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PAGE TWO (Uijr Sntprpriaf Published Every Tuesday and Friday fey The ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO. WILLIAMSTON, WORTH CAROLINA. w. c. Manning Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Strictly Cash in Advance) IN MARTIN COUNTY One year -V " SO Six months - -v.. •' 5 OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY One year -~ '2.00 Si* months '-J™ No n Received for Less T.ian 6 Months Advertising Kate y-rd Furnishe-'. Upon Request Entrreif it the p>M fe-AVilliamatun. N. C.. as second class trtatter urder 'lie act of Congress bf March 3, 187 V. . » Address an comniun..to The Enterprise and not to tlie individual men;tiers of the firm. Tuesday. January 27, 1931. Choking Honest Government "No entertainment, no business with the foreigners, ■ were the words. spoken last week by Representative Temple, chairman of thr Foreign Affeirs Congres si« ml Committee I'tifortunately, many of our business transactions af Washington have been made at entertainment parties. It is a tragedy when representatives of na tions have to resort to the same tactics used by the old-time horse-trader and the prospective purchaser; that is, each tried to see which one could Ret the other the drunkest before the trade. When governments spend big money entertaining with wines and liquors their associate diplomats, there is little hope that the every day working |>e)- ple need expect a fair chance. People of many nations are bowing today under the burden of heavy taxes placed upon them by drunken bums acting un der the title of diplomats. The ghost of .that very type of action is now vfeible on the old Yarboruugh Hotel lot in Raleigh, where moral and honest laws have too often been choked in the liquor-drenched throat of some politician, called legislator. Better Rule Proimsed India India is about to win a war without firing a gun. For ages, Indians, 350,(K/O,OOG of them, have grop ed without leadership and lived under the British government, but now the country is waking up to her possibilities. Fortunately, her leaders did not want blood, and they sought justice and freedom through the (>eace path. Now, after eight months of imprisonment id the lndian leader, Mahatma Wantfhi, hngland is begln ning to loosen her coils and has freed the man, promising the country a more liberal government and many new privileges. The settlement brings two world statesmen to the front. Gandhi, who was earn est and humble enough to demand rights for his j>eo ple, and Ramsay McDonald, the wise and honorable British I'remier, who thinks government handled u|x>n principles of justice is better than government by force. » . People Waking Up North Carolina is waking up. The |»eople who have been keeping up the activities of the State by paying the taxes, are now awake. They find that the local property in the counties has been |xiying the school tax, when the Constitution says the State shall pay it. They tind that the Constitution says land shall not be taxed altove 15 cents for general purposes; yet it is taxed five times that much. The same constitution says incomes may be taxed six per cent. They, however, are only taxed at bur and one-half per cent. The |>eople are aroused and the big guns may shoot, but the (x-ople are in the fight to stay. Land taxes will be reduced. When all the |>eople pay their ivu\m share of the taxes made necessary to carry on our government in an honest -and efficient manner, no land owner will enter an objection to -his assessment. Few Starting the Year Right A few farmers in this section are starting the year off right. They are pulling the dirt away from the ends of the rows, fence corners and ditch banks where it has been piled for years, preventing proper drain age and offering a refuse for briar patches and weed beds. In the middle of the field or in the low places, the removed dirt will prevent crops drowning and, at the same time, serve as fertilizer. - Some of the farmers are actually going to. the woods and hauling out wood-mold and placing it on their cleared acres. By doing this the growers can limit fertilizer costs and make just as good yields as they do when they use fertilizers alone. The farmer that follows the methods of recent years by doing nothing towards farming until late in February or March is either on the rocks or is rapid ly traveling in that direction. Remaining idle until March, when the sun begins to warm up the earth and the bluebirds begin to chirp, this type of farmer then goes to town and looks up his time merchant Retells the merchant what a good fanner be is «ad promises the merchant that if be wiU just buy him ft lg|u vu \ . •; V, • ' t f 3sb." puakiiNiß ran m-o*v widat mule, furnish him feed for his mule and food for his family and all the fertilizer be wants, be will produce the earth and the fullness therein. All that kind of stuff is gone, and the farmer who continues its prac tice will find no place in our economic world left for him. • _* The trust or cerdit business has already practically destroyed two classes, the one that trusted and the one trusted. People of this country just as well want less during the coming ten years than they had the past ten, because theyt are going to. get less. Work, Not for Money but for aJJvjjog Things are almost at a the State at this time. Landowners are standing sfill until