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Watch the Label on Your Paper, Ax It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expires. THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to over 1,600 Homes of Martin County. VOLUME XLII?NUMBER M ffdliamtton, Martin County, !\orth Carolina,, Friday . \<>n mh< r 1939. ESTABLISHED 1899 Half Dozen Cases Called In County Court List Monday Caw, Oiargiii^ Andrew An drews with Larceny of To bacco, Is Nolprossed * Holding one of the shortest Octo ber sessions in years. Judge H. O. Peel cleared a half dozen cases from the Martin County Recorder's court docket last Monday in rapid order. Crime almost took a holiday during the previous week, and the court at tracted few spectators during the brief session. It was a tough day in court for An drew Andrews, Cross Roads color ed man, but even then he was re leased in the mam case brought against him by the State The case charging Andrews with the larceny of tobacco from the Bullock farm in Cross Roads Township was nolpross ed with leave. When the officers were investigating the alleged theft they learned that Andrews was sup posed to have operated his automo bile while his driver's license was revoked. Judge Peel, adjudging him guilty of operating an automobile without license, sentenced him to the roads for three months. While the trial was in progress, it was pointed out that Andrews had not paid all of the $50 fine and costs, and Judge Peel added another two months to the road sentence. The court provid ed for the sentences to run concur rently, but the defendant was not satisfied with the judgment and he appealed to the higher courts. Judge Peel required bond in the sum of $250 James Hodges. charged with drunken driving, was found not guil ty. , Sifnon Battle was sentenced to the roads for sixty days in the case charging him with larceny and re ceiving. Charged with larceny and receiv ing, Floyd Wynne was sentenced to the roads for 60 days and taxed with the costs, the sentence to begin at the direction of the court The John Dixon mentioned in tin court report last week was a color ed man. Involve Local Man In Tobacco Theft Ahoskie, Nov. 2.?C. T. Hegler, 35. of Virginia, and Grover Moore, 27. of near Williamston. ate in jail in default of a $500 bond set at a hear ing befrr Justice of the Peace J. H. Young in Ahoskie Saturday on charges of stealing tobacco on tin Ahoskie market. It seems that the two men were op erating a ring with Hegler Working in Ahoskie and Moore in Williams ton Police Chief W. G. Morris said that Hegler was arrested Friday night and immediately confessed that he had been taking tobacco from the Brick warehouse in Ahoskie, sell ing some of it on the floor and send ing some to Williamston to Moore who in turn had been sending stolen tobacco from there to the Ahoskie market for sale After Hegler squeal ed on his accomplice, Chief Morris listened in on a telephone call Sat urday from Moore in Williamston to Hegter. Thinking The chief was his accomplice. Moore informed h im that he had about 700 i>ounds of to bacco to sell in Ahoskie. He was im mediately arrested, and a prelimi nary hearing was held before Jus tice Young Saturday afternoon. One of them was sent to jail in Winton and the other in Jackson. Chief Morris and Charlie Phaup. co-proprietor of the Brick wart house, said the others in the thieving ring may be implicated. Amount of tobacco stolen was not indicated Hegler and Moore are to be tried in the February term of Superior court. Wreck Injury Fatal To County Native Mrs. Berry Thomas, a native of-this county, died at her home in Hertford County, near Aulandtr. on Thurs day from injuries received in an au tomobile accident near Ahoskie last July. Mrs. Thomas was riding in a horse-drawn vehicle with Mrs Blanche Bunting and several others when a transfer truck hit the wagon and killed Mrs. Bunting instantly Funeral services were conducted at the home Friday by Rev. John Armfield, Ahoskie Episcopal minis ter, and interment was in the Baptist Cemetery here. The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ace Nicholson. Mrs. Thomas was born in this county, near Wil liamston. 45 years ago. She and her family had lived in HeVtford Coun ty for a few years. Besides Mr. Thomas, formerly of Robersonville Township, she leaves several chil dren. Second Month Salariet Paid To Martin Teacher? Salaries, totaling nearly $21,000, were paid to Martin County school employees this week, the greater portion of the amount going to the 200 white and colored teachers. Plans Advanced for Personal Property Sales Next Monday Possibly gaming bis idea from the livestock auctions. Sheriff C. B. Roe buck. acting in strict accordance with the law .us making preparations to conduct an auction sale al the courthouse door here next Monday. The seller, while specializing in au tomobiles. is planning to offer a cow or two. a few stray mules, and a few farm implements for sale. An in complete check of the inventory this morning shows there are eight auto mobiles on the