VOL. XI. NO. 40
IN LINE WITH
v THE VERY BEST
North Carolina Especially
Rich in Lands in-the
East—No Finer Truck
ing Section in the Coun
try—Gulf Stream Flows
Near to Coast
Eastern North Carolina is begin
ning to command something of the
attention which its proven poten
tialities are due. "The logic of the
situation here," abserves The Wil
mington Star in this connection,
"is an incomparable climate and a
region of vast productiveness while
the nearness of the region to a
great consuming population in the
North is an assurance that land
values in eastern North Carolina are
if
not only permanent but inevitably
will increase as the possibilities of
this part of the couutry become
known and undergo the develop
ment of which it is capable/'
Within 24 hours of the great North
ern markets by refrigerator train,
eastern North Carolina truckers of
Floiida, Texas and other more
southerly sections an advantage for
which their earlier season does not
by any means compensate. At the
same time the comparative earliu:ss
of its season operates as a decided
advantage over coast truckers
farther north, whose proximity to
market since the eastern North
Carolina trucker is near enough,
constitutes no sufficient offset. The
Star notes gratification the
fact that not only have better pro
ductive methods increased the corn
yield, giving farmers a surplus for
sale where they formerly bought
from the West, but that shipping
green corn or "roasting-ears" to
Northern markets has sprung up as
a new industry. "This season,"
says our observant contemporary.
' immense quantities'of green corn
have been shipped to the Northern
markets by farmers who a few
years ago did not dream that they
could do a good business growing
corn for the table." On Tuly 14th
over two thousand crates of table
corn were shipped fiom Clinton,
Sampson county— showing, we note
with pleasure, that work did not
stop throughout the State on this
great convention day Eastern
North Carolina, in short, is rising
to the level of its newly discovered
opportunities.
The gulf stream from the south
comes very near Wilmington, while
the current which
washes our Atlantic coast and is
largely responsible for its greater
coldness as compared with corres
ponding latitudes across the ocean
or on our own Pacific.coast under
goes wide deflection by the jutting
triangle apexed at Cape Hatteras.
Probably the sounds and sandbanks
which have been often execrated
for their effect upon navigability
make some leturn by rendering this
section especial'y suitable for
trucker's purposes. At any.rate,
climate here is mild out of relation
to its latitude as compared with
other coast neighborhoods The
ocean, a tempering influence even
when chilled by cold currents, is
more than ordinarily kind. South
eastern North Carolina, in parti
cular, can compare with neighbor
hoods considerably farther south..
And, as The Star says, excellent
trucking land is abundant. A sec
tion which thought its principal
source of wealth gone when the
pine forests had been cut away has
discovered a new souice not liable
/)
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Restores vitality, regulates the kid
neys, liver and stomach. If Hol
lister's Rocky Mountain Tea fails
to cure get jrour money back.
That's fair. 35 cents, Tea or Tab
lets. Saunders & Fowden.
THE ENTERPRISE
to exhaustion. Land once consid
ered so worthless that a man's
poverty was said to increase with
the amount he owned is making
men rich. Native people are learn
ing the use of their opportunity
and settlers are coming in. We
felicitate eastern North Carolina.
It has struck the full treod of that
varied but everywhere substantial
progress which pervades the State.
—Charlotte Observer.
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EVERETT ITEMS
J. S. Ayers went to Goose Nest
Tuesday.
D. J. Meeks is 011 the sick list
this wetk.
Dr. Williams went to Williams
ton Sunday.
C. H. Rawls, Robersonville, was
here Tuesday.
J. L. Gurganus spent Sunday
night in the country.
C. • B Riddick spent Sunday
night in the country.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B Bamhillwent
to Bear Grass Sunday.
Mr. Harrell, of Norfolk, was in
town Tuesday on business.
Miss Roland Moore is spending
this week in Robersonville.
Miss Hattie James 1s spending
this week in Robersonville.
Chas. B. Riddick, ol Buies Creek,
is visiting his parents here.
Messrs. Keel and Daniels, of
Robersonville, were here Sunday.
Miss Eubanks, of Hassell, is
visiting Miss Vada Wynn this week.
