North Carolina Newspapers

Advertiser* Will '/lad Our Column a Latch Key to 1500 at Martin Coonty'a Hoaei ■ VOLUME 2a—NUMBER 72 JSTART SUITS TO HfIfORCE CONTRACTS JMr Suits will be lately by the Tobacco drown* Cooperative Association against iffeitract break era in Eastern North Carolina, accord ing to announcement of Assoc officials following last Monday's meet ing in Richmond, Va. Aaron Sapiro, attorney for the To ltjcco Growers Cooperative Asuocia y tio who recently secured judgment 1,000 against a member of the Rsn Growers Association of Cali fornia will conduct the suits in be half of the 80,000 organized to!>ac«o growers of the Carolinas and Virgin ia. ■*- Four suits will be institut-d in Ea® North Carolina and two in South Cur olina, according to Mr. Sapiro, who said: "A few men cannot block th « 80,000 organized tobacco growers of the Carolina# and Virginia who havt behind them the nationul law, tin State law ami overwhelming public opinion." Although few members have broken their contracts, the Association will , adhere strictly to its policy of prose cuting the few members who ar: toi weak or dishonest to keep their con tract and will punish unscrupulous law breakers who attempt to induct the growers to break their contracts, i The, Directors at last Monday'? meeting in Richmond expressed them selves as highly ploose with the work ing of the Association, anil the larg deliveries of tobacco in th' Eastern and South Carolina belttt; »1 so with satisfactory prices received from big snips made through le;.uinj leaf dealers and manufacturers, Jhe) made it clear that there have be™ comparatively few breaches of con tract, but the law breakers wi.l b promptly dealt with i norder to pro tect the interest of the thousands o loyal members of the Associate n in three states. CHURCH DIRECTORY Methodist Church L. C. Lurkin, Pastor Sunday school, 9:45; A. M.—J. E Pope, Superintendent. • Morning service _at 11:00 A. M.— Subject: "The Master's Spirit." At three o'clock in the afternoon th pastor will preach at Holly Spring! Church. Everftng service at P. M.—Sub ject: "The Sin of Neglect." Everyone is cordially invited to at tend these services. The pastor will conduct a series o! meetings at the Holly Spring* church beginning Monday night at 8:00 P. M and continuing throughout the week. Epworth League, Monday night. • • • 1 • Christian Church A. J. Manning, Pastor r Sunday school 9;4f) A. M.--V/, tL » Manning, Supt. There will he no service at tie church Sunday except the Sunda; School. * • • . » Church of the Advent Waller B. Clark, Priest-iii-Ch; rge Services for the 14th Sunday afte> Trinity, Sept. 17th. Church School. 9:4f> A. M. —llarr; M. Stubbs, Supt. Morning prayer and sermon, 11:01 Ai. Mr— Sermon subject: "Fruit." . '"No evening servicer A cordial welcome to all. • • • • SERVICES AT BAPTIST CHURCH A. V. Joyner, Pastor Sunday School, 9:45 A. M.—J. C Anderson, Supt. Our school Is grow ing each Sunday. ' Come and join with us in this good work and feel hap pier and be better. Sermon by the pastor 11:00 A. M Subject: "The Glory of the Cross." H Y. P. U. 7:15 P. M. Sermon by the pastor,-8:00 P. M.— Subject: "The Soul's Cry to God." Prayer meeting Wednesday even ing at 8:00 P. M. You are cordially invited to *».. ship with u? in all thews services. 4 1-2 TIMES FIRST ADVANCE "i li-* Couth Carolina Cooj-erative To bacco sold at from three to five time' more thnn the first advances. The price averages 4 1-2 more than the * 4mt advance. . The figures on each grade has not . as yet been given out. That may seem ctrnnge, but .it is not the association that withholds the exact price, it ii the buyers that want the exact price withheld. One thing is assured by the Bonrd of Directors of the -Association, that is that the „price is highly satsfrc tory. Ask Mr. J. Y, Joyner, Mr. Nor wodo, Dr. B. W. Kilgore, Mr. Cobb oar o' qgJJ|rector, and they will attes 1 the faefs above stated. Mr. knd Mrs. Bunting of Porte mouth are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J M. Oakley near here. , THE ENTERPRISE School Will Begin Monday; Superintendent Outlines Tlie Policy To Be Pursued" The school session for 1922-23 will open Monday, Sept. 18th. This should be our most successful year. Most all of your teachers have taught in this school before, so there are few new teacher. All are experienced teachers, several f them having at tended summer schools this summer to better fit themselves for their work. This shows that your teachers art willing and anxious to give you a good school. ' But teachers alone cannot make a good school. They must have the co operation