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r Gretna Green
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law Causes De-
lln Number of
agfeFerformed
luimans
as many marriages were
in Ferquimans uounty
ar 1939 as were per-
le preceding year,
couples applied to the
eeds and received h
In the year just
vere only vt coupies
iuples married in the
the past year, only 19
ter the law requiring
it to a physical exam-
,to effect, on April 4,
ting been married in
I months of the year.
Mage licenses were is-
months of Septem-
ovember and Decem-
year, among which
e white couple, non
State, who are not
it to the physical
do not necessarily
at "there have been
f Perquimans folks
ear. for many have
Virginia to be mar
fa. . . . , .
consiaeraoiy less
convenience.
Sin
ttof
Sis
the Legislature
campaign in
"die it was provided
p who went into
tnXrjied should be
Jsh the required
rtipon their return,
n the state to be.
n t
Carolina ia al
prett
with;
phya
ing I
to M
formi
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torie. . ,
posmon new,
$5.6" and the
Ttifkate cost
Wetimes $6,
1 to the per
cer. Wed labora
tiie blood
' teats e4kc
nations can!
lai e-:ami
t
ma
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to Perquimans beini
which naturally ca
venience and occasio
For many decades
North Carolina has he " -i
Gretna Green for thej,
across the border in j.
. wished to run away as,
' The situation has revv
. and now Carolina coujt
more convenient to slip do
folk or to Norfolk than tff
at home.
Beverly Bland
:Won of
- as a
cples
who
Tied.
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Weds Miss Ber
"lil
Lane In I City
Weddpg Perforn;
. Parsonage of
jj 1
Methodist Churt
New Year's Day-
Of interest to the many
r
I V
be
;. il the bridegroom in Hertford i
-4 marriage of Miss Bertha
; ! Elisabeth City, and Beverly J
"ard, formerly of Hertford,' I
c of. Elizabeth. City, which to
1 : 'on Naur, Year's Day at 4 o
-! ; r;- tt alte-fioon,. : the : ceremons;
--'performed At the Paraonaga
V' First Methodist Churchy in K
City; with the pastor, the j
, K," King, officiating. Only n
, of the immediate family of
,!: A; -were present.
The bride is the attractive
; ter of, Charles Lane and. the la
v jjane,.oz ruizapetn iity. ant
- graduate of the Elizabeth Citi
i:s,School. i , ,
v;The bridegroom is a sn (g
Maude Blanchard and the
,,Blanchard, of Hertford16 rT
V. hia nWtinh.t thwl'man!
School and waWor some yeay
' ployed at.th State Theatre hvU
' ' ford. Fir the past year he hai
connectedW11
"in Eliaabetaty, The young J
y,il make their home in EM
City. v
StuTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr.-and Mrs. W. C. Doiien
ceiving congratulations on t
cf a son, Jim Elliott, borr
L ;or..ler 24, ' ,
' A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Hertford,
New gear's Baby
Perquimans County Honors for
the first bDy born in 1940 goes
to the daughter of Mr. and Mars.
Murray D.j Lane, of Belvidere. The
little lady 'was born at 11:30 Mon
day morning, according to Dr. C.
A. Davenport, attending physician.
Several counties have come for
ward claiming honors for the first
baby lorn in the Albemr.rle in
These claims we will not
disnfte, but to Miss Lane goes the
honrr of being the New Year's
of Perquimans.
L Payne Freed Of
lame For Accident
No Probable Cause Is
Found In Accidental
Death of Negro Youth
No probable cause was found
against R. L. Payne in connection
with the accidental death of Luther
Zachary, young Edenton Negro, in
the hearing held in Recorder's Court
on Tuesday.
Jack Gaskill, State Highway Pa-1
trolman, who investigated the acci
dent and who mrnra out th warrant
against Mr. Payne, testified that in-
his opinion the accident, which oc-j
furred on the Edenton Highway on
the night of December 22, when a!
bicycle ridden by the Negro was I
struck by a car driven by Mr. Payne,
was unavoidable and that he swore,
out the warrant purely as a matter
of form and because it was required
by law.
