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VOLUME 29—NUMBER 31 Put on Drive to Fight Typhoid and Diphtheria Campaign Will Begin In County June-21; Through July 17 While the number of typhoid cases in Martin county has decreased more than 90 per cent since 1814, Dr. Wm. E. Warren has called attention to the anti-typhoid fever and diptheria cam paign which will be waged throughout the County between June 21 and July 17. Dr. Warren is formulating plans for the campaign to be waged. It is within the power of the people to do almost anything they wish to do. They can keep well and free from disease if they are willing to do so. Typhoid fever has been practically eliminated from Martin county due chiefly to the people taking ad van - tage of the free treatments which the State gives every two or three years. The doctors of our county under Dr. W. E. Warren's directions and as sisted by the State have done much in the campaigns against typhoid fever and deserve much credit for their efforts. Notice of the dates and places for vaccinations will appear in our next iasue. Juniors To Install Officers Thursday There will be a special meeting of the local council, Junior Order United American Mechanics, at their hall Thursday night, at which time the fol lowing officers, recently elected will be installed: Vernon D. Godwin, councillor; W. S. Bailey, vice councillor; Marvin Brit ton, assistant recording secretary; C. B. Harrison, warden; Julian Harrell, insidte sentry; J. £. Harrison, out side sentry; and B. S. Courtney, chaplain. All members are requested to be present and on time. Announcement'of the Christian Federation Mr. Joseph L. Holliday will apeak to the Christian Laymen* Federation at the Baptist church Friday, June 18th at eight p. m. Mr. Holliday spoke to this organization some time ago and his talk was very much enjoy ed by all those who heard him. We hope the people of Williamston will come out to hear this layman speak. The Federation has accepted an in vitation to hold s service at Cedar Grove church Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Everybody is cordially invited to hear Mr. Holliday and attend the service at Cedar Grove church. Mr. Pardo Returns from Conference At Raleigh Rev. C. O. Pardo and the Rt. Kev. Thomas C. Darst, D. D., left here last -Monday for Raleigh, where the inter- Diocesan Conference of the Commis sion on Evangelism was heM at St.; Mary's School on Tuesday and Wed-' nesdsy. Rev. Pardo is chairman of the commission of the Diocese of East Carolina and the inter-Diocesan commission, which is composed of the East Carolina and North Carolina Dioceses. From there they went to Washing ton, D. C., where the national confer ence was held. Bishop Darst is chair man of the national commission, and one of the leaders of the crusade. Bishop Darst is one of the outstand ing figures in his church in this coun try. STRANH THEATRE! J THURSDAY A picture all should see, es pecially every child— "A Kiss For Cinderella" FRIDAY For those who like something pleasingly different. "Dancer of Paris" CMWIJT Tearle, Darethy McKail 25 and >0 THEN SATURDAY Ton mar get the lucky num ber Iter a— Two-Tube Radiola Do mt mkm this duusce— THE ENTERPRISE GREAT SESQUI STADIUM OPENED AT PHILADELPHIA ....JmiWyLJmm "" i . . *... ■ *■» WmrJ IM P> Ii vv. IIMMWWWWIWIIWMiy «. »_■ ' The giant arena In the centre of the Sesqnl-CenleO nial International Exposition site in Philadelphia was built in approximately SOU working days. U was com pleted and In use a month before the opening of the big exposition which celebrates the ISOth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This photo graph. made from the air. shows nearly 3.000 buy., on the playing field, massed there for the dedicatory exer- New Race Secretary For Roanoke Fair This Year Fair Officials Announce Engagement of Mr. J. B. Bailey, Well-Known Horseman, of Emporia, Va.; Complete I>rogram of Races Flan* for the 1926 Roanoke Fair are fast taking shape and the As sociation anounces with pleasure the engagement of Mr.. J. B. Bailey of Emporia, Va. as Race Secretary this year. Mr. Bailey is well known to all horsemen and race followers in Virginia and the Carolina*, and he announces the following race program: Tuesday Sept. 28th—2:14 pace, 2:24 tret. Wednesday, Sept. 29th—2:22 pace, 2:16 trot. Thursday, Sept. 30th—2:10 puce 2:12 trot. Friday, Oct. Ist—2:lß pace, 2:20 trot. Wind and Hail Does Damage In County The wind and hail storm Saturday evening did quite a lot of damage in the county. In the town of Bear Grass and the surrounding section, many trees were uprooted, and a few houses were damaged by the wind. The hail