North Carolina Newspapers

Watcli the LiM mm Yaar WSM Y* VOLUME XXXII—NUMBER 41 ESTIMATED TAX RATE 4c BELOW LAST YEAR OAK CITY SCHOOL TO BEGIN TERM ON SEPTEMBER 2 • Few Changes Are Made in Schedule and Order Of Procedure LOBE ONE* TEACHER Ntt Schedule Provide* for One-Hour Clan Period* Instead of Usual 45-Minute Period • - ■ A few chance* in the class sched ule* and course of procedure will greet the papils when they begin the fall term the first Monday in September, Priacipal H. M. Ainsley, of the Oak City schools, stated yesterday while here attending to business matters. The new schedule provides one-hour periods instead of the more common 45-aiinute class. Fifteen minutes of the hoar, it was pointed out, will be used for instructional study. Not knowing how to study is one of the child'* greatest handicaps, the school maa declared, and unable to properly approach a lesson generally cau*e* the pupil to dislike the study hour. That the pupils might acquaint them selves with the schedule to be followed during the coming term, the amount of work repaired, and the books that will be used, Principal Ainsley it planning individual schedules which he will for ward to the pupils prior to the school's opening. The Oak City school loses one of its grammar grade teacher* this year even though there will be an increase in the school's enrollment. "It mere ly means that the burden will be great er for the other teachers," Mr. Ain sley »tated. • COAL CONTRACT FOR SCHOOLS LET D. D. Stalls, of This Place, Is Successful Bidder; - $3.30 Per Ton A contract for the supplying of 476 ton* of coal to the several Martin County school* was let Wednesday to D. D. Stalls, of thi* place, by ichool officials. There were only two bid* en ured, Mr. Stall* placing hi* price at $6.30, agreeing to deliver the coal to the *evaral school bin*. Additional money will be paid the dealer for haul ing where the building i* more than a mile away from the car aiding. A targe part of the coal will be used by the local schools and those at Rob ersonvilie, approximately 57 tons be ing required to furnish the heat for the plant* in each of the two town*. It ia estimated that Jamesville will u*e around 38 tons and Everett* approxi mately 30 ton* during the coming term. The bid* entered were *aid to differ very little in their amount*. - » Warren-Weisse Fight In Washington Tonight • • With a favorable turn in the wea ther between now and 8:80 this even lay, many local people will turn out with the many from Beau/oft county to aae Addison Warren and Julian Weiaaa fight ia Kugler Park, Wash ington, tonight. Warren, a Beaufort county lad, has been training I" Washington for some tins* and the people there and in sur rounding territories are very room in teracted in the hoot. WarrenJJrmer ha airy-weight champion at the Univer wtt f at North Carolina, waa in Tuney's —for several week*. Weisae Is ■aid ta he turn New York. Aaoerding to reports received here tfcta morning, the bout will be poat ponad until next Monday evening if the weather eontinaea unfavorable to *** V IWATTS V 1 THEATRE U ■ tfttarday July 30 808 CUSTER I "ON THE"DIVIDE" COMEDY and BKRIAL I T—Say Jaty I Peter B. Kyne's "TIDE OF EMPIRE;; RENEE ADOREE AMD OTHERS I Aleo FABLES aad NEWS I .i,7_ THE ENTERPRISE Finds What Is Believed To Be Charred Re Indian Village Near Here DISCOVERY IS MADE ON FARM OF W. L. JONES + Finds Charred Corn and Re mains of Building 4 Feet Under Ground a Speciments of bumed corn believed to have been buried for centuries, were found recently by W. L. Jones on his farm near here recently. Mr. J one* stated that he was cutting away a hill on his farm, and found the charred corn and sign* of a burned building four feet under the earth. The char red remains were covered by two feet of regular sandy loam soil and two feet of clay. The strata was about four inches thick and several feet wide. The hill where the com was found ia near the Jonea home and ia only a few yards from Sweeten Water creek. Mr. Jones states that there had been no plantation located in that ■action aa far as any one knew. It ia probable that the charred corn ia the relic of an Indian village which waa bumed many centuries before Columbus discovered America. As the land shows no appearance