THE ENTERPRISE
Published Every Tuesday and Friday by th 1
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY
.Williamston, North Carolina
i . -- —.
W. C. Manning Editor
Subscription Price
(Strictly cash in advance)
1 year - ~ $1.50
b'months...™ _ « .80
8 months _... .45
Entered at the post office at Williamston, N. ('.
as second-class matter under the act of March 3
1879.
T ■> *
Address ali communications to The Enterprise
Statesmen Become Politicians
American statesmen _ seem to have
turned to politicians in these latter
days. There is • never an address, a
letter, nor a speech that does not
stress the big things we are doing
and there is very little beijig said,
about the good things we are doing.
President Coolidge emphasized
money and power in his Kansas City,
speech and indicated that the other i
nations, as well, bow to our demand.
He said little about the. need we have
for their friendship. He did not push
freedom and friendship as hard as he
did money and power.
Just Won't Listen
Every railroad, no mutter how large
or small, has a stop near its crossing.
A large number of the signs near
grade crossings have on them, "Stop,
Look, Listen." in spite 01' all
this/ thousands of people are killed
every year by trains at railroad cross
ings.
The boards of health ill this coun
try use tons of paper yearly pleading
with the people to guard their health
Yet thousands die every year from
preventable diseases.
The humble minister, week ill and
week out, warns his flock to prepare
for a better life. His warning is ig
nored, no doubt, for in our way of
ANNOUNCING OUR ANNUAL
Christmas Sale
e / ' **. "" —-- s -/-— —•* '■ ■.'■ —- r -— * .>. --■ •- -- ; • ■ -■• / ty.-„'- • »« - «u~
NOW IN PROGRESS
The Bis Event Which Is Eagerly Awnited by Hundreds in This Section
•- , t '
JUST A FEW WOR I)S OF EXPLANATION
p ~ *
For .several years we ha..> been having- these "Christmas Oftenligs," and each year has seen them increase in popularity.
These events have always been started on or about the first of December, in order that our customers might have ample time
"" In which to malife their gill selections, This year we expect to make our Christ ntas Dpening the most successful in our history.
We have purchased an extensive stock. We will have a special counter of gift suggestion i, including many attractive articles
in china, pottery, glass, mahogany, etc. In addition, our showing of,jewelry anil silverware will be more complete than ever before.
Wt most cordially invite you to visit o,ur store Saturday morning am' thereafter and let us solve your gift problems.
IDEAL WAY TO BUY YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS
This is the id. al way to buy your Christmas gifts, because it d oes away with all confusion and annoying delays. We suggest that
you visit our mak • your selection; and, in case you so desire, we will hold them for until later in th» month.
We also wish to call your attention to our engraving department,'which will be in position to give you the very best of service.
All engraving on "articles bought at our store is, of course, done without charge:
Be sure to be on hand Saturday morning. You will be surpris at the many splendid gifjs you can iuy at our gift counter for
as low as one dollar or less. # , ■«
JUST ONE SUGGESTION -SHOP EARLY!
' V . . . • , \
Stewart's Jewelry Store
Washingtons Favorite Gift Shop Washington, N. C.
Most wars are caused by greedy
r traders running competition to the
, r
i breaking point and engendering ha
! tied that finally ripens into war.
- t
I. Congress at its session which con
. I vines next week will be almost "x-
I iusively takon up with problems in
tended to bring money and .wealth
I Hither than peace and harmony. We
are too anxious to gel the best in all
the trades. We must remember that
we can not outtrade the other fel
low every time. If we do he will
.- top trading.
[• thinking, thousands, if not millions,.
. are headed for hell,
r Then there is the "shop early" slo
, f an. Every newspaper tells.the shpp-
I ner how many more days ne has be-
I fore it's too late. The merchants in
- .si i upon early buying, not for their
own good so much, but for that of
their patrons. The post office depart
: merit asks tis to mail packages early;
TfiJfTn *i>ite of alt the warnings and
i good advice we 'let "Christmas morn
ing slip upon us before we realize it
and before we have finished our shop
ping.. Each year Christinas packages
■ MT delivered from one to five days
' late. Our failure to shop early causes
many hardships for the uncomplain
ing clerks and for the various other
public agencies. When we ffill to Sit
down and map out our nhr>T>piri£ tourf,
we often overlook some friend we
should not have overlooked when pur
c ■
chasing our giftc There art- ju*t
Farm Colony for Wayward Women
A farm colony for wayward women
is u task the women of North Caro
lina have set out to accomplish.