was heavy in many sections, not severe enough to ruin crops, how ever. The storm bore to the east and crossed the Washington road, the wind and hail doing some damage. A num ber of other sections had hard winds, H»ut not so much damage- was done. The r&in was general over the coun ty, but was light except in the storm region. Attend Meeting of Award Committee Dr. and Mrs. Jno. D. Biggs motor ed to Kaleigh yesterday where Mrs. Biggs attended a meeting of t)\e A ward' Committee of the Thos. Jeffer son Memorial association. Mrs. Biggs was appointed by Governor McLean, to assist in selecting a girl, a boy and ] a teacher of North Carolina for three free trips to Europe as the guests of [ the association. Lightning Destroys Pack House Saturday During the storm last Saturday evening lightning struck and ftrcd the pack house of Mr. J. M. Oakley, near here. The building, a two-story struc ture was a total loss and was estimat ed to be worth $700.00 and its con tents valued at about SSO. There was only $460. insurance on the building Mr. Oakley is now rushing to re build as he wil have tobacco ready for the packhouse in about forty days. J. L. Jones to Teach in Jamesville Next Term Friends in the County will be in terested to hear that Mr. J. L. Jones who has been principal of the Ham ilton Mhoola for the past two years has accepted a principalship of the Jamearille school for the coming y MT. Wiiiiainston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 15, 1926. I'hoto by A into Htrvii n Oorporatioi; cises on May 1 which formally opened the structure. In the stands are seated 10.000 persofta' watching the pro gram. A group of 10,000 persons Is a large crowd but they are only a "drop in the bucket" in th» t*>f Philadel phia stadium. The boys paraded oato the tyM to the accompaniment of fourteen hands and there wr.t through their drills and athletic exercises for the hMWOt of city officials and parents. The races will again thia year be held under the Carolina Short Ship Circuit, and it will be re membered that thia Circuit gave the Roanoke Fair good racing laat year. Tlm Roanoke Fair Is the first in the Circuit this year and a large number of horses are ex pected to make their appearance on its track this year. Manager H. M. Poe ia searching the country for all events that are necessary to the making of an excellent fair. The announcement of contracts will be made from time to time and will be of much interest to the people of this sec tion. Short Circuit Blows Out Transformer The various business of the stores and other establishments was ham pered Saturday night when the lights, went out about 9:30 o'clock., Prac tically all the stores closed and those remaining -pperi found business to be greatly curtailed since the use of candles and lamps were entirely in adequate. A short somewhere in the business district blew one of the main trans formers and when the load was switched to the remaining two in the dtstrtct they were fiOTfied, "lfcavlrfg the entire business section on Main street in darkness. The electricians replaced the dam aged transformers Sunday morning and lights were available that night. Invited to Escort Gig Of Thomas Jefferson Mrs. A. It. Dunning has been for mally invited by President Calvin Coolidge, honorary chairman, and Stuart G. Gilboney, president of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Founda tion to escort Thomas Jefferson's gig from Monticello to Philadelphia. The invitation reads: "You are cordially invited to join the honorary automobile escort that will accompany Thomas Jefferson's gig from Monticello, his home, situat ed at Charlottesville, Va., to Phila delphia and the International Sesqui- Centennial Expositor!, leaving Monti cello June 25, 1926, arriving Phila delphia June 28, 1926, Jefferson Day." Thomas Jefferson's gig is the one horse carriage designed and built for Jefferson at Monticello. In it he rode —l6O years ago—from his home at Monticello to the Continental Con gress at Philadelphia, for which -he drafted the Declaration of Independ ence. "LORD JIM" ON AT THE STRAND THEATRE TONIGHT ''Lord Jim" one of the best pictures to come thin way in some time is on at the Strand theatre tonight Those who have seen it class it as "vsry good." Mrs. Robert Heydenrech of Eliza beth City is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mis. J. W. Watts. Ask Authority For Junking of W.