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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume VII. Number 17.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, April 26, 1940.
$1.25 Per Year.
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Norton Will Speak
Here Saturday At
County Court House
Managers and Members
Of Horton Staff HeW
Rally In Capital City
"Friday Night .
Lieutenant-Governor Wilkins P.
Horton, of Pittsboro, seeking the
Democratic nomination for Governor,
will speak in the courthouse here
Saturday night at eight o'clock, ac
cording to Charles E. Johnson, the
Horton Campaign manager in Per
quimans County.
One of the major developments of
the past week in Horton's campaign
embraced a State-wide meeting of
the members of his headquarters
Staff, from the various sections of
North Carolina, together with the
county managers, at the Sir Walter
Hotel in Raleigh,' Friday afternoon
and a dinner meeting Friday night.
At the banquet, attended by more
than 100 political leaders, Mr. Horton
delivered an address on a State-wide
radio hookup. In this message, his
first State-wide speech of the cam
paign, he reviewed his acts and ser
vice as a State Senator and as Lieutenant-Governor
during a greater
part of the past twenty years. He
appealed to the people of North Car
olina to determine bis qualifications
"as a public servant and a private
citizen in the service of the Demo
cratic Party."
"I invite you to look at the journal
of our State Senate," said Mr. Hor
ton," and investigate for yourself
the record of my service there." He
advocated continuance and improve
ment of the present program of pub
81c service in the State, maintaining
that ..caa, be done without injury
to its financial atroctur.
Senator H. P. Taylor, of Wades-
Imm-o. Chairman of the Senate Fi-
jiance Committee in 18&0, fntrodseed
'Tm&nrae
predicted that he wijl be the next
Governor. Optimistic 4lks were
made by many members sT the organ
ization from all parts of the State
at the afternoon and night meetings,
It was announced then that Mr.
Horton will deliver five more ad
dresses on a State-wide radio hook
up in the remaining Friday nights
before the first primary.
The candidate's active schedule of
speaking engagements for Saturday,
include also an address in Ahoskie
at four o'clock, before coming here
at eight.
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Biding Programs
NorttC Carolina Building
& For Traffic In
1970: Forecast For
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Hertford ' iA
North Carolina today is building
highways for traffic in 1970 or
thereabouts, The Perquimans Weekly
learned Tuesday. In the earlier
days of motoring, when automobile
traveling" was more an adventure
than a reality that would replace the
horse, the State Highway, misjed by
.creeping cars, thought little about
Sharp degree turns or banked curves
and the consequences when motor
travel began to speed up
i -. The- Weekly reporter was in the
officeiof. ..testate, Highway's .eagi
ffineers TuesdiaRahcLwas shown 4 batch
What To Watch For
In future Highway
-. 0 . A. cross-section drawing of i-tsurve
on Ihe new' ; Center Hm-Hertford
boulevard stretch was shown to him;
the outside of the curve is a foot and
a half higher than the inside. On a
curve ofthis sort, a three-degree
turn, cars can tay on , the road at
90 miles an hour s well as at 60v
"That's why I say;we,re " building
.for 1970 traffic," the repoWer was
told.Wnen traffic gets much fast
er than that, it'll have to take to the
air."
' The flat curve at the iohn O.
'. Whit 4brner on the Edenton High
ways compared. With the .elevated
turns on the new Nicanor road are
ffood examples .of road-buildunj in
' the 1920's and road-building today,
v Th curve on the Edenton High
way, as well as most of the highway
curves between Edenton and Elisa
fotfi f :tv. are dangerous at high
' i .imnlv because the road Bur-
7 face in the- curres Is furnished with
First Postmistress
Was Hertford Woman
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hefren were
having dinner in a Suffolk restau
rant. The waitress and the kitchen
force weren't any toJ rapid, and
Mr. and Mrs. Hefren were read
ing the Richmond Times Disj
patch.-
In one of those Question and
Answer features they ran across
sontething that should be inter
esting to Perquimans County
people.
"Who was the first postmistress
after adoption of the Constitu
tion?" the question asked.
Mr. and Mrs. Hefren looked at
the answer.
