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VOLUME XX£VI —NUMBER 83
FARMERS SOON
TO GET TOBACCO
BENEFIT MONEY
Approximately $58,000 Es
timated As Farmers'
Share In Martin
Martin County farmers will receive
within the next month or two ap
proximately $58,000 at their share in
the tobacco benefit fund. Warehouse
employees are busy now verifying
sales records, and the work will be
rushed to completion by the latter
part of this week, it is understood. It
is not known here just what will be
done after the sales are verified, but
it is believed that the information
will be forwarded to the secretary of
agriculture, who will draw checks for
the various amounts and forward them
to the county agent. The farmer
will be asked to call at the office of
the county agent with his tales slipt
and get his money. It might be that
the farmer will be asked to call at
the a&nt's office before the informa
tion it forwarded to Washington.
However, complete detaili will be
announced in ample time so as not to
cause a delay in placing the benefit
mdney in the hands of the growers.
During the first four tales days,
Auguat 29 to September 1, inclusive,
the local market paid out $35,526.18.
The government will add to that
amount 20 per cent of the total, cre
ating $7,105.23 more for the farmers.
From September 25 to October 7, the
government will pay 10 per cent of
the receipts, bringing to patrons of
this market an additional $17,918.69,
or a total of $25,023.92.
The undertaking is a huge one, and
if everything works smoothly much
time will be required to complete.the
work. More particulars in connec
tion with the plan will be made from
time to time.
PLAN ADDITION
AT BEAR GRASS
Consider Constructing Two-
Room Addition To
School
Plan* are being considered for the
construction of a two-room addition
to the Bear Grass school building, it
was learned this week." The project
has been approved by the achool com
mission authoritie* and is now before
the Civil Works administrator in Ra
leigh.
At the present time the school there
ia badly crowded even with one grade
housed in the community house and
another in the library.
The project, estimated to cost ap
proximately SB,OOO, will be financed by
the Civil Works Administration, it is
understood.
Thief Whitewashes Mule
and Sells Him To Owner
Colorful stories were told back yon
der in the old horse-trading days, but
one even more colorful was lesrned
th's wek following the delivery of
one Edward Brooks, colored prisoner,
to the State Highway road camp
near here.
As the story was learned here,
Brooks is alleged to have stolen a
black mule. He whitewashed the ani
mal and sold him to the original
owner who did not discover his
"white" mule was black until a rain
caught them both in' the open a few
days later.
The same Brooks to said to have
placed his small brother in a sackl
and sold him as a pig in the poke, re
ceiving $4.50. Brooks dumped fhc
boy in the hog pen and went on his
way. The boy crawled from the pen
and beat his brother home, while the
purchaser is said to have believed the
pig he thought he bought had es
caped.
Broolcs, coming here from Pan
tego, to now serving time in the road
camp near here.
Fifteen Pupils Make
Everetts Honor Roll
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The name* of fifteen pupil* appear
on the Everetts school honor roll for
the third month, recently ended, it
was announced this week by Princi
pal Russell, as follows:
First Grade: Rachel Marie Ed
mondton, Harold Harrison.
Second Grade: Janie Margaret
Ayers, Bernice Meeks, Mary Lou
Wynne, Russell Mobley, Billy Clark.
Third Grade: Dora O'Neil Bailey.
John Mobley, Jr.
Fifth Grad*: Grace Clark.
Fourth Grade: Florine dark
Sixth Grader Joe Johnson.
Semth Grade; Mattie Lou Keel,
Margaret Edwards, Ernestine Forbes.
THE ENTERPRISE
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More Cotton Ginned This
Year In Martin County
Martin County farmers had ginned
1,269 more bales of cotton up to the
first of this month than they did up
to the first of December last year, a
government report released recently
shows. The report shows 5,824 hales
ginned this year as compared with
4,555 ginned to December 1 last year.
The State, with 661,621 bales ginned
this year, reported an increase of
46,221 bales over last year's produc
tion. Had the reduction program
not been in effect, it is believed the
crop would have beee the largest
grown in this State in a number of
years.
