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VOLUME 29—NUMBER 32 MRS. BROWN ACQUITTED OF MURDER CHARGE BY JURY HERE WEDNESDAY Jury Out Only Few Min utes; Shot Her Hus band May 30th t After being out only a short while, the Jury in the trial of Mrs. Alma Brown, who was charged with the murder of her husband on Sunday, May 80, retained a verdict of not fuilty in superior court here Wednes day. The prisoner was immediately discharged. The trial began Tuesday afternoon, at 2.30, the jury was selected and the evidence for both the State and defenae was in within three hours, when court adjourned until Wednes day. The argument by B. A. Critcher for the defendant, and DonneM Gil liam, for the State, together with the charge of Judge Calvert last only two hours Wednesday morning. The jury then took the case to say in what way and under what circum stances Mrs. Brown killed her hus band. The State had shown that Will Brown had been shot and killed en Sunday night May 80, on the George L. Roberson farm, 3 miles south of Robersonville, by his wife, Alma Brown, who had taken a shot gun from her father's house at midnight and gone 76 yards to the car in which her husband was sitting and there blew the top of his head off with one barrel and emptied the contents of the other barrel into his right shoul der. The dafsnie claimed that Brown had taken his wife to see her mother Sunday. After dinner he drove away, taking one of the small children and the husband of Mrs. Brown's sister. Brown, who was a drinking man, was supposed to have gone to a moon shine still, where he hung up until late in the night, reaching the home of his father-in-law at 11.80. Brown shouted to his wife to "come en and go home." She told him the three children which he had left with her were asleep and to wait until she could get them ready. Like drunken men frequently do, she claims, he be came noisy, cursing and using abusive language, resulting in s fight in which she was choked. The drunken brother-in-law entered the game and was knocked down with a chair sev eral times by Mrs. Brown, whose sis ter and mother had brought in the gun in the meantime and were pro curing ammunition. It seems that about this time there was a.lull in the scrap, and the gun was abandoned. Brown went on back to the car and get in it for the pur- 1 pose of leaving. Some minutes after • he had left the house for the car, Mrs. Brown took up the gun snd fol lowed after him. The only difference in the testi mony of the State and defense was M to what occurred at the car just as the shooting took place. The State contended that Mrs. Brown walked up to the car where Brown, the child, and drunken brother-in-law were and ft red on him without warn - Mrs. Brown claimed that she wsjit to the car snd demanded that shs be olven the sleeping 4-year-old child, who was about to be taken away at 12 o'clock in the night; that her hus band slapped her dpwn with his left hand and then started to climb out ef the left side of t|ie ear, where there was no door. She said he threw his left leg over the side °'| the car and was turning, around and crawling out of the cay backwards when she shot him, and that she was still sitting OB this ground and be lieved her husband meant to do her bodily harm when she shot him. STRANN HEAHEI J aesasssß ,i i FRIDAY Par tho»« who W» •omething pleadingly different. ' "Dancer of Paris" CMWI; Tearle, Dorothy McKail 15 Mid 80 THEN SATURDAY Yo« «m»y »ot tbo lucky num ber for • Two-Tube Radiola Do aot a|p» thfc itin THE ENTERPRISE Dead Beats To Drive Us Into Garnishee Law Merchants Advocate a Law to Make People Pay Theirs Bills Credit conditions existing in Elisa beth City are about the same as they are in Williamston, according to an article in the last issue of The Inde pendent We hear stories every day about people owing big bills at stores in this town and other towns in the community, and driving cars, some little and some big, while the mer chants walk, ride bicycles, or in less expensive cars. Extracts from the Independent's article follow: "North Carolina would have a gar nishee law on ita books if the mer chants of Elisabeth City had their way about it. The business men, and especially the small merchanta, ex press themselves as being heartily for such a law. 'lt is the only protec tion and only salvation for us,' they declare. 'The dead beat Is driving us out of the credit business, and making it harder for the honest man to get credit.' "Merchant after merchant, ir.ter viewed by this newspaper, without exception, declared himst'f in favor of the enactment of such a law. this week. Briefly, a garnishee law is a law that permits a creditor to attach a portion of a man's wages for the settlement of his honest debts. It is the only protection a creditor has a gainst the man who can and will not pay his bills. "A poll of the merchants of the two busiest blocks on Main Street brought forth a pitiful story. 