Local and Personal
Miss Willie Skinner will leave this
afternoon for her home in Greenville,
where she will spend the Christmas
holidays, and return to Williams ton
January 12th.
Mesdames J. A. Manning, Z. H.
Rose, Gurganus, and L. C. Bennett
spent Wednesday in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. A 1 Clapp will arrive
Saturday to spend Christmas with
their mother, Mrs. W. S. Harris.
Miss Eva Peel will arrive tonight
from Robersonville to spend the
Christmas holidays at her home here.
Miss Minnie Robertson, of Winston-
Salem, will arrive tomorrow to spend
the Christinas holidays with her moth
er, Mrs. J. L. Robertson.
Messrs. Wheeler Martin and D. D.
Stalls motored to Wilmington yester
day. y
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gold, of Rocky Mt.,
have visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mar
golis this week.
Mr. Robert S. Biggs motored to
Wake Forest today to bring Messrs.
William Hodges, Herbert Peele, jr.,
Fred Taylor, and Benjamin S. Court
ney, jr., who are students of Wake
Forest College.
Misses Irene B. HoUowell, Lucy
Claire Ivy, Mildred Darden, Olivia
Bridgers, Lena Pen land, and Eleanor
Stanback and Mr. S. A. Bowden, mem
bers of the Williamston school facul
ty, left this afternoon for their re
spective home* to spend the Christ
mas holidays.
Mesdames R. G., G. H., C. A., and
L. B. Harrison and J. D. Woolard mo
tored to Tarboro Tuesday to visit rel
atives. •
Mrs. Jack Chapman and Miss Marie
Chapman, of Grifton, were shoppers
here Tuesday.
Messrs. Oscar Paul and Joe Bell, of
Washington, were visitors here Wed
nesday.
Miss Velma Harrison arrived last
night from Winston-Salem to spend
Christmas.
Messrs. Milton Norman and Joe
Swain, of Raleigh, are holding coop
erative meetings in several towns of
Bertie County this week.
Mr. Francis Manning will arrive to
morrow from Chapel Hill to spend the
Christmas holidays with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Manning.
REDUCTION
SALE
Special Saie of All Goods
at Greatly Reduced
Prices Beginning
Saturday, Dec. 19
And Runs Through All The
Christmas Week
V. R. Taylor's Store
; ON WILLIAMSTON-HAMILTON ROAD
REMEMBER ALL PRICES Are B ARG AIN PRICES NEXT WEEK
Mr. S. R. Biggs spent Tuesday in
Suffolk attending to business.
Miss Margaret Manning arrived last
night from Greensboro, where she at
tends N. C. C. W.
Mr. Lou Bloom, who has been vis
iting his sister, Mrs. Frank Margolis,
and Mr. Margolis for the past month,
will leave Sunday for his home at
New York City.
Mrs. R. J. Peel will leave Sunday
for Washington, where she will spend
several weeks in the Washington
Hospital to undergo surgical treat
ment.
Brake-Preddy
The following account of the mar
riage of Miss Preddy jind Mr. Brake
will be of interest to friends of the
bride's father in Williamston and
Martin County, where he has a large
lumber mill;
Rocky Mount, Dec. 16.—A wedding
centering the interest of many friends
was that, of Miss Katherine Leah
Preddy and R. Clarence Brake, jr.,
which took place at the First Presby
terian church manse, the Rev. Willard
Couger officiating.
The lovely bride wore a black satin
dress with gold trimmings and Bmall
gold hat to match. Her corsage was
sweetheart roses.
Mr. and Mrs. Brake left immediate
ly after the ceremony for a bridal
trip to New York and on their return
they will occupy an apartment at the
Arlington Terrace.
The bride is the dcughtei of Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Preddy, the former a
prominent lumberman. She graduated
at the high school and attended Ran
dolph-Macon Woman's College for
three years. She is one of the city's
most charming young women and has
many friends in this and other States
who will be very much interested to
hear of her wedding.
Mr. Brake is a member of the Bul
luck-Brake Insurance Company. He
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Clarence
Brake, the former a prominent whole
sale merchant of the city. He is a
young man of excellent business abil
ity and commands a wide circle of
friends.
Miss Thelma Brown Has
Birthday Party
At the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. P. H. Brown, Miss Thelma
Brown entertained a large number of
her young friends of this city, Tar
boro, Jamesville, Windsor, and Wash
ington.
Bridge was played and dancing was
engaged in until a late hour, when a
buffet luncheon was served by the
hostess, assisted by her mother and
Mrs. Oscar Anderson.
The popularity of the young lady
was attested by the many lovely gffls
presented her.
Her guests included Misses Martha
and Esther Harrison, Mildred Danlen,
Bonner Gurganus, Laura Norton, Rita
Norton, Myxt Wynne, Geneva Cook,
Martha Anderson, Eleanor Stanback,
Frances Gurganus, Augusta Clark, of
Washington; Mesdames J. H. Purvis,
W. H. Capell, jr., and Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Anderson. $
Messrs. Raymond McKenzie, R. L.
Coburn, S. Sessoms, Lyman Britt,
James Griffin, Frank Carstarphen,
Earl Wynne, H. B. Anderson, S. A.
