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Watch Label on Your Paper; It Carries Date Subscription Expires VOLUME XXVm—NUMBER 89 FINDS EVERETTS IS PROUHUSSIVE Enterprise Representative Writes Of Its Advantages; Other News Of The Community (By Special Correspondence) On January Bth we visited the town of Everetts, seven miles irom William son on the A. C.'L. Kaiiroad and the State highway No. VO. It is an ideal country village, of about 500 lnnaoi tonts. It has two nice brick churches, the Christian and the Missionary ttaptist. Kev. George Sullivan is pastor 01 tne Christian Cftuicn ana Kev. W. HOBS Cooper or tne baptist Cnurch. Tne re is one goou so una band here, the Planters and Merchants, which is always to be louna at head oi move ment* for the good of the town and county. Other business institutions of Ever etts include a nice filling sation, a largo saw and planing mill, a grist mill, cotton gin, lathe machine, a blacksmith and woodwork shop, two garages, several storage warehouses, and several wide-awake stores. There la also a nice cafe and two barber shops. The school, a non-accredited high school, has a very handsome commodi ous brick building, with 6 class rooms, a laboratory room, a music room, and a good library with 225 books. Prof. R. T. Johnson is the very efficient prfincipal; Miss Ruby Evans is the assistant. Other teachers are Misses Elisabeth Stuart, Opal Warren, Eliza beth Hurras, and Martha Baldree. The school uses the student govern ment honor sysstem in school work and it works admirably. A monitor for each room cooperates with the teachers in preserving good order. The principal is a young man of unusual energy and well fitted for ths work and has an excellent teaching force to assist him. They are working a junior high-school plan of three yoars' work. There is a Bookkeeping course, with 16 pupils enrolled. This is the only co\jg|6 of this kind in the coun- The school has two good oaaketbali teams, one of the boys and one of the girla. The boys team has won 8 games and lost none. The girls have won 29 games and lost 2. The games that were lo«t were played against two of the champion t** m '' of eastern North Carolina. General News Mr. J. S. Peel had nine pigs butcher ed lately. They were nine months old and weighed 1,680 pounds. They were raised on well-balanced rations fed regularly and had plenty of fresb water. Mr. C. H. Clark, in "frollkking" over a nickel with a boy, dislocated his arm last week, but is getting on nicely now. Mr. J. S. Peel, who has been con fined at the Edgecombe General Hos pital, Tarboro, N. C., in care of Dr. Julian M. Baker, since December 2nd, has returned home and is consider ably improved. He had a severe case of diabetes and also blood poisoning. A farmer living near here kOled hogs recently. Ha had 38 nice ones and has 19 more to Kill: It is said that many farmers around Everetts own 76 or 100 and more hogs each. Recorder's Court Short And of Little Interest TIM recorder's court this morning was short and of little consequence, there being only two cases docketed. These were against Perlle Hardi son and John Lilley, charged with as sault. The boys plead guilty and were released upon bond and prayer for Judgment until February 16 and payment of the codi. - ■ HFH 1%, % Strand Theatre aft REMEMBER — T . ' ', ■ pit* _ ■ \ Continuous Show / From 7 to 11 P. M. Those arriving as late as 9 p. m. will see the entire pro gram. EVERY NIGHT Until Further Notice THE ENTERPRISE County Receives $8,500 From State School Fund The board of education this week received from the State equalisation fund $8,500, which sum will be aug mented in the near future by the a mount of $3,127, still due the county on the amount promised us. The total sum of $11,627 is subject to a reduction of 5 per cent, depend ing upon whether all State appropria tions are cut that much upon the rec ommendation of Governor McLean. Martin County has not participated in the State equalisation fund since 1900, and for that reason she is re ceiving a liberal appropriation this J ear. The qualifications that entitle a county to help from this source, all 1 of which goes to pay teacher's sal aries, are, first, hiring teachers in pro portion to the attendance; second paying teachers according to State salary list and third, classifying the schools according to pamphlet classi fication. The money is received from the State franchise tax, and the total sum should be $3,000,000, but various ex penses will cut the amount dOwn con siiieratly. The State