CANTATA TO BE
PRESENTED BY
CHORAL CLUB
Choral Society Will Have
Charge Of "The King
Cometh" Sunday
This coming Sunday afternoon at
5:30 o'clock the Williamston Choral
Society will give a Christmas cantata
at the Church of the Advent. Jhe
name of the cantata ia "The King
Cometh," by Stults. It is written in
three parts: I, A King I« Promised;
11, The Incarnation; 111, The King
Is Born. It will take about 50 min
utes to render this music, and after
it begins there will be no intermis
sion. Promptly at 5:30 the proces
sion will form at the entrance of the
church, and the lights of the church
will be turned out, excepting the
lights on the organ and those on the
altar. Each member of the choir will
carry a candle, and they will march
in, singing "O Come All Ye Faith
ful." After the choir is seated, the
rector of the church will read a
passage of Scripture and offer a
prayer, and then the cantata will be
gin.
No offering will be taken, but the
alms basins will be placed on a table
in the yeatibule of the church, so that
those who desire may make an offer
ing, the money to be used for char
lily.
As has been announced, the Choral
Society is sponsored by the Woman's
Club, but is made up of men as well
as women. There are over 25 mem
bers. The cantata is directed by Mrs.
Wheeler Martin and the' organist i*
Mrs. Warren Biggs.
It is understood that this service
will take the place of the usual Sun
day night services in the churches;
hence a large crowd is expected.
Election Of Vestry At
Church Of The Advent
Sunday evening, after the regular
service, there was a congregational
meeting at the Church of the Ad
vent for the purpose of electing the
Vestry for the coming year. The
same members as last year were re
elected. They are Messrs. N. C. Green,
Masrice Moore, Clayton Moore,
J. H. Saunders, Ellis Malone, R. S.
Smith, C. B. Clark and Leslie Fow
den. At the organization, of the Ves
i try, Mr. Green was elected senior
warden and Mr. Maurice Moore was
elected junior warderi. Judge Moore
was elected treasurer, and Mr. Mau
rice Moore secretary.
Martin County Schools
Close For Holidays
The last of the Martin County
schools close tomorrow for the Christ
mas holidays, several having ceased
activities last Friday. Closing 'to
morrow afternoon, the local schools
will reopen Monday, January 1, it was
announced yesterday by Principal D.
N. Hix.
Brief Christmas exercises including
the exchange of gifts will feature the'
closing day activities here tomorrow.
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Car Owners Asked To
Reserve Parking Space
local car owners are again asked
to use discretion in parking their cars
in the business section during these
next few days. With a very few «x-|
ceptions, most employees are walking
to and from their work, providing j
just that many more parking placet
for visitors from the country and
other communities.
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Two Martin County Qirla
, Honored At E. C. T. C.
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Two Martin County girls, Miss Vir
ginia Green Taylor, of Willtomston,
and Miss Thelma Peel, of Everett*,
ware signally honored recently whea
they were elected to head their re
spective classes in the East Carolina
Teachers' College, Greenville.
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 19, 1933
BOY NEARLY
LOSES SIGHT
BY FIREWORKS
Firecracker Explodes In
Face Of Martin Ander
son Last Week
Martin Anderson, young son of
Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Anderson, nearly
lost his sight last week when a fire
cracker exploded and burned his eyes.
It was thought at first that the child
would be blind for life, but doctors
are now more hopeful that his eyes
will be all right within a few day*.
Doctors scraped the eyeball and re
moved the burned powder.
While the accident is one of the
most serious heard here this year in
connection with the firing of pop
crackers, there have been a number
of others of minor consequence. Lit
tle Catherine York suffered a burned
finger in attempting to shoot a pop
cracker last week.
Shooting of fireworks is being well
controlled in the business section
here, but dangerous practices have
been reported in other sections. Chil
dren, playing with the dangerous fire
works should remember that it is un
lawful to throw popcrackers at peo
ple or automobiles. Several arrests
are pending, it is understood, in some
cases where children threw pop
crackers at cars.
Sheriff C. B| Roebuck's car was a
firecracker target on the Jamesville
road last week, one attack almost
causing the officer to wreck his car.