list, the sheriff stat ing that the county was principally interested in collecting taxes due on the property, that mortgages could not be given prior consideration. Possibly the sheriff and his depu ties have levied on more than 100 lots of personal property, and in most cases the taxes have been paid since the levy was made. While it is pos sible that the inventory will be re duced as the owners pay the tax ac counts to head off the sales, the sher iff said this morning that he believ ed a few owners would allow their property to be sacrificed on the auc tion block. The sheriff is not planning to dis play the property at the courthouse and any and all sales will be made sight unseen, more or less. The prop erties, for the most part, will be stor ed in garages in various parts of the county, and livestock will be left on the farms until after the sale, accord ing to the sheriff's present plans. Working long hours each day, the sheriff and his forces have been able to cover portions of five townships only. The tax drive will be extended to other districts as rapidly as pos sible for sale on future dates. COMMISSIONERS Little business awaits the at tention of the Martin County commissioners at their regular meeting here next Monday, J. Sam (ietsinger, clerk to the hoard, stating this morning that other than drawing a jury for the December court and hand! ing routine matters he knew of nothing for the officials to do. The publication and sub.se quent sale of delinquent tax lists will he handled in accordance with an order issued by the hoard at its last regular meet ing While it is about time for more complaints, and just com plaints, too, no petitions asking improvements to roads are ex pected at the meeting Monday. Report Contagious Diseases In County Twenty cases of contagious dis eases. many of which possibly could have bet n prevented, were reported board of health. Diphtheria, despite lepeated warnings to parents to have their children immunized, bobbed to fhe front when four children fell vic tim of the disease One death result ed from that cause among the color ed population. It is understood that nOnc t?f the victims had been proper ly immunized against diphtheria. Tuberculosis also bobbed up again during the iMonth, the health depart ment reporting four such cases, one among the white and three among the colored population Two of the cases were reported in Rohersonville Township and one each was reported among citizens in Cross Roads and Goose Nest Townships Whooping cough, after subsiding during the late summer months and tally fall period, flared up again and attacked twelve children among Williamston's colored population. Unless a strict quarantine is observ ed. the spread of the cough is likely to follow. Special Service At Methodist Church The choirs of the local Methodist church are preparing a special mus ical program fdr the Sunday night service. The ritual of the new Unit ed Methodist church will be used. This service is considered one of the most beautiful rituals in Protestant ism. It is entirely musical and lit urgical and interprets the Sacrament of the lord's Supper. A large congregation is expected as it is the closing service of the con ference year at the Methodist church. Dr. Maxwell gives the closing ser mon Sunday morning and the night service is devoted entirely to music by the choirs and tlpe sacrament of the Lord's Supper. This service ends the feature services in dramatic wor ship instituted by the pastor for the last month of the conference year. The following have leading roles In tin musical ritual Mrs. J. S. Whit Icy. Mrs. John Wier. Mr. H. L Swain, Miss Jerry Humble, and Mr. M J. Norton. The choir will render a spec ial anthem interpreting the sacra ment. Mrs. W K. Parker will be at the organ and the pastor will offi ciate at the Lord's Supper. Halloween Damage Done To Pontoffice Properly Damage done to a United States Postoffiee street mail box here last Halloween night will possibly be in vestigated by the department, ac cording to unofficial information gained this morning The damage has been reported to the department, it was learned. Using a large firecracker, the Hal loween pranksters blew the cast iron box to pieces, it was said. The box was located on the corner of Park and Warren Streets. In addition to the damage done to the mail box, the Halloween pranks ters centered their attention on street lights and knocked aeveral of them out. Very little damage was report ed to other properties, it was report ed. Marked Decrease In Illegal Manufacture Of Liquor Reported Only Kiglit Plant* W reeked in | County \m*1 Month By Speciul Officers ? A marked decrease in the volume of business handled by illicit liquor dealers was reported in this county last month by Special Enforcement Officer J. H. Roebuck. While the bus iness was advanced on a small scale in several districts, it was marked I by complete inactivity in other dis- | tricts. Commenteng on the decrease in the illicit liquor business, Officer Roe buck stated that the manufacturers | hail encountered an economic wall | which they could not scale. "In Sep tember, three large-scale plants were ! wrecked before they were ever put | into use. and when the manufactur ers experience such economic set backs they find it difficult to recov er and continue 111 the business," the officer explained. The officer would offer no comment as to any possible decrease in the actual consumption | of liquor in the county. However, the third quarterly report recently | released by the Martin County Al coholic Beverages Control Board re flects a decrease in liquor consump tion. and it is evident that the en forcement division's report reflects a similar decrease in the consumption of the outlawed brands. During the past month, the en for Cement division wrecked eight liquor manufacturing plants in the county as compared with seventeen in September. The number destroy ed last month was considerably less than the number wrecked in Octo ber of last year. More than 4.100 gallons of beer and eight gallons of liquor were poured out during the past month Five persons were ar rested and that many were convict ed and sentenced to the roads for alleged violation of the liquor laws during the month. The enforcement division officers traveled 1,114 miles making investigations, tearing up li quor manufacturng plants, pouring out beer and effecting arrests of the alleged liquor law violators. The eight stills were scattered in nobersonviiie, Hamilton. Williams I ton, Bear Grass and Jamesville Townships. Loc al Pro pip Will Attend P.T.A. Meet A number of men and women c Williamston are planning to atten the annual conference, district nun" ber nine, of the North Carolina Cor gress of Parents and Teachers, whic will be held in Ahoskie, Tuesday November 7th. This district comprises 12 countie and the congress is headed by Mri I. A. Ward, of Hertford. Mrs. Jimmy Taylor, president c the local parent-teacher associatior said this morning she was trying t get a large delegation from William ston to attend the congress. A num ber of prominent and interestin speakers are scheduled to addres the meeting Former Local Man Hurt In Georgia Auto W reel Charles Whitley, former local young man, was badly hurt a few days ago when his automobile was sideswiped by a truck near Ring gold, Ga Riding along with his arm resting in the car window, Whitley was said to have suffered a triple fracture of the limb, twice above the elbow. It was first reported that he would lose his arm, but later reports stated that he was improving rapid ly and would be able to return to his home in Atlanta. ?? Missionary Circlet To Hold Joint Meeting On Monday Tnere will be a joint meeting of the Woman's Missionary circles of the local Methodist church at the home of Mrs. C. E. Jenkins, Monday afternoon at 3:30. Mra. E. P. Rhodes, of Washington, will apeak to the circle and all mem bers are requested to attend. Howard ^ illiams Is Seriously Injured In Automobile \\ reek O. K. Ilarri*. Sih'uiuI \ iclim Of VI rirk. KcIcumiI from l.tH-ul Hospital Howard Williams-Hoard, young Williams Township white man, was critically injured, and O K. Harris, of Kitty Hawk, was painfully bruis ed and cut last Tuesday night when their car went out of control, ripped away about 50 feet of heavy fences and numerous posts on the Sweet Water Creek fill and plunged down a 12 or 14 foot embankment into the swamp, about one and one half miles from here on U. S. Highway No. l>4 Williams was not expected to live when entered in the Brown Community hospital, but after four teen hours of treatment he regained consciousness and he was reported to be getting along as well as could be expected today A partial list of injuries includes a broken arm, a crushed leg. concussinrvof the brain, an ear partially cut off, a puncture in the back, abrasions and a chest in jury. Williams, an employee of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, was able to talk some yesterday, but he could not recall details of the accident or how it hap pened. Harris, driver of the car, was knocked unconscious by a heavy blow on the head. There were sev eral bruises and cuts on his body, but he was able to leave the hospi tal yesterday afternoon He and Wil liams were working on a highway near Robersonville. and were on their way to visit friends in Wil liams Township. Apparently traveling at a fast rate of speed, the car was said to have run off the road on the right while meeting another machine The driver turned'sharply to the left and mowed down the fence posts in ra pid order for a distance of more than fifty feet before the car made a fi nal plunge and went down the em bankment. Williams, his mother just released | from a Washington hospital where she underwent a major operation a "few weeks ago, is given an even I chance to recover if complications do not develop, according to informa tion coining from the hospital doc- I tors. October Issuance of Marriage Licenses r Reaches Low I'oint F.lcveii LiceiiHCH Are Sulil Count) During Month Just Liuled Tin issuance of marriage licenses