is cutting also the i-mount allotted to vocational edu cation. ' Everetts Girls Lose To Robersonville On Wednesday night the Everetts High School girls lost to the sextet from Robersonville, 19-17. The game was fast and very interesting to the local spectators, even though the in vaders jumped into the lead at the very start. The score at the end of the first quarter was Rabersonville, 10, Lv er otic, 3; at the half, Robersonville led 14-7; end of third quarter Roberson vil.e ifsd 16-12, and during the last quarter Everetts still continued to climb, but the early lead saved the game for l(obersonville. The 1,- uno might have ended in a tie but a field goal by Everetts wrs not t rowed. The ball was shot and in the air befort the whistle was blown, )>ut some one was out of bounds. Thii goal would have sent Ute into an extra period. Tho i-tarh of the game were R. Whit field and H. Ross for Robersonville. Tho Everetts team at times played good, at times very ragged. The stars, the spectators are the only per sons that know, the reporter not be ing able to see very well. The boys' team was supposed to have played Jamesville, but the latter fuiled to show up. They had promised to ( i •Mr oi let us know if they couldn't nu-ko Li-rangements. Due to the disappointment of the cr. wd, Coach Johnson has changed the price of the double-header with Wash ingt jn oil Friday night to 16c and 26c. The girla' game will be called at 7.30. Harrison Bros. Bargains Are Drawing the Crowds Never have the women of William ston and Martin County been given better bargains in dresses, coats, and ready to wear than they are being afforded by Harrison Bros. & Co., and crowds are visiting the store hourly. When they advertised a one-half price sale last week, they meant every word they said. Everything is being rold positively below cost, and the wo men are availing themselvea of the opportunity of getting mid-winter clothes so cheap. Mr. Hubert Warren returned last night from Durham, where he spent the Christmas holidays with his fam ily. Mr. Fowden Moves To Godard Building Mr. L. T. Fowden, district manager of the Security Life Insurance Co.J has changed his offices from the office formerly occupied by Dr. J. B. H. Knight to the Godard Building. He has the same offices in that building that the K. B. Crawford Insurance Co. used to occupy. - - r Besides being district agent for the Security, Mr. Fowden will sell all kinds of insurance during the coming year. Evans' Heirs Send An Attorney To Boston H. M. Stubbs, local attorney, is in Boston this week looking after the es tate of Robert D. Evans, who was originally of Bertie County, but died in Boston, leaving an estate, accord ing to figures given the heirs of Mr. Evans, worth around $22,000,000. Mr. Stubbs is appearing for the hein and is in Boston for the pur pose of investigating the matter. He will return Wednesday or Thursday. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 12,1926 WILLIAMSTON SCHOOL NEWS Insufficient Heat Hinders Work; New Arithmetic Tests; First Basketball Game Here Thursday Today, due to lack of proper radia tion—in other words, there are too few radiators per room—the eighth and ninth grades are scattered thru out the building in search of warmth, and the third and fourth grades were dismissed. Some of the smaller looms, though they each have only one radiator, are comfortable, but whenever it is cold the larger rooms some times have temperatures below 40 or 50 degrees. The fourth, fifth, six, and seventh grades are using the Courtis Practice Tests in arithmetic. It is the purpose of theses tests to diagnose the weak nesses of the children in their daily work. Speaking of arithmetic reminds us that the third grade has recently made marked improvement in, that subject, since having thoroughly re viewed the four fundamental opera tions, addition subtraction, multiplica tion, and division. Last year, by giving standard arith metic tests, it was discovered that the grammar grades were below normal standing of the same grades in other towns of the State. Since that time we have been endeavoring to elimi nate this weakness by constant drill en fundamentals. All the grammar grades are now preparing to organize literary soci eties with regular programs each week. The pupils of the eleventh grade are delighted to announce the arrival of their class rings, of which they are very proud. We want everybody to come out to the first basketball game of the sea son, which is to be played at the Dixie Warehouse Thursday night