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VOLUME XXII— NUMBER 40
COMMISSIONERS IN
REGULAR SESSION
MONDAY, JUNE 5
The Board of Martin County Com
f missioaers met CuUi.
House with the loii",'^flStfcfcj|^L
present: John L llasscll,fl
Or. B. L. Long, H. C. Cic^|
Peel, and Joshua ColtrainNQ|
towing orders were passed:
That J. A, and W. Keichen be l'e-
Pved from paying taxes on proper-
J Valued at !f2O,tH)U in Hamilton town
v ship, improperly listed.
. That it is the sense of the Board
after due consideration that the coun
£ ty of Martin desires that the oii 1 .
per cent deduction on real estate askeu
* or be sustained by the State Tax Com
mission.* , * * ✓ ,
That J. W. Bryan Ihj relieved (il
■ tax on land valued at $7,000, in Goose
Nest township.
fe* j* Ordered that the County truck Is
Called from Oak Cii> and tnat J. I 1
Ward be notified to bring same in.
Ordered that Henry ltiddiek be re
lieved of tax on land valued at.y'o.-
fn WilUamston township.
~ Ordered that the sheriff be instruct
ed from G A. Harrison taxes on land
ia Bear Grass township, valued at
- $2,500.00, listed in 1920.
Ordered that Mrs Fernando Wi:
liams be allowed $2.00 per uionth for
—aefttefringJ. 1). Casllu and wic.
m-' Ordered that West Woolwd be re
lieved 4)f poll tax, he being over 6
years old.
Ordered that John Long be reim
bursed poll tax paid for Calvin Greg
ory by mistake.
Ordered that Nancy Brown, James
ville township be relieved of tax on
property valued at $400.00.
' Ordered that W. I. Holliday be al
lowed the sum of $5.00 per month loi
one month.
Ordered that Abner Bennett's al
lowance be increased to s;i,oo pet
month. *,
Ordered that Maggie Revandfr o
Jamesville township, be relieved r>
» pdll tdK for her husband, V* illiam llev
ander.
Ordered that Harry Waldo l>e reim
bursed $24.7:1, taxes listed by errot .
Ordered that Jarrett Skyles be al
lowed $4.00 per month.
That Nancy J. Wynne be allowei
S4.M) for month of June, 11)21. _
'l'Lt all the roal trustees and super
■UhM of nine townships to instructed
at Courthouse in Williamston
June 27th, and Justice o.
Poplar Point township.
board be and i. >
■ to'act with the Board of
K to sign certain school Iwtnds
Hk City School.
Hn the County Surveyor of Mar
PTcounty anij the county surveyor «
county meet together am
r establish a line between Martin an
| Beaufort counties, beginning a
k Welch's Creek and running an un
known line to Grassy Island, Beau
• Tort county 'line.
That J. V. Moye be refunded
/on property worth $2,500,00 in Rob
Person ville township.
V That chairman appoint
, -td to settla JM
That the
* physician.
° WW*" trea.
"FARM ASHING
||. TON PROVES SUCCESSFUL
% "Farmer's Day" Fs Becoming very
popular in Washington. On Saturday
the farmers bring in the produce and
tffe hotosewives go to the Warehouse
and buy their {jpods and save the
profit paid the middleman and the far
mer is put to no trouble to dispose of
his goods. This is under the direction
of the County Agent and is a very
great benefit to both farmer ami the
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THE ENTERPRISE
WEEKLY NEWS LETTER
FROM STATE CAPITAL
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(Special to The Kntcrpfi^e.j
Raleigh, June 7. —Notwithstanding
i tie tact (uiui it is a tact) tliut Gov.-
emor Morrison is averse to caling an
extra session of tiie Legislature iqr
•purpose il' it can be reasonably
■i n, me decision of the Supreme
K jUot handed down which holds
municipal finance act of the iast
session oi the General Assembly to
ue unconstitutional, because of the tail
ure oi' the Senate journal clerk to prop
erly record the passage of the measure
on the. Senate Journal, will cause tue
executive committee of the State Mu
nicipal Association to make a strenous
clloit this week to induce Governor
Morrison to reconvene the law-making
body, us there is left no other man
ner whereby the cities so largely in
volved cun curry out their financial
1 roglains lor the year.