the legislature reduces taxes. The working people are a standing still, begging for jobs. This makes things unusually quiet. We can't afford to let things stand still too long for nothing. Taxes are to be paid from the fruits of hard work and food and clothing come from hard work. If we are to pay taxes promptly and if we are going t i produce the things necessary for. life and prosper ty, the sooner we get on the job, the better it will be' for all of us. We hear from some quarters that both land own ers and tenant farmers are saying they don't know if they' will l>e able to farm or not. And if they don't farm, what are they going to do? If a poor man, knowing no other business or occupation except far ming, can find an easier way to make a living than by farming, we don't know what it. What the country needs to do is get back to work, not for money but for a living. Counties Are Defaulting Several counties are re|)orted to have defaulted in the payment of interest on their bonded indebtedness. Several citeis also are said to be in a rather bad way from a financial point of view. Quite a number of bills have been and will be in troduced in the present session of the legislature, seeking to reduce tax burdens and also aiming at a reduction in ex|x>nditures. There is one thing certain. Unless some steps are taken during the next few weeks to bring about re-, lief, a whole lot of other counties are going to be in a bad way within a few months. Hut j>erha|>s it would be better to let things come to a show-down after all. At the present time, various interests are lined up against various other interests. There seems little likelihood of reaching any kind of an agreement. In other words, it looks as though reme lii.l measures would not be adopted unless a complete collapse of our county governments was i threatened. It is time that the members of the. legislature were j awakening to the seriousness of the situation which confronts North Carolina at the present time.—Wash ington Progress. Another Year Will Break Eastern N. C. The Agricultural Extension division of the State of North Carolina has been making a survey of the coun ties of Eastern North Carolina and finds that the far mers as a rule do not expect to reduce their acreage in tobacco, but will increase it from twelve to fifteen |>er cent. This does not apply altogether to Wilson county, but the eastern part of the State where some of the counties are preparing to increase their acreage «nd are erecting new tobacco barns. One county which has been heard from a neighbor of Wilson is reported as having purchased to date more fertilizer for plant l>eds than was bought up to this time last year. # Here in Wilson county the average farmer will tell i you that he knows the acreage should be reduced . and that he is broke if he plants as much, and that he may get only eight cents per pound for his weed next year, but asks what else can he plant? If you ask him if he expects to raise his living, he says he is going to raise his meat and bread, but he will buy his long feed for most of them have their corn. In other words in a sort of hopeless, dazed sort of way, many are going blindly along admitting they are planting as much plant bed space as ever, and if they do of course they will have th* plants, and if they have the plants they will stick them in the ground. There has never l>een a better time than this to get our affairs in Wilson county on an even keel and the right basis, and prepare to,build from the ground up that the future may be prosperous. If our farmers will forget about their money crops, and plant say four acres of tobacco to the horse plow this year, they will make a better quality and secure more money for their weed than they will for, from six to eight acres to the horse and besides they will not be heating the price down. In addition they will save on labor, fertilizers and the food they buy for man and beast, their store accounts will be less and in many other ways they will save, and at the end ot the year they will be 100 per cent better off. If they p.rsist in planting an increase in acreage, and the rest of the bright belt figures on doing the same thing, what may we expect f>ut bankruptcy and starvation to stare us In the face next winter on eight-cent to bacco? And that it all we will get, and tobacconists With all the suffering and distress that we are hav ing at the present time in Wilson county on fifteen cent tobacco, conditions will be worse on eight-cent tobacco. That is all we may expect with an increase in acreage, which instead of being increased should be decreased fifty per cent and that land put in food crop*, or turned into * tor «todi. Ii wiD bring you more money if allowed to lie oat, for i! worked in tobacco it will not bring you sufficient re turns to pay for labor and fertilisers.