Advertiser* Will Pad Oar Col ami ■ Latchkey to Over Sixteen Hundred Martin Ceaaty HMM VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 44 BOARD TO STUDY BUDGET AT MEET HERE ON MONDAY A County-wide Tax Rate of $1.55 Will Likely Be Necessary in 1933 ' The study of the budget for the new fiscal year will be the main business of the Martin County commissioners at their regular meeting here next Monday, it was learned yesterday. While a tax rate for the year 1933 will be discussed, it is not expected that the authorities will determine a levy at the Monday meeting. The commissioners, in preparing a budget for the new year, will find prob ably one of their greatest tasks of the year. Two or three increases in debt service and health funds are al most certain, but there will be marked decreases in school costs to the coun ty, including the 17-cent state-wide school tax and that for special dis tricts. A marked increase in the rate will be reflected by all departments as a result of the decrease in property val ues . However, the apparent increase in rate will not mean that taxes will be higher. It it safe to say that they will be considerably lower in nearly every case. Last year a $1.25 rate on the SIOO property valuation was in ef fect in this county. This year it is estimated that the rate will be between $1.50 and $1.55, basing the estimate on the 1933 valeut that were tabula ed and published in this paper June 27th. It goes without saying that the commissioners will do everything in their power to hold taxes to a mini mum in this county for the current year, and every item in the budget will be carefully examined before approv-l al is granted. The only other business scheduled 1 for the authorities at their Monday' meeting is the selection of a jury fori the September term of court, and then I there will be tax complaints and re-J quest* of the poor to be considered,! no doubt. BULL CAUSE OFi LOT EXCITEMENT D. M. Roberson and Animal Race Down Haughton Street Tuesday David M. Roberson, owner of Rob erson's Slaughter House here, made news with the aid of a bull last Tues day evening about 9 o'clock, when he chased the animal from the Lindsley Ice Plant up the A. C. L. Railroad to Washington Street, from there to Haughton Street-Extended and on to Warren Street, a distance of several! blocks. At the Warren Street inter-j section, Mr. Roberson gave up the 1 chase, for after running donw the mid-j die of the long paved street hia feet | began to burn and the animal con-| tinued to increase hia speed. The slaughter house owner bought, a load of cattle, the big bull included, | and was weighing them on the floor ( scales of the Lindsley Ice Company, when the bull twisted the ring from) ,his nose and dashed away. Mr. Rob erson, playing the role of a weatern cowboy, lasaoed the neck of the ani mal with a 30-foot rope and held to the end. The bull furnished the rito mentum and Mr. Roberson swung on, and the more he pulled the faster the animal went. Later in the evening, the animal was caught in Watts Grove. 0 County Canning Program Announced tor Next Week! Martin County's food preservation campaign will be carried into nearly every section of the county next week, I it was announced today by Miss Lora Sleeper, home agent. The following program is noted: Monday: Williams Lower colored school, Corey's colored school. Tuesday, Williamston colored school, Robersonville white school. Wednesday: Oak City white school, Ev«retts colored school. Thanday: Sandy Ridge white school, Oak City colored school. Friday, Hassell colored school and Robersonville colored school. Board of Education Will Meet Here Next Monday A study of the budget for the com ing school term and the appointment of local committees will feature the work of the County Board of Educa tion in its meeting here next Monday, it was learned this morning from the county superintendent. Several other nutters will be discusted, but they are considered of routine importance only. The Ipcal committee appointments will be limited to three members to the district in accordance with a re cent interpretation of the law hand ed down by Attorney General Brum mitt. | THE ENTERPRISE County and Town Tax Sales Are Halted by Injunctions The sale of land for 'unpaid taxes in this county was post poned this week when an injunc tion was signed by Judge M. V. Bam hill, of Rocky Mount, re straining Sheriff C. B« Roebuck from proceeding with the sale as scheduled on the first Monday in September. The restraining