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' Wack the Label on Your Piper; It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expires VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 93 TAX COLLECTION CONTINUING TO SHOW INCREASE Sheriff Has Collected $138,- 000 of 1928 Taxes To Date URGE PAYMENT NOW Amount Collected Is Little Less Than Half of Total; Books Were Two Months Late This Year County tax receipts continue to grow, and with a few more weeks' work, Sheriff Roebuck will have reach ed the hill top in his collections. Of courss it will not be anyways like go ing down a hill in this case, for the hill-top only means he has covered half the distance. Collections to date total $138,000, while at the same time last year only $120,660 had been col lected. The difference is even more notice ahrfe when the length of time the Sheriff has had the tax books this 7«ar. They were almost two months later in reaching the sheriff this year than they were last. Besides the short length of time the Sheriff has had the books, there has been a 25 cents on te SIOO valuation increase to be com batted by the collector. Sheriff Roebuck and his deputy, S. H. Grimes .are making urgent ap peals to the taxpayers to settle the accounts as soon as possible, for it is the opinion of all that it is easier to pay two dolars now than it is to pay one dollar next May. PLAN BUSINESS SCHOOL HERE President of Georgia-Caro lina Commerce School Visitor Here The Georgia-Carolina school of commerce is planning to open a school in Williamston in the near future. Mr. A. H. Perry, president of the school has been making investigations hara this week, and it his opinion that therundertaking would prove very suc cessful hare. Mr. Perry explained that the plan followed makes it possible to bring the school to the student instead ol carrying the student to the school. The school was founded more than fourteen years ago, and at the present time classes are being held in dozens of towns and cities in this SB-well as in those towns and cities in s large number of the other States. The courses offered are standard, and can be completed in about five or six months. "Snowball" Takes Flight in Airplane Last Friday "Please don't luke the luke" was the request of "Snowball", printing office devil,, just before he went for an airplane ride here last Friday. "Snowball" stated he was afarid to look to the ground below. "But I saw a heap down there when he turned a corner with me," he stated. Four Youths Who Do Not Know Who Lindbergh Is Fayetteville, Ark., Jan. 21. — Four freshmen in the University of Arkan sas do not know who Charles A. Lind bergh is. One of them thinks he was a prime minister of Sweden during the . - fifteenth century; one thinks he was a German general in the World War; one thinks he is the leader of the Bolshevists in Russia, while the fourth understands Lindbergh was the bat tle line that Allies had such difficulty in breaking in 1918. These answers were found among papers handed in at a quiz in a fresh man history course here Friday. STRANH THEATRE! J WEDNESDAY "THE BOSS OF RUSTLER'S ROOST" Also 2 - REEL COMEDY and FREE TICKET POR SHOW FRIDAY Theatre Well Heated THE ENTERPRISE $128.63 PROFIT ON ACRE PEANUTS Wendell Griffin, of James ville, Proves Peanuts , Cheaper To Raise Wendell Griffin made a profit of $128.63 per acre on peanuts after paying all expenses and charging himself with labor at 20c per hour and his horse labor at 10c per hour. The recordg,of eight other boys who kept records as this boy tfd, gave an aver age porfit per acre of $64.30. While the profit per acre was much smaller than that of tobacco, the number of hours per acre spent on peanuts was 56 and the number on tobacco was 306 hours. Then observing the aver ages the labor income per hour on to bacco was 68 cents and that on pea nuts, |1.26, showing that there was a gre rater return per hour's work on peanuts than there was on tobacco. Besides making peanut crop, Wendell won the second prize on his Farm and Home booth at the fair last fall.—Jamesville Tarheel. Young Griffin is studying vocation al agriculture in the Jamesville school and during the summer months he farms. Costs of raising tobacco as compared with that of raising other crops, have long been the talk of the farmer, but this is the first test have seen showing the proportionate cow of tobacco and peanuts. TEACHERS HOLD REGULAR MEET 76 of the 100 Teachers in County At Meeting Here Saturday The fifth meeting of the Martin county teachers was held in the school building here last Saturday af ternoon, seventy-six of the one hun dred teachers attending. 