North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XV. NO. q Tobacco Figures * The November sales of tobacco in the State were a million of h pounds more than that of last year for the same month, but j thirty millions less than October sales. The total number of pounds sold to date is 27,451,689. g During the month the markets in Martin County sold 498,778 v pounds-Williamston selling 252,- r 899 and Robersonville 240,879. BotlTof our markets in the coun ty have made splendid gains over € any year for the' past two or 1 three. They have been strong,— and kept prices up to the limit. } Cards ■ j Hugh B. York, M. D. j Microscopy, Electrotherapy,- X- Ray, Diagnosis, Specialties Office on Snrttbwicfc St., rear Blount Pro. 5 Office hours, 8 to 10 *. m., 7 to 9 p. m Office 'phoce 60 - Nijtht 'phone 63 1 Wn. E. Warren -r J. S. Rfc«de» Drs. Warren & RUodes 1 Physicians and Surgeons Office in Drug Store • 'Phone *9 ! Jos. H. Sanndeis, M. D. 1 Physician and Surgeon Bay phone 53 - Night phone 40 j Williamston, N. C. , Dr. R. L. Savage of Rocky Mount, will be at the Atlantic Hotel fourth Wendnes day in each month to treat dis eases of the EYE, EAR, NOSE and THROAT and FIT GLASSES A. R Dunning • - *C, £u»ith Dunning & Smith Attorney * t- Law Williamston, N. C. Robersonville, N. C. Burr ens A. Critcher - Wheeler Martin Wheeler Marlin, Jr. ' Martin & Critcher _ Attomeys-at-Law Williamston . - North Carolina •phowk 23 / S. J. Everett Attorney-at-Law Greenviite, N. C. - Williamston, N. C. Greenville Long DUUnce Phone 3*B S. A. NEWELL Attorney at Law £ Williamston - North Carolina Clayton Moore Attorney at Law Williamston - North Carolina John E. Pope » \ General Insurance, Life, Fire. Health, Accident, Live Stock Real Estate - Brokerage Williamston - North Carolina Office on Haughton Street Phone 14a Dr P. B. CONE Dentist Offie same one used by Dr. White. Will be in office each day.; Hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 ."7 Phone No. 9 -W 1 THE ENTERPRISE LOCAL Remember the poor at this lappy season. , Services at the Methodist and baptist Churches on Sunday; The town is filled with Xmas foods and the sales are good. All the Sunday Schools in town (rill have trees for the pupils lext week. Hams on the market are 18c, ?ggs 30c, and turkeys the pound. , T. J. Latham is having his house painted and other repairs made. t Ir It is always safe to the advertisers-note them *in this issue. Court adjourned on Friday af ternoon of last week. Both dock ets were, small.* Santa Claua is at the store of Saunders & Fowden. Let him see you there. Peanut buyers are busy with the hundreds of bags which come here each day. God willing, 1 will preach at the home of Miss Polly Pulley on Sunday at2o'clock.-J. L.Cherry ' 'One swallow does not make a summer" neither does a blue uni form and brass buttons make a policeman. # There will be services at the Christian Church on next Sunday (Third) instead of the fourth Sunday as usual. The public is invited. -• Friends of Mies Mae Bennett, who has been in the hospital for several weeks, will be pleased to learn that she is improving and hopes to spend the holidays at home. Buy Red Cross stamps from the Boy Scouts, and help kill out tuberculosis. Put them on your letters and packages and thus show that you are ,in the fight against the Great White Plagu£. Dr. John D. Biggs, who start ed to Currituck Sound on a gas boat, tells a thrilling experience of how they had to anchor for 36 hours out in the sound, while the gale of last week threatened to casf all on board into the seeth ing waters. As soon as help came, the disabled boat was tow ed to shore and Dr. Biggs came back home. A Sad Death Mr. Samuel Wynn died at his home Monday, the Bth inst, - at 9 o'clock in his fifty-seventh year. He had a stroke of paralysis Monday afternoon about 3 o'clock and the last stroke near 8 o'clock. A wife and seven children sur vive Hjjn, G. B. Simpson, of Roa noke Rapid, Mrs. Larnice Bowen, of Rosemary, Mrs. A. L. Raynor, Lonnie, Emlick, Thurston and Pete, ofjWilliamston. He was buried Tuesday after* noon at Cross Roads, the old burying ground. He had spenl the great part of his life in Mar in