But that does not give assurance
that there will be an extra session,
for the Governor may not consider the
needs of the cities to warrant such
action, and that the municipalities can
contrive methods whereby they can
Bet through till the next regular ses
sion. One reason for not reconvening
the aw makers is the probability that
they would not coniine themselves to
the municipal act in hand, but would
probably tackle any other subject they
should ileem fit and thus staire a iuo
tonged extra session that might go
the limit. However, it does not fol-l
low tha tthcrc will be no extra session
because of this feature of the ques
tion, so far as the Governor is con
cerned ,if the reasons for calling an
extra session are otherwise deemed
sufficient by him, liut, as said at the
outset, the chances afu against it.
The Governor has gone to Asheville
for a wseek of rest and recreation
Up Goes Telephone Rate
The Corporation Commission hav
ing decided the application of the liell
Telephone Company for an increase in
rates all over the state the increase
will take effect with the current month !
Twenty-five- cents per month is added
for private*phones in residences and
ten per cent for business phones, as
compared with the rates in effect on
June first. The blanket increase is
not as great as was asked by the Hell
Company. Chairman Lee of the com
mission dissented from the decision,
and would have«allowef "the full in
crease aske dfor, but was outnumber
ed by Fell and Maxwell.
There has heen a "rumor" current
the past few days that the Hell Com
pany vvould appeal the case to the 1"
S. Supreme Court, in an effort to get
the 22 per cent increase asked for
But this is regarded as a "bluff" am
no foimal steps have actually been
taken to perfect an appeal.
No Troops to be "Called Out" Unless
Actually Needed
Governor Morrison is not so quick
on the trigger in "calling out th(
troops," at the suggestion of sheriffs,
as some of his predecessors jn office
and he has informed Sheriff Cock ran,
of Mecklenburg, that he must handle
ordinary situations wit hlocal officers.
That unless tlie county officials ex
haust their own resources in mainlin
ing order the Governor says ho "can- j
not conceive of aijk possible _ cdWi
tiop that may arise there which would
make it necessary to send troops to
your aid."
It seems that the Mecklenburg sher
iff went up in the air because of a
little mild "trouble" at one of the cot
ton" mills, where the strikers tried to
induce those of their number in the
same mill who did not join in the
strike to quit work. No force' was
used and when the city police force
demanded that the strikers "move on"
the finally did so, under protest, claim
ing the right of peaceable assembh
and free speech, etc., to influence their
fellows among the cotton mill opera
tives.
The sheriff wrote Governor Morri
son that the managers of two mills
had demanded "protection" from him
when they should make an effort to
start up their mills this week, and
wanted to know jus* - what the duties
and authority ot a snenrr under such
conditions would be. He adder that he
anticipated calling on the Governor t«
order troops to Mecklenburg.
BIG FIRE IN PLYMOUTH MONDAY
About nine o'clock Monday morn
ing fife broke out in the colored sec
tion of Plymouth and as the wind was
blowing a gale and very little water
could be gotten, it spread, first to
the colored Methodist church, a brick
structure, which was completely ruin
ed, then the parsonage was burned
and three other colored dwelling
house*. Before the flames could be
checked they TiatT reached a smalt
store and the home of Mr. John Lig
gett and they were burned down. A
few other residences caught but they
were put out before much damage was
done. It is reported that the fire
> started from an A. C. L. train.
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BAB COPY -
- Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina, Tuesday, June 7th, 1921
MOTHERS OF SOLDIERS
DENOUNCE HARVEY
• Senator Mckellar read into the Reel
ord the-following protest from
ican War Mothers:
"Whereas the Senate of the United
States of Amercia, on April 2, 1017,
dclared we \vre in a state of war;
Whereas we believed that it was
through no fear of loss, no greed for
gain, but for a great idea, for the
saving of the nations of the worldet
saving oi the nations arid the freedom
of the world, that we submitted fo
the sacrifice of our sons and country
m ne: .•
Therefore we, the Pennsylvania
State Chapter of the National Ameri
can War Mothers, assembled in c :i
--vention in Philadelphia, declare we
have read-!with the utmost abhorrence
the words reported to have been spok
en by Geoige Harvey, ambassador to
Kngland. Those words are an insult
to everything the women of America
hoi ddear.
