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VOLUME XXIX—NUMBER 15
Y.M.C A. BANQUET
POORLY ATTENDED
Dr. Charles O'H. Laughinghouse, of
Greenville, Made Fine Talk to
The 16 Persons Present
Mr. Witherspoon, Y. M. C. A.
retary for the eastern division of
North Carolina, spent several days in
Williamston last week. He served a
luncheon at the Woman's Club Friday
night. Though it was free to all,
there were 16 persent out of the 160
invitations sent out, or a fraction over
10 per cent of those invited.
* Special music was provided by the
high school chorus. The supper was
fine.
Mayor R. L. Coburn was master of
ceremonies and Professor Seymour, of
the local school, made a short talk, as
did Mr. Witherspoon. Then Dr.
Laughinghouse, of Greenville, made a
fine talk on the helpfulness of the Y.
M. C. A. to the young people.
The State organization of the Y. M.
C. A. hopes to organize a group of
young men in Williamston, composed
of the school boys and older boys on
up to 21 years of age. Such groups
are usually called Hi Y's, and they
are proving very popular in most
places where tJhey have been organ
ized. The cost is very low, generally
paid by those who are interested in
the welfare of young men.
Barber Missing; So
Is Car He Rented
Harry M. King blew into town a
bout two months ago as a barber, with
City and Norfolk experi
ence. He sought a job and was giv
en one in the Citizens Barber Shop.
About two days later there was a
(38 shrinkage in the cash in the safe.
No charges were made against any
one as there was no proof as to who
took the money. King continued to
barber and gradually grew in debt at
various and sundry places in town, a
mong them his boarding house. He
also borrowed the negro shoe shiner's
clothes to wear in some of his t>sort
ing episodes.
Sunday he rented W. L. Manning's
car and so far there is no further
trace of him, though efforts are be
ing made to locate him. The car he
rented is a Chevrolet which had been
used about a year, bearing license No.
X-467.
King claimed that he was raised at
Morehead City, where his father now
lives. He seems' to be around 21 years
old and is unusually fresh in his man
ner.
Many Carp Caught
In Last Few Days
Carp fishing has been fine for a
few days, with the swell in the rivet
which sent the water up the little ra
vines and low places along the river
banks. The carp follows the water
and roots around in the mud like
hogs. It was a common scene yester
day to see men wading around and
picking them up with pitchforks, many
of them weiging 12 to 16 pounds.
Mr. W. R. Cherry, a fisherman on
the river here, caught about 600 of
the fish as they were running back
to the river when the water began to
drop.
The carp is not considered a very
desirable fish, yet he is perhaps one
of the most valuable fish as a food
that we have. He is rich in oil and
nutrition. Yet he is just a little strong
and rank for many people. A ready
sale is found for them, however, where
people are looking for real food.
Mr. and Mrs. John Geteinger and
children, of Dardens, were visitors in
town Sunday.
STRAND
THEATRE
WEDNESDAY
Dick Talmadge
in
"Jimmie's Millions"
Lloyd Hamilton
• 1b
"Waiting"
15c 740—Two Shews 25c
THURSDAY
Thomas Meighan in
"The Man Who
Found Himself"
Yes—it's a Para meant
THE ENTERPRISE
Williamston School Is High
Scorer in Contests at Group-
Center Meet at Jamesville
eadi Big Corporation
JH m
After 23 years of service, start
ing as office girl, Miss Mary Dillen
becomes of Brooklyn
Boro Gas Co. Ye*fb ago upon her
promise not to marry ane was
made manager, but higher promo
tion freed her from her pledge. Sex
no harrier to success says Mia*
«sTmn.
WILDACRES PARTY
LEAVES THURSDAY
Leave Washington Thursday Morning
By Bos fer Thomas Dixon's
Development Project
The first party from Williamston,
including Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Man
ning, Mrs. Jack Booker, Mra. J. B. H.
