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Income Tax Returns Ahead Of Last Year A clue to the extent of business improvement is the fact that income tax returns, up to mid-March, were 36 per cent ahead of a year ago ? part of it. though, was due to the fact that, for the first time, salaries of state and local government employ ees were subject to the federal tax . U S Exports increased by $400 - 000.000 m the ftrst five months of the EuVopean war?which may not startle you unless you compare it with the same period of the 1914-18 hostilities, because that time our ex ports actually decreased by $200. noo.oeo Fading hopes for gener al peace counteracted fairly opti mistic domestic crop reports and gave another boost to wheat prices, especially futures Cotton moved up. too i :u :;Ni/U> "'S'.vKY K^S\ 1.00 PINT *1.95 OUART CARSTAIRS White Seal rot TMi MAN WHO CA?IS m?.h Proof. ffru.ii1 n?utrul KttiritM. Copr., (4?rwU?m Bros. Distilling f-'? liiiv.. New \ orkC-ity Building and Loan Officials in Meeting A state-wide Cooperative Newspaper Advertising Campaign, starting April 15. was the principal topic of discussion at the meetings of the C ommittees of the North Carolina Building and laran League, held in conjunction with the f ederal Home l oan Bank meeting in Winston-Salem last week. Some of the chairmen and leaders of the discussions are pic tured above. They are, seated from left to right, Martin F. Ciau dian. secretary of the league; W. W. Lee, of Greenville, vice-chair man of the legislative committee; Wheeler Martin, of Williams ton, league president; standing are, T. G. Bar bear, of Charlotte, <hairman of the Standards committee; IX R. Fenvtlle. of Burling toii, chairman of the Advertising and Business Development committee, under whose direction the advertising campaign will be conducted; and W. II. Little, of Hickory, a member of the committee. Things To ^atch For In The Future A new X-ray machine, to be used lot locating sharp objects embedded in auto tires, or discovering breaks in the tire walls?it's itnended as standard equipment for service sta tions ... A new variation of the time-honored lollypop is a 'maltsi cle" or frozen chocolate malted milk on a stick . . . A super-silent alarm wrist watch?instead of ringing, a little knocker gently but insistently taps you on the wrist, through a hole in the back of the case . . Triple decked bunks on sleeping cars ?the pie of experimental low-cost sleepers with this feature, to allow a consid erable reduction in the surcharge for sleeping accommodations, since they can sleep 45 instead of 3(i. 4-H Member Maket Profit On lli? Tobacco Project From his one-acre tobacco project, Claude Bass of the Kenly 4 H club in Johnston County, harvested 1,794 pounds of tobacco, which netted him $299.81 after expenses of $51 51 were deducted. Hapjienings In The Farm Life School Dr. Binklcy, head of -the depart ment of religion at Wake Forest Oolk'goi addtho siudi>.ui body. of the school Friday. Many patrons in the community were present to hear Dr. Binkley. Rev Z. T. Piephoff presented a motion picture dealing with the ef Jec.te of alcohol in the school audi torium Friday afternoon. The pic ture w?" intorfsting as well as'hene ficial and it was seemivtfiy enjoy ed by those present. The students of the Farm Life school are busy preparing for the county track meet to be neld in Wii liamston Friday afternoon, April 5. Many students are participating in the various events, thus assuring the spectators of lively competition. The pre-school clinic for all chil dren entering Farm Life school next fall will be held at the school at 8:30 Thursday morning, April 11. Dr. Williams, the county health doctor, will be in charge. All parents in the Farm Life school district, who have children* that will enter school next year are urged to bring them to the clinic. The county health department has just completed a