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The Enterprise County Newspaper punished weekly at the County Seal gf Martin by W. C. MANNING, Editor & wwiier i SUBSCRIPTION MAI lit. On| Yeti |i uo X ilontlo . ... .50 taree Month* - * . >5 Mrictly Cask Advixt K iterrd at the foM Officr at WllUumslr.li N, C. aa Second Clan MaU MaUer AMr*u all Communications to THE ENTERPRISE,. Williams ton. N, C, - • - '«— . 1 MARCH _ 1919 WWI1 ■Ui>l II ■IIIW» J I *ll 11 ■ ■■» ■ I *■ Many houses are burned each yeai when stoves aru taken tlown and the soot which has accumulated in the chimneys catches (Ire when burning trash in the fireplace?. The safest | thing to do is to take down your j .stoves when it is raining and burn the chimneys out food then. We are waiting for. waterworks 1 and wondering- when we will get 1 them. Now would be a good time -to start something. ■ Summer is coming and labor isS coming home. Reduc tion in insurance would pay the cost in twenty years pr less. Perhaps the | best way to get water, sewerage and j pavttd streets is to ask the board of I aldermen to build them. WhStt part s he v# yvm taken ? - -jmuexami- . wmmwr H -,-i Farmer, bujr less guano plant few- j ei acres, raise less cotton and get the i same mjoney that you would bj plant- j inj a big crop, liuying lots of SIU guano, unable to house jour big | cup, cotton beco ing black and blue! in the fields and selling all at a| price below pioduction cost must be j o stopped. Attend tSSpfit'i'tinjf'Hytui j 'day afternoon at two o'clock...' Uacj man can do only a little V\ ian all j do much. ASSET! Agricultural credit is the soundest credit, and has received .the least thought of financiers. It i> the one , unfailing Ttk'at+on of »timn l lnTiiiini-tl j is a jjjßß&ess of nature an let I by man's | tta-leovor." Nature ne\ei defaults noil goes into bankruptcy. Panics may dis i ( ru.it comment- and poular uprisings j ( , may destroy go\ei mm fits hut the ! earth never fails to jy&duce. There may be- drought here or Hood th* 1 1 e. | disease may decimate a Hot k "l pest-* I , mi.y tlestrov Uii'm top - in a I'egjon, , but even these fall : ( short of "i pairing the mdu-tiA 01 , disheartening the uw-rage produici. -• - ' i THE 1 MAIH'I N (Id NI "l COTTON | A.SSOIIA'I ION >. i:!■- I S The Martin count\ cotton Jannt i | met at the court house I'ueMlay afU 1 !" *; noon at 2 o'clock. !he attendant was not as good us v. .t» Impe l for, | though all "present w o enthusiastic. I The mcet'lig was. called to older h\ , . ■Mr. W.'.H. Kveietl, chairman ol tl" association lie presented Mr !■ raiikVj K".Shields of Scotland ,\i • 1.. ciit >(-*], of'i i -Uiiu-l""Tl adtliessed the meeting m a .»>; , . "and practical aiwiei. lit ga\f' ti.i . history of the .cotton ciops and ! I ed that the .small t rop alway- sol' , high end'tl i- l;u;'e i'inp.- alway.- .-tdd j | low. "The 1 inted States has raised | twelve million bales less the .| last four >ears than it tbd during .the L prtvious four year-. Mr Shiehi:- pre j dieted that with a lull at longi aulit . gootl s.ea.son we would have 'mi i J twelve eetit cotton this '>ea,* I in-|- •Kht.rt crops In.' the pa t lew >r;.i ' , Were caused bj pool seasons' and the j ' aeieage lif»s I't't n very li, I;'t, The membei.- of the tov.n-hip ■ mittees were expected to make• h ■ ports of pledges taken andwoik done in their svral'townships, out onl> loaf of thin reported. The on-l\ good n port was made by Mr. N. C. I.\t rett. | of Robersonville, his township report-! ing more than ,ih r i per teat pltulged to make a reasonable reduction in acre | age. Mr. Everett has tin in arty co operation of his people, farmers, gicr j chants, bankers, professional and i otter business men in this good woik, j His people realize it tloes not |«i.