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NOLI ME XLIN?NUMBER 53 ff illiamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, July 4, 1941. ESTABLISHED 1899
County Authorities To
Fix Tax Rate Monday
Reduction In Rate
Fairly Certain For
1941-1942 Tax Year
Pulp Company Listings Ac
count for Gain of Nearly
Third of a Million
?
With a gain of nearly one million
dollars in property values for the
1941-42 fiscal year, Martin County
tax authorities are now fairly cer
tain that a reduction in the rate for
the current tax year will be possi
ble, provided the new budget fig
ures remain fairly constant. And it
is not expected that any of the de
partments will reflect any sizable in
creases in their budgets for the new
tax year. All of the departmental
budgets are not yet complete, and
definite figures will hardly be made
available before next Monday when
the county commissioners meet in
regular session and discuss the fig
ures preparatory to the adoption of
a tentative rate. The authorities have
already expressed themselves, di
rectly pr indirectly, as being against
any appreciable increase in budget
figures for the several departments';
in fart, a small?increase asked by
one of the departments was rejected
by the board at a previous meeting
It is quite likely, however, that the
welfare budget will call for a slight
gain of about $200 to care for the ev
er growing demand for old age as
sistance.
A two-cent reduction in the school
levy has been promised already by j
the board-of education which is ask
ing for 53.5 cents as compared with
55.5 cents a year ago The decrease
is made possible mainly by an in
crease in property values and by a
decrease in debt service require
ments which drop from. 36 5 cents in
1940 to 34 cents this year. Current;
expenses are jumping one cent from
nine to ten cents, and capital outlay
requirements cull for a rate of 9.5,
Cents compared with 10 cents a year
ago
The health department with a re
quested appropriation of $7,530. re
quires & o-cent rate. compared with
a 7-cent rate last year. The new
budget is unchanged from the one
in effect last year.
The 22-cent rate for the welfare
department is likely to remain un
changed since a slight increase in
the appropriation figures is being
considered on account of the in
creasing demand for old age assist
unee. ? ' ?: '
The county's debt service require
ments are virtually the same as they
were a year ago, and no sizable re
duction in tluvrate is hardly to be
expected in tnat quarter
Figures for the general county
fund are just now in the making, but
with the costs of a primary election
to be considered along with rising
cost* for material* and other items
it is hardly likely that the 9.5 cent
(Continued on page six)
Damage Suit Filed
In County Against
Soft Drink Bottler
Willie Bullock. Allcgiiig a
Mouse Wan in Holflc, Ank
iii)! $5,000 l)amag<>H
A suit for $5,000 has been filed in
the Martin County Superior Court
by Willie Bullock against M. O
Minges and others, trading as Orange
Crush Bottling Company, Greenville.
The complaint as filed by Bullock's
attorneys. Peel and Manning, reads,
as follows, in part:
"That on or about the 21st day of
April, 1941. at about ten o'clock a.
m., the plaintiff purchased a bottle
of Pepsi-Cola from Asa Harris' store
at Bear Gran, Martin County, North
Carolina, which said bottle of Pepsi
Cola had been bottled and distribut
ed by the defendant.
"That said bottle of Pepsi-Cola
was frozen. That he drank part of
said bottle of Pepsi-Cola, and as the
frozen contents of said bottle began
to thaw he detected a bad odor. Mak
ing an inspection of said bottle of
Pepsi-Cola, same being made in the
presence of Asa Harris, the owner of
the store, and others standing
around, he found in said bottle of
Pepsi-Cola a dead mouse, its body in
an advanced stage of decomposi
tion. Its teeth were about to fall
from its mouth, and its hair was
floating around in said contents of
said bottle free of the skin. That
plaintiff drank some of the contents
of said bottle before he detected
anything wrong with said bottle of
Pepsi-Cola.
