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VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 49
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS APPROVE
BUDGET FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR AT
SPECIAL MEETING HERE TUESDAY
IS PRACTICALLY
SAME AS IT WAS
PREVIOUS YEAR
Total Amount To Be Spent
For All Purposes Is
$318,085.78
TAX RATE TO BE $1.33
Increase in Rate Brought About by
Addition of Interest and Sinking
'Fund; 25 Cents Higher
An annual appropriations resolu
tion was adopted and the tax levy on
1927 assessments was made by the
county commissioners when they met
here in a special session last, Tues
day. The appropriations resolution
is practically the same as it was last
year The tax rate will be $1.33 as com
pared with SI.OB for the year ending
June 30, 1827. The change in the
rate was made in the interest and
sinking fund, 28 cents going to that
department; the school maintenance
fund was decreased 3 cents, making
the rat# this year 25 cents higher than
it wag last year.
The appropriations resolution and
tax
Appropriation Resolution
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Board of County Commissioners of
Martin County, North Carolina, this
16th day of August,. 1M27, that for the
expenses of county government, its
activities and institutions for the year
ending June 30, 1928, the amounts in
the following schedules, or so much
of each as may he necessary, are here
by appropriated.
, Section 2. That for the said fiscal
year there are hereby appropriated
J f out of the "County General Fund" the
t following:
County General Fund
Board of commissioners $ 1,110.00
Listing and assessing prop
ertyj. 3,240.00
County sheriff 6,865.00
Elections, general - 4(>0.00
County accountant or auditor 1.100.00
County treasurer 600.00
County courthouse an d
' grounds 1,850.00
Register of deeds, as regis
ter 4,985.00
County coroner 300.00
County jail 1,520.00
County home 3,5%.0(1
County farm 550.00
Outside poor relief 2,150.00
Agricultural and economic
development,...., 2,900.00
« County health department 1,410.00
County aid, contributions and "
gifts (other than poor re
lief .. 933.00
Superior court 2,750.00
Clerk of superior court 4,775.00
r% Recorder's court ... 2,580.00
General 1,200.00
Audit and legal 1,000.00
Total $45,874.00
School Appropriations
Section 3. That for the said fiscal
y year there are hereby appropriated
out of the "Constitutional School
Maintenance Fund," and of the "Coun
ty-wide Expense Fund Above Con
stitutional School Maintenance," the
following:
Current expenses (6 mo. term):
General control $ 10,950.00
Instructional service ~, 104,220.59
Operation of school plant ..... 9,548.65
Maintenance of plant 2,815.30
Fixed charges 1,450.12
Auxiliary agencies 9,643.70
$138,628.36
" Capital outlay:
New buildings and grounds 1
STRANFV
THEATRE
SATURDAY
WESTERN
(See Billboard)
BEN TURPIN
in
A Prodigal Bridegroom
And Episode No. 2
RETURN of the
RIDDLE RIDER'
Always a Good Show;
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THE ENTERPRISE
Local High School Faculty
For Next Term Announced
Entire Faculty Will Be Announced in Few Days; Fall
Term To Begin Around Middle of the Next Month
The high school faculty Just an
nounced here includes thi§ year
Professor L. H. Davis, principal;
Mrs. W. H, Hurrell, assistant
principal, Mr. E. B. Hood and
Miss Mary Fletcher. Professor
Davis and Mrs. Harrell were in
the school last year. Mr. Hood,
whose home is in Goldsboro,
comes here from Scotland Neck
where he taught in the schools
there last year. He is a graduate
of Wake Forest. Miss Fletcher, of
McCall, South Carolina, has done
splendid work in the English de
partment in the Belhaven high
school, and she gives a position
STATE DIRECTOR
SCHOOLS COMING
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith
To Meet Principals Here
September 2nd
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, director
of high schools in the State, will meet
thi principals of the various schools
•n th»« county here Friday, September
2 at 10:00 o'clock in the morning.
