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X WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPB1
JNG OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume V.Number 15.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, April 15, 1938.
$1.25 Per Year.
EEKLY
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:ili21J 111 VII
Ipril Term OF Perquimans
Judge C E. Thompson
Makes First Official
Appearance
mixSTterm
Ten Cases Each listed
On Criminal and Civil
Dockets
Hon. C. E. Thompson, of Elizabeth
City, will make his first official ap
pearance in Hertford on Monday,
when he presides at the April Term
of Perquimans Superior Court.
Judge Thompson, well known and
very popular in Perquimans, where
he has practiced in the courts over a
period of many years, was appointed
Judge of the First Judicial District
by Governor Clyde R. Hoey, to suc
ceed Hon. Walter L. Small, in January-
This is a mixed term, for the trial
of both criminal and civil actions, and
despite the fact that it is the first
term of court since November for the
trial of criminal actions, only ten
state cases appear on the docket,
with a like number appearing on the
civil calendar.
Of the state cases six are appeals
from Recorders Court, four being
transferred from the Recorder's
Court to the Superior Court by
Judge James S. McNider when he was
appointed to the office of Judge of the
Recorder's Court because of the fact
that he had represented the parties
in the lower court, all involving min
or offenses.
The first case appearing on the
criminal calendar ia that - against
M. T. Gregory, convicted la Record
er's Court of driving while drunk, and
sentenced to Jail for a period of three
months, and appealed.
Addie Webb, "Negro woman, con
victed of illegal possession of liquor
in Recorder's Court and sentenced to
six months in jail and' fined $60.00,
is also appealed.
The case of Alec Long, Negro, con
victed of larceny and receiving, is
also up on appeal.
The case against Floyd Sutton,
Negro, charged with assault . with a
deadly weapon, was transferred. The
case against C. D. Burrows, charged
with forgery,. ' was transferred, as
was also' that against Elmer Chalk.
charged with non-support, Adelee
Foster, Negro, charged with., larceny,
and Lester Hurdle, - Negro, charged
with assault with a deadly weapon.'
Tbe ease against Dillard Simpson,
convicted, in Recorder's Court of as
sault with a deadly weapon and sen
traced ta Jail ST days,; was appealed.
, . 'The case against M. G. Owens,
charged with non-support, waa re-
manded front Pasquotank.' . ,'
The civil actions -on the calendar
Ms as follows: ?iXK-?
Wednesday, AprU 2f
R. E. Chappell .-. vs Jordan Nixon
.-.fetal. Y;ii-:.;tU'.
V J. T. Brinn vs Whita & Co Ida.
Sallie J. Kirby vs ; S. P. Jessup,
4 i administrator.
V: C White vs L. P. Charoell,
vt Hbllowell Chevrolet Co. vs. Joseph
' 1 8. Small et al
' "J, K. Miller, Ad'm' vs. Benjamin
' Thach. n '
v T. 0. Lamb vs Hettie Lamb.
'.Louise W. Howapi vsP. F. Reed
. et als. :'f&Zf?i -
t Hobert Hurdle vs Bert Willts et at
Caveaf-to Wilr ..of .TAiiCfc &,
4 .' Minnie Li, Fettori vtf l KStV
- iircnie Lane is mv -m
Arla'; f i. lXrane,; prominent Pr
4 quhjhans County i. farmer, has an
nounced hia candidacy for nomination
Q to the office of county commissioner.
... Mr! Lane, jwho is 88 yean old. is a
native of the county and la a very
' successful farmer of the Ballahack
. community. . .. He is pulllc spirited
"V and civic minded and is interested in
the progress of the eounty.
Jewish Holiday Y''z:
,7t : PesinsOnFn7
T-e" JewlrH Feist of the PassoT
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FIRST TRIP
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JUDGE C E. THOMPSON
Many friends will welcome
Judge C. E. Thompson when he
presides over Perquimans Super
ior Court next week. It is Judge
Thompson's first appearance in
Court since he was appointed to
fulfill the unexpired term of
Judge Walter SmalL
Ban On Fishing Is
Lifted For Two Days
Permission Is Given to
Fish.Easter Sunday
And Monday
Anglers who have suppressed their I
desires for an excursion to their fav-
orite fishing grounds during the cur-1
rent closed season will have the op-,
portunity of indulging in this sport
with the temporary lifting of the
bandurin the atii holiday period J
J. D. Chalk, commissioner, Division of
Game and Inland Fisheries, Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment, has announced.
