ADVERTISERS WILL FIND OLR
CBFCL HNS A LATCH-KCY TO
1400 MARTIN COUNTY HOVES.
VOULWE 2S—NUMBER 82.
Five Courses Are
Offered FarmerS
Ily State College
Short, Courses for the Active Farm
er» Who Wish to Equip Them
selves More Fully
Raleigh, Nov. 30.—Beginning on
January 9 and lasting through until
the 19, the State College of Agricul
ture "will hold a short course for the
farmers of the state is which live dit
ferent specialized lines will be jfiveji.
Thi sis a new department in tt|lat the
farmers attending the college xor tut
eleven days will be given an oppor
tunity to specialize instead of taking
some general studies as heretofore.
The courses as announced by Dean
C. B. Williams are as follows: Cro»-
farming with special attention to cot
ton .tobacco ami small grains, horti
culture, sressing fruit and vegetable
growing; dairying, with .special em-*
phasis on how run the faini dairy;
poultry with special emphasis on tarn,
poultry production ,and cottos grad
ing with attention to length, strength
and quality of staple. A number of
experts along these five line shave
been-secured by the colli*J?®> to giTO
lectures. These special lecturers art
in addition to resident college teachis*
staff. Boiling Hall, an experienced
fruit grower fro mthe western part '
of the state, will deliver u serica_of
on growin gapples, and Director John
son of the Virginia Truck station o;
near Norfolk has bees secured to de
liver a series of lectures on truck
und vegetable production.
The experts on the staff of botl.
the experiment station anil extension
service will also take part in th«
short course and will help to makt
the courses some of the strongest e'-
er given at the college. There are n
tuitios charges and the priciple co
will lie for meals which the collet
will furnish at about 75' cctus pe
day and room rent for which arrange i
ments are being made ut this time.
• In arrangin gfo rtlii aahort ur re I
Dean Williams states that the coHcp
i sendeavoiis gto gfiive
set of lectures ever offered farm' >
of North ' arolina and that the p "
hadeite should be able t* j
spend ten ilaV» at the, college gett'r
new ideas about the particular line ■'
work in which the yai* "interested.
CHAMBERS HAIX
TO BE REI'LACEI
(ieneral Appearance of the Old Stru4
- ture Will Be Retaineu \
In New One
In the construction of the splenl'
new' building with which the Free
byterians of the state ure planninj
to replace the historic old Chamber:
|,ail of Davidson college, it is plan
tied to retain in the new buildint
as much as possible the general ai
pearance of the old structure, whirl
is endeared in the hearts of s
many graduates of Davidson coilegi
At present a "Greater David on
campaign is under foot thiougltou
the state to rai*e s6xi,o)o with whid
to, construct the buililing and Ui in
crease the general educational faci l
ities of the institution.
The same pillars which foroierl
upheld the old structure will be use.
in the new building i fpossible. Th
architects will strive to create th>
same noble and imposing front whirl
characterized the old buililing. Thf
new building will have thirty or more
lecture and recitation rooms.. 
The new buidinj? will be the cente
of the work of the college—its Rival
workshop—and for the good of th«
college, and to save it from seriou;
damage of lessening efficiency, tn
building cannot come too soon, accord
ing to President Martin.
ItfVERY TAME BEAK WAS
CAUGHT IN A TBAP
Mj. Al Wells, who floes some trap
pin gon Deep Run near Jamesville
sees what he believes to l>e a bear
but changed his mind when . he oh
serve dthe varment had a long tail
and called it a wolf.
'jff Of course Mr. Wells is not muc!
TJ blame. He west to his trap aingli
handed, without gun or knife an
when he saw some great varment, of
course he did not go nt*r enough
v to make a close inspection, and went
away .believing that he had a wolf
Me was usable to get a nescort tc
u'gai nt> the trap and wlyle wall
ing to get proper equipment to tackle
the fob, Arthur Lilly's old black doj
tore the trap from its mooring and
wen£. home trap an dall. You see
H » B to 1,0 mistaken wheL
a little scared.
An old saying that when angel
are short an Irishman d es, seem:
to indicate that the winged boat ar
short handed. - >
1
THE ENTERPRISE
HEAD (IF OUTLAW
IS WORTH EXACTLY 51,300
TO SOME PERSON IN SI ATI
Wilson, NoV. to an
inifuiry from the police authorities at
Calypso, N. C., asking whether the
$ 1,300 reward offered for the cap
ture of Oscar Melvin, outlawed slay
er of Patrolman Jack W. Syqes of
Wilson, held good in case the fug
itive was delivered dead, Sheriff E.
