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Volume VH.-Nuniber 36. HertfEerquimans County, North Carolina, Friday, September 6, 1940.
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Peanut Prices Hot
To Drcp Dq!ovy 3 1-2 :
Cents; Crop Good !
County Agent Does Not
Believe Wet Weather
Has Ser iously Dam
aged Peanuts or Cotton
The price for first-grade peanuts
has been set at 3 cents a pound.
This is the base price set by the
Peanut Stabilization Cooperative, an
organization of peanut growers who
collect surplus peanuts by borrowing
from a government agency (probably
the RFC) the funds with which to
buy up the surplus and keep the
price at a point high enough to give,
the grower a profit.
Perquimans County's peanut crop
is good, L. W. Anderson, county
agent, said Wednesday. High' water
and hot weather have damaged it to J
some extent, he said, probably as
much as 10 per cent, but the crop is
so much better than last year that
the harvest will still be better as a
whole, regardless of the unfavorable!
weather conditions.
Peanut prices have already gone l?oarl Tn GnPCial Meft
: .,Vh s four pntB and for first- 1WUrU AU 3peW" 1T1CCI"
as hisrh as four cents and for first-
J .,4- 4.1.,. Um.Awa M t" ami tinlA
gI9UC IlUtS LUC Ctb Ctitjr w i
will have to pay more tnan 3
'j,' declines; otherwise, the grower cog
sell to the Peanut staDiiizacion vo-
opyative at the floor price of 3
cents.
There are spots in the county, Mr.
Anderson said, where peanuts have
been under water and, of course, are
cc anted in the loss, but these sunken
spots are few and far between.
Questioned about cotton, Mr, An-i
derson said there have been some
1 cases of rust, red' spider and wilt.'
Wilt is worse, of course, in a wet!
year than in a dry one and also mo
noticeable. But the crop was gi
before wilt and rust set in, and pick
ings in a small way -may. start
around the middle iW jnnt. A
affected, by rflst :fgraoIarr afcf Pro
gress is concerned before the, rust
comes. The disease , interferes with
making a larger crop, but the plajit
is not retarded from the point hi
development it has reached.
Monds To Sing 4God
Bless America' On
ram
Special Service to Be
Held on Sunday, Day
Set Aside For Peace
And Prayer
R. S. Monds, local young bass bar
itone, will sing the increasingly pop
ular song, "God Bless America," as
a part in the special patriotic pro
gram to be presented Sunday at the
Methodist Church in connection with
the day set .aside by President
- Eoosevelt for peace and prayer.
The singing of "God, Bless Amer
ica" by Mr. Monds, who.wiH b ae
companies by tne Metnouisi wioir,
marks tne adoption oi tne song as a
regular addition to service programs
at the yChurch thereafter, according
to Mrs. ,B. Koonce, who is ar
rangiho; the program with the Rfcv.
. Ri F, Mums, pastor, i i;,
It is expected hat ibe song, "God
. Bless- Ameit'l;l):'Mu4:'ia
many churches1 throughout the ria-
v tion on that 4ay. It was 'written by
Irving, Berlitf ;; and ha beeq t heart
8,Wradio nd through ,the ' medium
' of newsreels as sung bjf Kata Smith,;
'u Emg erpsby ana, otnerf notea rwcai-,
JpeciaE-4Mldre8B' and others Vho rwilll
we parts in the program Include,
aides: -the Hertford Boy Scout
Wt Mrs. H. C. Stores. ! Mrs. Ros-
;r; Brian,: McNider jrKathe-
!ie Jessup, Alice Ttoberson and Eli-There-will,
be special selections by
3 choir and the public Is ordiaHly
..uvited' .to :tterid the service. W'-9!
FourvBeatttsflrif
''Fourlyeathshave' i!' occurred
Vrquimans County within six days
f the past week."; Qyde" McCWJiJiB
cf Hertford, died iWed-sdaytnwnv
i-3. " Mrs.:M; ; Wrht of Belyi-
' -.re, died vnd?y.;-, Lira. Verm t.
