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IHH THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XL?NUMBER 37 Williamston. Martin County. North Carolina. Friday. May 7.1937 ESTABLISHED 1899 Municipal Election Listless Affair; Only 53 Votes Tabulated V. D. Godwin Leads Ticket By Polling All S3; Begin New Term in June ? The members of group?J t or. and V. D. Godwin. Luther Peel. N. C. Green. G. H Harrison and L P. Londstey. commissioners?were ipal election last Tuesday Only 53 votes were cast, or SO more than were required to elect and 12 mo than were recorded in the 1S3S dec No mention was made of an inde pendent ticket, but there was a lit tle arratching or tun where the vot era tailed to mark all the squares. the full strength of the vote. The official count, made by Pollholders J. E Pope. S S Brawn and Boy T. Griffin save J. L Haasell 52 votes for mayor: and G. H Harrison. 51; N. C. Green. 51; Luther Ped. 52; V. D. Godwin. 53; and L. P. Lindsley SO votes for commissioners The reelected officers enter upon their duties as a new croup the first Monday in June While there is some doubt about the legality of the election, no one is expected to challenge the voting The law directs the closing of liquor -lores on all election days, but the authorities forgot all about having the store dose during the day, and Robersonville authorities are said to have forgotten to comply with that particular section of the law. May-1 or J L llamll here said that he' thought the elect inn was all right.! e aid not set anybody up for a vote all day long." heven Cases Tried In Recorder s Court At Session Monday Fines Levied by Judge Peel Total $200 at Term This Week Seven cases were handled in the county court Monday by Judge H. O. Peel, the tribunal remaining in ses sion for quite a while. Attorney R L Cobura prosecuted, the court a sessing total fines in the sum of $300. Two cases were continued for the defendants. Charged with an assault. Ieamon Taylor was fined $$0 and taxed with the cost Charlie Bellamy was given a three months road sentence suspended up charging him with an assault with a deadly weapon. James Wigging was fined $29 and taxed with the coat in the case charg ing him with violating the liquor laws A three-month road sentence Charged with drunken driving. Joe Godard was fined $100, taxed with the cost and had his driver's license revoked for one year. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the cost in the a charging Estelle Midgette with op erating a ear with improper brakes Jordan Wynne, charged with vio lating the liquor laws, was fined $29 and taxed with the case costs A Held in contempt of court. Rogers eras sentenced to the roads for three months He appealed to the superior court and bond sum at $300 eras required. In a prior judgment, the court had ordered Rogers to leave the state for a per iod at two years He failed to < ply with the ; Gets Eight Years For Store Robbery Ahrin Msnsficld. young white i ago far lorfrrr, and later connected with the tulilitn of a filling itation here; was eewtewced to pnaon far S yean in Bertie County Superior Court this week far the rubbery of Martin County aur i iiumiil to he win not it fa vine by Chief William Gray, fa aa elul by Federal la an | SCENE OP COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES | V Few Cases Disease Reported in April] Very few cases of contagious dts i ises were reported in this county last month, the county health office records showing only C cases of chicken por, 1 at diphtheria, and 1 scarlet fever. All of the cases were reported in William stem Tuunship . "President s Month" Sees Record Amount Insurance ritten Security Life A Trust Com pany Honors Official by Big Business In a letter received today. Messrs Leslie Fowden and J Paul Sanpsun. managers of the local agency of the Secunty Life & Trust Company aere notified that the month of April, designated as "President * Month" by the company's agenry organisation a honor at President Egbert L. Davis, witnessed a recurd breaking product loo at business The company's new business for April, both in number of applies Hons and volume. ?it reded by near ly SO per cent the best previous month in its history The local agency, under the leaderslup of Mr Fowden. won the distinction at be ing one of the cosnpany's leading agencies during the month and home office officials are extending hearty congratulations to Mr Fowden and members of his organization for such a splendid month's work Thr Security 1 ifr and Trust Co is making an outstandmg record in insurance circles Figures just re leased by thr state insurance de partment show that thr company during the year IW gained more insurance in force than any other company doing business in the state There were 78 life insurance com panies operating in North Carolina during the past year The home: companies produced (hiring fhe year 193S more than one-third of the total business written m the state, bringing the total insurance in force in North Carolina to thing over life ?Security Life A Trust Co third in the - ? - ? 