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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume V. Number 29.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, July 22, 1938.
$1.25 Per Year.
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Friends Encamp
Over Week-end At
Camp Perquimans
Six of Eight Quarterly
Meetings Are Rep
resented SEE PAGEANT
"The Young Friend
The World Citizen"
Is Theme
Several ministers from upstate
Friends Churches, and representa
tives of six of the eight quarterly
meetings of North Carolina, were
encamped over the week-end at Camp
Perquimans on the north bank of
the river.
Their outing here at Camp Perqui
mans was chiefly for the purpose of
breaking their trip to Manteo where
they attended the Saturday night
showing of Paul Green's historical
drama, "The Lost Colony," returning
Sunday to meet with Friends at Up
river Friends Church and Piney
Woods.
' In the absence of their .president,
who sailed last week to attend a
Friends Conference in England, Mon
roe Hendricks and Miss Ruth Homey,
of Guilford and Alamance, were in
charge of the conference-outing at
Camp Perquimans.
The theme of this conference, ac
cording to Mr. Hendricks, was, "The
Younfc Friend The World Citizen."
Among the quarterly meetings repre
sented by approximately 30 delegates
were: Deepriver, New Garden, South
ern, Eastern, Yadkin, and Western.
The two not represented were Surrey
and (jontentnfea.
Mrs. Raymond Binford, of Guilford,
wife iof Doctor Binford, of Guilford
CoUeand Bryan Haworth, were
among those at the outing and spoke
Sunday at the services at Upriver
and Piney Woods.
.,- Mrs. BinforaY personally acquaint
ed with several Perquimans County
people, among them Elwood White
and L. C. Wirislow, who were stu
dents! at Guilford, was praticularly
impressed with the natural beauty of
our' $iver country of which Camp
Perquimans, under the supervision
and management of Mrs. Herman
Wiftsjow, is an outstanding example.
En! route by automobile to Hert
ford (Friday several of the people
were! eye witnesses to a dynamite
explosion near Apex, which blew a
truck to bits and blasted a twenty
foot crater in the middle of Highway
64. Their car was travelling direct-
it ly behind the truck, (laden with 20
cases' of dynamite) sand though they
were close enough to observe the
blast, were still far enough away to
'Ai escape injury, or damage to their
' car."
They said the concussion wrecked a
nearby house and was felt as far
, awajj as fourteen miles, in Apex,
C ' where windowpanes were shattered
hv the exnlosfon. Nn nne wnn In far.
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ed,'the truck driver leaving his truck .
before the dynamite went off.
After attending the pageant at
t Jort; Kaieign, and visiting Upriver
and Piney Woods f-Churches Sunday,
1 ' the visitors left Monday morning for
: . theri homes.
Native Of Jerusalem
' Tunday Speaker Here
. V'The Reverend A. G. Fellman, a na
' tive of Jerusalem, spoke at the Hert
, - ford 'Baptist Church on Sunday morn
ing at the 11 o'clock Bervice. At 3
o'clock he spoke at. the Great Hope
r .Baptist Church.
fM.i. Fellman is a Baptist minister
and missionary, and works through
" 'y-' out the, South as a" missionary to the
, American Jews. He; waSrni""$hi
'" Jerusalem and has spent '.the greater
j part .'of 2S years in America;;Hvf::j
Eefore doming -'to Hertford 'f 'Mr. -J
" Fellman had spoven at the Baptist
i , Church in Elizabeth City, and in sev
,' . eral .of the nearby city churches.
At the Hertford Baptist Church on
Sunday morning he discussed Biblical
and Prophetic fulfillment of prophesy
as:in" Palestine -today. " . ' : ' ; . :
Lindsay Warren Stops
For Chat With Friends
, Congressmen Lindeey Warren and
his secretary,' Herbert Bonner,; spent
! a short while In Hertford Monday
afternoon, and after chatting for a
f minutes with Edgar Morris,
C.rr.berry Tucker,' David Cox and J.
