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Tickets Fcr Fa
mil Begin Soon
Kids. And Farmers
To Have Special
Days At lions' Fair
As Weliniinary plans for the Lions
Club's Annual County Fair progress,
it is announced that the advance sale
of admission tickets to begin about
two weeks before the fair opens on
September 23rd, will effect a tidy
savings for those who buy tickets in
blocks.
Arrangements for one of the spec
ial two days to be observed during
the week are going ahead faster than
the other. This fall only two out
standing days are on schedule. Sup
erintendent F. T. Johnson said Mon
day to Publicity Chairman Ma?
Campbell that all county schools will
observe Children's Day, Tuesday
September 24th.
He said that all schools in the
county will cease operations at noon
on that day and that arrangements
will be made to have the school
busses stay in town during the af
ternoon if possible.
Mr. Campbell said that all school
children would be admitted to the;
fair grounds free until six o'clock on
that afternoon, and that they will
have access to all rides at half prices
Plans for Farmers' Day, tentative
ly set for Thursday, September 26th.
are a little more vague as yet, but
the speaker who will be 4 invited
probably a State notable will be
named after a short time.
L N. Hoilowell is chairman of the
ticket committee which has said that
admission at the gates will be ten
cents straight, but when bought in
advancer from persons to.be named
later1 can be had at the price of
three for 26 cents, seven for 60
cents or 16 for one dollar.
This system, Mr. Campbell said,
will afford a big savings to families
that intend to visit the Second An
nual County Fair two or three times
during the week.
The Crescent Amusement Company
. of Gastonia, will row. fate Hsrtfotd
a&Mday -September 2nd, w4tict
its rides and set up booths and shows
in preparation for the opening 6n
Monday.
The Gastonia Company, which has
visited Hertford many times in the
past three years, boasts the reputa
tion of being one of the cleanest
shows on earth. The midway, Mr.
Campbell said, is expected to be fully
as attractive and perhaps larger than
it was last year when the Lions Club
gave Perquimans County its first
large-scale county fair.
The exhibit tent, it is said, will be
set upon the town lot several days
before the scheduled opening in order
to give competitive exhibitors time
to perfect their arrangements. The
Home Demonstration Clubs are pre
paring to devise individual exhibits,
and booths will again thjs year be
available to commercial exhibitors,
the publicity chairman said.
The funds realized by the spon
sors from the annual county fairs
are retained at home for purposes
here. An example of the Lions'
work was the purchase two weeks
ago of eye-glasses ' for four needy
persons iri the county.
The Lions have not decided wheth
er there will be street parades and a
Grand Ball during the week as last
year, but more information wiW be
released as the plans are worked out.
Ike Harris Spends
Week-end Here With
Clyde McCallums
T. H. (Ike) Harris, his wife and
their daughter, ;.?Fran6e, of New
; Bern, Tennessee, spent the week-end
in Hertfoid.rwith'.';Cayda Me
Callums. : ':?".:"v"?v-''''?? ".;'"
'.Mr, Harris was in . Hertford 16
years 'ago and; had .charge, of ,-bnfld,
ringy?the Hertford-Elizabeth t City
;if;:, Highway .for Smith Brothers, cbn-'tractors.'-',.
:'-
Hi v.vxiiey uvea with Mr. naa.-mts Jtte-
Galium at their home on Front Street
i while, Mr. Harris .was working'', in
, ;S thutectioniiS';.:--. "V?.;f:
$ Home Demonstration , '
neia -annual ncrac
,y; Members of the various: home 4em
vonsl
heldthelanhual summer picnicr last
;;S,Tu6sdayE i'at ' Albemarle Beach across
Out iAlbemarle Sound in Washington
. County.' ., ' V,
'vftviSMisSFranceB Jlaiiess; county 4em
- 'onstration agent, -conducted i; ykridns
games while s other picnickers njoy
; e bathing in the) Sound an3 dancing
't f " ' l ihe pavilion. l; i A largf ; crowd at
t ided and' ther wcre -geneni'iir
r rts"-f a jrooct ' time, though t rtin
LY inSWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF HERTFORD AND PERQUIMANS COUNTY
Koff-Koff
').."
It was in Recorder's Court Tues
day morning while Judge J. S. Mc
Nider, Solicitor Charles E. Johnson,
and (jerk of Court Howard Pitt were
cleaning up old accounts costs due
the court that ,one young Negrr
woman defendant was called into the
bar.
"Why haven't these costs been'
paid?" the court asked. The color- j
ed- girl was holding a small baby in '
her lap and was sitting near Solid- j
tor Johnson who was questioning the
delinquent court cost payers and i
making recommendations to the.
