North Carolina Newspapers

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY Volume V Number 40. Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, October 7, 1938. $1.25 Per Year. ' . ' SM scnooi uniidren ufierea -Free Tickets To State Fair If) n Friday, Children's Bay Tickets Distributed By . SuDerintendent F. T. Johnson EXPECT CROWD Club Ladies Plan to At tend Exposition on Thursday Next Friday is school children's day at the State Fair in Raleigh, and Superintendent of County Schools F. T. Johnson will hand out free tickets to all county children who expect to go- Wake County school children, coun ty in which the Fair is held, will be admitted on the week. another dav earlier in Wake, of course, will s have the largest representation of; school children present, and in order Already having practiced at trans to avoid an overcrowd of children on mitting dummy messages to the field one day, other students have been in- J office at Wilson, the observation posts, vited on Friday. School children will one to each eight square miles, are not be provided with transportation ' now in trim for the actual maneuvers, and no tours have been arranged for, enemy flight" of any one of them, but a tour to the Fair is being rO lanes from ...,., Field. in a planned for Home Demonstration I conCerted or individual attack on the Club members and their families. post at Fort Br&ggi may bring som According to Miss Gladys Hamrick,'0f the bombing, observation, attack demonstration agent, the club ladies ; or pursuit planes across the territory will attend the Fair on Thursday,: of Perquimans County observation October 13, by special tour bus. Ar- ( posts. According to Sheriff Winslow, rangements for the tour are being war aviator himself, this county's made with F. B. Johnson, of another part of the huge civilian warning net city in this State, who conducts such j is all set for business, tours. The party will leave Hertford, L3t Sunday and all this week from the Agricultural Building at these plans for next week's activities 5:30 A. M., and return the same day have been carried on throughout the f at near midnight. whole eastern sector. Planes from All club members who wish to Langley Field roared over at varying make the tour are requested to get in I altitudes on Sunday and Monday, touch with Miss Hamrick an4 rake. J Some were, low enough to be seen and .4. the arrangements, letting her know others passed under cover of clark- how many will attend from her fam- ness. Next week, however, the at ily. The number is limited and those tackers will play a real game of hide who wish to go should see the dem-1 and seek with the defending forces. onstration agent as soon as possibls. Jinx Is Apparently Following Coach Bates' Gridders Squad of 28 Gradually Dwindles to Little Over Team UP IN AIR Walter Bond and Mac White Out Due to Injuries The toughest luck of all, Hardluck, Tuegday afternoon at the church, is after the Indians' scalps in earnest. The hostess, Miss Pattie Rogerson, Coach Bob Bates was beginning to had charge of the program. The think enough was enough when his i pr0gram topic was "Help Thy Neigh original squad of 28 huskies had DOr." and Misses Margaret Madre, slowly dwindled to fifteen. But the Madeline Lamb and Bessie Ward and end was not yet in sight, the Indians Mrs. Charles Johnson had parts. -Were scheduled to face the Edentoni After a short business session. iir second (or BJeam) outfit Thursday, i ; ftern(ionr this week with two of i IttaClUttlteS' mainstays dennitelV OUt -xBf'he lineup for the next two weeks v ..t;' t least. , A wrenched knee and a sprained ankle benched two of last year's tj , backfield lettermen, Walter Bond and j y MacJVhite. Both men were injured . in scrimmages early Qua week. Gal. sloping, Mac, is, on .crutches , and Bond ftX-jjs littte better onWA.;,-,, . .It is. rumored that Rataa msv ttafl '.Tj, -th Edenton. aession.,w pUy until hisUernoon-in honor of her eon, Carol, .r ; vuyywu warriors vau again mue. WlO lineup,' but in case the tussle goes mruugn, pacKneia . replacements wur yrvuamy i vuusen irvm aucx narris, Bill Cox and Darius Elliotts According to thfi. coach, a small ,part of the original number , of candi dates was expected to. withdraw from the squad. Some few always fall by the wayside but thirteen men not .reporting for practice is entirely too ...... U-Ui 1 it m n i- tv ' j, many. Thirteen' regulars , leave the ', playing team with only fofir subs, and - r with two - regulars benched, the re serve strength is cut in half. Bates is up a tree If he loses three men ' 1 before meeting Edenton, hell have to take a position himself. . ' " . , , , 'ih POPULATION INCREASES i' Washington. The . cooperation ; of ; the continental United States lasti ' January I, was -12918,000, an in crease of 941,000 over the January 1, 1S37, estimate, according to the fig vrca of the yensus Bureau. , ' A I PprnilimaiK Vffll FCI H"1"1"1 rfll 