'J' The meeting was called to order by the president and opened with the singing "Onward Chris tian Soldiers," followed by a short responsive reading. Mr. J. L. Jones, of the Jamesville schools, made a short talk on the responsibility of a teacher in netting examples for chil dren. • The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Superinten dent PopT* asked the various princi pals about the smallpox condition in the various vicinities, and asked that the Health Officer be summoned and every child in every school who need-, ed it tp be vaccinated. *• Mr. Leake asked the association to attend a fiddlers' contention and en tertainment in Robersonville next Thursday night. The president, J. L. Jones urged all the teachers to attend the next meet ing, since it was going to be the best and last, and he hoped to have Dr. Boshart to speak to the association. He also reminded the teachers of their promise to pay 25 cents each to bear the expense incurred by Dr. Moshart's visit. Mr. R. I. Leake and Mr. Jones in vited the association to meet in Rob resonville and Jamesville respective ly, for its next meeting. It was decid ed that the association meet in Wil liamston by majority of a standing vote. Mr. Pope asked that the heads of each group see that the groups studied the full 90 minutes. The association adjourned to its re spective groups. J. L. JONES, Pres. MILDRED DARDEN, Sec'y. CHANCE TO GET PEANUT'. SHOW Williamston Invited to Make Bid; Selection To Be Made in February Ana it might be that neither Chi cago nor Kansas City will get the next Peanut show; for, in a communica tion addressed to the secretary of the chamber of commerce, it was stated that communications are being directed to Williamston and Windsor At this time to find out whether they will be interested in getting the 1928 *how. The communication came from the office of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, Kinston, and stated the show will, in all probabil ity, be let at a meeting of the direc tors which will be held sometime the first part of February. According to newspaper reports, Chicago and Kansas City ate bidding for the exposition, and for Williams ton to get the show, all it will have to do is place a bid that will compare favorably with those of the two West ern cities. It id understood that the matter will he discussed at a meeting of the Kiwanis club here tomorrow, and it, may be that the next Peanut show will be held in Williamston. Misa Elisabeth Ramsey spent the week end with relatives in Ply mouth. Williamston. Martin County. North Carolina, Tuesday, January 24, 1928 REPORT 41 CASES MEASLES IN PAST TWENTY DAYS Health Officer Says Another Epidemic Appears Imminent * SMALLPOX ON WANE • • ——— f Parmele School Closes Today Tem porarily On Account of Measles Outbreak According to County Health Officer Wm. E. Warren, it looks as if there is going to be another epidemic of measles in the county, » total of forty one cases having been reported in the last twenty days. One school, Parmele, closed today temporarily on account of the wide spread of the disease in that community. Dr. Warren stated this morning that the townships of Dear Grass, Robersonville and Williamston are principally involved. The disease is considered very serious and danger ous, and the Health Officer urges that all children, especially the babies, be kept away from it. The smallpox situation in the coun ty is improving, no new eases having been reported in the last week. All school children, white and colored, are being vaccinated very rapidly. Dr. Warren stated that regardless of the law requiring vaccination of all school children, the majority of the pupils in the schools of the county had never been vaccinated until recently. EVERETTS BESTS MAYSVILLE, 18-14 Game Played at Everetts Last Night; Outcome Always in Doubt Everetts, Jan 24.—1n one of the best played games of the basketball heason, Everetts last flight defeated the Maysville team 18 to 14. The game was nip and tuck from beginning to end, and everyone was in doubt as to the outcome until the timekeeper's whistle was blown. With both teams functioning as units, it would be dif ficult to locate 'any individual stars. The Maysville boys played the clean est game ever seen in these parts, no personal fouls being called on them, while only three personal fouls were charged against Everetts. Jim Cook, of Williamston, refereed an unusually good game, and received the'highest compliment that a referee could rceeive when he w'as asked by the Maysville captain to referee the return game in Maysville on the 17th of February. . v MAKES $281.06 ON ACRE TOBACCO Jamesville Vocational Agri culture Pupil Made Handsome Profit . Marion Harber, student in vocational agriculture made $281.06 profit per acre on a tobacco project last year. After paying all of his expenses of making the crop including his labor at 20 cents per hour, he made the handsome profit. The careful attention and work giv en the tobacco was partly the execu tion of plans made before the crop was planted. A careful record kept of this project makes it possible to tell how a still larger profit can be made in the years to come. The aver age profit per acre of nine other boys who kept records as this boy did was 1165.11 which shows that tobacco is a source of cash when handled proper ly- These boys treated their seed and put into practice many of the approv ed practices recommended by the, to bacco specialists and State experiment stations. Tobacco culture is one that demands special skill and only the person who Is willing to study and improve his practices need to expect his profit pn tobacco to increaae.