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jk ' —~ WacM the Libel on Your Paper; it Carries the Date Yam Subscription Expires VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 77 LOCAL TOBACCO MARKET BREAKS SALES RECORDS v More Than Seven Million Pounds Sold Here Up To Thanksgiving BUT LITTLE REMAINS Around Two Million Pounds Sold Here During Current Month at Average of About 29 Cents The Williamston tobacco market established a new record this season in number of pounds of tobacco sold when sales reached 7,279,738 pounds last Wednesday. The sales led those of last year for the corresponding period by over a million pounds, and were a good ways ahead of the sales for the same period the season before last. September showed the greatest sales, and the small average made so far this season. In that month there were approximately three million pounds sold on the local warehouse floors for 1622,716.29. October drop ped when a little over two and a half million pounds were sold. In that month, however, the average price paid jumped up and was right up there with the highest ones. There are three more selling days in this month, and to make the review more accurate they jwlll "not be taken into account, but up to and including last Wednes day , the sales for this month reached almost two million pounds. > The aver age price paid for the tobacco sold up to that time averaged a little less than 27 cents. Warehousemen and many farmers, reporting on the tobacco not yet sold, think that it will not riin over 16 per cent or under 10. Using the work of the market up to Wednesday as a base, it is estimated that the total sales will reach a point between eight and nine million pounds before the season comes to a close. A» for the expected price after the market opens next week and on throughout the season, no one seems to be certain in his opinion. TOWN CENTER OF COMMERCE Solid Train Load of Peanuts and Tobacco Were Shipped to Markets Yesterday With .state highways forming a hub here, and the Coast Line running up and down twice daily, Williamston is becoming a real commercial center. Yesterday a solid train load of farm commOditiFß went off via the A. C. I~ Similar shipments are being m»4e six days to the week. One of the captains of the boat line states that this is his main point, that his.company hauls more goods to Williamston and more products away than any other town on his route. The people of the town have he come accustomed to the large trucks running bqiween here and Rocky Mount and hardly notice them now when they go through with 35 and 40 bales of cotton as a load. Private trucks from all around this section with those operated in con nection with the boat line are enough to call one's mind to a waterfront in a big city. Orphans to Appear in Concert at Hamilton Children of the Baptist Orphanage, Kennedy Home, will appear in a con cert at the Baptist church in Hamil ton tomorrow evening, the 26th, at 7:30 o'clock. Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, they will render a program in the Baptist church at Hobgood. The public is cordially invited to r.ttend. E. P. WEST, Pastor. STRANPI THEATRE! J SATURDAY MALONEY Mack Sennett Comedy Episode No. 3 "The Scarlet Brand" Always a Good Show THE ENTERPRISE Hon. Josephus Daniels Will Speak Here Sunday Night Editor of Raleigh News and Observer to Address Last of Series of Community Meetings Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, will spesk in the school auditorium here Sunday evening at 7:30 o'- clock, bringing to a close the series of comifiunity meetings that started several weeks ago. This series of meetings has brought to our town a number of the State's leading citisena, and while they have not been largely attended, they have been of great value. A large audience is expect to hear the speaaker Sunday even ing. There are few better known men in America than Josephus Daniels, and no man is better known in North Carolina than he is. He was manager of the public- HOME AGENT TO BE NAMED IN NEXT FEW DAYS Expected to Begin Artive Longest Review Evere Be Work Not Later Than fore the Supreme Court January First Was Prepared A new home agent for the county to .succeed Miss Anna Trentham, who reigned a few weeks ago, will be nam ed within the next few days, accord ing to Miss Pauline Smith, home agent for this district. "A large num ber of applications for the position have been entered, but no definite ap pointment has been made at this time," stated Miss Smith last night. Mias Smith stated That the new agent would very likely be appointed in time for her to attend a meeting of agents from all over the State in ltaleigh the early part of next month. "After she has acquainted herself with the work in this State, she will study the plans and records of Misa Trentham, and be ready for active duty not later than the first of the year," Miss Smith went on to say. Upon the receipt of a notice ot Miss Trentham's resignation, another agent was immediately appointed. Due to a sudden illness in this agent's family, she was unable to accept the position at_tj«kt time, and after wait ing several days she notified Mi«s Smith that it was impossible testate definitely just when she could begin work, and advised that another de monstrator be hired. Since thnt time, Miss Smith has made an extensive search for an agent to succeed Misa Trentham in her work. ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC MONDAY Will Be Held in Pedera Building at Washington? Cripples Invited An announcement from Mr. H. L. Stanton, supervisor of Vocational Re habilitation 'work in the State, states that the next Orthopaedic clinic will be held in Washington next Monday, November 28 in tha Federal building. All cripples in this county are in vited to attend this clinic for exami nation and treatment by an ortho paedic specialist. The clinic has been in progress dur ing the past several months, and has been of great assistance to the crip ples in Beaufort and surrounding counties.' Formal Opening of National Highway Set lor Saturday The North and South will meet to morrow morning at 11 o'clock when Governor McLean, of our State and Governor Byrd, of Virginia, clip the ribbon on the State line at South Hill. This opens National Highway No. 1 from Canada to the Gulf ol Mexico. The route passes through the original thirteen colonies, also the State of Maine. It is one of the long est highways running north and south in America. N. C. State highway 60 contsitutes the road in this State. The route passes through Raleigh. There is yet some of it to be hard surfaced. Local High School To Publish Annual With twelve business houses pledg ing their support, the local high school iB making final preparations for the publishing of its first annual. Editors, and assistant editors have been chos en and the business manager has been named. The students in the high school department will be assigned their tasks within the next few days when active work on the publication will be started. The work ia under the direction of Mias Mary Fletcher, head of the English department \ Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, November 25, 1927 ity committee that nominated Wood row Wilson at the Balti more Convention, and oerved as Secretary of the Navy in the VV ikon Cabinet during both terms, lilting that important postion for a longer period of time than any other man before or since that period. For several years after he assumed the duties of the office, he was the object of t merciless criticism by thr lower t) .te politician of the country. It is Haid that his hand of friendship to the men of the Navy, regard less of station, did more to hum anise and popularize that depart ment of the government than any other one thing. e People throughout the commun ity and county will welcome him here Sunday night. SUPREME COURT BRINGS BROWN CAST TO AN END The North Carolina Supreme Court this week upheld Judge Frank A. Daniels and the jury by confirming the Brown will case tried in Washing ton several months ago. Three members of the high court agreed with the finding* of the low»»r court while two disagreed. The Supreme Court'p decision brings the cane to an end. It is said that the case presented one,of the largest re views ever to be sent before the court. The trial lasted three weeks and brought many brilliant contests be tween suitors, witnesses and at torneys. Judge paniels held his own thfoug out the long trial and although bril liant lawyers counted what they hoped was 121 errors fn h's decisions dur ing the trial, the Supreme court said he was ripht and eminetnly fair In his decisions to both sides. 'i h( half million dollar estate will r.(>y he distributed under the law and r.o'. according to.the will which f.ave liin widow ull his estate. She will get one-half the personal property in fee and a life estate in one-third of hia real estate. This will amount to more than $260,000 in cash and bonds. The other half of the personal property will gJ to the sisters, nephews and nieces of Judge Brown. Moat of the people in Washington seem pleased that the bitter matter will not have to go through another hearing. 385 BAPTISTS AT TARBORO MEET Launch Drive for $1,500,000 For Baptist Educational Institutions Tuesday evening of this week, 385 Haptiat people of the Roanoke Asso ciation met for supper in the First Baptist church of Tarboro. The occasion was the ftrmal launch ing of the drive for a million and a half dollars for the Baptist educa tional institutions of the State. Bryce Little, of Wilson, is in charge of the organization, which under his able leadership is funcUoning very satisfactorily. The quota of the As sociation is $60,000.00. It is felt that the people will respond nqbly when properly informed. The local pastor of that denomina tion stated it was a remarkable meet ing, for in this day it is not an easy matter to assemble nearly four hun , dred people and especially when many ! of them have to travel long distances. R. N'. Simms, of Raleigh, addressed the delegates, and matters of or ganization were taken up. The matter is expected to be pre sented to the people and finished be fore the Christmas holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald Moved Here Wednesday tor of the Methodist church here, arrived Wednesday and met his con gregation for Jthe first time at the regular Wednesday prayer service. Mr. Fitxgerald is a young man and is a native of Lexnigton, N. C. He was educated at Elon College and Emory University, gaining high honors at each institution. He is married arid has one child, an eight-year-old daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Fitsgerald come U> Williamston from Durham, where he was pastor, of the