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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY.
Volume IV. Number 42. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina; Friday, October 8, 1937.
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DISTRICT DIRECTOR
P..T.AIATION
Elected By Representa
tives Tuesday at Cen
tral High
12 COUNTIES
Supt. F. T. Johnson Re
sponds to Address of,.
Welcome
Mrs. I. A. Ward, of Hertford, was
elected District Director of the Ninth
District of Parent-Teacher Associa
tions at the annual conference helrj
on Tuesday at Central High School;
in Pasquotank when representatives
of this wide awake and progressive;
organization from twelve counties ,
gathered at Central.
Mrs. E. E. Bundy, of Elizabeth
City, was elected vice president, and
Mrs.-Joe Morgan, of Shawboro, see-
retary, while Mrs. Cola Castellow, ot
Windsor, was made treasurer.
P. T. Johnson, superintendent of
education in Perquimans County, re
sponded to the greetings of M. P.
Jennings, superintendent of Pasquo
tank schools, and Mrs. P. F. Walsion,
president of the P. T. A. of Central,
during the opening exercises of the
morning session.- .
Mrs. V. N. Darden, of Hertford,
presided at the Model Parent-Teacher don't know what a bite is until you're ; -meeting
held in the afternoon, when introduced to them. Besides, canni-
the address was , made by u
Gaddy; superintendent of schools of
Kaleigh. " I
Mrs. Ward is the Becond district
director to e chosen from Hertford,
a lllra' V, N. Darden held thiB office
' f.wyeani go, being, v succeeded by
MrsV Raymond. Puson, of New Bern,
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wlpresidedv at the conference on
'.:jxnti&i in the Ninth District
! V.,';i! 'luMteeftie,. Camden, Chowan, Curri-
'.f'lt-. tacvlre uates, merworu, mun
, .-"p .Pasquotank, Perquimans,
UA and Washington. .
Tyrrell,
Woman's Club To
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3 Meet Thursday
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LaSt Gathering BetOrC
District Meeting Is
Held Oct 22
? 1 Captain Salisbury, explorer, hunter
The Hertford .Woman's Club will with movie camera and gun, ad
meet jOB? Thursday of next week, the' venturer among the South Sea sav-
meeting Sto 'i held in tne ciud room
at thfr Contmunity House,' at 3 o'clock
Mrs. t: ttuueruuii, ciuu jjicdi
- dentK is anxious to have a full meet--ing,
-as this is' the last meeting be
fores the District meeting which is
ib be held here on October 22. ,.
S. S. CLASS MEETS
'VT: The
Judson
Memorial Sunday
llk School Class :of the Hertford Baptist
' Church met - on Monday, evening in
? -tiie,ssembly tToom of the church,
. ,.'.with Miss, Margaret Mardre as host-
Twenty members of the class were
The hostess served an ice course at !
the close of . 'the meeting. . .' ""
l'o place l: rn:Gii:;.Aris ceurjTy for
LAZY FZCPLEIVIIO
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Judge; Walter O-key, Supported By Ruling Inti rwxH rt.
; v . Superior Osr Says Vagrants Must; ; J LL. J L2u6.ll
Either Vcz-icruo on Itoads
Lazy loafers had better leave Per
. .quima 3, or else nend their ways,
for, Walter II. C ':ey, Jr whose
itand against vjrncy last fall was
Upheld in Superkr Court in April
by Judge Clawsci Williams, an
nounced from the bench on Tuesday
thr t those who will not work especi
al'" 'those who are offered work by
fa. lens in harvesting the crops t 1
: rerse, are to be brought before l.v i.
Judge Oakey instructed the poce
onicers to pick up the men who re
fused to work, particularly thoba
who lotf around the pool rooms and
the re '-:r-r.ts, and put them In
jail, to t ; :r to the charge of va
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L: .1 f '1, f.!' A-irj a similar an-rv-
t ' - : '3 Oakey, V'C1
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Noted Explorer To
Lecture Here On
TlilCOctll
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Scheduled to Speak at
Three Places During
Brief Stay
Cannibals gleefully dancing around
the fire on which they intend to roast
you they're annoying. Headhunters
eyeing you speculatively as a fine
offering to "Uri-Uri" they're not
exactly soothing to the nerves.
