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AdwUMn WB Pad Our Col ■lMUffgr g»HM VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 22 CONCERTS HERE BY SINGINGCLASS WELL RECEIVED • Approximately $75 Raised For Orphanage By Singers Here Making its annual visit here over the week-end, the Oxford Orphanage Singing Class gave one of the best concerts heard here in several years. The little singers, unusually alert in their parts, were well trained under the direction of Mrs. Hutchinson, and their numbers were well received. More than 350 people heard the young singers in the regular concert Satur day evening in the high school audi torium, and a large congregation as sembled in the Methodist church Sun day evening (or a special performance. Singing class receipts are said to have been much smaller in niany j towns visited by the singers, but the offering here was.about the same as it was last year. Approximately $75 were raised at the two performances,, $52.60 Saturday evening, and the re mainder Sunday night at the union seryice. The little visitors were pleaiantly entertained in private homes during their two-day stay here. They left yesterday morning for Washington, where they appeared in a concert last night. Leaving Oxford about two months ago the singing class has already vis ited a goodly number of lodges in Eastern North Carolina, and before they return home next December little folks will have visited nearly every town and city in the State, from the sea to the mountains. The orphans' visit, sponsored by Skewarkee Lodge of Masons, was greatly enjoyed by those attending the concerts and those who came in con tact with the little folks. JAIL 2 NEGROES RESULT OF FIGHT Fight Said To Be the Mo Brutal One Reported in Several Years Paul Josey and Garland Jones are in the county jail following a murder ous fight in Oak City last Sunday. Said to have been fighting over a 10- cent pair of glasses, the two negroes nearly killed each other. Josey is nursing a fractured skull and one or two cuts about the body. Josey claims Jones pounded him over the head with a shovel. In the mean time Josey was carving Jones, slic ing the muscles of the right arm and blood vessels at random on the neck, hud, and body. Jones was also knocked in the head. The two men were fetched up in Oak Gty and brought here Sunday for a hearing in the county court today, Jones, apparently in a daze, sleeps much of the time. Josey maintains Jones started the fight. According to reports received here, the fight start ed over a woman or the wife of one of the fighters. The attacks were said to be the most brutal seen in this section in some time. CARS COLLIDE HERE FRIDAY Chevrolet Turns Over Near School Building; No One Is Injured Louis Horton, Plymouth white man, and Oliver Gillam, local colored man, escaped injury early last Friday eve ning when their care, two Chevrolet :onpes, were in a head-on collision on the Waahington road near the colored school building. Both cars were con siderably damaged. Gillam was traveling out of Wil liamston when Horton rounded the curve just the other side of the school buityng. The colored man claims Hortoh was traveling rapidly and holding to the middle of the road. Gillam did not turn to the shoulders, he claims, and the amash-up followed, the Horton car continuing down the road for 50 yards or more, where it turned over. The left side running boards and wheels of both cars were smashed and the rear and of the Gil lam car was damaged. Apparently discrediting Gillam'a ac count of the wreck, Horton procured a warrant yesterday charging the col ored nun with reckless driving. Baby Show Postponed on Account Whooping Cough The baby show planned by the la dies of the local Methodist church has beta postponed on account of the whooping cough that has reached epi demic stage hare. The ladies plan to bold the show some time next month, provided danger of whooping cough is over. THE ENTERPRISE Nemar To Make Drive Tomorrow Arrangements for the Nemar blindfold automobile drive here to morrow (Wednesday) afternoon at 3 o'clock are complete, and many visitor* are expected to be on hand to aee the event. The mystery man will be blind folded in front of the Watts The atre promptly at that hour, and he will drive a new Ford V-8, fur nished by the Williamston Motor Company, for about 30 minutes all over town. Nemar, a native of Sydney, Australia, will be aloi\f in the car, and during the drive he will make stops at several •tores. He will go in, while blindfolded, and find gifts for dis tribution