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A4vertieera Win Fad Oar Col mm a Latchkey to Over Mmw Hudnd Martin County Homes VOLUME XXXV—NUMBER 11 BURGLARIES ARE REPORTED HERE OVER WEEK-END Ingrafh and Teel Homes Are Entered; No Arrests HaVe Been Effected rto daring burglaries were reported here over the week-end, when the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Ingram and Mr. and Mrs. Va! Teel, both of Main Street, Were entered. No arrests have been made in either of the cases. Entering the rear door of the In gram home early Friday night, the burglar searched for money in ~one room, and was frightened away when a member of the family entered. He fell over a chair and made his escape through the front door, About 4 o'clock Sunday morning, an intruder entered the Teel home, pull ing the light switch as he entered the rear door. He found his way around with a flashlight. Going to one of the bedrooms, he pulled the bed clothing from one of the beds and was fright ened by the screams of one of the chil dren. He ran into Mr. Teel's room and then nude his escape, the family being in the dark and in a panic was unable to stop him. Nothing was missed in either home, the intruders having been frightened before they completed their pilferings. 7 PERMITS TO MARRY ISSUED • • —— Marriages Are Few and Ffer Between in This County During Past Month Marriage* in Martin County last month were few and far between, the register of deeds' office issuing only seven licenss during the period. The number was smaller by six than dur ing the previous month. One year ago the register of deeds issued 18 marriage licenses during thi month of March. Licenses were issued to the follow ingl - l . Whit* Paul Whichard and Ella Mae Hoell, both of Martin County. Dr. Joseph E. Smith, of Bertie County, and Esther Harris Stubbs, of Martin County. Hubert Wobbleton and Ella May Rodgerson, both of Martin County. Colored Jodie Gaynor and Lillian Leathers, both of Martin. Fred Hudson and Corolanda Wal ton, of Martin County. Alex Faulk and Wtllie B. Rascoe, both of Bertie. Jack Tell Ebranr and Ruth Cherry, of Martin. COTTON CO-OPS TO MEET HERE Will Discuss Loans And Pedigreed Cotton Seed Next Monday • On Monday morning, April 11, at It o'clock at the courthouse at Wil liamston, members of the North Car olina Cotton Growers Association will meet and elect delegates to the dis trict meeting to be held on April 14th, J at district headquarters. The dele-j gate* which are elected to attend the district meeting will nominate at that meeting a director to represent the district during the coming year. Di-j rectors of the cotton association are practical business men, are real cot ton growers and vitally interested in the growing and marketing of cot-; ton. \ At >the county meeting, a represen tative of the cotton association will be present and discuss (1) how to obtain money to farm on this year; (2) how to obtain pedigreed seed that will pro duce a better staple of cotton that will bring additional premiums. Since its organisation, the cotton as-] sociation has made much progress in 1 helping the grower to produce a bet ter qualty of cotton. MASS MEETING AT BEAR GRASS ' • Voters There Considering * Naming A Candidate for County Commissioner of voterTTnTFear Grass Township will be held in the school auditorium there Thursday eve r ning of this week at 8:30 o'clock, it was announced this morning by Mr. A. B. Rogerson, chairman of the town ship Democratic executive committee. J The committee is calling the meet ing to nocniaate township oicen and center on county nominees, h is un derstood. The voter* will select nomi nees for offices of township constable, Jwtice of the peace, and, according to rumors heard' this week, mention a THE ENTERPRISE Fire Early Monday Morning Threatens Town of Everetts Prepare Cleaning Next Week Plans and preparations for a big clean-up and paint-up campaign here next week are going forward rapidly, Mrs. Myrtle Brown, pres ident of the Woman's Club spon soring the movement, said yester day. Individual letters are being for warded to the business firms of the town, urging the support of the owners, and public appeals are being made to every resident in the v hope that the worthy task might be properly handled. Make your plans now to take part in the campaign. FORD ON DISPLAY HERE THIS WEEK New Car Will Be Seen at Motor Company Here Thursday and Friday The New Ford V-8 will be dis played in the show room of the Wil liamston Motor Company on Wash ington Street here Thursday and Fri day of this week, and Manager Green is extending a cordial invitation to all the people of this section to see the car. There are more than 14 new basic principles employed in the make-up of the V-8, and each of them is unusually interesting within itself. There is the automatic spark; there is the rubber mounting and there are many other .features that you are iiivited to see and investigate at the showing Thurs day and Friday. The new car will be on display early Thursday morning here, Manager Green announced today. SUPERIOR COURT ENDS SATURDAY Two of 91 Cases on Court Calendar Heard by a Jury During Week The two weeks term of tlje Martin County Superior Court was brought to ar close late last Saturday night, when the jury returned a verdict fav oring the defendant iti the Dill, Cram er, Truitt Corporation against Downs, The case was one of two heard by a jury during the week, leaving virtu ally all the 91 cases on the calendar untouched. "If all the cases on the calendar re quired as much time in their trial, the court would find it necessary to sit an entire year to clear the docket," Judge Paul Frizzelle said Saturday morning. A two-weeks term of court for the trial of civil cases only will convene the 18th of this month. The trial cal endar for that term has not been pre pared. • One Farmer Planning To Sell 1,000 Young Chicks ~ ♦ ) Nashville.