B. Howard said:
"Melvin dead, is worth more to
this community and the state of North
Carolina than Melvin alive; if dead,
put his head in pickle and ship it
here. The reward will be forthcom
ing- bo what you wish with the
body. Melvin is an outlaw and no
prosecution will follow."
rwo KILLED WHEN
TRAIN HITS AIITO
Vlra. Ma'wl Moran and Dr. John Gould
Are Victims of a Grade
Oossinn Smash
Greensboro, Nov. 29.—Mrs. Mabel
ind her companion, Dr. John Gould,
jreensboro dentist, was fatally in
lured at 12:15 o'clock this afternoon
tfhen the automobile in which they
were riding was struck by Southern
passenger train No. 21, at a grade
this city. Dr. Gould died on the op
erating table at a local hospital short
y before 3 o'clock.
The accident occurred at the Dean
itreet crossing, near the Indian Re
ining company, where the young w.-
nan was employed as stenographer.
;he and Dr. Gould were leaving for
heir noon day meal i" another part
,f the city jn the I attar's automobile
Irs. Moran's body was horribly man
led, beintr dragged in the
f the car about 50 feet. Her com
■anion's injuries at first were not
onsidered serious since he regnlneu
onsiousness soon after the accident.
Freight cars on the sidings lined
•ach side of the main line, which It
•i believe*! hid the approaching train
ront Dr. (iould who was driving. The
ranie work of the automobile wrs
nrried two hundred yards before it
lecame dislodged from the pilot oi
he locomotive.
Mrs. Moran was a native of Somei
et, Ky., having moved to this fit >
larly in this year. She is survived
iy an eleven year old son. Dr. Gotrtd
vas originally from Durham, cornlm.'
lere five lyonths ago to take ohaii
if the Greensboro Dental laboratory
;)l II'MKNT ARRIVES
FOR WILSON MIKROK
Siw Daily Expected To Be|(in >P
(•rations About Middle of
Next Month
Wilson, N0v.29.—-The machinery
ind equipment for Wilson's morning
aper ,the Wilson Mirror, has arrived
mil is bein ginstalled, and the pro
noters are of the opinion that it will
ssue about the middle of December.
The stuff is composed of the follow
UK trained newspaper men: John
ieasley of Monroe, president; R. F.
tteasley of Monroe, editor in chief;
\. L. Wilkerson of Reidsville, city
(fitor; L. K. Muggins of Monrim, bus
ness manager; R. B. Evans of Wll
;on, reporter; Mrs. A. M. Parker oi
vVilson, society editor.
The epuipment is modem in all
letails, two Linotype machines (NOR.
« and 14>, Ludlow type caster, Miller
aw, etc.
Successful Basket
Party On Cross Roads
On Wednesday night, November 29,
he Cross Roads school staged a very
successful basket narty.for the bene
tit of a fund to hip pay for their
;>iano. The piano was bought for the
church and school both. The school
louse was crowdd to its utmost and
he conduct of every one present was
plendid. The- cake for the'prettiest
girl was awarded to Elizabeth Mc-
Daniel, the primary teacher, who re
ceive dthe largest amount of votes.
The cake sold for $34.10. A total
tmeunt of $91.23 was raised by the
party.
FARMER ASSAULTED AND
BOBBED ON PUBLIC ROAD
Burlington, Nov. 29.—A bold
light assault and robbery occurred
on the old Ossippee road four milea
from this city Monday when J. M
Montgomery, a farmer of tha Sec
tion of the county, was approaches
by two men and pulled off his
wagon. Montgomery was attacked by
the men and rendered unconscious and
also robbed. The aasailants and rob
farmer had no valuables or much
money with him. The robbers mad
their escape, and 2 there is no clue
as to their identity reported.
WILLIA'iI.VfON, >i \i; i.\ COINTY, NORTH CAROLINA,, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1922.
Chamber of Comfnerce
Membership Drive Meeting
With Great Success Now
The Chamber of Com
merce membership com
mittee are still pressing
forward and are meet
ing* with splendid suc
cess. They will publish
the membership list in
Tuesday's issue of The
Enterprise.
