THE GREEN TAG FESTIVAL
Has met with much success—solely due to our offering of such excellent values—and as in the past we sell what we advertise and -
what we sell advertises us. Those who did not get the chance to avail themselves of buying at these great savings offered during
this green tag festival we are extending this festival for one more week, as per request made by many of our customer friends.
MARGOLIS BROS. & BROOKS
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Local and Personal I
Miss Lucille Has£ell left yesterday
for Camp Capers at Brevard, N. C.
She will return home July 3.
Messrs. R. E. Roberson and Bill
Harrison made a business trip to
Washington yesterday.
Mr. Joe Carroll of Aulander was
, in town yesterday.
Mrs. D. Belfort of New York will
arrive Sunday to visit her sister,
Mrs. N. Orleans on West Main street.
Misses Rhea and Nichols of Wind
sor were visitors here Wednesday.
Bliss Vella Andrews returned to
Norfolk Wednesday after visiting her
parents here for several days. She
i will continue her course in a business
school there.
Mr. W. P. Edwards of Franklinton
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hight
Wednesday.
Mr. Joe Taylor was in town yester
day.
Mr. Don Johnson entertained a few
friends with a barbecue and bruns
wick stew dinner yesterday at his
home.
Mrs. Joe Pender of Hamilton was
in town yesterday.
The friends of Sarah Freeman Cone
are glad to know that she is improv
ing rapidly from a fall she had a
few day* ago. 1
Messrs. C. H. Godwin, Jr., C. A.
Harrison, J. G. Staton and Pete Ben
nett attended the ball game in Kin
ston Tuesday.
Mr. George C. Dorsch of the Balti
more Sun is in town this week, the
guest of Judge Sinclair at the Britt
hot«L
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Clark and son,
Claude, will leave Sunday morning
for Durham where they will visit nl
atives for several days.
Mr. Farris Nassef of New Bern
was in town yesterday visiting hie
son, Mr. Joe Nassef.
20TH CENTURY CLUB MEETS
Mrs. S. R. Biggs delightfully en
tertained the members of the Twen
t tieth Century club at her home on
Watts street Wednesday afternoon.
The following program was render
ed. A paper, "The Fly" was read by
Mrs. F. W. Hoyt; a reading by Mrs
F. U. Barnes; current events by Mrs.
Titua Critcher. A delicious iee course
was served by the hostess.
* • MACEDONIA LOCAL NEWS
* " Miss Virginia Peele and Mr. Elbert
Manning motored to Qreenville Sun
day kfternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Crttrain
' and Mrs. S. F. Peele m«tcied to
Hendsom, Va. where .hey .pent tne
week end with relatives.
Mr. Herbert Peele motored to Pan
tego Saturday where he spent a few
hours.
Mr. Lucion and Heman Peele motor
ed to Williamston Saturday after
noon on business. •
Mr. E. Slade Peele and W. S.
, Revels were in town on bueinoss Sat
urday.
The many friends of Mr. A. D.
Hadley will be sorry to learn Jiat he
is improving eo slowly from a recent
illneae.
FEMALE "HELP WANTED: "LAD
iee—To finish Silk Underwear «t
home by Hand or Machine —Port
or full time. Encloae stamp for
reply. Keystone Mills, Amsterdam,
N. Y. »
SUBSCRIBE TO THE ENTEBPBIBE
; CUMMER COLDS
1 UagMing and aa«*tag.
\M The vwy feet eight efplr
Messrs. Marriott Britt, Ben Barn
hill, Myrt Stubbs and Willie Watts
attended the funeral of Frank Gillam
in Windsor Wednesday afternoon.
Messrs. E. L. McDaniel and H. B.
Mewborn of Griftoo passed through
here yesterday en route to Bertie
county.
Messrs. W. Lee Brewer, J, W. Man
ning, W. C. Manning and E. R.
White went to Colerain, Ahoskie and
Aulander yesterday.
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Mrs. E. S. i'eel is spending a few
days at Eden House beach.
Messrs. A. R. Dunning, George C.
Dorsch and Judge Sinclair visited
Eden House beach Wednesday night.
HUGH G.HORTON
AITOKNEY AT LAW
Firat Floor Peoples Hank Budding
Williamston, N. C.
Notice of a Special Tax Election July
14th, 1925, in Smithwick District,
Martin County, North Carolina.
In compliance with the wishes of a
petition signed by a necessary number
of qualified voters of Smithwick
school district, which was duly ap
proved by the Board of Education of
Martin County and in accordance with
the provisions of Article 17 of the new
school code of 192#.