I :r of WL '.I, died'CanJay; Mrs.
T.v1r.T.Whit r?rtf?-l, dip! T-"?-
Patriotic Pros.
Jurors Drawn For
October Term
At the regular meeting of the
County Board of Commissioners
Moavday the following names were
drawn for jury duty at, the next
term of Superior Court, which
convenes on October 2?th:
Franklin Jordan, Walter Deal,
Herbert P. Winslow, B. H. Ward,
T. S. White, Raymond Eure, D. J.
Yeates, Timothy C Perry, J. L.
Bateman, Clyde J. Layden, Ben
Harrell, Sam M. Riddick, J. A.
Gregory, W. W. Spivey, C. M.
Harrell, Willie R. Chappell, Harry
Barber, W. C. Matthews, F. T.
Matthews, Branning T. Winslow,
L. Umphlett, C. W. Griffin, Jack
sawyer, A. W. Hefren, Julian K.
Matthews, J. C. Layden, A. D.
Thach, T. J. Goodman, W. B.
IHanchard, T. F. Kirby, Jamen
Elihu Lone, T. S. Gregory, T. W.
Nixon, W. E. Boyce, M. M. Spivey,
Elmer R. Winslow.
Town Floats Loan
For Fire Engine And
Fighting Equipment
mg Tuesday Night
Hears Auditor's Re-
port and Adopts Bud
get A special meeting of the Town
Roard of Commissioners was -called
Tuesday night to work out plans for
arranging a loan of $2,000 for pur
chase of fire-fighting equipment, in
cluding the truck, new equipment,
hose-couplings, hydrant-fittings, etc.
The town fathers authorized the
issuance of the necessary amount of
bondB of the Town of Hertford at
the meeting Monday night. The fire
fighting equipment is costing in the
neighborhood of $3,500 but the board
expects to absorb all except 2,000 1
Qt)t of the glherftl expense fund for,
tmK-Im-
Theboard also adopted the budget '
for the year 1940-41. The tatate 11 a chicken-stealing conviction is
will remain unchanged at $1.10. made in Bethel after Felton has been
The auditor, James M. Williams, of!on the 6 months.
Williams and WaH of Raleigh, wds unusual judgment is designed
present at the meeting and went over . to ascertain whether or not IJloyd
the report with the board and dis-l Felton is the only chicken thief in
cussed various phases of the town's ' e Bethel Community,
financial status. A summarv of the I ''
autditor's report appears on another
page ui una iiewepapvr.
Final Rites Held
For Mrs. Vera Turner
Miller Monday P. M.
Funeral services for Mrs. Vera'
Turner Miller, wife of tfw late W.j vestigated the mishap, said it was
D. Miller, who died at 3 :45 Sunday , apparentfly unavoidable," and no ar
morning, were held at the home of, reatg wepe made
her son-in-law and daughter, Mi.
and Mrs. W. G. Hollowell, in Winfall,
at 4 o'clock, Monday afternoon.
The Rev. J. D. Cranford officiated
with the Rev. W. C. Benson of Eden
ton, assisting. Hymns, "On Jor
dan's Stormy Banks," "The Vacant
Chair" and "Asleep In Jesus", werej
sung by members of the Epworth
Methodist' Church of Winfall, of
which she was a member.
The casket was covered with a pall
of Easter lilies, pink roses and fen.
interment was in Hollywood Ceme
tery in Elizabeth City.
Active pallbearers were: George
Turner, Fred Turner of Elisabeth
Cityj T. ;. T. Turner, Jr., William
Britton of Norfolk, Va.; Whit Win
borne , of Suffolk, Va. ; and Henry
Miller of Hertford. t
Honorary pallbearers, were: L. M.
Simpson, Dr. M. H. Bailey of Elizer
beth City; Eliajh White, A. .R, Wins
low, C, B. White, W. F. Morgan, E.
