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Watch the Label on Your Paper Aa It Carries die Date When Your Subscription Expires VOLUME XXXI—NUMBER 35 CONTRACT IS LET FOR FERTILIZER . PLANT ADDITION , New Unit Will More Than ' Double Present Capacity of Local Plant START WORK IN JULY Expect To tyftve United Ready for OperatiUi By Middle of September A contract for the erection of a sec ond unit to the factory of the Standard | Fertiliier Co. here was let last week. ' U was officially stated by Mr. C. G. Crockett, manaKer of the local plant, yesterday. S. S. Toler & Son, of Kocky Mount, were the successful bid ders, the umount of their bid not be ing known at this time, however. According to General Manager " " Crockett, work on the plant's new unit will be started some time in July, prob ably by the 15th of that month. While the specified date of completion has not been given, it is the general opin ion of those acquainted with the busi ness that the plant will be ready for operation by the middle or latter part of September, about the time work was started last year on the first unit of the factory. / The new unit, adjoining the pres ent building, will be addet/fo the low ' er tide. While its dimensions will be practically the same in the present building, the/ new unit will be higher, having a capacity larger by 2,000 tons than that of the plant erected last year. The new unit will be so erected that it will be given in its entirety to stor age of fertilizer material. The build fc. era will remove the weather strips on the south side of the present structure, making it possible to feed the mixing and bagging machines from one pas k sageway. The plant will have, when the addition is completed, a storage capacity of approximately 20.000 tons, the new unit providing room for around 11,000 tons. With a wharfage of 50 by 50, the company will add, along with its new • unit, another wharf 50 by 75 feet, mak ing it possible to unload material' *nd ship the finished goods at the same time by boat Where a crane operat ed unloading machine was used dur ing the past season, the company will install electrical equipment that will speed up that work to a point almftst double the capacity of the gasoline equipment. . 1 The present elevators used in un loading material from barges will l>e rearranged, and will supply the dis trikuting bins" for both units. Ma chinery in other parts of the building will b« added to and the bagging equipment will be double in its size. Enlargement of the plant will make additional railroad siding necessary, as the >hipping capacity of the factory ¥ will be more than doubled. During the past season, the Standard Fertiliser Co. operated its plant here night and day to fill the orden that poured into it* office from all over the State. But even then it was unable to meet the demand of its customers, and th« official* are agreed that an ad ditional unit, doubling the plant's ca pacity, it necessary. '• Before the first plant was near com- pleted, Mr. C. G. , Crockett, general manager, stated that the Standard Fer tilizer Co. was coming here to take step with the march of progress in Eastern North Carolina; to grow as thr section grows. And while they underestimated to a certain extent, and which, of course, was permissible, the section's power in agriculture, hardly a year has passed before they are making the first addition to their plant. . Local Scouts Will Return Home Sunday The local Boy Scouts now in camp at Camp Leach, will return home Sunday. Daring their several days' stay in the camp, the boys have had • time, several of them winning many honors. STRANH THEATRE! J SATURDAY 808 STEELE in THE BANDIT'S | SON tAlso EL COMEDY And Serial of Scotland Yard THE ENTERPRISE LET CONTRACT FOR ANOTHER UNIT LARGER THAN THIS ONE S |fr.* * « 't * « ■ 1 -s- ' v \. v Before next fall, the Standard Fertilizer Company will erect another unit to its plant pictured here. The addition will have a storage capacity of approximately 11,000 tons, which will more than double its pres ent capacity, making it one of the largest throughout this section. HOLD HEARING ON TARIFF ON PEANUTSJULY IX Association Is Organized to Fight for Higher Import Duty WANT BIG INCREASE Hearing Will Be Ffjeld Before United States Tariff Commission in Washington At a meeting held June 26th of busi ness men and peanut growers at Nor folk in the office of the Peanut Grow ers Association 'The Virginia and Spanish Peanut,. Tariff Association' was organized. The purpose of this organization is to prosecute the case for higher duty on peanuts before the United States Tariff Commission. The I'eanut Growers Association several months ago filed a petition with the United States Tariff Commission ask ing for a 50 per cent, increase in the duty on peanuts, which is the maxi mum amount that can Tie granted Without an act of Congress. The com mission has investigated the costs of the production of peanuts in the Unit ed State and foreign