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i 1 4$ V , I. -r 7W A VEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUttTY Volume VII.-T-Number 26. c ; -Hertford, Perquimans QountyNorth Carolina, Friday, June 28, 1940. $1.25 Per Year. NS W! LY W i t 'i ft" I k:? '-V 3 .4 FrsncetCraklied World Awaits It'ev Phase of War Against British1 Isles Will England Be Block- acted or combed or Both? ABOUT THE NAVY On Final Disposition of French Navy Proba bly Rests Outcome of Second World War Aa Great Britain brines a week of war news to a fitting close with . reports of ineffectual raids on sev ;'; ral German-held French seaport towns, the world still ponders the question "where is the bulk of the French fleet and who will eventually get it?" For instance, the giant Normandie, not a member of the naval force, but part of the French merchant marine, has been tied up in New York along with two lesser , vessels since the be ginning of the war. With no recog niiible French government to turn to for instructions, what will be the deposition of the gigantic liner T America has as Just a claim on it as any other nation. Will French Battiewsgon skippers assert their Just privileges as "Lords ' of all they Survey once their com mand is at sea, and join the English battle force t Of will they recognize the term of the French . surrender and put about for French ports now German-held ports T .tna whole outcome of the Second World War hinges on the answering of these questions. France has surrendered and the world trembles in suspense - as the British Isles dig in for a seige that is advertised to put -shama; anything Of like nature that swmwnd ftaa ever ijJtate2' questioiu-ihecAfp on world affairs can nemore answer than we can here in Hertf ord on the courthouse green. ' ; ;n Vl a What' form -will Adolf Hitler's as sault in England take? ; With auxiliaries from the French Fleet, will he blockade the Isles and starve them Into surrender . . . or, as he promises . . , . will he wipe Eng land off the map in three weeks af ter the 'attack is launched on a big scale? " " . 'i:.-',' . . The menace of Hitler is a power to reckon with and to stand In dread of. The writer has long since stop ped proclaiming, that - "Hitler cant do this or that1! since the Fur heurY first blitzkreJg .war stamped ' out the country of Poland. - We'd like to say this v . "While-the German and Italian masses and French traitors and Fifth Columnists are celebrating the down (Continued on Paga Five) " ' BmvMRrms lias r.il"t Distributor AtKii&ibdMii Local Distributor ;' Re tports; Gratifying Ac ' ceptance "of Golden Guernsey Dairyj Wares : Though formal opening has been delayed due to difficulties- In , Iocat- lng. power line to supply electric !l ? "current Braxton Dawson's , Elmwood ; Farms Dairy out on the -Elizabeth i City Highway -has- already "expands ' Its- operation : Jby making r Golden ' ' Guernsey milk' available j to . summer ' "eatte-ers at.Naga Uea- and in Care S County. v S--r-- ; ..The service was Inaugurated Kon- -! rlav mornfaiff. George Lambert 'of . Nags Head, will distribute Elmwood Farms Golden Guernsey milk there. ' though milking-only half ' the Golden Guernsey Herd (the only one ' between Durham : and Norfolk) the new 4airy;has been supplying Dacre- . capped bottles ; or Golden Guernsey , milk to dozens of families in Hert ford and vicinity for several . weekj rtrouirh J. Oliver White, local dis- ' tributor. ' - f;' 4 - John A. Bartlett,' manager tand dairyman of wide experience, is ' proud of the fact that not one of the ; 65 cows milked and grazed on por tion of the f30-acre Thomas , Nixon -S ' "i mother nairyi 'V i -' - f them are pure ; i : and came from . t- ) c ":iocked;;';:;';w ii. i ( 'iuBlastic re- t ' ' ' j jrodact in - - -3d E. S. Pierce, Funeral Director; Dies - ... ,. HI Pietared above Is Ernest S. Pierce, foneral director In Hertford for the past 14 years, who died at his home an Market Street Friday night a few hears after returning from Duke Hospital fat Durham, where he had been a patient for the past eight days. Fueral services were held on Monday afternoon. Mr. Pierce, SI, was a native of Stsabory. Ernests. Pisrce. Funnel Director, D::d Last Friday A Drowned Here Sever al Years Ago Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon for Ernest S. Pierce, 61, prominent Hertford mortician for the past 14 years, who died at his home on Market Street Friday night a few hours after returning from Duke Hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for the pre vious eight days. Though his condition was known to be serious, the death came as a shock to his family and friends. Mr. Pierce and his family, wife and three children, came to Hertford in 1926V. A first tragedy entered bis life shortly thereafter, with the drowning of his small son, Ernest, in the Perquimans River. The death of his eon was followed shortly by the death of his wife, the former Ellen Hill of Sunbury. . j He is survived by his second wife, Mrs. Nellie Hoskins Pierce! one son, Earl Pierce, of Oceai City, Md.; one daughter, Maewopd Pierce, of Hert ford;,, two step-sons, Bill and Tom Cox; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Pierce;' f Sunbury; and one; sister, Mrs. L. M. Rountree, of Cbrapeake. Funeral services were r. held at the home at 8:S0vo?clock Monday after noon, the Rev. R.' F Muhns, pastor of the Hertford Methodist Church, and the Rev. E. T. Jillson, rector of Holy Trinity Church conducting. 