Dr. Highsmith or a representative
from his department generally visits
each county every year and goes over
the work for the coming school year
with the various county school heads.
While none of the schools in the
ccunty will be open at that time, it
is understood that all he principals
will be at their posts preparing for
tho opening of their schools a few
days after Dr. Highsmith's visit.
5 MURDER CASES
IN NASH COURT
Unusually Large Number
Killings To Be Aired
Next Week
Five mutler cases are to be treif
in Nash county next week ac?ntdin|r
to .he court record of that county.
One of th° cjses.la against
Denton, a 14 year-'ild white boy who
shot and kill? I a i "ighbor "nu:e
the neighbor was thought to havo
tdd officers that Dim on was tunning
a still. The strange thing aSout it
was that he boy did ro seem to think
he did wrong when he k'.iied ' his
neighbor.
The other cases range from litiuor
brawl murders to wife jealousies.
o
(of which $15,000 is to be
borowed) $ 16,132.12
Old buildings and grounds 11,892.72
Libraries 275.00
Trucks .... 4,285.00
__ $ 32,584.84
Debt service:
State loans 15,084.35
County bonds 7,123.89
District bonds 11,970.58
Overdraft 6,638.78
$ 40,817.60
Total appropriation for
schools $212,030.80
Sinking Fund and Bond Interest
Section 4. That for the said fiscal
-year there arc hereby appropriated out
of the "County Bond Interest, Re
demptions, and Sinking Fund," the
following:
Bond interest and Commis
sion - *44,102.46
Maturity of bond issues (not
included in sinking fund) „ 7,000.00
Sinking fund installments .... 1,578.52
Total _..... $52,680.98
County Road and Bridge Fund
Section 5. That for the said fiscal
year there are hereby appropriated out
of the "County Road and Bridge Fund'
the following:
General overhead $7,500.00
Signed by board of commissioners
of Martin County.
Taxes were levied by the commmis
sioners as follows: ■
Poll tax, $2.00; general county pur
poses, .16; bridge taxes, .06; bond
interest and sinking fund, .28; for
county schools divided as follows:
current expense, .52; capital outlay,
.077 and debt service, .268, making
a total for schools of .85. The grand
total is $1.33.
For special school districts the fol
lowing levies were made:
JamesviUe, .30; Daidens, .10; Pop
lar Run, .20; Ange, .26; Farm Life,
Williamston 4 Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, August 19, 1927
up in that school to taktr charge
of the English department in the
school here.
The faculty for the entire school
is not ready for announcement
at this time as all the contracts
have not been returned to the
superintendent's office here. It is
understood, however, that the
faculty is complete and that it
will be announced as soon as all
the contracts are returned.
The date for the opening of
the local school has not been
mentioned, but it is thought the
school will not open until about
the middle of nest month.
FIREMEN MEET
IN GREENSBORO
Chief Henry Harrison To
Lead Local Delegation
To State Meeting
The North Carolina State Fire
men's association will meet in CJreens
boro next week.
The Wiliamston Fire company will
be represented by Chief Henry Har
rison and several of his associate
members.
Mr. William Cray, of Roberson
ville expects to go as the represen
tative of the Robersonville company.
The meeting has the promise of the
largest attendance since its organi
sation.
British-American Tobacco
Co. Preparing To Enter
U. S. Cigarette Market
According to rumors affoat, the Brit
ish-American Tobacco company is pre
paring to enter the American cigar
ette market in the near future with a
blended popular-priced cigarette.
The concensus of opinion seems to
be that the new brand will be called
"Old North State," one of the brands
formerly put out by tre Brown and
Williamson Tobacco company, Wins
ton-Salem, which company was ac
quired by the British American a
shcrt time ago.
"Snowball" Gets New
Outfit of Clothes and
Is Present at Wedding
Pleased almost beyond repair was
"Snowball", printing office devil,
when he attended the wedding of W.