—*'*** Timet. THE ENTERPRISE THE LETTER-BOX • HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK To the editor: • As a citizen who desires to see the responsibility for any public action j fall where it rightfully belongs, may I | make a few supplementary statements ! concerning the action taken by the ' Robersonville Woman's Club as to asking for a discontinuance of the of fice of home demonstrator? What really led up to the matter being brought to the attention of the club was a conversation which one of the members had with Mr. H. S. Ev erett at his home, in which he was asked whether it would be worth any thing tpwards relief of the heavy tax burden in the county if the local Wo man's Club sponsored a movement to discontinue home demonstration work until times become more prosperous. He stated in reply that he thought it would be worth something, inasmuch as the women's clubs in the county were very active in the establishment of the office. He also stated that the question of discoiftinuance of the' of fice had come up before the board j | era! times, and that he had always. taken the position that in order to be | fair, the office of farm demonstrator should be abolished at the same time When the question was presented to the Woman's Club/ I think it was! [Stated that Everett suggested that j | the club cooperate with the county' j board in its economy program by; sending a committee before them at their next meeting with a recommen-. dation that tliv office of home demon strator be abolished. What Mr. Ever-1 . ett really did was to answer in the | affirmative when he was asked if be j thought the Woman's Club could as- 1 , sist in the movement. ! The whole truth of the matter is } that Mr. Everett was approached oil I the question, and simply concurred in j the opinion that the support of the 1 Woman's Club would be valuable. Mr*. VERNON A. WARD, i Robersonville, N. C. ♦ HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK To the editor: Enclosed is an article which our i country club women are very anxious to have published ii> your paper at the | very earliest opportunity. We shall appreciate your interest and assistance | in the matter a great ileal. The enclosed article was written land approved in a gathering of our club women. Thanking you for this and maiiy courtesies of the past, I am, Yours most cordially, MARGARET B. EVERETT. J New* Reporter for Williams Chapel ( Home Demonstration Club. Palmyra, N. C.,. January, 1931. ' (Enclosure) " s j s RURAL CLUB WOMEN SPEAK ji We, the women of the home demon-j \ stration clubs, are very sorry that ' sister organization at Robersonville 0 does not understand what our home "| demonstration work means to the rcotnrtry women o( Mitrtin County; : —(• We arc sure if this organization knew what this work means to our rural people they would not wish to deprive them of the opportunity thus | afforded them. We do not begrudge the 17 cents per taxpayer that we pay for this, work, for we know that which we get I from the work is much greater than j ,the tax paid. This amount being less I than the/price of the cheapest movie [show; it will not purchase a gallon of I gasoline; neither two soft drinks nor I a simple cafe lunch. Therefore, rural club women are ! planning to meet in a body the first j Monday in the month, and at this time we hope to have our sister organisa tion meet with us, and that there all differences shall be adjusted, so that there will be nothing between the two save love and understanding. The following facts may interest the public reading the county and State I papers. During the three years that ; our present home agent has been with us. Our 15 girls' clubs have doubled their membership, their present en rollment being 320 girls, studying health and nutrition projects. A boys' club organized two years ago with 28 enrolled, now studying j» l, ul' r y> an interesting history. This boys' or ganization, started ?t their own re- THANKS I WE APPRECIATE The business of our friends since moving to our new location on Washington Street in the Peel Building. Remember you are al ways welcome and we guarantee good service. I | SERVICE BARBERSHOP ; C. B. JENKINS, prop. | ' ' "** 3 ' T ' . If « quest, was to eager for a club that they were willing to start darning •ocks so,that they might be eligible to organization under the clothing project, which project was being stud i ied by the junior girls' clubs at that time. Our eight women's clubs, scattered over the county, now working their j major project in clothing, had SSOO "saved, for them toy this work the pasfj year. Hats from 2to 12 years of age have been remodeled, conforming to I present-day styles. Many new ones were made at an average cost of 35 cents each, saving each individual from. $1 to $5. Twenty-five dollars wials saved to club women through clean ing last month. f The home demonstration clubs of the county sponsored a loan fund and now have a student at East Carolina Teachers College, at Greenville, sup ported by club women and the home agent. We hope that this information will give to the public a better understand-1 ing of what the home demonstration work means to the country women, boys and girls. CLUB NEWS REPORTER. _ NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the poWer i j jf sale contained in a certair deed of; trust executed to the undersigned trustee by W. R. Roebuck and wife,! | Dora Roebuck on the Ist of February.! 