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Advertisers Will Pud Our Col ami ■ Latchkey to Over Starts— Hundred Martin County Homes VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 55 COUNTY SIGN-UP NEAR 100 PER CENT ★ .★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★*★★★ ★★★★★★ Nothing Definite Yet as to Date of Market Reopening Wet - Dry Machinery Set Up REGISTRARS AND POLL HOLDERS ARE APPOINTED Registration Books To Be Open for One Day Only, October 28th Machinery for holding an election on Tuesday, November 7, in this county in connection with a vote on the repeal of the 18th Amendment was set up by the Marlin County Hoard of Elections in a special meeting held here Saturday. Mr Sylvester Peel, chairman of the board, and Members J. R. Winslow, of Kobersonville, and C. B l agan, of Hardens, were pres ent. . The election is called in accordance with Chapter 403, Public Laws of North Carolina for the session 1933. The laws provide the calling of a con vention of the people of the State to consider the proposed amendment to the constitution of the United repeal ing the 18th amendment. The laws also provide the election of a dele gate to a constitutional convention to be held in the city of Raleigh De cember 5, 1V33. Registration books shall be open for the entrance of new names on October 28 and for that day only. The election will be governed by the general laws governing elections in this State unless otherwise especially provided, il was stated. The names of registrars and judges of election to serve for tfie election are a* follows: Jantesville: Marry Martin, K. M Stalling* and L. W. Mizell, judges of election. Williams Township: L. D. Hardi son, registrar; C. L. Daniel and Henry Griffin, jr., judges of election. Griffins Township: S. Oscar Peel, registrar; W. T. Koberson and J. C. Gurkin, judges. Bear Grass: Urban Rogers, regis trar; Joseph S. Griffin and A. B. Ayers, judges. Williamson Township: Luther Peel registrar; Warren H. Biggs and J. 11 Gurganus, judges Cross Roads Township: J. S. Ayers, registrar; J. B. Burnhill and Willie Ausban, judges. Robersonville: -J. K. Ross, regis trar; Eli Rogers and L. N. Vick, judges of election. s Gold Point: J. L. Crooni, registrar; Harry Roberson and H. L. Keel, judges of election. Poplar Point: W- S. White, regis trar; Luther G. Leggett, Herman llardison, judges. Hamilton: J. A. Davenport; S. 1). Matthews and J. S. Ayers, judges. Hassell:,C. L. Nelson, registrar; E. K. Edntondson and George Ayers, judges of election. WOMAN'S CLUB HOLDS MEETING Preparations Being Made For Active Year; New Members Accepted The local Woman's Club held its first meeting of the fall schedule in its club rooms last Friday noon when the ladies of the Episcopal church served the members refreshments. While several new members were ac cepted into the club, and a genral dis cussion of several matters was held, the club limited its business for the session, but planned preparations for an active year. During the next several weeks, the club members are planning a series of events to raise funds, the first of which is a turkey supper. More de tails will be announced later by the civic committee, it was stated. Following the reading of reports, the club people discussed the dangers facing hundreds of little icliool chil dren at numerous street crossings. The schools are opening a new term next Monday, and the club women are urging precaution on the part of every' one in behalf of the thousands of little folks who will be treading the dangerous thoroughfares and cross ings. THE ENTERPRISE TEACHERS MEET WILL BE HELD HERESATURDAY Dr. J. Henry Highsmith and Other State Department Officials Expected A general meeting of Martin Coun ty teachers will be held in the high school Iniilding here next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, according to an announcement released yesterday by the office of the county superin tendent. Dr. J. Henry Highsmith and other members of the State Depart ment of Education are expected to be here for the meeting. •While no program of the meeting was mentioned, it is understood that general school and organization prob lems will be discussed during the two hour period. The teachers will as semble in the high school building for the session. In the afternoon the principals are planning to hold meetings in their respective schools with the teachers, of this week will be followed by sim ilar ones later in the term or not. It could not he learned whether the meeting scheduled here Saturday of this week is the first of a series of county assemblies or not. Reports from the various districts in the county indicate that the schools are ready to open the new term next Monday morning at the usual hour. A general invitation awaits all the pa trons of the schools at any and all times, hut particularly on opening day. 