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OF BUiLD'.hG AUDITORIU.M GYMNASIUM
Town and County to Be
Approached on Idea;
Civic Delegates Met
Monday Night
$700
Sponsors' Share of Pro
ject Would Build $30,
000 Community Cen
ter The Parent-Teachers Association,
the Rotary Club and the Lions Club
at a meeting in the courthouse Mon
day night with E. Leigh Winslow,
WPA district engineer, elected to
pool their forces in an effort to gel
a gymnasium for Hertford.
Shortly the major population of
Perquimans County will be approach
ed and asked if it wants to sign a
petition asking the Town of Hertford
to buy a site and asking the Town of
Hertford and the County of Perquim
ans to raise the sum of $7,000, the
sponsors approximate amount re
quired to liave the WPA build a
30,000 memorial auditorium, at the
same time a gymnasium, a town hall
and a location for the library and
other county offices.
' W. H. Pitt represented the Rotary
1 Club at the Monday night meeting,
Mrs. J. R. FutrelQ, president of the
Parent-Teachers Association, repre
sented that body, and Max Campbell
spoke for the Lions Club. Mr. Wins
low was present for the information
he could give in an advisory capacity
The civic group delegates met a-
gain Wednesday to draw up the pe
titions.
At the Monday night meeting
those who met with thejiigtrict en
, gineer discussed the project from all
angles. They decided that the &
' mounts the town and county pay out
wip office rentals will go Ion? way
fcward off -setting the original cost "J
'The County Board of Commission-!
County
ersillbe approached ! at the next
reguSw meeting where the sponsors
wiHjJhave full plans of the centa
they are seeking. After' ifliat tb
the subject.
Small as it was, the meeting was
an enthusiastic one. No one present,
i however, was in favor of building the
v community center on the high school
campus, unless absolutely necessary.
. The library should ;not be on the
Grammar School campus, they said,
and the auditorium - gymnasium
could, be located . in the down-town
section.
rj Tentative plans would have for the
town and county a memorial auditorium-gymnasium
of approximately
,. 4,200 square floor feet with a towji
I Vi hall and. offices for various county
sL'' agencies grouped in two floors a-
V round the front of the huge building.
It would be a combination town
hall, community center,
icucuiuui
center, gymnasium, auditorium
and
fire engine house.
The project is in its cradle stage
at present and nothing further than
long discussions took, place at the
first meeting of the group.
District Gov. Urges
'Hot To Let Rotary
Become 'Eating Club'
Pointing out the . advantages clubs
In smaller communities have over
-larger clubs in the opportunity for
- greater fellowship, W,, Carter Dar-
' tow Of Tarboro, governor of the 189th
v.insinci 01 notary iniernauoiuu,- m
nui uiiicuu yibhi w mo uuu vu
Tuesday night emphasized the in
4 portance of Rotarians not allowing
- Botary to become an "eatlpg ctabiH.
e-fcotariana tathe,HoteI ttt$tb''aM.X
district-.; governor-stressed tatfe-pa Welching' Your Health."
ortance of the "k:lu1 i'Oitfmittees
wing-thelr -duties iai. studying
i,by-(lawCofsth'clult in"Vrde to
.lize. all the-possibilities of Rotary
"esides Mr. Darrow, ' guests at
esday's dinner - meeting i included
arroll Kramer of the Edenton -Club,
and C. B. Deaton of Troy. '.
Mr. Darrow, who is engaged ' in
.he telephone business, was .elected
) the office of district governor at
a 1940 -Botary convention ;which
;s .held .in . Havana during June,
id will continue to serve, until the
,41 convention In Denver. 4
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llr. and Mrs.. Fred VInslow,' of
" announce the birth f a son
i r . r r ' l'.;-JLzt and
Former Resident To
Return For First
Visit In 25 Years
Joseph G. Cranberry, native of
Perquimans Cotfnty will soon make
a first visit to the scenes of his youth
in more than twenty-five years.
Mr. Granberry, now of Waycross,
Georgia, is a brother of Mrs. Thomas
Nixon and Mrs. Isa Tucker, of 'Hert
ford, and Mrs. J. W. Speight, of
Mocksville, who is visiting in Mrs.
Tucker's home. Mr. Granberry will
be a guest in Mrs. Nixon's home
during his stay in Hertford.