between the high school teams of Farm Life und Williamston. Local basketball teams have always %een loyally supported by the numer ous fans, and we hope that this year will be no exception. Woman's Club To Meet Tomorrow The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Club will be held tomor row afternoon in the Woman's Club rooms in the Masonic Hail at 3.30 o'- clock. Mrss. Biggs, president, urges every member to attend this meeting, at which definite plans for our town's' betterment will be discussed and de cided upon. A great many women have expressed their desire to join the club, but have not yet done so. They are especially invited to come to this meeting, the first of 1926, and the meeting when work ill earnest will begin. Local Town Team Loses to Everetts (Special To The Enterprise) Everetts, Jan. 11.—In a practice game Thursday night before a very small crowd of spectators, the Ever etts High School boys defeated the town team from Williamston 16-8. The score was 8 all up to the last five min utes of play when the Everetts coach sent in two substitutes and Cherry and Bullock began shooting in earnest. The Williamston team is a fast, scrappy aggregation, consisting of two fast, charging guards and three men who can shoot. They were simp ly outlucked for the first three quar ters and outplayed the last quarter. Margolis Bros.' Sixth January Clearance Sale Tbi biggest event of the year for the firm of Margolis Brothers A Biooks will begin Friday, January 15. This turn, the most exclusive store of the county, carries a big line of the highest-class ready to wear for both men and women, aq well as children, both boys and girls. These will be reduced as much as one-half, and some of them even more. "In fact, the most wonderful bargains ever given by this firm will be the idea of Mr. Margolla in his sixth January clear ance sale. Not only on ready to wear, but or ess goods, shoes, hose, and in fat nothing has been reserved, even some of the new shipments for spring will be from one-third to one-half price on this sale. The Id on the back page will verify all the statements we have made. Flaming youth means a burnt-out old age.—Clarence Poe. | Tobacco Market Reopened Today The local tobacco market reopened today. Mr. Hubert Warren, of the Liggett-Myers Tobacco Co., and Mr. B. A. Townsend, of the Imperial, ar river, last night for the opening. The 1 other buyers remained here during the • Chrtebi »Ji holidays. 'lobarco cf the sorrier grades was i off a bit on the Wilson and Green i ville markets yesterday, and the same ' is true of all the markets today. ' Good tobacco is about the same as it ; was befoie Christmas. i _____________ A SURE CURE THAT COSTS NOTHING ' Grade Croeaing Accidents Can Be Prevented by Stopping, Look ing and Listening Grade crossing accidents can be pre vented, not by taxing the public for | grade changes, but by automobile drivers stopping and looking before ' crossing railroad tracks, j This is proven by experiments of the Standard Oil Company, of Indi ana, which requires all its truck driv ers to stop, look, and listen before crossing railroad tracks. In the year 1924, the vehicles oper ' ated by that company crossed rail road tracks 31,000,000 times without 1 an accident. Public officials and others having to ' do with the regulation of traffic and avoidance of accidents may well con sider the significance of this perform ' once. It is a remedy for accidents which 1 insures easy and quick cure at no ex pense to taxpayers, whereas to rem edy by grade changes would take half ' a centugr for the 256,000 croasings in the UnMd States and coat the tax -9 payers no less thsn $16,000,000,0001 J. , Pastor's Association Is Organized Here ? ________ i Last Thursday evening the pastors s of the churches in Williamston met together in the study of the Rev. C. O. n Pardo, for the purpose of forming an - association of Williamston paators. r Those present were Reverends Par do, Manning, Lee, and Dickey. There was delightful fellowship, and a most wholesome spirit of oneness f s.nd cooperation. The purpose of the association of f the local pastors is to further the in terests of the Kingdom work in their united fields of labor. J Rev. T. W. Lee, of the Methodist Church, was chosen president, and the association plans to have monthly J meetings. ! Sandy Ridge Local i And Personal News Miss Coralie Peed returned home a Sunday from Enfield, where ahe spent i the Christmas holidays with relatives. I Mr. Otis Hardison was the guest of Miss Marie Reddick Sunday. Mr. Joe Lawrence Coltrain and Miss Blanche Hopkins were out rid ing Sunday. ) Mr. Frank Hopkins was the guest of Miss Katie Mae Cherry Sunday. Mr. Harold Hopkins was the guest 3 of Miss Asby Sunday. f Mr. Lester Briley was the guest of " Miss Fannie Mae Roberson Sunday. a Mr. Allen Peed was the guest of e Miss Ethel Capps Sunday. Misses Ethel Cappi and Fannie Mae 1 Roberson were the guests of Miss i Coralie Peed Sunday. Mr. J. N. Hopkins motored to Wil -> liamston Sunday. 