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VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 89
FIRST SHIPMENT
OF FERTILIZERS
IS MADE MONDAY
Initial Shipment From Here
Goes to Columbia, Three
Car Loads
ORDERS POURING IN
Entire Plant Put in Operation Yes
terday For Fir«t Time; Will Soon
Be At Maximum Capacity
The entire plant of the Standard
Fertiliser company was put in oper
ation here yesterday, and the first
shipment was made when three rail
road cars were loaded and billed for
Columbia. When the plant closed for
the day, Factory Manager Bondurant
stated that be was well pleased with
the first day's output and that the
plant would reach its maximum ca
pacity output within a short time,
Judging from the day's operations.
Regular workmen were assigned
their ~jsts early yesterday morning
and as the day progressed, the fer
tiliser began to flow in an almost un
broken chain from the huge bins to
the railroad cars. From the elevator'
dump, the fertilizer was poured into
the electric mixer and turned from
there into the bagging machines.
Truckers removed the filled sacks to
the sewing platform where the bags
were given their long ears before the
finished product wan placed in the box
car*.
Orders are pouring into the factory
very rapidly and it will be only
a matter of a few days before the
plant will be turning out twenty-five
car» or more of the fertiliser a day,
according to Mr. C. G. Crockett, gen
eral manager, inquiries are coming in
from as far west as Mebane, and in
* quiries in the case of the Standard
Fertiliser Company are generally fol
lowed by orders.
During the next few days, the ma
jority of the shipments will be made
to truck growers in Tyrrell, Hyde and
Currituck coanties. Orders from thin
immediate section are accumulating
rapidly, but delivery will not be made
until the farmers start with their
crops.
FROZEN WATERS
DELAY FREIGHT
'Dorothy Leigh* Frozen
in Canal and Gets Here
Two Days Late
Freight shipments over boat lines
running out of Norfolk were delayed
aeveral days last week when ice vary
ing from three to eight inches in
thickness blocked the stream* and
•topped the boats. The Dorothy
L«igh, one of the boats running be
tween here and Norfolk, was made
fast in the canal a few miles out of
Norfolk and caused it to arrive here
two days behind its regular schedule.
Dynamite was used in clearing a
paaaage for ferry boats operating be
tween Mackeys and Edenton during
the cold spell last week.
TEACHERS AND
PARENTS MEET
First Meeting of New Year
To Be Held Thursday
Afternooii
The local parents-teachers associa-
Uon will hold its regular meeting next
Thursday, January 12, at 3:45 in the
school auditorium. All members are
urged to attend the meeting and non
members are invited to attend and
join.
This is the first meeting of the
New Year and as large attendance as
possible is especially urged by the
association's president, Mrs. W. C.
Liverman.
STRANH
THEATRE! J
WEDNESDAY
i
BUFFALO BILL, Jr.
in i
"RAWHIDE"
Also
2 - REEL COMEDY
and
FREE TICKET
FOR SHOW FRIDAY
Theatre Well Heated
THE ENTERPRISE
Power Company To Begin
Survey of Line Next Week
Line Will Carry 110,000 Volts and Will Run Across
Country Instead of Following Highways; Several
Weeks Required For Survey
The Virginia Electric and Power
Company will start its first work on
the construction of a power line from
Tarboro to this point next week when
a survey of hte^route will be made
and the right of ways are bought, it
was officially stated yesterday.
The power line to be constructed by
the company, will run across country,
following the highway in a very few
places, it is understood. *
CHEVROLET LED 1
AUTO WORLD IN!
1927 PRODUCTION 1 ,
.
Starts 1928 With Most Am-!
bitious Sales Plans In
Its History
1,001,834 UNITS MADE
Last Year Was Most Spectacular and
Most Successful in History
Of Business
Having achieved world leadership
in automobile manufacturing in 1927
with a yearly output neaily 2,000
units in excess of its program of a
million cars, the Chevrolet Motor
Company has embarked in 1928 upon
the most ambitious production and
sales plans in its entire sixteen years
of existence, according to W. X.
Knudsen, president and general man
ager. t
Production for the year just ended
totaled 1,001,834 units for a gain ol
more than 36 per cent, over the 732,-
147 cars and rtucks built in 1926 and
93 per cent, over the 1926 production
of 519,060 units.
The one millionth car built in 1927
rolled off the assembly lines at the
Flint, Michigan plant December 30,
with C. F. Barth, vice president in
charge of manufacturing at the wheel.