Evidence tended to show that there
was no light on the bicycle, which
was being ridden in a zig zag man
ner at the time the rider swerved in
front of Mr. Payne's car.
The victim, who was brought to a
Hertford physician and later carried
1940 J
i
'-ft
J.
At least there!0 toe Albemarle Hospital by Mr.
ificate filed fori Pay", died the morning after the
J
i ?viiiie nooaara, negro, pieau guu-
VJ"?: "I"?. "T' .
proper lights, an-i .was taxed . with
half of the court -torts. . -Dr.
Joseph D. Weaver, Negro phy
sician recently located here, plead
guilty to the charge of reckless driv
ing, explaining to the court that his
being unfamiliar with the road was
the cause of his passing a car on a
curvei The defendant was fined $15,
from which the court costs were to
be paid
Carroll Hill, Perquimans
was charged with trespass
farmer,
on the
land of J. P. Ward.
It developed in
the course of the
trial that the
trouble was due to an argument!
about the amount Mr. Hill should
pay the prosecuting witness for im
pounding and. feeding 12 hogs owned
by the defendant. Mr. Hill was
found not guilty of trespass, but was
instructed to pay the proper amount
to Mr. Ward.
A noli pross with leave was taken
in tYin paflfi T CLsrir eta T-Tr 11 nrnraA
twith non-suDoort.
Eiihu Key and Earl Rountree,
Vegroes, who were caught with a
ye-gallon jug of liquor, and who
re charged with possessing non-tax
d liquor for the purpose of sale,
fnrr transporting non-tax paiq liquor,
and, in the case of Earl Rountree,
with driving with insufficient brakes,
were found guilty as charged, and
each sentenced to six months on the
roads, the sentence to be suspended
1 upon each paying a $200 fine. In
addition, Rountree s driver's license
jwas revoked, his automobile confis
cated,' and. he was fined $10 on the
brakes charge.
The defendants, who were not re
presented by counsel, appealed to
Superior Court, bond being fixed in
the , sum of $300 each. : ,
ion Wiggins, Negro, convicted
ing drunk and disorderly, was
need -to the roads for 30 days,
dditional 30-day sentence ' being
setf - foe contempt of court in
ction "with his remarks to. the
cuting witness while on the
toffice Enjoys
siness Increase
le steady upward trend in the
hess .of.the Hertford post office
maintained in the year just pass-
Hvith ah increase of about 6 per
1938, according to Postmaster
Whedbee.
ens New Store In
new.
Build -
t located on Market Street' i" The
Hng has been completely renovat
.4maKes another very attractive
JMadre Building,
E. Cannon -.has ; opened a
i;rv store in the Old Madre
LJCVJertrord. Mr. rCannon'swhen she stumbled at the curb and
s new
Jog.,; ; v.w-.:z
Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, January 5, 1940.
Hertford School
To Be Improved
During Summer
Long Needed Repairs!
Will Be Made This
Year; Fire Hazards to
Be Eliminated
To the anxious parents who have
through many years hoped for im
provement in the old Hertford Gram
mar School Building it will come as
good news that, at long last, im
provements are to be made, though
the work will not begin until the year
1940 is well under way. Not until
after the summer vacation begins, as
a matter of fact.
Superintendent F. T. Johnson says
that the money for the improvements,
$18,000, is in hand and the work ac
tually will begin in May. Sixteen
thousand dollars of this sum was
borrowed last summer and the bal
ance of two thousand was raised by
taxation, the amount included in the
county budget.
For a long time there has been
complaint of conditions at" the old
Grammar School, with distress over
fire hazard particularly stressed,
toiler room was made fire-proof,
nccrding to Superintendent Johnson,
!f fal1' h improvements which met
State requirements. The matter
of flre escapes has yet to be attend-
ed to
Contemplated improvements will
include two outside stairways to pro
vide adequate exits in case of fire.
New plumbing will be installed, with
modernized toilets, as well as com
plete renovation and refinishing of
class rooms and corridors.
The long talked of auditorium to
be added to the building located on
the first floor, which is particularly
desirable with the school made up
largely of small children, is not in
cluded in the present plan.
