North Carolina Newspapers

Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to Over 1600 Homes of Martin Comity. VOLUME XXIX—NUMBER 84 Start This Week on New Phone System More Than Two-Thirds Subscribers in Town Sign Petition That Willfamston will have new and telephone equipment was roade * certain last week when the number signing the petition asking for better equipment amounted to more than two-thirds of the town's telephone subscribers. For the past several weeks the in stallation of the common battery e iuipment was in doubt, but it is now a certainty that the town will have a modern telephone exchange by the 15th of next month, the time set for the cutting over from the old system to the new. Western Electric in tallers will ar rive this week to begin the work, and about twenty (lays will be re quired to prepare for the change. Service will be carried on practical ly as usual during the transfer, ac cording to those familiar with the work. Once the installers get the new switchboard in and ready for con nections a large number of men will be ,-ent here to install the new sta tions. While this is going on there will be two switchboards in operation, one in the old building and the new one. Trunk lines will be run from the old office to the new to take care of of the old stations until they can be connected to the new board. The common battery system does away with the crank on the tele phone and makes operating much more efficient since there are signals where there were none in the old %ystem. * The rural telephones will remain the same since the common battery system cannot be used on party lines. Rural telephone subscribers will get . 'lu advantage of the new equipm£pt>. however, in~That sifehals TPffl be of a more distinctive nature than they are on the present board. A new directory is being prepared, and practically every number on the system will be changed. To make the new directory as complete as possible all subscribers anticipating a change in their residence should notify the manager at one*. The directory - will be issued by the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph company and will carry both the town and rural sub scribers. Memorial Proposed to Wright Brothers Washington, Dec. 18— (Special to The Enterprise).—Congressman Lind say C. Warren yesterday introduced a bill in the House providing for the erection of a memorial on the sand dunes of Kill Devil Hill; Ki ty Hawk, Dure County, where—just 23 years ajro—on December 17, 1903, Orville Wilbur Wright made the first sue cefsfat airplane flight in the world. It was on the wind-swept banks of North Carolina that aviation was born. Since then Wilbur Wright has died, but his brother, Orville Wright, oi.e of the outstanding men in Amen ta, lives in Dayton, Ohio. Congressman Warren in the very beginning, has secured help from an unexpected quarter. On Yesterday S nator Hiram Bingham, of Connecti cut, a noted aviator in the world war and former professor at Yale Univer sity arose in the Senate and delivered a lengthy speech on the heat of the Wright brothers. He concluded by introducing a bill almost identical vrith Mr. Warren's for the erection of a memorial at Kitty Hawk. The War ren-Bingham bill attracted much at tention yesterday, and all of the pa pers carried long accounts of it. STRANH THEATRE | J BBggggg' =? WEDNESDAY Marie Prevost in "Almost a Lady" Also 2 Reel Comedy And a Free Ticket to Fri day Night's Show Always a Good Show THE ENTERPRISE -LL-: • ! « : Christmas Shopping Causes Heavy Traffic A decided increase was noticed here yesterday afternoon in the traffic on the Main Street here, lit fore the week is over, this in crease will be added to, and, judg ing from the trend of business of the past few days, this season will be one of the busiest here in some years and traffic will necessarily be heavy. To help this situation local car owners should be mind ful and leave their cars at home when possible, and should they: And it necessary to take their cars out, the side streets should be used for parking purposes. Large Quantity of Fruits Here Two Carloads Each of Oranges and Apples Beside Store Stocks With two solid etfrV .of oranges and