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Advertisers Will Find Oar Col- umn* * Latchkey to Over 1600 Homes of Martin County. VOLUME XXIX—NUMBER 88 Woman's Club in First, Meet of New Year Committee Reports Re ceived Show Much ' Work in Progress The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Club was held Wednesday afternoon, and it was one of the best meetings ever held by the club. It was the first held in the building, since it has been remodeled. Those who had not seen the rooms before were delighted with the wonderful changes made in them. Supt. R. A. Pope, of the county schools, made a short talk to the club, giving in a brief manner the various county school funds and the purposes of each. Great progress has been n.ade in the county during the past few years in getting teachers who fill the State's requirements and through centralization there are a greater number of children being taught per teacher than have ever been before in the history of the county. The club was interested in helping to get an accredited high school for William ston and passed a resolution promis ing its aid to the school departments in getting pupils to swell the roll so that sufficient teachers could be had. Two prizes, $lO first, ahd $5 second, were offered for the two best es says written by pupils in the local school on the subject of "Schools and Tuxes Necessary to Maintain Them." The reports of the committees and officers showed considerable work be ing done. There were answers to the questionnaires sent our representa tives In the legislature. Hon. Clay ton Moore, Senator from the second district, and Hon. J. A. Everett, Rep resentative from Martin County. Mr. Everett favored the five bills sponsor ed by the federated clubs; and Mr. Rloore favored three without reserva tions, the one asking for the Austral ian ballot with certain reservations, and was against the bill providing that marriage bans be published two weeks before marriage. An explana tion of the five bills will probably be published in a later issue of The En terprise with the position of each of our representatives in full. A committee was appointed to meet a committee from the Kiwanis Club to discuss the subject of a public li brary for Williamston. Another was appointed to help Mr. Poe and Miss Trentham prepare for the Roanoke Fair if the management completes ar rangements to have one this fall. ,Two of the most important an nouncements of the meeting were that Mrs. T. W. Lee had accepted the chairmanship of the American Citi-I zenship Department and Miss Anna Trentham the chairmanship of the American Home Department. Mrs. Lee is one of the ablest women in te wn and has had some connection with citizenship problems, having been mayor of Rose Hill in recent years. Miss Trentham needs no intro duction to our people. Her work and record as county home demonstration ' agent since she came into Martin County have shown that she will be a wonderful leader in this department. FARMERS START TALKING ABOUT THEIR PLANT BEDS Farmers are already talking "plant beds." They seem to be forgetting Christmas and turning their faces to Mother Earth again. Few farmers are friendly to cot ton, and there appears to be some fear that they are going to swing too strong on tobacco; and peanuts, too. All of them say they are going to plant plenty of corn and try to reduce thfejr living expenses. j Mr. Ned Laughinghouse left this week for Lexington, Ky., where he will spend several months. STRANH THEATRE | J TONIGHT "Bluebeard's Seven Wives" All Star Cast V A . S.x J'• ' SATURDAY Five-reel Feature Two reel Comedy and "CASEY OF THEk COASTGUARD"! Always a Good Shofl THE ENTERPRISE Perlie Manning Best Hog-Raiser Mr. Perlie E. Manning, of Williams Township, aeema to be the leading hog raiser of the county so far this seaaon. At his hog-Hilling this week, among a large bunch of nice ones, his best weighed 650 pounds. Wants Judges' Salaries Raised Martin Solon Proposes 50 Percent Raise in Jurists' Pay Senator Clayton Moore of our coun ty, is sponsoring a bill to increase the salaries of the judges of the State. The bill proposes to pay the Supreme ' court judges $9,000, the Chief Jus tice SIO,OOO and the Superior court judges $7,500 annually with $1,750 for traveling expenses. The Superior court judges now get $5,000 salary and $1,250 tarveling ex pense. The new bill is an increase of fifty per cent. The increase in the sal aries of the Supreme court judges is not so great. They get $6,250 now and the proposed bill will increase the a mount by $2,750. Besides this they also get |OOO. a year for stenographic service and $250. for incidental ex penses. Mr. Moore who is sponsoring the bill is chairman of Judiciary £Mpmit tee No. 1 will have many ol|H im portant matters of legislation in charge, especially with matters per taining to judicial procedure. While Mr. Moore has been in the legislature for several years, this is his first time as senator. Mr. Spencer is the other senator from this district which includes the counties of Wash ington, Tyrrell, Hyde, Bare, Beaufort, Pamlico