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.... . - . A 4 "'til', , .. 111 MANS Wl H A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUEDING PF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTYi J Volume V. Number 16. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, April 22, 1938. $1.25 Pr Year. TIE P M EKLY Judge Thonpson (Juiclily Disposes of Gases Bn April term of Perquimans Court Jurist Makes Fine Im . pression With Court Attendants .ON TIME Dignity, Dispatch, Thor : oughness Character ize Actions Holding: court in Perquimans this week for the first time since his ap- pointment to the Superior Court Bench in January, Hon. C. E. Thomp- Lpon made a fine impression, presiding with that dignity which has always characterized his bearing, and dis- 't l 1 , 1 . 1 i iSft w .. cnargmg me duties 01 nis new unite I , with dispatch and thoroughness. w Opening court promptly on time , j .1 : " nil juuuuay mux mug, uic entile viuu- " inal docket was cleared before the' closing hour on Tuesday, and in addi- , tion a couple of civil matters had been ; disposed of. A true bill charging Benjamin - Thach with manslaughter was brought in by the grand jury on Tuesday, but the matter will not be tried until the November Term of Court. The bill of indictment ' charges Mr. Thach, who is a promi-'- Dent young fanner of Perquimans, v"Jwith killing Bice Miller on May 9, '1987. The charge grew ; out ' uamobile accident - -in which Miller, a son of J. K. Miller," who lives 4on the Hertford-Elizabeth City High , way, was killed, when the car which ' the young high school student was driving was in collision with a car - driven by Mr. Thach. The grand jury at the November Term of Perquimans Superior Court ', failed to And a true bill against Mr. . Thach. The first case tried on Monday , was that of State against Alec Long, ', Negro, charged with the theft of a . hog last December. The defendant, . : who had been convicted in Recorder's .Court and sentenced to 12 months on the roads, appealed to Superior t Court A jury found him guilty and Judge Thompson imposed the same sentence the defendant had received in Recorder's Court. The second case which came up was l' tJthat against Elmer Chalk, charged ,. with non support pf his children, lodge Thompson remanded the case tothe Recorder's Court for trial. I . Floyd Sutton, Chapanoke Negro, , - was convicted of assault with. dead ly weapon and sentenced to the roads for two years. Testimony tended to ' ahow that as a result of an assault which the defendant made on Charles i Gotten, Negro of the same commun '' ity, Costen lost an eye and received a broken arm. M. G. Owens was convicted of non (support of his child, and required to 1 pay the sum of $2.50 per week for , the support of his three-year-old - son who is living with his mother at tthe home of her parents near Eliza- fiwth Qty. : ' Addie Webb, KSewtown JNegro, tried on two charges J possession of. liquor ' for the purpose of sale and possessing ' non-tax paid liquor, was found guilty of the tatter charge' , and sentenced to serve 12 months in Jail,, it being , .stipulated -iHiat.ihs.:jsmi - clean.tiie eoorthpusa and Jail, i, - -Thil case hatf," tOTneS jp tomi !R corder'B Courtvon appeal, , the judg ment ia that oourt being 4 months in jail, sentencer to be suspended up on payment of a fifty-dollar fine and unon rood behavior fo? a year. : ' , In the matter' bf Hudson Butler; charged vwithjs Court directed a verdict of simple as- , sault, judgment to be, suspended upon inivment of the costs.' ' . In the matter of the caveat to the wfll of Dr. T. A. Cox, the will was proven in open, court and admitted u to probate.. 'pfiyfiM -.V the mattet ot W. ' D. ;; Landing, Sr., guardian of W D. Landing, Jr., vs Oliver White; In which the plain' tI2, sued for damages for personal injury of 16,000, by agreement the rlalntift was awarded , . the : sum of f 1X50. - Young tending was injured t summer while riding in the milk ruck of the White Dairy, ' II. T. Gregory, of Eliaabeth City, v ho had been convlcti in Recorder's Court of the c!.i-- ., driving while r tv.e In?.:- of ' intoxicants, HOME LEADER i Miss Gordon as Home Manage ment and Home Furnishing Spe cialist, has won the esteem of club women all over the State. P. T. A. Convention Mrs. V. N. Darden Has Part on Program Two Days Mrs. I. A. Ward, of Hertford, pres ident of the Seventeenth District of the North Carolina Congress of Par ents and Teachers, is in Winston Salem to attend the State Convention. Other Hertford women at the PTA Convention are Mrs. F. T. Johnson, Mrs. V. N. Darden, Mrs. J. W. Zach ery and Mrs. G. R. Tucker. Mrs. Darden, a former district president, is State Publications Chairman, and will have