Iwo soild cars of apples, besides that lurried by the stores, there is more fruit here than has ever been known at one time before. Price cutting has l». n indulged in by many of the dealer as a way out of the situa tion. This method has about reached a limit, since the actual cost price with freight has been reached. Sales have been reported as being fair by the venders, but they will have to show a marked increase to handle the amount oi tiand and the two extra car» that are billed to itach heftfc/Way or - say that more fruit will be 4pflfumed this week in this section than there was once used in an en tire year, and one will not have to go so far back to find a year when this was true. Home-grown fruit- are not to be taken into consideration, fince they are absent at this time of the year. The storekeeper is lost, as far as n.aking a profit is He stands an- excellent - chance to *use, for if he is heavily stocked, he will certainly have some to go bad on his hands. Of course, should there be a larger demand for fruit than is ex pected, this will not be true. He will hundle part of the business, it being in the form of small sales. Sheriff lioberson Turns Coupe Over When he was going to hi.- farm on the Hamilton Koad Saturday morning ex-Sheriff ltoberson turned his coupe over and completely wrecked the top and body She sheriff stated he'"'was going a bit too fast and when his car I,it a small rut he turned too quickly to the other side of the road. When he reached the other side of the road, the car appeared to be slipping on the frozen ground toward the ditch and sheriff applied the brakes. The suddenness of the act caused the car to turn over. Just how many turns the car made the sheriff was unable to say, for it was not long in going, and he did not have time to think about the car and its foolishness With the car on its side, Mr. Rob erson crawled out, and was unhurt except for a small cut on his fore head. A new body will be reJtoired to put the machine in shape. Other parts were uninjured. Enterprise Ahead of Schedule This Week -The Enterprise goes to press a few hours earlier than the u.-ual time to day. While this i. sue leaves the press a few hours earlier than_the scheduled time, the- n«?i~ issue will go out a full day ahead, or that is the hope of the force. Siffce the force only has one holi day a year and that is during Christ mas, they are anxious to make $s much cf it as possible. This issue goes its course today; the next will go Thursday morning. Negro Escapes After Assaulting White Man « ■ A. Sanford Rober.-on and a colored man named William Bond had a dis pute at a peanut picker, following which Bond struck Robcrson a blow with a stick of wood. The wood glsnced from the side of his head to his shoulder, stunning him, although he wa_- not seriously hurt. ? Bond, thinking the case more seri ous than it actually was, skipped out and has not yet been apprehended by the county officers. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, TuesdaV, December 21,1926 Noted Diva to Sing at Peanut Show Monday Kathryn Meisle, Chicago Opera Contralto, to Give Recital Local managers and music loVei's j in cities where Kathrj n Meisle, the 1 Chicago Opera contralto, is scheduled j to appear, will no doubt be interested ! in knowing that Miss Meisle has on j several occasions been likened to the j «reat diva, Ernestine Schumann Htink, to whom they ha\e doubtless! listened on many occasions. After Mis/. Meisle's -singing at the j Newark, N. J., Musie -PesTtval in May | 1925, the critic of the Star-Kugle wrote: "It seemed as if Scjiumann | llf ink at her greatest never equaled} the eloquent singing yf the charming I contralto in the immortal Schubert tone-poem (Dei Erlkoenigl." The critic of the-New Orleans Morn »ui{ Tribune commented on Miss ie' recital there on March 5, 1925, «'!8 follows, "Miss Meisle's voice the depth und tonal feeling of the type of Schumann-Heink, something pf the pristine depths hidden in it, a connotation carried over from living and from watching the spectacle- of lifr move in and out of crises." . I . The first comparison in the voices j was made on the occasioa of Miss, ■ Meisle' operatic debut with