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THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 37 Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina. Friday. May 8. 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899 ORPHAN SINGING CLASS WILL GIVE CONCERT MAY 11 Appeal Made T? Public To Attend; No Admission Charge To Be Asked Reported to be the best ever to take the road, the Oxford Orphan age Singing Class will appear here in annual concert next Monday eve ning at 8 o'clock in the high school auditorium. The 14 youthful sing ers and entertainers will reach here that morning and are to be the guests of interested friends until the following morning. Only hall of the small motherless and father less tots had been assigned places in local homes. late yesterday, it was learned. Anyone who would like to have one, or more of the children in their homes Monday and Monday night are asked to get in touch with Wl" C. Manning, chair man of the orphanage committee of the local Masonic lodge. Local peo ple who have entertained the lit tle orphanage representatives in the past have derived much pleasure and found the task not at all trou blesome. Giving from six to seven, and oc casionally more, concerts each week for several months, the singing class is regarded as one of the main sources of revenue for the rophan age, and it is hoped by those who are bringing the entertainers here that a large crowd will attend the concert next Monday night. Re ports from other towns where the class has appeared in concerts state that the program is one of the best, if not the best, ever offered by the youthful troupers. No charge for admission 'will be made, but a free-will offering will be asked. Men Arrested Here To Be Tried Monday W. A. Braden and F. J. Kava nagh. arrested here the early part | uf last February for alleged imper sonation of Federal officers and ob taining money under false pretense, will face trial in Federal court at Raleigh next Monday. Several wit nesses here have been summoned by the government to testify in the The two men are now at liberty under $1,600 bonds each, according to information received here. Braden is alleged to have sold a correspondence course to Mrs. Grace Maynard, guaranteeing her a job with the government upon the com pletion of the course. One or two others in this county are also said to have bargained for the course of instruction. Following the arrest of the two men, complaints against them were received here in large numbers, and it is believed that many witnesses will be on hand to aid the prosecution next Monday. Raiding Activities Of County Officers During the past few days, county officers conducted a series of suc cessful raids on liquor plants, wreck ing five plants, arresting one man and destroying about 23 gallons of liquor and several hundred gallons of beer. The raids were made in Williams, Bear Grass and Poplar Point John H. Cowan was arrest ed in Bear Grass when officers found him carrying a quantity of liquor in a keg, it was said. Commencement Plans at Oak City Plans for the closing events in the Oak City school are being complet ed this week. Principal H. M. Ains ley announced yesterday. The first of the series of commencement ex ercises?the annual sermon?will be preached May 31, at ? p. m , the minister to be named later. On Mon day evening, June 1, class day ex ercises will be presented in the form of a playlet. The commence ment address will be delivered Tues day evening, June 2. A barbecue dinner is being considered, Mr. Ains ley said, but the plans for it have not been completed. There are 24 seniors on the class roll in the Oak City school and 22 of thesn are expected to graduate. The other two seniors are not car rying sufficient work to meet the unit requirements, it was stated. The class has already begun prac ticing the class day exercises. With examinations and commencement preparations soon to get underway, the clam is expecting to be kept very busy until the close of the Announce Pre Exercises for Plans (or the closing exercises in the local school were announced by Principal D. N. Hix today, the (list o( the events being scheduled tor Sunday, May 24, at 11 a. m? when Rev. R. R. Grant, pastor o( the lo cal Methodist church, preaches the commencement sermon in the high school auditorium. Members o( the senior class will hold their exercises Wednesday eve ning, May 28. There are 33 candi dates, 18 girls and IS boys, (or grad uation, or about 10 more than the number graduated by the school last term. )gram of Final Local Schools Thelast of the closing events will be held Friday evening, May 28, when Hon. A. A. F. Seawell, attor nery general, State of North Caro lina, delivers the commencement ad dress and the graduates are award ed their diplomas. Forty-two can didates in the seventh grade will receive their certificates of promo tion to the high school at that time. Several