Trade and Ply-Up Cam
ptign Continues Until
Tuesday, February 15th
VOLUME a—NUMBER St
loat - u —— ——
NdSCTH CAROLINA
MAY GET LARGE
TEXTILE MILLS
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4fto£Vern Interests Will
Spend Hundred Mil
lion In Soath
MARION, Ju. M)l— Northern a*
too adil itteitfU we reedy to place
ia Ux mm tram aOOJOOO to IftOOJOOd
spinning which at a conservative e*tr
awte vwW represent InntaMMs of
at least (UNgMIMMM. if southern nil
. owners win agree to take over earl
operate the plants, accenting to Hugh
Litue. of u.e iUnoo Manufacturing
" «M I jinrhi»r*l nulls. wbo
Iwt «ecenu> returned nee New York
wnere toaUten bmU mm were in
touca wi»a the aophciu latcmta. „
"The liberal lawful iMiti Carer.
«i«, write* uave a ireem t» er ru.
n-Mi fc..e taiku •abac fttaeat » "
tetter Moat tor this Mate,' ho a?
tertea. Sot cwitaimt by a)it| tiur.
tie i iiU 10U.e2.11l coun..g ou.
. at* nn-5 derrn( tucatoar m ad m.%
»: tern-. |
|
AivfiiiEU AaNl>
liili i rtUiU iii'iAck
Or INf UJi^iM
i Over Weal Diviue
Within the baine ■»- r
Hour
Mr. S. & Brawl received a sees
. sage Sataiday staling that ark sn>
terpen. Alvuee L Waien and he.
sou, Jenhua Waters el BUT hMtoWu
were de» Tney iMd w.uun aa Lou.
et each outer and both Oreu of rritiu
ansa and peeanmaia. Mr. Water* na..
been ul with laiiersin bet he bad 1*
covered so that he went bunt
ing and afterward srntere* a r«u|».
»'hjc hdev eloped rata pneumonia Hi.
mother was taken with inftamaa that
also oeveioped rato pneumonia, aa»
tr.ey both died Saturday aoratae be
. ■ t)«ca foer aad Roe ectocL
lik> were teuied oa aunday witu
Eluer Newsoa H. Uam»on oltKialmx
at the funeral Wiktr aad the Wood
man ef the Wend conducting the bu
nal ritea. ' „ _
Mrs. Waters waa sixty "even year*
ef ago aad laaves a large family of
chila«ea and graadthildiaa. f Mr. Wa
ters was thirty years old and leaves a
sac and two children.
Mr. aad Mrs. Si. Is. Brown, and Mr.
aad airs. Sam Ucisiager attended the
RUC.\r» DOZEN CLCfc
p : v. - RAS BEEN URUANIZEIr
Lest ii|hi at the heaae ef Mis.
Roger A. CliUher. a »mil dub wa»
rrgsi —H with the feltewreg charter
■aasabers: Mrs. Bager A. Cruchei,
Mrs. O.IL hantta*. Miss Came Dell
Wih. Mm. W- M. biggs, Mn»- L
C. Mcaeati, Mrs. Jne A. Maiming,
Ma J. L William*, Mrs. C -A. Harrt
aea, Mias Uauy Vyane, Mrs. U. W.
i Hardy, M«- A. R While, and Mrs.
Elbert & freeL
The aame, -Round Dima" Waa ae
lactea and toe fothtwmg aMMers were
elacted- Mrs. Eaeert Wei, pre* deal.
Mrs. W. U. rtiggs, vice piandeat. anu
, Mrs. G. H. Mantissa, secretary *»«
I utasuitr.