tubercular test of all the seniors in the school The ninth grade is planning to at tend a showing of "Gone with the Wind" in Washington this week. They will be accompanied by their English teacher, Mrs. Russell Mar tin. The grammar grades are busy Working on the operetta, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," which they will present on the evening of April 19. The high school play. "A Heady Made Family" was presented to a packed auditorium last Friday night. The characters acted their parts splendidly, and many favorable com ments have been made regarding the play. The play was coached by Mrs. Russell Martin. The school has recently acquired a new unabridged Webster's diction ary. Carlyle Manning, a tenth grade tuderit ih our school and son of Mrs Marie Manning, was recently crown ed health king by the 4-H club in this county. The principal ic pleased to note the continued high attendance in the school. Honor Students In Jamesville School First grade: Bobby Styons, Janice Bailey. Carolyn Cooper, Jacquelyn Mizelle. Bobby Lilley, Howard Ange, Dean Stalling::, Margaret Davis, El wood Hardison, Dallas H. Lilley, Eu gene Padgett, David E Simson, Woodrow Williams, Mary B Gard ner, Margaret Perry Second grade: John C Kirkman, Melvin O'Neal, Randolph Waters, Rueford Elkins, Elizabeth Brewer, Barbara Coltrain. Mary Alice Grif fin. Rosalie Hardison, Brownie Hol Williams, Shirley Roberson, Christ ine Taylor Third grade: Billie Brewer, James Goddard. Viola Hardison, Estelle Reason, Venetia Stallings, Geraldine Ange, Violet Rogers. Fourth grade: Rachel Holliday, Ol iver Hamilton. Sixth grade: Annie Louise Davis, Magdalene Stalls. Eighth grade: Hallet Davis, 'Grace Brewer. Jack Mizelle. Ninth grade: Herbert Gardner, Francs Walls,.... Rav SUllljngS, El la Ange, Arthur Wallace Lilley. Tenth grade: Lola Hardison, Vir ginia llasSell. Carolyn Hasscll, Jas per Perry. Eleventh grade: Joseph Ange, James I^ee, James Wallace, Lavaughn Hardison, Marian Stallings. ? 55 PASS MILLION MARK Tax returns indicate that fifty-five persons, none of them running fam ily-sized farms, had incomes of over a million dollars in 1938. This is six more than in the previous year. NOTICE OF SALE Ninth Carolina. Martin County. In The Superior Court. County of Martin v. Joe Whitehorne, Thomas Whitehorng. Catherine Whitehorne, Mamie H. Lilley and husband, Frank Lilley, Annie H. Rue and husband, Charlie Roe, Marthena II, Dale and husband, T. K. Dale, Dorothy Hargrove Holden and husband, Paul B. Holden, Ra eliael Hargrove Brown and hus band, Silas Brown, and R. A. Hai slip. Under and by virtue of an order of sale and judgment in the above entitled proceeding made by L. B. Wynne, Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County, on Monday, the 1st day of April, 1940, the undersign ed commissioner will, on Thursday, the 2nd day of May, 1940, at twelve o'clock noon, in front of the court house door in the town of Williams ton, N. C., offer for sale to the high est bidder for cash the following de scribed real entntc, to-wit Bounded on the North by Hinea land, on the East by the Hines land, on the South by the Alex Haislip land, on the West by the Pat Haskett land, containing 200 acres, more or less, lying and being in Goose Nest Township, Martin County, this being the same land listed (or taxes in the name of M. L. Haskett. This the 1st day of April, 1940 CHAS H. MANNING, a5-4t Commissioner. NOTICE SERVING SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION North Carolina, Martin County. In The Superior Court. Town of Willtamsteo vs. Kxnsome Johnsoa u4 Any and All other Peraons claiming an Interest in the Subject Matter ot this Proceeding. The defendant, Ranaome Johnson, and Any and All other Persons claiming an interest in the Subject Matter of this Proceeding, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Martin County, N. C , in which proceeding said petition er