\ 5j farmer to plant more cotton than he can pick, nor buy more feitili/ei than •'his crop w'ill sell for. SCHOOL NEWS '•' (Continued from Page One) school met ih the auditorium last | week for the purpose of organizing «' baseball teani. The Boy > appear to r be very interested and we hope to | turn out at least an average .school 1 ball team. We have the boys and the boys have the spirit, but we lack the ground to play on. If any one is in terestetl in ..baseball please let us j have that piece of land you are not j using and we will give you a little baseball "pep" this spring ami sum mer. No school is complete without athletics, because the bony, a* well as the mind must be developed. We art I handicapped in because 1 we have no athletic ground. On April 9th the Knowlton .. Glee ; and Banjo Club will give an enter 1 tainment in the grat led school audi . tonum. This is the last nuiftber of ; the lyceum course and it is the best i There are five men in the company J and they give a mixture of music and comedy. Don't miss this show. We guarantee it to satisfy all. The Athenian Literary Society will meet in the ncltool auditorium on Thursday night The public is cordial ly | )rfn placed on roll A, fi/th grade. William Hodges should have been placed (m roll B, stath grade.:,. Pay your ta*t* by April ltf. Bb^r- 1 i*J " tf d nlesa your taxes are paid by the 1 Ist of April the. law requires me to collect by force which means an extra charge on the tax payer. I shall rc-. gret to have to make an t*trs. j against a single person. -■? j Kespet tfulij , | J. H. PAGE, Tax Collector, j 4 ' NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a power «|f sale contained in that certain deed •# trust executed by L. Roy Straw And -wife, Kosa L. StrawbritlguKw] the trustee ant I tlate of 22ntl of March, 1917 record in the public registry or tin county in book M-l at page to secure the payment of a certain bond "bearing even date therewith, am! the stipulations of .said deed of trust not having been complied with anil nt the request' of the Cestui Que Trust, tho undersigned trustee will on Mon hlay, April 21st, 1919, at 12 o'clock m. latj the court house door of M-artii jcmintv at VVilliamston, N. C,, offer at public sale to the highest bidder for leash, a two-fifths 'undivided interest in the following described tract of I land, to w it: Beginning at a lightwood .stump in the Wildcat Koad, thence jiearly u I southeast course along Amelit k As I kew's line to a branch; thence tlo\m J the branch to Black branch; them j I down Black branch to a swe«t gum j a eui'ncr; ttuviux up u - mall brunch te ; tjie coloretl school house path; thencs 1 I along said pal it to the Wildcat road; j I thence altfhg the Wildcat road to the | lightwood stump, the beginning, ton , I taining IJtf acres more or less, and being the same tract of land convey- i etl lo Adam Strawliritlge by Allt-n I | A skew by deed which is of record in 1 r the jiublic registry of- Martin county j | i n Hook A at page 41C. This the 2(ith day of March, UM9. CLAYTOW MOOIM' Tru-tee. I Time of sale, Monday, April 21st, -) litl!), at 12 o'clock m., at the court | -house door. | -—'iVrniH' cash. 1 — ■ • NO! ICE I IE SALE t.'nder and by virtue of the authoiv t v conferred in me I>>■ a'certain deed ortnisrexeT'uleJT'Tiy f. It • Pfi'aw. britlge and wife Kosa Htrawhridge, on the 20th ,hiy of November, I'JIB, ami duly recorded in the register of deeds' •office in Martin coupt>' in Book 0-1 at page 371, to secure the payment of a certain bond bearing even date therewith arid the stipulations of the said deetl of trust not having inen t omplietl with and at the retjue. to the, Ce.-tui Que Trust, the ululersign til trustee will on Monday, April 21. 1919, at 12 o'clock in ,at the court house'door, of Martin county at Wil liMii.ston N. offer at puhllc sah to the highest bidder for cash, the I following dtfaiH'ihed tract of land. 