among the visitors. f WHOOPING COUGH i Whooping cough, thought to have been brought here from Richmond a few weeks ago, con tinue* to apread, according to re ports coming from the office of the county health officer here yes terday. Up to that time 31 cases had been reported and quaran tined, and it is believed that many more cases are now developing. All the case* are confined to white children in this commmunity. Failure on the part of a few parents to observe the quarantine instructions has been reported, bue so far no violations have been prosecuted. TWO COURSES IN COUNTYSCHOOLS ARE ELIMINATED Local Districts Will Not Be Allowed To Vote for Two Departments The agricultural department in the Jamesville school and the commer cial department in the Kobersonville school were eliminated a few days ago from the curricula of the two schools when the legislature passed a bill prohibiting supplementary taxation for a ninth month of school and for any activities handled in the agricul tural and commercial departments. It was first understood that the bill was passed by the legislature to nuke sure that no effort would or could be made to add an extra month to the regular state-supported eight-months term. It was later learned that the bill was di rected against all supplements, and it is understood that the schools in this county will receive only whst the state is plessed to give them. With the passing of these two de partments, it can be reliably said that they have proved of great value to the two communities and even to oth eya near by. They have probably been of more direct benefit to the young people and to the communities in which they operated than any other subjects in the curricula. The Jamesville agricultural depart ment, under the direction of the late W. T. Overby, has paid many divi dends and will continue to influence the lives of those students who had the opportunity to take advantage of the instruction offered therein. But the door is closed to those who fol low. Jean Watts Wins First Prize in Dress Contest Jean Watts, pupil in the local schools, wpn first prize in a dress making contest sponsored here last week by the economics department in cooperation with the educational serv ice and McCall Comp'any. Second prize went to Christine Rogerson, 'ninth grade student. Pattie Kay Ben nett, also a ninth grade pupil, won third prize. Forty-two dresses, all made of cot ton, were entered in the contest. Miss Ora Finch, home economics teacher, said. Dance at Woman's Club Here Next Friday Night The Woman's Club will sponsor a dance in the club hall Friday night, May 19. The Windsor orchestra will play at that time, it was announced. 9 Weather Has Retarded Cotton and Watermelons ,» ■ - Cotton, watermelons and canta loupe* have been retarted by tha re cent cool weath in Hoke and adjacent counties. • Home for Wa^aad Mr. Maurice D. Watt*, a patient in the Walter Raed Hospital, Waahing top, D; C., spent the week-end her* with) his family. t Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 16, 1933 Madame Nemar will ride in a second car about 100 feet behind the one driven by the blindfold driver. No words will be spoken or other signs exchanged by the driver and his wife. Nemar guar antees perfect safety to every one and says the more congested traf fic is, the better he will like it. Thousands of people have seen the mystery drive in this section of the State, and big crowds are expected here for the neighbor hood day event. Wednesday and Thursday nights Nemar will appear on the Watts Theatre programs. His presents tiona in other towns of thia sec tion have been well received. FINAL PROGRAM AT FARM LIFE IS HELD FRIDAY Senior Class Will Present Annual Play There Wednesday Closing exercises Wtere held in the Farm Life School last Friday evening when Rev. E. F. Moseley, local Epis copal minister, delivered the com mencement address to the nine sen iors and a large number of school children and patrons of that commun ity. The minister, in his address, stress ed the values of education other than that for financial gain. He said that we must get away from the idea that educated persons may live a life of greater ease than others, and we must recognize the fact that through read ing and knowledge an educated per son may live a life of greater satis faction to himself and service to oth ers. • Following Mr. Moseley'g address, Rev. W. B. Harrington presented cer tificates to 16 pupils completing the seventh grade. He also presented cer tificates to 83 pupils for their paral lel reading done during