features ordinarily in cluded in the closing program, have been eliminated. Principal Hix ex plaining that grade operettas were omitted because of the long inter ruption during January and March. Precinct Meetings Are To Be Held Tomorrow CALL CERTIFICATES N i Fanners who have sold and who plan to sell cotton between now and next Friday are di rected to turn their sales cer tificates Into Mr. T. B. Slade, assistant in cotton control, at his office in the courthouse prior to the 13th of this month If they desire to participate in the cotton price adjustment payments. Certificates, received after the 15th, will be handled after considerable delay, It is understood. BOOKS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION IN COUNTY MAY 9TH New Names Can Be Placed On Books During One Of Three Saturdays Books for the registration of new voters will be opened in the 12 pre cincts of this county tomorrow, present indications pointing to a small increase in the number of qualified voters over the county, with possibly one or two exceptions. New names can be entered on the books in accordance with law to morrow, the Saturday following and the Saturday after that. On the r.ext Saturday, May 30, the books will be opened only for the chal lenge of any names placed on the books. Those citizens who have voted in a regular or general election will not find it necessary to register a gain. Those people who have re cently moved their residence from one precinct to another and have lived there as long as four months will be eligible to register and vote in their adopted precinct. The law provides for the person who is not yet 21 but who reached that age on or before the next November electio.n to register and participate in the next June 6 primary. The voter who moves from one precinct to another must get a cer tificate from the registrar of the district from which he moved show ing that his name has been removed from his former precinct and that he is no longer a registered voter in the district in which he moved. When a voter moves from one state to another, he must live a year in his adopted itate before he is en titled to vote. When the voter moves from one precinct to another only four months residence is re quired. At a meeting of the Martin Coun ty Board of Elections held here re cently the officials ruled that the laws governing registrations should be strictly observed by the vanqus registrars, and that no new names be added after the bocks are prop erly closed on May 23. Services at Piney Grove Saturday and Sunday Preaching services will be held in the Piney Crove Baptist church Sat urday morning at 11 o'clock and at the same hour Sunday morning. Rev. W. B. Harrington, the pastor, announced today. The Maple Grove quartet will sing during the Sun day service, and the public is cor dially Invited to attend. ? Band Boys Make Hit On Parade Here Tuesday Holding a combined practice an parade here last Tuesday evening young musicians from Ed en ton, Au lander, Scotland Neck, Robersor vllle and Williamston made quit a hit when they paraded up Mai Street. The band boys were pra< tlcing for a music festivalto be hel in Tarboro Sunday afternoon. (Meeting Places and Number Delegates I To Be Designated Little Interest Is Predicted n Most Of Meetings Scheduled in County In theory, North Carolina Demo crats start tomorrow at 2 o'clock on the task of nominating a man for the presidency of the United States not mor* than half, if be heTd HreCinC' will 'eld in this county, and those that will be held will be as dry as - Powderhouse Arrangements are fh?enold?CWalhd f?r ,h" mee''n8s that . " Calhoun convention system might run its course. Places for the metings and the number of delegates ..u,i is enii* toa . K eaeh precinct entitled to send to the county convention Saturday of next week were announced this week by K S. executivelrman ?! D?"ocratic executive committee of Martin County, as follows: gateimesl,,H "^'houie, 18 dele precinct 7* H Ridge ,n Williams precinct, 7 delegates; Farm I ife Tales BeaGrrinS PreCi"C'' 13 dele" ] ' Bear Grass, school, 10 dele gutes; Courthouse, Williamston 31 delegates, Everetts, school building in Cross Roads, 13 delegates hnm * Mr W s. White, in % fvsarsssr.s SSmXsr.