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VOLUME XXXII—NUMBER 38
COMMISSIONERS
* UNABLE TO FIX
TAX RATE YET
•
Illness of Hamilton List
Taker Causes Delay in
Considering Rate
MATTER HELD OPEN
i*
Books for Goose Nest Township Are
. Turned in at Meeting Held
■ Here Yesterday
-
\\ ith one of the ten tax lists still
out, the commissioners in special ses
sion here yesterday were unalilc to
ditcuss the rate for the year 1929, and,
it is understood that the matter will
rimaiti open for several days, probably
until the next regular meeting of the
body.
'I he Hamilton Township list taker's
L . illness has made it impossible for the
Hamilton Tow nship list taker to com
plete his -work there, and, according
to reports, the scroll there will not be
available within the next several days.
* Hooks for Goose Nest Township,
turned in yesterday, showed a small
decrease, the list taker stating that
there were a few items yet to go on
the books which he believed would re
sult in a $5,(100 to SIO,OOO gain for that
district. No report on the expected
outcome of the listings in Hamilton
' Township could be had yesterday.
% Five of the eight townslrips reporting
last week KIIOW substantial gains, and
it is believed that the $104,000 increase
over the valuation last year will not be
altered to any appreciable extent by
Hamilton's returns.
) Standard Fertilizer Co.
• Has Very Good Year
After reviewing the extensive growth
from a sales standpoint and the visit
ing of several farms where tiro More
has been tised with tnu{h success, Mr.
C. U. Homager of the local
plant of the Standard Fertilizer Co., ad
vises.that they have experienced a very
successful year in every respect.
Alter much insistence on the part of
the farmers from this and adjoining
counties, several farms were visited
last week by Mr. Crockett and Jim
took, of the local company. In every
case the farmers were highly elated
over thti success of their crop, partic
ularly tlieir tobacco, which tliey at
tributed to the working power of Gro
niore fertilizer. The farms of Judge
W. H. liulkick, S. M. Jones,
and K. D. Whitehurst reported the best
crops in several, in spite of the ex
tiime wet weather.
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Christians Will Picnic at
Cole rain Beach Thursday
The Christian Sunday school will
have its annual picnic Thursday aft
ernoon of this week at Cole rain. The
members an* asked to*meet at the
church at 1:30 and leave from there.
Those who have cars and can carry
passengers in addition to the mem
bers of their families are asked to
assist in transporting the children.
Local Kiwanians To Hold
Regular Meet Tomorrow
The Kiwanis Club will hold its reg
ular weekly luncheon tomorrow at
12: JO. Kiwanian W. C. Manning will
have charge of the program, livery
member is urged to be present and on
a time.
" g
Number of Laborers Go
To Virginia for Work
Offered wages said to be much liigh
et than the ones paid in this section,
approximately 20 Negri*-* left here
today for points in Virginia and
Maryland, where they will work with
the Roberts Paving Co., to
information gathered at the local pas
senger station as the laborers were
[ leaving. _ ;
the present time, and the departure of
the men this morning will not, it is
blieved, affect labor conditions at the
present time.
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THEATRE
Wednesday " July 10
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THE ENTERPRISE
Well-Known To
Writes of Cond
t Prospects in Bright Belt
—
, By W. T. MEADOWS
' The long-looked-for meeting of the I
. i United States Tobacco Association was 
 held at Virginia Beach July 27-28. and !
ja record-breaking attendance was es- '
| tablished at this meeting. A large a-" 
' mount of business was
' | through the different committees and, i
" i UpOU a whole, very little dissatisfac- ;
' tion seems to have cropped out at the (
1 meeting. The majority of the dissat- i
' | isfartion was in the opening dates for" |
' the coming season and the length of I
* ! time each licit should have to dispose
of its erop. The final opening dates I
8 ! tor the coming season were agreed up- |
: lon as follows: Georgia. Tuesday July i
" (23; South Carolina, Tuesday, July 30; |
! Kastern North Carolina, Tuesday, Sep- j
timber 3; Middle Belt fN. C.). Tues- j
'!day, September 24; Old Belt (N. C. •
j and \ a.), Tuesday, October I. (
The address of the president, A. B. s
( Carrington, was short and to the point (
and a gem in the in format iofih l eovered. ;
He said that" bright tobacco held a .
