Friday, September 2,1927
Martin County Ranks High in
Value Agricultural Products
Martin county as a community
center and a place to live in has ad
vantages equal to almost any other
section of the world. It may be that
there are some places offering pecu
liar conveniences that are not found
here, but when the balance is struck,
the county's average is fino.
Martin is among the old counties
of the State, antidating the Revolu
tionary War by two years. The coun
ty was formed from Tyrrell and
Halifax counties in 1774. Our first
court house was built here in 1775
just below the river hill. This build
ing; was burned and a second court
house was built on the brow of the
lull on the north side of Main street
the year 1835. This structure al
so went up in flames in December
1883, a man said to have had an in
dictment against him for stealing
coon skins having set it afire to de
stroy the indictment. The present
court house was built immediately af
tei the second one was burned.
Martin is just a little smaller than
the average North Carolina county,
embracing in its boundaries 438
square miles.
There are more than fifty white
churches in the county or a church
for every 300 white people. The aver
age for the colored people is about
the same as. it is for the whites.
Recent reports from the office of
the State Superintendent of Schools,
the schools in Martin county measure
tp well with the State average.
Agriculture is practically the only
scurce of income, the county leading
all its neighbors in the value of crops
produced.
We are bounded by Bertie, Halifax,
Washington, Beaufort, Pitt and
Edgecombe. These counties are very
similar to Martin in that they depend
almost entirely upon their agricul
tural resources. The crop income in
these six counties is s2t2 per year
for every person in them, while the
income in Martin is $293.50 for each
person which is equal to 45 per cent,
more than the income in our six
neighboring counties. These same
counties, however, are 65 per cent,
higher than the State average in
come per person wihch is only $125
from agricultural sources.
While these figures apply to the
income on a population basis, yet the
income per acre basis also shows a
good lead.
Taking all land whether cleared or
wooded, we find the State's income to
be $lO per acre. Our six border coun
ties average $16.50 per acre and oui
county produces $22.00 per acre. We
THE BIGGEST 90 DAY SAI.E
That Williamston Has Ever Known
ALL NEW GOODS THAT WERE BOUGHT BEFORE THE ADVANCE
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6,000 yards of heavy sheeting, worth Isc, now 10c 100 pairs boys overalls, worth 75c 50c
120 good bed blankets; worth $1.25; at 75c ' 100 boys'good heavy shirts at 50c
100 pairs lace window curtains at .. 50c 100 pairs bedroom slippers, per pair 50c
5,000 yards of fast-color prints, per yard 10c Line of Work Shoes You Ever Saw at Money-Saving
500 yards of yard-wide bleaching, per yard 10c Prices
500 yards 9 4 sheeting, bleached and unbleached, yd. 40c _ _ „ , „ , n „ .
... , . . . .. ~ . See Our Dress Goods And You Will Buy Them at the Price
400 dozen stockings, worth 15c pair; now only 10c ... __ : ' . c . A
... . , . . . lf , . We Have a Thousand Bargains to Offer in This Sale That Are
300 pairs of mens socks at half price, only 5c a pair _ . , . -
.- JT , , _ Not Listed on This Paper .
1,000 yards of wide gingham, worth 15 to 20c; now only 10c
2,000 yards shirting; worth twice the money, per yard 10c 200 children's sweaters at 25c each
1,500 yards outing flannel, worth 20c; now 10c 144 boys' heavy sweaters at 89c each
250 men's shirts, worth SI.OO .- 75c 144 men's heavy sweaters at SI.OO each
A THOUSAND BARGAINS IN OUR 10 AND 25-CENT DEPARTMENTS THAT YOU NEED
This Sale Will Start Sept. 6th and Last Until Dec. 6th
THEN WE WILL PUT OUR CHRISTMAS GOODS ON SALE. WHICH WILL BE THE BEST LINE OF CHRISTMAS GOODS THAT
WILLIAMSTON HAS EVER SEEN.
Be Wise; Don't Wait; Goods Will be Higher Later on
YOURS TRULY,
G. W. BLOUNT. & COMPANY
arc 120 per cent ahead of the State's
average and 33 per cent, ahead of
that of our neighbors.