1929 and of record in the public regis-] | try for Martin County in Book Y-2 at page 544, said deed of trust having been given for the purpose of securing a certain note of even daie and tenor j I the rewith, and default having been made in the payment of th? sail note! and the stipulations contained in the! said deed of trust not having bet n \ complied with and at the request ot| the holder of the said note the under signed trustee will on Monday the 9th day of February, 1931 at 12 o'clock j to-wit; Beginning at a Make on the Hainil for .sale to the highest bidder for cash I ton and Washington Road in W. R. the town of WilJiamston, N. C., offer M. in front of the courthouse door in i Roebuck's line, thencf along said road (about 130 feet in a Northern direction, jits intersection with the Bear Grass | Koad 90 feet to a stake, thence an ! Eastward direction 90 feet to a corner in W. R. Roebuck's land, thence a southern direction to the stake in the Hamilton and Washington Road, the beginning and containing one acre more-or less and known as the school ; site. - . • This the 9th day of January, 1931. A B. AYF.RS, Trustee. Elbert S. Peel, Attorney J -13-4t NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Martin County—ln the Superior Court. J. Rogers and Bros, vs John W. Bailey By virtue of certain executions directed to the undersigned from the Supirior Court of Martin County in sever.! 1 actions entitled as above, I will, i ii Monday, the 2nd day of Feb ruary 1931, at twelve (12) o'clock i ">n, at the. Courthouse door of Mar tin oiHMy, at Williamston, N, C\, sell; to the highest bidder, for cash toj satisfy said executions, all the right,' title and interest which the said John I W. Bailey, the defendant has in the s following described real estate, to-wit:; MRST TRACT: That certain tract! or parcel of land situate in Bear Grass Township. Martin County, North Ca rolina, adjoining the lands of Henry I POULTRY CAR II fl WILL BE IN MARTIN COUNTY January 27, 28, 29, and 30 JAMESVILLE TUESDAY, JANUARY 27TH I WILLIAMSTON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28TH I ROBERSONVILLE THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH I OAK CITY FRIDAY, JANUARY 30TH I County agents, in cooperation with the Division of Markets, have ar above places P try car to ** P laced on ®*dmg for one day at each of the These cars will be run at one-month intervals, provided there is ncient quantity of poultry offered. COLORED HENS ">■ - 17' TURKEY HENS 25* I LEGHORN HENS "»• - 12' Na 1-7 pound '* nd up COLORED CHICKS'» 17' 20 I LEGHORN CHICKS » 9* OLD TOMS '*• IS" I STAGS' 6 9° NO.2TURKEYS' 4 - 15* I DUCKS & GEESE "8 e GUINEAS EMCi 30« T. B. Brandon, County Agent I Bailey, Samuel Rogers, A. W. Bailey et aU., and being the same land deeded .to John W Bailey by James F. Bailey by deed which is oi record in the üblic Registry of Mar tin County, in book CCC at page 229, to which said deed refernce is made for description. SECOND TRACT: A certain tract or parcel of land located and being in Bear Grass Township, Martin County, North Carolina, bounded on the North by -the tads ofj. G: Bailey, Edmond Harrison, et als., on the East and South by the lands of A. G. Warren, A. VV. Bailey, K. H. Roger son et als., and on the West by the lands of Isaac Mizelle, containing 53 5-8 acres more or less and being the same land deeded to John W. Bailey by Alexander Hardison and wife by deed, which is of record in the Public Registry of Martin County and hereby referred to for a more accurate des cription of said tract. The first tract will be sold subject to the homestead exemptions of the said John W. Bailey, which was al lotted to him on the 20th day of Dec ember 1930-in the first tract. This the 31st day of December 1930. C B ROEBUCK, J-0-4t Sheriff of Martin County. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed Condensed Statement of Condition of The Branch Banking & Trust Company WILLIAMSTON, N. C. At the Close of Business, December 31, 1930. "THE SAFE EXECUTOR" ASSETS Loans and discounts $2,545,156.04 Banking houses, furniture and fix. 103,870.82 U. S. and N. C. Bonds 1,384,935.98 Other marketable stocks and bonds 111,858.89 Cash and due from banks 1,280,813.26 Total ' $ 5,426,634.99 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 250,000.00 Surplus 250,000.00 undivided profits 195,241.41 Dividend payable Jan. 2, 1931 7,500.00 Deposits 4,723,893.58 Total $5,426,634.99 TOTAL CASH AND BONDS* Total Deposits 4,723,893.58\ SO Percent oi Deposits Is In Cash and Bonds Tuesday, January 27,.1931. of trust executed to the undersigned Trustee by W. C. Wallace and wife, Virginia A. Wallace, dated 19th day of April, 1930, of record in the Re gister of Deeds Office in Book C-3, page 277, to secure certain bond of even date therewith, and the stipula tions not having been complied with, and at the request of the holder of said bond, the undersigned Trustee will, on the 2nd day of February, 1931, at 12 o'clock, Noon, in front of the Courthouse ddor "6f Martin County, offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described land: - Beginning at R. G. Sexton's cornfi*: thence along R. G. Sexton's line S 88 E 98 poles, S 69 E 14 poles to branch thence along said Branch (Bull) N 1 W 21 poles S 22 W 23 poles, S 19 W 22 poles, S 87 E 50 poles to the road; thence along road 81 E 30 poles to corner Rodgers land; thene S 1 E 60 poles to corner S. L, Ellis land; thence N 88 W 100 poles to branch; thence along branch n 55 e 34 poles n 33 e 28 poles, N 16 E 25 poles to road; thence along road N 81 W 96 poles to corner of Sexton land; thence N 10 E 29 poles; N 88 W 7 3-4 poles; N 10 E 28 1-2 poles to the beginning. Con taining Seventy Two Acres, more or less, said land being designated as 43 acre tract and 29 acre tract as shown, 'lliis 2nd Hay of January, 1931. B. A. CRITCHER, J-6-4t Trustee.
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