North Carolina Newspapers

VOL XV. NO. 43 Highway Robbery ■> Saturday night, while Samuel S- Hadley was walking along the road from Skewarkey and when he had reached the railroad cross ing, two colored men attacked kim, rifled his pockets and then fled. He received no bodily in :> jury and only lost 75 cents, the amount in his pocket This is the second robbery of thekind in less than a week, and evidently there is a leader who is taking this means to get money instead of working. The public is very anxious that these robbers be ap prehended, as it will be unsafe for men and women to stay at home or walk abroad. Mr. Hadley suspects two men of attacking him, and it is known c. that there were two walking down the road behind him just before the attack. Jury List September Term Second Week Jamesville Township Milton Mizell. / Williams ' S. L. Andrews. Griffins H. T. Roberson, W. D. Man ning. Bear Grass S. H. Mobley, B. 0. Cowing- Cross Roads Augustus Clark, R. H. Lanier. Williamston J. G. Godard, G. W. Blount. Poplar Point R. L. Taylor, Jas. A. Everett. Hamilton Harry Waldo, E. R. Edmonson. Goose Nest M. L. Burnett, R. A. Haislip. Robersonville Sam T. Everett, A. E. Smith. Mizell-Sherer Mrs. Mattie E- Sherer announces the marriage of her daughter Will Ella to. . > Mr Alonzo Daniel Mizell on Monday the seventeenth of August Nineteen hundred and fourteen St. Luke's Episcopal Church Norfolk, Virginia. At home After September the first Williamston, North Carolina. All Right For The Opening The Foreign Companies have put their buyers back on the tobacco market, and prices are still good. Every indication is * for continued good prices during the season, and farmers will find plenty of bidders for their gol den weed. The Williamston market has more floor space, plenty of buy ers and a good auctioneer for every warehouse. The opening sale will be on Wednesday. Sep tember, 2nfl. Appointed Carrier Postmaster Mobley here has re ceived the commission appointing John T. Edmondson, of Rober sonville v carrier for route num ber five, for which an examina tion was held some time ago. There were thirteen applicants, for the position and only two passed. The route is 16.55 miles in length and pays $770. "Carrier on number two from Williamston delivers the mail to this new route arid Carrier number one brings all mail from same. There is a petition before the Depart ment to allow the Carrier on number five to start from Will iamston, and it will probably be granted in the near future- THE ENTERPRISE LOCAL Yates Dowell, of Ay den, visit ed in town this week. The Farmers Warehouse is now open for business bring us your tobacco, James & Gurganus Prop. New moon today at 6:26. Eclipse of the sun today but in visible here. Try James & Gurganus at the Farmers Warehouse with, youx tobacco. They are the farmer's friends. What Williamston needs is a fence around it so (hat the. hogs and cows of the suburbanites can be kept off the streets. It would seem that they would prefer pen ning their stock topaying the flnes. The Baraca Class of the Bap tist Church meets every Sunday morning at 9:45. Men from 16 to 35 are especailly invited. The auto signs at the several crossing are working very well and satisfactory to all but those who at first disregarded them. FOR SALE—Lilliston Peanut Picker and 6 tf. P. International Engine. Good as new, has only picked about 1000 bags. Reason for selling no time to operate it. Mrs. G. R. L. Roebuck, Williamston, No. 3. "Home Sweet Home" at the Gaiety tonight. It will charm you, see it. Revival services will begin at the Methodist Church on Sunday Rev. J. M. Daniel, of the Jarvis Memorial Church, Greenville, will conduct them. Read the article on the Max well car in this issue. Quite a humber of people at tended services at Bear Grass on Sunday, and many were dinner guests at the homes of* the hos pitable people of that section . Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Godwin and Miss Pope, of Weldoiv, are the guests of Mayor and Mrs. B. F. Godwin/ Mr. A. D. Mizell Marries In Norfolk Monday afternoon at * 6:30 o'clock in St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Norfolk, Va., the mar riage of Miss Will E. Sherer and Mr. A. D- Mizell was solemnized, Rev E. P. Miner, rector of the Church, officiating. The bride was attended by her sister, Mrs. Louis C. Harrison, of Williams ton, who gave her away. Little Miss Thelma Brown, of William ston, sweet and attractive in white, acted as ring bearer. Af ter the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Mizell left for Niagara Falls and other places of interest in the North. They will return to Wlll - about September Ist and make their home here. Mrs. Mizell has many friends here who will gladly welcome her to the town, where she has visit ed for several years. She was reared in Blaoksburg, S. C., and is an-alumnae of Wentworth Col lege. Since her graduation she has won high honors as a teacher in her native state and in North Carolina. Rich qualities of mind and heart have given her a charm ing personality which renders her an attractive addition to William ston society. Mr. Mizell, who has lived here for a number of years, is employ ed in the office of the Dennis Simmons Lumber Co., and is a young man of fine character, which Jbas gained for him the high esteem of both the business and social world. WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST at, iqt 4 Electric Starter on Maxwell > "25" for New Year Electric starting and lighting have touched a new level in the 1915 Maxwell "25." Previously there have been few cars sold for less than about SI,OOO which .were fitted