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I -' f lF. 1 .v. . R J..;i . I'll -A-yriiLyNE7;:2Am pevoiot to the upbuilding QF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS county llNumber foiff itum, February 2, IM" L.25 Per Year.;. , . ;"2f,f;f r., r "-t " '.A rrr i ! 3 Birthday Dance Cleared ;$15r Students Were :: To Handle; JPin Sales : 'Bat i Arctic " Weather Interrupted; Driye jai.: nanr if I Hertford drive in favor of the i'ymm'SBriVFoundation reached Jta annua), climax in the dance at ,Waker!, JlondVy night, celebrating the President's Birthday, but the drive,! :f$MJ:9n . ' As it upset ao many things, the Arctic-like weather, of the past few weeks' Vaa- Sisrapted part of the arHTpIrafin "W. Howard jP$witaaii "Coujitjv turned, over the , ativ'ale of pin4 or buttons to the student in . toe various scnoois. ,r , But-bef ow tte teachers could diq Wbutelhe buttons to the young vol unteer wprkers .cold feather and .SBOw'siorn'set4n'. Schools desert . ed their regular schedule of routine vf and-' finally suspended operations en- &dtooj Closed Drive Flopped f Without the aid of the studentu, the button salea bogged down. The i I - lrive wa re-started ' on Wednesday i -j of this wekf1hen schools resumed .'educational activities. A final re port on the button sales, according , to Chairman Pitt, will be delayed for at least another week. - ' f A good drive in this effort to raise ! if unds with- which to fight infantile paralysis at Warm Springs will serve ;Uo boost upward the figure cleared lat the President's Ball on Monday ' ? night " - Weather Again To Blame i Here, again, the weather must : shoulder the blame for an affair ',that failed to live up to advance in- lications. An amount was cleared, $l.0O torpe exact, but tlvQuglf the crowd of 'dancers was enthusiastic, wsw0nlBll'''i',1,'1,v',''rl'r"'r'J't,t-l,'''' ' ;Th.,dp"fTitiol!s-;rndV dance com- 1 4- .mittee woAed lotig and -earnest- madnFthaltTn"afaw,!Hrn (but the size of the crowd was dis appointing'.' So disappointing that a '.generar' OS . went out for help in order" to come out' in the clear. a; -'!; The: result of this plea, voiced at . the ball ' by - W. G. Edwards, was a gratifying flood of donations that iot only pulled the dance committee out of the red, but allowed the ball to show a creditable profit. ; The music was good furnished by ffipence Hatley and his orchestra from f " The' decQrations were tastefu) red. t; white and blue strearnera and bal j joons lent a pauiquc air. M:M Dairy Js To Ca; r.Tbst M cdsrn Ec:tGf Cnrliem f ! Or.Iy .Milk Prom Regis- !, ' tcred Guernsey Cows ' ' --'(.:'. -" -- fi r-x- Win i' im-t ii -iiTirtrBMi w, n-.-'-rtn-Mf-' 12 When New Dairy is ) Opened; feather De m - lays worK. i ' - The Unusual weather of the -past I' few weeks has delayed the . ope - of thetmly Authorited Golden 1Guern- sey Dairy east of Durham. The Jam- . wood Farm Dairy, being put in tead ' ; ineaa by Mrs. : .Thomas "Nixon and . Braxton Dawbnf"W a s - originally scheduled to open about February 15 L -According to a quotation "attribut i ed to i- Stte -Dairy Inspector ' who saw the plans, Elmwood Dairy will be one of the best and most modern 1 -equipped- dairies 'east of Durham 1' a owners s are , buying Guernsey co. i ow-from4he. western 5par6 of t'.a State. .;v- I; " " .. , v Tlie "Authorised GQlden Guernseyf rtans' that, only registered Guernsey c.i will supply the milk. V'5 Vs I L iwood Dairylocated on Mrs .n's farm en the' Elizabeth City, I wayZ-'about foUr;miletffroM ' I itford. Will operate on ,. whole "Y f le basis exclusively, eelling" to dis t 'butiora. It, is understood- that J. f ver White will handle the local dia t lUtion of ETmwood Dairy 'Golden Cacnsey K"'fr VNNOUNC3 ENGAGEMENT -i I-. . W. .Mayes sn- the i.ens;agement ' and ap - rarria8 - of their--daugb-I,-r.r.nc to JulianAyd ;t I-Vh CM. ( S J-'' t- rrular Dlacli-outCcrJay Just Lina Trouiiie It was a dark hour. Those who depended on electricity for heat grew., very cold. Those, who . looked to electricity for cooking grew very hungry. It was very quiet. Radios were silent. There was no musical humming from the electric refripratop. r The current: had failed . ,. Worst luck. The current failed just as several hundred housewives in Hertford and Edenton and yicini ties were about to prepare rhe even ing meal for Beveral .hundred, very tired business men. The .sun had! just gone "down for the day: Lights tha ai jean' turn- - 3..