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A VEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF Hi&TFORIXAND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Volume VII. Number 24.
Hertford, Perquimans Oounty North Carolina, Friday, June 14, 1940.
$1.25 Per Year.
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charter has 1mised $48,15 on six
iiu;:dhed doiiar war relief quota
Perquimans County Far
i Short of Minimum
' Asked "By Red, Cross
In' Drive For Funds
DIRE NEED
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Appeal For War Relief
Funds Now In Fifth
Week; Twenty Mil
Uon Dollar Goal
Red Cross contributions to Wed
nesday morning totaled 46.15, ac
cording to Silas M. Whedbee, local
chapter chairman. Funds are be
ginning' to come in more rapidly, he
said. The county's quota is $600. ;
Contributions may be made to Mr.
jWhedbee at the Post Office, to the
Rev, Edmund T. Jillson or to the
Rev. B. F. Munns.
From September, J939, with the
invasion of Poland, through. June 7th,
it. is said, American Bed Cross made
vaUaWe a total or pisfm unre
iief supplies to the stricken people
of Europe. This include! K95,OO0
in supplies purchased and cash con!
trioutions to other Bed Cross Socie
ties and relief ' ; agencies. The re
mainder, or 1479,000 is the estimated
value of the material in chapter-produced
garments and surgical dress
ings which have already been ship
ped abroad.
But much mora is needed, to the
extent that ail chapters have been
asked to regard their doubled and re
doubled quotas simply as a minimum
goal. Hertford is far snort of its
minimum quota. The two ministers
named above voiced vigorous pleas
from their pulpits Sunday la behalf
v uie an. ycyawt"
The coairibuSona. from. Sartford
and the county w0i ga into the fund
that by fat. Wark the largest sums
of money aad. grc v,t Quantities of
supplies, that. h"5" . Itn eainrkd
for Fran ' ThU
light of the iacttbAt relief require
ments in that nation arise hot- only
from the .plight of French citizens
but also from that of millions of
Dutch and Belgian refugees seeking
a haven within the French borders.
The U. S. S. McCl'eesport, charter
ed from the United States Maritime
Commission, is sailing Sunday from
New York with a million dollar cargo
of food, soap, clothing, surgical
dressings and miscellaneous supplies;
The Bed Cross national appeal for
war-relief funds now enters its fifth
week. More than eight million of
the twenty mfluon dollar goal was
raised in the. first four weeks. The
original plea asked the-publk for ten
millions, but on May 28th it became
obvious that, twice -that amount i
would be required, if only, the most
urgent needs are to be met.
The funds received during this
drive are to be used wholly and ex
clusively for war 'relief and no part
of them will be applied toward .the
normal program and expenditures
-of the' Red Crossfe'K
Ksf01dSeed
Store Opnlng its
Doors Saturday
4 A new specialty business will es
; .J.:tab)ih itself in Hertford' when the
-1 J doors of the ; Perquimans Feed and
. .". , 'Seed Store 'Open Saturday morning.
K , "' f'StoiioSm and
operated by John Broughton, Jr., is
f situated' in attractive and convenient
quarters' in me arougnton mulcting
t with frontage: on Church -Street. '&.
s Mr .- Broughton? who at '(rcpsnt u
, busy ; with; remodet&tg $ -and am?' "ng
" ; 1- alterations ' ''ln'the;r!ie.atdre,'.:kas
'1 been" awarded the'Purina franchise
for this eontJ''aWBj3ex
r clusively in ' :'toii-Vxti'tVfai.ift6-
r 'r tionally-advertised erantfsj manufac-
tured by the Kalaton-Purina Mills in
" i St Lodfc'S-S'lS??
' EbcperienceA;has;;-e
: ' , Broughton forl v th0'usmes " he " is
undertaking. " Fot some-time past, he
was in .the employ ! of the Berjdey
Feed Corporation ; in .- Norfolk
' He has several seed lines in mind,
but .has not made a definite selection
yet.1; The new store :ls a; specialty
business in every sense of the word;
handling only : feeds and seeds. ; It
may expand i'ater.tbut ; Saturday . its
will be dealing i only in $hm two
products. s " ' i ' 1
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ilr. , and Mrs. Clinton Morgan, of
VinfJI."are " Ireceiving ! congratule,'
f Vn the V cf a son on Sun-r
Marie Anderson
Potato Festival Queen
Marie Anderson, winner in the
beauty contest to select Perquim
ans County's queen at the Potato
Fesival in Elizabeth City last
Thursday, was also chosen Queen
of the Festival from a field of
beauties representing most of the
counties of the Albemarle.