order, signed last Wednesday by the resident judge, is returnable before him on August 22 for a hearing. How ever, by agreement between B. A. Critcher, attorney for the peti tioners, and E. S. Peel, attorney for the county, it has been agreed that the case be continued until the September term of the Martin County Superior court, conven ing here the 3rd Monday in that month. At that time that sheriff will be directed to advertise the delinquent list the first week in October and proceed with the aale on the first Monday in No vember. RECORDER HAD BUT EIGHT CASES Few Cases Accumulate in Past Two Weeks' Period Eight cases were called in the coun ty recorder's court last Tuesday, the number being comparatively small, considering the fact that no session of the court had been held in "two weeks. The session went unfeatured. Judge H. O. Peel passing out one or two road sentences and imposing one or two small fines. John Rawls was sentenced to the roads for a period of two months in the case charging him with violating the liquor, laws. Ransom Whitehurst drew an eight months road sentence in the case charging him with being drunk and disorderly. A nol pros resulted as to Mary Ampy, who was charged in the same case with the same offense. The case charging J. P. Harris with an assault with a deadly weapon was continued two weeks. The case charging Jesse Bullock and Killie Warren with being drunk and disorderly was non-suited. William Rogers was fined $lO and taxed with the costs in the case in which lie was charged with violating the liquor laws. Fined $lO and taxed with the costs, Fred Boston appealed to the higher courts in the cases charging him with violating the liquor laws. Bond was fixed in the sum of $75. The case was nol prossed as 'to John T. James, jr. The case charging Jesse Bullock I with operating a car while intoxicat ed was nol prossed. The case charging Junipr Wjnn with an assault with a deadly weapon, was continued until the first Tuesday l in September. | —— • Making Improvement To the Town's Water Lines The town is making prepartions to extend its water mains from the pump ing station down Sycamore Street to the intersection of Washington Street and from there to the plant of the Columbia Peanut Company. At the present time the water supply goes |to the plant in a "dead-" head line, Extending from Main Street out Street. The new line I will complete a circulation unit and increase the supply and pressure at the plant. It is understood that a company handling sprinkling equipment is paying for the material and the tojirn is to lay the line. Mrs. Woodburn Elected Treasurer oi State Group Mrs. T. M. Woodburn, of Parmele, was reelected treasurer of the State ; Federation of Home Demonstration | Clubs at the annual meeting of the j organization in Raleigh last week. During the past several years, Mra. Woodbnrn has been very active in club work in the county as well as in the service of the State federation. Parmele also gained added recogni tion when two of its women, Mrs. Woodburn and Mrs. E. G. Whitehurst, were awarded diplomas for efficiency in the four-year course given by the State Federation. - - • Vegetables Make Profit For Catawba Farmers ♦ ■ Catawba County truck growers re port unusually good prices for all veg etables grown this season, due to the dry weather injuring most gardens a |bout local towns and citiea. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 4, 1933 The petition for the delay car ried the names of Messrs. E. P. Cunningham, C. H. Godwin and Luther Peel. A similar order has been served against W. B. Daniel, tax collec tor for the Town of Williamston, thereby delaying the sales of land for town taxes until the second Monday in November. The last legislature reversed it self so many times thst many of the laws it passed are still a mys tery. The assembly passed snd repealed the same law ss many as 25 times, according to the state ments of some good lawyers who have examnied the stautes. And the tax laws seem to be among the mysteries. However, with a good market ing season, it is believed that a majority of the taxes now unpaid in both the county and town will have been paid before the first week in October. ! 