1 Of Warning Net Is Ready For Action Winslow Reports Local Try-out Tests Sunday Were 0. K. Perquimans County's four chief observers, working under Sheriff J. Emmett Winslow, are all set for the zero hour on October 10th, when enemy bombers and other types of aircraft will begin a five day attempt to penetrate the defenses and blast the airdrome at Fort Bragg off the North Carolina map. Officials Resume Work After Siege Of Illness Clerk of Court Howard Pitt and Pol iceman Robert A. White are both back at work after coming through sieges of malaria which kept them confined to their homes for several days late last week and early this week. Chemist Announces Grading- Of Dairies City chemist R. M. Potter announ ces milk grades for dairies serving Hertford for the period beginning October 1: Roanoke-White, Grade A, Brite and Jones, Grade A. SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS MEETS The Judson Memorial Class of the Hertford Bantifit Sunday School met games and contests were followed by a delicious sweet course. Mamhnmi nttenriincr wow MissiPS , pattie Rogerson , Madeline Lamb, Margaret Madre, Mesdames Charles j Johnson, Jake Jackson, Josiah Elliott, Arthur White and William Boyce. The November meeting will be nehi with Mrs. Bessie Ward. .ENTERTAINS FOR SON - Mrs. B. C. Berry - delightfully en tertained at a party on Monday af- -whO Celebrated MS MXU1 bllthaay. Attractive decorations of pink and whit were used, and a birthday cake holding six P'nlc candles formed the centerpiece on the dining-room table. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. S. M.JVhedbee, Mrs. Thad Chappell and Mies Helen Morgan in playing games with 'the little guests. Those invited were Pat Morris, Betty Jean Winslow, Patsy Harrell, Julk Laughinghouse, Mary Annette Cannon, Ethel Frances Elliott, Mabel Martin Whedbee, Joe Towe, Jr., Julian Winslow, Tommie Sumner, Jr., Rich ard Fiitrell, Carlton Davenport, How ard Broughton, Reginald Tucker, Jr., Sammie Sutton, Jr., Howard Pitt, Clarence Thomas Madre, Gene Phil lips and Sonny White. the guest of honor. ' All youngsters - know some things their fathers are too busy to learn. I Fred B. Barron, in Let Yourself Go. Perquimans Club Members Eager To Can All They Can 19,091 Quarts of Food stuffs Canned to Date TOTALS GIVEN Number In Prospect Ex pected to Amount to 25,000 Cans September was a Dusy month tori the women of the Perquimans Coun ty's Federation of Home Demonstra tion Clubs. One hundred and ninety members attended the past month's meetings and at a recent date they reported 19,347 quarts of foodstuffs had been canned by them, with sev eral more thousands of cans of meats and vegetables still in prospect and yet to be canned, which will probably bring the grand total somewhere up around 2,500 cans. Here are the canning totals as re ported by the different clubs and made public by Miss Gladys Hamrick, j demonstration agent: Belvidere led i with 4,290 quarts; Winfall, 1,636' quarts; Snow Hill-White Hat, 594 quarts; Beech Spring, 828 quarts; 1 Ballahack, 2,134 quarts; Bethel, 1,849 j quarts; Durants Neck, 2,031 quarts;' Helen Gaither Club, 1,422 quarts; Home and Garden Club, 751 quarts; 1 Whiteston, 2,397 quarts; Chapanoke,' 1,159 quarts, giving the county club women as a whole, a total of 19,091 quarts of canned foodstuffs. Funeral Services For Mrs. Hurdle Conducted Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Griffn Hurdle, who died Monday af ternoon at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. E. I Jennings, were con ducted Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Jennings at witn the Rev. Sigsbee Miller, of Elizabeth City, officiating. Burial was in the family cemetery. Pallbearers were: G. Q. Hurdle, M. M. Hurdle, J. N. Byrum. T. E. Morgan, J. R. Ro-ache and Jesse Harrell. Mrs. Hurdle, 60 years of age at her , death, was the wife of the late Sam-1 uel Hurdle. Those who survive are.' three daughters, Mrs. J. O. Umphlett, , of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. E. L. Jennings , and Mrs. O. D. Ferrell, of this coun- j ty; three sons, Charlie, Quinton and Nlathan Hurdle, all nf thin rountv two sisters, Mrs. G. Q. Hurdle, of Camden, and Mrs. J. E. Boyce, of Ryland; two brothers, John Griffin, of Tyner, and William Griffin, of Belvi dere, and ten grandchildren. u . BUT YOU OUGHTA SEE THE ONES THAT GOT AWAY" When a Northerner first discovers tho South that is. callintr Hertford the South he usually goes fishing. Whether he hajs never gone fishing before makes no difference. He takes one look at the river from the cause way or one of the river edge streets and then asks the nearest bystander if anvbodv fishes there. He sees the stakes and nets of the commercial, nsnermen, oi course, um, u - , fi 1 L U MAnnn uoe aiiyuuu .. r line, roas ana reeis, or urop wie: He always finds a kindred spirit amonnr the local people if he stays in town long enough, and that's exactly