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Advertisers Find Our Columns a Key to 1,600 Martin County Homes VOLUME xxvm—NUMBER 93 R. E. ROBERSON DILS SUDDENLY W»« One of U illiamsto/f 8 Leading Men. aant.-; Death Comes As Stack to Friends Robert E.- Koberson, one of tno lead ing merchants of this section, died Monday morning. lie complained Sunday night of headache, alter driv ing to Washington to attend the bur ial of an aunt in the afternoon. Supposing that the trip had caused the headache, he told ius people it was not necessary to summon a doc tor. Monday morning came and tne headache continued and a doctor was called, but nothing to alarm was found, and until a few minutos before his death he conversed with friends in a general way, saying tho only trouble was his headache. It was only a few minutes before he died thu. me beriousness 01 las condition was up prehended. He had suliered for years with cua betes and hau observed much caution in his habits and diet. The cause of his death was acute heart failure. Mr. lioberson was 63 years old, the son of Kincheon Koberson and Nancy Harrison lioberson. He was left an orphan at 3 years of age and was raised by his uncle, the late C. 11. Har rison. When a young man he superintend ed farms on tne Roanoke River, first in Bertie County for a Mr. bowers, then at Palmyra for Mr. L. J. Baiter. There .he entered into the mercantile business with Mr. ljaker, under the Aim name of liaker &, lioberson. He continued as a farmer, being in terested in several farms near Pal myra, where 1.0 continued until 1912, when he sold ius interest to his part ner. He associated himself as a partner with Harrison Bros. & Co., with T. F. and L. B. Harrison as partners, mov ing to about 12 yfc&rs ago. Though he had few school advan tages he was a fine business man. He knew well how to serve the people. He was always courteous and kind, and especially so with his employees, who held him in the highest respect. He was always apparently in good hu mor. Those who know him best de clare they never saw him lose his temper. He had succeeded well in business. Besides his interest in the mercantile firm of Harrison Bros. & Co., he was a partner in the Harrison Wholesale Co., and interested in several large farma. He leaves two brothers, Mr. Joseph lioberson, of Old Ford, Beaufort Coun ty, and J. Buck Koberson, of Cedar Hill, Tex.; and a sister, Mrs. Etta Bauasiand, ox Trent, Tex. He was a member of the Christian Church and was always to be counted on in any work that would advance its cause, both in the church and Sun day school. He had last week just completed the building of two Sunday school rooms, which work had much of his personal attention. He was buried in the Williams ton cemetery today at two o'clock. The funeral service was conducted from the residence of Mr. T. F. Har rison at 2 o'clock today by his pas tor, Rev. A. J. Manning, and inter ment was made at the Williamiton cemetery. The active pall bearers were: James E. Harrison, T. F. Harrison, I>. B. Harrison, G. H. Harrison, D. B. Har rison, C. A. Harrison, N. K. Harrison, H. D. Harrison. The honorary pall bearers were: W. C. Manning, R. J. Peel, Dr. J. H. Saunders, C. R. Fleming, W. H. Gur kin, J. L. Williams, H. H. Hardy, N C. Green, Stanley Sessoms, R. A Smith, and P. B. Roberson. Amundsen now says he was mis quoted about Peary and Cook, but we doubt if many persons took him so ser iously as that.—Greensboro News. STRAND THEATRE . e 1 - ' TONIGHT "GROUNDS for DIVORCE" With Florence Vidor Matt Moore and Louise Fazenda * THE ENTERPRISE " Mn. Pat Urn ] 9 fl MHP9T H Mix ferald P. Nya, wife at £* publisher Senator from North kota i a visiting ta Washington. Senator Nye gained hfc mU to fee Senate to spite of vlforooa oppoet tien, which probably aeeounta fo* i! e smile of satisfaction Mra. Nye *oi j when photographed. Mrs. Bet tie Whichard Dies at Blounts Creek Mrs. Bettie Whichard was buried at the Harrison burying ground on the C. B. Harrison farm, upon which she was born, Sunday afternoon. She died Friday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Lillie Murshland er, at Blounts Creek, in Beaufort County. She was 78 years oid, and for 20 years had been blind, living with her children, who are John Whichard, of Grimesland; Mrs. Lucy Spruill, of Old Ford; Mrs Sallie Lee, of Bear Grass; Mrs. Javan