—Jamesville Tar heel. Town Team to Play Greenville Guardsmen The local town basketball team will meet the Greenville National guards here tonight in the Roanoke-Dixie warehouse in its second game of the season. u Thursday night, the team meets the Rocky Mount Y. M. C. A. team here. Senior Epworth League Social Thursday Night The Senior Epworth League of the Methodist church will hold its next social with Miss Daisy Whitley at her home in New Town, Thursday even ing at 8:00 o'clock. The members are requested to attend. INSTALL PASTOR LOCAL CHURCH Large Attendance at Chris tian Church Service Sunday Night The installation of James H. Hale as pastor of the Christian church here Sunday evening was well attend ed, the Christian spirit of the church people of the town, giving forth an atmosphere of real joy. The program was simple yet beautiful and well rendered. Judge R. J. Peel introduced the pas tor in a very apropriate speech. May or R. L. Coburn, on behalf of the town, extended a welcome to the new pastor and expressed his appreciation for the forces that stand for the up lift of humanity, both materially and spiritually. Professor L. H. Davis came with a message of greetings from the school, 1 expressing his belief that the educa- I tion that makes good citizens and . good goevrnment finds its base of! strength and rests upon the same! foundation upon which the preacher stands. Judge Clayton Moore welcomed the preacher to the town and community on the part of the civic organizations, all of which have the truth, the love and the mercy of the Church as their foundation, and which, to a large ex tent, are among the most unselfish messengers of Christianity. In the absence of Rev. Mr. Pardo, who was kept away on account of illness, Mr. Moore also extended a welcome on be half of the Episcopal church. Rev. Mr. Hale responded in words of deep appreciation of the very generous and friendly greetings which" had been extended him. ' Rev. C. H. Dickey and Dr. Fitz gerald were both on the program, Mr. Dickey to deliver a charge to the pastor and Mr. Fitzgerald to de liver a charge to the church members. Dr. Fitzgerald, however, had been call ed from the State and was unable to take part in the service. Mr. Dickey talked with much pow er in his outline of the high position of the pastor and his duties to his community. He said the preacher laid aside the hope of making money when he entered the ministry and look forward only for a crown of right eousness which is promised to all those who serve. He pointed out that the principal duty of the preacher is to Irad the people, not to drive them, but to teach and serve, BUSY WEEK FOR COUNTY AGENT Treats Several Hundred Hogs In Addition To • Tobacco Seed County Agent Tow Uittmlon is work ing- on a double' schedule thin week an there are many tobacco seed and 237 hogs to be treated before his labor* will be complete. Yesterday Mr. llruiulon treuted 72 hogs. Today he id- treating 90 and to morrow he plans to treat 75 more, lteturning late in the afternoon, the agent goes to his office where he finds the tobacco seed piled in heaps. After preparing the formaldehyde solution, Mr. Brandon soaks each of the pack ages of seed in the solution separate- I ly. Ten minutes to the dot and the ' seed are removed to dry. Some little time is required to complete the pro j cess, but even in spiet of that fact l and with his other duties to perform, the agent thinks he will treat more seed this week than he did last. Ac cording to his present plans, Mr. lirandon will be in his office practical ly all the time during Thursday,' Fr iday and Saturday and during that | time he will be able to treat an | amount 6t seed sufficient to sow three I. or four hundred thousand nqliare | yards of tobacco beds. - , . ' ' I Fiddlers' Convention At Robersonville Thursday The Robersonville High School faculty is extending a general invita tion to friends throughout the county to attend a fiddlers' convention and cake contest to be held in the school auditorium there Thuisday evening January 20. Fiddlers from all sections near have been urged to participate. A further program is being prepared, it was announced. The Poplar Chapel male quartette has consentecT to fur nish appropriate musical numbers as one part of this program. This quar tat, who has sung for the radio, will no doubt pleaße you. Cakes of various kinds are being baked by as' good cooks as Robersonville affords, the invitation announced. Local Masons To Meet Tonight '-' All masons, in good standing, are urged to attend the regular communi cation of the Lodge, A. F. and A. 1L tonight at 7:46. Work in the Mcona degree has been announced. MEET TONIGHT FOR DISCUSSION TRAIN REMOVAL Delegations From Several Towns' Expected At Meeting Here PROTEST EXPECTED Petition of Railroad Will Be Heard in Raleigh by Corporation Com mission Tomorrow Delegations from several towns along the Plymouth branch of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad ) will meet at the offices of the Farmers and Merchants bank tonight to discuss the petition of the railroad for the re moval of the two trains known here as the 1 and 5 o'clock trains. • The petition will be heard by the North Carolina Corporation Commis sion in Kaleigh tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Representatives from Plymouth, Jamesville, Everetts, Robersonville and probably Hethel and Tarboro will attend the meeting tonight for the purpose of trying to hold these trains on the company's present schedule. It is understood that a delegation will be sent to Raleigh to the hear ing tomorrow to protest the discon tinuance of the service. 