-TET acreage income for Beaufort
was only $8.50 against our $22 while
that of Bertie was $9.35 per acre.
The crop values of Martnf county
in 1925 was $6,707,976; Beaufort
$4,703,605; Bertie $4,370,933. This
shews that Martin has a lead over
Beaufort by $1,420,370 and over Ber
tie by $1,763,051.
There are only two counties in th«
State with a smaller acreage than
that of Martin and that have a
greater agricultural income. They are
Wilson and Lenoir, both of them hav
ing a much larger percentage of their
lauds in cultivation than Martin.
Martin ranks seventh in tobacco,
thirty-fourth in cotton, twenty-fourth
in corn, twenty-third in sweet pota
tces, twenty-eighth in soy beans and
secand in peanuts, being excelled only
by Bertie which produced « peanuts
valued at $1,422,641 as agjflnst sl,-
126,678 for Martin.
Of the 100 counties of the State,
Martin was the only one that pro
duced three money crops that sold
for above the million dollar mark.,
Our tobacco, peanut and cotton crops,
everyone going above that figure. A j
few counties produced three million !
dollar crops including corn. They were
the larger counties and their three
crops were cotton, corn and tobacco.,
These figures are taken from our j
State and National Departments of
Agriculture and apply to the 1925 !
crops. They embrace seventeen of j
Williamston Supply Co.
Headquarters for the Builder
BUILDING MATERIAL OF ALL KINDS
A modern wood-working shop making any
thing you need around the home or office.
A full line *f PLATK CLASS for windshields and car doors, cut
to fit any make car
Screen Doors and Window Screens Made to Order
Bcnthall Pickers Repaired or Rebuilt
J. S. WHITLEY, Proprietor
the leading crops, but do not include
fruits and berries.
The following twelve counties, Al
legheny, Avery, Cherokee, Clay, Hen
derson, Jackson, Mitchell, Swain,
Transylvania, Dare, Tyrrell and New
Hanover combined produced crops
worth only SIO,(KM) more than those
grown in Martin.
NOTICE
Under and by virtue of a judgment
in the action entitled, "D. G. Mat
thews vs. W. J. Adams," the under
signed commissioner will on the 17th
day of September, 1927, at 12 o'clock
noon, at the courthouse door of Mar
tin County, offer at public sale to the
highest bidder, for cash, the follow
ing described tract of land located in
Jamesville Township, and known as
the Carey land, and qow owned by
W. J. Adams, and being the same
land set out and described in a tax
certificate of sale dated June 7, 1926,
and the same land listed by the said
M. J. Adams for the year 1925.
This the 17th day of August, 1927.
B. A. CRITCHF.R,
al9 4t\v Commissioner.
666
li a Prescription for
MALARIA, CHILLS AND FEVER.
DENGUE OR BILIOUS FEVER
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THE ENTERPRISE
FOXHALL & MOYE
Clark Warehouse
1 - ... TARBORO. N. C.
jj WISH TO ANNOUNCE THE OPENING OF THE TARBORO TOBACCO
l MARKETON
I Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1927
| .BRING US YOUR FIRST LOAD ON OPENING DAY ANDWEWILL
SELL YOUR ENTIRE CROP, FOR YOU WILL FIND THAT WE WILL GET
| YOU THE TOP OF THE MARKET ON EVERY PILE SOLD WITH US.
| ON ACCOUNT OF OPERATING A WAREHOUSE IN GEORGIA THIS
I SEASON, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CALL ON OUR MANY CUS
TOMERS IN MARTIN COUNTY. WE HOPE THAT YOU HAVE A GOOD
CROP AND THAT WE MAY HAVE THE PLEASURE OF SELLING IT
| FOR YOU.
FOXHALL AND MOYE HAVE HAD THE HONOR OF HAVING THE
HIGHEST AVERAGE OF ANY WAREHOUSE IN GEORGIA FOR THE
ENTIRE SEASON, AND WE EXPECT TO DUPLICATE THIS IN EAST
; ERN NORTH CAROLINA.
i WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS YOU WANT HIGH PRICES TRY
FOXHALL & MOYE
TARBORO, N. C.
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