9th
of September, according.to.Superin
tendent F. T; Johnson, who says that
this :ia about" :week in advance of
the usual -time fr p opening ' the
schools 'tor Itoquimans. ,tU''.
Mr. -Johnson - further ' announces
that the State. School Commission has
agreed to give us full-time mechan
ic this year to keep the school buss-,
es in shape. - -1
Young: People Have
tairtl"Sunday
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i The Young( People's Department
of tiie Hertford : Methodist' Church
wlll i have charge ; of the J regular
church service, Sunday night, July 25,
at 8 o'clock. Miss Grace KnowIeS is
the leader, of the program, and talks
wilt be made', by Miss Mary Thad
C rrpell, Dan : Sharpe 'Jr and
; -s Evart Newby. - ";
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No York State V Erect j$l,6fl0,000 Amphitheatre at "Nation's Fair of 1939"
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NEW YORK (Speciol). The Statf of New York,
it is disclosed in architectural drawings made public,
. will be represented officially at the New York World's
Fair of 1939 by a $1,600,000 combined marine amphi
theatre and exhibit buildinof many distinctive features
largely designed for the presentation of master stage
spectacles and compelling exhibits by state departments
and 02 counties. '
The accompanying photograph shows how a total of
16,900 spectators can be afforded unobstructed view of an
island stage of magnificent proportions set 100 feet off
shore in an exposition lagoon and to be screened, be
tween acts, by sheets of water blown by compressed air
from the lake and made doubly effective by the projec
tion upon them of light and color. Above and behind the
TROUBLE LIKELY
FOR NOT LISTING
DOGS INXOUNTY
Report Shows 1,400 Are
"Not Yet listed on
Tax Books
2,600 TREATED
About $750 Due County
By Oversight or De
liberate Refusal
There are over 1,400 dogs in Per
quimans county which have not been
listed for taxation and on which, pre
sumably, their owners do not intend
to pay any taxes, though eleven
hundred other dog owners have paid
taxes or have signified that they ex
pect to do so, according to figures
secured from the tax rolls of the
county and from the rabies inspec
tor, representing a matter of probab
ly $750.00 now due. the county. The
figures are based on the assumption
that only 100 of the number not list
ed are females, and allows for the
deduction from the tax of the 50
cents which the dog owner has al
ready paid for vaccination and which
he is allowed credit for when he pays
the County tax.
, It is, of course, possible that many
of those' who have failed to list
their dogs did so through oversight
and. -will yet come forward and list
them.
The rabies inspector, A. A. Nobles,
who has not yet made his formal re
port to the county, says that he has
vaccinated approximately 2,600 dogs
in Perquimans this year, represent
ing an increase over the number vac
cinated last year of about 400 dogs,
The dogs listed for taxation on the
tax books this year number only 1,
144. Of these 1,006 are males and
188 are . females. The tax on male
dogs is $1.00; on females it is $2.00.
The taxes on the dogs listed amounts
to $572.00 after the cost of vaccina
tion is deducted. .,
a There have been about a dosen
trials in Recorder's court of persons
charged with violating . the anti-rabies
law, all but one resulting In con
viction, which carries a minimum fine
of ten dollars or a Jail sentence. It
is probable, that there are, now very
few i dogs in the , county which the
rabies inspector doe not know about
and has not reported.
Those; persons who own dogs and
who have not , listed them are liable
to indictment. . When the list of dog
"ownera who hav hadr their dogrtra-1
ccinated is turned over to the county
commissioners by the rabies inspec
tor it will be checked with the list
on the tax books.