what happened, when L. J. Sivian, of New 'Jersey, landed here early this week during his first' visit to the South . ',' . North Carolina. Mr Sivian is a close friend of Dr. Julian , Blanchard, brother of J. C. Blanch ard. He naturally called on hi3 friend's brother at the Blanchards' attractive riverside home and saw the river. Within the next few hours he chanced to meet another Blanchard, a rod and reel enthusiast whose ardor for the sport never seems to cool de spite the fact that he seldom catches five-pound chub or 24-inch pike. During the next day's fishing excur sion on the waters of the Perquimans, the Ntew Jersey man, an admitted novice at the art of fresh-water cast ing, developed a healthy respect for low-hanging cypress trees, which every Izaak Walton knows somehow manage to get in the way of a cast aimed at a small opening where chub appear to be lurking. Stumps and lily pads also jump at the bait as it whizzes through the air. "Back lashes", too, come in for their share 'of the blame when , returning fisherv Vinfall 4-H Club Now Boasting 84 Members On Roll Assistant Farm Agent Henry Brake Lends Efforts ELECT OFFICERS vClub at New Hope Also Has 30 Members On Roll Perauimans County's assistant farm agent, Henry L. Brakes, has. been busy recently re-organizing the! Winfall 4-H Club, whicn now has on j its roll 85 members. The club will meet once each month. Mr. Brake devides his time as as sistant agent also in Pasquotank, Camden and Currituck Counties, and works one week out of each month in this county. New Hope now also has a 4-H Club, which Miss Gladys Ham rick, county demonstration agent, and Mr. Brake were instrumental in organizing. The New Hope club has 38 members on call. Niew officers for the year at Win-! fall were elected as follows: Cassiei Winslow, president; Gale Winslow, vice-president; Carl Lewis, secretary and treasurer; Zenona Chappell, re porter; Elizabeth Ward, song leader; Mary Elliott, recreational leader. At New Hope, new officers elected were: Carroll Perry, president; Mary Elizabeth Ivey, vice-president; Blanche Russell, secretary and treas urer; Matt Spivey, reporter; Lloyd Turner and Louise Banks, song lead ers; Keith Haskett and Sadie Smith, recreational leaders. Winfall 4-H Girl Selected To Enter w Cdntest At N. C. Fair fen counties were invited to enter cornpete costume exhibits in the state 4-H clothing contest at the State Fair in Raleigh next week ! Among the counties was Perquimans, . and Doris Miller of the Winfall 4-H Club, was selected by Miss Gladys Hamrick, home demonstration agent, to enter the exhibit for this county, M.ss Mlller 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Miller, decided on a woo sPorts dress- made bV her" self, with accessories to match. Miss Willie Hunter, of Raleigh, extension clotning specialist, namea uie i counties cauea on to enter me e.- hibits. I Shooting deer with bow and arrow j will be permitted in southern Wiscon sin for one month this fall. i men try to explain lack of fish. the impressive This party had four good strikes during the afternoon, however, and twice, hefty pike were almost in the boat when somehow they flopped off the hooks. For the sake of the local man who took Mr. Sivian fishing, it 1 A. ..I- . nAlnf frt AV IS appropriate ai una puim -" . . indicated a bad f fishing the first place the wind was wrong it was too cloudy, too windy, the tide was too low, and it was probably too late in the season ... or something. Mr. Sivian had bis revenge the fol lowing day when he invited the fish ing! guide to join him in a round tff golf on the Elizabeth City Country Club links. Oddly enough, the fish ing guide had never golfed before, but it looked very easy when Mr. Sivian swatted the little ball. When it became the fishing fan's turn to tee off, he was frankly amazed at the manner in which the little ball side stepped the golf club as he swung at it. The rest of the fisherman's game was no better. When he finally con nected with the ball it dribbled off for a few yards in a direction entire ly different from the one he intended. The terms, "bunkers," "hazards" and "sand-traps," took on a new meaning and the fisherman played most of his game in them. Until then he had thought golf a game for sissies, but after tramping over nine greens he decided his legs weren't what they used to be. For accuracy of the records be it said here that the Northerner did a much better job at casting than the fishenqan did at golf. rjanted - Complete Roster Of All World Har Veterans Dow Living In Perqiumans U. S. FAMILY NEW TORK "Unity," the sculp ture by Harry Poole Camden, of Park ersburg, West Virginia, which won for him the $10,000 prize in the contest for sculpture to embellish the United States Government Building at the New York World's Fair 1939. Tha group represents a typical American family being sheltered by the symbol of "Unity." There were 430 contest ants in the