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Fifth Annual Roanoke Fair; September 27-October 1; Bigger and "Better Than Ever Before Circulation p a/\/\ This issue... OjUl/U EIGHTEEN PAGES—2 SECTIONS VOLUME 29—NUMBER 53 New Bank Did Not Open Ist As Announced Bank Men Say Charter Refused by State Commission That the Bank of Wiliamston fail ed to open here Wednesday is the only thing definitely known at this time. It was advertised that the in stitution would open Wednesday morning. The reasons for its failure to open are disputed by the North Carolina Corporation Commission and those who applied for the char ter. A telegram from the North Caro lina Corporation Commission, reply ing to an inquiry made by the En terprise, reads, "No formal applica tion made for charter Bank of Wil liamston". This is emphatically de nied by parties in Kinston who were planning the opening and presented articles of agreement to the Com mission. Mr. Sutton, attorney for the proposed bank, stated to a reporter of this paper yesterday afternoon that an application was made to the Corporation Commission on Saturday August 28, asking for letters of in corporation. Mr. Sutton Gives Reason* For Bank's Not Opening Mr. Sutton* stated that when the application was made the Corpora tion Commission held that an investi gation would have to be made, and that it could not be made in time for the bank to open on the first of this month. It was then asked of the Com mission if the investigation could be made so the bank could open on the seventh of this month. The answer was that it could not and that it would require several weeks. Sev eral of the Incorporators say that they ware before the Cemmiasion for three days. U then f^fgeaUJ" h> the CoNmitifea, according to Mr. Sutton, that the new concern nerge with the Farmer and Merchant* la Hit here. This was considered and, Mr. Sutton stated that this would cost 160,000, and they thought that to be tool arge an amount without a full investigation. Then it was sug gested that-the Farmers and Merch ants bank take over the proposed new }tank. The contradictory statements may be cleared when the prompt meaning is placed on the word "fojrtd". The only solution that we see to be possible ia, when thase men wea| before the Commission they considered it formal, and the Com mission looked "ton it as informal. The delay brougu. when the Commission said that an invetigation would be necessary caused the of ficial of the Farmers and Merchants bank and the proposed bank to con sider a merger. The Farmers and Merchants will move into the build ing once occupied by the Peoples Bank, and the proposed bank does not come into being. 'Reports of all kinds have been made, all appearing to be of no au thorative source. It was stated that the Farmers and Merchants bank had bought out the proposed bank, pay ing 128,000. for R. This was denied by Mr. Sutton and also parties of i the Farmers and Merchants bank. Mr, Sutton stated that not one cent was paid by the Farmers and Mer chants bank. In the conversa tion with the Kinston banker it was learned that the entire amount of stock had been subscribed, that over SI,OOO had been spent for sta tionary, office equipment and other requirements, and that the delay in offering to grant a charter by the Commission so they could open the first of this month, caused them to lose this amount, which they pre ferred to do rather than to be held ur by the Commission. Mr. Sutton stated that there was no doubt that another bank was needed in Williamston, and that it would pay. With this statement backed by many citizens here, it seems as if the Corporation Commis sion went out of it way in the mat ter when it-refused to grant a char ter to men who rank at the top in the banking business and men who arw handling many other banks in this section of the Mat* ft* latest report obtainable on ttlMfroposed new bank is that two refutable lawyers earnestly pleaded wi|| the Corporation Commission, belong division, several hoars on Saturday, September 28. On Sunday another croup made similar pleas as th«|a if"*? on Saturday. On Monday attorneys and business men together wsait, asking uU arcing the Com mieafon to grant a charter far the We h»ve the furfWr proof that as THE ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF "ALBEMARLE" 1 msl Bißf Jfj K , TTjt' , »J FROM WILLIAMSTON TO NORFOLK BY FREIGHT BOAT ENJOYABLE TRIP $Q More Au*o Tags to be Sold Here This Year Local Office Closed Sale of Plate Tuesday, •August 31 Following discontinuance of the sale of