THE ENTERPRISE
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Eastern Carolina Holding It* Own
The poxloffice is considered the No other pos(.offices in this section
business barometer of a community. UIP changed in their classification.
-r- If thai is true- tlien Eastern Carolina . (;hip€| HjU ani Hendersonville go up
seems to l>e holding its own. Wash- . ...
from second class to first class while
ington moves from second to firs
j Burlington, Henderson and KeidsVillc
class, Uelhaven from lird to 2iui while ,
fall rom first to seco:id class.
'Plymouth falls from a s-jcond class to
s. third class office and Mackeys from In the New England Slates, the loss
a third class to u o fourth class office, in classifications has been larger than
Williams on shows a steady increase that of a(iy other section of ihe coun
in business and holds its same classi-' try because the population in that
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fication, that of second class. section has decreased.
Whose Duty is it?
Whose duty is it? When you want man, we, ,as a community, should set
something done, how do you start out to work. There are so many thing*
about it? l)o you lie down and hope* that we can do, and they will take
that by mere chance it will be done? hut little of our time yet if we do
In that world where real business is it, it will repay us many times and
carried on you will find no such con- result in much good. Whose duty is to
ception. However, you will find the advertise a tobacco market? It isn't
real business man putting forth his the warehouseman's duty alone, it is
a
every ounce of energy that he might the duty of every merchant, business
win He takes delight in his Work—he firm, man woman, and child of this
accomplishes something. He does not community. Let's start now—-tell
sit down and do nothing but hope. your friends that Williamston aims to
Using the same principle as that reach the S-millioti pound mark and
followed by the successful business over this year;
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The Local Tobacco Market
Starting back with the Williamston run our four warehouses is not limit
tobacco market in i(s beginning we ed to the warehouse floors. Th?y have
find no year that affords the chances worked ill the tobacco fields, they
• that this year does. It is Wii'h the best have watched the fire in the furnace
of spirits that we mention the tobac- as it curled its way and wept up the
co market w,- are to have this year, round stack as smoke. It was out of
Four auc ion warehouses run by men sleepy eyes that they did this, too.
who know how, men who have had So with each house having such man
experience and x men who take joy in i.i'enient at its head we fell safe In
running them, for they work with a spying that Williams'on will have the
common view as well as anyone else: .greatest y.'ar ever in the sale .of leaf
The experience of the men who are to tobacco this year.
The Street Cleaner's Ford
From the street-cleaners brush to Ford looked at the big fools, who fly !
home by means of Ford. Such a from theiwduties just to go joy seek
, thing would have been considered a ing in orre of his vehicles. That is
huge impossibility n few year's ago.' no fault of lys; it lies buck in the
But Henry Ford did not stop looking teaching and training that America,
when he saw rich man riding in as a whole, is pushing into the beans
a car. He looked u,t tjw nian walking of its youth. ~
the stree's and now it seems he even Our street sweeper, Wheeler Has
glanced at the street sweeper To of- sell, sweeps tlie streets all day and
ten we limit our services to a small at night crawls in his five-passenger
j class, ignoring that class where your Ford and rides homs. And who can
service will count most for all. Some blame him? We don't know the details
say that Henry Ford lias wrecked about it but we feel safe in saying
country with his everflowing that he has a better right when view-
I stream of'tin combined into a junk ed from an economic standpoint, to a
combination. Such a statement can-' Ford than many o her owners of the
not be true. Anything that has good same' type of vehicle
in it and properly used will help in And, we don't have to go far from
most every case. The trouble is Mr. home to prove it.
The Man With the Money Rules
A prophet is not necesaar.v to fore- ed. The proposed plan will save the
| cast the policy of President Coolidge Standard Oil company, Mr. Forti, Mr.
and the taxing committee in Con- Edison, the big tobacco corporations
gress. Their intentions are so appar- many millions of dollars. It will not
ent that even a ward politician can lower, our national debt, therefore it
Me that the plans are to take the will do nothing except, shift the bur
tax off the rich. The sur tax, which den from ths rich to the poor.
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luxury is only enjoyed by the rich It is safe to say that wealth has
who have large incomes, is to be such a hold on th ethroats of poli
i gre«tljr reduced. The high rates charg- tics that legislation will be dictated
| «T«ii M| incomes "wBI also be reduc- by the man with the money.
Weather Too Hot for One Farmer
| We frequently hear complaints a- scene led us to think that it was God's
B gainst the weather, moat af them are _ . . .. .
|. • way of feeding the multitude. Heat
H simply foolish. In passing through the , ,
the earth and make it bnng forth the
■s country a few days ago, we noticed
. . .. fruits and flowers, the grain and the
B splendid crops of com, cotton, pea-
I nuts and tobacco, all hailing the th » t » nd •»
x warn —— for the vigor and life the creeping things of the earth might
| that they were receiving from K. The live.
