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Derated to the I n tc Cf& nt Msrt'n Cpunty in " - WiiiUalston in P«rticyl^,' Viilunie Mm-tiii Connt.y, N. ('.' August 10, HH,s Established 189t) TOBACCO MEN HEADY THE MAKKET NEXTfE«ljj¥ MORNING i ■- ■ ■ ■■* - '•"% N . • j \ \ All Indications Point to High Prices and u Big Break.. A Strong Aggregation of Warehouse Men and a Full Corp of Buyers ai'c Ready for the Farmer and His Weed The principal event of public interest to the people of William s'.on, Martin County and ad tacent sections during the month uf August, is the opening of the vVillianston Tobacco Market on Wednesday, the 2lat The mar ket was first opened in August 1902, and has continued to sell (he farmer's product every year since, and stands today at the head of the smaller markets in Eastern Carolina, combinirfg, as it does, fair dealing and high prices — the two elements which ,-nter largely into the success of any market in the world Wil iiamston has always been the place where the farmer could get full worth of his golden leaf vhere f a square deal was given every man whether his fields vere broad or small. And so tin* market will open this year with Martin County men managing each warehouse, and every one experienced in the raisipg. cur i.ig and selling of the weed. * Better and'larger equipments for the accommodation of the larmera have been placed in * aeh warehouse, and the re-dr *» jug plant, which has been in operation for nearly ..wo months already, has been improved ly tiie addition of hundreds of fvt rf space. Everything has been ione with an eye single to the convenience of those who will come here to sell their crops. The Farmers Warehouse with Me D Mobley, .loe Taylor and J. W. Hightas proprietors, has • made all p«xp«ftio— -*>-handle the weed of every old customer and all the new ones that may come. This warehouse made splendid sales last year under t»-e same managmeyit, and is bet-1 t-jr prepared this season. Mr J. W. Hight as auctioneer, "knows tobacco, is acquainted with the farmers, and gets every cent for the leaf that can be obtained. Besides Messrs. Mobley, Taylor and Might there will be Messrs. John Feel, Charles Daniel and Oscar S. Anderson to attend to tie office work, and quick returns for the sales made each day. The Farmers Ware h >UBe is one of thestrong'Uinks in t le chain of warehouses \n Wil hamston and Martin County, Last season saw the orgjuuza t on here of the Brick Co, a stock company, riolehdidlv equipped itself for the sale of tobacco A large brick structure was erected and the number of pounds sold by this new company astonished even the most sanguine. Mr. J. Dawson Lilley, an extensive farmer in Griffins Districjt, was e'ected president and Mr. W. A. J:imes made manager. The latter hid been identified with the market for years and carried v iluaole experience into the business. The stockholders arc . farmers and earnestly did they v ork for the success of the com pany. A two-story annex is be ing .prepared for grading and 8 orage rooms. Mr. Forest Boon?, Kentucky, who was with the c >mpany the past year will auc tioneer this season. He h mself popular with the farm er's, and they can trust him for every pile. Mr. W A. James is Kanager and Messrs Roy Gur {anus and Cortez Green, book eepers. and a fuH crops of help err «wiil put the accommoda tions up to the minute in every way. A new company has entered the field this year—the Roanoke Tobacco Warehouse Company, having purchased the Dixie and Roanoke Warehouses. It is a stock company with James G. Staton President, Henry D ENTERPRISE • Peel, Vice-President and Leslie | Fowden, Sec-Treas That the j • company begins business under | i the most favorable conditions is t • not to be denied. The two houses i are large and have a commodious grading and storage room be : tween them, and have fittede very • thing for the accommodations of • the farmers who will sell with them president Staton is also i General Manager, and his expe i rience in raising and selling to i bacco gives hitn a prominence to i be envied. From the first year of the market until now, he has been associated with it; few i tobacco men in the East are bet ; ter known than Jim Staton Mr Harry Meador will he with the i company as auctioneer, and i needs no introduction to the > farmers of Martin County. The other members of.the force ire, ; C B Maker and H M- Burras, book keepers; Claud Griffin, floor manager; J A. Teel. asst. floor manager, i The Williamston market has always had a full cropi of buy i ers representing the largest coin ■ panies, and this season the buy ers have been assigned as fol lows: T. J. Smith, Imperial; 11. T. Warren, Liggett & Mvers; J. J Jones. American; W. T Mead i owa, Export Leaf Tob. Co , and R J Reynolds. Tob Company; F. H. Saunders, F. H. Saunders & Company; J. P. Taylor & Co., i Hughes Thomas Co.; John E. I Hughes, Dibrell Bros. & Co., Gallaher, Limited; G. 0 Tucker - Co.