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THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 7 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 25,1939. ESTABLISHED 1899 Local Minister Accepts Call To Kinston Church Rev. E. F. Moaeley Tenders Resignation at Meet Here Friday Offering has resignation as rector of the Church of the Advent here at a meeting of the vestry last Friday evening. Rev. Edwin F Moaeley will move his family to Kinston the lat ter part of February and serve St Mary's Episcopal church. The min ister's resignation was accepted with regret by the local church, and mem bers of all congregations here are sorry to learn he has decided to car ry on his work in another field. Res olutions of regret were prepared by his church board at a recent meet ing and the many friends of the fam ily while regretting their planned departure, are extending them best Rev. Most try accepted a call to the Church of the Advent here in late 1933 and entered upon him new du tiea as its rector oo December 11 of that year. He has faithfully carried on his religious work during the more than five years he has been here, and found tone to enter into as a leader and supporter of civic activities. He numbers among his friends member s of all religious groups, and the community has looked forward to and appreciated his leadership in advancing the re ligious and civic life of the section. Last Christinas season, five years after his arrival here from South Carolina, the minister ably direct ed the Christinas Cheer drive that needy in the community, llrs. Mose ley has also been active in civic work and their leadership and support will be greatly The minister will complete his scheduled work in this county at St Martin's. Hamilton, the last Sun day in February, and will enter upon his new duties that week He will occupy the pulpit in the Church of the Advent here oo Sunday, Febru ary 20. for the last time before go ing to the church at Kinston. Farm Bill Waits Turn I?* ^ ongres While the U. S. Senate continues its filibuster against the anti-ljmch ing bill, a farm measure waits its turn for consideration at the hands of congressmen. The bill, as agreed upon by joint hoase and senate com mittees. is ready for action by the tiro bouses, and there is still hope it will get to the front some time The contents of the bill are not definitely known, but advance re ports indicate that the proposed law will call for a reduction of ten to thirty per cent in tobacco production, and a decrease in other basic crops. It is planned to place the bill in op eration within a few days after its enactment into law. the fanners to vote for or against its provisions. A two-thirds vole will be necessary to make the law effective, according to reports coming from Washington Colored Man Brutally Attacked Here Sunday His overcoat ilWfwl to have been stolen. Hack Peterson, local color, ad man. took the law into his own to his own Sunday night when he brutally at tacked Earl Holliday, colored, on Sycamore street here. Reports state that Holliday was knocked down Peterson's feet. It was rumored that Peterson alto a I li the activities. The is scheduled to be aired in Mayor Beta Club Holds Meet On Monday Evening high school Beta held its first meeting since rig. Jan. IT. with Reg Manning, at his After the Ward. John Ward. Virgil Ward, Helen imry Clark, and Mr. His. Cincinnati Reds Considering Connection with Local Club baseball club here were renewed yesterday when the Cincinnati Reds informed local baseball authorities that they were interested in a Working agree ment with the Martins. R H. Good mon, president of the club last sea son. is negotiating with the Cincinna ti dub. but the terms of the propos ed agreement have not been deter mined. The best we can hope for is not very encouraging, and I believe that it will be necessary to raise be tween $1,500 and $2,000 in local sub scriptions to finance a club here this season." Mr. Good mon said v ester day. Paul Florence, farm manager for the Cincinnati Reds, spent the week end here conferring with local club officials, and intimated that he would recommend a working agree ment with the local club this coming I CHARITY BALL "We arc laabiag lor a large cnvi here Mil Friday eight to (?Jag toe FrnHiata T. Fc mar cf toe iag toe ehartty day. Faal tra irill play ft i af toe S1JF niaiM ffff wi H be aaad to toe fight agaimat ia taenia paralyaia. aad a strcag am ppart ia awn ted Half af toe fn ?ds will be aaed ia Martia Caaaty. aad toe re araiader will i ?drawee reaearch work aa a aatia ?wal acale. Beasley Hardison Dies In Jamesville Beasley Hardison. retired timber man-farmer, died at his home near Jamesville last Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Suffering