If you have not al
ready joined, be sure to
J. S. Ayers Is Pork
Raising Champion
Shows Hia Neighbors the Value of
Cor" When Sold In the Form
of Fresh Fork
Mr. J. S. AyerA of Everett is per
haps the champion meat raiser of
the county, Mr. Ayers bought fout
pigs in April of this year paying
$2.25 for each of'them. He kept them
in a four si|uare pen practically all
the time, thf only exception ben.
a short time when the pen got mud
dy. He killed them this week u>''
got 1140 pounds of meat after the
pigs had been dressed, the heavies'
one weighing 357 pounds, and the
lightest one weighing 236 pounds, th's
one getting crippld causing him to
log sotn weight. Mr. Ayrs said li
that one hadn't got hurt tbev would
have averaged 300 pounds easily.
These hogs were just n year old.
Mr. Avers kept an account of the
expenses of keeping them in add'
•ion'to the initial cost and his meat
Vwt him exactly nine rents a pou"d
Tf.anv farmer Is beating Mr. Aver
in the meat raising business, let u;
know.
VIK. AND M us. w HELLER
MARTIN ENTERTAI
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Martin en
lertained at their home on Main street
Tuesday evening at a bridge paity in
honor of Mrs. Sawyer of Windsor,
Who is the aunt of Mrs. Martin, anil
Mr. and Mrs. McMullan of Ellzafeiul
City. Mrs. McMullan was formerix
Miss Mahala Meekins uml a couiiii
of Mrs. Martin.
The home was attractively decorat
el with cut flowers and ferns aiw'
tables were for four table;
of bridge and those playing were'
Mr. asd Mrs. O. S. Anderson, anil
Mr. and Mrs. A.- R. Dunning, anr
H. M. Stubbs, Mr. and Mrs. J. H
Sausders, Miss Anna Crawford, Mrs
Minnje Ballance, Mrs. P. H. Ilrown
Miss Daisy Wynne, Mr. and Mrs. W
K. Parker and Mr. Dob Hyendrick.
Tempting refreshments were serv
ed at the conclusion of the games.
NEAR EAST REIJEF
An appeal has gone out through
the press and other mediums of di»
seminating news to come to the res
cue of the sufferers in the Near Ea*t
at this time. For years the American
Red Cross had been and are now main
tainiSg relief {stations in Armenia ami
other portions of the Near East foi
the relief of the sufferers of the fa
mine and late world war, and thi
new appeal is but asking for a large'
continuance of the charity that oti
country has given to these unfortun
ate people who have so long bee>
oppressed by t v e Mohammedans foi
their religious beliefs.
The American people have given un
til it hurts for the past three o
'tfour yeaes, but it seems that no ap
peal goes empty handed in this Got I
blessed land of ours.
Surely out of the bountiful crop
and extensive manufacture of art)
cles of food and clothing, we ma.,
be further able to cemeht the goo
of everlasting gratitude that is th
American charity worker's poitior
wherever the yhave gone on tbei.
mission of relief.
It ia estimated that 13,500,000 au
tomobiles will be registered on Jan
uary 1, 1923, compared with 10 500
000 this year. The average annua'
gasoline consumption of each car is
figured at 420 gallona.
see the committee and
get your name on the
list.
Today is the day to en
list in the work of boost
ing Williamston, and the
Chamber of Commerce
is the organization that
we must work through
so get in line with youi
membership today, not
next week.
KMititoiDKUY ( i.rii MKT WITH
MKS. JOHN 11. IIIGGS, JR
The Km broidery club was very
charmisgly entertained Tuesday night
ut the home of Mrs. John I). Higgs,
Jr. The home WUH dero rated with
the spirit of Thanksgiving carried out
in the decorations. After a delight
I'ul hour spent in conversing and cm
broidering, the hostess served a deli
cious salad course, and ice course with
the ice» in the shape of turkeys and
pumpkins, followed with black coffee
and mints.
Hesides.the club members who are:
Mrs. J.W.Andrews, Mrs. K.Ui Harne*,
Mrs. John I). Htttgs, Jr., Mis. 1\ 11.
Cone, Mrs. 11. S. Courtney, Mrs. K.
H. Crawford, Mrs. W. .11. Crawford,
Mrs. A. T. Crawford, Miss Deborah
tfemming, Mrs. K. V\, Graves, Mrs.
(.i. W, Itardison and Mrs. l„ li. Har
rison, there were prewU: Mrs. \V.
J. Hodges, Mrs. J .W. Watts, Jr., Mrs.
Carrie Higgs Williams and Mis. A
V. Joyner.
•t illiainslon Invited to
bend a itepresentatiye
dr. Clayton Moore Is In lii'rcipt ol
Invitation to Send Representative
To Cliuutauqua Conference
Mr. Clayton Moore has just receiv
ed u communication from Dr. I'aul M.
i'eurson ol the Hwarthn-.ore Cliautuu
iua association inviting the guaian
•ors of the Williamston Chautauqua
to select a representative to atten"
the lecturer's conference on public
jpinioii ami world peace to be held in
t>anhington, I), t, December 7-BK,
1U22.
