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Km Lahal Oa Tm At It- Curia* th* Dm* Y? VOLUME XXXVII?NUMBER 67 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday^ Oetober 19. 1934 ESTABLISHED 1898 LITTLE GIRL IS LOCATED AFTER FRANTIC SEARCH First-Grade Pupil Is Found At Home of Friend by Worried Mother ? Little Ludie Faye Keel, first grade in the local schools, caused her moth er much uneasiness last Tuesday eve ning when she failed to return home on the school bus and was still missing after darkness fell. Mrs. Keel rushed to town, probably thinking that her ?Mid had been kidnapped or was lost among strangers. The principal wasj called, and then a teacher and the! superintendent of schools were sum moned- to aid in the search. j Thinking that little Ludie Faye had been left by the bus and that she did not know where to go. the mother and school folks searched the school build-, ing in vain. Then the searchers went to \he circus grounds where they learned that a young girl, partly an swering to the description, was seen hurrying to and fro as if she waa look Ing for some one or was lost. The information frightened the mother just that much more, and the searchers had gained nothing. A visit was then made to the home of the child's rela tives near here. The children at the home did not attend school that day and nothing had been seen of the missing tot. The search was then directed to the home of the bus driver on the route where the child lived. The driver was hot at home. Thinking that the girl had gone with Mr. Keel, they went to tHe home, but Mr. Keel was away. Finally a friends of (he girl was found who said. Ludie Faye had gone home with a friend on another truck. Two hours later and after chasing over parts of two townships, the searchers found the child at the hotne of W. W. Roberson, peacefully enjoy ing* the companionship of her little friends, l.udie Faye explained that she yelled back to her mother that morning, informing Mrs. Keel of the planned visit. The mother tailed hear the child. To Sell School Property On Next First Monday ? Property rendered useless for the public school system in this county through consolidation of several units, will be offered for sale at public auc tion here the first Monday of next month, according to a notice of sale carried this week by the county board of education. The property mentioned for sale in? eludes the Lilley's Halt schoolhouse and site, the Parmele building and site and the White Oak Springs property and one-tenth of an acre about 4 miles north of Wiliiamston on State High way 125. The sale is ordered in accordance with section 62 of the 1923 public school law, and i* the Jaet scheduled in this county under the consolida tion program. Program of Services at Presbyterian Churches The usual services will be held at all points this Sunday at the regular hours The sermon subject will be "Loyalty." You are invited to worship with us. The young people of Robyson's Chapel are planning an athletic so cial for next Monday night at 7:30 p. m. An hour of fun and fellowship will be followed by a winer roast. The Robcrson's Chapel men of the church will have their regular month ly meeting just after the church school hour Sunday afternoon. All the men arc urged to be present. ' Go lo church Sunday, Sunday school, too. This is a splendid way to show you loyalty to the church and to Christ. Legion To Give Supper For All Ex-Service Men ? The John W Hasten Post of the American Legion wil serve a barbecue and brunswick stew supper to ail the former service men of Martin County on Monday, October 22, at 7:30 p. m., in the Legion hall, in Williamston. Every member of the legion is ex pected to attend and to bring all form er service men Irving around him. A good feed is expected and matters will be discussed which will be of in terest to all persons who served in the great war. All former service men are invited, whether they are members of the leg ion or not. ? c 1 Fiddlers' Convention At Bear Grass Next Friday An old-time fiddlers' convention will be held in the Ber Carats school au ditorium next Friday evening at 7:J0 o'clock. A small admission will be charged and cash prises will be award ed the con Lea tan ts, Principal Hickman announced yesterday. Good-Sized Break on Floors of j Local Tobacco Market Today Averaging well over 35 cent* a pound all this weak, the local to bacco market has experienced one of the beat selling periods as far as prices arc concerned since back in 1919. And the poundage has been large considering the busy period the fanners are now ex periencing the