of the patrons and the P'i pile of the school. As we had this lax year we are expecting it this year. Re member always that the schools are not ours (the teachers). The school i is yours. We are merely your ser vants, employed by you to give you the best school possible. A faculty meeting will be held Suturday, so that we teachers may- plan our work to the best advantage—not our personal advantage—but for the advantage ol your children. The school board, the faculty am the Superintendent most cordially in vite you to attend the opening exer cises at 9:00 A. M. Monday. You ait also requested to visit us during tin year and if something about the schoo does not suit you, please let me know it.. Do not hesitate to speak to youi superintendent about anything con riected with the bent interest of the schools. Some schools teach subjects it shall be our purpose to teach chil dren. The child is more important than the subject. It is important that your child come ilie first , day—and every day. See that your child is at school and on time. Rarely does a child who comes regularly fail to make his grade. But if your child is sick call your doctor to him. Remember you havu no mor el right to endanger the health and life of your neighbor's- children by sending your child to school with a DONT LIKK OUR ROADS We print below extracts from the Scotland Neck Commonwealth, taken from their "Booster Column:" "If any citizen of Scotland Neck doubts that we have-better roads than .nine, let him tfcike a trip to William ston one day. "'You have the prettiest little city- I have ever been in,' remarked* a gen tleman from Nevada a few nights ago "'We have the highest standard ol intelligence, on the average, of any town I ever saw,' n citizen said yes terday. '•'Let me get back to God's town,' "stfid a gentleman who bumped over about thirty miles of v thn rougljes roads that are used for traveling purposes, which are in an adjoining county ( yesterday. "Will Halifax county have such roads for the people who come to the opening of the bridge that is to be put fit Edward's Ferry :is Martin haul for his visitors to travel over yes terday? God forbid. "After taking a trip over the roe.ds of an adjoining county yesterday, I i„v« Sfntlaml Neck and Halifax coun ty betterthan ever." God llless you, Scotland Neclp We hope you will have golden paved high ways and Alabaster bridges when you open the new one over Edwards Fer ry. We like your theory about boost ing Scotland Neck. We must ask however, that you lay off Martin county roads because someone might read your papor and get a bad im pression of your neighboring county. We might suggest the next time you come dowu to see us that you bring your own good road down here with you. We might say also that we dl«' not ask you down here to ri do on otr ,««ds buf to see our bridge. We havr never had any business over to you» town of Scotland Neck so we do not know what kind of roads you have but we do know that if you have to compare them with our'r., "yotir'n arc wurs'nell." 1 would suggest that we get to gether and talk this road busines: over and see if we can't get Fran 1 Page to do some mere for us tw.>. BOLL WEEVIL IN WILLIAMSTO." The 801 l Weevil has made his ap pearance in Williamston. Mr. J G Godard finds plenty of them in the field adjoining the Brick Warehouse The dreaded pest Ijj fast becoming one of our closest neighbors. Who' the boll weevil was ravaging the ft- ldr of Texas and other states he was n far away evil then hut wften he gett, to doing bis work in the, coipnratc limits of the town of Williamston, if is high time for us to begin t*> • tud >• ways and means of fighting him. «. - tViUianiston, Martin County North Carolina. Frid contagious disease (your health offi cer has just spoken to me about con tagious diseases). Right here 1 want to thank the people of the tow a fov their cooperation in this matte.' last year. Not a single case do 1 recall where a parent wilfully sent a sick child to school. Now if I may make onC sugges tion and request. Visit us during the school > ear. See what we are > oing. Compliment your child's teach a" if you like what she is doing. It you lo not tike what she is doing come .0 see inc and tell, me just e. actly what thr trouble i;;. 1 uni just as anxious to have a good school lieiv is you are. The best Ls none toe good for your child. The following faculty has been ehct ed: First grade: Miss Millie Spru 'il. 2nd Grade: Mrs. J. 1.. Willians. 3rd grade: Mrs. A. R. Dunning. lth gintie: Miss Ethel Griffin. sth Grade: Mrs. W. K. I'arke.r. Gth grade: Miss Amelia Clark. 