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NS WEEKLY V V. A.--ft'. X. k 4, v ( A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DOTQtED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY' -f iVolume VII. Number 10. HeHforQuimans County, North Carolina, Friday, March 8, 1940. $1.25 Per Year. 4 I o ft Sri. v- Wt'.'' ,, r Peanut Growers To Get Together On .egislatlori Talk Kg Meeting and Barbe cue Dinner jn , Tap, -For Early Date ARN0l3SPEAKS Several Farm Bureau Members Attend Con- : ference With Arnold In Jackson A series of three meetings, one at New Hope, Winfall and Belvidere will be held before a general mas6 meeting' and barbecue for farmers in the county is called in Hertford at the High School within the next few weeks. The Farm Bureau is at the bottom of it, and tf. S. White, Will Dail, A T. Lane, J. W. Ward and Irvin Nixon are -in charge of the big meeting-to be held in Hertford. . . According to Mr. Nixon, secretary of the Perquimans County Farm Ju nan. these meetings and the finale in Hertford, are for the purpose of getting the county's farmers to gether and giving them a chance to organize and lay plans before cer tain bills are passed by Congress, Plana were made. for. the series at a meeting of the Farm Bureau la the Aovio.ultnral Building last . Friday niirht when E. F. Arnold, executive MemtarV of the North Carolina Farm Bnreau Federation, was the featured speaker. Mr. Arnold talked mainly on the necessity for organisation among farmers, he urged an Organisation Miauffc and strong i enoagn to BlsSft Congrs listen. He elaborat edon '-fh7 9mdttrt&.ftfM Wttation now nenclinjr in to ttoBs price-of peamrta and. conical of acreage. Ha nointed oat n i t tii fimeri in; thi will mean to tnenv ur amtarw cents if the farmers will hurry in the matter of organization and put - pressure on Congress in order to made the legislation favorable to the peanut grower. Figuring peanuts at two cents a pound with no control, and peanuts at four cents a pound with control, it was Dointed out that the differ ence in price of two or three bags wmild huv membership in the organization thtit is backing up the legislation. '"' Dates for tbe meetings ha we -,not been announced, tftfi Nn.- make thm pubi ma' 'on "8 he proper moves are determifled, . . f. Mr. Niionf T. B. Write Hm Wty and A. T. lAne yesteBday Jhfm Ailv attended a coirfmrence i Jk- soa wUai Mrr Arnold wh tien Ja: week in WMhington working on the tiAAiint situation. "I think. the time haa come,?' he aaiA "fnr the, lotuiftra in the DeanUt belt to get together and plan their spring organization campaign ana determine the' kind of legislation they will support, - "The situation confronting the pea nut arrower.?' he went on, "is very serious and unless we can do some thing to meet - the price situation this Faff, it looks like two cents per nound for 1 neanuts." "Mr. Nixon, in commenting - on :the meeting to be held later in Hertford, aaid that T. S. White, E.?D. Mathews, aaude Williams, N. H. Stallings an. J. W. Ward will turnish the pigs for the barbecue dinner to be given in connection with the meeting., -1. j V." PPF w"f "...' 1 W. YdiillvElGS Arc I!o!u;iigIiUuG$t tV-f-r 7 4 Classea for ."Outot-obaoPj youth. which ' are - being: conducted- , .each" "Wednesday night at the Perquimans County High-School, altd each: Fri-. day night a the Belvidere tJom. i munityj House, 1 are .' increasing with each-meeting in both t interest and attention. ' t . ; ,v TKa rirnoTama ? .are based , on the needs 'and - problems, of the. out-of-1 - school boys and girls, and are'infor- - mationaljh inspirational and reerea-" tional.", " . - '' . ' All' out-of-school boy ' nd Ps are'invited, $o come In and attend ,at ' least one of "these classes.