countries. A pub lic hearing will be held in Washing ton, P. C., before the commission otf - July 17th, at which time proponents and opponents for a change in the tar iff will be heard. This,is one of the most important movements that has ever been inaugurated affecting the peanut producing sections and should receive the hearty support, both per sonally and financially, of all those in terested ill the securing of higher prices of peanuts. The officers of the organization are ao follows: Chairman: Charles J. Shields, Scot land Keck; secretary, S. M. rence. Suffolk. Committee on presentation of case before the tariff commission: P. 1). Bain, American l'eanuf Corporation, Norfolk, Va.; Rodger I. Heale, Frank - lir Peanut Co., Franklin, Va.; J. Rives VVorsham, manager Peanut Growers Association, Norfolk; Charles J. Shields, farmer, Scotland Neck. Finance committee: John F. Pinner, Suffolk Peanut Co, Suffolk, Va.; A. M. Forehand, Farmers Peanut Ct». Eden ton; J. Rives Worsham, manager Pea nut Growers Association, Norfolk. Business School Closes Session The business school conducted here in Uie rooms of the Farmers imu Merchants Bank building by MisH Lucy Bruton as a unit of the Geor gia-Carolina School of , Comma re : was formally cloned last night whnn ten graduates were awarded di plomas. During .the past several months, day and night classes have been and in observing the closing of Ihe school, the graduates plan to picnic at Colerain Beach this after > noon. Exercises At Business School Are Called Off Bill Peel, scheduled to deliver the main address at the clostag of the business school here, expressed his regrets when he learned that the ex ercises and been called or in favor of a picnic at the beach. Dick Smith, who waa to have introduced Mr. Peel, was more'n disappointed since lie had been assembling his few in troductory words with care for a week or more, ever guarding the eloquence and praising effect. It was a case of bitter disappointment all the way 'round; for Norman Har rison, mentioned as the deliverer of the baecalaureate address, and Har cum Grimes, picked as chief mar shall, were seen consoling each ether when it was learned that the exercises had been ousted. , j Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 29,1928 WOMAN'S CLUB HAS MEETING Is Last Meeting Until Fall; Several Committees Appointed The Woman's club hail its last meeting before the summer season jesterday afternoon at 4:110 o'clock. Preparatory to buying a lot upon P'hich a swimming pool will be built t'.nil a play ground provided, there was considerable discussion as to whether it would be better to incor porate or to vest the title to the property in trustees appointed by the club. A committee, composed of Mrs. Clayton Moore, chairman, Mrs. C. A. Harrison and Mrs. Elbert S. Peel, was appointed to investigate the matter. Mrs. W. C. Liverman read a re port on a full-time health officer fur Martin county. She was appointed to find out the expense anil other de tails connected with a full-time of ficer, office and supplies. The business concluded, Mrs. W. C. Manning, jr. and Mrs. Carrie H. Williams rendered very beautifully, a piano duet. The program was eon iludeil by a vocal solo, "Life's Paradise" by Miss Lillian Dent, ac companied by Mrs. W. K. Parker. FREE CLINIC FOR CRIPPLES JULY 2 Will Be Held at Washing ton Monday From 9 to 12 O'clock The next orthopedic cliiwc for the free examination and treatment of in digent cripples will he held- in Wash ington next Monday, July 2, it was anllouuccd yesterday hy.H. 1.. Stan ton, supervisor of vocational rehabili tation in this State. The Clinic will be held from 9 o'clock in the morning yii til noon, the announcement read. During the past several months, the rehabilitation department has held clinics in Washington anil many crip ples have been examined and treated by specialists. Cripples from Beau fort and surrounding counties have vis. ited the clinic* but so far as it is known very few, if any, from this county have taken advantage of the free examina tion and treatment. The clinic will be held in the offices of the Beaufort County Health De partment. All-Stars Win Two From Washington Martin County's All Stars added two victories to their list this week when defeated Washington last Tuesday r " at" TSveretts, 6 to 3, and cgain yesterday by a score of 9 to 7 in a game played in Washington. Yesterday Washington with Potts in the box and Sammie Carson re ceiving, the Beaufort County lads were forecasting a victory frt* them selves. But the locals slipped Homer Bumhill, high school boy, in the box and with Harrell behind the bat, the Washington nine popped and rolled out. Cherry went in the box for the locals in the sixth. .Ay-game is to be played with Weldon there this afternoon, aiid next Monday and Tuesday, the All Stars go to liforehead City for two games with the Morehead City- Ileaufort aggregation. Pack House Burns Near Bear Grass Wednesday Wednesdny night, the packhouse