Watch the Label on Your Paper, As It Carries the Data TI4I7 CWTFRPPKr Your Subscription Expire* II H HH H" ? ? I ? ? Home* of Uartin County. 1 1 B 1 ' Ijil 1 Lii\| l,\ IiJIj Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to over 1,600 VOLUME XLII?NUMBER 60 Williamtton, Martin County, \orlh Carolina, Friday. July 28, 1939. ESTABLISHED 1899 Idle WPA Workers Stand Good Chance Of Recovering Jobs Thirty Proji^t Workers ire Dropped from Hulk in This Counlv t Thirty-four WPA workers in Martin County were taken off the payroll last Saturday, according to H. B. Hargett. assignment supervi sor for the employment division of WPA. However, there is a strong possi bility that a good portion of these workers will be put back to work within a month, says Mr. Hargett Thirty of those cut off were certi fied workers who had been on the payrolls continuously for 18 months. The other four were non-ce;rtified administrative employees in the di vision headquarters in Williamston. ?Th" workers wim lost their jobs were equally divided be tween men and women They will not be eligible for reemployment--by WPA until at least 30 days after be ing cut off. The assignment supervisor said tie expected replacements for those laid off would be made within the next few days. He added, however, that the number of certified work zrs eligible for WPA work at pres i?nt is less than 30. and that there fore all 30 vacancies probably will not be filled immediately. Tbe number ul cer11f 1 erf ah for jobs in the whole district has increased during the last couple of weeks, probably because of the end ing of the potato season in Camden and Currituck counties But this will probably be offset during the next few weeks, due to the opening ^f the Bright Leaf Tobacco Belt. Mr. Hargett was notified this week that 1,000 Negro men and women will be needed in Greenville dur ing the next three or four months. It is expected that a considerable number of Negroes from this arid &lljoining Counties will answer the ?all. This, of course, will decrease the demand by NegfOo for WPA jobs in this county. There jya possibility that the quo- j ta for this district, and for Martin County, will be cut next month. If : it is not. many of the- 30 certified 1 workers dismissed last Saturday will tiave excellent chances of returning to work when their 30-day waiting | period is ended The 30 vacancies now existing are to be filled from the waiting list of certified applicants. But since the number on this list is less than the ! number of vacancies, the remainder if jobs will be filled from among those who have just been let out. The difference ia that those?who have not been working may go to work as soon as the Williamston of rices can take necessary steps, where as those just cut off are compelled to finish their 30-day waiting per iod. The four non-certified administra tive workers may be put back toj work, or their places may be filled with other workers, at the discretion r?f the WPA State organization. Mr Hargett said, however, that he un- : derstood no re-appointments or new appointments tnr/thrsr Tour jobs will he made in the immediate fu ture Before certified workers who have been let out Can regain their jobs. , thty must be re-certified as of re-j lief status and qualified for employ ment "Pink slips" have been issued to 6,180 persons out of an estimated 8. 500 affected in North Carolina, ac cording to State Administrator C. C McGinnis. He said the remainder of the total would be suspended with in two weeks, and that additional workers passing the 18-month limit would be let out on succeeding pay days. Mr. McGinnis emphasized that the lestiictions on relief workers' length of service was a permanent feature of the new WPA set-up, applying in flexibly to every WPA employee who exceeds the limit during this. fiscal year. Postpone County Tax-Listing Cases Trials of eight Martin County men on charges of failure to list taxes, have been continued until Au gust 28. The cases were docketed for trial in the recorder's court next Monday. The cases were continued in order to keep from interrupting the farm work of the defendants, it was said The warrants were taken out early this week by Tax Supervisor S. H Grimes. Mr. Grimes said yesterday he was delving further into his records, and indicated that other warrants might be served soon, charging failure to list property according to law. Those whose cases were continued to August 28 are Vance Andrews, of Robersonville, and Jesse Cogdell, Hebrew Dickens, Bardin Hooks, Lewis Elks, Joseph Thigpen, Levi Dixon and Albert Sherman, all of the Griffin and Johnson farms, near Hassell Rev. R. R. Grant, of Manteo, visit ed friends here a short while this afternoon. Art Lewis Shows Booked for Local Fair; September 26-30 The 1939 Willjamston Fairvwill be held September 26-30, according to an announcement today by the North Carolina Fair Operating