" "The ydefame every man and wo
man who made sacrifices during the
war in the hopu of hastening the com
ing of peace and all it implies.
J'Our beloved sons—soldiers, snilotfr
and marines-—fought suffered ami'ilioil
believing they were crusaders in a
great cause." The words of Mr. Har
vey lead us to believe that they fought
in vain. .
"Our dead soldiers can not-repudiate
this insult; it remains for the mothers
whose sons made tlie sacrifice to no
so.
"Therefore we, the mothers of sons
who were in the army and navy, ask
the President of the United States to
repudiate this insult to the country
and to remove the stain which the
words of Mr. Harvey have placed upon
the honored dead of the World War,
who died ofr the ideals-'of the I'niteil
States of America."
Another protest from tlie women is
as follows:
The Women's Pro-League Council
composed of Republican women, ift n
meeting on May 25, directed that
"A solemn protest against such
statements and such policies contained
in Ambassador Harvey's speech In
sent immediately to the President am l
the Secretary of State, as a gross mis
represntation of America's wur aim
and ideals, and a betrayal of million
of American--voters for whom tin
League of Nations t- * was the
great issue of the campipgn, and wh
voted for Mr. 'Harding In the belie! i
that his election would assure such :
league."
WE ARE FORGETFUL
Wc frequently Hear people say tha
it is the coldest, or"the hottest, wet
test or driest season they ever saw
which may be true of the very youni
but the middle aged and the old hav
doubtless seen both better and won;'
seasons.
For the purpose of comparison thi
writer in looking over a weather diarj
for the year 1895 finds that the montl
of April was wet and cold with only I
few hot days. May was unusually wel
and cold with a good frost on thi
16th and a very heavy frost on tin ]
23rd with the temperature down ti
40. This frost killed much of tin
vegetation, and was followed by t
spell of hot weather, the'temperatun
going to 102 in the shade on June 2nd,
3rd and 4th, which was the hijfh rec
•ord for early June and was pdYhaps
the hottest June weather we have had
fron] then until this date. However,
another cold spell followed and on the;
ninth of June the trermrtmeter drop
pad to 53 and cold- weather prevailed
until June the 18th, when we had frost
—not cold enough to, bite but enough
to redden cotton iegs. This frost was
followed by hot weather going up to
the full moon in July when we agair
had a cool speel. In August we again
had a light frost enough to whiten a
few shingles on a flat shed. We again
had frost in September.
So we see ttiat in the .jwrftory 4
even -the young just 26 years ago o
year in which we had frost in Martin
County during every month in tin
year except July. The crop yield fo?
that year was poor due to poor stan>'
and the cold weather that prevailed
durin gthe growing season. In com
parison the crop condition today is
much better than it was that year and
still the people lived and prospered.
Failures are more often caused bf
our own failures and negligence than
from the seasons. Nature is too true'i
to cause us much losses
Having qualified as adimplstrator
upon the estate of Sylvester Stalling#,
deceased, late of Martin county, no
tice is hereby given tp all persons hav
ing claims against said estate to pre
sent them to the undersigned for pay
menjt on or before the 28th day ef
May, 1922, or this ontice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery. All per-i
sons indebted te said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 28th day of )Uy, 1921.
R. L. STALLINGS, Administrator.
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Local News and
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.Personal Mention
' Misses liira and Nellie Wynne hiv
in Norfolk for u few days this .week.
«_ • • •
Mrs,. C. B Hassell returned last
night after spending the month of
May in Washington, the guest of Mr.
and M r*> Gfvts Hassell, •
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Mr and Mrs. Marion Inge of Ports
mouth are visiting the latters parents.
Captain and Mrs.'J. C. Khem.
