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Watch The Label On Your Paper. As It Carries The Date Your Subscription Expires THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will rind Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,600 Homes Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 37 William$ton, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Friday, May 9, 1941. ? ESTABLISHED 1899 Leaf Growers Make i Impressive Appeals For Tax Equalities More Thau 500 Farmer* in | C apital Ve*ter<lay Believe No Tax luerea*e Likelv ? Led by the North Carolina Farm Bureau and assisted by members of other organizations, more than 500 tobacco farmers made an impressive protest against higher taxes on to bacco before the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington City yesterday. The members of the committee of which Representative Robert Doughton. of North Carolina, is chairman, were deeply impressed by the simple yet forceful presenta tion of the case by farmers and farm leaders, and it is generally believed that the battle against an increase of the top-heavy tobacco tax has vir tually been won. J. Con Lanier, of Greenville, was the first witness and he struck the keynote of the long day of testi mony When he finished, spontaneous applause filled the room and mem bers of the committee warmly con gratulated him on his presentation. The long parade of witnesses that followed reiterated and re-empha sized the facts placed before the committee by the Pitt County to bacco grower. Pointing out that he was a World War veteran. Lanier said he knew "the awful cost in lives of unpre paredness" and assured the commit tee that the tobacco farmers are "100 per cent behind the defense effort." But he urged ihat all farmers be treated alike. "We tobacco farmers already are the greatest casualties of this World War," Lanier stated, calling attention to the loss of vital foreign markets "The greatest need we have now is more markets and the only place we can look is here at home. If you im pose this tax, cigarettes will go out of the 15 cent class and the 10-cent cigarette will disappear The shift from cigarettes to smoking tobacco and roll-your-owns that will occur will cost the farmer a loss in his mar ket of 100 million pounds of tobacco a year." The reduced consumption of cigar ette tobacco caused by the higher taxes not only will be a severe blow to the tobacco farmer, but will hurt the tax revenue of the government, Lanier stressed. He pointed out that the government collects $1.17 on each pound oi cigarette tooacco, but only | 18 cents on each pound of manufac tured tobacco. Harry Caldwell, of Greensboro, told the committee that government is now collecting in tobacco taxes nearly 50 times the value of the land on which it is produced. He contend ed that this was more than a fair I share of the tax burden to bear. He | warned that it would be "most un wise to impose additional taxes on | this commodity when the govern ment is already making large appro- I priations to support those who are | producing it." The only hint of hostility to the tobacco cause was contained in crit icism directed at the net earnings of tobacco companies and in salaries paid to several tobacco company offi cials. Representative Raymond S. Mc Keogh read statistics showing the to- | tal net income and the annual earn ings per share of stock of the major tobacco companies" without having "you gentlemen and the consuming public pay for it." Representative Frank Carlson, of I (Continued on page six) 1 Keduction iviaae In Hog Numbers ??? Raleigh?North Carolina farmers slaughtered 840,000 hogs last year, or 10,000 less than in 1839, W T Wesson, junior statistician of the State Department of Agriculture, re ported today. The Federal-State Crop Reporting Service credited the State with a to tal hog production of 248,300,000 pounds live weight in 1940, or 86 per cent under 1939 "The 1940 hog production return ed farmers an average price of $5 80 per 100 pounds, or $1 under the pre vious year," Wesson said "A smaller total production coupled with a 14.8 per cent decline in price resulted in 19 per cent less gross income from hogs in 1940 compared with 1939 "Total gross income from North Carolina hogs last year was estimat ed at $15,262,000 compared with $18,825,000 in 1939, and of the total gross income $7,670,000 represented cash income from sales with $7,592, 000 representing the value of home consumption." Wesson reported that 209,000 sows were farrowed in North Carolina last year compared with 233,000 in 1639. adding that "from the 1940 farrow ings, 1,277,000 pigs were saved or an average of 8.1 pigs per litter." Farmers reported 1,097,000 hogs on hand in January compared with 1, 167,000 on the same date in 1940 "Hogs are grown in every North Carolina county," Wesson added, "but the main producing area is found in the eastern part of the State. In 1940 the three coastal dis tricts accounted for 71:$ per cent of the State's total number of hogs on farms." Plan Series Of Tuberculosis Clinics In County May 