-. '.I .. 1- - I i . ed on a lew minutes S2Mu vegan w flicker uncertainly ... like;, the kero aene lamps when the oil is low. Twilight fused into darkness. Can dies glowed dimly in the -; stores a the operators waited for six o'clock . . . anc closing time. It was a dark hour, and a dark town. A blackout! With a healthy stretch of the ima gination one could almost hear th: distant drone of enemy planes. One could also feel for a momen the terror in Helsinki, London, Pari?, as the populace awaits the shatter ing detonation of an incendiary bomb. Then when you tired of this, you could pull' yourself back to reality. And thankfulness. Everlastingly glad that the blackout did not signal an approach of hell from the dark skies. That the blackout instead signaled trouble on the line . . . somewhere between here and. Suffolk, .the source of our current. Inconvenient? Yes. But to offset the inconvenience, a -chance to live for moweat with the Finns in Hel- BjtW.&ATtdi J if ,;you ' wanted to, a j chaacr'tff Bverv wfth them' for But more than all this, was the chance to be grateful for living in a country at peace with the world . . where blackouts aje fun!? Death ClaimsAged iiifall Resident lneral Services Held Tuesday For J, S. Ov erman, Native of Per quimans 4 1 Funeral services were conductet Tuesday afternoon for J. ,S. Over mari, age 81', well-known" resident of Wmfall. who died at 10 oclock Sun-' day night at his home 'iniWinf all." v . Mr; Overman ha4 i"been a residejis of Perquimans County all his life, re slding ln the Winf ail 'confimunity un til about four years ago , when he moved into the town. " ' . ; , ,' Surviving are " the widow, Mrs Margaret L. Overtoil; one daughter, Mrs. H. Ward, and four, grand, children. , Services were conducted at . the Wittf aU Methodist Church ' with in terment being made in the "family Active pallbearers were: A. White. fJr.,"Wffls'on Hendrix, B:K Pike7'Ji; jQeLaney, J. W. Ward s andaW. v j. Stanton. (Honorary pallbearers in cluded Tom H. White, Wesley Pike. LCrXfiasky, W. F. Morgan, r. J. V. I Tt it. -J -BM AtttMTs- . , K 'haMa Roacn, uavia lrueDiooa. n. so..- um mon, A.,R.'?Winslow, J.t., - Denhis Chalk and Cook inane. . Frozen Pipes Brjng No Decrease Ing ' Towii Water Sales r Contrary to a first thought' on the matter, f, freezing . water pipes s and freezing V temperatures have 'not brought a decrease inpthe - town's water"" salest; Instead, if the "tewn water sales will c show Ian increase, according tr W G. NewbV, city clerk. War -supply bill frat least 15 cases wil be heavier for; this tnonth due to .broken 'water pipes . and Te sulting r leakage. This number i of trouble cases, in view of the extreme ly Cold weather of the past few days, Mr.. Newby thinks -is--n't bH when one considers that the Jjwn has ap proximately SGO water accounla.- ;' , ' Water loss due to bro' if- s and leakage in these 15 c !: 1 v r. e than offset tie.lrTr v e i i- tlon t"-t ac- Postal Official Returns Here To See Committee Authorizes Local After noon Mail to Be Dis patched Thirty Min utes The Perquimans Weekly has been unable to learn what action was tak en, if any, to induce a Postal Repre sentative to return to Hertford last Friday afternoon to consult with the committee of the Lions Club re garding their proposal concerning the m&l service to and from the lo cal post office, but come he did and The Weekly feels that the recommen dation made by him will be of. bene fit to local business houses, s wefll as to all patrons of the post office. An authorisation has been, made that mail which has been dUpatched frm thii office every afternoon at 4:80 o'clock, by Star Route to Wil son, will henceforth leave Hertford at 5 p. m. This thirty minute set back in the Schedule will enable practically all business houses to make the mail with their day's cor respondence. This order was effec tive last Friday. The Postal Representative stated that a check had been made concern ing the carrying of parcel post on this