♦ ♦ ♦ »
Mr. anil Mrs. J. L. Rodgerson' and
little daughters, Misses Margaret anil
Mary Klizabeth motored to IJotJc\
Mount. Sunday, \vl*re Mrs. Rod person
and children took the train for An
(jUrta, Ga., to visit her sister for sev
eral weeks. While there she will nuike
a short trip to Florida to visit Mi-
Frank Everett.
* + * ».
| Mrs. W. li. Orleans :«id Misses
Laura Orlehns. Mittie Itruvfn and
Evelyn Harrison motored to Uockv
Mount yesterday.
* • » ».
Miss Mars King ETlison of Belliaven
is visiting Miss l.ouiso Robertson I'm
-tt-few days. Miss EHson has just, re
turned from the North Carolna Col
lege for Women.
♦ » • «
Mr. 11. C. West left Sunday for his
home ih Durham. Mr. "West was re
I'lecled to thee superinfendencv of the
Gratled and Schools but fie ro
signed to take up the study of law
Many friends of Mr. West regret to
see him leave. He came to William
ston lust fall and had a most success
ful year as teacher and superintendent
of our schools. Especially did lie raise
the standard of scholarship and ath
letics in the High School. Mr. West
is u young man o a high degree of
efficiency and education ami he will
he greatly missed in the town.
• • « •
Messrs. Harry-Waldo, Frank Glad
stone, Don Matthews, Frank Haislip
and Paul Salsbury of Hamilton were
business visitors here yesterday.
• » • •
Mr. and Mrs. J. \V. Watts ami
Miss Mary Gladys Watts and Eliza
beth Hassell and Master I'.illj' Watt;
will leave tomorrow by motored fot
Wiltougliby 'Beach to spend some time
as the guests of Mr. and Mi s, W |!
Wntts.
_ • » *i. *
Mrs. P. F. Apfel left Mondav morn
ing for Norfolk to. spend a lew- day -.
.■ • •
Mi=s. J. (i. Staton left uMerdn>
morning for Wilmington for evecal
days. ■
• • • •
.Reverend Saunders of Norfolk eon
ducted services at the Church of th.
Advent Sunday mornine and uvtsuin
in the absence of Hev. Clark. Tim. t
who attended were highly pleased win
the sermons a tboth services."
»•• • *
Mr. anil Mrs. J. E. Alexander and
little daughter and Mr. Kent fd' V, n
stun motored hero Sunday and> h i:
yesterday. While here th'\v were th
guo'sts of Mrs. Fannie S. liigy ; at her,
home in New Town. Mr. ICent is at
official of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, and he and Mr. Alexamloi
were in town attending to business.
♦» £ ♦
Mi', and Mrs. Vanvo Bunting am'
daughter of Bethel spent Sunday and
Monday here visiting Mr. and Mrs. A
T. Perry.
» • » •
Messrs. R. O. Martin, .1 D. I.illey
Dr. Hassell, L. 11. Mizolle and E. II
Ange of Jamesvilte were in town yes
terday on business.
1 '» • • •
Mrs. Minnie Ballance pnd .V i»
Daisy Manning left this morning fm
Greensboro to, take some children to
the North Carolina Children's Home
Society.
• • • •
Mr. and* M-rn. Clyde Andreson and
Mr. ftfM! Mrs, ( '■ B s and M r
Mariot !11 itt motored to Tarboro Sun
day.
• * * » •
Mr. Kader Lilley was a visitor herr
yesterday. Mr. Lilley had an opera
tion on his left eye, and has regained
his sight in the eye.
• • » •
Mr. Z 11. Rose and J. W. Manninj
went to Greenville yesterday to heat
Miss Dicie Howell sing.
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Miss Lucy Feltta, who has been
nursing Mrs, Walter Orleans for some
time, has returned to her home ir
Washington. Friends of Mrs. Orleans
will he pleased to know that she i,v
convalescing rapidly and hopes to be
out soon.
• •* 0 '*■
M». Hardest y and children of Wa.!
ington, D. C., arrived Sunday to join
Mr. Hardeity who is Concreto Pile
Engineer for the bridge.