IV Terry 1c ft for his home in. Wash
-u .aiy'riretunUngf
-3 Head, where he
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j rr.2t two wests.'
ijfdd IXccident!
James Wilson, Negro, of Greens
boro, suffered a compound fracture of
the left arm Wednesday morning
when an unidentified truck side
swiped the arm as it rested in the
window of the automobile Wilson
was driving.
The injured man, chauffeur for a
Greensboro traveling salesman, was
treated here at the Medical Building.
The truck did not collide with the
salesman's car and did not stop after
striking Wilson's arm, the driver
evidently not knowing that an acci
dent had occurred.
It was reported by Rex Jones, of
Hertford, who brought the injured
man and his employer, S. O. Melvin,
Norfolk carpet salesman, to Hertford
but the truck was travelling at a
rapid rate of speed and in the center
of the highway when Wilson received
his injury.
The State Highway Patrol, notified
by Hertford officers, sent out a radio
call for the truck, described as "a
big red one," and the driver, who will
be wanted now in Hertford on charges
of hit and run and reckless driving.
Mr. Melvin later took his chauffeur
on to a Greensboro hospital. His car
was not damaged and there is a possi
bility that the truck driver did not
know his machine had been involved
in an accident.
County-wide Tour
Postponed July 27
Originally Scheduled to
Be Held On 23rd
Of July
The county-wide tour to Roanoke
Island for farm men and women has
been postponed from Saturday, July
22, to Wednesday, July 27, accord
ing to Miss Gladys Hamrick, county
home demonstration agent, who will
conduct the tour.
At Roanoke Island they plan to at
tend a performance of "The Lost
Colony" and to visit the points of
historical interest there,
A special tour bus will be furnish
ed by M. B. Johnson, of Pendleton.
If more applications for reservations
are made than one bus will accommo
date, a second trip will be made later
in the week.
Among those having already made
reservations, although the list is by
no means complete, are. Mrs. Charlie
Copeland, Mrs. Beecher Stallings,
Miss Mary Morris, Miss Pattie Roger
son, Mrs. P. H. Ownley, Mrs. John
Asbell, John Asbell, Jr., Mrs. S. M.
Winslow, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Roach,
Mrs. G. R. Roach, Miss Mattie Ferrell,
Miss Grace Ferrell, Miss Alice Fer
rell, Mr. and Mrs. Y. L. Madre, Miss
Mary Privott and Miss Reba Madre.
Up River Missionary
Group Begins New Year
The Up River Woman's Missionary
Society met with Mrs. Ernest White
Saturday afternoon. This meeting
was the beginning of another year's
work.
Before the opening of the meeting
Marjorie White recited the poem, "A
Prayer," and Thelma White, "Only!
An Earthen Vessel." They then sang
a duet, "I Should Like to Have Been
With Him."
After the opening song Ola WhiteJ
read a portion of Scripture and pray
er was offered by several. Sobelia
Winslow reviewed the book used the
previous year and discussions follow
ed. At roll call members answered
to their names with suggestions for
improving our Society. Among the
suggestions were: to increase mem
bership; to give; work and pray; to
read in order to acquaint, ourselves
with the needs of the world; to feel a
personal' responsibility;, to attract!
young people; to 'have V interesting
programsr to be faithful in iattend
a,nce' at meetings; to keep mite boxes,
and to advertise good points .61 the
Society, i" ' ,.
Mary J. . White gave a poem, "It
Ought to be 1 Good, I Live Here."
Pearl White read -"A Missionary
Stety." " The devotional leader closed
the meeting with prayer. "
. Delicious refreshments .were served
by the hwtess;7
Those present were i Elizabeth
White, Mary J. White, Ola White,
Pearl White, Sobelia Winslow, Martha
E. Winslow, Mary S. Winslow, Eunice
Winslow, Marjr White Winslow and
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, ' , BIKlHjANNOUNCEMEJJT . .