1 Burial was in Cedarwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were C. P. Harris, A. W. Hefren, J. W. Ward, Towe, R. M. Riddick, W. H. Hardcastle, Dr. C A. Davenport and Dr. T. P. Brinn. .Mr. Pierce was well-known In Eli iabth Citv as well -2 In Hertford and In Sunbury. He was " in i the undertaking business ; with the,-firm of Fierce nd Toxey, ? ; C::..:!ngC6ii: C;:;:s IJsiv SGrvico The Hertford Banking - Company, in an advertisement on another page of t;.!3 'newspaper.' announces. the opening of a personal loan depart mpnt. ThA i establishment is . how salaried employees, professional men and women, executives, wage earn ers, iporchants and business men. I t service is' assured, fend pa trc. 3i.j invited J(to make applica tions at once " " - ' t!r. p-1 Krt. rro-Vd i t c.r Kc a nc:r -..j- Crescent Company Amusements Doing Good Business Saturday Is Last Day In Hertford For Lions Sponsored "Oeanest Midway on Earth" The Lions Clu? siwiisc ions of the Crescent ored attrac- Amusement Company, located on the town lot this week, are attracting a great deal of interest among young and old alike. The club expects to realize a tidy sum for its participation in the amusements. To divert the kiddies are a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, chair-o-plane and other rides. There are target booths and other attractions for those who prefer a milder form of entertainment. The Cesewshows, which have visited Hertford on several other oc casions in the past three years, are said to have the cleanest midways in the world, meaning there is no dirt or questionable shows. The rides and booths begin opera tion soon after the noon hour and continue on until about midnight. Saturday will be the last day here for the Crescent Amusement Com pany on the' present engagement It will move on to Belhaven early Sunday morning for the Fourth of July Celebration. It came to Hert ford from a Lion-sponsored engage ment in Edenton. Employers Have Until June 30 to Pay Unemployed Tax oyers Paying Gon tributions To State Fund Will Avoid Stiff Penalty Numbers of North Carolina em ployers who are delinquent in their payment of the State Unemployment Compensation taxes for 1939, hav, until June 30, and no longer, to pay their contributions to the State fund and avoid the heavy penalty almost double the original amount that will be imposed by the Federal Govern ment, it is pointed out by E. W. Price, director of the Unemployment Compensation Division of the State Unemployment Compensation Com mission. Congress, last year, relaxed the stringent requirement that unless an employer paid the full amount of his contribution to the State agency by tne last of January for the previous calendar year, then the full 100 per cent of the three per cent tax would be collected by the Federal Govern ment, and the 90 per cent could be collected by the State. The new pro vision is that if the 90 per cent, or 2.7 per cent of the payroll, is paid to the State agency after January 31, and on or before June 30, then the employer can take 90 per cent of the 90 per ent credit, or. 81 per cent credit, on hi payment to the State agency. ;, ;v "Unless the few hundred employ ers delinquent on (heir 1938 taxes make proper payments to the State by or before June. 30,; then they will have to pay the State,' 2.7 per eent of their 1939 payrolls, plus interest at the rate of one per cent a month, and will also have to pay the Federal Collector of Internal Revenue the full three per eent of their payrolls, or a total of 5.7 .per cent 1 ol their 1939 payrolls, Mr. Price temmdeoV;-. P;?jstftj:lfl fS2rsldToufTo Old Uilosbrg Many 'members of Perquimans County' twelve. Home w Demonstra tion Clubs will tour to old Williams burg on July 11th, according to n announcement' "from Miss Frances Manesss, Perquimans . County;v Home Demonstratipn Agent.' -' , i1 ' 1 The trip, a one-day Journey, will be made in a bus belonging to Paul T. Ricks, of Greenville, Anyone in terested should notify . Mifls-Maneai before Jaly 3rdi i , -", . Williamsburg on