L After sfl details weri" attended to
1 * the Ttg ——*■— waa perfected,
nill bar invited the aeembers to
play a tebber of bridge aad following
mMtimge will be hpld twice
milllj «t second and foarth
Friday «*«** *ha next meeting
will be haU with Mrs. Warroa Biggs
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SBRINRRS* REPOSITION AND
PAIR AT WARMINGI ON
JtetdHMsT the Uriaers
uoe !»■ Mt Washington will at-
form several coua
the program ef en-:
exhAito that have
eiU feraish entertain
» Roiad. at
are e wide
daserve aa
during their
Which,
w^^^Kada—of haadrodaof
Cm reai «e Mm ether ha pretty good
*r- the trip from here to Wash
tm «ea he aaade with prartkally aa
THE ENTERPRISE
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TAR HEELS DON'T
APPROVE FEDERAL |
CHILD LABOR LAW
North Carolina Delega
tion Voices Strong
Opposition
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—North
CaidiiA mi at the fnmt yesterday
in the hearing before the *uh-commit
* „ " ; ' ? t
tee of the senate judidary commit- j
tee concerning me proposeu cniiu la- |
hor amendment to the constitution 01
urn L mted States. The greaier part
of lw hearing was aaad by parties ,
Horn North Carolina and of whom •
gave testimony in opposition to the
proposed amendment asserting thai
tne stale was larung care 01 the art- 1
nation 'and that there snouid be no
attempt at mwnereoce by the louerai
government, that tM mill owners
were ooe>ing tne state laws and uin*
it mere eras adopted an ainenunietu
10 the eonstitutiou putting it in Uw -
lianda of the tedeial foverameut, the
net result woutd not be of aavantagv
to uie youth 01 the stale.
| bach waa the tenor 01 the tesu
; mony onered the suh-oohrruitiee Uj
Slate Senator W. L hong, at Bonn- ,
' oke Bapids; UaviU Clark, eoitor ot th«.
Textile builetia, Charlotte; E. Car
ter, Bateigli, executive otneer ot the i
State Weluue commission; Mrs. hate
Burr Johaaon, chairman of toe State •
Welfare commission. Adopting tuo
same attitude as did the North Can- i
Ilina delegation testimouy opposing the |
amendment was also given by two of- j
fteiala of Soath Carolina, A. U. Cilber>.,
Jr., chief inspector of the Department
of Agriculture and Labor of Sout.i
Carolina, and G. B. Lucas, assistant
to Chief Inspector Gilbert. The hear
ing was conducted by Senator Colt,
republican, of Rhode Island, chaicman,
Senator Shortridge, republican, of Cal
ifornia, and Senator Walah, democrat,
of Montana, who waa not present dur
ing the entire hearing.
David Clark, directed the teatim
ny, it being declared hy the repre
sentatives from South Carolina that
toere were adequate child labor laws
m (hat state, that these laws were
being properly enforced and that the
mill ownersSouth Carolina were
tryihg to observe the state laws, these
forbidding the employment of children
under 14 years of age in the cotton
mills ; ' i . •' 1) - «
. Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson was the
first from North Carolina to testify,
and she came as chairman of the State j
Welfare commission to deny that the.
child labor laws of North Carolinu,
. were inadequate and that these weqf!
not enforced. - She declared that the '
state laws were obeyed and that the
cotton mill owners showed a spirit of
cooperation in carrying out the laws 1
and furthed that the state had plan*
for the development of the work of
child welfare in a number of ways.
Her idea was that the proposed am
endment would hurt rather than help
the welfare of children in North Car
olina.
E. F. Carter .executive officer for
the Child Welfare commission, ie hi»
testimony declared that the cotton
mill people wherever he hsd gone in
the state appeared to be interested in
the matter ef child welfare, that the
operators of the mills were doing all
they could ia their efforts to enforce
the child labor law of the state.
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WANTS $50,000 FOlt
- HUSBAND'S DEATH
Suit Filed Against Trac
tion Company and
Motorman - j
WINSTON-SALEM. Jan. 20.—Myr
tie M. Haass, administrator of her
Chaa. D. Hanes, has entered j
su.t in superior court against the
1 Southern Public Utilities compAiy,
and Rota, man I K.W illiard, • lr
W 3 a" tr'ng negligence upon the |«ti j
ef the defendants at the time l|ane* (
; was fataßy injured in an autoanobilc
! street car eolMaion, the latter part oi
NovembffL , , '
The complaint alleges that the
street car eras not under propor con
trol of the metennaa at the time of
the collision. The decent d was thrown
■ from the aato scd died two days lat
er from injnries sastained. Answer
to the cempbfet denies any MgHtW*
on the pert of the compen£ f ~
A CORRECTION
fe oar isaae carrying the senate
lOsnlutina -ef Hen. Joseph T. Waldo,
tte article stated that he was bora in
Cissartlrl, wfedi wee aa error; he
•as bora ia Marbia ceaaty, near Ham
ilton; the seitste nmriatka being aa
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•ti or.
