VOL. X. NO. 34
ROBERSONVILLE
NEWS ITEMS
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" People Com ing and Going]
As Gathered By Our Re
gular Correspondent - - j
John D. Everet.
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Mrs. C. T. Johnson was in town
Tuesday.
Mr. J. S. Smith left Tuesday for
Ocracoke.
Mr. J R. Bunting went to.Green
ville Monday.
Mr. Joe Mizell went to Washing
ton Thursday.
Mrs. State Purvis, _Qf Hassell,
was here Sunday.
Miss Mollie Edmondson returned
to Bethel Monday.
Mr. Jod®h Bo wets, of Bethel,
was in town Tuesday.
Mr. W. L. Ferrell, of Greenville
was in town Monday.
* Miss Julia Salsbury, of Hassell,
was in town Sunday.
Mrs. L. A. Briley lias been on'
the,Mck list several days.
. Mrs. Bessie Warren returned
from oik City Saturday.
Mr. W R Jenkins is out this
Week 011 acCount of illness.
Mr. atju Mrs. A. R Dunning, of
Williamstou, were here Tuesday!
Mrs. R. J. Ifelsou and httle'son
Ro'tert, went to Bethel Monday.
' Mist'. Nolie Robertson went to
Janiesville Sunday to visit her aunt.
I Mr. and Mrs. A. of
Gold Point, were in towu Sunday.
Miss Rosa Baker of Hamilton, is«
visiting MifS Bettie Roberson this
week.
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There was almost a v flood liere
Monday, washing the land very
badly.
Miss Martha Coffield, of Green
ville, spent Sunday with Mrs. Out
terbridge.
O" account of the heavy rain
Monday the ball team did not play
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Mrs. J. W. Andrews and chil
dren spent Sunday in I'armele with
her husband.
Mrs Lela liverett and family re
turned home from a visit to the
country Saturday.
Mr. Archie Slier tod, of High
Poiut, spent one night last week
with Prof, and Mis Outterbridge.
! Misses Lillian and Sallie Smith
spent in town, guests ol
Misses Maree and Pearl Robertson;
MrsL Rose Salsbury and daugh-
Jer of Hassell, and Mrs. Pattie
Williams, of Tarboro, were the
guests of Mrs Outterhridge Sun
day. "
Rev. E. C. Andrews, of Ply
mouth', filled \iis appointment at
the Baptist Church Sunday. He
left Monday for Louisville, Ky., to
attend the Southern Baptist Con
vention,
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Among thoee who attended the
closing of the Bethel school last
week were Misses Lvdie Roberson,
Isabel Morton. Hallie Meads, Maree
and Pcarlie Robertson, Lena Par
ker, Annie Mooring, Reta Robert
son; Messrs. N. C. Evefltt, Pitt
Roberson, Kelly Rawls aod John
D. Everett.
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"A Littl£ Kissing"
To the rrany verses contributed
by the various newspapers in the
country on the osculatory art. the
official poet of THE ENTERPRISE
adds the following.
\ A' little kissing is awful nice,
So tne young folks say,
Bat if you want-the sweetest yet,
Why kiss the Williamstou way.
THE ENTERPRISE
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iciRCUS^I
I Is COMING toTowN 1
HARE BEST AND WHO IS R W
I NOT THRILLED IN THE I
1 STRANGEST WAY BY A i M
FL I TALE OF THE GOOD OLD Jf J
I CIRCUS DAYS IJ
II 1 [She's the prettiest.daintiest most | 1i
1 I appealing little circus girl that 1
sj you have ever seen.' § |ll
I IH She ' s attractive and she has 'ml
II [ had such an interestinHife /Hnlt
i 1 that we have arranged for her ! 1
§ to appear only for us I \
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I [READ THE STORY Of POLLY A\
I! I AND IIV A LITTLE TIME YOU \\\i
li I WILL THINK A.S MUCH OF 1 \\\\\
I I POLL,Y OF THE CIRCUS [. V*
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This interesting and thrilling story will I>' published in "The
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K Enterprise" in serial form, beginning; with the issue of
May 21, 190 Q. It's not too long to bocome nionoto
. , nous, nor too short to prove uninteresting.
