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Week the Label on Yom Peptr; It Cerries tke Dete Ytm Subscription Expires VOLUME XXXI —NUMBER 4 DEMONSTRATOR HAS VERY BUSY WEEK PLANNED Gold Point Club Held First Meeting This Morning; Doing Good Work SCHEDULE FOR WEEK Meetings at Holly Springs, Farm Life, Poplar Point, Williamston, Wil liams Chapel and Hamilton By LORA E. SLEEPER Home Demonstration Agent The culb girls of Gold Point school held their first meeting this morn ing at the school house from 9 till 11. There are eleven girls in this club, the smallest in the county but all have garments cut ready to make up. The girls are doing very good work, and judging by their work 'done thus far, I am very sure there will be some good clothing club ex hibits among the various schools in county. The girts of Parmele had their second meeting this afternoon from 1:16 to 8:30. The time is so arranged that the girls come to the meeting as they have study periods and all have attention at some time duriag the afternoon. The girts re ported that they are getting up a short program for next Monday morning and help was given them in • few club songs. The schedule for the week is as fol lows: Tuesday, women of Holly Springs meat; Wednesday, club meeting at Farm Life in the morning and Woman's club toeeting at Poplar Point in the afternoon; Thursday, Junior club of Williamston in the morning and Woman's club meeting at Williams Chapel in the after noon, and Friday, the girls and women of Hamilton will have their regular meetings, he third and fourth Saturday of each month, the agent will be in the office all day for con sultations, the first and second Satur day afternoons, the agent plans to take for necessary recreation and rest NEGRO KNOCKED OUT DURING RAID Dry Officer Thought He Was Reaching for Gun And Hit Him C. C. Jones, Oak City negro, was knocked unconscious but not serious* 1 ly hurt, last week by officers who were raiding his place in a search for liquor. The officers had a war rant calling for Jones' arrest,* and while serving the paper, they made another search for whiskey in his lit tle shop. Jones told them to look all they wanted to, and while they were busy at their task, the storekeeper wandered toward the rear of the store When he reached his hand in * hi.« hip pocket, one of the officers thinking that Jones was reaching for a pistol, hit him over the head. It was soon learned that Jones was trying to get a pint of liquor from his pocket to throw it out the back door before the officers searched him. Evaretts and Jamesville To Play Here Friday Although the basketball season is well night aver, it is understood thst a three-game series between the two basketball teams of the towns has been arranged, the first game to be played hare next Friday evening at > o'clock. While the dates for the second and third game have not been definitely decided upon, it is probable that they will be played Tuesday and Friday nights of next week. „ * The series was arranged at the re quest of basketball fans from all parts of the oounty, and record freak ing crowds art expected to attend. S^Tranh theatre! J WEDNESDAY KEN MAYNARD Also 2 - REEL COMEDY And Serial "Heroes of the Wild" and FREE TICKET FOR SHOW FRIDAY Theatre Well Heated ■ »" ■■ THE ENTERPRISE DOCTORS MEET HERE THURSDAY Second District Medical So ciety To Be Guests Of Martin County Society The Second District Medical Society, including Carteret, Craven, Lenior, Pitt, Beaufort, Martin, Bertie and Hertford counties, will be entertain ed by the Martin County Society here next Thursady evening at 8:00 o'clock in the Woman's Club build ing. The program, probably one of the best yet prepared for a district meeting, includes papers to be read by prominent doctors from Rich mond, Norfolk, High Point, Southern Pines, Greensboro, Charlotte and Raleigh. A preliminary session will b# held at 6 o'clock and at 8, the Woman's club serving committee will serve dinner to the county society's guests. Mayor R. L. Cobutn will deliver the address of welcome to the visiting doctors and Dr. John C. Rodman, of Washington, will make the response. While speaking of the meeting, Dr. Wm. E. Warren, prominent In medi cnl society circles in this and other states, said, "We are expecting one of the best sessions ever held by the socity, and we fell highly honored in having so many leading and wide ly known physicians taking part in the program. STATE HAS 367568 CASES MEASLES Average of 522.4 New Cases Each Day of Present Year According to a state report, an average of 622.4 North Carolinians liav econtracted measles each day of the present year. Including last Sat urday, 36,&6H new cases of measles had been reported, and brings the 1928 cases to a number higher than in 1924 and 1927, the years when bad epidemics were reported. Un less an' unexpected decreas occurs, the 1928 total is expected to go be yond that of 1923 when 62,066 case* were reported. "Though measles is a disease with which medical science toy*L ta iaarn to control, the State Board of Health is fighting the epidemic through a campaign of education," Dr. Charles Laughinghouse, State health officer, said. Parents sre urged to protect young children, esepcially those un der four years of age, from exposure and to isolate those children who show the first symptoms of the di sease. Several