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One young farmer leaned back in a
rocker and fanned himself while li«
complained at the hot weather. It
really sounded br.d to heur a man
complain at that special feature of
nature that gives him life. ►
i Week]
By Arthur Brisbane
ACCURSED DISTRIBUTION'.
SAMUEL RUBEL, HE SAVED.
THEY PRAYED, IT RAINED.
WE EAT TOO MUCH.
It costs more to a sack .
of potatoes from the tnifn to a
store in New York City than it
does to ship the aaek 1,100 miles
by railroad.
The farmer raises the ealf, weens
K, feeds it, feeda and milks the
grown cow, and gets for the milk
a quarter of the money paid by
the person that .drinks the milk.
You'can bring freight across the
Atlantic or Pacific Ocean for less
than it costs to take it across the
North River in New York City.
The curse of business is th* high
cost of distribution. Production
we understand, in distribution we
are as backward as Fiji Islanders.
Samuel Rubel came from Russia
a few years ago. He hadn't a
dollar, but he did have a distinct
idea that a dollar was worth hav
ing; also he realized that the only
way to have many dollars is to
save the first few. A little while
ago he was peddling coal for a
living, today he is head of his own
$60,000,004 ice and coal concern.
Young gentlemen, it payt to jaw
even a LJTTLE.
The prices of automobile tires
have gone up from 10 to 12 per
cent in London. They are going
up here. If you need tires, go and
buy them. They will be much
dearer before they are cheaper.
The United States Government
investigates what happened t*
wheat, when the price suddenly
dropped from $8 to $1.40, making
millions in profits for "shorts."
They are gentlemen that never
dug in " r * ' "' hnrv**t
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~ CLEANING BETTER
—ln Every Way
DOING MOKE
—Every Day.
Pope's Service Shop
- Phone 242
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VttJb KNTKUl'ltlisE. WiU.iAMSION. NOKIW CAitOUNA
11 Of course he was one of the com-1
* plainers of the cold weather last |
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! winter. Th? fellow tint complains of |
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r weather conditions is generally an j
j ex'vemist or a sorry fellow.
ei or a tractor, but that kn«*r
eno,.i;li to n„' th-' market.
I'lie Government may invest!- |
gate, but if won't do much to pro
trrt I'qliners from cutthroat inani
iij:it on until it hnitatee the
French Gov trtiinent.
That nation passed a law to
i miah with imprisonment with
iwird labor for life certain kinds
of grain gambling.
- Last week, led by the Rotary
Club, the business men of Denver,
landing in silence for two minutes,
p uyed for rain, and the next
i.ight, in almost every part of the
t Uit.ii, rain fell in torrents, and the
weather bureau announces m>re.
Nothing could be more edifying,
but fanners in Colorado are pust,-
jled. They cannot understand why
Providence should answer the
prayers of busine-ss men that only -
deal in crops after ignoring t>>!
** prayers and heavy losses of the
farmers that RAISE the crop..
However, the way# of Providence
are beyond human understanding,
and farmers ought to know it.
It Is possible to be a criminal
and not be a complete fool, liairy
Valkes, of Pittsburgh, makes and
■ells bootleg whiskey. He tills.' 
the Judge: It is all right to
but to drink myself, nothing d'
ing. Only fools drink now; wise
ones sell."
Business on a big scale is grcn-
Ing in big things and little t.m
One chain of grocery store,
a business of more than $&">? ( U
000 a year.*
One five and ten cent store cj-ni w
a little while-a«.i ann«uwtn*«i «•- (••*»*•>«>
ambition a business of $('•(),()' 0.
a year. It dot s now n.oce ••"
$260,000,000 a year.
In retail business there i *
limited prosperity for t!i"- >
that understands the meant'
use of the three makic w.
"ORGANIZE, DEPUTIZE, .*>l
PERVISE."
Professor Ma* Rubner, of Rt H
| isays American- eat more on >
average 3,,'108 calories i;u'.v --
than any other nation. 1 -;d
comes next, with 2,997 calorie-.
1 It is certain that this cou.
•ate too much, and wastes aho.
as much as it 'eats. Half we e. t
t keeps us alive. One quarter keeps
> the doetors alive, and one quailei
supports the undertakers and cem
etery owners. Eat half, leave the
table for ten minutes, an o onre
'.' digestion starts youll know vvi \ ?
epten enough.
There seems to be a race on be-
Munsey of New York, and
Mr. Curtis of Philadelphia, to see who
can buy the largest number of big
metropolitan dailies. It may be that
in a few years four or five men will
own and control all the large dailies
in our country. The country weeklies
and small city dailies remain the big
independent group of newspapers.
