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't- 'i',,g,f viuv'', t ; 1 i. , , ,' v v 1'HE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY HERTFORD, N. C. FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 19U, 1 ' . V. . " '- " A ' " ' t VAGK SIX V A i. I: II 3 Fcncr Petpinqs Fees Cl-.u f,':afcctiirers In I'orth The story of, two former Fsrattlm- He is both president and treasurer ana County boy who have nMleof the company today. Eight year "good" In the candy busbies way ago, after a rather hectic previous up in Jiassacnusens w wtcoYwju during the past summer by Editor Herbert Peele of The Daily Advance, when, while spending the summer at Kitty Haw, he developed a contin ual teste for .Welch's Coooanut bar. One day Mr. Peele was told that James 0. Welch of the James O. Welch Company, manufacturers of the bar, was a brother of the Robert Welch, who ''-'was graduated from Elisabeth City High School and later from the University of North Caro lina. Writing to . Mr. Robert Welch, the editor of The Daily Advance learned that the company is indeed owned and operated Jby James O. and Rob ert Welch, sons of Mr. and Mm. Robert H. W. Welch, whose home was about one mile from Woodville on the New Hope Road. In a letter Mr. Welch told Mr. Peele the following interesting data concerning the firm: "The name of our company is the James ' O. Wnlch fVimnnnv. W am . rRTvHv mnniiFn.Hiroro in PmKriHi MaWBirhiittBthl ' The' hnInoo w.o ! lounaed sixteen years ago by my, younger brother, James O. Welch, : when he was twenty-two years old. DONT MISS OUR JANUARY -Clearance Sale All Fall and Winter Ladies' Dresses All Ladies' Winter Coats All Children's Coats Dress and Reversible ON SALE AT PRICES BELOW COSTS Ladies' and Children's Skirts especially priced during sale at $1.98 and $2.98 We must make room for our new Spring merchandise . . . and this sale begins Friday for a Clearance of all stock now in our store . . . come in and select new Dresses during this sale. GOODWIN'S DRESS SHOP HERTFORD, N. C. It will soon be time for you to "hitch" old "Dobbin" and start farming to raise Food for Freedom. Now if you will check your harness and see that it is all in fine shape it will save you a lot of time later. And re member, too, your horse will probably like it if you buy him a new piece of harness now and then. SEE US FOR YOUR NEEDS WE HAVE THE BEST! PLENTY OF COLLARS AND TRACES . . . jti-i. We can supply you with all you need. A FEW BRJDLES AND HAMES. . . not as many as we would like to have, but we have sonlfe more on order' and expect them soon. SINGLE AND DOUBLE TREES . . . plenty of these on hand at this time. Also Ciirrjr Combs, Brushes, Snaps, Repair links and Hame Repairs . , . come in and get them now. Hertford Hardware & Supply Co. HERTFORD, N. C Crarty Youths I'ov career m candy manuractuni.g my- self, I joined forces with my brother by taking over the management of the sales end of the business; and under the disguise of vice-president I still travel the country from one end to the other at too frequent in tervals, trying in these strange timesto keep sales down instead of up. Which is all I'll burden you with about myself. "But it's a good thing you came at me instead of my brother for this data. For whereas even my best friends have never complained about inordinate modesty on my part, he's so modest all you!d ever get out of him would be the information avail able in a Cambridge telephone book. And while he is a director of the New England Manufacturing Confec- fmnAra1 A luvnifltinn anA aan a Ai- rector of the National Confectioners' i Association, ... 1 far as we can get him to go in any organization, because of fear of I havinir to make a 8Deech. "Hn-ovr tha Jnu Cl Wploh Hnmnnnv msnnfiirbiivra five.rmt Kar 1 candies exclusively. Uur leader is Welch's Fudge, as now advertised, in small space but regularly, in the Sat- HERE'S A TIP ABOUT HORSES 'NORTHERN T Mil'" ' .'tV V VJTj Julia i.isiu.p ami 1,101 1 lyiui are sliowi:' iu a stent; nm V ainer Uros. latest "iSortnerii i'urauit" with Helmut Ihuitine aiiu John jiiu.i cvuiling to the State Theatre next Monday and Tuesday. urday livening Tost, Life, Time, Col lier's, Boston Subway, Chicago Ele vated Car Cards, and other media. Our other products are Welch's Co- caramel sucker known as Sugar Dad dy. The last named item is a sum- mer specialty, to take up the produc 11 Any nnlna alailr in ffiA aoaonTI when normal candy consumption gives way to ine aemana ior bon drinks and ice cream cones. In peace ; . i .1 1 I M times OUf l&rge8t Seller is Welch's. CoCOanut; and while