;Born "to 'Mriind 'Mrsf-Y. ,Lv Brown
on iond?y, June 27,'A Son, Robert, at
their l.'r.;a in Spartanburg, -.8. C.
tlrs. Erown was formerly Miss Haiel
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Supervisors Busy
Checking On Aerial
Surveys Of County
About 80 Large Maps
Record Perquimans
Farms
ACCURATE
Twelve Flights Neces
sary to Photograph
County
Supervisors are busily checking
their findings with the aerial survey
map-photographs which have been
received in the office of the County
Farm agent.
The ground survey on different
crops and acreages is brought to the
office and checked with a large photo
graph representing about two square
miles. The large photographs meas
ure about 25x20 inches and were
taken by plane from such an altitude
that farm buildings and roads can be
recognized.
About eighty of these large maps
make up Perquimans County, and cut
down to a much smaller size are put
together to form one large photo-
i graph of the whole county. On this
larger photograph, which resembles
a relief map, highways are no larger
than a pin scratch. Hertford, almost
in the center of the county is smaller
than a twenty-five cent piece, and the
different cuts of land look like small
squares of paper dropped to scatter
where they may.
Twelve flights were necessary to
photograph the whole county, a flight
meaning 'a series of pictures taken
in one direction. All the pictures
had to be taken between the hours of
11 a. m. and 1 p. m. so as to have the
full benefit of the sunlight directly
overhead and to void shadows.
The huge maps1 are also up show
ing cultivated acres of land which
had not been checked before. Some
of these cuts show up on the photo
graphs in white against a dark sur
rounding of trees.
Trees, from the altitude at which
the pictures were taken, are not dis
tinguishable as separate trees, but
show simply as an irregular dar'c
area.
It is now the duty of the super
visors to go over these different cuts
of land, find out what is nlanted and
Deing grown mere, ana tnen coming
to the agent's office check their find
ings at the scale of the photographs.
By this method, it may be found at
a glance just how many acres are be
ing used for any crop on any farm
Chewing The Rag
With Lucius Blanchard, Jr.
Are the slap-stick comedians of the
silent movie days staging a come
back? We've been noticing recently
that some of the old-time boys are
stepping into the sound pictures.
For instance, the other night we
saw Harry Langdon for the first
time in a talkie short subject. It car
ried us back to the silent days when
the mere sight of Harry's name flash
ed on the screen, threw the audience
into stitches.
A little older but he's still good
for plenty of laughs in his line. So
are the other silent clowns who used
to sling custard pies and stumble
over pieces of furniture to fall
sprawling on the floor while every
body in the house howled.
Modern child audiences don't get
the kick from this type of comedy
anymore and we think they're miss
ing a lot.
Our present diet of light, sophisti
cated drawing-room , banter, mixed
with , a dash of bedroom farce,, can't
compare with the antics of Harold
Lloyd, Charlie Chaplin, Larry Sey
mon and Fatty Arbuckle. Here's
hoping that the old boys, with their
wholesome comedy, do come back
and that the. young folks learn to like
them.
There's nothing else like a good
laugh that starts down around the
belt line and gains volume all the
way p.
- Maybe you've seen this before, and
if you have jUBt pass it up and go
on to : something else. : :'! It was rfews
to: ue and the flmres revealed to
Harold Knudsen, student at, Chicago
Central Y. M. C. A. College (who
figured it out) that there la actually
a labor shortage, according, to . The
Chicago. Herald-Examiner. "
.Knudaen reached an amailng con
clusion; there are only two people to
Disastrous Fire
Thursday Morning
On C. R. Bush Farm
dwned By "One of
Pennsy's Greatest
Engineers"
I $5,000 DAMAGE
Uespite All Efforts to
1 Save, Barn Burned
I To Ground
t
An early morning fire last Thurs
day destroyed the barn on the C. R.