The daughter of County Agent
L. F. Anderson, Miss Anderson
was crowned Queen of the Festi
val by Orchestra Leader Little
lack Little and was awarded the
first prize, $25.
Masons Wed
Deputy Grand
3SI
Masons of first District
Hear Reports and Re
view Workings of
Last Grand Lodge
Approximately (0 Masons of the
First Masonic District were present
at the quarterly district meeting
held here Tuesday night in the Per
quimans Lodge 106 A. F. k A. M.
hall in the courthouse building, as
B. C Berry, Past Master of Per
quimans: Lodge representing the
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
North CaroUna, installed the District
Deputy Grand ; liter, Boscoe M.
Wynn, of Elliabeth City.
The district is Composed of Per
quimans, Pasquotank, Camden, Dare
Gates and (Currituck counties.
S. B. Seymosfr, Widows Sons Lodge
of Camden, Sjitedas marshall.
Dputy GaV Master, included
reports from the different lodges, a
raviewal .of the workings of the last
session , of the Grand Lodge, and
then the perfection of arrangements
for the next Quarterly District meet
ing, which will be held at Hall Lodge
Nd; 57 at Indiantown in Camden
County on September 4th.
, Members of the Order of Eastern
"Star, Hertford Chapter , served re
freshments.
New Fire Engine
Here
Hertford's new
I equipment will be delivered within
the next 60 days, Mayor Vivian N.
Darden said Wednesday.
The order was placed with the La
France Company Tuesday. The cost
for the outfit complete, is approxi
mately $3,300. The truck, mounted
on a Ford chassis, is equipped with
booster tank, auxiliary motor pump,
intake hose lines, ladders and other
units. .
1 The truck can pump water from
any available water supply . . . from
the river, from a ditch, from a tank,
a reservoir or from the town's
Water mains.
,The company reserves the right
to deliver the truck equipment in as
much as ninety days after the order
is olaced. but the engine, is . looked
for sometime in July.- .
Funeral Services Held
At Bagley Swamp For
Esther Louisa Eluott
'Mrs. Esther Louisa Elliotf; of ?Win
fall; who died at her home, last Fri
day follow three years? of ; falling
health, wa a menrf the-Bagfley
Swamp'Pilgrinv Holiness .Church and
ever manifested .W 'jgra$ jmterest i;in"
its work, v,.
Funeral services'-were" conducted
from i the : BajrleJ" JSwamp iChttrclr on
Saturday afternoon, tne Kev. W; J.
Smithf of SUeS Cil;y,fficlattag;'asi
slated by the RevJ, M. Smith, of
Bagley:Swantp.;i-t;l;i,,f-I
Pallbearers' wereH Julian Chappell,
Joe Chappell, ; IHenry and t-i Addison
Cartwright Jodie 7 Lane and . E.
DeanBurial " wa$ iiad.eBJn. :Lrb
Griffin Cemetery 4I4 hA&.izti-
'mm ratotts sotiberi of
twelve children of whom the follow
ing survive ; W, H. Elliott, o phapfr
nokeS IST-f of
Winfall: .2 E.s i EUiotti f Ports
moutht Va.;?-Mrs. Pearl Stalling and
MrlVEnidee':iiOweW:''Winfa!lt' Jftlr-
tr-five 'grandchildren and five great
grandchildren also survive.
-Mrs. Elliott was 79 years old and
had spent" her entire life in Per
q-I --3 County,
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In Sixty Days
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Work Going Ahead
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42-inch Pipe Lines to
Replace Sewer Ditch
Under Connecting
Roadway
The work of connecting the new
cemetery addition with CedarrGcd
Cemetery has been making rapid
strides of late.
The new addition five acres on
the Cox Farm across the swamp
from Cedarwood and behind the high
school will be connected with the
cemetery proper by a wide roadway
which is already approaching the
secondary stages.
WPA workmen Wednesday were
setting into place two huge 42-inch
pipe lines to take care of the sewer
ditch where it will flow under the
driveway.
It was necessary in this phase of
the work to .divert the stream of
water around the Bite of the work
and to build dams at either end. -
The pipes, six five-foot concrete
sections in each of the two lines laid
side by side, are sunk to just above
ground level and to a depth much
lower than the bottom of the ditch
at either end.