a part in the program on Wednesday and Thursday. The Convention, which is the 19th annual convention of the N. C. Con gress of Parents and Teachers, con vende on Wednesday and lasts through Friday. Mrs. J. Buren Sidbury, of Wil mington, who is completing her sec ond year as state president, presides at all business sessions. Headquar ters are at the Robert E. Lee Hotel. The state enrollment of parents and teachers has passed the 60,000 mark, a figure that tops every southern state. The high spot of the convention will be the banquet on Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock on the Roof Garden of the Robert E. Lee Hotel. Governor Clyde R. Hoey will be the guest of honor and' principal speaker. cnort ..Following isithaiv'repwi-ofths grand-jury at thai Aprii -Term of Perquimans Superior: CoufVttatifc ''wiiiTaasdayiV?::!1 V-HoiwCr.E. Thanuwon. j Judge Jto We, the grand jurors for the term, respectfully make the , following- re- i We 'have visited the office of : the Register of. Deeds and found the office well kept and in good condition. J We4 have visited; the office of the Clerk, of the Superior v Court & and found the office well kept and in good condition with the exception of the floor in bad shape and in need of re pair. We are informed that $ the County Commissioners . are planning to repair the floor at once, -i We have examined the records in , this office and find that W. T. Shannonhouse, Trustee, has failed to file an annual report ; to the court The ' several justices of the peace have each filed a written report as requested by (aw, ' .We have visited the Sheriffs office and found it well kept and in good condition. - : We have v!: lted the jail and found Grend Jury R Am Cleanup Proclbnation ' Xf In observance of National Better Homes Week and for the ad vancement of the appearance and sanitation4 the Town of Hertford, the Town Council has designated Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday, April 25th, 2flth, ?7th, 28th, 29th and 30th as Cleanup Days in the Town of Hertford. Now Therefore, I, Silas M. Whedbee Mayor of the said Town of Hertford, hereby set apart and proclaim the days above mentioned as Cleanup Days, and call upon all residents and property owners of the town to clean up all premises occupied and controlled by them to the end that Hertford be made a cleaner and more presentable Town. And I hereby notify the property owners that during the days above mentioned the Town will have in service an extra truck for the purpose of removing trash and ask all citizens having large amounts of trash to be removed to cooperate with the Town by calling the Town Office and notifying them when the trash is ready to be hauled off. This April 16th, 1938. SILAS M. WHEDBE& Mayor Local Merchants Anxious To Serve In Clean Up Drive Display Necessary Ma terials to Use Dur ing Week Hertford merchants are taking next week's Better Homes campaign seriously, to the extent that the windows of the leading stores will be displaying home improvement items before Monday, when the campaign, which in Perquimans is being observ ed Clean Up Week, gets under way in earnest. For instance, W. M. Morgan, the Furniture Man, who says that to live out in the open is invigorating as well as delightful in summer, is fea- I turing out-door furniture, showing a line of beautiful new gliders and other articles. The Hertford Hardware & Supply Company is putting forward garden necessities, paints and general repair suggestions. J. C. Blanchard & Company is dis playing shoes, work clothes, lines, curtains and covers, as well as paints and cleaning agents. Darden Bros., is promoting com fortable shoes. Roberson's Drug Store is featur ing first aid. Gregory's 6, 10 & 25 Cent Store shows mops, brushes and other clean ing equipment and supplies. R. S. Jordan is displaying his col lection of Frigidaires, electric ranges and electric labor-saving de vices. Louis Winslow is calling attention to his radio repair service. Celebrates 25 Years Living In Hertford Mrs. V. A. Holdren delightfully entertained her host of friends on Friday evening, '.the occasion being the 25th anniversary of her family coming to Hertford. Circle No. 2 of the Hertford Baptist Church, of which she is a member, also met with her at this time. The Circle and her friends presented Mrs. Holdren with many lovely gifts. Mrs. L. B. Sitter son read, the poem, "Anniversaries." There are anniversaries and anni versaries, but to one who is our hostess tonight, ' goes more praise than is in our power to give. t. ' ' ' Congratulations, Mrs. Holdren, we blen;;'the"rihy in whica ydu decided to move to tnis town. -rShflhas beta faithful' fche has been "true "- Always a guiding star in Circle No. 2. For