sections in this county have reported bad epidemics and in two or three instances schools have been closed. The disease, while a few cases are reported almost daily, is not considered very serious at this time. CONTRACTSTO BE LET TODAY Objections Made Against Work on Route 90 Av Present The outcome of the letting of seventeen road and pridge contracts cnuld not be learned today, but it is understood that in spite of the ob jections coming from the northeast ern section of the State and parts of Virginia the link of No. 90 from thib point to the Washington county line will be paved. Many people in the northestern section asked the commission to hold up construction on No. 90 until was completed, they stating that trifle would not be tied up as badly in that way as it would be should both the projects be carried on at the same time. The people in this section see little or no cause for such objections since travel it possible to Norflok over Highway No. 80. When the road is completed to the Washington county line, the hard surface will reach to a few miles be low Mackeys and will leave oaly about ten miles of dirt road from Raleigh to Columbia. Pitt county will get seven miles of hard surface from Farmville to the Edgecombe county line. There will be four of gravel road in Chowan county, making twenty eight ,milea in the First District. State engineers have been busy during the past several days staking anu marking the grade levels and lo cation for the hard surface, and it reported that concrete wrok will be started within a very short time. Beauty Parlor To Be Opened Here Friday Miss Annie Blanche Leigh, of New Bern, will open a beauty parlor in the up stairs of the Martin County Bank building next Friday. Mi«s Leigh has already moved her equipment in, and ■ays slu will bt prepared to open the shop eraly Friday morning. Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 13,1928 SUPERIOR COURT CONVENES HERE NEXT MONDAY Judge Garland E. Midyette, Of Jackson, To Preside FEW CRIMINAL CASES Only One Day To Be Given To Trial of Criminal Cases; Balance For Civil Actions The Martin ounty Superior court convenes here next Monday, Judge Garland E. Midyette, of Jackson, presiding; The first day has been set aside for the few criminal cases, and the remainder of the two weeks will be used for the trial of civil cases. The criminal docket carries very few cases and the majority of- deal wiht petty offenses. There are fifty-five cases on the civil calendar for trial, but none of them, it is reported, is of much im portance. The special term of the court held here several weeks ago greatly re l'eved the badly congested civil doc ket. BETTER ENGLISH WEEK CONTEST Prize To Be Given Winner Of Contest At End ' Of Week Sponsored by the Woman's club, a contest was started in the local st-hool yesterday morning in which four hundred and fifty students and teachers are taking part. The con test is in the form of a race in mak ing corrections in speech usage and at the same time keeping from mak ing mistakes. Each student and teacher was given a tag to wear as loitflf as he or she avoided making a mistake. As soon as the first mistake was\»ade. the one committing the error foses the tag and the one cor recting the mistake, gaina it. At the end of the week, the person having the greatest numbre of tags will be declared the. winner of the price and the best grammarian. Hundreds of tags changed hands yesterday, and they have been cir culating freely to day. In connection with the contest, at tractive posters have been prepared and placed in several of the store show windows here. Some Things I Know Things I Do Not Know About Tobacco By W. T. MEADOWS It looks as if there will be an in creased acreage in the Bright Tobac co Belt, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia this over last year. The estimated pro duction in the Bright Belt for 1927 wis, according to government sta tistics, 602,013,000 poynds which averaged about 22 cents. Some of the best pttsted men in the trade say we can stand a 700 million pound crop iir the belt in 1928 without any de cline in the average ipade lant year, but if an average crop is made in the Bright Belt, it will go over 700 mil lion pounds this year. The largest producing state in the belt is North Carolina. She will be credited with about 474 million of the poundage in 1927. That would leave about 218 million pounds for Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia. Now I don't believe North Carolina will increase her acreage very much, neither will Virginia. Possibly Ave per cent would take care of the increase in both of the states for 1928. It is rumored that Georgia will increase 30 to 40 per cent over 1927 and South Caro lina, 18 to 22 per cent over last year's acreage. That being true, Georgia and South Carolina would give ua about a 40 million pound in crease over that of 1927. If you will notice, I have used figures represent ing a normal crop of tobacco in all the atates, but how can we foretell what the yield will be this year? You cannot tell what the acreage will be, until the plants are set out, and you cannot tell how the plant beds will yield, how the seasons will be, how the worms and diseases which tobacco Is subject to will be. All these things are a matter of speculation on the part of the hard working farmer. According to