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VOLUME 29—NUMBER 50 Thousands of Premiums Are' Offered by This Year's Fair Select Exhibits Early; Now Is Time to Begin Everybody Can Win a Premium With a Little Effort The Roanoke Fair is now only 34 days off. It 'ers a fine opportunity for all farmers, gardeners, stock raisers, poultrymen, cooks, housekeep ers, and lovers of art to draw good cash prizes and at the same time ac quire some ideas that may be helpful to them. No one knows it all and the first purpose of a fair is to bring to gether the best products and demon strate the best methods. In looking through the premium list, we find three prizes for county and school exhibits, aggregating $l2O. There are three prizes offered for farm and home exhibits, $45 in the three. ■*-" It is interesting to know that any farmer in the entire area which the fair represents can win a prize an corn, if he will go to the trouble to try. , There are 26 different prizes offered on corn. It may be that 'the farmer will complain that he doesn't know how to select the prize-winning kind. If you don't, then go to the fair and learn the difference between good com and poor. Don't victimize your body for the want of better brains any longer. The cotton grower can get a cash prize, because there will be a prize given for each of the six best stalks. It may be that the best stalks will not ceme to the fair, but the six best that do win. Nine prizes will be given for the best oats exhibited. This doesn't seem to mean much to most people, but it does mean a lot to the horae. Get a prize for your best this year and learn to produce better next year. Then comes the cowpea, which may draw 14 prizes. Rye, one of the cheap but valuable crops, will get two prizes. The soy bean comes to the front with its demand for six cash prizes. You may be able to get one of them. The velvet bean, so little recog nized by our farmers, yet so fine for all poor-land farmers, gets recogni tion at the fair and will draw three cash prizes. Wheat, the world's greatest grain, but very little grown in this section, gets two prizes. • Hay, the crop that most sorry farm ers buy, will draw twelve prizes. Peanuts, the Martin County crop that stands near the top of all crops produced, geta thirteen prises. Our tobacco crop, which is the lead er in cash income (please note that we didn't say cash profit), will draw eight prises. Then there are four prizes for county exhibits; first, $100; secone, $75; third, $66; and fourth, S4O. Mar tin, Beaufort, Pitt, Washington, Ber tie, Halifax, Hertford, Perquimans, Pasquotank and Chowan Counties are eligible for these prises. Sweet potato growers have the op portunity of drawing ten cash prises. Just bring good potatoes of the prop er varieties. Sixty prizes are offered for garden products. Fruits are down for thirty-two prises. Apples, pears, grapes, nuts, and persimmons are all included in the list of fruits. Live stock is not so easy for our people as good crop exhibits. We STRANG THEATRE | TONIGHT "SEA HORSES" TOMORROW FRED THOMPSON and SILVER KING in "The WILD BULL'S LAIR" Also 2-Reel Comedy And Free Ticket to Friday's Show THE ENTERPRISE Man Will be Here Friday to Adjust All Auto Title and Registration Mr. S. A. Nichols, of the SUte auto license department, was in town yesterday en route to Eden ton, Hertford, and Elizabeth City. He will return here Friday and from 2 to 7 o'clock he will be in the mayor's office at Williamston to straighten out all difficulties relating to automobile licenses. If there is anybody with title or registration difficulties, if he will come down, Mr. Nichols has the authority to have them adjusted. Colored Quartets Have Good Program The Greenville-Norfolk colored quartets contested at the courthouse here Monday night before a packed house; many white people from both the town and county were in attend ance. It was seen from the start that the Greenville four were no match for the Virginians. While the Greenville fel lows sang fairly well, they are ap parenty untrained and not even well selected when it conies to first prin ciples in singing. Apart from the natural adaptation of the negro to music, they held only a few points. With the Norfolk bunch conditions were quite different. It was a quartet well selected as to voice, with fair intelligence, and well trained by a qualified leader. Both quartets were fortunate in se lecting religious songs with only a few exceptions, when good clean songs were selected. Farmers Field Day at Experiment Station The Upper Coastal Plain Experi ment station of the North Carolina Department qf Agriculture, located on the Cokey road near Rocky Mount, will hold its fourth annual farmer's field day and basket picnic on Thurs day, September 2, at 10 a. m. There is an all day program in which some of the State's foremost farmers will participate. Mr. Zeno Moore will act as chair man of the meeting. There will also be a program for the ladies, with Miss