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. m*. urn «" rtm.) Paper; It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expires | VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 90 AIR CHARGES AGAINST ELDER HARRINGTON Primitive Baptists Acquit Preacher of Charges oi Unorthodoxy SETTLE DIFFERENCES Practically All Charge* Considered Unfounded by Council of Church At Hearing Wednesday Differences were settled and peace was made to reign again in the Ke huk.ee association of the Primitive Baptist Church last Wednesday when ministers and members of that body met at the Smithwick Creek church to hear certain charges that had been brought against one of the Church's leading elders, Mr. W. B. Harrington. The charges, originating over a five-year period, it is said, reached a f climax a few weeks ago, and Wednes day was mentioned as the day when both Elder Harrington and his ac cusers might be heard. The accusa tions varied, certain members stating that Mr. Harrington was too greatly interested in the up-building of the church, others holding that he follow ed too closely the style of other de nominations. To sum the situation up, it wap said he was accused of preach ing the Armenian Doctrine. In the main, all the charges were considered unfounded by the Council of the Church, and the only demand (UMde of Mr. Harrington by it was for him to discontinue the use of those words that were confusing to the minds of those brethem who were not well founded in the Scriptures. At the meeting, Elder Harrington answered all questions readidly, mak ing clear his beliefs and assuring the r - * people that It was his earnest desire to do anything for the future good of the Church. Mr. Harrington has been in the ministerial service of the Primitive Baptist Church for twelve years, and • during that time he has rendered an ' able service to his people. However, he stated that should his remaining in the Church cause any further dis cord among itr. members, he would fell it is duty to withdraw. CAGE GAMES NEXT WEEK • County High School Cham pionship Series To Get Under Way Martin county's basketball cham pionship series will get underway next week when Jamesville meets Bear Grass, Farm Life meets Wil liamston in Group One and when Rob ersonville meets Everetts and Oak City meets Hamilton in Group Two. The schedule was arranged at a meet ing of athletic coaches here several weeks ago so that official basketball champions in the county might be de termined before the season ends. During next week each of the paii teams will play two games and the following week a third game will be played if necessary. During the week of January 30, the winner of the Jamesville-Bear Crass series will play J the winner of the Williamston-Farm , Life series. A similar schedule will be followed by the winners in the Ever etss-Robersonville and Oak City-Ham ilton series. Two games are scheduled during the week of the 30th, and if * necessary a third game will be played during the week following. Hie first game of the finals will be played during the week of February 13 by the winners in the eastern half of the county, either Jamesville, Bear Grass, Farm Life or Williamston and the winners in the western half of the county, either Everetts, Robersonvillo, Hamilton or Oak City. The exact dates for the games and where they will be played were left for settlement to the coaches STRANH THEATRE! J : SATURDAY JOHNO WELLS in "The Thrill Chaser" . Also Clyde Cook Comedy And Serial "SCARLET BRAND" Theatre Well Heated THE ENTERPRISE REBUILDING KILNS DESTROYED BY FIRE Murray & McCabe Co., whose mill is pictured above, are rebuilding tbe kilns dtstroyed bv fire last fair and expect to finish the first'unit to. morrow. The mill will resume full-time operation as soon a sothe kilns are restored. The town's water mains havbent extended to the y mill site sTiiie the disastrous blaze which threw a number of men out of work. HEARING ON REMOVAL OF TRAINS TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY, JAN. ,20th KIWANIS CLUB TO BE REPRESENTED Civic Clubs of Town Affect ed Plan To Protest Curtailing Service MAY GET BUS SERVICE Railroad Will Probably Show That Franchise Has Been Granted For Bus Line At the request of tl\e Plymouth [ Chamber of Commerce and civic or ganizations in the various towns af fected, a hearing on the applicuUon of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad to discontinue two passenger trains from Tarboro to Plymouth, has been set by the Corporation Commission for Wednesday, January 25 at 10 o'- clock a. m. % This is the second application that has been made by the Coast line within the pas teight .months for the discontinuance of trains 56 and 57, and opposition to this request is con sidered much weaker than it was to the first one which was filed with the Commission. Representatives of the several towns along the route served by the two trains are planning to attend the hearing, but so far very few objec tions have been made public, opposing the .railroad's proposed action. Messrs. John D. Biggs and Elbert