TOBABCCO IS SELLING HIGH AT GRAVELY'S Warehouse Washington, North Carolina BRING US a LOAD ANDGOHOME !i IN(i (iUAYELY. S. A., H. and I'. 11. iravcly WASHINGTON'S OLDEST AND MOST EXPEKIEM ED WAKEIIOI SEMEN NEXT WEEK Second sale I'.Hh. First sale Fourth sale ' Third sale - 22nd. Second sale The "LITTLE GIANT" Bean Harvester] K the B«*t Marhliie Ituill fur 11 an e M 1111; Soj.i I'.riiHs " The wh«*« •Is ail«i axlo nrr tho -attlf ir—-ft—i-»«l-»»I4 a inoiw'i. N" ti|«' !«• »«>>i i. I no \vhoH; "' v n out > li;i |»«'. • lm n. v\" ; ii, » li"' ••on; | i nasi)) nljUNkio"' I 'fiii 4 t" IL' iiaho. I ii'ii l t Ki.«* jl'mmi'M, tin* I»«•.;11«• i w 1 "?'■ , alxHlt 'J.'/?* fn'UH'l> Jim! .ill Wi-i • ;i> a l»a'-: tuo-wl; I :i-> it I • ftj* hj'itl \«> | mat tor ho%* lu»r»' \'uu hrans ;i it*, 'tw «> mmi pduioi mill* imill "I m l.»n • j Ciiunt" with oaso. Thr .shift lrvi-i on 11*. • • !••!> llitmw fin- !»« at «i n ;in«l «mi* of tft'Hi withou . -topping win t« ain. It "':l' •' l'' t * ihi'io Imin « • a *11t I" renti'i of Wi!i work ir• a-5 t"»1 n»w. I f uaranltM' it tin* most cliii.ihlt* and draft nun lunr on 111 «• markrl J 1 al>o .soil twn 11 «M h ' nf tl.i' I' r t ,;iol M;n lii.ir .i•. •I. I • nni.li-' t»! tli. Scott Machine * - For pjl l 1 MMII.MI : , Willi' Of rail Mil Hyman Warren Hltl'TK NO. 3 " KOKI-'KSOM II I 11. V f. READ IUK ADS-ANI) PROMT LOANS MAD'E ON FA IM AND CITY PROHIKTY The TIM ST COMPANY >t WASHINGTON Washington, N. ('. Educate For Business Tlir Illi-lIU I lulling «• I!. • i .1 >*i* • (1. i \ .ui-l 11 • \;m n- \« I• • 1.1 •* 1«• Sin ir»o. i'rji'tii ji bllMIlt—« -l»'I"; I .t|'hn .Mil 11| .1 mil •••111 -j.iv ■i i Ki:ij. - • '.i lu.ili' vtitii 1c ailing 1 aiolm.i tiun*. Mini, ii- a 1• .I lr« r «• nin.tli.-n- |«.«t« - «•! luiliun Mil li board v» i > Ic.iHtnaliic. liih'ii am lime. Wnlr toda} loi talai>*^ y, //j / '//jj ffZ/s/f/' 1 '* In i .. ' V (' I . l. »i!..t!* Y Kader B. Crawford EVERfTHIN; IN INSURANCE •.- " ; i CALL I'HONK Nt). 4!) S I It fjob Printing YOU WANT Si:i:, OH CAl.t SIMON LILLEY nONE W WII.UAMBTON, N. «. j MENUS Oi I Jv;,\ »NU FARM ' Statistics Supplied by Department I of Agricufture Revaal Rural Con editions Notably Satisfactory. ""How are -the folks on the farm | I faring?" Is a guest lon' thut is answered ! with a "Very well, thank you," by the I Department of Agriculture at Wash | I lugton. I.ooklng Into the average j Amerlcau farm method of living, the j j department finds that the farmers ar# j tab generously su|iplied with meat as j ( auy other class of people, observes Out Karger In the Cincinnati Times- j I Star. Strangely enough, they don't use I eggs as abundantly as the folks else- ! where, hut they more-mil It, even I j where there are fewer than the aver- j j age number of children, Kicept In Southern states, where j j "gulck" breads are often preferred, ] i wheat bread Is the staple. A relative- j ' ly large proportion of starchy vegeta j hies Is consumed and a relatively | small quantity of the green aud sue- J 1 culent kinds, In spite of the fact that ! farm families have the best opportun- j i Itles for growing vegetables at home. The studies of the home economics j division of the Department of Agrlcul- 1 ture "bear out the geiierul lmpres- . ! slon,"' the report stateH, that ou tlie average the farmers' families have an j ! abundant diet, with enough different . | kinds of food to Insure good health. \ Whether rhe food Is well cooked and attract!