Virginia Wat son, home demonstration agent, in charge. Business Meeting of Junior Epworthians The regular business meeting of the Junior Epworth League will be held on Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock, with Mrs. John F. Thigpen. All members are urged to be pres ent. are leaders in producing fine crops,' but we are away behind when it comes to good stock. Yet we have enough to interest the fair associa tion to the extent of offering $437 in 36 prizes and 22 championship rib bons for beat exhibits, which must be for pure-bred stock cattle. Hogs, the leading stock product of our county, comes in with the big gest prise recognition of any exhibit. There are 124 prizes offered aggre gating in cash $923. Farmers may win prizes this year or learn this year how to win them next. When it comes to poultry you have to cross the Mason and Dixon line on the north and the Mississippi River] to the west to beat the Williamston fair. Even our own Williamston fowls have outclassed all of the great southeastern country'a entrys. For that reason many prizes are offered. There are 17 special or sweepstakes premiums besides Ave premiums foi each variety of fowl. This means that the totai«umber of premiums will run well up into the hundreds as the number of varieties entered here if> always large. It is always- easy to say, "I told you so," or "I could have beat that." But unless you write it the world doesnt care what you say; and unless you do beat the other fellow, it does no good. The world cares but little what you can do, but it is vitally in terested in what you "do do." If you get a prise, it will be award ed f. T what you do and not for what you might have done. Right now is the best time to se lect your exhibits for the fair. If you haven't a premium list, a postal card request will bring you one nu ! mediately. Write or call at the En terprise office for it. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday August 24,1926 He has, in fact, authority to care for any trouble dealing or relat ing to automobiles in connection with Hie State auto license de partment, and he wants to get them cleared up. If anyone has sent for license and has not re ceived it, Mr. Nichols will be able to And out the reason and see that they come. Don't forget the time, Friday August 27, from 2 to 7 o'clock, at the mayor's office in the city hall. Queen Bobs Her Hair While King Is Away Paris, AUR. 22. —Queen Marie, of Rumania, hat) cut her hair. Like many unroyal wives, ahe did it while her husband was a way on a trip, the king being in Paris, while she was having her locks clipped in Buchareat. She had it cut, she said, so that she wouldn't look old-faahioned on her American trip. Reports do not state whether the queen's is a shingle or plain bob. % Judge Rules Wives Can Beat Husbands Judge W. C. Harris, of the Raleigh police court, has reversed one of the old obsolete laws, that permitting wife beating, and again established the plan, though it is a change in the person of special privilege*. The husband had the right to flog his wife in this country not so many years ago. Then it began to look cruel to see some old beast of a hus band coming home crabbed, sullen, and perhaps drunk, only to whip his wife. The lawmakers then made it a misdemeanor for the husband to whip the wife. The grade of crime, however, was of the mildest type. In a few more years, they looked the situation over and said by a statutory act that whipping a woman was a more weighty crime and that the pun ishment should be increased. Now Judge Harris comes along and tells women to whip their husbands when they need it. The judge seems to think when a husband neglects his own wife and bestows his affection and goods on another that his wife should have the legal right to correct him by force of arms. Union Services Close Next Sunday Night The last of the series of union church services will be held the Memorial Baptist Church Sunday night, when Rev, C. H. Dickey, pas tor of that church, who has been a way for severals weeks, will preach. Mr. Dickey preached at the first of the union services in the Christian church the first of July, since which time the services have been held at the Baptist, Methodist, and Christian churches alternately. Rev. R. L. Shirley, pastor of Red diclca Grove Baptist Church, preached at the service Sunday night at the Christian church. American Legion Holds Convention at Hickory Hickory, Aug. 23.—The American Legion convention now in tension here id being attended by thousands of World War veterans. Col. Hanford McNider, assistant secretary of war, addressed the legion today. He is unmistakably an ad vocate of national defense, if his speech today was a true index to his opinion. He said he relied on the experience of legion members as the best guide for our government to follow. The meeting is one of the largest and most enthusiastic yet held in the State. Everetts Woodmen to Attend Church in Body The members of th« Modern Wood men of America at Everetta, N. C., will meet Wednesday Bight at 7.46 p. m. and attend the revival services be ing held at the Christian Church. All members who will are asked to be present at the hall. We will also, at this time, try to devise plans whereby an initiation will take place early in September. Schools of Oak City Ready for Opening Sept 6 Enrollment of 400 Look ed For; H. M. Ainsley Again Principal (Special to The Enterprise) Oak City, Aug. 23!