several para lytic strokes, he had been in failing health for four years or more He was able to be up most of the time until about three months ago when he was again stricken. Since that time he had been confined to hi? bed the end coming gradually. Mr. Hardison, the son of the late Durham and Margaret Waters Har dison, was born in this county 65 years ago. He spent the greater part of his life as a lumberman and far mer, retiring from his work when he experienced ill health. Besides his wife he is survived by two sons. J. T. and Joe Hnrdtson, and one daughter. Miss Sallie Bet Hardi son, all of Jamesville. He also leaves four sisters, Mrs. J. J. Bembridge, of Eden too, Mrs. Alice Godard, of Wil liamston; Mrs. Leona Godard a Mrs S. J. Perry, of Jamesville. Funeral services were conducted from the late home Sunday after, noon at 2 o'clock by Rev W. B. Har rington. Interment was in the family plot on the home farm in Jamesville Township. Elizabeth City Cries Favoritism Defeated 28 to 20 by Jamesville in a State conference basketball game here last Thursday night, the Eliza beth City Yellow Jackets charged the loss to favoritism from the offi cials, and maintained that they de served better breaks than they were afforded "The victory was not a glorious one for the winners." Wood row Price, reporting the game in Elizabeth City's Daily Advance. It was a rough and tumble affair, and "repeated failures to call pal pable fouls tended to roughen the in the two extra periods. The game went into the first extra period at 22a 11. After adding points each, the teams were still in a deadlock at the end of the first ex tra period. T. Martin, leading the scoring with ten points, put his team ahead, and E. Martin added the vic tory margin with a hard action shot. Just prior to the "hot" and "taint ed" contest, the Jamesville girls de feated the Elizabeth City sextet 24 to S, Ange scoring more than half of her team's 24 points To date. Jamesville has divided ro games with Elizabeth City turned back Woodland. Conway de feated the county boys and goes un State ight, Ja to meet Woodland here. and Mrs. Dewey Hayman and Mlaaea Natalie Gould Ira Sullivan vieetod in season. Terms of the agreement will be determined between local club officials and the management in Cincinnati, it was stated. Florence played with Jimmie Brown in Roch ester two or three seasons ago. Definite terms of the working agreement will possibly be known within the next week or ten days, but during the meantime efforts will have to be made to raise be tween $1,500 and $2,000 in donations If a working agreement can be ef fected. and a drive for funds fails to materialize, there is little like lihood there'll be any baseball here in 1938 Numerous applications have al ready been received from promising young players from several parts of the country, and if we are going to have a club, we should complete ar rangements for its operation at once," Mr. Good moo said Safety Record of Power Company to Receive Attention Williamston District Marks Up Best Safety Record In History of Firm Establishing one of the best safety ? ecords in the history of the Virginia Electric and Power company, the Williamston District will receive special recognition at a big dinner to be given by ranking officials of the club on Friday evening of this week. The meeting is planned to climax all similar events and will attract all the big officials in the company in. eluding President J G Holtzclaw. of Richmond. The Williamston district has oper ated under the direction ot Mana ger R. H. Goodmon during the past five years and three months without a loss-time accident. During the past 14 months the district has had no reportable accident of any kind, the record established standing out from all others ever recorded in the safety files of the company. For two successive years, the company has earned the national safety award, and established a record unequalled throughout the country. Elaborate plans have been ad vanced for the safety dinner this week, and officials from Norfolk. Richmond and Roanoke Rapids and other district headquarters are ex pected here for a Short visit Friday afternoon before they continue to Plymouth to participate in a sports program that afternoon and the din ner that evening. Manager Goodmon aaid today that he was expecting J. G. Holtzclaw, president; M. S. Smith, vice presi dent; E. S. Fit/, general manager of the electric department; P. R. Wil liams, comptroller; Tom Fulford, general sales manager; Walter Rand, let, assistant sales manager. A. H. Herman, director public relations; E. C. Bookman, safety director. and] Herbert Thorpe, assistant safety di-| rector, all of Richmond; R. J. Throckmorton, vice president, of Norfolk; J. T. Chase, vice president