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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNT
Volume VII Number 27.
Hertford, Perquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, July 5, 1940.
$1.25 Per Year.
QUIMMIS
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AT PHESErlT RATE PERQUIMANS WILL BE
A GHOST COUNTY IN NINETY MORE YEARS
County's Population De
creases Almost Ten
Per Cent In Past Ten
Years
9,765TODAY
Number of Farms Also
On Ondnnl FWliiiP
VIl Urd.Ultl ICUIHC,
Over Ten Year Period
Since 1930
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If there is any constructive good
in worrying, it is well to worry a
! bout National Defense and the ef
fects of the war ill, Europe on the
Place of the America . . . and pros
i perity. But it is also well to worry
about an alarming decrease in the
population of Perquimans County.
The County, over a ten-year per
' iod, according to preliminary census
(v figures, has lost almost ten percejjt
of its population!
' In 1040 Perquimans County has
" less than 10,000 people to compare
vith 10,668 in 1930. Nine hundred
" and three Perquimans County people
have died of moved away since 1930,
and no one has replaced them. The
nose-counting today reveals that pre-
' cisely 9,765 souls reside within the
..boundaries of Perquimans County. .
At this rate, Perquimans County
in ninety or more years will be a
- ghost county, entirely devoid of
' - humans.
.These are preliminary figures of
-f course and subject to correction, but
are believed to be substantially cor
rect, according to Denton W. Lup-
ton, supervisor of the census.
They have not moved away from
,th country to Hertford; these fig-
' fcres take into consideration the fact
- that the town of Hertford shows an
Intrease of 42 persons.
Nine hundred is a lot of population
- to lose in a ten-year period , it a
' "mounts to almost a hundred a year,
about one person , every third; day.
with nothing to offset the loss.
over
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iha him narwut? fmm 1 9.99. in ISanJ
Vnr : ; , :"S M
to 1,192 in ,1888, to 1,062 in 1940.
This coraparision, also released by
. the census supervisor, does not tend
to indicate that the number of acres
' is less than in 1930, or that there
r are fewer farmers or fewer people
' who live on farms than in 1930. It
i simply means that the number of
individual farms has decreased;
though this is inconsistent with the
fact that Hertford has gained 42 in
.population while the county has lost,
J903. This number MUST have been1
' lost from the farms.
Since few acres in the county are
not under cultivation, the decrease
in farms could be due to consolida
ton of individual farms or to some
' other reason.
Final Rites Held
For J. C. Winslov
Funeral Services were held Wed
,'V' nesday afternoon for Joshua C.
' .Winslow, who died at his home in
jT'whiteston after an illness of six
weens. ,
A native and lifelong resident of
Perquimans County, Mr. Winslow
J ' ' was the son of the late Sanuel and
" fcMary Ann Winslow. -He was a mem
e . i ber of the Up River Friends Church.
His wife, Mrs.; Delphenia Winslow,
., two daughters, Mrs.;Addie Winslow,
of. Pasquotank County, and Mrs. S.
N. Riddick of Perquimans County;
live bvub, otuu, ucmyBvy, uoiuj.
' Winslow of Perquimans t County,
ti Ernest Winslow of Virginia, and Ir
; vin Winslow of Rocky Mount; two
vV sisters, Mrs. W. P. Davis of Webster,
' Texas( and Mrs. C. E. Winslow of
- 'Belvidere; one brother, Sergeant F.
. T. Winslow of Elizabeth City, sur
., vive.
Final rites were conducted at the
TP River SYiends Church Wednes-
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as uiaue in vie innuiy piui,
E. Morris Takes Over
"uties As District's
few License Examiner
J. E, Morris on Wednesday afterr
noon replaced S. P. Burgin as li
cense Examiner in this district. Mr.
"urgin is transferred to the Rocky
"ount district. '.
Mr. Morris"; formerly connected
h the Revenue Department iri
;lher capacity, will be in Hertford
r " the courthouse pd Wednesday af
i -ons for the purpose of examin.
-i(.n.ts for driver's pwrraits.
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Brings In First
Cotton Bloom Third
Consecutive Year
For the third consecutive year,
Claude Williams, who lives on Route
Three, has brought into the office of
The Perguimans Weekly the season's
firt cotton bloom- As Mr-
Williams gets a free subscription for
one year to The Perquimans Weekly.