—Going into poultry rais ing as a major line and conducting demonstrations under the guidance of experts of State College has enabled J. H. Hardison, of the Rocky Mount community to have 1,000 broilers ready for sale this spring. The birds are averaging two pounds each and are bringing 25 cents a pound. Five other farmers of the. communi ty will each have as many broilers as Hardison, or more, County Agent H. G. Wharton reports, as the six have jmi cooperative demonstrations with |Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. The broilers are showing a nice profit dver the cost of production, Wharton said. Felicitates the Survivors He Attempted To Drown Portland, Ore.—Best wishes from the commander of the German sub marine which sank their troopship 14 years ago were applauded here when received by survivors of the Tuscania, torpedoed off the coast of Ireland on February S, 1918, who met here in an nual session. The cablegram was re ceived by Dr. Wilhelm Meyer. The Tuscania was the on!y Ameri can troopship sunk in the World War. ' All but 256 men of more than 2,000 aboard were picked up by British ves sels. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 5, 1932 FIREMEN HERE ANSWER CALL; LOSS OVER $9,000 Three Stores and Storage Warehouse Burned; Little Insurance i Fire, believed to have been started ,!>>■ rats, destroyed three stores, a ware house, and resultd in much damage to j other building* i" Everetts early yes terday morning. The blaze, swept by [a strong wind, threatened one whole section of the town and wrought a loss estimate at s'>,4oo, with little or no insurance carried on any of the property. Goldie Hyman, colored teacher and owner of one of the stores burned, discovered the fire about 4 o'clock as she was leaving to conduct her classes in the school six miles away. She called for aid, and it is believed that the fire could have been checked be fore muclf damage resulted had there been any buckets and water in reach. Mr. John Cherry, in whose store the. fire started, was called, and when he J and others reached the business sec tion, the fire was burning beyond con trol. His loss is estimated at $4,500, with no insurance. Spreading to an adjoining store, owned by the Clark estate, the fire destroyed that result ing in a loss estimated at $2,000. In surance policies carried on the Clark building are said to have expired about a month ago and had not been re newed. The loss incurred by the Hy man woman when the fire burned her store and its contents, is estimated at S9OO. A small storage warehouse, containing machinery, peanuts, and other articles belonging to Mr. J. S. Ayers, was the next structure to burn, adding about SI,OOO more to the losses. Smoke filled the store of J. S. Ayers and Company and heat from the burn ing buildings damaged adjoining wall and caused a damage estimated at sl,- 000 to the company's stock and build ing. Mr. Ayers had insurance on his building, but had none on the ware house contents. Unable to combat the blaze, Ever etts citizens called on the local fire department, 10 members of the com pany and a goodly number of other citizens going to the scene. The truck emptied one well there in a very short while, and found it necessary to go' to a larger one near th£ Barnhill cot ton gin across the railroad. Arriving too late to check the store fires, the firemen prevented the blaze from spreading and are said to have saved two or three homes in the path of the fire and which could hardly have been saved by the bucket brigades. Rivers Johnson Out for A Seat In Congress Raleigh.—State Senator Rivers D, Johnson, of Warsaw, veteran of more than 20 years of public service, in cluding ' eight years as senator from the ninth district, last Saturday said he would seek the Democratic con gressional nomination in opposition to Charles L. -Abernethy, veteran repre sentative from the third North Caro lina district. . week, during debate on salary cuts in Congress, Abernethy declared that he was opposed to cutting the pay of congressmen and asserted his constituents would renominate him without opposition. Name of Local Boy On University Honor ■ Roll m William C. Griffin, Mr.