Happenings In The
Farm Life School
At a special meeting of the Sen
ior Class Tuesday, the following su
perlatives were selected:
Best sport. Alton F Peel: pret
tiest, Hazel Corey, most handsome,
E. H Manning. Jr.; best athlete (girl)
Elizabeth Manning: best athlete
(boy> Alton F Peel; best all around.
Elizabeth Manning: cutest. Martha
Roberson; neatest (girl) Delia Lee
Lilley; neatest (boy) Verl'in Griffin;
class pest, B F. Lilley. Jr : wittiest
Martha Roberson: laziest. E H Man
ning. Jr.: most studious. Mary Man
ning: best actor. B F Lilley. Jr : best
actress. Farease Manning.
Their mascots ar?. Nancy Gurkin,
small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
my Gurkin. and Bobby Roberson,
young son of Mr and Mrs. Arthur
Roberson.
The rose was chosen as class flow
er and red and white are the col >r
The boys and girls an proud , of
-ttieir new gyninasiurn.Two gamrrr
have been played in it: the boy, won
both, while the girls dropped one to
Creswell by a margin of six points
There will be a doubleheader in the
gym tonight with Pantego High
School.
Hie Rhythm-Band, under the di
rector of Misses Taylor and Jones,
will soon have new uniforms of red
and white. They have learned to
play several new selections
Miss Cooke's room presented a
very interesting chapel program last
Friday. The theme was Thrift, and
saving for defense stamps was en
couraged through the Mother Goose
Characters.
Mrs. Manning's fourth grade will
have charge of the chapel exercises
today. The following program will be
given:
Devotional. Earlirie Coltrain. play,
"The Punctuation Marks" - Miss Sli
kle. Leona Hardison; Miss Comma.
Once Hardison: Mr Capital Letter.
George Hardison; Tin Quotation
Twins. Frances Hardison, Daisy Gnf
fin: Mrs Juestion Mark. Jariuv Har
dison; Mr Period. Russell Peele; Mr
Exclamation Point, Ely in- Lilley. Pi
ano solo, Janice Hardison; our pres
idents. Earline Coltrain, Bessie Man
Animal Attacks
Dairy Employee
I Edward Taylor, young employee
(at the Taylor Dairy in Poplar Point.
i was painfully but not seriously hurt;
-liesterday afternoon when he was!
attacked by an enraged bull on the j
Taylor, farm.
The young man was knocked un
? conscious when the animal knocked 1
?against a fence When he par
tial^ recovered a few minutes later'
the animal was still attacking him
and he saved himself when he
caught hold of the ring in the ball's
nose and quieted.him down.
Taylor was treated in a local doc
tor's office for a broken collar bone
and severe bruises and scratches,
about thi fac? and on one of his
! arms.
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Christian Endeavor
Meeting Tomorrow
The Martin County Christian En
! i< avor group, meeting in Has,sell
tomorrow, will discuss. "Religion
: of the -World Today," & was an- j
hiounci'd; by .on< of the leaders yes-j
j terday. ^ ;
reseritatives from the various parts
of the county participating, will get
underway at 11 o'clock in the Has-1
? o].l Christian Church. Members of 1
the Hassell church will have charge 1
of- the afternoon program.
Extensive plans have been made
for the meeting arid the public is j
jenrdiallv invited to attend |
Officers of the group are. Clayton j
j Rev< Is. president; Polly Bailey, sec- i
? retary: Marie Harrison, treasurer.
New- officers will be elected at j
| the meeting tomorrow as a part of
the- business program
r ing. Daisy Griffin. France- Hardi
?on. James C. Lilley.
Honoring George Hardison on his
( birthday recently. Mrs Ira Hardison
entertained the fourth grade and
made pictures of them playing with
their new croquet set which they
ha\( just purchased.
On Tuesday. January 20th. Mrs.