'Parents of beginners are especially urged to be present for the enrollment exercises. As far as it could be learned here no elaborate opening programs have been planned in any of the schools, the spirit of the vari- ous communities centering upon a year of hard, earnest toil. NAMED TO BEAR GRASS FACULTY Charles C. Love, of Wash ington, Elected Teacher Science and History Mr. Diaries C. Love, of Washing ton, has been elected teacher of his tory and science and Miss Jessie Greene, of Aulander, has accepted a position as music teacher in the Bear Grass schools this coming was announced yesterday. Principal Hickman announces a meeting of his faculty in the school building there Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock when plans for the year will be considered. Arrangements are complete for opening the school next Monday morning at 9 o'clock, when all the pupils are asked to be on hand for a year of honest-to-goodness study. A special invitation is extended the pa trons of the school to be present for the opening exercises, and with their cooperation a very successful year is predicted during 1933r34, Mercer Resigns As Farm Life Principal Professor A. E. Mercer, for several terms principal of the Farm Life School, has resigned that position and will enter into business, it was learned here yestrday. The teacher had car ried on a successful work there, and jhe will be missed by the people of 'that community. " -■ - * *- A principal has not been appointed to the position as far as it could be learned here yesterday, but it is un derstood that several applications are being considered by the authorities. Principals of County To Meet Here Friday The several Martin County school principals will hold their first meet ing of the 1933-34 term in the high school building here Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, it was announced to day. A. B. Combs, high school in spector, will attend the meeting and discuss organization plans, it was stated. - , Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 12, 1933 COUNTY COTTON GINS START IN ON SEASON'S WORK +* Rains in Past Few Weeks Have Hurt Crop Considerably Cotton ginning started in this coun ty last week is gaining momentum with the prospects that a large per centage of the crop will have been picked and prepared for market by the middle of next month. Ginning activities are not "Underway in this immediate community, but J. G. Sta ton is planning to put into operation three 80-saw machines Thursday or Friday .of this week. In the mean time, the several gins above here are operating regular schedules, it is un derstood. The outlook for the crop in this sec tion is not as bright as it was a few days ago. Since farmers have started the picking operations they are find ing their yields short by as much as SO per cent in some cases. The storm of a few weeks ago is believed to have cut the crop by 1,000 hales or more, and general weather conditions have not been very favorable for the crop in this county. Approximately 11,000 acres were plant ed to the crop intJie county this year, a resulting increase of about 3,000 acres over the 1V32 acreage. How ever, more than 1,600 acres of the crop were plowed under as a result of the cotton reduction plan, leaving a small increase in acres over that of However, the yield last year was a little above the averagr as a whole, and when everything is con sidered, the increase in the actual number of bales will not be as large this year as would one would ex pert in Ibis county. Certainly, the fnitcome is not coming up to expec tations. Last year there were approx imately SB,OOO acres planted to the crop, which amounted to 4,(J7V hales. Cotton picking prices are said to range from 35 to 50 cents a hundred pounds, with the owners doing their own picking in a majority of cases. Nearly all tlie lint is being taken in the first picking, reports indicate. Ginning prices, fixed at 4U cents a hundred pounds for lint cotton last year, are said to have advanced un der the new code. A price of 25 cents a hundred for seed cotton is said to be the ginning price under the new code, with an extra 75 cents added for bagging and ties. Last year the lies and bagging are said to have cost $1.25. Reports from several of the gins starting operations last week stated that the weight of the bales varied front 372 to 648 pounds. Four Negroes Arrested For Theft of Automobile Lee Jones, Charlie Johnson, and Mary Davis, all colored, are be ing held in the county jail for the al leged theft of an old model Ford from Ananias Davis here last week. The four were jailed Sunday night, fol lowing their arrests in Elizabeth City. It is understood the four defendants are front the Gum %eck section of Tyrrell County. John