WILLIAMSTON. MARTIN COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1925.
UNKNOWN PARTIES
I KILLED B. P. 8M IHI
.Verdict of Coroner's Ju
ry Reached at Sec
ond Inquest
HAMLET, Jan. 20.—That Boyd P.|
• Smith, whose dead body was found j
by his mother, Mrs. Virginia Smith,:
herself badly wounded, in his room
j with a bullet wound through his heart,
j met deatn at the hands of some un
known person or persons, waa the
substance of a coroner's jury verdict
returned at the second inquest held
! at their home in Gibson *t 10:30 yes
teroay morning.
I ouueriiig irom the severe mental
sittua and from the wounds roceiv- i
eu ten uays ago, Mrs. Smith iace*i
uie six juiymen and calmly to.d alt
oi uie events leading to and
uie shoouiig ol iierseii and her son'
Tueauay moirnng, January S». At the :
iei|uest 01 her attenoiug ph.vaician,
COl oner tiaminond was asked to make 1
tne inquest as uhwrt as possible, ac '
' Jui>. £iiuth s condition would not ai-
I low aeveie gulliiig,^
uiis. Smith's sutteinenl varied bu.
utue iroin tne statement given Or.
u A. Livingston January iUth. ,
j During the investigation, Mrs.
Snath said that the* day before the
Boyd complained of a pain
in his side. That evening the two
came to Hamlet and attended a mov
I ing picture show, after which the>
J returned to Gibson. About 6 o'clock
j on the following morning Boyd rose
and dressed. He awakened his moth
er and asked her to rub his side, sa> -
ing that the pain was severe. After
a while she said he felt better and
both sat down to brsskfast. Nothing 1
peculiar in the actions of Boyd ws«
ncticed by the mother, and she et- 1
pecially remembered that he at heart
iiy of his breakfast.
DISASTROUS BLAZE
AT ELON COLLEGE
V
Administration Building
Total Loss With Lit
v ,.. . 4..ytf. . .
tie li'isvu ance
ELON COLLEGE, Jan. I».—Elon
college, the denominational college in
the south of the Christian church.
| suffered a fire loss of between $l5O,
' 000 and |160,000 yesterday morning
j when the main administration builu
Jing of the institution was completely
. destroyed and one of the dormitories
damage. The fire, of undetermined
origin, was discovered about C:3O o'-
clock. At that time tho flames he>.
burst through the roof and the win
dows. There is no lire fighting ap
paratus in the village and the build
ing was reduced to ashes within a
couple of hours. Insurance was stat
ed tQ be about $26,000.
Shortly after the first fire had burn
ed itself out flames burst from the
roof of building, a men's
dormitory and immediately adjoising
the administration building. Quicf
work 011 the part of the Burlington
fine department which had been called
to the scenf aided by students, saved
this structure,
j The administration building hoes '
ed the collags library, the college
chapel, which also served as the com
munity church, thrss literary escisty
halls, 12 class rooms, the museum,
and the offices of President W. A.
Harper of the institution. All these
were completely destroyed. The libra
ry of some 16,000 volummes is I com
plete loas. . *
! President Harper said today that
of some 16,000 volumes is a complain
, the structure will be rebuilt. A meet
ing of the trustees bad beaa called
i for Monday.
UNIVERSITY WILL RUN
12 WEEKS Ift SUMMER
I ~ ,
' CHAPEL HILL, Jan. 21.— An
nouacsment waa made today Mat is
atead of running for only six weeks,
the Univeretiy summer school will this
year be operated Mr two terms ef
six weeks each.
T&e first term will opsa Monday,
June 1«, and class Saturday, Jaly 28.
and the aecopd will open m Monday,
July 80, and does Friday, Septem
ber 7th.
I This doubling up is the direct in
' suit of sa urgent isqpiM trmm the
State Superintendent ef ia
truction #nd from the tgacbers ai
North Carolina, 'There are so aaaay
tion that the University caanst psa
aftdy most the iwcressed i|—|fil hi
earn tan.