Knight, and Mr. Harry A. Biggs, for
Wiidacrea will leave Washington at
8 o'clock Thursday morning by motor
bus. They expect to spend that night
in Salisbury and reach the Wiidacrea
development at Little Switzerland by
Friday night. According to the sched
ule of the company the touriata will
leave the western part of the State
Sunday and will arrive home Monday
night. The expense of the entire trip
is (16, and this is a wonderful oppor
tunity for a great many Eastern Car
olinians to see the glories and won
ders of the mountains in our State.
The object of the company in pro
moting these caravans to Wiidacrea is
to put the place and development be
fore the people of the State. There
are inestimable benefit# to be won in
that desirable spot, and it is the pur
pose of the Wildacres Development
Co.—of which Thomas Dixon, the well
known writer, is head— to give the
people of our own State an oppor
tunity to partake of these advantages
before they are garnered in by for
eign capitalists. This issue of The
Enterprise carries an advertisement
giving all the details of the proposi
tion and those interested can get fur
ther information by communicating
with the district manager, Mr. R. A.
Lindsey, of Tarboro, or the local a
gent, Mrs. H. M. Stubbs. Another
party leaves for Wildacres about the
first of May, and as it is expected that
a much larger representation will at
tend from our town than on this trip
it is well for those desiring to go to
make early reservations with the lo
cal agent. * .
79 Of 121 Boys Read
Salacious literature
Durham, April 20. —Seventy-nine
out of 121 Durrham boys questioned
as to the kind of reading they do, said
they read magazines of the true-story
type, admitting it was because of the
highly suggestive pictures they carry,
Rev. H. £. Spence, of the school of
religion of Duke University, told the
congregation of the Duke Memorial
Methodist Church last Sunday. Each
month 1,000 copies of a magazine of
this type are sold, Mr. Spence said,
assailing the "pernicious influence of
the sensational magazines which are
flooding the American market' Only
11 of the boys questioned read the
Bible, the speaker said.
No Cases Before
Recorder Today
Recorders court had no cases for
trial at today's session. This is the
second session "of the court that there
have been no cases for trial. There
were only four cases on the docket,
and they could not be tried on ac
count of the sickness of some party
necessary in the trial.
But a docket with only four cases
and no trials for two terms of the
court is very hopeful.
WiUiainston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 20, 1926
Schools Not As Well
Represented As At
Oak City Meet
The score sheet returning winner*
from Group Center 11, comprising: Wil
liamston, Griffins, Bear Grass, James
ville, and Williams Townships, reflect
credit on teachers, pupils, and pa
trons. This day presented to many
teachers the opportunity to »how the
people how much they had tried to
serve their communities; to the pupils
a chance to practice what they had
learned during the session; and to the
patrons a time to rejoice with their
children in splendid attainments.
There were not so many schools rep
resented as in the Oak City group
center meeting. Some teachers were
sick, others had failed to encourage
pupils to be present, not appreciating
the significance of this great work-
Congratulations and thanks are due
and were given the numerous private
families who invited visitors into their
homes. Other visitors enjoyed a
spread on the grounds, the plan for
a public basket picnic having been
misunderstood in some way.
However, a happy crowd csme, and
among them the most loyal support
ers of the schools. First honors in
schools of six or more teachers went
to the Williamston school, which took
two first places. This was unusual, in
that at Oak City no school of this
•ise took more than one first place.
A first place in primary story telling
went to BilUe Pope, and In arithme
tic to Hewitt Edwards. This enables
Williamston to enter four contests in
the county commencement: Primary
story telling, arithmetic, pageant and
choral contest*.
The Jamesville school won first
place in the spelling contest and in
addition to entering this may enter
the pageant and choral contests.
The total score made in the group
center was as follows: Williamston, 13
Jamesville, 10; and Dear Grass, 7;
Bear Grass is to be congratulated, as
is Jamesville, on the splendid show
ing made. This was the first entrance
of Bear Grass School into county
commencement activities and while no
first place was taken, the splendid
children contesting showed the school
will be a strong contender for first
honors next year. In probably the
finest contest of the year Bear Grass
took second place; namely, the arith
metic contest An adult, graduate of
college, tried to keep ahead of the
winner in this contest, but he failed.
