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KLY
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER t)EVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
VoMme -V. Number 36.
Hertford, Perquimans Qounty, North Carolina, Friday, September 9, 1938.
$1.25 Per Year.
ffiOUIMS
W
A.
Special Election In Perquimans Bounty
On Legal liquor Store Issue Apparently
Boomed Until Early Part Of fiext Vear
Election In November
W Holds Up Voting at
Least 60 Days
studylaws
Citizens Up In Arms
Over Highway Road
Signs
A short regular meeting of the
board of county commissioners Mon
day morning resulted in no action on
the liquor election petition which was
submitted to the board in part at the
meeting. ' i
Jurors were drawn for duty at the
October term of Perquimans Count
Superior Court. c )
Because the statute provides in the
matter of liquor referendums, that an
ir' election may not be held within sixty
1 days of another election, action' on
1 the npt.it ion was deferred, since i an
1 election is scheduled for Novembei
L ' Brushing up on the law gover
we
f a county election on liquor, the
m-
missioners found that it must be i
vertised for twenty days, that the
registration books must remain open
for another twenty days and that the
question may not be voted upon
within sixty days of another elec
tion.
With the November election less
than sixty days away, added to the
forty-day preliminaries the county
liquor control query could not be put
before the public for vote until after
Christmas, probably not before Feb-J
ruary. Some of the petitions, in cir
culation for the past two weeks,
asking the commissioners, to hold a
special election, were still at large
- when the commissioners met Monday.
It is'thought that those before the
board represented the required pro
ceedings of qualified voters necessary
to have the commissioners call an
election. The statute revealed that
15 percent of those who voted in the
last gubernatorial election must ask
the commissioners to call a vote.
With an immediate request for an
election ruled out because of the
sixty-day ban, the commissioners put
aside the petitions and went on to
other things that claim their atten
tion. Among them were pleas irom
local business men for the support of
the board in requesting the state
highway commission to see that the
Town of Hertford is given equal
.ottr. f AiatAncf.
Drominence in
ii it; uiun-vi u.
and direction markers with Edenton
and Elizabeth City, especially at the
point where U. S .17 is interested by
N. C. 172 (the bridge road).
The matter of the "missing road
sign" still rankles whenever it is
mentioned that Hertford is not de
signated in any manner by the cluster
of distance markers on the Edenton
Hertford Highway. Local people feel
that with Hertford being the first
tnwn nn the northern route, some
measure should be taken by the high -
way department to notify
travelers
that. Hertford is seven miles
north-
past of the intersection.
L Assured by Mayor Silas M. Whed
i bee, who happened to be present at,
I-' the meeting, that the district engi-l
' " - neer had, ftrready conferred with him
v4Wmatter of road signs, the sub
ject was dropped without action by
the hoard. The Mayor was certain
that the engineer would see fit to re
. commend the erection of Hertford
, markers at the disputted spot within
a-short time.
Farmers To Return
t : Today From Tour
- r ir .
Thirty Perquimans County farmers,1
, more or Itss, are returning some time
today after a motor tour which began
. in Hertford at the. Agricultural Build
ing at six !cldck;, -Tuesday morning
and took in Washington, D.C,
Mount Verton. Alexandria; Fredncks-
' burg, Yorktown .and the Shenandoah
Valley. ''' "
L. W. Anderson, County farm
agent; arranged the trip and is with
- thorn on the tour, pointing out places.
of Mtiesr along the route. Mr, An-,
ifornon conducted a similar tout to
the national capitol st year.: ;
- Tn WnRhinirton the farmeA visited
tf the public buildings, bureaus, de
vilments, parka, memorials ana u-
braVies, spending three days and two
there.
l At Oak Ridge
TTsmeM taa mm to Oak
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j Governor Hoey Quoted j
The Woman's Missionary So- poor that profits from the sale of
The Woman's Missionary So
ciety of the Hertford Methodist
Church has requested that the
following message from Clyde
R. Hoey, governor of North Car
olina, be published. The state
ment is obviously intended to re
present the stand taken., by the
Society in the matter of a liquor
store election which may be call
ed some time next year. The
message:
Profits From Liquor
"Nearly ten thousand dollars is
sent out of the State to buy li
quor for every dollar net in re
venue received from its sale.