U. Morgan, Arthur . Pierce, - J. F.
Hollowell, C P. Whedbee and T. Ii
Jessup of Winfall; D. J. White Dr.
JElenryt Swain; -"Dr. 57, A. . Hog,
gardof Hertford; Robert and Edgar
Holt of Norfolk, Va.; and Dr. L. P.
Williams of Edenton. 6
Mrs. Miller is survived ' by 'our
daughtersi Mrs W. G.Hotfowell 'and
Miss , Ana Miller of Winfall; , Mrs.
Ebert Bailey of Elizabeth .City; and
Mrs. 'Jimmie Earnhardt of Edenton;
two S0ns, ; AWalltcei?; and V: TaBmadge
Miller of , Norfolk, m.tl and her
mother, Mrs; .Nina Turner bjf i Eliza
beth' City; two sisters, MriMamJe
Blowo Elisabeth -J City and Mrs.
Graham White ir Norfolk; Va' two
brothers; T T;Tirn!
V4 and J. ETBraeV of New' Hope
hardt of Edenton, HdjljEbeBa
Jr1:Of ..Elizabethl dtyfS'Hhf ff-l ,
.H'KOTAR?;CLtJfl MEETS
1'Tr "ertford Rotary Qub enjoy
i "ur ''slipper' '-meeting at the
Chicken Stealing
In Bethel District
Will Release Thief
McNider Invokes Un
usual Judgment to
Determine How Many
Thieves In Bethel
If, after six months have passed,
anvone is caujtfit and convicted, of
stealing chickens in the Bethel Com
munity, the court will make every
effort to have the penal division re
lease Lloyd Felton, Bethel Negro,
who this week begins serving a 12
month sentence for stealing eight
hens and two roosters from the prem
ises of Arthur Copeland.
A local storekeeper, Carlton Can
non, who suspected that he was buy
ing "hot chickens" from the Negro,
was the contributing factor to
Lloyd's downfall and the end of his
career as a fowl snatcher.
After buying six of the chickens
from the Negro he penned them sep
arately from the remainder of his
stock and awaited developments.
They came soon enough; Mr. Cope
land missed his feathered property
the following afternoon (Sunday)
and came to Hertford on a tour of
investigation. He enlisted the aid of
Deputy Sheriff M. G. Owens and
armed with an individual description
of each chicken they located them at
Mr. Cannon's store.
Felton, not represented by legal
talent, steadfastly denied his guilt
and preferred two witnesses, his wife
and his mother-in-law, who failed to
convince His Honor, Recorder J. S.
McNider, fhat the chickens belonged
to them . . . not to Mr. Copeland. v
It was Felton's third or fourth ap
pearance in local courts on larceny
counts (stealing chickens) and when
the State established Felton's repu
tation in the Bethel Community as a
chicken thief, Mr. McNider invoked a
12-month sentence.
He said, however, after asking the
audience at large if anyone had any
thing to say of Lloyd Felton and re-
IfW Dlank -SMeiiee 'that the So-
llcf wojUcT as forTelton's release
Aged Darkey Struck By
uto; Leg Is Broken
Mack Madre, aged Chowan County
Negro, was struck and injured
late Tuesday afternoon by an auto
mobile driven by M. S. Elliott, of
p,im TaM, noV;n in.
Madre suffered a broken leg and
bruises and lacerations about the
face. He received medical treatment
at the Powell Clinic in Edenton.
Gaskill said the man evidently
stepped out in front of the Elliott car
as 'he walked along . the road. The
accident occurred just this side of
the Chowan County line on the new
Center Hill road.
Many a struggling one-horse farm
er, bogging along behind a solemn,
plodding, ear-wjggling mule in any
section of Perquimans County, has
probably shared the sentiments ol
the philosopher who had ' these
dreary thoughti. The piece irf clip
ped from an exchange newspaper.
. Over the - hill trailed t a man be
hind a mule - drawing a plow. Said
the man to the. mule:
"Bill, you . are a mule, the Wn ol
. jackass, and .1 am a man, made ini
the . image f; God. Yet, , nere we
Work, hitched together, year in and
year out. I often wonder if you
work for me or if I work for you.