of Roanoke Rapids, and Frank Sher ry, manager Roanoke Rapids divi sion. All of the 42 employees in the WiUiamston district will be in attendance upon the meeting as hon or guests. Bertie Man Killed On Highway Near Windsor Hathaway Pierce, Bertie County white farmer, was fatally injured on the Eden ton highway, near Windsor, last Saturday evening Pierce, aid IO have been drinking, was struck by Raymond Castelloe, Bertie man, and left lying in the road. A traveler named Williford, saw the Castelloe car strike the man, and he trailed Castelloe and got hia license num bers. During the meantime, Chaa. God win, local young man, ran over Pierce, but it is thought here that the Castelloe car fatally injured the man before the second car struck him. Pierce died several hours later in a Windsor hospital. Castelloe later surrendered to members of the highway patrol. Fined In Mayor's Court For Public Drunkenness e Willie James Roberion, Roberaon ville colored man, was fined $X9<J and taxed with the cost in Mayor Hasaeirs court here yesterday Rob erson was arrssted Sunday for al leged public drunkenness. W. P. A. Education Leaders Will Hold Area Meeting Here Teachers from Twenty-six Counties to Attend Two-day Meet Works Progress Artmintsl education leaders in cooperation v.ith the State Department of Public Instruction will hold a two-day con ference in the agricultural building here on Thursday and Friday of this week, the meeting to attract promi nent State educators and WPA teachers from 26 counties in Areas 1. 2 and 3 Mrs Mame R Rodeffer. district supervisor of adult educa tion. will preside over the sessions. It is estimated there are around 30,000 adult illiterates in the 26 counties, and the conference is ex pected to advance plans for handling the problem by building a perma nent program of adult education. An outline of the conference pro gram Thursday Registration. 9 30-10:30 Welcome. Mr. Lee A. Wallace. WPA Field Representative. 10:30. Song. Higher Ground. 10:40. Invocation. Rev E. F. Muse ley Introduction of Conference Theme. 11 00 Discussion of Cooperation with Various Allied Agencies. 11:15: J C. Manning. Superintendent of Martin County Schools. Edgar E. Bundy. superintendent ? of Elizabeth City Schools. C. W. Bazemore, manager Williamston branch of N. C. S. E. S . Mrs. Lucille Purser. Area Supervi sor. WPA Library Project: Mrs. I -P?Hodges. Alt'J Supervisor. WoT men's and Professional Projects; Mrs. E. F. Moseley, President, Wil liamston Women's Club. Mrs. Pearl TaHhwtf llnOr.. I n>i?.Film-i tion Committee. Federation of Wo men's Clubs: Miss Lora E. Sleeper. Home Demonstration Agent. Martin County; Miss Mary Taylor, superin tended of Public Welfare. Martin County \ Cooperation . with Negro Adult Education Program. 12 45 W T j Murphy Area Supervisor. WPAj Education Program Afternoon The Place of Literacy in a Perma nent Program of Adult Education. 2 30 Mrs J M Day. State Field Representative. WPA Education. Song. America the Beautiful. 3:30 Short intermission Advisory Councils and Their Place in a Permanent Program. 3:45 Mr George Carter. Chairman Advisory Council. Hyde County. Individual Conferences. 4 15-5:00. Consultants: Mrs. J. M. Day. Field Representative. WPA Education pro gram; Miss Nell Ranson. Rehabili tation Agent, State Commission for the Blind Consultant in Arts and Crafts Friday Monuac Mrs J M Day. Presiding Value of the Professional Growth of an Adult Education Teacher, 10:15 Dr. Roben J Maaske. Profe sor of Education, University of North Carolina Opportunities axvi Materials for Professional' Growth Available from the University Extension Division, 11:00: Mr Russell M. Grumman. Di rector of Extension Division. Univer sity of North Carolina The State-Aid Program in Tyrrell County, 11:45 Mr R. H Bachman, superintendent Tyrrell County Schools. Edult Education in Institutions, Miss Elsa Ernst, Superintendent State Farm Colony for Women The Future of Adult Education in North Carolina. 2 00 Senator Dee Gravely, Chairman. Committee for Adult Education ' Legislation and Permanency. 2 30: Representative -Hugh?G. Horton, Chairman Legislative Committee Informal Discussion with Teachers Concerning Type and Content of Correspondence Course Desired from the University, 2:50 Dr Roben J. Maaske, leader Four Negro Girls Before Courts For Shoplifting Four small local colored (iris ate before the courts today for alleged shoplifting in two stores here last Saturday night Carried before Jus tice J. L Hassell last night, the four girls. Gladys Williams. IS; Girline Smith. 