County, and has gained many friends that will miss him through all the coming years. We loved him and it was so hard tc give him up, but the Lord sayeth: "Not thy will but mine be done." One precious to our hearts has gone, ' The voice we loved is stilled, The place is vacant in our home That never can be filled. Our Father in his wisdon call His boon and love had given, And though on earth the bod) lies, The soul is safe in Heaven. WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER tq. IQI3 - . SI.OO a Year in Advance PERSONAL * J. 0. Guthrie was here Tues- , day from Raleigh. Miss Anna Pope has been in j Norfolk this week. Editor Manning went to' Ply- . mouth Monday night. Mr*. Frank Armststrong has { been in town this week. j Miss Fannie Biggs Martin spent \ the week-end at Plymouth. , W. W. Ange, of Plymounth, 1 was here Monday on business. 1 Dr. William E. Warren was in 1 Norfolk last, week on professional 1 business. S. E. Brown, of Pactolus, wast a pleasant * caller at the office Tuesday, f Miss Myra Haeberle, of Rich mond, has accepted a position with Blount Bros. Messrs. E.-W. Forbes and J. W. Cherry of Everetts, were in town Tuesday on business. Mrs. Herbert Pope and chil dren came down from Roberson ville on Saturday. Fred M. Shute spent several days here this week and left Tuesday for Scotland Neck, where he will spend the holidays. William Pennypacker. Jr., of Buffalo. N. Y., spent several days here last week on business connected with the Cooperage Company. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Simpson attended the annual banquet of tlje Coburn Motor Co., at the Monticello, Norfolk, on Monday evening. Skot In~A~ Brawl Saturday night in a blind tiger, • drunken brawl, near Hassels, 1 Frank Council, a negro, was shot i in the neck by George Dancy, ; another negro. Council was par alyzed by the shot and officer Ed Davenport, of Hamilton, with Sheriff Crawford spent a part of [ Sunday hunting Dancy. Going ( to his house, they searched that > and entered the woods nearby, and separated to give a thorough search. Officer Davenport saw ■ the negro and tried to stop his ' running by shooting him, bnt ; failed to wound him sufficiently, > so the negro escaped. At this ? time he has not been apprehend > ed, and Council is still living - though dangerously wounded. A Kindly Act "The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." Some time ago a check was sent to Anderson, Crawford & Co., with instructions to pur - 3! chase a suit of clothes for J. L. t Cherry. The giver was unknown to me, but I want to say God j bless the giver of the check, c "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." J. L. Cherryr Christmas Tree There .wHI be a Christmas Tree at Biggs School House on Tuesday " evening, December 23rd. for I those who attend Sunday School t at this place. However, all who - wish to put presents on the tree V are at liberty to do so, whether « they be members of this Sunday e School or not. 0 A cordial invitation is extend • ed to every one, but we ask that, you try to be present by as s we shall begin at that hour, and we do not want people coming in late on account of the corifusion e and disturbance it will cause. Old Santa is getting along in years now, and, as his voice is not as strong as it onde was, it will be y impossible for him to call out the names loud*enough for all to hear should there be much disorder. Eagagestest Announced (Reported) At* very prettily appointed { party, on Monday evening, Miss 1 Lettie Critcher announced her c engagement to Mr. Warren H. t Biggs, the wedding to take place i on JSftuary 14th. Miss Critcher ( surrounded herself with her most s intimate friends, who enjoyed the 1 attractive arrangements for their I delight during the evening in her 1 home. After the arrival of the | guwts. Miss Mildred Purvis serv- 1 ed fruit punch and then a Santa 1 Citrus puzzle entertained the 1 guests for some time. Misses Irere Smith, Anna Pagan, Pene- 1 and Hannah Vic Fow- t den ti"d for the score, and Miss 1 Srafch won in the draw, the prize beiftg a beautiful box of paper. to ent»>r the dining room, where! the table was prettily decorated with