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Subscript!** Price
(Strictly Cash in Ad ranee)
1 year 11.50
C months 80
S months -45
Entered at the Post Office at Wil
iamston. North Carolina ■* aecond-
Us* matter.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1924.
A rumor has reached us that a
will be built on the corner of
Haughton and Rail Road streets.
While we need an up-to-date hotel,
we might select a better location.
Why spoil a good looking pecan pas
ture with a small town hotel ?
That Williamston needs a good
hotel all will agree, but why not lo
cate it on the corner of Haughton ami
Main street. We understand that a
certain attractive home is for sale.
Why can't the Building and Loan As
sociation buy this home anil make
sufficient additions to convert the
home into a Southern Tourist Hotel?
Those who have traveled vjouth will
read idly see how such a horel could
be established from an attractive
Southern home. With a large back or
side yard as this home has, a bridge
could be placed between the present
home and the hotel addition and
make a very up-to-date modern
Tourist Hotel.
Now that summer is most here ai d
the school terms nearing fcompleiion,
it is with pleasant thoughts that the
old swimming hole is called back 10
u.e. Away to one cornei**old (•...ftr
will with his other close friends pa>s
the summer and While, they sleep, the
millions of pupils will go hero aid
younder to seek pleasures 11 t.ieir
own, in some way or another the
teacher- will take a rest, 100.
It will, no doubt, be easy sa ling
for some, while for others it will l.ot
lie so easy, but after all it is \ ira
tion time and tho last day ten her
calls the roll can't come too :.oon.
TV a long while .>ve though' nu
one careil to open a hardware .vto. •' in
our city, hut from reliable sources
we have learned that $I. r >,nH)( ) i.s
pawing-to make its home here it fie
form of a hardware store. \Ve are
patiently awaiting its arrival, at I so
be it that it fails to do 'so, wi are
surely go in l / to ask somebody to tell
us some reason why it did not come.
The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch of
April 11 contains an article record
ing the winning of the Highway Hat
tie by the Coast cities of North aro
lina. Will the Enterprise please (*•
plain why the route includes Eliza
*t
beth City, Edenton and Hertford and
not one word is said aliout Washing
ton'and Williantstoii ?
Please explain further just the
lacking twenty-ieven miles if hard
surface road which is to be c.mpleJVd
by January 1, 1925. Are we to sit
quietly and allow our prom., id high
way to be calmnly given to another
section of the State ?
Why can't the Chamber of Com
For Awnings, Awning Covers and Tents of
all kinds. See Harrison Bros, and Co.
Williamston, North Carolina
merce get on the job and give us the J
desired route?
.The article referred to above was
only a local article and was fathered
by the hope for a road form Norfolk
to Elizabeth City And pehaps 27 miles
more hard surface will complete that
link.
A TRAVELER.
The traveler need not fear N any
change in route No. 30. The only thing
that can happen would be to branch
SO at Windsor arid run via Edenton,
Hertford, Elizabeth City and on into
Norfolk, providing, however, the Vir
ginians would wake up and let us
pu*s. —Ed itor.
The Great Water Power Trust of
America has not fully lost hope of
breaking up the Ford proposal to de
velop Muscle Shoals power through a
99 year lease, to manufacture nitrate
for industrial purposes. In case of
necsesity Mr. Ford has agreed to hold
it in readiness for the Government.
They continue to bob up here and
there and try to muddy up the waters.
In the mean time they are letting the
property deteriate in value, perhaps,
hoping at some time that Mr. Fori!
will be out of the way and they will
have more friends in Washington.
Statistics of repairs, • asjline and
oil consumption, depr.:\al:on and
loads hauled, demonstr: ' that the
average difference in co. ' . running
a car or truck over good hard roads
and poor roads is approximately 6
cents per mile .
The average mileage of all cars and
trucks in this country exceeds C,(HK)
yearly.
There are 1 1,0 0,00) cars and
trucks running in the 1 nited States.
A simple m 'tip'ication prov* that
if :ill the roads i" the United States,
•vere poor roads, making them all in
to good road: would save more than
tour billions every year, or more than
live times as much is r>ent annually
■n this nation for good roads.
Of course, all the roll Is are not
poor road:, and more tlcii. 80 per cent
( ,f the travel of our v. hides is over
the good roads and not poor ones.
Hut if we had good lu: d.s vehicles
would travel over them. Vehicles are
now forced from the many poor to
the few Rood road miles in order to
avoid loss of lime and the tremendous
cost of travel over poor road*.
Any individual, asking himself
whether his share of a new road tax
will pay him, has only to figure the
lumber of miles he will travel in a
year over the good road and see what
he, |>e>sonally, will save. Ibis com
putation, of course, leaves out of cal
culation any such factors as the sav
ing he makes by the lowering of prices
of goods he buys which travel the
good road, and any increase in his
assets due to the increase of land
values on the good road, and any in
crease in earniiiK capacity due to the
time saved on good roads. With
.figures so plain and savings so ob
vious it is difficult to understand why
anyone thinks that national highways,
built and maintained by the National
Government, will not more than pay
for themselves in a very short period.