'wi I: A three fifths undivided interest u i the following t of land: Beginning at a lightwotjd stump or | stob on tlie Wildcat rOatL; tfiCncc nearly a southeast course along Amc Jit k.-Askew *s line to a branch;' thence down the luaach to the run of Black UieMcc -*ToHn 1.1.a k hranch te; a sweet gum, a corner; thence up :i small branch to the colored' school house path; thence along suitl patli id the W'iUl.Cat-road at a comer pine;! 1 thence along said ' routr'to the begin ning, -containing INB acres more oi less and being the same tract of land eanveyed to A dam Strawbridge b\ ,i Allen Askew, recorded in book *\AA at page 410. CLAYTON MOOKE,.Trustee Time of sale Ajiril 21st al 12 o'clock in. Place of sale court house door ol Martin County. Terms of sale cash. -—'. Votih Carolina—Martin County - In j Superior Court Before the Clerk | Malintla Shepherd, administratrix of Henry Shepherd, deceased V s. Minnie D.nis, Emily Shepherd, Ben thy Sht-phenlv - treorge Shepherd. Clinton Slutjihertl, Shepherd, 1 It'tirv Shephcid,' Ethel Shepherd. 11uhi "j t Sla pherd, Bruce Shepherd. I ucile Shepht i:d and S, S. Brown, gua/tlian a'tl Litem, i'ht- tli fendants Minnie Davis anil I'ltirdy—'-'tepii,'t'd altovr tmtnfd - ■.■■will-- take notice tluui an itctioir entitled as ultove has heeu coinmencetl in the Supenor t'ourt, of ' Martin county. \oiili' Cttiolina, for the purpose of selling lantls to make assets to pa leiits, ami the saitl defendants will furthei take notice that they are re tjuiretl to appear before the clerk of the superior -court of said county at hi office nn tin; Ist tlay of April. .r,LL9, ainj iinjwer -or .demur to the coniplaint in said action or the plain ti.ff will apply to lhe"~t t)urt for the relief ilemantjetl in said action. This nth tlay of March, 1919. B. J. PEEL, of the Superior Court, NOTICE OF SALE. v' ndiM ind by virtue of the aul . tv COTi'ii'ntit in a certain deed of trust i esectiti.il t n the 21st day of IV ember 1911, by W. 11, A'ngC and wif, Mar "tha* A are, ap'd registered in the regi.' tei:e t f tiredß offrce for Martin-courty iit Book 5-1 at page 26, to seem e tlie. |K»yn ent ol a certain liond of even -da-«- thftewitb, and —the— : in milt tieC'i of trust' Jut havjti t been j roittplitil with, and at the reuue-tt t f the poi ties interested, the undecsii'i ed tiu.-tie will on* Monday, the 14t.1i th.y of April, 1919, at 12;')0 o\ locK [m . 'rtt tt e coaft house tloor of Mit>' n (O'ti.M., Williamston, N. C., off ut puMin .-,.' de to the highest bidder fei '•a.jb the following tlescribetl real e> t>te: A house and lot in the town of Jamenville, N, C,, more particularly described as followed: Bounded on the north by the lands of N, (i. Griff on the oast by St. Andrews street, on" the south by W. F. Ango, antl on the west by lands of Alfred Walker, containing one-third (1-3) of an acre more or less. This 13th day of March, 1919. WHEELKB MARTIN, T/vtm The followi of the tJnit ed States govQmmUKmf p0"...e the local be sold b> of the Secfe lary of wj to tiie highest Udder on aaail'JpjlTiosai s which will ! be publh ly,.aipHpp at ten o'clock as" nv ' on . March, 1919 at the jjpw Property !;• ington"typewriter, new. questionairre filing cabinets I Of registration filing cabinet, sec ? Approximattdy one hundred pounds r Bidders must enclose with bid a I money order or certified check mark letl "Bid Check" for the amount of the j bid ' payable to the ortler of Captain | Thomas li. MeCargo, Jr., Dis | bursing Officer. • This check or money order will be | returned to all unsuccessful bidders \ at the time the award is made. The undersigned is vested with au ! thority to reject any or all bids whet' jin "Tiis opThidn tTie Tk'sl 7'nter""' | the government may be served there by- By authority of