*—With the latch string outside the door, 400 pupils will look forward to the opening for the fall term on Monday, September 6, with prospects ahead for the best year the local intsitution has ever known. Principal H. M. Ainsley has been reelected to serve for his fourth consecutive year as principal of the local schools. The year 1925-26 was a very suc cessful school year. On May 14, when seventeen seniors, bound to gether by bonds of love and true faith for the great work ahead, presented a scene of school spirit long to be re membered, when with a few well chos en words, the class president, Miss Eloise Ross, presented a beautiful pic ture to the principal and a lovely 4- piece suit of fumiture to the school. This suit to be used by th* *chool for any extra activity, such as plays, entertainments, etc. The new projectst completed las year offer greater incentive for the coming term, and with the coopera tion of all we hope to have a very pleasant and profitable year. The fac ulty is complete with the exception of one teacher, who will be secured with in the next few days. No time or money has been spared in securing a corps of the best teachers possible in a high-grade school. We hope to have Superintendent R. A. Pope and Miss Anna T*ntham, home demonstration agent, pffcsent on the day of opening, who will blase the path for the year; realising that a (rood start is half the success. A general invitation is extended to all to be present at 10 o'cteck Mon day, September 6. Parents, come and bring your children, one and all, with books and promotion cards; meet the new teachers; help us to got acquaint ed so that no time will Be lost in get ting down to real work. The faculty will be announced in the next issue of the Enterprise. Live Stock Association Will Meet Thursday The Koanoke and Tar Kivcr lave Slock Association will hold its annual mating on the farm of THr. It. F. Shelton, of Speed, Thursday, August 26. The association is composed of a large number of the leading farmers of Edgecombe and Halifax Counties, with a few from Martin and Nash. They have been in operation for several years, during which time they h?ve promoted the better breeding of all kinds of farm stock. Many car loads of hogs have gone to the high priced markets from these people. They have also brought In many fine dairy and beef cattle. Will Attend I). A. R. District Meeting Mesdames J. D. Biggs, jr., Erah Cobb, and A. K. Dunning will attend the fourth and fifth North Carolina D. A. H. district meeting, which will be held in Rocky Mount tomorrow. Rocky Mount and Oxford will be Joint hostesses on the occasion. The Na tional Regent, Mrs. Brosseau, will be present and make an addresß. She is in the State to attend the Moores Creek celebration. This will b« one of the biggest district meetings ever held. Society to Serve Ice Cream Supper Don't forget the ice-cream supper oil the lawn of the Methodist Church tonight at 8 o'clock, which will be served by the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church for the benefit of Scarritt College. Only home-made ice cream, home made cake, and home-made lemonade will be tferved. Story Hour at Club TTiursday Afternoon Miss Emma Robertson will en tertain the children at their spec ial hour Thursday afternoon held in the Woman's Club rooms. », Miss Robertson has taught the lint grade hi the local school* for the past two years snd needs no introduction to those children she has taught. And many oth ars of the little folks know her by reputation and will be on hand to hear the stories she will tell tkea. WILLIAMSTON SCHOOLS TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 6; D. A. SNOW IS PRINCIPAL Wiltiamston-Bertie Star Route Changes Hours into Minutes The Windsor Star Route car ries heavy mail. Yesterday, the beginning of the second week of the star-route service from Wil liamston to Windsor, there was enough mail to load a Ford car. to its capacity. The new mail arrangement for the Kertie capital and the near-by points is proving very convenient. Where it formerly took mail from Martin County points from 24 to 48 hours to reach Kertie points, it now reaches the same places in from 24 to 48 minutes. Plymouth Boy Killed As Motorcycle Skids H. H. Arps, of Plymouth, was in stantly killed in Thomasville Monday morning, when a motorcycle in which he and W. S. Roberson were riding skidded and struck a tree. Roberson was painfully, though not seriously, hurt. The young men were driving from Greensboro to Charlotte to see the speedway races and were turning a sharp curve as they'entered Thomas vdle. The machine was running too fast, causing it to skid. Arps was dashed head-foremost into the tree. Mr. Arps was a druggist and was only 23 years old. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Arp.s,*ff Ply- Mouth. He .left his home town about a year ago, and for some time was employed by the O. Henry Drug Co., later going with the Justice Drug Co., both of Greensboro. He was employ ed by the latter firm at the time of his death. Besides his parents, he leaves three sisters and several brothers, two of whom are druggists, all living in Plymouth. Hearing on August 30 On Mark Hopkins Will Durham, Aug. 24—-Answer to the petition filed with the ullged will of the late Mark Hopkins, California multi-millionaire ami native of North Carolina, in California this month, has been forwarded by Judge J. H. Longden, representing 205 North Car olina claimants to participation in the $300,000,000 estate, in which it in de nied that Mark Hopkins left a will, that th? will filed for probate is a forgery and request is made that an administrator be appointed to find the value of the estate and a commission er be named to ascertain the relation ship of the North Carolina claimants to Mark Hopkins, then that the es tate be redistributed on- that basis, (jiving the rightful_ heirs their part. Judge Longden left Saturday f or I'rancisco to appear in the heuring set for August 30 and to oppose the probating of the alleged will. Crop Estimate Sends Price of Cotton Up The Government cotton crop esti mate made public yesterday showed a decrease of 373,00(1 bales, as compared with the last report made. The de crease amounts to 6.3 per cent in two weeks, and shows the condition to 10 63.6 per cent of normal, indicating a crop of 15,24K,000 bales against 16,- 103,67 a bales last year. .The publi cation of the report sent prices up more than $6 per bale. Mr. F. L. Edwards was culled to Swan Quarter, Hyde County, last week, to embalm a body. The man died suddenly while attending a baseball game, supposedly from ex citement, which overcame a weak heart. The family had him embalmed to permit relatives to arrive for the burial. Little Miss Elizabeth Ciurkin was rushed to a Washington Hospital this afternoon for an operation foi icute appendicitis. CARD OP THANKS We wish to take this opportunity to thank the people of Williamston for their many acts of kindness and sympathy during the time our daugh ter and granddaughter, Ruth, was ill and after her death. They will be long remembered by us. Mrs. Lucy Modlin and Family. Mrs. Alice Godard. Mr. John Highsmith, of Roper, was a business visitor here yesterday. ' 3 Vacancies in Faculty Are to be Filled Soon Fifth Grades, A and B, and First Grade Yet to be Supplied The Williamston school will open September 6th, if all the necessary teachers can be gotten by that time. The school board has so far failed to till the vacancies in the faculty with teachers for the first grade and fifth grade A and fifth grade U. The other teachers elected are: D. A. Snow, of Reidsville, S. C., principal. Miss Orpah Steed, of Kichlands, N. C. Mrs. W. H. Harrell, Williamston. Seventh grade: Mr. K. G. Phillips, Siler City, N. C. ' >. Sixth grade: Miss Eleanor Stan back, of Mount Gilead. Fourth grade: Miss Norma Ram sey, of Marshall, N. C. Third grade: Miss Annie Harper, of Wilson, N. C. Second grade A: Miss Lucy C. lvey, of Scotland Neck. Second grade II: Miss Mildred Dar den, of Kenly. Mr. Snow, the new principal, comes' from Wofford College and has taught at liight Point. He is expected to arrive in Williamston the latter part of this week. Mr. Phillips, who will teach the sev enth grade, will also serve as athletic director and coach. He is from the Slate I'niversity, and has had experi ence as a Hoy Scout leader. Full announcement will be made when the faculty is completed, and liny change of the date of opening if the proposed date is changed. Bishop Darst Leader Of 'Bishops' Crusade' The New York Times, of Sunday, August 22, sayar "The Right Rev. Thomas C. Durst,' Hit-hop of Kast Carolina and Chair man of the. National Commission on Evangelism of the Episcopal Church, "has heert chosen to head "the Bishops' crusade," which the commission will conduct throughout the United States early next year. This' announcement was made at the Church Missions' House, 281 Fourth Avenue, by the Right Kev. (., Ashton Oldham, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany," follow ing a meeting of nearly a week at heene Valley, N. Y. "The purpose of the crusade will be 'to meet the needs and problems of this critical age in the world's his tory." The commission will organize one hundred bishops, priests and lay men among the leaders of the com munion anil send them«out in to address mass meetings in every flection of the country, and these will be followed with 'intensive' meetings of a similar character in every Epis copal parish. * Start