'We are slaves to the credit system, U.e merchants declare. Credit is too easy but we have to give it. or our cus tomers will go elsewhere. If a cus tomer is slow pay we have to con tinue to extend credit to keep him pajring on his account, or he will take his cash to some other town.' "Other merchants report men mak ing $lB and leas a week who bu>s automobiles, evading their debts for clothing and groceries to keep the cars going, because they must use their cash to meet the isi&taUmc.its on the automobile or lose it Every garage reports debts for repair bills on some of these cara that they never expect to collect." ATTEND FUNERAL OF BROTHER IN RICH SQUARK Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mobley went to Rich Square Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mr. J. C. Batton, Mrs. Mobley's brother who fell dead on Tuesday. Mr. Batton was a prominent druggist and a leading citixen of his section. He was 62 years old. The jury brought in a verdict of acquittal after being out opjy minutes. Practically every person in the courthouae expected an acquittal. In fact, most of the people, and especi ally the women, approved of the ver dict It waa a trial flooded with sym pathy, one of the quietest and sad dest trials aver held in the Martin County coufthopse.~ Mrs. Brawn, a rather handsome young woman, only 24 years old, with four children, 2, 4, 6, and 8 years old, and again in expectancy, waa accom panied by her father, who remained at her side throughout the trial. She was neatly but not extravagantly dreased. She sat during the pleading of counsel for bath sides with her face down and her eyes east to the floor. She did not stare nor flinch during the entire procedure; even the filing in of the jury and announce ment of the verdict, "not guilty" fail ed to aroyse her from her apparent deep study, and her attention was gotten only when she was told by a friend that ahe waa - The whale tragedy, the slaying of a human being; a man; a husband, is directly chargable to illicit liquor. While neighbors said he was not of the best type of man, Mrs. Brown aaid ha waa Und when sober. Of coarse, high temper on the part of Mrs. Brawn matured the fruits of his folly. Had ahe been a woman timid and afraid to aseert herself, then ahe doabtleaa would now he plodding a long life's highway with a sometimes dntabsß and cruel haaband rather than a lonely woman mourning the loaa of a huaband and with the awfulnaas of the thought of having taken another's life always before her. Williajnslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 18,1926 Hammer And Saw ' Ajjain Active Here THE noise of hammer and aaw may b« heard in many parts of town now. The en largement of the Farmer* Warehouse, which haa been in progress for some months hack, is already presenting a marked improvement in the Tobacco aoc tion and when the proposed al terations to the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse are completed will improve the warehouse equip ment very much. Work on the residence of Mrs. G. N. Gurganus on Watts Street was commenced several days ago, and will be completed in the early falL The Enterprise Sunday School Lesson in Brief m June 20.—"Judah's Plea."— Gen. 44; 18-84. By C. H. DICKJBY Events move in such a strange way. We can not begin to understand them. It would be a wonderful thing if we should always remember that we are not able to fully understand. Pre suming that we do understand often gets us into trouble; when admitting that we do not always leaves the way open for God to oarry on with us, for us, and through us. When Joseph was sold into Egypt, there was none living who could see any good in it But Ged took up the thread of events and wove them into a wonderful pattern. Joseph's going into Egypt was the initial step which issued, a long time afterwards, in God's chosen people emerging upon the theatre of national and interna tional events. Joseph, through sheer worth and because God was with him arose to a throne of power down in Egypt. The granaries were filled with prep aration for the great coming famine. In due time it came. The supplies were gradually diminishing, while the famine was gradually spreading. On it went, ever widening its boundaries until Canaan was included. Hearing that tJiere was much grain in Egypt, Jfcob sent his sons there to buy grain. About twenty years ago, these brethren had sold Joseph and sent him into Egypt as a slave. Now, they themselves are going down, crowded by a great famine. They do not know it, but they are going down to ask bread, from the very brother whom they had sold in Egypt. What stiange turns events take! The context gives the account of how these events proceeded here. In short, Joseph demanded a host age and also demanded that his younger brother be brought down from Canaan as surety. And here ccmes in the noble speech of Judah. Something