Neither the State of North Caro
lina nor any of its. counties are so
County's School
Busses Housed
In New Garage
Space For 20 Busses and
Workshop on Ath
letic Field
Perquimans County's 13 school
busses will be housed in a big new
garage before winter gets underway
in earnest. The new storage ar
rangement, with space enough for 20
busses and a workshop is being work
ed out on the athletic field at the
high school. In the same project
greeted
Wednesday at the--hoot opening
with bright, newly-painted class-
rooms, as the result of WPA work
carried on during the summer.
The old garages on the
campus
have been outmoded for several
years. For a long while they have
been too small to accommodate the
new and larger busses that transport
this County's school population.
Hampering the bus mechanic, J. W.
Hampton, was also an inadequate re
pair work shop, but after working on
the transports all summer, he now
reports the busses in good running
order. The agricultural workshop
was used by Mr. Hampton for the
repair work and though there were
! more busses last year than ever be-
-
fore, his department gave exceiieni
service.
The new bus house, 54 by 135
feet, will be ready for use in approx
imately three months. The agricul
tural workshop will be moved a short
distance, painted inside and out, re
paired and reconverted to its original
use. The old garage, unsightly on
the otherwise attractive campus, will
be torn down and the athletic park
fence extended to take in the site as
! part of the park
Contrary to earlier reports, it has
been learned that the location of the
bus house on the athletic field will
activities. The park will be madej By JOHN CRADDOCK
larger on the opposite side to offset. New York Business The key to
the space required for the garage. A!t nmorrow's business may lie in last
slight re-arrangement of the baseball
oiamona ana me iooiuau neia wm ue.
r,re.arv. but the busses in reaching
the new garage will not i enter the
athletic park at all. Entrance to the
storage and repair building will be,
reached by passing the grandstand
and park fence on the south side.
WEINER ROAST FRIDAY
Circle No. 2 of the Hertford Bap
tist Church will, have a weiner roast
Friday evening at the church.
Unusual:
"Unusual" is the word that de
' scribes Tuesday'a sessiofr Of coun
ty court. It is unusual in the
first place to hold courj. in Per
rqutmans County without at least
one. Negro case, and when three
whit men all charged with the
I came offenses, being drank and
disorderly? aced Recorder Oran
V bery Tucker, i they all i pleaded
i guilty. The whole docket "re
- quired less thaft twenti minutes
; to complete with" GeorFe Butler
Graham Trueblood an i C. F.
Chappell drawing senUrtces" 6f -'
thirty 4ys each, suspOed upon
. 'i; U: C i..Ur court
' 4 ' ; J f
poor that profits from the sale of
liquor are essential for the oper
ation of its governmental agen
cies. "In my judgment any county
legalizing the sale of liquor for
ten years will suffer such deter
ioration in its citizenship and
such wreckage in the character pf
its young men that the profits
derived will pale into insignifi
cance in comparison with the
havoc wrought.
"The defeat of liquor stores in
the elections soon to be held
would, be most wholesome and
beneficial to the whole State.
"CUYDE R. HOEY.
"Gov. North Carolina."
Ralph White Hurt
In Odd Accident
On Edenton Farm
Pinned Under Heavy
Tractor When Ma
chine Overturned
Ralph White, of Belvidere, was
seriously injured in an odd accident
near Edenton late Wednesday after
noon when a tractor overturned, pin
ning the Belvidere man underneath.
According to information gathered
at Dr. J. A. Powell's Emergency Hos
pital, in Edenton, where Mr. White!
was under care last night, the extent
.1...... . .. ..1
oi -nw injuries were nor Determined,)
but he was resting as comfortably asj
could be expected. j
, Mr. White, age about 38, is em-j
ployed by the Farm Equipment Com-
pany, of Hertford and Elizabeth City, j
With King Solomon Welch, Hert-
ford colored man, also employed by
the Equipment Company, Mr. White
was loading a tractor on a truck body
for transportation at R. C. Holland's
farm near Edenton, when the trac
tor became unbalanced and over
turned, falling from the runway and
pinning Mr. White underneath. A
wheel lug inflicted a nasty wound be
hind the victim's right ear.