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TAR HEEL IS AWARDED » '
CARNEGIE BERO MEDAL
, PITTSBURGH, Jan. 20.— Twenty
four medals were awarded by the Car
negie Hero Fund commission at its
annual meeting here yesterday in rec- j
ognition of acts* of heroism. Eight
lof the heroes lost their lives in at
temptin gto save the lives of others,
.and to their dependents the commis-
I sion awarded $5,640 a year in pen- 1 f
! siona, while awards amounting to $6,-
400 were made for educational pur- 1
1
poses. Other awards to heroes am .
oun ted to Five of the medals I
were of silver and the remainder of | '
broaxe.
1 The list of awards includes:
J. Thompson Brown, of Scotland
Neck. N. C. p who attempted to save ,
a boy from drowning at Goode* Fer |
' ry, Va., June 8, 1920, bronie. 1
DONT FORGET THE
SORGHUM PATCH!
I lays Big Pail In Feed
ing the Family At a
Small Cost
RALEIGH, Jan. 22.— 1t has always ;
been a good plan to grow the home
supplies aad with the coming ef the
boll weevil it is more important thanj
; ever before that this should be done
J before planting for money crops, says j
P. 11. kime, of the division of ag- i
I
ronomy, North Carolina Experiment)
' station. Mr. Kime suggests that the j
best policy to follow is to grow more
lood supplies, to cut ilowu the acre
age oi cotton and make the same am
' oa. I of cotton on fewer acres by cul
tn ami garul fertiising better.
Cue source of home supplies that
> «lr. Kime states should not be ov
erlooked is the aoighum patch. Ev
.r; farmer should have his own sor
ghum patch. Sorghum syrup when
properly made is superior to any corn
syrup or molasses bought in the mar
ket. It is a good lood, ju?h in su
gar and other cardehyurates. It is
palatable, free from adidterasts, and
has a very fine flavor, £e Bays.
The cost of produciag an aero ol
sorghum is little more than for corn,
while the returns are often three or
four times as great, finds Mr. kime.
He says, "Sorghum will do well when
given the same treatment aa corn,
the preparation of the seed bed, the t
fertiliser requirements, and cultivation
are about the same. Fifty bushels
of corn worth SI.OO per bushel ia
considered a good yield while tho
same land should produce 200 gallons
of syrup, worth SI.OO per gallon. Al
lowing one thir dfor making the syr
up, we atill have a return of |l»3-0u
per acre from the sorghum against
S6O from the corn. One fourth to one
half acre should produce sufficient syr
pj for the average family."
PLAY TO BE STAGKD AT
WINDSOR ON TEE 2STB j
An Ariuaa Cowboy, Will Bo the Ap
proved Attraction aad la Expect
ed to Attract a Creed
An item of more than ordinary in
terest to local theatre goers is the aa- •
, nouncement that Mr. Herbert k. Betts
I i i
! and his company of splendid actors
ana actrossee will present the greatest
western pi./ ever piudoced, "An Ar
izona Cowboy," in the Bed Cross the
ue, on Monday January 29th. at
Wiaiioer. I
inis play nas enjoyed e long and
profitable run in America and canes
to the W indsor theatre with the same j
excellent cast that has delighted thoa
sands of theatre patrons elsewhere.
incidental to the delightful story the
play talis and the beautiful stage eet
tiags that fairly ungie frith the free,
wild atmosphere of the wsat, a num
ber of high claas vaudeville features
are interloped, including th» appear
ance of dainty, little Dorothy LaU ia ,
iter daiHng numbers that have made
her the peer of any in her particular
line of work. This little lady has '
crept into the hearts of the pablic '
through the delicacy ef her danriag, '
aad the sweetness and grace with
"Which she surrounds H.