above the com of being built up or being an alluvial toil, it is practically certain that tht com was bumed many cen turies ago. The color of the com is very sim ilar to that of charcoal, and is some what harder than freshly parched corn. The grains are Arm and show perfect form and are practically the same sice aa those grown by American farmers today. BARNHILL TO TRY GASTONIA CASE ♦ Nearly Score of Strikers To Be Tried for Killing of Police Chief Judge M. V. *Barnhill, of this Judicial diatrict, haa been assigned to hold the noted Gastonia case, in which almost a score of men and wo men will be tried for their live* on the charge of killing A. F. Adderholt, chief of police of Gastonia last month. The case is aet for hearing on the 28 of thia month, attorneys thinking that the trial will last for three weeks. According to information given out, a motion will be made to remove the case to an adjoining county on the ground* that a fair trial cannot be ' had In Gaston county which haa large manufacturing intereats. The caae will attract more atten tion, probably, than any criminal case ever tried in the State. A large num ber of the leading lawyers in the State and a few from other ststes will appear in the case. • 66 Killed in Automobile Accidents During June Raleigh, July 17.—Only automobile accidenta exceeded homicides during the month of June as the cause of peraona meeting violent deaths in the State. The monthly report of the State ' Board of Health reveal* 68 persons were killed in outomobile accidents while 27 were killed by one of their fellow men. There were 28 suicides which ranked third on the board's list. 25 Cases Typhoid Fever In Edgecombe County » Twenty-five case* of typhoid fever , were reported in Edgecombe county ttya week, but aa far as it could be learned today, the fever had caused no deaths. Health authorities there are at tempting to cheek the fever's spread by vaccination. While than haa been one death oaused by the fever in this county, it is understood that there are very few eaaee in the aection. Rev. Piephoff to Occupy Baptist Pulpit Sunday In the abaence of Rev.C. H. Dickey, pastor of the local Baptist church, the Presbyterian* will worship at the morning preaching service in the Baptist church, Rev. Z. T. Piephoff occupying the pulpit. There will no evening service. The regular Preabyterian Sunday school service will be held at the usual hour in the Woman'a club hall. Rev. Piephoff will fill his regular appoint ment ia the school building at Bear Graas at 8:00 o'clock Sunday even ing. I 0 ' | J Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, July 19,1929 RECORDER HAD BUT FEW CASES 1 Only Five Cases Are Called, And Three of Them Are Continued ' • Last Tuesday was a quiet day in the recorder's court here, only five cases being called during the session b"y Judge Bailey. Three of the cases will lie called at a later session, a nol pros resulting in one of the two other cases. The court more than niet expenses when a SIOO fine was imposed on one oi the defendants. The State's evidence in the case charging Lawrence Lilley with an as | sanlt with a deadly weapon and op erating a car while under the influence of liquor was heard and the cause \vas continued until next Tuesday. L. B. Balinga was ordered to appear before the court the last Tuesday in this mouth and show why he failed to appear as a witness in a case tried in the court Tuesday of last week. The case in which Timothy Keys, Ltonard Boston, Jafus James, Hoyt Smith and James Moore are charged with an affray and disturbing religious worship was continued one week. Herman Roberson, found guilty of ( manufacturing liquor in a trial Tues day of last week, was fined SIOO and taxed with the costs. A six-months road sentence was suspended upon the defendant's good behavior. He was given until SeDtrmber 17 to pay the fine. A nol pros resulted in the case in which Herman Roberson and Vernon Roberson were charged with an as sault with a deadly weavuji. a Mrs. Fannie Roberson Dies At Her Home Near Hassell a Mrs. Fannie Roberson, of near Has sell, died at her home there Sunday following a stroke of paralysis suf fered five weeks before. The daughter of the late Ormond Gray, Mrs. Roberson was bom and reared in Robersonville