harvesting of their peanut, cotton and sweet potato crops. Farmers are said to have been very well pleased with their sales, giving rise to the opinion that offerings next week will be even heavier than they have been this week, especially so since pea nut digging has been completed by many farmers. After visiting some of the larg er markets, farmers arc returning here to continue their marketing, according to reliable reports heard from a number of growers today. No unreasonably high sales have been reported here, it is true, but it has been established beyond all doubt that the current run of to bacco, grade for grade considered, is bringing prices equal to if not a little higher than those on any market in the State. Conservative estimates placed the poundage on the local floors today at well over 100,000 pounds, bringing the total poundage for the season up to approximately 5,650,000 pounds with the average for the week ranging between 35 and 36 cents a pound. Mr. McFarland, the statistician of the market, said by Monday week, the market will have cross ed over the six-million-pound mark, and will have headed to wards the seven-million-pound mark. ARREST EVADERS I Several alleged violator* have already been arretted and carried into the court of thi* county for operating butineta establishment* without proper state license. Dep uty Collector Ed James said this* week. Other arrests are eapected in this and Bertie Counties. The deputy collector also said that several merchants in this and surrounding counties are expected to be brought into the courts for alleged failure in making proper returns and settlement of sales taxes. SOON TO FINISH WORK ON HOTEL Formal Opening?Will Be Held About First of Next Month ? ??? ? Preparations are being rushed to completion for the formal opening' about the first of next month of Hotel i George, Williamson's modern hostel !ry, E. P. Cunningham, owner, said j yesterday. Plans, if any, for the open ing have not been announced, hut the. event, marking the addition to the business life of the community one of its greatest assets in a number of years, will be favorably recognized lo yally and abroad to a great extent, Ht j is generally believed. i . J The thirty rooms and their con necting baths are mdjf for occupancy and use almost in their entirety, and alterations are being made rapidly in the lobby which will be located on the corner in the building formerly occupied by Merchant George W? Blount. The Blount store has been . moved further up the street, hut re- ; mains in the hotel building. H?t for the .town's first steam-1 heated hotel will be turned on within the next few days, or just as' soon as the raditors are installed. Sixty Peanut Pickers Have Secured Licenses About 60, or nearly one-half the pea j nut picker operators in this county have already applied for operating per mits, Register of Deeds J. Sam Get singer, who issues the licenses, said yesterday. It is believed that 100 per cent of the crop in this county will be picked by licensed picker operators. , District Meeting of P.T.A. To Be Held October 24th The northeastern district meeting of the Parent-Teacher Association will be held at LaGrange October 24th. A very interesting and instructive pro gram has been planned. It is hoped that many from the local association will go. Registration fee, 10c; and lunch 35c. If you can go please get in touch with Mrs. E. F. Moseley or Mrs. Jamai Manning. Legion Auxiliary Members To Meet In Robersonville ? The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary of the John Wal ton Hassell Post of the American Leg ion will be held in the home of Mrs. Mack Wynne, Robersonville, N. C., at 3:JO o'clock Saturday afternoon, Oc tober 20. All members are urged to attend and bring their contribution of jelly with them. Bfc Grows Stalk ol Okra Thirteen Feet High Producing an okra atalk 13 feet long, Mr. C. B Siceloflf ia now recog nized a* III) champion okra grower in thia aection. After taking 35 okra from the aingla atalk. grown in I garden here, Mr. Siceloflf cut it down and there were aeveral other okra in the nuking when the atalk waa re .moved. CONDITIONS NOT FAVORABLE FOR LEAF IN CANADA Young Men From County Back After Summer Spent There Condition* fo rtobacco' culture in Canad were not considered very favor able by Dan Manning and X)nward Gaylord following their return from J the tobacco regions there a few days ago. The two you jig men had been in that country during the summer; teaching the Canadians th^ art of cur- j ing tobacco. j The crop is handled and cultivated J there after the same