If the enthusiasm of the else- 1
where is aay criterion, R is a posi- 1
tive conclusion that the Red Class 1
theatre will be taxed to the fine it oa
the night of the appears— mi this 1
,popular attraction. I
Tickets are wf sa sale at «hs ,
Windsor Pharmacy, Windsor, N. C. 1
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—*ohnoaa-assd WMI IMBi Wwwjj
sad Gold Leef tabeoss seed, free at (
the Rseaolre wsreheew Ceoae to ass j
m I
*A. ■'fer'l ' J
ihe "Mocking Bird 44
Arrived Saturday
The -Mocking Bird," the first boat
of the Virginia-Carolina Inland Navi- !
•ration company arrived at the Wil
liamstou wharf, Saturday morning,
January 20th.
it makes the trip from> Williamstoti I
to Norfolk ia about 22 hours. For
the present the boat is scheduled to I
leave Norfolk at 12 o'clock each Wed- |
a**day and will serve all landings o» ;
the Roanoke river up to Hamilton.
The freight rates will be about 20,
per cent lower than the present rail- j
road freight rates. We usually pay |
little attention to such little things a.i'
20 per eeni, but it v would have saved j
the people of W illiamston about $;!5,- j
UOO m the year 1922, if the figures j
given us are conect. We do not vouch |
for the accurateness of the figures,'
but we think they are about correct, j
hen we look at it from the aggre- j
gate saving to the public, it amounts 1
to a large sum. If the people of the
county could save 20 per cent on all
; treigljt charges, it would amount to 1
[as much as all the taxe:> paid by tho !
■ people of the county, and when we
I think how much cursing there is done
( over taxes we wonder why there is j
; not more over freight-. We can at
; least easily understand why Governor,
; Mouifon is trying so hard to rt>-
j neve the citixens of the state of some
■of the heavy burdens they are cur
j rying
j -It ia the opinion of many that the
j rates charged by the boat is still murli
! too high—much higher than is churn
! Ed by steamboat companies under si m
j ilar conditions.
The people along the line are glud
of even 30 per cent saving.
TO KINDCK PIKES
WITH LANDMARK
Ancient Structure at the
University Gives Way
for New One
CHAPEL HILL, Jan. IS.—A land
mark of Chapel Hill is to be destroy
ed. It is Tankersley s store, a little
one story wooden building that lius
been standing for seventy two years
next to the side of the present post
office. .
years, citizens and studnets of the?
Here, for the last twenty eight
years, citiiena and University students
have bought tobacco and candies and
traits and peauuts from the proprie
tor, Will Tankersley. liefore that, aiul
running back as far as 1861 Uie place
was a jetoelry shop.
Now a brick building is going* up
00 the ploC With'a frontage on the
main street of 42 feet ,lt will have
two ground floor stores; and above
will be twelve living rooms for stu
dents. Mr. Tankersley will continue
hia business in one of the stores.
"My grandfather, Sidney Barbee,
built this little house," Mr. Tanker
sley said today, "ten of twelve years
before the Civil war. I added to it
■ by building a- nextension to the rear,
but it will not do any longer."
Announce Acquisition
Catawba Power Site
'
; HICKORY, Jafo. 20.—Joseph L). El
liott, local capitalist, announced the
acquisition by puichase this week ol
the Thornton power site on the Ca
tawba river about three miles of Hick
ory, with the object of constructing
a hydro electric plant that will develc
,op 33,000 horse power. It ia believed
' here that Mr. Elliott and A. M. Kis
tfor, a Morgan town millionaire, will
«««fcs an arrangement with the South
ern Power ceanpany whereby the full
capacity of the project will be trans
lated into electric energy. - t
Mr. Elliott, said that work should
be storied with ih a few weeks 011
the «*»— and that it would be rushed.
The preliminary outlay for land and
water rights ia close to SIOO,OOO. Ir
the Southern Power company is fav
erable, the water will be backed over
its property to Rhodhiss, where an
: other huge-project 1- contemplated >
' the near future «
I c' •
• WHO IS THEIR MASTER?
WeU, what ma*ter does the Wash-!
j rg 1- rv.mti»r «f Commerce new.
ar who is it far? We are honest in j
asking this qaeetian. We just can-i
understand. But one thing we
know, it ie pleasing the railroads, 1
the Apostles aad perpe raters o fhlg!i'
I freight rates, aad of course, it has s
perfect right to aerve any master it
wtahs*. Bet we had pictured in our
wtod tho fnaction at a chamber of
Ifgiia"" waa jo do something for
flh« people eaUecbvaly, ahd tho lower
neight rates might be a mighty fine
ttfa* for the Beaufort county people.