-and ;Mrs. S. C. Griffin, of this place, was 'again included in the list of honor stu dents at the University of North Car olina during the second quarter. Hi* name appears frequently in the list. m Board of Education To Hold Meet Next Mofiday The regular meeting of the Martin. County Board of Education scheduled to have been held here yesterday was postponed when one of the members was calld out of town. The board will meet next Monday, according to an announcement made yesterday. Forwarding Final Warping to Taxpayers of the County . ♦ Individual notice are being forward ed to approximately 3,000 Martin County taxpayers this week, warning them of their unpaid tax accounts and urging them to make settlement be tween now and the first of next month, advertising time. According to a recent ruling of the Attorney General, the sale of prop erty for taxes can not be delayed this year, and the notices are being for warded to delinquent payers as a last warning. " *— l I SINGING CLASS \ J The Oxford Orphanage Singing Class will appear in a public con cert in the auditorium of the old school building here Thursday night at 8 o'clock. The young singers are expected here at 11 o'clock that morning and will be assigned to Individual homes for the remainder of the day and that night. No admission fee will be charg ed, but a free-will offering will be taken. It is hoped that a large crowd will hear the singers and support them whole-heartedly. ATTENDANCE AT LOCAL SCHOOLS HOLDS UP WELL Increased Attendance Earns Additional Teacher for the Next Term Here • While the attendance percentage in the local schools for the six-months period, recently ended, is not as large as it was for the period last year, the total attendance has been increased, earning for the school an additional teacher in ibe elementary school next session, it was learned from an at tendance report filed for the period ■by Principal Watson yesterday. It that while the additional teacher was earned, the State Board of Equalization could increase the teacher load and limit the faculty to, the present number of teachers em ployed. During the six months period there were 817 pupils enrolled, but during that time 18 were lost in the high school and 75 in the grammar or ele mentary grades, leaving a net enroll ment of 724 pupils. The average daily attendance was 164.28 pupils in the high school and 516.58 in the elemen- tary school, a total of 680.86, or a to tal percentage of 91.6 for both schools. In two grades, it was pointed out, the enrollment had passed the 100- mark, the first grade reporting- UW .pupils and the third grade 102; I Attendance percentage was lowered duriiLg the lerm by an increased en , rollm\nt favorable economic [ condition*; Principal Watson stating thiß morning that, actual want and needs for clothijig wire threatening the welfare of a goodly number of pupils in all the several grades. - I The most disappointing feature of the report is that there are 64 high school pupils and 189 elementary pu pils from one to five years retarded in their work. SCHOOL CLOSES AT MACEDONIA Closing Exercises Will Be Held There Friday of This Week . m . Vacation day* are just ahead for children in the Macedonia section of the county, the school "there closing the 1931-32 term next Friday. The school is one of three in the county having the six-months term. The first of the exercises will be held Friday afternoon following a community picnic oft the school grounds. The primary pupils will ap pear on the afternoon program, and that evening a play will be staged by the higher grades, Miss Irene Tetter ton, teacher, said yesterday afternoon. Banket —— Here Much Enjoyed The annual junior-senior banquet held in the Woman's Club hall here last Friday evening was one of the most enjoyable events of the term, ac cording to reports released yesterday. Centered around a miniature circus, the banquet was carefully planned in minute detail, the actors royally en tertaining their guests. f PAYS TAXES ) \ / Maude Ward, colored woman, cam* all the way here from New York thia week to pay her coun ty taxes, Sheriff C. B; Roebuck laying that there were other prop erty owner* within shouting dis tance who could but who have not paid their. 1931 taxes. The Ward woman owns property in Rober sonviOe Township but lives in New York. j Collections on the 1931 levy were numerous last week, many prop- , erty owners heading off the in creased penalty that went into ef fect Saturday. REGULAR MEET COUNTY BOARD HELD MONDAY Several New Names Added To List Given Aid By County The regular meeting of the county commissioners here yesterday was without note, the body handling no im portant business matters during the The poor and needy made a number of appealing appeals, the com missioners taxing the poor fund $15.50 more each month, the small sum be ing divided among six applicants. A few were refused aid. No tax com plaints were entered, a rather unusual happening in the meetings of the coun ty leaders. - Miss Lois Dozier, State welfare worker, appeared before the board and explained that the State would ap propriate S7OO for' the support of an all-time welfare officer in the county, provided the county would raise a like sum. Miss Dozier also explained that several of the counties instituting the service recently* are saving enough funds in certain departments to more than pay the salary of the agent. The Commissioners heard the State work er, but they did not officially accept or reject the State offer. - Mrs. Verona