Kogernon, of Petersburg, Va.; anl Mrs. Marshlander, of Blounts Creek. She had been a member of the Bear Grass Primitive Baptist church for more than 25 years. Elder J. N. Kog erson conducted the funeral service. handy Ridge Local And Personal Ne»vs Miss Beatrice Cherry spent Satur-' day night with MUM Bernice Riddick. Mrs. T. R. and Mrs. Leo Roberson and Mrs. R. I). Jones were the guests of Mrs. J. H. Riddiek Thursday after noon. - , Miss Bessie Green spent Saturday right with Mißs Eva Pate. Miss Coralie Peed was the guest of Miss Roxie Jones Saturday. Misses Ruby Hopewell and Ruth Jones were the guests of Miss An nette Jones Sunday. Mrs. T. A. Peed spent Sunday after noon with Miss Mamie Lanier. There will be preaching at Holly Springs Thursday night. Everybody is cordially invited. Prayer meeting will be held at Red dicks Grove next Sunday night by Charles Pate. i>lah. W. L. Manning is on the sick list again this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Cherry and Mr. and Mrs. Leo Roberson spent the day Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Neal God ard. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hardison have moved over to Mr. S. E. Hardison for a short while so as to build to and repair the house they are going to occupy this year. Mr. Herbert Talyor and family have moved to the old Ben Hardison place for this year. Mr. Vernon Hopewell was the guest of Miss Coralie Peed Sunday even ing. Mr. Marvin Jones was the guest of Miss Bernice Williams Saturday even ing. Mr. Joe Lawrense Coltrain was the guest of Miss Coralie Peed Sunday. forbid Pupils Giving Presents to Teachers The Minneapolis, Minn., School Superintendent, W. F. Webster, has banned the giving of present* to teachers by pupils. The practice of the wealthier chil dren of feeding up teachers on candy, flov/ers and perfumes for the purpose of f, 'aini»g favors whereby they might puts examinations and avoid discip line had grown to such an extent that it was injurious to the schools of Min neapolis, the superintendent stated, in explaining the action taken. Business Houses Close Today During Funeral ________ y All the business houses of William ston will be closed from 2 to 3 o'- clock this afternoon, the hour of the funeral of R. E. Roberson. This was done as a mark of respect to Mr. Robeison, whc was one of the city's leading business men, being a member of two of its largest business h*?«es, Harrison Bros. A Co., and Hamon Wholesale Co. —■ 1 —. ■ . r » Willianiston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 26,1926 Anliiii fcte>Un Ulrf Famous Negro to Speak Here Tomorrow Night Charles Satchell Morris, jr., the cel ebrated negro lecturer of Norfolk, Va will speak at the courthouse Wednes day night, January 27. His subject will be "The Measure of the Man." Morris is one of the greatest lead ers of his race, and a speaker of rare aftiiity. He draws great crowds wher ever he goes and he goes everywhere in this and other countries. His lectures hold the ruces to a bel ter understanding of each other and build up rather than tear down that faith that is ready and willing to properly measure the man. There will be reserved seats for the white people and they will enjoy as well as profit by hearing this lecturer. Frustrate Negro's Plan for Stealing Gas (Special oT The Enterprise) Hamilton, Jan. 25. —Last Tuesday night one of the clerks at Slade, Rhodes tt Co.'s store here found when he went out to lock up the gasoline pump for the night that some one had pumped five gallons of gas into the container He let it stay as it was, and on returning the next morn ing the oil had disappeared. On Wednesday night they found the gas pumped up again; so one of the clerks concealed himself inside the store and watched th& tank all night. At five o'clock the next morning a colored man who had been working around there for some time came up and started to turn the gasoline into r. can. The clerk Rtepped out, turned a flashlight on the negro and told him to "Stop; I know you." How ever the thief ran and at last accounts had not been apprehended. * —> —— Mrs. L. F. Stevenson Dies Near Everetts Mrs. Leda F. Stevenson died near Everetts Sunday from blood poison She was buried Monday at the Gard ner burying ground, near Fairview. | The funeral rites were conducted by L. T. Holliday. Mrs. Stevenson was 39 years old.and leaves her husband, William Stevenson, and nine children, ♦he youngest only two weeks old. Episcopal Guild To Have Turkey Dinner On February 11th, the Episcopal Guild will serve a turkey dinner at the Masonl" Hall. Valentine decorations will be used. The hour will be an nounced later. Snow Causes Rush On Local Fuel Men The snow and cold weather has caused h rush on the coal and woodj yard here. Telehpone calls, trucks and wagons rushing here and there; and there is a regular clothesline of or ders hanging up in the office of the Llndsley-Lllley Fuel Co.