VOL XVI. NO. 3q
SPLENDID OUTLOOK FOR MAR
•' TIN COUNTY TOBACCO CROP
Tke Opiwn «l 1W Martin Cmb
tj Tifcicci Market m Amgmst
19&--A Large N—fcn el TW
Famen Have Fmt Cre*»-FW
pccts Gmi far Pricat—Wart
ime Ilea Making Big Plans
Far Large Sales.
The tobacco markets of Martin
County will open two weeks ear
lier this year than last, as the
%>ard of Trade has decided on
August 18th, which will give
many of the farmers the oppor
tunity to bring in first primings.
A The outlook for a late and im
perfect crop at the beginning of
the spring, has been dispelled, as
the crop has made a marvelous
stride to perfection within the
past month. Farmers are rapid
ly curing and there have been no
rains to produce wet leaves to
♦ hinder the drying in the barns.
Many of the oldest and best to
bacco raisers claim to have one
of the mo§t promising crops they
have ever had in their fields. A
ride through the immediate sec
tion of Williameton, will give one
an adequate idea as to the out
look. Crops of cotton, corn, to
bacco and peanuts compare with
those of any previous year taken
as a whole.
■* Careful preparation for the
handling of the weed has been
made by the warehouse on the Wil
liam. ton.mai icet.' James G. Ste
tor. and J. V. liight will operate
the Dixie, end N. D Young, the
test yeai' thia market, sold over
three millions of pounds, and ex-
I pccts to sell five millions this sea
son. Sialon and Hight are vete
f rans irrthe business, and furnish
every convenience to the farmtr
who brings a load to them. Ther*.
will he extra storage room, and
plenty of graders to accommodate
those who do not desire to grade
at home.
' N. D. Young is not unknown
-to fhe people of the county, as he
was on the Robersonville. market
for several years. For the past
L* few years he has been on the
I Washington market. He com*
I. bines knowledge of the leaf with
(cleverness in dealing with his
farmer friends. There will be a
full corps of workers at both
warehouses, and the interest of
the farmers will be protected to
the limit. The strength of the
Williamston market will be in
creased to that degree that counts
- in the pockets of the raisers.
The American, Export Leaf Co.
Imperial and all the independent
buyers will be on the Williamston
market to take the weed at the
best prices, which will be held
I up by the warehousemen. Wil
liamston's reputation for high
.prices will be maintained this
yf|r at the Roanoke and Dixie.
The Farmers Warehouse and
$ the Taylor Warehouse at Rober
i sonville will be under splendid
management this season, the
former to be managed by R. E.
• Grimes, Marion Green and Henry
K. Green, anu the latter by R.
A. Bailey and W- H. Adkins.
All of these tobacco men will
give a square deal to every man
who carries a pound to them.
jFor strength and genuine inter
est in the farmer's welfare, watch
the markets of Williamston and
Robersonville in the season of
1915. * . ,
Remember the opening day on
August 18th, 1915, and attend
the sales whether you bring a
pound or not. The market in
'vites your inspection every day
in the season.
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THE ENTERPRISE
Tke Atrieia Racer
The brilliant racing record of
the Maxwell came to a scintillat
ing climax in the opening race of
the year over Chicago's million
dollar speedway, June 26 when
Eddie Rickenbacher, in the Max
well car, No. 7, led home all oth
er American contenders, winning
third prize and only second in
the rear of Resta and Porporato,
foreign drivers, in cars which
were developed by many years
of experience in Europe.
Back of Rickenbaeher finished
all three members of the Stuntz
team. Back of him too were
three Sunbeams, two Peugots,
three Duesenbergs, the ex-inter
national champion Delage, and a
host of others of the fastest field,
which ever faced a starter.