twenty-five years she has served ever, on never , . tiring,- never com plaining from dawn til dawn. She has a cheerful, sonny disposition, Her company is divine ! lust to walk in her presence And the sun , begins to shine. Let us pause' and think - - What these twenty-five years have meant To every good deed in the world To every effort she has bent, She is a grand neighbor, kind to the needy and sick, and to the higher things of life she always tries to . She's never a drawback,' takes her part with a smile, and always a gen erous and cheerful iver to, the last mile. ?J - h c 1 .And so, Jars. Holdren, we wish yr health,' joy, happiness i on ' thr"-- Closing Of School Now Little More Than Week Away Ma4 Terminates Unin terrupted 8-month Term Only a little more than a week re mains for the children of Perquim ans to go to school, the schools closing on May 4, after an uninter rupted term of 8 months. The graduation exercises of Per quimans High School will be held on Wednesday night of May 4, when Governor Clyde R. Hoey will make the address to the class. This is the first time in the history of Perquimans that any governor of the btate has made the address to a graduating class here, and it will be the first public appearance of Cover nor Hoey in Perquimans. The first of the commencement ex ercises of the high school will be held on Sunday night, May 1, when Rev. D. M. Sharpe, pastor of the Hertford Methodist Church, will preach the baccalaureate sermon, This will take place in the auditorium of the school, the services beginning at 8 o'clock. A choir selected from high school students, under the direc tion of Miss Kate M. Blanchard. will sing. No services will be held at any of the Hertford churches at this hour. On Tuesday night the class day exercises will be held. The exercises this year will take the form of a Gypsy play, "The Open Road," all the members of the class taking part. ine vaieaictorian ot this class is Zach Toms White, a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. White, of Hertford. The saluditorian is Miss flizabeth Elliott, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Elliott, of Beech Spring. On Wednesday night the gradua tion exercises will be held, when ap proximately 46 boys and girls will receive their diplomas, with T. S. White, chairman of the Perquimans County Board of Education, making the presentations. From the class will be missing one member, young Clarissa Wins low, who died a short time ago. After nine years of perfect school attendance, Mary Feild, a member of the class of 1938, missed the last few weeks ofL school, undergoing an emergency operation for appendicitis two weeks ago, "" Peggy Sawyer, Bill Madre, Lois Asbell and James S. McNider, Jr., each of whom won a 12.50 cash prise in the preliminary poem contest held on Friday of last week,, will compete for an additional five-dollar prize, which two of the four will win, in the .final contest to be held on April 29th,': ' m Hon. James S. McNider, in order to stimulate the interest of the school children of the county in better read ing, offered early this year twenty five dollars in prises, a five dollar prize to the winner in the primary grades and a five dollar prize to the winner in the high school, in addi tion to the ten dollars given the pre liminary winners of the two elemen tary grades. Elimination contests were held in each grade of each school, and in; the preliminaries held last Friday Peggy Sawyer of the primary department of the Hertford Grammar School, and Bilt Madre of the same department of the Central Grammar School 1 at Winall, were the. winners, while vat Extra Efforts Town and County Assures Gleaner and DISTRICT AGENT MISS PAULINE SMITH Miss Smith is State chairman of Better Homes Week and is taking an active interest in beau tification activities all over the State. Channel In River Likely Be Dredged Congressman Lindsay Warren Asks For Sur vey to Be Made Congressman Lindsey Warren lost no time in acting upon the sugges tion of Postmaster J. E. Morris last week, and there is a possibility that the channel of Perquimans River at Hertford may be dredged out in the near future. Mr. Morris was named chairman of a committee appointed by Direc tors of the Town Criers recently to petition the War Department through Congressman Warren to dredge the channel of the river. The recommen dation was made by J. G. Roberson, chairman of the planning committee. at the last meeting of the Board of Directors of the civic organization. Mr. Morris immediately wrote Mr. Warren, asking what steps to pur sue, and by return mail received a reply in which Mr. Warren stated: "I have today taken this matter up with the Board of Engineers request ing that the