-, 30.. • L. G. Brooks Tob., Co., J. G. Staton, independent; W. A. i James, Independent; Mobley, '•jf£aylor & Higiit, Independent. J A Request For Help Sunday about !) o'clock, the entire home and a good part of the things of George 11. Bailey were totally lost by fire. There is no one who knows just how the fire started but possibly from a spark blowing in the window Mr. Bailey was a little distance from the house sitting on his father's imrch and there was no one at home except Mrs. Bailey when the fire started. Mr. Bailey is as most of us a poor man working for an honest living, he has three children and > hisf wife's mother living with them and the small salary which he draws keeps him a (jive even with the world and not much chance to store up such times as this. As I stood and looked at the fire consuming his home and the labor of years' l tffiought of the many times at the last hour of the night or soon in the lrywu ing 1 had heard the whistle call to his helpers that he was on the job. I felt that if only a number ' of us Would contribute the small sum of $5 ()0 we could restore the loss and Jhereby demonstrate the reality in religion. \ 7 I will .say this that Mr. Bailey is a poor man and one who needs help and I want to ask that every reader of the Enterprise send him something that will help him. Any one who will do so may send his contribution to The Bank of Jamesville, and same will be reported to me and I will see that each one shall have credit for the contribu tions. Yours truly, A. CORBY. Don't forget to come on the 21st and see the golden weed bring its full value in dollars and cents/If you do not have a load, come as a Visitor and learn about 'things in tobacco t m. JOHNSON HAS ONE ; WIFE TOO MANY*- JAILED. A most interesting trial in I court, circles lu re on Monday {morning was tiitt of J D John 'son for abandonment, and big lamy Johnson was up before 'Justice W. C. Manning, and a I bond of SSOO was placet! on him, and failing to raise it. he was I placed in jail. | Johnson came here more than four years ago, and afterwards married Miss Carrie Melson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Melson, who opposed the match, but the marriage was arranged without their consent. Latef they were forgiven and lived with the Melsons. Johnson was a quiet and industrious man. and there seemed t'ft be nothing in his life like tjle criminal. For months during his residence here, Johnson was almost an in valid from rheumatism and was cared for by his wife's people. About eight months ago, he loft his wife and child in a rented house in E ist Williamston with out means and went off to Nor folk. Within the past week, he decided to coma back and asked if it would be all right for him to come. He was given permis sion and arrived only to be ar rested with above result. But that is not the whole story; there is anothe* wife and that wife had written here to find some trace of the muelYly married man. It is just another case where human wolves prey upon womanhood, and little chil dren are born to endure the stig ma placed upon them by such fathers The law is not quite strict enoughfor what are a few years in the pen for him and his kind? CAMPAIGN AGAINST fICKS STAirrrti LAST MONOAY Monday the campaign against cattle ticks was opened in. Will iamston Township, and the vat just below the river hill was us ed through the day, there being 171 dipped, Dr Yaeger, Chief of Tick Eradication for Eastern Carolina, announces that the law requires that cattle be dipped every two weeks until I)ecember. Dr. J, L. O'llare, County Inspec tor, and Dr. K N. Gordan, Sani tary Inspector, are actively en gaged in" this work in Martin County to cause the lifting of the quarantines The tax list shows that there are 5,000 cat tle in the county, but not one of them can be shipped to other markets owing to the govern ment's regulations in such mat ters.. The local vat was built bv private Parties for the benefit of the public, and any one living near the township, who has not access to a vat, can bring his cattle l here if he so desires.' But cattle should not be dip ped unless an inspector is pre sent; the vat is kept locked ahd every care is exercised