government informa tin, cigarette consumption in the list fiscal year was 97,176,007,484. (These figures are billions). You can figure three pounds of tobacco to make one thousand cigarettes .. and you can find out how much of your tobacco it required to make the 97 billion and over cigarettes. (Get your pencil and go to figuring). It Is predicted that there will be smok ed in 1928 around 116 billion cigar ettes. This will include, of course, BOAT ON LOCAL RUN IS SUNK | Goes North River After Collision; No One Hurt in Accident * l The Dorothy Leigh, of the boats of the Norfolk, Baltimore and Carolina Line that runq between here and Norfolk was slink early Sunday in a collision in North river with the Virginia Dare of, the Eliza beth City boat line. Captain George Wise, If Norfolk attempted to beach th| Dorothy Leigh but she satik in 20 (ninutes in ! eight feet of water. No or s was hurt in the accident The Virginia Dare was badly bat tered, but was able to ma e her way to Elizabeth City. The Dorohty Leigh here last Saturday with one of tl lightest freights in several montm and was nearing Norfolk when trl collision occurred. 1 t The regular schedule ff the line will be maintained by aifttther boat ,oi the company until th« Dorothy Leigh is raised and put ba£k in oper ation. Operations to raise tljt sunken vessel were started yesteilay morn ing, but it will be seven! days be fore it will be ready to" make its regular runs. ' .■: J Firemen To Attend Meeting In pinston The regularly quarterly meeting of Eastern Carolina fireman will be well attended according 10 advance plans of firemen' her® an 4 those in neighboring towns. Practically three fourths of the members oj the local company will journey to Kjnston, the place of ,the meeting, where they will be the guests of the fire-fighters there. Kiwanis To Entertain Two Basketball Teams The members of the Kifcanis club are urged to attend the luncheon to morrow when the basketball teams of Jamesville and Everetts and their coaches will be entertained. i ■ Black and Red Minstrel Revue Here Tonight With a cast of 45 young men, the Black and Red Revue comes here to night for one performance. The show comes highly recommended, and a large attendance is expected. the women smokers. (Figure some'' more at the sale of three pounds of tobacco for every 1000 cigarettes for 1928 consumption). Every domestic cigarette manufac turer. in the United States is bend ing every energy and nerve they have to push their favorite brands and last year there was more keen competition between the large cigar ette manufacutrers than was ever known before. Advertising reached record proportions in order to hold smokers to their favorite brands. After all, it is simply advertising thai makes the huge totals represent a mighty business. Stop the adver tising and see whether this is right or wrong, but where is there a mod ern business man* who does -not realize the power of the press, the power of the printer's ink? If you want to do some more arithmatic stunts, try these: The State of North Carolina paid to the United States Government in 1927 on cigarettes, $174,862,268.40. The tax rpte is $2.20 on 1000 cig arettes. • . One large cigarette Arm says that one cigarette of a certain brand of theirs is smoked every time the clock ticks. Now figure out how many of. these cigarettes are smoked in 12 months, and how much of our to bacco does this firm use, using three pounds of tobacco to make 1000 cig arettes. . ... „ Here is an easy one to figure. One concern who entered the cigarette field last year with a new brand, and according to newspaper reports, spent six million dollars advertising the particular brand. The concern is mak ing eighteen million cigarettes daily of the brand. How much tobacco will it take at this rate for this one con cern on a new brand for a year's consumption even at this daily out put, which I am sure will be increas ed? I figure it to be 21 million and 000 thousand pounds for the Arm. This company had a buyer on our market last year for the first time in the history of the market. He was a good buyer and bought liberally for his Arm. i It is generally conceded that there will be a big fight among the home manufacturers in cigarettes this year for supremacy in their leading brands ARBOR DAY WILL BE OBSERVED BY LOCAL SCHOOL Half-Holiday Granted Fri day for Presentation of Program TO BEAUTIFY CAMPUS Trees To Be Trimmed; Walks Laid Off Some Time Ago To Be Improved A half-day holiday has been grant i ed in the local school for next Fri day afternoon when an appropriate ! program for Arbor Day will be pre i sented by the several grades. Stnce there are a number of trees lon the school grounds, those in I charge will stress grass plots, the | sowing of seed and planting shrub bery. The trees that are on the gr> unds will be trimmed and treated I against decay. The walks which have been laid off for some time are to be co\ered with top soil. A car load of suitable material is on its way from Ahoskie. Due to the fact that shrubbery is very expensive, the school officials and the committee from the parent toacher association are asking per sons who have a piece of shrub of any kind that they would like to donate for this purpose 16 notify the principal. The- shrub will be taken up by this committee and moved to ti»* school property. Hedge, cannas or any kind of shrubbery or flower that happens to be in the way around home will serve the purpose well. To beautify the school grounds with private prunnings and lawn mowing is a good policy as well as sound economics. It will be appreci ated too. The school grounds need something of the kind on ty. 24 Mexican Quail Are Released in County Twenty-four Mexican quail were released in various parts of. the county yesterday by District Game Warden Chas. J. Moore. During the past few weeks, the games wardens throughout the State have released the quail brought here from Texas by the Bureau of Conservation and Development. The birds released in this county yeiterday were equally divided ac cording to townships, it was stated by County Warden J. W.