As rapid calculators each contestant
put up a fine exhibition.
The contests in Group II schools
went by default. Farm Life, offering
no opposition, Sandy Ridge will have
a choice of entering any contests she
wishes at Robersonville.
The contests in Group HI schools
also went by default Dardens, Ange
town, Poplar Run, Coopers, Griffins,
Lilleys, and Macedonia offering no
opposition, Smithwick School, under
the untiring leadership, of Mrs. Fan
nie M. Hardison, may enter any con
tests she desires at Robersonville.
These schools which defaulted may
enter recitation and singing contests
and on any other Mrs. Hardison will
give them the privilege to enter out
of good sportsmanship.
Mrs. J. S. Jones Dies
At Scotland Neck
Yesterday morning at 10 oclock Mrs.
J. S. Jones died at her home in Scot
land Neck after several month's ill
ness of acute brights disease. She
was in her sixty-ninth year and was
highly esteemed and loved through
out her community. A member of the
Primitive Baptist church, she will be
buried in the cemetery of her faith
between Scotland Neck and Hobgood
this afternoon. She is survived by
her husband and seven children. Her
son, Mr. Paul V. Jones, is a . well
known resident of Williamston.
More Road Work Now
Being Done Than Ever
According to an annoucement by the
Hon. Frank Page, there is more road
work going on in the State now than
ever before at any one time.
About 600 miles is now being hard
surfaced besides almost as much of
the cheaper types of roads
He says this will be our biggest
year in road building so far, and es
timates that we will have more than
8,000 miles of flirface roads
completed by the end of the year.
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SURPRISE REUNION
OF REVELS FAMILY
Fifty-nine Relatives Gather at Home
of Mr. W. R. Revels on His
3rd Birthday
As the sunset akies of a well-spent
life were throwing their shadows of
joy across the pathway of Mr. W. R.
Revels on his seventy-third birthday
Thursday, April 16, and while he was
quietly but honestly performing the
dutiea of life, suddenly all his chil
dren rushed to his home with all the
equipment for a real picnic and pres
ents to make the heart of an old man
glad.
There were present, in all, the fath
er, mother, six daughters, and two
sons: Mrs. Ben Ward and husband,
Mrs. James R. Corey and husband;
Mrs. James H. Revels and husband;
W. S. Revels and wife, Mrs. W. B.
Harrington and huaband, John A.
Revels and wife, Alonzo Roger
son and husband, and Mrs. Slade Stai
lings and husband. #f Enfield; there
were 38 grandchildM and one great
grandchild, in all fifty-nine. This
was also the birthday of two of the
children of Mr. Revels.
It is interesting to know that in all
the family of eight children, the
youngest now past 80, there has never
been a death, nor has their been a
death among the grandchildren except
three infants and two accidental
deaths; one boy bebw killed by a
falling tree, and anetkar killed by the
accidental discharge nf a gun.
It would be interesting to study the
life of W. R. Revels, who straggled
with real hardships in raising his fam
ily. The small farmlfehich 1M owned
would not produce a living *»r the
family, and back in the years goat
by he was one of the MMn who work
ed for 40 rents a day; and those days
ran from sun to sun and men worked.
Those where the "good eld days" when
men worked because they needed
something; they work now because
they want something.
Neighbors tell of th» time when Mr.
Revels had a sick chid, in the days
when there were no automobiles and
but few buggies. So Mr. Revels walk
ed the 9 miles to Williamston to get
a doctor. While the doctor was hitch
ing up his horse, Mr. Revels conclud
ed it would be better for him to hurry
back to the bedside of the sick child,
so he walked the 9 miles before the
doctor could drdive the trip. After
the diagnosis was completed, and the
medicine compounded and the doctor
had gone, and a neighbor's dog, a
mile away, was heard barking at the
passing doctor, it was found that the
family had failed to inquire the size
of the dose of medicine to give, so Mr.
