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A' WESIKLY. NEWSPAiPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume VII. Number 6.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, February 9, 1940.
$1.25 Per Year.
E;;,;iss!o;esTU!riTiBoowNON
I'hlFALL ELi;,;i;iATIO;j IIIGII17AY PROJECT
', Jlegister Protest With
. r ; State Highway; Ask
; ::,That,U. S, 17-BeJUrft
rt, Where It Js; Motoring
A v Public Best Served By
j The ftoard of County Commission
rs in regular session Monday reg-
Istered disapproval of tho proposed
v change in U. S. Highwaj 17, which
would have tended to wipe Winfall
: iv s off the highway tnaps.
More than disapproving, the Com
. -, missioners unanimously adopted a
' , . resolution of protest against the
. change,
-..u&vS. Winfall' has long been protesting
mm- the proposed change in U. S. 17, even
s ; ' to the point of circulating a petition,
t but this is the first official action
; taken against the move.
' Here is the resolution:
V .' ; r: "On motion ordered that the Coun
ty Commissioners of Perquimans
- SjEjjunty register its protest with the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission against the building of
mroject 1783 U. S. Route 17, as post
ed at the courthouse door of Per
V V; quimans County on January 16,, 1940,
"L " and respectfully request said State
e Highway and Public Works Commis
sion to straighten the curves and
.t.j.?''. widen the present highway running
A from Hertford through the village of
Winfall, and to let the route U. S. 17
xun as now laid, after being straigh
' .. ttened as to curves and widened.
''In the judgement of the Board of
.Commissioners of -Perquimans Coun
ts ty such action on the part of the said
; Highway Commission will best serve
the interests of Perquimans County,
and the traveling public's safety and
comfort will be better promoted than
)by building the proposed project
1733. i :r
-S, I "This .resolution is "made and
, Adopted With the spirit of full cooper-
ation b the Board of County Com
missionerj . of Perfluimans . County
" ''T1 with the' State highway and, Public
' , Works Commission, and it wishes '.o
' '- emphasize it desire to so cooperate,
and this protest is filed in the spirit
and because the Board of Commis
.yL sioners are of the opinion that such
t"; action as is hereby asked will carry
:': -out the best interests of the county
I,- and the traveling public.
' ?'It is further resolved, that '.he
ii'i State Highway and Public Works
Commission be requested to send a
;5 .. representative to Winfall and show
vm to the several property owners whose
, land it wilF require to straighten
, ' curves, just where on the ground the
right-of-way will be so that steps
can be taken to comply with the re
quired change of curves."
Is Said That Some
ijecfioiis Center
Hill Road Removed
Rumored That Contract
,1s to Be , Let This
MonthForAUWeath
:ver Turnpike
' Though workhas not begun on
J'the Hertford-Center Hill Road, .The
; TPerouimans Weekly has it on good
authority that' many , compQications
-1 that developed in getting ' the right-of-way-have
been removed.
' This authority has it reliably that
many of those along the proposed
route of tie 'new road who 'at: first
' objected toturning over their lands
for the purpose-have., been brought
around to the other-side of the.issue
nd have agreed to- sell. f.-1
IIo names' .were - 'mentioned to hia
connection, but "the' State would not
have paid off some of the landowners
unless it is certain that all land
owners involved "were" agreeable' to
the project,"- the source i of infor-
k matron said. ' , ' "., .
The Perquimans Weekly, has not
.been sible to learn when the work of
giving Hertford and- Center Hill an
all-weather, highway is to begin, but
it would appear that with these ob
stacles removed " preliminary work
should start soon. 1 "r. - .-' ,
It is rumored, though The Per
ouimans Weekly has no. official no-
t;.'p. thnt the contract Js to be let
u 'I month. , ' ,
: :::t.t announcement-;''"
, - ' Roy Iane are re
' ":t:o"8 on the birth
Z:., t . XThurfl-
Schools Closed Until
Monday; Bad Roads
Due to bad road conditions in the
county resulting from inclement
weather, all county schools will re
main closed until Monday, according
to an announcement by Superintend
ent F. T. Johnson..