seems to have happened to Judah in these years. He it a changed man. Now, he ia mindful of his father; at one time he had no more regard fQj- him than to sell into slavery his favorite son. Now, the thought of taking from him his other darling is too much for him. And he rushes forward with noble impulse and offers himself for surety—offers himself instead of his brother. "Great er love hath no man than this, that he (ay down his lift for his friend." In course of time, Joseph reveals himself to his b ret hem. How mov ing the story; what a tale thia is! Stranger than Action, moving the aoul to tears. During these years of exile Joseph's attachment for his old father never abated. Filial love did not die out in the human heart He waa more in terested in the old man than he was in the Egyptian Empire. The context close* with Joaeph at nding to Canaan for hla father and bringing the entire family down to Egypt where there was corn, a home protection, and where entire family relation* could be resumed. When they went down, about 72 souls, something waa started for Godl a chosen people, a peculiar peo ple were placed in school, and their mission waa to give the world a re ligion, or the religion, and eventually the Saviour. , What a noble mission was theirs. But how strangely the events moved that brought it to fruition. Church- of the Advent Program of Services Bev. C. O. Pardo, Hector Third Sunday after Trinity: .. 8:00—Holy Comiwmkm. o:4s—Church School; Mr. N. Cor tes Groan, superintendent 11:00—Morning prayer end sermon. 1:80 —Holy Trinity Mission. - .A'li A ROYAL ENTERTAINER PERFORMS m . 1 "WT M ■ \ |% Mfm ■ Amir Bux, a genuine. East Tnritan oonjnrer, produces a Liberty Bell tram a reporter's hst. He M one of the artists In the India Building st the ilcsqol- Centennial International Exposition, which opened in Philadelphia June 1 to peoember 1 to celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Shoppers Asked Clerks By Buying Early Many People of Town Work Hardship on Clerks in Local St res By Waiting Until After 6 O'Clock to I)o Their Shopping Last yesr we carried an article in the Enterprise sbout people shopping sfter A o'clock, taper i ally the town people, and Many who had not thought of the hard ship it works on the clerks mere glsd to snd did get up town, do their shopping, snd were resdy to get out of the stores k) t> o'clock promptly, jj- • Rut we have gotten into the same old habit sgsin this sum mer, Kelting up town just shout 0 in the sfternoon snd then begin shopping with s clerk who hs» been working—most of them— since 6 o'clock thst morning. New Filling Station Opens Tomorrow One of Eastern Carolina'* hand somest and most up to date gasoline stations will be opened tomorrow on the corner of Main and Washington streets. The Harrison Oil Co., owners and operators of the two stations extend ing from Haughton to Washington Streets and fronting on Railroad Street are the owners of the new sta tion. The service station property, which includes a large plot of land, is cov ered entirely by the station and con crete driveways, oil and washing pits, etc., extending from Washington Street to the Dunning residence prop erty. The estimated cost of the new station including the land, is around |23,000. The station will be run under the name of the Central Service Statu.n, and will be conducted under the most up-to-date methods, with iho most modern equipment. Messrs. C. B. and djtyiord Harri son, who have operated the Texaco Station in the past, will be in charge of the Central. These young men give as complete service as it is pos sible to give and extend to every vis itor #nd customer every courtesy. Sunday Services for Jamegville BaptiW A. Corey, Pastor. It is the "inuctive list', those who criticise, but do not help; those who want prominence but are unwilling to merit it by faithful service undei others. Those who question the mo tives of their fellows largely because they sometimes are self-seekers; those who sometimes appear when there is work to be done; those who so easily find fault with what is at tempted or accomplished, but who give the minimum of cooperation and assistance when their suggestions are accepted, and nothing but criti cism when the judgment of others pre vail. ~ Sunday 9:46 a. m.—Sunday school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning worship. 8:00 p. m.