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Volume IV. Number 39.
Hertford's Tax Rate
Will Remain At $1.10
Town's Budget For Year
Is Estimated to Be
$53,490.46
AFTERTAXES
Mayor Urges Strictest
Economy In Expen
ditures The tax rate of the Town of Hert
ford remains at $1.10 for the next
year, according to an announcement
made by Mayor S. M. Whedbee, fol
lowing the meeting of the Town
Council on Monday night.
. The annual audit of the books of
'the Town Ofifce has recently been
Completed .and a condensed statement
is being prepared by the auditors for
.publication in this, newspaper in, the
ear future.
C Meantime, the budget lor tne lown
Jor the next year has been set at.l "r.
453 490 46 brought the dog to town on Tuesday.
I Mayor Whedbee, who believes in! This ca8e wa! dismissed,
itayjng within the bounds of the bud- Lillie Forehand, colored woman of
get, placed before the commissioners Newtown, found guilty of the charge
in Monday night the figures showing of .being drunk and disorderly, was
exactly what amount has been paid i given thirty days in jail, sentence to
out in each separate department this be suspended upon payment of the
year and. haw much remains to run court costs and upon good behavior
on for the - next nine months, and for a year.
stressed the poult that there should: Cora Lee Martin and Jack Riddick
be nd expenditures in the immediate : were each charged with assault upon
futuje&wjajch are absolutely necessary! the other, assault with a deadly wea
to be madei I Pn to-wit a lamp. The man was
"I believe", said Mayor Whedbee, ! found not guilty but Cora Lee was
after outlining the situation, "that1 given thirty days in jail, to be sus
if we hold ourselves in check and! pended upon payment of the costs
make no purchases other than those! and good behavior for a year,
which are absolutely necessary, we 1 Lamps appeared to be the favorite
can raise the money for the bond re-1 among the deadly weapons used by
quirementa to at the same time pay i defendants charged with assault of
Jtheae bills, but to do it we have got late. Blanche Woodard, of Winfall,
'L4Mld -out, purchases down during i was brought into court charged with
fe-eriod.'V i -. .. .iMsanttJng Louis Hoffler, with, a lamp.
Mayor Whedbee also brought to Evidence disclosed that Hoffler and
fixe attention of the Board that there Rebecca Littlejohn were fighting,
is due and uncollected considerable i with Hoffler the aggressor,, when
money for last year's poll taxes as , Blanche, who lives next door, stepped
well as' several prior years which in to part the pair. Failing to se
tight tor be collectedv It was decid-j parate them peacebly, she grabbed a
ed that an extra man should be em- lighted lamp and threw it at Hoffler.
ployed to make collection of back! The warrant was amended to
'taxes and that such legal steps as' charge al three with affray after
ATP TlftcefiaarV ShOUld De taKen W
make, collection.
I It was also decided that, in order
to facilitate the collection of taxes
th Town Clerk, W. G. Newby, should
spend 'five days in each month, for
the next four1 or five months, in col-
lectins current taxes, using the day b
when there is extra frelp in th Town
Office. , - " . -
Of (the)193!fe.tax levy, there has
- been collectefteady $8,611.93, ac
cording to Mr. Nwby, who itated
that there la probably two or three
'hundred dollar" which t he can, collect
immediately - , j -
In the matter of taxing boot blacks
it was decided that in "future no tax
I should be imposed.
5 It was orderedthat in future any
! prospeptiv arg user of electric cur
rent shall make a deposit with the
(town inJfdyanco.Qf, .service.
The matter of .throwing grape hulls
on the sidewalks down town was dis
cussed, as two -persons had made j
complaint to the Mayor of the nuis-
i. uirV hut . no stens were taken with
respect to the .matter.
tChas. M.UmphIett
5 r Buried On Tuesday
fHiarles M. UmDhlett.'71. a highly
respected resident - of . ? Perquimans, I
i died at his home in the Bethel com
munity at 8 o'clock on Sunday night,
t following n illness of several weeks.
: 3 Funeral services were conducted at
' Bethlehem Christian Church, of
-' ? which:, jie was a member, pn Tuesday
4 afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, -with the
r i RevTW. C. Henderson, the v pastor,
; officiating, ., assisted by rRev. J. T.
I Byrum, and burial took place in
$ Cedarwood Cemetery , in Hertford.
': Pallbearers were " A. W Hefren, S.
i 1 M. .Long, ,C. . R.' Chappell, , J. ' -W.
? Ward,' Jeorge Dail and Durward
Barber.
Alargecrowd, was in uttendance.