Bush farm in Durants Neck, burning
to death four mules, and causing to
tal loss to a sizeable store of hay and
cotn. A tractor, also housed there,
wa badly damaged.
"the cause of the fire has not been
determined. Ray White, who works
with Mr. Bush, said that there was
no , indication of anything wrong
when he went to bed at about 11
o'clock on Wednesday night. Be
twejen three and four o'clock Thurs
day; morning he awakened to find the
big barn in full blaze, and in spite
of efforts to stop the damage and re
move the stock, the barn burned to
the ground.
Damage to the barn and equipment
has been estimated at $5,000, one
fifth of the amount being covered by
insurance.
Mr. Bush who was in Washington,
D. Ci,' at the time of the fire, is on
his farm this year for the first time.
He. recently retired from 50 years of
railroading between New York and
Washington.
At his retirement, Mr. Bush wa
termed by his employers, the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, as "one of the great
est engineers who ever held a throt
tle." .During his 45 years as engi
neer : oil the Pennsy's fastest trains,
.JSlsh had .tr.aylled 8.000.000.
miles' Ifcitween Washington and New
York without a major accident
PerqUimanS Man
Speaker At Revival'
,
A revival meeting is to begin at
Eureka Methodist Episcopal Church,
in Pasquotank County, near Weeks
ville, Sunday night, July 24th, and
continue. through the 31st.
Evangelist J. P. Trueblood is to
assist the pastor, Rev. J. M. Smith,
in these services
, The Rev. Mr. Trueblood
is a Per
quimans County boy outstanding in
the work of evangelism. He is a
gifted speaker with much knowledge
of the Bible.
All are urged to take advantage of
this opportunity.
do all the work. Here's the way it
is:
The population of continental
United States is 122,000,000 persons.
15,000,000 of these persons are eligi
ble for old a"ge pension, leaving those
to work numbered at 107,000,000.
There are 20,000,000 children ineligi
ble to work under child labor laws,
which leaves to do all work 87,000,000
people. 22,000,000 of this number are
persons on city, state and federal
payrolls, leaving 65,000,000 to do the
work. Of this number 40,000,000 are
housewives, which leaves 25,000,000
to work. Then there are the disabled
persons and students over 18 years
of age; 11,000,000 more who don't
work, leaving 14,000,000 to take care
of it. Of this number 13,999,998 are
estimated as unemployed, leaving ex
actly two persons to do all the work.
Figure it out for yourself. Knud
sen says: "This leaves me and Presi
dent Roosevelt to do all the work in
the country. ' Meet of the time he's
away fishing and I'm getting darn
tired of doing it all."
Yes, Wilbur, we've noticed that
passengers on southbound buses now-a-days
are being offered the added
attraction of riding through Hert
ford's business district and along U.
S. Highway 17 which through this
town is Dobb and Church Streets.
And we think it's very nice, too.
But northbound riders must still con
tent themselves with Grubb and
Edenton Road Street rides, Wilbur,
and if they ere strangers here must
travel on without ever learning
whether or not Hertford has a busi
ness section, aw
Does it strips you, Wilbur, that the
people- who come .through Hertford
for the first time on a bus must won
der -where we buy our meats and
- . (Please Turn to Page Four)
M. D. Harris Wins J. P.
Case Against His Wife
M. D. Harris, small grocery store
keeper in the colored section, alleged
on Tuesday in Justice of Peace Court
that while he spent five weeks in the
hospital with a leg ailment he left
his Hertford properties in control of
his wife, Mrs. Florence Harris, and
that upon his return a week ago Mrs.
Harris refused to release her hold
ings. A. A. Nobles, justice of the peace,
before whom the proceedings were
heard, rendered a verdict in favor of
Mr. Harris, evicting Mrs. Harris
from the premises. Mrs. Harris ap
pealed to higher court and furnished
bond at $250. She is still in busi
ness at the store in "Goose Hollow"
and will probably remain there until
Superior Court comes around in Octo
ber. On Tuesday in Recorder's Court,
proceedings brought by Mr. Harris
charging his wife with trespass, fell
through when the prosecution asked
a nol prosse with leave, which was
granted. The trespass warrant also
bore the name of J. T. Britt, former
Hertford chief of police, as a party
to the trespass.