Company. Mrs. Clyde Kendall ,of the associa tion, will open an office at William ston about fSeptember 1. and will probably have an assistant in handl ing matters concerning the fair. The Art Lewis shows have been booked for the midway this year. Several grandstand attractions have been arranged. Wednesday, Septem ber 27, will be "thrill day", featured by "Suicide Hayes and His Hell Drivers." Hayes is well known in Williams ton. He worked on the lo^al tobac co market in 1934 and 1935. This is his first trip to the county, however, as a "suicide" and "hell driver." The promoters of the fair, as well as all others having any connection with it. are hoping for a "break" in theweather this year. If they get" It, it will be for the first time in five years. Each year rain has not only dampened the spirit of the fair, but has bitten heavily into the income of the fair. It is reported that the fair associa tion lost $7,200 in 1938. and that it has lost $ total of $16,00 during the four years that the Williamston fair has been operating. No detailed announcements have been made yet about the entertain ment features of the fair, but will probably be made known when Mrs. Kendall arrives here the latter part of next month. HOSPITAL Pending the arrival of com plete equipment, the Brown Community hospital has delay ed its formal opening until the latter part of next week, Dr. Vic tor E. Brown, owner and opera tor of the institution, announced today. The hospital readily recorniz ed as a badly needed asset to this community, held its infor mal opening this week upon the receipt of partial equipment for the institution. Mrs. Charles Ed wards was the first patient, she with Mr. Edwards announcing the birth of a daughter, on Tuesday. July 25. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Martin at the Brown Community Hospi tal here yesterday afternoon. I>r. Brown is planning visi tors' day in connection with the formal opening, and many are expected to inspect the hospital at that time. Light Carry-Over Of Peanuts Looked For In State This Year The entire peanut trade is con certed over the fact that the whole supply of good farmer's stock Vir ginia type peanuts in the Carolina Virginia area may be exhausted be fore this year's crop of goobers hit the. market A. B Harless, Federal-State Mar ket News Representative at the State Department of Agriculture, says that one indication of this worry by the peanut trade is that the price of best Jumbos and Best Bunch peanuts is steadily mounting. Mr. Harless says that opinions dif fer widely as to the volume of pea inils si ill unmarketed. Me adds, how ever, that the belief is growing that the carry-over into the new crop will be confined to low-grade peanuts, ond that the volume of even these will be light. Present indications are that the present crop will be a splendid tme, -probably-the best m many?years. Ample rainfall in most areas has accounted largely for the present good state of the- peanut crop gener ally The indication now, on the basis of the Peanut Stocks Report, is that the supply of peanuts now in the hands of shelters, cleaners, crushers and warehouses will not last six weeks. There is some doubt of course, as to how many peanuts are held by speculators and how. many are still in the hands of the farmers. The Southeastern peanut market has strengthened, due partly to the delayed harvesting in the South west. Harvesting in Florida and South Georgia with favorable weath er should be general by the end of this week, Mr Harless says. Resigns As Member Of Local School Faculty Miss Rebecca Harrison, popular first ^grade teacher in the local schools, resigned that position this week to become associated with the High Point Schools Professor Z. Hardy Rose, of Nash ville, visited here a short while to day. r ELEVEN IN ONE >? -< Joe Sam Taylor, who liven on the J. B. Cherry farm near here brought an 11-headed ear of com to the Enterprise office last week-end. Starting ax a single unit at the base, the ear becomes double al most immediately, triple a little further up, then seems to scat ter all over everywhere half way up the ear. The corn is in the tender stage and would go mighty well as a "roan'n'ear". If taken apart, there would be a small ear for each of the whole family and some of the neighbors. Hie ear?or ears?may be seen in the window of the En terprise office. No Bi?; Drop In Tobacco Income Total Kxpcctcd ?i? Inrrt-iiM-il I'roiluclimi Likely To Of foot Vny Crier Deerea^e Advance notices indicate that Mar tin County's net benefit from this i year's tobacco crop will he below thai HIIIasEIy eur.TNul benefit* prob i ably will be about 10 per cent low | er than last year, according to a com parison, for the two years, of pro j duction. expense, and probable price. The production this year is ex j peeled to be about 30 per cent high er than last year's nine million pounds, or nearly 12 