license plates at the close of business Tuesday at the local office, managers J. D. Woolard and N. C. Green of the Williamston office of the Carolina Motor Club announced that touring ilatu and other informa tion will still be available here. Sale of state license plates has been here since June Ist, the con tiact between the Carolina Motor Club and the State Department of Revenue covering the "rush period" months of June, July and August. Motorists desiring information about license, transfers of title and other data may continue to receive service at the local office, according to man agers Woolard and Green, although the actual plate cannot be issued here During the three months period, a total of 3500 plates have been issued here and $50,000.00 .collected in li cense fees. Plates will be available at Ashe ville, Charlotte, Elizabeth City, Golds boro, Greensboro, Rocky Mount and Wilmington. many as three of the officers of the Farmers an Merchants Bank of this town did on Monday, August the 30th insist in an informal and friend-j ly' way, that the Commission grant the proposed bank a charter. Of | course the latter parties had noth ing especially to do with the appli cation, yet their position and state ments confirm the truth of the state ments of the others. All these statements directly con tradict the statement of the Corpor aion Commission that "No formal application been made for charter Sank of Williamston." Our investigation gives us grounds to say that any ill feeling against the Jproponent of the new bank, or a gainst the Farmers and Merchants bank is not based on the true facts in the ease and that neither the several gentlemen in Kinston, Messrs Sutton, Rasberry, Gardner and their associates, nor the principal officers and directors of The Farmers and Merchant bank arc not responsible for our failure to have a new bank. In this issue appears an ad of the proposed bank; it is with much re gret that we failed to learn of the happenings before it went to press, bat we did not and we have to ex press our sorrow in not being able to change it. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 3,1926 Captain Wise and his crew, left to right, C. C. Lyons, assistant engineer; C. B. Wise, chief en gineer; OUie Harron, mate anil Capt Wise himself, are the ones who bring the motorship Albe marle to the Williamston docks twice each week. Captain Wise has been running on the Roanoke (or a number of years, and has the distinction of "tying up" but once, and then he was ordered to do so. This crew muns the' boat up the crooked Koanoke under ull conditions, dark nights have not stopped them. No lights are used, for they say they are a drawback rather than an aid The top photo shows the Capt. crew and two guests. The picture takes in the bridge of the boat, with awning across it. Two Xiuests of Captain Wise Write of an Interesting- Trip Weighing anchor at noon on Wed nesday of last week, the motor ship, Albemarle, started on its journey to Norfolk with its freight, crew-, deck hands and three passengers. No soon er than we had turned the first bend in the old Roanoke we were in strange territory, and from then on we were always on the alert watch ing what ever might offer itself to view. Outside of the swamps there could be seen now and then a small tenant house sitting way up on the edge of a hill, and the rest was crooks. So many were they that we gave up all hopes of counting them before we had progressed two miles from home. And some of them were so bad that Captain Wise had to or der his engineer to slow the ship in order to make the bend safely. No, we weren't going all that fait; the crooks were entirely the blame, for they would &ften almost turn us back. ' - We skipped enough of the Roa noke's wonderful scenery to enjoy with the Albemarle's Captain, first mate and the chief engineer a de licious meal, the kind of meal that beats the one served on the dining car. We were real anxious to get back and count a few more of the river's crooks, so after refusing a gainst our will what looked to be a most delicious piece of pie, we rush ed on deck. To our surprise there were so many turns that one ran in to another and to tell where one stopped and another started was just beyond us. , ■ _ * . , We docked at Jamesville to buy fresh country produce, then continu ing our journey-our attention was a gain called to the...,ourves. But it wasn't- so long before they began to fade away and by the time we reach ed Plymouth, the channel had acquir ed the appearance of a fairly res