The lifting of the closed season re
struction will apply to all sections of
North Carolina and to all species of
fish found in inland waters of North
Carolina, beginning Saturday, April
16, at midnight and extending to
Monday, April 18, at midnight. The
privilege applies only to) legal meth-
ods of fishing in the fliland waters.
Commissioner ' Chalk - announced
that the exception this year follows
the custom of the 'past several years
during which the sportsmen .have ex
hibited a whblesome spirit of coop
eration in' the observance of the fish
ing and hunting laws; :y
Fishermen who land, any uns pawn
ed female fish during the period, of
grace are urged to release such fish
carefully: after ' dampening their '
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nanas. ine, caning oi one nsn wnicn crazy, wimui eiz months."
has not spawned, according to the, That afternoon the Gypsy return
commissioner, would result Li the d. "You have something, new here,
destruction of possibly 'several thous- j something in bright colors, like a
ands of eggs, and many mature fish;
in future: years.
if We sincerely hope," said ' Commis
sioner Chalk, "that the sportsmen of
North Carolina will enjoy themselves
during the period of grace. The peo
ple have shown ani increased amount
of interest In our game and fish laws
and the Department has never in its
entire history been 'given such fine
cooperation. -vWe believe this excep
tion will reflect an ven better coop
erative attitude and that the, fisher
men will not , abase this privilege by
taldng unspawried i female fish . and
that they will observe strictly the re
mainder of the ; closed season -and
other, inland fiBhing "regulations."
Easter" Daiice Qh
mr-" j i xtT n J
MOnaay At TVaiKeirS
The Easter dance at Walker's on
Monday night promises to be a very
enjoyable affair, with an - orchestra
which 'local dancers say is the best
appearing here,, yet, furnishing the
music ; Joe Davis and his ten music
r - kers, of . Washington, N. C, are
scheduled to make their first appear
anre on this occasion in Hertford.;
"'a dance is scheduled to begin at
13 o'vlock and to continue until 2.
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3 AT BELVIDERE
of Winston-Salem,
' " of Biseoe, were
" -'r father,- F. C.
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Gypsy Trial Draws
Bis Crowd Tuesday
To Recorder Court
Nomads Give Mrs. T. C.
Lane the Scare of
Her Life
GET MONEY
Sentence Provides Op
portunity to Take to
Highways
The glamour which surrounds the
name of Gypsy probably was respon
sible for the crowd which filled thejSound on Saturday afternoon during
court room on Tuesday morning toija high gale, will be salvaged by its
hear the trial involving three mem-1
bers of the band of these roving lint Hertford, or whether only the ma
folks which have camped in this vi-ichinery will be removed from the
cinity recently, one of whom not only i sunken tug, has not yet been decided
gave Mrs. T. C. Lane, of Hertford, by the Company, according to of-
a most terrible fright, but took f rom
the elderly woman all the money she
had in the house as well as a couple
of new blankets, returning for more
money only to fall into the hands of
the law.
"If a colored woman did a thing
like this we would send her to the
roads," stated Judge James S. Mc
Nider, in sentencing the woman fountf '
guilty of larceny. "If a white person, tog pumped out on Wednesday, pre
did such a thing he wouldn't stop paratory to bringing it with its load
outside the penetentiary," he con- of logs to Herttord.
tinued. "But these people expect us It was the tearing loose of one of
to overlook this sort of thing." , the barges which resulted in the sink-
T,.rlr twxt:j .'A Ii ' . - - ...
--use miHiud, u seems, wasni
inclined to entirely overlook the mat
ter. Even P. G. Sawyer, of Elizabeth
City, who represented the three
Gypsies, told the Court that "The
Gypsy probably overstepped the
bounds of the law."
Judge McNider called attention to
the fact that good roads and automo
biles had drawn people so much
closer together, and stated that the
'fmMfo ' unite. W 4-
piuiotrai iran muse
who would prey upon others.