Judge.
"My baby has had whooping
cough," she answered. "I haven't
been able to work."
"Does the baby have whooping
cough now?" the Judge asked,.
"Yes, Sir, he does," the girl ans
wered, whereupon Mr. Johnson
promptly left his seat and moved
away from her to the jury box.
As His Honor eyed the Solicitor
questioningly, Mr. Johnson explain
ed, "I understand the baby has
whooping cough. The Solicitor hasn't
had whooping cough," he said.
The baby gave several convincing
whoops to corroborate its mother.
Found Guilty Under
$2 Town Ordinance
Negroes Pay $23.15
Two Cases Continued;
Principals Confined
With WOUnds: Otheri
CaSM
Found guilty under a town ordi
nance of being drunk on the streets,
Percy Sharpe and Milton Harvey.!
Negroes, in Recorder's Court Tues-
day, were subjected to town ordi-
nance fines of $2 each
But when court costs were added,
the total amounted to. $2.15 for the
two offenders.
4 Among the other cases tp-almost
a Ml day of Recorder's Court,' was
that of Will Dennis Harrell", Negro,
who was charged with destroying
personal property, to wit: shoes and
a dress belonging to his wife, Addie
Webb. Both are repeat performers
in the county court, and appear al
most every time the courthouse bell
rings.
This time it appears that Will
Dennis stripped off Addie 's clothes
on the public street and then chop
ped her shoes with an axe. The only
favorable feature of the whole affair
was the fact that both agreed the
shoes were not on her feet, when the
chopping took place.
"Do you want him punished?"
Judge McNider aeiced Addie who
swore out the warrant.
"No, Sir," she answered.
But costs have been accumulating
against Will Dennis over a period of
a lew months to the tune of $60 or
more, so His Honor ordered two sus-1
pended sentences in effect; one for.
90 days and one for 30 days to run
consecutively.
By this time the jail was beginning
to filfl up. The Court was cleaning
out old accounts and when the Stats
had no recommendation for disposi
tion of old offenders who had failed
to comply with judgements, the judge
said, "Let the sentence be executed."
.Earl Rountree, Negro, went to jail
for four months under the terms of
a former judgement. Willie Wood
ward, Negro, with " no .recoi imen
dation", also went to jail". reDdon
Mebane, Negro, didnt show u (, but
his father did. If Weldon's f,costs
weren't paid by Wednesday night, his
sentence would also be executed.
Little Or No Damage
To Crops From Last
s Rains Reported
Questioned Wednesday about the
damage to crops in the county caus
ed, by continued rains of the ' past
few! weeks, L. W. Anderson, county
agent, - stuck to his statement of two
weeks ago that he believes ;Perquim
ans -County) is scheduled Vt ee the
best harvest it has had' In ' aeveral
ty?Mi ...K, ::-y.':--vi Ukhrr
'ijPqssftiyithere has", been nwret'dalnn
sa but all k the Wl crbpg? have
Apparently?; suffered .batllttte0';,'
' ..Monday's bright, sunshlnv. on .the
'heels 'f shower;f after;V shower,
brought slight damage to peanuts in
spots, Jjutvnowher? neir the erio5a
tage.i .iTh'err'waa TrtoY:;Wilt inivnt
ioA tkW&er 'would We :beeiltdtj
out me rain ;atoms, out 'thre; ia
mtSL'i r5saiii 'Mvt$ teomplaini i AB
crops a: BtiU looking; except, yotitf
HertlordPerqtiimansXounty, Nortfr
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Wider Causeway
Silas Whedbee Wants
Motorists to Park and
Look at Hertford's
'Principal Attraction
A move to make it possible foi
tourists to stop on the Causeway and
admire the River without obstructing
traffic was advocated at the Tuesday
night meeting of the Rotary Club by
Silas Whedbee, vice president of the
civic body and chairman of the pro
gram committee.
It was Mr. Whedbee's idea as pre
sented to the Rotariarfs at dinner in
the dining room of the Hotel Hert
ford, to bring about cooperation be
tween the town and the county to
ward getting the help of the State
Highway Commission in widening
the Causeway so that cars ran drive
off the roadway proper to park and
look at the river, Hertford's princi
pal attraction.
The vice-president was of the opin
ion that the Highway Department
could be prevailed upon to use the
uptorn pieces of concrete when work
begins on the. winfall cut-off to fill
in along the Causeway at logipal
points.
The new highway will foIDow the
course of the New Hope road for a
short distance and the existing nine
foot section must necessarily be
wrecked in preparation for the new
roadbed.