1 out-of-state amount of written during ISMl of Its net KSM.04. as SM for the pany in net gain, which was ate a North Carolina carporafioa. Third ?r 47US m North Car Finals Program at School in Oak City i ii 1111 in at Oak CUy High School will begin on May lath, with the > which aril fee defamed fay Ua U GoC. |id i of WH Blue Mold Situation Described as Serious Reduced Acreage in Section Is Certainty; Few Transplanting Some Farmers Expect To Continue Transplanting Well Into June Tobacco transplanting, ordinarily underway on a large scale at time, is progressing in this section hardly (aster than at a taaJt pace, the blue mold attacks hi ; rupted the work in its entirety on (arm after (arm over the county The situation, the outcome of which i cannot be determined with pee of accuracy just mt. k con sidered serious by most (aimers questioned here yesterday and to day A reduced acreage m this section is almost certain, the r stent of the reduction resting in a large mens ure w ith weather rooditsons and the extent of blue mold damage Farm ers are already looking around (or a surplus plant supply, but the bhn mold attacks are repotted general and there are few plant if any. With these conditions exist ing. there 'is certain to be a reduced crop, farmers are agreed The few farmers whose plants were attacked by blue mold early in the season are now proceeding slow ly with the transplanting work, but these cases are quite few The ma jjority of farmers are waiting as pa t:entiy as possible while the blue mold wc i tLi. .ts way through the plant bed: and th?- plant* gel a new growth I: will be the latter part | of next week before transplanting aLUmUei n* . u.Ur.Mjj un any I ; sizeable scale, rep ru nihaic Scene | fanners are likely so the I transplanting work jrwrn into June. | but ordinarily w hen plants are set | out that late the quality of the crop | does not measure up to standard. New control tests aie underway in >ome sections of the belt to combat | the blue mold but they are not gen eral Reliable reports stale that the new control nifth xi. are- proving of | some value, but no cure has been effected. Farmers in this county | continue to apply nurate of soda to I their plants, aiding them to put at new growth following blue maftd at Warn 'Peepers* at Local Ball Park Mayor John L Haadl issued a strong wirnmf Tuesday night hal lowing the exhibition Imalnll gan the Mai m?' PUxeen alleged notalorc oc an odP ?ace making it unlawful to walci baseball games through or OS ices were before the trial that m line of *S0 or ? days m a called to the attentmn of the IS haled before the tuart by the jus tice. who added that they i the future. -We do not body mad. but tf the graetare to contmue i win be i ed." the trial justice^rplamrrf Commencerm At Farm em Sermon LUe Sunday He* IT Pl the annual ana m m the Farm Life School and horns at 11 o'dach. ? of the i i program ae Accused killer I ill Be Given Hearing in Justice Court Today Richard Ewell. Colored. To Be Tried for Shooting Last Sunday Richard Ewell. colored man wbo ored. near here last Sunday after noon. will be given a preliminary bearing in the courthouse here this afternoon Justice at the IVace J. L lliiwll mill hear the preliminary evidence and bring formal charges against EwelL Only a few witnesses will be heard at the hearing Alice Wiggins, the tt-year-old col ored woman who fatally shot Mary Cotton, also colored, near Oak City last Saturday midnight, waived pre liminary examination and is in the mainly pit awaiting the convening* of the June term of Martin County Superior Court, when she will go on trial for her life The first-de gree charge was brought m a war rant issued by Justice of the Prarr John W Mines in Oak City The Wiggins rn-oman maintains thai Mary Cotton attempted to break into her home, and it is believed she will plead self-defense Ewell shot and killed Everett dur ing a fight at the Hickory Grove church, colored, near here Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Everett was said to have been fighting with an other negro, named Richard Man ning. mhra Ewell stepped in with a 32 caliber pistol and ended the man's life instantly. Jamesviile Finals To Start Sundav The first of the series at closing events in the Jamesviile schools will be held Sunday morning at 11 o' clock. when Rev W B Harrington. Baptist minister, delivers the com mencement sermon in the grammar school auditorium The seniors will hold their class day esercises on Wednesday. May 12. and the annual high school play, directed by Mrs Hill, will be staged the follow ing evening tlrad uation exercises will be held next Friday night. Elbert S. Peel. William ston attorney, delivering the address Announce Daily Vacation Bible Schools in County The annual summer Bible schools of the Presbyterian church will get underway at Bear Grass Monday. May 17 and run for two weeks. Rev. John C. Whitley and Miss Pascal, of the Bear Grass School faculty, will be