The Gypsies, two women and a
man all apparently very youthful,
traveling in a good looking automo-1 neer, James Latham, and the cook,
! stopped near the home of Mrs. Everett Holmes, all live in Elizabeth
Lane, on Grubb Street on Thursday City.
morning. Only one of the trio left The first news heard here came
the car. Diana Pmzas, a not un- from a fisherman from Harveys
fn who wore, in-!Neck, immediately opposite Durants
sieaa oi tne colorful and picturesque, Neck where the men went nahnro.
costume often affected by the Gypsy, who that he had 8een the
Ln ! 11 Jm nH,g the d0Or Carolina near the mouth of Perquim
.fini ra- "e Wemd ans River, and that he had looked in
SteDDed lllfllrifV Mm Tana vrtia mm. ' . -. . .. ....
v . r ..Ar
IrrJT V 7' 7 7 lne 'oan
r ah ",u,le5c"," f.re- ne rection where he had seen the
f M M nlnan 8 iandkerchlef' 8hrand it was not there.
tOld the RVTMV- Tho man ho1 nrx.U ,
ed and the Gypsy had learned there'
was no nun In fh. i
After that it was- a Bimnl
to bulldoze Mrs. Lane into turning! Meantime, the crew who had escap
over to her four dollars and ten i ed from 1,16 sunken tuK nad 'aned
cente, all the money she had in the i on the 011181148 Neck side and had
house. It wasn't all she had, insist-' walked 8 mile to the hom of
ed the Gypsy -"I can see it in your ' stallinSB- It was Mr. Stallings who
eves." Sh mm '"m-o I brought them to Hertford. The
hundred and five devils' and a witch
following you day and night, and if
jrou dont get your money, every
cent of it, and put it Wween your
oed and mattress and lie on it, you
will go blind, or else you
, V f . .
will go
table cloth and I've got to have it,"
she said. She insisted , on going up
stairs to look, and un fViAm aha
found two beautiful new blankets
in pretty Dnght colors, and she took
them away, in spite of Mrs. Lane's
protests.
' You have three days in which to
ges mat money, every penny you
have, .and, put it between your bed
and mattress' said the Gypsy be
fore leaving this time. I will be
back ; hewi Monday irfMO o'clock."
Thert; waaBomethinr sinister in ie
admonitiotf; whicH followed, And let
that glass of water stay in that dark
earner." ! that i glass r of . . water,
from which the" Gypsy woman had
drunk she had dropped a strand of
hair plucked from Mrs. Lane's head.
i, - ..' TO leeuiymg ac tne trial, iulv L
said she was so frightened she didn't' most delightful of women, and young
Mrs. Lane, testifying at the trial,
know what to do, scared almost to
death. -; But the said aha-poured that,
glass ox water
out. . nevertheless.
Next day she reported the matter to
Sheriff Wlnslow, who began a search
for the Gypsy ' '
' When Monday morning came' Mrs.
Lane, dreading the return of the
Gypsy, had kef daughter with her
when aha arrived. A-telephone call
brought the Sheriff post haste and
the Woman and her. two companions
were taken into custody and placed
injeJL '
When all the testimony was In for
the prosecution Judge XlcNidef al-
lowed the motion as to to" suit for
. - (C.zi:s;4 oa I.-)
Steamer Carolina
) Lost Saturday In
! Albemarle Sound
High Gale Plays Havoc
' With Major & Loomis
Bargres
i CREWSCAPES
Doubtf ullf Owners Will
Salvage Sunken Tug
Boat
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wueuici ux iiul uie SLemu lug
'Carolina, which sank in Albemarle
owners, Major & Loomis Company,!
,'jpcisls.
The three barges and all the logs
which were being towed by the tug
at the time of the accident which re
sulted in tne loss of the tug, were
saved. fvo oi the barges broke
!oose in the gale. These were lo
oted and were towed to the mill on
Sunday. Later in the week the third
sarge was found. This one was be-
mar oi tne tuir. The atter bits were
torn out of the tug by the wrench,
leaving holes so big that it was im
possible to prevent the tug filling
with water. It sank in half an hour
after this occurred, according to
Tommy Miller, one of the crew.
When word reached Hertford on
Saturday afternoon that the tug had
sunK near tne mouth or the river,
there was fear expressed for the lives
rl - . . . .. . . ...