competition, which was held in the Fair's Hall of Communica tions. Mysterious Night Birds Disturb Local Slumber A small flock of strange and loud voiced birds, flying in aimless circles just above the housetops last Thurs - day night, served to disturb the peaeeiui sieey in iai lw. of local people several hours around midnight. Various and sundry opinions were formed explaining the birds' pres ence, among them a reasonable sug gestion that the low-flyers, probably a species of sea-birds, had been swept I off their course by a storm, which Thursday's weather here indicated 1 was raging somewhere nearby. In this case the lights of the town ' probably attracted and confused the 1 undecided night-flyers. They left with the darkness, as mysteriously as they came, and without being seen though several people used flashlights trying to catch a glimpse of them. DEMONSTRATION CLUB MEETS The Snow Hill-White Hat Home Demonstration Club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Elmer Wood at her home near Snow Hill. The meeting opened with the mem bers singing "Are We Down-hearted?" At roll call each member ans wered with the number of quarts of fruits and vegetables canned during the year. The club voted to meet with Mrs. Ulric Caddy in October. Miss Hamrick gave an interesting talk on Shrubbery Planting. During the social hour the hostess, assisted by Miss Eleanor Jordan and Miss Beatrice Benton, served iced lemonade and cake. Those present were Mrs. Caddy, Mrs. J. P White, Mrs. Ed - ward Benton, Mrs. E. D. Matthews, Mrs. Ashby Jordan, Mrs. Elmer Wood, Miss Eleanor Jordan, Miss Gladys Hamrick, and Mrs. Will Ever ett. A "SINGING" DOG Dallas. Mike, a bulldog owned by Mr Henry Sor.nson, just pearly 1 1CU 6-" -r r r- - sing, playing h.s own Neighbors, however, while admitting they liked music, objected to Mike's warbling and insisted that he be flir lenc-d 8 Need Felt For Ex-service Men on Special Occasions LIST PRINTED Get Together Likely Be Arranged For Armis tice Day Ex-service men, attention. Three former service men, all living in Hert ford, have appointed themselves a committee of three whose purpose it is to compile a complete list of ex service men who now live in Per quimans County. The file or list has been needed at various times, on occasions such as Memorial Day and Armistice Day, but few men who served with the na tion's armed forces have recorded their discharges with the register of deeds here in the courthouse. With Armistice Day little more than a month away, it is likely that some sort of get-together program will be arranged if the county's ex service men are prompt in forwarding their names to any one of the three local committeemen, B. C. Berry, C. F. Sumner or J. E. Winslow. Each week from now until Novem ber 11, The Perquimans Weekly will publish a list of the names as they are gathered. Names may also be sent to The Editor, Perquimans Weekly, Hertford, N. C. With the list completed, it will be an easy matter to notify each man when and where affairs of interest to him will be conducted, and for other references. The names wanted are the names of men who now live in this county, not the ones who served while this county was their home address and have .since moved to another county. For instance: Sidney Sutton served in the aimy while IVi'qui nans County was his Ionic iin'div.". He has since moved to Pasquotank, 'tis name is listed in Elizabeth City. -J. R. Fu trell served while his home address was in another county, but he has since moved to Hertford, so his name will be listed here. Far from complete, with dozens of men in this county and in the town, unlisted, here is the roll call as it stands now: T. W. Wilson, J. Oliver White, C. W. White, L. S. White, Wa are Harrow P H Small wnt , Wright, H. A. Whitley, Tom Perry p T Johnson, J. R. Futrell, Chas E , Wnite v. N. Darden and W n j Landing. Future Farmers Of County Organize For Year's Work Fourteen New Candi dates Added at An nual Initiation ELECT OFFICERS Members Attend Big Wjener Roast and Bonfire On last Friday night the Perquim ana County Chapter of Future Farm ers of America staged its annual initiation of new members. Fourteen candidates were introduced to the various forms and ceremonies of the Young Tar Heel Farmers. They organized last week for the new year, electing the following offi cers in the process: Clarence Phillips. TTlripi president; Rftlph Layden, vice-presi- IJ" .nnt. M 1 T7H i J T ."" "'""u j ' "-"j, "ciuch nam, treasurer; Julian Long, reporter; G. C. Buck, advifir; Archie Riddick, assistant ad viser; D. J. White, watch dog; and Guy Webb, Leslie Perry, Willie Wins low, Lloyd Chappell and Carey Lane, executive committee. At the conclusion of the initiation ceremonies, the members adjourned , uL school Bui ding where they feasted ' at a big weiner roast and held .W . . vw , flre Me. 1116 V" committe now working on its annual program j of activities for the new school year.