14; Essie Wslston. IS. and An. me Mae Wslston, 14, were ordered before Judge L. B. Wynne in the county's juvenile court for trial to. day. The girls lifted a hat at Garden's store and were detected lifting two. *300 dresses from BelkTy ler'l. They I ran, but were later arrested and thel articles were recovered. Plan To Refinance $50,000 Road Bonds in Cross Roads Tor refinancing $50,000 road bonds in Cross Roads Township. unofficial re. ports stating that efforts srill be made to underwrite the $50,000 ob ligation at a lower rate of interest flMllff a good gram in that district back in April. 1921. the bonds are now a pain in the township's financial program Not one cent of the principal has been retired, and interest payments are past due. it is understood Decreases in property values in the district ov er a period of years have called for an increase in rate, but it is evident that the 40 cent rate now in effect will not raise enough to meet the in terest requirement not to even men tion the retirement of the principal Last year when Uv lint imlaltem of $5,000 was to base been paid. the antnrt defaulted in its obligating The forty-cent rate was insufficient to meet all the interest requirement The bonds carry su per cent inter est and the rate, based on a ST11 756 niir nrJ propcuj iiliutm until only SU47 03. The bonds were sold under the agreement that they were to be retired a: the rate of $5,000 a year beginning in ItT and continu ing through IMS It is now planned to refinance the bonds at possibly a lower rate of in terest and slightly increase the rate This action will make possible the retirement of the indebtedness over a period of yenrs. whereas under the present plan the obligation could never be lifted Farm Machine Makers End Experiments Here Lindsley Ice (x>. Is' One Largest Dealers In Southeastern II. S. John Deere Company Has Engineers Make Farm Survey Here Attracted here by the large sales; handled thtuugh then dealt is. the1 Lindslev Ice Company, the John! Deere Company, recently completed a survey of farm machinery needs* in I hit; immediate docIh?w Three e gineers. Messrs. Day. Duke and Mil ler. of the Ottumwa. Iowa plant have made an extensive study of farm conditions in this section and are working on additional types of farm machines that are likely to be in cluded in the list manufactured by the John Deere people. Mr L P. Lindsley explained today "The company has spent quite a sum of money studying different machinery needs, but it is not cer tain just when they will be introduc ed." Mr. Lindsley said. Included in the list is a new type of peanut pick er. the engineers spending much o! ' their time experimenting with ^mall model in the fields of farmers near Wijliamston The type of ma chine was not disclosed Taking the -John Dccco agency here just a few years ago. (he Lands ley Ice Company is now one of the ranking dealers of the company in the eastern section of the United States. Its sale of tractors leads ail other John Deere dealers in the South. The machinery handled by the local dealers if handled in one shipment would require several trains to move it. More than 100 new and 00 second-hand tractors have been sold, not to mention hundreds of plows, hay presses, harvesters in cluding some large combines Sales have been centered in Ma tin. Bertie and Washington counties and parts of Beaufort and Pitt Most, if not all the sales, have been handled in comparatively units, and clearly indicate that machinery is stepping in to take the place of the mule on the farms in this si tion. The field for the sale of farm ma chinery has hardly been touched and with favorable farming coikdittoi** during the next few seasons, the use of farm machinery will show even greater increase than in the past few years, it is believed Mr Kenneth Lindsley. member of the local firm, left this week for At lanta WIHERTEe is attending a meet ing of dealers from the southeastern section of the United States Respected Colored Man Dies In Hospital Sunday Tube Kiddick, mpcctcd colored man of Bear Grass Township, died in a Washington hospital about II o'clock Sunday night following i operation performed an hour earlier Riddick was taken suddenly ill with an acute stomach ailment last Fn day. Fined For Operating Car With Improper State Tags Raymond W Awlinw. I was fined $10 and taxed with coats in Mayor HaaeU** court last Saturday far the i had been operating the dealer's Itcenae. I MOVING SLOWLY f "" Parmele Saddened By Child's Death Little PatiKia Ann Jenkins. IS; months old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Jam* > E Jenkins, mas accident ally drowned on the Jenkins prem. Patrr?le Lest Saturday after noon #!i<e untimely passing of the child casting a profound sorrom ihroughout the otnm unity Playing around in the Lack of the bone, the child w ot into an outhouse and fell into a efti * pit Her disappraranre trnm tne j .i:cf mas soon uutewl ami at the end of a frantic search th lasted more than half an hour, the lifeless littk* body mas found Efforts !?