in this county last month reached a ?cord low point for the month of October, the number of marriages falling below even the depression month of October, 1931, when twelve licenses were sold by the license bureau in the county. In October of last year, there were twenty-nine marriage licenses issued, eleven t<? white and eighteen to colored cou pies. . -fJincirthe marriage Health law be (ame effective last spring, the num ber of licenses to colored couples has shown a steady decrease, while there has been very little variation in the number of licenses issued to white couples in comparative months. Last "year, the number of licenses issued to colored couples was greater in seven of the eight months from March through October than was the number of licenses issued to white couples. This year, the number of licenses issued to white couples has been greater in seven out of the same eight months than the number is sued to colored couples. It is appar ent then that the health law has ef fected a decrease in the number of marriages among the colored pop ulation and had little or no effect on the number of marriages among the white population. During the months of April to October, inclusive, last year there were 53 licenses issued to white couples in this county as com pared with 39 licenses issued during the same period this year. There were 75 licenses issued to colored couples in the months of April-Oc tober, inclusive, last year as com pared with thirty issued in the same period, this year. The most marked decrease in the comparative numbers is noted in the month of October. (Continued on page six) Infant Die* At Hotnti Of Parent? Near Jametville ? Robert Coburn Barber, two and one-half months old, died at the home of his parents, Mr and Mrs j Elbert W. Barber, near Jamesville yesterday morning at 2 30 o'clock following an illness of about two weeks. Colitis was given as the cause of his death. The last rites were held yesterday ] afternoon and interment was in the i family plot in the Barber cemetery, near Jamesville. Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers, James Collen, his twin, and Elbert EarL Local Market Sales Nearing Nine Million - Pound Mark With prices fairly firm. the. Wil liamston Tobacco Market today was Waring the nine million pound mark. Supervisor of Sales K B Crawford announcing that up to last night the market had sold 8.830,080 pounds for a general average of about 15 cents. At the elose of the selling period today, the sales will stand right at the nine-million-pound mark. Mr. C raw ford stated. The av eiage for the week will range right around eighteen cents. The market will clear its floors early this afternoon and make ready for a heavy sale next Monday. It is now estimated that 85 per Cent of the nop has been sold. in this section, that possibly with one exception, there'll be no more block sales tins season. Reported earlier in the season to be of good quality, the crop is not showing up as well as was generally predicted it would. While there have been some good tobaccos sold here and at fairly high prices, the offer ings, as a whole, have been of only medium quality. Sales have ranged well into the 40-to-50-cent class, and averages of 30 to 38 cents have been reported on the local market this season, but the types of tobacco that command sqcli attention and prices have been lim ited. Grade for grade, the local mar ket, according to comparative tests carefully made, is holding a high rank with any other market} a to bacconist said here this morning fol lowing a survey of a number of houses in the belt this week While a few have turned their tags, farm ers. as a whole, have recognized their sales here to equal those on other markets, ami the market patronage here is holding up well. Serious Problems Continue To Face Farmers 01 Fast ? T Strong Farmer Organization Offer- \ImmiI tlie Only Solution While a planned production ?s as sured agriculture for the coming year there'art? two serious problems facing the farmers of eastern North Carolina, according to reliable re ports coming from farm leaders. Speaking in Wilson this week, J. iv Wmslou . president of the North Carolina Kami Bureau Federation, pointed out that there was a move ment underway to "take much of eastern North Carolina's tobacco acreage away and move it further south " The movement, just recently uncovered, has made no marked progress, buf it is apparent that the Farm Bureau in this section is ac cepting the challenge and will dog gedly stiek up for the rights of east em tohacco growers. The other problem facing the east I ern Carolina farmers, especially those in tin- and""Other nearby coun ties, centers around the lovvl.x pea nut With production increasing over wide front and with a breakdown almost certain to follow next sea nn m the diversion or stabilization dan. farm leaders are eagerly try mg to do something about the prob lem The Farm Bureau is conducting a series of meetings in the peanut belt at this time in an effort t?? have the goober included in the soil con | si rvation program. Tin i and similai problems will be ' disclosed at a meeting of the Martin ; County Farm Bureau membership jut a meeting to he held m the agri cultural building on Friday. Novem ber 10. K G Arnold, southeastern di rector of the American Farm Bureau Federation, will address the meeting and point out the need foi a strong organization to tackle these two major problems and others of al lied importance Recognizing the rtced for a strong farm organization, Martin County farmers aie now in l.he midst id a LmeiiibeisUifi -dmm?official it port _hax been released m cuhnecUau_W4Ur [the drive, but reliable information received tTCle points to an active drive in nearly every section of the I county The campaign is slated to ?ndt?n Thursday, November 1(?, when 1 the winners of tin* campaign will fiast on turkey at the expense of the losers Captain Charlie Daniel and I Captain .J K Winslow, heading up the competing membership teams, (aren't doing much talking but each of them is expecting the othei to pay for the supper on the 16th. Flans have hot been completed in their entirety, but the officials of the organization are planning a big barbecue for the entire member ship within the next several weeks. jftworrrinfe From Monlli Wound In Final llo*/dial ? Pleasant Allen, aged employee of the State Highway and Public Works j Commission who. suffered a severe lip injury white working on the Con ine Creek bridge last week, is get ting along very well in Brown Com munity hospital here. He will be re leased from the institution within the next two or three days. Mr. Allen, a resident of Washing ton County, had his lip cut almost through and his chin injured when struck by a piece of timber he was sawing while working on the bridge project. 4 Service* At Jame*villc I'rimitivc Hn/tli*! i.hurch Services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock and again on Sunday at the same hour in the Jamesville Primitive Baptist church, an officer of the church announced today. Elder P. E. Getsinger, the pas tor, Assisted by Elder S. B Denny, of Wilson, and other prominent lead ed in the church will conduct the services. The old church extends a cordial invitation and a hearty welcome to everyone- to be present for one or both of the services.' .\ <:\\\ vss In answer to pitiful pleas com ing frpm war-stricken victims and refugees, an extensive can vass of the residential and busi , ness sections of the town will be made by members of the Wo man's Club and by representa tives of the Kiwanis Club next week. The canvass is one of thousands being conducted by the I'nited Appeal for Refugees. The Woman's Club members will canvass the residential ai=east and the Kiwanians will solicit donations in the business districts. There is a great need for the help of our people, and all contributions, large or small, will be appreciated. October Is A Busy Month For Sheriff Following a quiet and fairly peace ful pnio?< wtnli-?Lbe?tobacco mar i kets weii' closed during the early | part of October, the office of the j county sheriff began to buzz with ac ' tivity during the close of the month > Tax collections in the latter part i of tlu period claimed much utteii tion. the officer, in his regular monthly report, stating that $13. 341.42 in 1938 taxes were passed ov er the imrtity More thaiTIOQ PU" $ of one kind or another were served, the representatives of the office go ing after the people with criminal warrants, capiases, court orders, claim and delivery papers, and or dels of ejectment In addition to that work, the office investigated six cases m which nine persons were charged with violating varo'us laws. Fifty-one persons were arrested and jailed in the county dur ing the period to set up a new rec ord for the latter part of the year to date (otinly Native Dies lit South (.aroliua L. W. Davis, native of tins-county, died in a Charleston, S C., hospital last Friday evening following an ill iiess of about six weeks' duration. Mr. Davis, 83 years old, was visiting relatives in this county last Septem ber when he was taken ill with can cel He immediately returned to his home, his condition becoming worse rapidly. Death followed a week af ter he underwent an operation. The son of the late W W and Ma linda Holliday Davis, he was horn in Jamesville Township When a young man Ire moved to South Car olina where he remained two years Returning to this state, he located and married in Roper and later went hack to Charleston to make his home permanently there. He was associat ed with extensive lumber and milling interests, and was a highly regarded citizen in the South Carolina city When .i young man he joined the Christian church and remained loy al to its teachings until the end. His recent visit to this county was the first in about eighteen years, and he had planned to return next spring for a lengthy stay With relatives and his many friends; Funeral services were conducted at the late home Sunday afternoon, and interment was in the family plot in the Charleston cemetery. Besides his wife who was the for mer Miss Mattie Ball, of Rctper, he leaves two children, Mrs. Eloise Abram and Mrs. Dorothy Tovey, and four grandchildren, all of Charles ton He is also survived by one sis ter, Mrs L. F. Holliday, of this coun ty ^ (ounty Hoard Education I'tannin# Meet Monday A monthly meeting of the Martin County Board of Education has been conditionally scheduled for .next Monday, it was learned this mdrtung from the office of the superintenoent. Flans for an addition to the Parmele colored school will be discussed by the board, the superintendent said. The Farmer's Share In A Rising Market Held To Minimum w ? |)u|;i Sho%%? 