—Evening worship, e vangelistic service. All are cordially invited to worship with us. Mks Thelma Brown will spend the week end in Kenly visiting Miss Mil dred Darden. This is not to criticise but to re mind our people of whet it mesns to those who do not get s rhsnce to get out of the store sll dsy. The stores of the neighboring towns close at 5 o'clock, and the doors are closed promptly. Our merchants keep open until 6, and M long thereafter as we want them to, but let us give them just considerstion snd do our shopping before 8 o'clock. This does not spply mo much to the people in the country, who sre busy with their crops st this time of the yesr. Woman's Club To Meet Wednesday The Woman's Hub wil hold Its last meeting until fall next Wed • neaday afternoon at 4 o'clock. There are some very important matters to be passed upon at this last meeting before the new year's work begins and every member is urgently requested to he pres ent. Sermon Subject at Memorial Baptist "Human Wrecks" is the subject of the sermon which will be preached! from the pulpit of the Memorial Bap tist church Sunday night at 8 o'- 1 clock.' 1 This is a subject with which we are all familiar. They ale all about us, — many of the scrapped, junked, and a portion, partly salvaged. The whole, a miserable advertisement of whut may be at the end of the road. The pastor has in mind the young people of the community, In the pre paration of this discourse. It is they who should hear it; for it Is they Who could profit. The "untouchables", the "diseased", the "unfortunates", the "wrecks", — it is they who should spedk to us trom their misearble plights. It is the business of the church, and all forces of righteousness to save the youth from this pitiable wreck age. Holiness Meeting to Start Next Monday Rev. D. J. Little, pustor, assisted by Rev. A. H. Ilutler, of Falcon, N. C. will begin a meeting in the new Penticostal Holiness church at t_hC\ west end of Haughton street, Monday night, June 21. This meeting will continue for a bout two weeks. All church people are invited toi™ 1 assist in the set-vice and everyone is invited. Young Child of Mr. and Mrs. John Gurkin Dead John Wilson, the eight months old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Gurkin, died Wednesday after several weeks of sickness. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon by Rev. A. J. Manning. burial was In the Gurkin cemetery at Lilley's Hall, a very large crowd attending both funeral and burial. County Sunday School Meeting THE Martin County Sunday School Convention will be held in Kobereonville Wednes day and Thursday, June 23 and 24. The workem of all Sunday School in the county are invited to attend the sessions, which be gin Wednesday night at 8 o'- clock. • 1 Mr. James I- Koherson. who in the county secretary, urges the teachers and officers or every Sunday school in the county to attend, as important problema confronting Sunday school workers will be taken up and considered. Superior Court Term Short But Full of Interest Make Record By Grant ing Five Divorces in Forty Minutes The June term of superior court was interesting, even if it was only a two and a half day term, one day of which was taken up in the trial of a net stealing; case, resulting in a mistrial and a nol pros with leave. There was only one prison sentence made. James Saisbury, colored, who killed a man when he turned a car over, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to the Edgecombe County roads for the term of 15 months. The court was a record one for divorces, grinding out five in less than 40 working minutes, which is re garded as high-speed court procedure. The civil docket was pussed up without delay; suitors, attorneys, and the court all appearing willing. Sunday Services At Memorial Baptist Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, the service will be held by and for the children of the Junior Church. This church is making a large place in its program for the children. Fre quently it is planned that a service shall be held for them and with their active participation. Sunday morning, one of them will perform at the organ, two will render a duet, others will take the offering, while still others will do the usher ing. The sermonette by the pastol will be aimed solely for the children to comprehend. At the close of the service, three of the children will be baptized. The church members will want to be at this service. There will be the regular sermon •Sunday evening at 8 O'clock. Automobile Runs Into Railroad Embankment Running down a hill a\>out 50 yards long and facing a tall railroad em bankment, the driver of a new Chrys ler sedan failed to stop last night, and this morning his car was resting with its nose in the railroad bed back of W. I'. Hall's residence. The car carries a Windsor license, and is apparently in as ftood shape as It ever was, not a glass being broken nor a scratch to be seen. It was about one o'clock in the morning, and the driver must have been napping at the wheel. The owner of the car is not known. Condition of Shelton Daniel Very Serious .Shelton Daniel was .taken to a Washington hospital Thursday, where he was operated on for appendicitis. It was found during the operation that peritonitis had set in and his condition was found to be very seriT ous. The latest reports from the hos pital is that he is holding his own, but the hospital doctors are fearful Orf* the outcome. „ Shelton is 12 years old, the son of Chief of Police Daniel. He had com plained for some time, but was plan ning for a trip with other boys and would not admit that there was any thing of importance to his illness un til the case had gone so far that com plications made the operation both dif ficult and dangerous. Masons To Elect Officers Tuesday It was announced last week thai than would be an election of officers on June Bth, but this was ah error. The regular election of officers will be held Tuesday, June 22nd at 8:00 o'clock. You are urged to be present. C. D. CARSTARPHEN, JR. Seey. ESTABLISHED 1898 Freight Rates On Cotton Are Much Too High Cotton Growers Trying" To Reduce Rate 20» Per Cent Complaint has been tiled by the North Carolina Cotton Growers Co operative Association, in conjunction with all other of the cotton coopera tive associations in the South, with the Interstate Commerce Commission at Washington naming till) railroads as defendants in an action brought to secure a reduction of 20 per cent in cotton rates. The' North Carolina complaint was Hied on June 14th, so stated General Manager U. B. Bla lock, of the North Carolina Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association. The cotton cooperatives have Deen quietly investigating and making com parison of freight rates for the past four years and came to the conclu sion that freight rates on raw cotton were out of line with freight rates on other commodities. It is a well known fact that manufacturers and shippers of all commodities other than agricul tural commodities have their traffic managers and traffic organizations who make it a point to be on hand whenever traffic investigations are be ing conducted or whenever a revision of freight rates is being considered. But there are no records showing that the producers of agricultural com modities have ever had traffic mana gers on the job watching out for their interests when freight rates were be ing made up." It is pretty generally conceded that railroad earnings are greater now in the cotton belt in the southwestern territory, as well as in the southeast ern secion, than are general railroau earnings in other parts of the United States, and that they are in excess of the minimum guarantee set out b> law. It is the contention of the cot ton prodccers that this excess of the minimum guarantee is largely receiv ed from the transportation of cotton. Mr. I. M. I'orter, traffic manager of the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association, has been compiling some comparative figures on freight rates on various commodi ties, and he finds that the present rate on cotton fabrics from lialeigh to Atlanta is 61 cents per 100 pounds as against 74 cents per hundred on raw cotton. " , On cotton fabrics from Kaleigh to Boston, Mass., 74c; and on raw cot ton, $1.14. , On cotton Markets from Monroe, N. C., to New York, 78c; and on raw cotton, $1.12. On furniture from Mebane, N. C., to Boston, "Mass., *J6c; and on raw cotton, $1.14. On furniture from Mebanu to At lanta, Ga., 28 l-2c; and on raw cot ton, 64c. On lumber from Kaleigh to Norfolk 15c; and on raw cotton 68c. On lumber from Kaleigh to New York, 38 I-2c; and on raw cotton, $1.06. If the producers of raw cotton can show that freight rates on cotton are .put of. line with, other commodities and are granted the 20 per c£nt re duction asked for, it will mean a sav ing of approximately $7,000,000 an nually in freight rates on cotton. It so happens that the Aberdeen & KockAsh Kail road Co., of North Car olina, heads the alphabetical list oi the 610 railroads named in the suit Attorneys representing the Ameri can Cottpn Growers Exchange are Aaron Sapiro, of Chicago, and Earl J. Davis, of Washington, and reprt» senting the North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association are Burgess & Joyner, of Kaleigh. Daniel-Hines Sunday afternoon Mr, Williard Daniel, of New Bern, and Miss Ida Virginia Hines, of Oak City, changed the current of an ordinary auto pleas ure drive to that of a walk through life's journey, and applied for a mar riage license and were married in Williamaton by Rev. C. H. Dickey, pastor of the Williamston Baptist Church. Mr. Daniel is almost 21, while Mrs. Daniel' is just under 20. The marriage was not looked for by the parents. Mr. Daniel, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Daniel, of Oak City, haa for some years been engaged in the bar ber business. Recently he went from Robersonville to New Bern, where he is now located. Mrs. Daniel is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hines, of Oak City. She taught school at Spring Green last session. Dr. and Mrp. W. R. Burrell and daughter, Miss Beatrice, of Murfrees boro passed through yesterday en route to Rocky Mount They will re turn and visit firiends before return ing to their home tonght.
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