C. Manning, jr. business manager of
the Enterprise and "Snowball's" boss
ac Four Oaks last Wednesday night.
'Snowball", fitted up in a blue suit
with long trousers, watched the final
knot tied from the pastor's study in
the modem church.
The little fellow, when he learned
he was to see the wedding, asked
where it was to be. When told it
would take place in Four Oaks, he ex
pressed his wish for it to be in Nor
folk, stating that he had never been
to Norfolk. Since he had never been
to Four Oaks, it was all the same
as far as strange territory was con
cerned.
The wedding for him was a solemn
affair; not a smile was to be seen
en his face as he watched, with all
force, the ceremony.
.16; Bear Grass, JO; Williamston,
•35; Everett*, .30; Robersonville, .26;
Parmele, .26; Gold Point, .30; Has
sell, .26; Hamilton, .80 and poll .90;
Oak City, .81.
The following levies were made for
road improvements in the various
townships :
Jamesville, .26; Williams, .25; Grif
fins, .36; Bear Grass, .30; Williams
ton, .36; Cross Roads, .35; Poplar
Point, .30; Hamilton, .40 and poll for
Hamilton, $1.20; Goose Neat, .25 and
poll, .76.
Upon motion of T. B. Slade, Jr.,
seconded by T. C. Griffin, the treas
urer was directed to furnish a month
ly statement of balances and showing
disposition of all funds and was re
quired to charge all depositories 3
per cent, on active balances,' and four
per cent 6n dormant balances. This
requirement .was ordered to go into
effect the flrat of October.
Upon motion made by L. P. Holliday,
seconded by-John E. Pope, the clerk
of the superior court is to be re
quired to furnish his monthly state
ments of bilhr of cost in duplicate,
one of which ia to be filed with the
county accountant.
PRANK MEEKERS
BAND TO BE AT
FAIR THIS YEAR
Will Furnish Music for Nat
Reiss Shows on Roanoke
Fair's Midway
SIXTEEN MUSICIANS
Higgins Hussar Concert Band Is Also
Booked for Free Acts Program
and Grandatand Attractions
No outdoor form of entertainment
woi>l(1 l>e successful without music,
and plenty of it, in the •pinion of
the committee the big
fair to be staged here by the Ro
anoke Fair Association, week of Sep
tember 27th, on the fair grounds, and
Professor Frank Meeker and his
band of sixteen solo musicians will
enliven things night and day dur
ing the reign of King Pleasure here,
it was announced toady. King Pleas
ure will reign supreme in William
ston during the fair, the committee
members says, and Prof. Macker will
help make his role complete.
Frank Meeker is a veteran musician
of the whit* top world and he ha ;
directed bands cn some of the larg
est circus and carnival organizations
it Ameiica. He i* now musical di
rector of The Nat lleiss Shows and
he writes friend* here that *e has the
best band of his career. The Nat
Reiss been engaged to
furnish all the amUsMwni? features
at the fair, and Meeker's first con
cert Tuesday afternoon at t o'clock,
at the fair grounds, will launch the
week of fun.
THIEVES ROB
JUDGE'S AUTO
Judge Bailey OffeiS. He
ward for Conviction
Of Thieves
Judge J. W. Bailey is offering a
liberal reward for information lead
ing to the conviction of tk- thieves
who broke in and stole the a-t ossories
from his cur last night in Everett i.
Tha Judge HMIKS to be wtMVied just
as much as any other citizen at the
ugly way some low-downs have m
prowling about at night robbing their
neighbors of any thing they can get
their hands on.
Replacement value of the parts
stolen from Mr. Bailey's car is esti
mated to be around SSO. No idea as
to who the thieves were has-been ad
vanced thus far.
Plans for Opening of
New Theater and Drug
-Store Are Abandoned
Flans for tho op>n'r>i* of a thirl
drug store and a second theatre hen
have been withdrawn, and it ia under
stood the matter will be temporarily
dropped.
