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VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 23
BIG CROWD HERE
TOSEENEMARDO
HIS BLIND DRIVE
People Here Are Agreed
That His Trick Is a
Very Good One
Nemar, the mystery man from Au
stralia, attracted hundreds of people
here last Wednesday afternoon when
he drove a new Ford V-8 through the
streets while blindfolded. The attrac
tion started the town talking, some
declaring he could see through the
blindfold, and others declaring he
could not see through the half-dollars,
strips of adhesive tape, ahd cloth. And
while there is obliged to be some
trick to it, it is agreed that the trick
was a good one.
Starting from the Watts Theatre,
Nemar first drove to the top of the
river hill and turned his car around.
Returning, he stopped at the Virginia
Electric and Power Company office,
went in and found a carton of bulbs
and gave them to Mrs. C. R. Mob
ley. From there he went to Barn
hill Brothers, found a prize and de
livered it to Mrs. O. S. Anderson.
Finding a price at C. O. Moore's,
Nemar delivered it to John R. Rog
erson. He then went to the store of
B. F. Perry, found a prize and gave
it to Miss Mollie Smith wick.
Driving rapidly in traffic, he circled
the block and traveled ihack down
Main Street to Margolis Brothers
■tore, where he found another prize.
He gave that to Miss Thelma Har
retl. After turning around he drove
to Clark's Dug Store and found a
prize, which he gave to Miss Bland.
His last stop was at Davia Pharmacy,
where he delivered a box of candy to
Mr*. Bill Glover.
Before starting his drive he gave a
100-pound ice ticket to Mrs. A. L.
Roebuck.
Madame Nemar WM ill and could
not be here for the drive. The mys
tery man brought along a new asist
ant who admitted she did not know
how the man handled the car. It was
a shocking revelation to Charlie James
and Joe Gray Corey, occupants in the
car trailing the blindfolded driver,
when they learned that the assistant,
also a passenger in their car, had noth
ing to do with the driving of the
front car. Mr. Corey turned half way
around in his seat several times in an
effort to help Nemar make the first
one or two corners, but after that he
just rode ill at ease with Mr. James,
who centered his efforts on trying to
keep up with the driver of the front
car.
Nemar is driving in Greenville thia
afternoon.
MANY COUNTIES
IN ARREARS LIST
Martin County Has Paid
About One-half Amount
Due the State Fund
Less than half of the total of $4,-
451,661 assessed on the 15-cent State
wide ad valorem tax for schools for
1932, has been paid into tha State
treasury so far, according to report
made public this week by Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson. And collections
for the period are more than one-half
million dollars less than they were
for the receding period.
Five counties, Hertford, Tyrrell,
Burke, Chatham, and Davidson, have 1
paid nothing on 1932 taxes collected
under the 15-cent State school sup
port provision. The report also
states that several counties have failed
to turn over money collected, and
that in those cases pressure will be
brought to have the counties pay.
Martin County has paid just about
one-half the amount assessed against
her for the support of the schools, lo
cal authorities stating that turn-overa
have been made regularly and are up
to date. Of the $23,731 supposed to
have been raised under the 15-cent
provision, this county has paid sll,-
613.95 into the State treasury.
Large Tobacco Crop Is
Forecasted in Georgia
A recent survey of the sise of the
tobacco crop in parts of Georgia thia
year indicates one of the largest acre
agea ever planted there to the crop.
The Vaidosta (Ca.) Times says
f there are new barns being erected
V and old ones are being repaired in
many instances. Despite the acreage
increase, the Times quotes fanners as
saying they expect better prices for
their crop than those received last
season.
Tobacco transplanting is complete
Hi this section, and the crop ia off to
an early start, reports indicating that
the anticipated acreage is now • real
ity. Blue mold resulted in much
damage to beds and attacked plants
ia a few fields, but the obstacle was
overcome, and now a full acreage is
growing. The size of the crop ia now
up to the seasons.