-P. Railroad * Owners Apply to Com mission to Stop Service Windsor, June 14. —Windsor in a bout to lose its railroad, leading to Ahoskie. The road now known u* the Caro lina Southern was boflt by lumber in terests and for many yeno» has been operated both as a lunioer road "and as a common carrier under the name of the Wellington and Powellsville rail road. The road was never made a stand ard gauge and when the lumber in dustry played out it necessitated u receivership, under which is has operated for two years. Until a fore closure was ordered several months ago and the road was sold to sev eral creditors who attempted a reor ganization. They asked the town of Windsor to take $60,00(1 stock In the road for the purpose of changing to a standard gauge. Windsor people failed to see any profit in the road and did not purchase any stock. The new hard surfaced road from Windsor to Aulander has made com petition so strong for the road that it is almoat impossible for it to live. The owners have filed a petition with the Interstate Commerce Com mission and with the North Carolina Corporation Commissiong asking per mission to discontinue the service and junk the road. Fiagr Day Observed Here Yesterday Flag Day, ordered by Governor A. W. McLean for Monday, June 14th, was well observed here when the town displayed its 25 or 30 flags on its prhicipal streets. To Sail for Europe Friday With Party Mrs. J. C. Lyonx of Chapel Hill who has been visiting hor sister, Mrs. J. W. Watts, jr. left this morning for Williamsburg, Va. where she will visit relatives at William and Mary for a day and join a party that vs sail from New York Friday f. Europe. She will travel with them for several weeks and then join Mr. Lyons whp is doing research work while writing his thesis for a Ph. 0. degree. Later in the summer tney will go down in the Pyrnees mo. ,i --tains where Mr. Lyons will- teach in a summer school. Aged Colored Man Dies In Jamesville Daniel Hopkins, aged 72, a highly respected tolored citizen of James ville died yesterday. He was the fa ther of thirteen children, nine of them living. They are Henry, Marcus, Lu ther, Waiter, George, Charlie, Dr. J. C. Hopkins, Hester Wood and Mattie Richardson. The funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at his late home. Messrs. E. K. Harrell and E. V. Smith of Oak City were in town yes- j terday. Report District Womans Clubs For Last Year List Outstanding Work #»f Each Club In District fallowing is the report of the pres ident of the fifteenth district of North Carolina Federated Woman's Clubs, as read in Asheville at the federation meeting: Mrs. V. A. Ward, of Kobersonville, was elected president of the district last spring and much of the work re ported was due to her efforts. She resigned her office last fall because of household duties, but has been a source of much help to the present president. All the clubs in the district have done splendid work during the year, and all have promptly ami pleasantly paid the district dues. The following is a list of the outstanding piece of work done by each club, as reported to me by the secretary. Aulander Woman's Club erected playground equipment and supervised play of the children all last summer, serving light refreshments two after noons of u»ch week. Crescite Club, of Washington, sent a fifty pound box of nice candy to one of the wards at Otten Kaster. Windsor Choral Club is puting pub lic school music in the local school. Kobersonville Hooklover's Club or ganized a fine woman's club in its town. Williamston Woman's Club helped secure a county home demonstrator, besides many other notable activities. Plymouth Thursday afternoon club has done and is doing fine work in establishing a library, part of which is devoted to reference bonks for the school children. Merry Matrons of Farmville paid the tuition of a girl at Albemarle school during one month. Farmville tdterary Club contribut ed one hundred dollars to the Sallie Southall Cotten Loan Fund —the largest gum ever given by any club to this cause. Farmville P. T. A. assisted materi ally in raising the library from "H" to "A" grade. Greenville Woman's Club secured a county demonstration agent for Pitt. End of Century Club, of Greenville, assisted generously in the support of the library of the town and sold a federation history to each member of the club. Clionion Club, of Aurora, assisted in county tuberculosis eradication. Womas's Betterment Association of Pantego, put its entire effort on buy ing playground equipment. Windsor W. C. spent several hus dred dollars on cement walks and sup plementary readers for the school. Washington Woman's Club secured a promise from the board of alder men that there would be no more per mits granted for subscription dances. Greenville Kound Table studied and enjoyed a program of travel and con tributed to all causes. Belhaven Woman's Club gave $l2O toward school library