white and red candles, and at each place were white and ret! carnations. The place cards were handpaint ed brides on which were written: "Biggs- -Critcher, January 14th. 1914." Small dolls dressed as brides were given as favors. Later n the evening pieces of paper were given the guests on which were written questions, theanswersto which were: "Will you be my bridesmaid?" Then while strains of beautiful music floated through the rooms, Mis* Delia Lanier came in holding a parasol and bn folded it over the head of the bride-elect, and a shower of handerchiee fell,- the gifts of those present. This was a most delightful surprise to Miss Critcner. who appreciated the thought and the gifts. The fol lowing young ladies were present; Misses Anna Beth, Mildred and Susie Purvis, of Martin County; Miss Delia Miss Penelope Biggs, Miss Annie Fagan, Miss 1 » Essie Peel, Miss Irene Smith, Miss Hannah Vic Fowden, Mrs. Carrie Biggs Williams and Mrs. H. D. Cook. The announcement of this en , ifcagement will be learned with interest as Miss Critcher and Mr. ' Biggs have many friends. Miss Critcher is the only daughter of ? Mr. and Mrs. Roger Critcher and is a young woman of decided p beauty and charm. She was ed ucated at Meredith College and at the Conservatory of Music at Durham, and is well 1 known throughout North Carolina. Mr. Biggs is the eldest son _of Mrs. S. R. Biggs, of Williamston, and a member of one of the most prominent families this County has ever produced, and is a young • man of sterling qualities. He is | the head of the S. R. Biggs Drug Company and interested in many * other business enterprises.JMater -1 nally he is descended from the Bonner and Smallwood families of Beaufort County, which are two of the oldest familiesjn the United States. i .To Help Farmers r Thr A. &M. College is to offer 1 a four weeks course for farmers 3 beginning January 9th. 1914. e The farmer is the greatest vital r institution,in North Carolina, and / everything leading to the better ment of the farmer advances the - State. t No tuition or fees will be charg s ed the men attending the Winter 1 Course. The Course is free to all 1 who attend. This is a splendid 1 opportunity for the farmers of 1 this or any of the counties in the 3 State. A month at the College 3 will mean a great deal to any de e siring to/ieam of the best ahd e latest methods in farming. There r are many who may be able to at . tend during January. t Selling Farsis 4 . The advertising columns of any paper in these days are filled with notices of- land sales. The whole f country seems to be trying to do 1 the same thing—sell the farms and move elsewhere. The phen- > omenal prices at which lands are j selling, spells the reason for « many of the sales. The time is fast approaching when there will be very few original owners in ' possession of the acres so full of golden promise. Speculators are 1 keeping the prices up, and realty { advertising companies are begin- , ning to form a network over the country. Farms in this county which only a few years ago were ' offered for $2,500, sell easily now i for $15,000 or SIB,OOO. This I; shows that the people are farm-, ing as they should have been do- ! ing for fifty years, but did not. ! Science has so entered into the cultivation of the soil, that a for ward movement has been given agriculture, in the Southland which is but the coming of its people into their own.-. The in dustrious farmer tilling his own broad acres, is the biggest „• asset of this entire country, and the important part he is playing in making this the most blessed land on the globe should teach him that giving some one else pos session of his land, loses "to him oftentimes, the glorious privilege of building better things for him self, the community and the State. • Property Valuation An examination .of the tax books in the office of Register of Deeds Brown shows the value of assessed real and personal pro perty for whites in the several townships as follows: Jamesville, $440,191; Williams, $208,606; Griffins, $281,407; Bear Grass, $2!M>,7:12; Williamston. $1,021,649; Cross Roads, $250,210; Robersonville,' $864,082; Poplar Point, $244,524; Hamilton, $539,- 