7th gi'ad"*. Mrs. C. B. HasseP. High school: Mrs. A. V. Jiynev, Mrs. W. 11. Harrell, .Supt, M. J.I .'avis. The children should bring book.- studied '.ust year. They should "enow how far they went in each book, nun. 1 now hooks must be had, but chi dren will bo told what to get later" 7 "- The doors will bo open for the cTiil dren at 8:45. The children wi.l go at once to their rooms for this "Year Thus those promoted from foui h tc fifth grade will go to the fifth :,ral room, etc. At 9:00 o'clock the bell* will ring and children will marc), down to chapel for opening exercises. At the close .of the opening exoidse.' the children will return to theii rooms and will be assigned le son, for Tuesday. See that your chili starts right l»y learning the lirs I s son assigned. Your Superintendent, M. J. DAY S. DAVID W. STALLS • - i This morning at seven o'clock th I spirit of Mr. David W. Stalls p sse into eternity after a : lingering: iKne/ of several months duration. Or th first Sunday of July Mr. Stall:; fel atiti broke iiis hip ami aince thal Jfm lias sutfered appendicitis am congestive chills, which caused hi death. He was sixty nine yea so age a few months ago. Mr. !ltn!i was a good citizen and great 1/ re spect:d- by his fellow citizens. II never joined any church but wis. believer- in the Primitive B. pt s faith and always attended their cliurc at Hear Grass until his halth wa impaired about eighteen yers ug > an since that lime he has not been ah! to attend church but he told his fain ily a few days before his demise tha he was sure that he wus going to i better world than this and wan g ing to meet God. Forty-seven years ago he marriet Miss Margaret Gurgantis and to than three children wore born, but Mrs. Sal lie Ann Griffin, the oldest daughter, died about thirteen years ago am David W. Stalls, the only son, diet about eighteen years ago, end Mrs Temple L. Taylor and two chi'dren who ha.ve lived with Mr. Stalin sinci the death of their husband and f.ithet and the wife are left to moui n hi Koing. The funeral will be conduct )d to morrow afternoon \t the hom ■ am the body will be interred in the fain ily burying ground at the home place The Charitable Brotherhood will con duct the funeral rites, assisted liy El ders John Rogerson and Ben Cowing THE ADVANTAGE OF COvER CROPS Land that is bare through thy win ter loses heavily by washing if it i. even slightly rolling. It should no be left bare. This is pretty gene rail; understood and summer ciops are of ten left as they grew in order that they may reduce washing. This b not the best plan, since getting al ternately dry and wet£ frozen am thawed, disintegrates thesn and lets a part of the nitrogen they contain escape into the air, and pacts of the leaves and fine detacher! parts blyw away. Of couise the very best thing to do is to plow the crop down early in the fall or at a tim «4ien it may be plowed under U> bes advantage for sowing a winter covei crop -preferably a legume. By do ing this two soil improvement crop.' nre grown on the same land and then there is the additional ad\ antage tliaj comes from f;»ll plowing and the su perior advantage of a growiig crop as a soil-binder.—Progressive Farmer. | SUBSCRIBE TQ THE ENTERPRISE "BABY" O.A.R. VET TO ATTEND MEET u the "baby' veteran o( the' Civil War. H« it ten younuMl than W. G. Second, of New RocKciK» N. Y.. who formerly held that, bontth Maj nilles wilt attend the G. > |L encainptnent at Dei la, Utt thi* month. 1 MAY ABANDON COHON GROWING JOR A YEAR The proposal for a one-year sus pension of cotton planting in the United St a ton as a means of elimi nating the boll weevil was suggest ed in the Senate today by Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina, who predicted wholesale abandonment of cotton farms throughout the south unless governmental action were tak en to aid in (festcuction of the pest. V The South Carolina Senator an nounced that he hud written to tlur Chief Fntomologist of the Department of Agriculture, asking that a study be made to determine whether a years -iay-ofT in cotton growing would erad icate thei weevil. The entomologist expressed the belief that such action would result in destroying the post. Senator Smith announced that as soon as he received the report of the entomologist ho proposed t introduce a resolutin calling fr the cooperation' as far as constitutionally possibly of the federal government v in the stop ping of' planting for one year "so that there may be a tomorrow for the cotton industry." "Unless this heroic remedy is ap plied," continued-the speaker, "it will be only a question of a few years be fore the