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VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 29
TO PROSECUTE
VIOLATORS OF
SANITARY LAWS
Town Authorities Order a
Survey of Conditions
By the Police
In addition to the anti-typhoid
fever planned by Martin County
health officials, local town authori
ties are completing arrangements for
a supplementary drive for better
health conditions here. According
to reports, the local authorities have
many unfavorable health conditions
to remedy, particularly those condi
tions coming under the sanitary laws.
Mayor John L. Hassell, heading the
drive under ordinances pasted by the
town board of commissioners, is di-
reeling a complete survey of condi
tion*. Chief Daniel has been ordered
to strictly enforce the law where
gross violations have been reported.
The fly menace, probably worse
this year than in several years past,
has not received direct attention as
yet, but it is the plan of the authori
ties to have all stables inspected to
see that the owners remove manure
and destroy breeding places for flies
regularly.
It is not the desire of the town
officials to molest the people, but
where the public health is endanger
ed by the carelessness and negligence
of some it will be the policy of the
police to urge remedies. If instruc
tions are not obeyed, prosecution is
to be resorted to, it was said
The attention of property owners
is called to fautly roof drains and old
tin cans, for in those places mosqui
toes breed by the millions. The town
street department continues to make
regular visits to all parts of the town
with its trtscks, removing all trash
raked from lots. However, the serv
ice is often ignored and tha property
owners permit old tin cans and the
trash to accumulate, threatenting the
health and welfare of all.
HOLD EXAM FOR
FEDERAL JOB
Gatherer Cotton Statistics
.Wanted in this County
By Government
The U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C., will, until June tl,
receive applications for the job of col
lector of cotton statistics in Martin
County, it was learned from F. E.
Wynn at the local post office yester
day. Those wishing to apply for the
job are directed to write the Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D.
C. t for application blanks.
The job in this county provides a
•Alary of $142 annually, subject to a
15 per cent reduction. The success
ful applicant will be required to col
lect cotton statistics from the several
gina in the county at stated inter
val*. Examinations for the job will
be held here at a date to be ahuounced
later.
Applicants must have had, within
tht past five years, at least two years'
experience in growing or ginning cot
ton or manufacturing cotton goods.
In view of the fact that the duties re
quire personal contact and coopera
tion with all y>tton ginneries, :otton
consuming establishments, and public 1
storehouses in the district, applications
will not be accepted from persons who'
during the year next preceding the
cloaing date for the receipt of appli
cations, have been engaged in any ca
pnaty in the ownership or operation
of i cotton ginnery, cotton mill, or
cotton oil mill, or in the busineas of
buying and selling cotton or cotton
seed.
further information applicants
arc directed to F. E. Wynn at the
Williamston post office.
Schedule of Services at the
Local Methodist Church
C. T. Rogers, Pastor
Church cervices begin promptly at
10:30 a. m. An early *tart help* the*e
hot morning*. Sunday school at 9:45
and *tart* on the minute. — 1
Epworth League, Monday evening
at I o'clock.
You are cordially iuvited to meet
with us.
M. D. Watts Returns Home
from Government Hospitjd
Mr. Maurice D. Watts, a patient in
the Walter Reed hoapital, Washing
ton, D. C., during the past several
months, has recovered sufficiently to
return to his home here. Mr. Watts
ia looking very well and plana to re
turn to his duties in the Post Office
Department some time about the 15th
of this month.
Plennie Wingo, Fort Worth (Te.)
man, recently completed the unique
feat of traveling around the world
wolking backward. . ____
THE ENTERPRISE
Allotment for
Smallest in Several Months
Martin County «u allotted $3,-
060 by the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corporation this month to
carry on its relief work, the a
mount being the smallest allowed
this county since the work was
started on a large scale several
months ago.
Relief activities have been great
ly curtailed in this county dur
ing the past few days, authori
ties advising the needy when they
are physically able to do so to
seek employment in the fields.