S, Peele have been appointed by the Kiwanis club to represent this town at the hearing. It was unofficially announced here yesterday that the railroad company is investigating now existing bus schedules in this section, and the possibility of additional ones. The findings, it is thought, will be used by the company in its argument be fore the Commission January 25. It was given out by the office of the Commission when the first applica tion was made for discontinuing the trains that a charter to a bun com pany to operate along the route now served by the trains had been grant ed. The name of the person to Whom : the charter was granted was not dis closed. DEMOCRATS TO MEET IN SOUTH 1928 National Convention Will Be Held in Hous ton, Texas The National Democratic Conven tion will slip away from the quarrels of the North and West and nestle in the bosom of its friends, the Solid I South. The national committee met in i Washington yesterday and selected Houston, Texas as the convention city. Cleveland, Detroit, Kansas City and iSan Francisco were asking for the convention and had been saying a great deal about their peculiar fitness as the best place to hold the conven tion, but had not done much. Houston said nothing but when the invitations were extended, it came forward with $200,000 for the comforts of the con vention. Her invitation was accepted on the fifth ballot with San Francisco the nearest competitor. The conven tion will be held the last week in June. Everetts Play To Be Given At Jamesville 'lSaved by the Woodmen," a comedy drama in four acts will be staged in the Jamesville school auditorium next Tuesday night by an Everetts cast. The play has been presented in Ever etts and Bear Grass and it goes to Jamesville highly recommended. Williamston, Martin County, Hotth Carolina, Friday, January 13,1928 MURRAY-M'CABE REBUILDS KILNS First Unit Expected To Be Completed Tomorrow; 20 Men At Work With twenty carpenters from all parts of the county at work, the first unit of the dry kilns of the Murray- McCabe Lumber Company will be practically completed tomorrow, Mr. McCabe, one of the plant's owners stated this morning. "We ure trying to put our pl&nt back to full-time operation, and to do this we are rush ing to completion the first unit of the kilns," Mr. McCabe further stated. Several weeks ago, a fire costing approximately twelve thousand dol lars, destroyed the kilns of the lumber plant anil caused the mill to close down. Since that time workmen have been busy clearing the thousands of feet of pipe from the.lot, making room for the new kilns. The layout of the plant has been slightly changed to meet insurance requirements and lessening4.he danger of fire. The kilns are now located near the house where the lumber is placed prior to its shipment. The single unit /will handle several cars of timber and will make it possible for the own ers to put the mill back in operation. FEDERAL AGENTS CAPTURE STILLS Three Days' Raids Net Officers Lot Material And Equipment Federal Agent C. P. Alexander and J, R. Murium;; c.iiitvred an eighty rtve gallon copper still and sin barrels cf beer near the Big Mill pond in Griffins township Tuesday in a ikuL i , " Leaving that township, the officers went on the Beur Grass road, a mile /west of Corey's store where they fi'Vnd a seventy gallon copper still i and about one thousand gallons of j beti, Wednesday, the officers went to Free Union, near Dardens, where they captured two copper stills and about fifteen thousand gallons of sugar and meal beer. Doth of these plants had been in operation the night before as there was fire around them when the officers arrived, j , Thursday, the officers again re turned to Bear Grass township where they captured a 75-gallon copper still, •two cooling worms and about seven hundred and fifty gallons of beer. The still was cold. The office is found more signs of gay life arpund this still than at any place they have ever vis ited before. Although the still was in : the wild woods and along way from 1 any home, marks of women's fancy high-heel shoes were all around the plant. After leaving this plant, the officers went a half mile behind the Bear Grass high school where they found and destroyed four barrels of beer. From that place they traveled an other mile and a half in a northerly direction and found a 75-gallon copper ■till and about five hundred gallons of beer. The officers in their three days' raid, found many kegs, jugs and other equipment. t ————— « I Warehouse Stockholders Meet Here Next Week The Roanokef Tobacco Warehouse Company is expecting a large number of its almost two hundred stockhold ers at its meeting here next Thurs day. The company, during the past several years, has paid profitable dividends to its investors, and It is the opinion of many that this year will be no exception to the rule. I GOOD TOBACCO | NETS GROWERS BIGGER PROFIT '4 County Agent Reviews Tobacco Farming in County URGES EARLY START Many Farmers In County Now Pre paring Plant Beds and Seed Will All Soon Be in Ground Although the tobacco season in 1927 was