of Mr. Garlahd Ayers, of the Bear Grass section, was bumed. Th* origin of the fire is not known. A colored man was sleeping in the barn and was aroused by the fire which had gained such headway that he was unable to check the flames. The barn contained oats, fodder and other feed staff, all of which was destroyed. • „ TOMMIE TEEL IS KILLED IN AUTO WRECK Big Truck Runs Off Fill, Pinning Boy Underneath, Near Murfrecsboro FUNERAL TOMORROW Was Working With Construction Crew At Time; Believed To Have Been Asleep at Wheel Leslie Tommie Teelj young son of Mr. and Mrs. Val Teel, of this place, was instantly killed yesterday after noon about 4:30 o'clock near Mur treesboro when a two and one-half ton truck toppled down a ton-foot embankment, pinning him under neath and crustling his breast. Young Teel, a favorite among the young boys of the town, was driving a truck on road construction work mar Murfreesboro, and was return ing for another load of rock and gravel when he ran too near tltf edge of the fill, causing his truck to top ple over. For. twenty feet or more, hi' ran his truck within two feet of the embankment's edge, causing it t appear that hv was nodding. The truck turned top down, making it necessary for a second truck to pull the machine off the boy's body. No cry was heard from the boy, ahd it is thought that he was unaware of the danger as he rode near the em bankment's edge. A local undertaker was -summoned and the body was brought here late last night. The funeral service will be held tomorrow morning at 11:00 O'clock, and interment will follow in the cemetery here. The news of young Teel's untimely death came as a great shock to his parents and to his many friends here. He wpu a student in the local high school last term, and was greatly admired by his classmates and friends. Needlefnan Suit It Practically Settled A settlement in the SIOO,OOO civil suit brought by Joseph Needleman against A. W. Griflin et al wan prac tically settled this week when at torneys for the plaintiff urid defend ants discussed the case and decided to stop action for a consideration of $.'1,000. The matte/, it is understood, will be officially closed tomorrow when attorneys in the case will meet ii. Washington. The suit, asking the SIOO,OOO dam ages from the 31 defendants, was scheduled for hearinig next Tuesday in the U. S. District court in Wash ington. "Shepherd of the Hills" At Strand Next Week Harold Hell Wright's "Shepherd of the HiUg" will feature the program it the Strand here the first two days of next wee)(. A First National pic tare, it in at the peak of the thrill packed romance. Critics declare the story the finest and sweetest ever placed on the screed 1 . The Epworth league of the Metho dist church ig taking a part in pre senting tfle picture, an dthe members are busy gelling tickets. Presbyterian Services at Christian Church Sunday The public in cordially invited to hear 'Rev. A. J.. Crane at the Chris tian Church next Sunday, both morn ing and evening. Mi;. Crane, who is in charge of mission work for the Presbyterian church, is known here by many people, he having been here during a special meeting conducted by (IK. Rev. Mr. Gillespie. The morning service wilL be held at I ( o'clock-, whilfe in the evening the service will be at 8. SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET WITH COUNTY BOARD Joint Meeting Here Monday To Consider Problem of Building 2 Schools INSUFFICIENT FUNDS Unless Additional Funds Can Be Se cured Officials Will Be Forced To Alter Plans In conference here next Monday, the Martin County Board' of Kduca tion and the Board of County Commis sioners will discuss the bids submitted lure last Monday for the erection of tv o school buildings ,ill the county. Faced with an insufficient building fund, the educational body was unable ' to award the Contracts here last Mon day and deferred the matter until next Monday, when the matter will he car ried before the commissioners. The amount necessary for the letting of the contracts is not known, but unless that sum is provided, it is understood that the authorities will he forced to alter tlii' plans for the proposed buildings. According to officials, the plans for the buildings wete prepared with economy at the forefront in the program, ami to bring about a decrease in the cost of the two structures the quality of the brick and other items will neces sarily be lowered. Very little has been said about the bids or any phase 'of the proposed building program. The matter is in the hands of the county and school authorities and just how they will set tle it will not be known until after they meet Monday. DEDICATE NEW BRIDGE TODAY Formally Open $700,000 Structure Across Bogue Sound at Morehead Exercises, dedicating the new $700,000 bridge across liogue sound connecting Morehead City and Beau fort, were held there today with members of the North Carolina State Highway commission and State notables attending. No estimate of the attendance upon