Bowden, Frederick Hoyt, William
Cooke, all of Williamston; John L.'
l'erry, Capehart Nichols, R. T. Gil
iium, C. Rhea, jr., and Banks Morris,
of Windsor; Louis Susman, of Wash
ington; James Smithwick, of James
ville; "Beans" Evans, "Skeet" Evans,
Henry McNair, "Squeak" Brown,
Buck Fountain, "Nigger" Humphrey,
of Tarboro.
We have a shipment of fresh galax
kaves, 10c bunch. Attractive Christ
mas wreaths or designs for cemetery
Give us your order early. Mrs. Biggs
L Pope. Phone 178 or 18. dl 6 3
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The Willie Winkle Shoppe will be
open Thursday and every day' next
week. Hand-made clothes for infants
children's dresses and suits, also
Christmas gifts. dls 8t
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
Having this day qualified as the
administrator of the estate of Joel
Bennett, deceased, all persons holding
claims against said estate are hereby
notified to present same for payment
on or before the 19th day of Decem
ber, 1926, or this notice will be plead
ed in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to saiu estate
will please come forward and make
immediate settlement of same.
This December 19, 1926.
R. F. BENNETT,
(118 4tw Administrator.
Robert L. Coburn, attorney.
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned, as executor of the estate
of W. T. Cullifer, on Tuesday, Decem
ber 22nd, 1926, at about the hour of
IC.OO a. m., will offer for sale at pub
lic auction to the last and highest bid
der for cash at the home place of the
late W. T. Cullifer, in Williamston
Township, the following articles of
personal property belonging to the
above-mentioned estate, to wit:
All farming tools and implements,
fee, team, cows, hogs, machinery,
tools of all kinds, wagons, carts, ami
all other property of like description
and kind, and including all personal
property now in the hands of this ex
ecutor belonging to said estate.
This November 21st, 1925.
HHS SNTEKPiOfIK. WL'UAMSTON. NORIH OAKOUNA
H. A. CULLIFER,
n24 4tw Executor.
Luke Lamb, attorney.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of i.iiza Moore, deceased,
late 4>f Martin County, North Caro
lina, this is to notify all persons hav
ing claims against the said estate to
exhibit them to the undersigned at
Ijer home in Williams ton, N. C., on
ortJefore the 27 th day of November,
1926, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
\Vill please make immediate payment
This 27th day of November, 1925.
•LANIE ORE,
n27 6tw Administratrix.
Hugh G. Horton, attorney.
NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ES
TATE
Under and by virtue of the authori
ty upon the undersigned in a deed of
trust executed by Carrie A. Daven
port and husband, J. H. Davenport,
on the Ist day of January, A. D. 1919,
and of record in the public registry
of Martin County in book A-2, page
jsaid deed of trust given to secure
certain notes of even date and tenor
therewith, and the stipulation in said
ileed of trust not having been com
plied with and at the request of the
parties interested, the undersigned
trustee will Saturday, ilje 26th day of
December, 1925, at 12' o'clock m., in
front of the courthouse door in the
town of Williamston, N. €., sell at
public auction to the highest bidder
for cash the following described land:
A tract of land in Jamesville Town
ship, Martin County, State of North
Carolina, near Dardens, N. C., on the
Jamesville and Plymouth road, begin
ning at a telephone post on the James
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ville & Plymouth road; thence up said
Jumesville and Plymouth road toward#
Dardens to a sweet gum, J. G. God
ard's and J. A. Getsinger's corner in
Beaaley's Branch; thence following
Beasley's Branch to an iron post, J.
U. Manning's and J. G. Godard's cor
ner; thence in a northerly direction a
long the line of J. R. Manning to
Jamesville and Plymouth road, the be
ginning, a telephone post; J. R. Man
ning's and J. G. Godard's corner, con
taining acres more or less, and
being a" part of the Jones or Norman
farm, as surveyed and plotted on the
Bth day of November, 1918, by Syl
vester Peel, County surveyor, said
plat being of record in the public reg
istry of Martin County.
| This 24th day of November, 1925.
WHEELER MARTIN,
■dl 4tw ♦ Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of a power of sale con
tained in that certain mortgage exe
cuted by Elvin Mays and wife, Ludie
Mays,'to J. B. Peel, bearing date of
May 2nd, 1925, which said mortgage
is duly recorded in the office of the
register of deeds of Martin County,
in book X-2, at page 76. Default hav
ing been made in the payment of the
indebtedness thereby secured, the un
dersigned will on Thursday, January
7th, 1926, at 12 o'clock noon at the
courthouse door in Martin County, sell
at public sale to the highest bidder
for. cash the following described real
property, to wit:
Lying and being in Griffins Town
ship, Martin County, N. C. ( beginning
in W. R. Revels and Henry Lilley's
corner on the north; thence a west
erly direction; thence south; thence
east; thence a northerly direction to
the beginning in order to obtain four
acres, known us the Padget place.
This being the identical tract of
land conveyed by Joshua Godard and
wife to Elvin May, by deed dated Oc
tober 6th, 1924, which is hereby re
ferred to.
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.u'ointr to have for the big 1 hol
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when you order tl)em at
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Phone 2433
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This the 7th day of December, 1925.
3. B. PEEL,
dll 4tw Mortgagee.