-Hine's, this morning. The distribution of the quail, it is thought, will result in a large in crease. i*.nd millions will be spent in adver tising the old brands as well as the new ones. Some of the Trade think one of the large British concerns will en tei the U. S; market this i year in full blast. This firm has already purchased p manufac'urii.jr plant in the United States, ami has com menced to marjcet a brand of cig arettes. Some think this Hritish concern will spend large sums this year in pushing its products in th» States. The company has the money to do so, and it has the raw ma terial, The concern operates the largest redrying plants in the United States and has made heavy pur phases of bright leaf tobacco in America for the past twenty-five years. If it enters the ciagrette field in earnest, some of the old firms will have to sit up and take notice. In conclusion, 1 don't want you readers to think that all of this 700 million pounds of tobacco goes into cigarettes. About onehalf of it is ex ported to foreign countries and a great deal of it goes into granulated smoking tobacco and fist plug chew ing tobacco. On the other hand, don't think the majority of it goes into cigarettes, for some of the leading brands of cigarettes carry a large per cent of Hurley tobacco. One of the best articles I have seen on the growing tendency to use Burley to bocca in the manufacture of cigar ettes was written for the editorial page of the Enterprise by W. C. Manning, under dkte of Feb. 21. If you have a copy, read it. However, the extremely high price of cigarette tobacco in the Burley district the past year owing to the small acreage there should have a tendency to help the price of our bright leaf tobac co during the coming season. The cigarette types of Burley tobacco, so I am told by parties who were in Kentucky this season, would probab ly average over 86 cents. The past season the general floor average for Burley types was 30 cents. 0 You can take this article and di gest it anyway you want to, but we sold eight million pounds of to bacco in Williamston the past seas en and we are going to sell twelve million this season, and here's hop ing the prices will be satisfactory. BIG INCREASE IN PETTY THIEVERY Chickeh Coops Robbed In Several Sections of Town During Past Few Days According to reports from various citizens, there are more than one chicken thief in WilUamaton. Three coofes were robbed in the same neighborhood in as many nights the Utter part of last week, and no one seems to know just how many have been robbed during the la3t several weeks. . The meaneivt trick turned by the thief or thieves was that in the coop of Mrs. Dink Hardison. Mrs. Hardison had raised eight nice hens and all during the winter months she allowed the Sundays to go by without greasing the pot with chic ken, doing so- with the expressed determination of raising a drove of chickens this spring. The rogues came and. badly interferred with her plans, so badly i.n fact did they in terfere that Mrs. Hardison killed and greased the pot with the one left by the cur. Thifves have been seen in other coops, and in one instance a capture was almost effected, but so far none cf the rogues has been brought be fore the courts. A quack or a cackle from the chic ken coop is worth an investigation is the general warning in these parts at this time. CAR IS WRECKED TWICE SUNDAY Ford Roadster Turns Over; Is Righted and Later Hits Another Car 11. C. Smith and George lleach, local men, and FateMSmith, of Kob ersonville, were sligntly hurt when their car, a Ford roadster, wrecked twice Sunday night, once between Greenville and Washington and a second time on the Aurora-Washing ton road. Iletween Greenville and' Washing ton, the car Ahmed turtle, hut the occupants we/e unhurt. Turning their car back on all fours, the three men got In and drove off with windshield, top and steering wheel smashed. They lost their way at Chocowinity, ?md with H. C. Smith doing the driv ing with the. two small prongs left ft the steering end, the three made around about trip. George lieach, realizing that danger was not far off, hopped head first into a ditch just as- the car wrecked with a Pontiac, a few mile* beyond Washington, beach crawled from the dicth with mud from head to foot on him. After a close check, H. C. Smith was found missing:, and nothing was heard from him until yesterday morning when he regained consciousness in a Wash ington hospital. How he got there, Smith was unable to say. H. C. Smith was driving when the accident occurred and it was said that both cars were badly damaged. Childof