the James River in Virginia. Is a mecca - for those in terested in the early history " of Ar'Tira, The city was recently re r ! tj aU its yre-Eevolutionary . . r : ry. . - cppell Appeals From Judgment In Non-Support Case Defense Charges Ac tion Brought to Raise Funds to Pay Recent Fine of $50 Appeal to Superior Uourt trom a decision of guilty rendered by Re coraer Oranberry Tucker in county court Tuesday furnished the highest point of interest on an unusually skimpy docket, as Arthur Chappell oi tne ueividere section bucked a verdict against him on charges of failing to support his wife, Clio Chappell. The Court adjudged that Chappell would serve six months on the road, the sentence to be suspended upon payment of costs in the action and (2.50 for the support of his wife, from whom he has been separated for four years. C. R. Holmes, local attorney, de fending Chappell, tried to show that Mrs. , Chappell's only reason for bringing her husband into court on non-support charges was that she needed money to pay a fine recently imposed on her for carrying a con cealed weapon. According to testimony .... Mr. Chappell left his wife when she refused to move from the house they were living in to a house on another piece of property he owned. He said his reason for wanting to move was that too many men were hanging around and they always ran when he approached. Mrs. Chappell said the men hang ing around their house came to buy whiskey from Mr. Chappell . . . and she didn't like it. And that her reason for not going with her hus band when he moved was that the house "wasn't fit to live in." Mrs.. Chappell said she had been supporting herself for the past two years. , , , . The verdict was guilty, nt Chap pell appealed and bond was set at siuo. The case will probably come up at the October Term. Durants Neck Man Seriously Injured In Farm Accident W. C. Hurdle Falls 6f f Hay Rake; Suffers Possible Skull Frac ture, Other Injuries W. C. Hurdle, Durants Neck farm er, was seriously injured Tuesday morning when he was apparently thrown under a hay rake fanning implement on which he was riding. He was rushed to the Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City by an am bulance from Hertford, and it was said here that his injuries included severe head wounds, including lacer ations and possibly a fractured skull, as well as bruises and lacerations of the body. Mr. Hurdle was alone at the time of the accident, and the explanation was offered that the mules pulling the hay rake bolted and ran away when the hay rake might have un covered ground bees which stung the team and frightened them. Two Baseball Games This Week-end; Two On Fourth of July Two -baseball games are on sche dule for the coming . week-end. The locals will engage the Edenton ag gregation'on. Saturday ' afternoon in the high school ball park, and on Sunday afternoon the Cross Roads group will ilnvade the same park. - Two games are booked for the Fourth of July, next Thursday, when morning and afternoon jpames. will see the locals P., in action with the Portsmouth Red Sox. ' ' i.. .. " . ."e ii Supervisors Checking AAV Compliance Eight men . are working in the county, checking compliance among those cooperating in the 1941 crop control program. L. W.' Anderson, county farm agent, hopes, that when ever possible farmers will accom pany' the compliance .supervisor on his round, of the farm or send some one with him who is familiar with the farm and to tell the supervisor whether any lime was used and whether it was1 government lime, and to advise him about cover crops. i. T. BENTON LEADS IN SECOND PRIMARY VOTING FOR COUNTY REPRESENTATIVE Opens New Dress Shop Business -.;! v,l f.... M HVV V' 1 . X, jnvs'TBMfce After twelve years in the cleaning and pressing business in Hertford, Mrs. Ellie Goodwin, above, has sold the Riddick's Cleaning Works and opened Goodwin's Dress Shoppe on Church Street. The ladies' and children's estab lishment, formerly the Doris Shop, is to be personally operated by Mrs. Goodwin and is being renovated throughout the interior. There is a complete new stock of merchandise and new arrangements are being made for attractive display. Dick Hines Resigns Position Here As Town Engineer Goes To Kings Moun tain to Become City Manager; Came Here Seven Years Ago R. N. (Dick) Hines, town engineer for the past seven years, has resign ed his job, it is said, to take a simi lar position as city manager of the town of Kings Mountain. Mr. Hines came to Hertford in 1933 to take over the duties of the job left vacant by the late J. R. El liott, who quit his post because of failing health two years before he died in 1935. The duties of the office at that time amounted to those of a town electrician, but under Mr. Hines they expanded