Ange, of Jamesvillc was allowed $3 a month. Mrs. Elitha Johnson, of William ston Township, was allowed $2.50 a month. Tamer Brown, colored, of William ston Township, was allowed $3 a month.. — Ernest Johnson, of Poplar Point, was allowed $3 a month. I.elia Ktheridge, also of Poplar Point, was allowed $2 a month. Jordan Slade, colored, was placed on the poor fist and is to receive $2 a month. The commissioners recommended that two roads, one leading from the Coburn road, near the farm of N. O. VanNortwick, in Robersonville Town ship, to the Hassell Road, near the Jesse Matthews' place, and a second leading from Slade, Rhodes and Com pany's store in Hamilton to the river wharf there, be placed on the State Highway map as a part of the road system. ORDER CHANGE IN HEADLIGHTS Use of Glaring and Dazzling Headlights Prohibited By Orditiance 1 here has recently been published throughout the -State a special ordi nance of the Highway Commis sion revising the rules with regard to automobile headlights. Under the Consolidated Statutes of North Caro lina cited in this ordinance, it is il legal to operate an automobile on the highways of the State £*ith glaring and dazzling headlights. The legis lature has empowered the commission to pass such rules and regulations from time lo time as may seem prop er to carry out traffic regulations set up by it. „ Section two of the ordinance rekds; "When the headlamps of motor ve hicles have been properly adjusted, as required by the ordinance of the State Highway Commission and' Section 2621 (93) of the Consolidate Statutes of North Carolina, and an approved antiglare device applied, then the headlamps shall be deemed to com ply with the requirement* of the Con solidate Statutes, Section 2621 (91) (Section 49 of the Revised Motor Ve nicle Laws issued April 1, 1929) pro hibiting the use of glaring' and daz zling headlights, so long as 'ftiid headlamps so equipped are set to throw the headlamp beams straight a head of the vehicle," „ Section five of the.ordinance reads: "That motor vehicles equipped with approved anti-glare device shall be exempt from the restrictions as to candle power of bulbs as provided in State Highway Ordinance No. 25." The anti-glare device now approv ed and distributed throughout the State is sold for one dollar a pair. The cost of adjusting the headlamps has been reduced from cents to fifty cents, which fifty cents also includes the installation of the said anti-glare device. It is ruled that the headlamps need not be adjusted again when they are once equipped with an approved anti-glare device so long as they remain set to throw the beams straight ahead of the vehicle. The State Highway Commission has ordered the headlights of all of its automobiles which " travel exten sively at night equipped with the ap proved Nodimolite headlight device. Methodist Missionary Society Meets Tomorrow The local department of the Wo man's, Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet) tomor row afternoon at 4 o'clock with Mr». W. C. Manning, jr. at " ------- .r V* * Listing of Is Begun Farm L Expected County Cash returns from applications made for government loans are ex pected in this county before long. So far no checks have been re ceived by any of those making ap plications. An unexepected delay was experienced last week when a technical error was tnade in each of the applications, but these er rors have been corrected and many of the blanks have been returned to the government in Washington City for further consideration. It is believed here that a ma jority of the loans will go through without any more trouble, but ap plicants are asked to be patient and wait for developments. Hun dreds of thousands of the applica tions have to be considered, and the task requires much time. TOWN BOARD IN REGULAR MEET Hear Request for Extension of Water Lines To Cemetery Section "We are being taxed to pay for the waterworks system in town, and yet we are receiving ;ir benefit frgm the system, 1 a committee from beyond the cemetery said when they went before the town commissioners last night, ask ing that body to efctejid the water mains in their direction. Recent fires there and high insurance rates are said to have prompted the vist of the citi zens whose property is unprotected against fire. The request was atten tively listened to by the officials, but they stated that financial conditions were not very favorable with the town right at this time, and that, the matter would he given more consideration later on. * * After listening to a welfare report offered by welfare leaders, the com missioners made a small donation that the present program of work might be Completed. Several tax reports were heard and current bills were investigated. HEALTH REPORT FOR PAST MONTH Many Whooping Cough and Chickenpox Cases In County last Month -Chickenpox anil whooping cough cases almost reacheil the epidemic stage in two secfions "of the county lasj month, according to a report filed in the office of County Health Officer J. H. Saunders last week. ston Township reported 25 chicken-, pox cases, all hut. one being among white people, «No other chickenpox cases were reported in the county dur i ing the month. Bear