the formal open ing of the bridge was obtainable at noon today, but it is understood that thousands are witnessing ./ the exer cises. Frank Page, chairman of the cemmission, presented the bridge to the State, and Governor Mclean made the speech of acceptance. The bridge,, one of the most spec tacular in the State, is all concrete and represents the State's greatest expenditure for any one bridge in the State. The erection of the structure adds around thirty miles to High way Route No. 10, the road's eastern terminal being now at Atlantic, a small town on the coast. AUTO TAGS ARE NOW HALF PRICE Cars Purchased and Operat ed Since June 20 Get Reduction Beginning this week, State Commis sioner of Revenue R. A. Dough ton has informed branch offices throughout the State which are issuing Stateauto inobile licenses, to do so at one-half of the regular fee to all applicants. When an applicant has a motor vehicle before June 20 and has operated it prior to that date, Conf* missiotier -Doughton advised bureaus to collect the full yearly fee. How ever. if an aplicant purchased a motor vehicle before June 20 and did not op erate it before that dateji the commis sioner said (the applicant should make a statement to this effect on his appli cation. He would then pay the bureau one-half of the annual fee for hi* li cense tag. Program of Services At Baptist Church Rev. C. H. Dickey, Paator "Go Call the Child's Mother" will be the theme of the Sunday night's strmoiii The service.-begins promptly at 8 o'clock. The Lord's Sujiper will be observed at the Sunday morning worshiu Hour. The mid-week service will be held as usual; the theme being the Parable of the soil* .. - The Sunday night sermon is the third in a series on the home. Thit one will be especially directed to the mothers. And it is desired that the' mothers of the congregation be there in as large numbers as possible. The next sermon in the series will be, "The Lad's father." We are always glad to have any members of the Episcopal Church in our congregation; and we shall be more than glad to have them, especi ally so, until they secure a rector. The congregations of any other churches in town not having service* on Sun day will find a \Wtlotesome welcome in our services. Smith Is Nominated Oil First Roll Call TO RESUME WORK ON PEEL GARAGE Start Agan Monday After Delay Hue to Shortage j OfMaterials Forced to ispend work when a shipment of >rel structural material was delayed, te Peel Motor Co. cx pects to resunnwork next Monday HI its Washington Street garage. 1 he delay by a shortage in material has g-atlv interfered with our building pfc>rani, but in spite of all we plan to btin mr new home l>\ ! the middle or later part of August.' f Mr S. .Collins P»l, oiie of the firm's partners, stated ysterday. Work was staed on the Peel ga ratje several Week ago, but bail w'eath. or and material slirtages have delayed the builders sever weeks. Since con struction was stard, the company has carried on its Inittess in the Farmers Warehouse. BOWEREMAKES GOOI SPEECH New York Eitor Keynoter at Democnic National Con\ntion Claude UowersNew York editor and keynote speak at the-Democratic national conventii in Houston last Tuesday night, la*d on the Hamil ton idea of goverusilt with both feet, and reviewed the ortcomings of the Republican udminration in no un certain manner. For almost an lir the-New York editor upheld the"ffer*oniaii idea of government as npa red with the Hamiltonian tlieor and Hayed the Republicans for thi questionable acts during the past {(years. A few of Mr. B>rs' striking state ment* include the lowing: 'While the litHeroup represented by Mr. Mellon has mil jjiig plucking in the vineyard of t.state, there have be en nothing but , r ns and thistles fir the tillers of ttiioil.' 'ln five .years tin has been a de picciatiun of farm nils and equip ment of thirty billiidollars.' 'When the farmerjnands his share in the unhappy gai of paternalism they denounce him radical anil a crank".' 'Olte day the heajf the state by a scratch of his pen -eased the tariff loot of the pig iron ustry by 50 per cent; and the next i he delivered a homily to the fannon the ness of expecting profrom a govern mental act.' 'We defy them tume a Demo cratic President who s an enemy of business.' 'Privilege and PilUare the (iold Dust twins nf norma' 'The enemy enters tcampaign un embarrassed l«y debt arry Sinclair has paid lliat off.' There is not a maj; v il of which tla American people coinplainiriK now thai is not due tie triumph of the Haniiltnniou coition of the state." '*\ clear',call ; conies us today to fight anew under the Jrsonian ban ner, with the Jackioniajvord, in the Wilsonian spirit, andashing the gates of privilege, niajeffersonian democracy a living for gain in the lives and homes' of inei 'There are Lincoln Hilicans and Hamilton Republicans, never the twain shall meet, not eat Kansas City, until you find sotyay to ride two horses going in opp. directions at the same time.' Hamilton Republicans, never the twain shall meet, not eat Kansas City, until you find sotiay to ride two horses going in uite direc tions at the same time,' 'We submit in no spif political Hubdubbery that it ik shocking thing to wait for seven s for one word, one syllable, one »>er of the mildest criticism of theseiinals and crimes from a single remtative of the administration. ' » Some times silence is golden—the thief. 