* eiy served the studies do not | I show. The fact that almost twice as j I much cool tng fat was used by the l farm families as by\the general aver- j age Indicates that farm housewives j are Inclined to cook too rffcny foods bj frying The only recommendation Is | j that I! Would he well for the farmers | to use more efgs, more coarse cereals I and H greater variety of vegetables I ami fruits, esjg>eluily more- green j I vegetables, FINEST TRAINING FOR YOUTH ! Business Man Tells Why He Would Have His Son Oat Full Newa- I 4 paper Experience. I A_ "Joiiriialiini tea'lies- that results ' alone'count, that excuses aud egul.vo- -I I lailoiis are failures," writes Henry Scott, vice president of a paper eotri- I puny. "There Is. s discipline In big i newspaper oftlces tliat does not exist ' In tiie average business, and that dls | ctplllie Is inised on the motto, 'No ex i cusas.' It Is accepted In oldlnarv buaiuess that wlien a man Is t'Jit to j dp somcth+ng he usually" ex'pacls de- ; tslled hisirucllons. 'Where do I go, I I wlint do r do, how do Ido It. what do I jj ask, imd what will I do then,' are the guestlons that sh»>w their utter helplekMie.SK and lack of act!, n "(In the other hand a re; cr gets I this 'ruining us no one els, lie J learnt to lean on his own native., j He gets tin assignment, pl;n -. Ins cam* J j and then carries If ml without 1 asking any questions \\ hen an oh- j j stacie conies up lli the path of the j average young man he stops and yells I for help. Ilut u newspaper man | Jearus to either go through It, kiwk I It down or skim around It In a hurry, j He has learned that excuse* can't be ; cashed, si the bank "If I had'a boy uiul wanted to give litui a rigid buslnWi training In or ! 4-djit that he .nilgiit _tirl."g.distinction to ! I bUHself some dnv In Ids prot'essloh, ! wbutever It might be, I woui'd like to , ! give hllll about two years under « first- i j class citv editor, the kind that coin I mfts mental murder three oi' four j i times a night." Claims to Transplant Eyes. . I ' ' New eves for old can he given blind j j creatines, claims a young Hungarian 1 r.oologlst. He says be can transplant .sound eyes from living creatures to i others that are blind. IteforF* the I Vienna HloJoglcsl Bix'lety be said that j he had ex1 4-rlniented first wltii lls'ies ! and frogs, aud then with rats, moles aii! oilier small animals, lie li«d ob | sei'Ted that tlshes which hail lost their | sight jtrtnetlines lost also the coloring jof their bislles. By replacing their blind with sound ones taken from j | another living creature, he hud re j | stored their sight and their coloring j too. Frogs, when they became .blind, gava up seeking food, but with their j new eyes were as dlUgeut as ever In tills respect, professor Kolmer de I dared that he had examined some of the eves transplanted by Koppanyl un- ! der t lie nilcroa/'ope ft nd had found them normal. f j Toasted a Dead King, j Now that the city fathers of I'arls | have got back from their trip to they are telling a mean story on M, l.e Corbel Her, who, as president of the municipal council. Is ( 1 shout as cluse to being mayor of I Purls anybody can be for I'arls has no mayor in the American sense. M I f Corbelller was called upon, j | st « Stockholm banquet, to respond to the toast of "I,a Helle France," the ' j president of tha rtpubllc, and so forth, i j Raising his glass of applejack, he j replied . "1 drink to tha health of King Oscar, j to that of the royal family, to the rain- ! Isters " V „ "There was only one thing wrong." j \hl* friends will tell you maliciously,' \jlng Oscar has been dead for the l»st ten years,"—New York Sun. \ Canadian Furs. taken In Cunada In the IHI9- | ll'VO season wert valued at more than sl'l .