A downfall of rain Wednesday,
added to the thaw of late last week,
has rendered some of the county's
roads highly dangerous and others
all but impassable.
Bottle Of Patent
Medicine Blamed
For Drunk Charge
Charged Also With Dis
orderly Conduct and
Resisting Arrest Due
to "Roaring In Head"
"He balled up his fists like he was
going to make a pass at me so I tap
ped him," Officer Robert A. White
was testifying against John Ed Fel
ton, Negro, in Recorder's Court on
Tuesday and showing why John Ed
was charged with resisting arrest as
well as with being drunk and disor
derly. According to the officer and sev
eral other of the State's witnesses.
John Ed was indeed disorderly. John
Ed was using-a public street in lieu
of a rest station and any number of
people saw him. He blamed the
whole thing on a bottle of a popular
patent medicine and a "roaring in
the head," but Judge Granberry
Tucker found him guilty on all counts
as charged.
And then, as always , in deciding
on judgement, the Recorder asked
the defendant about his court re
cord ...
And then, as usual, the defendant
I couldn't remember that he had ever
been in court before . . .
And then, as usual, Prosecutor
Charles Johnson began thumbing
through the Big Red Record Book . . .
And then, as nearly always hap
pens, the defendant just happened to
remember that he had been in court
once, or maybe twice before.
They nearly always remember their
records before Prosecutor Johnson
finds it in black and white in the
Big Red Book.
(So Judge Tucker gave John Ed 60
days on the roads and ordered the
sentence suspended upon payment of
the costs of court.
Sergeant G. I. Dail of the State
Highway , Patrol, hauled, in Andrew
Branch, James Brown and A. C.
Moore on improper license charges.
Each was found, guilty and ordered
to pay the costs of court whereupon
prayer for judgement was continued.
George Bunch pleading not guilty
to a charge of larcency, was found
guilty and prayer for judgement was
continued upon payment of the costs
of court and upon condition of his
good behavior for one year.; V
Clarence Burnette, Negro, was
found guilty also of larcency and
sentenced to serve 60 days on the
roads. " t
Arthur Ormond, Negro, entered a
plea of guilty to a charge of assault,
Judgement was continued upon pay
ment of half the costs of court and
upon condition of good behavior for
two yean. f
The cases of Herman Monde, white.
and Milton Perry, Negro, charged
respectively with assault' and with
assault with a deadly weanon 'with
intent "to kill,' were continued "until
the; next term of County Court. '; tv
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To Take Crop And Feed
Loan Applications ;
1 Applications for 1946 Emergency
Crop and Feed Loans for Perquim
ans County will be 1 taken at ' the
Agricultural ' Building in Hertford
each Thursday, Friday and Saturday
until further notice. The hours are
from i a .nw to 12 noon," and from
1:30 p. m., until 4:80 p. m., according
to a statement from the Agricultural
Building. A - r
EASTERN STAR MEETING
The regular meeting of the Order
of the Eastern Star will be held on
Monday evening, February . 12th,' at
o'clock. After the 'mer-tir? tha
hu;. -nJa of members of'Ca CrJar
ara i vl' i to j.I.i t' '.r v-3 for
t's t .'. X l-"r.
Masons Honor
members Having
Mear Record
Presentation of Certifi
cates Made at Meet
ing Held Wednesday
Night
A rather outstanding Masonic
meeting was held Wednesday night
in the hall of Perquimans Lodge, No.
106, A. F. & A. M., when certificates
were presented to members of the
lodge who have maintained their
membership for 25 years or longer.
The affair marked the first time
that due recognition has been made
of long years of service for some who
have not had the opportunity of
holding permanent office, but have
proved their interest in Masonic
principles by keeping in good stand
ing over a quarter of a century or
more.
The certificates were presented by
no less a personage tha, the Grand
Master of Masons in North Carolina
himself, J. Edward Allen, of War
renton, and with each certificate he
delivered a brief but very impressive
address of appreciation for the honor
it was his priviliege to perform.
It was a double occasion for joy
for W. F. C. Edwards, who aside
from being a Mason for 49 years,
was celebrating his birthday anniver
sary. Together with Mr. Edwards
the following were awarded, these
outstanding service certificates: J.