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THE ENTERPRISE
I LEAVE MONDAY I
iV j
Forty young Martin County
men will leave here Monday
morning a boat 8 o'clock for Eden
ton, where 36 of them will enter
the civilian forestry work. The
other 4 are substitutes. It is not
known whfe the boys will go
from there, probably to a camp in
the Smoky Mountain near Ashe
ville or some point in Virginia.
The young men are taking local
examinations today and the appli
cants will go to Edenton, where
other examinations will be held.
Young men from several other
counties in this section will alio
meet in Edenton Monday.
165 PUPILS HERE
jATTENDED EACH
;DAY OF SCHOOL
Ben Manning Establishes a
Unique Record During
Past Eight Years
Through rain and snow, warm
weather and cold weather, sixty-five
pupils reported for work every day in
the local schools during the 1932-33
term recently closed. It was the eighth
year that Ben Manning scored a per
fect record, and Sallie Gray Gurkin
was next in line with a five-year rec
ord.
The names of the pupils signally
honored are:
Grade 1; None.
Grade 2: Beatrice Cherry, Hurley
Shaw, jr., Jimmy Manning.
Grade 3: Reginald Griffin, Garland
Hardison, Wendell Gardner.
Grade 4: Jerry Manning, Joseph
Thigpen, Bennie Godwin.
, Grade 5: Julian Jackson, Sam Mob
ley, Delsie Godar'd, Sallie Gray Gur
kin, Lily Bell Hardison, Helen Linds
ley, Janie I). Newton, Carolina Stalls,
Ellen M. Coburn, Thelma JMfczell,
Everett Matthews.
Grade 6: Buck Holloman, Reg Man
ning, James Mendenhall, John Ward,
jr., Thelma Griffin, Nora Grimes, Ma
rii Pwnr, ' ■"
'Grade 7: Carlyle Hall, Ray Good
mon, Ltland Hardison, George L.
Roberson, Elva Mae Mishoe, Helen
Shaw, Bruce ~Chesson, jr., Wesley
Hardison, C. B. Rogerson, Lena Mac
Glenn, Roland Lilley,
Grade 8: Marie Griffin, Marjorie
Lindsley, Tbad Harrison, Ben Man.
ning.
Grade 9: J. D. Bowen, Vernon God
win, jr., Billy Griffin, Lawrence Linds
ley, John Pope, jr., Harry Taylor,
Exum Ward, jr., Alta Critter, Eula
Green, Ruth Jenkini.
Grade 10: Lavinia Lilley, Wheeler
Martin, jr., Shelbon Hall, Jack Man
ning, Dora Ballard, Elsie Mae Jack
son, Christine Manning.
Grade 11: Irvin Griffin, Davis Har
rison, Woodrow T»:e, Herbert Whit
ley, Louise \Green, Jennie Green Tay
lor.
BEGIN REVIVAL
HERE MONDAY
Rev. John Goff To Preach
at the Christian Church
Beginning Monday
Rev. John L. Goff will start a se
ries of evangelistic services in the lo
cal Christian church next Monday
night at 8 o'clock. The meeting will
continue for one week.
Rev. Mr. Goff, prominent minister
in the Christian church, is held in
high esteem by the people of New
Bern, where he has lived and preach
ed during the past several years.
The church hopes for a meeting that
will be helpful to the community and
asks the cooperation and presence of
all people in the community.
Local School Board Holds
Its Organization Meeting
The Williamston school committee
held • meeting here last night, when
an organization of the body was per
fected with Robert L. Coburn, chair
man. No other official business was
handled at the meeting last night, but
the election of teachers will be con
sidered some time next week, it was
Jearned this morning from Member
C. B. Clark. «
Curb Market To Offer
Better Quality Eggs
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Anegg scale has been purchased for
use on the curb market here, Miss
Lora E. Sleeper, home agent, stating
this morqing that market patrons will
be assured better quality eggs in the
near future. ,
Prices in effect on the market to
morrow :
Cabbage, 2 cents pound; garder
peas 2c pound; carrots, 3c.pound
beets 3c bunch; butter, 25c pound
and strawberries, & quart
Wiltiamston, Martin County, North Carotin*, Friday, May 19,1933
JUDGE WINSTON
RECALLS OLD
DAYS IN COUNTY
Makes Commencement Ad
dresses In Two Martin
Schools Last Week
By FRANCIS D. WINSTON
Last week it was my happy fortune
to renew memories of my first visits
to Martin County; and to let pass in
glad review the thousands of faces
I have known and the scores of places
I have visited.