, 1 1 Surviving Ux. Umphlett r are his
t wife,' Mrs, Maggie Smith ' Umphlett;
and ten children, aV follows; Mrs,
Martin Spruill, Mrs. Xeroy Goodwin,
J iliss Virginia Umphlett, Mrs. Clifton
4 Morgan, 1 Mrs. ' Carl Godwin, and
Charles M: Umhle'tt, Jr., 11 of Per
, quimans County: , Mrs. Norwood
Spruill, o Fentress, Va., Melzer Um
phlett,' of Norfolk, Va., , Mrs. i Ernest
' f awyer, of ' Portsmouth, Va., and
f ewey Umphlett, of Weeksville.-
i First: The farmer should seed lib
Aerally. Tin seeding ' results .-in
coarse, steamy hay. - . ,
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A wmfiKLY NEWSPAPER pByOTED TO THE UPBUflJQINQ OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTYi
Hertford,
RECORDER'S
COURT
When Recorder's Court convened
on Tuesday morning there were five
cases on the docket in which the de
fendants Were charged with failure
to vaccinate dogs for the prevention
of rabies after having been given
the notice required by law.
Jerry Turner, of New Hope Town
ship, who was found guilty of not
having his dog vaccinated, was fined
ten dollars.
Will Taylor, colored, of New Hope
Township, charged with failure to
vaccinate a dog, was found guilty and
fined ten dollars.
Eliriont Dillard, colored, also of
New Hope Township, was charged in
the warrant with failure to have his
dog vaccinated, It developed that
Elmont had given the dog to his cou-
uearuig uie teowiuuiiy uj. me mat,
and both the women were discharg
ed and Hoffler was taxed with the
cost of court.
Madison Boone, colored, found guil
ty of trespass and larceny, was given
a road sentence of 6 months, with a
i previous sentence of 6 months order-
ed in effect, the two sentences ,to run
concurrently. Boone was dispatched
at once to the roads, as the truck for
transporting prisoners appeared
shortly after sentence was pronounc
ed.
took . Club Holds -First
Me&tOf Year
The Book Club held its first meet
ing of the year on Thursday after
noon of this week, when Mesdames
I. A. Ward, and Charles Whedbee en
tertained jointly,1 at the home of the
latter.
Mm. C. P. Morris, chairman, pre
sided and the program was in charge
f of Mrs. C. A. Davenport and Mrs.
of Mrs. C. A. Davenport and
J. E. Winslow.
This is the beginning of the new
year for the Book Club, which repre
sents the literary department of the
Hertford Woman's Club and those
who wish to become members of the
Book Club must report to Mrs. Mor-
ris, chairman.
New books will be purchased dur
ing the next month. ,
Mri Emnia;I4: !
;? ? sFuneraljTWiirpday
tMrs. JSmma. L.' Lilly, 66) wife of
A. L. Lilly, died at her home1 in the
Bethel community of thta, county at
1 o'clock Wednesday morning follow
ing a long illness. "
i Funeral services' were conducted at
the Bethlehem Christian - Church, pf
which Mrs. Lilly was a member, on
Thursday afternoon, with f. the Rev.
Wr C. HendeMon,pastor,v ofllciatinfe',
and burial took place in the churchy
yardfe"'?.? ' ' w f 5 ;,'! i
Surviving Mrs.4 Lilly 'ar her hus
band and five daughters, Mrs. Edwjn
Overton, Mrs. William Overton, M?9.
William. Miller, all of Perquimans
County; Mrs.. William Jackson and
Mrsi4. Lena; Jordan," both "-Norfolk,
Virginia,,- , ,:'J-
.V
. ' ! Visited In EdentoSI-. ; (
Mrs. G. T. Hawkins was the guest
of Mrs. M. S. Elliott, iifcEdenton,
on Wednesday and , Thursday of this
week'
Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday,
SOLICIT FUNDS
FUR BUILDING AT
DURANTS NECK
Women Are Working
Hard For Community
House
WPA PROJECT
Much Rough Timber Is
Furnished Free By
Citizens
Eight women were appointed to so
licit money to apply on the building
fund of the new community house to
be erected at Durants Neck at the
meeting of the Durants Neck Home
Demonstration Club held on Wednes
day afternoon.
Work on the house the expense of
buildhig which is to be borne part
ially by -the WPA and partially by the
local residents, is expected to begin
about the first of October,, or as soon
as the labor can be secured. The site
for the-building, which is a part of
the land ' formerly belonging to the
Board of Education, has already been
secured. Logs were cut from the
woods in' Durants Neck, contributed
by the owners, and are being sawed
for the rough timber. A part of the
material and all of the labor will be
furnished by WPA.