—looks very much like wash day. Second Snow Provides Real Winter Scenery , t- now has twice covered the earth in this section this year. Monday morning about 7 o'clock the white flakes began to fall and continued most of the day until the snow lay about 5 inches deep on the level. Sledding and snowballing were the favorite games, especially of the younger people. The snow was gener al th'oughout most of the State. Messrs. Roy and Bryant Talyor, of near Hamilton, were in town this morning. CO-OPS HANG UP ' OAK CITY LEADS SEASON'S RECORD! IN MAN V THINGS Last Week;- Deliveries Best of This! 1 ol.ncco Season; l our and a Half Million l'ounds , AtemUeu of the Tobacco Growers CVH»on.ti>o Association made the iiiVfetJit deliveries of the entire season to their warehouses in North Carolina a;": Virginia last week, amount to a; to. a! f f more than 4,500,000 pounds oi tobacco, according to the statement of! oncrni Manager Richard U. PaiU-r • This is considered a remarkable showing of loyalty on the part of the membership, particularly in vie* «'f the recent report of the Federal Tra.la Commission and the suit of Wiley M Person, of Franklin County, N. C. against the association. • In view of the fact that tho-fimnr cial affairs of the association were repotted by Oliver J. Sands, chair man of the executive committee, as being in the best condition since its organization at last weeks meeting-of the board of directors, the suit of Person, who has repeatedly busied himself in making speeches and call ing meetings against the association is regarded as an extravagant play fot publicity. The attitude of the directors, toward the report of the Federal Trade Com mission, which largely ignored the charges of tobacco farmers from var ious parts of (he two Carolinas and Virginia made against the Imperial and American Tobacco Companies and severely attacked the methods by which the organized growers have protected their own business and main tainsd higher prices for all tobacco farmers of this section in the past three years, was expressed in the fol .lowing statement at last weeks meet ing of the association's governing board: "The board of directors of the To bacco Growers Cooperative Associa tion has spent a day hearing detailed statements on the redrying situation with particular reference to the activ ities of General Manager Patterson and Warehouse Manager Watkins as copartners in the Edmondson-Tobacco Company, said statement.! covering items brought out in the report of the Federal Trade ■ Commission ;and it ha:t been made clear that the members of this board have been in general np s proval of the prior policies of this board in permitting and "encouraging our directors or officers or managers to engage in redrying activities In preference to placing such business with the enemies of cooperative mar keting; aiul it has been made evident that the members oTthe board of di rectors with a few exceptions were not aware prior to June, 192 M, that managers Patterson and Watkins had ;.n interest in the Edmondson redry ing activities for the 1022 crop, and that most of the directors did nave general knowledge of such activities for the 1023 and 1924 crops; anil thia board here expresses its approval ol such activities and reiterates the res olution adopted August 18, 1925; and here state's that it would have ap proved the said activties of 19U2 had it known of them, as beng inaccord with its general policies at that time, i and that other employees and direc-' tors such as Mr. Williams and other were redrying tobacco for the associa tion under standard contracts with the knowledge and approval of the board generally, including all of the actual facts about the policy of not selling green tobacco to dealers and express ly including