the term. Thirteen pupils re-reived perfect at tendance awards. Superintendent J. C. Manning, in a short talk, congratulated the people of the community for their interest in making the high school there a standard one. The school, for the first time in its history, graduated its first group of seniors, each of whom received standard credits recognized by the State system. Diplomas were awarded to the nine seniors by Principal A. E. Mercer. The senior play, scheduled for last week but postponed on account of ill ness, will be staged in the school audi torium there tomorrow evening. Class day exercises were held there last Thursday evening with the fol lowing taking part: Archie Coltrain, president; Veona Roberson, salutatorian, Estelle Lilley, class grumbler; Eva Gray Manning, class prophet; Felton Daniel, class historian; Robert Peel, poet; Mildred Roberson, giftorian, and Raleigh Har rington, class will. Albemarle Base Ball League Schedule Is Now Complete Meeting in - Edenton last night, of ficials of the Albemarle League ar ranged the schedule of play for the season. Windsor and Williamston are scheduled to open the season on the local diamond Tuesday, June 6. Edenton and Elizabeth City play at Elizabeth City that day and Ahoskie and Colerain meet at Colerain. A complete schedule will be maje public some time this week, Mr. Bill Spivey, manager of the local club, announced today. Complete arrangements for financ ing the local club and the appoint ment of permanent officers will be handled this week. A meeting will be held here next Friday evening when players are to be signed for the season. According to Mr. Spivey, several of the players of laat season will be back this year. Medical Meeting Is Held Here Last Friday Night An unusually interesting meeting of the second district Medical Society was held here last Friday night, with around 75 doctors from five counties attending. The visitors were enter tained by the Martin County society. Prominent physicians were here and took part in the program, which last ed well into the night. The paper* were very instructive and interesting, and the discussions were enjoyed. Announce Birth Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Rogerson an nounce the birth of a son in the Washington Hospital, Monday, May IS. 1933. PER CAPITA COST PUBLIC CHARGES IN COUNTY IS 67 c Martin Ranks Sixteenth in List of 53 Counties Reporting Martin County's per capita cost of maintaining the jail, county home, and county charities, or outside poor, was slightly over 67 cents in 1932, accord ing to information released this week through the University News Letter. This cost was divided as follows: 19.5 cents for upkeep of jail, 19 cents for county home, and 28.9 cents for coun ty poor, giving Martin County a rank of 16 among the list of 53 counties reporting their cost 9 for charities and corrections. Reports from the other 47 counties were not available. Judg ing from the reports available, Mar tin County would occupy about an av-' erage rank were the costs made known in the other counties. Halifax County spent 6.8 cents for jail, 18.6 for county home, and 31 cents for charity, a total of 56.4 cents per capita. Beaufort spent 11.4 cents for jail, 15.1 cents for county home, anil 21.2 cents for charity, a total cost of 47.7 cents pe rcapita. The per capita cost in Pitt was 45.1 cents, divided 47.7 cents per capita. The per capita ty home, and 25.4 cents for charity. Buncombe County with the high est per capita cost, $1.50, spent 22.5 for jail, 29 cents for county home, and 98,5 cents for charities. In connection with the Costs, the News Letter says: "It is interesting to note that the cost of operation of the jail varies from 6.1 cents per cap ita in Johnston County to 51.3 cents in Graham, and that the cost of coun ty home varies from 5.5 cents per capita in McDowell to 38.9 cent* in New Hanover. One would like to know the reason. We would also like to know \A\y Madison County is spending 4.8 cents per capita in out door relief and Guilford $1.05. Or why Graham and Swain are spend ing three times as much on all chari ties and corrections as their neighbor, Madison. Is one spending too much, or the ' other spending too little? These questions can not be answered, but they demonstrate very forcibly the need for more exact and illuminating accounting than now obtains in the courthouses of this state. STOCKHOLDERS IN ANNUAL MEET Martin County Warehouse Company Passes Its Annual Dividend Holding their annual meeting in the courthouse here last Friday afternoon, Martin