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Mm. ELBERT a PEEL, Editor - 4 6
Cecil Taylor, who is a student at
the University of North Carolina, is
spending the Easter holidays with
hit parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tay
lor. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harrison and
children and Mr. and Mrs. B. W.
Hardy and son spent Sunday with
Mrs. Hardy's parents, and Mrs. Willis
near Enfield.
Miss Thelma Brown spent Sunday
at Virginia Beach as the guest of the
Hheas, of Windsor.
Miss Minnie Orleans will leave to
morrow for her home at New York,
after visiting her parents for a week.
- harper Holliday and Mr. and Mrs.
M. D. Watts and children spent Sun
day with friends in Greenville.
Dr. Edgar Morfrison left Saturday
for his home at Virginia Beach.
Miss Mildred Purvis and Jumbo
of Kittrell, spent Sunday
here, and Miss Anna Crawford re
turned with them to spend a month
with Miss Purvis.
Milton Moye and Leamon Barnlull
spent the week end in Farmville.
* • Mrs. Henry Jones and daughter,
Miss Anne, of Edenton, spent the
week end with Mrs. Courtney.
B. S. Courtney spent Easter with
his mother in Portsmouth, Va.
Miss Laura Orleans, of North Car
olina College for Women, spent the
week end with h»r parents, Mr. and
Mrs. N. Orleans.
Mrs. Clara Margoles and children,
of Goldsboro, were the week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. N. Orleans.
Mrs. Helen Grimes Montgomery,
who has been visiting her uncle, Mr.
Ned Laughinghouse, and Mrs. Laugh
inghouse, has returned to her home
in Los Angeles, Calif.
Julius S. Peel will leave tomorrow
for Wilmington, where he will go on
business.
Mrs. J. G. Staton spent yesterday
at St. John's Church, near Grifton,
where she assisted the women of the
church in organising a woman's aux
iliary.
John Henry, jr, and Bill Thrower,
of Littleton, spent the week end with
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lutham Thrower.
R. G. Phillips spent Easter at his
home in Siler City.
$2,000 POLICY
$12.50 to July Ist, 1927
Covers all occupations, including
farmers and mechanics, and costs
$12.60 first payment, which covers
all costs on the insurance until
July Ist. The cost is then $lO
quarterly, as follows:
July 1, 1927, $lO Jan. lj 1928, |lO
Oct 1,1927, 10 Apr. 1, 1928, 10
Accident Benefits
Death $2,000.00
Loss of both eyes 2,000.00
Loss of both hands 2,000.00
Loss of both feet ———- 2,000.00
Loss of either foot 700.00
Loss of either hand 700.00
Loss of either eye 600.00
Total disability, per month
(for life) 80.00
Partial disability, per month 30.00
Surgeon's fees 20.00
Financial Aid 200.00
All the Above Are Doubled for
Travel Accidents
Sick Benefits
Confining sickness, per
month SBO.OO
Non-confining sickness per
month 40.00
Benefits paid for one day or more
Benefits while in ho3pital,
per month $125,00
John L. Rodgerson
WILUAMSTON, N. C.
Apr 6 16 22 29
Is Your Home As Nicely Furnished As You Would
Like Spring To Find It?
You Will Find Anything in the Furniture Line at CHERRY'S, and at a Cost That Is Only a Small Matter. Call on Us for Any of the SPRING REQUI
SITES, Whether It Be Wicker Qiairs, Porch Swings, or What Not. Have Just Received a Large Supply of Porch Blinds in All Sizes and Shades.
Cherry Furniture Company - - Washington, N. C.
Goodwin Gaskins, of Newport News
Va., spent the weak #ud with friends
in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hartsfield, of
Kinston, visited Misses Mary and Ge
neva Cook Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dunn and chil
dren, spent the week end with Mrs.
Dunn's parents, in Wilson.
Misses Lillian Sample, Eleanor
Stanback, and Norma Ramsey and
Messrs. C. D. Carstarphen, jr., and
Francis Barnes attended the ball
game in Raleigh yesterday.
Sylvester Peel was a business visi
tor here yesterday.
Supt. L. H. Davis spent the Easter
holidays visiting friends in Stoneville,
Rockingham County.
Miss Marguerite Cook, who spent
the Easter holidays at home, returned
to Greenville yesterday.
Joe David Thrower, of Portsmouth,
is visiting his psrents, Mr. and Mrs.
Latham Thrower, and Mrs. Thrower
and little Joe David, who are with
Mrs. Thrower's mother, Mrs. J. H.
Britt, who is ill.
Mrs. Delia L. Carson, of Wilson,
spent yesterday with relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Pope and chil
dren returned yesterday from a visit
to relatives in Creed more and Dur
ham.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
and
LICENSED EMBALMER
DAY ANI) NIGHT SERVICE
I have bought the undertaking establishment formerly owned
by Mr. P. L. Edwards, and have secured the services of Mr. Harper
Holliday, an expert funeral director and licensed embulmer.