supply of cotton will be in adequate to meet the domestic de mands much less the world's needs." The present Cost to the country by the weevils amounts to u hundred mil Llion dollars a year, Senator Smith said. Ho suggested that the federal and State governments s'lould join in paying the deficit occasioned by the growers in the one-year's luy-off de cjaring that it would be cheaper to the country in the end even if it had to "appropriate that amount to defray the expentes caused by the suspension of cotton growing for f ' Senator Smith suggested that once the weevil was eliminated the federal government could and should resort to" zoning the Rio Grande border of a distance of , one hundred miles in which no cotton could l»e planted, ex pressing the belief that this action would effectually stop the insect's mi gration. Pointing out that production lost year was only a little more than half of normal and estimating that this year's crop would not exceed nine mil lion bales, Senator Smith asked how long could the nation expect to main tain the balance of trade in its favor if its export cotton fell away. The export demand, he continued, is a round 6,000,000 bales with the do mesttc demand exceeding that slight | ly. On the basis of this year's crop, he added, the country would be 2,- fioo,ooo short of the export require ments. IN II COVER CROPS September is the time to sow crops for a winter cover. Every acre should l>« made to grow something. Nothing can ;ay a farmer better than to grow a winter cover crop on his land. Sep tember ia also the beat month to se lect or prepare something to get a premium sc the fair. It will not be long betore October Brd, and it will make you feel good to see a ribbon pinned ou yme article of yours. Mr. H. L. Davis of Dardens was in town yesterday. iy, September 15th, 1922 Cotton Growers Association 9 % Receiving Agents are Holding Sinai Conferences This Week Ra.eigh, Set 12.—Conferences ot receiving agnets throughout the cot ton belt "of North Carolina are beiny, held this week to complete plans for the handling of the cotton of mem bers of the North Carolina Cotton Grower's Cooperative Association. Re ceiving agents have been named for seventy-five points in addition to the fifty warehouses with which the as sociation has contracts, and aie now receiving cotton. The receiving agents for the pied mont section met in Charlotte Mon day with general manager U. B. Ula lock and B. F. Brown, manager of the cotton department, and on Tuesday the agents of the southern border counties met with Homer H. B. Mask on the same day in Clinton. Other conferences were held at Smithfield, Rocky Mount, Kinston und Wtldon. Owing to the necessity of getting the warehouses lined up to receivi cotton, the appointment' of receiving agents for the association was delay ed for a few days, but everything in now in smooth working order, accord ing to general manager Blulock, who feels greatly encouraged over the out look. The biggest lot of cotton received by the association so far from one man was delivered hist week by Wil liam Peterson, of Sampson county who turned over eighty-six bales and received $4,800 as an advance on the" delivery. — The association continues to receive assurance of support from the lead hig banks of North Carolina. The Murchison National Hank of Wilming ton, one of the largest and oldest of the state, has agreed to loan two hundred thousutid dollars to the re volving fund, which is the largest MRS. B. A. CRITCHER HOSTESS On last Tuesday evening from nine until twelve o'clock, Mrs. B. A. Crit cher charmingly entertained in hon or of her sister, Miss Alta Proctor of. Cardiff, Mil., at her home on Watts street. The home was prettily decor ated with fall flowers in crystal vases. A pretty nook was* arranged in the hall from which Misses Jewel Burnett and Margaret Manning dispensed de licious fruit punch all during the even ing. Rook and dancing were enjoyed un til a late hour by the young people, Miss Nina Upton and Mr. James' Cook making the highest score in rook ,inu they were presented with pretty prizes which they in turn presented to the guest of honor. Ice cream aid cuke and mints were served by t' e hostess assisted by Mrs. W. 11. Bit;;,a and Mrs. Roger Critcher, Jr. Those present were Misses Martiia Cotton Crawford, Murtha Slade H .s --»ell, Elizabeth llassell, Bonner Cur gmu's, Mary Gladys Wafts, M:ivt.- et Meriting, Antne louise CrawVrd mlie Dell White, Margaret EVeictt, Myit Wynne, Vella Andrews. M.trv and (ieneva an.l Lyda Cook, Ki rt Up tin, Sallie Harris, Mrs. P. 11. Ci.ne, IVi'i K Anna Crawford, Mrs. lied!