54 PUPILS ON HONOR ROLL Is Largest Number Mak ing Honor List During Current Term Fifty-four pupils in the grammar grades of the local school averaged above 90 on all their studies and were neither absent nor tardy and made the honor roll during the last, school month. The number gaining the honor the last month was the largest that has been reported during the school term. The list of- honor students by grades (tnd. the teachers follows: First tirade—(Miss Peacock)—HiU lie lliggs, Grace Harnhill, Thelma Griffin, Addie I,ee ning, Marion Pender, Kill Roberson, Kilal Suinara. Second Grade—(Miss Harden)- Joseph Harnhill, Hurras Critcher, John F. Thigpen, Ellis Wynne, Julia Everett, Marjorie Lindsley, Addie Lee Meador. Second Grade—(Miss Ivey)—Fan nie Spain llolliday, Ruby Harrison, C. T. Roberson, Hazel Price,-Annie Mae 1/eggettl. ' Third Grade*-(Mi*s Wilkins)— Jessie Mae Holloman, ltolton Cowen, Thad Harrison, Jr., Exum Ward, Car rie Williams, Kathleen Price, George Lee Roberson, Eloise Cooke, Fern Fitzgerald. Third Grade —(Miss Ramsey)— Ethel Coltrain, Mamie Clyde Taylor, Edna Ballard, Pen Manning, Clayton Moore, Milton James. Fourth Grarde— (Miss Sample)— (irace Manning, Olive McCabe, Jessie Mae Anderson, Alice Harrison, I'illie Griffin, Itruce Holloman, J. I>. Bowen, Jr. Fifth tirade—(Miss Allen) —Her- bert Whitley, Josephine Anderson. Sixth (trade—(Miss Cole) Myrtle Brown, Nettie Meador, Jane Moore, Mary E. Burroughs. Sixth Grade—(Mrs. Bradley)— Je nnie Taylor, Cushing Hassell. Seventh Grade—(Mr. Hood) —Hazel Modlin, Julia Daniels, Ernest Har rison. SOON TO BEGIN SHIPPING FORDS Assembly Plant at Norfolk To Resume Operations First of February r . A At a meeting of Ford dealers in Norfolk last Thursday it was an nounced that the assembly plant there would start operation around the flrft of next month. It was stated that train loads of parts from the Detroit factories are being unloaded atr the Norfolk assembly plant daily, and that cars would be ready for shipment immediately after the plant is put in operation. Mr. J. D. Woolard, a member of the Williamston Motor company staff and who attended the meeting of the dealers last Thursday, stated that while he was not sure, he thought that cars would be supplied the 130 deal ers in this district around the middle of February. "The supply will be. gradual at first, however," Mr. Wool ard stated further. Several Important Matters To Come Before Kiwanis Attention ofidnembers of the local Kiwanis club is called to the meeting tomorrow at 12:30. Besides the regu lar luncheon, several matters of im portance will be placed before the meeting. County To Get Only $50,000 for Schools START SHIPPING POULTRY HERE NEXT MONTH First Shipment Scheduled To Be Loaded Here February 28 3 CARS LAST SEASON I Amount Of Poultry On Storage Below Normal; Better Prices Expected This Year According to County Agent T. li. Brandon, farmers in the county will start shipping poultry to northern markets next month. The first ship nient is scheduled to be loaded here the 28th of next month. Last year there were three cars of poultry shipped from the county, and Mr. Brandon thinks that number will be passed before the shipping season ends this year. The date announced by the Division of Markets might be changed from the 28th to the 15th Mr. Brandon stated yesterday. To do this, he. explained, a sufficient demand for a car will have to be made to war rant a complete complete loading. With the amount of poultry on stor age below the normal, prices are ex pected tiv be as good if not better than the;, were last* year.-Mr. Brandon states, "We are looking "for a good poultry year, and farmers throughout the county are urged to prepare large shipments when the season opens." A total of 21,500 farmers of North Carolina sold approximately three million pounds of live poultry in co operative carlot shipments with "a market value of $787,761.24 at a sav ing of $168,761.27 over local prices during the year 1!t27 according to records compiled by V. W. 'Lewis, livestock marketing agent.