THE ENTERPRISE
Published Ev£ry Tuesday and Friday by the
ENTERPRISE PI BUSHING COMPANY
Williamston, North Carolina
W. C. Maiming - - Editor
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18 79 .
Address all conariUincations to 1 he Enterprise
Mitchell and l>ig lianks
Hon John Mitchell, chief bank ex
aminer of North Carolina, has the
view point of the big banker, accord
ing to a recent article in "The South
ern Banker."
Much of what Mr.'Mitchell says Is,
t r course, true and all he says is i.i
exact accordance with the view point
ef the 1% Banker.
Mr. Mitchell has ea. y sailing when
he slap.-j the small bank because they
have had a hard timi*. Most of them
hare made little mttitt-y, some —have
-t'ven lost money, and a few have fail
ed.
The days of prosperity caused
many banks to spring up in every lit
tit cross roads hamlet. They were
found in nearly every instance to be
lacked by the bet citizens of the
j ections in which they were located'
The small bank* wcie upp -ts'.'d by tlie |
big banks, but tlie laige ones were
unable to hold the smaller ones
down. All went well for. a tin*'. The
P»'culative age'had loaded the banks
with [taper backed by farms arid
farm products. Nearly all were good
and things w ejU well for a seasotju
Hut all of a sydden the banks
fo;nied a raid on the American finan
cial system and thev played some
wonderful tricks. Thi is what liap
pt ned in Martin county. The laige
iiiilod for collateral. i■ „k.ii.' civH after
I .11. Then Clinic lie t ' iotl period,
In ought about by ' :i' Street's' in a'J
el.inc. Of c otlr?. • lliey went to Wash
ington and cot Harding to say,
'Hack to Normalcy" and succeeded
i
n having the people believe that
really needed to >;et down to a lower,
base. So our Martini county people al- 1
h.wed them to take two million dol-|
le.rs out of their 11(20 tobacco crop,j
a half million each out of their pea
nut and cotton crops, making a total
of $3,000,000 which would have paid
t very cent of our indebtedness, but,
i
(.ii the contrary, left us without any-J
tiling to pay with. ■
>. Our first effort w a to finance our .
■elves with our land: , but we found
tin same.stroke that dropped our
crops in value three million dollars
The Roanoke Peanut Picker
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cleaning of both peas and vines. It is durable. In Bertie county
3500 bags were picked in 19 days with one of these pickers.
If you are interested in a peanut picker ask M. O. Blount, of
Bethel, YY. R. Everett, L. J. Baker and J. Alphonso Everett, of Pal
myra or O. T. Flverett, Hamilton what they think of this picker.
The price is a little lower and the picker a little better.—lf not
it is free. It's guaranteed.
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See It at the Roanoke Fair
(L W. C. Manning
hail dropped our landt; five million,
'l'hest' figures are based on actual
.-.ules of both land and crops.
Our people submitted to the great
manipulator, the banking trust, and
believed their sweet story that it was
all in the due and orderly course of
war deflation. Ye we went a bit fur
ther and found all cVf our Martin
M.unty property had not gone down,
the- property owned by the banking
syndicate had gone up about 300 per
cent. The lines of the Atlantic Coast
Line railroad had vrone up, actual
stock sales, $4,000,000.
Then we-could see how the proper
ty atid products field by the indi
viduals of our county dropped and
. ent farmers, merchants, bankers, doc
tors and others into bankruptcy, be
t yuse their property was worth only
"half. And at the same stroke rail
iiad stocks which were owned by, or
ollateralized with the big banks,
si ould go up three times.
When the truth is fully known it
v ill be seen that the whole tragedy
(ntnes from the deadly stroke of a
ureal bankers' trust, which swings
it,' poison septer over the heads of
thi unsuspecting people and presses
tl eir faces to the ground once in about
e\ery seven years.
They do not want small batik*. be
i i u c they compete.
In tlie matter of-every bank failure
it .our county, the main element in
• h.uf them fame as a result of this
undue deflation.
There was only one bank where
actual stealing was placed as the
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CK use of its failure, and that would
not have Mv'i# but for the deflation.
It would be fair to say that the
banks south of the Mason and ,J)ixon
line do not figure'nor count in what
i known as (Tie actual Wall Street
Hankers' Trust. So Mr. Mitchell would
not have any but "Big Ones."
LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OE-SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain deed
of trust executed to the undersigned
trustee, on the 16th day of January,
And Who Was the Higher?