Other motorists have reported at
tacks made on their cars by children
with the various fireworks weapons,
and it is understood that some of the
cases will be investigated.
Several bales of cotton were threat
ened by fire in Oak City last week
as a result of careless handling of
fireworks. The owner, Mr. J. H. Ay
ers, discovered the fire and put it out
before any damage was done.
Already more fireworks have been
sold and fired here than at any
Christmas time in years, and while
local and county authorities are quiet
ly observing the play, they plan to
prosecute every case possible where
the laws ar violated.
Drives Car Into Mule
Stable; Hailed In Court
Losing control of the machine, El
bert Wilton, young white man, drove
hi* Pontiac coupe through a fence
and into a mule stable on Frank |
Wearer's farm to the edge of town
here last Sunday night. Considerable'
damage was done to the car, fence
and stables, but Wilson and his com
panion, W. B. Glasgow, escaped with
slight injuries.
Wilson crashed the fence, and con
tinued his wild drive through the
side of the building, stopping the car|
in a stable with a mule. Planka and
splinters flew thick and fast, but the
animal was not hurt.
The driver is scheduled to appear
in court today on a reckless driving
, charge.
GLADSTONE WILL
PROBATED HERE
Estate Estimated To Reach
Between $75,000 And
SIOO,OOO
The will of the late Frank L.
Gladstone was filed in the courthouse
here last week, representing what is
believed to he one of the largest es
tates bequeathed a beneficiary in this
county in a number of years. The
will mentioned two beneficiaries, Mrs.
L. F. Anthony, a sister who died
sometime ago, and his wife, Mrs.
Gattie Cloman Gladstone. The pa
per, prepared back in May, 1922, be
queathed $5,000 to Mrs. Anthony and
the remainder of the estate to Mrs.
Gladstone.
it is estimated that the estate has
a value ranging from $75,000 to
SIOO,OOO.
According to rumors heard during
the past two or three days, Mr. Glad
stone's daughter, Mrs. Mary Taylor,
is likely to contest the will, but this
could not be learned as an established
truth here.
It was later learned that other rela
tives are planning to contest the will.
1934 Automobile License
Tags Moving Slowly
The sale of 1934 State automobile
license tags is advancing a bit slowly
here, the bureau reporting a few over
400 sold up until Yesterday noon. The
sale represents a cash outlay of
slightly more than- $5,000.
According to unofficial information
received here a day or two ago, the
local bureau will be closed after the
first of the year. It was first an
nounced by the Carolina Motor Club,
which organization maintains the bu
reaus, that the office here would be
kept open all next year.
"Prairie Rose" To Be
Given At Jamesville
Jamesville High School students
will present the play, "Prairie Rose,"
in the high school auditorium there
this evening at 8 o'clock.
The cast, coached by Miss Annie
V. Horner, is well selected (or the
play presentation, and a number of
features have'been arranged between
the four acts.
Proceeds from the 10 and 20-cent
admission fee will be used for school
purposes, it was announced.
Mad Dog Runs Wild In j
Bear Grass Township
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Two young son* of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Mendenhall, of Bear Grass
Township, were bitten last week by a
mad dog. A third person was said to
have been bitten, but he had not|
| started taking treatments up until
yesterday.
A report from the bureau of hy
giene,, Raleigh, was received here yes
terday, and the two children started
taking the Pasteur treatment imme
diately.
PROGRAMS WILL
BE PUT ON BY
PRESBYTERIANS
Local Christmas Program
To Be Presented At 5:30
Friday Afternoon
During the Christmas season the
following Christmas programs and
trees will he given by the Presby
terians.
At Ballard's Farm the Sunday
school will present a Christmas pro
gram which will be followed by the
distribution of presents and fruit.
After the exercises the Young People
will practice a little play entitled
"Gifts For the King."
The Christmas program will be
Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. The
play Tuesday night of next week.
On Thursday night at Roberson's
Chapel the Choral Club of Williains
ton will sing. After the musical pro
gram gifts and fruit will be given to
the members of the Sunday school.
The hour is 7 p. m.