-Si sonvdlem buildin?. R'>ber ?onville 25 delegates; and school budding at Gold Point, 5 delega? It is important that these meei X Lhfl<l a"d de'cgates be elect Rirrsr-?st Si? ton ally attract meeting natur ?h . . ? more interest, and bv tionir? delegates reach the na strong10 "oar,i0"hi C?nVent""1 bavePa~ ficem ^ has'beerTd T <n? STu1rlred by *?m?' includ be too far Senator LaRullette, to pTe ^t " rem?Ved ,rom the peo tn ti. eVery CMe the delegates Power to switcTfr VCnt'0n h"Ve ?nd support anotheT ^ Cand'd"te Negro Jailed lor Brutal Attack On His Wilt Joljn Etheridge, Oak City negro, ia being held in the county Jail in default of bond for an alleged brut al attack on hia wife there a few nights ago. Using a chair, the man is said to have nearly beat the woman to death. After breaking a chair to pieces over her head, he trampled her under his feet. The woman is said to have dragged her self across the room and jumped out a second-story window to end the brutal attack. Chief Early arrested the man short while later, and the defend ant was given a hearing before Jus tice J. W. Hines BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE IS STILL BEING HELD UP Selection of Disinterested Party Has Not Been Agreed Upon The dispute over the location of the Beaufort-Martin County boun dary line continues to hang fire, un official reports stating that no ma terial progress has been made to ward effecting its settlement. Just recently receiving his com mission as one of the arbitrators. Attorney H. G. Horton and the Beaufort representative. Attorney William Rodman, have not been able to select a third party. Under pro visions made by the county com missioners of Martin and Beaufort, the two men wer<? to appoint a third* and their decision was to be accept ed as final. Attorney Rodman is understood to have mentioned the name of A. D. Ward, New Bern at torney, and Mr. Horton mentioned Stuart Smith, of Scotland Neck, as a third man. Apparently neither of th etwo men was acceptable to the other, and as far as ft could be learned today no progress has been made toward settling the boundary line controversy. While Martin and Beaufort are wrangling over their boundary line in an effort to control certain prop erty in the old Dymond City area for taxation, Washington County authorities are said to be begging for a bid on property not so far re moved from the section around which the controversy hinges.^ parently there is some moti\J known to the public, why Martin's Beaufort neighbors would want to push the dividing line into what is generally acknowledged to be Mar tin territory. ui ounu es^A l^^^in Indict Dog Owners For Failure To Have Animals Vaccinated Fifteen Cases To Be Heard By Justices of Peace Tomorrow Fifteen or more Martin County people will face justices of the peace at Kobersonville and here tomor row to show cause why they did not have their dogs vaccinated in accordance with the 1935 state law. More warrants are being prepared, county officers stating this morning that every owner who has failed or refused to comply with the law will be subjected to prosecution. The anti-rabies campaign is be ing completed this week, officers in charge arranging special clinics in some cases to accommodate dog owners. A final drive is on now, however, and convictions will be pushed, it was stated. Warrants have been served on dog owners in Bear Grass, Williamston, Jamesville Williams and Kobersonville Town ships already. ' A record on the campaign has not been tabulated as yet, the offi cers stating that they have been oc cupied trying to complete the work before checking the tesults. As far as it could be learned to day, there has not been a mad dog reported in this county since the campaign was launched last year. Prior to that time, as many as 20 people are known to have taken the Pasteur treatment annually follow ing attacks made on them by dogs in this county. The results of the anti-rabies campaign are being closely observed, and if the' record holds up as well in the future as. it has so far, it can be expected that the vaccination of all dogs will be continued. 138-Pound Sturgeon Landed at Fishery The Fleming fishery scooped a 138-pound sturgeon from the Roan oke at Jamesville last Wednesday ^fternoon, the catch being the first 'here in four years. The big fish, at one time plentiful during the spring season in the Roanoke, was landed without difficulty and with out damage to the big seine. Meas uring 7 feet 2 inches in length, the male fish was sold to a Bethel mar ket for about $25. Years ago, fishermen are said to have taken as many as a dozen stur geon from the Roanoke in one night and the choice meat was about as plentiful on the streets here at that time as rockfish are now, Stur geon weighing as much as 400 pounds or more have been caught in the Roanoke and have sold for as much as $90 each on the New York market. . Politics Begin To Warm Up in County; Two Men Announce for House; Filing Closes Tomorrow Sunday Baseball Will Be Diseussed Monday Board ot Education Will Be Requested To Rescind Permit Contracts Say They Can't And They Can Play Ball Here On Sabbath Day Sunday baseball on the local high school diamond will run the gaunt let at a special meeting of the coun ty board of education here next Monday morning at 10 o'clock, ac cording to reports coming from members of the Martin County Min isterial Association today Already the matter has been given consider ation by religious leaders, and they are expected to press their objection to Sunday ball at the speciul meet ing of the education board next Monday. It could not be learned whether the baseball club will be represented, but they are said to be aware of the action now being di rected against the playing schedule, as it includes Sunday games. While there is a division on the question, it is believed thut the dif ferences can be umicably settled. In May, 1934, a contract was en tered into by the local baseball club officials and the school author ities, leasing the premises to the club for a period of six years, cer tain provisions having been agreed to at that time. The terms and conditions set out at that time are: 1. The club officials are to erect a grandstand ut their own expense and to fix and improve the pluy+ng 2. That no game of baseball is to be pluyed on said premises on the Sabbath. 