2 STOLEN CARS ARE RECOVERED Found In Bear Grass Town ship, About One Mile from County Road Two automobifts, one belonging to the Harrison Wholesale Company and stolen from the streets here several week ago, and another whose owner could not be learned, were recovered this week in a woods about one mile from a main road in Bear Grass Town ship. I Many parts, including the radiator, lights, starter, were removed from the Harrison car, a Ford coach driven by Gaylord Harrison, a salesman for the j wholesale company. The other car, i a Ford coufce, apparently hafl not been damaged, but the engine. number had been changed. Officers are try ing to identify the car, but up to noon today they had not been able to learn I the name of the owner. Members of the highway patrol are assisting coun ty officers in the effort to find the owner of the coupe and to arrest the guilty party or parties. While it is believed the officers have two or three .clues that might lead to one or more ' arrests, they would make no state ments. |TENNIS TOURNEY ; DRAWS TO CLOSE I Will Probably Play Finals In Tournament About j Middle of Next Week [ The Martin County tennis tourna ( nient, after dragging over a period of two weeks on account of unfavorable 1 weather and first one thing and an other, is now nearing a close with ;Only four games left before the doubles 'champions are determined. Eliminations were numerous ,Ih|rs week. M. D. Watts and Joe Godard, 111, eliminated King and Robt. Co burn in a second round match and later advanced to the quarter-finals by the default of a Robersonville team | which they were scheduled to play. 1 Crockett and Bondurant put Joe Godard, jr., and Hardy Rote out of | the race. Hix and J. C. Manning were j ousted by Goodmon and Anderton, and Anderson and Jack Manning elim j inated a second team from Roberson i ville. Spivey and Booker lost their second-round match to Green and Cone in straight sets Tuesday morn : inff i Cone and Green are to play Bon ; durant and Crockett, the winners of i this match going direct to the finals. ! Anderson and Manning are scheduled j againit Anderton and Goodmon, the | winnert to play Watts and Godard, 111. The winners of that match will go to the finals against the winners" of the Cone and Green-Bondurant and Crockett contest. | Charles Whitle To Preach at Baptist Church Sunday Charlet Whitley, a Williamston born boy, will occupy the pulpit at the Baptist church Sunday morning. Young Whitley has been away from Martin County for several years, a part of which time he has been en rolled in a Christian school in South Carolina. Hit youthful appearance, his Chris tian zeal, and the fact that he it wide ly connected in thit section will se cure for him, it ia believed, f splendid bearing at the Sunday morning serv ice. The union service will go to the Episcopal church Sunday evening at the 8 o'clock hour. i NUMBER PLAN TO ASK LOANS FROM HOME LOAN BANK D. R. Everett, V. G. Taylor and G. H. Harrison On Advisory Committee While no applications haje been ac tually prepared, several Martin Coun ty people have already planned to bor row money from the Government through the Home Loan Bank for the refinancing of their homes, it w>s learned yesterday from Elbert S. Peel, attorney for the bank in this county. Arrangements for handling the ap plications and making the loans were completed in the district this week when advisory committees were ap pointed in the several counties com prising the first district. Messrs. G. H. Harrison, of Williamston, V. G. Taylor, Everetts, and D. R. Everett, of Robersonville, were named mem bers of the Martin County advisory committee, it was officially announced Wednesday. Mr. K. B. Crawford, of Williamston, is appraiser, and E. S. Peel is attorney for the bank in this county. The Home Loan Bank was created to aid home owners, and its opera tions will not be extended to farm land, it is understood. Land owners will be aided through the land banks under more advantageous arrange ments to the borrower. The bank will consider loans on homes against which mortgages were given prior to June 13, 1933, and will limit loans to $14,000. It is under stood the bank will lend up to 80 per cent of the appraised value, charging interest at the rate of 4 1-2 per cent. The purpose of the Home Loan Corporation, as it is understood here, is to aid those owners who are unable to meet interest payments and ma ture the principal due on their homes. In%othei* words, the home owner ow ing $2,000 on his $2,500 home and is about to lose the property, can go to the home loan bank and borrow the $2,000 and retire the immediate debt, and at the same time get more time for retiring the principal and at a low er rate of interest. ALLEGED MAD DOG KILLED —• — Believed To Have Bitten A Number of Dogs In This