delivery, but that the findings showed that the average number of packages mailed daily would not war rant this additional service, but if at any time the revenue on such mail to and from Hertford increased to the point that the service could be added that the Department would be glad to give the extra service. Funeral Services For Perquimans Native Held Last Friday Death Claimed Mrs. Martha Umphlett In Edenton at Age of 87 Years Funeral services for Mrs. Marth.i Umphlett, widow of the late Charney Umphlett, were held last Friday af ternoon at the New Hope Methodist Church. The services were conduct- ad by the Rr.J. 0. Cranford, assist ed by Rev. W. C. Benson, of Edenton. Dea;h claimed Mrs. Umphlett fol lowing a long period of ('11 health. She passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Boyce, in Eden ton, where she had made her home for the past few years. Mrs". Umphlett was 87 years of age at the time of her death, having cele brated ' her birthday on Saturday, January 13. 'Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Boyce and Mrs. J. S. Jackson, of Edenton; "Mrs. Montoe Nurney and Mrs. W. E. Dail, of Perquimans County; one son, Dan Umphlett; and two half-brothers, Pete and Ned Matthews; and Several grandchildren and great grandchildren. A Lot of People are subject arrest. A Lot of People in Hertford have not boutrht city license plates for their automobiles. They've bought State tags but they haven't bought the local permits tc operate their vehicles. So a lot of people are lawbreakers They're violating a city ordinance and they've been subject to arres since January 15, the deadline. There have been no . arrests,' so evidently the law is lacking, the proper enforce'' ment. 1 ; j ' - t- If v as ; many 'people own care now as they owned Haste year, and there is no indication of a decrease, in the number of locally-owned motor cars then. 16 Hertford motorists are breaking the 'Jaw-every time they drive out of the garage. The police department hasn't made any threats, but a lot of people are going to be put to unnecessary ex pense when , the - department gets a- round to checking the tax lists and sees who have bought - city tags and who ha vent. ' Then tire police are going to Jkweax out some warrants, , . , '4 , To daWthe town -has sold 190 plates. Last .year . there were 206 private .cars lis'ed for taxes, accord 1G Lavbrewers At Large Here to ing to Information from" the town Cca. -V':: r:yviH3 Giiilly On Liquor Transportation Counts, Men Fined Brickhouse Loaded Li enor Along With the Meat; Driver Didn't Know It John L; Coker, Negro, entered a plea of '"guilty of driving Enoch Brickhouse out in the country aftei some meat." Enoch Brickhouse, Negro, entered a plea of "guilty of having the whiskey." Both men were charged in Record er's Court Tuesday with possession for sale,, transportation and posses sion of untaxpaid whiskey. They squirmed under Recorder Granberry Tucker's direct question as to whether or not they wished tc plead guilty. They didn't want to plead guilty and they didn't want to plead not guilty. So they beat a round the bush until the Judge enter ed pleas of not guilty -to all counts for them, It was Coker's car, and it seems that Coker didn't know Brickhouse had loaded the contraband liquor along with the meat. Brickhouse substantiated Coker in this instance . . . and drew the' long end of the sentence. Brickhouse got 60 days on the road, the sentence to be suspense d upon payment of half the costs of court and a $25 fine. Coker, guilty on only the transpor tation count, was fined $10 and dir ected to pay the other half of the court costs. A. A. NoMes was found not guilty in a case where he was charged with passing a worthless check. Fishing Boundary Argument In Hands No Word From Com mittee Matter Is Re f erred to; Board Has Petitions Both sides of the fishing-boundary controversy along with a pe'.itioi and a counter-petition are in th hands of the North Carolina Board of Conservation and development. The commercial fishermen and the sportsmen have laid their views be fore the Board of Conserva'ion and Development, and the matter has been referred to a special committee The sportsmen appeared before the Commission first, early thi month, and offered a petition bea a Hong list of signatures and requj ina: that the commercial boundary be moved to a point six miles down the river . . . 