- They are - conducted and 'directed by the da Tiarmonts of Vocational and Agricul- v mm una Home Economics of th k rerr-lmans, County High School. Jury Drawn For Term Superior Coura, Those whose names appear low will be summoned for Wdry duty when the April term of Per, l ! i ! A'Lili.' quimans oouniy ouperwr vamitc convenes next month. The namea were drawn Monday at the regu lar meeting of the Board of Coun ty Commissioners: ' vJ.: C, Buck, Jones Perry, D. (Jr. Newby, W. S. Butler, Fenton Har rell, Joseph F. Chappell, W,,. Hardcastle, W. P. Davis, 'Job Stallingai Wilson Reed, E.'0. Mathews, A. F. Proctor, Lloyd White, C. C. Chappell, C. E. Cajr non, J. W. Jackson, Jr., E.T' Kirby, W. I. Winslow, J. S. Lane, T. P. Brinn, Julian C. Howl, 1 1 TT 11 TT1 if n LAlf' wayiana noweii, ri. ni. rerryrou. R. Webb, Alec Stallings, S,,A. Perry, Willie H. Lamb, WV.'L. Sawyer, Robert Robbins, C. B. Goodman, W. E. Mathews, J. E. Perry, N. J. Smith, W. H. of L. B. Winslow, Joseph R. Elliott and J. K. Miller. To Circulate Five !(s WPA Bookmobile Gov ered 1,600 MUes; Li- ; brary Boaid Planning To Buy More Books To circulate more than 5,000 books throughout the county for two months and over more than 1,600 miles, the county library board itself was put to the expense of only $13.85, according to a statement from Miss Mae Wood Winslow. The method f circulation was by mr tf the WPA Bookmobile working in eooperatiom witii the State Library Commission. The traveling bookmo bile will be brought,, back to the county airain. accerdinr to Granberry Tucker, member of the library board " W Jkre- grfctifielr yitn the responee and with ihe'nuinbefrorrequests for books," he said. ,. Plans are being made now to buy more books when the county takes over the remaining half of its appro- Driation to the library board. Three hundred dollars is the amount Still due from the county treasury. A number of books from the free Pratt Library in Baltimore were4re- ceived recently, which brmgs the1 to tal number from that source to about 15O0 volumes. Mr. fucker requests that peoplW the county interested in Mcmng distHbotion from the lcal..;Ufraryi ihouMtcohtact either , Misfrto Mrs. Brooks Whedbee, Mbrarfaa, bimseff, f ot the purpose . ofw wSrag out distribution points. w : ( All thai W required otvfa mm butibn inter. Mr.Tuckerisaid,il Someone to keep track-of the wndtof ctrd,anpovishelveson .which to xeep the bookB. rv .- Entrance Date In Home Yard Beautification Contest Extended ; '.' ' V".'' Entrance date for the Hdmtf and Garden Club's Beautification . f o i West Hertford has been extended until Wednesday, March 13th, accord- demonstration agenu V-S.V , Homes and yards entereki the contest will be judged the first time on the morning of "Marth 14tft, and the contest will continue untft the final judging on September Jst Cash awards will be made for the first and secdnd prizes. The prteeB will be awarded on Achievement Pay in the fall-. I , AC. '.v' . ; " fttekN 'i" .. lSi : j Bill BoycHnfcredtfttr- liighway Ansiaeiu , Bill Boyce, automobile mechanic at Winslow-Wfiite Motor Company( was injured in an automobilc dent on -the new Sound, bridgVrqad early Sunday afternoon when tys , cat left the road and: overturned ':irij the swamp half a mile from U. S. IV '' 7 Mr.' Boyce, it is reporledl-isttfieted' among other injuries, a broken ollat bone and a broken. Arm,,J3helJ;on Bagley, a passenger in the car, was less seriously injured. Mr. Boyce is confined to his home. .i.T,fv.(. The car, a 1937 JP'ord sedan, was badly, damaged. f- ; , " ' -1 . The Woman's intemauonai"iieg?e for Peace and- Freedom wiljl meetTrf the Agricultural BuCJinar" on "Fridajr, .ut. 4fta.V , : -h. it iJ ' ThousandBoo Cost Library $13.85 WZiVM-:--J- n -i r i uauae uan rounn Not Guilty Liquor Possession Charge Resisting Arrest Count Is Non-suited.; Trial Resulted In Number Amusing Episodes Next time they'll bring the evi dence; or the remnants of the evi dence at any rate. Sergeant G. I. Dail "didn't think it was necessary." Everybody was in a gay mood. De fense Attorney J. S. MoNider had more fun than anybody else. 