26-30 Beginning Monday, May 26. Dr Roper of the North Carolina State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in coopera tion with the Martin County Board of Health, will conduct a series of tuberculosis clinics in Williamson, Robersonville and Oak City, it was announced this week by Dr. J. W Williams, county health officer. Dr Roper can examine forty-eight subjects each day, and to distribute this number without any one having to wait, it will be necessary for all wishing the examination to phone, write or call at the health depart ment office for an appointment." Dr Williams said All persons who are suspicious of any chest condition as well as those who have come in contact with tu berculosis are invited and urged to make arrangements for attending one of the three clinics. Those high school children who had positive reports from the skin tests made a short time ago are directed to report to their nearest station. Those per sons who were examined at the clin ics arc also asked and urged to re turn for another examination. The clinics will be conducted ac cording to the following schedule: May 28 Williamston for whites at grammar school building May 27: Williamston for colored at the same building. May 28: Oak City for white be tween the hours of 9 and 1 o'clock, and for colored from 2 to 5 o'clock, at the school building May 29: Robersonville whites in Robersonville Health Department of fice from 9 to 5 May 30 Robersonville colored from 9 to 1 at same place. OM'II \\S j i Making Ihcir annual tuur of nearly rvery county in North Carolina, fourteen youthful sinters from the Oxford Or phanage will appear in concert in the local high school auditor ium next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The 1941 singing class, rated as the best to go on tour In recent years, is being brought here by Skewarkey Masons. The general public and especially all the little folks are invited to hear them. And it will do the hard-boiled fathers of the com munity good to hear the little tots. No admission fee will be charged, but a free will offer ing will be received. ' I am-a I Citizen Passes In Kinston Hospital After Short III ness Funeral Servire* lleld Here Yeaterduy Morning For Mr*. laOtttde Rarnliill Mrs. Lossii' Barrihill died in a Kinston hospital at 2 o'clock Wed nesday morning from an infection j resulting from a fish bone swallow- ! ed by her at dinner last Monday in the home of Mrs. Fannie Biggs here She was removed to the hospital that afternoon and an operation was per formed to remove the bone which ' had broken and lodged in two places in the esophagus An infection set in and resulted in death The daughter of the late Whit and , Nancy Cherry Moore. Mrs. Barnhill was born in Cross Roads Township, near Everetts. 59 years ago In early womanhood she was married to Arthur L. Barnhill who died some , years ago. No children survive the j union.'Following her marriage she, made herft home in Everetts until about five years ago she moved to Williamston as a companion to Mrs Fannie Biggs During her stay here : she had endeared herself to the fam ily and other friends in the commun ity In early life she joined the Ver- I non Methodist Church, and was loy- I al to the church and its doctrines for a long number of years. She is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Maude Moore James, of Ever etts; Mrs. Ida Phelps, of Grimes land; Mrs. W O. Donald, of this county, and Miss Clell Moore, of Rocky Mount, and four brothers, R. L. MOore, of Ayden; Cecil Moore, of Kinston; Whit Moore, of Everetts, and J. Van Moore, of New York City. Funeral services were conducted at the Biggs Funeral Home here on West Main Street yesterday morn ing at 11 o'clock by Rev. B. T Hur ley, Methodist minister, assisted by Rev. John W. Hardy, rector of the Church of the Advent. Interment was in the family plot on the old home farm in Cross Roads Township. 1 Board Of Education Will Hold Meeting Next Monday 1? Meeting in special session here next Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the members of the Martin County Board of Education will receive bids for the construction of a teacherage in Robersonville. Plans for the teachers have been under consideration for some time. As far as it could be learned no other business will be placed before the meeting Monday RESULTS In a listless municipal election here last Tuesday. 