When my father, Patrick Henry
Winston, commenced practicing law
in 1846, Martin was one of the "from
home" counties he practiced in.
Around our family fireside the peo
ple of Martin were daily recalled and
their friendahip highly prized.
My first visit to the grand old coun
ty was after the election in 1874, when
I attended a great celebration in Sher
rods Grove, where the Democrats
were rejoicing over the election of
Major Jesse Yeates to Congress and
carrying the county Democratic. East
ern North Carolina was there by the
thousands. Great speeches, magnifi
cent dinner, fighting Democrats, fur
nished a program I have never seen
equalled. I went there by way of
Taylor's—now called Coke's—Ferry.
My second visit to the county was
in June, 187S, when, as a reporter for
the ,AFbemarle Times, in
Windsor, 1 attended and reported the
Democratic county convention held in
Williamston which nominated Mr. Jo
seph Waldo as a candidate for the ap
proaching constitutional
Then the names Goose Nest, Griffins
and Bear Grass were planted in my
memory.
Judge Waldo retired as a candidate
and the County Executive Committee
named Rev. Cushing Biggs Hassell in
his place: Under his stirring elo
quence and greatly beloved life and
character our party victory was com
plete. The Albemarle Times was the
Democratic party organ in this north
eastern section.
Mr. Hassell was a powerful f»~'tor
in that great convention, reorganizing
our laws and ridding North Carolina
of the "carpetbaggers and scalawags."
In March, 1881, I Was sworn in as
a lawyer in Martin County court, pre
sided over by Justices Waldo, Biggs,
and Peele. I was presented to the
court by my old college mate, W. Z.
Morton. My friend of a life time,
Harry Stubbs, was solicitor of that
court for years. The old court stood
near Tom Cook's home.
I followed my father and practiced
in the Martin courts.
On Tuesday night of last week I
the commencement speaker at
the Oak City school. It was mighty
near the same "old Goose Nest spirit"
to me. As the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Worsley, I was stirred by an
other chain of happy memories.
I attended Horner and Graves Mil
itary Academy at Oxford, 1871-73. A
fellow-student there was Nathan Mayo
Worsley, of Edgecombe. He married
and settled in Martin, where in lived
in good repute and in high respect
and esteem of all.
In passing the old "Kep" Brown
place, 1 recalled his two half-brothers,
George and Abner Brown. They, too,
were my schoolmate* at Henderson.
I hold them in loving memory. Their
"Jacky" Stone, was clerk
in Robertson's Drug Store in Chapel
Hill. Dr. Robertson married his
daughter. He and I for many an hour
have dwelled on Martin County and
her worthies.
The "Jim" Sherrod place in Hamil
ton also recalls that Jack Sherrod was
my Horner School much-loved com
panion and life-long friend. As I
passed through Hamilton my mind
wandered toward Palmyra, and the
names of the Williams, the Everetts,
Eborns, Spruills, Hymans, and Cokes,
and others of that solid and useful
citizenship, than which the state had
no superior.
Another of my dearest friends lived
in Hamilton. His earlier years were
spent in Williamston. He is now an
invalid and lives in Henderson. Than
Charles G. Lamb I never knew a
purer and sweeter-spirited man. I
went with him to Scotland Neck,
where he married my Hyman cousin.
I have no name in my memory that
touches sweeter chords than hit.
Permit me to pay tribute to Prof.
If. M. Ainsley and his excellent fac-
(Continued on page four)
Rev. Mr. Dickey Returns
To His Pulpit Sunday
Regular preaching services will be
held in the local Baptist church both
morning and evening, it was an
nounced yesterday by . Rev. Charles H.