TO TEST BIIAKES BY
PORTABLE DEVIBK
The Uureau of Standards of the
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United States had perfected a new,
portable, brake-testing device, which
eliminates the personal equation in
THE ENTERPRISE. WILLIAMBTON. NORTH CAKOUNA.
testing brakes and does away with
measured road stretches. The device
consists essentially of a suspended
weight which swings forward when
the car slows down. It is oil-immers
ed, to provide sufficiently slow motion
to permit a record to be made by
a pen on a moving sheet of
Readings are direct, showing exactly
how many feet are covered by the car
between inital application of brakes
and full stop. The device is said to
eliminate the innacflracy of previous
methods of measurement of brakes,
caused by the personal equation or
brain lag in the operator. Thus, in
other methods of testing, an operator
is toll! "apply your brakes." If he
j take;; half a second to respond, and
his car is traveling' at twenty miles
an hour, the car moves fifteen feet
between command and execution of it,
which fifteen feet, of course, it count
ed in measuring the distance cover
ed in the stopping test. The new de
vice, being automatic, is not subject
Co that error.
Why can't the Town donate that
hole at the Kiver Hill for a swim
ming pool ? Why can't we buy the
lot on the rijrht side of the Hill for
a play ground with a .dedginjc course?
Why send your children to bother
the neighbors in the afternoon by us
ing the neighbors' sidewalks? Why
not work for a Play Ground?
Why not convert all the vacat lots
into small play grounds? Why allow
the children to tramp the streets and
hear all kinds of talk.
Farmers of Union county have
planted between ten and fifteen* thou
sand i.rres to lespcdeza this sprir.u
qf correct JLubrication
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Quality oil* in three consistencies
—correct for every type of motor.
Consult the chart good dealer*
display and ask for your oil by
name. The name » Hszlß
"STANDARD"
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Oils You Can Trust!
/CALCIUM \
ARSENATE
Kills 801 l Weevils
Write today and get cur proposition for supplying
your Calcium Arsenate at lowest prices.
801 l will prevent profitable cotton production
if not controlled. - ••
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Why wait tm6l dead to give the
Town something ? Why not build a
swimming pool and gire it your
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name?
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Are you a wide awake woman of
tweny-one years older? Then join the
Woman's Club.
Why can't the Town have a clean
up day? The streets are not attrac
tive and the back lots are a disgrace.
Where is the health officer?
Why do we have to put up with
mosquitoes these days? Twenty and
thirty years a«o we never had one,
only an occasional visitor who came
on the train from other parts.
WANTED
I'very Property Owner to use L St M
Semi Paste Paint and make his own
Paint for $2.82 |>er gallon. .See our
advertisement in this paper and note
a gallon costs nothing if not satisfac
tory.
ADM INI STR ATOIt'S NOTICE
Having this day qualified as ad
ministrator of the estate of M. P.
Taylor, deceased, notice is hereby
given Jo all persons holding claims
against said estate to present then:
for payment on or before April 7th,
1923 or this notice will be plead in
bar of their recovery.
All perfeoiu indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate
settlement of same.
This the 7th day of April 1924.
L. 0. TAYLOR, Adm.
M P. Taylor.
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A I) MINI STRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator of
thj estate of R. W. Wynn, late of the
Count yof Martin, Stat of North
Carolina, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased ,to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Witliamston, N. C.
on or before the Bth day of April
1920, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of any recovery.
All persons indebted to sold estate
will please make immediate payment.
This the tßh day of April ISM.
E. a WYNK.
Administrator of R. W. Wynn.
NOTICE OF RESALE
Under and by virtae of an order
of resale made by the Soerpior Court
of Martin County in the Special Pro
ceedings entitled, J. Frank Wearer
and wife, Minnie Wearer, -ro- Walter
Harrison, Allie Harrison and G. H.
Harison, the undersigned Commission
er, will on Monday the Till day of
April 1924 at 12 o'clock M. at the
Court House Door in llartin County,
at Williamston, North Carolina, offer
for sale to the highest bidder for cash
that certain tract of land lying and
being in Bear Grass Township, Mar
tin County, North Carolina, and do
scribed as follows, to-wit:
That certain tract or parcel of land
lying and being in Martin County.
North Carolina, containing 25 acres,
more or less adjoining the lands of J.
R. Harrisrn on the Easr, Redmond
Harrison on the Sooth, Claude White
hurst on the West and J. S. Feel on
the North and more commonly known
as the ReJmond Harrison Land.
This the 22nd day of March 1924.
WHEELER MARTIN,
Commissioner
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NOTICE 0 FSALE
Under and by virtue of the Su
perior Court of Martin County made
in an action entitled "The Federal
land Bank of Columbia rs Julius S.
Peel, et a!" the undersigned commis
sioner will on the 7th day of May.
1824, at 12:00 o'clock. Noon, in front
of the Court House Door of Martin
County, offer for sale at public auction
the following described land:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in Williamston
Township, Martin County North Caro
lina, containing 331 acres, bounded on
the North by the lands of A. Wil
liams and J. H. Mixed, on the East
by the lands of A. William* and J. N.
Hopkins, on the South by the lands of
J. N. Hopkins, Mrs. J. B. Hardiaon,
the Redick Heirs and the
and Jamesville Road and on the West
by C. H. Godwin and J. H. MW! Aid
being the same land heired by Julius
S. Peel from his mother Lizzie Yarfdl
Peel, having such metes. courses,
hapes and distances as will »•-- -* ful
'y apiiear by reference to
same made by S. S. Peel. Surv#-»«i.
from a survey of the same ma le by J.
H. Grimes, Surveyor, on the 5U- day
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