The money alloted this county for
the month will be used to a great
extent in preparing a canning
campaign for the preservation of
Local Warehouses
Leased for Season
NOT SO CRAZY 1
Mack Joyner, alleged era*y man
from Qoose Neat Township, al
most proved himaelf sane while
waiting in jail for delivery to the
Goldaboro hospital this week. Dur
ing Tuesday afternoon and Wed
nesday, thoae two hot days, thsj
colored man tore his clothes from
hia body and threw them out the
window. Jailer Roy Peel found
an old ahirt and a pair of over
alla and had him dreaa again on
Wednesday, but Joyner again
bared himaelf to escape the heat
of his cell. Yesterday morning,
Deputy Crimea carried the man
to Ooldaboro.
WIN AT WINDSOR;
TIE AT COLERAIN
Admit Ladies Free at Next
- Tuesday Game With
Elizabeth City
Williamston at the end of the third
games in the Albemarle league, con
tinued its hold on first place with a
victory percentage of 1,000. Ahoskie
was next with two victories and one
loss.
| -Close scores featured all three of
the games played by the locals, 1-run
margins determining victories in the
first two games, while the third was
tied at 4-all after the tenth frame
j with Williamston playing at Colerain
yesterday. The mercury was soaring
lat such levels that both teams agreed
to quit at the end of that inning. The
game will be played off on a Satur
day, the date to be announced later.
I Cherry worked for the locals on the
mound, allowing only 5 hits, one a
home run by Cofield with one man on
j base.
| Kugler yielded 9 hits to hold Wind
sor to the close score of 10 to 9 at
| Windsor Wednesday afternoon. Us
ale connected for four hits out of as
many tries, two singles, a double and
a triple. Latham smacked 'out two
three-baggers.
Colerain plays here this afternoon
at 4 o'clock, and next Tuesday is la
dies' day here, Eliaabeth City furnish
ing the opposition. Herring is sched
uled to perform this afternoon, and
Cherry will likely start here Tuesday.
SPELLING TEST
AT KIWANIS CLUB
Club Member* Are Proved
Exceptionally Poor
Spellers
Williamston's Kiwanis Club mem
ber* were proven exceptionally poor
speller* last Wednesday when Mem
ber R. H. Goodman, chairman of the
program committee for the day, hid
behind the ole schoolaster's hood and
i a ' ew words, the letter ar
rangement of which is admittedly dif
ficult to determine. Of the ten
word*, two of the smart boys miated
them all. Several spelled only ' two
correctly. One or two ipelled a*
many a* four or six accidentally or in
one way or another. The highest
icore war eight out of ten.
The ten word*: Woolly, naphtha,
kimono, liquefy, paraffin, s»:rilegious,
battalion, rarefy, separate, vacuum.
WHERE THEY PLAY )
PRIDAY, JUNE 9
Cole rain at WDliamston.
Elisabeth City at Ahoakte.
Windsor at Bdenton.
TUESDAY, JUNE II
Elisabeth City at WiUiamaton.
Caterain at Windsor.
Ahoekte at Bdenton.
Willimmston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 9,1933
v vegetables and fruits for use a
mong the needy next fall and win
ter.
The total requested for the
month was reduced by approxi
mately 13 per cent in the grant
awarded. Reports from all sec
tions of the State indicate conaid
erable improvement in employ
ment, ■ and it is anticipated that
funds made available will be suf
ficient to meet necessary reli«|f
needs. It is probable that relief
needs for June will be nearly 20
per cent under needs for May.
A total of 9651,300 will be avail
able for the State during the
month.
SAME FIRMS AS
LAST YEAR AT
SAME HOUSES
Prospects Bright for a Very
Successful Season
This Year
Final arrangements for operating
Williamston's three warehouses were
completed here last night when Messrs
A. M. Perry and Jake Berger leased
the Planters (Brick) Warehouse for
the season. Messrs. Leman Barnhill
and W. R. Ingram will again be at the
Farmers Warehouse, and Messrs. S.
Claude Griffin and Joe Taylor will
continue operation of the Roanoko-
Dixie house this coming season.
All three of these firms operated the
houses last season, and the announce
ment of their :eturn will be readily
received throughout this territory.