not ax profitable as it was in 1926 many farmers nevertheless, made large profits last year on the tobacco crop. They succeeded by put ting into practice ~the best farming methods, stated County Agent T. B. Brandon yesterday while reviewing tobacco farming in this county. Here are some of the things they are putting into practice: Preparing a good seed bed; treat j ing the seed for diseases; cleaning ! the seed to get rid of immature and smalt seed of low vitality; keeping out insects-by making the seed bed tight! and by using poison. "All of these' practices tend to j | give them atf early start. They fer 1 tltize properly with complete fertil- j i izers, they" cultivate thoroughly, and | they harvest and market their crop j i in a business-like manner," Mr. Bran- I don went on to say. "The one thing that tends to pro j duce a good crop of tobacco more than I probably any other one thing is the use of an abundant supply of avail able plant food. This insures a large crop grown evenly, tending to pro duce quality. The tobacco plant is a heavy feeder and has to be grown fairly quickly." On sandy soils, state departments of agriculture recommend from 800 to 1,200 pounds of a fertilizer an alyzing 8 per cent, phosphoric acid; 4 per cent, nitrogen, and 6 per cent, potash be used. On the heavier types of soil, the same amount of fertilizer analyzing 8 per cent, phosphoric acid, about 3 per cent, nitrogen, and 3 to 6 per cent, potash, may be used. Many farmers in this county are making preparations for their plant beds, and by the middle of next t Jnonth the seed for the year's crop i 1 will practically all be in the ground. NO ROOM FOR FIRST GRADERS Local School- Will Not Be Able To Care for Any Additional Pupils After a reclassification of the pupils in the lower grades of the local school, it was stated this morning by the Principal that it would be impossible to admit additional children to the first grade. Just before the holidays, Mr. Davis, principal stated that a reclassifica tion of the children in the first, sec ond and third grades would be made during ths early part of this month and that it might be possible to add several names to the first grade roll. Several new pupils entered the sec ond and third grades, causing the over-crowded condition in the first grade to remain practically unchang- I ed after reclassifying the children in ' the three grades. Miss Peacock, the teacher of the I first grade, reported that during the | fall months the average daily at j tendance was just below fifty, and that it was next to impossible to successful ly instruct a larger number. * Blaze Here Yesterday ! Destroys Storage House' The storage house of the Staton j i cotton gin was practically destroyed j yesterday afternoon when fire of an I ' Undetermined origin charred the tim-1 I ! bers and damaged a large quantity i - of cotton seed and hulls. i The volunteer fire company turned . II two streams of water on the flames ' and soon had them under control, but » the alarm was turned in too late for' the firemen to prevent the near de i struction of the building, r ■ i i 1 Miss Sleeper Called Home Account Brother's Death [ Miss Lora Sleeper, home demonstra tion agent, left yesterday afternoon for Concord where she was called on , account of the death of her brother. Miss Sleeper arrived here last Tuesday and since that time she has been very active in arranging her work. The unexpected news came as a shock to her and will necessarily cause her to be from the county a few days. . 1 Farm Life Wins Over Bethel Here, 24-21 Farm Life added to its basketball i victories here last night by defeating i Bethel, 24 to 21. It was one of the 1 best games the lads from Griffins had ! played this season. Begin Shipments of Fertilizers by Boat The first shipment of fertil izer leaving the Standard Fer tilizer Company's factory here by boat, was tuade last Wednes day. The shipment was billed to points along the Alligator river in Tyrrell county. The boat was ' loaded almost to its capacity, 65 KIWANIS HOLDS GOOD MEETING Name Two To Go To Hear ing; Brandon Winner in "Best Baby" Contest Under the leadership of Dr. 0. P. Fitzgerald, the Kiwanis club held one of its best meetings in some time last Wednesday. . i•i; . Representatives were named to at tend the hearing on the discontinuance ©f trains 66 and 57 to be held in Raleigh January 26. Messrs. John D. llifCKs and E. S. Feel were named as the club's representatives. The program reached a climax when Tom Brandon, Gus Harrison, Iti 1 Manning and Cortez Green went back to the style of early days and with a nipple over a coca cola bottle they I meed for nourishment. Cortez Green, j , when he saw he was a few drops b«; j h.nd, bit the nipple off and put him s»»lf out of the race. Mr. Harrison wa. e Reading in the race until suction caus ed the nipple on his bottle to fly off. The contest continued with Tom "and Mill in the race, but in spite of his Brandon proved that he could be the best baby. RECORDER HAD EIGHT CASES Several Road Sentences and Number Fines Meted Out Tuesday I Several