to insure safty, but the inspector should be there to see that the dipping is carefully attended to; if cattle owners would only meet the re* quirements of ths law. the ad. vantages would be marked. The Board of Commissioners at a call meeting on Monday night, elected Frank Gurganus policeman in the place, of T A- Patrick, who resigned. It is con fidently expxted that Gurganus willdo his work faithfully. A policeman with eyes and ears is very much needed around the town, especially at l i fht. . Ask your merchafi t. or groccrv man for a Thrift St; op or doz ens of th,em and begin filling your cards. The sale is on at the business houses of Williamston. * : / * • j The largest and best tobacco barn belonging to ). G. Godard on the Biggs farm was burned Tuesday. It was filled with a ( nice grade of tobacco, which was about cured. The loss in barn & and weed will reach over SSOO. PETTY TJIIEVES BUSY IN . WILLIAMSTON DECENTLY Su"nda\ night, the commissary and office of t'i" Cooperage Co., was entered !»y some unknown party, but :i t'birtg was taken so tar as con!.l !>.* learned. The safe in the offi *e seemed to have been unlocked, .-»•> ! thi* cash drawer was searched But nothing was found. 11 . V-T, there was some money i>r m envelope in another receptacle, which the burglar overlook* d. The firemen at the plant nottced a inim about ( 3 o'clock near the dry side of the mill, but thought that it might be sonv of the emfloyecs and failed to investigate.frhey notic ed that the man worf a striped shirt, and a whitel*nd colored band around his has ,The same night, Tempie a colored woman living on'lne Wilson place near town was disturbed by some one tcyMW ,t" in. She called for help mid a neigh bor came and shot Mveral times ty frighten the Wanjwway. Evi dently the man waaWoking for money. Saturday njpit, a man who was en route im the river road, was accosted Mn.ht> herring ,gut bridge and toldfto hold up liis hands. IJ« deenred to tho men that he had no-jponey, and they let him pass, sij Monday night, thwame negro seen by the fireman |t the Coop erage Co., was disoot&red asleep at the plant abouful o'clock, and P. F. Apfd was Ijiotified and he quickly went dH|f» with the night policeman, anlrtbe negro was arrested WheflL he awoke and found a pistol nod flashlight pointed his way, H blubbered like a kid He was.snitched and the only thing foundftn him was a pistol taken from office of the company Sundajipight. It is said that he was o® jthe Watts farm Monday exhibit ing thegTm. STierin Piqre Is his guardian for awhile now, and he can Sleep without molestation. Registrars Appointed Anticipating that . Congress will pass ibe act requiring .men between the ages of is a fid 15 to register on September sth, I!HK, the "following registrars' have been appointed for the various voting precinct's in Martin Coun ty: i * Jamesville; C. C. Kagan II (!. Griffin. Williams; J. 11. Itiddifk. Griffins; EpKraim Peel. Bear Grass; Nathan Rogerson. Williamston: B, l\ Godwin. L. T. Fowden. Poplar I'oint; M. I'. Taylor. Hamilton; W S Rhodes, F. L. Haislip. Goose Nest; T. 11. Johnson, J. 0. RfMM. Robersonville; J. 11. Robers&n, Jr., W. W Keel. Gold Point; J, L Kdmondson, Cross Roads; J S. Ayers. Ben Riddick. By order of the Ix>t?al Board of Martin County. . J. L. Hassell, Sec'y. V, Notice To Registrants According to a proclamation of President Willson, all men be coming twenty-one (21) since June sth, 11*1 S, will 1 register on Saturday, August 24 th The place of registration for Martin County mcii will be at tho rooms of the Loc il Board in the Far mers & chants Bank build ing, William ton-; the hours for registering will be Irom 7 A. M , to 9 P M., new time. J. L. Hassell, Secretary. The v Yearly Meeting at Skew atky on Saturday and Sunday was well attended despite the extreme heat.. Next Sunday the meeting will be held at Bear Grass and unless things are un usual, thousands of people wtll • be Jthere. Prof. Claude W. Wilson held services both morning and even ing at the Baptist Church Sun ,day. He lived here and taught school several years ago, and has a l&rge number of friends who are always glad to have him in their midst jNEIiHII MAN SHOOTS WIFE NEAH HAMILTON SATURDAY Saturday morning on the road near Hamilton, Norman Austin, a negro, came out * from some bitshes beside the road and pour ed a load of small shot into the head of his wife, who was pass ing with tier sister. The couple had been separated about a month and Austin had tried to persuade the woman to go back to live with him. This she stoutly refu§* ed to do, as she