47 voters re turned local town officers to power for the two-year term be ginning next July I. Two tickets at the most were scratched, four commlaioners. N. C. Green, Luther Peel, V. D. Godwin and G. H. Harrison, poll ing the entire strength of the 47 votes east J. L. Haasell. nominee for mayor, and L. P. Llndsley. fifth nominee for commissioners, polled 44 votes each. Judge \\ .11. (lol mrii ('alls Seven (uses In Recorders Court Short Sriwioii of l iiliuii.il U llrlil 141 si MoimIuy Morniiif! In one ??f the shortest sessions held in recent weeks. Judge W 11 Co burn called seven cases and cleared the calendar in less than an hour. A fair attendance upon the court was reported Defendants, charged with drunken driving, had a hard day in court and took exceptions to the jurist s findings and sentences. Or dinarily the work of the court con tinues on a fairly brisk schedule un til June, but the summer slump is already being felt in the court Proceedings: Perlie D. Godard, charged with drunken driving, pleaded not guil ty. The court, after hearing the evi dence. adjudged him guilty v and fined him $50, with the costs added and his license to operate a motor vehicle revoked for one year. God ard appealed to the higher courts and was required to raise bond in the sum of $100 The case chajging Woodrow Wil son Ray with drunken driving, was hoi prossed with leave. Ray returned to the county on a furlough from the Armv and was said to have relied on the bottle too much while operating a borrowed truck Charged with drunken driving, Joseph W. Bailey was fined $50. tax ed with the cost and had his license revoked for one year. The case charging Paul Harrell with violating the liquor laws was continued under prayer for judg ment until next Monday. A continuance was granted the State in the case charging Wheeler Lynch vfcith violating the liquor laws. The case is set for trial next Monday. Walter Freeman, young colored man, who dangerously stabbed his sweetheart with a pocketknife and defied arrest by Williamston police, was sentenced to the roads for a term of six months. Henry Ellison, charged with drunk en driving, pleaded not guilty. Ad judged guilty by the court, he was fined $50, taxed with the cost and had his license revoked for one year. The defendant gave notice of appeal and bond in the sum of $100 was required. 1 Jamesville Fishery Suspends Operation Seine fishing at Jamesville was suspended yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock or two days before the end of the season. Catches dropping to as few as two or three hundred her ring and four or five rock, were not large enough to justify continued op erations, a report from the section's fishing center stated. The plant at Camp Point, several miles below Jamesville, was closed Wednesday. An official report on the activities of the season is not available, but it is generally understood that the fish ery operators have met with fair success during the past several weeks, hut the season just ending was not as successful as the one a year ago Fish appeared in the Ro anoke in greater numbers during a few days, but the catches were be low normal during a greater part of the season. Individual fishermen are taking rock from the stream in fair-sized numbers but with the disappearance of the herring, it is difficult for them to get bait, and as a usual thing the rock season is about over when the herring disappears. For individual fishermen as a whole, the season was rated as one of the most successful in recent years as far as catches were concerned. Market prices dipped to ridiculous ly low levels, sales as low as 35 cents per 100 herrings being reported. A few were said to have been made at 25 cents a hundred More people came here from long distances than ever before to enjoy the fishing opportunity and to sup plement their food supplies. Fishermen are now again turning to the more common Ash such ai carp and cats. Thirty-Nine Years Ago As Recorded in The Enterprise AUGUST 30. 1901. Only two more days before court. Chinese laundry starts up Mon Lday, ?, Williamston ts to have a spoke and handle factory. The excursionists returned about 3 o'clock yesterday morning. The Williamston Academy begins its fall term Monday, Sept 9th. We are sorry to say that Conoho and Ballard items are crowded out of this issue. Over 200 horses have died in Hyde County, so far, from the epidemic that is raging there. Let all the young business men come out Monday evening. William ston should have a business associa tion At a call meeting of the commis sioners Wednesday night it was do ided to enforce the cow-htw recent ly passed by that body Mr. W. A. Ellison's fine horse has been suffering lately from "Pink Eye," but we are glad to say that the horse is much better at this writing. Thanks to our commissioners and constable our streets are now looking like the town is inhabited. Weeds are gone, ditches cleaned out and gener al repairs are going on. The following is taken from King's Weekly, dated August 27th. It had rained twenty-five days in succession up to yesterday. If it rained yesterday that made the 26th day." On Thursday, the 29th msi., Mr. J. W York gave an old-fashioned bar becue at his home near Williams ton to about 50 of his friends. The barbecue was done up in the best style, and this with everything else was plentiful, and it would have pleased the taste of the finest epi ctirian to have seen tire respects paid to this elegant repast by the crowd present Everybody was in good hu mor. the day spervt only too quick ly .and everyone bade the host and hostess goodbye voting this one of the most pleasant days of their lives and wishing them a long life of pros perity The young men of Williamston are ?arnestly requested to meet at The Enterprise office on Monday, Sept. 2nd, fpr the purpose of organizing a Young Men's Business Association. Let all who are interested in the wel fare of our town come out at 8:30 o'clock.?: Master George V Strong had the misfortune to break his arm on Thursday last. He fell out of a ham mock I)r Harrell was called in and soon relieved the little fellow He is getting e#i nicely Fourteen Marriage Licenses Issued in County List Month IkMIIIIK'i- In l.iir^rnl l<<? |><?rI??