1 1 strong position in America as well as .
I foreign markers, especially cigarette |
! ty|K's, and that businsss for, fhe past ,
( j year, as a whole, in the tobacco trade |
I had been good and that exports of to- |
. bacco> in the past year had been larg- |
, est in the history of the tobacco trade 1 ;
excepting in the year 1919.
The official number of pounds raised i
in the bright belts were reported as I
follows, for 1928: Georgia, 87,00,000 I
■ pounds, average of $12.78; South Cat - - t
olina, 82,000,000 pounds, average price, l
1 $12.70; Eastern North Carolina, 330,- i
• 000,000 pounds, average $19.27; Old I
' Belt,. N. C., 153,000,000 pounds, aver- ;
age $18.10; Old Beltj Va., 85,000,000 I
I pounds', average $17.02. In other words •
■« tin total crop in the bright belt ip ;
' 1928 was 737,(KM),000 pounds of tobac
wi For the same belt in 1927 it was (
' 71-I, (KM),(MM) pounds. The average for |
' the whole belt in 1928 was $17.27 per ;
' 100 pounds; in 1927 it was $21.31 per i
1 100. There seems to" have been a few i
'jmillion pounds more raised in 1928
than in 1927, but we can smoke that i
up in one day in cigarettes. i
I It is presumed that your readers I
would like to know a little about the i
conditions in the different sections of |
tin bright belt. At this writing, from ;
2,000 AUTO DRIVERS STOPPED BY
STATE HIGHWAY PATROLMEN IN
FIRST WEEK; FEW ARE ARRESTED
Many Drivers Stopped Are
Warned; Improper Lights
. i Are Principal Offense
t\ , . •
Raleigh, July 6. —While the first
, j week cif the State Highway Patrol
| brought death within it£ ranks, the pa
tiolinen have made reports to Cipt.
Charles D. Farmer, of the patrol, in
, dilating enough arrests and warnings
to nuke reasonably certain that more
. than yfne life was saved in the 2,000
I drivers held up and instructed.
' -Captain Farmer'* •' lieutenant* and
27 patrolmen have turned in their re
j port*, hut the chief has done a little
I "patterolling" on his own hook. He
let his machine out when a hrat in
sisted on racing the chief, nabbed him
near Greensbt>ro and told him what he
. : had been doing. The chief saw a clear
rase ol careless and reckless driving
. and made t]ie cub take a good le»*on
|_ in safety methods. The youngster was
i amazed when he found that his oppon
, ent in the scorching was Captain Farm
. ' er.
Many Wild Driver* Stopped '
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i Reports brought to the head office
f t noon today showed that the patrol
i had stopped during the week nearly 2,-
. (100 drivers. Many of these had driven
wildly, a large number had. operated
cars while the drivers were under the
h influence of liquor. The of the
work has consisted in rectifying lights
and repairing brake*. The motoriit*
who were halted were given instruc
tions. If their lights were bad they
were instructed to have them fixed. A
driver stopped on account of hi* head
or tail light is allowed 48 hours in
which to get thltn ad jutted.
Lieut J. L. Jones, of the fir*t dis
trict, wa* in Raleigh today, and he
piobably led the patrc! in the case*
handled. He had approximately 300 f
but few of these were arretted. They
were counselled to get their machinery
in shape to make safer the road travel.
In the third district the patrolman got
the money. July 3 was more glorious
than the fourth, and the natal day of
the republic probably was helped
mightily by the work of Wednesday.'
'Under Lieutenatit Hankinson violators
paid $132.20 for their little fling on the
roads. Thit third district man ' acts
foi the life as though he i* no poli
tician.* He caused a farmer to be fined
$25 for driving hi* wagon pn the roads
without a light and another driver of
j turn' ' *.
Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina. Tuesday, July 9,1929
the best information I can gather, aft- i
cr reading all' I can and talking with]
some of the best-posted men that have
l>een over the territory, the conditions |
aie about as follows:
The Georgia crop is about""Cured and 1
is somewhat more faborable than last
year. The was reduced in I
Georgia 15 per cent or more, but ow
ing to better growing conditions than;
last year the poundage is expected to
l>e about the same as last year.