* F .w den, Mrs. W. 11. Iliggs, and Mrs. Roger Critcher and Messrs, Man lot aij«i Lyinun Britt, Pete ltuscoe, Iwtg well Goode, Cooper Perry, Jno. I . Perry, Ji.mmie White, Jimmie Sawyei; of Windsor, Clyde Everett and Jim mie Taylor of • Robersonville, Earl Wynne, C. D. Carstarphen, Jr., Har old Everett, Robert Hridgers of Win ton, Bob Hyendrick, Robert Shure, "BoyflTHight, Garland Anderson and Jim Cook. A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK There is but one great question in this world—How to make men and women better and fitter for life in a democracy, and there is but one an swer: Education. Education is the su preme essential of democracy, while democracy is the supreme opportuni ty of education. If such, then, be the nature of modern democracy, it is very clear that the one thing it can not do without is the school, and the one thing the school, high or low, cannot do without is a clear notion of how it can train all men not only to perforßa>vtho duties of free citi zenship, but can give all men an op portunity to obtain a fair share of the fullness of life. What the wisest par ent desires for his child, that the whole community now plans to give all of the children. ThiH is the most revolutionary and creative idea to which the modern WorJd has given birtb. —Dr. Edwin A. Alderman at Fif tieth Anniversary of V. •P. I. Women are changing their style of combing their hair and instead of having to guess whether your girl has big earn, or little ears, thick ears or thin ears, you can just look at her ears and just wonder how she ever heard with ao much hair oyer them. loan made by any bank to the asso ciation although large loans have been made by banks in Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Contrary to the impression receiv ed in some quarters, it is announced by the association management that it is not building any warehouses. It has entered into an agreement with several newly organized warehouse companies for u minimum space res ervation in warehouses that are to be built at' several important points, but the association will simply be one of the customers —in practically all the cases, the largest customer. The warehouses will be operated by local capital it is stated. With the actual opening for bus iness ,the association headquarters is workiitg night and day and has every thing in good shape for handling tin hundreds of thousands of items in eident to receiving and selling the cot ton of it* HO,noO members. The as sociation has poifited by the exper ience of Oklahoma and Texas, and a system of accounting has been work ed out that provide* for a minimum oi effort to secure the needed facts. All samples of cottoH coming in from the warehuoses are classed promptly by a force of expert grad ers. Every effort is made to expedite the handling of the cotton, so that there will be no delay. Practically all the banks iu the cot ton belt have been visited within the last two weeks, and the method of handling drafts explained to thepi- Many of them have agreed to make loans to the revolving fund and no difficulty is now anticipated in financ ing the sales operation within the state. COAL PRICES ON THE DROP Coal dropped from $7.00 to S4.BG per ton at the mines. That is one of the biggest drops ever seen in the history of the coal industry in this country. The coal bp-ons are great fellows. to meet the miners in April to try, to make terms with them. They paid no attention to the miners, therefore the miners did not know what to depend upon and walked out. Then it was that tl»e couti try found itself in a state of economic ruin for the want of con! for Its in dustries. There was a mad scramble by everybody to get a shovelful be fore it was all gone and they even "said we would have to import from England. During all this period the price was soaring skyward. One of the funny tricks was to get the government to appoint a distri bution committee and at the same time selling agencies were seWn* everywhere, telling their customen how they could stfeak it through for thwn. It was always, however, at the high price. * The surplus coal has therefore been gotten out of the way at double price and nobody has been bemftteed but the coal barons, and nobody hurt but all the balance of the folks, with bail blood and distrust existing even now. One other strange thing about the whole affair is that when they did give the miners a conference they paid them more than ever before and more than the miners asked f»r even expect ed SANIkY RIDGE NEWS Mr. W. A. I,ee spent Wednesday af ternoon with Mr. J. E. Riddick. Miss Rowland