(I For Any April in llit Cnnl Tlim- Yearn While dropping to a new low fig urc for thefycar, April marriage li censee in this county were greater' in number than those for the cor responding month in the past three years. The number was nine greater than the issuance in April, 1939, and four greater in the same month of 1940. Judging from the number of li censes issued during the past four months, 1941 is going to be a good year for weddings in this county Al ready there have been 07 licenses is sued as compared with 40 in the first four months of 1939 and 48 in the same period of 1940. Last month there were issued six licenses to white and eight to color ed couples in this county by Regis ter of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger, as follows: White Ola L. Harrell, of Palmyra, and Dora Weathersbee, of Oak City. Charles Roland Jones, of Elizabeth City, and Mrs. Blanche B. Sullivan, of Williamston. Joseph Benjamin Whitehurst, of Williamston, arid Christine Leggett, of Hassrlt: Ernest Ross Froneberger, of Hick ory, and Rosalie Inman, of William ston. Jasper Lee Whitley, of Williams (Continued on page six) LAST ROUND-UP J A last round-up of Martin County dors in the drive against rablea will be held in Williams ton on Saturday, May 24th, ac cording to an announcement re leased by the sheriffs office to day. All owners who did not have their dogs vaccinated at one of the dispensarirs held in the several townships during re cent weeks are directed to com ply with. the anti-rabies law on the 24th. Proeecutions are to be expected where the terms of the law are ignored. In revrral of the townships, nearly every dog has been vac cinated, but in others the own ers have shown little effort to comply with the law. Will Block River Fill Traffic Next Monday Citizens Appealing To Authorities For Project Completion Hoad l o Ite (.IommI From H M. To 8 l\ M. Ilogin. iiitig Next Momln\ Traffic over the Hoanoke River fill at this point will be stopped in its entirety between the hours of 8 a. m. and 8 p. m. beginning next Monday, according to an official an nouncement released yesterday by the State Highway and Public Works Commission The official notice reads as follows "Beginning Monday. May, 12. 1941. U. S. Route No 17 North of Roanoke River between Williamston and Windsor, N C . will be closed to all traffic between the hours Of 8 a. m and 8 p in for a few days. Weather permitting, light traffic should be able to use the road during the night hours "This precaution is necessary to safeguard the traveling public as during this time the embankment J will hi- dynamited for settlement. It is hoped that the road will be again opened to light traffic the latter part of the vreek ending May 17th " The suspension of traffic over the route is considered necessary, and: motorists will gladly tolerate the! inconvenience. It is a well establish ed fact that the general public as well as motorists are losing all pa tience with the contractors and the feeble efforts to rebuild the fill. Progressing at the pace of a snail month after month, the work is far from complete, and representatives of the- firm after stating some time ago that the project would la- com pleted by May now apparently have no, idea when the road will be open to normal traffic. Eighty days of the ninety working days allotted for the completion of the project have pass ed. Yesterday, quite a few special trucks were removed, leaving fot tin most part a few old broken-down I trucks owned by the contractors to handle the remainder (if the task Equipment for loading the dirt has not measured up to expectations. ! During the early part ui tins week work on the fill was stopped in its i entirety when an over taxed tractor broke down Yesterday, operations were suspended on account of wet dirt. Just such a schedule has been | in effect since work on the project was started last October. Reports state that the contractors ! were given a time extension of 70 ; days to complete the project It was i explained that the engineers, after repeated surveying had missed their estimates and that more than 180,000 | square yards of dirt would be need ed to rebuild the dam. Edenton citizen* are said to have appealed to highway authorities fori an investigation in the hope that | work on the project could be speed I ed up Following that report, it was learned yesterday that one of tin" contracting firm members had dismissed for hire trucks Local cit i/.ens are expected to appeal to high way authorities the early part of j next week. The contracting firm of Kiker and Yount is said to be moving as many as 35,000 yards of dirt daily on a project in another section. Down here the same firm is moving, after a very feeble fashion, from 800 to 2.500 yards a day on those dayR when the second-hand machinery is not broken down and the skies are not cloudy Increased Activity On Building Front 1 Dropping to a low point during the past few months, activity on the building construction front here is showing marked signs of improve merit, and a fairly busy season on that front is anticipated between now and early fall The foundation for the Branch Banking and Trust Company's new building next to Watts Theatre on Main Street has been laid, and the project will be rushed to completion.' Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Bowen are starting a new home on the corner ?f Church and Hassell Streets Construction is already underway on two new homes on Park Street between Warren Street and Marshall Avenue. County Commissioner Josh ua L. Coltrain is having the homes built and Lewis Roberson is the builder. Mr. H B Thompson is planning to start construction on a new home on the corner of Smithwick and Grace Streets within the next few days. Plans are being drawn for a new home for Mr ettd Mr*. W. J. Wool ard on Grace Street just west of the Goodmon's. Several other contracts for homes are pending, and quite a few homes for colored occupants are already un der construction or are being plan ned. Activities on the building front will be augmented by work on local ?ti eel* next week. I?KVFT <\IT Tht I nited States Army is calling for more men. the calls piling up before some can be aiisu rred An order was received yesterday instructing the .Mar tin County llralt Hoard to send four more white trainees to Fort liragg on May 27. Four colored volunteers left the county yes terday. lour white volunteers are to leave next Friday, and ten colored volunteers and trainees are to leave the 22nd. Preparatory to filling addi tional calls, the draft board of fice continues to send out ques tionnaires. One half or l.ti.lO of the question leaflets have been placed in the mail, and others will In* placed in the bauds of the registrants just as rapidl> as the necessary forms are received by the draft board. Jurymen \re Drawn For The June Term Of Superior (lourI JihI^c W Harris To Itrlimi To ( o11111X For ( hie-W eek Ite^iiniitt^ Jtnir 4 Thirty six Martin County citizens were drawn by the county Commis sioners in their regular May session for jury service during the one week term of superior court convening the 16th of June The list of jurors in cludes men from eight of the ten townships, as follow Jumcsville C C Walter David llolliday 1* C mount. Itoh.rt 1. Mizelje and Albert Coltrain Wifliunis Albert Tyre Ciriffms William 1) Daniel. James II. Revels. William R (jriffui and Howard Coltrain Williamston Irving Margoli>. Her *>ert S Whitley. W C. Peelc. II M Clark, C R Mobley, Henry D liar rison, Jr.. and J. R Simpson Cross Roads J W Peel. I) J Cherry, Joe Wynne, Irving Bullock, and James Oscar Daniel Hamilton R I, Crimes. Alton White and C II. r.cggell 1 (loose Nest N ft Davenport. 7. I) Cox. Klwood Avers aiid W D Raynoi Judge W C Harris, holding the two weeks trim ol the court last March is scheduled to letuin for tl.i?? regular June sessions. It is ex peeled that definite action will he taken in finer rasrs charging sever al ImiikIi ed Martin County pri sons with failing to list property or poll. Judge Harris has had a prominent part in the round up of alleged tax dodgers in other counties, and it is fairly err lain that indictments will hr ordered and the prosecutions pushed in this county possibly at the June term While in most cases in other Counties, the defendants were released upon the payment of court co.,t: and all hack due taxes, it i. possible that load sentences will he imposed when the other condi lions cannot he met. A cheek of the tax hooks is still ni progress in this county, and the authorities, headed by Commissioner C D Carstarphen, plan to have the facts ready for the presiding judge when he returns next month. Asking S| >mJ-u|> On River Road Project Edcnton, May K Feeling that progress is too slow on rebuilding the road at the Williumston fill, and that diversion of tourist and truck traf fic over the Albemarle Sound bridge has resulted m continued economic loss to Edcnton and Chowan County business houses, the Chowan County commissioners passed resolutions re questing the State Highway and Public Work Commission to inves tigate all practical means of expe diting early completion of this im portant segment of IJ S Route 17, over which a considerable amount of traffic passed through Eden ton. The impression has been that an inadequate crew of workmen have been employed on this project, thus greatly retarding progress. The reso lution was passed following the sug gestion of Geddes Potter and John W Graham, members of the roads com mittee of the Edcnton Chamber of Commerce. f I TWO-TlllimS i J The transplanting of tobacco will have been two-thirds com pleted in this county by late to morrow evening, according to general reports heard here yes terday afternoon. The plant supply is proving adequate in most cases and the weather con ditions have been almost ideal for the work. Farmers, after wearing wor ried looks on their faces during a few weeks a short time ago, are now very well pleased with the outlook. W 4>rl?l )\ar Is \l>out To Enter I pon New Phase In Near East Itrili-li Iti in^ IIomii Number (If Ilia Ccniiuu HoiiiIh cr> I luir-<l;i\ Nililil ? Wliilf hit ami run Untitling is lea luring the actum tin the Kuropean war trout at the pi* sent tunc, ob s*? i vers an of tin opinion that the struggle is about to ?nt? i upon a new phase.