P E. Getsinger honored "Nooky''
jGetsinger with a surprise birthday
| party in Mrs Manning's classroom.
' Tla fourth grade was invited guests
Birthday cake, drinks, salted nuts,
and candy -were served, z
Mrs Manning is helping us to en
joy 'our unit study of deserts. Many
L reports have been given. We have
made date palm trees from cfepe
paper, and we plan to make camels,
discs dolls pi represent tlx desert
peopji , and make homes similar to
; then ? A- a climax to our study, we
j plan to give a playdepicting desert
j life and habits
vFarm Fife -..divided a doubleheadcr
, basketball game here with Cn swell
when the Farm Life boys defeated
Cicswell. 24 to 11. and the' C res we 11
girls won oyer the Farm Life girls
22 to 17
1. Guff in led the Farm Lite girl?
with 11 points and 1). Manning led
tin Iniys with seven points Barber
lt d the Creswell girls with 13 points,
and llufton scored high for the boys
with t.hi-ee field goals.
RECOGNITION
J
The Enterprise was Riven fav
orable recognition by the an
nual North Carolina Press Insti
tute in annual session at Chapel
llill recently when its special to
bacco edition was given one of
the institute's coveted awards.
Competing with papers from
various sections of the State,
The Enterprise edition was rank
ed second in the group, trailing
the Koxboro Courier's sixtieth
anniversary release.
Small wood Recalls
l?o\ hood Days Here
(Continued from page one)
and bein' I woulod have you with
me. you couldn't be telln' folks what
I told you."
You Charles, 1 once heard a
'ory bout two drummers. One was
HtingTrFThc lobby of a Hotel (it was
raining cat and dogs outside). An
other fellbw took a seat close by and
picked a conversation with the first
? < but in" tly l? d in the confab, and
talking mostly <>f his own affairs:
Arid them's the goods 1 sell." quoth
h< and right now there is a ten
thousand dollar order waiting for me
at that* implement store cross the
street, but it can wait till this rain
is over, if it's all day. Never a ques
tion bad he asked the other fellow
about his business.
Pretty soon this other fellow said,
Well. I've got to go to my room for
i few minutes: glad to have met you,
so long ' Ahd Off he Went, while the
tale-teller called for a shoe-shine,
fixing up for dry walking later on.
From his room the other fellow\left
the hotel by a side door, and through j
the torrent, and into -the implement
tore a little down the street.
"Well," said the executive in the
office, after noting the preferred card
? f introduction. "I have often won
dered. why your people had never
sent a representative to see us, here
you now turn up just as I am in need,
and through a storm like this." Said
the drummer. "I do not know how
my folks happened to skip you, but
this be ing my first visit here, I pick- \
<?<1 you as my first place to call; and
I do net stop for weather." After
looking over some records from his
dc L. tin executive handed a list
sheet to the caller, asking. "What
can you do on this? Nice order if you
can take it. but give me your best
price first I do not like to dicker."
'?ionic little amount this will come
to." said the drummer. "Nigh on to
ton thousand, I guess," replied the
e xecutive' "I'll promise to cut that
before figuring." said the drummer.
I'm not telling you I expect to pay
ten. I'm leaving you to win or lose
on,first shot, replied the executive,
After die calculations, based on ref
erence to hi own price records, the
: 1 rummer handed back the specifi
itiohs. with his bids thereon
Sold," said the- executive. "Now
make out your sales slieet, emphasiz
ing rTYe Thirty -day delivery, and I
will sign iff' Which was done: then,
"(Had you railed. Don't forget me
next time.''