Mrs. Harris lays her rights to the
store and living quarters in her claim
that she had been paying the rent and
that she understood from her hus
band that he was not intending to re
turn from Norfolk. Mrs. Harris has
been occupying the combination store
and house since early in June.
Five Bar Members
At District Meet
i
Interesting Convention'
Held at Gatesville on
Wednesday I
Several members of the Perquimans j
County Bar attended the First Dis-'
tion in Gatesville Wednesday. Amonc
inti oar Association ai me conven
me auorneys irom Hertlord were:
Granbery Tucker, Silas M. Whedbee,
James S. McNSder.
Judge L- R- Varsr- f Lumbers,
was the principal speaker. He is a
former Justice of the North Carolina
Supreme Court. A. P. Godwin, Sr.,
of Gatesville, president of the First
District, presided over the meetin;!;
which began in the courthouse at
11 o'clock.
All lawyers now practicing in
North Carolina, who have lived in
Gates County, were invited and ex
pected to attend the meeting.
Representatives from Gates, Cam
den, Currituck, Dare, Chowan, Per
quimans, Pasquotank, Beaufort, Tyr
rell and Hyde Counties were expect
ed to attend.
Following the morning's program,
the visiting lawyers were invited to
a barbecue dinner at Williams Mill.
Mrs. White Host To
Missionary Society
Mrs. T. S. White, of Hertford, was'
a most gracious hostess Tuesday to 1
the members of the Minnie Wilson j
Missionary Society of the Methodist
Church at her cottage at Nags Head.
All having reached there by 1 1
o'clock, a short devotional service was!
held, over which Mrs. White presided.!
Others taking part in the program
were Mrs. R. H. Willis, Mrs. R. E.
Brinn, Mrs. Charles Skinner, Mrs. II.
C. Stokes, and Mrs. Roscoe Foreman,!
of Elizabeth City.
After the service, all who wished
went in bathing, after which a deli
cious cold-plate luncheon was served
by the hostess, assisted by Mrs.
Howard Pitt, Mrs. Jonas Futrell,
Mrs. Trim Wilson, Miss Mae Wood
Winslow, of Hertford, and Miss
Frances King, of Weldon.
Those present were: Mesdames J.
C. Blanchard, Simon Rutenberg, J.
G. Roberson, R. L. Knowles, R. H.
Willis, W. Ml Tucker, W. D. Landing,
J. A. Gault, R. C. Murray, J. S. Mc
Nider, Jake White, Nathan Relfe,
R. T. Clark, H. C. Stokes, Thad Chap
pell, Charles Skinner, R. M. Riddick,
B. G. Koonce, R. A. White, Annie
Chalk, C. G. Stephens, D. M. Sharpe,
R. E. Brinn, R. T. Brinn, C. P. Mor
ris, T. B. Sumner, T. C. Chappell, and
Miss Kate Blanchard, Miss Pattie
Whedbee, Miss Lena Barber, and the
visitors: Mrs. Howard Pitt, Mrs.
Jonas Futrell, Mrs. Trim Wilson, andi
Miss Mae Wood Winslow, all of Hert
ford, Mrs. John Buchanan and Mrs.
Cameron, of Durham; Mrs. Nathan
Toms, of Petersburg, Va., Mrs. Ros
coe Foreman, of Elizabeth City, and
T. S. White.
And Blame Her
Man is a funny creature. He mar-
ri his ideal , and then yells there's
been a misdeal. Los Angeles Times.