Workmen were also clearing away
underbrush in the swamp and cutting
down the smaller trees in prepara
tion for future beautification pro
jects.
The roadway across the swamp is
already filled in to a width of ap
proximately 18 feet wider as it ap
proaches the culvert and has set
tled hard enough to permit the driv
ing of trucks on it.
It is understood that the driveway
will be treated with a gravel or tar
surface.
The new addition, as one ap
proaches it through Cedarwood and
crosses the swamp drive, is on the
right fbetweea jthe- line of the drive
and the high " school ball park. Tfie
ground on that side is as high as it
is on this side.
Negotiations for the purchase of
the land culminated several months
ago, and while the swamp will con
tinue to be a distinct physical divi
sion between the two sections of
land, it is viewed more as a place in
which floral beauty can be developed
than as a disadvantage.
The pressing need for an expan
sion of Cedarwood Cemetery has
long been recognized since all avail
able plots were bought several years
ago.
Local People Hear
Band Practice
A large number of local people
dropped in on a routine rehearsal of
the Perquimans County Band at the
courthouse Monday night, as Direc
tor Robert Rhodes drove his young
charges through an evening of notes
and scales, and rendered several
complete numbers.
Some of those present were hear
ing the local band for the first time
and were high in their praise of the
progress made. Hearty applause
greeted several practice renditions.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Matthews
nave announced the birth of a
daughter, Mabel Bay, on Saturday,
June 8, 490. Mother and baby are
getting alorig nicely.
'Long' noted for its marked ten
dencies toward the progressive
even i if.-' sometimes the unusual
Hertfolrd'i!' largest .merchandising
firnj IS nOWngmg to the front
door of ever; farmhouse in the coun
ty a selection of' approximately 760
to 800 different Items of merchan-
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A BOHMs Store, a trading post on
wheelsThis is the latest innova
tion -fron the initiative firm of J.TZl
Blanches and Company.
The unique enterprise has probably
been ri.ed somewhere, else; but cer
tainlir: not in this vicinity.
1. CftBlanchard himself, the head
of the establishment designed tne
vehicle'aiU had it built to his own
specifications; ''Not an inch of space
is wasfed) v; There is a concealed tank
wit an outside ' pump to dispense
kerosene ji there's vti i ice : bo or re
frigerator behind the driver's seat.
Numbered H among S the 1 800 - items,
stocked from :i the t store's separate
departments are everything from
iftHnt hut.ton to nlbw noints. :f !it
' r Selling is part of the scheme of
service, but the age-old" practice ,ef
trading also holds a prominent place.
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Hcd Cross Appeal
Sounded Sunday
From Two Pulpits
Ministers Score Local
Chapter's Lack of Ac
tivity; Will Take Con
tributions Appeals from the pulpit in two
churches Sunday morning in the
name of the Red Cross were made
with the promise that the two clergy
men in Hertford, the Rev. R. F.
Munns, pastor of the Methodist
Church, and the Rev. EJdmund T.
Jillson, rector of Holy Trinity
Church, will assume the leadership
Of the Red Cross drive here, "after
waiting," they said to the congrega
tions, "for the Red Cross Chapter of
Perquimans County to speak to its
people."
"I. have never," said Mr. Jillson,
"since my ordination in 1912, stood
before my people with a heavier
heart than I stand before you with
this morning."
After pointing to the fact that he
has lived in Perquimans County
longer than he has ever lived in any
other county, and after asserting
that he is not afraid to mention the
shortcomings of his fellow citizens
nor afraid to mention their virtues
and sterling qualities, the Rector
went on to say . . .
"For the first time, since 1912, I
have seen a county, I have seen my
people, fail to rise to an emergency,
and in sorrow and in suffering and
in pain, I have seen them fail to rise
to the call of that great international
institution, the Red Cross of Amer
ica. And in all my life that dis
grace I have never seen come upon
any other county."
Tyrrell County was mentioned in
Mr. Jillson'a appeal, the county a-
; cross the Albemarle Sound which has
raised and sent its first quota of $200
and is now raising a second similar
quota.
"This morning in New Yerk Har-
bbfT hsatd, "--the MtClees1'ort, a
freighter, stands loaded with a cargo
worth a million dollars. From one
masthead floats Old Glory and from
another the flag of the Red Cross."