Now says Mr. Tom Biggs, what
did that other drummer think of the
looks of Ins own face1, as reflected
m his shoe shine* by the afternoon
sunlight, as he- retraced the dry pave
ments on Ins way back from the im
plement store just across the street
to his hotel? And if you ever grow
up into a drummer-man, Charles,
don't never forget to always forget
to te ll the other fe llow where1 you
are going
Mr. Seth Nowell lived on the edge
of tow n, out towards Skewarkey and
Washington, just before reaching
Buck Short's. On the edge' of town
indeed he* lived, for the incorporate
limits ran square in at his front door,
and out at the back, which of course
placed him half and half betwixt
town and county. The town then had
a poll or street tax, levied on citi
zens wittiin its borders, but all
county folk, whose usual visits there
in. created the trade and traffic
^w hu h bolstered the businesses there
of, were not burdened nor baffled,
, nor hindered, nor hampered by any
such levy. Therefore, though Mr
Nowcll's daily visits were mostly to
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Sunday Monday January 25-28
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nit It llrriitla Jon a ami Urmr I.ilminis
Tuesday I)?l HI K I KATI KK January 27
"Mild for \otir Supper." J. Falki'iiliui'd. It. Itu)i<'rii
"Sialrtl I.ip?." .1 >>1111 l.ili-l ami JiiiK' ( lv<lc
Wednesday-Thursday January 28-29
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iritli Johnny l)onrn? anil Jima Frazee
Friday-Saturday January 20-31
"I (IHHII)DKN IK MI S"
i?-ff/t llm h Jonas anil I im UrFoy
Uncle Sam
NEEDS SCRAP
Iron & Metals,
Don't hold it hark?thr niainifaeliir
?*i> ni'fil i'\)T\ |Hniiid of iron, fieri
and lllrialf they rail fjrt. If you are
patriotic, you'll fell all you have.
We want Old Cars. Trucks,
Tirm Batleric*. Scraplron.
Scrap Steel, Brass, Copper.
Lead. Tin. Zinc, Chromium.
We Pay Highest Prices!
Williamston Parts and Metal Cto.
Member of the Iron anil Steel Inititute of America
U. S. ROUTE NO. 64 0 WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
Ixx'ul Scouts Hold
First Meet Of Year
Troop No. 27 of the Boy Scouts of
America held its first meeting of the
new year last night under a reorgan
ization plan which promises to re
vive interest in Scouting in William
ston. Twelve boys meeting with
Scoutmaster Marion Cobb and as
sistants. Sam Woolford and David
Hix, in rooms over the Guaranty
Bank, conducted a brief program and
organized patrols.
With a permanent meeting place
assured through the courtesy of Eh
V. Clayton, meetings will be held
weekly and provision made for
Courts of Honor and for advance
ment of rank as the boys advance in
training.
Conrad Getsinger and J. D. Wool
ard will serve the troop as patrol
leaders, and John Goff, Jr., will serve
as scribe. The following boys were
present in addition to the leaders
mentioned:
John Whitley Hal Dickens, Sam
my Taylor, Kandoiph Rogers, Hugh
Horton, David Nash, Gilbert Wool
| ard. Kenneth Lindsley and Dan Bow
en.
1
Will license Sale
Of All Explosives
Effective at once the purchase of
all explosives will be licensed, ac
cording to Clerk of Court D. B. ^
Wynne who was appointed licens
ing Agent for Martin County by the
United States Bureau of Mines. Cre
ated by an act of Congress a lew j
weeks ago, the licensing system car
ries a 25-cent fee.
The movement, it is understood,
will not necessarily limit the sale of
explosives, Mr. Wynne stating that
the act was designed "to prevent ex
plosives from falling into the hands
of those who may be disloyal or hos
tile to the United States." It was al
so stated that by a careful licensing
system it may be possible to hold
the number of costly explosions to
a minimum.
In this country Congress is still
considering more and larger appro
priations. A bill calling for 12 1-2
billion dollars for the Army Air
Corps is before the House today.
Was Business Visitor Here
| Mr. Oscar Peel, of Bear Grass, at
tended to business here yesterday.
Hugh Martin and Henderson Mi
zell, of Jamesville, spent last week
end in Wilson.
walk and talk, linger and laugh; cre
ating pleasant confab with whom he
met during most of every day ; should
one of these happen to be the street
tax collector, and he should make a
suggestion to Mr. Nowell to pay; Mr.