Evangelist Smith
Contends Saturday
Is Trne Sabbath
Made For Man and Not
Man For Sabbath,
He Says
QUOTES BIBLE
Offers $1,000 For Scrip
ture Supporting- Ob
servance First Day
"The Sabbath was made for man
and not man for the Sabbath",
(Mark 2.27) read Evangelist W. T.
Smith during his opening remarks in
his lecture on "Why Seventh-day Ad
ventists Keep Saturday Instead of
Sunday," Wednesday night at the big
tent on the Grammar School ground.
Mr. Smith stated that "according
to Gen. 2.1-3, the Sabbath (the sev
enth day of the week) is the birthday
of creation and God commanded this
day to be celebrated in a very definite
way by keeping it holy. He placed
this command in the very heart of
his law, the ten commandments,
(Ex. 20.8-11). The Sabbath is the
great memorial of creation, which
God would have His people remember
throughout all generations (Psalms
111:3,4; Psalms 135:13). 'For in six
days the Lord made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that in them is, and
rested on the seventh day: wherefore
the Lord blessed the sabbath day,
and hallowed it.' (Ex. 20:11)."
Mr. Smith emphatically stated that
"it is as impossible to change the
Sabbath, the birthday of creation, and
God's law of ten commandments, as
it is to change your own birthday.
When Jesus came to this world and
lived he went into the synagogue on
the sabbath day, as was his custom,
(Luke 4:16), and John 15:10 says that
he kept His Father's commandments.
The day of his crucifixion was the
day before the Sabbath and the day
of his resurrection was the day fol
lowing the Sabbath (Luke 23:52-56;
24-1). Therefore the true sabbath
day according to the commandment is
the seventh day of the week, com
monly called Saturday, for the whole
world agrees that Jesus was crucified
on Friday and rose from the dead on
Sunday."
"Since the resurrection," Mr1.
Smith declared further, "many people
believe that the Bible commands that
we are no longer to observe the
seventh-day sabbath, but instead, the
first day in honor of the resurrection.
But where is the command found? I
offer $1,000 to Sunday observers for
just one text of scripture which says
that this change was made, or that
the Lord's day is the first day. The
first day of the week is mentioned in
all the Bible only nine times and in !
no place is it referred to as a holy
day, a sabbath, or a religious day. '
Then those who observe Sunday on
the Lord's day or sabbath day are '
observing a counterfeit sabbath and
not the true sabbath of God."
Tonight (Friday) Mr. Smith's sub-:
ject is, "Who Changed the Sabbath
from Saturday to Sunday;" Saturday
night, "The Mysterious Number '666'
of Revelations." These services will ;
continue through all next week as
follows: Sunday night, "What is the
Mark of the Beast?"; Monday night,
no meeting; Tuesday night, "The Seal
of the Living God"; Wednesday night,
"How Can We Know Which is the
True Church?" Thursday night,
"Who Is the Woman Sitting on the '
Scarlet Colored Beast of Rev. 17?";
Friday night, "When Does the Cleans
ing of the Heavenly Sanctuary lr
gin?"; Saturday night, "Court Week
in Heaven."
jraREEl?EAlSAGo
o-..-..,.i,i.i.
Three years ago this week, the
files of The Perquimans Weekly re
veal that:
The Southern Cotton Oil Company
had recently bought the Hertford ,
and Weldon plants of the Eastern
Cotton Oil Company at a price of
$100,000.00. The local plant, wreck
ed in January, 1934, by a boiler ex
plosion which killed six men, was to
be rebuilt immediately.
An application for a $44,000.00 bond
issue had been approved by the
Board of County Commissioners
when the Board of Education present
ed tentative plans for schools at
Winfall and Belvidere.
Matthew Banks, 14-year-old colore
boy accused of criminally attacking1
an eight-year-old white girl, had been
arrested in Portsmouth, Va., and
transferred here for jailing to await
trial.
Prom all: over the. county farm
women were to gather on Saturday
morning to hold the quarterly meet
ing of the Perquimans County Home
Economics Association.' ' ' J ,
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