'There has been practically no in
crease in the number of dogs listed
f-r tz "on since the anti-rabies law
v w r "."-" a It tt easy
; . cnjk the1 report
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CountyHomelnmates
Cause A New Problem
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I'act That Dependent People Are In Home Ap
parently Makes Them Ineligible to Qualify
For Old Age Assistance
The fact that all but one of the
inmates of the County Home in Per
quimans would be eligible for old age
assistance under the Social Securi
ty program but for the fact that they
are inmates of a public institution
and that one exception being in such
a mental state that provision may be
made for him in a suitable state in
stitution, may bring about important
changes in the present system of
providing for the county's unfortu
nates. Earl M. Perry, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, on
Monday, requested Miss Ruth Daven
port, Superintendent of Public Wel
fare, to write to the State Depart
ment for information as to whether
or not the county home as such can
be eliminated in Perquimans and the
buildings used for a boarding home.
While no information as yet has
been received as to whether or not
the plan is feasible, it may be that a
plan can be worked out which will
be advantageous to all concerned.
Paper Money Is
Hobby Of
Paper money, which in itself may
appear uninteresting in spite of its
value in the every day affairs of
life, by most of us, however, accept
ed as merely a means to an end, a
convenient medium of exchange, may
mean so much more than this to one
who is on the alert for evidences of
historical truths, revealing obscure
bits of history otherwise unrecorded,
perhaps, and shedding light on hap
penings of by-gone days, such as the
hardships suffered by the Confede
racy in the scarcity of paper during
the Civil War, s well as other things
more necessary still.
This and much more is revealed in
the study of the marvelous collection
of paper money owned by Dr. Julian
Blanchard, who has npent years in
gathering the old bills now in his
possession..
Though paper money was not is
sued by the United States Govern
ment until the year 1862, with the
exception of limited issues connect
ed with the War of 1812 and the
panics following the year 1837, the
states did, iBsue paper money, North
Carolina having issued a greater
variety of paper; money than has
any of the other states, according to
Dr. Blanchard, who is an authority
on the : subject. ., '
iBank throughout the country, k
the early days, issued paper; money.
The oldest bill in the collection issu-"td-cr
a bank war iatuedltf'the Jef
ferson- Eknk -of New-Bern-14-1817.
There are numbers issued by various
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tier of seats shown is a broad promenade 800 feet long
which will afford a view of the whole exposition and
the 280 acres of lake-shore amusement zone.
The insert shows the exhibit pavilion facade and the
forward position of the grand reception hall above which
will be a circular auditorium seating 1000 persons.
Under the amphitheatre, on two floor levels, 70,000
square feet of space is provided for New York State
exhibits.
The New York State Legislature this spring appro
priated $2,200,000 for official participation in the $125,
000,000 exposition. Enactment provides for the building,
for a $250,000 exhibit and for $350,000 maintenance and
operation. Contracts for construction of the dual pur
pose structure, a permanent addition to the site, will be
let soon in public bidding by prequalified bidders.
Under the tentative plan, those
who wished to live at the boarding
home might do so, paying their keep
out of funds provided through the
Social Security Program.
Under the present arrangement
none of the inmates at the Home can
receive old age assistance, one of the
regulations being that no inmate of
an institution is eligible for this as
sistance. To maintain the County
Home is expensive and Chairman
Perry's idea is that the unfortunates
might be as well provided for at much
less expense to the county, if Social
Security aid can be secured.
Under the present arrangement the
keeper of the County Home is allow
ed the use of the farm, is paid a
salary of $400.00 annually and $10.00
per month for the board and main
tenance of each inmate. Board at
the Home last year amounted to $1,
267.66. The County also pays for the
clothing and supplies of the inmates,
as' well as for the physcian's services
and medicine.
Interesting
Dr. Blanchard
Bank of Clarendon, Payetteville, dat
North Carolina banks, one by the
ed 1860, one by the Greensboro Mut
ual Life Insurance & Trust Co., dat
ed 1861, and many others.
The bill which occupies first place
in the neatly arranged and perfectly
protected collection, with both sides
of each bill clearly visible as it lies
between two sheets of especially pre
pared thin paper, is that issued by
the Province of North Carolina, pro
clamation money, issued under
act of 1771, and bearing the signi
ture of John Harvey, of Perquimans,
moderator of the Assembly at the
outbreak of the Revolution.