the Chi i cugo Opera Co, as Erda in "Sieg ; fried," in November, 1923, ut which' (1 time the eminent Chicago critic, Her- 1 | man Oevriesi wrote jn the Chicagol! American: "If I am not mistaken, it | wai, in 18yh that Ernestine Schumann j H«.mk ma li? her first appearance at; ■ | tlu! Metropolitan Opera House in New , York as Erda and created an im •} mortal standard for thi role, one which liws never been surpassed. I | believe i can pay no better eojnpli- I nu nt to kuthryn Meisle than eompttr- I I i. on with her great compeer." Later I in that season, when reviewing an other performance, Mr. Devries re i iterated hi former statement by re marking, "Once ugain the timbre of' . v ths contralto reminded us of .Schu mann -Ueink's grandiose organ in its prifhe." Miss Meisle, aside from her oper atic activities, has given recitals the length and breadth of this" country -Wk-k -re marka hh: succcfyj-atTrf-her re peated engagements with the lead ing symphony orchestras all over the United States, are the most potent proof of her eminent standing in the I concert world, today. Miss Meisle will be heard at the r Eastern Carolina and Tidewater Vir ttim* Peanut Exposition at Windsor next Monday,' December 27, at 8.16; p m. Bird Thieves Busy In This Section i Mr, i'\, yi, Barnes will have to look elsewhere for a Christmas turkey,] for some hungry .thief swiped the one' h«i had engaged from Mr. John Uher-| i vy last Sunday night off the roost a. | Mr. Cherry's home near h(jre. To! make the feat a big one, the thief jor thieves took two more turkeys! ! from Mr. Cherry's roost at the some time. Mr. Joe Leggett missed two of his \ chickens yesterday morning from his 1 i*"o t. Joe immediately bought him a | gun and several shells loaded with | bird shot. He states he has fed chic '■ ken thieves all the year up until now, I but they will be obliged to eat off someone else these remaining , few days. * , (x>al Miners Suffer 20 Per cent Cut in Wages A large number of West. Virginia coal miners suffered a wage cut of 20 per cent yesterday. The cut came because a heavy drop in the price of oal took place. The miners,' affected by the de crease in wages were recently grant ed a substantial raise when coal went up in price; so the cut is part ly cared for by the recent advance in their wages. Mr. Sherwood Brockwell, who is j chief, assistant to Stacey W. Wade, insurance commissioner of North Carolina, was in town yesterday en route from Windsor, where he had been attending to matters of fire pro tection. Mr. Boyd Hight, ttjf Henderson, i? spending the holidays 1 Tjere with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hight. , Judge J. C. Smith, of Roberson ville, was a business visitor here yes terday. • _ Mr. S. C. Collins leaves tomorrow for his home in Wilson to .spend the holidays with his family. Qtyriatmaa ffifallij MjgtQ •aJ , Hy I>K. PRANK ( RANK The Christmas iaon is the season of the horizon lino. The«arth and the sky, •the clouds a.d the'land, meet at the horizon line. And so at ChrkHnas time the practical and the ideal meet; what is, for the day, '"""fty* up anil join,. hands with What Ought To Be! I alk that is duWw'd airy i Uali.ni during other* sea oils is the iruid ing plan of action ■* lu-ti ('hntmy- fi■ ni. a round. On tluit day meii think of other a wviias themselves, they feast their bodies, but ult*> their heart.-. Thoughts conivtf) juicy brown drum ticks and h aped white moun tain* of mushed potatoes, but the} nl.io concern the welfare of the un fortunate und therclieviflg of w ant j) ' One deals with the so-called "practical" part of life, the other with the "ideal," They bo h have part on fhri tmas Day. No other seasoil eomes nearer humanity. It deals with the needs df the present. It takes men a., they are and tries to bring the best in th ni to the top. ' ■ ~4 It is the mo. t kindly, human season. Lt 'doesn't censure or lecture It doesn't attack or lie rate. II welts the ice from the: springs of human kindness and refresh** the world. The ffiffttifkmnce of Christ mar- is appar. Nt to all. Its rites are simple There is nothing of the mystic ritual which is comprehended by only a f"w initiated. It.is for all, understood by all. It comes down to earth and deals with,practical things, translating kindly impui.es into kindly acts;. It touches life as we ljve it and foi one day lifts the world nearer what it should lie. Like the parables of the Master, Christmas infuses idealism into the th_,:-, ■ and acts of our everyday existence. Those who look only at th /Vucy, fail to see the earth, and those who gaze only at the earth do not see the sky. Only those who look at the horizon line appreciate them both and see them joinedtogether. During most off the year, in many minds the ideali m of the Golden Itule 111,1 .