township. She was 66 years old. In IHBB she mar ried JosephuH Roberson who with five children, Mrs. H. L. Rives, Bethel; Mrs. R. H. Salsbury, Hassell; W. C. Roberson, Hassell; J. Jasper Rober aon, of Texas, and L. B. Roberson, of 1 High Point, survives. The funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon by Rev. [C. B. Mashbum. Interment was made in the Robersonville cemetery. I # Begin Construction Wofk on New Home I » Mr. and Mrs. Hugh G. Morton re cently let the contract for the con atruction of a new home to be erected on the comer of Watts and Main streets. The ho:nr will co*t approxi mately |7,600, it is understood. H. L. Winstead, of Wilson, is the contractor. i INTERESTING LETTERS WRITTEN BY ; CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS IN 1863-64 I ■ , i »! Front Lines, \ Petersburg, Va. I August Bth, 1964. My Dear Untie: t Yours came to hand the 7th, and I ' wis happy indeed to hear front you i.nd Aunt Nancy. I am well; hoping ' . this may reach you both in good health. I suppose you have heard all about ' the battle of the 30th of July. That , was the greatest time that I have ever I seen in all my time. The ground was covered with Negroes; the moil . of the Head wete Negroes. Old Grant ' | has got the devil in him. He doesn't I think he can whip us on top of the 1 i ground, so he thinks 'he will try us , t under the ground. He is worse than r a mole. v A poor fellow doesn't see any pleas ure here. sharp-shoot | us all day atid throw shells all night. , ' I suppose they don't intend to let us poor rebels have any rest. I thinlfc ' old Grant is digging under the works ' al«>ut where our company is. I hope to the Lord they may not blow us up i any more, but I think there is no ' | doubt that tiiey will blow iome poor fellows up in the air, and it may be p one for one of them. [ This is the most awful time that I . have seen in all my life. I hope the ■ time may soon come when the Yan ■ kees will leave this country and I can ■ go home where I can get a little rest. I have not had a night's rest in two i NEW WAREHOUSE TO BE COMPLETE BY NEXT WEEK , ♦ ■ Contractors Are Rushing Work on New Planters Warehouse a READY FOR OPENING a ■ Drawing for Opening Day Sales Held Today; Roanoke-Dixie Get* Pint; Planter* Second, Farmer* Third Martin county's new $20,000 ware house, the "Planters," will be com pleted next week, it was learned yes terday from an officer of the Martin County Warehouse company. The main construction work has already been completed, and the swinging of doors and" other small building oper ations will be handled within the next two or three days, it was stated. Messrs.* Everett and Willard, pro prietors of the new house are busily engaged in field work at this time, and while the tobacco crop is not ex pected to weigh heavily this year, the two men are optimistic and a suc cessful season is predicted" for them. Mr. W. B. Watts, experienced office man, has been employed by the firm and he will assist in that particular work. At a drawing for sales this morn ing, the Planters Warehouse drew second sale; the Roanoke-Dixie, first and the Farmers third. The market operators are completing their ar rangements for the opening, Septem ber 3, and are planning for a success ful season. a Program oi Services at First Methodist Church ——• Dr. O. P. FitzGerald, Pastor Preaching service at 11 a. n't., sub ject: "The, Christian Conquest." Evening service at 8, subject: 'The Sublime Wish." Sunday school at %45. Senipr Ep worth League, Monday, Bp. m. Pray er service Wednesday, 8 p. m. Our church extends a most cordial welcome to the Baptist church to at tend any or all of our services. Wc also joing tlieni in prayer for the early recovery of Bryther Dickey's health. ——♦ Loretta Young Stars in Picture at Trio Theatre a v I.oretta Young, featured in "The Girl in the Glass Cage," the First Na tional Vitaphone picture coming to the Trio Theatre, Robersonville, next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, plays a movie theatre cashier in this story of life and love in a small town. It is one of her finest roles to date. a ■ Hamilton Farmer Dies Result Typhoid Fever a Hilton N. Pittman, white farmer of the Hamilton community, died last Wednesday, typhoid fever