million pounds this year But. based on the opening prices of the Georgia market, the av erage prices for Martin County will probably be about 17 cents a pound. This is nearly a third lower than last i year's average of 23 1-2 cents -fcast yeai's nop Inought loughly $2,115,000. This year's production, based on the above estimates of pro duction and probable price, will bring about $1,989,000 or about six pn cent It-NS than last year's * The cost to the farmer in raising his crop this year has been far above that of last year, also. Because of the heavy crop, with its consequent heavy demand on the supply of fuel wood, tobacco sticks, and labor, the farmer has had to pay dearly to get bis crop housed. The weather man has taken a hand, also, in handing the farmer a loss on this year's crop. The intense heat of the last few weeks has caus ed the weed to ripen much faster than ordinarily. With a crop so large that curing barns would have been at a premium even if the tobacco rip ened normally, the farmer has found himself with woefully insufficient curing facilities for the ripe leaves crying to be housed Seeing his tobacco burning up in the fields, more than one farmer nat j urally has become' jittery. The inev itable result was a hurry to get one barn full of tobacco killed out so that the barn might be re filled. Hurry, in some cases, meant abnormally \ high heat. It is thoughit tjuit the great loss by fire of barns in the county has been doe in o large measure to this hurry to get tobacco cured The loss of barns, of course, fur Uo't cut down on the housing far "" I K'UaiUg JilCII IKS of the county'.s farmers, and ir creased the loss from burning un i the fields ' Optimistic persons in the count1 however, not only hope that the prtc may exceed 17 cents, hut think th production might be higher tha early estimates If they are ugh Martin County may enjoy a bette gross income from tobacco than las year Judgment Snn/iendeil In C.oiifih (Quarantine C.aaet | Four colored women were con victed last night by Justice of thi Pouco -J?tr?Hansel! on ehurgen o violating a quarantine agains, whooping cough early this week. . Those convicted were Nancy Clemiii'ins, Rosa EUwants, Lena nob lerson and Meniza Williams, all ol Griffin Street. Judge Hassell im pnsi-d a 311-day sentence on each, but suspended the sentence on condition that they pay court costs and ob serve the quarantine until it is lift ed. The quarantine was instituted by the Martin County Health Depart ment after 16 cases of whooping cough were reported in a single block of Hatton Street. ? Mother (If M illianinton K oman Die* In Ahotkie * Mrs. Charles Odom, of Ahoskie. mother of Mrs. K. D. Worrell, of Williamston, died of angina this week in Ahoskie Funeral services were conducted from the Baptist church there Mrs. Odom had been in failing health for some time, but was taken seriously ill about two days before her daath ? Besides Mrs Worrell, Mrs Odom is survived by-hcr husband, Charles Odom, of Ahoskie; two sons, Win borne and Henry, of Ahoskie, and another daughter, Mrs. Ina Mae Hog gard, of Richmond. Voice Opposition To Low b*at Price In (veorsia Belt #? Farmer* Glamoring Su*pen-| rion of Sales ami New Ivrfrrrmluin Decreased prices on the Georgia markets this week stirred tobacco farmers to action, and appeals were directed to the governor urging him to suspend sates, the growers look ing to far away Washington with an apparent yearning for another con trol referendum. Registering a marked dissatisfac tion after recovering from the low price shock of last Tuesday, the farmers are said to be resorting to mass action in an effort to relievt the low-price situation. Their crop little increased over last year. Georgia tobacco farmers are victims of the farm program de feat. They gave the program a ma jority and now with an inferior quality crop and no marked increase in production, the economic outlook for them is recognized as serious. The appeals for higher prices are certain to hit a concrete wall in the form of a run-a way production. Then there is the inferior quality factor to he considered. Reports from in dividual observers indicate that the price is to l>e-regarded as fair con sidenng the increased production of bright tobacco and the inferior qual ity from federal agricultural authorities and others who earnestly tried to eliminate beforehand the depressing price factor of over production. Price trends continued about the same as the markets approached the close of the first sales week, the erage holding to the 15 and It) cent level throughout the belt. Comparisons of 19-3$ prices with last year on selected U S grades ' showed (utters 1939 193K Fair 1 emon 21.00 32.00 K.iir ( )i ;mge 21.00 31.00 Lugs, Choice Lemon 21.50 32.00 Choice Orange 21 00 31.00 Fine Lemon 19.50 30.00 Fine Orange 19.50 28 00 Good Lemon 17.00 27.00 Good Orange 17 00 27 oo Fair Orange 11 75 19.00 