Excellent Service at Most Reasonable Price
B. S. Courtney
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Day Phone 155 Night Phone 44
STATEMENT
COUNTY PIKE INSURANCE COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Condition December SI, 1926, as Shown by Statement Filed
Amount of capital paid in cash •
Amount ledger assets Dec. 31st previous year; total 1,840,0JK.d/
Income —from policyholders, $899,669.46; miscellaneous, sll2,- ,
068.76; total - =*• 1.011.728.22
Disbursements—to policyholders, $448,763.4)5; juiscellaneous,
$448,534.32; total . 897.288.27
Fire risks—written or renewed during year, $160,939,237; in
f orc e .... 188,686,290.00
All other risks—written or renewed during year, $10,697,000;
in force . 15,616,734.00
ASSETS v. .
Value of real estate $ 30,208.38
Mortgage loans on real estate ; 7.000.00
Value of bonds and stocks 1,668,677.43
Deposited in trust companies and banks on interest 124,701.84
Agents' balances, representing business written subsequent to Oc
tober 1, 1926 119,037.68
Agents' balances, representing business written prior U> October
1, 1926 4.436.84
Bills receivable, taken for ft re rJMui
Interest and rents due and accrued 16,972.60
AH other assets, as detailed in statement 282.481.66
Total 52,252,666.23
Less assets not admitted , ' 4,436.84
Total admitted assets • $2,248,229.39
LIABILITIES
Net amount of unpaid losses and claims —$ 86,998.32
Unearned premiums I 941.682.87
I/edtfer liabilities 6.00
Salaries, rents, expenses, bills, accounts, fees, etc. due or accrued 2,200.00
Estimated amount payable for Federal, State, county and mu
nicipal taxes due or accrued ... 26.000.00
Contingent commissions, or other charges, due or accrued 3,000.00
Reinsurance and return premiums due other companies 92.63
AH other liabilities, as detailed in statement 96,173.64
Total amount of all liabilities except capital $1,156,153.46
Capital actually paid up in cash $500,000.00
Surplus over all liabilities 592,075.93
Surplus as regards policyholders 1,092,076.93
Total liabilities ' $2,248,229.39
Business in North Carolina During 1926
Fire risks written, $963,136: premiums received $9,296.04
Losses incurred—fire, $3,610.33; paid 4,024.42
President, Prank W. Sargeant; secretary, Frank E. Martin; treasurer, Na
than P. Hunt.
Home office: 110 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Attorney for service: Stacey W. Wade, Insurance Commissioner, Raleigh N. C.
Manager for North Carolina: Manchester, N. H., office.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
(Seal) INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
Raleigh, February 14, 1927."
I, STCEY W. WADE, Insurance Commissioner, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct abstract of the statement of the County Fire In
surance Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., filed wfth this department, showing the con
dition of said company on the 31st day of December, 1926.
Witness my hand and official seal, the day and year above written
STACEY W.WADE,
Misses Minnie and Emma Robert
son, who spent the Easter holidays
with their mother, Mrs. J. L. Robert
son, have returned to their respective
schools at Winston-Salem and Greens
boro.
Mr. and Mrs. Ned Laughinghouse,
Miss Eliza and Ned Perry Laughing
house spent Sunday and Monday in
Oriental.
Hubert Morton spent yestreday in
Greenville.
Misses Rebecca Newbold and Nan
nie Murrill, of Raleigh, visited Mr.
aad Mrs. G. H. Harrison here during
the week end.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ES
TATE
North Carolina, Martin County.
In the superior court, before the
clerk.
F.liza Spruill and husband, Willie
Spruill, Cordelia Reddick and hus
band, Mack Reddick, Carrie Brown
and husband, Haywood Brown, C.
B. Reddick. and Lelia Reddick, by
their next friend, J. S. Getsinger,
versus William Sheppard, Lewis
Sheppard, and Ida Rogers.
Pursuant to an order of the superior
court made by R. J. Peel, clerk of the
superior court of Martin County, in
the above entitled proceedings on the
13th day of April, 1927, and approved
by R. A. Nunn, judge holding the
courts of the second judicial district,
the underisgned commissioners will
on Monday the 16th day of May, 1927,
at 12 o'clock m., in front of the court-
THE ENTERPRISE WILUAMSTON, N. C.
j house door in the town of Wllliamston
J North Carolina, offer for sale to the
I highest bidder at public auction the
following described real estate, to wit:
Being known and designated at Lot
No. 3, allotted to James Sheppard in
the land division book No. 1, at page
288, beginning at a pine, second cor-
I ner of lot No. 2, thence S. 53 1-2 E.
8 polos to a lightwood post, thence S.
about 68 1-2 E. about 52 poles to the
run of Great Branch, thenp up th«
run of said-branch to its fork, thence
N. 13 1-2 E. 51 and 1-5 poles to a post
in E. Peel's line, thence N. about 45
1-4 W. to the third corner of lot No. j
2, thence S. 13 1-4 W. 158 and 2-5'
poles to the beginning, containing 50 i
acres, more or less, and which was
deeded to Mary M. Sheppard by
James Sheppard by deed recorded in
book YYY, at page 553.
This the 14th day of April, 1927.
~ E. S. PEEL,
H. G. HORTON,
al9 4tw Commissioners.
North Carolina,
Martin County.