Grass Township j reported 25 whooping cough cases, and I all of them were among white chil- I dren. I Other than the 25 cases of chicken pox and 28 cases of whooping cough, i there were no contagious diseases re- I ported in the county during March, jw . * | Meet ing of Young Church People Here Next Friday Episcopal young people of the tl'lrd district, Diocese « East Carolina, will meet in the Church of the Advent here I next Friday morning, it was announc ed yesterday hy Chairman Katherine Harding. The meeting will be ripened at 10:30 that morning, adjourotdft fol -1 lowing a friendship circle that after -1 nnnnl ' A goodly number of young people "from Beaufort, Pitt, Hyde, Dare, Tyr rell, and Washington Counties is ex pected to tye here for the_ meeting. Prominent leaders in the church are also expected to attend and take part 1 in the meeting. j • Arrangements Complete I For Senior Play Friday I Arrangements for the annual senior ( play in the high school auditorium here next Friday evening at 8 o'clock are complete, an| a very entertaining pcr ' fin-main e it assured by the pupils and their director. ! The play, "At the End of the Rain {bow," i* complete in three act* and | has to do with college life during the football season. Interesting scenes and a puzzling plot are features. Watch the Label On Yaw PfP«r A* It CarriM the Date Whan Your Subscription Expire* ESTABLISHED 1898 Property in County COOPERATION OF PEOPLE IS ASKED BY LIST TAKERS • Direct Particular Attention To the Farm Census Questionnaire ' 1 lie listing of property for 1932 tax nation was started iit the county yes terday to continue throughout the month. Ihe 10 listers are making in dividual listing schedules, an 4 prop erty owners are urged to list their be longings as early as possible that a last-minute rush might be avoided at the end of the month. Mr. Roy T. Griffin, listing for this township, will be at the Farmers Supply CoiVipany jltore on \\ ashington Street here to day and I'riday of this week, and a gain on the 12th, 14th, 18th, 19th, 20th, ■/Ist, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th. Late listing subjects the prop erty owner to a penalty provided by law. f A few of tiie lifters in the smaller districts will not sit until after the middle of the mouth, but where prop erty owners aru desirous of completing the work before that time, special ar rangements can be made. In an effort to expedite the listing tasks, the list-takers are appealing to the property owners, urging them to make a preliminary list of answers to questions advanced by law in what is known as the "Farm Census." I'.ach farm owner or his agent is _to come prepared to report the acreage of each crop to be harvested on his or his tenants' farms this. year. Also acres lying out, number of bearing fruit trees, and the tons of fertilizers used for all crops. Prepare your list now. This Farm Census is required by State law, but is not for taxation purposes. Ihe following' information will be Number acres of corn, cot toil, tobacco, oats, peanuts, cowpeas, soy beans grown alone and lor hay, how many irish - and sweet potatoes, garden crops, peach trees, sows for breeding, hens iff laying age, milk cows, and number of hives of bees. NEGRO WOMAN IS BADLY HURT Fannie Purvis Dangerously .Cuts Caroline Faulk Here Sunday l arotine baulk, local colored wo man, was dangerous cut about her back and throat early last Sunday eve ning by .Fannie Purvis,' colored. The I'tirvis swung her kgife at inflicting nine wotfnds that nearly bled the woman to death before she could be carried to a doctor. Forty stitches' were necessary to close the wounds. Disapproving the close friendship between her husband and the Purvis woman, the victim called at fhe Pur vis home, allegedly to tear down the intimate friendship of the two. The Purvis woman was -prepared to de fend herself, it Was "stated, and freely used the knife before she could be stopped. Offices. arrested jailed the Pur vis woman that night, releasing her uffder a $30(1 bond Monday morning. A preliminary hearing/ wil be held next Monday before Justice Hassell. MAKE PLANS FOR DISTRICT MEET Program Planned at Meet Held In Courthouse Here Last Week By .MUs LORA E. SLEEPER Representatives of four-' counties were presenj at the meeting held in the home agent's office last week to plan a program for the district meeting of the home demonstration clubs. Miss Eth-/ el Nice r home agent in Pitt County, brought with her Mrs. O. H. Jackson, district chairman. Miss Eugenia Pat terson, home agent in Washington County, brought with her a represen tative from the demonstration clubs. Miss Georgia Pilaud, home agent in Tyrrell County, brought Mrs. B. M. Owens, councjl president. Martin County was represented by Mrs. T. M. WoodburiK secretary o£ the State organization; Mrs. Will Taylor, coun cil president; Mrs. G. A. Peele, coun ty program chairman; Mrs. Bettie Roberson, of Parmele, and Miss Lore E. Sleeper, home agent. The program ia difficult to plan, ow ing to lack of space. A recreational program had been planned for out of doors, but thus far there is not space available. The home agent is anxious to make the 'vtsjjting counties wel come. .