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Obituary
A town that never has anything
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to do in a public wav* is on the way
to a cemetery, and it is not hard to
kill a town. Any citizen who will
do nothing for his town is helping
to dig the grave. A man that curses
bis town and the prosperity furn
ishes the coffin. The,man who is
so selfish as to have no time from
his business t9* give to city affairs
is making the shroud. The man
advertise is driving
the hearae. A man against a fair and
liberal government is the yellow dog
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WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 14, igog.
under the dead wagon. The man
, who is always pulling back from;
any public enterprise thrown biu-j
) juets on the grave. The man who is ,
j so stingy ss to be howling hard j
times, preaches the funeral and 1
' sings the doxology, and tlins the I
' town lies buried from all sorrow ;
■iand care. —Exchange.
i I ——- $
i Pipeules are for Backactte, and
i bring quick relief to Jutnbago, rheu
, autism, fatigue andtall other symp
p toms of Kidney diseases. They
are a tonic to the entire system and
' build up strength and health. Price
; 150 c and SI.OO. Chase's Drug Store.
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Lived »25 Years
, Wm. l*iirr —England's oldest man
—married the third time at ,120.
I worked in the fields till 132 and
| lived 20 years longer. People >,
j should be youthful at 80. James
| Wright, of Sptuloek, Ky., shows 1
how to remain young. "I feel just
like a 16- year-old boy," he writes,
"after taking six bottles of Electric
Hitters. For thirty years Kidney '
trouble made life a burden, but the '
first bottle of this wonderful medi
cine convinced me I had found the .
greatest cure 011 earth." They're
a godsend to weak, sickly run-down '
or old people. Try them. 50c at
All Druggist. i
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A CIJILD OF THE ■
SUNNY SOUTH
A Southern Fertltizer--ltsi
Value Not Fully Ap
preciated
The Cow pea is s> child of the I
South, a lover of theVun, shrink j
ing aw ay at the first breath of win- j
ter or the touch of frcst,,
hut growing grem and fresh and
vigorous lifting new leaves toward |
the sky, ending out new tendrils
in all directions through all the
heat of the lone, fervid •-umtuet
days. A'd th«' soil has he- ,
come warm and the htei/es stir
lazily with their load of sunshine,
how rapidly it grows and how i
quickly it changes the h.ire slret-'
ehes of up-turned earth into swards |
of tangled verdure, dense, deep I
glowing, fruitful, full of promise, j
Ah, wonderfully fu'l of promise;]
hot the slopes over, which the c«w-1
pea has grown are not only lieh
with the food of herds and flocks,
with potential fat porkers and ripen
ing steers, liberal-uddered cow s and
frolic-otne colts and calves and j
lambs Sftd -p*g- s g owing through j
all their days of lich'ed content
ment into early and vigorous tuatu j
rity. They yield also a stranger |
and more significant fruitage
Wherever the cow pea grows there
•fulloAvs- as it_in sou e Ufle oimagie |
from past credulous year—a soil |
richer «*nd more productive for alii
that has het-n taken from it.
Those fields where the cow pea
grew and"spread and fruite 1 and
fed the hungry stock are, by reason
of that very fact, ready to grow
corn taller and greener and more
heavily laden with drooping ears,
harvests of ripening grain, deeper
and of richer hue, cotton more
bountifully covered with the snowy
locks whose whiteness commerce
changes into gold. It is one of
Nature's every-day miracles of
goodness that this plant should
reach into the air and gather from
it the ethereal food that is to feed
future harvests, and through these
harvests the beasts of the field, and
man himself*
Truly, we of the South have de
spised the precious, gift bestowed j
its, —tie magic - working plant]
which, like the fabled fountain of
youth, restores and refreehe-i and
re-fertilizes our soils, biinging to
even the aged and long-barren field>
a more than virgin''capacity for
fruitfulness,—- the opulent friend
that with inexhaustible liberality
offers to the farmer on one hand
the richness of its own pioductivity
and on the other the m re abiding
wealth of an increased fertility of
soil from which its sustenance was
drawn. —K. K. Miller.