R. Jenkins Died Near Jamesville Sunday John R. Jenkins, a native of Pitt County, died at the home of his sis ter, Mrs. L. F. Waters, in Jamesville Township, early last Sunday morn ing. Funeral services were conduct ed' by Rev. D. W. Alexander and in terment followed in the family hurial ground near Bethel Monday after noon. Mr. Jenkins had made his home with his sister for some time. He is -survived by one brother, H; L. Jen kins, of Greenville, and three sisters, Mrs. L. F. Waters, of Jamesville, Mrs. Mack Churchill, of Greenville, and Miss Carrie L. Jenkins, of Sa vannah, Ga. Young Man Caught At Liquor Plant In Bertie Jim Harreli, young white man, was captured at a liquor still in Bertie CoAnty this morning. He was given a preliminary hearing this afternoon and in default of a $750 bond, he was placed in jail to await trial in the next term of federal ourt in Washington. The next term of court will be held in Washington the 25th of this month. Campaign Meets In s With Martin Folks; WAREHOUSEMEN ASK PERMISSION OPEN THURSDAY Officials and Manufacturers Expected To Hold Parley In Washington Friday Just when the tobacco marketing holiday will end and sales are started on the floors of Eastern Carolina warehouses no one knows just at this time. However, it is generally be lieved that marketing operations will not get underway before sometime next week, and it is not certain that the markets will he open then. Warehouse organizations, realizing the reduction movement has or will prove successful, are asking that the markets be reopened Thursday of this week on a restricted basis. Under the terms of the proposal a non-sign er would not be allowed to sell his tobacco. It isn't expected fhat the markets will reopen this week on that basis, however. Before the markets reopen, it is 'possible that the federal administra tion will invite the manufacturers and buyers to Washington with a view to arriving at voluntary agreements as to price increases during the remain der of this marketing year. Accord- iug to information received here, plans for such a conference arc re ceiving tentative consideration of of ficials, and that the parley would be held about Friday. But nothing is definite just now as to when the mar kets will reopen or what the price of tobacco will lie when the markets do reopen. It has been said for the administra tion that the reserve powers inherent in the agricultural act "will he invok ed, if the need should arise' in order to insure parity prices this year, or after the markets are reopened, and it is certain that federal officials will have an eye single to the bidding when selling is resumed. )f course, there can be no uniformity in the bidding, and it is certain that the various grades will continue to sell for various prices. What is hoped is that the average for the selling season will approximate parity, or around 15 cents or more a pound. One official in Washington said yesterday that he expected a good deal of tobacco, of the lower grades, would not bring much more than four or five cents a pound, but that when a lot of tobacco was worth 25 cents, then it should bring this. The me chanics of the thing may not be en tirely clear to the laity; there aie all kinds of tobacco and all kinds of buy ers, and men are apt to differ in their judgment of what a particular pile of the weed would be worth for a par- ticular purpose. Until the re-opening date is made known, it is not .advisable for grow ers to prepare any of their crop for market, However, some few had started working certain barns about the time the holiday was declared. As far as it could he learned no tobacco has damaged iu the hands of growers in this section. Getting Ready for "Big" Court Next Week at Jail "We are getting right for 'big' court anl there'll he no more visiting in the hoosegow until the session is over," Jailer Roy Peel said yesterdays The out that he had 18 pris oners to caie for, that lie wanted to clean up the courthouse before court, and that with all that to do he just would not have time to turn visitors in and out of jail. "Sure, we'll con tinue to take those in who insist on violating the law," he concluded. Former Minister of This Section Killed in Wreck Rev. John »W. Tyndall was killed in an automobile accident in Okla homa last week. Particulars of the accident could not be had here, but it was learned that the body was buried in Michigan., The minister formerly lived in this state and had held meetings in several Christian churches in this community. Closing of Markets Has Put Complete Quietus on Business With the tobacco market* clos ing after operating a few days the latter part of August and the first day of this month, this September is recognized by the town's old est residents as the quietest of them all. "It's June right