It stated that Mrs. Sarah de
Crowe, of Hertford, North Caro
lina, was the first postmistress,
appointed April 27th, 1792.
The answers were taken from
the Washington Bureau Service.
Mrs. Neva Osborne
Morgan Claimed
By Death Tuesday
Taught In Public School
For 25 Years; Was
Native of Halifax
County
Funeral services were held in Win
fall at the Epworth Methodist Church
Thursday afternoon as Perquimans
County mourned the death Tuesday
night of Mrs. Eva Osborne Morgan.
She died at her home there after
af'JUnera jof several months. She
was f iftyfonr years old.
Survivors Include her. husband, W.
F. Morgan; five daughters, Mrs. E.
A. Hughes, Jr., of Raleigh, Mrs. E.
C. Kcilly of Norfolk, Va., Mrs. H. C
W'ofrlS
Addie Ruth Morgan of Winfall; two
sons, W C. (Bill) Morgan of Hert
ford, and Robert Morgan of Winfall
two grandchildren, Billy Burke Mor
gan rf Hertford, and Ernest Clyde
Reilly, Jr., of Norfolk, Va.; two sis
ters, Mrs. J. S. Brown of Plymouth,
and Mrs. W. C. Lane of Hertford,
and one brother, R. C. Osborne, of
Henderson.
Mrs. Morgan was born in Halifax
County on April 3, 1886, a daughter
of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Osborne. . She lived in Perquimans
County for 35 years, and has taught
in public schools for 25 years, iox
the past ten years she was first
grade teacher at the Winfall Gram
mar School and at Perquimans Coun
ty Central Grammar School in Win
fall.
The Rev. J. D. Cranfard, pastor of
the Epworth Methodist Church, of
which she was an active member,
officiated at the services. Mrs. Mor
gan took part, in all . affairs of the
Church including missionary work,
until illness forced her to retire.
Burial was in Beaver Hil Ceme
tery in Edenton. Active pallbearers
were Joe W. Nowll, W. G. Hollowell,
A. R. Winslow, Jr., D. L. Barber,
Claude D. White and J. W. Ward.
Building And Loan
Ready To Issue 40th
Series Of Stock
To Go On Sale May 4th;
Many Homes In Heffc
lord SBuilt . Through
the Hertford Building:
Association is issuing its 40th series
of stock which will go on sale on
May 4th. A formal notice is carried
to this effect on another page of this
newspaper, today. ' : M t
Only two; regular series are Issued
each year one in November and' one
in May.' The, November series Twill
be issued as usual. " K ' ,
The -Association has been 4 boon
to Hertford and Perduhnana County
HomeBuilders since 1923, r the year
of its organization. Providing .as it
does an- opportunity , r for people of
moderate means' to open an account
of as small a sum. as 1 wetity-fiw
cents weekly, many young v peopls
with limited incomes have started
systematic savings for building, a?
object which' would be hard to obtain
without the Association. A 'shuts
costing ' twen'ty-five cents a - week
matures In approximately, six years,
when a hundred dollar MS been a
cumulated. '
State President
Speaks At Annual
Meeting Of U. D. C.
Seventy-five Attend as
Skinner - Jones Chap
ter Is Hostess to 12th
District
Mrs. Louis E. Fisher, president of
the North Carolina Division of the
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy, principal speaker at the annual
meeting of the twelfth District of
which the Skinner-Jones Chapter of
Hertford, was the hostess, was in
troduced to the members Saturday
by Mrs. James G. Fearing of Eliza
beth City.
The Skinner-Jones Chapter's wel
come was extended to the 75 visiting
Daughters of the Confederacy by
Miss Mae Wood Winslow, Mrs. J. G.
Roberson; and by Mayor Vivian N.
Darden on behalf of the town.
A luncheon was served at the Par
ish House by members of St. Cathe
rine's Guild. The meeting was held
in the Agriculture Building.
The program consisted, of enter
tainment in addition to the regulai
business of the annual district meet
ing. L. W. Anderson, baritone, sang,
accompanied by Miss Kate Blanchard
at the piano, and Miss Katherine
Jessup gave a solo.
