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VOLUME XXVII—NUMBER 45
TOBACCO MEN EXPECT TO SELL
MORE THAN SIX MILLION POUNDS
ON LOCAL MARKET THIS SEASON
Hope To More Than
Double Sales Of
Last Year
GOOD CORPS BUYERS
Redryinff Plant Will Be
A Big Asset To The
Market
• Present indication* would move the
estimate of five million pounds to
•ver six million pound*, and this is
stQl ji conservative estimate of the
amount if tobacco that will be sold
on the William* ton market thia year.
The estimate is based on sound facts,
by what people outside of oar town
say, and upon the reports of our vari
ous warehousemen. \
With the advantages of the Wil
liamston market, and taking into con
sideration the reports gathered from
various sections, the six millions and
over estimate is a very conservative
one.
The opening of a modern redrying
plant here will carry its effect far
and wide, and will add greatly to the
sales of tobacco on this market To
qeote from "Market Briefs," a little
leaflet issued by the WilUamston
Chamber of Commerce, we find it has
the following to say about the redry
ing plant: "It means that one of the
most important, most vital step* in
the building of a real tobacco market
haa been made.
"It means that the WilUamston
market has an advantage that will
assure market price*.
"It means mqre pounds
of tobacco will be sold jn William
ston warehouse floors titan has ever
been known to be sold here in one
season before."
The little leaflet goes on to say
"We could go ahead and trace back
aed find many, many other features
that a redrying plant establishes for
a tnhem market, but that would be
nsaeeassory. When a market i*
bufided on such features, It is to be
depended upon for Its power to lead
io the selling of tobacco.
"It is with much pleasure that we
tall the people of this section about
the opening o# a tobacho redrying
plant here, and it is with much sin
cerity that we welcome Mr. Skinner
to our town."
Mr. W. L Skinner is a pioneer in
the tobacco business in eastern Caro
lina. He pot into operation the first
redrying plant in eastern North Car
olina and bought tobacco for ths Max
well Tobacco Co., of Liverpool. For
the past sixteen years he bought to
baeeo ea the Greenville, N. C., ware
house floors. During that time he
boa learned to know a large number
of fanners, and practically every
farmer knows him. He has devoted
practically all his life to one phase or
another of the tobaooo business, and
boa gained the reputation of being
one of the beet tobacco men in the
reentry. Mr. Skinner will operate the
redrying plant here, and will buy to
bacco ea the local warehouse floors.
Buyers win represent every tobacco
company on the WilUamston market
this year, and they will all be A-l
men.
These faola, coupled with the ex
perience of the proprietors of Wil
liamston'* four independent ware
housea substantiate the statement that
the WilUamston tobacco market will
seU six million and over pounds of
tofcaeeo this season.
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Here Press Rocky Moot
Mf. D. S. Drew, of Bocky Mount,
was la the eHy Wednesday.
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Stand Theatre
FRIDAY
"IT IS THE LAW"
A Fox special with
an all-start cast
SATURDAY
| WORD of VALOR'
RIDEK"
THE ENTERPRISE
To Play Here For Roanoke Fair This Year
*
The Roanoke Fair Association bsa x«ne to great expense to secure the
Mar Dona Ida Royal Scotch Highlander*, a band aecoiid to none in the show
world today. This band alone coat the management of the Koanoke Fair
MOT* than the entire program of many fair*.
Soloist*, vocal and instrumental, and specialties will be included in the
program each afternoon and evening. Hear them at the Koanoke Fair, Wil
limston, N. C, November X, 4, 5, and 6, 1925.
Manager Poe ia on the job again this year when it comes to securing the
beat in those feature* that go to make a fair enjoyable and pleasing, a* well
aa beneficial.
Martin County Folks Take
Their Time About Getting
Married; Average 27 Years
Average Age For Month
Of July More Than
33 Years
Martin County's love affaire are of
a alow variety, according to records
found in the register of deeds's office.
For the first six months In this year
there were 100 marriage licenses is
sued, and the average age was 26 1-3
years. July came along and further
delayed matters when it alone gave
an average of 83 1-8 years. One or
two in this month greatly increased
the average, there being one for 77
years, one for 66 yeara. For the year
to date the average stand at 26 1-2
years. Thia is a very high average,
It seems to us.