Masons InstaU ew,
Officers Tor Year
On Tuesdayn night, January 2, the
following officers of Perquimans
Lodge No. 106 A. F. & A. M., were
duly installed for the ensuing Ma
sonic year: F. T. Johnson, Worship
ful Master; G. C. Buck, Senior War
den; C. R. Holmes, Junior Warden;
G. W. Jackson, Treasurer; J. S.
Vich, Secretary; I. C. Berry, Senior
Deacon; A. T. Lane, Junior Deacon;
D. J. Priitchard, Chaplain: Marshall
Owens, Senior Steward; W. H. Pitt,
Junior Steward; W. A. Hoffler, Tyler.,
Standing committees were ap
pointed as follows: Finance, C. D.
White, G. C. Buck and A. T. Lane;
Orphanage, J. S. Vick, B. C. Berry
and E. S. Pierce; Resolutions, C. R.
Holmes, B. C. Berry and J. W.
Zachary.
Past Master J. S. McNider acted as
I installing aftirer onH D 1 Pi-ifMi.
ard as Marshall.
Aged Inmate Happy
At County Home
For more than half a century Wal
ter Moss has been an inmate of the
County Home in Perquimans. Wal
ter, who has the mind of a six-year-old,
is also dwarfed in stature. Left
an orphan fifty-two years ago, he
was placed in the County Home.
There are no near relatives living
now, Walter alone living on, spend
ing a never-ending childhood among
scences that have been familiar for
over fifty years. Just how old Wal
ter is, it would be hard to determine.
Some say he is 76.
He is apparently happy, as he
plays as a child might, but some
times he becomes restless, according
to C. B. White, the keeper of the
Home. , Not so long ago he ran away,
as ha does occasionally, and this time
wandered, off into the woods. When
he returned he had lost one shoe.
He had also left the axe he carried
away with him. But he did not know
how to go back for the lost articles.
Never happier than when he is
smoking a big cigar, the old little
boy frequently asks a visitor for one,
and then he puffs away, happy for
the moment as a child with a toy.
There are only five inmates in the
County Home at this time.
ElderlyLady
Breaks Arm In Fall
Mrs. Jane Campen sustained a
broken arm when she fell on the
; street Wednesday nitrht. Mrs. Cam-
pen. who is well advanced in years,
was returning to her home from a
visit across the street to a neignoor
neath the weight "of her body.
Controversy Arises
Over Fishing In
Perquimans River
Petition to Be Placed
Before Conservation
Board For Benefit of
Commercial Fishing
The fishing industry of Perquimans
is a pretty important thing, with
many families depending upon fishinj;
as a means nf livelihood. Between
I the commerrial fishermen and the
I sportsmen, the men who fish with
nets and those who fish with reel and
; rod or with hook and line, there has
for some time been controversy.
I In the Perquimans River, where
I herring, shad and rock are caught in
I great numbers in nets by the com
mercial fishermen, there is a limit
where these fisheremen may not net
their nets. The boundary line of the
inland waters is the bridge across
the river at Hertford. From the
bridge up the river is only for the
man with the hook and line or the
reel and rod, fishing for the big black
bass which also abounds in the river,
and for speckeled perch, white perch,
rock and jack pike.
The sportsmen have long complain
ed that the creeks which flow into
the river, once the paradise of the
fishermen with the reel and rod or
hook and line, no longer contain the
fish that once frequented these little
deep streams, for the reason that the
commercial fisherman sets his nets atj
the mouth of the creek, or too near
it, and the game fish are caught in
the nets.
The fishermen interested in the
game fish are seeking to have the
boundary line of the inland waters,
the prohibitive area for the commer
cial fishermen, changed. They want
the boundary extended to take in the
mouth of Sutton's Creek, a distance
of about 6 miles from the bridge.
Commercial fishermen are stren
uously objecting to the change, and a
petition, signed by many Perquimans
jCounty citizens will be placed before
the -Board of Conservation and De
velopment, asking that no such
change shall be made and that com
mercial fishing in Perquimans River
remain as it is.
It is a serious matter for the men
who make fishing a business, and it
will be still more serious for the men
employed in the business if half of
that portion of the river between the
bridge and the Sound be set aside for
u.sc of the sportsmen only.