South Carolina. The acreage has
been reduced from last year 15 to 20
l>er cent; about 40 per cent housed at
tjp* wgting. With the exception of
five or six counties itl ( the State, pros
pects are good for a normal yield, with'
fair body and color.
Eastern North Carolina: The crop in
this belt as a whole has sustained con
siderable injury on light sandy lands,
caused by excessive and frequent rains.
Some counties in this belt are hurt
worse than others, especially on the
sandy lands. Some counties and some
farmers in all counties that have heavy
stiff land report as good a crop of to
bacco as any year in the past two or
three, but it is generally thought in
this belt as a whole that the pound
age will be cut from last year's yield
20 to 25 per cent. Still, our farmnTs
on these light lands have worked faith
fully on their tobacco crops and they
hope yet to make a fair yield from this
type of land. The heavy lands scat
tered throughout the different section
of each county in this belt stem to
have an average crop and will make an
average yield. Some first primings
have been cured in this belt, and they
show color and body equal to almost
any year.
As to the old bright belt of North
Carolina and Virginia, •conflicting re
ports come' from these sections. The
acreage is slightly less than last year,
and it is a little too early to give any
ilefitiitc information on this belt.
As to the price of this year's crop,
in-body knows what that will be, hut. 1
it is generally thought it will be bet
ter than last year, as all dealers and
manufacturers have had a good and
prosperous year and none of them
stun to be overloaded with stocks.
■ Dry Leader Proposes
Changes in Dry Law
New York, July 4.—A program of
[ pohibition enforcement embracing rad
| ical changes in the Volute ad law and
suggesting that even the Marines
might be called upon, as they were
once called to put an end to mail rob
beries, was advanced today by Dr.
Clarence True WtUon.
I Wilson, who is secretary of the
Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro
hibition and Public Morals, outlines
I his plan in an article written for the
- July 13 issue of Collier'* magazine.
' "No one dares claim that prohibi
: tion enforcement has been satiafac-,
- tory," he writes, but also says:
1 "A dry law headed by Herbert
s Hoover will make things dry."
He advocates four major changes in
[ the Volatead act which would pro
i vide:
) Punishment for the purchaser of
- liquor the same as for the seller.
Prison sentences for first offenses.
Deportation of aliens who violate
the prohibition law.
{ A provision making it mandatory
* i for courts to padlock for one year
premit-ei where the law ia violated.
i a car without State license was soaked
I $25.
Watch Speeder* and Drunks
The patrol is not going to specialise
in arrests, but in coaching the auto
mobilists in an intelligent use of the
roads. But speeder* and drunks will
get picked up if their driving men
| ares the public. It is not expected
that every man who breaks by 45 mile*
will get picked up, but many a fellow
who is wobbling over the roads at 30
■ mites an hour will pay for his reeling.
'• The patrol is going to be governed in
> its speed arrest* very largely by the
, sense of the driver who is making fa*t
' time.
' It was on the return from Lexing
• ton, where Chief Karmer had gone to
t attend the funeral of Patrolman G. L.
I.,Thompsoh, that the captain took up
' the fleeing driver. As the two came
I from High *oint toward Greensboro {
■ the youth got impatient and could not
■ slow down to the Farmer pace. The
' captain had a smart Buick and when 1
i the brat stepped on it Captain Farm
' er did ditto. Near Greensboro the kid
I was halted. If the angel Gabriel had
■ arrested him he would not have been
i more surprised.
FARMERS BUSY
CURING TOBACCO
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Poor Crop Seems To Be
General; Shortage Is
Predicted
*
Tobacco curing is the order of the
day in the eastern tobacco counties.
Cars and trucks are " coming to the
miles away to carry labor,
I er> to the tobacco farms to prepare Hie
! tobacco and hang it in the barns. This
| is regarded as the hardest season of the
j year by tobacco farmers and requires
! the combined labor of men, women,
and children daily and much" of the
nights during the housing season.
Some farmers say they are finding
their crops very poor, others say poftr,
and occasionally one says he has a
fair crop. All agree that there will
'be a shortage.
A warehouseman from South Car
olina says the crop will be about 150,-
I 000,000 pounds short from last year in
the bright belts of Georgia, South Car
| olina, North , Carolina.' and Virginia.