I According to Welch, he and L. n.
Cayton lifted the tractor by main
strength and freed Mr. White, who
was then rushed to Edenton for med
ical attention. It is thought that Mr.
White also suffered internal injuries.
Mr. White was sent Wednesday
night to Sara Leigh Hospital in Nor
folk, Va. It was thought in Edenton
that he possibly suffered a fractured
skull, although the full extent of his
injuries could not be determined at
that time.
Behind The Scenes
week,6 headHne8 from foreiffn capi.
.
tais. wnue ine majority o
.cans spent the week with nothing
more pressing tnan 10 ciean up tneir
work to get away for the olst ooser
vance of Labor Day week-end, all
Europe was tense as a new war
scare gripped the continent. Hitler
made an unexpected tour of inspec
tion of Germany's fortifications along
the Rhine opposite France and Swit
zerland no doubt to shqw he meant
business in backing demands of the
German minority in Czechoslocakia
for territorial autonomy. Heavy
fighting occprred to China as the Jap
anese army renewed its attacks in the
Hankow area. Italy passed a decree
ordering all- Jews who have taken up
residence in" the country since the
World War to leave within six
months, even those who , have ac
quired citizenship. In Mexico City,
President Cardenas opened the Mexi
can Congress with a denunciatory
speech refusing the demands of the
United States for arbitration of pay
ments for seized land, attacking the
position of this country as an attempt
to impose the will of the strong on
the 'weak. -: Meanwhile, in America a
fighting unit of tha"Ulavy was as
signed to patrol the Atlantic Ocean
for the first time since 1982 when the
mvat pcouung r orce-wai ' trans
ierrea to tae vwffio. . ,
Junior Case Worker
Replies To Criticism
For Labor Shortage
c.
Edgar White Shifts
Blame Placed on
WPA
STATEMENT
Says Welfare Depart
ment Cooperates In
Securing Help
In reply to farmers, whom it is
said, have critized the WPA blaming
the administration for farm labor
shortages, C. Edgar White, junior
case worker for the Perquimans Coun
ty Department of Public Welfare,
makes the following statement:
"The department of public welfare
at Hertford has experimented several
times hy 'discontinuing applications
for WPA over a period of months to
see if it was WPA's fault that farm
ers could not get as much labor as
they needed. It was found that
farmers still complained of not get
ting required labor."
"In order for any organization to
function properly, there must be co
operation among the citizens. The
department of public welfare wel
comes any adverse or favorable criti
cisms which will enable it to function
more adequately. WPA work is used
to supplement seasonal employment
and its purpose is not to give a man
a life-long job. If a man offers a
WPA worker a job at a reasonable
rate and this worker refuses, then
if the prospective employer would
notify the department of public wel
fare that he had offered work to a
WPA employee and was refused, this
WPA worker would have to accept or
be dismissed from the WPA pro
gram."
Claud JBrinn One Of
Eton College Squad
j Football practice at Elon is alread
I underway and word is received here
I that Claude Brinn is out with the
I squad. Elon, whose first game is
j scheduled for the 17th, with V. M. I.
j at Blacksburg, has been holding two
daily practices, in the morning and
in the afternoon. Ten letter men are
back seeking positions on the Elon
squad.
I Scholastic preliminaries are finish-
, ed now and studies got in full swing
! on Thursday, but the football boys
I were on hand for practice a week be
fore.
Holy Trinity Services
On Summer Schedule
Services at Holy Trinity Church,
according to the rector, the Reverend
Edmund T. Jillison, will continue to
be conducted at the same hour ob
served through the summer months
for the next few weeks. Holy Com
munion at ten o'clock, is the only ser
vice on Sundays.
In American Business
Washington Officials here con
tinue optimistic over the business
outlook believing that more definite
statistical evidence of the steady rise
now going on in many lines will ap
pear within a few weeks. Whether
business can
be lifted bodily into
considerably higher sales volume
brackets before next year, however,
depends pretty much on three factors,
economists point out: 1. The buy
ing response of the public to the
1939 model automobiles. 2. Expan
sion in the capital goods industries,
iron and steel, machinery, transpor
tation equipment, nonferrous metals,
lumber, stone, clay, glass, and the
like. 3. The ability of the textile
industry, now booming, t maintain
this pace; observers don't overlook
possibility that present business may
represent merely stocking up in an
ticipation of the new wage-hour law
as it did in anticipation of the iNRA.