here in September,'" one of them remark ed yesterday, "and that goes for the heat as well as for the slump in activities," he continued. Business has not experienced any marked decline, for it had hardly gotten under way in the section before the markets closed. And now the section is back to where MANY FISH DIE IN MILL POND Large Number of Bass Are Seen Floating on Water; Cause Unknown * Mr. (".il\in Avers, prominent farm er of the Hear lirass section, in speak ing ul fishing this week, said lie was fishing Tuesday in the Big Mill Bond and found hundreds o( dead "chub" or black hass floating tm the water The -.ire. of the hass varied from the large to the small, and in addition t> the "chub," he saw a few dead cat fish, carp, and other li h common in the mill pond. The cause of the fish dying could not hi- definitely determined by Mr. Ayers, but he was of the opinion that poison put out in the tobacco fields to kill worms had been washed into the pond by J lie recent heavy rains and was responsible for the dead flsli. However, others in the section were not of the same opinion of Mr. Ayers, for they were of the belief that storms of this season of the year, which usu ally blow an excessive amount of haves into the low streams poison the fish. A large amount of tannic acid is soaked from the leaves which is deadly to fish, especially the bass. BRING HASSELL REVIVAL TO END Large Number of Additions To Church; Rev. J. M. Perry Was Preacher Hassell.—The local Christian church closed a very interesting meet ing Sunday. The services had run for 10 days, with preaching every night by Rev. J. M Ferry and re- Milted in 15 addition to the church by baptism, all young people from 14 to 17 years old. The Hassell church was established about the middle of the last century and was then dalled Lebanon. It was moved to Gold Foint about 30 years ago as a more central point, a bout 3 miles away. Soon thereafter, the Hassell community, feeling the need of a community center, re-estab lished the church and built a new building which has become inade quate, and the church has construct ed a new brick veneer building which will be ready for use in the near fu ture. The membership numbers about ISO at this time. Rev. (j. H. Sullivan is the pastor at the present time, which position he has filled for about five years., tlassell liowen, J. R. Tin gle, Tom (ireen, and S. H. Sumrell have served as pastors of this church. Though the work has apparently moved slowly and in a quiet way, fail ing to gel the full community sup port, just as the church fails in al most every community to' get the sym pathy and support of all, yet it is gratifying to know that few court cases have gone from this section, and the measure of good in any communi ty done by a church is more than can be measured in words, because Chris tian influence goes on and on. The churc also lias a good Jive Sun day achool under the leadership of good people.—Reported. it was a month ago, waiting for marketing developments. Thet e are fewer men and women unem ployed just at this time than there were in the midsummer months, but there is an inescapable dull ness that makes itself felt in the business pulse of the community when the warehouses close their doors, particularly at this time of the year. But there is a marked spirit of optimism afloat, and all are hope ful of a greater second opening of the markets than the first one was back on the 29th of August. STATE LEADS IN COLLECTION OF FEDERAL TAX Income Taxes Show Slight Increase; Collections As Whole Decrease Washington The North Carolina revenue distii.t, which collected s2l.', 4K7.7SJ lB, d«.ou led all other district's in the nation m the collection of Fed eral taxes fm year ending June 3D. income taxes in the slate showed an increase of II pei cent over 1932; but total ollet lions were off 8 per cent. The drop was due mainly to a decrease in miscellaneous taxes, in cluding that on tobacco, which were 9 per cent lower than in 1932. The ureal hulk of North Carolina's collections >.atne from the state's huge tohacco industry, which paid into the Federal treasury $199,511,718.51 in taxes on cigarettes and other manu factured tohacco products, the treas ury reported. Income taxes collected during the year totaled $12,7(1(1,720.22, compared with $11,464,232.47 ju 1932 North Carolina was one of two states to show au increase in income tax col lections. Nevada, with a 17 per cent increase, was the other. Of North Carolina's income lax, $9,482,484 60 was paid by corporations. Total collections from tobacco man ufacturers iu the nation totaled $402, 7.iy,059.25 I his sum was nearly half of the revenue derived by the govern ment from miscellaneous sources and nearly half of the total tobacco tax was collected in North Carolina. Other sources which