The several operators return to the
market this season with a more de
termined effort than ever before to
make the coming season one of the
most successful ever experienced here.
And they are better prepared than
ever before to handle the duties be
fore them. The several proprietors
will soon select their personnel and
put everything in ship shape for the
opening the latter part of August or
early September.
No prices as high as those of 1918
and 1919 are even expected, hut pros
pects are brighter for a better season
this year than in several. There is
a better spirit prevailing and a higher
hope exists among farmers and'others
at this time than has been the case in
many months past, despite continued
depressed times all are new exper
iencing.
Williamston bids well for a very
successful season this year, and every
effort will be made to advance the
interest of the market's patrons next
fall.
Small Child Died Near
Here Last Tuesday Night
Susan, the five-months-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Jones, died
at the home of her parents, near here
on the Hamilton Road, last Tuesday
night following a short illness. Co
litis was given as the cause of her
death, although her condition was not
considered serious until only a few
hours before her death. Tuesday
morning, Mrs. Jones was working
outside the home and when she re
turned the baby was considerably
worse.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon, and inter
ment was made in the Mobley ceme
tery, near Bear Grata.
Miss Bessie Is Now In
Charge Summer School
Miss Bessie Willis," of New Bern,
a teacher in the local high school dur.
ing the past two terms, is now in
charge of the summer school now un
derway here. Professor W. R. Wat
son turned the school over to Miss
Willis this week, as he plans to leave
for South Carolina within the neat
day or two.
There are about 14 pupils taking
special work offered in the school.
Ships Two Carloads Hogs
To Market in Richmond
J. G. Staton, large scale farmer in
this and Washington County, ship
ped two carloads of hogs to the
Richmond market this week, receiv
ing an avearge of five cents a pound.
The market was said to have been
weak the day Mr. Staton sold, but
the prices received were slightly high
er than .those paid him for a number
of swine sold on the same market
some time ago.
WILLIAMSTON
WINS OPENER
FROM WINDSOR
Herring Fans Many Men to
Feature Play of First
Game in League
With Herring on the mound, Wil
liamston won the opening game in
the Albemarle League from Windsor
on the local high school diamond last
Tuesday afternoon by a score of 5 to
4. Unusually high temperatures had
their effect, but the players adjusted
themselves after the first two or three
innings and played good ball.
The several hundred fans, swelter
ing in the heat of old Sol, saw the
first Windsor batter hit safely for one
base. A sacrifice sent the
second, and a clean hit scored tljyhrst
run of the game. Latham caught a
hard foul for a second out, and Her
ing retired the side when he picked
up a grounder and sent it to first.
Williamston duplicated the scoring
order at its turn to the bat. Earp
made a clean hit for three bases and
scored on Latham's hit. During the
meantime, Gaylord was out on a fly
to centerfield. Latham went to sec
ond when Brake, the mighty man
with the stick that day, was walked.
Lambeth, Windsor pitcher, filled the
bases when he walked James, and
with one out, Taylor hit a hard ball
to the third base territory where a
double play was made.
In the second inning, Windsor
started off strong with a three-base
hit, a single scoring the second run
of the game for the visitors. A dou
ble play, Brake to Earp and Earp to
Taylor pulled Herring out of a hole.
Lambeth, next man up, got a two
base hit, Herring retiring the side
by striking out the next man up.
Kugler, first man up for the locals in
the second frame, was out at first.
Uisle, next man up, hit safely for one
base, but was out at second when
Herring made first base. Earp flew
out to shortstop, retiring the side
withe score favroing Windsor 2 to 1.
Windsor completed its scoring in
the third frame, adding two runs to
bring its total up to four. After that,
Herring was in absolute control with
one or two execptions, and then his
teammates rallied to his support to
check scoring threat*.
The fourth inning was scoreless,
but in its part of the fifth, Williams
ton added two runs. Herring was
safe on a close play at first. Earp's
hit advanced Herring to second.