The scarcity of paper in the South
during the time of the War between
the States is indicated by money is
sued at that time and printed on the
blank side of bills which had pre
viously been printed on the reverse
side, but which had never been issu
ed, paper salvaged and used because
none other was available. One issu
ed by the State of Louisiana at this
period plainly came from Mexico
"2 pesos", it reads on the reverse
side.
-It is an old, old story, that one
told to us over and over again by
our grandparents of the plight of the
South when the -sources of supply of
manufactured goods were cut off
during the War and the people were
forced to get along as best they could
without many 'ef the things to which
they were accustomed. Here the
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COUNTYTAXRATE
WILL REMAIN AT
$1.60 FOR YEAR
No Increase Despite
New School and So
cial Security
NO REVALUATION
More Taxable Property
Placed on Tax Books
This Year
Notwithstanding the fact that a
fifty-thousand - dollar school build
ing has just been completed at Win
fall, and that provision was made
for raising the funds necessary for
carrying out the Social Security
Program in the county, the Board of
County Commissioners have announc
ed that there will be no increase in
the tax rate this year, the old rate
of $1.60 to remain in effect.
The commissioners met on Monday
for the purpose of arranging the bud
get and fixing the tax rate. The
general impression had prevailed
throughout the county that an in
crease of at least ten cents would
have to be made in order to meet
the emergency of providing the
county's share for the old age assis
tance dependent children assistance
and assistance to the blind, and there
was much satisfaction expressed at
the announcement that taxes in Per
quimans were not to be raised at this
time.
The amount of 10 cents was lev
ied for carrying out the Social Se
curity program. It was necessary to
levy only $1.10 to provide for the
debt service, which represents a re
duction of 10 cents over last year, re
sulting from the bonded indebtedness
being reduced last year in the
amount of $17,000.00 and interest.
The amount of 15 cents was levied
for the general county fund; 5 cents
for court and jail; 5 cents for listing
and assessing property; 10 cents for
the school fund and 5 cents for the
poor fund.
Though Perquimans County did not
have a revaluation of property this
year, there is an increase of $200,
000.00 of taxable property on the
tax books this year over last year.
This fact, coupled with the fact that
the bonded indebtedness was cut
down, enabled the commissioners to
keep the tax rate down to its former
I level.
To take care of all of the county's
expenses this year it was necessary
I to raise approximately $98,000, dis
tributed as follows: Debt service,
' which provides that $17,000 will be
I paid on the principal of the debt,
I $65,160; social security, $5,830; gen
j eral county fund, $13,245; school
j fund, $10,000 arid $3,500 for the poor
! fund, to raise which there is listed
! $5,830,665 of taxable property, in
addition to funds derived from fines
I and forfeitures, dog taxes and poll
taxes.
Louisburg College
Day Next Sunday
Organization in the Louisburg Col
lege Forward Movement Program has
now proceeded to the point where in
most instances county committees
and local church groups have been
set up. Within a few days practical
ly all local churches in the entire
North Carolina Methodist Conference
will have selected their respective
groups.
The Forward Movement Program
is a concerted effort on the part of
Louisburg College with the aid and
backing of the North Carolina Con
ference to raise $11,000 for the pur
pose of wiping out its present in
debtedness and making certain nec
essary improvements.
The plan of organization includes
not only general and district group
ings but local county and local
church groups as well. Ministers
and laymen of all types are included
in these units. With all of these set
up, the big day comes on Sunday,
July 25th when throughout the Con
ference in all the churches Louis
burg College Day will be observed.
Several persons in Perquimans
County and surrounding territory
taking part in the Forward Move
ment Program of the College are
Rev. D. M. Sharpe and James Mc
Nider of Hertford; Rev. W. G. Lowe
of Winfall.-' . ' .
MOVE TO NEW HOME
Mr. and Mra.' W...G. Hollowell are
moving into their beautiful nets; resi
dence this week. The house, a seven
room English bungalow,- is a most
attractive: place and is equipped with
all modern conveniences. . - ;
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