G&dard spent Wed nesday night with her sister, Mrs. G. W. Coll rain. Mrs. Thad Roberson and Mrs. G. A. Williams spent Sunday with Mrs. J. W. Hopkins. Misses Susan Ashby, Gladys Rober son and Katie Mae Cherry spent Sat urday night and Sunday with Miss Lou Allie Reddick. Mr. Clyde Roberson was the guest of Miss Ashby Sunday. Mrs. Ella Martin at J-mesville spent Sunday with Mrs. S. E. Hardi son. Miss Stella Andrews spent Satur day with her sister, Mrs. Charlie Pate. L. D. And A. W. Hardison, J. H. Rid dick, C. A. Pate, (Old J. N. Hopkins at tended the Council Meeting of the C. B. H. at Dardens Wednesday: Rev. A. V. Joyner, Mrs J H Red» dick, Misses Gladys Roberson and Lou Allie Reddlek spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Porry. MRS, LUCY WOOLARD Mrs. Lucy Woolard, wife of N. T. Woolard, died at her. home Wednes day on the Washington road in Beau fort county. Mrs. Woolard was th*' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse V. (Jreen, a sister of Mr. John M. Green and Mrs. R. S. Rogerson. She leaves besides her husband, several small children. ' IF TO» MMUT QUICK RESULTS USB A TAMT AO IN THE Eirrantisß ESTABLISHED 1898 WEEEY REVIEW OF COTTON PROSPECTS (Savannah Cotton Factorage Co., All inquiries promptly answered.) The cotton market recovered some the latter part of last week, and ad vanced further early today. Private mid-month condition re ports average about 50, or a loss of 7 points since August 26th, and indi-' cate a crop of 10,000,000 bales, or less. Good rains fell in the west yester day but it is believed that they came too late to increase the yield Texaa reports that no late or top crop ean be made this season _ Cloth markets continue strong and the demand is steadily broadening. Foreign news is mixed but we see improvement in trade conditons in Europe and the East. T The American Cotton Association estimates the average cost of produc tion as being 24.25 c per pound. We should be glad to ha\# the readers of this paper write us what it has coat them to make cotton this year. If the figure mentioned is cerrect, we would advise against selliag cotton for less than 25c. A prominent Northern authority on cotton writes us as follows: "It is our judgment that when th« full import of the last government report is realized cotton prices will show a decided advance: During Sep tember it is our judgment that cotton prices should touch 25c, New York, but believe that conditions of supply and demand do not warrant a much highpr level than this, unless the mar ket becomes wildly speculative." This authority may not see 25c this month, but we atfrcc With him that there will be a healthy advance, and no doubt'the October Ist Givemment reports will send the market up to hia estimate. COTTON OPENING FAST ' Dry, hot weather, is making cotton open very fast and some fields look aa if all bolls would be open iu ten more days; This is caused to some extent by the fact that nearly all the crop is the early bolls, since tho wet wea ther got about all the late ones. POLITICALLY SPEAKING * Tho country has cause to laugh and weep politically at the primary re sults The Retipblican pri mary. iu Massachusetts nominated Lodge again for the Senate and the ■Democratic * primary in South Carfc. lina turned down Cote Bleaso for gov ernor. „ PART OF STRIKE IS NETTLED . " The railroad strike has been settled on a large number of railroads, says Secretary Davis. Among tho' roads are the Southern and the Seaboard Air Line, whic hare among the large systems of the South. The Coast Line is not mentioned as one of the roada to accet the terms but they can af ways be depended upon to fall in line. With the strike over all business should move on nicely. It is stated that the base of the settlement meets , with the general approval of both the men and the road. Some slight yield ing by both sides was necessary to make the agreement. The following of the line of least resistence make crooked rivers as weH as crooked men. HARRISON'S FALL OPENING Messrs. Harrison Bros, and Com pany's fall opening yesterday and to attracted large crowds and prices look more like the war is over, the prices of many atircles being much lower. Their stock is full and complete. The customer can get practically anything he needs at this establishment. I HAVE ON MY FARM TWO SOWS, one, red and one black, and six pigs taken up by me on the 14th day of September, 1922. Owner can obtain same by calling for them and paying the cost of advertisement and l feed and damage to crop. Noah C. Hargett Messrs. N. R. and B. Mc. Manning were in town Thursday. XOtf tMOULO *AKB H*r WHIuF I * ;