The lecturer's conference is an ev
ant of international importance.
The purpose of the conference is to
present in(urmation regarding social
an decononiic world problems.
The conference is held under the
tuspices of the international Lyceum
andCha utauqua organizations of the
world.
President Harding has indicated Ins
personal interest in the conference
oy becoming one of the honorary pres
.dents of the International Lyceum
and Chautauqua association. l)r.
I'aul M. l'eurson, director of the
•Swarthmore Chautauqua association,
who conducts the chautauqua iu our
own town is president of the Inter
national Lyceum and Chautauqua a.s
sociation.
A representative has not as yel
been selected to attend the conference
out it is hoped that" one will' he se
lected by the guarantors of Williams
ton who will attend, as the proceed
ings of the conference wHI he very
mterestin gand enlightening on the
work of the association, and will eri
able our home people to appreciate
the work of the organization wheii
it presents its attractions heVe.
The program, although as yet In
complete, includes President Hard -
and Georges Clemencau, "Tigcrf'. 01
France, and presents an array of
peakers second in distinction only to
those who attended the world confer
ence for the limitation of armaments.
From 60 to 1IM) hens on every farm
in the boll weevil district is mighfy
good insurance for three square meals
a day. Sometimes a cooperative car
lot shipment can be made of the usr
plus.
There is one field open for the
ex-sultan. He might combine with
Ziegfield and put, on a real girlie
■how.
Ix>cal Man Was
Help Up and Robber
Tw« Men Sloped Mr. 11. 11. Holloinun
and K«b Him at llector Moore
Tuesday Night
Mr. 11. 11. Holloman up
Tuesday night after he had collected,
on furniture accounts is the Harden
section, lit. worked late trying to
complete the job and started home
about 'J o'clock, lie found his lights
were out and he had to run slowly
along by the moon light, and when
he slowed down to turs tlie Iteotoi
Moore corner a man jumped on the
running board of his car and turned
olf his switch, and another with a
pistol in hand jumped on the ollici
.side and - commanded Mr. LLdlomaii
to get out and raise his haiufs.
\\ hen Mr. Hollonnm stepped out
one of tlic fellow h held the pistol
on 11iin while the other fellow walked
ground behind hi mand went through
his pockets, taking; about sl.'!(i cash
ami a SSO check.
Aft erthey had potion through with
the job thj>y ran oIT in a pine thicket
Mr. Hollomam then crank ii up ami
attempted to drive away_but in his
haste choked the car down and lia'l
to get out and crank again, lie .n
mediateiy went to Jamesvillt anil
phoned l.he officers, hut no trace ol
tile guilty parties luis been /omul. .Mr.
Ilolioman su.\ s one of them was a
rattier large, tall, gipger cake color
ed fallow and the other was bom a
iittle lighter in color and weight.
It is believed that the robbers had
seen Mr. liollonian collecting during
the day and were well acquainted
with his movements li m I were evi
dently citizens of that section.
Doris Smith, Durham
County Is the State
Spelling Champion
Wins Out In I.hum.it ion Contest In
Field of Eighty Four
Contestants
ltaleigh, Nov. e 2!». -Doris Smith, u
seiventh grailer at the White Cross
Koads school, Durham county, was
crowned queen of Tar Heel ■ spellers
after four hours of eliminations in u
lield of more than H4 contestants, in
the second annual state spelling match
ield under the auspices- of the North
Carolina Teachers' us.semlily toduj.
Slie in 13 years old, ami .White Ci'o*f>
is a three teacher elementary school.
Right on the heels of the newly en
hroned queen of spellers was Ralph
Thornburg, of Mays Chapel school,
in Cabarrus county, who came within
a word of being acclaimed sovereign
of the/ orthographic realm, ofily he
couldn't quite spell "sovereign" when
the word, was given out. Virginia
Aderholdt of Statesville came out as
'hint in the contest.
It took seven rounds to*'determine
the winner. First there were the
100 -pencil twisters, given out to the
whole aggregation representing - s:i
counties. There were eight survivor:
who missed nothing, or missed only
one word. The third round cut it
down to four { the fourth ended in
a draw, the fifth eliminated one, the
idxth was a draw and the seventh
named Doris Smih. first, IJalpli Thorn
burg second, and Virginia Aderholt
third.