Gregson Street M. E. church. Before going to Dur ham, he held pastorates at Oriental and Selma. OFFICERS FIRED UPON AS THEY SERVE PAPERS Mrs. B. S. Hathaway Re fuse Officers Admittance to Her Home POURS WHISKEY OUT Deputy Grimes Holds Mis Ground While Woman Points Pistol at His Head Federal and county officers were met with armed resistant- last Wed nesday when they went to the home of B. S. Hathaway neai Gold Point to execute a search warrant. Several shots were fired at U* officers but none hit Its mark. The officers went to Hathaway'* home, but found that he was not at home. They were told that he was »t a neighbor's house near by. J. R. Manning went for the man who told him that he would be right on over. After a considerable wait and Hatha way had not come, the officer went to the neighbor's home again, but to find that he had gone hi an opposite direction from his home. Counting him out, the officers read the warrant to Mrs. Hathaway and demnaded an entrance. ''After they tvere refused, the offlicers finally at tempted to gain an entrance and Mrs. Hatha waybegan shooting at them through the door. Nobody was struck. She pushed the pistol barrel through a small crack in the door, and S. H. Grime's whose head it was pointed at, held his own. After entering the house the officers found a ten gallon keg which had jtlst been empited of liquor. On the porch they found Ave new coco cola barrels and a bag of sugar. A lurge quantity of liquor was poured oiit and allow ed to drain through the floor of on of the roofas. The officers did not mcceed in examining the room as Mrs. Hathaway had lacked the door. Sufficient evidence had been gained, however, and the offices did not in sist upon the womans opening the locked door. Officer C. F. Alexander says he will report the matter to the Department of Juaticy for examination and expects the government will not only prose cute a warrant charging violation of the liquor law but one for resisting an officer while discharging his duty. Another likely charge will be that of assaulting officers with a deadly wea pon. , Mr. Alexander stated that a young man named Andrew* uppeared upon the scene about the time and advised Mrs. Hathaway to resist the officers, making seditious and riotous remarks. Baptists Make Special Sunday Announcements Sunday morning, Attorney K. C. Dunn is going to speak in the Meorial Baptist church at 11 o'clock. Those who have heard Mr. Dunn JUUUKJJOW fortunate WilUwaton is to have him. Those who have not heard him will be charmed with his gifts as » publkj speaker. Mr. Dunn will have a very important message and comes to deliver it at considerable personal sacriflce. In the afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, the pastor will speak in the Cedar Branch church in the interest of the Centen nial Fund. Sunday night there will be no serv ice in the church, because the Hon. Josephus Daniels, of Kaleigh, will de liver the last in a series of Sunday evening address at the school house at 7:30 o'clock. The best thing that can be said about Mr. Daniels is that he won and held the confidence of Woodrow Wilson. Our townspeople are proud of the fact that Elder Sylvester Hassell at one time had Mr. Daniels as a pupil. Those interested In the mid-week service will remember that the lesson for next Wednesday night at 7:30 o'- clock will be chapters !i and 10. We have been glad to have Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Poteat, of Wake Forest, visiting in our town for a few days this week. Ahoskie Now Served From Transmission Power Lines The Virginia Electric and Power company turned electric current into the towns of Ahoskie, Winston, Har rellsville and Cblerain last Sunday evening. ; During the exposition in Ahoskie week after next, the power company has agreed to light the streets as bright as noon day. Sunday Services at Christian Church Sunday services at the Christian church, Sunday school, 9:46 J. H. Hall will preach at 11 o'clock. There will be no evening service, and the congregation is asked to hear Mr. Joaephus Daniels at the school auditorium. -J v • :• HIGH SCHOOL ELEVEN ENDS GOOD SEASON Eureka College Defeated Here Tuesday in Close Game, 7-0 WIN 7 OF 10 GAMES Williamston Team Makes Impressive Record Although Opponents Were Generally Much Heaviest Williamston's school football team brought I 'tb' H 'felose a most sue cesful season last Tuesday when it defeated Eureka college at the fail grounds here 7 to It. And while it'hux been a successful season in number of .games won, it has added greatly to the realm of sports arid caused" an interest to develop that has hereto fore been of little consequence. The football squad has introduced the school to athletics in general. The success is not founded or based 'upon theory: the facts speak for themselves. Seven out of .ten name', ' t.ere'-won by the locals and in every ' case with probably one exception, they j have played larger and heavier teamsrf I Their victories hqve not been without features; for, where their opponents t scored 51 points during the season, | the locals accumulated l(»t». In -three , j, of the encounters Williamston was | bh».nked, -hot on the other widc thprfr ' ' were six teams turned bjuk scorer less. The season's record owes itself in j a large' part to thirteen sturdy boys ' | who have worked earnestly together I .throughout the