-posMtityurtho Near Fast ??Jk it may he an iiiv us toil uttempt or a planned march through Spain to Gibraltar Considerable attention is being focused 011 the Atlantic where conflicting reports are being heard m connection with shipping losses. Proposed concessions, allegedly to have been mad*' h> Germany to the French government at Viclvy. may be the price llitlci i willing to pay tor permission to niaivh through F'leiuh Syria ami atUn k the British oil field 111 ha*] I'll, terms of the lah t ptopo.al .a Mwittire to France have not U en made public At the pieseut time, the British arc said to have the situation well m hand in Iraq, but the free entry of German ft?rees into French Syria will alter the situation considerably and con stitute a costly move at the expense of the British At vital Gibraltar, citizens have been evacuated, the action indicating that trouble is expected there ere long The vvai in the air. spasmodic as it e . goes on over Fngland on a fair ly large scale, the British KAF claiming lug German bombers bad?b*.<ai .1 oss 11*? *1 doting the hours ending last midnight German raids on Sue/, ware admitted. the British stating that no great dam age resulted and that there were no casualties In Iraq the British brought the situation under control by bombing military objectives l ast night British airmen dealt Germ am oiie ol tin- heaviest air blows *d the war. dumping tens of thousands ul ImiihIi.. over a wide area Submarine Imm- . and strategic industrial tenter-. were badly dam aged More (ban 300 planes took part in the attack, extending their death dealing blows over bad miles Get' many, admitting the large-scale at taik. claimed that damage was lim iled principal I,\ to hospitals and res ideiitial areas The British aniiounc ? d today that 1 lit (h i man planes had been shot down by RAF so fat this month, that more than MM) German '"iriii'ii lia,| I,,.! th.n nT7~?rTTTFie extensive laid last night. the British lost ten planes Wlvile Bute ? li an men were active combatting German invader planes over Britain and eat tying tin battle to German soil, the British Navy scored .id-Vantages in the Indian .Ocean win-1 e ,i German sea i aider was sunk The Nav \ also shelled Bviigai Italy claimed a British war ship was damaged in the Mediter i.irieaii and that the Knglish lost sev eral othrr ships there British ship ping losse last month were in ex its of half million tons The heavy shipping losses are hav ing their effect in tins country, and the swing is toward convoys for met chant slops President Roosevelt, atl xiows to keep out of war, is said to be i ecogni/iiig that there is no Otll ? i alternative except to sec that Am ? i lean aid i? a* In Bt itaui I.ate teports from Japan state that the w;ii against Cluna is being ad vanced now on a smaller scale, the Japanese war leader, all but admit ting that a military victory over the Chinese is next to impossible Despite German threats, America is determined to extend aid to Brit ain. During the next few days twen ty seven American ships, carrying food and war material, will enter the Red Sea While the labor front is quiet just now, sabotage is bobbing up in de fense and automobile plants. A big bomb was found in Ford's River Rouge plant last night or early to day, and Federal investigators have been called in. v;>..i v. T I llll .Hill ir>H ? Ill \\ illiams Township Births outnumbered deaths four to one in Williams Township last year, the district registrar reporting 33 births and only eight deaths. There were also two stillbirths, and five of the 33 were listed as illegitimate among the colored population. The births were divided 16 white and 17 colored, the deaths being equally divided according to the two races. Mid wives served in the place of doctors in eighteen cases. The age's of the fathers ranged up to 65 years, while the oldest mother during the year was 43 years. Pneumonia claimed the lives of three of the eight who died during the year Fits were listed as the cause for one death. The cause of one death was not determined and one death was attributed to each of tin following causes, cerebral hem orrhage, apoplexy and heart. No doctors were in attendance on two of the cases. On an average the four white persons dying in the district last year lived to be 47 years, the colored group attaining an average age of only 40 years. Some of the newcomers in the countv have no names on the birth certificates.