100 yards beyond Sutton's Creek. Attorneys representing the com mercial fishermen , appeared befor the Commission on the following da and offered a counter -petition . . giving the commercial fishermen' reasons why the boundary should stay just where it is, at the railroad bridge. According to various interested persons approached on the subject there as yet has been no reply froir the Conservation Board. It is understood that the Fisheries Commission, which sets the com mercial boundaries on inland, waters operates under the Board of Con servation and Development. Local Men Attend Norfolk Conference T. S. White and J. R. Sawyer, Hertford, were among the approxi mately 260 persons who attended the joint conference of representatives of Southern States Cooperative in section and representatives of the Farmers' Cooperative Exchange, Ra leigh, N. C, held at the Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, Va., on January 23 j Varibae phases of the cooperative program for farm people were ex plained by sneakers from both or ganizations. MEETING POSTPONED . Due to inclement weather condi tions Mrs. Orris Robinson, National vice president of the Women's Intei!- national League for Peace and Freer dom, has postponed her intended vis it to Ndrth Carolina and the meeting scheduled to be held at Whiteston oa Sunday afternoon has been called off. Mrs. JtobinBon twill make A a visit to ,&ia section at a later date, and It is probable that the meeting wfll be bJ at $at tinwT " ; - Conservation Group EXPECTED THAT GEORGE LANE, MODEL PRISONER, WILL SHORTLY BE PAROLED If He Sees His Shadow- Today is Ground Hog Day. If the fellow walks out today and sees his shadow ... lay in a new store of fuel. If he doesn't see it it's time to discard the long under wear and take off the earmuffs. At least, that's what the old-timers say. Spring is still six weeks from now if the sun is 6hining when he comes out to look at the weather (we don't know what time of day) But if he doesn't see it, spring, Beau; tiful Spring, starts immediately. Schools Resumed Regular Schedules Wednesday Morn Teachers' Pay Is Af fected to Tune of One Week's Additional Board Bill County school machinery was eased into gear Wednesday after a suspen sion of activities for exactly one week. "We could have opened schools and had aQl 'he students here today," stated Superintendent F. T. Johr.son in an interview Monday, "but the buildings aro too cold for comfort." The heating plants had maintained since last Tuesday only enough steam to keep the boilers from freezing. There had been no steam pressure to the radiators in the individual rooms which were as cold as a Fin nish battlefield. The official reason for the shut down of the county's educational plants was given as "extremely cold weather and hazardous road condi- j tions." j Questioned as to the effect the shutdown wiil have on teachers' pay, the superin 'endent explained that the suspension will' amount to exactly one week's additional board bill. ; ''Our month officially ended to-; day," Mr. Johnson went on. "But with the loss of three days last week and uree days this wees, the month moves up to next Monday instead, constituting exactly one week's los.s of time and pay." The week will be made up in six days attached to the end of the present school term. Farmers Order Carload Certified Coker Cotton Seed Arrangements Being Made to Get Coopera- tive Order Austrian Winter Peas According to information from L W. Anderson, county agent, 57 farm ers have cooperated with his office in making up a cooperative order for a carload of certified Coker 100 Strain Number 2 cotton seed, to be planted in Perquimans County this year. The order included more thqn 700 bushels of see'd . . . 