methods employed j in this belt, but the season is much ^strcrrter. Frojt killed* the crop in one ? sectnjir ttir latter jiart flf'XugUSl. And yrotng^jjfylord was-forced to. find, em ployjiient in another, section. Only ?abotit five counties are cultivating the nop, the fanners producing approxi mately 25,000,000 pounds in a good season. The top price last year was 24 cents, hut the farmers are lotting for an increase this season. Grown in hothouses, the plans are | placed in the fields about the last of May or early June. Only during the past four or five years have the farm ers harvested'a few leaves from each j stalk at the time, curing them in barns considerably larger than the one com (.nl> used in this section. Young Man ning said lb barns were harvested from j the 28 acres on the farm where he worked, but a portion of the crop was killed by frost. The buying companies send their representative direct to the farms, where grading instructions are given and or tees arc agreed uPutl. the fating er to make delivery to some shipping point later in the season. The boy9 were of the opinion that no serious '?cempetition is to be expelled' frMll the territory in the cultivation and pro duction of tobacco. t urers are paid good wages, and common farm labor receives fair re muneration, the latter group being paid about $35 a month and board there. Nearly $150,000 in Benefit Payments in This County Martin County farmers have receiv ed $148^301.87 in rental and benefit payments from the Agricultural Ad justment Administration to date, not to mention the greatly increased in come made possible for farm products through control programs. The great er amount of the nearly $150,000 went 1 to tobacco farmers, the next sizeable | sum going to cotton growers. Very little inunty, if any, has been paid the I corn-hog contract signers in this county so far. j North Carolina farmers received j $10,337,038 out of the $294,809,568 dis tributed throughout the natiori in ren* [ tal and benefit payments on the 1933 and 1934 adjustment programs. ? Program of Services at Church of the Advent ? Rev. E. F. Moseley, rector. Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity: Church school, 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a. m. Evenjng prayer and sermon, 7:30 p. m. Holy Trinity Mission Sunday school and preaching, 3:30. Regular Services At Church in Jamesville ? The regular schedule of services will be followed in the Sunday worship at the Jamesville Baptist church, Rev. W B. Harrington, the pastor, announced yesterday. Sunday school will con vene at 10 a. m., followed by a preach ing service at 11. The evening wor ship will be held at 7:30 o'clock, and Use public is cordially invited to at tend. FIND MISTAKES IN NUMBER OF TOBACCO CARDS Ruling Expected Soon for Farmers Who Oversold Allotments A new problem, although consid ered a minor one, presented itself in the tobacco control program here this week when farmers returned their al lotment cards and employees in the agent's office found e.rors in some of the figures. While the errors, as a whole, have not been found so far to be of any great consequence, one card shows 2,000 pounds of tobacco mar keted in excess of the allotment. Most of the cards where errors have been found show UK) or less pounds mar keted in excess of the allotment. Just how these errors will be han dled is not known at this time, but a ruling is expected from the AAA au thorities within the next day or two. It is believed that the farmer market ing, through error, more than his aW loiment Will have to purchase-Georgia cards to take care of the excess. Those farmers who have not com pleted their marketing will probably find it to their advantage to add the i poundage on their sales . slips and check the total with the allotment on the marketing card. It* any error ap- ; pears, a correction can be made by the issuance of a new card. Martin farmers are ur^ed to return, their marketing cards to the county agent's office just as soort as they complete the marketing, as the early return of the cards will hasten the ad justment payments, it is understood. ? FARMERS FAVOR CORN-HOG PLAN Majority in This~ County Want Continuation of = Control Program Reports from a majority of the coiii-lmg contract signers in tins coun ty are said to favor a continuation of the Control -program sponsored by the Agricultural Adjustment Administra tion. Similar reports received in other counties are said to favor the continuation of the program also, in dicating that the movement has been beneficial to the contracting farmers, and that the