The history making model was a se
dan. It was prepared for immediate
shipment so that, with more than
32,000 other models built in
December, it might be available for
prompt delivery to new car purchas-
I er »>
Throughout 1927 factories were on
peak production schedules, while
month after month tentative schedules
had to be increased to meet the de
mand for the 1927 models.
The year as a result was the most
spectacular and most successful in
Chevrolet history.
Remarkable as were its 1927 achieve
ments, however, the outlook for 1928
looms even brighter, accordihg to Mr.
Kndusen, who stated that while no
deAnite production figure has been
set for 1928, this year's volume is ]
certain to top by a comfortable mar
gin the record high mark for 1927.
His prediction is based on country-1
wide prosperity which by every token j
should bring the automobile industry
the greatest year it has ever known,
Mr. Knudsen stated.
WEST TO GET
PEANUT SHOW,
Chicago or Kansas City!
Will Get Exposition
In 1928
Kmston, Jan. 9.—Newell Haiti.;; L
secretary of the Eastern Carolina
Chamber of Commerce, today wrote
the commercial organizations at
Chicago and Kansas City asking
"what else" they had to offer as in
ducements for sending the 1928
Virginia-Carolina peanut exposition
to one of those cities.
Ilt is practically certain the show
will be staged at one oi the other.
, Chicago has tendered tne use of
40,000 feet of floor space In the
Sherman Hotel. Kansas City has
offered its convention hall, in which
the Republican national meeting will
be -held in the summer.
The commercial body here will
retain control of the exposition, to
be incorporated immediately as the
"National Peanut Exposition," Bart
lett said. "While Chicago and Kan
sas City are both important process
ing centers, though the public may
not know that, the biggest producing
area in the country lies between Nor
folk and the Pamlico river, and we do
not intend to let the show get away
from us."
SHOE SHOP MOVES TO NEW
QUARTERS ON MAIN STREET
The Salisbury shoe shop was moved
from the Bowen buiding on Washing
ton street this morning to the build
ing next to the old post office.
A small store will be opened up in
the Bowen building, it is understood.
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 10, 1928
Several weeks will be required to
make the survey and purchase the
right of ways. It is the opinion ol
those connected with thu company
that work on the right of way and on
the line itself will be started soon
after the survey begins, and tkat the
construction will be carried on at a
rapid rate.
The line will carry 110,000 volts
and will be placed on creosoted poles.
NEW MODELS
AT AUTO SHOW
Thirty-Nine Makes Put On
i Display at New York
Show Saturday
Thirty-nine different makes of auto-1
mobiles were put on display at the
New York Automobile show last
Saturday, making one of the greatest
automobile exhibitions ever held.
Fifteen of the thirty-nine makes of
cars were exhibited for the first time.
With the exception of the Ford, every
make of car was on display. The list
of showings did not include the Ford,
and it is understood that arfto Mag
nate had his own display not only in
the showrooms of dealers' in New
York but had them in the showrooms
of dealers all over the country.
In reporting the show, the Auto
motive Daily News states, "It has
been many years since a show crowd
had so much new stuff to inspect as
the one that swarmed the Grand
Central Palace from 2 o'clock until the
closing hour. The new designs will
keep even an engineer busy for the
rest of the week and then he will only
have skimmed the surface.
"Some of the biggest sensations of
the year are to be found in the low- f
priced cars. All five of our big low
priced car makers—Ford, who is not
at the show; Chevrolet, Dodge, Du
rant and Willys—have come out with
announcements of cars and prices that
have rocked the world. Never before
have values been placed before the
public at prices that are quoted to- i
day."
It required ftfty-two pages of the I
magazine to give a short review of
the show and the cars on display, j
Many of the makes of cars on dis- |
play at the show are also on display |
throughout the country, and within a
very short thne all the new makes
of cars are expected to be seen on the
highways.
1 ONE WAREHOUSE
; REOPENS TODAY
i!
Brick Warehouse Receiving
_ What Little Tobacco
Is Left
While there is very little tobacco
V unsold in this section, the Brick ware
house reopened here today with the
expressed desire of offering warehouse
accomodations to those few remaining
growers who have not yet completed
r I the sale of their 1927 crop. Just how
j long the warehouse will remain open
I was not stated this morning.
| The other two local warehouses by
a mutual agreement made between
the warehousemen, will not be open
ed, the .managers stating that the a
mount of tobacco unmarketed is so
small that it would be useless for all
' three of the warehouses here to re
' open.
Messrs. Grimes an* Shelburne, pro
c prietors of the Brick warehouse, ad
" vise an early sale of the remaining
tobaccos.