'enough to plant six or seven hundred acres. The county agent expects to make up more cooperative orders at a later date. Farmers will shortly be advised that arrangements are being made to secure a carload of Austrian Win ter Pea seed to be planted next fall. These peas, Mr. Anderson said on Wednesday, will be furnished to farmers as a grant of aid. Later 'here will be a deduction of five cents per pound from the subscribers' 1940 Conservation Payments to off set the grant. Farmers will be given credit for one unit for each acre planted in meeting the 1940 soiU4uiIding goal. A further credit of one unit; per acre! Mr. Anderson said, will be given for each acre plowed under next spring toward meeting the-goal., in 194M No credits will be allowed toward meeting the BoU-buildimr goal 'in 1940 in connection ' with soy beans that are harvested by mechanical means for any purpose. - : 'The Lions dub will meet with the Plymouth Mom on February k f Sentenced For Man slaughter In 1933; Lane Has Many Local Friends Who Worked Hard to Secure His Release His friends have done a good job. George Lane convicted killer of his son, Woodrow, will be paroled from the State's Prison within the next ten days, according to a communica tion to Miss Ruth Davenport, county welfare officer, from Edwin Gill, Commissioner of Paroles. Lane had served seven years of a 20-to-25-year term for second de gree murder when his friends start ed a drive to secure his freedom. A petition was circulated in his behalf, and promise of his release was finally secured. Sentenced in 1933 It was on Ju!ly 28, 1933, that the chain of events started which ended with George Lane's confinement in the State's prison. For on that day his son died. A number of mysterious circum stances aroused suspicion, and a week after the burial, the body of Wood row was exhumed. It was decided then that Woodrow had not died ac cidentally while sawing down a tree as first reports of the death had it. The trial resulted, and at the April Term of Perquimans County Super ior Court in 1933, a jury found George Lane guilty of murder in the second degree. His sentence was fixed at not less than 20 years nor more than 25 years in the State Penitentiary: Model Prisoner Lane, now 48, is a model prisoner. He returned only last week to the State Prison Farm at Cary after a twenty-day furlough which he spent here with his aged parents. He ori ginally came for a five-day visit, but due to the serious illness of his father the time was twice extended. He talked freely with friends here of his work on the farm where he raises swine, having trom sou to jw swine in his charge. Ey?n then and be&re , ilia visit, there had been much discussion of the matter of a parole and he was assured that everything possible was being done to end his stay at the Prison. Perquimans Will Inaugurate Series Of Farm Programs Eight Counties Cooper ating In Broadcast; Local 4-H Chapter to Be On Air Perquimans County will have a part in the Albemarle Farm and Home Program, a regular Thursday morning broadcast which will origi nate in the radio studios in Elizabeth ! marie section will cooperate to pre sent the programs, different coun ties participating each Thursday. Perquimans County will inaugurate the series on February eighth, at 11 a. m.; Miss Gladys Hamrick, county demonstration agent, and L. W. An derson, farm agent, arranging the program with demonstration club members and farmers. Mrs. M. T. Griffin will give a brief description of the county, and Mrs. J. M. Fleetwood will give a review of home demonstration club work in the county, covering the past four years. Mr. Anderson will give a short talk on cotton poisoning for boll weevil control. Other counties to appear over the air waves following the initial broad cast by Perquimans, are Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford and Chowan. 4-H Clubs will offer a broadcast once each month . . . the Perquimans chapter also leading off in this se ries. Four counties wild cooperate in the 4-H programs Pasquotank, Camden, Currituck and Perquimans. The first 4-H program, on Febru ary 24th, will consist of a summary of club work during 1939. The broadcast, it is nnders'ood, will feature historians and resumes of work undertaken by different clubs and farm bodies,' and timely advices of interest to the farmer and house wife, i n,t- .RECEIVES HJP INJURY Ira.;a.NixoB,ged About 6, who Uvea with her daughter ?!. J. 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