"Have you and I," he Questioned.
"as citizens of Perquimans County,
as members of the Perquimans Chap
ter of the Red Cross, one nickel's
worth of interest in that cargo? So
far as you and I are concerned, she
is an empty hulk when she rides the
waves in the morning from America
and from the American Red Cross
carrying hospital supplies, medicines,
food, articles that have been bought
by the Surplus Commodities Admin
istration which has paid us for our
surplus crops that we might not
starve."
Both ministers scored the lack of
activity on the part of the local Red
Cross Chapter.
"I appeal to you, by every Chris
tian impluse that is yours," Mr. Jill
son continued from the Holy Trinity
pulpit, "I appeal to you by your own
sense of right and wrong, your own
sense of justice, your own sense of
pride in the symbol against which
today the mightiest force in all the
world is aimed. Rise above your
local leadership," he urged. "Do not
be mere sheen huddled in a corner
and doing nothing because your ap
pointed leaders are doing nothing.
"Men. women and children not
foreigners. They are the children
of the living God, like you, with
bodies and hearts and souls like
yours, that can quiver with pain,
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Concealed under the floor of the
Rolling Store just ahead of the rear
dual wheels are two chicken coops
fof bringing back to headquarters the
live products' of farmers who traded
them-probably for sacks of flour or
woti'jpli'irtsin scrim.
The Rolling Store has a designated
route of. travel . . . paying a ;yisit
oi&e each week to every section of
.the . county. JIexe,ia .the daily tfche-
duleri? .:: . . . -Monday,
Harveys Neck; Tuesday,
the-Beech Springs section; ; VTednes
day, New Hope; Thursday, around
Woodvilje;. Friday, Winfall and the
Chapanoke- section ; Saturday, Belvi
dre and Nicanor.
Inside', the Rolling Store is equip
ped with 'shelves and drawers, de
signed so as to keep the stock from
falMnsr off or falling out, and still
tftere seems to be plenty of .room I
even amid 800 individual items '. ,
so compactly is the mobile trading
post arranged. '"v Zf'"
I The : Red and Yellow trncle is be-
cominar a familiar sight on the high
ways and in the back roads ef Per
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DISPOSAL SEWER BEING MOVED FROM
VICINITY OF NEW RECREATION PIER
Gets Two Trophies At
Lions Convention
Norman N. Trueblood, the Hert
ford Lions Club lone delegate to
the State Convention of Lions
Clubs in Durham, returned Tues
day night and said that the local
club was awarded two trophies at
the Convention. Hertford was one
of four clubs in the State that re
ceived two trophies.
One is for membership gains,
he said, and the other is for third
place Honor Roll.
Mrs. Trueblood accompanied
him to the Convention and was
recorded as a duly accredited
member.
Benton And McNider
Alone In Second
Primary For House
Little Interest Manifest
In Democratic Run
off on June 22
Pitted against each other in the
Democratic run-off, the names of J.
S. McNider, local attorney, and J. T.
Benton, incumbent member of the
House of Representatives, will be
the only names on the county ticket.
McNider, in the first primary, top
ped the incumbent representative by
a 14-vote margin, who in turn led
the nearest competition, Mrs. Mattie
Lister White, but 33 votes.
Benton's campaign, it is said, be
gan on the Monday following the pri
mary on May 25th.
It is signal that the two high men
in the representative race are both
veterans in the General Assembly;
Mr. McNider has served two terms
each in the lower house jgd in the
State Senate, while Mr. Benton has
served twice in the House of Repre
sentatives. The remaining three candidates in
the first primary had never served.
They were Mrs. Mattie Lister White,
Joe Campbell and Walter Edwards.
The lone scramble between the run
off men is exciting not even the
faintest degree of interest. It is
the only contest here and the war in
Europe and the bogging down of the
gubernatorial race, will only serve
to make it less exciting.
The second primary is on next
Saturday, June 21st.
Windsor Youth To
Preach Here Sunday
Harrell White, ministerial student
at Chowan College, Murfreesboro,
will preach at the Hertford Baptist
Church Sunday at both the morning
and evening services, according to an
announcement from a member of the
Board of Deacons.
Mr. White, whose home is in Wind
sor, has been heard at the Baptist
Church in Hertford before and was
well received on that occasion.
He will go to Wake Forest Col
lege next vear to continue his
studies.