'He dubbed Patrolman Jack Gaskill "Lit tle Jack", and stuck the name with him throughout the trial which start ed around ten o'clock and ended a few minutes after four. The case was against Claude Dail of the Bear Swamp section. The charges were possession of non-tax paid liquor and resisting ar rest. Th verdict was not guilty on the possession count, and the resisting charge was non-suited. Gaskill, "Little Jack," who weigh? around, two hundred pounds, was in a joyful mood; so was Sergeant Dail. Prosecutor Charles Johnson, and iabove all, Attorney McNider. '."The' only parties Involved whb weren t entirely carried away with merriment at. one time of another, were the defendant, Claude Dail, and. Recorder J. Granberry Tucker. Dail, the defendant, is on proba tion, and a conviction on any count would have been serious as far a? he was concerned. But Judge Tucker wasn't convinced "beyond a reasona. ble doubt," and Dail was found not guilty. The case was continued from the last session of county court, and LTuesday, when it came to trial, testi mony brought out that the case had its origin when Dail and Gaskill ac companied Deputy Sheriff M. G. Owens on am errand of arresting Johnny Elliott, who was wanted on another and entirely separate item, v Elliott was at Dail 's, home when the officers arrived. He ran, and Owens, and Gaskill gave chase on foot. - -They caught him. But while they were gone, Ser geant Dail saw Claude Dail take a bottle from his car and break it on a wagon wheel. ' He arrested Dail for possession of non-taxpaid liquor; then in Record er's -Court Tuesday testifying that (.Continued On Page Four) ii telater The opening date of the stage comedy "Aunt Jerushy On the War path," has been, delayed indefinitely, according to Mrs. B. G. Koonce director. Aunt Jerushy was to have been presented in the Grammar School auditorium in an effort to boost the financial part Perquimans County played in the annual drive for the Warm Springs Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis and the Celebration of the1 President's Birthday. The play wilt be given at a date to be annnuoced later. Mrs. Koonce says there is bo much outside activ ity at present that the cast cannot be gotten together for adequate re hearsals. Benjamin Jordan Dies ftt Home In'tfaVley iSSqmp Sedtiori - ? ! Funeral 4ervic.es f)lyBenjaBu F. JfoiHflt ffOjlwhojdiedliurdayBaOrn-inJ'- were Tietd at the-nome in the Bagley . Swamp ' community Sunday -afternoon, the Rev. J. T. Byrum, pas tor of Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, offi ciating. Mr. Jordan was a member of i Mt.j Sinai 7 Church. Burial was made? in the ' family ' burying ground jjh tChowan Coijnty. Magfie Jordan; five daughters, Mrs Otheus Bbyce, bf" Hertford, Mrs Melvina Savinger, of , Norfolk, Va., Mrs. Ella Marie Winslow; ? of Belvi dere; Mrs. Margaret Winslow , and Miss Anna Jordan, of Bagley Swamp; three sons, Alvin ..Jordan,, of Hert ford, Mathew , Jordan, of Newport News. Va..and Otha Jordan, of Suf folk, Va. and two Jbrothers, ' N. . Jordait, of.yland and -George Jor- 1 Ur. Jordan had, suffered 'a' paralj tic stroke last TBea3y. 1 ' -v-s Aunt Jerushy Will Gpqnnath I Home Agent Here Frances mfwgsp Already at work with the farm women, of Perquimans County is Miss F"ances Maness (above), who was appointed to succeed Miss Glady? Hamrick as county home demonstra tion agent. The State College Ex tension Service transferred Mis? Hamrick to Stanly County. Miss Maness is a native of Troy and is a graduate of East Carolina Teachers College. For the past two yeairs she has been home economics teacher in the Merry Hill school in Bertie County. To Celebrate Its Wide Open House Everybody Invited to Old-fashioned Break down In Woodmen's Hall on March Mth The Woodmen of the World are holding open house at the lodge headquarters in the WOW hall above the Store of Morgan Walker on the evening of March 14th. It's an "old-fashioned breakdown," according to A. A. Nobles, field re presentative of WOW. "It's a free-for-all with refreshments, dancing, fighting or what have you." Everyone is invited to help the Albemarle Camp Number 463 cele brate its fifteenth anniversary. "You can't make the invitation too strong, Mr. Nobles told the Per quimans Weekly reporter Tuesday. "Invite, everybody and tell them there are refreshments enough for all. This is our Fifterttfr Anniversary . . . an occasion for celebrating. ;',;., and we intend to celebrate it. "Thefe wiii be rausicj-d-fashion-ed music of every desckap-and those who don't like to listen or dance, can 'fight amoiia. themselves." The WOW meets iin-thl fafabovej waiKers- on' alternating xnurseays Farmers Placing Increasing Orders More limestone has already been unloaded here this year than ever