But these were only incidentals to
Captain Edward A. Salisbury, noted
explorer, who will be in Hertford
Thursday, October 14, to lecture at
State Theatre and at Perquimans1
High School and the Winfall school
What bothered Captain Salisbury:
moat, he continued with a chuckle,1
were tne jungie mosquitoes and the;
ticlt8 j hate tne discomforts of the
jungles more than I worry over can-;
nibals or headhunters," said this!
traveler to out-of-the-way places that
wouid gve the average citizen a pro- .
nounce(j case 0f jitters. "I've nearly
been eaten half a dozen times, and Ii
wasn't very far from losing my head ;
just as often, but I always scraped
through. But mosquitoes in the
jungle they're something else again.
You have to carry a burning smudge
pot under your nose to keep millions
of 'em from colonizing every inch on
your face."
"And iunirle ants are worse. Yon
bals don t think much of the white
man as a delicacy. He tastes too
salty, but a black man whether he
happens to be brother, cousin or
enemy tickles the cannibal palate
to a nicety, i ve naa cnieis ten me
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III. jne ooiomon isianus inai uiej u
just eaten a white missionary, ' and
didn't like him a bit." !
Captain Salisbury, former naval1
officer who has been poking here and j
there on savage islands in the Pacific
for the last forty years, has visited
more uncivilized tribes than any liv-
ing man. He has lived among the
Melanesians, the Polynesians, the
Paupans. He's been in Java, Suma
tra, uan, oorneo. ne was tne nrst
white man that many savages in the
1 South Seas and the Western Pacific
had ever seen and that, when the
savages happen to be flesh-eaters is
no joking matter.
e nas ui(led expeditions for
many scientific bodies. Thirteen
scientists from institutions of learn
ing accompanied him on his trip to
the Solomon Islands.
ages and the only white man ever to
live ten months with a headhunter
chieftain in the wildest of the Solo
mons, sums up a phase of his thirty
years' experience among the fiend
tribes of the Pacific. His amazing
story of experiences among these
headhunters and cannibals, will be
told by himself in Hertford on Octo
ber 14.
Attended P. T. A. Meet
. Among the Hertford women who
attended the annual conference of the
Parent-Teachers Association of the
Ninth District held at Central High
School on '..Tuesday were Mrs. H. T.
Broughton Mrs,. y,N. Darden, Mrs
Oscar Felton ani Mrs. I. A. Ward.
CERISE GO TO IVOUii
White appealed to the Superior Court
and when the matter was tried H was
shown that the defendant, . though
he had not worked for a long time
previous to the trial, allegedly be
cause he was physically . unable to
workj had been working "regularly
since the trial in Recorder's Court '
In continuing prayer for judgment;
Judge Williams told . the defendant
that we have chain gangs and that if
he would not work for his family
he would be put to work on the chain
(rang. lie further stated that he
was glad to see the defendant had
cl.ar!i his way of living and gone
ti t , vi y J
1 wis a good deal of local in
t. t ii the case because criticism
I i ! - cf Judge v Oakey's
1 ' ' t had been ex-
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EXPLORER
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CAPTAIN ii)WARi SALISBURY
MAYOR SILAS WHEDBEE SENDS SPECIAL
INVITATION TO DISTINGUISHED GUESTS
TO SPEND A SHORT TIME IN HERTFORD
Stresses Historical Importance of Perquimans
County, and Offers, to Serve Luncheon
On Court House Square
Mayor Silas M. Whedbee, of Hert
ford, lays claim to some historical
I distinction for Perquimans County, in
1 a letter written to R. Bruce Ether
idge, Chairman of the North Caro
I lir j Conservation and Development
Department, this week, in which he
I tenders an invitation to the Gover
nor's Hospitality Committee and their
guests to stop for luncheon in Hert
ford while on the twelve-day tour of
North Carolina sponsored by the De
partment of Conservation and Devel
opment. Hundreds of persons in every sec
tion of the State are cooperating with
the Governor's Hospitality Commit
tee in making arrangements for the
tour on which more than 85 travel
bureau executives, counsellors, news
paper and magazine writers and edi
tors' will be the guests of the com
mittee and the Department of Con
servation and Development. .The
tour starts in Asheville next Sunday,
October 10, and ends in Charlotte the
night of October 22,
Chambers of Commerce, civic clubs, i
ed individuals in all parts of the
S f o f a opd nrnrlr in tr wi th f Vi a rnm m i t-
tee to make this tour an outsUnding
event, realizing that it offers one of
the best opportunities the State has
ever had to get some very effective
advertising.' The 85 or more travel
bureau executives who will . make
his tour map out trips for hundreds
of thousands of tourists ., each year,
while the press representatives write
for a reader audience that runs into
millions; Thousands of . .people who
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laxGSMYGifinsro
Sheriff Orders Delin-
quents Advertised
, Next Week
The Board of County Commission
ers on Mbnday ordered that adver
tisement of land for sale for taxes
by the' , Sheriff be made next week,
Bale to be held on November 8.
i This is approximately the time at
which the sale was made in 1936.