3. That the club fifficials are to repair at their own expense any damage done said property on ac count of the games of baseball played thereon. 4 No gumes of baseball shall be played on the grounds at any time between June 1 and September IU unless same is satisfactory to the superintendent of education of Mar tin County. This contract proved sufficient until the lutter part of lust June when members of the county board of education were approached indi vidually by baseball officials ask ing a change in paragraph two of the original agreement. The min isterial group is expected to ask that this latter action be rescinded and the original contract be rein stated in its entirety. The contract . amendment, carry ing the names of all five members, Messrs W, O. Griffin, J. T. Harn hill, J. W. Eubanks, G. C Griffin and E. H. Ange, of the board of education, reads us follows "It. view of the fact that the fol lowing teams in the Coastal Plain League (which your team is a mem ber of): Tarboro, Greenville, Kin ston and ?yden play Sunday base ball on school property of their re spective counties, and that large numbers of the citizens of this county attend same, and knowing that our citizens who farm will be prevented soon, due to their neces sary attendance upon their crops, from seeing ball games on week days, and knowing that you have made valuable and extensive im provements to the athletic field of the Williamston High School, we are, therefore, willing? "That paragraph 2 on page 1 of our contract .with you, dated May 7, 1934, reading as follows 'That no game of baseball is to be pfayed on Sunday,' be amended to read as follows: " 'That no game of baseball is to be played on Sunday except be tween the hours of 1:30 p. m. and 0 P- m. Provided, however, that ample police protection be had at Sunday games, as week-day gumes." When questioned yesterday in connection with the problem, Mr w. O. Griffin, -chairman of the board explained that he was against Sun day baseball personally, but that he would try to abide by the wishes of the mai y He reserved further commr m his vote. Other mem bers ,ie board have not publicly expt d themaelvea. I BANK HOLIDAY Local banks and county legal liquor stores will be closed next Monday for the day. Sunday, May 10, is Confederate Memor ial Day, and the businesses men tioned will observe the follow ing day as a holiday, it was an nounced. All state employees, excepting school teachers and a few others, will also have a hoi iday that day, it is understood. The holiday is limited to this and one other state, and in that case the post office and most other lines of business do not suspend activities that day. The banks are also planning to observe Mecklenburg Day, Wednesday, May 20, and Fed eral Memorial Day, May 30, as holidays. LIST OF FLAYERS WITH CONTRACTS IS MADE PUBLIC Manager Walker and Few Players To Report Here Week of May 24th With eighteen contracts already in and more expected within the next few days, officials of the local base ball club stated today they were ready to start the season almost any old time now. Manager Walker and a number of players are expected to report here during the week of May 18 The personnel already contracted is?as- follows: Outfielders: Bruce (Brother) Clay lord, of Jamesville, who has per formed successfully for the Mar tins in past years. Henry House, of Weldon, who is now coaching at Augusta Military ?Academy in Vir ginia, and who was with the Mar lins in a big way last season. Ted Griffin, of Tennessee, comes here from a Tennessee college with a splendid record, and Benjamin F Young, also a Tennessee product and a player on the University of Tennessee baseball team. Inflelders: Harry Black, of Gas tonia, and a studenl at Catawba College this year, has been booked for duty along with Claude Corbitt, who returns this year from Duke. Howard Earp, Apex boy, returns for a try-out at the short stop or sec ond-base position after a year's ab sence. Bruce Archer and James Morgan, South Carolina boys, and college students in that state, are bidding for positions in the infield. Apparently there will be some keen competition for pitching posi tions. "Slim" Gardner, the tobacco