1 Unofficial reports from markets all
1 over the belt indicated that very lit
" | tie of the golden weed was placed on
r " the warehouse floors for sale today,
' and that the season was practically
® closed when the markets shut down
* for the Christmas holidays.
|J '
Orthopaedic Clinic Is
li Postponed to Jan. 30
o
e A letter today from H. L. Stanton,
> supervisor of vocational rehabilitation
i- in the State, stated that the ortho
i- peadic clinic held each month in
y Washington has been postponed from
8 Thursday, January 12 to Monday,
January 30. No. reason was assigned
o tor the postponment of tne clinic to
y January 80.
Philatheast Will Serve
Turkey Dinner Thursday
r
The Philathea class of the local
d Baptist church is announcing a turkey
- dinner for next Thursday evening, to
I- which the public is cordially invited.
The dinner will be at the Woman's
n club and the ladies will start serving
at six o'clock.
I SEVERAL CASES
SMALLPOX ARE
REPORTED HERE
Disease Believed To Have
Been Brought From Pitt
By Colored Woman
NONE AMONG WHITES
Physicians Urge People To Take
Precautions Against Spreading
Of Disease
Several cases of smallpox have been
reported here, and according to infor
mation coming from several sources,
the town is in for a real epidemic ol
the disease. It is understood that Lula
Rogers, colored, visited Greenville
about a month ago and returned with
two of her relatives who had been in
the midst of the disease in Pitt coun
ty. Several members of her family had
the disease, and while it is not cer
tain, it is thought that it .spread from
that home to several others here.
Sunday night, the wife of a victim
] of smallpox attended church, and yes
■ terdav children ft"oni the home we-v
! seen playing on the streets.
No cases have j been reported in
white families h«;e, but physicians
are urging everyone to take every
possible precaution to prevent the
spreading of the disease.
Gases numbering above 60 have
been reported in Pitt eounty during
the past several weeks,- and with sub
jects "running loose" in the way they
have been here, this section will have
an even larger number of victims
than was reported in Pitt county.
Several cases have been reported in
various towns in the county.. Hamil
ton and community have three; Rob
ersonville has several, it is report
, ed.
*
NEW STAR FOUR
PRICES LOWER
Durant's New Car and Low
} Prices Climax Sensations
In Auto Circles
Coming as a sensational climax to'
the news of the offerings of Ford and]
General Motors are W. C. Durant's.
new Star Four models— springing »
big surprise on even the knowing ones
of the industry. This year W. C. l)u
--i.rant celebrates his Silver Anniversary
I —twenty-flve years of service in the
. automobile industry and it was gen
! erally conceded that the man who
created Buick and Chevrolet, who
j formed General Motors and who fiy
j many years was the president would
commemorate this in a way which
would be a fitting climax to his many
years of leadership in the field. Amid
the din of talk and publicity about
Ford and Sloan, W. C. Durant, as is
i characteristic of the man, has been
1 saying little and doing much. Now he
announces a lino of many sensational
features, exactly matching Ford's
prices.
Shipments of the car will o ar
rive here and at EveretJiNqext week,
representatives of the Barn lull Motor
Company here and the Champion
( Auto Company at Everetts stated to
day.
( The new cars are on display at the
, New York Automobile show this
, week for the first showing. Models J
| will be shipped to the dealers all over
f the country this week and next, mak
! inthe distribution of the cars com
plete in * very short time.
'J. W. EZZELL DIES
; IN JAMESVILLE
. Had Suffered From Brights
Disease for More Than
A Year
f John W. Ezzell died of brights di
sease at hia home, in Jameaville last
' Friday. Mr. Ezzell had Buffered from
', the disease more than a year, but was
n . able to be up and do some work un
'• ■ til the day before tiia death.
Y j The deceaaed was born in Memphis,
Tennessee thirty-seven years ago. He
, moved to jameiville several years ago
I where he married. He handled the
| business of the Standard Oil company
9' during his stay there and operated- a
! filling station in connection with the
, business.
n ' His widow with two children sur-
H vive. Interment was made in the
n Gardner grave yard Saturday after
n noon, Professor Jones and Rev. A;
r Corey conducting the services,
d
0 /. R. Manning Captures
80-Gallon Still Saturday
J. R. Manning captured a new 80-
r gallon still on the premises of Robert
Boston in the Free Union section last
1 Saturday morning. The officer went to
p the Boston home to serve a claim and
o delivery paper and while there he
I. saw a soldering iron and tools on the
s porch and scraps of copper near by,
? He had only searched a few minutes
before he found the still.