In this, the most important
race of the year in the world,
Rickenbacher's Maxwell traveled
the five hundred miles in five
hours, 11 minutes, 50-23 seconds
—an average of 96.32 miles per
hour—more than six miles an
hour faster than Depalma's Mer
cedes, which won the last 500
mile race at Indianapolis, more
than five miles faster than the
former world's record for the
distance, made over the famous
Brookltnds course in England by
a specially built twelve cylinder
car of much- greater size and
there were no other ears on the
track. •
h Hocor Of B» >de Elect
Miss Martha Ward was hostess
to a numbe oj friends on Wed
nesday afternoon at her home On
jMain Sacet in honor of Mis# Ai
lie Had ley, who will become the
bride of Mr. Z. Hardy Rose today
at 1 o'clock. The guests were
greeted by the hostess, and were
given places at tables arranged
where games of rook were play
ed. After the games were end
ed, Master Paul Simpson, repre
senting Cupid in all of his attrac
tiveness, came in driving a coas
ter, appropriately decorated, la
den with packages. The valuable
load was presented to Miss Had
ley, who found pleasure in dis
closing the contents of the pack
ages, which had been presented
by friends. The articles were
miscellaneous, and will serve
largely in the beginning of the
new life which the honoree is
entering.
Delicious punch was served
throughout the hour by Misses
Lela Hadley and Delia Kate
Ward. Later an ice cream course
was served and proved most re
freshing and a pleasant ending to
the afternoon.
To Be Modernly Equipped
Messrs. Everett and Ballard,
who purchased the old Mobley
mill some time ago, are erecting
a building which will be modern
ly equipped for the grinding of
meal. A representative from a
manufacturing company at York,
Pa., has been here this week
placing orders for necessary ma
chinery. The capacity of the
mill will be 150 bushels of meal
per day. A large motor truck
will be used to transport the out
put to the neighboring towns.
It is estimated that the plant
will cost $7,000, but prospects
are fine for getting a handsome
profit on this Investment. 1 _
WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY JULY .w, 1915 #u " a
THE MIGHTY COURT Of THE UNIVERSE, THE HUB OF THE ARCHITECTURAL
SCHEME AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
All visitors to the Panam»-P»clflc Interaction . 0 ft 'mi I'mnoieoo at some time during their stay at
the exposition make their pilgrimage through tb Court of the Universe. Ttis Is the largest court on the grounds
and Is ♦lie central radiating unit of the archtt«tt .r 11 aud ground plans Noble sculptured Kfoups embellish It, the
two Homeric groups—the Nations of the East and the Nations of the West —surmounting the ctiatif arofeen at tb»
east and west portals. By nlpht the ba»:'./ th» court Is enhai.ccd by the flood lighting
•Heto' De" War
Ghent !)(»»• Story
Some time ago I wrote for The
Enterprise the story of the origin
of the name of Sweetened Water
Creek. Soon after its publica
tion I received from one of yoTiv
subscribers u letter of commen
dation and a request for more of
the same sort. Since then 1 have
been thinking it over, but Wil
liamston and its vicinity are not
rich in local myths and legand',
A»I it has vver ■ made in T-Xiro|
Lu'lr.nd, Walt;;. Seotitt.id and
Ireland.
proportion of ghosts arklu itcnj*,
who were on vftriting.riwl speak*
ling Uihns \rith our grandmoth
ers, bv.?. thesti nocturnal visitants
have not shown themselves there
for many years past. The light
of education, now so generally
diffused. and. mor 1 potent than
ever was tht* bell-book-and-candle
method of the Church of Rome,
has been their undoing. They
were creatures of the imagina
tion, believed to be real only by
children and adults of undevel
eped mentality. But sixty years
ago were'there in goodly numb
ers, as almost any old woman in
the country round about would
have sworn and most of the
negroes woirid have attested.