and Martin. Tournament Result Crowded out Tuesday j The result of the bnske'ball tourna ment at the peanut exposition in Windsor last week was, along With several other stories, crowded out of our Tuesday's paper by a last-minute ad rush. While the playing of the teams' members is worthy of much space and commen.t we are centering on the game here last night between Jamesville and Everetts, and mention ii\g here just the outcome of the tour nament. Jamesville won the cup and champ ionship by defeating Weldon, 14 to 11, in the finals Thursday night. Drivers, ' Va., made a strong bid to be Wel uon's opponent, but was defeated in the semi-finals Thursday afternoon by Jamesville in an extra-period gamef 10 to 8. ' » A- __ Far-off Fire Attracts Attention of Many Surrounded by a dark.jiky a bright, spot in the East attracted the atten-1 tion of many people here and sur- j rounding section last night. While a fire was the only possible explana-1 tion of the sight, it was of such a nature that many doubted that to be he cause. Long distance calls from Koper stated that the blaze was be yond there and it was thought to be in the dismal swamp. At times the blaze was so bright one would judge it to be hardly more than a few miles away. Large volumes of smoke 'were noticeable about 10 o'- clock. Jail Furniture is Wrecked by Drunk Placed in jail here last night, a wl.ite man said to be from Roberson ville wrecked all the furniture he : could get his hands on in the jail, and this morning Sheriff Roebuck has some extra kindling in the Jail wood box. , ~ The man was placed in jail charged i with driving an automobile while drunk, and, according to many, he i was thoroughly soaked, for he made I a snake drive on the fill just across the river before finding his way here. | He offered a name, but no such man ! is known in Robersonville., Martin County Is Well Represented '• Martin county is well represented in Raleigh at the present time, it having a senator, a representativeand an grossing clerk there. Mr. Clayton Moore is in the Senate, he having been sent there from this district, Mr. J. A. Everett is the coun ty's representative, his is the hr»t year that Mr. Everett has represent ed our county in the legislature. Mr. A. Corey is back again at his old job, that of engrossing clerk in the Senate. With theee three men in Raleigh,, this section is ably represented, Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, January 7,1927 Several Offices Threatened by Gas Tank Fire I I Godard Building Scene of Spectacular Fire Tuesday The Godard Building, occupied by the Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Enterprise Publishing Co., ■ and gfverjtl law and insurance firm.,: last Tuesday evening I when 40 gallons of gasoline caught fire at the rear of the building. Such a short time elapsed before the flames reached the top of the building that | for a while it looked a if the fire ha.l j passed beyond the fire company's I control. The telephone operators left | their po&ts when the flames broke | through the rear window of thn oper ! ating room and burned the shade and started to eat their way into the win i dow frame. Fire tlrat was consuming the woodwork was soon extinguished, but before the (lames at the source ' could be checked the main telephone - cable was practically ruined. The 400-pair cable was laid bare for more than five feet where the lead was melted. The volunteer fire company did good work when it prevented fur ther damage to the cable and held th > stream of water from the hose from | the telephone frame inside the build | ing. Practically half the town's tele phones were thrown out of coniiui. ' sion for several hours. In our office we did not fare so well. About 100 sheets of old and new "copy" caught fire and started a blaze near the typesetting machine. This blaze was smothered by members of the office force, but before a blanket cculd be placed over the machine a stream of water was thrown through the window and Washed machine, the force, and about one-half the office. One of the machine's magazine* was standing in direct line with the flow of water, and the damage at this point was greatest. As' for fire damag", we went unhurt. The operators have been doing battle with rusty springs 1 and sticking matrices and until new ! parts can be received the operators will be handicapped. The .total damage, including fir • ar.d water, is estimated to be around s4f>o. Charles Edward Spruill,' commonly known as "Snowball,"• caused all the trouble when he struck a matih.to. see if thp gas. he was drawing was going into the can. When he threw ! the match iiown, it landed in a spot where gasoline had leaked, and with more ga oline spattering from the j sides of the small can, the fire went off with a god Mart.