is asking that -it be -allowed to condemn certain lands to enlarge the Town's Cemetery wherein the defendant claims an interest. Said lands being described as follows: Beginning at a post or stake the western corner of the lot on which the Free Public Col. School House was situated and being nearly oppo of the sttr to the-Southern boundary < public burying ground belonging to the Town of Williamston and on the West side of the Hamilton Road and about two hundred and twenty (220) feet from said road, running thence south forty degrees west two hun post or stake a comer, thence a south - easterly course and parallel with said Hamilton road and southwest ern boundary of said old Free Pub lic Col School House lot two hun dred (200) feet to another post or slake a corner, thence north forty degrees east two hundred and eigh teen (218) feet to a post or stake the southern corner of said old Free Pub lic Col School House lot, thence northwesterly course along and with the western boundary line of the schovJ ftrate k>t several tunes above named two hundred <M0) feet to the I beginning, mnt^inmg t>y measure I ment one (1) acre more or less, and bemg the same land deeded to Ran some Johnson by John R. Lanier and j wife, said deed bemg recorded in ! Book V at page of the Martin County Public Registry Said defendant will further take , notice^iatheis^ejuired^fl^a^eMj before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County at hk of fice ui Wilhamston, North Canolian, on or before the Sttth day of April, 1940. and answer or demur to said petition, copies of which have been filed in said office, or petitioner will apply to the Court for the relief de manded in the petition. This the llth day of March. 1940 L. B. WYNNE, Clerk of Superior Court, m!4-4t Martin County, N. C. You Furnish the Family Home and Farm WE FURNISH THE REST JUST ARRIVED?NEW LINE 98c Wash Dresses Martin Supply Co. WILLIAM.STON, N. C. I buy everything \ from homefolks* " v M e> - ? s i 1?C IM. Ml . Ill NITIMHI MMMUrm NrniMMTTCNtfMT *1 ALWAYS BUY ABCAOIAN NITBATt, the American SODA, for the n? good reasons that I always trad* in my home town. I know that my neighbors will five ma food quality at a fair price. They want my friendship and I for many years to come. DIAN rifht hare in the South, we have I fsttinf hotter soda in a better bag at a I price. During t' [the 11 years that the big Ameri can nitrate plant has been operating at Hope , well. Virginia, the price of nitrate of soda has com* down 40 par cant And, undar praaant conditions, ifs food to know wa have an Amarican supply of soda. "Yea, air, I say: Look (or Uncle Sam on the bafl Always ask for ARCADIAN NITRATE, the American SODA! Buy everything from THI BARRETT COMPANY ECONOMY SAli GENUINE LIBBEY SAFE-EDGE WATER,GLASSE r i Arl Tm ?toekin' ap **1 WWI* G 1 Tkay tight mum. J sO-1 Last! A oo* Unt Ml* ?nor ihi ? p>*a<y ?i^lnhlr to tm ?? tki* I low pric* i, ?.# or .mall iu.. i. booutiiul atnbor or Mgofd otyloo. Li?H ? ?? ? SPORTING GOODS SOFTS ALL wX SO FT BALI BATS SoUctod a grained woods V! 98 ? 49c Softball Caps Richcoat Enamel! SEAT COVERS Point it youf hII and ooto whiio you draw up car and homo lor ? prix and Vj Pt. Can 29* 1 EASY TERMS ON TIRES COUPE W COACH OB wnm '4V EASIEST CREDIT IN TOWN to luit your pur so on the famous Goodrich Tires Batteries or Motorola Auto Radios. No credit detail. Quick senrioe. CUT PKICES Afcw/w . Jl 10 DAYS ONLY Economy Auto Supply WILLIAMSTON, N. C. ELECT R IC I T Y IS CHEAPER THAN DIRT THE CLEANER VALUE OE THE YEAR! Royal Princess Cleaner . '39.95 The Qeaning Tools . . . '7.75 Regular Price... . . '47.70 New 1940 Floor Cleaner u photo graphed hart; with revolving motor-driven brush; convsniwf headlight; rubber bumper, handle grip end cord. J2 .95 DOWN AND EASY TERMS Uuvc (Dsalsx, ojc VIRGimn ELECTRIC MID POUIER CO. 1HIMIIIUCAN NITRATE OF SODA
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