Notice is hereby given that the elec
tion will be held in the old Smith
wick schoolhouse of Smithwick school
district, on the 14th day of July, 1926,
in said Smithwick School district,
deserbed hereinafter for the
purpose of ascertaining the will of the
qualified voters of said district as to
whether a majority of such voters fa
vor the levying and collecting annual
ly, of a special tax with which to sup
plement the funds for six months
public school appropriated by the
board of education, and annexation of
Smithwick School District to James
ville school district, the rate of said
special tax not to exceed a maximum
of 30 cents on the SIOO valuation of
all property, real and personal, with
in the bounds of the districts, describ
ed as follow*:
Beginning at Gardners Creek bridge
running up the creek to W. W. Rober
son's mill; thence up the mill pond
to Cypress Branch; thence along C. CT
Keys' line to the Tarleton Road, thence
along said road to Deep Run; thence
down Deep run to Bulberry Branch;
thence up Mulberry Branch to the
Jones Road; therwe up said road to
the colored Baptist church, known as
St. James; thence a straight line to
Wilts Siding; thence along said road
to the Jamesville and Williamston
road; thence along the old boundar
ies to Devijs Gut, "Swains Landing,"
thence across Devils Gut to Kaders
Eddy; thence down Roanoke River to.
Jamesville School District line; thence
along said line to Gardners Bridge,
the beginning. ,
At said election, those who are in
favor of the levy and collection an
nually of a special tax of not more
uian 30 cents on the SIOO valuation
and the annexation of Smithwick
school district to Jamesville school dis
trict shall vote a ticket on which shall
be written or printed the words, "For
local tax," and those who oppose the
levy and collection annually of a spec
ial tax of not more than 80 cents on
the SIOO valuation and annexation of
Smithwick school district to James
ville school district shell vote a ticket
on which shall be written or printed
the words a local tax."
That Mr. J. A. Gardner be and he
is hereby appointed registrar, and
Mr. W. C. Griffin and Mr. Clyde Wil
liams are hereby appointed poll hold
ers for said election.
That a new registration is hereby
ordered and that the registration
books will be open for such purposes
beginning with the 3rd day of June,
1926, and wQI. continue open until the
4th day of July, 1926. The registrar
will be at his residence during the
above dates for the purpose of regis
tering all those qualified to vote in
said district
Done this the Ist of June, 1985, by
order of the board of .county com
missioners of Martin County.
By HENRY C. GREEN, .
Chairman.
Judge Sinclair Takes Issue
With the Attorney General
(Continued from page one)
punishment by flogging u not reason
able and ran not be sustained. That
which degradea and embrutea a man
can not l>e either necessary or reason
able."
Ine opinion then proceeds as fol
lows: * Oitgiiiuiiy, 1 logging was tec
oijiuzeu as a proper ppViishment in
die armies ami navies 01 the worm,
uut it nus long since been aboliMied
in tnose serv.ces everywliere, not
withstanding uie piolests ot otlieiuia
WHO declared that the result would be
intuiny and disorganization. Hogging
nas long since been abolisned as a
part of prison discipline by all the
great aim eniighiened nations of the
world, except Russia. In England
France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Bel
gium, Holland, owiuerland, Spain
and by the government of the United
States, and even in Mexico and in
most other civilized countries, the
lash as an adjunct of prison disci
pline has long since been forbidden.
In Mexico, In 1903, Art. 38b . was-a
doped: "The lash or any other violent
physical punishment shall not be em
ployed" either as a sentence of the
court or as a part of prison discipline,
'lhis has been taken substantially
from the statutes obtaining in the
more advanced countries. It has been
found that it is unsafe and unjust
to trust to the discretion of men,
often of bad judgment and sometimes
of evil passions, the infliction of cor
poral punishment upon helpless pris
oners who, protected by no publicity
and without any trial for breaches
of discipline, are subjected to the ar
bitrary power of those in charge of
them. In a Cyc., 877, it is said: "A
convict who violates any of the prison
regulations may be subjected to soli
tary confinment or such other reason
able punishment as the statute may
authorize (Boone vs State, 8 l.ea
(Tenn.), 739); but corporal punish
ment cannot lawfully be inflicted
without' legislative sanction. Smith- v
State, 8 Lea (Tenn.), 744". The com
mon-law right of a husband to chas
tise his wife was held a slate as S.
v. Rhodes, 61* N. C., 463, where a
husband was held not guilty upon a
special verdict that he "whipped his
wife without provocation, with a
switch as large as his finger, but n
k.:«*er than his thumb", citing S. v
niack, 60 N. C., 263, which held that
if there was no permanent injury nor
excessive violence, the law premitted
the husband to thrash her "to make
her behave herself," and that if the
courts intervened it would "encourage
insubordination"-on the part of wives
Out in 1874, in S. v.. Oliver, 70 N. C.,
60, without any intervening statute,
it was held that we had "advanced
beybnd that barbarism." Yet the wife
had the protection of the affection of
her husband and of public opinion.