Even at that time these unnat
ural creatures seemed to avoid
white men, but occasionally a
black man would see things in
the night, when he should have
been asleep. I remember a n6gro
man once told me of a strange
experience he had one night
when he was a runaway. His
story was something like this:
"Ope bright moonlight night I
was down in de woods back o' de
fa'm 'n I thought I'd go over to
de house 'n see if I couldn't git
surnp'n. I went out into de field
'n sta'ted to'd de I
hadn't got fer when I thought
I heard dogs behind me. I look
ed back, 'n dere dey come. I
don' know how many—right after
me. I put back for de woods
agin, hard as I could run, and
dodged de dogs. Dey went on
by me, 'n I laid down 'n went to
sleep. When I waked up it was
bright daylight. I looked 'round
'n listened, but didn't see or hear
nobody, nor no degs. So den I
thought I'd go 'n take a look at
ne tracks me 'n de dogs made
last night. I found my tracks—
'n I'd fa'rly dug up the ground—
but nary a dog's track could I
find. So den I knowee I'd been
runnin' away f'm ghost dogs."
A variant of the ghost dog is
the headless dog. Being llfead
less, you would naturally infer
that no one would be afraid of it:
but it is the moat dreaded of all
the ghost family, for it appears
only juit/b-'. -tp some gro it tnu--- j
edy is to *ai\ place... Sir Walter,
Scott mevtti ms it in" one of his
novels, when' it is called the ! a i
dog. Tt vk a part of the \ ersonel
of a pri ir- was considered a
supematui . creature by the
keepers, hr -:;uae it was never,
seen exec; evening pre
ceding an ution otir Emr
li n, Wtlsi i ■ -'utch and l,i i-h an
cestors fiir . avo broOgbt the
I cadles||''' >»ve:* v, i ••••;.
.li :ig vrtfi i -
-troduce U %because of its cort
flection®* » kKiikfttfairs. .
Sum- tnnv in \r. • o?r ly mius,
I diin. it was, \.. tiam 11. Car
stafpli a you nn ii'.uit of
Wjllias - >nn, b g.'nto make fi e
(pient itto to Mi §iM King,
who!* 'Lftboi.it two mi' from
Holly . ipg Church. Mr. Car
starp're was a smal 1 man. short
of «? f n i was tall
and slender. 1 never he;twl one
of Mi- King's girl friends
say n word about it, but the boys
spoke freely to each other about
"the long and short" of the
couple.
Somehow the lads of the neigh
borhood discovered that Mary's
little beau was timid, and that
he was particularly afraid of
dogs. In time it was reported
that a mighty strange looking
dog had been seen going along
the road near the King residence.
Its peculiar gait, droop of tail,
unsteady, ambling trot, and an
unaccountable habit it had of
appearing about the same time of
an evening, between sunset and
dark, in the same stretch of road,
always going in the same direc
tion, and vanishing just before it
reached the gate of the King
homestead, were related with
marked seriousness.
This story was handed around
and elaborated among the boys,
until most of them believed they
had seen the strange dog. Then
it was talked of openly, in such
a manner that the timid young
man from town was sure to hear
of it, and be frightened. I don't
know how he felt about it, but
his visits did not cease. Evident
ly he was brave enough to take
the risk of a meeting with the
strange dog. Then some one dis
covered that this uncanny beast
had no head—was a headless
dog—a ghost of a dog—maybe a
ghost and a dog—making the
scare doubly strong. But still
the timid little man persisted,
and in due time he took the
young lady home with , him to
Williamston, where they lived
happily all the fest of their days,
and dying, left behind themgcod j
names and several sons andi
daughters, all now well known I
and highly respected.
—I have hoaro of this same head
less dog being seen on Hamilton
Road, near the city cemetery,
-but it had no special business
there: that is, the report of its
presence was not put out for any
special reason that I remember,
and thy evil aspect of its pres
ence was not known to me until
many, years later. —i..
Holinshed, in his "Chronicles"
of-nearly everything in England
hi tivg. 1 3th. in the chap»
tsr no English dogt, mentions
r" the ur Land-do ho
:c: !ls'd beeau • mr.n*/ ru them are
r lf« :! tii> s e'vii -tt bands
j iii the day time: ft huge dog,
i ""stubborn, 'ger, ugly, hurthen
| ous of body, tor» Hue and fearful
Ito b ' • I. H ■ do€ i > not i the
I bull dog in his list, but gea on
jto say thai t.h' 1 !';m-'o;y is taught
i Lo iiuit the bull tii'i other beasts,
land.notes its tenacity to hold.