! Another warehouseman says with a |
short crop and a f short stock carried
over from last season* prices should
be good this season.
MONKS LOSE TO 1
BULLS HERE, 10-2
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Visitors Win Uninteresting
Game Featured by Bad
Playing
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The Bertie Bulls humbled the Mar
tin County Monks here yesterday aft
ernoon in a one-sided and ragged game
the visitors winning by a 10 to 2 count.
The Monks lived up to their given
name and made error after error to
dishearten Cherry, their moundsman.
The play was featured by "bonehead'
( stunts from the beginning to the end,
both sides contributing. The visitors
lost fgur runs by poor coaching and
itliey made a number of others by the
.locals' errors. The Bulls hit, too, get
ting several of their runs from long
dtives into center and right field.
lloggard, twirling for the Bertie
nine, allowed several hits, but only
( lice did the Monks bunch their hits
to make two runs.' The visitiug
•Isjnoundsmaii was given splendid sup
port by his team-mates, and more than
once a member of the Martin squad
was robbed out of what would have
been a bit in many games.
The , visitors toift hed Cherry for a
number of hits, but as a whole he
pitched a good brand of ball. Shear
in went in the box in the seventh frame
and although the visitors pounded out
balls for extra bases, he limited their
runs.
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Former Martin Negro
Dies in State's Prison
, t %
Henry Carson, colored of William#
' township, this county, died In the
State's prison, Raleigh this morning,
I no cause being assigned for his deuth
i in a tfclegram received here today.
Carson was convicted at the De
cember 1927 term of Martin County
. Superior court for. the murder of
Emily Bazemore, colored woman, dur
■ Ing the fall of 1927. He was sentcnc
ed to not less than 17 nor more than
i 25 years in the prison by Judge Clay
! ton Moore.
Carson went to the home of the
■ Bazemore woman after midnight and
demanded entrance, but wus refused.
He ritarted cursing and abusing the
Bazemore family and finally fired in
the window hitting and lulling in
i stantly the Bazemore woman. He was
considered mentally unbalanced and
the court accepted a plea of second
degree murder.
Warden Honeycutt wired frior.ds
of Carson notifying them of his death,
but gave no details.
Beaufort Overwhelms
Locals, 15-7, Friday
In a poorly played game the Mar
tin Monks lost to the Beaufort nine
at Washington last Friday afternoon
by a 15% 7 score,, the loss causing the
Monks to take a further grip on the
: stcond rung of the percentage column.
The hard-hitting of the Beaufort play
-1 ers featured the play, the Monks being
' credited with only 9 bits to their k»p-|
' ponents' 20,
I Both teams were credited with a
1 number of errors, au4 poor playing
1 at times made the game uninteresting.
I a
Plans Complete for Meet
1 of Firemen Here Tonight
Arrangements were practically com
: plete this morning for the entertain
ment of 176 or more firemen at the
' regular quarterly meeting of the East
1 Caolina Firemen's association here
this evening in the Woman's club hall
1 at 8- o'clock.
Two of the town's best cooks have
'i been employed to prepare tho meal,
brunswick stew, chicken,
' | chowder and slaw making up the
1 menu, principally.
An interesting program has been
1 arranged, several of the section's most
I prominent figures having been asked
1 to make short talks before the meet
to*-
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
HEAR OWNERS KICK ON
PROPERTY VALUATIONS
! « ,
Fifty Citizens Appear To
Ask Adjustment of List
Takers' Valuation
ERRORS CORRECTED
Adjustments Are Made in Twenty-
Three Instances; Net Decrease
of $6,903.73 Made
Meeting in special session here yes
terday as an equalization board, the,
Martin County Commissioners ex
amined the complaints entered by ap
proximately fifty tax payers, 'he
board making adjustments in only '23
of the cases. The commissioners ad
hered closely to the dictates of thtf
law in changing the valuation" of the
certain properties mentioned in • the 1
complaints.
j It was pointed out to many of those
entering complaints that the law only
gave the commissioners authority to
! change the valuation .of real property
where certain changes had been ef
• fected eithei by fire, wind or some
other factor. Several. adjustments re
sulted when it was learned that errors
j had been committed in the listing of
| the property. Fire was mentioned as
the cause for one adjustment while
| disability was responsible for one or
| two minor relief orders.
j Thai the listings wore more ac
curately entered this-your than they
were last is e !i! 'n *ed by the minor
change resulting in the valuation.