Earp was out at second on the next
play when Herring when to third and
Gaylord was safe at first. Latham
was out at first but Herring scored
on the play. Brake, with a two-base
hit, scored Gaylord. James was
struck out, retiring the side.
The sixth was uneventful, but in
the seventh, the locals tied the score
when Brake made his second two
base hit of the game, scoring Gaylord.
Futher attempts to put over the win
ning run failed in that frame.
The climax of the game came in
the ninth with two men out, Earp
singled and went to second on Gay
lord's sacrifice. Latham was out at
first, but Earp was safe on third.
Brake was again at bat. Knocking a
hard grounder, Brake was safe at
first on an error and the game was
over when Earp scored the fifth and
winning run.
Heavy hitting at times featured the
game Tuesday. The comparatively
few errors and the general play of
the members on both teams point to
an even better brand of ball in the
league this year than was seen last
seaso'n.
Marked Increase In Postal
Receipts at Local Office.
A substantial gain in pottal receipts
was reported by the local postal of
fice during the months of March,
April, and May. Receipts increased
from $2,533.40 for the same p.eriod in
1932 to $2,979.85, a gain of $446.45,
Postmaster L. T. Fowden said
Mr. Fowden was of the opinion that
the increase in attributable to the gen
eral increased activity in nearly all
lines of business.
The increase is believed -to be one
of the largest reported by the local
office in many months
RESULTS " ";
Tuesday, Jane 0 \ - l r
Williamston, 5; Windsor, 4.
Elizabeth City, 2; Edenton, 4.
Ahoskie, 1; Colerain, 2.
Wednesday, June 7
Williamston, 10; Windsor, 9.
Elizabeth City, 12; Edenton, 0.
Ahoskie, 6; Colerain, 5.
Thursday, June 8
Williamston, 4; Colerain, 4 (Called
at end of .tenth).
Ahoskie, 4; Elizabeth City, 3.
Windsor, 5; Edenton, 3.
Three County N
In Truck Accident
First of Union Services Here
To Be Held Sunday Evening
The firat of the summer «v«-,
ning union church service* will be
held in the Memorial - Baptist
church Sunday evening at 8 o'-
clock, the Rev. C. T. Rogers deliv
ering the sermon.
This arrangement follows out
the customary procedure of the
aeveral churches in this town for
'the two or three months of warm
weather. It is understood that
this year the churches cooperat
ing are aa follows: Presbyterian,
NATION'S PUBLIC
DEBT IS CLOSE
TO 23 BILLIONS
Total Is Closest To Highest
Point It Has Been in
Number Years
Washington.—The national public
debt increased during May to $21,835,-
385,981, compared with $21,441,209,176
at the end of April and $19,036,916,-
646 on May 31 a year ago.
The $2,817,000,000 increase last year
brought the total debt closest to the
highest point it has been in half a dec
ade.
On August 31, 1919, the debt reach
ed its highest point, $26,596,701,648,
and compared with a debt of $1,282,-
044,346 on March 31, 1917.
On May 31 the government had a
deficit (or the 11 months of the 1933
fiscal year of $1,684,232,719. During
the period it had collected from all
sources $1,793,267,654 and had spent
$3,477,500,374.
The collections totaled slightly more
than in the same period of last year,
when they amounted to $1,770,269,398
and the expenditures were nearly sl,-
000,000,000 less than a year axo when
they totaled $4,390,087,799.
Increase Reported In Sales
On the Local Curb Market
By Miss L. F.. Sleeper, Agent
Did you visit the curl) market last
week ami see the display of native
peaches, huckleberries, squash, new
potatoes, cabbage, eggs, butter, and
of course, cakes? Last week the curb
market to some over
S3O. Were you one who helped the
sellers receive this amount to help
pay bills and buy groceries? We ap
preciate Ihe helpfulness of each pa
tron coming to our market and wish
to make our prices satisfactory at all
times. If you do not like our prod
ucts, tell us. We appreciate helpful
suggestions fro all. Prices this week
are as follows:
Eggs, 12 cests a dozen; new pota
toes, 2c a pound; carrost 3c a bunch;
squash, 3 cents a pound; cream, 20
cents a pint; cabbage, 1 1-2 cents a
pound; beets, 3 cents a bunch, and
cucumbers, ft cents a pound.