Primings Choice Lemon 21 00 33.00 Fine Lfemon 20 do 31 00 Fine Orange 19.00 30.00 Good Lemon 17.00 28.00 Good Orange 10.50 20 00 Fair Lemon 12 75 22 50 Fair Orange 11 i)0 20 50 TciicIht liriiton Has Plenty To Do During The Summer Months Arthur M. Denton, recent graduate of N. C, State College, and now agri cultural teacher at OaU City?High School, is managing to keep plenty busy during the summer months,''de spite the fact that he lias ntr>classes. "The duties and tasks of the teach er of agriculture are unlimited," says Mi Benton "He has a busy time the year around Teaching in. the classroom is only a Dart of hift work." Mr. Benton has outlined some of the work he has been doing in u last several weeks, since the closing of the Oak City school In the first plai t-, tie has to prepare hpj teaching plans for the coming year. Then there is the matter of filing bulletins and securing reference material The project work which his stu dents started last spring requires the constant vigilance of the agri cultural teacher during the summer. He makes numerous visits to the far mers of his community, and does much community work, including the vaccination of hogs Cooperating with the county agent in his program of work, and keep ing on his toes' at all times to be of service to the farmers of the section are other matters which help keep the 'agricultural instructor busy- the year 'round : Section Hons To Heal Wave In rant Few Ihtyn Following a comparatively cool period, a heat Wave, accompanied by | relatively high humidity has held this section in its grasp during the past few days No record has been established by the mercury, but read ings of 96 reported in the shade, have j under atmospheric conditions tested the vitality of farmers and others who were obliged to remain by their I tasks. Intermittent showers have fallen, but even then the weather, has been oppressive. Thirteenth Turin# llam Dmlroyed In The (.ofinly Fire, believed to have tarted when an over-heated flue caught the logs, destroyed the curing barn and, a laige quantity of tobacco on thl- Co burn farm near Oardens early last night. Incomplete reports state that the barn was the thirteenth to have been destroyed hy fare m the county so far this year. Farmer Dennis Coburn, reporting the fire this morning, stated that he with neighbors had much difficulty in preventing the fi.e Irom spread ing to another barn. Facts Indicate There Is Very Little Unemployment Locally According to current facts coming from reliable sources, there is little real unemployment locally at this time Calls for 75 or more workers havi^luHMi virtually ignored, and ev ery inducement possible has been offered to fill new positions created in a tobacco factory at Greenville, Cvrus \V Ba/emore. manager of the local unemployment office here, said this morning. A first call for employable color ed women was issued .two. days ago, and up until this morning only four people had applied for the work that will pay them 25 cents an l^nir.dur. mg 55 hours each week for the next five or six weeks No marked re sponse has been received even j though employment officials point ? out that arrangements have been j made for group transsudation and room and board at reasonable rates, j 1 "It is possible for a colored woman to accept the work. and clear as nuuih.as $5U during the working fcer lod." Mr. Ha/emote said adding that his office v\ as at a decided lotgs h> understand why more colored wo men had not applied f??r the jobs ! It is true -that farmers are using much town labor m harvesting to bacco. but the closing of the peanut plant a few days ago should make available at least 50 women who could leave their homes for just a few weeks The work is not difficult, but last reports maintain that employment authorities are experiencing much trouble in rounding up enough work ers in several eastern counties to fill the approximately 1.500 jobs recent ly created. Any one wishing to work is directed to the employment office in the town hall here "Authorities Map Plans For Sanitation Drive Seek (Cooperation 01 The Public In Promoting Drive Sluli-il (Will He Oiillim-.l Ity lli?- County I l*-altIt llt-parliut-nl General plans for an extensive drive ^o improve general sanitary conditions were formulated at a joint meeting ot town authorities and the heads o'l the board of health and volunteer''department held in the town commissfionors'. room here last evening Calling upon the health .depart tnent foiet s to take eharge. the com missioiiers passed a resolution pledg ing then support in advancing the general clean up i ainpaign. - ~ The first move in the drive Will be in the form of a general appeal to the public, urging all stole keepers and property owners to cooperate in the movement and work to relieve those conditions that arc aggravat ing the p.ublic health and disturbing the cleanliness of the town No effort was made to point out conditions that are really deplorable but tin* authorities and department ai heads recognized those conditions and attacked the problem with the expressed desire of solving it with out resorting to court action. "Most of the merchants whohstfatter gar hage otil Tttc hack doors of the stores are just careless, hut 1 believe they will coopt rate with any movement to improve sanitation," iJr. h". E. Wd son, lo ad of the health department, told the rueetillg The health officer said that he had seen little children eating from the garbage ?collections- hack of stores and eating places, that nearly every back lot m Wilhamston would not meet a lax sanitary law.