"That the aforesaid bottle of Pep
si-Cola was opened by the owner of
said Asa rtarris store in the presence
of plaintiff and others and was by
said owner of said store handed to
plaintiff.
"That by reason of the presence of
foreign substance, said decomposed
mouse and hair in said beverage.
(Continued on page six)
BOM) QUIZ
Q. What happens if I sudden
ly need the money 1 put into a
Defense Saving* Bond?
A. You ran cash your Bond at
any time, after t>0 days, for the
full amount paid, plus any In
terest due you.
Q. Do many bond owners cash
their bonds?
A. No. People want to help
arm America against all attaclfs.
In many cases, people are put
ling every cent they can spare
into Defense Bonds and Stamps.
Some are doing this by asking
employers or banks to withhold
part of their salaries in order to
buy these Bonds or Stamps for
them.
Note. ? To purrha.se Defener
Bonds and Stamps, go to the
nearest post office or hank, or
write for inforipation to the
Treasurer of the I'nited States,
Washington, D. C.
Record Issuance Of
Marriage Licenses
Reported In County
Fifteen While (louple* Marry
In Thi* (Ionnty During
Month of June
June was a month of marriages
in Martin County, Register of Deeds
i J. Sam Getsinger reporting a record
I business handled with young white
| couples in the marriage license bur
eau during the month. The number
of licenses issued to white couples
was the largest for any June on roc
ford June is not a marrying month
; for members of the colored race, the
register of deeds reporting only five
licenses issued in that quarter
I The issuance last month, fifteen
to white, and five to colored couples,
i compared with one to white and two
to colored couples in Julie, 1931. Li
censes last month were issued to the
following:
Pfc White
Maurice W. !>>ugh, of Elkton, Va.,
and Alice Josephine Bunting, of
Robersonville.
i Alton F. Whitley, of Bethel, and
Magnolia Roebuck, of Robersonville.
! sor. and Hazel Marue Perry, of R.
| F.D. No. 3. Williamston.
i Carlton Lancer Reason and Cin
| da Scott, both of Dardens.
Joseph Dallas Peaks, of Everetts-,
I and Delsie Godard, of Williamston.
Fred Rodger*, of R.F.D. No. 2, Wil
liamston, and Irene Liggett, R.F.D.,
I Robersonville.
Ernest Tilghman and Mary Mag
' dalcne Moore, both of Williamston.
Floyd Dillon Wynne, of Hamilton,
I and Bessie Gertrude McKeel, of |
i Williamston.
j?A. D. Ayera, Jr., und Theresa Fay*
Rogers, both of Williamston.
Edgar H House and Virginia
I Downing, both of Oak City.
Linton Otis Pendergrast, of Nor
folk, and Ruth Olean Spruill, of Nor
folk.
George Wilford Lee, of William
ston, and Hilda Coburn Leggett, of
Robersonville.
James Wendell Modlin, of R.F.D.
1, Jamesville, and Ruby Irene
Wynn, of R F.D. 2, Williamston.
Archie Morris, of Scotland Neck,
and Janie Elizabeth Anderson, of
Whitakers.
Delmus Whichard Barnhill, of Ev
eretts, and Daisy Lucille Gurganus,
of Williamston.
Colored
George W. Richardson, of Scot
land Neck, and Minnie Long, of Oak
City.
Ben F. Fleming and Ida Andrews,
both of Robersonville.
William Henry Eason and Elsie
Daniel, both of Robersonville.
Vance Louis Whitley and Verna
Mae Stokes, both of Williamston.
S. T. Jackson and Estella Cran
d? 1, both of Robersonville.
River Fill Work Is
About Completed
Ignoring the rights of a general
holiday today, workers are now push
ing to completion the work on re
pairing and rebuilding the dirt fill
across the Roanoke low grounds at
this point. Completion of the proj
ect is fairly certain during next
week
?JCTte paving cunU acUitaccording
to unofficial reports, is expected to
start moving in his equipment the
early part of next week, preparatory
to starting the paving work on or
about the middle of this month. It
is now believed that' the project will
be compleed in its entirety by early |
September. However, traffic is ex
pected to move over the fill with
less difficulty while the paving work
is in progress than when the eon
tractors were building the dirt dam.