Many county people are old ac
quaintances of Mr. Granberry and
remember that he and his sisters
lived in the old Granberry home on
Grubb Street beside the railroad.
The exact date of his arrival Is not
certain, but his sisters believe it will
be early next week.
Vhedbee Fined For
Assault Year's
Behavior Clause
Few Other Cases at
Tuesday's Session of
Recorder's Court
The case of Brooks Whedbeej
county man charged with assault on
Granberry Tucker, former recorder,
did not come to public trial at Tues
day's session of county court.
The case was submitted; County
Prosecutor Charles E. Johnson agree
ing to accept Whedbee's plea of guil
ty to simple assault. Judge James
S. McNider ordered a 30-day jail
sentence suspended upon payment of
0I. c.ou" ana ?Pn condition
01 J" a DWlavior year,
Other cases 'heard in Recorder's
Court Tuesday included that of James
Norman, Negro, who pleaded guilty
to being drunk and obstructing traf
fic,' He was fined 92.
Negroes, pheaded guilty to mutual
affray and .were taxed the costs of
court.
Sergeant Sutton Home
From China First Time
In Over Two Years
Sergeant Ernest Sutton of the
United States Marine Corps, son ol
Mr,, and Mrs. C. E. Sutton , of the
New Hope community and school
mate of many local boys in '36 and
'37, arrived back in town Friday af
ternoon for a month's furlough.
Since he left here in February of
1938 Sutton has spent 15 months in
onanirnai Ann ix months rufi thai
n the Philippines. He was given
an immediate greeting by many
friends as it is the first time he has
been here since joining the Marine
Corps.
He came, across the Pacific Ocean
from China On a Navy Transport,
climbed on a train at San Francisco
and .came east. Ten of the 30 dayb
were used up getting home. He will
board his ship at Portsmouth in
about 20 days from the time of his
arrival here
Central P.TJV. Holds
First Meeting Monday
At School In Winfall
The' first meeting of the Central
Grammar School Parent-Teachers
Association was held Monday nirfit
in me SCHO01 auditorium. Mrs. Demp-
, Bvjt wiiujiow, presioenc oi tne ventral
Jr. T. A presided, and Mrs. Joaenh
Winslow of Bagley Swamp, led the
,-jHnk.ju A7warfl, turector.of the
Ninth District, awarded the' Associa
tion a certificate for being' A stand
ard P. T. A. last Tear. ISuDerintenri.
ent P. T, Johnson made a few brief
remark and Miss Lucille Long gave
an interesting report of the Parent-
xeacners- institute held at Chapel
Hill recently, . ' " r , ;
Mrs. John Symons, county council
president . .of, the P. T. A., greeted
me Association. -. -, i
WINNIE WINSLOW TO " i!
WED THOMAS RIDDICK 'v
Mr., and Mrs. A. - ft. Winslow, of
of their dau
The wedrj wiU take,p.aA'eruir.'i
:.tar.,V.in e"Evai'B".loT,Ues lot the position, . D. 4r
lng the early part of October.
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TIIGIIIUUdldUl I IIC
First District Rally
Here October 10th
Bonner Will Speak Af
ter Fish Fry or Bar
becue; Six District
Rallies on Tap
A letter from Nominee-Representative
Herbert C. Bonner to Sheriff J.
Emmett Winslow Monday definitely
stated that he would be here for the
First Congressional District rally op
October 10th.
The First District will provide a
barbecue or a fish fry at noon, be
tween a morning business meeting
and an afternoon speechmaking. J.
M. Broughton, governor-elect, will
probably be here to help Bonner
with the speechmaking, said Chair
man Emery B. Denny of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, in
a letter to Sheriff Winslow.
Time and places for Democratic
rallies in six Congressional Districts
were announced Monday. The Third
District widl rally at Clinton on Oc
tober 8th and the Ninth District in
Salisbury on October 3rd-
Arrangements have not been com
pleted for the place of the meeting
in Hertford. Sheriff Winslow said
other details will be announced as
they are worked out.