Township A dog, believed to have been mad, was killed near the home of S. K. Bul lock on the McGaskey road in Wil-' liamston Township yesterday morn ing shortly before noon.. The lanine,' said to have attarked a number of dogs in that section, was killed when hej started to attack C. B. Bullock, son of Mr. S. R. Bullock. A number of people saw the dog Wednesday night, and they were al most certain it was mad at that time. The dog'* head has been sent to Ra- jleigh, but no report on the findings! has been received. All dogs attacked by the believed mad canine are being ■ confined, the boy said yesterday. | Mad dogs have been numerous in parts of this county this year, and a' number of people have been attacked' by them. It is understood that 15 or 20 people, including small children, j have taken the Pasteur treatment to 1 guard against rabies. A. Hasset 1 Appointed To Court Clerk Assistanship Mr. A. Hassell, prominenet Martin , County Democrat, was this week ap pointed assistan clerk of the Martin | County Superior court, and entered ' I upon his new duties immediately. Mr. Hassell, when a young man,! I was a clerk in the courthouse to the I late Jim Teel for nearly four years, I j,and is acquainted with the work. j It is understood that Mr. Hassell ' will not be a candidate for the office . in the next primary. ' Local Fire Company Gets j Call Tuesday Afternoon The local fire company was called out last Tuesday evening shortly after 6 o'clock when fire threatened the home of Bill Bailey, colored, on the corner of Pearl and Railroad Streets. The fire, starting from a kitchen stove, j was brought under control by the use ' of buckets in the hands of neighbors. I Some damage resulted when the ' neighbors tore burning paper from the i walls and freely dashed water in all parts of the kitchen. Union Service at Church oi Advent Sunday Evening 9 • This Sunday evening the union serv ice will be at the Church of the Ad vent. There will be no morning serv ice at this chQrch, but the service at the Holy Trinity Mission near Bear Grass will take place at 4 p. m. as usual. Peanuts, Tax Topics Merchants Turn To Study Of Law and T Merchants of the county are busy these day* studying law, weighing cotton cloth, counting up their flour stock and keeping books preparatory to filing sales tax re turns, and paying the wheat and cotton processing tax. The law requires all retail mer chants to pay a tax of 4.2 cents a pound on all cotton goods, includ ing the manufactured cloth and that made into clothing from cot ton provided the goods were in their stores prior to the first day of this month and unsold on the 31st day of August. The process ing tax on all goods coming to CANNING DAY AT OAK CITY Community People To Can Wednesday for Needy School Children i A hi# community canning day lias scheduled for the Oak City school dis trict next Wednesday, beginning at 8 I in the morning and continuing as long as in necessary in the school build ing. Special canning equipment will be carried there by county welfare heads and others, and an eventful day is predicted, according to Professor H. M. Ainsley, Ihe undertaking, arranged in an effort to provide hot lunches for un dernourished children during school next term, is wtfrthy of strong sup port, and it is believed the women of that community will carry large quan tities of fruits and vegetables and take part in the program of the day. All the women of that entire section ate J urged to support the undertaking in one way or another. A basket lunch will be served, and a congenial good I time is expected, while the prepara tions go on for aiding the less fortu nate children during the cold, bleak I days of the coining winter. | AH those women who wish to at j tend or send vegetables and fruits and have 110 conveyance of their own, are asked to notify Professor Ainsley | immediately, and he will arrange for transportation. LECTURER AT LOCAL LODGE Grand Lecturer P. C. Stott To Start Series of Talks Here Next Monday I Assistant Grand Lecturer P. I Stott, of this Masonic division of the State, will start a series of lectures in | the Skewarkee Lodge hall here next I Monday evening, the hours to be an- I nounced later. It is likely that Mr. Stott will make three addresses daily during the week he plans to be here. | All members of the Masonic order | in this section are urgently requested | by the local lodge secretary, M. J. jMoye, to attend the lectures as often as it possible. The lecturer will deal J with the work and