On Friday afternoon at 5:30 the
Williamston Sunday school will pre
sent its Christmas program followed
by the awarding of presents for year
ly attendance and also gifts and fruits
for each Sunday school pupil.
Friday night at 7 o'clock the Bear
Grass Sunday school will give a
Christmas program followed by the
play "Gifts For the King" by the
Young People of the church. Gifts
and fruit wil| be given to Sunday
school pupils and the Young People.
Regular services will be held at
each of these points on Christmas
eve. L
Woman's Club Sponsors
Dance Friday Night
The lojpal .Woman's Club announces
a dance in the club hall here next
Friday evening, the Robersonville or
chestra furnishing the music.
Improved Attendance Last
Month In Local School
Attendance figures reflected an im
proved condition in the local school
during the third month, Principal D.
N. Hix reporting an increase of IS
pupils in attendance over the previous
month. The average daily attendance
for the period was 91 per cent, 540
pupils in the elementary grades and
157 in the high school attending reg
ularly on an average.
Stray Mule Killed by Car
On Highway Yesterday
| A mule, loose on Jht highway be
tween Eferetts au Robersonville,
I was struck and killed by an automo
| bile driven by J6e Pinner, of Eliza-
J>eth City, late yesterday afternoon.
I The name of the owner of the ani
mal could not be learned here.
Mr. Pinner escaped injury, but hia
car was badly damaged.
• Frank Carstarphen, a passenger in
the car, was slightly hurt
f FOUR MORE DAYS I )
Pour more shopping days are
left before Chriatmaa.
While it ia too late to thop
early, it ia not too lata to find
hundreds of bargaina in local
atorea. In fact, new shipments
of appropriate Chriatmaa gifts
for all members of tha family are
arriving daily, and present indi
cations point to a continued
busy season here.
To accommodate thair patrons,
local atorea will continua open
each evening this weak until 9
o'clock with tha exception of Sat
urday, when the atorea will con
tinue open until 11 o'clock.
SEE AGREEMENT
ON NEW PRICE
FOR PEANUTS
Accord, Tentatively Ap
proved, Fixes Increased
Figure For Crop
Washington. Tentative approval
was given by C. W. Marvin, acting
secretary of agriculture, to a peanut
marketing agreement, which, it was
announced, calls for a minimum price
to growers $5 a ton higher than the
schedule considered in the first draft
of the agreement.
Under the agreement, prices would
be set on the basis of U. S. grades,
as follows;
Southeast and Southwest Spanish
and Virginia Spanish U. S. No. 1
stock, $65 a ton; southeast runners,
U. S. No. 1, $55 a ton; Virginias
shelling stock, U. S. No. 3, basis, S6O
a ton.
1 liese prices could be changed at
any time with the approval of the
secretary of agriculture.
After signing of the agreement
by the contracting parties, it will be
Returned for ifinal consideration by
the agricultural adjustment adminis
tration.
Agriculture department officials said
proponents of the agreement repre
sent approximately 75 per xrent of
the milling volume in the Virginia-
Carolina area and the southeast and
100 per cent of the volume in the
southwest.
PREPARE GIFTS
FOR CHILDREN
Welfare Group Make Plans
To Distribute Number
Of Baskets
While no centralized effort has
been advanced, it is understood that
many individuals in this section are
planning to prepare and deliver boxes
to unfortunate children Christmas
day. Welfare workers have already
prepared small gifts ami delivered
them to a number of needy children,
and tre churches will remember many
others as has been the custom.
Mrs. L. B. Harrison, chairman of
the Woman's Club welfare commit
tee, said this morning that small
boxes of candy and fruit would prob
ably be collected and delivered to ap
proximately 25 children by that de
partment this Christmas. However,
many cases will be left to individuals
to care for, and it is believed the real
spirit of the season will be well ad
vanced by those in a position to
make the less fortunate happy.
Home Economics Class
Makes Quilt By Hand
The home economic* department in
the local high school recently com
pleted a quilt, and members of the
class are now selling chances on It.