farmer from down Jamesville way, and the dread pinch-hitter in the league last season, is the first on the list. Dick Cherry and John Gaddy will return, to complete the old staff. New faces will be those of Lawrence Wade, Georgia boy now at Oglethorpe University, and who was with Greenville last season; Charles "Pee wee" Armstrong, of Mississippi State; Amos C. Dawson, of Wilson, now a student at A C College; and Buck Jacobs, of Cul pepper, Va., a Richmond University athlete and a player on the Wind sor team last season. Fred Walters and Johnny Doyle are booked for the catching end. Walters is a highly recommended Alabama boy and a student at Miss issippi State. Doyle played with the Martins during the latter part of the 1035 season. Mother's Day Program In Robersonville Sunday 3:30 The American Legion and ita aux iliary are sponsoring ? Mother's Day program to be held in the Christian church in Hobersonville on Sunday, May 10, at 3:30 p. m. The American Legion and Aux iliary all over the United States are joining to honor mother on this day. The program will consist of mu sic and speaking and will be worth the effort of all who attend The public Is cordially invited to attend. Hugh G. Horton and 0. Vi. Hamilton Are Aspirants To House Jos. W. Bailey Considering Entering Race for Seat In General Assembly ??? Political activities began to hum tilts week in the county as the time for tiling draws to a close, and more action ts expected before the dead line is reached tomorrow at 6 o' clock p. m. Candidates began to hurry to and fro this week to get their names on the books, while others are reported still in a quan dary as to what to do and what not to do. The main development so far this week was Mr Wendell Hamilton's announcement for the house pf rep resentatives against Attorney Hugh G. Horton. county representative at the last session of the legislature. Mr. Hamilton. Jamesville merchant and prominent county citizen, im mediately went on record as being against the sales tax. "I made up my muni two years ago to run for the legislature this year if no one else except a lawyer filed." Mr. Hamilton said, explaining that he had nothing against lawyers or any other candidate and that if he lost he would still be a friend to his op ponent or opponents. The line-up for the house race is not definitely shaped. Attorney Jos. W Bailey stating today that he wqs seriously considering announcing his candidacy later today or tomor row.' As far' as it could be learned to day, activities along the other polit ical fronts in the county are unusu ally quiet, the register of deeds, sheriff, treasurer, coroner, judge and solicitor of the county court and four county commissioners be ing without opposition. No candi dacies for places on the county hoard of education have been filed, as far as it could be learned today. There arc five vacancies to be filled on the body, this year. One or two of the candidates were undecided as to whether they would seek re appointment, Mr. W. O. Griffin, chairman of the board, stating this week that he would not be a can didate Mr. George C Griffin, the member from Griffins, plans to file if there is no opposition, it was learned. The second district senatorial race, already runnnig hot, promises to add more interest before the time for filing ends tomorrow. Senator Carl L Bailey is stil considering entering the race from Washington County, Messrs T. B. Attmore and Hodman, of Beaufort, anil Mi K 1. Coburn, of Martin, having already filed for the two senate seats from this district. Activities are still attracting much attention in the state, the race for governor commanding nearly all the interest, however. Fountain is said to be running stronger for the United States Senate than many expected. Unofficial reports indicate Hoey and Graham are gaining on Mr Donald in the race for governor, but McIJonald is still away out in front. Young Rogers Child Dies In Washington Hospital Sarah Rogers, three years old, died in a Washington hospital yes terday morning at 6 o'clock, follow ing a long illness. Pneumonia was given as the immediate cause of her death. She was the daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth Cupps Rogers and lived in Williams Township be fore she was removed to the hos pital early this week. Funeral services are being con ducted from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Peel in Griffina Township this afternoon by Rev. J. H. Smith, local Baptist minister. Burial will be in the Wheeler Rogers cemetery fh Bear Grass Township. ? Miss Whit ford Moves Shop To Main Street Building ? The Williamston Beauty Parlor, for several years located on the first door of the Lawyers' or Godard Building, on Smithwick Street, has been moved to the George Reynolds Hotel building on Main Street. Miss Carrie Whitford, proprietress, is now in a better position than ever before to serve her patrons at tho new location.