Scouts Performing
Public Service
The Hertford Boy Scout Troop
155 is performing a public service in
preparing five signs fox the Town of
Winfall.
The signs, when finished, will read,
"Winfall, City Limits and will be
installed at the five roads leading
into Winfall.
The troop flag and an American
Banner arrived here Monday. When
all the members are uniformed a
parade will' he staged, probably in
about three weeks 4t is said.
The troop flag is a huge banner
topped with the Boy Scout Emblem
in shining brass. On it is lettered,
"Troop 155, Hertford, N. C, Tide
water Council."
- The American Banner as well, is
topped with the Scout Emblem. Both
are regulation: parade size flags and
may be seen in; the office of the
Clerk of Superior Court.
: MEETING SUNDAY :k
A Children's Day program wilf 1e
presented - at- - Epworth , Methodist
Vfuurcikin v.MwiH.wu ounuay even -
ing, June 23, at 8 o'clock 4fThe pub -
lie is cordially invited to attend.
Municipal Beach to Get
Brand New Coat of
Clean Sand
RUSHINGWORK
Funds Left Over From
River Projects to
Build Bulkhead at
Covent Garden
The principal objection to the new
bathing pier is in the process of re
moval, Mayor Vivian N. Darden im
plied Wednesday morning as he told
The Weekly reporter that work has
already begun on piping the sewer
line away from the vicinity of the
pavilion.
The sewer main, he said, will be
piped, from its present location under
the shore-end house to a point up
the creek and at least to the channel.
Additional lengths of pipe were or
dered Tuesday after work with the
pipe now available had already be
gun. He said this work would be pushed
as rapidly as possible.
The removal of the sewer disposal
pipe from the vicinity of the bathing
pavilion removes the principal ob
jection that parents had held to the
new recreation center. Their qual'ma
were well-grounded in the belief
that the water there was poluted.
When this work is finished the
water will probably be cleaner at
that location than anywhere else oo
the river front.
Mayor Darden also said that work
is to begin within the next week at
giving the municipal beach a new
coat of sand. Patrolman-Fisherman
Bob White's barge has been se
cured to haul the new sand from
across the river and from sand beds
further down the river.
Other work is reaching completion
at the recreation center . . . interior
painting and final decorating.
Mayor Darden said that a bulk
head will be built at the Covent
Garden Deadend. Enough money
was left over from the Federal grant
for the bathing pier and other bulk
heads to undertake this job.
Drunken Driving
Case Transferred
To Superior Court
Deputy Owens and At
torney Phil Sawyer
Almost Tangle In
Court Room
The case of John C. Butler, charg
ed with driving drunk and destroy
ing Perquimans County jail property,
was transferred to the next term of
Perquimans County Superior Court
by Judge Granberry Tucker when
Butler's attorney, P. G. Sawyer, of
Elizabeth City, asked for a jury
trial.
The property destruction count
was lodged against Butler after he
is alleged to have broken window
lights and the staircase rail in the
county jail after he was arrested on
the drunk driving charge.
Deputy Owens and Attorney Saw
yer appeared almost on the verge of
I blows in the courtroom when Owens
informed Sawyer that his client was
in custody and had left the court
room. Bond was set at $150.
Miss Mae Sawyer, of Columbia,
was found guilty of driving on the
left side of the road, and paid the
costs of court. A motion on the part
of her lawyer for a nol prosse as to
a reckless driving count was granted.
Both charges were brought by C.
O. Fowler, local truck operator, fol
lowing an accident near Winfall af
ter which his truck, .loaded - with
Maypeas, turned over. f
Edmunds Jacobs, of Rich Square,
forfeited his bond when he failed to
appear to answer charges of giving
bad checks to W M. Divers.
Sidney Parsons, Jr., Negro, was
fined $7.50 for driving with improper
Dratces.
As the result of an accident near
Nicanor Sunday night, Willie Rid
dick, Negro, , and Clifton Stallings,
were both charred with reckless
driving. .wRiddick was found guilty
and ordered to pay a fine of $25.00
and the costs of court or take a 30
day suspended sentence.
Riddick was driving a truck and
though testimony was contradicted
st; to whether or not he held out
his hand as he started to make the"
tunr that resulted in the accident, '
1 Judge Tucker ruled that even that
1 precaution under flangerous cireunv
1 stance' was not tho extent of ia
1 liability.
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