-m.llui liacliiii; aiaTtlic practical actions of everyday life , snera to stand far apart. It is at the horizon lino of the Christmas season that they are uni versally eeen to draw together. liadly Hurned Filling 4 Lamp Near a Stove Mrs. W. -C. Ellis, of Jicar Grass, I van badly burned Saturday night | when she filled u gasoline lamp near u .stove. The fumes of the gas were ! ignited by the stove and Mrs. Ellis wet: seriously bunted about her arms und face. She had made n mi take'anft put gasoline in the wrong lamp and waH transferring it to another when tho M' iil« nt 111-1• 11 i fi-I While I lii' limns art exceedingly painful, it is hoped I that Mrs. Ellis will not lose her eye sight nor be seriously ea'rred by the: l.urns. We can never be too careful with gasoline and fire. f. fJ. Spruill Practicing Law in Windsor Now Mr. J. H. Spruill, of Windsor, was a \ isitor Monday. Mr. Spruill has a sociated himself in the practice of jaw with Moses Gillam, of Windsor, under the firm name of Gillam & Spruill, succeeding Gillam & Daven port. f Mr. Spruill was in William ton for several months sohie years ago with the Farmer- & Merchants liank, go in;, with the State department of rev enue later. He has since procured his law ljcense. New Store to Open Here in January While no definite' plans have been -announced, it is understood that Wil li.imston will ave a new store the early part of next year. Mr. J. T. lUrnhill, the owner of the store, ii planning to operate ,the store which will carry a general stock of mechan dise. The furniture store of Mr. B, S. Courtney will move to its new home below the town hall the first week in January at whichtime preparations for the new store will begin. Messrs. J. T. liurnfiil! and Garland Bamhill and Miss Nellie Fae Barnhill of Everetts were here ye. terday. Mr. Norman Harri.on left thli morning for Cleveland, Ohio, where he Will visit his brother, Mr. Chester Harrison, for three weeks. Baptist White Gift Christmas Service The "I'uptjHt Church was the scene of u white Rift Christmas •'service Sunday" afternoon at 5 o'clock. •The program consi ted of recitations, ail beautiful and suited to the occasion. The Christmas poem of Van Dyke, recited by Mr.-. John D. ffipgn, was especially fine," As well as we quartets. The emblems of white, Mid the advent of the star gave a r(!n | ht.. pi ration to- Ui- (.hr4stmaf .-eason. The best of all came when the classes were called, one by one, and headed l.y their teachers they marched out end laid their gifts upon the altar; some to go to jieedy families, some to orphanages, some to the old and worn-out preachers, anil some to other worthy and needy causes -ail gifts in the name of Him who said,-"l,ove t .5' neighbor as thy. elf." Almost Runs Ford Under Man's House While, no explanation 6ould be got ten, it must have been that Jule El liott was playing hide and eek whfin he tried to run under J. 11. Deech's kitchen with I)r. J. 11. Saundw'a Ford coupe Sunday night Elliott was evidently off in bis thinking when he mistook the smail path leading to Mr. l eech's wood pile for a street, and lie pushed the front end of the coupe Avell -tfflder-the kitchen,— Elliott was> alone and e t aped in jury when the car hit a pillar sup porting' the house and hid its bursted radiator and broken lights under the house. Damage to the ear amounted to around $25. The ear had been bor rowed only a few minutes when El liott took, the path for a street and ran the car into the house Colored Quartet in Contest Here Tonight The famous colored quartet of Norfolk will sing tonight at the court house, in a contest