July fell three short when compared
with Juhe in the number of licenses
issued. June had eleven while July
has only eight
The list of licenses for the month of
July is M follows:
White
George Howard Hardy, 81, Johnston
County, to Lola Idell Smith, 26, Mar
tin County; Henry Baker Bell, 77, to
Mary Coltimin, 62, both of Martin
County; 4leber Davenoprt, 21, to Hat
tie Mae Wells, IS, both of this coun
ty; James W. Coltrain, 66, to Mrs.
Fannie Banks, 62, both of Martin
County; Charles Fisher Carroll, 36, of
Warsaw, N. C., to Nellie Fisher
Wynne, 22, of Mai tin County.
Colored
Henry Moye, 22, to Lucy Perkins,
25; Henry Rodgers, 21, to Minnie
Moore, 21; Moses Rascoe, 50, to Bet
tie Perry, 24; Eddie Saunders, 21. to
Mamie Anthdhy, 17, all of Martin
County.
Mr. Green Has First
New Sweet Potatoes
Mr. John W. Green, of Bear Grass
Township, has been eating nice Porte
Rico sweet potatoes from his own Held
all the week.
Johnny is one of the county's best
farmers, and gives attention to the
things to est as well as the things to
sell, hence be is not affected by town
prices as much as many farmers are.
Card Club Meeting
Held This Mofning
The card club met this morning: with
Mrs. J. H- Saunders at her bonne on
Haughton Street. She served de
licious frozen fruit salad at the eon
clnsion of the gamea.
Members present included Mesdames
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, July 31, 1925
Williamston Motor Co.
Began Business Monday
... Willjamston's new Ford Garage
opened last Monday for business. Op
erating under the firm name of the
Williamston Motor Co., this concern
has opened an up-to-date garage and
sales room. The company was or
ganized only a few weeks ago said
will occupy the building formerly oc
cupied by the B. R. Barnhlll Garage
on Washington Street,* »
Messrs. J. D. Woolard, who resigned
the cashisrship at ths Farmers A. Mer.
chants Bank, and Mr. Cortes Green,
who for many years has been connect
ed with the Harrison Wholesale Co.,
of this city, compose the firm and
they have been made authorized Ford
dealers-for this-seet ion.- ~j
Mr. W. J. Hodges Is A
Champion I'each Grower
Thursday morning Mr. W. J. Hodges
had on display some of the finest
peaches ever seen In this section, two
peaches weighing one pound six and
a half ounces, or just a small fraction
less thap three-quarters of a pound
apiece.
Mr. Hodges raised them in his back
yard. He does not know the name of
the peach. They are all "whoppers"
and easily Make Mr. Hodges the
champion grower of big peaches.
Recalls Visit of William Jennings Bryan
To Williamston and Other Small Towns
By H. B. C.
William Jennings Bryan came to
Williamston three times, but I doubt
that even his wife knows that he came
but once. He came first on the young
rteed of fame after the Chicago con
vention of 1896, when men vied with
one another to do him honor. He was
a demi-god. When he visited North
during the campaign, people
went hundreds of miles to he«r his
voice or touch his hand.
Bryan came to WiUisnuiton again
on the sloven ox of despair after his
unsuccessful attempts to become Pres
ident It becamo the order of the
day tor small me In to revile .him.
Bryanism was used as a bludgeon of
reproach to hurt at his former sup
porters. It appeared that everyone
had deserted him save a few of the
faithful. x
.:j- : He came again in person in later
of polities from hli majestic
No Enterprise To Be
Issued Next Tuesday
There will be no issue of the
Enterprise next Tuesday. We hate
very much to miss sn issue, but
our" typesetting machine needs
some repairs, and it will require
several days to overhaul it. We
are hastening this issue in order
that we might have ample time
to complete the job.
For the past several months lit
tle defect* have been appearing,
and we think we have put them off
long enough; so it is with the
hope of stifling off with n clean
sheet today week that we miss
our issue next Tuesday.
CHILI) IS KILLED
IN AUTO SMASH
21 -Mon hs-Old Child of Mr. Will
Clark Killed When Truck Hits
l ord Coupe Near Greenville
Wednesday afternoon Mr. Will t'lark
and family, of Greenville, "were out
motoring on, the Washington road
when i heir car was struck, turned over
ard completely around by a man nam
ed Williams, who was driving; a large
truck- The 21-months-old child of
Mr. Clark was instantly killed and
several ether members of the family
injured. ,
-The uccident occurred seven miles
from Greenville, 'when Mr. Clark
turned out for the approuclnng tjuck,
whii h was traveling at a very fast
rale of tpeed for so heavy a vehicle.