If You Didn't Visit
Exhibit Tent This
Will Interest You
Thumbnail Word Sketch
Of Each Individual
Exhibit at Second An
nual Fair
Maybe there was someone in the
county who was unaMe to visit the
exhibit tent at the fair this week for
one reason or another; maybe some
one had to stay t ihome because of
illness or to vdvtd the baby. In
hat event, it haj occurred to Miss
Frances Manesa, county demonstra
tion agent, that a minute sketch of
each exhibit might be interesting to
those people who were not able to'
go to tne lair, bo she prepared the
toiiowing thumbnail descriptions and
brought them to the office:
These are the judges' decisions:
First prize went to the Bethel Club.
"Refinishing Furniture," chairs show
ing the different steps in refinishing.
.lso the material used.
fiecond prize went to the Whites
ton Club. "Use of the Mattress in
the Living Room." Daybed made by
club members includes foundation,
tieing spring, making mattress, pil
lows and cover. Total ,cost $19.35.
Third prize went to the Helen
Gaither Club. "Canning Budget,"
showing canned goods needed for one
person for one year.
Snow Hill-White Hat Club. "Bed
room Storage." In this exhibit a
well-arranged miniature clothes clos
et and miniature linen chests are
shown.
Ballahack. "Handicraft" an at
tractive display of needlework, knit
ted articles, crocheted bed-spreads,
afghans, mats, etc. Also hand-made
(Continued On Page Five,
Fuller Stressing Funda
; ihentoteiln Practice;
;!6elierBoysWlPo
::Th Perpi&nans, High footbi3l
team after heavy ' practice essions
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,
are prepared to do battle with Coach
Jimmy JohnBon'i Woodrow Wilson
Junior Presidents on the local f nettd
this afternoon, Coach Dave Fuller
said Wednesday. v - ' J
Thua far 18 bqya have reported
and Coach Fuller has been spending
a large part of his time laying stress
on the fundamentals' of the game and
has given, them a few, of theilays
which '.wilL ' be . used ' against ' the
Portsmouth eauad.
quau
White
probably, be, naeA, . blocking
lk; Fuller said.,. Fleet
wood, who is at br ..v' ii'veVftating
HIGH SCHOOL TO DO BATTLE THIS P. M.
WITH V00DR0W ViLSON JR. PRESIDENTS
Parent-Teacliers "
Organize And Map
Out Busy Year Work
Archie T. Lane Only
Male Named on Any
Of the Various Com-
jj . . rtwvi
IIUllCGSJ Aim at UUi
Members
With eighty parents present at the
first meeting of the Parent-Teachers
Association of the Hertford Gram
mar School, it was announced by
Mrs. J. R. FutreW that the member,
ship drive this year will have as its
goal 200 members and that the pro
gram will be built about the main
objectives of the organization of
Parent-Teacher aims: The Child, in
the Home, in the School and in the
Country. The first of these pro
grams is to be on Safety.
As part of its work this year the
Association will secure curtains for
the auditorium stage, sponsor the
Cub Scouts and continue the opera
tion of the lunch room.
To direct the membership drive
Mrs. J. Edgar Morris was named
chairman of the committee.
As a project the Association will
give public tea for members of
the faculty on October 4th.
Other committee chairmen were
(Continued On Page Five)
Here's All About
Absentee Voting In
November Election
If You Follow Instruc
tions You Can Vote
On Election Day No
Matter Where You
Are
Any; qualified voter who finds
that he will not be able Co visit his
voting place on November 5th, elec
ticfh day, whether by reason of sick
ness, or other, physical disability or
because he will .be absent from the
county in which he is entitled to
vote, may make application for an
absentee ballot not more than thirty
nor less than two days
before the
election Tuesday.
For those jrfno are unable to leave
the sick bed or other place of con
finement, here is the course to fol
low in order to vote for Roosevelt or
Willkie:
The application must be made out
not later than Saturday, November
2nd, and delivered to the Chairman
of the Board of Elections by the voter
v in r i m 1
nimseii, oy a memDer oi his lm-
mediate family or by the United!
States Mail, and it must be made in
writing.
The chairman in turn will number
the application in its proper numeri
cal order as received and enter it in
the Absentee Ballot Register, dis
closing this information the name
of the voter, the number of the ap
plication, the precinct of the voter,
the reason why (absence or sickness),
the date of receipt of the applica
tion, the date of the delivery of the
baUot and how the ballot was deliver
ed to the absentee voter (personally
or by mail). i
between the first and second string,
is being viewed with
a favorablei
eye.