.Verf y, I think it a partnership be
tween a mule -and a fool, for surely 1
work as hard, as you, if not harder.
Plowing or cultivating, we cover the
.same distance but you do it on four
legs and I ott- two. I, therefore, do
twice as much 'walking per leg as
you do. .Vifc yi i ;
V"Soon, well - fee preparing for a
corn crop. When the crop, is har
vested," I give one-third to the land
lord for being so kind as to let me
use this small speck , of God's uni
verse. ' One-third goe to you- and the
.lalaijbi;,inii Tojt' consume,' all
of ;youEoroii;iwith- thef exceptJtfn
ot the , cobSk I while I divide mine
among seven WldrenV'sl hens, two
injii&oktt, , If we loth need
shdes.iyou iget i'enu Bill,' you are
SAID THE FARMER TO HIS MULE
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Arrange
ments For
Finished Stage
Premium Book Going to
Press This Week; Vis
iting Speakers Not
Yet Named
The County Fair program is going
to the printers this week and will be
ready "for distribution about the 18th
of September.
The program will carry the adver
tisements of the leading businesses
Fair Approaching
: them to send back the floating mine
tides relating to the Lions Club, the j they thought they found during a re
County itself, the work of the , cent encampment at Nags Head,
county agent and trie home demon- j It seems the mine wasn't lost at
stration agent. all. It seems the Coast Guard, or
The exhibits, approximately 25 in! maybe another branch of the gov
all not counting commercial exhibits, ernment, has any number of floating
are being arranged. Miss Frances i mines off the Kitty Hawk Beach for
Maness, home demonstration agent,
said Wednesday. There are 12 dem
onstration club exhibits, a 4-H Club
exhibit, an AAA exhibit, a Home
Economics exhibit and a Woman's
Club exhibit.
The only things still undone in
connection with the Lions Club's sec
ond annual county fair, is the mat
ter of a speaker for Farmers' Day
and the selection of judges for the
exhibit attractions.
The Fair opens on the town park
ing lot September 23rd, and runs
through the week, ending at midnight
Saturday.
The program designates Monday as
"Opening Day",. Tuesday as "Chil
dren's Day," Wednesday as "Mer
chants' Day," Thursday as "Farmers'
Day," Friday as "Lions Day," and
Saturday as "Closing Day."
The following for the convenience
of those' who have business to trans
act with the members of the Fair
Committee, is a Qist of those who are
serving as chairmen: Julian White,
general chairman; L. N. Hollowell,
advance ticket sales; William Elliott,
ticket committee; Archie T. Lane, ex
hibit, committee; Charles Williford,
decoration committee; Joe H. Towe,
parade committee; M. V. Walker,
dance committee; Norman N. True
blood, speakers committee; Simon
Kutenberg, premium book; Sammie
Sutton, finance committee; and Max
Campbell, publicity committee.
Demonstration In
Reupholstering On Tap
At Agricultural Bldg.
Not only Demonstration Club Lead
ers, but anyone interested in re-upholstering
furniture, is invited to at
tend a Leaders' School in Upholster
ing at the Agriculture Building on
the morning of September 12th, at
10 o'clock, according to an announce
ment from Miss Frances Maness,
head, of the Home Demonstration de
partment. Miss Mamie N. Whisnant, assistant I
specialist in Home Management andj
House Furnishings, will be the fea-j
tu re artist. She has been in Hertford :
for meetings before, and those who
have heard her know that any dem
onstratibn she gives is worth attend
ing, Miss Maness said.
is it fair for a mule, the son of a
jackass, to swindle a man the Lord
of creationout of his substance?
"Wby, you only help to plow and
cultivate the ground, and I alone
must cut, shuck and husk the corn,
while you look over the pasture fence i
and hee-haw at me.