season. Individual I i-ptars were not built, for Coach Hood ' i would have his team believe that vic tories are always in reach when its I ■ members work together and all pull | r ,fpr one common end. In reviewing the season, the work of the team's coach, Mr. It. E. Hood, is seen to be even more noticeable than that of the players themselves; for it was under his direction that eleven boys out of a possible thirteen won seven out of ten games. Ap parently ignorant of thg game at the beginning of the season, the thirteen boys were developed into commend able players, and with ten of the squad returning, next Reason can be relied upon to produce another splen did record. V- T B CHRSTMAS SEALS ON SALE Twenty Thousand Quota Assigned for Town . and Community The first active work on the side of twenty thousand Tuberculosis Christmas seals, the quota for the town, was started this week when a committee was appointed and ac tual sales started this morning. The sale ends the 25th of next month, and from now until Aheii the committee "Hppointed™will busy itself -eanvattstftK the residential and business sections of the town. The members of the committee who have undertaken this work without any compensation in view other than the knowledge of aiding a worthy cause, feel sure that quota will be well cared for by citizens in the com munity. Mrs. John F, Thigperi, chair man, will be assisted with the sale of the seals by Mrs. Wheeler Martin, Mrs. Henry Harrison, Mrs. R. A. Pope, Mrs. (It, W. Hardison, M«s. P. B. Cone, Mrs. C. 11. Claik, Mrs. C. A. Harrison, Mrs. A. T. Crawford, Mrs. Clayton Moore and members of the school faculty. The funds are used in part locally and by the N. C. Tubercular Associ ation. Sheriff and Couple of Boys Capture Still Sheriff A. L. ltoebuck, searching in the Brown .Springs section with two small boys, captured an eighty gallon copper atill last Wednesday. The Sheriff thought the still had been operated the night before, but the still's output was missing. No one was seen near the outfit. . There were eight barrels of beer, and that with a large vat with beer in it made about 800 gallons. There were shovels, buckets and hoes and other eqiupment used in running the plant. Mrs. W. A.'Person Dies In Goldsboro Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Don Burnett, of Jamesville, were called to Goldi boro Wednesday by the sudden death of Mrs. Burnett's sister, Mrs. W. A. Person at a hospital there. The funeral will be held in Mount Olive at the home of Mr. Byrd, father of the deceased. Interment will follow at the Mount Olive cemetery. Mrs. Person leaves a ftve-year-old child who has spent much of ita time in Jamepville with Mr. and Mrs. Bur nett. ' Public Will See New Ford Here Friday According to official announce ment from the Ford Motor com pany in Detroit, the new model car will be shown to the public in the L'nited States, Canada and England next Friday,' De cern be rW. , The display of the new car has been NO arranged that will be seen (he world over al most at the same time. Deliveries are not expected to be made to customers before or around the first of January. .Vr. Ford, along with his an nouncement, states that 1928 is expected* to be a good business year in all lines of induatry. MANY ATTEND UNION SERVICE Rev. Oscar Fitzgerald, New Minister Here Delivers Splendid Sermon | Thi- regular union Thanksgiving ! service of the town was held last night at the ltaptist church with a large number of people attending. | While it was the regular time for j the pastor of the Haptist church to | preacli the sermon, Mr. Dickey asked I Mr.. Fitzgerald,*.the newly appointed I Methodist minister here, to preach. Mr. Fitzgerald tt>ok for his text ; the ninth verse, third chapter, first I Cor. "Foi we are laborers together j with God: Ye are God's husbandry; | Ye are God's building." The speaker j stated that our cooperative relation ! ship and partnership with God place a- responsibility on every man to be active. Just as God furnishes the earth, the rain and the sunshine as well as the seed, man is charged with the duty of planting and cultivating before the harvest comes, and this makes man a partner in the produc tion. And man, in like manner, has to cooperate with God in carrying for ward His kingdom on earth. "Man received a great honor and a I high privilege when given the power 1 to become the son of God and a co worker and [Airtner with Him," Mr. Fitzgerald stated. "God does not share the divine blessings with idlers in the vineyard, but wants workers, willing to labor with Him. "The man who undertakes to work without God is only a slave and can j not. succeed." The preacher went on to say that 1 one of thi great blessings' 1 that can come from our work of co-laboring j wiht God is satisfaction and which may always be assured. RECORDER HAD SHORT SESSION Only Five , Cases Before Judge Bailey in County Court Tuesday With only live cases on the docket, the recorder's court here this week was of little interest. The first case was a charge against W. W. Griffin who had shut up sever al (logs that he found hunting on his la;id. W hen hunters camo foi the dogs, he gave them up. Knowing that the land was t posted ,the solicitor, Hugh i. llßrton, nol prossed the case. (iiff Cotton, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, had his case continued. , ' ' A continuance of one