The members of the home demon
stration club are working hard to
raise whatever funds they may for
the project, and four teams of two
women each, including Mrs. M. M.
Spivey, Mrs. Grace Jackson, Mrs. J.
H. Gregory, Mrs. Steve Perry, Mrs.
J. A. Sawyer, Mrs. E. M. Perry and
Miss Vida Banks, have been appoint
ed to solicit funds.
Mrs. Clarke Leaves
For Legion Meeting
Mrs. R. T. Clarke left Wednesday
for Richmond, Va., where she will
join her sister, Mrs. T. G. Gray, and
the two women will attend the Na
tional Convention of the American
Legion in New York City. Mrs. Gray
was a nurse over-seas during the
World War.
Mrs. Clarke expects to be in New
York about ten days and shortly af
ter her return home will go to Nor
folk to attend the Annual Meeting of
the Virginia Conference of the M. E.
Church, South. Incidentally, Mrs.
Clarke holds a record which no other
woman in Virginia holds. She has
attended every meeting of this con
ference for 45 years. Her husband,
the late Rev. R. T. Clarke, was a
member of the Virginia Conference.
RE-WIRING DRUG STORE
Preparatory to a general renova
tion and redecorating of Roberson's
Drug Store, electricians are engaged
in re-wiring the store this week,
changing the lighting arrangements
and making preparation for replacing
the old electric refrigerating system
with a new one.
Ancient Haitian Bill Stays In
Barber Family Over Century
' A Haitian bill, issued' during the
reign of the Negro Emperor Jean
Jacques Dessalines, in the year 1804,
and: kept in an old family Bible dur
ing the entire life-time of more than
One member of the family of the own
er, Mrs. E. E. Barber, was recently
brought' to - the-- attention of R. L.
Knowles, son-in-law of Mrs. Barber,
Who Bays he has seen the old bill at
intervals for all of forty years and
that until this week he had never
paid any attention to it, believing it
to be a Confederate bill. Mrs. Bar
ber, who is ' now an " octogenarean,
says the old bill was in her mother's
possession and - she believes it had
been in the ; family for a hundred
years. !...'
. The bill carries the numeral 1 ana
sets, forth that it is issued .by the
Republique D Haiti, and there is a
pictured likeness, presumably of the
leidr.i'elianw J. ' J. Des
salines," beneath. " There is also the
date-1804 and the aerial letter G,
No." 267201; ? ,
: The Haitian Republic j as.it now
exists occupies' the eastern third of
a West B Indian f Island; kaometimea
called by; the sSpanish name ? Santo
Domingo. , The island was discovered
by Columbus in 'January, 1498, 'and
waa named by him Hispanolia,' or
Little ' Spain. v Colonisation - began
there three - yean . afterwards and
SPORTSMEN MUST
SECURE LICENSES
BEFORE JHJNTING
Combination Permit Af
fords Saving to Hunt
ers and Anglers
NOW ON SALE
Squirrel Season In Per
quimans Opens On
October 1
The season for shooting squirrels
opens on October first, and J. H.
Newbold, Perquimans County Game
Warden, is urging every one who ex
pects to hunt to get license on time.
Hunting license for Perquimans
County cost $1.10; state license, $2.10
A combination license for hunting
and fishing in the county is $3.10.
Non-residents of the state who hunt
in Perquimans must pay a license of
$15.25.
Hunting license may be secured
from the Game Warden and also at
the following places in the county:
Hertford Hardware & Supply Co.,
Hertford.
Joe & Bill's Service Station, Hert
ford. Fred Winslow's Service Station,
Winfall.
. R. M. Baker's Store, at Nicanor.
L. J. Winslow's Store, Belvideref
Mr?. Emma D'Orsay's Store, Chap-
anoke.
Steve Perry's Story, New Hope.
R. S. Chappell, at Bethel.
Funeral Held For
John A. Gibson
A. Gibson died at the home
daughter, Mrs. J. B. Corbett,
Durants Neck community, on
lay, September 9. Funeral ser
vices were conducted at Berea Chris
tian Church on Friday afternoon,
with the Rev. W. G. Lowe, pastor of
the Winfall Methodist Church, offi
ciating, and burial was made in the
churchyard.
Mr. Gibson, whose eightieth birth
day was September 13, had been in
ill health for a long time.
Two children survive, Mrs. Trim
Sawyer and Mrs. J. B. Corbett, both,
of the Durants Neck community.