Mr. Whedbee's suggestion was re
ceived with a convincing show of m-
j thusiasm, for many of the Rotarians
have notl number of foreiCT
I motori8ts wno slow down to a creep-
ing gait on the Causewav and how!
the passengers look at the river until
trees obstruct their view.
It was further pointed out that a
wider Causewnv
j nate a portion of the danger to
pedestrians walkinir alonir th nnr.
row strip of shoulder on either side
o o
of the highway.
Attention Again
Called To Children
And Inoculations
The time is rapidly approaching
when children seeking admittance to
the first grade will be asked by their
teachers for certificates certifying
that they have been given the diph
theria inoculation.
The County Board of Health and
the School Board wish to again call
attention that all children enterine
, the first grade this year must also
nave naa a successful vaccination
against small pox, or have tried at
least twice to secure a successful
treatment.
County schools open kor the 1940-
41 term on September 4th.
is less than two weeks away, and any
wilful attempt to violate the State
laws that govern the Act is
demeanor, punishable at daw by a
fine or imprisonment.
mis-
Demonstration Clubs
Sponsoring Movie This
Afternoon At Theatre
The Home Demonstration Clubs of
the county are sponsoring a movie
at the State Theatre this (Friday)
afternoon at three o'clock. The fea
ture picture is "Four Sons," starring
Don Ameche.
Home Demonstration and 4-H Club
members are selling tickets at club
meetings and in different sections of
the county. The xFederation's per
centage of the "take" will be used
in' demonstration work.
Those selling tickets are: Winfall,
Doris MUler; Belvidere, Evelyn
White; Home and Garden, Mrs. E. L.
Reed; Helen Gaither, Mrs. W. O.
Hunter; Beech Spring, Mrs. C. W.
Reed; New Hope, Mrs. Elmer Banks;
Chapanoke, r Jtfrs. J ohn Symons ;
Woodville, Beulah Bogue; Whiteston,
Lucille Lane; Snow Hill-White Hat,
Mrs. Elmer, Wood; Ballahack, Mrs.
Jim Pe.rrjr; Bethel, Jayne Griffin.
The feature picture' at the State
this afternoon, is accompanied by the
usual Interesting program of short
subjectay';$- ' ;
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
feMi. Vwwf vaaiMCixWitt. nt
Hertford, Route One,: are receiving"
cofigMtulatloitf on; the birtii ;f v.
aaugnter, June ye. Tne young uuqr
weighed imdllHotmM.
Carolina, fr'riciay. August
"Bad Negro Boy" Is
Held For Court On
Serious Charges
After Failure With Gun
And Bench, Victor
White Succeeded With
Butcher Knife
"A bad Negro boy from Whites-
ton" is being held in default of $200
j bond for trial in Superior Court on
charges of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to kill.
At the hearing in Recorder's Court
Tuesday, the State evidence disclos
ed that Victor White, the "bad boy"
first tried to kiQl Clifton Copeland,
mild-appearing young darky, with
a bench, with .a gun, and then finally
succeeded in sinking a butcher knife
in his back.
"We started off playing," Clifton
testified, "and then he got mad."
Apparently, White got madder and
madder because first he grabbed the
uentn ana somebody took that away
from him. Then he grabbed a revol
ver from under the counter in the
Whiteston filling station where the
affair took place. Somebody took the
gun away from him, but before any
body else could interfere, the bad
boy snatched a butcher knife and
stabbed Clifton in the back. It was
not shown whether or not the knife
blade pierced a lung, but five stitches
were required to close the wound.
From his demeanor and general
attitude and sullen glaring, White
well lives up to the "bad boy" name
that arresting officer Deputy Sheriff
M. G. Owens said he had in the
Whiteston section.
Not represented by council, he de
clined to take the witness stand and
mumWed a ves or "no" or shook
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nig neaa in answer to questions put
by Recorder J. S. McNider.
No one could advance a reason
for the assault other than the prose
cuting witness, Clifton, who said
'we were just playing." At the pre-
,iminary hearing Tuesday, it appear
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National Red Cross
Drive Is Closed
Local One Still On
A lone contribution trickled in to!
the Red Cross War Refugee Reliei
Fund during the past week (from
noon Wednesday until noon Wednes
day). Now the total amounts to "about
$123," according to local chapter
chairman Silas M. Whedbee.
The national drive for war suf-!
ferers came o an official cflose on
July 1st, but Chairman Whedbee is
not calling a halt here where little
more than one-sixth of the minimum
quota was raised during the many
weeks the drive was in effect.
The campaign will continue, Mr.
Whedbee said, and added that the
local chapter is also receiving con
tributions from those who wish to
donate to the flood area of North
Carolina.