stated before leaving him. he had slept with an open knife under his head and she was afraid of him. The night before the shooting, both of them had been with a crowd at a tobacco barn or. the Bill Sherrod farm, and had quarreled The woman was afraid to go home that night until tin next morning not thinking that ho would molest her in thu da Thedeed wasdone about 10 o'clock and at S o'clock bloodhounds were placed on Austin's track but he had too much time to hide away and so has not been locat ed. The Austin woman had her head and face peppered well with shot and ono eye was torn out, but her injuries are not ser ious. The amallness of the shot and the close, proximity of the would-be murderer saved her lift) " Important To Register All male persons who will reach the age of 21 fro n the sth of June to and including August 51th, l!) 18, are required to regis ter on Aug. 21 at the olllce of the Local Board of .Martin County at Williamston. It is important that every man in the prescribed age appear at the office of the Board on Saturday, Aug. 21th, and place his name upon the country's Defense Board. ' Hill HISS MUST CKEATE NIIKSE KESEHVE There must lie a reserve of nurses as well as of soldiers. 'l'he . Surgeon-General of the United States, in co-operation with the , National Defense Board and the Red Cross, has urgently called upon the women of the country to enroll themselves to the num ber of twenty five thousand in what is to be called tne United States Student Nurse Reserve The enrollment began on July 2!>th, and these volunteers will hold themselves in readiness up to April Ist, 11H1), to be assigned to training schools in civilian hospitals or to the Army Nurs ing Schools. In either case tjiey will take a thorough training Course and as fully trained nurs es will be available' Tor Work at home and abroad. In both these fields of service, the need is very great, arid especially is"it so at home, because of the movement of trained nurses abroad. To assist in meeting this ur gent situation the Federal Gov ernment firr fhe first fTfai' In THir history, is establishing training schools for pupil nurses at tho base hospitals. The army nursing schools arc only able to provide experience in surgical cases, in communica ble diseases, and in nervous" and mental disorders. Therefore the General Medical Board has ar ranged for an exchange system with civilian hospitals throughout, the country by which nurses from the military schools may he sent to such affiliated hos pital for experience and instruc tions in the diseases of women and children and in public health nursing while students from the civil hospitals are being given experience in military service, as not all candidates will be found eligible for the army nursing schools, it is hoped that volun teers for this service will enroll to go any where need ed. By doing this they will show the highest form of patriotism. , GOVERNOR BICKETT ISSUES CALL FOR 7 HELP FOR THE HELPLESS JEWS ABROAD 1 Next Monday Set Aside us Jewish Relief Day. The People Martin County Are Called Upon to (live $ 1000 to Help Prevent the Starv —■— m XTWMI ■— n ■ i ■ JWilliamston Personal Mrs. X, T. Keel and children, of Rocky Mount, are visiting Mrs*. Arthur Anderson on Haugh ton Street. Thomas S Getsinger is in Johnson City. Term , this week Mrs Fannie 4 S, Biggs, Mrs Carrie Biggs Williams and little Miss Frances Williams and Har ry A Biggs are at Atlantic City this week James \V Andrews left Sun day for \\ illiamsport, Pa., to join his family, who is visiting relatives in that city Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Anderson and son with Miss Mattie Wat ers motored to Virginia .Beach Monday. Mrs. Wheeler Martin went to Virginia Beach Wednesday. * Miss Daisy Manning left Mon , day for Blue Ridge Summit, Md., where she will remain for a month, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ruflin,, of Tarboro spent Sunday here with i their parents. I "T# 0 Misses Kathleen Hodges and Margaret of Washing- Urn were visitors in town Sun ■ day ** Mrs. E A. Hamilton, of Red ■ Springs is visiting her parents ' here. Mrs. Ben Barnhill and chil | dren, Mrs. J. (). Manning and little daughter and Garland An derson left on car for Virginia Beach Monday, Senator Harry Stubhs is in ■ Charlotte this-week attending a meeting of the National High way Commission. r E. 11. Boone, auctioneer for I the Farmers Warehouse at Rob , ersonville, has been in town this i week with his brother, Forest I Boone, whose wife is very ill with fever. William Manning, Titus ('rit i clier and Earl Wynne spent the I week-end at Ocean View. Mr. and Mrs. W. Fountain Lipscomb and child, of Norfolk, ' are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. 