Traffic is moving over all of the
four new bridges, and work on the
rifrafs or concrete slabs to keep the
dirt from washing from around the
ends will be completed the latter
part of next week.
Million Dollar Gain In County Valuations
1940 and 1941 County Property Listings, by Townships
The following tabulations show, by townships, the 1940 and 1941 valuations of real and personal property values in Martin County, separ
ately and collectively, the increase in total valuations over the 1940 listings, and also the percentage of increase or decrease by townships. The
figures are subject to minor change and do not include corporation listings. Asterisk (*) indicates loss. All others are gains.
TOWNSHIPS:
Jamesville
Williams
Griffins
Bear Grass
Williamston
Cross Roads
Robersonville
Poplar Point
Hamilton
Goose Nest
County Totals I
PERSONAL PROPERTY
1940
1941
Gain-Lots
Prt,
$ 548.188
$ 876.541
5328,353
59.9
46.613
50,015
3,402
7.3
155.585
145,174
10,411*
6.7*
133,830
134.207
377
0.0
621,277
714.891
93.614
15.0
103.516
95,448
8.068*
7.8*
541,363
553,356
11,993
2.2
75,804
76.621
817
10
191,326
192,186
860
0.4
218,500
243,454
24.954
11.4
52,636.002
53.081.893
5445.891
16.9
REAL ESTATE
1940
1941
('?ail-Los.
Pet.
$ 781,415
$ 895,439
$114,024
14.6
244.217
266,697
22,480
9.2
292.310
439.255
45,945
11.7 .
439,089
458,799
19,110
4.3
1,782,230
1,999,494
217.264
12.2
465.130
478,738
13,602
2.9
1,511,413
1,574,906
63,493
4.2
259,949
265,485
5,536
2.1
722,009
762,101
40,092
5.5
1.001.816
996,885
4,931*
0.5*
$7,601,184
$8,137,799
$536,615
7.1
RF.A1. AMI PERSONAL
1940
1941
Gain-Lorn
Pet.
$ i.:t29.6o:i
$ 1.771.980
5442.377
33.3
290,830
316,712
25.882
8.9
548,895
584.429
35,534
6.5
573,519
593,006
19.487
3.4
2,403,507
2,714,385
310,878
12.9
568,652
574.186
5,534
1.0
2,052,776
2,128,262
75,486
3.7
335,753
342,106
6,353
1.9
913,335
954,296
40.961
4.5
1,220,316
1.240,339
20,023
0.3
510,237,186
511.219.701
5982,515
9.6
Joe Stalin Admits
Situation Serious
In Talk To Nation
Orinimy Faying (iroal l*rirr
In \ti\unring Merciless j
Drive inl" Ruttsiu 4
Bearing the full force of a merci- S
less German drive. Russia was de
scribed yesterday as being in a ser
ious situation by Premier Stalin in
..ddress hi till- Russia?l"'i|'le
Wlnle he (teetered that_liussia was,
facing a serious menace, the prom |
ler did not suggest that Russia was I
beaten or that she was about to be I
i>d to his people to bend every hu- .
man effort to the task of stopping :
the mighty German machine and
saving their country.
Russia has admitted losses in cer
tain sections along the 2.000-mile [
battle frolit. and it would seem next j
to impossible for even millions of |
men to maintain a battle line over ,
such a stretch of territory. Russia ]
has lost heavily in men and equip I
mcnt. but the advance lias been cost- j
ly to Hitler, far more costly than lus '
relentless and ruthless drive through
Belgium, Holland, France and later
Greece.