E. If. Crowder | I'rovost Marshal General. J. L. HASSELL, j Member Local Board Martin county NOTICE OF SALE j I ndei; and by virtue of a powei of ; sale contained in that certain deed of 1 1runt executed by Moses Bull ami wife Dicie Bell to the undersigned trustee ! and bearing date of sth of March, 11918, antl of record in the public t\'g j istry.of Martin county in hook O-l at j page 445, to secure -the payment of r. [certain bond of eevn date therewith' (and the stipulations of said deed ol ' trust not having been complied with, »and at the request of the Cestui Que ,Trust, the undersigned truste will on i Monday, April JJlst, 1919, at 12:00 I m., at the court house door of Martin | county, Williamston, N. C., offer at iJiuldic sale to the highest, bidder ftn j cash the following described tracts of land, to wit: EIKST TRACT- Bound on the north by the lantls of. Tom Bell, cm ■ the east by the land of Calvin Eborn. on the south by the lands of Pctei Smith, :ind on*the west by the land of Frank Bell, containing 36 acre,- more or less rtntl being the sttme pre mises. deeded to Moses Bell by I). G Matthews- which saiti deed is of ree ord in the public registry of Martin county an I is hereby made u part ol hereof for the purpose of giving : better description. SECOND TRACT Situate in Goose Nest township and on the road lead ng from Hamilton antl Palmyra loai at oJlin Andrews colored church tt the old Sherrod Mill, adjoining the land* of the heirs of William Burnett John A. P,enn£tt antl others, contain ing eighty (Ml) acres more or less, and being the same premises bought by T. It. Slaile from the-heirs o(, llep lietta Bowers, and being lot No. I in the division of the lands of Henri rttn Bowers antl allotted to S. W, B/'istow iu said division, said division tiX-M-t-wd.-in land—division -book-- No. I%at page 70, Martin county leg istry, and said tlivision is hereby rt' r ferret! to and made a part hereof foi the purposes of a more accurate tie scriptioli. v : This March 20th, 1919. A. R. DUNNING, Trustee. Time of sale, April 21, 1919. I'tace of salt" court bonne door. * Terms of sale cash. NOTICE OF SALE Cnder untl by virtue of tht 1 aut"! t ity contained in a certain- deed o mist, executtii on the 29th day. lanuary, 1,918 b-y R. W. Perry ;t Wife, Emma Ferry, and registered ii the register of deeds office for Mar in county, in book U-l, page 63, secure the payment of a certain >f even date therewith, and tlvti st rations in said tlebtl of trust in aving been complied with, antl tit il request of the parties inteli>steif, 1' atidersigned trustee" will on Momlp I ' e 24th day of March, 1919, at is, at the court house tloor of M-' •:ounty,' Williamston, N. C., offer public sale to the highest bidder i cash the fololwing described real e tate: -—Ailjoiiiing the Pucrh tantt inT —tn — north; the Mlzelle land on the e the road from Washington 'toi Jiim ville on the south antl the Dennis Sim num-s I .umbejy Company on the v containing 'one hundred (100) aci more or less, and known as the Sir,i I'errs land and being the premiss now occupied' by said grantors.» This 22ntl day of February, 1919. B. DI KE CRITCHER. Trustet A 1 >MINISTRATKI X'S NOTICE Having qualified as administratri upon the estate of A. G, Griffin,-li f ceased, notice, is hereby given to a' persons holding claims against ; estate to present them to the under signed for payment on or before I Bth day of IVfarch, 1920, or this in lice will be pleaded in liar of their r; covery. AH persons indebted to said estnt wHI please make immediate payr- This Bth day of March, 1919. M IIS. MALLIE A. GRIFFIN. j: r Administratri • NO'I ICE ()E BE-SAIiE OF THE VFORGE W. COREY PROPERTY V. he reus the third (3rtl) day of Feb-, ruary, lit fit, at 12 o'clock tn., at the court house tloor of Martin