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miiiiiMv iiuiru i hit. .1 111 v mi., im
five or six days later than his first
one last year. '
William T. Smith, of Belvidere,
also brought a cotton bloom to Hert
ford Monday afternoon, but not to
the office of The Perquimans Weekly
until after Mr. Williams had arrived.
One of the blooms Mr. Smith
brought was a red one, meaning that
it had bloomed on Sunday, a day
earlier than either of the other two,
but not discovered until Monday. T.
E. Madre brought in the third bloom
later Monday afternoon.
The men, prominent farmers in
Perquimans County, said blooms
were plentiful Monday morning.
E. Lee Hurdle, of near Joppa,
brought in the fourth cotton bloom
on Tuesday morning.
For War Refugees
Is
At NoM Wednesday
Contributions Totaled
Only One-sixth of the
Minimum Quota
To datejthe Bed Cross drive for
funds for war refugees totals "about
-hmipiiiy4tiK to
silas M. Whedbeet chairman of the
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rerquiman county unapter.
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sixth of the figure set as Perquim-
ans County's minimum quota,
hundred dollars is the goal
Six
this
county was asked to attain.
Contributions are being received
by Mr. Whedbee at the post office,
by the Rev. E. T. Jillson, rector of
Holy Trinity Church, and by the
Rev. R. F. Munns, pastor of the
Hertford Methodist Church.
There is no active house-to-house
canvass in Perquimans County and
tne anve is apparently going into a
decline. The total figure two weeks
ago was $83.65,
(The hundred dollar figure men
tioned above was quoted at noon
Wednesday. There were probably
other contributions since then).
Funeral Services Held
For S. L. Jackson At
New Hope Sunday
Funeral services for S. L. Jackson,
71, who died at his home in New
Hope early Saturday morning after
a short illness, were held Sunday af-'
i ternoon at four o'clock at the grave.
The Rev. J. D. Cranford, pastor of
the New Hope Methodist Church, of
ficiated. Burial was in the Church
cemetery.
Mr, Jackson was a native of Pas
quotank County, but had lived in Per
quimans for the past 53 years. He
was a member of the New Hope
Methodist Church and a Woodman
He is survived by three sons, Paul
Jackson, of Elizabeth City; Philip
Jackson, of Sunbury, and Jerry Jack
son, of Philadelphia; three daugh
ters, Mrs. J T. Hendricks of Eden-
ton; Mrs. L. N. Elliott, of Wilming
ton, and Mrs. D. E. True, of Rich
mond, Va.; one brother, Calvin Jack
son, of Norfolk, Va.; several grand-
s
number of neices and nephews.
."Jesus Saviour, Pilot Me" and
f Haven of Rest" were sung1 by Mrs.
T. B. Sumner, Mrs. B. G. Koonce, L.
W. ! Anderson and C. P. Morris.
Pallbearers were M. M. Spivey, I.
C. Butt, S. D. Banks, S. T. Perry, R,
L. Robbins and L. V. Umphlett.
Boy Scouts Encamp
This Week At Beach
.Twenty-six members .vthe Hert
ford Boy J3cout " Toop, accompanied
ty. Jheir . Scbutijiiastaj?, W.( H Pitt,
went into encampment at Nags Bead
Sunday afternoon. Thei traveled by
truck 'and pitched their tents in the
vicinity of the T. J. Nixon cottage
Red Cross Drive
BoggingDoivn
with, tl.a c.V.. ;.3 : jfts 'heaAqu&"UraTiaV-BospitaIt
The "encampment is for .this . week,'.
Rotarians See
News-Gathering
Agencies At Work
Club Members Impress
ed With Motion Pic
tures of Sinking U. S.
Gunboat "Panay"
The members of the Hertford Ro
tary Club in meeting Tuesday night
thoroughly , enjoyed a presentation
through the medium of talking pic
tures1 the workings of news-gathering
agencies and the speed and
accuracy with which they perform.
R. S. Monds, president of the local
club, said that G. F. Ball, in charge
of public relations for an oil com-;
pany in North Carolina, brought to
the Rotarians a magnificent picture
of the titanic struggle of skilled
news reporters, working night and
day at every strategic point to bring
to the world the latest news in the
shortest possible time.