County Warehouse stockhold ers elected their officers for the com ing year, appointed a rental commit tee, and passed up a dividend. Mr. E. P. Cunningham was reelected pres ident of the company and Mr. J. L. Coltrain was elected vice president. W. H. Carstarphen was named sec retary and treasurer. Directors in clude: Messrs. Lucian Hardison, J. E. King, G. H. Harrison, Joshua I-. Coltrain, C. O- Moore, N. C. Green, and R. J. Peel. A rental fee of S2OO charged the Willjamston Storage Company was approved, and Messrs. C. A. Harrison, J, E. King, and S. C. (griffin were named for the rental committee. Pros pecti for renting the house during the coming tob»cco season are said to be favorable. The company has all its taxes paid and current bills have been met to date, with a cash balance on hand. However, the amount was considered too small to declare a dividend this year, but it is hoped a fair return on the investment will be available nexj year. Positions with Government Open to Junior Pharmacists • - The United States Civil Service Commission will accept applications until May 23 for the positions of jun ior pharmacist and assistant pharma ceutic aide to fill vacancies in the United States Veterans' Administra tion and in the Publt; Health Service.! The entrance salary for junior phar macist is $2,000 a year, and for assist ant pharmaceutic aide $1,620 a year. The salaries named are subject to a deduction of not to exceed 15 per cent as a measure of economy, and a re tirement deduction of 3 1-2 per cent. Applicants must submit evidence that they are full-lkensed pharmacists, such license having been obtained as the remit of examination before a State Board of Pharmacy. Certain specified education and experience are also required. Full information may be obtianed from F. E. Wynne, secretary of the United *Statea Civil Service Board of Examiners, at the post office or cus tomhouse in thia city. Legislature Finishes Work Late Yesterday Afternoon LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS NAMED HERE MONDAY Eason Lilley, E. H. Ange and J. W. Eubanks Take Oaths of Office Holding their first meeting in sev eral months, the members of the Mar tin County Board of Education yester day appointed district school commit teemen and handled a number of rou tine matters, all the work of the body being of no great importance. Activi ties of the board will be limited td detail duties until the new school commission .surveys the field and hands down its orders. Messrs. Eason Lilley, J. W. Eu hanks and E. 11. Ange were sworn in as members of the board by Clerk of the Court K. J. Peel, Messrs. Lil ley and Ange starting four-year terms and Mr. tubanks entering upon a term of two years' duration. In addition to these new members there are the Messrs. J. T. Uarnhil! and \V. O. Grif-' fin on the board. Only a few district committeemen were appointed, action in other dis tricts pending instructions from Ra leigh. All appointments will be made just as soon as the school commis sion makes its report on areas of dis tricts. During the meantime all mem bers of the various committees whose terms have not expired will continue to function in so far as their activities meet with the approval of the state commission, it is understood. In oth er words, the election of teachers is subject to approval or disapproval, as the case may be, by the state authori ties. Committee appointments made yes terday are as follows: Dardens District: Mr. J. R knowles. Farm Lite District: VV. T. Ruber son. Williamston District: Dr. P. B Cone and Mr. K. L. Coburn. Lilley'* I lull District: Mr. S. J. Li I Icy. Koiiei >onville District: Messrs. Eli Rogers and S. T. Everett. Parmele District: Mr. J M. Dixon. Oak City District: Mr. Avery Smith. On lll** subject of litis year's cotton crop Mr. Brewer expressed die opin ion that the farmer is putting forth most intelligent production effort. The farmer is following the fertilization program he has found to he success, ful over the years In making Ins fertilizer investment the farmer is buying strictly on the basis of lowest risk and greatest economy, There is tremendous demand for natural chil By Mias LORA E. SLEEPER | ean nitrate. COUNTY HEALTH CONTEST SOON Ten Martin Club Girls Will Compete in Contest This Year Girls examined in the 4-H clubs in the county early in the spring will en ter their club contestants in the coun ty contest in the very near future. There are some very healthy looking contestants to enter the county health contest this year. "The girls who will compete in