Mr. and Mrs J. W. Cherry spent
Sunday in the country with their
parents.\
A number of our people are at
tending the carnival at Roberson
ville this week.
J. P. Ward, of Kinston, was the
guest of Miss Euzela R'ddick Sat
urday and Sunday.
J. D. Woolard, of Robersonville,
spent Saturday night at the home
of bis sister, Mrs. J. S. Peel.
Miss Fonnie Woolard has return
ed from an extended visit to her
sister, who lives in Baltimore.
Miss Mary York, of near Will
iamston, spent Sunday here with
her cousin, Miss Pearl Mallory.
Everetts ?nd Robersonville cross
ed bats on the diamond of the lat
ter last Thursday. The game was
an interesting one, ending in a
score of 2 to i in favor of Everetts.
We are indebted to our Congress
man, Hon. John H. Small, for a
farmers meeting to be held at the
Court House Tuesday, August 2nd,
1910, at 10 a. m.
Mr. Small, who is always on the
alert and ready to help his people,
has procured the services 'of tha
following gentlemen, who will con
duct the institute.
Curtis H. Kyle, whose object
will be "farm management and
soils for corn and cotton." J. P.
Campbell, general field agent for
the South in the farmers operative
demonstrative work, who will dis
cuss"soils.their renovation aud res
toration." H. Matthewson, who
will discuss "tobacco culture,"
generally. E. Lester Boykin, who
will discuss "good roads and how
to secure them," These are all
great subjects and largely affect
our county. * »■
Hon. John H. Small will also be
present aad help in the work. Ses
sion both before and after noon.
WILLIAMSTON, N. C. t FRIDAY, JULY;22. 1910
Farmers Institute
DARDENS ITEMS
Mrs. Annie Bateman is visiting
relatives in Norfolk.
Mi>s Neva Swinson and brother,
John, left last week for Norfolk.
Messrs. Price and Bond made a
business trip to Williamston Mon
day.
Mrs. C. C. Fagan, who has been
sick several week, is able to be out
again. '—:....
Miss Carrie Jenkins, of Bethel,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Lloyd
Waters.
Mrs. David Swinson has return
ed from a visit to her children in
Norfolk.
Miss Bemice Fagan left Tuesday
for a trip to Norfolk and Ocean
View, Ya.
Miss Georgie Ward, of James
ville, spent last week with Mrs.
Hamilton.
Miss Donnie Gardner spent Sun
day with Miss Ida Stillman near
Plymouth.
Rev. Mr. Mizell filled his ap
pointment at the Disciple Church
here Sunday.
Mrs. W. T. Coburn is teaching
the "Piney Woods" school about
two miles from here.
Mrs. Hoyle Davenport an I Mrs.
Gardner were guests of Mrs. Pres
ton Swinson Monday.
Miss Gladys Coburn, after visit
ing her grandpareuts here, has re
turned to home in Buell, Va.
Noah Jackson continues quite
feeble. He is at the home of his
son, James Jackson, of this place.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Gurkin
were guests in the home of Mrs.
Gurkin's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Swinson, Sunday.
School began here Monday with
Prof. Eason, of Wilson, as princi
pal, and Miss Janie Jenkins, of
Wiljiamston, as assistant.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. King have
returned to fheir home in Ports
mouth, Va., after a pleasant visit
here with relatives and friends.
HASSELL ITEMS
Will Hytnan left Monday
Alex Haislip is in Norfolk now.
Mrs. B. Downs is very sick this
week.
T. H. Johnson spent Sunday at
home.
Miss Nannie Haislip spent Mon
day here
Miss Phon Fleming is visiting
near Palmyra.
H*nry Cherry was here from
Speed Monday.
Miss Louise Salsbury left for
Hobgood Sunday.
G. F. Roberson spent Sunday
night at Plymouth.
G. F. Roberson made a short
trip to Parmele Saturday.
Charlie Purvis spent Sunday at
the home of T. H. Rawls.
Miss Selma Fleming returned
from Baltimore last veek.
Robert Salsbury is spending a
few days near Speed this week.
R. H. Sa'sbury, Jr., spent Mon
day in Scotlarid~Neck on business.
Miss Ethel Bolin, of Greenville,
is visiting Miss Hilda Knight this
week.