Now Health Law
Becomes Effective
At First Of Year
Law Requires Expect
ant Mothers to Take
Test Through Health
Department
One of the most important public
health measures ever enacted by a
North Carolina legislature became
effective Monday, January 1, accord
ing to local health officers.
The law reads, in part, "every
woman who becomes pregnant shall
have a blood, sample taken and sub
mitted to a laboratory approved by
the N. C. State Board of Health for
performing the Wasserman test or
other approved tests for syphilis."
Summarized, this new law pro
vides :
That any duly licensed physician
shall, upon request of the woman,
secure the required blood sample and
submit it to the laboratory.
Midwives may not take such sam
ples but shall refer their patients to j
a duly licensed physician.
Any pregnant woman who is not
able to pay a physician to take the
blood sample may have such sample
secured by the county health officei
or the county physician for submis
sion to the laboratory.
EARNS PROMOTION
Russell Nixon, of Norfolk. Va.. who
ha heo.n ranresentative for the Life
and Casualty Insurance Company of
Tennessee, has recently been promot- lor try-outs at a later date, ah ap
ed to District Superintendent. Mr. j plications must be submitted before
Nixon has been with the company , February 1, 1940, according to Mr.
only ten months. He took over his Lang.
new duties on January first, and will i Of this endeavor, Aubrey Wil-
continue to make his home in Mor-
folk.
TAKES NEW POSITION
Bill White, who has been connected
with Joe & Bill's Filling Station, hasj
resigned and accepted a position with
the Atlantic Discount Corporation in
Elizabeth City. Mr. White assumed
his new duties Monday.
PROPOSED RECREATION PIER PROJECT
TO GET UNDER WAY
Conduct In Court Gets
Negro Defendant An
Extra Thirty Days
Vernon Wiggins will have to
wait a couple of months, at least,
to make good a statement made
in Recorder's Court Tuesday.
Judge Cranberry Tucker saw to
that.
Wiggins, a Negro youth, ap
pears to have caused a lot of
trouble when he appeared at an
entertainment being held at the
Winfall Negro school, during the
Christmas holidays. As a result
he found himself in Recorder's
Court Tuesday charged with being
drunk and disorderly.
In conducting his own defense,
the defendant was allowed to
cross-examine State's witnesses.
"We're going to have .some more
trouble, you and me," he told
George Moore, who was on the
stand.
"Not for some time," was the
laconic interjection of Judge
Tucker.
In addition to the liO-day road
sentence in connection with the
original charge, Wiggins was giv
en a 30-day sentence for contempt
of court.
Committee Visits
Windsor to See Fire
Fighting- Equipment
Mayor V. N. Darden, Superintend
ent R. N. Hines and Fire Chief S.
M. Whedbee went over to Windsor
last Wednesday to see demonstra
ed the fire fighting apparatus re
cently installed in that city. No de
cision has been reached, according to
Mayor Darden, as to the exact equip
ment which the Town of Hertford
will buy, the matter still being under j
consideration.
N Y. A. To Conduct
Musical Contest
109 Young Musicians to
I5e Recruited For Ex
tensive Tour
The National Youth Administration j
for North Carolina plans to. conduct,
a State-wide classical musical contest
to aid in the selection of Leopold,
Stokowski's ail-American youth Or-J
chestra, to be organized in the:
United States this winter for a good
will tour of South and Central Amer-
ica, it was learned today. '
This information came from John;
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J. LJiXll,, OlflLC X U U III AUllJIlll.-tllUWl,:
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plished musicians interested in try -
ing out for this Orchestra.
The National Youth Administration!
will recruit from throughout the!
country the 109 young musicians who!
are to make up the orchestra which!
the famous conductor, Stokowski,
plans to take on tour. Only appli
cants under the age of 25 years will
be eligible; buth both NYA workers
and non-NYA young people may
apply.