contributed to North Carolina's total collections, in cluding manufacturers' excise taxes, Issues and transfers of bonds of in debtedness, issues of capital stock, passage tickets, foreign insurance poli cies and deeds of conveyance, $49,- 651.13; capital stock transfers $2,160; still or sparkling wines, cordials, etc., $lO, spirituous liquors, $1,323,'03; ihjii intoxicating liquors, $8,939 24 collec tions in connection with prohibition enforcement $1,073.15. North Carolina, which comprises one entire internal revenue district, not only led all other districts iu col lections, but led all other states ex cept New York, which has five dis tricts within its borders. New York's five districts collected a total of $376,- 346,672.75, but the largest amount fioni any one district was $204,039,143. Junior Order To Hold Meeting Here Thursday The local council of the junior Or der United American Mechanics will hold a meeting Thursday evening of this week at 8 o'clock, it was announc ed today by' Secretary J. H Harrell. |AII members are urged to be present. Farmers Haul Fish Home tor Fertilizer Wlien shifts of (he tide killed thous ands of small fish in the river near New Bern recently, the county agent .notified his farmer friends to come haul them home for fertilizer.'Trucks were busy for several d^ys. ' J ESTABLISHED 1898 TWO TOWNSHIPS REPORT 100 PER CENT RESPONSE Williamston and Roberson ville Have Signed Every Grower in Districts With l,lo3\contracts, representing acres, officially reported and several hundred others ready to be turned in, the tobacco sign-up is hearing completion in Martin Coun ty today. It was conservatively es [ timated this morning that 96.3 per | cent of the total tobacco acreage had | been signed, and efforts were still under way to push the campaign to a unanimous sign up The acreage already officially reported totals j more than the acreage planted to the crop last year, when there were 10,- 066 acres of tobacco in the county. The increase in acreage was not so | very large this year, and it is be ■ lieved the final reports will shmw | Martin County just about 100 per | cent signed up. » ' 1 li«t Martin County Uriners are isupporting tin* cooperative movement ' 100 per cent was heard in neaily every I section today, with two townships, i Williamson and Robersonville, al ready over the top with a completed sign up Others were in line with only narrow margins separating them from a 100 per cent goal The movement in this county was assured of'success last Saturday, when farmers packed the county courthouse, pledged their efforts in making it suc cessful, and exhausted the supply of contract blanks in short order Ad ditional blanks were rushed here and I the sign up continued unabated Vol unteer canvassers by (lie s ores went j into every section of the county Sat urday night in the interest of the [drive, and today the non signers are in a pitiful minority; in fact, they are so few that tfrey Can almost he point ed out by their neighbors And while the drive has been car ried to success in this county, encour aging reports are coming from all to bacco sections, indicating that the movement will be one of the most complete victories ever recorded for the Southern farmer. Surely, the growers will have completed their part in the program within the next day or two, making possible the reopening of the markets upon short notice. Mass meetings in the tobacco-pro ducing counties of both Carolinas were held yesterday afternoon in the interest of the campaign. Signing of contracts likewise was pushed in Geor gia and Virginia, which, with the Car olinas, produce most of. the nation's output of Hue cured tobacco. John K Hutcheson, director of ag ricultural extension in Virginia, said lit had good reason to believe most of Virginia's would sign the contracts. ' The campaign in the Old Dominion will continue for a week. • Oak City Team Defeats Pi net ops Friday, 5 To 0 • Oak City registered a 5 to 0 vic tory over the strong Pinetops base ball club at Oak City last Friday,. Frank Whitehurst turning the visitors back with only four hits. Mark Webb pitched a good game for the visitors, allowing only five hits. Parker led at the bat for Oak City with two hits. Bunting caught for Oak City and A. Webb caught for Pinetops, ■■ ■ • Skewarkee Lodge Will Hold Meeting Tonight Skewarkee Lodge of Masons will hold their regular meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in the local lodge, it was an nounced yesterday by M. J. Moye, the master. In addition to the regular business, there will be work in the first degree, the local lodge initiating a candidate from Hamilton at the re- J quest of Conoho lodge thare. Members are urged to attend and visiting llatons are cordially invited.
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