Business Speaks There are 2,009,
935 business concerns in America
employing 30,644,000 persons, accord
ing to the latest Statistical Ab
stract of the U. S. These two mil
lion companies large and small are
the creators of America's standard of
living, - highest in the world. That
they are being- subjected to attack,
observers agree, is due in large part
to their failure, to tell the public
about their objectives and activities,
There are ; always two sides i to a
story, but to date the American pub-
2800 Perquimans Children
Parade Off To Class Rooms;
School Opens Wednesday
Low Record
Wednesday's enrollment at the
Perquimans County High School
opening was the smallest in ten
years, with only 309 students
leistering on that day. A scat
tering of students may enroll
within the next few days, but the
number now is far below the us
ual average of 345 to 350 stu
dents. Unless the registration
shows an increase it is likely
that this county will lose one or
more teachers next year.
At the Central Grammar
School in Winfali, the enrollment
figure Wednesday was 371, al
most the same as last year. The
county total white enrollment
with all schools not heard from,
is between ten and eleven hun
dred pilpils this week.
Planting Of Bulbs
Is Strongly Urged
By Miss Hamrick
An Excellent Opportu
nity to Beautify
County
".Now is the time to begin thinking
about planting bulbs for this fall,"
says Miss Gladys Hamrick, county
home agent, in her efforts to help
beautify the county through the co
operation of the Perquimans County
Federation of Home Demonstration
Clubs.
"Most hary bulbs should be planted
in late summer or early fall," says
Miss Hamrick, "and they usually re
quire a well-drained and fertile soil.
s a general rule most bulbs should
be planted approximately two to three
times their length beneath the sur
face of the soil.
"In preparing the bulb bed, well
rotted stable manure can be used
sparir-i if applied several weekr
before the bulbs are planted. Too
much organic matter has a tendency
to cause the bulbs to rot, especially
the lilies. In addition to the manure
a complete fertilizer should be added
in the spring such as a6-8-4. This
can be applied at the rate of three
pounds per one hundred square feet
"Only first class bulbs should be
purchased as inferior bulbs are ex
pensive at any price."
Following is a list of the more
common bulbs that may be planted
this fall, say from September through
Winter-aconite, Snowdrop, Grape-
hyacinths, Snow-flakes, Daffodils and
various Narcissi, wood-hyacintn, j
Feather-hyacinths, Crown - imperial,
Hyacinths, Tulips, Star-of-Bethle-hem,
Madonna and Regal lilies.
TO ATTEND MERCER
Muss Mary N. Feild left recently
for Macon, Georgia, where she will
attend Mercer University. Miss
Feild's name was not listed last week
among those going away and the
unintentional omission is regretted.
Jurymen Drawn For
October Term Court
A small boy, enlisted by the
Board of County Commissioners
at the September meeting Mon
day morning, drew from a box
the names of thirty-six Perquim
ans County men who will be sum
moned to ' appear for jury duty
at the October term of Superior
Court which convenes on October
31st.
The names drawn were: Cap
tain T. S. White, H. D. Turner,
Adrian J. Smith, D. M. Jackson,
E. L. Chappell, T. E. Mansfield,
H. E. Butler, L. C. Butt, J. E.
Perry, Ralph E. Winslow, C W.
Umphlett, N. S. Spruill, W. F.
Long, Watson Eure, D. M. Cart
wright, A. W. Baccus, J. H.
Mansfeld, E. E. Payne, B. Vf.
Pennington, Irving C Long, E. F.
Forehand, L. A. Proctor, M. B.
Dail, W. F. R. Sawyer, J. T.
Jordan, Elihu Winslow, W. T.
Whedbee, N. CI Spivey, Jordan
Gregory, R S. Chappell, (Belvi
dere) Fenton Eure, R. T. Layden,
Lee Stalllngs, F. T. Evans, J. W.