Mr. Monds said the members were
particularly impressed with the actu
al pictures of the sinking of the
United States gunboat, "Panay",
near Shanghai. The motion picture
outfit used by Mr. Ball contrived to
show how a reporter aboard the gun
boat had swum ashore and had the
news of the grim disaster flashed to
the Americas, across 7,000 miles of
space, in just four minutes . . . even
Deiore tne bombing had been com
pleted. Mr. Ball wiW be presented to the
Lions Club at their meeting in the
dining room of Hotel Hertford to
night Friday).
Lions Club Making
Plans For Second
Annual County Fair
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Definite Arrangements
At Regular Meeting
Of Club
Tentative plans are being made by
the Lions Club to hold another Per
quimans County Fair, here, at a late
date this fall. Details will probably
be discussed at their meeting Friday
night.
The Lions Club realized approxi
mately ?100 from the Crescent A-
musement Company engagement
here last week, and the same show
much larger, of course will prob
ably play a return engagement if the
Club decides to hold the fair again
this year.
The Lions Club a year aeo in Sep
tember, gave Perquimans County its
first large scale county fair, with the
cooperation of the County Agent and
the Home Demonstration Agent.
It was a highly successful celebra
tion in every sense ancl the sponsors
were well pleased with the good-will
created through their efforts. The
same plan probably will be followed
this year.
Last year, the county fair which
ran for six days and nights, included
special days set aside for 'children,
when the rides were operated at half
price; for farmers, when AEen J.
Maxwell spoke from a grandstand on
the courthouse green; and mer
chants day.
There was a large exhibit tent with
exhibits from all home demonstration
clubs and farm groups, together with
commercial exhibits.
Correction
The Weekly's attention has been
called to a discrepancy in the news
story of last week concerning the
resignation of R. N. Hines as town
engineer.
- The item mentioned the late J. R.
Elliott, who, until seven years ago,
held the position vacated by Mr.
Hines and stated "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 de
partments." It came to our attention that the
duties of the late Mr. Elliott were
the same as those performed by Mr.
Hines. The Weekly is glad to cor
rect this item.
FRANKLIN VISITOR
Bill Jones, of Franklm, Va., is
visiting here, the. guest of Miss Lila
Budd Stephens and her parents, Mr
'flnd MraV C. G. Stephens. ;
IN NORFOLK FOR OPERATION
v Carroll, little son of Mr. and Mr&
B. C. B?rry, will enter" Leigh Memo-.
; (Friday) to undergo a tonsilectomy.
Board Reverses Its
Decision On NYA
Work Suspension
County Will Continue
To Sponsor NYA; Call
Amounts to Fifteen
Dollars Month
sixty women i
the Board of
Between fifty and
who appeared before
County Commissione,rs in meeting
at the courthouse Monday prevailed
upon that body to reconsider its de
cision on suspension of support to
the NYA.
The board reconsidered took a
vote and decided to again finance
the National Youth Administration
projects with a monthly contribution
from the county treasury.
Among those speaking to the
commissioners in behalf of the NYA
plea, were Mrs. J. J. Fleetwood,,
head of the NYA in Hertford, Mrs.
J. G. Roberson for the Woman's
Club, and Mrs. C. P. Morris.
The amount of the county's con
tribution to the work is $15 a
month. This sum is used to buy ma
terial with which to keep the work
sponsored. The salaries come from
the Federal Government.
The board, in reversing its deci
sion, reminded of the original stipu
lation that no applicant to the NYA
should have more than six months
of steady employment. In other I
words, the board members want all
eligible youths in the county to have
equal opportunity for employment
and training under the NYA.
V.C. Hurdle Dies
Of Injuries After
5 Days In Hospital
Funeral Services Held
Tuesday Fbt Victim
Of Fatal Farm Acci
dent William Carson Hurdle, New Hope
farmer who was injured in a fanning
accident last Tuesday, died in the
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth
City at 5:40 Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services were held Tues
day afternoon at the New Hope
Methodist Church with the Rev. J.
D. Cranford, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in the Church cemetery.
Mr. Hurdle, 65, suffered the fatal
wounds wfeen a team of horses draw
ing a hay rake ran away and threw
him under the rake inflicting severe
head injuries including lacerations
p."H probably a fractured s!:ull r.s
well as other injuries about the
body.