According to all available informa
tion the opening of the two new busi
nesses was to have been by outside
parties, that the plans were with
drawn when one of tho parties chang
ed his mind as to locating here at
this time. *
Details relating to the exact loca
tion of the new enterprise* could not
be learned, but it is thought that
new buildings would have been erect
ed.
D. G. Matthews, Hamilton
Merchant, Qualifies As
Grower of Big Tomatoes
Mr. D. G. Matthews, of Hamilton,
favored the Enterprise with the finest
box of tomatoes brought in so far
this season.
The largest tomato weighed ex
actly two pound* and the next one
weighed a pound and twi-lv'e ounces.
Mr. Matthew.s is supposed to be
a merchant, but he goes further and
qualifies as a good tomato grower.
"What The Church Is
' Doing in the World,"
Baptist Text Sunday
At the Uaptist church Sunday morn
ing, the pastor will discuss the theme:
What the Church is doing in the
World.
This subject is of keenest interest
to the hosts of people who affiliate
with the church and it is hoped that
a goodly number of people will be
present.
Wednesday night Hible Study
Period will center on the Book of
Revelations.
The Unpardonable Sin—
To live In a town
To make a living out of it
To educate children in it
To get everything out of It
And put absolutely nothing into it.
LOCAL TOBACCO
MARKET READY
FOR FIRST SALE
Preparations Being Made
To Handle Record-
Breaking Sales
10,000,000 LBS. IS GOAL
Much Additional Storage Space Is
Being Provided; Redrying Plant
To Begin Work Next Week
With the date for the opening of
the tobacco markets in this part of
the State just a few weeks off, the
local warehouses are fast preparing
for the season. When asked yester
day about the markets opening be
fore the 6th of next month, the ware
housemen here stated that they coula
arrange all details for the opening at
almost any time, that all they want
ed was just a few days' notice so that
auctioneers and other help could
reach here in time.
In an interview with several ware
housemen here yesterday it was
learned that the market this year can
be expected to surpass all former
sales records. No exact quantity was
menioned, but it was stated that
more than 10,000,000 pounds would
be sold on the local market this year.
To handle this amount, the ware-
In usemen are making more extensive
preparations than has heen necessurj
in the past. Additional store rooms
have been provided, and practically
! II the store room in the old Union
Storage Co. building will be used a
long with the several storehouses on
the Atlantic Coast Line siding.
The redrying plant will begin op
eration about the middle of next
week, when it starts to handling to
bacco from South Carolina and bor
der markets. Tobacco coming from
those markets will all be fPorked be
fore the market opens hen* and the
plant will be in first-cas* shape when
it. starts to handle tobacco sold on
1 l.e local market.
Regular Meeting Everetts
Modern Woodmen To Be
Held Next Monday Night
The regular moeting of Everetts
Camp Modern Woodmen will bu held
Monday night, August 22 at 8 o'cii tk
at which time there will be n candi
date initiated.
All members in good standing: "ire
invited to attend and a good time is
promised.
One of the members of the CJ «r>
states that "Big Goat Bill' Is raring
to take tho candidates in after a rest
during he tobacco season.
Find Body of Greenville
Boy Who Was Drowned
In Tar River Tuesday
The body of Frank Jones, the Green
ville young man who attempted to
swim tho Tar river last Tuesady, a
tew miles above that town and drown
ed in mid stream was recovered
Wednesday. ••
Attempts to rescue the young man
made by his friend wjio was swim
ming the river also proved fatal.
Martin County Man Is
Made Director of Retail
Merchants Conference
Mr. H. S. Everett, of Oak City, was
made a director of the Retail Mer
chants association at a meeting in
Richmond this week. The association
had one of its best meetings this
year it ever had. Mr. B. F. Teale, of
Chesterfield, S. C. was made presi
dent. Other directors from this sec
tion besides Mr. Everett are Mr. J.