and is buying playgrroundetjutpment. --- 1 11 ■ Two clubs withdrew during the yeur —the members being practically all members of the local woman's club. Clubs contributing to the S. 8. Cot [ ten loan fund were: Clionion, Womans and End of Century, of Greenville; Booklovers and Woman's, of Kober sonville; Merry Mutrons, P. T. A., ami Literary Club, of Farmville; Aulander Woman's Club; Windsor Woman's Club, Washington Woman's Club, Wo man's Betterment Association of Pan tego, Round Table, End of Century, and Woman's Club, of Greenville. Two Farmville clubs, with a com bined membership of SO, told 41 his tories of the federation, Others sell ing histories were: all Greenville clubs 32, End of Century selling one to each member; Williamston Woman's Club, 6; Kobersonville Woman's Club, 6; Windsor Woman's Club, 6; Windsor Choral Club, 6; Winterville Woman's Club, 2; Fountain Woman's Club,. 2. We had a fine district mooting at Rol ersonvillc with Mother Cotten, Mrs. McKee, Mrs. Williamson, Miss Per kins and other celebrities present 2in club women were there. (Continued on the back page) Junior League Picnic At Riverside Today The Junior fcpworth league had a a picnic at Riverside park today and the children thoroughly enjoyed the swimming and codling breezee of the Pamlico. There were seven cars full of the Leaguers and a delightful lunch was served them at the noon hour. Mlssas Emma Robertson, leader, and Evelyn Harrison chaperoned the little folks. PROCEEDINGS SUPERIOR COURT TO NOON TODAY; MISTRIAL IN FIRST CASE County Home Agent To Be Here July 10 Miss Anna Trentham Is Assigned To Work In This County News has been received that the Home demonstration agent will ar rive about the 10th of next month to begin her duties as agent for Martin county. The County commissioners at their March meeting voted to estab lish this office, and it was impossible to secure an agent before the schools of the county closed their sessions. Miss l'auline Smith, whose judg ments and ability is well known in this county, says that she feels happy over securing such a fine woman as Miss AnTlil Trentham for the Martin county work. "She is not only suited tempermentally to the conditions in your good county, but she is well quali fled, having recently graduated from Peabody, Nashville, Tenn," says Miss Smith. Miss Frentham is from Mur freesboro, Tenn. Miss Smith also especially urges the women of the county to cooper ate with Miss Trentham from the be ginning, as a good beginning will mean so much in the kind of work that is to be done. Barbers Run Into Sunday Blue Law "And the barber kept on shaving" b:it it was on Sunday morning that Messrs. Hull, Peele and Jernigan of the Cititens barbershop shaved sev eral customers, and of course the blue laws had lo fall from the sky and as a result the three barbers were call ed into '.he Mayor's court. This was the fim rfrense and after considering the facts in the case, Mayor Coburn withdrew lite fine which would have been $5. Ihe i costs were also with drawn find the defendants went clear of fines and costs.' Mr. Hell, proprietor of the shop, was unnl'le to see .the proper officials regarding the opening of the shop on Sunday morning, and since the lights went out the night before, he thought this to be u proper excuse for opening his shop on Sunday morn ing. Mayor Coburn held this to be an invalid excuse at the trial, anil withdrew the fines and costs on the basis that this was the first offense, lawyer Dunning appeared for the defendants and expressed himself as being well pleased with the outcome of the trial. Branch Office Chamber Of Commerce Opened Ahoskie, June 14.—The formal opening of the Roanoke-Chowan of flee df EIIUIE CarollHk chamber oi Commerce took place last week in the Farmers tobacco warehouse at A lioskie. Nearly 160 men were Heated around banquet tables, the repast was served by the Woman's club. Twenty two towns were represented in the gathering. Notables from a number of counties participated in the speech making. John W. Holmes, President, Parmville, acted us toastmastcr. Williamston and Martn county are .under the jurisdiction of the AhosKfe office along with a good many more counties of this section. Attending Y. P. S. L. \ Meet At Washington Mrs. N. C. Green, Misses France? and Eugenia Hoyt, Lucile Hassell, Frances Williams, and Emily Wood liadham and Faul, Mac, and Reginald Simpson, Claud Clark, jr., and Buck Saunders left yesterday with Rev. C. O. Fardo for Washington, where they will attend the annual conference of the People's Service League, which began last night and will con tinue through tomorrow. About six young people from the league