(lOO.toOO" Ontario contributed the greatest share, with Quebec In second | j place. The inuskrst furs were (list ! | In value, •mounting to nearly $01X10,• 1 011'. er, marten, mink, silver fox. j red fox. ermine and skunk followed ID this order. NOTICE t)l SAIJv •X t.. •• i I Will sell at public aunt Ton, foiTiistr" lon Friday, September ,16th,. at 12 o'- ' clock M., in front of the Post Office ■in one 6 passenger Ford ] car, known as IJOUIB Iljown car, ito satisfy a lien for labor and re- I pairs made on said car in January, IWI, in the mm of |60.88. I Thi» August 23rd, 1921. C. H. CLAKK. •"* . , THE ENTERPRISE _ I TTM lil ~f I' —— - CHANGES IN MAPS CF WORLD Almost Impossible of Belief Has Been the Increase in- Knowledfle in the t Christian Era Mapmakers are having a busy time | In these days of everc-hanging bound- | urles Europe bus regrouped itself, | | and the old uiup of our schooldays is | ] wrong from top to bottom. Kut v.'hat tremendous changes have; J tuk>it place lti the Christian era*, a i comparatively short time In the his | tory of the wuHd, observes u writer I lln London Answers. The Roman's j uiltp of the world wns the Middle sea 1 the Mediterranean and the lands I washed by it's waves. To sail otil of I I the Straits of ijibraltur— the Pillars of Hercules— was is great an adven ture as being shot In u rocket tu Mars | > would be today! For another thousand years, after J j the decline of ltouie,-*~ver> little prog j I ri'S(« was made. India wa« a sort of i j fairyland. China—»r t.'aßhay- might j | have been In the moon, Russia and SI- ! '' berlu w ere wholly mit of bounds, i I America was not dreamed of. An!*- ! j tralla had never been heard of, no Ku- I ropean shlji hu! ever sailed on the , .1 I'ucillc ocean. ._ : . '/Hen. i|ulte suddenly, came the age j jof exploration. 'l'hi* Spanish and I'ort- j | ugllese navigators, followed by the | ! great Kngilsh adventurers, doubled i I the world's land area for the map I makers. Hut even then the tnajA were | | fearful and wonderful. Aiyorha was j a piece of all guesswork. The greater i I part of Africa the same. Fven I'll I rope looked like nothing on isartli. and | where they were at a loss the.v drew i | fabulous lieasts UlOl birds to till up j | the spaces. BRINGS BACK ACTION OF BRAIN J Remarkable Power of Smelling Salts When the Seat of Reason U Violently Affected When 'tirj»tiitier sent (hut «»ne trr rlfl• blow HjfMlhKt JnmpM-v's i hln In J tl,*. fOufifl "1 111 >•! I Imit He fur [ •fhe rlitifnploii.shijj, JIIHI l»ein|i««y T ; Ifrreil lii/«'v| by its I'li'V,. >iic •»f l»H SIM'OIMIS applied 11 bottle of Hiiflllhtf mills to his nom». When A woinnn faints, MII«*IIIIIK Hulls nre pla ed beneiifh her hose, HIMI fclie rev I \ es. V J Tlie reviving uffert of MinHllng Milts in flue to tlie* H 111 intjiilit llo'y contain Aromatic spirits of u 111 m«'i 111« have I lie *!itrie efl'eet. Aiiiliioiila Im a ver> po,w- I erftil HTF iiiiilafi! to both the IUIIK* MINI the lieait In full Htreiigth. the fumes of ammonia ure Intensely Irritating to ! the Innu's and throat,,.as any Hieinai) j who has helped to put out a hurtling j factory In which ain 111 on la, was stored I ran testify. IN ii very weak solution It Irritates only sufficiently to stunu j late When Inhaled, t tie git* Htfeets the iier\»'H ending In the nose threat j and Innirs; so quleklv do t he*j; ,e>»rr) tin in us to the brain ami so Install j taneoiiw Is the responne byway of the ! pneutnoffiiMrlc and other nerves that the luiik* expand to draw In 111 i* ami the heart at onoe pumps more rap Idly JtufTnlo Express. Dog Biscuit for Breakfast. | Ju(ii;e .1 i'H 11 H. Norris tells tin 4 fun* I i nle*t trutf story of domes!u' tiifttcul 1 Iles Ifere Ills : ' In the tragedy of misunderstand | lng*. II Is a relief to run across 'a case that Is strictly humorous. Kir I I leriniiiinenr of this sort was furnished In one Instance by a husband, ar j latgned for uoiisupport, who declared | 11 111 ( he bail left home because be had j been fc'lven dog biscuit for breakfast. "I lid»Iid» ain't no foundation for a hard dav's wwrkl" he