'I here are hundreds of women, gen
erally young, many times in their
teens, who are running up and down
tN 'country, practicing their immor
ality. They are frequently caught
itnd put in jail, only to be released
under suspended sentences and per
mitted to go out of town or across
the county line, only to continue in
| the -same old sin.
Our own county has only retell y
suffered from such a case. Two pros
titutes were in the jail of an adjoin
)iin county charged with a statutory
i (Tense. They were released under a
suspended judgment conditioned that
they leave the county. They immedi
u:ely came to Martin County and have
been jumping from place to place,'
pending their time in abandoned ten
ant houses, old bams, and such places
us they were able to find. This has
k f ulled, in much trouble between sev
eral husbands and wives; it has caused
the burning of a large forest when
indignant people in the community
it red woods to burn up their enter
taining wood camps. Another man
lust ai| unoccupied tenant hous»
v here these same women were
thought to be running in for camping
purposes. Apart from ail this,,it has
"already resulted in large medical cost
i ii' dozens of people. Doubtless the
insane, as.vlurtis will get the dregs in
a now generation, and of course such
practices are always within sight of
the jails, the penitentiary and not so
fur from the electric chair.
If we had a farm colony in which
(o banish every roving wayward wo
man in our State, it would go a long
v. ay .towards solving one of our diffi
cult problems from two
financial and moral.
THE ENTER PRi fcB —W1 LULAMffTON, N. C.
numbers and numbers of disadvan
tage*! in late shopping, but half the
world could do nothing bat tell the
other half to buy early and then there
would etiii be late shopping. We just
xoh'i iiaten.
i Nearly 700 women were placed in
- North Carolina jails last year, most
of them for prostitution. They were
- generally releas&f under appeals for
r pity and promises to do better, only
i to fall lower in a few days.
There is no place for them. They
' will not submit to home rule, because
' they already have rebelled against
father and mother. Factories don't
' want them, because they demoralize
1 everything they touch.
A farm colony where all such wo
men could be assigned will do more
towards handling a troubling problem
than any other thing.
The next general assembly should
> give this matter due consideration.
LOST: PASTEBOARD BOX, CON
tainhtg one colored dress, one black
' vtlvet dress, ones tan dress, two under
shirts; lost between Williamston and
the old brick kiln. Finder please re
i turn to the Enterprise and receive re
. ward.
f ■>.. .i - • 1
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the power
and authority conferred upon me by
a certain deed of trust executed to
r the undersigned trustee by John E.
Williamu and wife Mary A. Williams
en the 2nd day of November 1923 and
of record in the public registry of
Martin County in Book N-2 at page
415 to secure certain notes of even
date and tenor therewith, and default
made in the payment of
the said notes and the stipulations
not having been complied with and
at the request of the holder of the
s&id notes the undersigned trustee
will on Thursday the 25th day of
Nov. 1926 at 12 o'clock M. in front
of the courthouse door in the town
of Williamston, North Carolina offer
for sale to the-highest bidder for
cash the following described real es
tate, to wit:
Lying on both sides of the Atlan
tic Coast Line Railroad near Wiltz
Siding, bounded on the North by the [
lands of Buck Williams, on the East!
Things lo
hink
By JAMES D. TAYLOR
EXPECT MUCH
I returned to my office today after
an absence of two months. I expect
ed to find various kinds of bad news
lo greet me. Bill collectors and in
come tax inspectors {rnd the like. Just
before arriving I felt liko the woman
away from home wondering whether
slit shut off the water in the bath
room and closed the windows. But I
lound everything just as urual. So I
had nothing to worry about after all.
Most of the things we worry about
never happen, anyway. We juot wor
ry and worry and often can not ex-*
"plain just what our worry is* all a
bout. Just a habit. What a bad
habit! Worry eats cway hope. L«t's
fret away from tbis worry habit.
% -
Hope and expect. Hope for more
t bar. you expect. Aim hj;-h. You may
often lose, bilt you will win more of
ten, and your average will be good.
And this will give you more courage
to move forward.