He was rushed by ambulance im
mediately to the hospital.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. SaFlie
Hurdle; three sons, Quenton R. Hur
dle, of Norfolk, Va., T. A. Hurdle, of
New Hope, and J. Q. Hurdle, of New
Hope; four daughters, Mrs. H. C.
Hoskins, Mrs. E. A. Turner, Mrs. S.
W. Baker and Miss Willie Hurdle, al!
of New Hope; three sisters, Mrs.
Milton Koyce, of Portsmouth, Va.,
Mrs. R. B. Hayman, of Newport
News, Va., and Mrs. James Copeland,
of Cleveland, Ohio; three brothers,
ivarl A. Hurdle, of Elizabeth City;
Hubert Hurdle, of Winfall, and Je
rome Hurdle, of Belvidere; and sev
eral nieces and nephews.
Stations Available For
Army Service From
Virginia To Hawaii
There are eight stations available
for men who wish to enlist in the
United States Army from nearby
Fortress Monroe to far-away Hawaii
according to an announcement by
Corporal John J. Moore, who is lo
cated in the Elizabeth City Post Of
fice building and is accepting appli
cations.
Men accepted for air corps or sig
nal corps must be high school grad
uates or its equivalent, he said. '
Stations open now are: Coast ar
tillery, , Fortress .Monroe, Virginia,
Medical Department and 8th Signal
Company at Fort Meade, Maryland,
31st Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Vir
ginia, 12th Infantry at Fort Howard,
Maryland, C. W. S. Edgewood Arse
nal, Maryland, Air Corps and Signal
Corps, Hawaii. .
Front Being Painted
The front ' of Morgan's Modern
Grocery on Church Street is getting
p. turn. VA '. 0U,B( ' jpauai
hanoe its attractiveness. Irvia, Bar-
clift has been doing the Wjorju
SMOKES, DRINKS, GASOLINE GOING UP;
DEFENSE TAXES HAVE BECOME EFFECTIVE
Fourth Falls On
Regular Holiday
The Fourth of July came at an in-
convenient time for most employees:
the personnel of Hertfords largest
business houses were already enjoy
ing a regular naii-noiiaay on murs
days. The event was observed here by
the bank, post office and business
houses. No special programs had
been planned, and beaches were ex
pected t'o see most of the holiday
motoring.
The 164th birthday of the Ameri
can Declaration of Independence this
year finds Uncle Sam sharpening his
sword to ward off the most serious
threat to the American Ideal of Free
dom since the declaration in 177C.
Coming during the most chaotic
time since the last World War days,
Independence Day (Thursday) was
observed here in peace and quiet
that clashes violently with the re
ports of war and suffering from
overseas.
Hitler Stymied For
The Moment By Red
Army In Powder Keg
Easing Balkan Situa
tion Again Leaves
Stage Clear For "Bat
tie For Britain"
Dramatically-voiced radio com
mentators were filling the air Wed
nesday night with news of German
bombers raining incendiary bombs
over England and strafing ground
troops.
With the Balkan crisis
easing, the news flashes
eating that this renewed
the west is probably the
of the "great battle for
apparently
were indi
activity in
first stage
Britain."
Herr Hitler some time ago said his
blitzkreig would blast the Island
Kingdom off the map in less than six
weeks.
If Hitler has given the signal, the
six-week deadline began Wednesday.
Nazi planes struck twice at Eng
land Wednesday in broad daylight;
the abanflonment of night-masked
bombing is apparently an attempt to
spread terror and destruction among
England's densely populated cities
before launching the long-awaited
projected invasion.
The death-dealing blitzkreig ex
pected by the British Isles over the
week-end, accordin., to Hitler's pro
mises, did not materialize because
Russia's Red. Army s.ep. .ed into
Rumania and shifted the haul.
-rents j
in a
, and
for a temporary period at least
Activities in Europe : :t
greater muddle than before,
while the full meaning of the
sian invasion is not known,
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heralded as a valuable aid to l
land just now. It indicates aiso lnai
Hitler and Mussolini are greatly i
worried over the developments of the
past few days.
Russia has already moved far
enough into Rumania to disturb th:.
flow of supplies into Germany from
Rumania and that alone is regarded
as the greatest gain in months for
Britain 'in her drive to establish a
blockade around Hitler.