After the Memorial Hour, conduct
ed by an official from the Aulander
chapter, short addresses were given
by past directors, Mrs. George P.
Byrum of Edenton, Mrs. J. G. Fear
ing and Miss Lillie Grandy of Eli
zabeth City. Mrs. John G. Small,
president of the Bell Battery Chap
ter of Edenton, also gave a talk.
Chapters represented from the
Twelfth District at the meeting
came from Aulander, Edenton, Eliza
beth City, Gatesville, Hertford, Ply
mouth, Windsor, Winton, Harrells
ville and Ahoskie.
Pages were Miss Frances Newby
- MiM ot Hertford.
Girl Graduates To
Receive Miniature
Cedar Chests
Graduation Gifts Will
Be Presented By W.
M. Morgan Furniture
Store
On May 6th, every girl in the Per-!
quimans County High School Class
of 1940 will be given a miniature
Lane Cedar Chest free. These chests
are the graduation gifts of Mr. W.
M. Morgan, "the furniture man."
Girls who have seen the chests on
display, in Morgan's show window
state that they are an ideal place to
store souvenirs and keepsakes of
high school days. ;
The girls, 42 of them in the Class
of 1940, will receive beautifully ap
pointed cards from the Lane Com
pany. If any of the girls in this
graduating class have not received
their cards for chests before May
6th, they are asked to please come in
and see Mr. Morgan, who will
straighten the matter out. He wish
es no graduate to be slighted.
Morgan's TwentySixth Anniver
sary Sale will still be in progress
when the chests " are ariven to the
graduates. He issues a special invi
tation to the parents and friends of
graduates to inspect the store's
stock . . . particularly the line of
Lane Cedar Chests. The miniature
chests on' display in the store win-
Iqws are,, maiyiduauy marked with
ifr names jgadiuwng girls.
McCallum Gardens
ThingrOf Beauty;
Tulips
In Bloom
As usual at this season and in
spiW'of the unseasonable weather,
the Clyde McOallums' riverside lawn
and, garden are beautiful.
VyPirrple and white, blossoms, togeth
er with' row on row of red tulips,
are in profusion.
; Aa usual, Mr. and Mrs. MaCallum
are not miserly with the beauty of
their riverside -gardens, and anyone
who wishes . is cordially invited to
.come in, ' '
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Uotary Dined Ai New
If ope Monday Night
.4 The members of the Hertford Ro
tary Club dined the ftWHope
inmmtuiitv House JUtondav niirht.V'A
chicken. dinner wat'aeTved'by-the
members, of the Kwr Bop'1 Demon
Stration Club. '
Usual Summer Half
Holidays To Begin
Thursday, May 16
More Businesses Agree
To Observe Yearly
Custom Than Ever
Before
All work and no play makes Jack
. . . but all work and no play also
makes Jack a dull boy and a less
efficient clerk, particularly in the
Good Old Summer Time.
So a larger number of Hertford
merchants and business men than
ever before have agreed to observe
the usual summer half-holiday on
Thursday afternoons, beginning on
May 16th and. continuing through
August.
Among those whose doors will
close at noon on Thursdays and stay
closed until the regular opening hour
on Friday morning, are: R. S. Jor
dan, Doris Dress Shop, Hilda's Beau
ty Shop, M. J. Gregory's 5-10-25c
Store, H. C. Stokes Company, Pen
der's Food Store. W. B. Jordan.
Paragon Beauty Salon, Mrs. Jakt
White, Darden Brothers, Davenport
and Blanchard, Hertford Banking
Company, Simon's, W. M. Morgan
Rose's 5-l()-25c Store, Morgan's
Modern Grocery, Central Grocery,
Hertford Hardware and Supply Com
pany, E. M. Fields Insurance Agency.
The Southern Cotton Oil Company
Felton-Reed Corporation, J. C.
Blancharti and Company, Inc., Wins-low-White
Motor Company, Johnson
White and Company, Dr. J. W.