Committee To.Hold Public
Hearing About School Site
Local School Committee Chairman Calls Meet Friday
Afternoon at 2:00 O'clock in School Auditorium;
Several Petitions Being Circulated
The question of selecting a school ,
site will again come up for discus
sion and probable settlement next Fri
day afternoon when the district school
committee holds a publk meeting in i
the school auditorium 'at 2 o'clock. !
The meeting was called by Mr. £. D. I
Carstarphen, chairman of the board, ;
yesterday and the people interested |
in the location of the proposed new
build ng are urged to attend and take
part in the discussion.
Several petitions were circulated
around the town and commun&ryes
terday and today favoring thejßhodes
OAK CITY SCHOOL
AND TOWN NEWS
—; —- ' i
Mid-Term Exatns Ended
Friday; Fewer Failures
Than Last Year
Oak City, Jan. 9.—(Special to the
Enterprise)— The local school re
opened .Monday, January 2 with a
large attendance in spite of bad roads I
and zero weather. The cooperation of |
Oak City patrons during the past ,
several months has malm; possible the
elimination of all compulsory attend
ance reports. - — t -
According to the present schedule, j
the school will close April 25. This t
\+ill be the earliest commencement
Oak City school has ever had and will
give the farmers their boys aUout two
weeks earlier than than last year.
; Mid-term examinations closed Fri- |
day. The records show a smaller per '
cent, of failures than did last year.-; I
Mrs. W. W. Martin, of North Caro- |
lina College for Women, is expected
to be present at the next parents- i
teachers' met ting on Friday evening, I
January 20. She wijl speak in the in
terestof- the association. A general in- .
vitation is extended the public. i
■ Seven students made the honor
I.roll in the high school department
last month as follows:
Ninth grajltfr-Gladys Hyman, 150
points; Velma Mines, *2OO points;
Mary Kathlyn Ainsley, 225 points.
Tenth grade—-Mallie Tyson, 185
points; Naomi
Eleventh grade -Nat Johnson, 135
points, Joe Hardison, 135 points.
The object of this honor is t(f keep
constantly "before the pupils things
worth while. Ty makfc the honor roll,
a score of 125 points is necessary. The
score is made at the end of each
semester, and read before the school
and published ,in the county paper.
Seventy-five per cent, of the pupils
made the honor roll in the library
which moans 1800 minutes or 30 hours
of rending good literature.
A new set of books is expected for
the library within the next few days
and the pupils, having read all the
old ones, are anxiously awaiting the
arrival of the new books.
Town News
Miss Emma Daniels spent th(spast
week with relatives in Williamston
and Plymouth.
Miss Margaret Mines is visiting rel
atives near Scotland Neck.
| Mr. M. M. Ainsley spent the holi
days in Rocky Mount and Creswell.
Mr. W. E. Tyson and family spent
their vacation at his old home in
Greenville. , ,
Miss Sara Long Johnson is home
recovering from a nervous attack at
East Carolina Teachers College last
fall.
Misses Mildred and Pauline Daven
port returned to E. C. T. C. last Wed
nesday where they will continue the>r
studies.
NEW FORD CAR
i PLEASES MANY
t. site, the Goddard- or the Orif- j
fin property for the ntVv. building. The '
exact number signing the
petition is not known, but it is esti
mated that three hundred people
have placed (heir names on the pages
of the petition, indicating their choice
of a site for the new building.
Final settlement of the matter is
not expected to result at th£ meeting
Friday afternoon, but it is believed
thrfl the outcome of the meeting jvill
have weight when the county board
assembles here tomorrow week in one
of its regular meetings.
CIVIL SERVICE TO
GIVE NEW EXAMS
FOR EXECUTIVES
Number Positions Open for
Prohibition Administra
tors and Deputies '
GOOD SALARIES PAID
, Entrance Salaries Range From $3,300
, to $4,800 a Year; Experience
Not Required
| Washington,- -D. G., —Jan. t>.—The
j Civil Service Commission has iVffn
-1 nounced the examinations for assist
ant prohibition administrator for en
forcement work and deputy iroliibi
tiyn administrator, for those iVuo nave
bona fide resident, domicile, and po.st-
I olllce address within the State ol
j North Carolina. .
The Commission says that the re
I suits of the last examinations for the
. higher administrative posts under the
' Bureau of Prohibition, although hot
1 finally determined, indicate that a
, sufficient number of eligibles n.ay not
be secured in a number of sections of
the country.