Dickey, who will return from a two
weeks trip to Georgia and Western
Carolina in time to occupy the pulpit
for the two services.
Sunday school will convene at the
usual hour, and other religious activ
ities will be held according to the old
schedule.
TEN CASES ARE
TRIED IN COUNTY
COURT TUESDAY
Sizeable Amount Collected
In Fines; Several Road
Sentences Meted Out
~ Several substantial fines -were levied
and one or two sizeable road sentences
were imposed by Judge H. O. Peel
in the county court here last Tues
day when 10 cases were called.
Jesse Rogers was fined sls and
taxed with the costs in the case charg
ing him with the illegal possession of
liquor.
Prayer for judgment was continued
in the case charging Junior Wynn and
J. D. Kiddick with an assault with a
deadly weapon. Herbert Page, a de
fendant in the same case, was sen
tenced to the roads for a period of
60 days, the term to start June 19.
Henry Salsbury and Kelly Salsbury
were found not guilty in the case in
which they were charged with lar
ceny.
Paul Jones, convicted in the case
charging him with an assault with a
deadly weapon, was sentenced to the
roads for a period of 18 months.
H. E. Tarkenton was fined $65 and
taxed with the costs in the case charg
ing him with operating a car while
intoxicated. His license to operate a
car on the highways of the State was
revoked for a period of six months.
Herbert Page and Lester Terry
were bound over to the superior court
for trial in a larceny and receiving
case. Earl Mary and Wilsey Man
ning, alleged to have had a part in
the stealing of a i)umber of hams
from Mary's father, were found not
guilty.
In another case Mary was found
guilty of larceny and was sentenced
to the roads for three months. The
Manning boy, also a defendant in the
cake, was found not guilty.
Mary was found guilty in a third
case charging him with carrying a
concealed weapon. He was sentenced
to the roads for three months in that
case.
Adjudged Nguilty of operating an au
tomobile whHs intoxicated, Herbert
Page was sentenced to the roads for
a period of four months, the term to
begin June 19.
Judgment was suspended in the case
charging Jesse Leary with being drunk
and disorderly. The suspension being
made upon the condition that the de
fendant pay the cost of the actionl
NEW FARM ACT
MAY RELIEVE
DEBT ON FARMS
Relief Bill Will Aid 400,000
Farmers Owing More
Than Billion Dollars
Title eleven of the new farm relief
bill contains provisions that will aid
the nearly 400,000 farmers who have
loans aggregating more than one bil
lion dollars with the twelve Federal
land banks of the United States.
According to information supplied
the Fxtension Servke of State Col
lege by the chairman of the Federal
Farm Board, Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,]
in 60 days after the approval of the 1
Act by President Roosevelt, the in
terest rate on all these mortgages
will be reduced to 4 1-2 per cent. Bor
rowers are now paying between 5 and
6 percent. The new rate of interest
must remain in force for five years.
Then too, the act provides that
paymenti on the principal of the
loans shall not be required for a
period of five years if the mortgage
is otherwise kept in good standing.
Heretofore, the landbank mortgages
have required payment* annually or
semi-annually on the principal in ad
dition on the unpaid balance. The
banks are given authority to post
pone payments on the principal for
the next five years and also to post
pone payments on the interest if the
farmer is unable to meet such pay
ments.
Then, these farmers who do not
have (heir loans with the land banks
but have secured them from private
parties and organizations, may have|
their mortgages taken over by the
land banks and share in the same
benefits as those men who have bor
rowed from the land banks originally.
This will apply where the place is in I
danger of being lost through fore
closure. In this case the person
holding the mortgage must help.
A farmer may also apply for a first
mortgage from the land bank if his
loan ii due and payable and he can
not meet the payment. He may also
redeem land that has been sold and
secure funda for putting the place on
■ sound basis again. County farm
agents are instructed to farmers
in learning the details of these new
plans.
Smilh Says Spec
Not Eliminated
Explaining his amendment to
the school bill, Representative J.