Mr. and Mrs. Mobley Is Improving The infant son tif Mr. and Mrs. Scj Mobley is getting along very well in a Philadelphia hospital where it was carried to have a button re moved from its lung. Last week, while playing, the two-year old child picked up a button and swallowed it. Fine Arts Department Will Meet Thursday Mrs. Harper Holliday, chairman of the Fine Arts department of the Woman's club has called a meeting Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the club rooms. All those wishing to jc{n the department are asked to be present. The meeting will not be very long, it beirfg for the purpose of organization only. Christian Church Board Meeting Thursday Night There will be an important meet ing of the official board of the Chris tian church at the church Wednes day, March 14, following the regular Wednesday evening prayer service. All members of the official board are urged to be present as this is the first and one of the most important meetings of the board. '--V J. H. HALE, Pastor. Mrs. A. F. Walker Dies in Oak City Mrs. A. F Walker, a resident of Oak City during the past year and a half, died at the teacherage there the latter part of last' week, after a illness of several weeks. The body was carried to Georgia for burial. Mr. Emil Rosenthal, of the Wa chovia Banking and Trust Company was here attending to business to day. r n I Advertiseri Wm Find Our Col- I vmtts a Latchkey to Over lfiOO « Homes of Martin County ESTABLISHED 1898 FARMERS LOOK FOR GOOD CROP IRISH POTATOES Expect To Produce Around 85,000 Barrels of Spuds This Year 2,000 ACRES PLANTED Crop in Aurora Section Not Thought ' To Be As Well Off As That Around Bethel According to Information coming from the upper end of this county and from around Bethel, in Pitt, a good Irish potato crop is expected I in that section this season. Around two thousand acres have been plant- I ed to the spuds in that section, ten I thousand bags of seed potatoes being used in the planting. . Many bf the farmers , who have examined their plantings state that only a small percentage of the seed have rotted, and that if good weather conditions continue, around 83,000 i barrels of potatoes will be raised this | year. Fn the Aurora section where so many potatoes are raised each year, it is stated that a larger percentage of the seed have rutted than was the case in the Bethel section. Wet wea ther about planting time, was said to have been the caurte of a larger percentage of the seed rotting in that section. However, no serious damage is expected to result from rotten seed in either place. UNIQUE PRAYER FOR BANKERS Mississippi Pastor Surprises Meeting With Prayer in Bankers' Language Down m .Mississippi there was recently a convention of bankers. Proceedings were to be opened by prayer and when Dr. T. D. Bateman, pastor of the Columbus Presbyterian Church, raised his hands the bankers composed themselves for the custo mary blessing on their proceedings. The following was what they heard fot ,the edification of their benighted souls: "Ktenial Cod, our Heavenly Father, we are all bankrupt in Thy presence and that is why we pray for a bless ing on these bankers. May their hearts be easier for Thy spirit to enter than their steel vaults are for people who are broke. May there b« no time locks on their souls as they stand before Thee . Save them from bolting the doors of then hearts at U o'clock if Thou hast * business.to transact with them. May their assets in the sight of men make them assets in the sight of the Lord. Help them to remember that, though banks may be fireproof, bankers are not, as Dives could tell them. "Save thenv from saying their prayers to Andrew Mellon and, (Jen era! Motors; May they await as. enxiously ort the Lord as some of them are waiting for Ford's new car. And when the devil carries them ,up on to some high mountain and shows them 1,000 per cent and an automobile as long as a block, may they be just as careful then ys they are when a stranger- presents a check at the bank window. Save them from being choked to spiritual death by gold dust, and may they get a way from this section without hav ing their immortal -souls asphyxiated by natural, unnatural and supernat ural gas. May there never be a run on the bank of their, spirits, and may they have no dread of the Great Examiner. "And when the adding machines are silent, and the tyi>ewriter is muf fled, and the close of business has come, may they enter the great clear ing-house above, with eyes as frank j and faces as unafraid as they were J whf.n they knelt as children by their i ! mother's knee down in the old home stead in the dead, dead days beyond recall. Amen." 4 : * Fire Department Adds To Its Equipment A brand new truck with all modern attachments will make a complete outfit of the fire-fighting organiza tion here, for Chief Henry Harrison has just purchased several smoke 4 masks for his crew. Mr. Harrison supplied his men with coats and other paraphernalia some time ago, and the adding of the masks, the 'volunteer company is well fitted ex cepting a truck. 112 Cases of Measles In And Near Creswell On© hundred and twelve - case of measels were reported in Cre»well and community, according to a re port coming from Washington coun ty today. Eighty nine of the cases, it said, were reported in Creswell. The report was for the month of February.