pectable man, there being fewer crooks and a good ways apart. enough at Ply mouth to add on a few watermelons antf 'supplies, we then pulled out for our destination. Late afternoon we were nearing the Albemarle Sound, where we view ed the lighthouse, two aail boats, several steamers and the mouths of several rivers. All these offered a scene of real lining; the boats were traveling with all ease, the light house looked as if its occupants had prepared for the night and were then sitting around enjoying a soothing pipe and a most pleasant converse tion. Some time was required to pass through the draw of the Norfolk Southern railroad after it first came into view. We saw the outline of E rienton pass away and when we could (Continued on the back page) F. & M. Bank to Move Monday The Farmers and Merchants Bank will move to its new home in the old Peoples bank building next Monday. The institution has leased the building for sev eral years, and will increase its facilities to that point where the bankings needs of the com munity can he more adequately cared for. The Bank will be closed that day since it is Labor Day and a holiday will be observed by its employees, while others move equipment. The Enterprise Sunday School Lesson in Brief t September 5.—"T be Tent of Meeting." Exodus 33: 7-lti. By C. H. DICKEY One does not have to live a long time to live much. Jesus lived only about thirtythree years.. But O, how He live*!! Some of the old characters of the Old Testament lived to ,be many hundreds of years old; and about all that was ever said of some of them was that they lived so long and were gathered to their fathers. The exodus and the arrival at the borders of the Promised Land ein here at Mt. Sinai for only about one year. But how full to the brim was that one year. Better a year with braced about forty years. They staid the cup of life brimming over than a decade of spiritual desert. The Tent of Meeting was the place where God met with the people and where the people assembled to meet God. W still use that word "meeting". It is a good word. They called it that long ago. There was a sepcial place for this lent. There must be a special place for worship. To-day, we may hear it on every street that-.people say they can worship, see and hear, as well ** find God anywhere else as well as in the church. The chances are that if we separate ourselves from the place of "meeting' we shall cease to And Him altogether. Of course God is in Nature; He is in the storm, in the sea, in the laugh of little chil dren. Bu this is not enough. Vte must meet with Him in en especial manner, at a special place and alia special time. This was necessary in Moses' day; it is necessary to-day. Those people who say they can find or worship God anywhere else as well as in the church, the modern place of meeting, had as well sSy that they can find the essence of a home anywhere else as well as in the hose where they live. They could say the same thing about getting an education; but when children and men and women want to learn, we see them going to the school house, and to the college and to the univers- Ity—going, actually, to that particu lar place, for that particular purpose. This does not prohibit them from reading or studying at home; but it is the experience of the world that if one wants to learn, he must go to the place which makes a specialty of learning. Likewise, if one wants to meet and know and worship God, let him go to that place, the churtit, where God meets with His people in an especial manner. . "The tent of meeting biought the people to a place that symbolized the presence ofJehova and made it more vivid and cital". Moses called this tent-place the Tent of Meeting; and Scripture says that every one that sought Jehovah went to the tent Also, that Jehovah descended and talked to Moses in that place." That was the especial, designated, and suited place for worship. We can meet and worship God at other places; but no other place has or will take the place of the regular as sembling together of the Lord's peo ple, but want to become such. Here, the Lord promised that His presence would go with them on their journey. His presence is not confined to sny one place; they could move their tent of meeting. Anyway, His presence would accompany them. We too, are strangers and pil grims on the earth. We are journey ing to a place of whkh the, Lord has said, "I will give it thee". We are headed for a city whose builder and maker is God. How sweet and how good to know that His presence ac companies