' ff, E. HASSELL' IMPROVES '
W. E. Hassell, who has been cri
tically ill at his home in Chowan
County for several weeks, is Some
what improved, Mr.,
i.assci is - a
Charles John
I -'ver-ivbw of firs."
COMING
Nojted explorer and
writer for the past 35
years, Captain Salisbury
will lecture in Perqui
mans County on Thurs
day, October 14, appear
ing at the State Theatre,
Ferquimans High School
and Winfall school. Cap
tain Salisbury has lived
among men whose rea
soning power was hardly
above that of an animal.
He has smelled the sweet
pungent odor of roasting
human flesh, and his lec
ture in Perquimans will
be both thrilling and edu
cational. never thought of cominj,' to North
Carolina will make trips into the j
State as a result of this tour, while!
hundreds of thousands of others willj
read the stories which will be writ- j
ten about North Carolina by the 26 j
or more newspaper and magazine'
editors and writers who will make
the tour.
The travel tour will stop in somej
66 cities, towns and communities
during the ten days it will spend j
going from Asheville to Elizabeth!
City, but Hertford was not included
among the towns in which' it has'
been published the party will stop.
In his letter of invitation, Mayor
Whedbee said: "Believing that youri
party would be interested to stop in I
the oldest county of the State, the i
spot where historians tell us the first j
land was cleared and cultivated,;
where lived William Drummond, first j
governor of Carolina, as well as oth
ers ' ear!y governors; where is
in
the State, the oldest record of a
land transfer from an Indian to a
man in A1m5rJSa,Avheby CX
tend to you, on behalf of the Town of
"We should," continues the letter,
"like to show your party our recent
ly restored courthouse, possibly the
oldest courthouse in the State, cer
tainly one of the oldest, and the
most attractive in appearance in the
Albemarle. It would be our pleas
ure to serve your party informally
on the courthouse square."
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At Oil Company
Negro's Feet Caught In
Screw Type Seed
Conveyor
Clarence ("Chick") Burnette, Neg
ro worker at the plant of the South
ern Cotton Oil Company in Hertford,
was seriously ; injured on Monday
when both, his feet were caught in a
seed conveyor ' of '. the screw type,
resulting in a fracture of one ankle,
a severe cut in the other and lacera
tions of. both legs.
' Visited Johnson Family
Herbert Harrell and William El
liott, of Edenton, visited at the home
fo Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson
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Injured
won
on Sunday. "
Concealed Weapon
Results In $50 Fine
To Portsmouth Man
Ernest Jackson Ordered
Pay Fine In Recorder
Court Tuesday
For carrying a toncea'ed weajii'!),
Ernest Jackson, who avo his place
of residence as Portsmouth. Va ,
when tried in Recorder's Court o.i
Tuesday, was required to pay a fine
of fifty dollars and his Colt's revol
ver was ordered confiscated.
The man was arrested by State
Highway Patrolman Louis Lane on
Sunday, following investigation by
the Patrolman of an automobile ac
cident. The defendant admitted that
he had the revolver in a holster on
his belt and that he removed the
weapon after alighting from the car
and placed it beneath the driver's
seat. There was evidence that he
had held the gun in his hand when
he made the statement that he didn't
come down here looking for trouble,
following some argument between
the defendant and Wilkes Bateman,
a State's witness. The defendant
took the stand in his own behalf and
admitted carrying the weapon, claim
ing that he did not know it was con
trary to ...w.
The case against M. T. Gregory,
charged with driving an automobile
while under the influence of liquor,
was continued for the second time,
being set for trial on October 19,
when the next session of Recorder's
Court will be held.
Ruth Spivey, a fifteen-year-old
colored girl, plead guilty to the
charge of larceny and prayer for
judgment was continued with recom
mendation to the County Welfare
Superintendent that the defendant
be confined to a reformatory if pos
sible. Morgan's Furniture
Sale Starts Saturday
W. M. Morgan, Hertford's veteran
furniture dealer, announces a big
sale to begin on next Saturday.
In spite of the advance in prices,
Mr. Morgan states that he is selling
at the 1931 and 193G prices and ex-1
pects to give away a whole lot of
flour in prizes during the three weeks
that tha sale will last.
Mr. Morgan has been in the furni
ture business in Hertford for nearly ;
a quarter of a century. j
Mrs. Symons Hostess j
To Chapanoke Club
Mrs. John Symons entertained the
ladies of the Home Demonstration
Club at her home on Tuesd.iy after
noon. The president being absent,
the vice president, Mrs. Quincy, had
charge of the meeting, with Miss
Margaret Bogue acting as secretary.