symbolisms in each I degree. A regular meeting of Skewarkee 'lodge will be held next Tuesday eve- I ning at 8 o'clock, and all Masons are I asked to be present. Kiwanians Lose 'Hot One' To Bear Grass Ball Team The Bear Grass baseball team out played the local Kiwanis club sports men here la c t Wednesday afternoon to win by the large score of 20 to 14. Even though the Kiwanians went down in defeat they showed some promising material in the various field positions. Wynn pitched a good game for Bear Grass except for one inning, when the Kiwanians landed on him in full blast and, aided by some miscues, scored 10 runs before being retired. Cortez Green's Mase-runulng proved lb be one of the big features, especially when he tried to slide all the way from first to second. Dr. P. B. Cone provided some bright -,pots in fielding, while Kay Goodmon performed around first base like a veteran—of the Civil War. Key. Z. T. Piephoff .twirled for the Kiwanians and, assisted by the other members of the team, managed to get three men out somehow each in ning. Mr. Piephoff and Kax Good mon collected two hits apiece to lead the Kiwanianb with the stick. Anyhow, everybody had a good time, and liniment makers are expect ed to declare an extra dividend. R. at A. and Meeting the retail merchant afttr August 1 will be paid at the tame rate by the manufacturer, the jobber, or the wholesaler. , Retail merchants who had flour on hand the 6th day of last month and unsold on the 7th day of this month will be required to pay a processing tax of $1.40 a barrel. All flour bought by retail mer chants since the Bth day of July was taxed against the miller, job ber, or wholesaler. Neither cotton products nor flour are taxable a gainst the retailer if they are sold prior to August 31 for the cotton products and August for flour. MARTINS LOOK BETTER; WIN 2 OUT OF THREE One and One-half Games from Top in Albemarle Baseball League Williamston'* baseball team won two of the three names played so far this week to tie for third place with Ahoskie and to trail the Albemarle League leaders, Elizabeth City, by on ly one and one-half games, and renew its hope for leading the league at the end of the second half three weeks from today. The locals lost to Ahoskie here last Tuesday, 11 to 9, but reversed the or der of wins and defeats the following day at Ahoskie by a 4 to 2 score, t lierry worked on the mound for the locals here Tuesday until the eighth when Kngler relieved hint, the registering 15 hits. The Martins, re deeming their batting average, made 16 bits, with Brake, Gaylord, and. (i 1 od nion leading with three hits each, fol lowed by Herring and Taylor with two each. .. I'roctor, recently added to the Mar | tins' pitching stall, held Ahoskie to six hits Wednesday and led at the hat with two hits to win the game, 4 to 2. I I lie strong Windsor aggregation went down in defeat here yesterday by a 10 to 3 score, the locals touch ] inc Morris, Harris, and Edwards for | a total ot 1.) safeties. Brake led at • bat with J hits, and (iaylord, Good Imon, Herring, I.atliani, and Uzzle ac counted for two each. I I lie game scheduled with Edenton and postponed last Friday will be played here Monday week, August 14, it was announced this morning by Manager V. J, Spivey. Next Monday the Martins will play Greenville at (.reenville, dividing the gate receipts. Windsor and Willianiston will play at Lewiston Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Battle Yearby To Make Two-days Visit Here Battle Yearby, popular representa tive of the Storrs-Sbaefer Company, tailors of note, will make a two-days visit at Barnliill Brothers' store here next Monday and Tuesday, Mr Barn bill announced today. WHERE THEY PLAY J FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 William»ton at Windsor. Edenton at Elizabeth City. Ahoskie at Colerain. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8 Williamston at Colerain. Ahoskie at Elizabeth City. Windsor at Edenton. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9 Colerain at Williamaton. Elizabeth City at Ahoskie. Edenton at Windsor. ( RESULTS 1 *— / Tuesday, August 1 Ahoskie 11, Willianiston 9, Windsor 15, Elizabeth City 2. Wednesday, August 2 Elizabeth City 5, Windsor 4. Willianiston 4, Ahoskie 2. Colerain 5, Edentom4? — Thursday, August 3 , Willianiston 10, Windsor 3. Ahoskie 9, Colerain 7. Elizabeth City 3, Edenton 1. I CLUB STANDINGS Team W L Pet. Elizabeth City 7 4 .630 Windsor ...... S 4 .556 I Willianiston 5 5 .500 Ahoskie, 5 5... .500 Colerain 5 6 .455 I Edenton 3 6 .333 Watch th« Ukd On Tow P*p«r AS It_ CaniM tte DM* Wh#n Yoor Subscription Kspirm ESTABLISHED 1898 STABILIZATION PEANUT PRICE IS MAIN OBJECT Body Would Have Contact Man Placed In Capitol At Washington City At a meeting of a few business men sponsored by the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce here last Wednesday evening, several matters of much importance to this section were discussed, the body passing reso lutions advancing its position on each of them. A stabilized price for peanuts, sup port of the National Recovery Act, and the workings of the 3 per cent sales tax were the main topics of the discussions which resulted in a bet ter understanding of each of them for the representatives from Edenton, Windsor, Hamilton, Washington, Kinston, and this place. Mayor J 1.. Hassell welcomed the visitors, Mrs. R. C. Holland, of Eden ton, in the absence of Z. V. Norman, making the response. Mr. J. B. Fear ing, of Windsor, told about the num erous meetings held in several peanut counties and with farmers in Virginia and factory people. In his opinion, the cleaners and shellers, as well as the farmers, are anxious to see thty price of peanuts advance. Discussing the sales tax, Mr. Harry McMullan, representative of the State revenue department, stated that he believed the particular tax will solve the tax question in the state and that it will grow in popularity. He ex plained that North Carolina was the only state levy a sales tax and requir ing the merchant to pass it on to the consumer rather than have the sellers absorb it.. Secretary N. G. Bartlett pointed out the need of a closer contact with the various Federal departments control ling matters of especial interest to this section. The following resolutions were passed at the meeting: "Whereas, the National Recovery Act recently passed by Congress has for its aim the abolishmeht of the de pression and the restoration of pros perity, in that it provides for the put ting back to work of at least 6,000,000 woi*kers in his country, by shortenkig hours and increasing pay; And whereas, in order for this act to get the desired results, the people of the United States will have ito lend their whole-hearted cooperation to the ('resident in the execution of this »jt, even down to the smallest business in the smallest hamlet in this land: Now, therefore, be it resolved that it is the sense of this meeting, repre senting the business and professional interests of this part of North Caro lina, that every business house, every office, and every employer of any kind whatsoever, that copies under this act, be, and is hereby, urged to cooperate with this movement 100 per cent and that the secretary of the Kastern Car olina ( lianiber of Commerce, Inc., be instructed to send a message direct to President Roosevelt at once, pledging the full ami complete cooperation of this section to his program. Resolved, second; That the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce be requested to place a "contact" man at Washington to look out for the inter, est of Fastem Carolina in matters coming up and to serve as a medium of approach for delegations going from Kastern North Carolina to the National Capitol in the pursuit of mat ters of interest to the various com munities in the east, and that the lo cal communities be called upon to co operate with this movement, in the matter of arranging for financing this undertaking. "And this meeting authorizes the presklent and secretary of Eastern ( arolina Chamber of Commerce to write every board of county commis sioners of the 46 counties and ask that -each county make available $5 per month for the six months beginning September Ist to assist in defraying the expenses of this representation in Washington, D. C., and that a sched ule for each incorporated town in the 46 counties running from $1 per month up to $5 per month be worked out and that these towns be asked to make this amount available each month for six months, beginning Sep tember Ist for the same purpose. And further that local committees be ap pointed to raise money to supplement this fund to an amount necessary to carry out the project." To Viait Get singers Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Gttsinger and children, of Washington CUy, are expected here tomorrow to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. Sam Getsinger and other relativA in the county tor a few days.

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