DEMONSTRATION CLUB METS
The Winfall Home Demonstration
Club met Wednesday afternoon at the
home of Miss Mary Elizabeth White
with Miss White and Mrs. E. N. Mil
ler as joint hostesses. Miss Ham
rick gave a very interesting and help
ful talk. The hostesses served ice
cream and cake to the following:
Mesdames, H. C. Proctor, . George
Roach, E. N. Miller, Kenneth Miller,
J. F. Hollowell, Bill Bagley, D. R.
Trueblood, Jim Towe, D. L. Barber,
Effie Miller, J. V. Roach, Misses Ce
lesta Godwin, Gladys Hamrick, one
new member, Mrs. T. J. Nixon, Sr.,
and visiters, Mrs. M. M. Dillman,
Mrs. C..B. White, Mrs. J. L. Nixon,
Mrs. Garland Baker and Mrs. Ear
nest Stallings.
Haiti is said to have preceeded in
development all the other possessions
of Spain in the west.
Negro slaves were substituted for
the Indian population which had been
consumed under the lash of the lust
ful conquerors who had been attract
ed by the rich soil and the gold
mines. The Negro population increas
ed, becoming in time the more nume
rous element in the population. Pi
rates once made the island their
headquarters, but this settlement was
broken up by the Spaniards in 1630.
The pirates escaped and later took
possession of a considerable territory
in Haiti. This colony was ceded to
France at the Treaty of Ryswick in
1697.
The history of the county, the in
habitants of which are a mixed race,
has been one of bloodshed, with many
governments rising but to be over
thrown. , .
Jean Jacques Dessalines was him
self in power but for a brief period,
from 1802 until 1806, when he was
assasinated., ,
This little episode in the history of
Haiti, happened long, long ago. The
old bill is 133 years old. Thomas Jef
ferson - was President of the United
States when it was - issued. ? It would
be interesting to know by what route
the, Haitian -bill, found its way into
this little corner of the country,
Jolty
of hif
in th
rnursffl
JiZjiJLjiJCSVlLji
September 17, 1937.
16th District Women
Meet October 22nd
Local Insurance
Agency In Business
Quarter Of Century
I Charles .Tnhnsnn ir in rprinf nf n
letter from the New York office of
the London Assurance, one of the
firms represented by the local firm
of Johnson, White & Com. calling his
attention to the fact that August of
this year marks the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the appointment of the
local agency to represent the London
in Hertford, and congratulating Mr.
Johnson and his agency upon this
quarter of a century of successful en
deavor. Reads the letter in part: "Accord
ing to our records the firm was ori
ginally Norman, Johnson & White.
It was in October 1812 that your
agency consolidated with . Shannon
house & Blanchard and your company
assumed its present name. Part of
one of the oldest insurance organiza
tions in the world, it is often brought - .
home to us that a company can only
be as good as the agent it secures.
Only through the competence, the
loyalty and the hard work of you on
the business firing line, you who re
present to insurance buyers the sta
bility and security that is what we
have to sell, may any company live
Jong and progper.
"I envy your agency the satisfac
tion it must feel in having over these
years so materially contributed to
the business stability and personal
security of the residents of Hert-
iord. Alter ail it is the services
rendered its community that is
the
proper measures of any firm's suc
cess." Mr. Johnson was Clerk of the Sup
erior Court of Perquimans County
for sixteen years and held the office
for several years after he became the
active head of Johnson, White &
Company twenty-five years ago. He
is also a director of the Hertford
Banking Company and a director of
the Hertford Building & Loan Asso
ciation. Beers-Barnes Circus
In Town Next Week
Hey, kids! heard news that Beers
Barnes Circus is coming to Hertford'
next Thursday, September 23 and will
exhibit afternoon and evening or.
the Town Lot. Something new and
novel in circus presentations is being
offered under the Beers-Barnes Cir
cus top this season. The people who
enjoy good wusic will enjoy the open
ing concert by the Frank P. Miester
Concert Band after which acts and
acts of thrilling circus and trained
animals will amuse the oldest to the
youngest.
Some of the many feature acts are
Aerial Mixons, European Acrobats
given in brief as follows: thrill as
they fly through the air in the trap
eze, the skill of Miss Doris Barnes
and Miss Sadie Beers on the silver
wire will amaze you and for the
kiddies the funny clowns, the junk
Bros, will keep them in laughter. Be
sides these thrilling acts are well
known circus acts, such as Edwin and
Willis, horizontal bar artists, knock
out Kelly and Hit 'em hard Jones,
comedy acrobats and for the lovers
of animals, the management has ob
tained "Chubbie", movie wire-walking
bear from Hollywood and Madam
Tillie's group of wild and trained
animals from Forest Pari, Miami,
Four-H Club Boys
And Girls On Tour
A group of Perquimans girls and
boys of the 4-H Clubs will take a
sight-seeing trip to Washington D.