Last year a larg. l increase resulted
when the commissioners met to hear
complaints and review the listings.
Yesterday, v. ! . .ea.-e of $9,803.73 re
sulted, tho r.m.iunt beings partly
offset by iTtor'tw-V's in valuation
amounting to $2,800. Estimating the
day's work, it is suggested that the
county's v«lv;ti:n v.'Qs dropped $6,-
903.73 by th" PHin"* yesterday.
According t'> th • repoits of t\je
meeting, it i» understood that the
commissioners listened patiently to all
complaints, but halil thrir actions
within the 1;: , ;« making the several
adjustments. Each of the adjustments
'carries a full explanation on the
| meeting's minutes, and are briefly
outlined- in the changes as follows:
J. R. Coltrain, (irifflns township, al
lowed S2OO from solvent credits, the
amount being offset by an account.
\ Selling the timber, J. B. Cloman, of
I Hamilton township, was allowed a re
duction of $1,600 on 320 acres of
Taylor land and SI,OOO teduction on
j 114 acres of Upton land. The timber
rights, amounting to s'2,f>oo were add
ed to the Garris Evans Lumber Co.
I ! H. L. Coburn was allowed the full
| valuation off on 56 acres of land in
' Jameaville township # when it was
' S learned thut the same land was listed
> I by M. D. Wilson. Mr. Coburn was rc
-1 lieved of $720 and Mr. Wilson's valu
j ation was raised on the 56 acres from
S2OO to S6OO.
' The valuation on a piece- of land
■ 'belonging to Herman Bowen in Wil
i llamston township was dropped from
$2,400 to $2,200, a part of the timber
i having been removed.
An error having been made in list
ing the number of acres, the board
■ listed the land of J. L. Williams in
I Robersonville at $1,610.
The $250 valuation on a house was
v marked off when it was learned that
i the building belonging to Mrs. Ora
-1 Chesson was destroyed by fire.
 | A thousand dollar error in the
I listing of the Drewry Hearn land was
I corrected for the Dennis Simmons
j Lumber Co., the list-taker "apparently
i! placing the figure "1" in front of
, | $250., the assessed valuation. A change
I was made for the "same company in
the listed acreage on a piece of land
in tho White Cypress swamp, but the
' $4,600 valuation wus allowed to stand.
The company in a third case pointed
out that 200 acres of Wallace swamp
: land had been listed, but by actual
survey there were only 66 acres. The
$1,300 valuation was decreased $650.
One-third of the $f»00 valuation on
■ the A." R. Dunning and Brown heirs
: land was marked off and udded to
: that of J. L. Whitfield.
i| H. C. Jackson, of Jamesville, was
allowed S4OO off on a house valued
1 at SI,MOO on account of depreciation.
! j A l«t valued at S7OO was marked ]
from the valuation of Eli Smith in
Williamston when it was.learned that
: he did not own the lot in question.
' A $1,200 drop resulted in the $6,-
860 valuation oh the N. 0. VanNort-,
wick lands when it was pointed out
that 80 of the 174 acres were in Pitt
county.
An error in acreage listing account-
I ed for a drop from $6,500 to $4,690
on the lands of Mrs. Alice V. Col
' train iri Jamesville township.
, Hi M. Holliday, of Jamesville, was
, allowed S3OO off on land where the
■ timber had been removed.
An error In listing the acreage of
i the L. F. Ange land, town
. ship, made possible a $l6O decrease
I in valuation.