• • • •
Baseball fane are expecting to go to
Washington to witneaa the opening
game of the Eastern-Carolina league
LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANY
NOT TO RAISE PRESENT RATES
The effect of increased rates for telephone service, authorized
by the Corporation Commission is shown in t ie following table,
representng the rates in 1918, in 1921, the new rate anif this, rate
tl for by the Telephone Company for business ami residential
hones, in nine representative North Carolina cities and towns:
lUIS 11121 New Kate Asked lor
anne Itus. Ken. lius. Kes. Itus. Ken. lius. Ites.
Kaieitfh SI.OO $2.50 $5.00 $3.00 $5.60 $3.25 $0.25 $3.76
ilimivlon 4.00 2.60 6.00 3.00 6.60 8.25 (>.25 11.75
Dai'inißton 3.50 2.00 4.00 2.60 4.40 2.75 5.00 3.10
Kelnia 3.00 2.00 3.2!) 2.00 3,75 2.25 3.110 2.40
(loldsboro 3.00 2.00 4.00 2.00 4.40, 2.25 6.00 3.10
Charlotte 4.00 2.50 5.60 *3.25 6,00 4.15 (>.>o 3.!>0
Wendell . ...rf. 2.50 2.00 3.00 2.0(5 3.30 2.25 3.60 2.40
Zebu lon * 2.50 2.00 3.00 2.00 3.30 2.25 3.(10 2.40
Hamlet v 2.50 2.00 3.50 2.25 3.85 2.50 4.55 2.90
There would seem to be some doubt whether it it right for
jjie Telephone Companies to ask for a raise just at this time. We
are printing a table of telephone rules above, which is tho result
of a long hearing before the North Carolina Corporation Comniis-"
sion, at which hearing many of the towns had able attorneys to rep
resent them, and upon henrng all the questions at issue yie Com
mission granted a lljit increase of ten per cent. This makes the
rate in Xylnui, Wendell isnd '/ebulon $3.75 and $3.30 for business
telephones and $2.25 for residence phones which'o.dy allows town
sefvice and when calling to outside points a toll charge is made.
The Wiiliam'ston Telephone Company has more than twice as
many stations as either of the above towns and gives tho entire
county service free, and charges only $3.00 for business and $2.00
for residence telephones. W hen you go to towns like Kaleijrh we
find the rate for business telephones $0.25 and residence $3.75,
which is of course, a city limit.
These companies made the noint that thev were losintr money T
and demanded art increase in rules. We are not going to ask for
a raise but we want to compare our rates to those of other towns
our size and snow you that we are doing our best by our subscribers
LETTER FROM CHAUTAI H ! A
SUPERINTENDENT
Mr. W. R Orleans is in receipt of
the folTowing letter, which is self-ex
planatory:
Dear Mr. Orleans:
Permit me to express to you my
personal appreciation for your interest
and fine public spirit in putting over
the 1922 contract. Let me also extend
to your new Chautauqua Assocation
my sincerest good wishes and fond
hopes for'a glorious future of cum
munity service- Williamston has set
a pace that many of,our towns wi"
have to run hard to keep up to.
Once again thanking you personally
and with true regards to till the kind
folks of your.town, I um-
Cordially,
- P. WILSON IJI AY,
South Dili, Va„ June 3rd, 1921.
/it. W. S. II.ADLEV RECEIVES IIIS
DEGREE
1 Last night Dr. W. S. lladley re
turned from Jejlerson Medical Col
lege where lie received his degree of
I'octor of Medicine. He began his
schooling in the Williamston Graded
School and after finishing the I lilt' l
S'citool he entered Wake Forest Col
lege and received a degree of Bachelor
of Science in the Spring of 1919. j
lie went to in the lIWWfl I WWf
thai year and during thF next 'huiii
liter served as interne in the State
Hospital at Raleigh. This spring he
received his degree of M. 1)., with si
liivli grade of, scholarship. Aftei
pending a few days here .with hi
father; Mr. S. S. lladley, he will go
to Norfolk where lie will interne at
St. Vincent's Hospital for one year.