with the famous Alfour Quartet of Edenton. It is claimed that the Edenton four out classes the Norfolk singers, but those .who have heard the Norfolk quartet art- unwilling to believe it. There is a treat in store for all who enjoy re&l old Southern melody at the courthouse tonight at 8 o'clock Hope to Finish Absence Traffic • Work on Jail Wrecks Marks in February Past Week End io Le Modern in Every Smallest N umber of Ac- Respect; Also Offices cidents in C ounty in in Building: Many Weeks Martin County's new jail will be r udy for use the early part of Feb rupary, according to information Horn those acquainted with the work. The Pauly Iron Works Co., of St. !.>uis, Mo., will finish its work the latter part of tifxt week, and the building contractors will 'complete then- work in January. While the contract called for the completion at the -BBiltllng the first ootids month, the final limit is f.lurch 1, when a, fine for each day l thereafter will be charged against the iitractors, ' » j With ten cells, eight'for men and two for women, an insane room, u detention room, another for fumiga 'i"ll purposeand a kitchin, Martins' Jail, when completed, will be moat modern The I'auly Jail Works will have their part of the job completed the latter part of next week. To escape from the jail Is just an impossibility, for there are levers to conti'ol the do ( ors of the cells, and these levers are fouhd in the passage way. The levels are well cared for, nnce they are in a steel box with .a combination as well a,- a key lock oil 'it. These levers are so arranged "that as many as four doors can be cpened at one time. The insane room will he equipped in the same manner as tho-G found in the State asylums. In lacj, Sheriff Koetnlck's jail will cj.re for all classes, Eight of the cells are found on the top floor .while the two for women are located on the third floor. The kitchen occupies a la We corner in the basement.*' Besides earing for the jail the build ing- will houtie the regi ter of deeds iind the clerks offices.. New equip* nient has been bought for the two of- and the filing and finding of records will be made easier once the change to the new building is made. 35,&1i4 Death*? in North Carolina Last Year The year litlifi brought .'15,524 death* in North Carolina. For every 1,000 persons, there were 11.86 deaths. Nephritis, or Hright's Disease, was the cause of more death.-. Shan any other cause, taking a toll of 2,915; heart disease caused the death of !M>3B; tuberculosis, 2,750; apoplexy 2.0! etlncer, 1201; pneumonia and in flucnza, 2,560; violence 2,094; typhoid fi'yer 277; malaria fever 123; small pox, 7; measles 12; ucarlet fever 31; whooping' cough 150; diphtheria 310; muipps 0; rabies 7; tetanu 25; syh phillis 106; gonococcus 8; pellagra 398; alcoholism 40; meningitis 143; epilepsy 79; pleurisy 29; asthma Oil; iipptndicitis 300; hernia 240; cirrhosis of Mver 88;, childbirth 588; prema ture birth and birth injuries 1,745. ■ Vftrifrti—*'fnrirtK of vjnlrTirf* rpsuhfH in the following deaths: Suicide 1,338; poinon >!; burns 2U3;* suffocation. 81; drowning 97; firearms accidents 112; other accidents except railroad anil uutoniobile 314; railroad and street cur accidents 368; grade crossing ae cident 3.1; injuries by. animids 18 slaivation 2; cold 3; heat 11; light iiing 31* (ilectricity 18; and homi cides 374. A. Corey May Again He Unrolling Clerk Lieutenant Governor Elmer Long held a council in his office in Durham la,st week, at which Corey, of Mar tin, with several other senatorial scleras who served in the last session wi re present. Lieutenant Governor I»i»r says he will ruii things on a cheaper scale than at the last session, and expects to save in the clerical work about SIO,OOO. - Mr. Corey, who"" s is a candidate to succeed himself as enrolling clerk, expects to perform his work ""With Much less help than he had 2 years ago. So far, we have heard of no complaint about a little saving. The folks wilt be glad of another cut. Claims to be Champion Hog Raiser of State Mr. J. M. Tharington, of West Dur ham, is claiming the hog-raising championship of the State. He re cently killed a hog that weighed 1*035 pounds after being dresse&and