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Advertisers Will 'Find Oar Columns a Latch Key to 1500 • of Martl» Comity'a Ho me a VOLUME 2a—NUMBER 52 Coop Official Tells Members How To Handle Their Crop Many questions from. South Caro lina members of the Tobacco Grow ers' Association have reacned Raleigh Headquarters, and Mr. Richard It. Patterson, general manager of th Leaf Dept., one of Amercais' fore most authorities on the handling of tobacco gives tiie members his auvice in the following article. Mr. Patter son says: "After your tobacco has been cured the and most important sugges tion is to be suit; that your tobacco is notb rought to the receiving ware house in bad order or damaged. Any tobacco that is damaged is practical ly of no use or value, ainm manu facturer will buy dumaged tobacco regardless of price. Any tobacco that is in soft (or high) will not only lose its color and reuden, but will damage in some instances before it is possi ble to ship it *o a re-drying plant; and if such is the case, it wIU be a total loss to the members of the As sociation, as the re-dryer is not re sponsible for any such tobacco damag ing before it reaches his factory. You can readily see that it is very im- ' portant that you do not let your to bacco get in soit, or in high order for the protection of yourself or the member* of the Association. Keep your tobacco in good condi tion. Use with it every care poss ible and especially free from sand ami dirt; for sand and dirt lower the val ue when you deliver it to the wareare house to be graded by our grader. We would suggest that you tie from 12 to 16 leaves of average size in each hand (or bundle) as this is an important factor in redrying to bacco. If leaves are very small, it might be well to put as many as 20 leaves to the bundle. For instance, if tobacco is tied in some large hands (or bundles), asd some in small ones you cannot miry it uniformly and get good results; then too, when the pur chaser examines our tobacco he will explain that it has been badly handl ed. We suggest you grade your to bacco to the bust of your own judg ment, asking the advice of your warehouseman in your section, but by all means avoid tying tips in your lugs and cutters. Have each pile grad ed and tied as uniformly as you poss ibly can. Wo have secured the services of good judges of tobacco who have had yars of experience in buying tobacco, to grade each pile of tobacco when you have delivered it to our ware houses. They will have ample fime to examine carefully each pile and put it in th grade in which it belongs. Remember that this grader is em ploed by our Association and he has your interest at heart at all times and is rendering you the very best service possible. We have seen in thousads of in stances where a farmer who sold his tobacco on the auction sales divide a pile, half bringing in some instances very much moro than the other half, and being dissatisfied with the price on the sale of the lower priced half, wag forced to take in both piles, pro vided the same buyer Loughtttiem. In your case, being a member of this Association, you will not have to be worried with these conditions, for each grade carries a set price and the grader has nothing to do with the price, which gives you the advantage of every pile being graded to its full value. . The valuations placed upon the to bacco are merely for the purpose of borrowing money for advances to the Grower an are not the selling price for your tobacco. CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE TO MEET AT WRIGHTSVILLE The annual meeting of the North Carolina Association of Chambers of. Commerce will be held at Wrights ville Beach on Thursday and Friday, July 27 and 28th. Nothing takes the place of a good lively Chamber of Commerce. In its true sense it is the getting together of the leaders of a community and it need not be con fined to cities and towns, but in many cases the country districts function in the same manner by all getting together, staying together and pushing or pulling together. A real Chamber of Commerce never does things fa> the same way that we some times see balking teams do, when one horse pulls' forward the other pulls backward. * A real Chamber of Commerce cuts out the balkers and gives the good honest unselfish pullers good room to work. Every town that has children in It to raise should have a Chamber of Commerce even if only two fami- UM constitute the whole population of the town because It is better to have two families pall together than apart. • % ......s, A'_". • THE ENTERPRISE