C. Smith this week said that the
agricultural department in the
Jamesville school and the com
mercial coursea in the Roberaon
ville school were not affected by
the act, that they would be con
tinued. He pointed out that hit
amendment made imposaible a
ninth month of school and supple
ments to teachers' salaries in this
county.
No copy of the bill has been re
ceived here so far, and it ia next
to imposaible to learn what the
legislature did during its lonjf stay
HONOR ROLLS AT
LOCAL SCHOOLS
FOR PAST MONTH
Ben Manning Makes Roll
Each Month During the
Past Eight Years
One hundred and seventeen chil
dren literally stuck by their guns in
the local schools up until the last shot
was fired and their names appear on
the honor roll for the eighth and last
month of the term. Many of the
names have appeared regularly each
month during the term; many others
probably would have appeared but for
the outside attractions and indiffer
ence to school work.
There were a number of students in
the ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade*
entitled to be included in the honor
list, but due to the illness of Miss Van
Dyke, one of the high school-teachers,
records for these grades are incom
plete, and for that reason no honor
roll was prepared for the three high
est classes.
Ben Manning, young son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Manning, adds to a rec
ord heretofore unheard of in the lo
cal schools and not often anywhere
in the world. He completed the
eighth grade without being absent ot
tardy during his school career. And
his name has appeared on the honor
roll every month during all those
eight years.
Sallie (iray Ciurkin is out for a rec
ord of her own. During her five
years in school she has not missed a
day.
The list of honor pupils for the
eighth month:
tirade 1-A: Don Dixon, Leroy God
ard, Fred Hardison, Richard Margolin,
Burke Parker, Collin Peel, Luther
Peel, Jerry Radnor, Jimniie Ward,
Betsy Anderson, Helen Godrad,
Courtney Jenkins, Lenora Melson.
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Grade I B: Lillie M. Lee, Dora
Cherry, Clarence Pate, Burkley Nich
olson.
Grade 2-A: Jim Critcher, Joseptt
Gurganus, Bill Griffin, Franklin Lil
ley, Jimmy l.eggette, Jimmy Manning,
Hurley Shaw, Benny Weaver, Milly
Biggs, Evelyn Griffin, Hetty Gur
ganus, Patsy King, Vclma Perry,
Mary O'Neal Pope, Madeline Taylor,
Mary Warren, Dorothy Watson.
Grade 2-B: Gordon Howell, Thelnia
Lowe,. Daisy Manning, Sallie Wil
liams, Lillie Marriner, Daisy Kober
son.
Grade .3-A: Sybil Koberson, Elira
beth Parker, Mildred Moore, Grace
Manning, Mary L. Manning, Bina
Jackson, Carrie Jones, Bettie Hoard,
Dolly Godard, Susie Griffin, Mary A.
Cherry, F.dith Andrews, Charles Col
train, Thomas Walters, Garland
Wynne, Haywood Rogers, S. C. Grif
fin.
Grade 3-B: Sallie B. Griffin, George
Wynne, Kathleen Nicholson.
Grade 4-A: Nina Bland, Katherine
Manning, Esther Rawls, Anita Wheel
ess, Arthur Anderson, Martin Ander
son, Stuart Critcher, T. J Hardison,
Warren Jones, Jerry Manning, Ray
mond Rawls, Joseph Thigpen, Dale
Wagner, Jimmie Watts.
Grade 4-B: Fate Roebuck, jr., Luth
er Jones.
Grade S-A: Sallie G. Gurkin, Del
sie Godard, Bernice Cowen, Eleanor
Taylor, Virgil Ward, Doris Moore,
Louise Melion, Glbert Peele, jr., Gor
don Manning, Jerry Clark.
Grade 5-B: Doris Andrews. •
Grade 6-A: Keg Manning, James
Mendenhall, Jack Saunders, Grace
Barnhill, Dorothy Coltrain, Alma God
win, Thelma Griffin, Nora Grimes, Ida
Walters, Bcrnice Ward, Pauline White
Cottie M. Wynne.
Grade 7-A: Charles Dickey, Pete
Egan, Carlyle Hall, Whit Purvis, E.