> revive the child by placing her in warm mater and giv ing artifKai respiration failed A doctor summoned as hurriedly fKKsible. made an examination, and it is possible that the child m Knocked unconscious by a blow the back of her neck Water mas about thirteen inches deep in the p.L ?The funeral, attended tart?frcdr Sunday afternoon, mas one of the The services mere cuodudef by Dr Maynard Fletcher, uf Little girls served as paMbearerx. i younger girls carried the extensive floral offering Interment mas the cemetery at Robersonville Besides her parents, the cftuld urvived by one sister. Mary, ai three small brothers Williamston Gifts Defeat Washington High Sextet TV gtrb bukrtUII Icon of the local high school continued to duplay on improved brand of ploy a felling Wnlunclwi'i iuwg the Beaufort capital hd Friday nigh I by the score of 21 to ? Ehra Mar Mnfcoe with II punlv led I scoring, while Marie Hardiso. cently shifted from guard ho I ward, was second with The guard play of Benurr Wi Rachel KeeL and Carolyn Stalls i outstandings Due to rinse Washington scored only I goals during the was limited to two | last half Boys and gab will rnga Tarboco teams in a rtoutdrl the high school at 7 31 Bear Grass Wins Two Games From Roper Ht Funeral Service For Mrs. J. W. Anderson Is Held Last Sunday Highly Respected Citizen Dies at Home Here Last Saturday Mrs Mamie Baker Anderson, wi bw of Jesse Walter Anderson, died at her home here Last Saturday af ternoon at 1 o'clock following a long period of declining health. Almost 72 years old. Mrs Anderson was able to be up until just a short while ago when she suffered a pneumonia at tack which caused her death. The daughter of the late Abram and Meivina Baker. Mrs Anderson was born near Paclolus in Pitt County on March 31*. !866 She spent her early life in the community of her birth Follow ing ier marriage in 1888 she made her lome in Rober ersonville where Mr Anderson was engaged in the mercantile business for nearly two years before he was called into county service as deputy sheriff Following his appointment to that position. Mr and Mrs. An derson moved to Williamston where in her own quiet way and for the ast part unknown to the general public she wielded a wonderful in fluence in the advancement of the religious and the educational activi ties during the greater part of half a century No one could hold a great er devotion for home and family than that held by her She made her home the foundation for those prin ciples upon which the moral, spiri tual and education advancement of every community depend. Her di recting hand gave encouragement and support to her husband who oc copied a prominent place m the re ligious and educational affairs of this community and county until his death M 1929 Mrs Anderson joined the church in hrr early life, and she was lojil in its support until the end She was the oldest member in the Christian church here. Funeral services were conducted from the late home on Simmons ave nue Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev John L. Goff. her pastor, as sisted by Rev James 11. Smith, of the local Baptist church, and Dr Kin low*. Emporia. Va., Baptist minister Interment was in the family plot in the Baptist Cemetery here Mrs Anderson is survived by five sons Messrs. Julian C. and Clyde D Anderson, of Williamston. LeRoy Anderson, of Emporia, Va . Garlan M. Anderson, of Jamesville. and Hugh B Anderson of Washington. She also leaves three brothers. Dr J H Baker, of Baltimore. William J Baker, of Bethel, and Joseph Bak er. of Pitt County, and one sister. Mrs Lucy E Ross, of Robersonville Seven grandchildren also survive. Slot Machine Gets Official Sanction The operation of slot machines ? silent salesmen" as some call them ?is no* legal in this county acroed. inc to Sheriff C B. Roebuck who had an injunction flung at him last Saturday by federal authorities. The injunction, ordering the sheriff to "lay off" the machines planted may where in Martin County by a man framed Morris, of Columbus. Ohio, rane from the office of Federal Judge Meek ins "I will not ignore the injunction and the planting of slot machines is expected to get underway ui this cranny I iff i Judge Meek lie' action has quite a stir among police and law enforcement circles in the State, and a hearing in the case is scheduled to be held in Washington on Friday of this week, when the State Attor Ueneral's office and special counsel appointed by the governor w ill ask the judge to rescind or mod ify the final decree Last week. Sheriff Roebuck refus ed to sign an agreement whereby he would not interfere with the i uon of the machine, sign brought a direct Blood Translusion Given A. Hmssell This * A HumU, County court dot, who