Berlin Continues ds boastful claims
many of which are duplicates of
those heard several days ago. "he
German reports indicate that Russia
is already defeated, that hundreds
of thousands of troops have been
trapped, that many thousands have
heen raptured or killed
While Germany was claiming ex i
tensive territorial gains. Russia re
ported that fierce fighting was in
progress all the way along the up
proximately 2,000-nule battle line
from Murmansk in the Arclic to
southeastern Poland Hundreds of,
German tanks have been stopped py ;
artillery fire, hand grenades.and gas
cilir.e hurled in bottles against the j
mobile forts.
Said to have already taken Mur
mansk, the Germans late yesterday. |
according to a report from Helsinki
wen jurt ncai tug the place The f.er-~i
mans, claiming to have smashed al-1
most to Moscow, were reported by
neutral sources to br dropping para
chute troops behind the Russian lines
in Poland, the report stating (hat SO
of them were killed in the attempt
Apparently Russia is still offering a
strong fight in the air, a German re
port claiming that 80 Soviet planes
?were shot down over Poland yester
day.
Late reports state that every man
woman and child is rallying to the
support of the war effort, and hun
dreds of thousands of children are
being moved out of danger zones in
cities.
Over in Syria, the British yesler
day captured the important city of
(Continued on page six)
T ?
Peel To Head Drive
For War Ambulance
Elbert S. PecL local attorney, was
named tbis week by George Ross
Pou at the suggestion -of- -Governor
J M Broughton to head the drive
for the British-American Ambulance
Corps in Martin County
A bit reluctant to call upon Martin ;
etttzens for funds. Mr Peel explain
ed that he accepted the chairman
ship of the drive when the urgent
need for action was pointed out in
a letter received this week from the
promoters of the non-profit organi
zation "Please understand that the
urgent need of England prompts this
request, and we are depending upon
you to render- all possible assistance
?to tins cause." Mi. Puu said in his
letter to Mr. Peel.
Martin County has been assigned
a quota of $200 as its part of the
$75,000 fund necessary for the pur
chase of an airplane ambulance by
I the citizens of North Carolina to the
people of England, v
Members of the advisory commit
tee in this county are. Dr. John D
Biggs and W C Manning, William
ville, and Joe R Winslow, of Rob
ersonville.
No large contributions are asked
from anyone, but everyone is earn
estly urged to have a part in rais
ing the comparatively small quota
assigned this county.
Among the American consuls or
dered by the Nazis to close their
offices is Sydney B. Redecker, con
sul at Frankfort. He is charged with
having "delivered addresses in sup
port of propaganda unfriendly to
Germany." All consulates in Ger
many and in most occupied territory
were ordered closed.
Opening Likely In
Office Of County
Court Prosecutor
TTuiiiiujhmidiuTK KxperFr?I Toj
INumiii^ Acting
Solicitor Momln\
With tin- hard-working and regu
lar solicitor. Don Elphonsa Johnson,
as good as in the Army now, an open
ing appears fairly certain ip the of
ficc. of munty prosecuting attorney.
The commfgETOnerfcr Jn their regular
monthly meeting here next Monday,
will recognize Attorney Johnson's
Army status and they are expected
to name an assistant or acting solici
tor. Such acTioiYTs timely even though
the prosecuting attorney is not call
ed into active service with the coun
try's armed forces.
Several attorneys have been men
tioned for the assistant's post, hut it
is understood that only one formal
application for the appointment has
been prepared. Attorney Paul D.
Koherson, of Robersonville, is said to
have expressed interest in the ap
pointment, and possibly others would
consider the job.
While the office is an appointive
one, applicants or candidates have,
according to custom since the coun
ty court was established more than
2(/ years ago, gone direct to the peo
ple m the primary elections, the
board following without hesitancy
the recommendations expressed by
the will of the people at the polls.