before. Like farmers in the western part of the State who were leery of using oyster shells, farmers in the section were skeptical for a time about using ground limestone. "Looks too much like sand," they said. But, in-! few weeks now, lime shipped in as a government grant 6f aid-and taken out of the next year's coriaervation checks, will lave amounted to more than thirty. xar loiujki ejfc xpoper4$ive .ordtppilie Jeuptakes orders in theXaw"-- turalrBuildihg. ' -- Educating eastern farmers in ag ricultural lime, which, it is said comes cheaper than oyster shells, it is pointed out that lime improves the texture of the soil and makes it more tillable, that it decomposes potash compounds and makes them more readily available, that it makes sandy soils more cohesive and retentive of moisture,: it, makes clay soils more porous ' and granular, and that' lime assists in restoring land to its high yielding' power and original produc tiveness. , ,, 1 J- r t ' BIRTH , ANNOUNCEMENT Mr.' and Mrs. Vivian Mathews wish io announce the birth' of a daughter, Catherine Alice,k m Monday, 'March 4"u ,.xaotnerivana oacy; are omg jaeely,' Anniversary With 'v-t.w is . FORTY-YEAR-OLD SYSTEM NOMINATING COMMISSIONERS CHANGED BY ASSEMBLY Granbery Tucker First Candidate For Reelection County Judge Says Will Seek to Remain on the Recorder's Bench; No Other County Bids The first candidate to make public bid for a county office is Judge J. Granberry Tucker, who announces today that he will seek to succeed as Recorder of Perquimans County. Says Judge Tucker in announcing his candidacy, "I shall be a candidate to succeed myself as Recorder of the Perquimans County Court, subject to the action of the Democratic voters in the Primary Election- I take this means of again expressing my appre ciation for the support given me in the elections two years ago, and par ticularly for the splendid encourage ment, cooperation and assistance which I have received throughout my service as Recorder from all the of ficials and lawyers and people of the county. "The position necessarily imposes many unpleasant duties on the in cumbent; but their kindly feeling has gone far to make them less... unpleas ant . . . and for it I am deeply grateful. Their continued support is earnestly requested." Mr. Tucker is rounding out his first full term as Recorder of the county court. He polled high in the 1938 primary over incumbent James S. McNider, who resigned in June, 1938, and did not ask for a runoff in the general election. Mr. Tuckei was appointed to fill the vacancy. There have been no other an nouncements of candidacy for elec tion or re-election to other county offices. Recreation Pier Begins Take Definite Shape The recreation pier at the foot of Grubb Street has reached a point two hundred feet or more out in the river. The floor of the pier, for a distance of approximately 7." feet, is yet to be laid. The site of the pavilion is already floored, and the bath houses at the shore end are beginning to take the shape of buildings. A concrete bulkhead rises at the shore end and the walkway has been constructed all the distance out to the pavilion. The handrails along the boardwalk have not been erected, neither have steps., been built down to the rivei bottom, - but the matter of driving piles and laying the pier floor is well underway. .. 'WPA labor and a Federal grant of more than $5,000 are building the re creation pier. No work albng the Grubb Street extension the approach to the pier, has y t been undertaken. Prominent Stores nVIake Personnel Change A shift in personnel of two Hert ford businesses sends Marshall Owens, formerly in charge of the J. C. Blanchard and Company hard ware department, to the store of J. G. Roberson to replace James Byrum who left his job there to enter the bookkeeping department of J. C. Blanchard and Company. Mr. Byrum, after finishing a busi ness course, will take up his duties with the Blanchard firm to replace Miss Hazel Mayes, who has resigned her position. Miss Mayes will' -be married this month to J. A, Hooper of Elizabeth City. , .Arthur (Jfrog)-.:yvhite is now. in charge of bothlhe hardware and grocery departirifents at Blanchard's. Tuttle To Help With Income