Misses Bessie and Myrtle Rober.-
son spent Sunday with Miss Lishie
Coborn.
Miss Julia Salsbury and brother
spent Sunday afternoon at the
home of J. L. Robersoti.
V. B. Gary and T. H. Johnson
went to Oak City Tuesday night to
attend a meeting of the "Hep
tasOphs." .
OAK CITY ITEMS
N. F. Brown was in town Mon
day.
F. Willie Johnson was in town
Sundiv.
Mis C. M. Hurst is on the sick
list this week.
Joe Earley, oi Palmyra, was in
town Monday.
John Evans, of Hamilton, was
in town Tuesday.
T. H. Johnson, of Hassell, was
in town Sunday.
Robert Salsbury, of Hassrll, was
in town Monday.
John Rook was in town Monday.
Keneth Ray nor, of Coleraiti, was
in town Monday.
W. W. Balland, of Norfolk, was
in town Monday.
T. K. Weyher, of Kinston, was
iu town Tuesday.
Mi-s Lizzie Harrell was 011 our
streets Wednesday.
Henrv I)a«iels, of Williamston,
is iu town this week.
Vance Cuberson, of Hamilton,
was in town Tuesday.
, Mis-es Hannah and Myrtle Long
were iu town Tuesday.
Herman Hedgcpeth.of Hobgood
was in town last Friday.
Jessie F. Crisp spent Monday
with his parents near Robersonville.
Johnnie Kitrell, of Greenville,
passed through town one day last
week.
Frank Harrell, who has been in
the employ of the N. Y. P & N.
R K. Co., came home Sunday to
spend a few days With his mother.
Miss Ada Bell Tew and brother,
Brantley, left Tuesday for their
home in Port Norfolk, Va , after
spending the past week here with
relatives.
Dr. M. I. Fleming, Will Rhodes,
Bogue Slade, B:uce Sherrod, E A
Council and George Brown were
guests of the Oak City Bafhing
Club Sunday.
Dr. M. I. Fleming, of Hamilton,
was in'town Monday to see little
Virginia Hines, who has been very
sick for the past week, but it is
now thought that she will soon be
out again.
The new Conclave of Improved
Order of Heptasophs is growing
and doing fine. It was organized
June the 27th, with thirty-one
cl.arfer members and have made
two additions since and an applica
tion is before the Lodge at present
to be passed on. We trust that
our little order will continue to
grow and prosper. A meeting is
held every Tuesday night and very
enjoyable evenings are"spent.
Kerosene Kills Lockjaw Germs
Immediately a child sustains an
injury from fireworks, but especial
iy the toy postol and the Kifttit fire
cracker, a physican should be sum
moned, who will inject an immuniz
ing dose of tetanus antitoxin. —Dr.
John B. Huber in the American
Review ot Reviws.
In connection with which Dr R
B. Glasgow, editor of the Butling
ton (N. J)' Gazette-, says this
which-we publish with pleasure for
the benefit of those concerned:
' The above will appeal to. the
professional mind at once, but what
answer will you make to him who
asks what may be done pending
the coming of the doctor?
That is easy, as the Koran says
—saturate the wound witU ordinary
kerosene.
That is all-
That is cheap, easy, simple and
sure.—Sel. - '
Advice For Young Men
Remember, my son, you have to
work. Whether you haudle a pick
or a pen, a wheelbarrow or a set of
books, dig ditches or edit a piper,
ring an auction bell or writ* 1 funny
things, you must work. If you
look around you w'll see the men
who work the hardest.
Don't be afraid oft killing your
self with overwork It is beyond
your power to do that on the sunny
side of thirty. They die some- j
times, but it is because #hey quit!
work at 6 p. m. and don'tget home I
till 2am It is the interval that
kills, my son. The work gives you
an appetite for your meal-; it lends
solidity to your slumbers; it gives
you a perfect and grateful apprecia
tion of a holiday.
There are young men who do not
work, but the wot Id is not proud
of them It does not know their
names even; it simply sptaks of
them as "old So-and-So's bovs."
Nobody likes them; the great, busy
world doesn't know that they are
there. So find out what you want
to be and do, and takeoff 3 our coat
and make a dust in the world
The busier you are the less harm
you will be apt to get into, the
sweeter will be your sleep, the
brighter and happier your holidays
and the better satisfied the world
will be with you.—Bob BtirdeUe.