01 uie memDers oi me crew, wnicn
included two Hertford men, Carl
Perry and Tommy Miller. The skiD-
per, Capt. Earl Davenport, the enjri-
another airectlon and within a very
flhort time he looked again in the di-
tug
t Sarchers J inu both directions,
to Harveys Neck, where nothing was
visible- and to Durants Neck-
searching party en route to Durants
Meek met Mr. Stallings' car
but
were unaware that the boat crew
were in the car and continued on
down to the sound.
Gatesville Students
Banquet In Hertford
A group of very charming visitors
were in Hertford on Monday night.
They were the boys and girls, repre-
i senting the juniors and seniors of the
I uaiesviue nign ocnooi, scnooi
au-
1 thorities
i banquet
and others, who enjoyed a
served by the Hertford,
Woman's Cliib at the Community
House, after which they attended the
show at the State Theatre.
Mrs. K. R. Newbold
Observes Birthday
Mrs. K. Rj, Newbold 'observed her
79th birthday on Tuesday. Many
friends called to congratulate the be
loved woman, and there were many
letters and cards In her mail that
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And old alike are numbered among
ber many friends.
SUNDAY AT BELVIDERE
Mr. and Mnv Ralph White, of
Belvidere, had as their guests on
Sunday Mrs. White' parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E, F. Banks, and their
small grandson, Don Rly, and Miss
Geraldine Farrar, of .Virginia Beach.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
-Mr. and Mrs.' .Mason Sawyer, of
Old Neck, announce the birth of a
on on April 8. Mother and baby
lare getting on nicely. Mrs. Sawyer
waa- formerly Miss Rubjr ! Cart.
' wrijt, of Snow HJ'J, r;
Filling Station Operators
Little Impressed Oith Idea
Of Keeping Open Sundays
A Dream
Mrs. Tommy Miller, of Hert
ford, relates that on Wednesday
night of last week she dreamed
that she was walking and that
she picked up from the ground
her husband's watch. In her
dream she continued to walk and
came abruptly to the shore of a
stream where she saw the steam
tug Carolina. She says that there
appeared to be nobody on the
boat, but that as she watched it
slowly sank below the surface of
the water.
The Carolina did sink in Albe
marle Sound on Saturday after
noon, and Mr. Miller, with the
rest of the crew, escaped in a life
boat.
His watch, which Mrs. Miller
gave him last Christmas, was left
on the tug.
Elizabeth City Host
To District Rotary
Conference May 2-4
Entertainment Includes
Jaunts to Neighbor
ing Towns
FEATURES
Host Club Challenges
Other Rotary Soft
Ball Teams
"Carolina's calling you to Eliza
beth City, is the message sent out
this week to every Rotarian in the
187th District in a folder issued by
the Elizabeth City Rotary Club, host
to the 1938 District Conference on
May 2, 3, 4. Aside from Elizabeth
City, Edenton, Hertford and Manteo,
the District comprises Rotary clubs
in Virginia.
informal get-together party, foUowed
by a dance, the program is ideally
timed for those who may wish to do
a bit of fishing at Oregon Inlet,
where the blues are usually biting
in early May, before or after the
conference
Other entertainment features in
clude visits to historic spots such as
Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island,
where in 1687 Virginia Dare was
born; to the Wright Memorial on Kill
Devil Hill under the shadow of
, which the first successful airplane
flight was made in 1903; to Hertford,
where reposes in the Perquimans
ITLTT l0 '
deed that ever went on record in the
State, and to Edenton, one time seat,
of government in colonial North Car
olina. !
Local entertainment in the form of
bridge luncheons, teas, theatre par-
ties and golf have been provided, the
Elizabeth City Country Club having
been thrown open to all Rotarians '
and Rotarvannes for the duration
, 0f the conference free of charge.
Tnesdav afternoon a boat trin on the'
Pasquotank River has been arranged ;
for the Rotaryannes.
Also the Elizabeth City Rotary
Club has a soft ball team which is
eager to cross bats with any club in
the district.
Entertainment features of the pro
gram have been worked out under
the direction of Dr. J. W. Selig, en
tertainment chairman, in collabora
tion with Mrs. Fred Lowe, ladies' en
tertainment chairman.