Nowell would straight away invite
him out ot see that his bed and boul
ster where he slumbered and snooz
ed was away out in the county-part
a county-man with acknowledged in
vitation to come and walk and tarry
and talk where he bought his tobac
co of the Tom Biggs brands.
But, let an election appear in the
offing of the curb stones, and Mr.
Nowell's bed and boulster winged
their ways over to the town side of
his wigwam, and any candidate
whom he supported was eager and
ready to urgue his being a bonifide
voter of the town.
In those days, as I have indicated
before, voting was an art of the lo
cal regime, and "axe-grinding" as
old as the hills. Since then there have
been some changes, but they figure
both ways.
(To be continued)
Happenings In The
Oak City Schools
On Tuesday night, January 20th,
the Oak City basketball team met
the Stokes team in a doubleheader
I played in the Oak City gymnasium,
j The Oak City girls swept to victory
I by a score of 18-17. The boys were
, not so lucky. Although they played
'an excellent game, they lost, the
| score being 16-11, in favor of Stokes.
The local P.T.A met yesterday. A
large attendance and excellent pro
gram were reported.
After her illness of last week, Miss
Meade, our English teacher, is back
with us again.
When they finish their work on
the agriculture-home economics
building, a barbecue dinner will be
served to the WPA workers who
worked on the building. Date for
moving in the new building has been
set at February 2nd.
Around forty new books have
been placed in our library. These
arrived" shortly alter Christmas and
now after being catalogued, etc.,
they are now available to the stu
dents. Many new reference books
were ordered.
All classes are going along nicely.
The new literature and sociology
classes have been organized and are
now doing regular and splendid
work.
On Monday Mrs. Lupton and her
history class presented an excellent
original play, "Glimpses into His
tory," which gave us a few moments
from the life of General Robert E.
Lee whose birthday came on that
day. ;
Wednesday afternoon, Mr. James
of the Bethel Theatre gave a mo
tion picture in the auditorium. This
was sponsored "by the junior class.
Proceeds will go into the Junior-Sen
lior Banquet fund.
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Apartment Damaged
By Fire Yesterday
Fire, said to have started when an
oil heater backfired, damaged the
apartment of Mr. and Mrs. John
Tullos on Smithwick Street here
yesterday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock.
Most of the furniture in a bedroom
was damaged and the window frame,
sash and baseboards were burned.
The fire was spreading into the walls
just about the time the fire-fighting
apparatus reached the home. The en
tire apartment was badly smoked,
and the adjoining Simpson apart
ment was damaged to some extent by
smoke. officia lestimate on the
damage could be had immediately,
but Fire Chief G. P. Hall believes the
loss will amount ? to approximately
$750.
The hurried call was confusing,
and when volunteers reached the fire
station to take the equipment out
they were told the grammar school
was burning. Definite instructions
were Trceived there?and the fire
could be seen, but firemen had lo
go raound the block to get to the
new location. Using a small hdse di
rect from the truck, the volunteers
soon had the fire under control.
EXECUTRIX* NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix of
the estate of Laura M. Had ley, de
ceased, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to exhibit them to the undersigned
within one years from the date of
this notice or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment.
This the 21st day of Jan.. 1942
VIDA HARRIS GRIFFIN,
Executrix of the estate of ~
j23-6t Laura M. Hadley.
Used Cars For Sale
I 1941 FORI) Super DeLuxe Fordor Sedan
1 1941 PLYMOUTH Touring Coach
2 1910 CHKVROLKT Fordor Sedan*
I 1940 CHEVROLET Tudor Trg. Sedan
1 1938 CHEVROLET Tudor Tfg. Sedan
I 1938 FORI) DeLuxe Coupe
1 1938 FORI) Tudof
2 1937 CHRYSLER Sedan*
1 1937 DODGE Coach
1 1937 PLYMOUTH Fordor Sedan
1 1937 FORD (85) Tudor Trg.