Revels set out to catch the doctor, and
overtook him before he was three
miles away. It may be that this part
of the story is stretched a little, yet
the people who know the man best
believe it most
Although the life of Mr. Revels has
been one of hard work and many
struggles he and his wife and every
child are loved and respected as good
citizens and are ardent church mem
bers. All but two are members of
the Primitive Baptist Church at
Smithwicks Creek.
It is this type of service, honesty,
and trust that makes men the salt
of the earth.
The occasion was fittingly carried
out in every detail, and was closed
with an address by Elder W. B. Har
rington, and the prayers of the entire
host for many other such occasions.
Picnic At Burroughs
School Saturday
The term at Burroughs Shcool, Wil
liamston Township, closed more than
a week ago, but owing to the unfavor
able weather, the picnic dinner, which
had been proposed, was not arranged
for until last Saturday. Mrs. Luke
Lamb taught this school, and patrons
and pupils agree that the session was
one of the most pleasing and success
ful in the life of the school. The en
rollment is small; therefore, the
grades are not high, but the interest
this year has been marked. The pic
nic was very enjoyable, the barbecue
and other eatableH were pronounced to
be most excellent, and there were vis
itors who praised the splendid hospi
tality of the patmns and the teacher.
Elder P. C. Denny
Died Sunday Night
Kldex f. C. Denny, of Wilson, (lit J
Sunday right He had been a primi
tive Baptist minister for many years.
Elder Denny was v/ell known in Mar
tin County, where he had made many
visits, especially in attending the ses
sions of the Primitive Baptist Asso
ciations.
HJS was held n high esteem by sll
wh# Knew him.
State Health Nurse F
Cent Of School
Diseased Tonsils and Adenoids
Miss Geneva Sykee, the efficient
State nurse, has now three more
weeks in the county to complete
the examination of the school
children. Up to date she has
found approximately 60 per cent
of the children with defective
teeth; 10 per cent with defective
eyesight; 10 per cent with defect
ive hearing; 10 per cent are un
derweight; 40 per cent with dis
eaaed tonsils and adenoids.
The North Carolina State Board
of Health would not advise any
thing to be done to any of ita cit
izens that would in any way be
detrimental to ita citizenship;
therefore, the parents or guar
diana of these children that are
suffering as a result of their dis
eased tonsils need have no fear of
COTTON CO-Ore GET
CHECKS THIS WEEK
Approximately a Million Dollars Be
ing Mailed Association Members;
New Contracts Being Signed
Checks amounting to approximate
ly one million dollars will be in the
hands of menibers of the North Caro
lina Cotton Growers' Cooperative As
sociation this week. These checks rep
resent the spring distribution on the
crop of 1926. Assistant Secretary F.
B. Webster put the first checks in the
mail Tuesday and states that all of
the checks will have been mailed by
the enjl of the week. The general
policy of the management of the cot
ton association is to make as liberal
an advanee on the cotton delivered by
the members as is consistent with
sound financing policies. There are
no specific dates set by the manage
ment for distribution to the member
ship, but the first distribution from
sales was made in December, and a
spring distribution follows in April,
and the final settlement as early as
possible—this final settlement has so
far been made each season before the
next crop began to move.
The management of the association
closed its pools for the receiving of
the 1926 crop on April 15. The total
receipts for the season to that date
were 160,661 bales, which Is 44.0Q0
bales more than was handled last
season.
The 1926 crop will be the last crop
handled under the old contract. No
great noise is being made about it,
but the members are now signing a
new six-year contract, and a well-de
fined programs of re-signing ita mem
bership was started by the associa
tion after holding a State-wide meet
ing of members at Raleigh on March
4. A very carefully selected mem
bership is being re-signed. Something
over 30,000 bales, based on past de
livery records, have been aigned up
by old members up to date, and the
average deliveries of these members
are something over 20 bales per mem
ber.
No whirl-wind campaign or high
pressure methods are being used in
putting on this re-sign-up program,
and it is significant to note that the
work is being conducted bf the regu
lar field forces in carrying un their
regular duties, and any ex
tra expense to the association. Quite
at number of loyal members in the
various counties are offering their as
sistance, and it is the opinion of the
director of the field service depart
ment that by the first or August they
will have as much cotton signed up,
or more, than has been the average
delivery of the past four years.