us on that pilgrimage. One Martin C Proves That Hog Raising Can be Made Balanced Rations and Carlot Shipments Show Profit By W. T. OVERBY (Teacher of Agriculture, Jamcsville High School) Henry Griffin, a Martin County boy, shows what a balanced ration will do for a hog, and car-lot shipments from this section are proving to be profit able. The boy in the accompanying photo has shown that a balanced i ration will make a hog grow to weigh 363 pounds in ten months, which is not unusual and carloads of hqgs fed a balanced ration and put on the Richmond mar ket under the direction of Mr. T. B. Brandon, the (arm agent, are showing that a profit can be made in hog pro duction. This does not meun that feeding is all that is needed or that farmers should buy expensive feeds and fail to utilize feed on their home farms. AHhrifty, healthy is necessary t begin with and care and attention with a feed balanced to suit his body' needs is necessary to make the most profit. Profitable hog production is no longer a theory, but it is a dem onstrated fact in this section. There are many farmers in this county now who have shown that a balanced ra tion makes a hog grow faster and more profitable than the old method Opening of Local Schools Postponed Until 13th in Order to Finish Repairs Work Now Being Done on Auditorium; One Teacher Needed The local school opening has been postponed from September 6th to the 13th, on account of some repair work which will not be completed by the eaijiur date. There are repairs be ing made on the building which were badly needed, especially in the audi torium section of the building. Another class room is being com pleted, making the twelfth one in the building, and this year there will be twelve teachers, including the prin cipal, who will .devote most of the school day to class work. The teachers have all been Selected with the exception of one, and a con tiact will probably be made with one today to fill the position of first-grade teacher. The names and grades are as fol lows: llfgh'school department: 1). A. SnoWj Spartanburg, S.C., principal; Mrs. Bettie Harrell, City; Miss Orpah Steed, Richlands, N. C. * Grammar school department: Seventh grade and coach: Mr. K. Gr Phillips, SiWr City, N.—ft Sixth grade: Miss Eleanor Stan back, Mount Gilead, N. C. Fifth grade: Miss Lillian Sample, liroadfoot, Fayetteville, N. C. Fifth grade: Miss Lilliam Sample, Davidson, N. C. Fourth grade: Miss Norma Ram say, Marshall, N. C. Third grade.;. Miss Annie Harper, Wilson, N. C. Second grade: Miss Lucy C. Ivey, Scotland Neck, N. C. Second grade: Miss Mildred Har den, Ken ly, N. C: First grade to be supplied. Everybodys (iets Off In Recorders Court Recorder's court this week drew no dollars for the county nor dungeons for the few persons against whom charges were regi- • istered on the docket. Spencer Hyman, Who is charg ed with slander, did not appear to answer the charge against him. John Rswls, a young white man appeared to answer to a charge . of assault on his wife, but they had "made up" again, and the case went by for the costs and a bond for good behavier. Paul Harrell, who w*Cindicted for selling Roosevelt Parker, a 14-year-old negro boy a pistol, was acquitted upon testimony thai) tended to show that the boy stole the pistol rather thsn bought it. HERE'S PROOF 1 Two of Henry Griffins pigs; they are (inly 10 months old and weigh around 358 pounds each. of corn feeding alone, and a car of hogs fed under Mr. Brandon's direc tion left Williamston August 24th and sold for. the top price at Rich mond, showing that we can product hogs of equal quality with Ohio or any other State. Profitable hog feeding is no longer a trick of a few men, for we can fig ure now what a hog will weigh on a certain feed at a certain time and determine roughly what the profit will be. If this boy can make a hog gain over a pound a day, why can't we? Call on anyone working for the de partment of agriculture and we will bo glad to help you. Martin County B. & L. Series Open Saturday Is Nineteenth Series; Expect Sale of Stock The nineteenth series of stock of the Martin County Building and ol.au Association goes on sale tomorrow, and we can do no better than invite you to investigate the organization's workings and subscribe to as many shares as you possibly can. Few agencies with all their good features surpass the value of the Building and Ixian association. Es pecially is this true of the local one, for it has actually done more in se curing homes than the casual obser ver would at first think. Besides