COBB ON THE CORN FOR A CHANGE j ' Ty Cobb, the Georgis Peach, likes to attack "Corn on the Cob'' ' whenever he gets the opportunity, though the great baseball player is J not in anv way c.inabaliitieally in- i clined. He is seen here engaged in ! fcis tfcond favorite sport. THE HAPPENINGS IN THE SUBURBS "What is happening in suburbs of City?" is the heading used by many city dailies. Under which heading they purpose to give account of the hap penings on the outskirts but it is doubtful if it would not be more truthful to say a part of what is hap pening. From the usual channels of infor mation we are forced to conclude that many things happen in the suburbs which are never printed because they are sometimes too foul to print for the public to gaze upon. It is doubt ful too, if things are worse on the suburbs than in the heart of the city. The bad thing in city, town and coun try grow up from small things, mur der never occurs until a bad and evil spirit springs and matures in the breast of man. Gambling does not be gin until boys play with the aces and duces and learn to admire the queens The nian does not get drunk until he tastes alcohol. Young men and women do not debauch their health and dam age their character often until after "they have too much "loose rope." Most of the points that really count agains us could easily _be avoided. When are we expected to begin''this improvement? After this generation has "drifted down" or is it worth try ing now ? Whose business is it to do this job? Fathers, mothers'tell us, we want to print it. JESSE L. ARM FIELD LEAVES DAVIDSON COUNTY ■ jUp note in today's paper that Jesse L. who was acquitted in Davidson vounty courts of stealing $150,000.00 has disappeared. This is a helpful sign at any rate. There is nothing more alarming than to see a man steal a great sum of money nnd|t)ien have the brass and gall to hang around the people who know that h* did steal -it. Arfield sinned even if he escaped a prison sentence, but the fact that he won't meet peo ple and has secreted himself from ac quaintances proves that he has some of the pride that is naturally Inborn in a gentleman. Armfield has left home territory because he Is ashamed, his conscience will not allow him c to abuse the sympathy of the friends who know that he Is guilty, but will associate with him because they are sorry for him. There is man enough about him to respect his friends and family. SERVICE—THE WORD THAT TOPS EVERYTHING IN LIFE By Henry Ford There are two kinds of famous men —those who, like Napoleon, have ex ploited their fellow men by the of their superb natural gifts and others who, like Lincoln, with rather homely gifts, have served their fellow men, even the lowliest and meanest of them. Two kinds of famous men, but only one kind of Great Man—the Servant. But how many people can you per suade to consider thls£ today? The very word "service" has become a bromide. People tend to become so wise in their conceits that they ima gine someone is trying to "put over" something on them when this langu age is used. It only goes to illustrate how slow we are in our minda, how much we lack faith. From coast to coast Tanlac is known and honored and millions have taken it and pronounced it the greatest medi cine of all times. \ Sold by Dr. J. B. H. Knight, Williams ton, N. C. Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina, Friday, July 7, 1922.. GREEK JAILED IN DEFAULT OF BOND Alexander Adiez was brought here Thursday by Chief of Police, T. W. Davenport of Oak City, and placed in jail to await the September term of Superior Court. The charges a ginst Adiez are house breaking and robbery. On Tuesday night the Bank of Oak City was broken into and later at the store of Harrell and Hopkins where the cafe was broken open and 11000.00 in War Savings Stamps and abut $160.00 in cash were taken. Blacksmith tools which were left prov ed to be the property of Mr. White hurst whose shop was also opened. The stores of T. W. Davenport, F. M. Harrell and B. E. Moye were entered but nothing was missed. It seemel that money was the only thin/ desir ed. Several stores and the bank at Speed had been broken into the Satur day before, but very little was stolen. Everything pointed toward the work of a gang of experts, but no trace could be found. On Sunday July 2nd Alexander A diez went to a Greek restaurant at Hamlet and showed the ctc*nps to one, of the propritors inquiring if thaf had any value. Upon being asked if they were his property, he said they had been found by him on a Seaboard train at Raleigh on the