There is no protection to prisoners in
jail. They are under a cloud and re
ceive small sympathy from anyone.
The discipline is necessarily peremp
tory, and when punishment is inflict
ed by flogging, whether it is justly
imposed or not rests in the bosom of
the officer who orders it. There is no
inquiry or publicity, either as to the
juctice of the punishment or of its
extent as commensurate with the of
fense. The extent of punishment, if
legal, is committed to the aibitrary
power of men who may happen to be
unjust or of bad judgment. Their ac
tion is irreviewable except when in
some cases of gross excess the mat
ter may possibly be brought to pub
lic attention, and then the victim is
at every disadvantage- The punish
mentJ if by flogging, has already been
inflicted, whether justly or not, and
the suffering and degradation cannot
be removed. The victim Is usually
ignorant and always impecunious and
generally without friends. His fellow
convicts often dare not testify in his
behalf, and their testimony will not
carry the weight given to statements
made by those in authority. In such
circumstances, abuse is easy and al
most invited. And reparation is im
possible when wrong has been done.
Suppose a young man of otherwise
good record is sentenced in a record
er's court without gran 4 Jury and
without a Jury trial for carrying a
THB ENTERPRISE WILLIAMSTON, N^C.
concealed weapon or for an affray or
other involving moral
.urpitude ,Ami while in jail or on the
roads he should violate some order
of the prison authorities, sliall lie be
flogged as Gallagher was, and dis
graced for life? We have no decision
sustaining the right to flog prison
ers to be overruled, as in the case of
husband and wife, above cited. In
view of these considerations ami the
impolicy of subjecting men without
trial, at the Arbitrary wilt of other
'nieu, to a punishment whoso elfect
musi be to destroy the self-respect
of the victim and harden and embrute
him, it is no wonder tnat the intel
ligence and humanity of the age has
abolished flogging, in all but a few
States of this country, as any part
of prison discipline."
Upon the authority of State v.]
Nipper 1 am of the opinion that it
is unlawful to flog convicts in county
camps, even though the county author
ities may have adapted rules author
-i&ing iv and since I have been on the
bench 1 have instructed the grand
jury in every county in which T have
held court to indict in every case of
flogging county convicts.v
Mr. J. W. Hailey's statement that
as a result of the Kocky Mount case
flogging prisoners is at an end in
North Carolina is only conditionally
true. The trial and conviction in that
case has not changed conditions. The
courts can put an end to flogging
without statutory action, just as they
put an end to wife beating in the
Oliver case in 1874. It depends en
tirely ujKin the awakening of the en-*
lightened public conscience of the
S ate. It constitutes a clarion call to
the pride as well as the conscience
of the State.
North Carolina boasts of being a
great "progressive" State. She boasts
of her cotton mills, her tobacco fac
tories, her good roads, her high moun
tains, et cetera; but until she can
shake off the relics of barbarism and
brutality which have disgraced her
through the centuries, as every Chris
tian nation except Russia has done
long ago; until she can catch step
with even Mexico in the pruJ-tices of
enlightened humanity; until she cart
boast of social, intellectual and spiri
tual progress—until that time comes
it W'ould be in better taste to. keep
quiet.
N. A. SINCLAIR. •
Williamston, N. C.
June 17, 1925.
NOTICE WfSALfc
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in a certain deed of
trust from S. F. Freeman and wife,
Minnie E. Freeman, to the undersign-1
ed W. M. Rear, trustee, which said
BILIOUSNESS
Retired Minister Tells Hew Ha
Keeps ia Good Fora Witfc
the Assistance of
BUck-Drsofht
Weet Graham, Va.—The Rav.
Lewis Brans, a well-known retired
minister, now past 80, living here,
has a high opinion of Black-
Draught, which he says he has
taken when needed, for 26 year*.