road sentences were handed 1 . down and a few fin£s were imposed by I Judge Builuy here last Tuesday when eight cases came before "his court for I trial. Several of the cases had been on the court's docket for several' weeks, but had been continued for hearing until Tuesday. Annie 11. Stokes, charged with as sault, was found not guilty after her case had been through the Mayor's court and continued from week to week in the Recorder's court. Alexander Smallwood, larceny and receiving, was found guilty a»id sen tenced to the Edgecombe county roads far two months. C. M. Bullock, charged with pimple assault, plead gnilty to the charge. Judgment was suspended upon pay - ment of the cost. James Uufliin, assault with deadly weapon, wus called but he failed to appear. Emma Crowell, assault with a dead ly weapon, plead guilty before the court and was sentenced to the county jail for thirty days. The sentence was j suspended for two years upon guod behavior of defendant. W. M. Baker plead guilty to a larceny and leceiving charge and was sentenced to the Edgecombe roads j for three A jury trial was ordered for next I Tuesday to hear the case of W. G. 1 Anthony, charging him with the dis posal of mortgaged property. Haywood Brown plead guilty to a simple assault charge and was fined S2O and required to pay the costs. A four-months' road sentence was | suspended. MRS. W.H.DANIEL ! DIES WEDNESDAY Had Been ira Poor Health For Number Years; Funeral Thursday \* * 9 Mrs. Bettie Lanier Daniel died at her home at the Daniel mill, four miles from here early Wednesday morning. For a long number of years, Mrs. Daniel had been in poor health and in July 1926 she went to Pinecrest for treatment. After remaining there a short while she went to the State Sanatorium where she was a patient until September of last year when her case was ' pronuonced incurable. She returned to her old home near here where she got along very well until last Sunday when she .coßapsed. After suffering several hemorrhages she gradually became weaker until the end came. She leaves one brother, Joseph B. Lanier and one sister, Miss Mamie Lanier. She married W. Henry Daniel who died about two years ago. The funeral was held at the home yesterday afternoon by Elder B. 8. Cowing and interment was made in the family cemetery on the home farm by the aide of her husband. EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX THREA TENS IN COUNTY; REPORT ELEVE Local School, Board Holds Public Hearing "At a public meeting held this efternoon in the school auditor ium here, the Martin property on Highway No. 90 was elminiated as a possible site for ed new school building, and at tention of those present was cen tered on the Rhodes, Slade and Goddard-Legflett property. The piece of property just back of the home of Mr. J. L. Hits sell received favorable mention and so (lid the Godard-Leggett proper ty. Should the Slade property be selected, it was explained that an athletic lield would be built at J some other point. WILLIAMSTON IN BIG-MARKET LIST Local Market Gets in Select List In Associated Press Reports Williamston una pla"J m the ,i?t' of big markiV.s in a r°por» of the' Associated Press recently. The gressivo Farmers says: When the 36 North Carolina tobac- j co markets closed for the holiday season, it was estimated by the As-1 sociated Press that over 400,000,000 ' pounds of leaf had been sold in the State. One-fourth of the markets! sold over two-thirds of the producers' I sales. The sales in November alone' brought more than $.'10,000,000, which ' was $3,000,000 more than growers received the same month of 1926. Wil J son, Greenville, Winston-Salem, King ton, Rocky Mount, Farmviile. Dur ham, Oxford, Henderson and William ston sold as much tobacco as w.v« sold by all the 36 large markets last sea son, When the Wilson market closed for the holidays, 72,299,692 pounds fur wftich the growers received ifD?,- 301,718.20 had been sold. The jtvenige price was $23.06 a hundred pounds. HARRISON OIL CO. ADDS EQUIPMENT Building Two New Storage Tanks To Care For Increasing Demand With the demand for Texaco pro ducts growing rapidly, the Harrison I Oil' Company is ,this week, udding to its present equipment for storing ami .handling purposes" by erecting two new tanks at its river plant. A boat from Norfoik afri-veil here terday, bringing the tanks and erec tors, and the first construction work was started this morning. During the past eighteen days, ieleven cars of Texaco gasoline and motor oils have been unloaded at the plant of the Harrison Oil Company here. The shipments of gasoline have practically all beeii handled through one main storage tank at the river, and while the boat pumped the gas into the tank at one end, the three trucks of the company were drawing it from the other and distributing it to the more than eighty dealers in the county. But with the sales increas ing rapidly, the company found that the 22,000 gallon tank was entirely in adequate, so two additional tanks are being erected. When these two tanks are completed, the equipment of the company will