In Superior Court
Willie Sherrod
vs
Frances Sherrod
The defendant, Frances Sherrod,
yrill take notice that an artion en
titled as above has been commenced 1
in the Superior Court of Martin
County, North Carolina, to obtain an
absolute divorce on the grounds of
separation; and the said defendant
will further take notice that she is
I DR. W. L. DAVIS
EYE SIGHT SPECIALIST
Bell Jewelry Co.
WASHINGTON, N. C.
Radio To Be Given Away
Guess the Number of Peas in the Jar
During our Refrigerator Sale we will give free to the one guessing- nearest to the
number of peas in the jar, one Crosley Radio. Any customer entering' our store is en
titled to one guess.
B. S. Courtney, Williamston, N. C.
required to appear at the office of the
Clerk Superior Court of Said County
in the courthouse in Williams ton, N.
C. on the 14 day of May, 1927, and
answer or demur to the complaint in
said action or the plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded
in said complaint.
This the 14th day of April,-1927.
R. J. PEEL,
Ap 15-4t Clerk Superior Court
Martin County.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust executed on the 29th day of
, December, 1917, by A. J. Manning,
I and of record in the public registry of
Martin County in book U-l, at page
62, said deed of trust being given to
secure the payment of certain notes
of even date and tenor therewith, and
the stipulations in said deed of trust
not having been complied with, «nd
at the request of the parties interest
ed, the undersigned trustee will on
the 9th day of May, 1927, at 12 o'-
clock m., at the courthouse door in
the town of Williamston, N. C., offer
for sale to the highest bidder for cash
at public auction the following de
scribed tracts of land, to wit:
Being lots number 29 and 30 of the I
J. W. Watts land division and record-1
ed in book 11, at page 322, of the Mar-!
tin County Public Registry and known |
as Piney Island.
This the Bth day of April, 1927. I
J. G. GOttARD,
a! 2 4tw Trustee.
Robert L. Coburn, attorney.
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust executed to the undersigned
trustee on the 24th day of March, 1920
and of record in Martin County reg-,
NOTICE TO
TAX-PAYERS
AH State and County taxes for 192(5 must be paid be
fore the end of the present month. Unless they are paid
by the Ist of May, all delinquents will be advertised in
accordance with the provisions of the State law.
I wish to call attention to the taxpayers that no ex
tension can be given. The new law in this matter speci
fies that when taxes are not paid by the end of this month
the list of delinquents shall be advertised and the sale
held on the first Monday in June.
I respectfully urge that all taxpayers take notice of
this provision.
H. T. ROBERSON
EX-SHERIFF AND TAX COLLECTOR OF MARTIN COUNTY
istry in book A-2, page 610, securing
certain bonds of even date therewith,'
| and the stipulations not hiring been!
complied with, and at the request of
1 the holder of said bonds, the under
. signed trustee will, on the 26th day of
April, 1927, offer for sale to the high
est bidder, for casTi, the following de
scribed tract of land:
A house and lot in the town of Wil
liamson, N. C., on the north side of |
Smithwick Street, and beginning at'
a stob on Smithwick Street, running!
thence seventy-one feet and six inches!
to a stob, C. D. Carstarphen's line,
I thence a line at right angles with the
last-named line and along the line of .
1 C. D. Carstarphen to the line of the
Martin Livestock Co., thence along the (
line of Martin Livestock Co., towards! j
Mian Street seventy-one feet and six (
inches to a stake, thence a line a ,
right angles with the last-named line!
and along the line of C. D. Carstar-'
(.hen to a stake on Smithwick Street, |
the beginning, and being the same
premises this day conveyed to said
Fowden by C. D. Carstarphen.
' This the 25th day of March, 1927. \
WHEELER MARTIN,
irr29 4tw Trustee, t
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the power!
of sale contained in that certain deed (
of trust executed on the sth day of .
I December 1923, by A. J. Manning,
and of record in the public registry
E——^—————
SASH —DOORS —(JIASS
HOLLAND & I
Distributors
SUFFOLK —„ VIRGINIA
of Martin County in Book N-2 at
1 page 427, said deed of trust being
[ given to secure the payment of cer
tain notes of even date and tenor
therewith, and the stipulations in
said deed of trust not having been
complied with, and at the request of
the parties interested, the undersigned
trustee will on the 9th day of May,
1927 at 12 o'clock M., at the Court
house Door in the Town Qf William
ston, N. C., offer for sale to the high
est bidder for cash at publrcr auction
the following described tract of land,
to-wit:
Being the one-sixth (1-6) undivided
interest of E. E. Roberson in the J.
\V'. Koberson lands adjoining the lands
of N, R. Rob'erson, B. D. Barber land,
Hardy Mizelle land, and others, tract
containing approximately 140 acres,
more or less.
The above deed of trust being given
for the purchase price of the lands
herein described.
This the Bth day of April, 1027.
E. S. PEEL,
Ap-12-4t Trustee.
Robert L. Coburn, Attorney.
666
is a Prescription for
COLDS, GRIPPE, FLU, DENGUE.
BILIOUS FEVER ANI) MALARIA
It Kills the Germs