agricultural authorities will he requested to continue the com trol policies in effect. Corn-hog benefit payments have not been received in this county, hut they are, expected shortly. There are .onlyyl9 cuntracting ~co.ni-.hOg ~fTfodiicT ers in the county, hut that number is fairly representative in that there are very few farmers producing meat on a large scale in this immediate sec tfon. . To Make Plans for Meet Of County Teachers Soon Plans will be formulated for a series of four Martin County teachers' meet ings next week, probably Tuesday, it was learned from the office of the sup erintendent here yesterday. The date for the first meeting will be announced as goon as arrangements for the meet ings are completed. Large Number Attend Square Dance Here An enjoyable square dance was held in the Planters warehouse here last1 Wednesday evening with a large nurn- ! her of farmers and local people taking part. The Scotland Neck White Owls and "Professor" Taylor's Whoopee boys furnjsbed the music. Play To Be Given At Hamilton Next Week The Gleaners' class of the Windsor Methodist Sunday school will present the play, "After All," a comedy in four acts, in the Hamilton school au ditorium Thursday evening, October 25. Rev. T. W. Lee, a former pastor of the Hamilton church, take the part of Si Jones, a fresh widower. Federated Clubs To Hold District Meet in Columbia a A district meeting of the federated women's clubs wil be held next Tues-j day, October 23, at Columbia. Lunch eon will be served at a cost of 25 cents. All members of the William ! ston Woman's Club desiring to at tend are asked to notify Mrs. M. J. Moye as early as posible. g % . Potato Growers To Meet In Edenton Tomorrow ? The movement to effect a market ing system for Irish potatoes and truck :rops will be discussed at a district meeting of growers and agricultural officials in Edenton tomorrow morn ing at 10:30 o'clock. Mr. W. G Meal, marketing specialist, is expected to at tend the meeting, it was announced. Representattre* from this county are planning to-attend the session. Greater Roanoke Fair Gets Under Way Monday Week Arrangements for holding the Greater Roanoke Fair, opening in Williamston Monday after next* October 29th, were announced vir tually complete this week by Man ager N. G. Bartlett. In addition to the $1,500 cash prises offered in the agricultural, livestock, poultry and fancy work departments, the fair operators have already made one of the largest cash outlays ever expended before to make the fair one of value and real enter tainment for the people of this en tire section. Elaborate displays of fireworks will be seen each night, and some of the most sensational free acts ever see i in the South have been booked. Work Shows will be on the mid way this season with a varied pro gram of entertainment and rides, and Homer P. Lee's band will be at the fair all the week. The free attractions include: The giant rooster act (one that has never appeared before in this section and the only one of its kind in America), the aerial Blacks the three Kressels, Bee Kyle, America's premiere lady diver, Taylor's rodeo, and other features such as Jack Steele and his motor cycle stunts on Tuesday night and automobile races on Saturday. Producers To Ballot On Tobacco Control CONTINUATION IS FAVORED BY BIG CROWD AT MEET Referendum To Be Held Some Time During November trol program after the expiration of I the present contracts next year will he decided in a referendum of grow lers next month,' agricultural author i.-. ties and farmer representatives arrang ing for the poll at a meeting held in1 ' Raleigh this week. The referendum 'may he conducted by mail or* | agents may make personal contacts ?with each signer of the contracts au [ thoriaed by the Kerr-Smith act Strong for Plan ~~ With dissenters silent if present, | farmers and their representatives voiced their enthusiastic approval of the tobacco acreage control plan and the Raleigh. meeting this week. After considerable discussion, tin growers voted to ask the agricultural | administration to extend the contracts now in existence to cover a 5-year per , iod and adopted a motion by (*. T Hall, president of the North Carolina I Tobacco Cirowers' Advisory Board, providing that .). B. Hutson, chief of I the AAA tobacco section, be euipow , t-red t?? adjust the program to* chatm ing conditions from time to time. One of the meeting's two chief proh | lems had been the length of the ex J tension. Some representatives felt that five years was too long, due to the } inevitability of chanuink; tinn'- Mr. | Hall's motion