G. Wynn, Veltna Bennett, Julia Ev
erett, Addie L. Meador, Surretha
Peaks, Helen Shaw, Jennie Straw
bridge, Lois Taylor, Frances Cherry,
Dollie M. Wheeler.
Grade 7-B: Myrtle Lee.
Grade 8: Marie Griffin, Ben Man
ning, Clayton Moore, jr.
Grades 9, 10, 11: Records not com
plete due to illness of Miss. Annie S.
Van Dyke. .
in Raleigh. Aa the achool bill
was understood here, the two de
partments, as well as everything
else supported by other than the
State, were abolished.
Mr. Smith's ejypifcnation will
be readily received and welcomed
throughout the county, and par
ticularly in those communitiea di
rectly affected. It is estimated
that a levy of 2 cents will care
for the cost of each department,
the local districts sharing about
60 per cent of the coat, and the
State and Federal governments
supporting the remaining 40 per
cent.
WELFARE LIST
GROWS SMALLER
IN THIS COUNTY
Total of 515 People Given
Aid in This County
Last Month
Eleven and five-tenths of Martin
County's population* received aid from
welfare organizations during the past
month, as compared with IK per cent
the month before, it was learned here
today. The actual number of Martin
people receiving aid dropped from
780 in March to 515 in April.
Many welfare dependents are now
turning to agricultural tasks in this
County, and* others are beginning to
scratch their daily food from the gar
dens promoted under the relief sys
tem.
Further economic improvements are
indicated in the percentage of North
Carolina individuals who are depend
ent upon rplief, according to statistics
given out today by the Governor's Of
fice of Relief. During the month of
March, 81V,164 individuals were aided
as compared with 695,365 in April, a
decrease from 25 per cent of the entire
population to a little more than «JI
per cent.
These figures are computed on the
basis of 5 persons to the family, plus
the number of non-family persons aid
ed. During April I.JH.OJI families
were aided and 7,8f>8 non-family per
sons during March, a decrease of a
bout 16 per .cent.
The-percentage of destitution in the
various counties show a similar de
cline, there being a decrease in all hut
22 of the counties. Stanley continues
to lead all counties with the smallest
percentage of destitute persons, its re
lief Joad id 111.1 being
only 3,7 per cent of its population,
1 his percentage is also a decrease over
the previous month, which was 6.4
per cent. Stanly js and has heen
throughout the entire winter the ban
ner county of the stale, in so far as
destitute individuals is concerned. It
has led continuously in percentage
figures.
Even during April, there were two
counties, Tyrrell and ( lay, with per
centages above 50, There were five
such counties in March.
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Dr. W. I. Hand Expected
To Preach Here Sunday
Sunday, May 21st, 1«>33:
Church school at 9:45 a. m.
Worship service and sermon at 11
a. lit. (It is hoped that I)r W. I.
Hand, of New Hern, will be at this
service to tell about the orphanage
at Barium Springs).
Bear Grass
Church school at 9:30 a. in.
Worship service and sermon at 8
p in.
Roberson's Chapel
Church school at 3:30 p. ni.
Ballard's Farm
Church school at 1:30 p. m.
Prison Camp
Services at 3:30 p. in by Rev. Hill.
Two Services at Church of
the Advent Here Sunday
I here will be both morning and
evening services in the Church of the
Advent this Sunday. The subject of
the morning .sermon is: "Giving Life
To the Church." In the evening, the
subject is: "The Obstacle To Our
Entrance Into the Kingdom."
The hour for the afternoon service
at the Holy Trinity Mission, near
Bear Grass, has been changed from
3 to 4 o'clock.
New Cases of Whooping
Cough Are Reported Here
Whooping cough continues to
spread, two additional cases having
been reported yesterday with the
prospect that many more are in the
making..
As far as it can be learned the
cough is confined to this community
and mostly among white children.
One or two adults are said to have
developed the Cough recently.