A Frightful Wreck
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cause cuts, bruises, abrasions,
sprains or wounds that demand
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prompt cure results. For burns,
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Second Tour Oxford Orphanage
Singing £lass
After almost a month at Oxford,
following its first or eastern tour,
the Oxford Orphanage Singing
Class will, about Julv 21^t. start
upon its second or western tonr.
Thus far this year the Class has
seemed to meet with exceptional
success and excellent are the pros-
for the second or western trip.
The concerts of the children are
of great merit, interesting, refresh
ing, helpful:" They are really worth
more than the price of admission.
The Oxford Orphanage is now
attempting to care for about 330 ot
the homeless children of our State
and to prepare them for u-eful lives
Since its establishment in 18-ta it
has been a greatly used agency in
the solvation of souls in the rescue
of lives for, service to God and
humanity.
The visits of these bright, attrac
tive, well trained clildren, who
give a delightful concert, cannot
friil to deepen interest in this insti
tution and in the other splendid
orphanages of North Carolina.
We bespeik for the Oxford Or
phanage Singing Class of 1910 in
its tour so soon to begin even larger
patronage than ever before from all
of our people. -
Those Pies ot Boyhood
How delicious were the pies of
boyhood. No pies now ever taste
so good, what's changed?>hgj)ies?
No Its you.' You've lost the
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s[.oo a Year in Advance
AN OLD BIDDY
DISPLAYS TALENT
Deposited an Egg Painted
. in True Artistic Style-
Probably a Warning to
Chicken Thieves--Quite
a Curiosity.
"There is nothing new under the
sun" so they say, and yet strange
things happen every day, the like
of which has not been seen before.
Nature is full of surprises and there
are none to perfectly interpret her
mysteries One reads of the spec
tacular and curious happenings,
and often it comes under the eye.
To a plain old hen belongs the
honor of furnishing the suspicious
of this community with a strange
■sight. Tuesday morning, this in
dustrious chick, belonging to
Stephen' Latham, a colored man
living in West Williamston, de
posited qji egg in the nest, as usu
al. Latham's wife later took the
egg out, and behold; it w>s an
Kaster beauty in July! The hen
not belonging to that branch of
the church which celebrates Kaster,
was not up on the church calendar
and so had made the blunder in
dates. The surfaces of the egg
: was painted in a very dark blue
shade, and the figure thereon rep
resented a man in armor—perhaps
a knight of ye olden times. In his
hand was a spear which he seemed
about to cast at something. That
is one version of the the egg story.
Another is that some midnight
marauder went after that old hen
and so badly scared her that the
form of the thief was photographed
lon the shell. At any rate, it is a
curiousity and well worth seeing.
I The colored population have not
been alarmed so much since Hal
. ley's measly old comet disappeared.
■ Thev predict dire disasters, and no
doubt it is a warning from the un
known world to tho>-e who have
such an enormous appetite for
chicken. If every hen has the ar
tistic to that degree that she can
get a picture of thieves, then there
is work for the police, and the
chickens should be given the re
ward for Hpprehcniling the prowl
ers. The old hen has been depos
iting the regulation white fruit
every day since her wonderful pic
ture painting.
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Willlamston Wins Two Out ol Three
Williamston's team again shows
up in goad form by taking two
games out of the three played this
week. On Monday they were de
feated by Tarboro in a slow game
played nearly altogether in the
Tut'sday took one awav f v 'om
rain.
Farmville in a fast and snappy con
test. Ward, who has pitched all
thr.e games, with Jordan behind
the hat, stemed to gain strength
each day, having struck out thir
teen of those who faced him on the
Farmville diamond, while Jordan
allowed no base stealing. Ou
Wednesday the same battery proved
too much for Greenville, taking a
game kom them by a^coie of sto 1.
The features of the games has
been the pitching of Ward, catch
ing of Jordan and heavy batting oit
the entire team. Gurganus and
Watts have distinguished themsel
ves with, the willow. Teel's play- *
ing ou short has been of the fastestt
type. The team leaves today for
-Aulander to play \two games.-
"Dope."