"All fall and most of the winter
the whole family, Granny to the baby,
picks cotton to help raise money to
pay taiea and buy new harness and
pay the interest on the mortgage on
vou. Ana what do you care aooui
the mortgage? Not a damn, you
ornery cuss. I even have to do the
worrying about the mortgage on
your tough, ungTateful hide.
"About the only time I am your
better is on election day, for I can
vote and you can't. And after elec
tion I realize that I was fully as
great' a jackass as your papa. Ver
ily, I'm prone to wonder if politics
were made for men or jackasses, or
to make jackasses of men.
"And that ain't all, Bill. When
you're dead that's - supposed to be
the end of you. . But me? The par
son tells me when I die I gotta go to
hell forever. That is, ( Bill,: , if I
dont do. just as he says.'; And most
-of what he says keeps me from get
ting apy kick out o$, lpe. ' -" v '
Tellme, V wmyum,t considering
these things, how can you keep a
straight face and look so dumb andt
Boy Scouts Asked
To Return Floating
Mine To Nags Head
Seems Mine Wasn't
Lost at All; Used
For Experimental
Purposes
While C. P. Morris was talking :
with Captain Etheridge of the Nags!
Head Coast Guard Station last week
end they were talking about the !
storm Captain Etheridge requested I
Mr. Morris to get in touch with the '
Boy Scouts here in Hertford and ask !
I
experimental purposes and this was
one of them. None of the mines are
loaded the one the Boy Scouts found
or the others still there and the na
ttre of the experiments is of course
of a confidential type.
The Boy Scouts who found the
contraption entertained any number
of opinions about it. Some thought
it was a World War relic, floating
around in the seven seas since 1918
and finally washed ashore at Nags
Head. There are no markings to
identify its nationality.
At any rate, those who wish to see
a dismantled mine, had better look
at this one on the courthouse green
within the next few days, because
Scoutfaster W. H. Pitt is planning to
have the Coast Guard unit in Eliza
beth City come after it.
Mrs. Irving White
Dies Within Year Of
Husband's Demise
Katherine Winslow
White Passed Away
Wednesday Night In
Norfolk Hospital
Funeral services were held at the
Hertford Baptist Church yesterday
(Thursday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock,'
for Mrs. Katherine Winslow White,
who died after a few hours of desper-
ate illness, in a Norfolk Hospital at
9 o'clock Tuesday night.
Services were conducted by the
Rev. J. L. White of Elizabeth City.
Burial was in the Friends Cemetery
at Whiteston.
Mrs. White was the widow of the
late Irving C. White and she died
within a year after Mr. White passed
away in a Norfolk Hospital following
an illness of several months dura
tion. Survivors include three young chil-
dren, Frances, 15, Katherine, 13, and
Irving Jr 8; her parents Mr and j
Mrs. A. N. Winslow of Whiteston;
two sisters, Mrs Adrian Smith of.
Hertford Route One and M.ss Winnie.
VVmslow, of Whiteston; and six.
brothers, Lindsey C. Wins ow Cecil
Winslow and Raymond Winslow of
Hertford Linford C Winslow of Bel-
videre, Sidney A. Winslow of Wins-
ton-saiem, and Kanaoipn winsiow oi
New York City.
Mrs AXThito Viq1 Kaon in nnnr Vipnlth
for sometime and was taken desper-
ately ill early Tuesday morning. As
her condition failed to improve she
was taken to a Norfolk hospital at!
noon and died that night at nine
oclock.
Accepts Position At
Roberson Drug Store
H. B. Sedberry, registered phar
macist, has accepted a position at
Roberson's Drug Store. He will be
in charge of the drug department and
fill prescriptions handled by the local
store.
Mr. Sedberry, formerly owned and
operated a pharmacy in Elizabeth
City, and has been in the drug busi
ness for a long number of years. He
is the brother of Mrs. Elmo Cannon,
Special Program To Be
Observed Monday Night
By Missionary Society
A special program for State Mis
sions will , WipbseTfed; by Jhe: Wom
ana Missionary Spfijeto' -'""of h Hert
ford BaptisM 'mt& M$Mptof
evening September '9th fi- o'clock.