previous Fri day night, and that they hail been dropped by three young anen who had boarded the train at Weldon and got off at Raleigh. The name oi Mrs. S. A. Harrell of Oak City was on the stamps and the authorities who took the matter up with the I'olice De partment at Oak City were told that the stamps had been stolen and to arrest the holder of them, which was done on Monday and Policeman Daven port immediately went for him. He took him to Oak City where a hearing was him before Mayor John W. Hines who placed him under bond in the sum of SIOOO.OO which he failed to give and was taken to jail. Adie* says he is a Greek citizen, thirty seven years old and has a wife and three childrerj in Greece. He came to America three years ago. He denies ever having been in Oak City nnd claims to have left Norfolk on Friday June 30th, going on the nigh I Sea hoard train to Hamlet and that the statement he made to the Hamlet police in reference to the boarding of the train by three young men at Wel don who got off at Raleigh and drop ped the package which he picked up and proved to be the stamps, is cor rect. He had not been seen at any time at Oak City nor Speed and-some think the description given of the three young imen is true, that certain ly if he did the robbery he was not not alone. When captured he had the entire SIOOO.OO in stamps, also $175.00 in unregistered War Savings Stamps and $150.00 In cash. DUSTING THE BOLL WEEVIL The poisoning method of boll weevil control, says Franklin D. Sherman, State Entomologist, is the most ef fective method of control thus far de vised. This method requires considerable care, and should be done right. Mrr Sherman will give demonstra tions . I the Farmers Convention August 1, 2, and 3, of several varie ties of machines manufactured especi ally for the purpose. The machines will be on exhibition during the entire three days, and the demonstrations will take place during the afternoon of August Brd. This a lone wiil be worth the expense of at tending the convention. SECOND COTTON BLOOM The second cotton bloom to reach our office was on July Brd and was sent by Mr. John Gardner of James ville. Mr. Gardner is sixty five year; old and says that he has farmed all his life, and that this is the first time he ever had cottom blooms be fore the 4th of July. He states further that he has the best crop he has ever had at this season of the year. Mi Gardner Is an exception to the rule as most fanners very poor crops and we rejoice to know that some farmers have good ones. THE RADIO The Electrical Department of the State College at Raleigh, is authority for the statement that there are sev eral hundred radio receiving sets In the state. That department has verv kindly agreed to give a demonstration of the radio for the enjoyment of those who attend the Farmers and Farm Women's Convention, August 1, 2, and 3rd. "I have sold over 2,000 bottles of Tanlac and have never had a dissatis fied customer," writes Smiser's Drag Store, Colombia, Tenn. V Sold by Dr. J. B. H. Knight, Williams ton, N. C. RAILROADS ARE QUICK TO SEIZE AN EXCUSE ~ The proposed strike of the mainte nance force of some of the railroads of the country ha* given many rail roads an excuse to take off trains. The Norfolk and Southern has stopped several of its trains, among'them the train from Belhaven to Raleigh, run ning from Belhaven each morning and returning in the evening, enabling peo pie all along the line to spend several hours in Raleigh. It may save the railroad, but it hurts the people. It sometimes seem sthat the rail roads work to avoid both service and responsibility. Why need the suffer ing people expect relief when we go go to Washington we find Congress incorporated and wedded to wealth, and in our own State Legislature it is no better. Think for a moment, the people paying our legislators four dollars a day and the railroads pay ing the same men at the same time several thousand dollars each year. Who is master in such cases? Why wondpf at the money powers grip? r WILSON—RIVES Mr. Marshall D. Wilson and Miss Vivian Rives were married July, 4th at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wiggins, a sister of Miss Rives, near -Tarboro. Mr. Wilson is one of Martin Coun ty's largest and most successful farmers and Mrs. Wilson is a daugh ter of Mr. Peter R. Rives of Roberson ville and is very popular, having a host of friends". Only a few friends of the couple attended the marriage. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Wilson took the tiain for Asheville where they will spend some time. _ v . i CAROLINAS EXPOSITION" After two months of negotiation, both in the Carolinas and in New York, the music comniitte of Che Caro linas Exposition Company, headed by David Ovens, gives out the following statement on the musical program to be presented at the Made in Carolinas Exposition, which begins September 25th and ends October 7th. Exposition officials state that a large measure of the success of last year's Made in Carolinas Exposition was due totlie wonderful musical con certs given daily. Seventy thousand people attended last year's exposition and enjoyed these concerts, and it is predicted that the attendance this year will run well over 100,000, for the Exposition will be held In Its new home and on a much larger scale th» last year. , Seventy of tho most noted musician not pirly in the Carolinas, but in the Country, wil ltake part in the Expo sition this fall and officials state that more money is being spent on the musica lend of the exposition thiß year than was ever spent for any like event in the history of North Caro lina The Exposition Company is spend ing $6,000.00 more this year for music than it did last year. "The kind of concerts which will be heard twice daily at the Exposition this fall would cost in any of the larger cities of this Country $2.50 to SB.OO. The ad mission charge at the Exposition will be twenty and forty cents." This state ment was made by John L. Dabbs, President of the Company. . Following is the list of those who will taka part in the concerts through out the Exposition. The regular Russian Symphony Or- I chestra, including all of their soloists and with their own director, Modest Altschuler, forty two pieces In all, will play twice daily through the ex position. A quartette from New York City been secured and leading musical au thorities assert that a better quartete cannot be brought together, even in New York City. It is composed of Jeanette Vreeland, the well known concert sopiano, whose voice has been declaied by musical writers in thp musical press as one of the most beautiful of the younger generation of American artists, She has filled many brilliant engagements this seas on in Boston, New York and many other cities. Helena Marsh, Contralto, was with the Metropolitan Opera Company last season and has just been accept ed by the Chicago Opera Company. A recent Issue of the "Musical Cour ier," published in New York, gives over Its entire front page to the pic ture of Miss Marsh and refers to her as "One of America's most gifted Contraltos." She ha) starred in many important engagements this season, including the National Festival in Ottawa, Canada, etc. there w'»! Ie mar.y others of equal LOST: Bunch of keys. Finder re turn to Young's Store and receive re ward. ltpdF HAVE SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN IN S. C. The successful Marketing of their tobacco by cooperative sales is now as sured to the organized growers of South Carolina by the record breaking campaign of last week which reached 52 towns of the belt within seven days sweeping millions of pounds and hun dreds of new members into the Associ ation. The last strong barrieis to Co operative Marketing have brokne down within the Palmetto State. While half a million pounds a day wcr eadded to the pool in the last days of the drive, the strength of the Association in the State was doubled by the fresh support of business men and bankers in a score of towns, whose efforts will continue to win signers. Timmonsville, the second largest tobacco market in the State was the first to closeit door to the Auction sales, then Aynor and Kingstree fol lowed fast during the days of the furious campaigning. Othe towns will go one hundred per cent cooper ative as hundreds of acres aurround in gthe big markets begin to grow to bacco for the farmers' own organiza tion. Thousands of acres more will be added to the great pool before the markets open, as committees in every large tobacco growing county of South Carolina push tho signup to the limit in the few days that remain in which to sign the present crop. Growers from Kentucky who made the long journey from the Hluo Grass Country, growers from the Dark and light belts of Virginia bringing their mesage of success, have found a ready welcome and a quick response in ac tion, that means the end of an era 'of debt and poverty for men and wo men who produce the wealth that has been passing steadily into other hands With the new cooperation will come new independence, new opportunities, new standards of living for the pro ducers of the millons of wealth