Mr. Avery Gaylord
Dies At Asheville
Mr. Avery Gaylord, a former Ply
mouth man, and a World War Vet
eran died at Asheville this week and
was buried at Plymouth this morning.
He wa the son of the late Asa W.
Gaylord. He lost a leg in the Won*?
War ami was severely gassed, which
was possibly the cause of his doftth.
He live i And practiced la7w in Greens
boro until recently, when l)is health
toned ium to giv&.Hjp his work.
The latest report from the bedside
of Miss Mary Eliza Harrell is that
there is very little change in her con
dition except for steadily growing
weakness. She remains conscious
most of the time and exhibits the
same fortitude of spirit that she has
shown throughout her life.
Messrs. J. G .Staton and L. T. Fow
den are business visitors in Washing
ton today.
any harm coming to them. If you
recall, we held a clinic here three
years ago, and you recall the a
mount of good it did in prevent
ing diseases resulting from in
fected tonsils and adenoids.
We have secured the use of the
third floor of the Peoples Bank
Building for the hospital, and the
dates will be May 26, 27, 28, and
29, 1926. The State Board of
Health will furnish good nurses
and good surgeons to do this
work.
Consult your family physician
and abide by what he says. If he
does not think the removal of dis
eased tonsils and adenoids is not
a K«od thing in preventing dis
ease, do not have it done.
WM. E. WARREN,
Executive Officer.
STATE FERTILIZER
BILL IS ENORMOUS
North Carotins Leads United States
in Value of Fertilizer Used;
$64,179,00# in 1924
The University News Letter says
We wonder how many people are
aware of the enormous sum of money
this State spends each year on com
mercial fertilizer? Or how North
Carolina ranks as a consumer of what
commonly goes by the name of guano.
The 1920 census reports that the State
fertilizer bil for the year 1919 was
148(797,000. This sum was exceeded
by only one State, South Carolina,
which put under her crops, mainly cot
ton, |62,647,000 worth of fertiliber in
1919. The National Hureau of Eco
nomic Research, basing its findings
on the American Fertilizer Handbook
and the United State census of agri
culture, reports that North Carolina's
fertiliser bill for 1920 was $64,179,-
1000, while South Carolina's was (66,-
968,000. In 1921 North Carolina rank
ed first in the value of fertilizer used,
and probably has continued to hold
first place since 1921.
The three States of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia con
sumed nearly half of all fertilizer used
in the United States both in 19t'9 and
1920, and approximately two-fifths of
the total for 1921. North Carolina in
1919 bought 16 per cent, or more than
one-seventh, of all fertilizer sold inj
the United States. Ordinarily it takes
considerably more than half of the
gross receipts from our tobacco crop
to pay our annual fertilizer bill. Our
fertilizer till in 1920 did not fall far
short of the value of our tobacco crop
in 1926 The 1920 fertilizer bill was
approximately as much as the valye
of all school property in the Statte in
1926.
Snow and Ice Hurt
Gardens and Fruit
Fruits and early truck have evi
dently suffered much from the
wind and freeze last night. Two
flurries of snow struck through the
county early yesterday morning and
the continued cold has turned heans
and potatoes black in many sectionn.
It is generally thought that most
of the peaches in this section were
killed also.
OLD COLORED EVANGELIST TO
BE AT BETHLEHEM APRIL 27
Joshua L. Griffin, the old colored
evangelist, of Williams Township,
says he will be at Bethlehem colored
Church April 27, where he hopes to
be visited by his friends whom he
wants to serve.
He says that he has nothing more
of the world's goods to bestow than
a cup of cold water, and he will glad
ly do that to any that might need
the purifying drink on that, his 76th
birthday; that he wants the blessing
of giving rather than receiving.
Play At Everetts
Tomorrow Night
Members of the Everetts School will
give the play, "Mammy's Li I Wild
Rose," Wednesday night, April 21, in
the school auditorium. The public is
invited. Admission 16c and 26c.