Overton and 3. L. Nison,"
Johnson Confers With
Teachers and Bus
Drivers
BUSY DAYS
Schools at Beech Spring
And Bethel Now
Abandoned
Vacation has ended for 2,800 school
children when the doors of the six
white schools were thrown open Wed
nesday morning for another term.
The 16 colored schools began their
1938-39 schedule on Aogust 22.
The opening 4ay followed a very
busy Tuesday for Superintendent F.
T. Johnson, who held three meetings,
"at ten, two and four o'clock." He
conferred with the Grammar School
teachers before lunch, the bus driv
ers in the afternoon and the High
School faculty later in the afternoon.
Wednesday and Thursday sessions
were conducted on the half day plan,
given over largely to registration, an
easy assignment for the pupils who
are taking up studies in earnest to
day.
The Beech Spring and Bethel com
munity school houses are being aban
doned in favor of more centralized
education. The pupils who attended
these two schools are now coming by
bus to the Hertford Grammar School.
Instructing this county's 1,225
white children are the the following
teachers: At the Perquimans County
Central Grammar School, Miss Lucile
Long, Mrs. A. R. Winslow, Miss
Margaret White, Mrs. Neva C. Mor
gan, Miss Mabel Lane, Miss Alma
Leggett, Mrs. H. R. Winslow, Miss
Bertha Chappell, Miss Cora Layden
and T. R. Ainsley. At the Ballahack
School, Miss Ruth K. Hurdle: at the
j White Hat School, Miss Johnnie
I White; at the New Hope School, Miss
I Carolyn Riddick and Mrs. Margaret
I Goodman.
I Teachers at the Hertford Grammar
'School are: Miss Mary Sumner, Miss
j Alice liabb, Miss Mary L'ita Walters,
! Mrs. C. W. White, Mrs. Nathan Relfe,
'Mrs. Cornelia Jessup and Mrs. T. C.
Chappell. The Reruimar.s County
High School faculty. Miss Ksther
Evans, Mrs. G. W. Barbee, Miss
Helen Gaither, Mrs. Emily Lane
Long, Mrs. Hannah F. Holmes, Miss
Elizabeth Knowles, Miss Anne Wil
son, Miss Eloise Scott, Miss Mary
Onella Relfe, Mrs. Helen B. Harrell,
G. C. Buck and J. R .Bates.
The colored schools, which opened
for business a month in advance of
the white schools, will close for a
month after the first 30 days of oper
'ation in order to allow the pupils to
pick cotton or assist in other harvest
time farm duties.
jlVIiSS Hamrick And
j W. AnderSOn PlcUl
Attend E. City Meet
Among those attending the Xorth
easteiji District Conference in Eli
zabeth City on September 12, 13 and
14th, will be Miss Gladys Hamrick,
county home demonstration agent,
and L. W. Anderson, farm agent.
The purpose of the meeting is to
work out plans for the 1939 program
to be carried out in the different
counties.
IDA PATTERSON CIRCLE MEETS
The Ida Patterson Circle of the
Hertford Baptist Church met Tues
day night with Mrs. J. A. Perry.
Mrs. T. W. Perry had charge of the
program in the absence of the leader.
Mrs. Irvin White gave the devotional.
Mrs. Robert White and Mrs. E. W.
Mayes gave interesting talks.
Those present were Mesdames E.
W. Mayes, Robert White, Irvin
White, Matt Matthews, J. E. Everett,
Tom Perry, T. W. Perry, J. A. Perry,
Miss Mamie Stallings, Miss Nettie
Lee Gregory, Mrs. A. F. Jordan, and
one visitor, Mrs. Ance White.
ATTEND DEALERS MEETING
L. C. Winslow and Edward Byrum
were in Washington, N. C, Wednes
day, where they attended a meeting
of John Deere Farm Equipment deal
ers. The firm of J. C. Blanchard &
Co., which Mr. Winslow and Mr. By
rum represented, is the John Deere
dealership in this district.
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Mrs. G. C. Buck underwent an op
eration at. General Hospital, Norfolk,
Va., Wednesday morning. At last re
ports her condition was favorable !
it