Division Engineer cause a survey to be made to ascer tain if the river is up to the proper depth, and open for other purposes. Kindly let the 'Town Criers' know that I will see that this is attended to." What Goes On Here How well do you know your coun ty and its public life? In this issue are several- questions and answers that will serve to better acquaint you with Perquimans -County and the peo ple who, have the most to do with the running of its affairs. Some of the questions are easy ones and some " are facts that you probably never had occasion to use and never will have. Anyway, if you can ans wer 100 per cent, or even 8 of the 12 questions, consider yourself well-informed as to "What Goes On Here." For instance: Do you know which community is the site of the first permanent settlement in North Caro lina, Make a guess and then look on page 7 for the answer. This question is number one. 2. What is the population of Per quimans County T 8. Who signed the first registered deed in North Carolina and to whom was it given T 4. Do you know the total number of acres of land in the county? 6. How many of these acres are cultivated? How many acres are in timber and swamp land? , 6. Can; you name and give the home township of each county com missioner? ; 7. Where is the hisrhest noint of Jand in Perquimans County and what L I Li J! J ' j ' f,-f';TTrigf1' - - - Put Forth In Better Homes vuuiivii) vi t iv- viuuro aim Business Men Endorse Campaign LASTS ONE WEEK Members of Demonstra tion Clubs Busy With Program If cleanliness is next to godliness, Perquimans ought to De right good before the end of this Clean-Up Cam paign which is being talked about so much. Probably no movement ever re ceived more whole-hearted support than the Clean-Up Campaign, which begins next Sunday and lasts through the week. The week will be observed all over the nation as "Better Homes Week," and the idea of better homes as it is being stressed particularly through the home demonstration clubs of the county has caught the imagination of the. people. In Hertford Mayor Whedbee and the town council have given hearty support to the measure, turning over the facilities of the town in connec tion with the Woman's Club, which is jointly sponsoring the matter. Extra carts will be put on to insure the hauling of all trash. The Town Criers, the Rotary Club, and all the business firms of the town, have en dorsed the Clean-Up Campaign, and it is expected that there will follow the cleaning a good deal of painting and dressing up generally. Out in the County the home dem onstration club members, under the leadership of Miss Gladys Hamrick, home agent, who as County Chairman of the Better Homes in America movement is enthusiastically work ing, are visiting the service stations and asking receiving cooperation to clean up all unsightly places about the stations, and they are working along other lines, improving the premises of farm homes. They are also asking for help in removing from the highway unsightly signs which detract from the beauty of the scenery. The figures are not all in, but there is every indication that when the whole story is told about the collec tion of cans, which is in the hands of the colored school children of the county, they will run into the thous ands. Cash prizes have been offered to the child who collects and turns over to the school the largest number of tin cans. Many property owners have not waited for the Clean-Up Campaign to actually open to paint. The Hotel Hertford has been undergoing a thor ough paint job, inside and out and has taken on a very attractive ap pearance. Several homes have beer, painted also. Paint dealers are call ing attention to the quality of their paints and the attractive prizes as an incentive to join in the Clean-Up movement. All Of Perquimans Clubs Represented At District Meeting More than one hundred Perquim ans County club members attended the meeting in Edenton last Thurs day of the 16th District of Federat ed Home Demonstration Clubs. The meeting was held at the Taylor Thea tre, and according to Miss Gladys Hamrick, Perquimans Home Agent, all eleven clubs of the county were represented there. TO PREACH SUNDAY The Rev. W. F. Woodall, of Gates ville, will preach at Whiteville Grove Baptist Church, near Belvidere, on First Sunday afternoon in May, at 3:30 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend to attend the ser-. vice. April 23 Is Deadline For Candidates File Candidates for nomination in the Democratic primary to be held in June must file notice : of each candidacy not later than Saturday, April 25, at o'clock PM. . . .. -1 r i - E!rht) t , .(Co-" - - i on Page Eight) (Lonunuea onf age jwgnt). (V)r, (Continued on Pate Eight) ,v !