with full electrical equip ment, but the new Maxwell tour ing car with starter and all will sell for the same price as during -tWyear past when equipped with gas and oil lights and no starter. It will be listed at $605 with about the same equipment as for merly, electric lights starter being listed as extra, costing $55 with any of body. - There is little change in the engine except what was necessary to provide for the new electrical units. The cylinder construction is unusual in that the valves are in the head casting, which ex tends over to the right side of the engine so that the valve stems point downward, as in conven tional L-head designs, and are operated directly from a cam shaft inside the crank case. The upper half of the crank case is cast with the cylinder block, and the lower half is made from sheet steel. Last year the carbureter was placed on the left side of the motor, an inlet pipe on the right side connecting to a passage through the cylinder casting at the lower end of the cylinders. On account of the two electrical units on the left side the carbure ter is now carried on the right side, back of the magneto, where it can be placed higher than for merly because the gasoline tank is now in the cowl. A recently designed Kingston carbureter is used. The automatic air valve is pivoted and there is a separate gasoline nozzle for low speed. A Simms dual magneto replaces the single ignition Simms, and a novel combination of electric starting switch and battery igni tion switch makes it impossible for the driver to leave the battery switch on unintentionally, thus exhausting his battery and per haps doing other (damage. Gray & Davis electric genera tor and starter are used, both mounted high up on the left side of the engine. The generator is driven by a one inch flat leather belt which also drives the radia tor fan. The fan is carried by a swinging bracket and a spring makes the fan pully act as a mule pulley to keep the generator belt tight. Both fan and generator are mounted on ball bearings, so that little lubrication is required, and the management makes the ammeter mounted on the dash serve as a tell-tale for the opera tion of the fan as well an of the generator. The automatic cut out connects the generator ip circuit at [a car speed of 7 m. p. h., and the max imum charging rate of 10 amperes is reached at 12 or 14 m. p. h. As the lights draw only 6 amperes when burning bright there is considerable margin of current left to keep the battery charged. The starting motor is connect ed by a fixed reduction gear and a sliding gear meshing with teeth cut in the fly wheel rim. The starting switch is foot operrted, and the same motion which closes the battery circuits through start ing motor and magneto slides the pinion into mesh with the fly wheel. However, the sliding pinion is not postively connected with the pedal lyt only through a spring; ~A new design of radiator has been adopted, which has the rounded top now so popular. But more important is the fact that Broke Jail This morning about four o'clock it was discovered that three negroes had broken jail and escaped. About that hour the electric lights went out and and the prisoners had an easy time avoiding exposurez Joe Robertson, who lives on the lot adjoining the jail, /neard a noise for an hour, but was afraid to venture out. When he did com£ up town and notify the Sheriff, the prisoners had gone. Elijah Wilson, perhaps, the lead er of the gang, had been arrested for robbing S. S. HajUeyj;,, the others were Robt. Johnson and Irvin Shields. They slipped the the bolt in the hinges in the cell door, which for some reason had never been bradded. They then secured the jail axe in the corridor and oyened a hole in, the wall. Officers are searching for them. Mrs. L. B. Harrison Hottest On Friday afternoon last, the home of Mrs. L. B. Harrison was opened to a large humber of the women of the town, who, despite the extremely unpleasant wea ther, accepted her hospitality and passed several hours in the beau tifully decorated rooms, whereat tables assigned by cards, they played Rook, drank delicious punch from a bowl decorated with leaves and bunches of native grapes and engaged in pleasing conversation. At the close of the games, delicious cream with chendes and cake were served on plates prettily decorated with nasturtiums. \ The afternoon was among the most pleasant of the summer, and Mrs. Harrison was untiring in her effort to delight her guests, who appreciated the privilege of being in her home on this happy occasion. it is of the double shell separate from the core. The outer shell is supported on both sides by ball joints and held down by springs inside pressed steel cups. This new mounting is expected to eliminate trouble with radiators leaking because of the twisting they usually receive from the frame. The transmission, which is mounted on the engine unit by means of arms -around the fly wheel, has been changed by a slight in the shaft sizes. The bevel gear ratio is 3.58:1 (12 and 43 teeth). Second speed ratio is 6.21:1; low gear, 10.48:1; and reverse 12.3:1. The only change in the axles is in the ball thrust bearings and the differen tial bearings. A % elliptic rear spring re places the semi-elliptc which was used last year. Tbe frame is low made from 5-32 inch stock instead of inch; otherwise it is unchanged. The wheel base is 103 inches,, tread standard, and tires crowned fenders are one new feature which improves the ap pearance of the car. Sjde lamps have been eliminated and the cowl modified to a true steam line form, joining the bonnet to the body without a break in out line. New