The winner will be determined at a
drawing in the B. S. Courtney Furni
ture Store Tuesday afternoon at
4:30 o'clock, the proceeds from the
sale going to buy additional equip
ment for the department.
To Submit Swimming Pool
Project To Officials Soon
Williamston citizens, a number of
them, are planning to go to Raleigh
probably Thursday of this week in
the interest of a project for a swim
ming pool here. Plans and specifica
tion* have already been prepared, it
was learned today.
Pie Party Announced At
Cedar Branch * Church
The Cedar Branch Baptist church
announces a pie party to be held
there Thursday evening of this week.
The drawing of a number to deter
mine the winner of a bed quilt will
I feature the party, it was said.
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ESTABLISHED 1898
CWA WORKERS
DECREASED AS
JOBS ARE DONE
Approval Of New Projects,
However, Will Create
More Work
Completing certain projects last
week, the lisyt A. workers
was slightly decreased during the
period, effecting a decrease in the
amount of the payroll. Disbursing
Officer Luther Peel said yesterday
that $3,138.75 was paid to the work
ers.
Several new projects were approv
ed last Saturday, and it is now believ
ed that raur» than 400 men will be on
the C. W. A. list in this county by
the latter part of this week. The
payroll this week will probably exceed
$5,000 in the county.
Various difficulties are being ex
perienced in the work, mainly in the
placing of farmers and tenants on the
work list. The State authorities have
instructed all county units not to
hire farmers or tenants as they were
recognized _as employed the year
around.
' The quota of workers allotted the
State has been increased by about
10,000 men, and it is estimated that
the allotment to this county will be
increased from 442 to approximately
500 inen.
Five projects were formally ap
proved by Mrs. O'Berry's office last
week, creating jobs for 245 men in
this county. One or two of the pro
jects were already underway, and the
new work will create jobs for hardly
more than 225 men.
The main project approved calls
for the construction of 2,400 sanitary
privies in the county, giving employ
ment to more than 163 men. The
sanitary project provided the expen
diture of more than $24,000. Engi
neer A. Corey and his assistant, Mr.
Raymond are already
making final plans for the construc
tion of the little units, and it is be
lieved the first of the houses will be
constructed by or before the latter
part of this week.
A preliminary survey of sanitary
condition* here ami there throughout
the county has brouoKht in .some al
most unbelievable stories. A climax
to the facts was reached when an in
spector found five families living in
one house and there wasn't a privy on
the plantation.
In executing the sanitary plant,
the authorities arc asking the coop
eration of all the people. Those
landowners needing a privy on their
property will do the authorities a
favor by applying for labor and house
construction.
A second sizeable project approved
last week calls for the improvement
of the river road from Hamilton to
I Palmyra. Definite cost figures are
i not available at this time, but the
project will cost five or six thousand
dollars, it is believed. The project
will employ approximately 42 men.
The completion of the Jamesville-
Washington road was ordered, pro
viding the continued employment of
42 men and the expenditure of
around $4,416.
A drainage project for the Town
of Hamilton was also approved, call
ing for an expenditure of $558 and
the employment of 12 men.
Robcrsonville's drainage project,
already underway, was formally ap
proved last week, calling for the em
ployment of 35 men and the expen
diture of $3,628.
Martin County has several other
projects awaiting consideration, and
two or three more will be submitted
the S(ate authorities of the C. W. A.
probably this week. One of the pro
jects to be submitted is for a swim
ming pool here.
Much Favorable Comment
About Decorated Streets
Williamston's 850 various colored
lights in the business districts have
been the cause of much favorable
comment from visitors far and neir.
Many have the town is one
of the best lighted they had seen thii
year. An additional 150 of the color*,.,
ed lights were placed in the lowlt
"Main street business section and on
1 Washington street over the week
end.
Farm Life 4-H Club
Holds Regular Meeting
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The 4-H Club of Farm Life school
met in the school auditorium on De
cember 15, 1933. The president called
the meeting to order and the secre
tary called the roll. After singing
Christmas songs, the girls took pet
terns of a needle book, and then learn
ed to make rags oat of sacks. Plans
were made for the meeting next
month. »