W6 neither ad vertise the point nor make the claim ourselves, we have been told by im porters who bring in dessicated co coanut from Ceylon and the Philip pines that we are the second largest users of cocoanut in the world. Right now it isn't coming into the country in sizeable quantity for anybody to use. "Our only factory is in Cambridge, where we occupy about 90,000 feet of floor space in a building, which we own, containing 149,000 square feet altogether. We maintain a shipping room and office in Chicago, with necessary refrigeration to han dle chocolate-coated bars there prop erly in all weather. We also main tain shipping points, with warehouse stocks, in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. "We send candy to all of these places in carload lots and reship by truck and ICL freight in smaller quantities. Our business is more uniform over the country as a whole than you might expect, our distribu tion in the State of Washington, for illustration, being greater in propor tion to the population than it is in New York City. And a little, side light which you might find interest- inc is that, t.hin vpfir sinA Jannnrv l we have shipped approximately seventy-five thousand dullais' worth of our bars into Alaska. "For our purpose we divide the country into thirty sales territoriea. But whie we have not dropped any salesmen, despite the fact that we are overburdened with sales at pres ent, the draft and other factors have been a-gittin' 'em 'till we have far from thirty salesmen today. We ex pect to replenish and increase our sales force as promptly after the war. is over, of course, as we can find good men available. "We have no facilities for direct I sales to the consumer or to retail ! stores. Our distribution is entirely i through four thousand wholesale houses, of which wholesale distribu- tors we are glad to have 98 in the State of North Carolina, including our good friends, W. H. Weather ly and Company and Aydlett Pro ducts Company, in Elizabeth City. "At the present time, both be cause we do cover the whole country, thus serving some seven hundred Army and Navy agencies in every state and because we do make good candy, which is well advertised, we are overwhelmed by the demand for our bars. In addition to the civilian demand, we are called on for huge quantities of candy for domestic Military Post Exchanges and Ship Service Stores and for Army and Navy export through San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, New York, Norfolk and New Orleans. Despite the rationing of raw materials, oar plant has been running at full capacity for a long time, because so mueh of our produc tion is going into Army , and Wavy agencies which replace such mater ial for us. While, for a number of reasons, this business is not as pro- ntaole as civilian distribution. certainly, have no complaint to make, ana are proud to famish Welch's Candies to as many of our boys in uniform, all over the world, as qor manufacturing facilities will possibly permit. The labor shortage has been diffi cult, oi course. But we nave suc ceeded in maintaining pretty nearly oar run complement of approximately two hundred employees, most of the time. And we take a lot of satis faction in having ; mechanized our' pwus suwicienuyuw oeiore me war . ... ....... .. w us turning uui wjuui iwwb- muca conuy per man toaay as we were only three or foot yean ago. : "We are looking forward anxiously to victory and the end of toe war, when we can resume normal growth again. For while we nuke no pre tense to being economists or pro phets, ws believe confidently that America PURSUIT? Hertford Friends Of Naval Officer Invited fji0 Afenl Launchine" The following invitation has been received in Hertford by friends of Lieutenant Paul J. Riley, U. S. N., who will be affectionately remember- - ..... t . 1. ea as a rrequent visitor in ueruora: Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc. Hingham, Massachusetts , Cordially Invites You To Attend The Launching Of The U. S. S. Riley Wednesday, 29 December, 1943 1:80 P. M., E. W. T. Sponsor Miss Mildred LaVerne Riley Lieutenant Riley has been missing in action since the battle of Midway and his sister, Miss LaVerne Riley, has received the Distinguished Fly ing Cross, Navy Cross, and the Pur ple Heart which were posthumously ! awarded to Lieutenant Riley. High School Resumes Basketball Practice Basketball practice was resumed at Perquimans County High School this week, following the Christmas holi days, and Coaches Max Campbell and Howard G. Dewkins are preparing the Indians and Squaws for the re