A California youth says he would
as soon be in jail as to he is col
lege without automobile. We bet
he is a student at a co-ed school.
IK I STY OF THE STATL
fr'KlsoS SLCI RES VKJiI iT
or NMiKO 1,111 lIK M I .I;
Raleigh, Nov. 30.—Lee Haliman,
serving a fifteen year sentence in tlie
state prison and stationed as a trusty
at Mount Holly, yesterday notified
George Ross i'ou .superintendent ol
the state prison, tiiat he had identified
ami ellected the arrest of Thomas
Johnson, a negro life termer, wh»
escaped from the prison on Septem
ber HI.
According to the details that were
received by Superintendent I'ou, Hall
mas, who knew the Johnson negro
saw him at Mount Holly and se
cured his arrest.
Mr. I'ou expressed pleasure at the
conduct of young Hallmau, hough he
has served only six months of Iris
fifteen* year sentence, has been made
a trusty, llallman saw service with
the American Expeditionary forces in
France.
Johnson was sentenced to serve a
life term for burglary committed in
Rowan county.
Railroads Ordered to
Pay a Part ot Tax
Must Remit About $1.1)00,001) l or a
fart ol the Assessment
Not In Dispute
Greensboro, Nov. 21). Orders allow
ing the collection of 11)22 ad valorem
taxes against the Southern, Seaboard,
Atlantic and Yadkin, Atlantic t oast
lane' ami Norfolk anil Southern rail
roads were on their way to Raleigh
this morning, having been signed by
Judge James 10. ltoyil, Judge H. 0.
Connor and Judge Edmund Waddill,
three federal jurists who have hand
led The tax"controversy, between the
railroads and the state of North Car
olina since its inception, back In Oct
ober, 11121.
However, a stay is grunted that
pail, of the tax m dispute, that is,
on the valuations over what the rail
roads admit is fair. Their wlioh
contentions as to the ad valorem tax
es levied against them is that tin
amounts ale discriminatory and ex
cessive, contendifig that in 47 of tin
counties of the state, the 11)20 \alua
lions on realty we're leduceit* in l!'2i
while those on railroad property wen
left at the 11)20 figure.
The stay against the collection i
the amount in dispute continues un
til the supreme court of the I nlte.
States will have settled the matter.
• Collection of the franchise tax i
also stayed, in its entirely, as tin
franchise tax is fought as unconsti
tutional l>\ I lie, live railroad. 1 :, In it:
entirety, and the I ailed States su
preme con it will have to pass upon
that issue.
IIKOWNLEV CLEARS I I'
MA I IU.MOMAL TANGLI
One Time Wife Ihru'l Cure To l'rc«s
Charge* When She Learns
lie's .Not Rich
Elizabeth City, Nov. 2'.). 11. A,
Hrownley, who last Wednesday went
to Allentowii, I'a., in response to tin
charges of non-rupport and abandon
ment, by his one time wife, has re
turned lo the city.
llrownley stated that a.s soon as his
former wife and the authorities
.earned thut lie was lint rich they
dropped the proceeding" against liim
I'hey wt'tt under the impression, ht
said ,tliat he hud become rich iti hi.
automobile business here.
lie also made the statement thai
divorce proceedings had been stalled
and that a* soon as the decree wa>
planted, lie was going to marry tin
tvomaii he has been living here with
and start life anew, „
i'INIHNG or, HOI»V IN THE
l£ >1 VST 1010
Murphy, Nov. 2'J. Discovery of the
partially decayed body >( a man i«
a remote section of Hob Creek in the
Tellico mountains i»s icpftitod by Itob
ert Dockery, while 'possum hunting
has created a sensation here.
fJo one in that section of the coun
try" i» reported missing, but it is
presumed by officers here that the
man's death was due to foul play. The
dogs attracted the attention of Mr.
Dockery to the remains, which ar
cording to physicians who .heard a
description of the condition of the
body, said it had been there for two
or three months.
SERVICES AT BAPTIST CHURCH
A. V. Joyner, pastor. Sunday school
9:45, J. C. Anderson, sueprinteiident.
Sermon by the pastor at 11 o'cloock.
-At.8:00 o'clock in the afternoon the
pastor will preach at Uiddick's Grove.
B. Y. P. U. services at 6.45. Sermon
by the pastor at 7:30. You are cor
dially invited to attend all df these
service*.
/
THE ENTEPRISE COVERS MAR
TIN COUNTY ANU VICINITY
LIKE A MANTLE.