Attorney Johnson is not certain
that he will be called, but it is un
derstood that his order number is
below 1,000 and an unofficial report
from the draft board states that the
July 23rd call will extend beyond
1,000. Mr. Johnson is also said to be
too young for Hefermerit Under the
xoiling exempting, temporarily at
least, those men 28 years of age or
(Cont
inued on page six)
Plan ^lood Control
Survey Of Roanoke
According to unofficial reports
reaching here, a survey of the Ro
anoke River for flood and erosion
control has been tentatively approv
States Department of Agriculture,
Congressman Herbert Bonner stated
this week that the proposed survey
only needs Secretary Wickard's ap
proval before actual work can be
started. The survey is to be con
ducted by the Soil Conservation
Service, assisted t>y the Forest Serv
ice and the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics.
_ War Department engineers hiVC
been working on a survey of the
river for some months following the
disastrous flood of last August, but
their work is confined to the river
itself. The flood control survey now
pending will deal with the entire
river watershed.
\
Ousted by Nazis
135 Men Register In
The County Tuesday
Registration Total
Is Slightly Higher
Than Was Expected
| Or. W ard, Draft Hoard M.-ni
Imt, Hrinjt |j|N|
trant Tuesday
*
?Martin County registered 135
young men Tuesday in the seeonct
draft registration held under thtv'Se
lective Service Act, the registratioh
total slightly exceeding preliminary
estimates, (inofficial reports indi -
cate that a few "forgot" to register,
hut draft board authorities are of
the opinion that the registration was
made fairly complete when young
men, white and colored, reported to
the county draft board office in Wil-1
liamston and "signed up" for possi- I
bio service in Uncle Sam's armed
forces.
Registrations were recorded by
addresses, as follows:
i Jamesville Route 1 5 f
Williamston 13 0
Williamston Route 1 9 7
Williamston Route 2 7 5
Williamston Route 3 4 (>
Kveretts A ft
Robersonville 1 3
Robersonville Route 1 7 M
Robersonville Route 2 2 2
Par me I
I las.se 11 (j~
Hamilton 0
Oak City I
Oak City Route 1 5
Palmyra Route 1 2
3.
2
0
6
Bethel Route 1 0 I
ri1
Hobgood Route 1 0 1
In addition to the 121 giving their
permanent addresses in Martin Coun
ty there were thirteen giving #out
side addresses and one who was sup"
posed to have registered in the first
registration. Outside addresses of
young -men having permanent resi
donee in other counties or states
were reported by the Martin draft
board as follows:
Baltimore, one white; Blounts
Creek, one colored; Burgaw, one
white; Windsor, one colored; Nor
folk, one white; Myers Mills, S. C.,
two colored; Henderson, one white
and one colored; Faison, one white;
Martin.sburg, W. Va., one white; Ay
den, one white, and Mt. Olive, one
colored. It is expected that a few
Martin County young men, journey
ing in bther sections, registered out
side the county.
Howard Edwin Whitehurst, ? of
Parmele, opened yaC"8Pcond draft
registration that morning, and James
Spruill, colored of Robersonville,
accompanying Dr. Jesse Ward, draft
board member to the office, was the
last man to register.
(Continued on page six)
Draft Board Defers
"Aged" Registrants
ITnrfr. Sammy miv take the older
mi'n later on, but as a result of or
ders from the National Draft Board,
the youth of the land can well ex
pect calls for service ere long. Re
ceiving orders this week to defer all
men 28 years of age or older on
July 1, the Martin County Draft
Board has already eliminated fifteen
men who were in line to enter the
service this week, meaning that that
many young men and possibly a few
more between the ages of 21 and 28
will get their calls just that much
earlier In l^is county. Just how many
men will he deferred in this county
as a result of the ruling has not yet
ix-en determined.
Deferments are for only 30 days,
draft officials pointing out that Con
gress has not yet passed the law al
lowing deferment of men 28 years
or more of age
There are quite a few young men
in the county who are missing de
ferment by only b few days. Solici
tor Don E. Johnson is included In tha
list of Army prospects by a margin
of only 17 days, it was learned.