A. Warren, of Conetoe, and Mr. N. G.
Phelps, of Coleraine.
Driver of Auto Held on
Charge Manslaughter
As Result of Accident
Edmond Ambrose, a young white
man of Roper, was bound over to the
Washington County Superior court
by Recorder Vance Norman, Thurs
day on a charge of mansaugftter.
The evidence showed probable cause
jf negligence and carelessness in
operating an automobile on the Ply
rrouth-Ropcr road a few night ago
v/hen Guy Oliver was aftally injured.
Ambrose furnished the required
brnd of SI6OO and was released to
appear at Plymouth at the next term
if tho Superior court there.
Methodist Schedule of
Services Is Announced"
For Sunday, Aug. 21
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching service, 11:00 a. m.
Preaching at Holly Springs, 8:00
p. m.
Woman's Missionary society will
hold its regular meeting in the church
at 4 p. m. Monday.
MANY SIGN PETITION
URGING STAR
WEED SALES
Make Arrangements
For Building New
Guano Plant Here
Mr. Crockett, of the Standard
Wholesale Phosphate & Acid
Co., of Baltimore, was here this
week making arrangements to
begin work on the fertilizer
plant at the river.
Bids' for*the 225,000 feet of
lumber to be used in the erection
of the building are expected
from the several lumbermen
wirhin the next few days. Ac
tual work on the plant will be
started as soon as the bids are
received and the order for the
lumber given.
Mr. Crockett was accompa
nied by his father, Mr. T. W.
Crockett, of Yorktown, Va., W.
H. Porter and W. L. Hunt, of
Taoma, Va., and E. M. Sluson,
of Williamsburg, Va.
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TOBACCO CURING
ABOUT FINISHED
Most Farmers "Cooking"
Last Pulling of Crop
This Week
'I obacco curing in this section is
about over, and with the close of this
week there will be few fields having
tobacco leaves in them. The majority
-f farmers in ihe ar« "cook
li:g" tin last pulling this week, and
with the opening of next week at
tention, in the main, will go to the
grading of the weed.
During the past few days, many
farmers have been placing their crop
at the homes of the graders, where
it can be worked. All indications
point to a large amount of the weed
being ready when the market opens.
2 MAKE FLIGHT
TO HONOLULU
Art Goebel Wins $25,000
Dole Prize; Two Other
Planes Missing
Two of the racing planes which left
the* United States last Tuesday reach
ed Honolulu on scheduled time. The
Woolaroc, piloted by Art Goebel, won
first prize while'the Aloha was seconu
in the race and it won next prize.
I'he Golden Eagle, which cleared
the American coast in fine shape has
not been heard of nor has the Miss
I'oran which apparently was not
working very well as it faded from
sic,ht in the haze of the Pacific ocean
is also lost. Many ships anil planes
arc searching for them. Experienced
a.rmen have some hopes for the Gold
en Kagle owing to its equipment for
holding it on top of the water in cases
;l wu.s forced to the water.
The Miss l)oran which carried Miss
Mildred I)oran, of Flint, Michigan the
first woman who ever attempted to
fly the Pacific ocean, is thought to
he down helpless in the sea and pos
sibly sunk as ft had no means to
lloat itself in case it had to take to
the water.
Five of the planes which expected
to enter the race were unapln to
make the start from some cause or
other. Two of them crashed in thcit
efforts to rise from the run ways.
Army Blimp Attracts
Much Attention Over
Here Last Tuesday
Many people in this section saw for
thij first time a dirigible last Tues
day when the Army Ulimp, TC-5 pass
ed over hero en route to the Ameri
can Legion ceremonies at Washing
ton. The dirigible circled around the
town where the celebration was go
lug on, but could not stop as there
was no anchorage facilities there. It
returned to its station on the Chesa
peake, going by way of Kdenton and
Hertford.