Mr. Clark was completely forced off
the paved road and had both front
wheels on the .dirt and turned , into a
ditch.
Mr. Clark was driving a Ford coupe
and it was nothing more, than mirac
ulous that other members of the fam
ily were not killed when the car was
turned over.
Williams, the driver of the truck,
was credited with killing a mule on
the rame date.
Macedonia Local
And Personal News
I Mr. and Mrs. it. H. Peele attended
church at Old Ford Sunday.
Mr. Alfred Griftin was the guest of
Miss Virginity Peele Sunday.
Mr. George Peele was the guest of
Miss Vivian Peele Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Coltrain were
visitors in the Hardison Mill section
Sunday.
Mr. Elbert Wilson wac the guest of
Misses Sarah and Sadie Mae Hadley
Sunday afternoon.
Misse* Carrie Ward, VngThia Peel,
anl Mr. Raymond Peel went to Wash
it gton Sunday afternoon to see Mi*s
Carrio Roberson at the Washington
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Peele spent
Simony afternoon with Mrs. John
Hodges.
Mr. Beri' Lißey "was the guest of
Miss Carrie Ward Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Perry spent
Sunday with Mrs. Per.y's parents, Mr.
and Mr*. E. S. Peele.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Hadley spent
Sunday afternoon witTTMrrand UriT
Charlie Beacham.
Mr. and rMs. Nat Cherry spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mm. Simon Perry.
Mr. Sentelle to Preach
At Baptist Church
Prof. R. E5, Sentelle will preach at
the Baptist Church both Sunday morn
ing and evening, and Dr. Walter R.
White, of Plaht City, Fla., will fill the
pulpit of that church Sunday, August
the 9th, both morning and evening.
Dr. White Is a Bertie County citi
zen, but has been preaching in other
States for several years.
mind, came as a Crusader, a Christian
propagandist.
It is popular to follow the fickle
tide. I found myself (Trifling with
popular opinion and almost turned a
gainst Bryan when he failed to reach
his pqlitical £oal. My father, who
-6niy gained the outskirts of the crowd
when he spoke at Rocky Mount, so
great was the crush, and who felt
compensated later when he shook his
hand from the car window as the train
crowd who cursed and belittled Bryan.
Dulled out, came near joining the
Bryan never became the President
of the United States, for which nar
row-minded men cursed him, hot he
became something greater, he Became
the captain of a vast army, became
the master of their destinies, the pilot
of their souls. He pointed the way,
and with his matchless voice turned
men and women to Christ. Bryan
preached the gospel of hope. Men
nMd to took foiwgid to . Mtot to-
REGULAR SESSION
RECORDERS COURT
Six CasM On Docket For 't rial Tues
day; Negro Bound Over tin
Charge of Rape
Six cases were on the criminal dock,
et and came before Recorder Smith
last Tuesday in the Marl in County re
corder's cocnrL. Attorney E. S. Puel
prosecuted for the State.
The first case was that''of Stale vs.
Carl Aiken and Henry Kobeison. Uob
erson was not taken and Aiken was
sent fo jail for six months, with leave
To be sent to the E3geconlbe~Cou'ifty
roads. Aiken plead 'guilt) to the
charge brought agatiist him of selling
liquor.
The case against C. I'. Jones, charg
ing him with selling liquor, was nol
prossed with leave.
The case charging L. J. Mardiaon
and George M. liardison with assault
with deadly weapon was continued
until Tuesday, August 4.
General i'urvis plead guilty to a
charge of simple assault. JudgoieiU
was suspended upon the payment of
the cost of the action.
Muliala Lloytl, charged with right
ing and assault, plead not guilty *o
the charge, and the court, after hear
ing the evidence, found her not guil
ty. '
Joe Taper, a negro from the JDat
ilens section was charged with rape.
The defendant waived examination,
and was ordered by the court to be
confined in the county jail to await
trial in the September term of Martin
County superior court.
Assistance Provided
For Accredited Flocks
Assistance has been provided in be
ginning the accredited hatcheries anil
hatchery flocks in North Carolina, 'this
work, done under the supervision of
the State division of markets, will help
to build up the poultry industry of
the State.
Suit Against Co-ops Looked
On As "Old Stuff" by Heads
Of the Tobacco Association
Jet Tliree Stills in
Free Union Section
Wednesday Agents Harris, linker,
and J. R. Manning hunted in Free
Union, where they captured a copper
still, the cap and worm of another,
and two steel-drum stills and about
800 gallons of beer.