1 Miss Bernice Reddick has been 0 spending the past few days with her ' uncle, Mr. W. L. Manning, and Mrs. " Manning. Christian Church Adds Sunday School Rooms The Christian church has just com* r pleted two new Sunday school rooms, fc They were added to the church build >• ing at the rear. The church people f considered the building of a new e church, but it was delayed for a year h or two on account of the strenuous » times. . e The Sunday school has doubled in d size in the last year or fifteen months e and new rooms were necessary, n _________ r. Did you make a new year's reso •- lution to keep records on the farm r, this year, ask farm economics work* n era at State College. The business r> farmer likes to know whether he is ? making or losing money, and he can f not tell unless he keeps records, k e Feed the horse and mule during the winter so that they will net be so fat and soft when spring woifc begins; t but do not starve them, say livestock workers st State College. MANY ACCIDENTS OVER WEEK END Man Drowned at New Bern; Two We men Die Frem Barns; Three Killed in Aato Wreck At New Bern Saturday night Mr. J. W. Biddle, a prominent citisen of that section, ran his car into the Neuse River and was drowned. At Salisbury Sunday, Mrs. Mary Halshouser, 82 years old, died from burns received when her clothing caught fire from an open fireplace. In the same city Mrs. R. F. Butch died of bums Sunday, which she re ceived several days ago when her clothing caught from an open fire place. Three were killed and one other in jured seriously at Gastonia Sunday night when their car was struck by a fast passenger train. The car in which they were riding had curtains up, and the train was not seen in time to es cape. The car was completely demol ished, and the three people badly mangled. The dead are Mrs. Wheeler, Robert Anderson and C. R. Dixon. Heavy Basketball Schedule This Week The basketball schedule for {his wetk is an eapecially heavy one, the town team with three games, one al ready played, and the high school has one. The town team journeyed through mud and mire to Ahoakie last night only to receive a beating. Theii opponents, the Ahoskie Town Team, however, had not spent all their strength making their way over bad i oads an 4 were in fine form, deserving the iff to 16 score they won out with. The local team was not up to their reg'iar gait, but reinforcements are bein made for tomorrow night's game with Rich Square, which will take place here. Tonight the high-school boys will pi..y tiit* Farm Life school boys. These teams are about of equal strength, and a good game is expected. If our people support the high school team at the beginning of the seson, it will eneenrage them and possibly make a' better team than they would be other wise. Thu Friday night's game with Ay den (Town Teams) is yet tentative, but practically assured. T! e games will be played at the Dixie Warehouse and the hour each nigm will be 8 o'clock. State Treasurer Lacy Very 111 At Raleigh State Treasurer B. R. Lacy, who has suffered from an attack of asth ma for several weeks, grew much worse Saturday and Is now quite sick, having developed a toxic condition and much apprehension is felt as to his condition. Several consulting physicians have visited him, and he is under the con stant watch of a trained nurse both day and night Mr. Lacy has served ss State Treas urer fer more than a quarter of a century, and has always commanded the highest degree of respect from all the people who know him. League To Give Silver Tea Friday The Epworth League of the Meth odist Church, will give a silver tea at the home of Mrs. Maurice Watts Friday afternoon at 8.80. The wo men and young people of the town are extended a cordial invitation to come. A parcel-post party will also be given in connection with the tea. A very pleasant afternoon is promised all who attend, for the young people say they will serve refreshments suit able to the weather. County Teachers To Meet Here Saturday The regular monthly meeting of the teachers of