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BKAR GRASS ITEMS
Mr. R. C. Bailey islm the sick
list this week.
Mrs. Lavinia Harris' baby is very
sick this week.
Mr. Javan Rogersou went to
Williamstou Tuesday to see a
friend.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Ayers spent
Saturday night and Sunday with
their father.
The farmers of the section are
plow ing up and re planting their
crops account of,the heavy rains.
Business is dull. Farmers are
not coming tt>»town much, but arej
'trying to work their stoim beaten i
crops.
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Mr. Nathan Rogersou wdl soon
move into his new residence. It is |
situated on Rogersou Street about
on block West of South Bear Grass
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wThe musical talent of the town
had a practice in singing Sunday
afternoon in the school building.
The crowd was large and the sing
ing very good.
si.oo a Year in Advance
GREAT GAME
DESTRUCTION
fOtir People Are Despo iI i ng-
The Continent—Laws
Not Enforced
j The eagerness with which men
\ daily violate the laws of the State,
ji-.n depressing sign .of retmgation
; instead of wogress This is pnr
| tienlarlv true of the game* laws of
I North Carolina. The close reason
is now >n, but how few there are
who protect the biids and squirrels
in their struggle for existence. We
believe there are some who would
destroy every squirrel in tire
woods —blottingo'.t forever thested
1 from the uirth. In the "-tiring at.d
! summer, these animals must re.a
| their young, and the State anxious
i to preserve tln rn dining this j»t ri d.
| has j I need around them tl'.e law.
But with what effect? There a e
! hundreds of tluin sla'ighu-red cai y
in this section, and bv tho*e too
I who claim to stand for law and
order. Thousands of dollars could
be ct llected in fines from ]>eop*e
living within the erirj orate limits
jof Martin Co. If a man should
j want a me-s of squirrel*, there is
no need to violate the law to the
extreme limit by trying to extcrmi-
I nate the beautiful animals Why
violate it slightest?
The whole American nation
I set ins to be guilty of tliis same
ruthless killing In an article n
| McClure's Magazine for April, en
titled "A Continent Despoiled,"
Rudolf Cronau says:
"America, formerly the con i
netit 1 idlest in animal life, is rapidly
becoming the continent poorest in
animals. Foreigners strolling
through our woods are surprised by
their deep silence. They miss (the
lusty voices of the thousands of
feathered songsters with which
French and German forests re
sound. Instad of this, tl ey hear
perhaps the shrill noise of locusts
and grass hoppers, or the hum of
innumerable gnats and mosquitoes,
which attack us with the same fierce
greed as we persecute our best
friends, the birds." —X. V.
GOLD POINT ITEMS
Mr. I«M Howell was here Satur
day.
| Mr. I*. 15. Taylor was litre Sat
| tirday.
Mr. lla\ wood Ross was here
1 Sunday.
Mr. W. A. J allies and family
were here Sunday,
Our merchants complain of the
dullness of trade.
Our farmers are mostly through
setting out tobacco plants.
Mr. John Ross of Rober.-on vdle
I passed through here last Sunday.
At the town election held here
last week, the old ticket was re
elected.
The reetht storm did considera-
I I ble damage to young crops in thi&
I I section,
Mr. J. 1,. Croorn is manufacti.tr
j ing some excellent tiling for we!ls
j and other purposes.
Mrs. \V. J. Cherry and,children
, spent Sunday in the country visit
ing Mrs. Cherry's father.
Episcopal Cbuch S*vices
There will be services at the
Church of the Advent on Sunday
lat 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. At the
! morning service. Rev. Mr. Gordon
' will preach a commencement ser
mon, especially for youug people.
School children and young men
and women particularly invited.
Thursdav, May 20th,. being As
cension Day, services will be held
at 0:30 a. ui., and at Hamilton at
at 8 p. m.
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