-'-Effortw to cu> off the flow of gaToline from the big. tank failed when the heat prohibiten , one from getting near the faucets. "Snowball," a small colored boy, | had been "deviling" in the office at odd times for the past several month- , j and his record fails to uphold the j ccreless act. The fire had not gained j much headway before he "cleared out," and he hasn't been seen in this '.ection of the town since. Before I leaving, however, he made noble ef forts to check the tire, but when the j first spectators arrived he thought it ! best to leave. I I Reports of Bullocks' Capture Unfounded Reports reaching here this morning stated that Julian Bullock, member the mob that mutilated Needlemfn, ..who escaped from the State prison farm Sunday night; had been cap tujred and was again in prison. It ■was further stated that he was'cap- | tured * in Robersonville and carried back last Tuesday. According to information from sev- ! eral sources in Robersonville, Bullock is still at large, and if his capture has been effected it is not known there. I CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Morning service, 11:00 o'clock. Evening service, 7-JiO o'clock. Woman's missionary society, Mon i day afternoon, 3:30 o'clock, j Ouf people are urged to attend these services especially the Church : services which' are the first of the, j New Year. All others are extended a ' cordial invitation to worship with us. • A. J. MANNING, Pastor. GOOD PICTURES ON AT THE STRAND THEATRE There are splendid pictures on tit the Strand theatre this week and ricxt. The picture "Red Dice" you will en joy, according to what those who have seen it say about the. pjcture. ' ' Miss Vivian Peel was a shopper here yestreday. . j Mts. Fannie Pope, of Robersonville, j visited her sister, Mrs. J. L. Robert - | son, here yesterday afternoon. I * t mF « Local Tobacco Market to Reopen Next Tuesday; Better Prices Are Indicated The local tobacco market will reopen next Tuesday, January 11, fit tor havin been closed during the holidays. While no definite I me has been set for the closing of the -market, it,#/ thought It w 11 remain opfen during the next three woeks, closing January 28. All the various companies will be represented when the sales be gin ni",t Tuesday morning. The Something to Worry About ""smith watsonl vare ' " n u " t'nd." amc r^penn. * C*l - / Fp ■W 7 .i-" J -rii i / or, •• > ' a . ( ■** I, ; (Sags. i 5 >-- .3 £ I "To .seat" or m t to .4at" Vato 61 of 1 iitl , i- ft- problem v vis : . r • '■' ill jilt- n.'W* e»- Ml thir*l.:h tlte i'R' in" of Ihe m" . ■ ■-1.! i Mat ~i. Keubeii lilands ( alls T. W. Snell Resigns On President ( oolidtfe As Federal Ajrent Iteuben I Hand. Martin county farmer and fattterjof .'II children, increased his lame yisterday by „ calling on President ■ i oolidge at the White House. Itcuhen, of course, already had tlie distinction of being' the most jfallsei iy. man in Nlartin _ nmntj as well as in the Nation, and lie • ■inereased his honors b> 'being Hie first Martin county citizen to cheer the President with .a real Southern smile in the New \ ear. Mr. island is returning home the lii'tmv part of litis week, and his experiences will be veil worth listening to. Moves Law Office In Old Hank liuildim; Judfje J. W. lluiley hfis moved Id's I iaw-office from Everetts to th« ..1-1 Farmers and Merchants Hank luii'M- I 7 T ~ Mr. Hailey inee assuming th'' du ties of Judge of the recorder's court I f.nds it expedient that he move his Office not only for his convenience hut ; also for his clientele as well. the present he will keep his fi.mily in Everett and -drive here cuch day. Including Mr. Bailey's there are I sevdh luw firms locati-d here 'at the present time. John L. Rodcrerson to Be With C otton Co-ops Mr. John 1,. Rodger on has accept ed a position with: th • t otton coopera nve. association,.succeeding; Mr. Mik Norman. While, ft. is ijot known whether Mr. Bodgiryon will accept the job as a permanent undertaking ht will begin his dutii'- lat once an'l continue them for at I'.i-t HO days. Mj. Itodger -on' accepted the posi tion when Mr. Norman res if Tied to go with the Armour Ferliljzrr Co., j»t Wilminffton. , i,' Mr. Rodgerson's duties'will carry I him into five counties, Beaufort, jt Washington, Martin, Bertie, and i Chowan. NEW CHEVROLET IS LATEST WORD IN AI TOMOHILES The new Chevrolet, latest in the manufacture of automobiles i* draw ing much attention now, and sales are ircreasing daily. The I'cel Motor company, loenl , dealers, and the Harri 1 - Motor com- I peny, county agents, are making largf i iales daily, and there are many, pos , sible Chevrofet buyers according to j these dealers. majority of the buyers will re turn Monday, while several will come in during the week end. J The coming sales are expected to carry the number of pounds sold here this season.' 1 to around eeven million. iThe numher sold up to the clotting before the holi days amounted to 6,427,622, at an average price' of $27.32. Reports coming from the markets that I'enn.