None of the stills were being oper
ated ami no clue to connect the own
ers was found.
Free' Union has for a time estab
lished a reputation for manufacturing
lots of bad liquor. They seem to use
the poorest materials and use the
meanest equipment of any section of
the country. They also seem to be
so well organized that- 110 one can
approach without the news spreading
•atigartwarmnyt he *0 pc ra or irr J
Episcopal Picnic at
Coleraine Today
The Episcopal Sunday school will
have ils annual picnic at Coleraine
today.. The children are asked tn meet
at the Episcopal church yard at 9
o'clock Friday morning, Mr. H. M.
Stubbs, superintendent, urges all the
members of the Sunday school and
church to attend.
In Morehead City
Mr. Julius S. Peel is spending sev
era I days at Morehead City.
morrow. Take hope from the heart
of men and you put chaos in the
bottom of the nation. Many of us have
seen hopeless persons. We have seen
the hopeless murderer in the death
chamber, a community perhaps verg
ing on the loss of hope after a torna
do, or earthquake, but never have we
seen a hopeless nation, unless we see
it in Russia today. And what Ameri
can would exchange his abode for a
hopeless life in pagan Russia.
Clay, Webster, and Calhoun died
after their political life had ended;
not so with Bryan, he quickly turned*
to the right, and "clothed in the ar
mor of a righteous cause was stronger
than all the host of error that could
be brought against him."
Bryan is dead, but the things for
«bich he fought will never die. His
Christian life and indomintable cour
age will always be an inspiration to
mm and women who believe in Christ
Mid the immortality of the soul.
GOVERNOR ASKS NORTH
CAROLINIANS TO HONOR
BRYAN DURING BURIAL
A Fall Fsshio'n 1
4 Mayba you An't know* It yet,
Mw. Woman Ruader, but you am
going to wear large hat* agaiV
This black uelour, trimmed witivV
silk mauvtt violets and cyclamen,
is a new Fall fashion with 'brim
and made to fit bobbed heads.
Tobacco Averages 14
Cents In (aeorgia
1 lie Ccoigia Tobacwi Market
opened luesdai with medium
Millets ami prices ranging from ti
10 cents, according |o press re
ports from tobacco men in lhat
soet ion.'.
Ihe average price, was given as
11 cents.. .Tkjf do not grade tu-_.
liaeco on those markets; if they
did, iliej would'receive fr«m one
to a cell* and .1 half more.
Some of ttvo markets are with
out buyers, a Mil will possibly have
to close in a few days.
Timed To Occur With
Opening of S. C.
Markets
The suit filed against" employees of
tli» Tobacco- Association' by J. A;
Wade, a farmer of Halifax County,
Va., has created irtdy mild interest
among the members of the associa
tion, according to all accounts.
What bus become un annual barrage
of hostile and sensational publicity
against the organized is tim
ed as usual to precede the opening of
the association's market# in South
Carolina. Members wearisomely re
call the bungling attempt of three
young men from South lioston to start
an insurrection and collect "subscrip
tions" to "show up the association"
which occurred at, just this time last
year.
According to, the news from Dan
ville, where the presetrt-suit is Ijjedj
"There k a shrewd suspicion that, the
action—hay been fostrrrvf Inrgfly in
South lioston by the same element
which sought to destroy the associa
tion last .summer."
The saving of hundreds of thous
ands of dollars for the association and
its members hy -the men who -en me to
its aid and redried its tobacco from
cents to BO cents cheaper per hun-,
dred pounds than the price which oth
er redrjers would have forced the as-{
sociation to pay, was "good business,
good morals, and good economy for
ihe association," according to Oliver
J. Sands, of Richmond, public director
for the association in Virginia.
Public officials from three Stales
who were invited to investigate the
affairs of the association stated many
weeks ago in their report that they
had gone very, thoroughly into its re
drying policies. In the words of the
directors of extension, the commission
ers of agriculture, the, chiefs of the
bureaus of markets and editors of
farm papers from Virginia, North snd
Carolina:
"The committee believes that the as
sociation saved it*, members at least
25 cents per hundred pounds in redry
ing costs on the 1923 arop, and per
haps 50 cents per hundred in redry
ing costs on a part of the 1 024 crop.
The association got a large part of
its tobacco redried at ft.75 per hun
dred in 1923, due to this basic price.
During 1924 the fvlmondson Tobacco
Co. furthefmhHied jts charges for re
drying to $1.50 per hundred pounds."