types of bodies have been designed, and the list now inclu des the following, prices being given without electrical equip ment, which is listed at $55 ad ditional: Two passenger road ster, $670; five passenger touring car, $695. PERSONAL Mrs. J. H. Page and children went to Bethel Saturday to visit relatives. Misses Anna Crawford and Delia Lanier are at home from Western Carolina. Misses Delia Kate Ward and Maud Wynne left Monday for Littleton. , Mrs. P. ft. Brown and daughter went to Virginia Beach Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Ward and little soii of Kinston, spent Mon day in town. « John Martin, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Boyle and the Misses Edmon son were here from Hamilton Sunday. ' , Mrs. W.'L. Poteat, of Wake Forest, is visiting relatives here. L. H. Bailey was here from Scotland Neck on Monday and called at the office. Messrs. A. Hassell and J W. Watts spent last week at Virginia Beach. 'Mrs. S. R. Biggs, who has been in St Vincent's Hospital for treatment, returned Monday ac companied by J. W. and Miss Nannie Biggs. Miss Martha Hornthal is visit ing Mrs. J. S. Rhodes this week. Mesdames R. L. and W. B. Culbertson and Master Thomas Culbertson, of Charlotte, have been the guests of relatives here for the past week. Charles Loane, of Plymouth, spent Wednesday in town. B. T.,Cowper left here Monday for a business trip to Baltimore. George Howard Kent is visit ing his father in Newport News, Va. John W. Manning and Masters Williams and Francis Manning spent ttie week-end at Norfolk witn relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Harrison were here on Sunday visiting re latives. Misses Ruth and Rose Crowell are at home from Lexington. Mesdames W. 11. Crawford and J. W. Watts went to Norfolk Thursday. \ Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dawes and children, of Richmond, are visitr ing Mr. and Mrs. J. L Rodger son. * Miss Jennie Swanner left Wed nesday to visit relatives near Washington. Mrs. John A. Getsinger and little son, of Dardens, are visitors in town. Mrs. J. H. Saunders spent Wed nesday in Scotland Neck with relatives. F. F. Fagan, of Rocky Mount, spent Sunday here with his sis ter. William F. Battle was called to Louisburg on Sunday to attend the funeral of his cousin, Eugene Newell, who difed at Asheville the day previous. „ Miss Penelope Biggs has been in Washington this week where she was attendant at the Gore- Cordon marriage. , /w- Mrs. P. F. Apfel, who has been here several months with her husband, left Wednesday for Buffalo, N,_Y., where she will make her home. It is regretted that she decided to return North, for during her visit here she has made many warm friends who had hoped that her residence would be permanent. Mr. Apfel was unable to accompany hel- but will join her later. s[.oo a Year in Advance Married in Wilson Among the surprises* which Williamston has had in ihematri monial line for the past few days, was the marriage of Miss Mary Dare Brown and Mr. Fred Ma con Shute on Sunday night at Wilsqn. Mr. Shute arrived'here Saturday night to visit/ Miss Brown to whom he has en gaged for months, and the mar riage was being arranged to take place in October, but Sunday af ternoon they decided to let the little blind god have his way, and so they in company with Mrs. J. B. Hopkins and Mr. Vernon Lan gley, uncle of the bride, went to Wilson on the latter's car, and at ten o'clock that evening were married, Rev. Mr. Chamblis, pas tor of the First Baptist Church, officiating. Monday evening they arrived here and went to the home of the bride. Tuesday morning, Mr. Shute left for Roa noke Rapids, where he is em ployed and Mrs. Shute , will fol low him in a few days. The bride, who*is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Brown, is one of the most at tractive of tHfe younger women in the'rown and has a host of friends here and elsewhere who wish her happiness in the new life, which she has entered. For the past year she has been a student at the East Carolina Training School. Mr. Shute is well known here where he has lived several years, having been manager of The Enterprise Publishing Company Since January he has been with the Roanoke Rapids Herald and is winning success in his new field of labor. f Friends here warmly congratulated him upon his good fortune both in business and- marriage. A Pleasant Affair Quite a number of ladies of the town were the guests of Mrs. Arthur Anderson at hej: home on Haughton Street, Wednesday evening, from .8:80 to 11 o'clock. The elegantly appointed rooms were brilliant with electric lights and tables were arranged for Rook. -The guests were assigned to these by cards. During the evening, Mrs. F. L. Mingaserved punch in the rear end of the hall. The awarding of the prize at the close of the game was await ed with interest, and Mrs. James S. Rhodes was the lucky winner. Ice cream and cake with cherries was served on plates decorated with naStgrtiums, and furnished a most delightful enHTng to a pleasant evening. ' Marriage Announced Mr. and Mrs. Frank K. Hodges announce the marriage of their sister Eva to Mr Jagies Alton Parker November the third, nineteen hundred and fourteen at eight a. m. Methodist Episcopal Church Williamston, North Carolina. Revival|Services Protracted services will begin'"' at the Methodist Church on Sun day at 11 a. m. Text of sermon: Isaiah 2:4, Subject: War. Rev. J. M. Daniel, of Greenville, will arrive Monday and assist in the services during the remainder of the week. The public is cordial ly invited. J. T. Standford. Louis P. Hornthal of Plymouth, . attended a barbecue near here „• Wednesday.