—Srnitli of 111. and Watson : n|» piany Senators no little con n» v. iil not lie decided until opeir tii.slory shows its easier to-keep Mi*. T. W. Snell, of Plymouth,! passed througfh town this morning. He' v wiis returning from •'Kayetteville, wli.i-e he had resigned his commissions pi a Federal agent, after having been in the government service since Oc ti ber 16, 1921. He seemed to be in' tit.e spirits jind appfj. i, 11 i man just emerging from a spirit of dis gust . into a world of freedom- ami e use. Most of the agents seem to think tin' li([uer interests are meeting fa- from some of the "higher-ups," | .a- -Chey are constantly changing] things and .making it harder all the] time to do anything. Before one rul . ing can be put into operation, it is, eetuilermanded and another takes its place. And though fines and penalties! far exceed the expense of raids, the « government will not allow an agent j enough expense money to work more ' tiiiin about half the time. Stalls from Porch; Suffers Broken Arm i i _ ; -Elbert l'eel, jr., suffered a broken aim when he fell from a porch rail 11 at the home of his fiarents_on llaugh ' ton Street yesterday. The little fel low had jumped from the rail to the >; gioutid several times, and on his last ' attempt he lost his balance and fell backwards. His left arm was broken when his body fell on it. From a description of the fall, it is a'won der that his back escaped being brok " ori. u-. . County Folks On the Radio i t t " Martin county was pleasantly heard ■, from when Messrs. David Holliday, I Foy Mizelle, Edgar Davis and Willie Warren Davis, all of Jamesville, - limadeatsed from the Richmond Radio i station last night. They sang t h ur and were paid $125. This quartette has been organized r only a short whiel but their reputa , tion has spread far and wide. The I > ..ting men have wonderful voices and tl. pite the fact that they have hadj no special training, they sing very, ! very well. !i i)i > SAM. tfTRMTS LARGE CROWDS - ' STOCK STORE I '*BPlipco,'le from all around crow ledHMßthe A. K. Hatem store 1 hfci SljHrning to look the - liar .atwflS>unced by the manage rs it riit clerks were busy during . of the day. Barikiupt oafl to make up the great . merchandise offered. have already opened for the re-, maining few days of the *■ a «»n | hold that prices are sliuhtl) het-i | ter than they were diirjng the period from Ttfaltk^gn mi to the closing time jt&t In-fore the holi day*. Danville and I'ugiiay were two of the markets making such reports. The sales will start next Tues day morning at 'J o'clock. Everetts Wins Close Contest . ; Jamesville Loses Hard Game Here Last Night, 10-9 The Kveretts basketball team gained' the highest rank in that sport ever attained by a team in this section when it triumphed over the-strong Jamesville five here last night in one of the most thrilling games yet seen, on the Brick Warehouse court. Sup ported by the cheers of 450 fans, the two teams entered the contest "with the greatest of determination to win. Jamesville was there defending its prestige gained when it won over sev eral teams in the tournament at Wind sor last week, and Everett.' was' there lo take part of it for herself. It was anybodys' game until a few seconds} before the final whistle sounded, at which time Kverelts had a one-point lead, making the score stand 10 to !>. The first quarter of the game saw both teams making nervous attempts at goals. This part of the game was almost lifeless, but Jam sviTle man aged lo build a small lead. The first quarter ended and found the support ers of the two teams cheering with lull force. The second quarter in the beginning varied very'litd? from the first, until Cherry, the star of the game, tied the score with two of tho prettiest field goals made in the game and a free throw. Roebuck's point, made when he caged a free shot, gave Kveretts a one-point lead at the end of the half. After hive ret la had gained tliis k'ud Jamesville , came back in the second half with a more expressed determina-. tion to maintain its record. Ami her efforts were not in vain, for she was | soon in the lead again., Her favoiable j position* only spurred Kverctts on, and : it was a matter of a few minutes be- I fore.-the .standing] of the score was re; versed. During the latter part of this 1 half-thn lead -went hack an,l I With neither squad able to build it | beyond one point of the opposing team's score. And whil* all this was ' going on, the cro/d went wild with I it.- cheers, offering them in the .friend | liest of ways. The defense offered by Jamesvilie's ! guards was a feature, arid it forced Kveretts to try long shots, few fig ; llring in the scoring,—TW pa. Miiv,- 4»f the down-country lads was said to be j just a little better than that of the j up-country boys; however, it was not |so far ahead. Kveretts had its good, j points, too.; for, if'she lunl. .htni them, there would have been a differ j ent score. Howard Gaylord, Jamesville center, was high scorer of the game, making j K of his team's !» points. Cherry, I Everett's right forward, followed close with 7 points. While all members of I both teams played an uxceptional brand of hall, the playing Jof Cherry and Gaylorcf was most noted. Not until the last quarter 'did the game get rough, and it was not so bad, then. Very few personal foul were, made, and they were about even ly divided between the