Martin County will be held at the school building Saturday after noon at 2 o'clock. John Pope Moves To Leggett Building Mr. John E. Pope, insurance agent, will move his office from the Martin County Savings A Trust Co., to the oAcea ever the store of 'Mr. F. K. Hodges, in the Leggett Building. Pecan trees will lift the tax burden and increase the value of the prop erty in eestern Carolina, say horticul tural workers Of State College. There is a decrease of 44.6 per cent in the number of mules under two years of aye, finds the Federal Can— Bureau. Geography Presented In an Interesting Way (Reported) A certain lady ia too modest to tell how she la teaching geography to sev enth grade youngsters, therefore the writer reaolved the public ahould know some of the good pointa of her work. Thoae teachers who crave a practical project in teaching thia sub ject may well study her plan. The subject waa none other than "How Does Pittsburgh get the steel that goea into mother'a range?" The aeriea of leaaona have covered a con siderable period of time. One child has been studying and asking ques tions sbout weather conditions in and between Minnesota and Pennsylvania. Another is searching to prove by what route it would be cheapest to haul iron ore from Minnesota iron mines to the steel plants at Pittsburgh. An other has been comparing methods of mining ore and making steel to find which ia the cheapest possible meth od. Another child was assigned the duty of proving what manner of trans portation was most economical. Geography was a vital and practi cal study to her, for she waa trying to teach those lawß which when prac ticed enables man to make a living out of the earth. To sum up geog raphy waa to her pupils the relation of man to land. The information gleaned was of practical vslue for life. The interest created in this work will never be completely satisfied. Hie seed thought will grow and grow. There ia nothing superficial to thia interest; it ia natural to inquire where, how, and why of mother's range. The gleanings on weather conditions carried considerable stretch of imag ination. Weather was so bitter cold that mining had to cease at times. In winter they have very low tempera tures in Minnesota, boaia hauling ore are compelled to cease running. Lake Superior is almost at free ting point during the aummer. "People who drown in Lake Superior never come up." The body remains at the bottom of the lake In a perfect state of preaervation. Some member of the class ventured that the Minnesotans j were not clever if they did not capi talise the idea and maintain aquatic cemeteries. They could fence off a section of the lake, kill ob the fish, ( ink dead bodies at the end of water proof rope and mark the place where buried with a buoy. The unchanged figure of the dead could be brought to the surface by the means of a rope aa often as desired. Under these trying conditions an all-year-round business is supplied with raw material water routes being used and the min ers working only part of the year. The investigation of transportation methods revealed that water routes were cheapest, chiefly due to cheap maintenance of the roadway over wa ter from Dfiluth to Conneaulv Meth ods of mining and loading consiat of machinery versus manual labor, a steam shovel in the big red bowl shaped area at the Mesaba mine load ing on cara and machinery again der ricking the ore into boats and again on cars. From Conneault special ore trains, for the purpose constructed, convey the raw material to the United State Steel Corporation's factoriea at Pittsburgh. Now, enough of her method ia evi dent. How many of these ore freight ers there are, how rapidly a boat can be loaded, what is done in the steel manufscturing process, and how the stove factory does ao much work for so little cost—there are other prob lems brought on by a study of this project and continuing throughout a child's life. Who shall say she is not motivating her lessons in geography? May her tribe increaae in the good work.