From Lhis 1 conclude that the
I dog here referred to is at present
known as the-buildog. Consider
the short and very stout neck;
the short head, stubby, no larger
than the neck: ears cropped close,
making, with some use of the
imagination, the appearance of a
| dog whose head has been cut otT
and you have the headless dog.
Tnis dog was the largest,
1 strongest and most ferocious dog
! known in England in the middle
I ages. So was probably kept as a
i part of the garrison of prisons,
i tied up most of the time, so not
, seen by the keepers, until, on the
i eve of an execution, as an addi
tional safeguard, it was brought
forth. So may have originated
the myth "of the headless dog and
the tragic omen of its appear-'
ance.
W. H. WYATT,
N. J
Left For San Francisco
The Gattis party which left
Raleigh on Saturday, the 24th,
carried three Williamston people:
Messrs. W. J. Whitaker, W. H.
Gurkin and Harry A. Biggs. This
party numbered 150, and the fares
for the trip will amount to $70,-
000. The trip will be made
through the heart of the West,
and the return via, the Southern
Pacific. Seven days will be spent
at the Exposition and three at
Los Angeles. Every point of
National interest will be touched
going antf returning. Several
more here intended at one time
to join this party, but later de
cided otherwise.
si.oo a Year in Advance
NEW TOBAC
CO FIRM 18
ORGANIZED
In the columns of this issue
appears the advertisement of the
Farmers Warehouse at Roberson
ville, Martin County. This house
will be run this year by Messrs.
Robert E. Grimes, Marion Green
and Henry K. Green. Neither
6ne of these men need an intro
duction to the farmers of the
county. Each of them is an ex
perienced tobacco man —one who
knows the weed from the plant
bed to the warehouse floor and
after. They offer the best to the
grower of the leaf, and they will
give what they promise. The
Farmers Warehouse last year
gained a splendid reputation, and
the personel of the managers this
year, without doubt, will tend to
strengthen the house in every
way. The Farmers expect to
handle a large part of the Martin
County crop and that adjoining
and guarantee to give every
pound the highest market price.
The opening-is on-August—lßth,—
and the tobacco farmers are in
vited to spend the day with them
and see that their leaf brings
good prices. Read the ad care
fully and find what they have to
offer in service, courtesy and
prices.
Mrs. Henry James Dead
1
.
News was received here by
; relatives Tuesday night that the
death.of Henry .lames had
! occurred at the horns of her 'fa
j• • '
tlicr, Mr. jamco Bullock,
at Rob viile. Mrs. James
: wrif* only nineteen years
: olu arid had been married about
i >ne year to Henry James, of Be
; thai. For sonv? time her % health
ha l b"en precarious, a- she had
been afflicted with St. Vitus,
; Dance some months ago. . She
| was a most estimable young
| woman, and much sympathy is
I felt for her husband and parents.
Court House Being Renovated
1
The interior of the court house
is being thoroughly renovated.
The walls have been cleaned and
painted, and the different offices
given a special tint. Public build
ings are so often marred by peo
ple who think walls were made
Ito write upon. It is hoped that
! some means may be taken to pro
tect the court house in the fu
! ture. It has needed renovating
i for some time. Dr. Long, chair
man of Board of Commissioners,
!is giving it his personal atten
tion.
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North Carolina Leads.
k
North Carolina leads the Un
ion the manufacture of chewing
and smoking tobacco, with a rec
ord of 104,329,288 pounds for the
year ending June 30, 1914.
Nearly 74 million pounds of *
the total were manufactured in
the sth district. The total inter
nal revenue taxes collected in
this district amounted to nearly
six and one half million dollars.
For the whole state the amount
was nerly twelve million dollars.
Friday night of last week, a
crowd of the young people of
Hamilton drove down to Spring.
Green late in the afternoon, ate a
delicious lunch and then came oa
to Williamston, where they at
tended the show at the Gaiety..
Tjjere were thirty in the party,
and they spent a most delightful/
evening, ~