Start out each day expecting to
make 100 per cent. Fill your basket
full of expectations. If it overruns;
that wont matter. Then hope for
more than you expect.
Don't worry. Don't have time for
by the lands of Ransom on
the South by the lands of J. M. Hope
well, and on the West by the land* of
Noah Roberson and Henry Reddick,
containing 50 acres more and
being .the same land whereon the said
John E. Williams and wife, Mary'
December Clearance
Sale
BEGINNING
Friday, Dec. 3rd
Our stock consists of the best grades of merchandise, in women's,
misses', men's andfboys' clothing, furnishings, 'coats, dresses, shoes,
dry .uoods. Many items are offered in our big stock that space will
not permit to be listed here. We guarantee our friends and custom
ers to save them money on purchases. All we ask is your comparison.
* •
LADIES' COATS LADIES'HOSE
t Suede Velour, Bo- _ l
livia; all sizes and b\ J
colors and styles. *
fur trimmed; dur- *
ing this great sale Ur JF m
$9 50 ■ Erm \
• Ladies'silk hose, all colors;
and up values up to $1.50
cur sale price Ot/C
DRESSES CHILDREN'S SHOES
Our entire stock of children's
One lot ladtes' dresses; all shoes will be sold during this
„ . _ . j . . . • great sale at cost and below
colors, sizes and styles; values . r IT ...
r ' cpst. We are discontinuing this
up to sls; our low AQA department, so take advantage
price during sale 01/ of the values offered.
W. R. ORLEANS
i-.,, *"■- ; ■ . -... . * 1" . " tr * " , "* r ' ■ —/
WILUAMSTON, N. C. v,
• • •, • ' r-1
that. Have so many big things on
yoyir program thpt you have no time
for worry. Have so niuoh confidence
in yourself that when disappointment
and failure comes yasi will still have
enough faith and courage "to start
all over again. The world iikes the
man or womaii who—though he fails
time and again—knows .how to rise
again. * - . . .
Williams now reside and being the
same land will to John E. Williams
in the last will and testament of John
D. Williams and Polly Williams.
This the 24th day of Oct. 1926.
ELBERT S. PEEL,
11-l-4t Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL
ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the authori
ty contained in that certain deed of
trust executed on the 15th day of
October, 1924, and of record in the
public registry of Martin County in
book H-2, at page 52, said deed of
trqst having been given to secure a
certain note of even date and tenor
therewith, and the stipulation con
tained in said deed of trust not hav
ing been complied with, and at the
request of the parties interested, the
undersigned trustee will on the 6th
Badly Bruised and Swollen
Hand Healed
Relief After 'Few Application* of
Remedy Known Since Bible Day*
A careless stroke with his ham
mer caused a carpenter's hand to
•well to incredible slse accom
panied by such extreme pain that
the poor man was almost frantic.
Still tortured by the excruciating
pain, after other remedies had
railed to bring relief the man ap
plied Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh.
In a few hours the swelling disap
peared and the pain was soon gone.
Healing qualities of myrrh have
been known since Bible days, but
when myrrh is scientifically com
bined with other healing and anti
septic ingredients, as it is in Han
ford's Balsam of Myrrh, it is small
wonder its effects are sensational-
Sold at drug stores.
day of December, 1926, at 12 o'clock
ry. f at the courthouse door in the town
-of - Wmiamaton, N. C , offer for sale
to the highest bidder for caah the
following described property:
mere ol| less, bounded on the north by
Ist tractßounded on the north by
Geo. S. Moore and others, on the
oast and south by J. S Rhodes, and
on the west by Floyd Wynn, being the
same land deeded to W. C. Manning
by J. S. Rhodes and wife, which deed
b duly recorded. Containing b 1-2
acres, more or less.
2nd Tract: Containing 75 acres,
J. R. Perry, east by McDonald and
others, south by McDonald, and west
by the Manning Road, being same land
deeded to W. C. Manning by Kennedy
and Hardison, deed being duly record
ed. i.
This the 2nd day of November, 192 G.
E. S. PEEL,
n9 4tw Trustee.
Wheeler Martin, attorney.
J /jf *
Wrigley's Chewing Sweet
helps teeth, mouth, throat
and digestion in a delightful
and refreshing way. Removes
odor* of smoking and eating.
People of refinement use it.
jb db