The entrance salaries are from
s:s,:ioo to $4,800 a year for assistant
administrators and from $.'1,000 to
$4,C00 a year for depdty" SdfiVinistra
! tors.
j Applicants will not be required to
report at any place for a written I'X
amination but will be rated on their
training, experience, and fitness. Ex
perience in prohibition enforcement is
not required; any experience which
.in the judgment of the Commission,
qualifies the applicant for the duties
of the position is acceptable. The ex
perience requirements of the original
examinations have been materially
changed for those new examinations.
Personal investigations of applicants,
which may include oral interviews,
form a part of the examinations.
Fingerprints will be made to check
the accuracy of the applicant's state
ments as >to arrest, indictment, or
conviction for crime or misdemeanor.
Full information may be obtained
'from the United Slates Civil Service
Commission, Waslwngton, 1). C., or
the secretary of tne local board of
civil service exa'miners at the post
office in any city in North Carolina.
Formal applications must reach the
Commission at Washington ■by Jan
uary 31.
OFFERS PRIZES
FOR BEST ESSAYS
Local Bank To Give $25 in
| - Cash Prizes to Martin
School Children
* S %
The Farmers an| Merchants bank
is offering $25 in cash prizes to the
school boys and girls of Martin county
for the best compositions on the gub
) ject, "Fundamental Principles of
I Banking." The bank's offer was made
*
Advertisers Will Find Our Col
umns a Latchkey to Over 1,600
Homes of Martin County
ESTABLISHED 1893
FIRE
ORGANIZATION
IN MEETING HERE
Farmers Mutual Associa
tion Had Very Good
Year in 1927
OPERATING COST LO^V
j Organisation Has Over $2,000,000 In
surance in Force and Did Busi
iness Last Year for $279
A million dollar busiruss conducted
for an entire year at a cost of $27!)
was the outstanding feature of the
report read to members of the Farm
ers Mutual Eire Insurance a,ssocia
tion at their regular peeling in the.
co'urthoijse here last Saturday. The
meeting owas well attended, a large
number of the 680 members being
present. A
According to the report, the as
sociation has $2,t.'i(),5-10 of insurance
in force at the present time with the
average policy ranging around # 1
,66.'i. While the 680 members are in
cluded in the Martin County Branch
of the association, there are nine-'
teen other branches, making a total
of over 40 million Hollars of.insurance
in force. •
The cost of operating the Martin
County branch, $279 which is con
sidered exceedingly low, included sal
aries, printing, postage and all other
items made necessary through the
operation of the branch.
W. C. Manning was re-elected
president of the branch and James 1..
Coltrain was "again''made - its secre
tary treasurer. County trustees for the
branch include" Sylvester Peel, Henry .
C. Green and Sam T. Everett. .
The following township trustees
were elected: Jamesville, J. F.
son, John L. Bailey and K. G. Sexton;
Williams, W W. Griffin, li. L. Gardner,
Joshua L. Coltrnin; Griflins, lien Me.
Manning, I'. Peel, Henry lioberson;
Bear Grass, J. S. Griffin, A. W.
Bailey, Calvin Ayers, L. B. Harrison,
Henry Rogers, W. S. Peel; Cru-.-
Koads, J. H. I). Peel, Henry I). Peel
J. 11. Ausban; Kobersonville, 11. R.
Jenkins, Aaron Smith, T. A. Bunting,
Poplar Point, Joseph R. Harrison, li.
| L. Taylor,, Ix-Hoy Taylor; Hamilton,
W. S. Rhodes, T, B Slade, jr., Ed
j Purvis; Goose Nest, W. J.
| W. R. Everett and N. F. Brown.
FEWER AUTO
LICENSES SOLD
Total of 4,220 Sold Here Up
To Monday; 112 Behind
Sale in July
The 1928 automobile license sale
lagged 112 in number behind the sale
for it- similar period last June and July
reports showed at the local, bureau
last Saturday. The sale that day
brought the total number of tags
sold this year up to 4220.
The State automobile- inspector
Mr. Mackenzie, wa.v4Jere yesterday
and he st&tes that ne is finding very
few cars without the new license. He
will be in this section, however a fevy
more days to make a final check on
all cars. Instructions were given direct
to Chief W. It. Daniel.here yesterday
to assist in arresting all violators of
the automobile law, and with similar
, orders being issued all over the
State, very few cars are expected to
j be seen running with licenses. ,
Officials at the local bureau stated
j yesterday-that while the 1928 sale'
j lagged behind that of last June and
July at' the present time, they were
expecting the total sales this year to
go over the 5000 mark reached last
year.
Sales at the bureau during the past
few days have been comparatively
few in number.
The bureau will remain-so pen during
the remainder of this month.
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