In order to help the National or
ganization recruit the best talent, the
North Carolina NYA is now makin
nians fn rnmlnct rnntest. nf skilled
young musicians in Raleigh during UP stairs the room used now by the
the early part of February to select ; County Welfare Department,
those who will be recommended fori Little business of importance came
regional try-outs under the direction ' up. As a matter of fact, the min
of Mr. Stokowski. ! utes contains the phrase "on motion"
Mr. Lang said young people should
send all applications directly to him,
care of the National Youth Adminis
tration in Raleigh. The try-outs will
be open to all young people, irrespec
tive of sex, color or race. In making
applications, the young person should '
state the instrument he plays, his -
training and experience, and personal J
endorsements of his ability, as well,
his age, address and present occupa
tion. The applications received will be
considered by a board of judges, ac-
cording to present plans, and
appli
cants will be notified of eligibility
hams, National Youth Administrator.
said, "This is a worthy and patriotic
enterprise. I am hopeful that se-j
lecting these youths through our.
State NYA offices will extend this
wonderful opportunity equally to all)
of our talented young musicians, and
. develoD a musical group that will re-
' present the very best of its kind
that can be assembled." I
$1.25 Per Year.
HERE SOON
Work on River Recrea
tion Center Will Be
Under Supervision of
W. P. A.
Construction of the recreation
pier, long talked about but for a long
time delayed, is actually to begin
within two weeks.
The building of the pier is a WPA
project, sponsored, by the Town of
Hertford, and consists of much more
than the construction of a pier.
The blueprints in the office of the
Wl'A supervisor show that the pier,
which will he located at the foot of
Grubb Street, will extend 273 feet
out into the water. The pavilion,
open-air type, will be located at the
far end of the long pier. The cover
ed portion, with a walkway all
around, shows .'JO by 30 feet of floor
space. Projecting out beyond this
point the blue print shows a wider
pier or wharf where boats may be
tied up. There will be bathing at
this point in approximately a seven
foot depth of water, but another sep
arate diving tower will be construct
ed, in deeper water, farther out in the
river where there will be no danger
of divers striking bottom.
The blueprints show bath houses,
shower rooms and lockers at the
shore end of the pier, with two separ
ate units, divided by the board walk,
into quarters for men and women,
those for men on one side and for
women on the other. Just in front
of this bath house and facing the
river will be an open-air porch with
benches lining the rail. The board
walk ten feet in width, will be railed
the whole distance out to the pavil
ion, with steps descending to the
j river bottom at intervals.
j A Federal allotment of 132.00
i will take care of the labor on the
project, and also a portion of the
expense materials.
j Completion of the project will re
I quire approximately five months, ac
i cording to Feed Chalk, who is in
: charge of VJ?A activities in J'trquim
! ana. Provia: n is also made for the
i cleaning up of the river front, oid
! stumps, sunken logs and other debris
! to be cleared away, and the work is
to be commenced, on January 18.
Twenty men will bo given employ
ment on this project, with the work
of cleaning up the river uluire be
ginning at the same time work on
the pier begins.
emmissioners In
Regular Meeting
Tuesday Morning
1 Little liUSllieSS BrOUght
Before Regular Meet
ing Held In Court
House
The Hoard of County Commission
ers did not hold their regular meet
ing on Monday, N?w Year's Day, and
when the members of the Board
gathered Tuesday morning for their
meeting they found the court room
in use by Recorder's Court. Conse
quently, the Commissioners decided to
! meet n the old Grand Jury Room.
but one time. It was on motion or
dered that one dollar be refunded in
a tax transaction.
Bills were passed upon and order
ed paid, and the Commissioners dis
cussed peneral tonics of interest for a
while and adjourned before the noon
hour.
J S. Army Recruiting
Officer Now In Edenton
An opportunity is now presented
to young men of this section to join
the United States Army, which may
be done every day at the Edenton
Post Office. In the lobby of the
building is stationed Corporal Joseph
L. Hester, who will be glad to take
enlistments between the hours of 8
a. m. and 4 p. m., every day of this
week. Every young man of good
character between the ages of 18 and
35 is eligible for enlistment.
According to Corporal Hester, he
will make out the necessary papers
and each Tuesday and Friday an
army truck will be in Edenton to
transport recruits to Norfolk from
where they will be transferred to
outfits of their choice.
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