After reading the official averages
-as- they sppwuwi in the KfiWfi and
Observer last week we were highly
pleased to know that our town was
next to the top, Enfield being on the
highest round. Then comes along the
"home-town" papers, u.nd much to our
.surprise six of them said their mar
kets were the highest.
At least a half dozen thoughts
wandered 'round and one was to that
end where somebody failed to tell the
truth; another was that they weri»
boosting their markets upon false
statements, and so on. We could
When I)o We Slow Down?
The number of cars speeding up
and.down Main street on Sundays
tan not last for long without some
serious accident taking place. We
mini to think it our solemn duty to
.sit by and let the motorist have full
sway over everything. And surely
once an accident does happen - the
fault lies partly at the door of those
v ho permit speeding as it does at the
What Fair Week Means to a Community
Only a two more short weeks and
th many fair gates all over the
country will start swinging open, and
the mail rush will be on for the week.
Ami what does it all mean ? It means
that this one week of the fifty-two
each year is set aside in each fair
community, as a week of researaii,
education, and amusement to be en
tired into by people from every walk
in life.
This intelligent friendly rivalry by
exhibiton and comparison is to de
termine, each year, progess and ad
vancement and cant be other than a
Ihk developing influence in the com
munity's welfare. It leaves in the
mind of each exhibitor a conviction
as; to how near one hundred per cent
efficient they are in their own pro
fession. No school could be better if
all praticipate as no other event in
LEGAL NOTICES
and of record in the Martin
Countyvregistry in book S-2, page 37,
securing a certain bond of even date
therewith, and the stipulations not
having been complied with, and at
the request of the holder of said
bonds, the undersigned will, on the
4th day of October, 1926, at 12 o'-
lock, noon, in front of the court- (
house door of Martin County, sell at
public auction to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described
property:
One (1) tract of land lying and be
imr in the town of Hamilton, N. C.,
beginning at the southeast corner of
Light Front Street, of the town of
Hamilton, N. C., running down 'said
street 127 feet to H. S. Clark's lino;
thence along Clark's line to the old
M«''hodist E. Church, by Jas. T. Wal
do on the 15th day of June, 1884;
thence including said church lot, a
lont? said Light Street to the begin
ning, containing 3-8 of an acre, more
or loss, and being the same premises
as described in the deed from W. A.
Ilaislip to Augustus Floyd, which is
THE ENTKBPRISfc—WILUAMBTON. N. C
not be satisfied with these as solu
tions so we just decided that there
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v/as a mistake and the reports given
in the home-town papers were thought
to be true. But it does seem strange
that such reports should appear
v/hen the averages are to be had from
the books of the warehouses.
We wanted to ignore Enfield's re
port our market had the high
\
est average, but to Go so we could
not. However, we had grounds to
elate our average was next to the
high'.'Kt and those grounds are still
v. ith us.
door of the one doing the speeding.
)
Only last Sunday a member of the
police force, made a slight effort to
warn a fellow from another ::tate to
slow down and just to be put in the
shade when the driver deliberately
fed more gas to his machine.
When will we sit up and take a
part in enforcing a reasonable law?
any community assembles as many
people in so .short a time, nor do
they assemble anywhere with the
same feeling of interest or attitude
to gain knowledge. They realize that
every department of a fair is a short
course in education and a few hours
spent in each, compiles a store of
\aluable knowledge that can be drawn
r i;n during the whole of the coming
year with profit.
What is better than this one week
at least each year? We go to the
fair with a feeling that we will meet
will be there in throng* and will
furnish many heart thrills of gladness
visit and lunch with our \besi friends.
Some we haven't seen in years. They
and leave us with many happy recol
lections to ponder over until another
fair time.
of record in the public registry of
Martin County in book AAA, at page
421, to which reference is made for
further information.
This the 4th day of September,
15)26.
CLAYTON MOORE,
s7 4tw Trustee.
Martin County Building
and Loan Association
Statement of Financial Condition
JULY 31,1926
ASSETS
„ Mortgage loans $ 92,275.46
Stock loans 1 16,726.00
%ul estate - 2300.00
Ax-counts receivable - 2,369.41
Cash on hand and due from banks - 9,231.42
Total assets $123,401.28
LIABILITIES .