haiity£ easily between eight and ten cars of gasoline at one time. Two boat loads of Texaco gasoline and motor oils were unloaded this week, one Tuesday and the other one yesterday, at the wharf of the com pany here. Plans are being made for the erec tion of another huge tank at the river plant, but details could not be learned this morning. Sunday Services At \ - The Baptist Clmrch . The pastor will be in the pulpit Sunday morning. At the Sunday morning service the pastor will set forth the platfornl up on which he hopes to work witfi the church in the year 1928. From the standpoint of the "year's work, this should be an important service. The pastoi} desires that a full congregation T>e present at this serv ice. This church will observe Commun ion at the evening service, S«nday . night at the usual hour. The Lord's Supper is impressive at anytime, but should be more so at the evening time. The people are invited to come in large numbers to these two services— the flrßt services held by the pastor in the New Year. Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to Over 1,600 Homes oj Martin County ESTABLISHED 1898 VACCINATION IS ONLY CONTROL Health Officer Says Law Does Not Require Quarantining THREE CASES HERE Pitt County Also Having' Large Num ber Cases Reported Daily ; Doctors Urgoing Vaccination According to u statement made lust night by County Health Officer \V. E. Warren, only eleven cases of small pox have been reported in the county. Six of the eleven cases are in Hamil ton, three, are here and two 'Were re ported in Robersonville. The report included yesterday, and if additional cases have developed, they have not been called to the attention of the * health officer.' Much has been said about members of those families where the disease has been reported, going about the streets, attending church aiuLwbfking in the factories. Dr. YVairen stated that there was no law requiring mem bers of a family where the disease is present to remain ut home and not ap peal in public places. The disease can bo controlled by vaccination and that being true, Dr. Warren stated there was 110 just - cause for quarantining homes where tile disease is found. Unofficial estimates place the num ber that has been vaccinated lit very small per.cent, of the total. That be-' ing true and with church congrega tions and factory employees exposed to the disease, a real epidemic is very likely to follow. In l'itt county, reports show that on air average three easiest • have .been reported daily to the department of health in Clrcenville. A Greenville. t mper says editorially, "In the face of these facts, we cannot understand why people will decline to be vaccinat ed Of course if you are vaccinated and it takes, you'will have a sore aim for a while, but a sore anil is preferable to a' case of smallpox." September 10 to the first of the year, 31 cases of smallpox were i'eporttd in Heaufort county, and the . first case was said to have been car lied there from Greenville. lJut in con nection with the disease there, the 'health department has carried on a splendid work. Under the leadership of Misses Harriet Carr and EVa Cratt, • a former Martin County girl, 1 persons have been vaccinated in that county. The Washington Progress, re viweing the' work of the health de partment in lieaufort states, "There is no question but that the work done by the department has prevented "Kim dreds of additional cases of small pox." A law, passed by the Hoard *if Health, this county, two years ago, made it unlawful for a child to attend public schools in tjiis unless he had been vaccinated. The percent age of children violating this law is generally believed to be large. After checking the records in the local school, Principal L. 11. Davis stated, that practically all the children hen had been vaccinated. Hut, it is under stood that ths does not.h'old true for the entire county. The Town Hoard of Commissioners have considered the situation, but with the law as it is, they were unable to take any steps in preventing the disease's spreading. V. E. P. OFFICIALS VISIT PLYMOUTH Inspect Light Plant With View To Making Town An Offer i ■ Data were collected by Mr. J. T. Chase, general manager of the Virginia Electric and Power Com pany, on the power system in Ply mouth this morning preparatory to making ihat town an offer for its light and power franchise. No-figures were mentioned this morning, and it is'not known ijust how much the power confpany will offer the town. It was announced, however, that recent regulaUons adopted by Jhe company would not permit free water pumping and street lighting as considerations in future franchise purchases. The contract en tered into between Williamston and tho power company was the last one to include the free water pumping and free street lighting clause, aud it will be the last one, it was staled to day. "And we could not possible of fer it to Williamston again," Mr. J. T. Chase stated. From here the power company of ficials went to Windsor where they will discuss the power and light situ ation with cititens there.