—As reported. Moonshiners Take To Deep Water Monday moming Deputy Sheriff Luther Peel amelled amoke, and he and his companion pursued a course that led them to a secluded spot 860 yards back of the Mills school house in Poplar Point Township, where he found a newly made Are under an 80- gallon copper still almost ready to boil, with about 100 gallons of beer ready to run. There waa no liquor on hand. When the officers reached a point about 25 yards from the still thsy ob served two young white men, both of them small fellows, leaning against barrels, their face from them. In some way the moonshinerss heard the officers and jumped. The officers pursued them, rushing them so tight that they jumped into a pond of wa ter several feet deep. The officers concluded that the water was rather too cold and they stopped the pursuit They were not ssure who the men were, as they never got a good look at them. The still had bean run at this section for some time. Advertisers Find Our Columns a Key to 1,600 Martin County Homes ESTABLISHED 1896 BILL INTRODUCED. FOR POST OFFICE Lindsay Warren Hardly Expects It To Pass, Though; Would Give This Place a SIOO,OOO Building (Special Te The Enterpriae) Washington, Jan. 11.—Congressman Lindsay Warren today introduced a bill in the Houae providing for the ac quiring of a site, and the erection of « public building for post office quar ters at Williamston. The bill calls for an appropriation of |IOO,OOO. The First District member, like his colleagues, realizes that it will be next to impossible for him to secure a pub lic building at this sesssion tor any / town in his district, aa the President has let it be known that he will only favor a bill appropriating a lump sum fcr all public buildings at locations picked by the Secretary of the Treas ury. Mr. Warren and a majority of the North Carolina delegation are very much opposed to this bill, and re gar I it is as an abject surrender on the part of Congress, and a further centralization of powers here in Washington. He believes that (fc>n grcss u in a better possition to locate the towns where buildings should be erected than Secretary Mellon. He has introduced the bill for Wil liamston, because by this means it is the only way it can come before Con gress and regardless of its fate he in tends to vigoroussly push it Edenton is the only town in the district where the Government already owns a site, ard if the administration bill goes through, it is barely possible that it might be picked by Mr. Mellon, but Mr. Warren is of the opinion that North Carolina will get precious little from that source. Henry Ford Orchestra To Broadcast Tonight The following selections of old-fash ioned dance number by the Henry Ford Old Fashioned Dance Orchestra, as arranged in the two programs, will be broadcast from the Ford Motor Co. exhibition, 1710 Broadway at 54th St., New York City, through WEAF, New York, and the following stations: WEKI, Boston; WCAE, Pittsburgh; WEAR, Cleveland; WOC, Davenport; WGN, Chicago; KSD, St Louis; WDWF, Providence; WGR, Providence WGR, Buffalo; WCCO, Minneapolis, St. Paul; WTAG, Worcester. WFI, Philadelphia, and WSA I, Cin cinnati, will broaucast the Tuesday program; and WOO, Philadelphia and WCAP, Washington will broadcast the Friday program only. The programs follow: Tuesday, January 12, 1926 (10 to 11 p. m., Eastern Standard time): Two step, "Mulligan's Guards," medley. Sicilian Circle, "Come, Haste to the Wedding," medley. Old time waits, "Rippling Waves." Plain quadrille, "Ticknor's Quad rille." Cymbalom solo, Musetta's Walts Sonf from "La Boheme," by Puccini. Varsovienne, medley. Schottische, "Old Southern Schot tische." Dulcimer solo, jigs and reels. Virginia Reel, "Larry O'Gaff' Heel and toe polka, "Jennie Lind" and "Richmond" polkas. Friday, January 15 (10 to 11): Two step, "Golden Slipper" medley. Old time wait, medley. Virginia reel, "Irish Washerwoman" "White Cockade," "Marching Through Georgia." Dulcimer solo, jigs and reels. Varsovienne, Hartford and Dun hams medley. Plain quadrille, Bancroft's. Cymbalom aolo, "Traumeri," by Schuman. The lancers, "Oriental." Rye' waits, "Rye Waltz." Contra dance, "Money Musk." Little Girl Run Down By Auto Yesterday Little Doris Teel, the 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Val Teel, was run Into by a car yesterday about one o'clock as she was returning to school. The driver of the car was going in the same direction of the child snd when he turned in the alley way between Harrison Bros, and Stubbs' office she was not expecting to meet it and collided with it there. The little girl was thrown down and at first they thougUt her leg was brakes, but closer examination reveal ed only a sprain. She is getting along very nicely. Mrs. W. C. Liverman went to San ford this morning to visit her daugh ter, Miss Josephine Sykes, who ia in training at the Sanford Hospital. Miss Sykes graduated at the Williamston High School in IM6, and immediate!? entered the hesyttal service, wfcwe
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