all the actual facts and evidence to show that the executive rommittee had good reasons to believe that there was in the spring of 1923 n real attempt to raise the cost of re drying against this association, with full knowledge of all these facts the board approves of all such activities; states that there has never been any intentional concealment thereof; states that the contract price and profits have been in line with similar competing companies and were proper in view of the hazard and the par ticular service; and further states that it does not see any ground whatso ever for any claim of any kind a gainst the persons involved in these transactions." Colored Child Hit By Auto Sunday The little four-year-old child of Wealthy Hassell was struck by an auto driven by a traveling salesman on Main Street Below ..ie river hill Sunday afternoon. The car did not run over the child but the fender knocked it down and the child's head struck the pavement. The driver stopped his car and took the child to Dr. York, who made an X-ray picture of the wound and found that the skull was not fractured. The accident was said to have been unavoidable, the driver not seeing the child to time to stop his car. is Particularly Noted lor Its Fine j School; Reporter Tells of Fine j Work Being Done Py SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ! i Oak City, Jan. 25.—1n the upper Coastal Plain section of North Caro lina .we ijnu an unusual town on a | branch of the A. C. L., and - where i many roads lead from fertile pros porous, farms—here we "ftnd Oak City,' j famed for its great school and the I line spirit of its people. The town has had the good-school spirit for several years; the school is , a standard -high school; and teaches' the elementary course below tho sev enth grade. Home Economics Department The home economics department'is -fully equipped and has been .running for three years. ! There are HO girls enrolled in this course. A visit to the roonj where this spec ial course is taught reveals bright 1 ideals for school work. Miss Alya Tulyor is the teacher and has a large I well-furnished room,. with ranges, tables, and all modern kitchen ap pliances on one side, where cooking, food preparation, diets, balanced diets serving meals, and what they all mean are taught for half the session. Many charts and other up-to-date helps are used. » The home nursing course, which has acen ta.ught there, Drought fort! much praise. The duties of the nurse were taught, a.- were diets for the ■>ick and convalescent. First aid was one. cl the principal things in the course. The junior and senior pupils Vecent ly prepared a banquet for 70, and the eo it whs ijitf. Of course; many of the | things were furnished by the students but it .showed a wonderful training in economy. The Hewing lioom The sewing class, includes the sixth and seventh grades. The girls seated by the work tables and sewing ma chines, and the teacher at her desk in tlie • front center, presented a scene very rare in practical work. Hero U'i"ey were all" very busy," stitching,\ learning seams, cutting, dross and gar ment making. The first half of the 1 session is devoted to cooking; later j comes nursing, sewing, home man agement, what the home is and. what it should mean to a girl. Miss Elizabeth Jones has a class in music, voice, piano, and orchestra. She| also teaches vocal music to the whole school; each grades has one lesson, each week. The'orchestra has had one recital and are practicing for another in April. They have a good glee club among the girls for special programs. The Faculty The faculty is composed of H. M. Ainsley, 1!, A., principal; Miss Jiuth Faulkner, seventh grade; Mrs. Annie Woodley, sixth grade; Mr. Cullen 1 Hatch, English; David N. llix, history anil Latin; Mrs. W. 1). Smith; and Misses Trjxie Jenkins, Anna li. Harris, Bose Miller, Leona Newton, and Missl Elizabeth Jones, music; Miss Alya, Tulyor, home economies. One very remarkable and good thing for the school and community around Oak City is that every one of the teachers of the high school are active Christians and Sunduy school work ers. The school has two literary socie ties, the Estherian and the Wilsonian, oiganized and under thfr direction of a teacher. . Each society has a pro gram every other Friday evening making two each month. The socie ties are doing fine work and are a great help to the school and commun ity- The teachers' arrival records, hand ed in each morning, showing an out line program of the day's work plan ned,' keeps the principal in close touch and in pergonal cooperation with the whole school. The monitor apd honor roll system is a part of the school government. The playgrounds are large and the games are supervised by the teach ers. The organized games are basket ball, volley ball, baseball. For the primary department there are giant !