Zachary, Sanitary Barber Shop, Rid
dick's Cleaning Works, White's Shoe
Repair Shop, Cannon's Cleaning
Works, and even the Town of Hert
fordi W. G. Newby, town clerk, will
also get a holiday; Mayor V. N. Dar
den signed for the town.
Fishing and boating will soon be
thq order of the season, and 135
employees, more or less, will be per-
tted through the half-holiday to
irge At tteir favorite pastimes.
'Clutching Hand"
Gets Six Months
For Chicken Theft
County Woman Guilty
Carrying Concealed
Weapon; Other Cases
In County Court
"The Clutching Hand" is stayed
for the next six months while Her
bert Brown, Negro, serves the allot
ed time on the roads as per order of
Judge Granberry Tucker in Record
er's Court Tuesday.
Herbert (Clutching Hand) Brown
was found guilty of stealing two
chickens from the premises of W. G.
Newby, town clerk and chicken
dealer.
Along in the same indictment,
Addie Webb, Goose Hollow Negress,
was found guilty of receiving the
stolen property knowing- it to be
stolen. It came out in court that
the Clutching Hand sold the two
chickens to Addie Webb at 4:30 in
the morning.
She thought it was a peculiar
hour for such a transaction, and
questioned the dusky Clutching Hand
as to whether they were stolen.
Brown told her that there was
"nothing behind them," his way of
'assuring her that the sale and pro
duct were on the "up and up." .
The Webb woman wag. ordered to
pay a fine of $6.
Mrs. , Clio .Chappell, county woman,
was found;;, guilty ' at" the same term
of court,' of,- carrying a concealed
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Sara Ward Elected
Society Official At
Woman's CJollege
Included among officers elected
last week by the four societies at the
Woman's College, University of
North Carolina, was Miss Sara Ward,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Ward ot Hertford, who was named
inter-society representative for the
Adelphians Society.
Miss s Jane Murphy of Upper
Montclair,'New Jersey, was elected
president of the Adelphians. Miss
Ward is a Junior. The honor she
was accorded last week means, a
monjf other things, that she will at
tend the formal dances of the other
three societies as the representative
of -the Adelphjaa and also si the
Adelphlan repreWinUUve in
J-soeiety functions.
TAKES CHARGE
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Mrs. Futrell Will
Steer Women's End
Of Broughton Race
Local Woman Assumes
Active Charge of Wo
rn a n ' s Division of
Broughton Quarters
The gubernatorial race gathered
another local angle last week as it
was announced that Mrs. Alice Elliott
Futrell of Hertford, State Chairman
of P. T. A. publications and also of
P. T. A. exhibits for the past two
years, would this week assume active
charge of the woman's division of
the J. M. Broughton headquarters for
governor.
A native of Perquimans County,
Mrs. Futrell was educated at Eastern
Carolina Teachers College in Green
ville and at the Universay W North 1
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She taught school fbr five years
in Northampton County, for one year
in Robeson County and for three
years in Greene, County.
Upon her marriage to J. R. Futrell
she first made her home in Rich
Square, where she served as presi
dent of the P. T. A., president of the
Northampton County unit of the
American Legion Auxiliary and pres
ident of the Woman's Club. She wa?
also treasurer of the Northampton
County Library Board.
Mr. and Mrs. Futrell and their
son, Richard, Jr., moved to Hertford
two years ago. She is a member of
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church and
president-elect of the P. T. A. here.
Just back from the Parent-Teach
ers Association convention in High
Point, Mrs. Futrell is assuming ac
tive charge of the woman's division
of the Broughton Campaign.
She has served for the past two
years as State Chairman of publica
tions and State Chairman of ex
hibits in the P. T. A. Lat summei
she was hostess to the several hun
dred delegates at the P. T. A. insti
tute in Chapel HW1.
Vepco Home Service
Director To Speak
At County Council
Meeting In Agriculture
Building to Discuss
Spring Federation
Tea and Flower Show
Miss Alice R. Tudor, director of
the Suffolk Home Service Depart
ment of the Virginia Electric and
Power Company, will be the princi
pal speaker at the second County
Council meeting of the Perquimans
Federation of Home Demonstration
Clubs, according to Miss Frances
Maness, demonstration agent.