which now go to other States and other peo ple, according to last week's message, which has roused the growers, the bankers and the business men to co operate to keep it home. From Danville Virginia, to Tim monsville South Carolina, warehouses, tobacco growers and the balance of power have been passing into the great cooperative. A few men can no longer hope to block 75,000 organized tobacco growers with $30,000,000 as sured them, with 206 warehouses ready for business, with unsurpassed leadership chosen from their number, with the foremost experts of the world's tobacco trade ready to handle a majority of the tobacco from three states, for the Association. A majority of the tobacco farmers from the Carolinas and Virginia make a last call to their fellow growers of South Carolina who take the risk of waiting longer. PRESBYTERIANS ON THE SECOND SUNDAY Rev. J. T. Wildman will preach In the Methodist Church in Williamston in the morning, and at Peel School in the afternoon anil night. Sunday school at Roanoke at three. Several Sunday School workers' from Hobgood have promised to come to Roanoke to help in the work. v WHAT IS ADVERTISING? Artemus Ward—"The shortest road to success." Sir Thomas Lipton—'!A business not a chance." b Lord Macaulay—"Th« Steam of business machinery." W. E. Gladstone—"An enormous power and the best substitute for the mint'* Mr. A. W. McNair of Tarboro was here Thursday attending the A. B. Adler bankrupt hearing. Mr. Wilson Bullock of Daniel Mil ler Company, is in town for a few days. We have been to sales and seen many exaggerated ads with great comparative prices, but the one now being held at Margolis' store Is a real value giving sale as they have a de sirable stock of merchandise to of fer at a good price fo. both men and women.— - » CAR LOAD A No. 1 heart cyprees shingles just arrived. J. W. WATTS CORRECTION 1 In a recent announcement of the quarterly meeting of the district council of the Charitable Brotherhood it waa stated thai the meeting would be at Dardens the second Wednesday in July. It should have been the sec ond Wednesday In September and we make this correction to prevent any misunderstanding aa to tha date*— THE KAISER -J? ;■ j|| m A new and most recent picturt of William HohenzoUcrn, former kaiser, taken at his retreat at Doom, Holland. Tl'e former war lord has con-. d»*raMy »>i;icO Uie war, as may U noted.*' STREET CROSSINGS NEED ATTENTION Some of the street crossing? should be culled to the attention of the town officials as the crossings are now ia a much worse condition than in years. Recent rains have gutted them in several places and it is the duty ,of the commissioners to have them made safe and passable at once. Another suggestion comes in the form of re moving the old wooden sheds now mar ring what little beauty we hare in our town. Somo one has spoken of Williamston us a pop stand it is up to us to prove them wrong. THE BIG CONVENTION There are conventions of business men and conventions of professional men, conventions of religious and of educational associations, and conven tions of various labor and saleß organl zations but the Farmers' and Farm Women's Convention at Raleigh Au gust 1, 2 and tt bids fait to the big gest of them all, and why not ? Farming, altho the least lucrative, ia the biggest and most important business of them all. It need suttention and will receive it at this convention. Railroads will grant reduced rates Aleuts will be furnished by the Col lege at 60c each. Lodging free. Each visitor will take aheets, pillow cases and toilet articles. Slogan: "Times rather squally, help mend them at ituleigh." U. S. NAVY RECRUITING SEfaVICE. Greenville, N. C. June 30, 1V22- 'lhe Nuvy hus resumed recruiting on a large scale, and has opened an office in the Court House at Green ville. And the recruiting agent hus orders to enlist all men who apply for enlistment, and who are found quali fied after physical examination. Ex-navy men who have been dis charged over four months, can also enlist In certain ratings. Attractive offers are made for Ex-army men, also Ex-marines. Phone 229-w. BALL GAMES WELL ATTENDED! A man from a neighboring town asked a native of Williamston this week how many people he thought there were from our town at a ball game in his home town the Fourth of July. Upon receiving and answer in the negative he remarked, "a darn sight more than should have boen there with business conditions in Wil liamston like they are." How do they do it was the secret he was trying to learn. NO RACE SUICIDE IN FAMILY W. P, Powell, a colored preacher of Williams Township, who ia sixty fout years old was in yestorday to renew his subscription and when asked how he spent the Fourth of Jul/ itated that he and hia wife, who ia only aixty years of age, had their fourteen children, twenty-nine grand children and one great grand child for dinner that day. This ia a pretty good record for one family. Dr. and Mrs. T. F. Thigpen and small >on left today for Waynes ville where Mrs. Thigpen and baby will spend • month. If TO** QUICK UESULTS m A WAKT AD UV THX ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1898 100 PEOPLE OVERCOME BY GAS JfU SUBWAY New York, July 6.