1 W. J. Hpdges *on Haughton Street- Miss Frances E. Knight and Mrs A. E. Dixon left for Wright , ville Beach yesterday morning Mrs. W 11. Crawford return- Virginia Beach Monffay. Mrs. Maurice I). Watts is vis'it inif Mrs W. B. Watts at Ply mouth # 41 Mrs,-ALU. Carstarphcn went to Hohgood Monday to visit her sister, Mrs. J. A. White, who is very ill Mrs. lUrrry M. Stubhs and little son are at home from Wake Forest. Capt. and Mrs. Arthur Grain ier ami little child, of Richmond, are visiting Mr. J. G. Godard this.week, and will spend some time in the county. ■» 7"". f The building formerly u#d for a pool room which is next to the postoffice, has been thoroughly cleaned out. and will be arrang ,ed for a music house where pianos, Vietrolas. sheet music, etc , will be for sale, The l)usi ness will be in charge of Mr Haynes, who is well known to the fade in this section. The ice situation looked "squally" last week and the first of this, hut the dealers secured a truck load from Washington and and held the famine up. The weather produced a large creased in demand. The price was increased owing to added expense. *- r n. »i iiT n i viesssagggaaf! i. Advertiser* will find our |» Column* • Latch Key to 1100 Martin County Hornet. J Last year the whole world ws ? thrilled when the news flasht I over the wire 3 that Jerusalei t had been delivered from thj hands of the Turk. The feelin r was universal that the Holy Cit: should be restored to the peopl who had builded it and wi* i whosehistoryitis foreverassooia - ed. This is a fine sentiment, bt t finer and vastly more importan than the restoration of the Hoi' City, is the salvation of million ; of Jews from hunger and disea^> and death. In Turkey, in Palet tine, in Lithuania, in Russia, 11 Poland and in Galicia, starvatio i stare's the children of Ahrahat i in the face. Daily Jewish hu- - bands see their wives grow thi » ami pale and fade away into th llreat Silence. Daily Jewist babies tug frantically at breast that are withered and dry; an I above the din of battle is heat 1 once more the voice of Rach> I weeping for her children, an* refusing to be comforted lu cause they were not ./ In order that every North Cat olinian may have an opportunit to help in this hour of great neei each courfty has been organize and the Mayors of towns are rt quested to receive funds, an t Mr Asa T. Crawford has beet appointed to receive funds fo • these starving 'Jews. Marti 1 County is asked for SI,OOO. Han i to your Mayor or send to Mi Crawford all that you can span ' Who is my neighbor" Lov thy neighbor as thyself.'^ RALPH HARRIS, MAllE*^ WOUNDED IN FRANC.: * ————— A telegram from the Adjutan Ceneral's office at Wasliingtoi City this week, gave the infor mat ion to relatives here tha Ralph (-. Harris had .bee wounded in France. He belong tu the Marines and has the dis Unction of being the first Mat tin Cuunty boy to land on Frenc soil after the declaration of wa on April (Jth, 1917. He is th brother of Mrs K. P. Munch o Williamston, and lived here fo a number of years. The dispatci stated that the wounds were un ». dermined. There is no need to ask th nature of the fighting in whic! young Harris engaged, for th. Marines of America have - n equals in this war which is re markable for bravery and won dti»ful powers of resistance an endurance. It is earnestly hopet that this Martin County boy ma> recover and some day com back to tell the tale of how h and his comrades put the out of the fighting business. Jr Will Help The Farmers Again Readers of this issue will no tiee the announcement of thi , Farmers Warehouse, which i> owned and operated by Mac* Mobley, Joe Taylor and J. W 'flight. For several seasons this firm has sold hundreds of thou sands of pounds of the farmers product at a most satisfactory price; it is the place for the best in everything. Much of tht bright tobacco of the county i* seen on 'his warehouse floor, a* its patrons are numbered amon? the bright tobacco raisers, ano they get the price every time. Messrs. Mobley and Taylor art large raisers of the yellow weed, and J. W. Hight knows everj detail about the raising and handling of it. He is an auctio neer that the farmer can de pend upon, when his tobacco ie being sold. Last season the floor of, the Farmers Warehouse waf full every day, and there were no "kicks" against the treat ment received there. Come again this season and reap large re wards thereby. Adv.