-It-is quite evident that -operators, -poss^i bly unconsciously ol the tact, are preparing ideal breeding places for flics, i,us mm uihi'i?varmints ttt numbers Garbage disposal was discussed, and the town authorities are expect ed to make a detailed survey of the problem following a preliminary in vestigation by the board of health. After appealing to the civic pride of the town's citizenry, and after at tacking the problem through an ed ucation drive, the authorities, if the two first plans do not meet with suc cess, propose to resort to court ac tion in an effort to remedy the bad sanitary conditions that now exist. ( While removed from the eyesight, , foul sanitary condition* exist with in a few yards of the town's main I street, health authorities point out. Just' two niocKs removed trom the main business district a small settle merit is equipped with u limited nuitt bei of privies, and the privies an? insanitary Liquor law enforcement officers have just about refused to enter or go near the settlement he gause the filth and clouds of savory stench are worse than a machine gun attack in actual warfare It was gathered from the meeting, that the authorities in charge plan to seriously prosecute the sanitary movement, .and the general public will do well to lend its cooperation Mayor Ha&sell and health authorities are mapping out details for the drive which is expected to get underway very shortly W illiam Taylor To Taw Trial In Superior Court Charged with tin carnal knowl edge of Klla Louis Outterbridge, 15 year-old colored girl, William Tay lor was placed under bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance in lhe superior court for trial here next September Taylor, admitting his guilt in the case, was given a prelim inary hearing before Justice Masse II Wednesday. Unable to raise thr bond, the defendant was returned tc i?u. ? It< M)\| ^ "s daily lift- altered with ()??? construction of a hard surface ago, vllle IN last adopting itself to ""new situation, late reports stating that a building hiHini is getting underway there, and that the new movement will virtual ly complete the shift of business Ironi the town's ope thriving main street to the highway Merchant Ira T. (strain is starting the construction of three brick stores on bis property fac 1,1jf "u highway, according to information received here to day. Health Department Si'lislics Its Work In The (lOiiiity (ilinies J ; Nineteen vaccination ctimrs eon dinted by llio Murtin County Health "ei'firtment con,e, to ? close this week liming tins f?ul weeks the '?limes ran a total of 25,35(1 injee "mis Of typhoid serum weie made, ?molding to records of I), Wilson, county health officer The turgesi mi,Idler of injections nwjv was at ft,.- health off,,-.. Wilhaniston. where TKre aTiii pune uiis iiei,. mode I ho second lalmest i O OS 2.113(1. at the Will,one on colored school Tin. smallest to til figure was 315, at Parmele III some sections of the county, ||? . .T 'lesoflfaootum " health department, mainly (?ecuUse of llie fact lhat foitners have had tlieii hands lull will, the lohoc to i roj). Although most of the injections we", against typhoid, there wee I ? people ,n tin. county win, took |soiplr Shot ??|.||.cm!.i?,||. . d'l"">'e, Most oltlled^^ I i oTomndloTi.s wkr, give, TRpr f,, , I week, though there were quite o ft u du'in^ tin- MTnnd wrrV I, T,w number of diphlhena. mjee" *??'" 1,1 'ho last ,w? weeks of III clime was small The three shot dipli j lUerio treatment started op strong ui mopped sharply aft, , the second Week I m,c were few stan I J. i,f(" ?'"t week, Which was tl? niKK'st ol tin- four. f ollowing ,s a tabulation of the to l>,l',""d infections m each ?f the i ly clinics No lid Killing Stulioii' | 402 Jamesville School )'852 Hardens Jordan's Store i sfi farm Life School I 50,, K'ason Lillcy Store | 'j 4(', Hear Grass School , (,l0 Corey's Kil|jng Station |'(,7j Wi Houston Col S, I I j '073 Williainstiii, Heal,,, ' Roebuck's Store Hamillon 4,135 223 ,, . U2II -Oik City , ...... 