mainder of the games on the sche dule. No games are set for this week, but the coaches are attempting to get a game for next Tuesday night, and the teams will also play Central of Elizabeth City on the local court on Friday night, January 14. It is hoped that a game with the Kdenton boys and grrls teams can be arranged for early next week, as these games were scheduled to be played during last month, but incle ment weather prevented the locals from traveling to Edenton for the game. BETHEL NEWS Mrs. Evie Weston and children, of Norfolk, Va., visited relatives and friends here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Miller and chil dren; J. L. Curtis, Mrs. W. D. Curtis and Sidney Curtis, of Norfolk, Va., were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Curtis. First Lieutenant Clarence W. Phil lips, of Santa Anita, "Cal., is the' guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hobbs and daughter, of Elizabeth City; Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Earl White and baby, of near Edenton; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Miller and fam ily, J. L. Curtis, Mrs. W. D. Curtis and Sidney Curtis, all of Norfolk, Va., and Mrs. Lessie Evans, of Great Hope, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Curtis on Sunday. L. A. GOODWIN VICTIM IDF HEART ATTACK L. A. Goodwin died at his home in the Ballahack community on Wednes day, December 29, following a heart attack. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Goodwin. He was ' Member of the Great Hope Baptist Church, and was 72 years of age at the time of his death. Final rites were conducted at Great nope vuurcn oy tne Kev. jfrank Cale. The choir sang "The Old Rugged Croaa," Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Fannie Goodwin, and the following children. Johnnie Goodwin, of Port lock, Va.; Jack Goodwin, of Newport News, Va.; Ernest Goodwin, of Eden ton; Wallace. Sidney and Levi Good win, all of Perquimans County; Mrs. X; P. Skinner, 1 of -Carrollton. Va.: Mrs. Ambros Sawyer and Mrs. T. D. uopeland, of Gregory,, and Mrs. uuxrord Gregory, of Elizabeth City. of living, with only minor slumps, once peace has come. In th Jma u. Welch Com nan v to r ill . . . " V "" f"-M rung to share Sin, and do our little er.paiT lowarus creating this prosper- ity to come.1 CABOOF THANKS - We wish to extyress oar sincere thanks to friends And neighbors for Ct many kind expressions of sym pathy and the floral erferlngs during um wh w vw AUMMMM4 aoV IUWT, EXECirriVE MEETING OF W. M. S. The executive ' committee of. the Woman'slMisslonary Society of the BaptiHt Chnrcb mt Thnridiky fclght, DeceraNf With Mri 1 A. Ward. Mrs. UWar4 Dildnil 4pi"J the ...' a ' ir .... J.". 'i 1.' i" A Good Uoed Garo Wj j it i A I i! IUL J i Is your present car giving you MUsfactory service? Driv tag conditions will change much during the winter months ahead . . . so prepare now by trading your present car for a bettor latter model good Used Car. We have a large stock Of dean, well cared for Used Cars which wfll give yott perfect satisfaction1. See them now! f 1941 Chevrolet Town! Sedan, radio and heat er. In excellent con dition. 1939 Chevrolet Master Deluxe Coupe with ra dio and heater. Here is a splendid buy. 1938 Ford Tudor Se dan. Has radio and heater. Looks and runs fine. 1936 Ford Coach. In ffooxl mechanical con dition. Good tires. Towe Motor Co. SALES AND Phone 2461 Get Your Fertilizer Farlv - iuu wmaavc jruuiocu. wine iicauaciics aiiu also help the transportation problem. We can make immediate deliveries from f our warehouse at this We have a small amount of 4-&4. TherO will he none of this tvne fertilizer madft In' you get yp0 fertilizer. Our stock of merchandise" is complete on ; any seasonable items. , Call on .us for your needs. Y&u can make one stop and do all you: ; shopping; at our, One 1' IIERTrCPJ), N. C. "BLANCnARirS" SmCE x3 meeting with prayer. Plans for new yeaf were discussed - 1 y president, Mrs. L A. Ward, ft nr. i that ths Society (tres j 1941 Plymouth v Spe- cial Deluxe 4-d6or SeV dan. A perfect Used Car. 1940 Pontiac Clul) Coupe with radio anfj heater in perfect com dition and good tires. 1940 Ford Business Coupe. Here is a good Used Car ready to go. We have some other good Used Cars. It will pay yott to see them. SERVICE Hertford, N. C. eeeeeeeet UNCI F W II M a. k j i 4 .if ' O ' . i A t ' . i , : ; T tame. WE HAVE .'jLElT I ') 1 Stop Shopping Center. ' SAYS- &J If. J will enjoy a long period of Charlie U. Hurdle. y and .of rfclrj ?2j A " pT? ? t 4c x A
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