FKVt ?IK.IIill
All unofficial review of the
second draft reitistraiion list
shows that few of the 135 regis
trrlng in this county are ellgi
file under The rules arrrt-reguta
tions for service in the Army. It
is quite likely that one-third of
the colored registrants will be
weeded out by illiteracy, an un
official report stating that IK
could not write their names.
Three of the (17 white registrants'
could not write their names. By
the time the married youths are
eliminated along with the Illit
erate and physically unfit. |!n
de Sam will not find many of
the group eligible for service in
his Army.
Judge W.H. (lolxirii
(lulls Ten Cases In
The County Court
Four Drunken Driving Cane*
Oil Dorket For TVial in
I 1111 ( oiirl IMomlav
Culling ten ease's for trial, Judge
W. II Coburn held the county rec
order's court in session for more
than two hours last Monday, and
I even though the tribunal worked
? longer than usual several of the eases
I were continued for trial at later
dates Four cases charging drunken
driving were (.n the docket, hut the
| tr ial of an assault case took up much
of the court's time.
I ester Jordan Whitehurst/plead
ed not guilty in the ease charging
tnm with drunken driving. Ad
judged guiliy, llie"~d.fih,lain?WTeT
fined $50, taxed with the court costs
and had his license to operate a mo
tor vehicle revoked for a year. Tic
appealed his ease and bond m the
sum of $100 was required by Judge
Coburn.
Combining the two eases charging
Z. T. Sawyer and O. ft Boyd with
an assault with a deadly weapon, the
court found Sawyer, a special depu
ty at the North Carolina Pulp Com
pany in the lower part of tins coun
ty, not guilty Adjudged guilty,
Boyd was fined $50 and taxed with
the costs. Me appealed to the higher
courts and bond was fixed in the
sum of $100.
The ease charging Jesse Warren
with an assault with a deadly wea
pon and with disorderly conduct,
was continued until the first Mon
day in October.
A continuance was also granted
until July 7 in the case charging
Robert Kdmondson with an assault
with a deadly weapon.
Pleading guilty in the case charg
ing him with drunken driving, John
Karl Black was fined $50, had his li
cense to operate a motor vehicle re
voked for one year and wax-directed
to pay the costs.
(Continued on page six)
Noii-LIst< rs Settle
Their Tax Accounts
?t?
Acting to forestall prosecution in
the courts, nearly 200 persons in this
county have listed their properties
and polls and have either paid or
made arrangements to settle their
tax accounts, it was learned today
from the county tax office. Several
hundred dollars have tieen collect
ed already, the collections ranging
in amounts from a few cents to al
most $40
Every effort is being made to ad
vise those persons who, for one rea
son or another, have failed to list
their properties to do so before July
23rd when action in the courts will
be definitely started.
Williamston's town commissioners
are expected to formulate plans for
rounding up non-listers within the
town limits at the regular meeting
of the board next Monday night.
y
Increase In Values
To Support Lower
Tax Kate Phis Year
Count) Commi?ioncr. Will
Sluil) l>c|i:irtiufiital Rudp
H* at Meeting Mttiidav
Tin- handiwork of thirty special
^ix appraisers has just been tabulat
ed by Martin County's Tax Super
visor. S ll Grimes, for the current
.tax year, the figures reflecting a cam
in personal and real property lust
iocs of nearly one million dollars
over the listings a year ago A com
parison of the values appears in the
'"in volunin t.ihfilatuui on this page
showing gains 01 losses in personal
and real propel tie and all proper
die-. c.,i?l.??.d and the percentage
gams or-losses the figures not in
cluding listing . for the Atlantic
VM*S] * Kiiilruait Company, the
C arolina Telephone Company and
one or two other corporations
I '>11 the basis of tile new valoal.oo
| cams, ., reduction in the new tax
late I, seen as a possibility, but the
|deciease, il any, depends upon the
new Inidcet figures An increase in
appropriations will very easily off
set the gam in property valuations
11h one or two negligible excep
tlolls l,,l> bend in property values
hW^lb- "|IV II il till "l.l V si in -
el v 'sol explaining that whijo there
were assessment meteases effePtt-rf
for old properties, much nfcjyie gain
was traeeahle to new or improved
I properties The cam. standing right
i ?' ""h dull.II .. u mil,| ||.|U I,,
'considerably larg.-r, but (lie apprais- "
jcrs did much adjusting where list
j iocs Wi re considered too Inch and
I those losses had to be Offset before
tbe net increase could lie recognized
; Ihe largest single gam is traceable
! t" flic North Carolina i'ulp Com - -
pally in Jatnesville Township, the
company boosting its values by
[nearly one-tliird of million dol
jlais Jainesvilie Township, . Itsclt.