couiplalned. "I ill ; ways have oatmaal porridge In the 1 hiornljij;; But that previous pup MUS sick and wouldn't eat his regular fare. So the missus iftves him my porridge, sod tli«'n breaks up Ills biscuit and tries to puss It on to me. Wasn't that enouirVrto make any man leave home?" Asked If she liked the dog better than she did her husband, the woman j hurst Into a pean of |>ral#e for her I spouse. "The dojfS* a deltcnte little thing and aw fully ftiasy about his food," she explained. "I thought If the dog bis -cults didn't I wouldn't hurt a strong man like .lames." 1 The trouble ended In a complete reconciliation. —American Mugarlne. T— ' "Indophsn Blut" a New Shade. "lndopheu blua" la the iiMme of the uovelty over which the dye men are putting out thalr chests like pouter pigeons and declaring that "American i chemists ate fliily the e|iiuls of their , Herman rival* In resourcefulness." In the present Instance they have gone beyond, for try at they have the (lur mans have not obtained a blue of this i type possessing all the desired prop [ eriles. The color U brighter and slightly ] more vlolit than hidlifo and elosely re- I sembles broui*-Uidlgo Its great re tistHuce to light, surpassing that of i Indigo Itself, la a property that de ! lights the dyer, while It equals Indigo In a number of other customary tests, | Including that of boiling This dlscovary will be greeted with applause by textile manufacturers. Flowers Preserved In Ice. A wreatli or waatern Australian ! wild. Itovvera recently arrived )n Kng land to he placed on the I'nknowu i Warrior's grave In Westminster ab j hey. The wreath was froren in a solid block of Ice, tud when the. How j era weft thawed they proved to lie I Just :.s Tresh at when they were gal ti ered, In spite of their si* weeks' Jour ; oey through the tropic*. Having (fuairrieil "Jt?~'firlminis-t tutor I of tlie estate of j. S. Green, late' of "Hfimtll Cuuntyr-all persons imlebted to said estate-ale hereby no tified to com eforwarrt and settle same at once. All persons holding claims' against said estate will pi-e.-rnt sa.rc for payment on or before September jird 1£22, or. this notice will he plead in ba rof their recovery. This September 3, 1021. £. J. Gfi£EN '• * 1 Thompson & Hodges / Now is t J if* time for planting permanent pastures, fulgrum oats rye, clovers of all kinds, -j? and vetch. We have a full supply of good new reliable seed. Keep your land busy, plant these cover crops, improve the fertility of your soil and at the same time have pasture for your stock to graze on during the winter months. Put in a permanent pasture thiss fall even if ♦ it is a small place it will give you something to build to and help you to be prepared when the stock law comes in force. Our pasture is composed of the following items. » • v. 8 lbs. Herds (irass K lbs. Italian Rye (Irass X lbs. Orchard (Irass X lbs. Alsyke Clover 1 lbs. Red Clover •1 lbs. White Dutch Clover. The above seed can be gotten at Farmers and Merchants Bank of Williamston or at, Thompson & Hodges MARKET STREET WASHINGTON, N.C. KEEI' AN KYE ON YOUR LABEL RENEW REFORE IT EXPIRES \ - Independence r ' ■ Kvory 0110 should strive to be INDIv PKNDKNT. It is the one tiling all so tar as this world is concerned most de sire The best wayto become INDKI'KND- I iNT is to begin to save some of your earn ings. If you throw away that which you earn you will never be INDEPENDENT. Start tod ay-to save some of your money jmd deposit it in the FARMERS ANT) MERCHANTS RANK. This is a safe place to place your savings f ' OLDEST STRON( JEST BRHiEST' - i . n Bank in Martin County • x • - • - • •' . '- ; ■ ; Farmers & Merchants Bank THE BANK THAT BACKS THE FARMER WILUAMSTON, N. C.

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