Colored Bishop to
Be Here Sunday
Bishop H. B. Delaney, D. D., of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, will
preach and dconftrm a class at the
colored Methodist church Sunday,
April 26th, at 7.80 p. m.
Our white friends are invited to
come out and hear the bishop.
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ESTABLISHED 1898
GOVERNOR LOWDEN
TO SPEAK IN STATE
To Re in Charlotte Friday, April 23,
and in Kaleigh Following Day;
Talks Are for Farmers
Former Governor Frank 0. Low
den, of Illinois, ia to deliver two ad
dresses in North Carolina this week.
He will be at Charlotte Friday, April
23, and will speak at noon. He will
also speak in Raleigh Saturday, April
24, at noon. These addresses will be
outstanding events in this State, and
every man, woman, and child should
hear one or both of them.
Governor Lowden is one of thfc out
standing figures of the country, a
statesman whose stand for the farm
er and farming interests has won him
widespread renown. He is known as
one of the chief defenders of tfie
farmer an da fighter for benefits for
the farmer. Just at this time, when
Congress is deeply interested in farm
relief legislation, it will be very in
forming to hear Governor Lowden,
who has given close study to the sev
eral proposed plans for relief. The
Illinois statesman is also much inter
ested in the problems of farm sur
pluses and will discuss the question in
Lis addresses.
Not only has Governor Lowden giv
en yearn of study to agricultural m&t-
he is a farmer. With large
farms in Illinois, devoted to the rais
ing of grain, hogs, and cattle, and In
addition a big cotton plantation in
Arkansas, Governor Lowden knows k
the problems that face the farmer by
personal experience.
Accepting the invitation of the
North Carolina Cotton Growers' Co
operative Association, Governor Low
den will spend two days in this -State
and then go to South Carolina, where
he speaks Monday, April 26th.
ARM CUT OFF BY
NEGRO IN FIGHT
Effort* Being Made to Graft Severed
Member Back On; Assailant la
Still At l^arge
On Thursday, April 16, following a
row, Andy Gaynor, a young colored
man, who lives in the Gold Point sec
tion, struck Heber Ayers, a young
white man of the same section, on the
head with an ax. Hen then hit hiui
on the right arm, between the elbow
anil shoulder, completely cutting the
arm of!' with the exception of a small
portion of flesh on the under part of
the arm.
Doctors are attempting to graft the
arm back in its place, with some hope
of saving it. ;
Young Ayers is the son of Will
Rumor has it that the negro ac
cused young Ayers of stealing liquor
from him, and when Ayers called him
a liar he struck him with the axe.
Gaynor is still at large although of
ficers have been seeking him ever
since the assault.
iVIisH Mury King- Ellison, of Belhav
en, was here Saturday with Mrs. Har
old Clark, and returned home Satur
fvQ,ing accompanied by
Emma Robertson and Mr. William
Carstarphen.
Misses Hetle Bynum, Myrtle Prid
gen, and Helen Gurganus, teachers of
the Cross Roads School, were in town
Monday.
Sandy Ridge Local
And Personal News
" Mrs. Herbert Taylor and Mrs T. A.
Peed were in Williamston on business
Friday afternoon."'
Miss Beatrice Cherry spent Friday
night with Miss liernice Riddick.
Mrs. W. J. Cherry spent Saturday
with her sister Mrs. Neai Godard.
Misses Louallie and Eva Pate visit
ed Mrs. Herbert Taylor Sunday.
Master Felix Peed returned to En
field with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas
Sunday.
Six Killed in Klan
War at Herrin, Ili.
Six person W*M killed at Herrin,
Illinois, Tuesday when an election riot
out in which many persons par-
OTPTted.
The trouble was said to have start
ed when John Smith, a garage nutn
and a Klan leader, was struck across
the face with a pistol in the hands ol
a man called "Blackie" Arms. Smith
ran into his garage and barrieadeu it
and much shooting followed. Latet
in the day the battle was renewed, re
sulting in the death of six men, three
of them Klansmen and three of them
anti-Klansmen.
i- The Illinois State guards are on
hand and while things have quieted
down the feeling is yet running high.