the contest will he Misses Alberta Keel, of Kveretts, Doris Teel, of Williamston, Ida Taylor Walters, of Williamston, Florine Moye, of Oak City, Doris Thomas, of Robersonville, Hazel Ward Koberson, of Roberson ville, (ilen Willoughby, of Hamilton, Selma Ange, of James villi-, and ldell Wells,"- of Jamesville, and (Catherine Griffin, of Farm Life, The county eliminations have been held for the past two years,in the county with high scorings each time on the county champion. The health program is in its infancy and many girls have become more interested in taking better care of themselves, cor recting defects in posture, bad eating habits, and other defects as a result of the health contest. All girls in the contest must be 14 years old. The doctors in Williamston have cooperat ed in this- work. The district contest will be held in Washington May 29, and the county contestants will en ter the district contest. Snake Is Found Coiled Up In Window During Service Rock Hill, S. C.—Preaching a ser mon while realizing that a huge snake, was coiled a few feet away is the unique eperience of the Rev. A. 11. Key, pastor of the Bethel Presby terian Church. Just as he began the services, the pastor noted the snake lying on a window sill just back of the pulpit. Fearing his congregation would be panicked by a sudden announcement of the snake's presence, he calmly proceeded with the full hour's serv ice although he was admittedly frightened. When the services were Over and the congregation had departed, the pastor killed the snake with a polcer. BANK HOLIDAY ) v j Mecklenburg Day, the anniver sary of the signing of the Meck lenburg Declaration of Independ ence, will be observed as a holi day by the Branch Banking and Trust Company here next Satur day. Cashier C. D. Garstarphen announced today. The document was signed on May 20, 1775. Other banking institutions throughout the State will also ob serve the day as a holiday, and big program commemorating the event will be arranged in the larg er cities, particularly in Charlotte, where North Carolinians register ed their objection for the first time to British rule. SAY FUTURE FOR COTTON FARMER IS ENCOURGAING Feeling Everywhere That 1933 Spells a Higher Price for Cotton Ten thousand, five hundred and seventy-two miles by automobile, throughout the cotton belt and every where the feeling that 1933 spells higher cotton priees and better timesl This is the bright prospect report ed recently by Herbert C. Brewer, di rector of the Chilean nitrate educa tional bureau. Mr Brewer has just completed a long trip. Driving alone in an old Chevrolet, Mr. Brewer visit ed every corner of the old South, talk ing with farmers, extension workers, newspaper editors, dealers and bank- "I found farmers buoyed with an optimistic feeling," Mr. Brewer as serted. "Improvement everywhere, that's the general outlook. The tar niers feel that the heralded 'new deal' really is a new deal, and that it promises better things to the man who farms. Higher prices and gen eral improvement are confidently ex pected. I lie belief that the worst is over, is widespread. 1 am impressed with the "new spirit I found wherever I went." "For years we have advertised Chilean nitrate of sode in the small newspapers of the South," lie declar ed. "\\ c have never made exaggerat ed claims. We simply tell the true advantage of Chilean nitrate, the fa> t that it is the world's only natural ni I rale and the only nitrate that con tains the vital 'impurities' such as iodine, boron, magnesium, calcium, potassium. 1 find on close, personal investigation that the importance of these facts are coming to l*e recogniz ed by liiany farmers wliL'h proves to me how closely your papers are read. "Our appeal to the farmer through the newspapers always- has been on the sound belief that truth in adver tising implies honesty In product and in dealings It is gratifying to see the degree to which this policy has won unfailing of >the far mer." Sale of Chilean nitrate, Mr. Hrewer reports, lias reached such volume al ready that the supply at the ports has been greatly reduced. New supplies are en route, however, and there is no prospect of a shortage. Dealer sup ples at present are adequate, but the way orders are being placed, dealers everywhere are urging their custo mers to arrange at once for their Chilean requirements to avoid pos sible delay and to make certain of the present low price which, today, is by far the lowest in all history. Episcopalians To Attend Meeting in New Bern On May 17 and 18 the Diocese of East Carolina