BUDGET FIGURES 'i
NEAK 20 MILLION j
liN 2-YEAR PERIOD
_
'Aggregate Maintenance
: Fund xor 1923-24 To
tals
UALKiCIi, Jun. 2'J. —Maintenance
j appropriations for the state depart
j mewls ami institutions and the pay
ment oi uiteie»t on outstanding in
debtedness -jgaiiug
and new bond lsmjks i'or peimaiieiu
I uiipvovemeutg in various institutions
'
mended m .the, bi-eiui.al report ul' the
j totate liudget commission which was
laid-before the general assembly tins
I morning.
beginning with a treasurer'* sur
-1 plus oi deuvedflom the
current revenues in !U:>l-22, the coin
nu.soiou estimates the revenues of Uie
two year period at $19,25),178.40, and
I leaving a prospective balance in the
I hands of yie .treasurer December 31,
j IS>24, oi' £,328,40 uu the basis of its
( estimate oi revenues and expenditures
j Estimates include a IU per cent 111-
'; crease. 111 the revenues next year.
| Outstanding debts of the stale at
i tiie beginntn goi the present year aio
set iorth at st>2,lv>4,l!ttt, which, with
the proposed issue of $8,775,000 for
I institutional improvements and $15,-
' OUO,O(H> pioposcd in the general higli
-1 ! way meusufe." approval by the House
J Roads committee yesterday afternoon
I wil| bring tiie total state debt at tiie
i ejul of IJ-4 to
General appropriations for the two
year pit nod aie increased under the
..report of; the commission under the
recommendations of two y ears ago for
11)21-22 by approximately *.~>,OOO,,UUd,
and approved bond issues ior permu
neni improvements in 2o stale insti
} tut ions are increased $2,10t),00U over
I similar appropriations recommended
j and passed two years ago. interest
charges on ilebt and tiie beginiunti of
a sinking fund is included in the geu
" I'eral appropriation.
' j The rep.ort does riot slop with the
5 suggested appropriations, but con
s( I'luiies witli a review of the economic
* ' condition of the state, and the vast
1 increase in wealth dunng the past two
I years, amounting, according to the re
* port, to u third 'of a billion dollurs,
1 [ with a per capita distribution of S»UO
1 to each man, woman ami child in the
I I ■ e P '
Vata(e.
" j The commission finds the healthy
1 growth of the state reflected in the
e public revenues derived entirely from]
j incomes and inheritances ,a scheme
Lot taxation tried out for the first
B j time and with no reluctance in
L ' lyzi. Instead of the ileticit of a iwl-
B * lion dollars the commission finds, it
self with a surplus ef tw'o and a half
"j million dollars with wiiic hto begin
its appropriations for the two year
', period.
" J for appropriations for cur
-81 rent maintenance expenses, and for
»I . ,
> permanent im proveinents were mrg«-
1 ly increased over the demands made
two years ago, but despite its optim
ism, the commission htt» again slashed
sharply inlo the figures of the partl
, tinners, reduiyng maintenance requests
' by a million anil a half dollars and
j imptoveiiiciil requests- by wpfrwum
?lately six millions.
f
MARTIN COI NTY IN
CtHKAT NEi:i> OF A '
~ FARM DKMONSTHATMt
j No expenditure would add more to
the uplift of the |>eople in Martin
j county than a farm demonstrator. We
, it, though we ignorantly , boast
j'of our superior knowledge of how to
do things; we must admit that most
that we know was gotten from oth-
I ers.
( Our best' ideas, we picked up here
and there and we are foolish if we
I think we know enough. 'We think that
, our fathers were ignorant. We are
doubtless more ignorant for our day
. than they were in their day, and are
probably less capable of doing things
in comparison to our opportunities
than they were. "
ft
i METHODIST CHURCH AT
V DI RHAM IS DESTROYED
DURHAM, Jan. 22.—Trinity Meth
| ojist churrh was completely destroy
| ed by fire yesterday morning just be-
J'fore church time. The church was
built 40 years ago and was valued"
at $125,000. . A valuable pipe organ
and a $26,000 memorial, a work of
art, made of marble and representing
j the last supper, was destroyed
Factors that build communities; the
school, the church, the local paper, the
home agent, the county agent.