I,)r Hudley was the tWenty-seventii
applicant for this position but on ac
('mint of his excellent record he was
accepted, William (don and Martin
•oiinty are very proud of their ybiiiig
men who achieve success and Dr. Had
ley has tl\eir l«est wishes for his fu
tuie success.
hetweert Washington and Greenville,
Thursday afternoon. As we are to
have no league baseball this-, year we
wjll have to root for our next dool
neighbor and give lietf our support.
•\• • •
Mr. A fi. Ayers of Bear Grass was
a business visitor here yesterday.
» • » *
Mrs. Arthur White is visiting her
parohts 'near Washington for some
time.
• ' • • •
Mr. .and Mrs. J.' D, Biggs spent
several .days in Norfolk last week.
» • » •
Mrs. Lizzie Tucker is spending some
time here a sthe guett of her daughter
Mrs. E. M. Gordy.
♦ • • •
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Everett left Sat
urday for their home in New York
after a few months visit here.
•* * *
Mrs. P. H. Brown, Mrs. Anna Har
rison, Misses Lila and Daisy Wynne
and Mi>« Thelma Brown and Garland
Anderson motored to Greeville' last
night to hear the Mlcle Howell ooncert
7 tp —ar — r ~ .•
Mr. Clayten Moore is spending the!
day in Tarbaro on business. Jf
FOR DRESSMAKING, SEE MRS.I
Nannie Moore, 212 Washington St.
I OKI) PRODUCING 4,000 CARS A
DAY
Ford is building cars at full speed.
And, according to un official statement
from the factory at Detroit, the de
mand for Kurd ears and trucks still
exceeds tho output, despite the fact
that a new high level of production
has been reached. .. .
My the first of May the figures rep
resenting daily production were in the
neighborhood of 4,(10(1 a day, so the
May schedule was set at 101,125 cars
and trucks, not including the output
of the Kuril Canadian plant or any of
till! foreign assembling plants. The
output mounted daily; May 12th
tiroirplit forth 4,0'J2, the greatest num
ber that have been produced in one
l-'lay so far this year. Since the month
has 25 working days, present indica
tions point to a new high record.
A comparison of Kurd production for
11120 and 11121 discloses the fact that
for April 1921 the output was greater
by .'14,514 than for the corresponding
month o fa year ago. The output for
May 1021 will probably overshadow
M(i \ 1020 by between fifteen and
twenty thousand cars and trucks.
Approximately 43,000 mer> are at
work in the Detroit plant of the Ford
Alotor Company. The factory is oper
'ding on full time, six days a week
and three shifts a day.
"We were never in a better con
dition lhan we are right now," said
Henry Ford recenliy.
V>T(E I'D ALI MHMIIKKS »!•
I'i: WI T (iHtDVI I,: ASSOCIATION
'•Ye must complole our organization
in Miiitin Coun'../, we need to sign
,i 1". 00 bags moie and we will heve
r.o tieuble doinc; tlr.s if each mem »or
will i rge one neighbor to sign up. We
may not get them all.but a good many
will sign if we work hard enough and
we MUST NOT fail.
The township chairmen are'* C. A.
A: kew, L. J. Hardison, Louis If. I'eel,
11. U. I'eel, Jesse S. Whitley, Jesse
Keel, 11. C. Norman, Jesse A I,eggett,
Harry Waldo and W. Robert Everett;
Farmers, see the nearest one of
thpse men and tiign. po not delay
anil thereby kill the movement.
Respectfully yours
w. C wanntntt;
County Chairman.
PEACE, BUT UNDER VERSAILLES
TREATY
Jt seqms that fiio much denounced
Treaty of Versailles is to be the basis
of peace between the United States
and-Germany, after all. Chairman
Porter of the House oCmmittee on
Foreign Affairs, has rewritten the
Knox resolution, which now declares
the state of war at an end, cutting out
the proposed repeal of the war declare
ation,'. provided all of our rights in
the Treaty of Versailles and the treaty
with Austria, invoking th« protection
and beneflta of the treaty rejected by
the Republican Sonata.
IWANTEDj A YOUNG MAN TO GO
I m buainMi, Hay, Grain and Coal.