S. McNider, Simon Rutenberg, J. G.
Roberson, J. C. Buck and P. L. Ste
phens. Others who were eligibie
for the award, having received the
degrees in the Perquimans Lodge,
but have moved away were: W. G.
Underwood, Jacksonville, Fla.; H. R.
Mark, New York City; E. W. Joyner,
Wilson, N. C; H. S. Walker, Ports
Mouth, Va.
Aside from the grand master, R.
M. Wynne, deputy grand master of
the First District, was present, as
well as Claude Tarkenton, State cor
respondent, of Elizabeth City.
The meeting was oije of the most
outstanding held bytAe local lodge
in a number of years and. followed a
banquet held in Hotel Hertford.
Methodists Hosts
To Elizabeth City
District Meeting
T A j a 1
iarge Attendance on
Hand at Annual Meet
In Spite of Rain All
Day
In spite of rain that set in befor
noon and continued through the
greater part of the -day a large at
tendance from the Elizabeth City
district waa present at the annual
Methodist Advance meeting here on
Wednesday as the Hertford Metho
dists were hosts to the district.
An attendance ol about zui) was
expected but inclement weather cut
down the figure of the all-day meet
ing where lunch was served by ladies
of the church.
Dr. F. S. Love, of Burlington, and
Dr. J. M. Ormond of Duke Univer
sity, spoke at the morning session,
and the Rev. R. W. Bradshaw, of
Durham, spoke at the evening ses
sion, a meeting of the young people
of the district. .
The Rev. B. a. Slaughter of Eli
zabeth City, district . superintendent,
presided, over the meeting which
convened jat .ten o'clock. The Rev.
R. tf.. Munns is pastor of the Hert
ford,, Methodic Chjarph.
-. Women of the district met in the
afternoon ' to '.elect, delegates to the
Provisional "Woman's Missionary
Conference of North Carolina.
The Methodist 'youths heard Dr.
Bradshaw on ?Youth and the United
Church." In response to his ad
dress, Archie Shannonhouse, of Eli
zabeth City,' president of the Albe-
.marle Young' People's Union,, spoke
on "Methodist Youth Ready, to Ad
vance." , " '
iuo ei v. ui naruwica, oi riy-
mouth, director of Young People's
Work in this district, presided and
outlined the year's work.
FRIDAY. FOR WORLD PRAYER
. The Methodisi Church bell ' will
toll at 12 noon today (Friday) as a
signal for all citizens pf Hertford, to
join in a-rjajrer fof world peace,
the oav havmar been set aside as a
day for prayer for world peace. I '
Thomas Long Death
Recalls Hertford
In The Ms
Founder of Long Studio
Was Born In House
Where Hertford Bank
Now Stands
Thomas Gracchus Long, aged 84,
well-known photographer and a resi
dent of Norfolk, Va., for the past
25 years, died last Saturday morn
ing at nine o'clock at a Norfolk hos
pital. Mr. Long was the son of the late
Thomas B. and Mrs. Elizabeth Bar
bee Long, and was a native of Hert
ford. He established the Long Stu
dios in Norfolk in 1916.
He was born in Hertford in 1885
in a house where the Hertford Bank
ing Company now stands. He lived
in Hertford through most of his
youth; once operated a grocery store,
bakery and hofel here and later
farmed at the old Pender Place near
Burgess.
Mr. Long married Penelope Hurdle
and they once lived in what is now
part of the Hotel Hertford. They
had three children; Earl and Ernest,
now photographers operating stu
dios in Norfolk, and a daughter,
Mrs. Herbert Ward, who lives near
Winfall.
It was back in the tin type days
that Mr. Long first took up photo
graphy here in Hertford. Later, af
ter moving to Washington, N. C, and
operating a photographic studio
there for serveral years, he moved to
Norfolk and established the Long
studios in 1916.
He was active in the business until
about three yeais ago, when, after a
heart attack, his health began to
fail.
Besides the three children men
tioned above, he is survived by two
children by his second wife, Rober!
Long and Frances Sandleson, both of
San Francisco, and six grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted on
Monjday afternoon at the Chapel of
the ll. IX Oliver Funeral Apartments
in Norfolk, with the Rev. P, Rowland
Wagner, pastor of the Central Bap
tist Church, officiating. Burial was
made in Forest Lawn Cemetery in
Norfolk.