1 ne>en I'rire III rreuses in Retail ami Farm Prices Writing recently on the agricultur al situation, K .O Been of the United States Department of Agriculture, review s the price factor us it is appli cable to produce as it moves from the farm to ultimate consumer Been writes, as follows Since the recent outbreak of hos tilities in Europe prices of many food products have increased sharply For those foods produced by th?- Ameri can farmer, both producers-and con sumers are interested in finding out to what extent the increase in retail prices is associated w ith increases in prices received by farmers-for their products. A small amount of scatter ed price? information now available permits the making ot certain rough comparisonamong changes from mid-August to mid-September in farm, wholesale and retail prices for several important food products. Some of the most spectacular ad vances m let ail prices occurred in sugar, laid, tiesh pork and navy beans Both retail and wholesale su gar prices advanced more than a1 cent a pound from August to Sep ternber, hut it is too early in the sea son to appraise the effect of this gain upon prices paid to growers of sugar beets and sugar cane. Among meat products, sharp retail price increases were,chiefly confin ed to lard and to a few fresh pork cuts, with cured products, beef, and lamb, showing moderate increases Considering composites ot all meat cuts it appears that wholesale meat prices advanced more rapidly than either retail or farm prices The dis parity between increases in retail and wholesale prices i^ most notice able m pol k products In general, the livestock producer appears to have shared to the full extent of the re tail price increase, hut his price did not keep pace w ith wholesale meat prices. Bread price at retail have not changed although the retail price of flour is about 10 per cent higher. The increase in retail flour price is some what below the rise in wholesale quotations lrom $4.60 to $5 61) a bar rel The farmers' wheat price seems to be maintaining a normal relation to the advancing wholesale place of flour Ket.nl and wliolesale prices of but ter each rose almost I cents a pound while the advance in the price paid the farmer for the butter fat equiva - It nt was less than half this amount. While the price received by farm ers for potatoes showed a negligible change from August to September and pi ices increased moderately, tin* level of wholesale potato quotations in New Vol k and Chicago rose sharp ly hy more than .'10 per cent The pi.fee of dry bean increased molt thati a cent a pound at retail and tins entire increase w a . passed back to the'" fanner The New York wholesale priii of pea h> ans rose nearly'2 cent a pound during the same period. The few data available at this time show uneven pi-ace incroa < > in re fail wholci.de and farm pi ices. ? Fill'iii pi ice inci c.i.-o seem to have niuinUniii d a nm matTettffiiTfislup to retail prices, but wholesale, prices appear to be on a higher level. It is impossible to determine which agen cy initiates the price increase, or which makes the greatest gam through mark up ot inventory stocks. With adequate supplier of food stuffs the flurry in food prices should give way to readjustment to normal price relationships Equipment Firm Sells Building Here ? The large building of the North Carolina Equipment Company on Washington Street hero and a sizable lot adjoining the structure were sold at public auction yesterday after noon to .J B. Drcwry, Washington man The property was said to have been sold for $8,500. No announcement was offered im mediately by the purchaser who, it is understood, represents a motor firm L. M Warring, former Wake Coun ty coroner, was the auctioneer and the selling, starting from a low ,of $8,500, was completed withm four minutes The equipment company, locating here for the sale of farm equipment, about two yeaft ago withdrew from the implement field and suspended operations at this point. Reports state that the company had had numerous inquiries from possible centers, and several had of fered to purchase the property at private sale. ? ? C, A. Harrison Reported Much Better In Hotpital Late reports today from his bed side state that Mr. C. A. Harrison, popular local man, is improving in a Richmond hospital. He was report ed to have rested' very cofnfortably during much of yesterday and tha day before, and that he was looking fine.