this feature there is yet another, one just at important, no doubt, it bringing about a regular saving habit. To learn the value of this one feature cannot b gained in no better way than from the experience of those who have shares in the organization. Under the direction of an able board of directors and officers, the Martin County iluilding and Loan as sociation has increased the number of homes for Williamston by a large number. And what could be more profitable to a' town and Community than pretty homes? In this connec tion the town is greatly indebted to the organization and its citizens are surely under obligations to the or ganization as well as themselves to Rubßcribp for fcharelr In it, Sunday Services at Memorial Baptist Sunday morning at 11 o'clock this church will observe the Lord's Sup- P«r. ' ■-■ -^.l-:—. , It is constantly the aim of this church this service one of tfie sweetest and most beautiful of all its services. At this hour the brief remarks will have to do wjth the original company which-ftrst 1 gathered with the Lord a round this table. At the evening hour, 8 o'clock, the pastor will have for his evening ser mon subject, "Lest We Forget.' The membership is supposed to be present.- But at this season of the year Williamston has a number of out-of-town people temporality resid ing here. To these strangers, tem porary and the traveling public, our church extends a warm-hearted invi tation to its servicea. Section 1 EIGHT PAGES IN THIS SECTION ESTABLISHED 1898 Graded School of Jamesvilleto Open Monday J. L. Jones Is Principal; Best Y ear in History Is Expected (Special to The Enterprise) Jamesville, Sept. 3.—The Jannv ville High School will open for the fall term September 6. The patrons and teachers are looking forward to the best year's-work in the history of the school. Jamesville is an accred ited school, having been placed on the accredited list two years ago. In con uection with the regular academic work, there will be the voational school, in charge of Mr. W. T. Over by. It is hoped that the students and friends of the school will take advan tage of this work and use this course to the betterment of the community. Miss Anna 1 rentham, county homo demonstration agent, will conduct a club for the benefit of the girls and will meet with them twice a month. It is hoped that the parents of the children will realize the importance of sending their children every day, starting with the first day in order that they may received the full bene fit of the work '1 he faculty this year is as follows: Superintendent, ,J. 1.. Jones, of Apex, N. C. Professor Jones is the son of, Mr. and Mrs. 1). I!. Jones, of Apex, and a graduate of Wake For est College. For three years after graduating from Wake Forest he was dean of boys and teacher in Fruitland Institute, of Hendersoiiville, and the past two years he was the principal of the Hamilton High School. H. b. Kiser, Lincolnton, N. C., a graduate of I.euoir-Rhyne College, will assist Mr. Jones and coach ath letics. Miss Marguerite York, Ashe boro, a graduate of North Carolina College for Women, will teach his tory anil English. Prof. Krnest Kdmondson, of Has sells, will teach the seventh grade. Mr. Kdmondson has had two years at •he University of Nort-h Carolina. Miss Hilda Summerell, Ayden, will teach the sixth grade; Miss Ethyn Cowan, Ahoskie, fourth and fifth grades; Miss Ina Bowen, Calypso, second and third grades, and Miss Ks hlo Jordan, Creswell, first grade. Miss Annie (ilasgow, of Jamesville, will teach music. The prospects for a good school this year are very bright and it is hoped that the patrons of the.school will lend a helping hand in making it the best year in the history of the school. Struck by Car at Main and HnuKfhton Corner Albert Jones, of Creswell, now em ployed by the State Highway Com mission, was run over Tuesday while crossing the Street at Main and llaughton. Mr. Jones says he was crossing when John Hadley came from the Hamilton direction and fail ed to stop, as he thought he would Ho, But instead came on across the street, striking Jones and bruising' hnri badly. Several stitches and much bandaging were required in tMMreatment for his injuries, mainly about the head and neck. Mr. Jones says that when he saw he was going to be* struck he caught the fenders of the car with his hands and cleared his feet from the street, wrnch he thinks is the only thing that kept him from being run over. STRANH THEATRE I FREE SHOW FRIDAY NIGHTS to those attending 1 Wednesday Nights A GOOD SHOW in A GOOD TOWN