week was also given in the case against Maurice •Savage, who is charged with an as sault with a deadly weapon. ,/Robert Coffield, charged with aban donment, plead guilty and was sen tenced-to the Edgecombe county roads for ninety days and required to pay thii' costs of the case. The sentence was suspended' tar two years upon the good behavior of the defendant. Jack Harnes was found guilty of larceny and Judge iiailey sentenced him to the Edgecombe roads for six months. Karnes appealed to the su |>erior court and his bond was placed at S3OO. # - R. C. Dunn, of Enfield To Speak Here Sunday Attorney K. C. Dunn ,of Enfield, will speak in the Baptist church Sun day morning at ll o'clock. Mr. Dunn is a lawyer of high rank; is a Christian gentleman; and a plat form speaker of rare ability and charm. The local Buptkt people are for tunate, again, in being able to bring to Williamston another able speaker. The entire Baptist constituency is asked to come and hear him; and people in town and over the county will be welcome. Mrs. G. H. Harrison nad Miss Nan nie Murrill spent yesterday with rel atives in Richlands. Advertisers Will Fttu, _ umns a Latchkey to Over Homes of Martin County ESTABLISHED 1898 CHASE SPEAKS TO TO KIWANIS AND WOMAN'S CLUBS Meetings of Both Clubs Well Attended by Local ' Citizens • LAINS. PROPOSAL Virginia Electric & Power CD. Official Makes Favorable Impression On Hearers In a talk before the Kiuanis club here Wednesday, Mr. J. T. Chase, manager of the Carolina Division of the Virginia Electric anil Pi.wer Com pany asked'and urged the members of the club to turn their attention to the town's lighting and power sit uation, and give the question a fair and complete study. Mr. Chaso was the guest of the club, and he laid his company's proportion before its members in a clear form, leaving for them to decide for themselves what is best for the future of Williamson and the community in general. Mr. Chase stated that he would like very much to bring his company to Williamston if the citizens find that it would help the town and its people for him to do so. He stated that his company has made Williamston the fairest offer possible for its distribu- * ,tim>-~*y KUHW . That his eompaivy would-—— join in as a real citizen for the up- . building of the town and community, and at the same time will offer the citizens of the town light and power at a rate practically 50 per cent, lower than the present one, was assured. "Only forty-five years ago," Mr. Chase stated, "the first electric cur rent for turning the wheels of indus try and lighting towns was offered for sale, and since that time it has become a universal necessity as well 1 as one of our greatest conveniences." Power producers have done much in furthering the industrial ptpgress of the country, and Mr. Chase review ed the part played in the movement by his own company. He compared it with the other great power com panies, stating that Williamston, un% der the now-pending proposal, would be furnished cheaper power than it could buy from the Southern Power company or the Carolina Power com pany. The rates here would be lower than they are in New York, Haiti more or Philadelphia, and would be the same as those now enjoyed by Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke Rapids ' ■and other towns and cities now serv ed by his company. stated that no. company on the Atlantic Sea> board from Maine to Floritta is charge ing as low rates as his company is t charging. A general explanation of the con tact that will be made if the voters * approve the sale of the local plant December 20 was offered M the meet- v ing, and „questions relating theretft were answered. -*■ Following the Kiwanis luncheon, Mr, Chase, at the request of the president of the Woman's club, ap peared before that body at Three o'» clock and outlined his company's pro posal and offer for the town's dis tribution system. The thirty ladies present were very much interested in those remarks that stated light bills would be decreased and the town's opportunity to grow greatly increas ed. • According to reports made after the meetings, those attending were fav orably impressed with Mr. Chase's talks and his company's proposal. LABON LILLEY IS HURT IN FIGHT Trouble Started Five Years When Boy Was Accused Of Killing a Dog Lubon Lilley, white man living in (iriflins township, wan badly hurt in a flght with Dalmer Manning, 18-year old boy and neighbor of Ulley, last evening. Lilley was brought here and Dr. Warren dressed the two deep wounds on the man's head. While Lilley was bloody all over, Dr. War ren f found that the damage was not so- very great. Mr. Lilley claimed that the young boy waved him dowrr along the road and hit him as he was getting out of his car with a piece of iron. Accord ing to others, Lilley got out of hia car and ran the boy into the yard of a negro. While the boy ran around the house he picked up a piece of iron and ended the chase. It is said that the trouble began five years ago when Lilley accused the boy of killing a little dog, and when he geta a little too much liquor he renews the charge and threatens to whip the boy. Mr. T. R. Hodges, of Washington, was a business viaitor hare this morn ing. Mr. Lewis T. Holliday was here this morning. Mrs. Harriet Harris, of oßute 6, was a caller here today.
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