county, under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by George W. Corey and wife, Ella Corey, to the under signotl trustee, bearing tlate of 15th tlay of April, 1918, and of recoid in the public registry of Martin county, in Hook O-l pace 288, the undersign etl trustee did offer the lands herein after described to the highest bidder ftrr ca-4t, whetv M r*. -Ella. Corey lte'ui)ie the last and highest bidder ut the sum of twenty-six hun dred dollars and whereas under chap [ter 148 of the tmWic law« oi 1915, ; =aid oale iuul to jfjwain open for ton days and in order that if anyone t'e •■red'she bid mijrht be rni ed arid an order of remade made by tho clerk of the superior court (of this count, ), and whereas on the 11th day of Feb ruary, 1919, the bid of Mrs. FJla Cor ey ft* aforesaid was raied us provid ed for in said chapter 14(1 of the pub- I iic laws of 1915, and whereas on the !2th day of Februaiy, 1915, H. J. Peel, clerk of the superior court of Martin county ixsuo! b»*» or«|jj U> w - id««d fo,' in 83* ! hiu r 14 ; of the publ'e law.4 of 1015, in wh'ch the jjnilerf trust* ••• is ordered to make a resale of said lands at ~ (he 1 court house door of Martin county on the 28th day of February, 1919, after due advertisement of ami- for 15 days at the court house door and 3 other public places in Martin county and by publication in thje Enterprise for two weeks preceding said sale. Now, therefore, under and by vir tue of the power of sale contained in that certain deed of trust eexcuted by Ceorge W. Corey and wife, Ela Con ey, to tlie undersigned trusiese, bear ing .date of the 15th* day of April 1918 recorded in the public, registry of Mar tin county in Hook Orient page 2HK, and in order to satisfy and pay off the ndebtedness thereby secured and in •ompliance with order of It. J. Fee', - Superior Court, made the 12th 'uy-ol' February, 1919, tlie unitersign >d trustee will on the 28th day of February, 1919, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door of Martin county sel to the highest bidder for cash the following described land to wit; , - " Adjoining the lands of I), li. Ha* icon's line, thence a westerly direc tion to the back line; thence along the mck line to H. T. Koberson'a corner; thence along H. T. Kobe r son's line tp v l ,'. R. Corey's corner; thence south to •oh. 11. T. Roberaon and otners oe~ lining at a wntte oak In IJ. the mouth of a ditch, thence along the • arious courses of the djtch to the be cinniiig, containing 76 acres, more or iess. This 12th day of February, 1919. CLAYTON MOORE, Trustee. Time of sale 12 o'clock m., Feb. 28, = 1919. I Mace of sale: Court house Tloor of Martin county. TeTms of sale cash.,, NOTICE /• Under and by virtue of the author ity conferred in me by a certain deed of trust executed to me by W. It. James on the 13th day of- January, 1917. anil duly recorded in the regis ter of deed's office in Martin county, in Hook M l, page 334, to secure the payment of a certain bond bearing even date therewith, and the stipula tions in said deed of trust not having t>een complied with, 1 shall expose rit public auction for cash, on Saturday, io 10th day of March, 1919, at 12 . lock in. j at the court liodse door in Martin county, Williamston, North Carolina, the following property: Beginning at the foot of the Bos ton road where it makes in the Free nan road; thence along the Boston road 58 to a comer of lot - No. H; thence along the line of lot No. 8 123 jolps on the Daily road; thence along -tiie Daily road to where the Freeman road makes in at the church; thence along the Freeman road 78 poll's to the beginning, containing 37 acres, be ■ i, iik: a part of lirt No. 9 and on thy west side of the Daily road ol the James Land Division, registered in Martin county registry, land division i Book I, page 176. This 13th day of February, 1919. 