•Shareholders installments paid in m " ( 87,001.26
Shareholders prepaid stock - 4,960.00
Notes payable „ 14,700.00
Accounts payable - t 2,441.11
Profits reserved for prepaid stock „ 213.90
l'rofits apportioned to running: shares : 14,096.02
Total liabilities |123,401.28
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CERTIFICATE
We hereby cetrify that we have made an audit of the books and
accounts of the Martin County Building and Loan Association,
Williamston, North Carolina, as at July 31, 1926, and that, in our
opinion, the foregoing statement reflects the true financial condi
tion of the association as at the date named. v v
(Signed) FREDERICK B. HILL and CO.
Rocky Mount, N. C., Certified Public Accountants.
September 4,1926.
, \ v.; i'l > ■ . ' ' r " " -* "4 'V 5
Things To
hink About
By JAMES D. TAYLOR
Protection by Law
The people of this country as a
believe in law and order. They
believe in the enforcement of all
good laws. When a jury passes on a
case and the judge is satisfied that the
('ecision is a pood one and sentence
is passed, the judgment should be
executed.
Of course in cases where new evi
dence comes to light after sentence
is passed and it is found that the
court was in error, then the Governor
should step in and do the right thing.
But so often power of Governor
is exercised when not justified.
Our people in the main do not be
lieve in this wholesale changing of
court sentences. The people of Texas
just recently voiced their opinion on
the subject. A'Governor who issues an
excessive number of pardons is not
usually very popular.
There would be less crime if our
Governors were as hard-handed as the
Governor of California. It does not
take a hardboiled Governor to keep
criminals where they belong. It only
Good taste and good health
demand sound teeth and
sweet breath.
The use of Wrigley'* chew*
ing gum after every meal takes
care of this important item of
personal hygiene in a delight'
ful, refreshing way —by clear'
ing the teeth of food particles
fnH by helping the digestion.
Ths result 1* ■ iweet breath that
•how* cars for one*! *elf and con
sideration for others—both mark*
of refinement.
GIM
takes one who really wants to give
society the protection that the law
provides for them.
There are entirely too many "hold
ups" and "killings". This condition
cannot be corrected until heavy sen
tences are passed and the judgments
promptly executed. Criminals igust
be made to understand that there are
laws and that these laws are going
to be enforced.
But all the %hile the help of those
who believe in God will be needed to
teach criminals that there are Laws
greater than those made by men. As
tliey learn more about the gentle
Nazarene, there will be less need for
judges and governors onithis earth.
It's a fearful thing to disobey the
laws of man but it is far more fear
ful to disobey the laws of God.
, LEGAL NOTICES
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of the author
ity contained in a certain deed of
HAN FORD'S
Balsam °r Myrrh
Gjor cuts a
USE IT FOR f
THE HARD GASES •
#
For Cuts and Open Wounds. Hanford's Balaam
of Myrrh is antiseptic. It covers the wound with a
thin protective coating that prevents infection and
hastens the healing.
For Bruises and Sprains. Rub in a 9 a
fuHI r~l liniment. It has given great relief in
IjM \ serious cases. Try it for lumbago pains
LpfM ij and rheumatic aches.
ttt. jl Every mother owe* it to her child
ICOTS t| (o have • bottle alwayt on hand.
Bjj G. C. HANFORD MFG. CO.
il|ca Syracuse, N. Y.
35c a bolll*. Hanford'* Balaam of Myrrh U alto put up
Look for tkil ia 35c, 65c, and $ 1 -25 lizea, eapccially adapted
package. tor use. on domeatie animate.
LEGAL NOTICES
trust executed to the undersigned
trustee by Noah Leggett, on the 11th
day of May, 1928, and of record in
i.he public registry of Martin Coun
ty in book N-2, at page 393, said
deed of trust having been given to se
cure notes of even date and tei,or
therewith, and the stipulations con
tained in said deed of trust not hav
ing been complied with, and at the re
quest of the parties interested, the
undersigned trustee will on Saturday,
the 9th day of October, 1926, at 12
o'clock m., at the courthouse door in
the town of Williaraston, N. C., offer
tor sale to the highest bidder for
cash, at public auction, the following
described real estate:
It being the undivided interest of
the said Noah Leggett in a house and
lot in the town of Williamston, N. C.,
bounded on the east by Joe Griffin
land, bounded on the north by the
land of Sam Faulk, bounded on the
west by the Williamston and Wash
ington Road; bounded on the south by
the land of Joe Griffin. Containing
one-half of an acre, more or less,
bought of H. P. Henby, and known
at the old Short Place
This the 9th day of September, 1926
R. G. HARRISON,
slO 4tw Trustee.