Fuller, said the boys are working
hard, that, jjhey want : to learn, and
that at.' ioH':feji' jfakf; tjOm the nature
df the $as, they will; do all right.
A ranjtfng :'gme with a fair paw
ing atack Is whet the coach is work
ing for's-.'" '''
The tentative lineup for the Wood
row Wilson tangle today is easily
subject to change. But here's the
way it looks at present: Calvin Wil
son and; Percy Byrum, ends; Calvin
Banksand Joe NowelL tackles; Mett
Spivey and Guy Webb, guards;
Clark Stokes, center; John Wood and
D. J. White, halfbacks; Frank Dil
lard, quarterback, and Wallace Chap-
pell, fullback.
i1. rvi.1 .v. ! Ji .u ill..MMk
uwer .vanuiuakeo wo suit
d to turn out for practice and to see
Lection this rear. They include Ed-
gar Berry, Thurman White, - Hilton
White, Richard, Spivejfc'lnd George
The tanirift'wlii 1' Txesidftnts it
IPeromnuuiaVQi , 4,..me. k-'t v-
i mi i i ii iiffMfA m
LIONS SEC
OuLJ annual county fair gets
UNDERWAY WITH BIG
Nachman And Jackson
Volunteer For Year's
Military Training-
Louis Nachman, head of the men's
department at "Blanchard's", has re-
signea nis position mere to join tne
army for a year's mWitary training.
He left Hertford yesterday (Thurs
day) for Fort Bragg and will go to
his assignment from there or Camj
Jackson, South Carolina.
Fort Bragg is nothing new to Mr.
Nachman; he spent several summers
at the fort in Civilian Military Train
ing Camps. Wrightson Jackson of
Durants Neck, is also among Per
quimans County boys who nave vol
unteered for a year's training.
Wrightson enlisted with the Ambu
lance Company in Edenton.
Nine Are Injured
In Auto Crash Late
Sunday Afternoon
Six Negroes and Three
White People Treated
For Minor Tniiiripe1
r or lUinur injuries, ,
ReckleSS Driving" IS,
Charged
The agonized screech of brake
locked tires that fail to hold, a grind
ing crash of metal in violent contact
with metal, a moment's deafening
stillness, and nine people the occu
pants of two automobiles were in
need of medical attention.
The scene was on Edenton Road
Street just inside the town limits;
, the time was shortly after dusk Sun
j day afternoon. The people involved
included two white girls and a white
boy of near Greenville, and three
colored boys and three colored girls
of Hertford, all young people.
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. wo of the Negro boys, Spence El-;
liott who received bad cuts on the
head and on one hand, and Cecil
JohWon who had two switches takenl
in his tongue. The other Negroes ,
were shaken up by the accident and
bruised.
, The white girls, Helen Worthing
ton and Edith Brock, were bruised
' and Miss
Brock sustained a knee
The boy, WiQliam Nobles,
laceration.
suffered a skinned nose and bruises.
The accident, which occurred as
the car driven by Miss Worthington
entered Hertford from the Edenton
Highway, attracted a huge crowd of
motorists and State Highway patrol
men and local policemen. First re
ports had. it that a Negro was killed,
but the supposedly dead man, Cecil
! Johnson, was found to have suffered
nothing more serious than the cut
on his tongue
The victims were treated at the
Hertford Clinic and in the offices of
Dr. Weaver, Negro physician. Large
crowds gathered at both places.
Charges of reckless driving will be
brought against Miss Brock. She
will be heard before Recorder J. S.
McNider in County Court Tuesday.
The cars, a new Ford driven by Miss
Brock, and an older Chevrolet driven
by the Negroes, were badly damaged.
They were taken to local garages for
repairs.
New 1941 Fords Will
Be On Display Friday,
September 27th
The Winslow:White Motor Com
pany announces that the new 1941
Ford Motor car will be on display
at their showrooms Friday, Septem
ber 27. The public is invited to vis-
tfte sftow roomfl a"d inspeot this
new moaei car.
Advance information indicates that
several changes have been made in
the hew model . . . which will pro
vide more comfort and ease in
handling the car. The local Ford
company is proud of this new model
and welcomes the public to see it
for the first time today.