11. H. COWAN, Trustee. NOTICE TO EVER YBODY - I forbid anybody from hunting, (Vsh f feeding nogs going on or across' any of my land known as the Warren Neck land or any other .tract of in> land -in. Martin county. All my land is -pttsfaff-fmrl-everybody—ts d«l > —Wium—i-- to keep off.- (i, W. BLOUNT. Young men's suits, latest, model, and best quality itt very low,prices a \V. It. Orleans'. NOKTII ' CAROLINA MARTIN THE SUPERIOR COURT—JUNE TERM 1919 A. Anderson, J. W. Anderson and W. 11. Crawford, trading as Anderson, Crawford & Company, Vs. * W. T. Hartley. • The defendant, W. T. Iladley, in the above entitled action will take notice that on the 2'Gtli day of February, 1919, an affidavit was issued and or der of publication made by clerk of the superior- court of Martin county against the defendant, the plaintiffs naiming the sum of $755.52 with in terest from December 20th, 1917, due Uiem for moneys advanced which said order is returnable to the June term ol superior court of Martin county to be held in Williamston on .the Kith day of June, 1919, it being the 15th Monday after the first Mon day of March, 1919. The "defendant will adso take notice that a warrant , of attachment was also issued by the said clerk of the superior court on the U6th day of Femruary, 1919,« •(—.mist the -property of the said de fendant which warrant is returnable to the June term of the superioi court of Martin county at the time and place named for the return of the summons, when and where the defen dnnt is required to appeur and answer or demur to the complaint, or the re lief will be granted. * This 20th day of February, 1919. ' R. J. PEEL, Clerk Superior Court JS'orlh Carolina—Martin County, Wi lianuton Township. REODIOK MIZELL VS. ~ ' c. i,: 1 3. E. MOORE NOTICE Tho defendant above named v tyke notice that an action entitled a above has been commenced before V C. Manning, a justice of the pence ii and for the county end state nfore said, for the recovery of the am ?7t>.25 due plaintiff from defend:' upon a check given by the' defend..*." to the plaintiff on the 12th day June, drawn upon the Bank t Tt;>be\;s6nvffle, ~ Kot>eTs6ifvtlTe; NT"* ( which said check remains unpaid an the said defendant will further tak. notice that he is required to appcas at the office of W. C. Manning, ju?: tice of the in Wililam .ti township, Martin county N. C., the 7th day of April, 1919,. at » o'clock n. m., and answer or demur t. the complaint of the plaintiff. And said defendant will take n, tice that if ho fail to appear tit time and place as herein required, tl plaintiff wil apply to the court for t! relief demanded therein. This 7th day of March, 1919. w. c. TANNIN Justice of the rem*' FLOWERSP FIXIWERsT FLOW eir! For sale at reasonable priees. 'See Mrs. 1 rene Smith. It A SEMI- WEEKL V;V - , 1 Tfcc Enterprise will now be issued twice a week. We expect to * make It a real county paper. We want It togoto everyhom in the county. We want to give the county news as well as the state and national news. We expect to stand for those things that are for the uplift and advancement of the people. We hope to have a part in making every section of this county clean morally, happy social ly strong intellectually and pure religiously and in addition .we want to be a medium whereby mankind can help his neighbor in cultivating his soil, in handling his merchandise, in running his shop, in conducting his bank. 4For, after all, we are only a band of friends and brothers whose business it is to do our part in ..the community in which we live. If you know something tell us, and we will print it. It will be new* to othera. Newspapers have had many obstacles before them for the past few years —high wages and scarcity of materials have doubled our cost. 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