709; Goose Nest, $496,592; total, valuation, $4,(546,767. White polls, 1555. The colored property valuation shows: Jamesville, $65,014; Williams, $39,043; Griffins, $8,512; Bear Grass. $9,221; Williamston, $92,- 630; Cross Roads, $30,688; Rob ersonville, $97,615.; Poplar Point, $12.859; Ham i I ton, $51,469; (!oose 1 Nest, $138,981; total, $546,035. Colored polls 1147. White and colored valuation together amount to $5,193,802. The total valuation for 1912 was $4,929,663, showing a gain of $273,139 for 1913. A Success The Party, which was given at Biggs School House -on last Friday evening was a decid i ed success, there being about ! $45,00 raised for the benefit of the Christmas Tree. There was not a dull moment from the time that Mr. James Cross, the World-famed Auction ■ eer, held up the first basket, and 1 cried out "What am I offered for this beautiful basket," the con- I tents of which would tempt a 1 king, and a poor msyi to leave home until we were com i pelled to separate on account of the lateness of the hour. , But the real fun began when • Mr. N. R. Roberson, hearing Mr. I Cross say that the voting contest 1 was on, walked up to the firing ' line, and discharged a six inch ! gun, shape of 50 votes for i Miss Eva Cratt. The enemy quickly returned the fire with a I twelve inch gun, but Mr. Rober i son, like Napoleon and his Iron sides, stood firm, and always gave more than they recefved, so • Hunikon Hem v Mr#. Allen who has been the gvest of Mr». T. B. Slade, left fcr her borne in Rocky Thursday. - - P. H. Davenport with Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Edmonson and C. D. Perkins motored to Greenville Sunday. ✓ ,««. . ■' Miss Lillie Lloyd has returned home from a visit to Rocky Mount Dr. and Mrs. M. I. Fleming Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Sherrod and , daughter spent Sunday in (ir#H»n» ville. . Gladstone Anthony, of Hob. good, spent Sunday in town. Messrs.V7. B. Slade and 1). 3, | Matthews spent Thursday in i NViUiamston. ' Miss Nannie Haislip, of Hassel!, ! is visiting Mrs. F. L. Haislip. Miss Sallie Roebuck Spent the week-end with Miss Mangie 1 )avenport. | Mr. and Mrs. Late Baker, of Palmyra, spent Sunday with M rs. C. H. Baker. Mr. Taylor from' Scotland Neck has purchased the farm of J. M. S. Salsbury. Mr. and Mrs. J, M. S. Sab. bury, Bryant Sherrod and Mis* Lillie Baker motored to Williams ton Sunday. -l- . W. N. Sherrod is ppendinjr a few days in town on business. Miss Susie Johnson left for her home in Rocky Mount Tuesday. John Martin and son, Mian* Helen and Rachel Edmonson atr tended the funeral of Mrs, David. Martin at Scotland Neck Tuesday.. Earl Brewer and Cecil Will iams, who have been the giM-sts of Henry Edmonson, left for their home in Fanners Point Mon day. In Memorials * "Earth has lost its look of glad ness, > Heaven seems to us more bright Since the spirit of our dear one Took her happy homeward flight." Just a year ago today, Dec. 17th., the spirit of beloved sister Marguerite Moore, took its * flight. We miss the dear swodL face and the gentle voice that we loved to hear. How happy prhe , is with her angelic plumage or^. But our hearts are sad with icrtef 5 when we know she is gone to ce f turn no more. Death is the por tal to endless bliss; then it is bliss to die rather than live always and never reach the happy beyond. *"• Her sister Maud. i t consequently Miss Cratt was de f clared the'prettiest young ladjr present, and awarded the prize, t which was a large rug of exjuM- site design. Next, a cake was put on the ] same terms, and again Mr. RhAer r son with his Ijpnsides carried the _ day for Miss Cratt. x Mr. James Pritchard wan j awarded a cake of soap for benq? . the most homely young man pre f sent, after which the Choir, ac companied by the B. S. Band r gave us a treat in the way ct good music by singing that hean t tiful old hymn "When The Sail I Is Called Up Yondfer" in such a i manner that the sinner could see r his doom, as it were, and thesant r the glory of Heaven, i It was the consensus of opn~ - - ion that this occasion was enjqjl - ed by both young and old move 3 than any other ever held aft. > Biggs School House.