The EBusiness ( vWoman'; Circle Will
bave.xharge of the program and all
members are urged to attend, accord'
Johnson Outlines
Schedule For Busy
Two-Day Opening
Open House to Be Ob
served at Renovated
Grammar Plant
EVERYTHING READY
p A 4- Tf ' T U
"3110 10 "Cgin Keliear-
sals on First Day;
Teachers and Bus
Drivers Meet
The two days immediately pre
ceding Thursday of next week will
i be very full days lor the county
school system. It is probably best
to take the activities one at the time:
1. The High School Band is to take
up rehearsals on the first day. 2.
The students are notified to bring
rental for books on the first day. 3.
Tuesday is the day of a general
teachers' meeting. 4. The bus driv
ers will hold a conference Tuesday.
5. Tuesday is Open House at the
Hertford Grammar School.
Schools actually open on Thursday
when the routine schedule of classes
will be observed. Wednesday, Sep
tember 11th, will be more of a pre
liminary day when students will be
dismissed at noon.
1. All children are requested to
bring their musical instruments to
, school on the first day, Wednesday,
Superintendent F. T. Johnson said in
outlining the preliminary activities.
Band Instructor Jimmie McCallum
will be ready to start rehearsal on
, the first day and the hope is express
ed that the 33 members will be able
1 to give concerts within two weeks.
Tuition for band instruction is $3.00
a month and an attempt will be
j made soon to equip the band mem-
j bers with full uniforms.
2. On Wednesday, which can eas-
Jlir Un II
j -ancu arrangement' or reg
istration day," the rental for high
school text books will be collected.
The price is $2.40, Mr. Johnson said.
The session will be closed ? at noon,
the morning hours to be used in ar
ranging class schedules.
3. A general teachers' meeting, a
meeting of all the faculty members
in the county, will be held in the au
ditorium of the high school on Tues
day morning at 11 o'clock.
4. All bus drivers will report at
the high school at 3 o'clock Tuesdav
afternoon to receive instructions. On
Wednesday the bus drivers will leave
their homes at 8 a. m., to begin the
I routes that end at the high school.
inerealter, beginning
on Thursday
morning, the regular bus schedules
will go into effect.
! 5. Tuesday afternoon from 4 un
til 6 o'clock will be Open House at
the Hertford, Grammar School, Mr.
Johnson said. All parents and pa
trons are invited to visit the Gram
j mar School building during those
I hours and inspect the renovations
and alterations that have been made
during the summer
m &t g
the day and hour a(;
the beginning of the 19401 term
The opening of P imans Count ,g
gchoo,s wag post d for g wegk
when steamfitteR3 were de, d jn
making nec adjustments to the
piumbing and heat; temfJ ft
Grammar School.
I Several teachers, including Athle-
' I'm lm.u...l.. r m.-in j .
-v. iiiiui.uir uave rui'ier, arnvea in
wc" t"eau OI scneouie, lainng
learn time that the Penine had
Dee" PstPned.
T ,
Johnny LlllOlt In Jam
! With Feds On Illicit
Booze Hauling Charge
Johnny EQliott, young county white
man, was arrested by Patrolman Jack
Gaskill on the Center Hill road Tues
day afternoon and charged with
transporting non-taxpaid whiskey.
The Patrolman said Elliott threw
the whiskey out of the car as he ap
proached; that the container, a five
gallon jug, was broken, but that the
evidence was not destroyed,
GaskiH turned the youth over to
Federal Tax officers. He will be
tried in Federal $Slnrt in Elizabeth
City on September 23rd on charges
of transporting nOn-taxpaid liquor.
County Earmarks 500
Dollars For Library
The Board of bounty Coimmon-A V
Kmr session Monday moved,
to donate the, amount of $500 for the f V
purcuase. et books for Perquimans, "s
county's' UbramCThe ount voted S. '
f600 to the Librarv Board last vpt.
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