SPECIAL SERVICES AT
WOODLAND CHURCH
A special service will be held at
Woodland Church on Sunday morn
ing. Sunday School will begin at
10 o'clock, and preaching service at
11. Rev. J. D. Cranford will preach.
An extra effort will be made to pay
in full the orphanage assessments for
the church. AH are cordially invited
to come end take a part in the ser
vice. , .:'
. mTti' ANNOUNCEMENT
1A
61 a aonNirf ,MphdiySeT)tember 23.
$1.25 Per Year.
STREET PARADE
ocoii ana morris f ea
tured Speakers on
Farmers Day.
DANCEFRIDAY
Fair and Carnival Much
Larger Than Last
Year
Perquimans County's Second An
nual County Fair officially opened
at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon
with a giant street parade featuring
two bands, marching by al! the
schools in the county, commercial
floats, patriotic floats and comical
floats.
It was Children's Day; a huge
crowd thronged the streets, jamming
the sidewalks from the curb to the
store fronts along Church and Market
Streets. The parade, arranged by J.
H. Towe, in charge of the parade
committee for the Hertford Lions
Club, sponsors of the annual event,
started from tne Hertford Grammar
School and proceeded along Dobb,
Church, Grubb, Covent Garden and
Market Streets into the Fair Grounds
where all county school children
were admitted to the carnival free
of charge.
All 1 .
, ana other amusements
were made available to them at half
the re?ular admission price. The
s'uuuua were wronged an arternoon
and the mechanical amusement rides
operated to full capacity for more
i man live hours.
The exhibits were judged Tuesday
morning, tne Bethel Club winning
; first prize handsome silver vege
I table dish contributed by the Hert
, ford Lions Club. Edenton and Co
lumbia bands and Mrs. Riddick's
I Rhythm Class furnished music for
J the parade. Whiteston won second
: place in the exhibits.
Thursday was Farmers' Day. The
, featured speakers were to have been
Kerr Scott, commissioner of agricul
i ture, and Thad Eure, secretary of
State. Mr Tiiva i t
iruewood, chairman of the commit-
tee on speakers, that heVouWbe
unable to ' 'Tj
of cuwi, ,. j Morns,
L 0I"!!!. S,' ?roseeut- ,
vit7t7 CZlT-
- ui me apetuters.
wons uay, Friday,
the dav d1i-
catea to the sponsors, is today. It
features a dance in the ballroom a
bove the store of Morgan Walker on
Church Street The dance begins at
ten o'clock and ends when everybody
gets tired and goes home, Mr. Walk
er, chairman of the dance committee,
said.
The carnival is much larger than
it was last year. The whole lot at
Front and Market Streets is com
pletely filled with rides, booths and
other amusements. There are many
rides that were not brought to Hert
ford last year. Attractions also in
clude a number of fyling trapese acts
and bicycle riding on a high tight
wire. The acts are free ones pro
vided by the Crescent Amusemem
Company of Gastonia, furnishing the
midway.
Home Improvement
Contest Ends; Mrs.
H. C. Hoffler Wins
Started last spring, the West
Hertford Home Beautification Con
test ended September first after a
final judging by Mrs. M. T. Griffin
of the Bethel Home Demonstration
Club and Miss Lucy White of the
BeBvidere Club. First place went to
Mrs. H. C. Hoffler, a . cash prize of
$2.50. The second prize, $2.00, went
to Mrs. B. T. Wood, both of West
Hertford.
Sponsored by the Home and Gar
den Home Demonstration Club, the
contest was entered by 46 home
beautificationists, all living in West
Hertford.
The yards were judged early in the
spring by Miss White and Mrs. Grif
fin, before any improvements we:
made and again on September let.
after the improvements were made;
Scouts Hold Outdoor
Meeting; Have Supper
The Hertford. Boy Scout Troop No
155 of the Tidewater ' Council en
camped for supper at Winslow. Shoals
Friday night, accompanied by Assist
ant Scoutmaster Sm Sawyer.' i .
The boya left1 Hertford at four
o'clock, prepared an outdoor tapper,
heH meeting mi returned te town
before midnisrt. Thirty Scouts made! ?
the trip, and four, of them remained: ?'
overnight I. pup tentt.' - s ' j; ;;'
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