"We are not soliciting until called
upon to do so," Mr. Vhedbee said,
"but contributions will be taken and
used for the purpose designated by
those who make contributions."
Donations in the War Refugee Re
lief call may still be handed to Mr.
Whedbee at the post office, to the
Rev. R. F. Munns, pastor of the
Hertford Methodist Church, or to the
Rev. E. T. JMson, rector of Holy
Trinity Church.
Whiteston Native Died
Saturday In Norfolk
Funeral services were held in Nor
folk, Va., Monday afternoon for
James A. White, aged 64, native of
Whiteston in this county, who died
in a Norfoln hospital on Saturday
morning at 11:55 o'clock.
He was the husband of Mary L.
White and a son of the late Henry
rp I V4.1 . un.l4A IJ l A
X. tutu AatJieruic ttuim hg nau
lived in Norfolk for the past twenty
years and at the time of his death
resided on Cottage Toll Road. ,
Besides his. wife he is survived b)
three sons, Arlynn, Willard, and
Maylon White, an of Norfolk; one
daughter, Mrs. Edith W. Hugo, oi
Norfolk; one sister, Mrs. T. N.
White of Elizabeth City; one grand
son and several nieces and nephews.
: Funeral services were, conducted
at the Gregory Funeral ' Home in
NbxfolK:4.a!i'', intnneii.v yn ;. in
VHoltywood ypemetery ;irt.'i Hiwibeth
Qty whet a abort service, was held
when ItojjieMl
23. 1940.
Tom Won't Tell
Charged with possession and
transportation of non-tax-paid boot
leg liquor, Tom Hurdle, 61-year-old
Negro of the Hickory Cross section, j
faced Recorder J. S. McNider in
county court Tuesday. I
f.ai!Y JTllJSV
had been walking along the roadJ
with a pint bottle of White Light-1
ning in his coat pocket and downing
a swig whenever he fert like it. De
puty Sheriff M. G. Owens, searching
for another offender, just happened
to pick Tom up.
So Recorder McNider found Tom
guilty on both counts and then lis
tened to a leniency plea by Defense '
Attorney Robert Lowry of Elizabeth
City.
"Hurdle is 61 years old," Lowry
said, "and in all his life before he
has never violated a law. He has
never been in court even as a wit
ness, and that can be said for few
people . . . white or colored."
His Honor agreed that Tom's was
an enviable record, and said to the
attorney, "I'll play ball with you. If
Tom will give us the name and ad
dress of the person who sold him the
liquor, we'll take off the costs."
But Tom wouldn't tefll not even
for the $17-saving he paid in court
costs.
Bag Limit On Doves
Reduced But Season
Is IS Days Longer
Fifteen Days Added to
Open S e a S O n On
Dllfkq f?PPQP anH
sm Mr Aft. V
Coots
!
The opening time for the shooting
of ducks, geese and coots has been
changed, according to a Department
of Conservation memorandum to all
special protectors. The open season
on ducks and geese is November 2nd
to December 31st; the daily bag limit
on Canvassback, Redhead, Buffle
head and Ruddy Duck not over three
in the aggregate. Fifteen davs
have been added to the hunting sea-
son on ducks, geese, jacksnipes and
coots, and the bag limit on geese has
been reduced to three a day with a :
possession limit of six.
These birds may now be shot from ,
sunrise until 4 p. m. i
The dove season is less than 30'
days away it opens on September
15th and closes November 30th the
bag limit is reduced to 12. There ia
no open season this year on wood-
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cock, wooqquck, Drant, ross' goose,
There are few other changes in the'
"ue' w.1WowI "P'
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still illegal to hunt waterfowl o, ! ?'ey are ffMp,n? the wfy
doves on or over baited areas, and it I Z 0"
is illegal to use live decoys. ! the dlcta ors- enem.es,
It is also illegal to take migratory I "USlyr of our
game birds from or by aid of an au ! "T? hT Illbertl.es;
tomobile, airplane, sinkbox, battery,1 f Wnte"d telegraph to your Sen
power boat, sail boat, anv boat un-1 FS. and Representatives," he urged.
der sail. nv fWin -aff A,. 1
of any kind towed by power boat, or
sail boat.
With the earliest season, dove sea
son, finpnintr !.nlsmU. 1KfU V,
the firearm restriction . . . "Illegal to !
use any firearms except shot gun not;
larger than 10 guage or an automa I
tic or hand-operated repeating shot j
gun capable of holding more than
tnree shells the magazine of which
has not been cut off, or plugged with
1-piece metal or wooden filler in
capable of removal through the load
ing end thereof.