-.triiles, see-saws, swings, vaulting poles, und many old and new games for healthy exercise. Each grades has jtc own equipment. The school building is a large bricjc structure, steam heated and electric d. and modern in ail 'ts equipment. ~~~ • The school has a total enrollment of !!K0; 6'' in the high school. Six trucks bring the students from the outlying districts. The expense of the trit.kf are on a competitive basis, a prize being ,ivtn-the driver keeping, ex penses the 1' west. The average o t per pupil is three to four cents per day. The entire work and infiuenca of the teachers and the school Is most ulffliually good. The Town Oak City's mayor is J. C. Ross; tho clerk is T. H. Johnson; Treasurer, B. Typical American Boy? | a \ V M Si , M I r'A- of Washington, IV i'-~, cho'>>cs' in the person of I "!i Nevlns, thirteen years old, "I i ivist tApica I American boy.' 1 AIM Hm BRISBANE, l.:;hous editorial writer, sayii»—, Ji'Si ph is a line young boy, but t!0,., ISN'T ANY TYPICAL AVi ■ -KICA N BOY. There are tall, t! ii> hoy?, uml short, fat !..■ will he lenders of men later'. '! t'f-ri? ate. Mutf-eyed, I)rown-eyed, 1 skinned and dark-skinned b . thin, fat, tall, short, concen -1 am) dreaming, and any one ( . cm n, ay turn out to be THE . man of .the United State# .' : i / veins hence. !• is f-ome little thlnjt, probably ■l timn the head of a pin, 10. . jinov,here in the brain, tluit • ' ■> prc.-.tiief.s, and it always ;*i t!;.'.- povrer to Mticlc at 'l ; 1 ■ Cherry-Salsbury A quiet hut pretty wedding was sol Ginnised oil Wednesday afternoon January 20th, at 5 o'clock, when Miss Julia Sal.sbury became the bride of Mr. Henry Cherry, of Speed. \ The wedding took place at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. I'. C. Ed momlKon, of Hnasell. The decorations of powers, ferns and potted plants were imple but attractive. Only the rdati> ,'s and a few friends witnessed Hie ei lemony: Mrs. W. 55. Morton, of Greenville sister of the bride, played the wed ding march from • Lohengrin. An ap pro! n ate selection was played soft ly du . ing the cereiiiony. Mrs. I'. ' Euttibiidfjon entered tut dame of honor. .She v. ui-e cuckoo crepe buck satin with lace trimmings and carried a shower Lnuquituf pink carnations and nai- Tlx bride, in a traveling costum >f black prince crepe romutne umf in cessories to, match', and carrying a shower bouquet of bride's roses and sweetheart roses, entered with her brother,. Mr. Robert Sulphury, and was met by the groom witli his best man, Mr. John Eulmnks, of Hasseil, HI the improvised altar of ferns and palms. The beaiHiful and impressive ring ceremony was performed by Rev. J. I'. (iulley, pastor of the Itaptist church at llumilton. Mrs. Cherry is a daughter of the lute k. H. and Annie Eliza Salsbury, and u younjc woman of great charm and ability. Mr. Cherry is a son of the lale Thomas and Kate Pender Cherry, and a young man of sterling iiuulities. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Cherry left by motor for Rocky Mount, where they took a train for Baltimore und Washington. After February first they will be at home in Speed.—Reported. Goes To Orthopedic Hospital At (iastonia Misfr Louise Leggett, with her step father, Mr. Bi H. Roberson, left Mon day morning for Gaslunia, where she Will sptuid several weeks at the crip ple clinic at the Orthopedic Hospital at that place.