H. B. York, Williamston, was re
leased *of sl. dog tax. A similar re
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'{GETTING READY
TO TAKE CENSUS
I . •
i Estimated That Population
Of U. S. Will Reach
120,000,000
How many persons are there in tin*
| I nited States? How many animals;
I how much good* in circulation; liow
law the "army of unemployed?" We.
as everybody else, would hardly like
to say, hut il' you wait long enough
I nele Sam's tellers will turni-h the figi
tues. More than $39,500,000 will In
appropriated by Confess for the
which is to be completed in a)>out six
'I months, it is estimated. r
There are several novel, features a
bout this year's census. taking which
distinguish it from past undertakings:
i The country's population is increasing
at the ritte of about 1,400,000 yearly,
if record that" surpasses anything in
history. An excess jjf births over
deaths and of immigration over emi
i gration are the causes of this, k is
estimated that the population next
; year will probably have reached the
' sum total of 120,000,00(1, which is 30
times that of 17' HI, when the lirst cen- !
sus was taken.
The much mooted question
. j Republicans and Democrats, "What is
• tin extent of unemployment," will be
| settled, and this, too, is a proceeding
I never authorized before in a deceit
-1 i
• utal census bill. Nor, for that inat
. j tu\ does the gathering of figures re
. | lating to distribution »L goods have
rjany precedent, Mr. Hoover J
, ' strongly advocated such a provision
• .when he was Secretary of Commerce.
• The 100,000 persons who fco from
- | door to door gathering statistics will
b( paid according to the number of
, hioses counted. A supervisor will prei
, side over each of the sis districts,
I which are to be divided into sections
t for the enumerators to cover. The lat-
I ter are to carry charts showing just
4 what, information he must obtain. All
, this information is strictly confidential
r and deliberately misleading the census
taker is a violation of law punishable
. I>\ line and imprisonment.
e »«.
Injunction Prohibiting the
Marriage of Infant Issued
*
j, A Ilertie County tfturt is understood
to be the first one in the Stute askei|
to grant an injunction against mar
riage.
Thomas Cullipher und wife have*
j applied for an injunction there against
Raymond Haker, 2.1 "years old, re
straining and forbidding his marrying
J their 14-year-old daughter.
The temporary restraining order
has been signed by Judge (1. K. Mid
yette and served ujion the defendant.
The plaintiffs allege that the defend
I ant unlawfully took the said infant
atui carried her to Suffolk, Vu., in an
attest to marry her,- but was pre
vented from obtaining license there by
notice over telephone to the clerk of
the court. The plaintiffs also allege
I that the defendant brought their
daughter back to Bertie county and
concealed her and it was necessary '■
for them to obtaih a search warrant
to search the premiseiMKhpre she was
concealed before they could get cus
tody of their child. Windsor attorneys
say thct it is the first case on record
in the Stute where an injunction has
been issued to prevent the marriage
' of an infant.
r v
Where They Play
i v '—
I WEDNESDAY, JULY 10
Beaufort vi. Hertford at Ahoakie. I
.. , Martin va. Bertie at Windaor.
I FRIDAY, JULY 12
> Hertford va,.'Martin at WiUiamaton.
I Beaufort va. Bertie at Windaor. 1
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i
Results
I
FRIDAY, JULY 5
Beaufort, 15; Martin, 7.
, Bertie, 4; Hertford, 1.
I MONDAY, JULY 8
Bertie, 10; Martin, 2.
I Beaufort, 6; Hertford, 1.
| > -
Standing of Vlubs
■
Club: , W. L. Pet.
Bcfrtie 8 1 .889
MARTIN 5 4 .556
Hertford 3 5 .375
Beaufort - 2 8 .200
• leaae was given J. A. Leggett. G. It.
■ Williams, Poplar Point, was released
of $2 dbg tax.
i Due to disability J. B. Purvis, of
■ Hamilton, was relieved from the
payment of $3.20 poll tax. C. L. Vick,
r Robermmville was also released from
■ payment of $2. poll tax on similar
! grounds.
His property doubly listed in Rob
■' ersonville township, Chas. Everett
- waa released of taxes.
Advertiser* WiU Pind Oar Col
umns a Latchkey to Over 1,600
Homes of Martih County
ESTABLISHED 1898
BEGIN ISSUING
NEW MONEY IN
U. S. TOMORROW-
I Local Banks Have Not Yet
Received Their Supply of
Smaller Currency
II TO RETIRE* OLD BILLS
New Currency Has Many Advantages;
Expect To Have Most of Old Bills
Retired by October 1
- . , v. r —• •
r»» Old Orchard. Me, to I.a Jolla,
I «.lit„ citizens will l»e greeting each
other tomorrow with, "Say, have you
seen the new paper money?" t Tonior-i
i»\j\ marks the Ix-k i 11 oi .» perma
ntiit vacation lor tlit* ti.it ion«v>i(J pai
T*r cyrremy, lor all the weary niuJ,
the I woo that ha\e been shunned by
th su|ier>ti*tiou-i, tin Cues that have
been crumpled in -hoppers-ami jerked
straight In bank clicks, may retire in
favor of their-smaller and " stronger
. .successors.