There are some fourteen thousand of
I hose published and read in the homes
.H'l.
of the people and reaching a majority
of (lie population.—lndustrial News
liureau.
If Ualeigh had started i s cam
paign against high ice prices in the
winter, it might be enjoyng them
now. But, like most of us, we have to
feel the heat before we act and many
times we pay twice the price fori
waiting. Whether or not ice is too
hi;-ii in Raleigh or not, it's none of
our business—'it's a uues ion for the
"ics-man" to solve. '
We, (ami we takes in more than a
lundful) have had so many things
tha. we have reached the point where
we don't we want. How
ever, we still want much, but to make
it worse we don't want to work for'
it.
It two times time to cut weeds. It
is-the 26 of June and the weeds are
herX Since Williamston was a child
the weeds have threatened its life
each year. And most every year we
think they >will succeed, but in the
niche of time the reapers blade al
ways strikes. Our friends in New
Town are thinking about establishing
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Let Us Contract Your Work
We are prepared to handle your job, whether
it be large or small.
We handle only the best materials, and when
you let us do your work, you are sure to get good
materials, as we figure them in our estimates and
use thenyjn our jobs. *
You ape doing an injustice if you do
not get our pricfes before you build ojrifuy.
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- Call phone 265 and a representatives will
come and go over your work or material bill with
you.
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Roanoke Supply Co.
QUALITY SERVI
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an air route to their homes. But, to
liieui we will say cheer i,p for the
mower will be around shortly It's two
'!n.e!j li ne that i. was here already,
so we can expect it in a day or so.
HUGH G. HORTON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
First Floor Peoples Bank Building
Williamston, N. C.
NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of J. H. Purvis, deceas
ed, la e of IJart'.n Couiry, Norlh Car
olina, ihis-is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against the estate of said
deceased to exhibit them fo the un
deiiigned at Williamston, North Car 4
olina, on or before the 15th day of
June, 1926, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
BILIOUSJTTACKS
From Which Kentucky Maa Suf
fered Two or Three Times •
M—Hi, Relieved by
Black-Draught.
Lftwreneebnrg, Ky.—Mr. 3. P.
1 Nevins, a local coal dealer and far
mer, about two year* ago learned
of the value of Thedford'a Black-
Draught liver medicine, and now
be aays:
"Until then I suffered with se
vere bilious attacks that came on
two or three times each month.
I I would get nauseated. I would
have dizziness and couldn't work.
"I would take pills until I was
worn-out with them. I didn't seem
to get relief. After taking the pills
my bowels would act a couple or
three times, then I would be very
constipated.
"A neighbor told me of Black-
Draught and I began Its use. I
never have found go much rolief
as it gave me. I would not be
without It. for anything.
*yt seemed to cleanse my whole
system and make me feel like new.
4 would take a few doses —get rid
of the bile and have my usual clear
nead, ffcol full of 'pep' and could
do twice the work."
One cunt a dose. NC-Ml
HOW'S THIS?
HALI/I CA'I liau HICUtCIJro Will
do what we cl>ilm for It—rid your system
of Catarrh or l_«juf!.es» taueed by
Catarrh
HAM'S CAT«RHH MKIWIKE con
sist!) of an Ointment which Quickly
Relieves ,the catarrhal inflammation, and
the Interna! Medicine, a Tonic, which
acts through the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces, thui restoring norms! condi
tions.
Sold by druggists for over 40 Tears
F. J Cheney * C>> TnJ«do. ObV>
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BIG DANCE AT BELHAVEN BEACH
EVERY FRIDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT
Special Orchestra—Dancers, SI.OO
Come And Enjoy The Big: Time
D. LESOFSKY, Mgr.
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LAND PLASTER
I sell genuine Phospho Landplaster, 95 per
cent gypsum, at $lO a ton, cash. Delivered
at any time from No. 4 Storage, Time price
a little higher.
C. B. Hassell
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate payment,
this 15:h day of June, 1926.
W. C. Purvis, Administrator of J.
H. Purvis. 6-16-6
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COLD-CUT
MEATS
for . t .
SUMMER
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Cold-cut meats for summer
are very appetizirj when they
are fresh—a: ours are. It U
wasted energy to heat up the
house these hot afternoons in
cooking boiled or baked meats
when you cah (jet such whole
some cold-cut here.
Try some of our wonder ham
and special summer sausages—
garnished with lettuce and to
matoes —and tipped with rich,
cold, creamy salad dressing.
They can't be beat.
Try Them this Week
THEO. ROBERSON
AND
o. T. NEWTON