* I With better prices almost assuml, | the u'v.ount of poultry to t>e shipped from illis State this year is expected | to be much greater than it was last T. W. ANDREWS DIED MONDAY Suffered Sroke of Paralysis Friday, Never Regaining Consciousness Thomas W. Andrews-^ilied early yesterday morning from a stroke of ap plexy suffered Friday of lujt week. The stroke was so severe, that Mr. Andrews tiever regained- The son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Otis Andrews, he had spent the er part of his life upon the farm in Williams township. A few years ago he left his Williams township home and went to live with Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Cherry near here. Mr. Andrews was almost 7ti years old and had never married. Interment took place at two o'clock this after non in the Baptist cemetery. The funeral service was conducted at the rersidenco by Rev. C. W. Dickey. MAYSVILLE, 12; JAMESVILLE, 23 Defeat "Wonders" for Sec ond Time; Jimmie Brown Plays Stellar Role The Jamesville Marketeers turned back the Maysville "Wonders" in a second game here last Saturday night, 2.S to 12. So close was the gume be tween the two teams last Thursday night that the visitors called for an other chance, but the Jamesville lads came back stronger than ever and led in the Saturday game by a comfor table margin. Both teams guarded closely, and it was the result of Jimmie Brown's alertness that the county boys came out with the big end of the score. The defeat Thursday . night was Maygville's first this season. Friday night the visitors went to Aulander where they were again defeated by the high school- team of that place. The defeat here Saturday night jwic tically relieved them of the Prlle, "Maysville Wonders". Begin Evening Classes for Farmers In Jamesville Mr. W. T. Overby, agricultural teacher in the , T amesviHe schools, ia announcing evening classes tor farm ers in that community for the study of hog raising. The flrst of the classes will be held in the Jamesville school building tonight at 7:30. Mr. Overby urges every farmer in that community to attend the claaa. Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to Over 1,600 Homes of Martin County ESTABLISHED 1893 ALLOTTED BY STATE BOARD Will Mean But One School Building for County Un less Bonds Are Issued a • ■■ ■ ASKED FOR $130,000.00 Problems Confronting County Board Education Increased By Action Of State Board • Problems con fronting si'hohs school committees ami school boards in this county were, from the best informa tion obtainable, greatly added to last Saturday when allocation of the two and one-half million dollar school building fund Were made by the State Board of Kducution. At the meeting of the State Hoard, $50,000 was-.al lotted this county for one school build ing, and as the situation now standi-" and as far us it is known, . Martin county will get one, school building this year instead of two. When the need foi; two new .school ■ buildings in the county was placed be fore the County Commissioners,'they approved a one -huStlied thousand d;>' lar loan to be secured Trout State building loan fund; At that time, mem bers of the County Board of Corn missioners expressed themselves as not favoring a bond issue providing funds for the erection of" two new school building-, but they were willing' to borrow "the money from the State building loan fund. Later the loan was moved up to one hundred arid thirty thousand dolktrs, and that"'Wit.- I the amount the County asked from i the State building fund.- "For. Martin county to get the two proposed buildings, the County Com | missioner will have to tloat a bond j issue. If they do not feel inclined to i do that,..then it will be a que turn oa -, one building, it In Uliiler»to>»C J _ Eighty eight school projects were 1 can d for out of the state fund by the | S'ate lioaijd of Education, Many of tiie counties supplied additional ! amounts above State allotments an ! i brought the total cost to $3,538. ,111.56. i Fifty-seven counties participated 1 in the fund. i ' URGE FARMERS j ,«• TO USE TILE County Farm Agent Says j 100 Carloads Could Be Used in County The value of drain tile to the farmer is coming to .tin- front, ami County Agent T. I!. Brandon is co -1 operating with the fanners of the county in an effort to improve those fields where'erops are damaged for the lack of drainage. / Mr. Brandon stated that last yeai the farmers of the coQiily u.'hVaround sixteen cars of the tile in draining their lands. While this is no small amount, it is estimated that 100 cars or more of tile are needed to bring the drainuge of farm lands in this county up to an average point. The use of tile in/ijeds where water affects the land has proved of value, and has been found to be cheaper than tho open ditch. Certain types of soil in the county could, be made highly productive should proper drainage be provided, Mr. Brandon stated. "There are certain types of soil, however, that under certain con ditions, where drainage would prove very costly and of little value," he further explained. Many farmers ih the county are planning to order quantities of the tile this season, and all farmers who are interested in improving their lands are urged to place their orders for the material with Mr. Btandon as soon as possible. Favorable Reports On Observance of Game Law County' Came Warden J. W. Mines is making a thorough check of the State game laws jn this county this we»*k. The Warden is getting first hand information regarding the en forcement of the game laws and ask-, ing the citizens for their general opin' ions regarding the law, Mr. Hines stated toda/"lhat he hail seen many people in the county, and in every instance the reports were very favorable. ' "S Parents-Teachers To Stage Play February 3 February 8 has been announced as the date when the Parents-Teachers' association of the local school will stage the play, "Here Comes Ara bella."