Miss Hamrick discussed accesso
ries and remodeling.
Mrs. Emmett Stallings, Mrs. Roy
Pierce and Miss Lillian Bright served
delicious refreshments.
Those present were: Mrs. Emmett
Stallings, Mrs. C. P. Quincy, Mrs.
John Symons, Mrs. J. C. Wilson, Mrs.
Elihu Lane, Mrs. G. W. Alexander,
Mrs. Roy Pierce, Mrs. J. P. Elliott,
Mrs. Ackiss Gregory, Mrs. Talmage
Lewis, Misses Grace and Mattie
Ferrell, Lillian Bright, Margaret
Bogue, and Viola Alexander, and
Mrs. John Asbell.
COUNTY AGENT ADVISES PERQUIMANS
FARMERS MAKE WAR ON RATS ON FARMS
L. W. Anderson Says Rat Is Most Costly Animal
To Feed, and Should Be Cleaned Out Before
Storing Corn For Winter
&
Wm. Madre Observes
His 93rd Birthday
William Mardre, Hertford's oldest
citizen and Perquimans County's last
surviving Confederate, said to be
the last Confederate soldier in the
Albemarle, observed his ninety-third
birthday on Thursday, October 7.
Mr. Mardre has been confined to
his bed at his home on Market Street
for several months.
MOVE TO NORFOLK 'C;
The family" - of Julian A. Chappell
moved this, week to Norfolk,' Va. Mr.
Chappell has , been ' in business . in
Norf olk since the first of the, year.
291 LAW OFFENDERS
FACED JUDGE OAKEY
DURING PAST YEAR
Variety of Charges Are
Fiom i roiamty To
Drunken Driving
FINES $2 TO S50
Of Large Number of
Sentences Only Five
Have Appealed
A rather unusual record has been
made by Walter H. Oakey, Jr., judge
of Perquimans County's Recorder's
Court, in the past year, during which
time 291 cases have been tried by
the Recorder, the defendants answer
ing to a great variety of charges
ranging from using profanity in pub
lic places to driving automobiles
while under the influence of liquor,
and including such charges as drunk
and disorderly, affray, simple as
sault, assault with a deadly weapon,
larceny, abandonment, non-support,
reckless driving, driving with im
proper lights or insufficient brakes,
and so on, to say nothing of cases in
which the sale or possesion of liquor
is involved.
Judgment in the various cases
have ranged from a two-dollar fine
to a fine of fifty dollars, with num
erous defendants being sent to the
roads for terms varying in length
from 30 days to a year, and with
numerous other defendants being put
upon probation or given suspended
sentences.
Of the 291 cases tried by Judge
Oakey during the past twelve months,
only five have been appealed to the
Superior Court. Four of the five
appeals have been disposed of, re
sulting in three convictions in the
higher court, one defendant being
found not guilty by a jury of driving
an automobile while under the in
fluence of liquor. The fifth appeal
will be heard in Superior Court in
November.
Club Women Go To
State Fair Oct 13th
Previous Report Stated
Trip Would Be Made
October 12
October 13, instead of October 12,
is the date on which the women of
the home demonstration clubs, ac
companied by Miss Gladys Hamrick.
home demonstration agent, have de
cided to visit the State Fair. A re
port previously published stated that
the trip would be made on the 12th,
since which time the date has been
changed.
VISITORS EXPECTED
Dr. Earl E. Sikes, head of the De
partment of Economics of Dart
mouth College, accompanied by Mrs.
Sikes, is expected to arrive Friday
to visit Mrs. Sikes' mother, Mrs.
Herbert Newby, and her sister, Mrs.
T. J. Nixon, Jr., in Hertford. Dr.
and Mrs. Sikes spent the summer
abroad, visiting a number of Euro
pean countries, including England,
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Hol
land. They landed in New York
last Friday.
This is a good time to eliminate
that animal which it costs most to
feed, the rat, according to County
Agent L. W. Anderson, now that the
farmers have their bams cleaned up,
and to get rid of these pests before
corn is stored in the barns.
The government recommends a
combination of several baits, com
posed of fish, meat and cereal, con
taining red squill powder. This rat
poison' is effective in getting rid of
rats and, while it should be kept
from other' animals and out of reach
of children, the poison is not consid
ered dangerous for human beings or ,
for domestic animals. , '
Those' farmers who are interested 1
In getting rid of rats may leant how
and where to secure this rat poison
by arraying to r"-. Ar-:;stt .