C, next week. A specially chartered
bus has been arranged for and the
young people will be in charge of
Miss Gladys Hamrick, home demon
stration agent, and L. W. Anderson,
farm agent.
The bus will leave the Agricultural
Building in Hertford at 4:45 on
Monday morning and will return
Tuesday night. It is planned to visit
Mount Vernon and many places of
interest in the City.
The cost of the trip is $7.00, which
includes all expenses except meals on
Monday and those who desire may
take along a box lunch.
There Is still room for others to
join the group already arranged for
and those who wish to go may get
in touch with Mr. Anderson or Miss
Hamrick. They are requested to re
port to either Mr. Anderson or Miss
Hamrick not later than Saturday.
Growers should follow three1 rules
if they wish to produce a food quali
ty hay? , ( Ui. -If
$1.5 Per Year
Many Prominent State
Leaders Expected to
Attend
LUNCHEON
Mrs. W. W. Stinemates
of E. City Is District
President
The annual district conference of
the sixteenth District of the Woman's
Club will be held in Hertford on Fri
day, October 22, with Mrs. W. W.
Stinemates, of Elizabeth City, Dis
trict President, presiding.
Plans for the meeting were dis
cussed at the first meeting of the
fall of the Hertford Woman's Club
which was held in the club room of
the Community House on Tuesday
afternoon.
While the program for the meet-
I ing has not yet been announced, there
will be present several women promi
nent in the club work of the state and
interesting addresses will be made by
state officials of the club. A very
large delegation is expected to at
tend from the entire district.
Two of the home demonstration
clubs of the county, Durants Neck
and Belvidere, will prepare and serve
the luncheon on this occasion, the
proceeds to go to the community
building funds of these respective
j communities.
I Due to the fact that she will be out
I f t L .1 .1 . M I
-ow o mucn auring tne iau ana
winter months that she will be un
able to attend to the duties of the
office, Mrs. R. T. Clarke resigned as
president at the meeting held on
Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. J. G. Rob
erson, former vice-president, suc
ceeds Mrs. Clarke as president and
Mrs. I. A. Ward will serve as vice
president. Mayor Silas M. Whedbee appeared
before the club and asked the coope
ration of the organization in beauti
fying the town, with particular refe
rence to planting shrubs on the
streets. Mrs. Clarke named Miss
Mae Wood Winslow chairman of a
club to work with the Mayor, request
ing Miss Winslow to name the other
members of the committee.
Rocky Mount Office
Made Typing Office
George N. Adams, manager of the
Rocky Mount field office of the Social
Security Board, has announced that
effective September 15 the Rocky
Mount office will assume the full load
of typing all Social Security account
numbers for the twenty counties
served by that office. Mr. Adams
stated further that notice had been
forwarded to the postmasters in 196
post offices located in the territory
served by the local office advising
them that all applications for ac
count numbers should now be for
warded to the Rocky Mount office.
The Rocky Mount office has for
some time been giving over-the-counter
service on applications received
locally, but the new set-up will
greatly enlarge their services and
will facilitate the handling of ac
count numbers for all employers and
employees located in the territory
served by that office.
All applications for Social Security
account numbers from the following
counties should be sent direct to the
Rocky Mount, North Carolina, office:
Edgecombe, Wilson, Nash, Halifax,
Northampton, Pitt, Martin, Bertie,
Hertford, Gates, Chowan Perqui
mans, Pasquotank, Camden, Curri
tuck, Washington, Beaufort, Hyde,
Tyrrell and Dare.
W. M. S. MEETS
The Woman's Missionary Society
of Bethel Baptist Church met Wed
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
J. P. Chesson. The president Mrs.
M. T. Griffin, conducted the devot
ional, with prayer by Mrs. R. S.
Chappell. At the close of the busi
ness session an interesting program
on "The Japanese" was given, with
Mrs. M. N. Dail in charge. The So
ciety will meet with Mrs. M. T. Grif
fin in October.
During the social hour the hostess
served delicious ice cream and cakes
to the following members: Mesdames
M. T. Griffin, L. A. Proctor, R. D.
Creecy, O. C. Long, R. S. Chappell,
J. M. Fleetwood, M. Ni Dail, Mary
Hayman, J. P. Chesson, Miss Gertie
Chappell, and two visitors Mrs.. Ho
ward Gray and Mrs. "Thomas Small.
' ' - .'. " j' "' '"") "' . v in.. '..-j
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Winslow and
their son Hillary, ate spending some
time at Black Mountain. r , ' .