Directdr Sands when told of the
suit last week declared, "It is ludi
crous to allege that a net profit of
$600,000 his been made by the very
parties who effected a saving at hun
-1 dreds of thousands sf dollars tor ths
\OVKKTISERS WILL FIND OUH
COLUMNS A LATCHKEY TO 1600
HOMES OF MARTIN COI'NTI
ESTABLISH ED 1898
j .
Requests Cessation* Of
Business for Hall
Hour
HALF MAST FLAGS
Burial Will Take Place
At Arlington This
Afternoon
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.(.uvei'iKir Angus ,W Mclean ' Tues
day issued an olhcial proclamation en
joining all the people of the Stale to
ilpsist from their cu~trnii;,iy activities
.lor a period of thirty minutes during • -
the funeiul .jaJLJViliiuni Jennings tfry- •
an Kriilay and ordering Hags on State
■ building* tu 'fly m- •hatf msst ilurliiK -'
the entire day.
The proclulfiatioii follows in full:
"A proclamation by the Governor.
"Whereas, the funeral services of
late William ■!' I i iy.ui will
taVc place in Arlington Cemetery, at
Wu.niingtoiij on Fi iday, the thirtieth
daj of July, and
"Whereas, for more three decades
Mi. Hryau has been the acknowledged
leader of a mighty host itr America,
and
"Whereas, he lias by his strength
and sincere convictions of duty and
his exalted moral character made an
everlasting impression upon life lives
of the American people, and
"Whereas, ■hfe-ttavHr has -brought
peculiar sorrow to the people of North
TYiTWtint lu»C!Ui:4i nr ttur many "™rtF?r
that existed between him'and them.
"Now. therefore, I, Angus W. Me-
I.call, gove'j'jjUir of Niirtlf ("aiolina, in
lesopnse to universal public sent uiieut
of our jfeople to pay to the memory
of the dceaseii last mark of respect
do hereby order the flags of all Stiite
buildings in North Carolina to he
llown at half mast on Friday, July the
thirtieth," and I do respectfully, enjoin
the people of the State to desist from
their customary activities, fot a per
ioil of thirty mi miles, dining the time
of the funeral. ,
' Done at our city of Raleigh, this'
Ihe twenty-eighth day of July, -in the
year of our I.ord one thousand ninc
-111 ml red and twenty-five, ami in the
one hundred and fiftieth year of our
A iliericah IndepeHderiie."
It would be in keeping with the
solemn occasion if people would as
semble themselves together and read
the Scriptures, which were'the light
to the pathway of . the Great Com
monor while in life and which has
doubtless led him safely back to the
Creator of all things.
liir Crowd From Here
Attends Masons Picnic
A 4 lal't'e number of our people at
tended the Masonic picnic !ilColeraine
yosterday. A large number 01" the
~»f Jb.U.A.">VU at|eiHlei| and flll
the warehousemen were there. The
Chamber of Commerce was represent
ed, and advertising material was dis
t rihutedr'Tho jiienlc was a great sur
eeas. ——— - —"-
Leave for Western Carolina
Mi', ami' Hngh Or Horton will
leave tomorrow for Western North
Carolina. They will make the trip
through the country and will visit
(liwnsboro, Winston Salem, Charlotte,
anil Asheville, where they will spend
several days.
association " The public director.for
Virginia characterized the suit as a
lust ditch fight to discredit the asso
ciation and ininede its further prog
t ess.
According to the statement of Rob- •,
ertr Wude, the young attorney who is
most active in the suit, representa
tives of Henry ' Ford's legal staff will
•ouie shortly into the tobacco section,
for the purpose., his says, of securing
data to contest Sapiro's damage suit
tiled against Ford.
The recent warning; of Dr. J. Y
Joy tier to the farmers, which wu
made by the veteran worker arid or
ganizer of the association when, he an
nounced that he would retire from a
salaried position with the association
to serve it without pay, seems espec
ially timely in view of the efforts now
being expended in the annual attack
against farmers of Virginia andJ.hc .
Carol are organizing their
Qwn business. "In this fight for eco
nomic freedom and economic justice
for our farmers; we are now standing
at the Marne, said Dr. Joyner, in
bidding his associates farewell, and
declared that "arrayed fijeainst us are
powerful forces, strongly entrenched,
perfectly organised? MwerftiUy fi
nanced, determined in their own in
terest to destroy us this year if •