two teams. (Jraham, of Washington, proved him self a good referee wheji his decisions met with general approval. '. Hurt When he Falls. From House Top Jesse Gurganus, the iO-year-old son of Mrs. J. 1). Harrison, fell from tho roof of his home here several, day." ago and was hadly hurt. Jesse was fitting on the roof of thchou.se watch ing his step-father, Mr. Harrison, put up a' radio aerial when the small chimney he -was| holding to gave way and caused him to slide off. While he received a severe ,cut on his "forehead when several of the bricks from the chimney fell on him, he escaped in juries that little less than a miracle could have prevented. . PHILATHKAVQJ.ASS MEETING TONIGHT The Philathea class d| the Chris tian cMftch will meet tonight with Mrs. Myrtle Brown at her home on Church street at 7:46. * All the members are asked to at tend this meeting and plan for the new year's work. ■ * Watch the Late. On Year Paper; It Carries the Date Your Subscription Kvpires. No More Roads in Near Future ' for This County Highway Commissioner Tells Kivvanians Wednesday Highway Coinmis ionor Frank C. KurUt, of Washui»toji, wa- the guest o, the Riwanis Club Wednesday. Mr. K'u-lor is commi sioner for tRt» first ill trift, which embrace- twenty coun ties in the northeastern section of the State. Me has held the position since the death of Mr. W. A. Hart, of Tarboro, who h I i iho office until his death last spring. Mr. kugler made a very clear and Practical explanation of .the road sit in lion in.the State, in, which'he-gave a general outline of the policy' and problem o# the read commission. lie -staged that the commission would have to go low and he .eol.ser vutivi; ijfi its operations, and that many o! the counties had already drawn up to thqir limit, ev. 11 all they may hop" foij, within the coining two years. ' Mr. Kugler did not hold out very much hope to Martin County for any now project . In fact, he mad" i! firetty clear that we are not in fin? foi any new work for time to Cl 111". * . Baptists Announce Sunday's Program President Harding, at hi inaugura ten, took the oath of office while h hand rested on a certain Scriptwn Two and one-half years- later thi ' same passage was read at his funera. service. Thi Scripture will consti ■trite tln- II'M lor- Simdav "Tnorijhifr'v sermon. It i- found in the lioo.k of Micali." ' • "At 7 "') o'clock Sunday evetiTnirV fli'* text will be XahuiM 1:7; and. reads, "The l/irri is good; a stronghold in the day of lroublef_and He knoweth them that trust in ilGtn. . The church school of mission will begin in_our church on TuesddV even ing, January 18th. " All the teachers * have been selected, their course of sillily is in their hands, and they will be ready, to go right to work on-the " very first evening of the mei timy,- 'No time will be lot—-a full -program the very flust night. The church is trying to make'lhis a sort of family school—the entire fam ily can come and will find das es for every one, from the tiny tot: to the gray-headed. Announcement a- to, the' Uachers will be made in hex IT Tue -. " day's Enterprise. 1 -ntil —the clone of—Uj-.- -i"" . i hod, all mid-week services in this ■ urch will be held on Tue day even ings instead of Wednesday evenings. a . , ' ' New Service Station Is Opened Today I- • ■ William tons' fifth, filling' station" W.'l'j iipeni" I v «t«■ I"I:ty when th" build—- f inn was turned over by the contrac tors to the .manager, Mr. Raymond Mi K- nxie. The station, located on the I conu r Of Maiir and I laughton Streets, J4-. one of the long chain owned and operated by the S andard Oil Co. It was only a few week- ago that tin Episcopal rectory occupied the site, hut a large number of worknvTt were ordered here, ,and before the hou e was ,moved to an adjoining lot « the station was almost completed, | While it js of no great size, the plant 'i- a vefy attractive one, and ha. the'' I latest equipment, I At pl-esi nl tlu ie are three Standard I and two Texaco'service station?, hero.. I Three are witjjjiv a hundred yards of | each •other! while a fourth is not more ! than two hundred yards-' from the ! group. The fifth is looted*at tho ! intersection of the Jamesville and Washington roads. ' Pack house Destroyed By Fire Tuesday Night * -» Sir. Henry Long lost his automobile, a Ford, a caff, several barrels of corn and other feed last Ttiesday shortly before midnight, when fire destroyed his packhouse on the Roddick far(n near here. Several people on the streets here saw the bright blaze and thought Uio lire to be around the warehouses, and they turned in the alarm. ' The volunteer fire company rolled out, thinking the fire to be near the railroad station. Upon their ar rival there, the members of the eo«i- Jiany thought it to be just a little further. They wont all the way, but instead -of being right hfcre in town, tl.e fire was tfvo miles in the country. A large number from here went out, but the fire had g»ined soo_®wot headway to be checked by the bucket brigades. The' exact amount of the damage has not been learned, but will be over SI,OOO.