1 'Why. the silence in thtchtower? Because the organuatioithe party of the men stationed thers a bene ficiary of the crime.' 'Did they offer the clai payment o! eight billion of the p debt tip to July of last year? Cnswer is that six and a. third b of this amount was paid with tioney or cash assets of the WUsoiiini*trr *f™ - ■ ■ 1 ■" Mrs. J. Frank Jordaif son, of Dardens, and her honsett, Misp Josephine Moore, of fet, are spending some time at fhtsvllle Beach. The rainfall here thif*th has been the heaviest in ye Advertiser! Will Find Our CoL. wnni a Latchkey to Over 1,600 Hornet of Martin County ii ■* " ESTABLISHED 1898 CHANGE IN OHIO : VOTE IS CAUSE OF NOMINATION I ... 1 | New Yorker Needed About Ten Votes Before Ohio Change Announced DRY PLANK ADOPTED Plank PleUges Rjrty and Its Nominee To Honest Effort To Enforce Prohibition Amendment Alired fc. Snutli, Uoveinoj of \'ew : orfc, wan .. ohi 11 \ i a - Standard Le;'.rer for the Democ rat ic Party on the first ballot at the Houston Con- I vent on shortly after midnight todayr" Following an almost emiVss chain of speeches, the balloting was | ut un derway lato last nijrlit, ami ailvr the first roll call, only nine and one-third vo},es w. re necc&pi'y for nomination. Ohio AsktMl" of th,. chair, and turntnl forty-five of its votea I'omwode to Sinilli. •.Miss issippi asked for recoguU;>,t, but it was altno.it a half an h»;ur before the convention quieted itself after Ohio curried the nomination over. Kollow iiik Mississippi, several stat... chang ed their votes for Smith, the final count totullinif? 8,4!) 1-if for Smith. North Carolina gave 1! l-,i of its 24 votes to Hull and the remaining; 4 2-U to Smith. The high spot in the roll cull caine when Oklahoma reported 20 votes for Heed, and when a member of that delegatio challenged the vote. A roll call for the 2> delegates was held and ten votes went -to Smith, «.glit to Ueedund two to Hull. At noon today nominations for u vice President nominee were being :.i: nl »*, and it i.-. cxpcit.-ii that ballot iiiK will bo underway, this afternoon Smith was successful und \*o were the prohibitionists; the drys had their plank adopted. The plank de nounced the Republican party fur its failure to enforce laws and promised the Democratic nominee would en force them. The prohibition plunk, - "The Republican party, for eight yerus in complete control otthe gov finment at Washington, presents the reniurkable spectacle of feeling com pelled in its national platform to promise obedience to a provision of the Federal Constitution which it has llugrantly disregarded and to apologize to the country for its fail ure to enforce laws enacted by the Congress of the United States," the prohibition plank said, "Speaking for the National Dem ocracy, tfiis convention pledges the pfcrty and fts nominee to an honest effort to enforce, the Eighteenth Amendment and all other provisions >J of the Federal Constitution and all laws enacted pursuant thereto." These two sentences under the heading of "Law Enforcement" were the onljr_ references to the issue which some purty leaders had feared might cause a serious disturbance in the convention. It was much stronger than any previous prohibition plank adopted by u Democratic convention. To please the wets, it carried the phrase "an honest effort to enforce." The wets say it cannot be enforced;' To please the drys, it mentioned the Eighteenth Admendment, just likr the Republican platform did at Kansas City, i Jtehind thj.s brief, but terse ex pression in the middle of the plat form the resolutions committee built up a decalration of principles in which agricultural relief occupied the most space. The farm plank charged the Re publican party with practicing de ception upon the agricultural inter ests. It condemned President Cool idge for vetoing the MeNary-Haugen bill and failing to offer anything in its stead. As the Democratic program, it pledged support to legislation "for the control and orderly handling of agricultural surpluses in order that the price of the surplus may not de termine the price of the jvhole crop." Program Of Services ' At Methodist Church Dr. O. P. FitzGerald, Pastor Sunday., Cunningham, superintendent; Preaching service II a. in. Sublet. ~ 'Jesus, the Misunderstood.' This serv jce followed by celeliratiun ,l Com (UBISK T|ie evening service is at 8 o'clock. Subject: The Everlastiug Book.' Senior Epworth League Monday evening, M o'clock. Hi-League Thurs day, 8 p. m. Mid-week prayer service Wednes day evening, 8 o'clock. You will enjoy the worship \\> this church.