1,09 J 929 598 ^:r"Vr . urn Holx'rsonviJlt f?old Point Hassell.s Parriich Class Hands Tola I 740 I 25,356 NKAKI\<; l!M) The laborious task of harvest ing tobacco is nearing an end in this county, reports stating that a few farmers have already housed their last barn. The bulk of the crop will be harvested by next week, and hundreds of far mers will be completing the task week after next. There are a few who will pottfiihly be curing in September, however. Frosty and George .Martin, producing a bumper quality crop harvested their last barn this week in the Jamesviile section to lead the field In completing the work. The Martin boys have cut the stalkA and sowed the field to soil conserving crops. Will Let fatten Price Adjustment Payments Ere Long r -fc ?. I.trim i - III \ I?I?I \ for Special t ollon Money Within Ken l)ay?? Between thirty aryi thirty-five J thousand dollars will be made avail able to Martin Counts cotton farm m s w ithm the next six or eight weeks in the form ??t cotton, price adjust ment payments T It Slade, special assistant in the farm agent's office here, announced today Announc'rig thnt thi- ,q?.|)hcations for the payments would be received just as'soon as the compliance work js checked m the. office of the farm i agent. Mr Slade pointed out that hotlr the landlord and tenant must i sign the tonus, that the cut ton grow | eis will be advised when to make t?11 iiul 11 r11H ??{ iui iln?moin"3 r? (>\ei planting then allotted cotton acreage i, a few 'farmer*, in thr coun ? t\ have already forfeited their claims in the cotton price adjustment pay ments us well as those offered Under the spil conserv ation program Those farmers planting an excess cotton acreage, can qualify for the payments however, by plowing up the excess ucieage, it Was pointed out ? The cotton price adjustment pay incuts are payable t?? those farmers who received a cotton allotment but win) did imt plant a stalk of cotton ? . Ine payments, figurec| at the rate of abm.it I I* cents per pound, are based on allotments antj wjp average around throe to five dollars an acre The size of the payment: are deter mined from the poundage allotments and tn those cases where no cotton wars actually planted the payments will he distributed among landlords and tenants in accordance with terms and agreements that would have been in effec t had the cotton been planted. Cotton i- under a strict control pro -gram, and those farmers who have excess acreages will he required to pay a three- cent penalty on surplus ?poundages lU-d cards will he issued to those growers exceeding their al lot ments. | A few fanner.-, .in-tin's eoiinty. have already applied for the cotton price adjustment 'payment... hut the ma j jority of tJie applications will hard ? Iv hi- filed before early August. Last ' year most of the payments were ef j tected in lair Sept em he i and Octo ! her Our Month I o (,o. t l)n v 'I'o llrtnrn . Kill us Foy, .1 crippled man who call, home vv.heivvcr lie haul's his hat. is just hack, lu his native North [Carolina lollowing u hi a I vts.it to ! tin W ele type til vehicle, Foy nuule his j rwii'td the lair iii twenty-eight days. Two tif.es, uidinaiily used 011 bicy eles. gave out before he tvac&cd the hut city Selling peneij.s as he went .nut takine a i>') 50 chains with his }11 e tin i i I.pp.led lelluw liiliilly got IV, , ? unnei Whuh n'-. big show. Hut tan authorities, apparently '''I Hit' the itoatnm ei ?n \ i-I'teH nil almost eei tain liability into an asset when they told how the crippled man pushed lus . way- over a 500-mile eourse just, to see the fair His pic I ture; appeared in4 the papers, and I'oy was a king for a day at least ! Alter sjm tiding a day at the fair, the j authoritie- bundled up the crippled | man and his unique Vehicle and sent them hack to North Carolina I would have appreciated the $9 traip fate in cash, for I had no home to ret,itrn to. hut I could not be choice and after thinking about what a long push it was hack to North Carolina. I accepted the train ride hack to Koek> Mount," Foy said. A native of Craven County, Foy lived in -(?old shorn. for a number of v? ,ii s, hut now lie travels, merely existing bjfi tin n vi-iuir gamed from the 1 ale of five-cent pencils Ilefeinlanl In Snrihii (.use Released From C.ounty Jail Edward Wdkey, middle-aged man charged with committing a crime against nature, was released from the Martin County jail here yester day morning when his young son. Thomas Wilkey, failed to.appear and offer evidence for the State at a preliminary hearing scheduled be fore Justice J L Hassell. The prosecuting attorney explain ed to the court that the witness was sick and could not appear. Wilkey was released under bond in the sum 'of $700. The case will be reopened j just as soon as the prosecuting wit ness is able to attend court. ?? ??t ('.uln Finger Off While liei>niring I.awn Mower Testing out a lawnmower at hi* home on East Main Street here day before yesterday, Mr. Tom Cook ac cidentally got a finger on his left hand tangled up in the blades and lost the end of it. The injury, while painful, was not at all serioua.