Tax Returns It. F. Tuttle, of Edenton, deputy revenue commissioner, will be at the Hotel Hertford on March 13th, 14th and 15th, for the purpose of assist ing Perquimans County people in fil ing their State, Income Tax Returns. Rotary Club' Had Oyster Supper last Night ; ' Approximately fifteen member of the Hertford Rotary Club journeyed to the land of sea-breezes . near, Vir ginia, Beach last - night (Thursday) for mumteftfuTt outing. VA" , -' The regular Tuesday , night, meet- ingrfn.the. jnlf g room - tof the Hotel Rertfarl "was for,jone in favcr rf the outing on Thursday. Townships to Nominate Own Candidates Even If Drafting Method Has to Be Used; Each Township Will Be Represented From Now On Following the coming election each individual township in Perquimans County will be represented in the Hoard of County Commissioners. An act to provide for the nomina tion and election of the County Com missioners of Perquimans adopted by the last General Assembly changes the proceedure that made it possible since the year 1900 to elect the county's whole governmental body from one township alone. It was possible . . . not probable. Hertford township is represented on the Board of County Commissioners by two members, while Parkville is not represented by a member from that township. Usually the elections ended with all townships represented on the Board, but now and then it worked out that one or two townships were not represented and one other town ship could have two or even three members on the Board. Here is the act that will govern the primary and election this year: "That at the next general primary to be held in Perquimans County in one thousand nine hundred and for ty, and biennally thereafter, there shall be nominated one candidate from each of the five townships in said County by the qualified voters of Perquimans County participating in the general primary or primaries, of each of the recognized political parties, and should there be more than one candidate for such nomina tion of any of the said recognized political parties, from anyone of the aforesaid five townships, the candi date from said township receiving the highest number of votes in his respective primary shall be declared the nominee of his party from such township for election in the general election to be held in one thousand nine hundred afortya'nd biennial-' ly thereafter, and said nominee fnr 1 each of the five townships shall be J elected by the qualified voters of j Perquimans County; Provided, that in the event there is no candidate in any one or more townships in said (Continued On Page Five) To Give Safety Program Before Parent-Teachers The Central Grammar School Par-net-Teacher Association will sponsor a Safety Patrol Program at the reg ular meeting Monday night. The school will cooperate with the PTA in this program and. the sixth and seventh grades will arrange a display of Safety Posters. Other grades will take part, and members of the Safety Patrol will explain their duties. It is reported that the Central Grammar School Safety Patrol, or ganized last fall, has been extreme ly helpful in preventing accidents on the school grounds. It has been highly active during the school year and the members expect to get their belts and badges this week. Gale Winslow is captain of the patrol; Clara Smith is first lieuten ant, and Earl Sherlock is second lieu tenant. Other members are, Eunice White, Eloise Winslow, Evelyn Whed bee, Calvin Bundy, Paul Smith, Rob ert Perry, Florence Monds, Louise -Stokely, Hilton White and Herbert Bure. t':-. i .:. 1 Boy Scouts Entertain At Chapel Program In Hertford School Seventh Grade members of the Boy Scouts of America had charge of the regular chapel program at the Hertford Grammar School last Fri-, day morning. Howard Pitt is scout master of the Hertford troop, and with Miss Mary Sumner, seventh grade teacher, directed the program. ine program consisted of Scout activities: some of the boys tied fancy Scout knots; they carried out the salute and the Scout code, v a entertained the, student, body f ally along the lines of- Eoy l activities everywhere in A' Those ta!dr;j f . v V,'h:te, Jchr.r.ie I ' -, : j-r,- j: : c: rari ; --1 1 t"p -