"For years I had been suffering
with my liver." he says. "Some
times the pain would be very In
tense and my back would hurt all
the time. Black-Draught was the
first thing I found that would give
me any relief.
"My liver has always been slug
gish. Sometimes It gives me a lot
of trouble. I have suffered a lot
with It—pains in my side and back,
and bad headache, caused from ex
treme biliousness.
"After I found Black-Draught, I
would begin to take It as soon ss I
felt a spell coming on and It r»
lleved the cause at once. I can
reoommend It to anybody suffer
ing from Uver. trouble. A dose or
two now and then keeps me In g&od
form."
Mad* from selected medicinal
roots and herbs, and containing no
dangerous mineral drugs, Black-
Draught is nature's own remedy
tor s tired, lasy liver. NC-IJI
deed of trust is dated' January 1, 1919,
and duly recorded in the office of the
register of deeds for Martiin County,
North Carolina, in book XI, ut page
27-2, the undersigned W. M. Rear, trus
tee, will, on the 24th day of June,
1925, at 12 o'clock noon, sell at pub
lic auction, for cash, at the courthouse
door of Martin County, North Caro
lina, the following described real es
tate, to wit:
-All that tract or parcel of land ly
ing and being in Martin County
State of North Carolina, in James
ville Township, and adjoining the
lands of A. T. McDonald and others,
and more fully described as follows:
The tract of land known as the
Stephen F. Davis land lying in the
Jordan Thick road adjoining the lands
of S. L. Ange, Ashley . Davis, and
others, and is said to contain one hun
dred acres, and being the lands con
veyed to M. W. Ange by W. T. Craw- :
ford, commissioner, dated October 29
.1901, and recorded in County
NoTth Carolina, register's office; and
the >«me land as conveyed by said M
W. Ange and wife to the Dennis Sim
mons Lumber Company, by-deed dated
January l.Hth, 1902, and recorded in
deed book FFF, on page 378, and also
I being the same land as described i
lot No. 7, in the division of the lands
of Ashley Davis, sr., and allotted to
I the heirs of said Stephen P. Davis, de-
I leased. The which subdivision
is recorded in the register's office in
Williumston, Nortn Carolina, and is
hereby referred to and made a part
of this description the same as writ-
I.OST ON MAIN STREET, ONE
gold watch, open face with Elgin
movement. Finder plense return to
11. M. Hurras and.receive reward. 2
FOR SALE: GREEN MEAT MAR
ket and restaurant combined. Fo
I terms write or see E. L. Smith, Wind
sor, N. C.
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Oil reijuawt.
feSl Announc »g. Ufi*p-
The Opening of
McCALL'S 5 and 10
CENT STORE ||
••* .' •' V . .£* ■ i
We have recently bought a full line of
small wares, merchandise and other stock . 1_
carried by all five and ten cent stores. Our
store, next to Harrison Brothers and Pen
•" * der's, has been neatly arranged and furn- ,
/ ished with select merchandise I
I \ A We are ready to serve the public at a U^yrJ
small cost. Com in to see us and get our Ij^ES
ten herein, as is also the other ilescrip-1
tiwiLs _in deeds above de*cribe*l, and i
> acli hereby referred to ami-made -a
part hereof, same as if .written
herein.
Said land above described being that |
PENDER'S
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FLOU
Palace Patent and Wonder Self-Rising
6 lb. bag 12 lb. bag 1 : 24 lb. bag
37c 69c $1.35 _
48 lb. bag 98 lb. bag'
$2.65 $5.00
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Lard, good cooking, pound 16c
Sugar, best granulated, pound 6 l-2c
Potatoes, old, pound 2 l-2c
Tomatoes, No. 2 can 10c
Corn Flakes, .Jersey Branch; package ... 8c
Shredded Wheat, package 12c
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Van Camp's Evaporated iVlilk, tall can .10c
Eagle Brand Milk, condensed, can ..... 20c
Van Camp's Beans, 3 cans for 25c
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Navy Beans, o pounds for
Comet Rice, 3 packages for 25c
Swift's Premium Ham, pound 34c
St. Elmo Coffee, 1 lb. sealed package 28c
A delightful,.nutritious drink; not a cof
fee substitute, but a combination of fresh
roasted coffee?, chicory, and vegetables. ,t
identical land described and conveyer
■l>y wrid-tteerf-of-tTust.-
• This the 21st T92fl: —
W M. KKAH.
Trustee.
Harry McMullan,. Attorney, m 26 4'