Watch tha L«b«l On Yoar
P«P*r As It. Carriaa th. Data
Whan Yoar Subscription Kzpiraa
ESTABLISHED 1898
COST OF COUNTY
GOVERNMENT IS
$1.31 PER CAPITA
Martin Commissioners Get
Less Than Any Others
In North Carolina
The cost of government in Martin
County for the fiscal year 1931-32 was
approximately |30,700, or 01.31 for
each man, woman, and child, accord
ing to a report released a few days
ago by the University of North Car
olina Extension Division in connec
tion with the cost of government in
53 counties.
It cost each man, woman, and child
in the .county 2.7 cents to pay the
commissioners and offset their ex
penses ip conducting the affairs of the
county. It cost far'niore than that
amount for the individual to visit the
polls and vote for the commissioners.
Nearly 10 cents per capita was. spent
to maintain the county courthouse and
jail during the period. Accounting
costs, including books anil other office
supplies, amounted to a fraction over
10 cents for each person. Tax-listing
costs amounted to exactly 17 cents
per capita, the amount reflecting ex
pensive scroll books and abstracts
more than it does the actual money
paid the list-takers.
The largest cost was tliot for courts
and law enforcement. The operation
of the courts and enforcement of the
laws cost 92 1-2 cents per capita dur
ing the period
To wperate their governments dur
ing the same period, Beaufort Coun
ty spent $36,462.06; Pitt spent $56,-
91(1.97; an.l Bertie $27,653.08. The
court costs in these three counties
were from 22 to 34 cents below court
costs in this cou.ifty Martin paid its
county commissioners less and han
dled its accounting cheaper than did
any of the neighboring counties. The
hoard of county commissioners func
tioned at a smaller cost than any-other
board in the state.
METHODISTS TO
HAVE REVIVAL
Plan To Start the Series of
Services in Local Church
Week After Next
By Rev. C. T. ROGERS
We are very fortunate in being able
to get Rev. K. J. Rees, of Washing
ton, to conduct our revival beginning
Monday evening. May 29, at 8 o'-
clock. We are also very fortunate in
having our meeting to follow the one
at the Christian church. .
Rev. Mr Rees is a pastor-evange
list, a power in the pulpit, running
over with spiritual enthusiasm. You
are going to enjoy these services., and
all are invited.
Sunday school, 9:45 a. in.
Church services at 9:45 a in. and
8 p. m.
Union meeting of Epworth League
zone Monday at 8 p. in.
Holly Springs
Sunday school. 10 a. m.
Church services, 3:30 p. in
Kpworth League Friday, 8 p. in.
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Presbyterians Start Daily
Bible School Here Monday
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Beginning Monday morning at 9 a.
ni., the children of this community
between the ages of 3 and 15 will gath
er each morning at Roberson's Chapel
for the Bible school. Instruction will
be from 9 to 11:30 a m. each morn
ing.
(.'lasses will be taught in music,
Bible, memory work, handwork, etc.
There will be a period for recess—at
which time a number of games will
be played anil enjoyed by all. There
will be an opening and closing period
of worship. The children will be di
vided into classes according to ages.
Teachers in I lie various classes will
be Z. T. Piephoff, Mrs. Z. T. Piep
hoff, Mrs. Wilbur Anderton, Mrs. J.
H. Koberson, Mrs. Lewis Wallace,
Miss Sarah Koberson, Miss Kuth Tay
lor, Miss Katherine Hardison, Mr. J.
I.ayton Mauze, jr., and a number of
others. The schoool will run for two
weeks and will come to a close on
Friday night at 8 p. m. June 2, with
a commencement program.
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Dawse Griffin Suffers Three
Broken Ribs in Car Wreck
Dawse Griffin, Griffins Township
farmer, suffered several broken ribs
and other injuries in an automobile
wreck at Washington last Wednes
day morning. Marion Lilley, driver
of the car, and Bob W. Perry, a pas
senger, escaped uninjured. Mr. Grif
fin was entered in the hospital, but
remained there only a short time, re
turning to his home, where he con
tinues in bed.
The car, a model A Ford, collided
with a truck driven by M»ck Moore,
of Greenville.
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