Back on the western side of Eu
rope, German submarines inactive
these past several weeks are being
heard from more often, and it is be
lieved that this type of warfare will 1
constitute one i f the first phases of
the blitzkrieg attack on the last out
post of civilization between America
and the German barbarians. I
The Balkan crisis, however, after
partly claiming the Fuehrer's atten
tion for a short w'nile, is eased, as
late reports state that tension les
sens there since Hungary has been
virtually forced to refrain from at
tacking Rumania.
And so again, an anxious worla
tures its full attention to the coming
"Battle For Britain," while observers
see the stage being set for an ex
panding war front that will possibly
see the Balkan powder keg explode
with renewed fury and with greatei
human suffering.
In Washington in the meantime,
while Europe simmers and steams
and boils over, the National Defense
Commission announced, that the
Packard Motor Company has tenta
tively agreed to build nine thpusand
aircraft engines three thousand for
the United States and six thousand
for Britain.
r To this we an only add "Watch
out. for sabotage' .
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National Levy Boosts
Price of Theatre Ad
mission to Thirty
eight Cents
BEER HARD HIT
No More Two-for-25c
Cigarettes; Ten - cent
Packages On Way
Out
Fifteen-cent cigarettes are fifteen
cents straight no more at two for a
quarter.
Ten-cent beer is on the way out.
So are ten-cent packages of cigar
ettes. Theatre tickets are now twenty
five and three cents tax added.
Gasoline is a halfcent higher than
it was last Sunday night.
The new National Defense Tax
made itself felt in Hertford early
Monday morning, July 1st, at about
the same time the bill collectors be
gan to arrive. Bewildered distribu
tors and dealers, already bemoaning
North Carolina's Sales Tax, now have
new cause to wring their hands with
only a vague idea on what to and
what not to charge the new tax.
This levy for National Defense as
it struck Hertford early Monday
morning is only the beginning . . .
the first phase . . . and these sources
from which the first returns are
coming classed as "luxuries" went
up immediately. Many other articles
will follow; as soon as present stocks
are sold or as soon as clear instruc
tions are received from internal re-
I venue officers.
No one knows at present on what
other articles the levies will be plac
ed, but drug stores are aware that an
increase is in the offing on toilet ar
ticles. These taxes will not be ap
plied however, until present stocks
are exhausted, and retail stores will
not "feel the rise until manufacturers
and distributors raise their prices.
Back to cigarettes again, and what
the tax on them will mean to smok
ers in Hertford and Perquimans
County, the reporter talked with
several merchants and dealers Mon
day and learned that . . .
Some stores are selling the popular
15-cent brands for as low as two for
27 cents. You can't buy them cheap
er than that in Hertford. Others
who retailed them at two for a quar
ter Sunday night were selling only
at 15 cents straight Monday morn
ing. Few dealers will be handling the
10-cent brands after their present
stocks are gone. The margin of pro
fit, they say, is too small. Where
the 10-cent brands are available,
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Three Perquin ans
Soys Charged With
fnious Offenses
I
Chap
With Deadly
pells ('Car e:.
Assault W:t i
eapons
The hearing of a case involving
three young Perquimans County men
and charges of assault wi.h a dead
ly weapon scheduled for trial at
Tuesday's session of county court
was postponed until the next term,
on July 9th.
The young men or rather, boys
all in their middle 'teens, are John
nie Elliott, Louis Norman ChappeU
and Gaither Chappell, all of the
ChappeU Hill section.
They are charged by Joseph Le
of Bertie County, with cutting him
with a knife and beating him with
brass knuckles. The affair is said
to have taken place at a service sta
tion on the Edenton Highway after
midnight Saturday.
Lee, a young man of medium sta
ture, was cut in the abdomen and re
quired medical treatment which was
administered at the Hertford Clinic.
Lee's condition, as he appeared in
tie courtroom Tuesday,' showed the
results of a terrific beating. Both
eyes were badly bruised and swollen
and his right hand was cut.
The Elliott. boy was picked up at
another - filling station near Hertford
by Deputy Sheriff M. G. Owens and
Patrolman Jack Gaskill Sunday. The
ChappeU boys were found at their
homes.-' ,
The hearing was postponed he
cause of the prosecuting witness'
Condition, The three are under $500
bonds each pending the hearing.-
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