to take in the streets, water and electric light depart ments. Mr. and Mrs. Hines and their lit tle son, Richard, expect to leave Hertford sometime in July for Kings Mountain. Mrs. Hines is the former Miss Georgia Bland Holmes of Eden ton. They were married shortly af ter Mr. Hines came to Hertford. They live at present in the old. Dr. Cox home on Front Street. Their friends regret the turn of events that carries the Hines family away from Hertford even though the change means promotion for Mr. Hines. Local Boy Scouts Encamping Next Veeli At Nags Head Retiring Rotary Presi dent Gives Club Set Rotary Song Books Arrangements, , were made at the Tuesday night meeting of the Rotary Club for transportation of the Rotary-sponsored Hertford Boy Scout Troop to Nags Head for one week. Twenty-five Scouts of the local troop will spend the entire week there, at the ' , T. J. Nixon cottage, j and encamped nearby on the beach. At the same meeting of the Ro tary Club, V. N. Darden, retiring president, leaving his duties at the close of the Rotary year Tuesday evening, presented the club with a set of Rotary Song Books. The new president is Riley S. Monds. '-' . HRTII ANfaftlTNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Cox wish to announce the birth of ' a daughter, Rehecca: lee. born Tuesday. June 25. 1940. ' Mother and ,, baby are, doing I ; 'a ! I w fr- ir, w iff 'V-U tA. Si. r t a IS. J x rat iifam -g Farmer - Nominee Goes Back to Legislature For Third Term 36-VOTEMARGIN McNider Fails to Show Strength In First Pri mary; Benton Lands AH Rural Precincts In the wind-up Saturday of what started out on May 25th to be Per quimans County's hottest election session in decades, Incumbent J. T. Benton overhauled Attorney J. S. McNider's first primary lead, and re tained his seat in the Lower House by a margin of 36 votes. It was a listless election day; the county cast a total of 828 votes, of which Benton polled 432 and Mc Nider 396. The run-off was a triumph of rural strength over sentiment in the Town of Hertford. McNider, high man in a first primary field of five candi dates, maintained a wide margin in Hertford Township, but Benton steamed ahead and snowed the attor ney under in every rural precinct. As the tallying in the courthouse Saturday night reached a finale and McNider supporters rejoiced at an 80 vote margin in a total of 358 ballots, it began to look like a lost cause for Benton. Butt the rural precincts had not been reckoned with, and as returns drifted in from Parkville, Nicanor and other polling places, the Mc Nider lead rapidly diminished until Incumbent Benton topped him and was assured, his third term in the General Assembly. Here is the unofficial vote in Per quimans County complete but un official: 6 Precincts Benton McNider Hertford 139 219 Parkville , 116 69 New Hope 50 39 Bethel L 42 33 Belvidere 28 27 Nicanor 57 9 Totals 432 396 It was a contest between veterans. The three other candidates in the first primary . . . Mattie Lister White, Joe Campbell and Walter Ed wards . . . lost out in the first elimi nation and left the field to the two men who had each already served two terms for Perquimans County in the Legislature before. McNider was accorded a 14-vote nod over the incumbent representa tive in the first contest and his lead looked indicative of the results a second primary would have, but Benton voiced his intentions soon af ter the final returns were in, and Saturday's balloting neatly put an end to the campaign. Representative Of Wake Forest Will Conduct Services Morning services at the Hertford Baptist Church will be conducted by a representative from Wake Forest College, according to an announce ment from a member of the Board of Deacons. The member in charge of arrange ments this Sunday could not be reached for identification of the visi tor, but it is understood that the re presentative will probably be a mem ber of the faculty or the administra tionnot a ministerial student, ' ; Arrangements for the Sunday evening service had not been niade and it could not be ascertained whether the Wake Forest represen tative would be in town, for the evening service. v-v; Perquimans Students On E.C.T.C. Honor Roll The honor roll " of East Carolina Teachers College has 184 names on it, from 54 counties, with Pitt lead ing with 27 'names. Northampton comes next witb 9; Johnson 8; and Nash, Wilson, and Wake tie with seven eaciu.'-" This county placed on the honor roll," Nancy ?. Darden, Madge Lane nd Prue Newby. 'The Seniors lead the classes with 2, but those doing practice: teaching. that term are not included. The oth er three' classes are nearly equally divided. The self-help students, who form 21.4. of ;the student body, have Z1 of the honor students. " 3 7L':, a :yuz" -'.