The distribution of the new bills has
I eeii under way for sonic time, but it
will be several iiay-% before their cir
culation will he notived in a| the nooks
and corners. * I hat the new currency
would lie put iiitu circulation in this
county, tu»liurotw*>w.-i> .c.tMJiulered doubt "
till today, when several of the hunk
Ci,shiers stated tliey bad received no
j shipments of the new bi11.4. Two
| three of the banns have ordered sup
pl-es-of the—new bills, hut tin- ship
ments will hardly lie made,in time "to
have the motley here within the,next
few days. ,
The new liills. ri 5.1f, |,y 2 11-10 '
inches, will bear the portraits of proni
ini nt tileii ami 'he several government
buildings. \\ ashiirgtou *«iptorns the
i tie; Jefferson ami his 'MoHtk'ello
grace the two; Lincoln and his state
ly memorial the five; Hatnilton arid
I tin Treasury presule over the leu;—
Jackson and the \\ bite House over the
twenty, (.talrt and tin- Capitol over the
Tflty Other figures adorn the hills of
the larger denominations, but it's al
most useless to mention their names
If* re, as large lulls an ,i r.n itx m these
'parts.
[I It takes more than «»(), 000,000
pieces of currency to supply the year
ly needs of the United and it
j v\as the production of this gigantic a
,lllOlllll in a short lime which the liti
rtau of Engraving and I'rinting faced
I when it began to -wtuk on the new
moiiey. So well did it respond to the
emergency that in six months it has
} staled, numbered ami delivered .ail a
ll.ouii! e|iial to that usually prod.ticnl
in a year. Seven toils of currency a
■* day, valued at more than $ 15,000,000,
has golie out to the vaults and on to
the banks in antft'fpatiou of July 10.
No one expects that the exchange of
in w money for old will lie completed
in a day. liut'so keen is the public
interest and so able is tile m.R hinety
oi distribution that the I'reasury l>e
partnieut believes th;iT~by October 1
there, wil be very few of the old notes
in circulation. After that they will
dwindle and disappear, to become
curiosities in museums and prized pos
sessions in the hands of collector^
Advantages of New Currency
These are life live outstanding ad
vantages which are expected to result
from tile use of the new paper money, .
which is to b put into literal circtila
tioif on July 10 and will replave the fa
miliar currency of nearly three" gen
erations:
(IJ The smaller size pf the new note
makes it niorty-Kiiiivcnieiit to handle
than the old hank bill. The smaller
notes e.iii he more easily folded, aild
they have been "sized" with a new
preparation that better J&HlccUi_ J theni
against grease and dust,
(2) The new notes are printed on
| crisper and stronger paper, hence they
are expected to last much longer than
j the bills we new use. The paper has
| en improved so that t|ie folding
I strength of the new notes is twicti
gnat as that of the old hills.
(.?) Anotlier advantage is that the
different denominations can be readily
identified, the portraits on each note
indicating the denomination. The new
currency,-in fact, has been so. standard
ized and simplified that the differences
between the litotes can easily be mem- I
orized.., A red* seal and number for
United States .notes, blue for silver
c triticatei, yellow 'or gold certificates,
green for Federal Reserve notes, and
brown for national bank notes will aid
in identification.
(4) The Secret Service believes that
th« new currency will make the task
of counterfeiters much more difficult,'
for it has done away \vitli the" multi*
plicity of designs ill use for the old de
nominations, which resulted in griat
confusion and enabled the counterfeit
er and note raiser in the past to oper- _
ate with mote or,less success.
(5) if is estimated that the small
siite and the standardized designs will
save the government at least $1,500,-
000 a year in production costs. The
gt vernmcnt also expects other ecorio- \
mies from the longer life of the notes.