The meeting of the County Council
will be held in the Agriculture Build
ing in Hertford on the afternoon of
Saturday, April 27th, at 2:30 o'clock
Bringing with her equipment for
showing side pictures on a screen,
Miss Tudor will show scenes of con
veniently arranged kitchens.
The Helen Gaither Home Demon
stration Club will have charge of the
program and will present a program
based on (Parent Education.
Miss Maness is urging that each
elub be represented one hundred net
cent, since plans will be presented
for the annual Springs Federation
Flower Show and Tea. ?Itiere are
other important items V of business,"
Minn Mtnwi aaidl "anA wA wsnf ten
members present to discuss ihem."
Democrats Will
Hold Precinct And
County Pow-Wows
Party Head Calls Loyal
ists to Meet and Send
Delegates to County
Convention May 11
C. P. Morris, Sco-Co general man
ager and titular head of the Demo
cratic Party in Perquimans County,
is calling upon all good and loyal
party members to meet in their re
spective precincts on Saturday, May
4th, and lay the foundation for the
party's organization and move on to
Hertford for the' county convention
to be held Saturday, May 11th.
The wishes expressed in the pre
cinct and county meetings are to be
recognized at the State Convention to
be held in Raleigh on Friday,
May 17th.
Little recognized in years gone by,
the precinct and county conventions
are likely to assert their jiowers this
season before the party organiza
tion is perfected in its entirety in
Raleigh less than a month from now.
Last week a third term movement
for Roosevelt was started in the
State, and less than four days later,
Governor Hoey, in a formal state'
ment, declared that Cordell Hull,
Secretary of State, is his choice for
the Pemocratic presidential nomina
tion. While the lines may not be
drawn sharply, it is quite apparent
now that there will be at least two
factions in the State Convention.
The power of these factions, in all
probability will be determined at
the precinct and county conventions.
Any assumption that Perquimans
County Democrats will endorse the
third term movement wi'll be support
ed or refuted at the precinct and
county conventions.
In calling the precinct meetings
and county convention, Mr. Morris
said, "These meetings, the county
convention, as well as the various
precinct conventioi&! afe especially
important this year. This is due to
the fact that the only voice the peo
ple of the precincts and the county
have in naming delegates to the na
tional convention and therefore in
nominating a Democratic candidate
for President and vice-president of
the United States will come from
these meetings. The State conven
tion elects delegates to the national
convention. These delegates are
elected by all the delegates from the
various counties of the State. If
the people of Perquimans County
have any preference for a presiden
tial candidate, the- only way they will
have of expressing it is in the pre
cinct meetings in the election of
delegates to the county convention
in the election of candidates to the
State convention."
No Young Hertford
Men Apply For CMTC
Training At Camp
County Allotment Is
Two; All Candidates
Should Contact Leroy
In Elizabeth City
Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Spec-
I ial to The Perquimans Weekly), Apr.
25.' No young men ot Perquimans
County have yet been accepted for
enrollment in the annual Citizens
Military Training Camp, to be held
here June 12- July 11, the Camp Area
Commander announced today.
The quota allowed Perquimans
County is two, the Commander, said.
He advised that prospective candi
dates contact immediately Mr. J. H.
LeRoy, Jr., of Elizabeth City, County
Chairman for C. M. T. C. procure
ment, and obtain detailed informa
tion and an application blank. Or
the prospective applicant may write
directly to the C. M.T. C. Procure
ment Officer at Fort Bragg.
A candidate for admission to the
camp must be an American citizen,
physically fit for military service,
and of good moral character. He
must be 17 years old and if attending
camp for the first time, not over 24.
The Government furnishes free to
the young men accepted transports-,
tion to and from the camp, and mon
ey to buy food while traveling.
Shelter, excellent meals, bed and
beddjmg, uniforms, athletic equip
ment, medical attention if necessary,
and laundry , are also famished free . !
during the month sf camp.' '' ?
. ."The purpose of these C H. T.
Camps," sayT Col. J. W. Harrelsbn,.,
t Raleigh, Stats Civilian Aide to tut
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