apparently settled all doubts in the minds of ihe. group and . was greeted with a wild hurst of Hp plause. I The other problem creating some ? difficulty at the meeting was that of tfie tax on the products of non sigtft rs of the contracts. Under the present provision of the Kerr-Smith Act this , tax may amount to a maximum of 33 1-3 per cent. However, the minimum 'of 25 percent now is being levied. Want Maximum Penalty A considerable group of growers announced that future contracts would fail, unless the tax were increased to ' the maximum. A part of this group heartily advocated an increase rrf the tax to 50 per cent. Neither conten tion was settled definitely, hut the meeting definitely voted for some in crease in future taxation. Mr. Huttou said that the production allotments for next year probably wiH be considerably larger than this years, as the tobacco tobacco surplus of [100,000,000 pounds almost has been eliminated. The correction of the sur plus will allow an increase of some thing more than 6 per cent, he indi cated The reaching of a balance between consumption and production this year has had definite results which have | been reflected strikingly in the prices being paid this year, tii saction chief declared. He cited figures showing through last Saturday some 379,000,000 pounds of tobacco already have been sold this season. This amount was sold at a total price of $91,000,000. The figure" is already considerably in excess of the total paid during the whole season last year. Tobacco farmers still have on hand something more than 100,000,000 ysMsdl of to bacco and tin- is being sold at the rate of about 7,000,000 pounds per day. The extension of contracts by the AAA will occur at the expiration of the present contracts, which have a year to run, if the desires of the meet ing farmers are carried out. Messrs. Claudius Roberson, Perlie Geuinger and Herbert Manning, of Griffins Township, ware visitors tierr today. DIG POTATOES Sweet potato digging has been started in thl? county, adding to the unusually active period for the farmers. Rushing to complete the marketing of their tobacco and with peanut digging hardly over, the farmers are having to rush to get to their potatoes, and in some sections digging has not been start ed. Out in the Farm Life com munity sweet potato harvesting is being delayed on a number of farms where construction work on new curing houses has not been completed. Six farmers in that immediate community are building coring houses this Tfceisbn, Parson said **y e stgr&ty;" CARE IS URGED IN CURING PEANUTS Particular Care in Removal Of Dirt and Trash Is Important ? i Many farmers in this county were said la.st season to have been unable lto understand why their peanuts grad ed so low when offered for sale The same puzzle will fate many Martin farmers again this season if they fail , to exercise care in handling the crop and making it ready for market ! The price outlook is more encourag ing this season than last ami the sea son before, but while the peanuts might command a higher pine, cheap 'dirt will continue cheap and excessive trash will not bring a premium in the bag. 'Farmers are urged to exercise care in picking their peanuts'in an cf 1 out i in?i liiiini.iU' ? ru I'vnu?(hit .Hill' I trash, for when these two items ap pear in; excess quantities naturally the price of the peanuts is lowered. I'ut , throat prices offered by operators? of I peanut pickers have proven costly to the farmer in too many cases, because tlie operator rushes the peanuts and vines through the ma bine, and an excessive amount of dirt and trash finds its way into the bag. As. far as it could be learned here, no standard price for picking peanuts has been announced, but it is believed lift the charge will he increased "vy the la*t year .figure. f Good Prospects for Team In Oak City High School ()ak City.?The boys are showing very good spirit and cooperation in jorganising a basketball team for the earning season. We have about ten candidates who have gone out to com pete for positions oil the team; there Tore, with this cooperation and ma terial, we should have a good team. I In regards to playing equipment, | the hoys who wish to play are very willing to help pay the expenses, and interest is not lacking. ; Wr aie unfortunate in that we do not have, a gymnasium. However, wo have privilege to u>c the gym at Hob good on the understanding that we help pay the light bill Therefore,] we thing it will he worth the expense and trouble to get there and. hack to] us. Most of our home games will] probably be played at Hohgood. Jesse Ambers Painfully Hurt in Auto Accident ?