I with 00 to |2,000 Capital. Store
' located en railroad, in thrifty town,
no other budneii of its kind In the
place. J. C. Crawford, Williamiton,
N. C, J 7 2t j
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IF YOU WANT QUICK
RESULTS USE A WANT
AD IN THK ENTERPRISE
ESTABLISHED 1898
PEANUT GROWERS
HAVE UNTIL JUNE
15THT0 SIGN UP
The Virginia-Carolina Cooperative
Peanut Exchange hay nearly reached
its goal and hopes to'be able to put
it across by June 10th. Martin Coun
ty is still about 15,0(K) bags short and
is one of the most backward in the
whole territory.
If every member in the Association
will give just a little push to the proj
ect, in these few iluys it will go over
in line style. Nothing wll help the
farmers more than cooperaton in sell
ing their produce. Jn every section
of the country where it has been tried
the-people have found it to be very
profitable and convenient and one of
the finest features of the system is
that not only does the producer get
more but the consumer gets it for less
than when they both have come to
gether through the speculator. We
hear it often stated that speculation
is the life of the trade. That is evi
denty tho lunguage of tho speculator
as it is a fixed proposition that specu
lation has but two ways to work: that
is buy cheap and sell hijfh, hence when
they take the product of the producer
they take it at the lowest price ob
tainable and when they sell it they
get the highest price they can. That
principle is right so long as they do
not force tho prices down and up for
their own good.
A certain Martin County man, was
recently told by a good authority on
peanuts that the peanut market had
already been raised as much as one
cent a pound by the Trust in order
that lli ('proposed Association would
think it unnecessary to organize at
this time.
THE FLOOD IN COLORADO
l'ueblo, Juno 6.—An accurate esti
mate of tho loss of life and property
from the flood-stricken district in Cen
tral Colorado is impossible.
The morgues are overflowing .with
bodied of the dead. '
Kelief stations have been improvis
ed to assist the hospitals in relieving
the nek. Thousands arc homeless.
The lied Cross estmates that KM
hoi.'ies have been found. The gover
nor 1 :' secretary stated today that five
hundred are being treated in tho hos
pitals.
Food is being rationed.
Floods of lesser magnitudes aru re
ported in tho course of the Arkansas
river.
LAND SOLD FOR TAXES
Yesterday the office force of Sheriff
/toberson bad quite a job disposing of
the land belonging to the delinquent
tax payers. Some one hundred and
twenty-flvo tracts of land wore sold
at the court house door. The taxes
for which this property was sold ag
gregated around $2,600.00. This is a
much better showing than many of the
counties haye made. The taxes to be
collected by tho sheriff of Martin
county aggregate around $170,000.00,
and less than one and one half per
cent of tho county's real property was
sold for the taxes yesterday. Tho land
sold in mu,ny of the counties has rang
ed as high as five and even ten per
cent of the total property listed.
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE :
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of J. B. Anthony, deceas
ed, late of Martin county, this is to
notify all persons having claims a
gainst paid (state of said deceased, to
exhibit them to the undersigned at
Hamilton, N. C., on or before the Ist
day of June, 1922, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immdeiate payment.
This tho Ist day of June, 1021.
F. L. GLADSTONE, Administrator t
NOTICE OF SALE
' under"andrby virtue ofthe author
ity conferred in me, by a certa'i deed
of trust executed by -\r'fn >
12th day of February, IWO, u», 0 r
record in Martin County registry, anid
de«J. of trust securing certain bonds
of even date therewith, and the stipu
lations therein not having been eon
plied with, I will expose to public auc
tion to the hghest bldde rfor cash, at
the court house door in Williamstoa,
N. C., at 18 o'clock M., the 13th day
of June, 1921, the following described
property, to wit:
Two lots and one house leading
Watts street te Jamesville-William
ston road. The dimensions being 180
feet in depth and 100 feet in breadth.
The property having been bought free*
P. H. Ange by deed datod to
be found inthe public registry oi Mar
tin county. M
J. E. POP», Tmat**.
WANTED: THJUfis OR POUJt jft|t
nished rooms for light taasekeegfcg
by couple of refinement. SefeMMee
exchanged. Post Office tax &L *