One Service at Christian
Church Sunday Morning
Rev. J. M. Ferry will occupy the
pulpit for the one preaching service
at the Christian church Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock. No evening serv
ice will be held in the church, as the
congregation joins with others in the
union service at the Baptist church
at that time.
Sunday school convenes at the
usual hour, 9:45 o'clock. A welcome
awaits the public.-
The Sunday evening service is the
first of a series of union meetings of
the several churches in town. Rev.
C. T. Rogers, Methodist minister,
will preach at that time, and the con
gregation of this fhurch is invited and
urged to attend,
Mercury Reaches the 98
Mark In the Shade Here
Thermometers soaring to new high
levels in this section for the season
yesterday are holding their own to
day, and no let-up is expected within
the next day or two, according to
fcveather department officials. The
mercury reached the J2O-mark in the
sun this morning and was around 98
at one time in the shade yesterday
afternoon.
Government weather observers say
the high temperatures are a result of
the heat wave which has moved in
from the southwest.
Field and garden crops are begin
ning to suffer from the extreme heat
and dry weather in most cases. Cot
ton and corn have not been affected
so far, it is said.
Methodiat, Christian, Episcopal,
and Baptist.
According to the proposed
schedule, a different man will
speak each Sunday evening,
though no preacher will ever
speak in his own pulpit at these
union services. The members of
the several choirs are invited to
make up the choir wherever the
union service is being held, and it
is hoped that the people in general
will attend thes« services.
BOY HURT WHEN
STRUCK BY AUTO
Jack Roebuck Receives Bad
Injuries To Hand and
Body Tuesday
Jack Roebuck, 5 years old, the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Roebuck,
of Cross Roads Township, was pain
fully hurt last Tuesday afternoon
when he was run down by an auto
mobile in front of his grandmother's
home on East Main Street here.
The little fellow started across the
street, and saw a car coming up the
river hill. After the car passed he
datred into the street without seeing
a second car traveling down the hill.
[When directly in the path of the car,
he threw up his hands, breaking one
[thumb and causing severe injury to
his other hand. The boy was knocked
to one side, the wheels of the car
failing to pass over his body by only
a few inches. The driver of the car
applied the brakes and threw the rear
end of the car to one side, the rear
wheel striking the child as he lay on
the pavement, causing injury to his
arm and side
The father of the child saw the ac.
cident and said it was not the driver's
fault.
DAMAGE DONE
BY LIGHTNING
Several People Feel Shock
On West Main Street
Tuesday Evening
Mrs. H. M. Burras was slightly
stunned and several other people on
West Main Street were shocked by a
bolt of lightning that struck a few
feet from the Burras home last Tues
day evening. No one was seriously
hurt, but many in the neighborhood
were badly frightened when the light
ning struck and knocked off a number
of fence pailings and burned light
fuses. ,
It was meal time at the Carolina
Inn, a few feet away, and several of
the boarders were said to have been
frightened from the table when the
bolt struck the fence.
Light service was interrupted for
a few seconds here during the storm,
but as far as it could be leari)c4 no
great damage resulted from the storm
in this section. A house was fired by
lightning between here and Windsor
and it was destroyed. An emergency
force was called from here to Dardens
r to replace fuses destroyed on the
Virginia Power and Electric Com
pany's lines by lightning there.
Very little rain fell in this com
munity, but in the lower part of the
county and in certain other sections
fair-sized rains were reported during
the evening.
j First Cars of Potatoes Are
Shipped North This Week
• The first irish potatoes of the sea
ton were shipped from this point this
week. While only seven cars have
been loaded and shipped from this
point so far, it is estimated that a
round 20 or 25 cars will have been
(hipped before the end of the season.
Depressed market conditions were
reported yesterday when the best
grades of the cobblers were selling for
only $2 a barrel and buyers were
hard to find at that price. Big store
organizations are said to have with
drawn at certain prices, and as a re
suit it is believed the market was
weakened.