Boy On Bicycle Injured
In Three-Car Accident
Saturday On Church St.
I Joseph Elliott, 15-year-old son of
I Anthony Elliott, sustained a broken
leg in an unusual accident in down
town Hertford Saturday afternoon.
No charges were brought, accord
ing to Highway Patrolman Jack
Gaskill, who investigated the acci
dent. He said the boy was sitting
on a bicycle on Church Street with
inn n VA U i
uiiuj euro in ironT. Ol a
car belonging to Warren Bunch,
when a car parked behind Bunch,
belonging to Will Matthews was
struck by a third car driven by Mur
ray u ureason, atMetic coaah at
Wake Forest College, who was mo
toring down to Nags Head for the
week-end.
The Matthews' car was jolted
against the Bunch car and Elliott
was struck. : He wag taken by Bunch
to tiie Hertford Clinic where treat
ment was administered. x ' ..
. birth AmoimcEmm,'.l1'
jaortM, to- Mnjand i Mrs. Samuel
Mansnead, at: ,theiri homi:t Bafla
$1.25 Per Year.
America In Danger
Of Attack By Nazis
Says Envoy Bullitt
Senator Clark Calls Am
bassador's Recent Ad
dress "Little Short of
Treason"
U. S. Ambassador to France Wil
Jiam C. Bullitt stood up in" historic
Independence Square in Philadelphia
the other day, cleared his throat,
and said gravely "America is ir,
danger."
The Ambassador, in his broadcast,
bluntly predicted a German attack
on the United States if Great Bri
tain is defeated! He urged the Na
tion to adopt conscription and to
send aid to the British fleet.
Americans here in Hertford have
wondered if a British defeat would
mean real danger of attack on the
United States. The Ambassador put
in cold words the answer to a thought
that has more or less had a place in
every American mind.
This is Ambassador Bufllitt's opin
ion, of course, but Ambassador Bul
litt, remember, is the Ambassador to
France.
But back in Washington, Senator
Clark (D-Idaho) twisted the dial on
his radio, turned up the volume,
heard the Ambassador, and then
went to the Senate and told the fel
lows there that Bullitt's address was
"very littfle short of treason."
He was referring to Bullitt's pre
diction of a German attack on the
Sd
United States if Great Britain is de-
There seems little reason for the
senators outburst. Ambassador Bui-
litt said, "it is my conviction, drawn
I from my own experience and from
the information in the hands of our
government in Washington, that the
united states is in as great peril
today as was France a year ago.
And I believe that unless we act
now, decisively, to meet the threat
we shall be too late."
Bullitt, the first high ranking
member of the administration to ad
vocate naval aid, declared that "the
destmrfi
be the turning of our Atlantic Mac--
inot Line.'
I'nf T inn "
"Without the British Navy," hp
went on, "the Atlantic would give
us no more protection than the Mag
inot Line gave France after the Ger
man troops marched through Bel
gium." The Ambassador warned against
honest wishful thinkers who would
lull the United States into a false
security with talk that the dictators
will not attack the Western Hernia.
ma,y .be &gmts. of the
uictaiurs. ne saia. DUt in Pithpr ruse
to are retarding nr-J " 7
vv me 10 vour newspaper. Demand
the privilege of being called into the
service of the Nation. Tell them we
want conscription."
Nell Hobbs Wedded To
William Rpafo Tr fit
J! llllam Keaie, Jr., Ut
.Northampton Coiinty
Mrs. Nell Whedbee, local librarian,
announced . Wednesday that her
daughter, Miss Nell Hobbs, was mar
ried in Conway, South Carolina, to,
William Beafle, Jr., of Jackson, on
August 12th.
Miss Hobbs was formerly of Hert
ford. She graduated from Perquim
ans County High School and enrolled
at Norfolk Business College. She
later became secretary for ihe law
firm of Gay and Midgette in Jack
son. Mr. Beale is the son of the clerk
of court, Northampton County. He
is connected with the Hartford Life
Insurance Company and operates a
truck line. He attended Wake For
est College. Mr. and Mrs. Beale are
living in Jackson.
Towe Motor Company
Gets Swell Radio For
Selling Most Chryslers
The Towe' .Motor. Company, Ply
mouth and Chrysler dealers, has been
awarded ft radio, valued at $125, foi
selUiigy ;largit ulf -of Chrysi
lera ron(r thethree-mohths- saleit
3Th 'contest , bcluded ' iHj"-J Greens
W. ffisfrlcV? Whftekes; In the
CawlinasJ VJrgW a r-ri: n cl
;TnesseeifThe';priz:3''-V;. a"
brNkk, Wright of Nor;;:':,
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