in charge of the school Miss Pascal b to be with th*r church during the summer. On June 1. the Roberson's Chapel school will begin and continue thru June 11. On June 14th. the Poplar Point school will open and continue through the 25th It is hoped that all the children within the com munities these missions serve will attend the schools Mother's Day Program In Methodist Church Sunday Mayor John L. Hasaril will de liver a eulogy to Mother at the lo cal Methodist Sunday school Sun day morning at > 45 o'clock. The tend the Sunday school m honor and several other features on the special program The mothers are requested to at tend H L Swain, superintendent, will give a box at candy to the oldest mother present, if she M years of age Father oi Local Woman DM IB Bertie Wednesday Funeral services were held yes afternooo in Merry Hill for White, father of Mrs W. J. South, at William si on The Rev W. H Hollowed, assisted by Rev jj. H. Smith, local minister, conduct ed the rites Mr White, a leading citizen of Bertie County, was IS years old Be leaves five brothers and iwun ed all his life m Merry Hill, and m Serviee at Oak Citv On Mothers Dav Rev J. M. Perry will preach at Oak City Sunday mornmg at II o' clock and il 7 tt y a The i mg smici will be an \ FIRST TERM COMPLETED IN NEW BUILDING | Wtttbrt Ira m Ike mrm kick xkMi beiUtac Utere. Begin Commencement Program Here Sunday Annual Sermon Vi ill Be Preached by Rev. Moseley To Seniors Thad Eure To Make Liter-, ary Address at Finals Tuesday Night Programs for the commencement exercise4: in the local schools were announced complete today by Prin opal L W Anderson, the first of the 'series of events taking place Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, when Rev. E F Mosekv. rector of the Church *?i the Advent here, delivers the an nual sermon in the high jchool au ditorium. The finaL w.U be held t next Tuesday evening at t o'clock I when Thad B Eure. Secretary ?>: S aW dohvers the main address The several religious denovnina lions will join the high school gra i eates for the 11 o'clock worship in the high school auditorium. For. the first time in years, there are more boys candidates for di plotnas than girls in the school here Thirteen off the 22 in line to receive diplomas are boys Three girls are to receive certificates Special awards will be presented. on commencement night as follows Sallie Gray Gurkin. home economic* Addie Lee Meador. valedictorian. Victor Andrews. Goodmon sports cup. and Addie Lee Meador. civics. Names of the candidates for di plomas are Sallie Allen. Mary Helen Boy kin. Louise Cooke. Julia Ever ett. Janie Gurganus, Ezeflerlee Grif fin. Addie Lea Meador. Mollie White Ray. Lois Taylor. Victor Andrews. Joseph Barnhill. Burr as Critcher. Edgar Gurganus. S. W Manning , Dan Peek Robert Peel. William Feei Whit Purvic John Thigppn, Jtf P ' Thrower. Ashley Wynne. E G ; Wynne, and certificates Id Wyoma Jackson. Elva Mae Mishoe and Grace' Chesson Marshals for the commencement series are Elva Grace Barnhill. chief; Mary Helen Boy kin and Ad die Lee Meador. seniors. Reginald Manning and Wilbur Culpepper, juniors; Sallie Gurkin and Re?d White, sophomores; and Katherine Manning and J. E Boy kin. fresh Examine Sixty-one Children in Clinie Sixty-one tliiklien who?pbn to. enter school next fxll were ex am in ed at a clinic held in the gramma building here yesterday, reports de - scribing the undertaking as being unusually successful While the health of the little lots: measured up well many physical defects were found and corrected' mil br cui i ec ted during the' months t he children mere* vaccinated against smallpox and each was given a thorough examina The clinic, sponsored by the Wil liamstcn parent-teacher association, icceived the services offered by lo cal doctors and nurses Samiliar clinics are ordinarily held in all the schools of the county each spring, but the State Health board could not cooperate this year d. as far as it could be learned, the Both Local Banks Will Observe Holiday Monday Local banks will observe next Monday. May 10. Confederate M mortal or Decoration Day. as a hoi ly. it was announced today. The will also observe May M, Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde e Day. and May 30. Nation al Memorial Day. as holidays May on Sunday, and the holiday will be taken the following day. I POWERHOUSE ACE I v Are Vilkpnai. >Urtn % rtm IrrttUn Irm Ml (llaim ?a? proird a W(Mi stlrk ?? Irr here inlndjt ?km kr ud itlu ?? the cictt nlk mm im Ikr CwsUI rial* laaied Tat bur* Bail on Fresh-^ater Fishing To Be Lifted \fter Next Monday State Resident Fishing Li censes Now on Sale at Several County Stores Old creek-bank fishing, interrupt ed fur the spanning seascn <* bass in Wx* and perch, will be resumed in parts next Tuesday, and the fisher men are already pulling down an J dusting off hooks and poles and making ready for the Sawyer Finn pastime State resident fishing li censes are now on sale at the Wil liamston and Woolard hardware stores here. Smith Hardware