* Miss Leggett has been cn cruches for eleven years and has a great desire to do away with them. •She is one of the most popular girls of her section, and has rrfany friends who hop: to see her walking after her return. —Report ed. M. WorslTey; and the town commis sioners are B. E. Moye, J. F. Crisp, and J. H. Ayers. » The ,town has a population of 500; it has electric lights, a wide-awake set of merchants, unusually nice homes, amfchurches. There are two white and two col ored churches. Church organizations include good Sunday schools every Sunday, a splendid Christian Endeav or Society. Rev. W. Ross Yokeley is pastor of the Missionary Baptist Church, and Rev. J. R. Tingle of the Christian church.. Oak City has a strong local bank, 01, of the best and strongest in east ern Carolina. A_ nice new drug store in opening up right beside the hand some bank building. All in all, Oak City is one of the leading towns of the couhty. Watch Label on Your Paper; It Carries Date Subscription Expires KSTAULLSHED 1898 PAPER SAYS ESTATE SETTLED YEARS AGO itaston 'iVangcript Storj Gives Little Hope lor l'rospective Heirs of Hubert Ui Evans Ahoskifi .'roipt-cti. e -teira iif itobert'D. Evans, who died in Bos ion, MaSs., several years ago, have not received much encouragement from investigations of their chances for ' recovering some of thp estate. A copy of the Bostdn Evening Tran script has been received by interested parties here, and in it appears a news article giving the history of the es tate, and its disposition. It appears from the article that the estate was ; only half of what it was reported to haVe been, and has been finally settled by the courts , of Bos ton. The article in question is as fol- "A group of persons in the South— mostly in North Carolina—who claim to be heirs at law of the late Robert D. Kvans, of Beverly, who died July o, 1909, leaving an estate of about ten and a halt-million dollars., is at tempting to reopen the matter and to secure a -.hare in the property. "The. matter, lioweVer, apparently has been closed by the action of the widow,' who in 19X1 by petition in th« supreme court had the evidence taken in perpetuity o( the determination of the heirs, at law of liobert D. Evans, 'ihis evidence is a matter of record iu the Ks.se,. South registry of deeds, book 2092, page 121 "Mr. i'.vans left a will, which was allowed August 2, 1909, his widow, Marie Antoinette , Kvans, being ap pointed executrix. He gave the in come of his estate to his wife for life At her death he directed that one-hall' of his estate should be given to such persons a.i she might by will appoint. If she failed so to appoint that one hall', was to go to her heirs at law. The other half lie gave, at her death, to his own heirs at law by right of representation. The inventory shows thai- his estate contained personal property of . $10,404,823.3 M, and real esfati of f 133,275. "The widow died October 16, 1917, leaving a will which was allowed No vember 12, 1917. William I). Hunt was named executor and Abby Hunt and Uelje Hunt executrices. (leorge L Huntress, of Winchester, Stanley H Holster, of Newton, was Kene *E. I'aino were appointed administrators, will. the wdl annexed of the estate of liobert I). Kvans on November 19, 1917 to succeed Maria I). Evans, the deceased executrix. "Early in 1910 Mariri Antoinette I'vans had petitioned the supreme t»jir to have depositions taken, in order to have recorded in perpetuity who were the heirs at law of Robert I). Evans. Homer Albers, of Brook line, and 11. 11. Pickett, of St Johns, N. 11., were commissioned to take the depositions of various parties, and they made a voluminous report June 21!, 1911, and was recorded also in the "Essex South registry of deeds on July 6 of the same year, so thai >t would appear that the whole matter of inheritance under the will would prove to be re's adjudicata—although the present claimants insist that they have but recently become acquainted with the existence of the estate, to which they claim rights." Williamston Graded School News Notes The honor roll for the fifth month failed to i avry the fourth grade. In stett.l James Rhodes was classed in \he fourth ./rude. This was an error. Jim, jr., belongs te ,he fifth grade A. The following mute the honor roll for the tourth grade: Myrtle. W. Drown, Jennie G. Taylor, Grace T. liarnhill, Marjorie B. Moore, Jem •* S. Moore. Ruth Manning Wins Honor Ruth Manning received honorable mention in a national high School poetry rontei.t. There were 8,000 en trants. Her entitled, "To The Hills," was selected for the final group of elimination. This poem will Le printed in a later issue of this paper. Mr. ant! Mrs. J. H. Britt spent the week (nd in Turboro. * 01 I Barit Barrow yowWeighbtf!i
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