will hold its annual convention at New Bern. This marks the fiftieth anniversary of the organi zation of the Diocese and will be ob served with a fitting program. Major Huske, of FayetteVille, will rea# a history of the Diocese, he being one of the few delegates now living who attended the first convention. The minister of the Church of the Advent, Rev. S. F. Moseley, and sev eral delegates from Williamston and from St. Martin's, Hamilton, will at tend. Watch the Label On Tow Paper Aa It. Carries the Data When Yoar Sabacripdoo Expire# ESTABLISHED 1898 LOWER TAXES ON PERSONAL AND REAL PROPERTY Sales Tax Will Probably Overshadow All Other Acts Passed by Body The North Carolina (leneral Assem bly quit Raleigh yesterday afternoon j»fter establishing a record for the largest number of bills ever intro duced in one sitting of that all-wise body. And from now tin the people of the St aft- will he wondering what it was all about. I.aw changes, varia tions in handling the schools, the col- lection of taxes ami other alterations will perplex the people of the Com monwealth from now on, and many, no doubt, will pass into jhe far beyond without ever knowing «hat the I*#33 legislature did and did not do Grad ually the work of the assembly will make itself felt in one way or anoth er. Probably the J per cent sales tax will lie reckoned as the one act that every one will know about and par ticularly so in the humble homes of the land. Ihe acts of the 1933 General As sembly will affect directly every citi zen of the State—particularly the gen eral sales tax which will become ef fective July 1. This departure in tax ation stands to overshadow all else done by the lawmakers in their long | -lay at Raleigh, eclipsing even the I realization of the, K months State school term, Revolutionary Acts Other revolutionary legislation al ready has become effective. Beer be came legal on May 1. Hanks are now operating under radical statutes en acted under the stress of the general bank holiday in early March Di vorces are being tiled under the two jjear separation statute which was sub istituted for the live-year statute that has been"qn the books for many years. | Important sequels to 'the session's .accomplishments soon will take the I limelight. Next November there is ,to he an election on repealing the ! eighteenth amendment The follow- ing November the people will vote on a biand new constitution. Shifts Tax Burden I axes in business and on incomes were increased while taxes on real and personal property were reduced thru the State taking ovei the •entire sup port of a uniform eight months school term. j The school situation will bring numerous sequels in elections over the State on supplementing State support for. the eiKfht months term aiVI on whether localities shall tax them selves for nine months terms. , The slate has been wiped cJe'ati "ex cept for the SIii,(NM),(KM) Stale fund. Units" wishing to spend more than their allotment from that must vote the taxes 011 themselves anew. Last Major Battle This school supplement problem was the last major battle of the legis lature Adjournment would have come last week had it not been neces- sary lor the Senate to remain over yesterday to pass on third reading the conference report putting hack into the hill the nine-months provision stricken by the Senate on its original passage there. In Raleigh, where consolidations and curtailments have been effected in State departments, and salaries cut by a third, the effects of tins Assembly will he felt heavily. In State institu- tions, whose appropriations were great ly reduced, readjustments must come. Great Public Interest In no assembly has tjiere been more public interest. Although it fell only nine days short of equaling the all-time record for length, the 1933 General Assembly was not the second longest. The legislature of 1868-69 lasted 135 days. This session there were 1,408 laws passed, as "compared with 1,206 last session There were 2,469 bills introduced this session. Last session the total was 2,10 K. One factor in the huge number of bills was the unprecedented number of measures repealing and amending laws passed at the same session. These measures took every known form, many of them being exemptions for particular counties from State wide measures. Women Auto Drivers Have Small Number of Accidents New York.—Although wmen make up nearly 24 percent of automobile drivers, they are responsible for less, than seven percent of accidents, ac cording to William Gottlieb, viiF president of the New York automo- ~ bile club.