* _ Mr. Jesse Ambers-was painfully but not badly hurt in an automobile ac cident on Washington Street, near the peanut factory, here Wednesday eve ning. Mr. Ambers was driving out of town and ran up behind a cart with no light on it. He applied the brakes on his car, the sudden application throwing the machine into the path of another driven in the opposite di rection by (ieorge Lee Roberson Neither car was badly damaged. 185 OWNERS OF PROPERTY HERE ARE ADVERTISED Property of Delinquents To Be Sold Second Monday In November The property of 185 owners in Wil liamston is being advertised today for taxes due and unpaid the town for the year 1933. The advertising is prepar atory to the tax collector's sale to be held at the courthouse door on the second Monday of next month, No vember 12, 1934. There was a small reduction in the number of delinquents and the unpaid amount this year as compared with the collections last November, and the sale was a month later last year than it is this season. Last year there were 201 delinquent accounts, representing an unpaid amount of $7,808.33. This year there are 185 delinquents and an unpaid balance in the 1933 tax account of $7,113.20, the figures including un real estate. Seventy-one of the delin quent accounts belong to white prop erty owners, representing an unpaid amount of $507.02, leaving 114 color ed-accounts and an unpaid sum of $1,587.64 due by the latter owners. While there is a slight improvement in the 1933 collections as compared with of a year ttg<V the ?trncour ' aging feature centers around the col lections for back taxes, particularly those assessed in the years 1930 and 1931 Many of the property owners I forestalled foreclosure ^proceedings for ithose years by paying the taxes and I costs, and had insufficient, fuinls left I to meet current tax hills. I The record is encouraging, and J clearly indicates the town finances are again being established on. a solvent basis. tundaiL-Xxx. Be " White ' ^ Sunday for Methodists ?rf'** - Stliwl.iy u/ill h.. "Wl.il.. ?K>t,w^Hy" Hf the; Methodist church. This is the Sunday we are going to help the mil lions in other places that arc so much worse off than we are. A Christian will do the C hristlike thing, so mem bers we are asking tor your presence with a big offering "One of the most useless 'things on earth is a good intention that is not put into effect." Services 11 a. in. and 7:30 p; in " Sunday school at 9:45 a in. Holly Springs Sunday school, 10 a. in. Preaching, 3 p. in.1 ? : Mary Cherry Farm 1'ua liing Thursday night at 7:30. I You are cordially invited to worship with us. ?New Life Experienced At Local Baptist Church ? | \i u liii i i 11 un inn, iiiiii tin1 i;liualF*: organization with the return of an- ' jtumn. The church desires to see ev jery branch of its work expand rapidly. 'The Sunday school is showing new | life uu11ei the Mipei intendey of Julian j Anderson, and the young people' work is under way. The preaching services were well attended la-1 Sun {day. Following Sunday school the pastor will preach Sunday inorningv and a gain in the evening. The people are asked to be in their places for as many of the services- as is possible. 'The Roanoke Baptist Association, of which this church is a member, met in annual session at Wilson Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The jehurch's report was creditable and the ! --etsions were well attended. Next ' year's Katherinu comes to ottr nrtgh i boring church in Robersonville. Nearly Half of Cotton Tax Warrants Delivered ? Nearly one-half, or about 800, of the cotton tax-free certificates have been delivered to the owners in this county, Assistant Agent T. B. Slade said after closing time late yesterday. While there 4s-s<nne disappointment <?n the |>art of the farmers as a result of the allotments, no strenuous objec tions have been heard here so far. The remainder of the allotments will likely be distributed by the middle ot next week, leaving only a few farmers without certificates. About 50 or 60 farmers in this county will not receive their certificates until the 10 per cent reserve for the state is assigned the several counties. ? Tomorrow Is Last Day For Voters To Register ? Tomorrow is Hie last day for regis tration of citizens whose names are not already on the books and who care to partici|>ate in the coming elec-. tion. Very little interest has been di rected to the registration, and it is be lieved the number of voters will ac tually show a shrinkage instead of an increase when the books are closed in the 12 Martin precincts.