4 1936 FORDS
2 1935 FORDS
3 1934 FORDS
1 1934 DODGE Fordor Sedan
3 1934 CHEVROLET Standard Coaches
1 1935 FORD Coupe
1 1937 FORD Coupe
1 1935 PLYMOUTH DeLuxe Coupe
1 1935 CHEVROLET Coach
1 1934 PLYMOUTH Furdur Sedan -
1 1934 CHRYSLER Fordor Sedan
f1936 PLYMOUTH Coach
The majority of these automobiles are clean city
driven cars. We are offering some real bargains
in the above cars. See us at once as these cars are
going fast.
COX MOTOR CO.
WASHINGTON, N. C.
Wants
TAKEN UP AT MY HOME ABOUT
three weeks ago, hound dog with
long ears, black body and brown legs
with white front foot. Ben R. Man
ning, Williamston No. 1.
FOR SATE: HOUSE AND LOT IN
good condition and in good loca- j
tion. See Harrison and Carstarphen,
Williamston. j23-4t
BOY WANTED: BETWEEN THE
ages of 16 to 20. Must have mech
anical turn and have possibilities
along this line. With proper initia
tive and qualifications will soon be
made plant assistant. Good opening
and good pay for right boy. Apply at
once to Roberson's Slaughter House.
j20-3t
WE PAY CASH FOR CORN. WIL
liamston Hardware Co. dl2-tf
CORN WANTED ? WE ALWAYS
pay top market price. Hardy's Es
so Service Station, Highway 64, near
fair grounds, Williamston. j20-4t
PAUL JONES' FILLING STATION
stock and fixtures for sale. A good
business and a splendid location. If
interested, see Paul Jones, William
ston, at once j20-2t
STORE FOR RENT ? BUILDING
formerly occupied by the Bowl
ing Alley. Apply to Miss Edith
Stallings. jl3-4t
JAY BEE HAMMER MILLS, GRIST
Mills, Feed Mixers at no advance
in price, new or used, liberal terms.
See or write E. B. Harrison, Box 479,
Bennettsville, S. C. j20-f3
TWO TWO-HORSE CROPS FOR
rent or tenant farming. Good
acreage of all money crops on the
Rainbow farm. D. W. Downs, Hob
good, N. C. jl3-4t
FOR SALE: SIX ROOM HOUSE, IN
good condition, large lot, conven
iently located, reasonably priced. F.
W. Hoyt, Smithfield. jl3-4t
TEXACO SERVICE STATION
for rent. Located in Beth
el. For further information,
call or see Wiley Burroughs
Rogerson, Robersonville Oil
Co., Robersonville, N. C.
RADIO
REPAIRING
Bring uu your Radio
for Repairs. All work
guaranteed. Reason
able Charges.
Western Auto Store
W. J. Miller, Owner
WE ARE TAKING ORDERS FOR,
Tobacco Flues
FARMERS, don't wait to give your or
iler for Toliaceo Flues. You realize the
conditions that confront us all and how
difficult it is to secure metals und tin.
WE WILL GET 60 PER CENT OF
LAST YEAR'S SUPPLY OF IRON
Wc have in stock 1-3 of our allotment, which can
he converted into flues immediately upon receipt
of your order. Don't wait! Give us your order now.
G.&H. BUILDERS
SUPPLY COMPANY WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
FARMERS
START THE SEASON RIGHT
BY USING THE FAMOUS
ARMOUR
Fertilizers
We Have A Supply Ready For
immediate Delivery At The
NEW FARMERS
WAREHOUSE
See Us For The Right
Friee And The Best
Fertilizer Product ... .
ARMOUR'S
H. toman J. Edivard
Barnhill & Corey
WILLIAMSTON, N. C.