All Clubs Register
1i Pet At First
Council Meeting
Mrs. J. B. Basnight
Elected Vice Presi
dent; Awards Made In
Mail Box Contest
The first quarterly meeting of the
County Council of Home Demonstra
tion Clubs was held in the Agricul
tural Buildjng on Monday afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Eunice Wins
low, Ex-Cpuncil president, presided
in the absence of the president, Mrs.
J. M. Fleetwood.
The Council, is composed of county
officers and the president, vice pres
ident, secretary and treasurer from
each club.
All twelve Home Demonstration
Clubs were represented with the fol
lowing clubs attending 100: Chap
anoke, Home and Garden, Ballahack,
Whiteston, Beech Spring, Helen
Gaither and Bethel.
During the business session the
date of the County Council was
changed from the first Monday in
February, April, July and October
to the fourthjSatufda':; This change
was made because of a conflict with
another meeting.
Mrs. J. ff. Basnightif was elected
vice president to succeed Mrs. Ashby
Jordan, who has moved away.
Helen Gaither Club had charge of
the program. Mrs. C. P. Morris gave
a biography pf Mrs. Roosevelt which
was most interesting.
Mrs. P. P. Gregory, 16th District
president, of Shawboro. gave a most
interesting talk on Home Beautifies
tion, emphasing Road Beautification.
She "urged each member to cut. her
own roadside, fix up broken fences,
improve mail boxes, etc. 1
Pi is es "awarded tawinners in the
Mail Box Contest were: Mrs. J. B
Basniaht. 45.00. first prize: Lucille
Lane, $2.50 second prize. .
: The. following clubs were recog
nized for doing the most outstanding
work during-1939: BaMahack, ,.. first,
pressure cooker; ' Whiteston, second,
curtain, stretcher: Burgess, third,
fruit cake pan., .v-:-', , ' -
BUS SERVICE MATTER
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Resips
Miss Gladys Hamrick, Per
quimans County Home Agent
for the past four years, who re
signed her position Monday.
Home Agent Resigns
Position; Board
Okays Successor
Miss Hamrick Is to
Leave Next Week For
Similar Job In Albe
marle Miss Gladys Hamrick, Perquimans
County Home Demonstration Agent
for the past four years, tendered he
resignation to the Board of County
Commissioners at the regular meet
ing of the Board Monday.
The resignation is to become effec
tive as soon as she can e r Braced j
by another agent. At the meeting
of the Board,, Miss Hamrick intro
duced Miss Frances Maness, of Biiie
Creek, whom the Commissioners ap
proved as her successor.
Miss Hamrick, af'.er submitting
her resignation to the members of
the County Council of Home Demon
stration Clubs at the meeting Mon
day afternoon, plans to leave early
next week for Albemarle, where she
will assume the duties of the Stanly
County Home Demonstration Agent.
Following is a copy of Miss Ham
rick's resignation as Home Demon
stration Agent as tendered to the
County Board and. the County Coun
cil: "I am herewith tendering my re
signation as Home Demonstration
Agent of Perquimans County to be
come effective as soon as 1 am re
placed by another agent.
"I have enjoyed working in your
County and greatly appreciate your
fine cooperation and interest in
making my work a success. I regret
leaving not only the County, but you
as individuals. Apd I shall remem
ber the four years with you as most
pleasant. If at any time I can be
of service to you please don't hesi
tate to call on me.
"Thanking you again and wishing
you much success in the future, I am.
"Sincerely yours,
"GLADYS HAMRICK."
Local Boys Making
Good In Shipbuilding
Trade With Big Concern
Three local boys are making good
in the Apprentice School of the New
port News Shipbuilding and Drydock
Corporation. ; , .
Those who know Dozier Sutton,
Henry Stokes and Claude Brinn will
be glad to learn that all three are
making steady progress. Dozier, not
long ago, was promoted to the main
drawing room of the mammoth cor
poration, Claude went to the draft
ing department, and Henry, who
joined the first two boys several
months later,, is in Mne for promo
tion at an early date.