causing his death. Interment was made in a Tarboro cemetery yesterday afternoon. The death is one of the few report ed in the county this year as a result' of typhoid fever. week*. Today is the hottest day that I have ever seeh but one. Flyman Peal, poor fellow, hast gone to hi* long home. I am so Horry for his father and mother and sisters. Poor Hyman; I Ipved him like a broth er. A. R. Peal was wounded the 30tli and lince died. J amen Cooper in wounded and has K n ne to Richmond, Va. The old 17th is going dofcrn hill. There were 28 oven to run away from the 17th in two night*, and four from our company in one night. Harrison Rodger*, Jame* E. Roberson, James H. Nichoson, William Nicholson. I suppose they have gone home. Uncle Boh, the Yankee* are within 70 yard* of our line*, and such a' time. I hope this war may coon come to a close. Tell Aunt Nancy that if I ever go home again I will go to see her two times to make up all lost time. Old Bob i* well and doing well. Tell Mary Baifcjrttiat G. Bailey is well. J hope UT *ee you all again some time, Vit tt)#* chance looks doubtful now. love to grandfather and Aunt Jillxabeth and Pollina. Tell them all that I would be glad to see them. Write soon, and write a long letter if ydu please. Your truly affectionate nephew, V. A. QURGAMUS. Please write soon. Good-bye. ROBERT GURGANUS. Front Lipes, Petersburg, Va., Co. H, 61st Regiment N. C. Troops, Cling man'» Brigade, Hoke's Division. *— o_ —o_ —o- _o_ j o Budget Recommended Calls For Tax Levy of $207,913.32 7 MILES COUNTY ROAD IN LETTING a Gravel Top Sand-Clay Road From Hamilton to Conoho J Church Let Wednesday a The building of a sand-clay road with u gravel top from Hamilton I Conoho church, a mile belond Oak City, was included in'the highway letting at Raleigh last Wednesday. The seven miles is a part of Highway , Route No. 126. Contractors, of Louisburg, were the successful bidders, receiving the con- j tract for approximately $5,000 per [ mile. Beaufort county gets nine miles of I hard surface beginning at Blount's . creek and extending to Edwards. The ! Roberts Paving company waa the suc cessful bidder on that particular 1 project. The road will cost around $21,000 a mile. SLIGHT DROP IN i NUT SHIPMENTS Shipments of Peanuts Only 1.92 Per Cent Less Than Last Year •According to figures given in Gov ernment rep n No. 523. dated July 3, peanut shipments by the cleaners and shelters for the season are only 1.92 per cent less than to the correspond ing date during the previous season. But with thi.; decrease of less than 2 per cent, there has also ibeen big decrease in imports, which up tdufTow this season amount to only about 41 per cent of lu;t season's imports. Hence the decline iu prices (luring the spring and summer and present dull- I ness of the market may be attributed • largely to overproduction iu this' coun : try. While, it is human nature to put the blame on the other fellow, we see little justification for such a conten tion at this time. There should be a better demand in August and September, acc6rding Winborne, ft - Company, commission merchants of Norfolk. a Plymouth Trying to Sell Power Plant to Company Meeting with officials of the Vir- j gii.ia Electric and Power Company in ! Plymouth this week, the city council there and cither prominent citizens of fered to sell their light and power fianchise to the Virginia company for SSO,(KM), with (tie* additional stipulation -of free street lights and water pump ing. The pofcer company, it is un derstoodf refuted to consider a con tract similar to the one entered into ! by it and this town. J. T. Chase, who met with the Ply | mouth officials, stated that he would : carry the proposal before his com- I pany, but no report has been made. Co. H, 61st N. C. Troops, Clingman's Brigade. Petersburg, Va., Sept. 26, 1864. My Dear Mother: Yours came to hand the 26th. 1 was happy indeed to hear from you land all the family, but sorry to hear that Grandfather is in such had health. ' I am in hopes this will find him in bet tir health. Tell him that I want to come and see him, though there i* no chance. Mother, you dbn't know how it would plea*e me to see you one more time. I am a* well as can be. Mother,' I have nothing to" write. . The Yankee* still