cut up. The hog was nine years®old the day killed. The length of the mummoth porker when hung up was Ujjfeet and it was 44 inches high. The~"**Jntriinmed haws weighed 150 pounds. The hog made 142 pounds of sausage and 220 pound* of lard. * & Watch the Labc* On Your Paper; It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expires. ESTABLISHED 1898 ' he absence of wrecks was the no j table feature here over the pa.st 1 w#ek end. Only two wreck in as j m;.ny days wi re heard from, and : tiiey were of little note. Foi ..some tiit has been almost au impossibility for a week end to pass here without an auto wreck ! happening. A enreful estimate places the.-nuift j bcr of wreek-i during the year at 221*. j hi mum her includes only those wricks where the curs were carried L U> garages for-repair , and-does not take into consideration the minor Joint's. TO oiler an estimate ot any worth for all wreck*, that is the most minor on OH as well as the*major ones, ; is impossible. IHe Ford was the main sufferer, and approximately >() per cent of that- HHiku went into the list of accidents. Only one big car is known to have bad a part, and that was when a Ford was knocked off the JamesvilU; road about five miles from here. Ice wagons, ti.-h wagons,' trucks, I coupes and all the other types of cars have been to the garairea this year as u result of driving. Uijiwr was oil the job, lor it n.ore tiian sent its (junta of dLs to the garage, and many patients ll the hos pitals. Then there were lome that Were just unavoidable, \ ' Two deaths have resulted from the wrecks happening in the county;, one taking place when the Coast Line train hit and killed a colored man at the Standard Oil tanks here, and . the other occurring just the other side ol liobersonville when another colored" man was thrown from a car to the pavement. Several people are wear ing permanent sears, and ut lea: t three have been crippled in some or other for life. Take Martin County as an example, then picture the deaths and destruc tion wrought by automobile, wrecks throughout th^l'ni ted States Senator King- Attacks North Carolina Projects Senator King, of Utah, in his at tack on the rivers ami harbors bill now being debated in—the Senate, singled out several North, i L'arolina. projects and attacked thern With groat glee. Mont of the projects he men tioned werefostered by Kepre eiita tivc Lindsay C Warren, of ttiin dis-, t.iict, and . have " alTP&dy passed the House. Thisvis- a typical paragraph from Senator Kings' .speech: "NorJi Car olina ha. for many occupied, a favored position in river arid hai'bor bills. Provision is made in this bill for various channels anil for an in tercoastal waterway, for Douglass 1 tny; frir and 1 IJ\l l ~TTTTt~ .aid Gardner- Creek, If it were hot deemed improper, 1 might observe that perhaps- there arc o her chan nels and mulcts and microscopic creeks that are s'o small as to be tje nominateii. intestinal. Nor h Carolina ha;- Itunyon Creek, which i cared for as well as Smiths Creek and Deep Creek." in spite-of the attack on the bill, iiy passage is soon' expected with all of the North Carolina projects in cluded. Several Gallons Liquor Captured by Officers Deputy Sheriff Grimes ami a help er captured several gallons of liquor, a number of kegs, jugs, ami bottles at tSe home of Sylvester Coflielii Sat uiiiay night. Coffleld was arrested and furnished proper recognizance for hi;? appearance before the recorder ttf t i.y. It- is -Ihougiit that Coffield's son was the business' man in the case, as the reports reaching officers implicat ed him. After this capture the officers went Jto the home of John Stuart Slade, where they found a gallon of li- I quor. This liquor was . claimed by Slades' si.-ter, who was held under bond to reveal her Christmas story to Judge Uailey, Survivor of Ironclads' First Battle Is Dead I Colonel Wiley li. Fort was buried I i>t Pikeville, Wayne county, last Sun- I duy. He was 86 years old before his death. f Colonel Fort had the distinction of i engaging in one of the world's most i famous battles, that of the Merri [ mac and the Monitor ind the Chesa ) pealce bay. Up to that time there had been no dream of such destruction.