at St. Martins, Hamilton, their leader, Miss Effie Waldo, are al son attending the conference. LIGHTNING STRIKES CORN BAItN Mr. Danie Taylor's corn bam was Htruck by lightning laat week and set on lire. The Are was aoon discovered and put out, little damage raaulting to th« barn awl corn. The building and its content* were covered by in aurance. Meaara. W. H. Gray and V. C Groom of Roberaonville were vialtora hero yoaterday. ESTABLISHED 1898 James Salsburv Found Guilty Manslaughter By Jury Today Only ten minutes were requir ed in jury deliberation to reach a verdict uf guilty in the case against James Salsbury, colored, for killing a negro named Keel. The jury found no trouble in agreeing that it was through carelessness and wild driving of Salsbury that Keel was killed. The verdict was returned short ly after noon today. Judge Cal vert has not yet passed sentence on Salsbury. The Martin County Superior court convened here yesterday morning with Judge Thomas H. Calvert presiding, and Hon. Donald Gilliam, aoiici'or, prosecuting. The term is for one week only and is for both criminal ami civil cases. The docket is really a shabby af- , fair, there being only nine cases on ifc, two of them being homicides The grand jury is Composed of Joseph H. Griffin, foreman, J. C. Gur kin, J. E. Harrison, jr., E. L. Ed mondson, W. D. Ambers, W. C. Fjr vis, K K. Thompson, C. C. Fleming, W. F. Crawford, K. G, Sexton, B. W. Hardy, Ellis Malone, K. L. Hodges, J. Henry Roberson, T. C. Edmondson, T. A. Brown, E. V. Smith, E. K. Har rell. - The petit jury is composed of J. N. _ Feel, E; T. (lodges, S. C. Ray, J. T. Higgs, J. M. Highsmith, Ephriani Daniel, 1.. F. Stokes, J. M. Johnson, Warren W. Waters, Jordan G. Feel, and G. K. Roebuck. The following jurors were excused by the court for the term fot var ious causes, J. W. Hopkins, J. L. Wi.- liams, J. W. Warrington, C. M. Hurst, S. H. Mobley, R. E. Early, and Hyman Warren. Judge Calvert made only a short charge, covering the general duties of jurors. The court was soon 'calling the cases oil the docket. The first to re spond was that of Fannie L. I>atham, a young colored girl, who procured merchandise from Harrison Brothers and company upon her statement that she had been sent by Mr. A. Ander son for the goods. Through her at torney. sh« waived bill of indictment and plead guilty of trespass. Judg ment was suspended upon payment of cost and restoring the goods. The next case was an indictment against Dick Stevenson, a young white mail, living near Hamilton, charg ing him with the stealing of a her ring net, the property of George Wells and a colored man. This was the second time that more than a dozen farmers have spent a day in court on this case, the case having been heard in the Recorder's court, and a verdict of guilty was returned. Stevenson appealed the case. It was learned, after the case got under way, that the net Was wdrth, when new, only four dollars, but in ■spite of the- *mall vnttre thtiHJ WAS" * keen interest in the case. The State displayed its share of this interest in the case while, of course, Mr. Stev enson, who stood charged of the theft, was forced to fight. Though Judge Calvert has been on the bench a good many years, jt was apparent that the fishing habits along the Roanoke and the kinds of nets used were new terms in court procedure. The State proved that the herring net had been tied up with tobacco twine, burlap twine, a worn man's garter und another kind of string, this was for the purpose of perfecting identification. Much weight was given the garter and it was con stantly referred to in the closing ad dresses. The trial lagged on and it was after four o'clock yesterday af ternoon before all the evidence in the case was in. Attorney Moore, speak ing for the defendant, reviewed the evidence and stated that it was in sufficient to convict the defendant. Solicitor Gilliam, speaking for the State adressed the Court, reviewed briefly the evidence and asked for a verdict of' guilty. The case, after Judge Calvert's charge, went to the jury at 5:16 after a long day of con tradictory evidence. The first vote cast stood 7 to 6 for conviction, a second vote resulted in a reversal, that is seven for acquittal and five for conviction. At eight o'clock the twelve men took time out for supper, -; the end being far from sight. At a late hoar last night the question was still unsettled and at which time a mistrial was ordered. The two days given the case have proved worthless apd the way of the case, at this time, is unknown. In way of comment, the ease has (Continued on the back page) I
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