hold on at Peters liurg. Some think they will take the city. They had a big battle in the Valley of Virginia the other day, and we loit 8,000 or 10,000 men. I don't see how we can stand many more such l.ad whipping* a* that. I don't think this war rait go on another year. Mother, I am glad that you made a Kood crop of corn. You say you will m ltd me tome honey when Jame* Cooper come* back again. My love to Aunt Bert and Aunt Nancy and tell them I want to aea them very much indeed. I must cloae by asking you to write soon. Noth ing more. Your loving son until death, ROBERT BUUI»OCK, V. A. Gurganus send* hi* love to you all. _ V- r Tobacco Meeting Here Next Friday m Meeting in the City Hall here next Friday evening at 8:04) o'- clock, warehousemen!, members of the local tobacco board of trade, merchanta, professional men and other citizens interest ed in the success of the local market, will diacuaa the future of the buainesa here and offer ' suggestions for forwarding the cause of the market. There will be no request made for contri butions, it waa atated by a ( member of the tobacco board of , trde this morning;, and the citi- . ( sens are urged to attend in large , numbers. Judge R. J. Peel has been named to act as chairman at the , meeting, and he will make the keynote remarks. t MARTIN WINS OPENING GAME ♦ Defeats Bertie at Windsor In Second Half Opener; Score 7 to 1 ——■• ' Bertie County, first half champions oi the bright Belt League, lost the opening game of the second half at Windsor Wednesday when Cherry was stingy with hits and Martin County registered a 7 to I victory. Only five hits were collected by Bertie, Cofield getting two of them. Ben Hoggard started on the mound for Bertie, but he was relieved in the seventh by Shcr man Hoggard when the score stood 2 to 1 in favor of the Monks. Martin got next to the. relief,hurTer and scored five runs in the seventh and eighth innings on five hits, three of which went for extra bases. Jimmie Brown and Ciaylord were the offen sive stars for the Monks, each get ting three hits. Carrol Brown slammed out two safe blows, one of which would have gone for a homer had he not slipped and fell as he was rounding the bases, stopping at third. The fielding of both teams' was good, t>nly four er rors being made during the afternoon. I Hertford County defeated Beaufort ,it Washington in the other opening ' game of the league. The game went for ten innings, and an 8 to 7 victory vvas registered by the Hares. lar ence Bradley led the offensive for Hertford with three hits, and Judy Lassiter, Whitney Saunders, Harry Holloman and John White contributed two each. ? PEANUT CO-OPS DISCUSS PLANS Meeting Will Be Held Here In Courthouse Next Monday Started this week in the peanut ' growing sections of Virginia, the 1 series of primary meetings for the discussion of a new plan of operation for the peanut cooperative association 1 will be continued In thia and other ' counties In the State next week. The meeting in this county will be held in the courthouse here at 12:00 o'clock, noon, next Monday, according to a schedule of the work received here l this morning. i .Mr. Worsham, who has done much 1 work for the association during the past few years, or some one of the association's directors will address the ' meeting here, and all farmers are in vited to hear him. At the primary meetings nomina tions for directors to succeed the pres ent incumbents will be made and elec tion of directors will be completed at the district meetings scheduled to be held August 5. After the meetings are held the names of the nominees for directors will be put on a ballot card, which will be mailed to each member in the respective counties. Every member is asked to check the name on the ballot for whom he wishes to vote to become director for his county. The ballot card will be addressed to the chairman of the organisation in the several counties, and it js-very important that the members check and mail the card| The district meetings will be held fn all counties August 5, at same places primary meetings are held, at which tin* the chairman and secre tary of each county will count the ballots and the name of the director receiving the moat votes certified to the oOce of the association. Advertisers