ESTABLISHED 18»8
union i haiiKsgiving
rterv ices uoserveu at
iriristian cnuicii
.seriuo" >i as rr cut tied lij Rev. -VI. K.
vnainiKi*, .New I'aalor ol the
nVlnouist Lhurch
a
Uev. iU. K. Chambers preached the
"Vimuii an m«; Luiun i nuniiagiving
• »CC liu«l \\ UJ ilL'Hi cio tiiC
wiau CUUIvU Ul 11 U tlUlh oil \± iii4olW>-
*l\lllg ini,> . Ilia SUOJL'CI waa; 'YvllOSe
the >v oiui . Hits discourse Wiia
i,j headed and the miiMster hu.ii
• i•«-•«! .l in a torceiui and pieasihg
.iiaiuicr. i lie text is rarely used in
„u.-i mi' w.v . uacu it, however.
He proved that the world doea not
oelohg to pleasure or to busuicaa aj
people -»o olteii aeu into tiuuh. t>ut
the WoiiU la Liou a and the lulibeas
ilieieol and all tilings, whether it oe
p I ea.n ui u, business or sorrow, must
pa\s uwa'j ami must re
tuin io tjo'l to be juuged or Him Xor
the world to come.
llua was Alt'. Chambers' Unit ser
mon m his new charge and he proved
■ lihisell a "workman who ht'edeui not
oe ashamed."
I lie collection totaled $171).t>4 and it
went to the orphanages oi the
ilaptist, Christian, Methodist i'lesby
lenan anil I'.piscopal churches.
POTATOES BKEAK
OUT (V (,KOtM>
Lal.rangc runners Catch Them 0"
the lly Sajs (Ine \arii
Spinner
Kin.->toii, Nov. 2'J. where
sweet potatoes ai« feeing grown to
a si/.e ol eight to 13 pounds in many
lielifS, Today became prolific oi a new
.and of nature story. One ol the
hampion growers in the section came
orward with a statement that it had
not hetyi necessary to dig the sweet
ipuds on his farm. "The potatoes
>rew so large they simply split the
ground, mid- so fast that a second
lajer of the vegetable monsters forc
ed the uppei most potatoes out "of the
ground with a noise like ah explo
iion. The I armors stood by and caught
.hem on the Hi."
The hitherto undisputed cliainpiuh
;asped I'm breath. Ho retained the
lelt with the declaration that in his
ieiglilnhiioi.il the sweet spuds grew
0 fast and to such dimensions that
lie lields undulated as though af
ected by a sort of laud tidal wave.
1 'lie yarn spinners convention ad
lourned with this.
The 1U22 crop in the old Moseley
Hall district around I.airange has
oeen a record one m some respects.
I'eiis of thousands of bushels id' gi
gantic potatoes have been grown, the
ugar sp.iuls retaining alt tin jr Havor
ind syrupy content in spite of their
excessive weight.
i ounjf Statesville
Man Shoots llimseli
Condition of Allen Hill Serious; No
Kxplanatioh tiiven lor
Action
statesville, Nov. 21). Allen Gill,
iged 21, who shot himself last night
at the home of his parents, Mr. and
■Mrs. J. 11. Gill, o nWalnut street,
let- tonight in tiie I."jig sanitarium
n a .very serious condition, with only
i lighting chance for recovery.
The motive of the act is unknown.
Hie young man came home in his us
aal spirits and went up stairs, pre
uniably for purpose of getting ready
i'or supper when the report of a pis
,ol caused members of the family
o ru ih to his room. He was found
lying in the bed with a '32 calbre
pistol lying near. He was removed
lo the hospital, where It was founds
that the hall had entered below and
io~*the left of the heart, penetrating
the lower lung.
Latest reports from the young man
tonight indicate that while he is con
scious, his condition is very serious.
Jyl-r. (iill spent two years overseas
during the world war with the first
gas regiment. He enlisted when only
.sixteen and he was wounded by a
shrapnel once.
FOURTEEN DOLLARS PER
BASKET FOR FALt, PEAS
Elizabeth City, Nov. 2!).—Fourteen
dollars a basket sets a new high rec
ord for fall truck peas. This was the
price received Saturday by J. M. Cart
wright and A. M. Haskett from a
New York brokerage firm.
Mr. C. 0. Robinson has just reeeiv
ed a check for $1,883 for 188 baskets
of peas shipped last week. Flufaiers
generally are elated over the prices
obtained for this crop.
With all his faults Lloyd George
got as mtfch newspaper advertising as
Ford automobiles.