Work This Week On Telephone Building The Carolina Telephone and Tele graph Co. will begin the erection of a new office building next week. The building will be on Smithwick Street on the land recently purchased from! ■l. G. Godard. The building will be a combination type ofßce and residence bungalow, and will add much to the beauty or that section of the town. 4 Mr. D. J. Hose, contractor and build «r, of Koeky Mount, has contracted to erect tho building. He will also build a similar building at Ahoskie at the same time. Mrns Alice Dent, who has been spending several months visiting Mr. end Mrs. M. D. Watts, left, last night for her home at Washington, D. C. She was accompanied to Rocky Mount by Mr. and Mrs. Watts and William Carstarphen. Mrs. A. R. White and little daugh ter, Reid, have returned from Wash ington, where they visited relatives after Mrs. White left the hospital. Miss Marjorie Washburn, of ChaT lotte, is the house guest of Miss Til lie Perry. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Peel and little son, Junie, left this morning for Richmond to visit Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Lawrence. Mr. Peel will return Fri day and the others will sp«nd some time there. ESTABLISHED 1898 Jail Delivery Is Frustrated By Deputy Friday Luther Feel Happens to Go Back to Jail and Finds Locks Sawed - —Albert Riley, charged with house; breaking and larceny; Dorsey An drews, charged with wife beating; and John Rollins, charged with house breaking and larceny, all colored, fn jail awaiting the September terra of superior court, sawed the locks off of their cell doors last Friday night and would have been out of the jail in a few minutes if Deputy Sheriff Luther Peel had not gone down to inspect the jail. Mr. Peel had been in po licing the minstrel show here that night; and after it was over, he con cluded it would be wise to go to the jail to see if all was well. He entered the two outside doors, and when he reached the corridors surrounding the cells he saw the big locks lying on the floor, and the pris oners all on their bunks, apparently fast asleep. They, of course, had rushed to their beds when they heard the deputy approaching. _ The prisoners were all relocked in and placed under guard. It was found that they had two hack saws in thtjir cell. 1 hey refused to tell how they had gotten them. They were taken to the Plymouth jail Saturday, where they will re main until court convenes. A watch had been kept over the jail ea«h night up to Friday night, and the prisoners took advantage of the first unguarded night to make their escape. Rocky Mount Plans For Its Uirgest Fair Mr. Norman Y. Chambliss, secre tary of the Hooky Mount Fair Asso ciation, was in town this week rnthe interest of the Rocky Mount Fair, which will be held from October 5 to October 9. Mr. Chambliss has been secretary oi this organization for a number of years, and he says the people of Hocky Mount are expecting one of the largest fairs ever held in that section. The program, compared with that of last year, has been varied anil is expected to meet with the approval of the fair attendants. Running laces have been added to the regular rac ing program, and the free acts are different from anything ever offered to the people of eastern Carolina. . The opening day will be known as children's day, and all children in the surrounding counties will be admitted free. The midway attractions will be furnished by Morris Miller, shows. Important Meeting Masons Tonight There will be a regular communi cation of Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, A. K. & A. M., at 8 o'clock tonight, August 24. All members requested to be present. Visiting brethren cordially invited. „ Members of the degree team are erpecially urged to be present to make arrangements for putting on some work later in the week. C. D. CARSTARPHEN, Jr., Secretary. Kiwanis Club to Meet Tomorrow The regular r.oon luncheon of the Kiwanis Club will be held at the Ma sonic Hall Wednesday, August 25. Every member is requested to be present; arid, if possible, on time. The luncheon will be served by the Wo man's Club. - 'T Misses Emma Robertson and Ethel Griffin returned last Wednesday from New York, where they spent several weeks attending summer school at Columbia University. On the trip home they visited Niagara Falls, points of interest in Canada and other cities on the route. Friends of Mrs. J. S. Rhodes regret that she is confined to her bed in the Washington Hospital. She went to Pamlico Beach Friday to spend some time and was taken ill Friday night. On Sunday she was taken U a Washington Hospital, where she is .suffering with chills and fever. Messrs. K. B. Crawford, J. G. Sta ton, J. W. Watts, and J. T. Price at tended the ball game in Kinaton yes terday. ■■' V * Mrs: B. S. Courtney and daughter, Miss Miriam, returned Friday from Edenton, where she viaited her aia i ter, Mrs. Jones, for a week.
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