Tammany Priming Itself
To Put Over Al Smith
Presidential Propaganda
Tammany is priming itself to
launch a campaign for Al Smith for
president. Leaders there expect to
shoot propaganda from the mouths
of hundreds of speakers in almost
every state in the Union during the
month of September. Word coming
from Washington says that Demo
cratic leaders in their secret confer
ences are delighted that Mr. Coolidge
does not choose to be a candidate for
the high office. •
Advertisers Will Find Our Col
umns a Latchkey to Over 1,600
Homes of Martin County
ESTABLISHED 1898
ASK OPENING OF
EAST MARKETS
ON AUGUST 23RD
Petition Sent to President
of American Tobacco
Association
MOST OF CROP CURED
Kequest Being Made Through East
ern Carolina Chamber of Com
merce; 40 Signs Here
Petitions front the various tobacco
towns in Eastern Carolina aro being
sent to Mr. A. li. Carrintfton, presi
dent of the American Tobacco Asso
ciation, Danville, asking that he use
every means possible to have the to
bai*co markets in this section to open
not-later than August •'{> and by the
2;>rd il possible. The petition circulat
ed here last Wednesday was signed
by more than 40 business houses and
individuals. The request to open the
markets is being made through the
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Com
merce, with its various members cir
culating the petition in the several
t'wns.
Requests to open the tobacco mar
kits earlier have been made to Mr.
( arringtou and to many of »h t . large
tobacco companies before this time,
but in each case flat refusals have
been made. The petition now on its
way to the president of tin- Ameri
can Tobacco association, while it
may be considered is not expected to
cause a change in opening dates for
the markets.
Tho request to open the markets
earlier is based mainly ot % ad
vanced season of the tobacco crop, the
petition reading in part, ♦ * Mhat
practically all tobacco in this section
has been cured and all will have been
cured and ready for sale by August
30." -—■
In the face of the advanced crop
and the opening set for September 6,
heavy marketing during the first few
days is expected by many of the to
bacco people. Nothing has been said
about this affecting the price of the
weed during the opening days, how
ever, and it might be that the rush
can be cared for without its affecting
prices. It is the hope, hovaver, of
many that it will be possitTie to open
tho markets earlier than the date al
ready set. Petitions from all the
towns in this section arp expected to
reach the president of tin l American
Tobacco association this week, and a
reply can be expected soon after they
reach the hands of Mr Carrington, the
association's president.
Splendid Picture Shown
At Local Theater Last
Night To Large Crowd
"Twelve Miles Out", featuring John
Gilbert at the Strand lust night play
ed to a packed house and was pro
nounced a splendid production.
"See You in Jail", a First National
picture, is on tonight, and another
large house is expected.
During the past few weeks, the
management of the theatre, here has
been offering exceptional programs,
many times running the game pic
tures showing in the large city thea
tres.
County Farm Agent Will
Be On His Vacation Next
Week; Back August 29th
County Agent T. It. ilrandon will
take his vacation next week, visiting
relatives at his home- in South Caro
lina. He will return to his office here"
Monday, August H'J.
Dr. ami Mrs. Wade H. Atkinson
and Dr. und Mrs. J. H. Lafferty, of
Washington, D. C. spent Sunday with
Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Warren. They
were en route to Moreheud City to
spend some time.
Rev. E. Luciun Mulone and family,
of Florence, Ala. are spending a few
days with his brother, Mr. Ellis Ma
lone near here.
Mr. Harry B. Smith, representative
of the Mergenthaler Linotype com
pany, Hrookly, was hero yesterday
and today.
Miss Clyde Hussell and Mrs. J. R.
Stanley are attending a meeting of
telephone supervision in Turboro this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Donning spent
yesterday In Aulander with his
mother who is seriously ill at her
home there.
Miss Ruth Peele is visiting rela
tives in Suffolk for a few dftyu.