mailt' a big show ing with a gain of
sill til, \\ illiaiiistdn Township* re
| ported gain iif $310,878 to boost
Its total lisijngs j.i?$2,714,385. Ruber
sonville Town, lop was next with a
| gain of $75,488. its eum-hf listings
-Miiiidme al .?:> a(i2
- While ,dl townships reported from
small to fairly large gams in combin
ed property listings, two. Griffins and
Cross Itoails reported -light dc
II eases in. their personal property
Villi"", (11 d I in?Iq- >'"'-lll, mil
( ross Itoads losoig sH niai Goose
Nesl. I. porting ., |,ul , .,,J |; |H1 1M
ds personal listings, io.sl ., few Ihous
and in lis real i .dues
; the county list t.,k. , , and apprais
lei's now stand at $1I.21II.7IH-. cotn
I'iTod with Sln.sa7.iWi. an actual gang
of $1)82 .r>15 'I'll, ., figure , do not in
' l"'1, 'Oil lion listings which.
when certified to the county by the
I Utilities Commission, will likity
I t'oosttbi; total propel |y valuation'to
[ about lU.IH.'l.S.H
hhe?t-f-W?luting won,?-npi'iij
(f onliiuied on page six)
Marshall (,. Cherry
Passes A l 11 is Home
Near Here Tuesday
I'itiicrul Sfrvici'H Are Held f?r
Retired Farmer Ycnter
<luy Afternoon
Marshall Cecil Cherry, respected
citizen and retired farmer, died af
bis home on the old Everetfs Road,
near here, last Tuesday night at 11:30
o'clock following an illness of more
than two years' duration. Suffering
a stroke in the early part of 1939 he
had been an invalid since, spending
most of the past two years in bed.
His condition became serious follow
ing an heart attack last week-end
and no hope was held for Ins recov
Tlic son of the IflteJJufus Cherry
and wife, Martha Wilson Cherry,-he
was horn 73 years ago last January
in this township and near the place
where he lived most uf his life. In
-ertcly?manhood he was married to
Miss Cornelia Askew wiyTdled i~
long number pf years ago Two chil
dren, Mrs. Elmer Chesson and Ray
mond Cherry, survive that union.
About Hilt he married Miss Carrie
Glenn who survives. Four children
w en- horn to this union. Their names
an Marshall C Cherry, Jr. Rufus
Cherry. Roland Cherry and Miss
Mary Alice Cherry, all ?f the home.
Mr Cherry was a member of the ~~
Methodist Church, holding member
ship at Vernon ifi his home commun
ity. He was a hard-working farmer
and was held in high regard by those
who knew him His friendliness and
politeness were genuine, and when
conditions seemed dark and disheart
ening he always carried a smile on
his face and un inward hope that
encouraged others to carry on.
Funeral services were conducted?
from the home yesterday afternoon
at 3.30 o'clock by Rev. B. T Hurley
Methodist minister, assisted by Rev'
Tom Harris, of the Holinees Church
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