—(By the Asso ciated Press). Trapped in a dark sub way tunnel, seventy-live feet below the street and reeking with gas fumes and smoke, nearly &CQ men, women and children passengers "6a the East Side train of the Inte.bo rough Rapid Transit Company today were convert ed into a frenzied, shucking mob, al most a third of whose members were overcome before they could fight way to safety. Ihree probably will die and police officials said it was a miracle many were not trampled to ocatli. Worst Spot Possible A worse spot for such an accident scarcely could be found than Lexing ton Avenue at 60th S.rcet where the train came to its sud leu halt. There is no express station between Grand Central Terminal at 42nd Street and 86th Street. The express treeks are thre tires dowt. beneath the local tube of the 1. K. T. and the cross-town tunel of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, and the only exits are narrow little spiral stair way at 68rd, 68th and 63rd streets. These were jammed with fugitives from the scene below. A little fire extinguisher whose contents were turned on a tiny blase in a motorman'a control box, was | held responsible by police and fire officials for the clouds of poisonous fumes and smoke sent swirling through the tunnel. Hundreds Overcoat*. More than three score of chess - overcome required hospital treatment while about 100 wero left on the streets and in emergency hospitals. The train, a ten-car Jerome Avenue express, heavil loaded, was crashing along its subterranean way bsneath Lexington Avenue shortly after 11 o'clock when passcnge.'s In the third coach was startled by an explosion which blew, open the door of the driv er's compartment. A short-ciruit had occured. Palrolmun Fred Noianm, who was riding in the car, seized a ir* ex tinguisuer front its ra»k, and, as the tran ground to a sudden halt, rushed to the compartment and shot the con tents of the extinguisher on the spit ting flames, which wero eating the in sulation from the control box wires. Instead of checking them, ho declared the extinguisher served only to spread them, and in a moment tho car and soon the entire tunnel were chocked with smoke and fumei. Mo toman's Good Work Bullying the panic-stricken pas sengers into some sei iblance of or der, Patrolman Norma I seized a wo man who had ben overcome, clamber ed down into the darknass of the tun nel and commended tne other mala pasengers to follow his example. He groped his way with his bar den to 69th Street and led the refuges up a long, windng emergency star way to the street. Then he tent in alarms which brought all available lira apparatus, ambulance and police reserves in the vicinity rushing to tha scene and punged buck down thu stair to res cue other victrns. He worked until ha dropped, and was sent home in Mayor Hyian's private limousine. . Messrs. James E. Giiffin, Hugh B. Anderson, Koy Gurganus and Aa lander Griffin motored to Goldsbora this morning. Nature intended that you should should eat what you want. You eaa do it if you take Tanluc. Sold by Dr. J. B. H. Knight, Williamston, N.C. Dr. H. a Hllley, President of At lantic Christian College in Wilsoa was a business visitor in town this afternoon. \ - - NOTICE .pt Having this day qualified as ad ministratrix of tho estate of Joseph L. Long late of Martin county. All persons indebted to said astata are hereby notified to make payment of same at once, and all persons holding claims against said estate will pleasa present same for payment within oaa year from data or tha same will b« pleaded in bar of recovery. This the Srd day of July 1923. MARTHA D. LONG, Admx. LOST: Between Williamston aad Washington on Friday, June 80th, • lady's SO-S0 sharp arrrow Winchester Rifle. $6.00 reward for information leading to Its recovery. JOHN. S. WHITLEY, Route I Williamston, N. C. I FOR SALE: IS tons genuine Nam Scotia land piaster. Fresh BMK Just received. Prise $11.60 par ten cash. tU&iAi# J. a BTATON *