CLUB STANDINGS I
» J
Club W L Pet.
Williamston 2 0 1.000
Ahoskie „. 2 1 .667
Colerain 1 1 .500
Windsor * 1 2 .333
Eliiabeth City 1 2 .333
Edenton 1 2 .333
Watch th# Label On Tow
Papar AM It- Carries the Data
Wieo Tow Snbecriptkm Exptrea
ESTABLISHED 1898
SEVERAL OTHERS
SERIOUSLY HURT
TUESDAY NIGHT
-
Schultz Whitaker, Wilson
James and Jim Moore
Mangled in Wreck
Three Martin County negroes were
fatality hurt and a fourth was critically
injured in a truck wreck near Cres
well last Tuesday night about 9 o'-
clock. Schultz Whitaker, 70 years old,
Jimmie Moore, 20 years old, and Wil
son Jatnes, 17 years old, all residents
of the Free Union section of this
county, died a few hours after the
truck on which, they were riding col
lided with another driven by Sammie
Houghton, of Columbia. Sam Whit
aker, sotv" of Chultz Whitaker, is in a
Washington hospital with his thigh
broken in two places, he. is ex
pected to recover.
The four men, with 14 others, were
returning from the potato field* in the
Columbia section on a truck driven
by Sammie Sykes, and belonging to
Walter Alexander According to the
story told by Whitaker from his hos
pital bed, Roughton apparently tried
to frighten him, the elder Whitaker,
and the two others who were riding
with their legs hanging from the side
of the truck. Sykes is said to have
driven his truck to the right side of
the road and had the two right wheels
off the concrete when the side of the
Roughton truck crashed into the truck
body, catching the legs of the men
and granding the flesh and bones in
many pieces. No definite account of
the accident could be had here, but it
is believed that Roughton steered his
truck toward the load of humanity,
and, just before reaching the machine
he turned rapidly, throwing the side
into the body of the Sykes truck. It
was said that Roughton failed to stop;
however, this charge was not includ
ed in a warrant issued by Washing-
Iton County (authorities against *(he
Whitaker and Moore were carried
to a hospital in Columbia, and James
was removed to a Washington hos
pital, all three dying shortly alter they
were entered in the two institutions.
Houghton was placed under a $2,-
S(H) bond by a Washington County
justice of the peace at a preliminary
bearing held yesterday.
Moore, James, Whitaker, and hi*
son, said to have been living in pov
erty, were released from the Martin
County relief list only last week, and
they were working in the potato fields
in an effort to' earn fhe'lr Own bread.
It is understood that each of them
was taxed 25 cents for transportation
to and from the fields.
Martin County buried two of the
men, and Ed James, father of Wilson
James, buried his son by mortgaging
all his earthly belongings and all that
be hopes to raise on his debt-ridden
farm in the lower part of the county
this season. The county i-. also re
sponsible for Whitaker's expenses at
the Washington hospital, it is under
stood.
The warrant issued against Rough
ton charges him with driving a truck
with improper lights and ifcklessly.
It could not be learned definitely,
but it was reported here today that
suits would be brought in one or more
of the cases.
URGE EARLIER
MART OPENING
Would Have Markets Open
In This Belt About
August 29th
With one of the earliest tobacco
crops in history now in thr making,
farmers and warehousemen are plan
ning to appeal to tobacco association
officials for an earlier opening in this
belt this season. It is understood
the association will be urged to o*pen
the markets in this belt about two
weeks after the opening on the bor
der and certain South Carolina mar
kets.
Last year the border markets were
opened August 16 and the markets
in this belt were opened September
6. Should the earlier opening be con
sidered, the markets in this belt will
open about August 29.
Announces Topic for His
Trinity Sunday Sermon
June 11 is Trinity Sunday and the
subject of the sermon at the moning
service at the Chnrch of the Advent is
"The Myster of the Trinity." There
will be no evening service, but our
members are «rged to attend the union
service at the Baptist church.—Rev.
E. F. Moseley.