Will Find Our Col umn* a Latchkey to Over 1,600 Haaasa of Martin County ESTABLISHED 1898 RATE SUGGESTED IS $1.34 AGAINST' $1.38 LAST YEAR Rigid Economy Followed in Estimating Requirements For Coming Year VALUATION £16,100,000 v Bonded Debt on June 30 Was $943,- 000; Biggest Decrease in County Debt Service Fund —r~*~ — Martin County's general tax rate was practically determined-this week when Commissioners Everett. Slade, and (iriffin met here and examined the an nual budget estimate for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 1930. According to the budget es timate, a rate, of $1.34 on the SIOO property valuation will he necessary to inn the county during the period, the estimated rate being four cents below the rate in effect during the year just past. According to the budge estimate, approximately $390,1»8.42 will be necessary to run the county during the fiscal year ending next June. Of that amount, $207,913.32 will be raised by general taxation, $182,285.10 coming from outside sources such as fines, and state equalization funds. The most marked feature in the budget is an 11-ccnt decrease in the county debt service fund, the drop re sulting, in a large way, from the a moutit received from the State road fund. I hat a policy of rigid economy Wis followed in the preparation of the budget is seen in the expected decrease in the county general fund and in the six-months school term current ex pense fund. In the general fund, a I -cent drop is forecasted, while a de crease of 3 1-2 cents is expected in the current expense fund for the six months school term. In operating the county affairs, sep arate from the schools, the auditor es timates that 42 cents will be sufficient. Ibis amount is 6 cents less than the rate levieil for that purpose last year. I.ast year there were no levies made tor the poor and health funds, and the xdding of these two items this year boosts the rate 6 cents. The bridge fund remains the same, 5 cents. Au ditor J. Sam Getsinger estimates tha' $44,965 will be necessary to care for the general expense, including salaries and similar ileitis. Approximately $7,- 265.00 will he needed for the county's loor, and $2,360.00 will he collected lor health work. According to the au ditor's estimate $55,763.52 \vill be re quired to run the county during the period separate from its schools. Another noticeable decrease is the 3 1-2 cents drop in the current ex ptnse fund connected with the opera tion of the schools. Last year 59 cents were, levied to care for that fund, while this year it is only 55 1-2 cents. To handle the increase iff capital outlay and interest resulting from the erec tion of two new school buildings, one at Williamston and another at Kober sotiville, the rate was boosted 5 1-2 cents. That amount, however, is part ly offset by the reduction in the cur rent expense fund, leaving an increase of only 2 cents for the operation of the schools. In connection with the levy for the o|>eration and maintenance of the schools, Superintendent R. A. Pope pointed out several things yesterday that is of interest to tax payers. In determining the tax rate for the year just past, the commissioners were fa vored with a balance of $12,000. That amount affected the rate last year, caus ing it to be* smaller than it would have been had the commissioners had to care for that amount in the levy. At the end of the fiscal year just closed, the levy failed by approximately $6,- 000 in caring for the schools. ' Thes.r two items affect the comparison of the rales for this and last year. , On the other naiid, the educational head pointed out that the county would lose nine teachers, Causing a decrease of approximately $5,400. This de crease, on the other hand, is partly off ret by salary increments, it was stated. In addition to the expense resulting from the erection of two new school buildings, the purchase of new trucks had to be considered. The consolida tion of schools calls for new trucks, and it is necessary to replace and re pair old ones, and these items are to be considered. The local school district ia to get a new truck.this year; Coopers gets two new trucks, and Sandy Ridge is sched uled to have a new one. 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