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Trade Ja I Williamston
Be One of the Lucky
Ones. SSOO Given Free!
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ESTABLISHED 189«
REAR GRASS MAN
FOUND DEAD IN
iifcD OiS SATUkAY
h ~
weak Heart Given As
tiie Cause of His
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Teen Page oi' bear Grays was found
dead in his lied eurlyy Saturday morn
ing. V* lien his mother called him, he
tailed to answer and upon investi
gation, she found him dead.
His wife was not home, she being
in Vv tsiungtoii with their only child, a
ten year old boy, who was in the
asiiiUgton hospital where iie had
beeu taken to have a broken leg treat*
eu. >n
Mr. Page was very unfortunate in
that he was addicted to drink., and
had drank so heavdy 'that be had
ivuehed the stage where he had no
control over himself when drinking,
lie was sober the day before nis death
but his heart had become so weaken
ed that it is thought to have been the
caue of his death.
He was buried Sunday with Eider
Joint N. Uogerson of Dear Grass of
ficiating.
STEAM COAT CASE
IS U>i\DUJTEL>IiY
GOVEiUNOK
r irst Hearing- Given Ov
er to the iYleasure
Proponents
UALIaGH, Jun. 20. —Charges by C.
, C. irkpalncK, ot New liern, that a
b y l'fund is being raised
by the lioard oftr Trade and cnamber
- ox Commerce of Norlolk, Va., to fight
i the personal representation
. of the case for the proponents by Gov
ernor Cameron Morrison featured the
iirst hearing yesterday before the sen
ate and house committees on water
t commerce on the bill embodying the
- governor's proposal for a state oyvn
: ed ,slale operated steamship line. The
. Committee also received a definite of
> fer of a deed to terminal facilities
owned by the City of Wilmington,
, which are now under lease to a pri
-1 vately owned boat line.
> Governor Morison took personal
charge of the case lor the proponents
of tiie bills, but announced alter two
hours hail been used by him and four
j witnesses examined by hnu that he
had expected the late CoioAel J. Ury
an Crimes, secretary of slate, to pre
sent the. letter for the proponents,
and asked t on account of personal
weariness to be allowed to suspend,
i'lie confniiW.ee then heard representa
tives of six chambers of commerce for
thirty minutes and adjourned until 3
o'clock this afternoon when Governor
Morrison will resume conduct on the
case.
With no upponent or member of ei
ther of the committees oilering to
enliven the proceedings by cri-ss ex
amination of witnesses, the hearing ,
became somewhat tediua with the gov
ernor developing his case with the
same thoroughness and exhaustive
nes» that he would have employed be
fore a jury. But Mr. Kirkpa trick
broke the monotony with his charge
of a fund being raised in Norfolk
to light the bill. He quoted C. A.
Hyiin, president of the chamber of
commerce, at Washington, N. C.. *■
authority.
1»R. LONG REPORTS LITTLE
SICKNESS IN HAMILTON
■ , ..
Dr. U. L. Long was in town Sun
day; he reports little sickness in' the
iiami.lton section. One interesting
thing mentioned by the doctor waa
that the Hamilton section,, including
the Poplar Point section and place®
up the Iloanoke to Palmyyra, at one
time considered one of the greatest
malaria and yellow chill districts hi
Eastern Carolina, has not had fc yel
low chill case in many years; and that
malaria is rapidly passing »w»y.
His theory Is that observing health
lawn is the cause of improvement;
that is, screening window*, and us
ing pumps instead of open wells |e
not only saving sickness, but is sav
ing the lives of hundreds.
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BUILDING AND LOAN WH-L -
ISSUE 5 PEE CENT PAID
VP BTOC AFTER MARCH 1
" ** '
The Martin County Building and
Loan association will issue 6 per eent
paid up stock March Ist, with Inter
est —«—■»"nl'r Thi * * oek
( is nontaxable and Is a high class in
vestment ~... >