Co. Rubersunville. and G M Andersin'; filling station in Jamesviile No li censes are required of the fishermen using a common pole and hook or rod and reel in his own county. Licensed North Carolina fisher men will at least begin their out ings this year under a good omen tn the form of a new type of permit button shaped like a fish The Stare fishing license buttons this year will be of metal in the form of a bream, one of the most popu lar of the game fishes in North Car olina. according to an announce ment today by J. D. Chalk, state smner The new plate is bronze colored, about 2 inches in length and 1 1-4 inch in depth At the top it carries the year for which it was issued and a fac simile of the state seal In the center are the words "North Caro lina State Resident Fishing License"* According to Commissioner Chalk the most complete cooperation ever extended by the public in observ ance of the closed seasons has been evidence this year Already, he continued, a substantial increase in the sale of fishing licenses?the re five ptugi ani for maintaining the supply of game fish?has been ex perienced RESULTS *?y ? Williunstoa t. Tkrboro 2. GoUdwco S. Snow HiU 4 A|4a 7. Cftonlk 5 ?. Kmston 4. W illLiiiLston Opens Season with 8-2Win Over Tarboro Nine Rollins and Villepique Too Much (or Combs In First Game Here Yesterday Behind the five-hit pitching of Jim RAUK&: the UtnviUe. ArL, young man with a future on the mound, and with the bat power of Ace Vlllepique. the Martins defeat ed the Tarboro Combs here yester day afternoon 8 to 2 in a long drawn out contest of two and one-half hours:1 marking the opening of the Coastal Plain League official sche dule It was the third tune in as many seasons that the Martins turned Tarboro sack in a season U|IRKt. the margin of victory of 8-2 comparing with 8-5 last year and 6-5 the year before Art Hauger's boys, coming here from just about all four corners of the country and as an aggregation of unknown quantity, settled down to give a good account of them selves. and the season-opener was recognized as an eye-opener with 1 to fo1' And Fred "Snake** He- ry. n? - u -*r for the Tarboro Com ? . br.Hiiht a higher rating nine !?er* than war n t" early per i-J of the season last ear and the reason before. Rollins. baffling the ? attmg Tar boro Combs, allowed ? rtl\ five hits, one a double and another a homer He fanned thirteen and had the sit uation well in hand with the pos ' sible exception of the eighth inning w hen the visitors tallied twice. Led better. new rightfielder. and Ville pique tied for the hitting count of j 2-alt the centerflelder from, Bur bank holding the edge with extra t vases. Ware. Tarboro second base ,naft. figured prominently at bat for the visitors with two hits, a double in the fourth and a homer m the eighth with one on base Mooney. starting on the mound for the visitors, allowed >lx h:t> before he was retired in the seventh by Dusza He fanned six and walked five. Three free passes were issued A $200 (ile 1e ported for the open er the attendance holding fairly ; close to the opening-day record. The box: TAKBOKO ARKH roAt Staples, cf 4 0 ? i ? 0 . Myers, ss 3 0 0 2 4 1 Carnahan. If 3 1 0 2 0 0 Ware. 2b 4 1 2 1 1 0 Henry, lb 4 ? 0 9 0 0 Ballance. rf 4 0 0 ? 0 ? CantrelL 3b 4 0 1 2 1 1 Williamson, c 3 0 2 f 0 0 Moonev. p 3 0 0 1 3 2 xTaylor 1 ? 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 3 24 9 4 x Balled lor Mooney ' in ?th W II.IIA MSTON AB K II ro A E fcarp. ss 4 1 1 i 2 0 - VtHeprque. cf ?4 2 2 i 1 0 Stanley. If 4 0 ? i 0 0 laslbetter. rf 5 0 2 0 0 1 Stevens, lb 4 0 | T 0 ? Deun. 3b 3 0 1 2 4 ? RLakotas. 2b 3 I 1 2 1 1 Sharkey, c 3 1 1 13 1 0 . Rollins, p 3 3 0 0 1 0 Totals Scars by iaaia 33 S 9 27 10 2 B. Tarboro 000 000 020?2 Williamston 001 400 03x?8 Runs batted in Ware 2. Villepique 5 Thro-base hit. Ware; threebase hit. Sharkey; home runs. Ware. Vil lepique 2 Stolen bases. Led better 2. Lakotas X Ueun Left on bases: Tarburo 7. Williams!on 9. Bases on : ball* off Mooney 5. off Rollins X Struck out by Mooney (. by Rollins 13 Wild pitches, Rollins X Building and Loan Reelects Officials The Martin County Building and jCnan Association board of directors the association ufiicers were re ! elected at a meeting of the stock f olders held in the courthouse last Tuesday The elections were unan imous Mr C. A Harrison continues as i the association's president: C. D. Carstarphen. vice president; Wheel . *v Martin secretary and attorney: ?*nd Mrs VeUa Andrews Wynne, treasurer The board of directors is ? ompoaed of C A Harrison. C. D. Carstarphen. Frank J Margolis, W. |C Manning, jr. J. E King. K. B Crawford. O G. Matthews. C. B Clark, sr. Wheeler Martin and M. C Green. A meeting of the directors wn held immediately after the re-elec tion of the uffkets and several build ing loans were approved fhange Hour tor Service At Piaey Grove Sunday Rev. W B Harrington will a Mother's Day sermon in the Grove Baptist church noon at 3 30 o'clock.
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