Pageant Friday At
Methodist Church
A sacred pageant, "The Seven
SavlnM of Christ on the Cross." -will
be Kiven at the Hertford Methodist
Church on Good Friday night, with
Mrs. B. G. Koonce directing.
Miss Elizabeth Knowles will be the
reader; Rev. D. M. Sharpe, historian;
R. S. Monds, Jr., soloist, with Mrs.
R. M. Riddick, pianist. Others tak
ing part will be Jeannette Feilds,
Lila Budd Stephens, Ruth Wilson)
Florence. Darden, Polly Tucker, Alice
Robersin,'Mary,Thad Chappell, Mary
Wood , ""once, ' Katharine Jessup,
Anna 'j Felton, and Ruth H6llo-
Town Council Grants 30
Day Trial Period as
Experiment
WAOTREST
Gulf Station Only One
To Be Open Next
Sunday
There appears to be a very defin-'
ite sentiment among the service sta
tion operators of Hertford against
keeping their stations open on Sun
day, with one exception. And, al
though the Town Council at their
meeting on Monday night decided to
permit the service stations of the
town to remain open on Sundays for
the next thirty days, at the expira
tion of which time it will be decided
from the sentiment of the people
what regular course to pursue, only
one service station will be open for
business next Sunday, the Gulf Sta
tion operated by Hudson Butler and
Roy Bass.
Mr. Butler appeared before the
Town Council on Monday night, stat
ing that he had been requested to do
so by his employers, the Gulf Refin
ing Company, and requested that he
be allowed to keep his station open
on Sunday.
After considerable discussion of the
matter, it was decided that by allow
ing all stations to sell gas and oil on
Sunday for a thirty-day period the
sentiment of the town could be defin
itely determined, end it was so or
dered. The stations will be requested to be
closed during the church hour in the
day, and to discourage Sunday night
loafing it was decided that all the
stations must close promptly at 7
o'clock in the evening.
While the drug stores of Hertford
have for the past two years been al
lowed to remain open on Sundays,
except during the hours for the
regular church services, there was
enacted about four years ago an ordi
nance prohibiting the sale of gas and
oil on Sundays, practically the only
commodity handled by the service
stations not permitted to be sold.
For, even during the period when
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ed by laws more or less of the blue
. .
1' lt
legal to sell
tobaccoes on Sunday, specificially so
set out in the ordinance which pro
scribed that no "goods, wares, soft
drinks, whether bootled or loose, or
merchandise of any kind shall be
traded or sold in the Town on Sun
day, except in cases of sickness or
death, under a penalty of two dollars
for each offense; provided this sec
tion does not apply to milk or ice
dealers, or newsboys, or drug stores
which confine their Sunday sales to
drugs, tobaccoes, newspapers and
.a'aJ;..1.. A t U 1 .
hotels be permitted to sell tobacco to
their guests."
When the law was repealed with
respect to selling soft drinks, etc.,
some four years ago, the proprietors
of the only two drug stores in the
town were desirous of opening on
Sunday, considering this preferable
to being requested at all hours of the
day on Sunday to open up for special
sales of drugs and other commodities.
With four of the five service sta
tions of the town opposing the sale of
gas and oil on Sunday, it remains to
be seen what will be the outcome of
this effort on the part of the Gulf
people to keep open for business.
Mark Hathaway, manager of the
One Stop, the Shell station, states
that he will not open next Sunday.
Vivian Mathews, of Bill & Viv's
Standard Station, stated that his sta
tion would not be open during the
thirty-day period and that by the ex
piration of the period he would an
nounce definitely what would be done.
Heywood Butler, manager of the
Texaco Station, states that he will
not be open on Sunday.
Joe & Bill's Sinclair Station will
not be open on Sunday, said Bill
I White, one
of the managers, in re-
sponse to a
query from this news-
paper.
MISS FEILD IMPROVING
Miss Mary Feild, the young daugh
ter of Mrs. D. M. Feild, is convales
cing satisfactorily at the ; Norfolk
General Hospital following an opera
tion for appendicitis last Saturday.
The young girl was carried to the
hospital on last v Friday. She will
probably be able to return home on
Saturday or Sunday.
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