Peace Group JMeets At
Whiteston Wednesday
A regular meeting of the Women's
International League for Peace and
Freedom is scheduled to be held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wms
low, near Whiteston, on the after
noon of February Hth, at 2:30, ac
cording to an announcement by Mi83
Mattie Saunders, president of. -the
local branch. i ...... ' , " .
COMING TO HEAD;
IS HEARD FROM
Town Attorney Advised
That Local Ordinance
Has Teeth In It; May
or Darden Dispatches
Second Letter
The bus company serving Hertford
is going to be forced to do something
in the way of improving local ser
vice. C. E. Johnson,- town attorney, was
authorized at h recent meeting of the
town board of commissioners to in
vestigate ways anl, means and to con
sult with Attorney General Harry
McMullan.
Mr. Johnson was advised, Tuesday
as to the proper steps to take, and
Mayor Vivian N. Darden immediate
ly dispatched a letter to the Norfolk
Southern Bus Company.
It was the second letter Mr. Dar
den has directed to the officials of
the bus company. He has received
no answer to the first.
An ordinance passed in 19IS8, im
mediately after the alley was com
pleted from Grubb Street to Market
Street, prohibits the stopping of
busses, trucks, e'e, for the purpose
of loading or unloading passengers
or merchandise at any point on
Church Street between Grubb and
Market, except when such carriers
are fully within the lines laid out
and designated as parking spaces.
Attorney General McMullan ad
vised the town attorney on Tuesday
that the ordinance has teeth in it and
that he bus company may be dealt
with under this ordinance.
The new alley, Mayor Darden says,
was made for the express purpose
of relieving traffic congestion on the
tow-n's principal business street and
the ordinance passed shortly there
after applies to busses as well as
trucks.
Mayor Darden's latest le'ter to
the bus company complains that the
busses use two routes through Hert-
font and that neither of the two
route has a definite stopping place.
Furthermore, Mr. Darden's letter
went on, there are no facilties for
either white or colored passengers,
and though the town is willing to
cooperate with the bus company in.
solving its problem, the bus cnit.ny
must provide proper facilties; a wait
ing room, res', looms, etc.
Bus tickets are sold now in the
store of Morgan Walker on Church
Street in the prohibited area and
there is no parking space lai'f out
there for the bus. The town ordi
nance does not provide for the de
signating of loading zones on Church
Street. The new alley gives access
to the rear entrance of each store
fronting on Church Street.
The ordinance provides a $2 pen
alty for each vicflatioji.
Mayor Darden's second letter was
stronger than the first and requested
at least the courtesy of a reply.
If the company disregards this
letter, Town Attorney Johnson said
the matter will be taken up seriously
with Stanely Winborne, the Utilities
Commissioner, in forcing the bus
company to take action.
Tracing Expert Makes
Individual Maps Of
Farms In County
Miss Margaret WaM, of Clayton, a
tracing expert for the Department
of Agriculture, is in the Agricultural
Building making tracings of all the
individual farms in the county.
Later, according to L. W. Ander
son, county agent, the tracings will
be given to the farmers. They should
prove very helpful, he said, in help
ing to determine where to plant dif
ferent crops on the farm.
The tracings are made from the
aeriaH maps made several months
ago. Printed on standard size sheets
of durable paper, the tracings show
all individual plots and give the acre
age of each to scale.
Miss Wall's work will ipeguire two
or three months to cOinplete and
then the tracings will jbv ready for
distribution. ' V"
Services Held Ftiday
For New Hope $oy
Funeral services for 15-year-old
Leon Barclift, who died Thursday
morning at the home at New Hope,
were conducted, Friday afternoon at
New Hope Methodist Church with the
pastor, the Rev. J. D. Cranford,
officiating. '.'Have Thine Own Way,
Lord" was sung by the choir, and
"In the Garden" was sung by Miss
Katherine Jessup, of Hertford.
The casket was covered with a
double spray of Easter lilies, carna
tions and pink roses.
Active pallbearers were: Calvin
Bank,. Matt ' Splvey,-. Jr Aubrey
Hurdle, Robert' Robbinsrleslle Perry
and Carroll Perry; v