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VOLUME XXX—NUMBER 91
$2,734,000 WORTH
FARM PRODUCTS
SHIPPED HERE
Thought Shipments From
County This Year Are
Largest in History
390 CARS OF TOBACCO
Peanuts Second With 256 Cars; Part
Of Products Shipped by Boat;
More To Be Shipped
Farm products, valued at, two and
three-quarter million dollars, were
shipped from this market during the
past season. According to the var
ious records obtained from shippers
and transportation companies, there
were 266 car loads of peanuts, 390
car loads of tobacco and 4,000 bales
of cotton shipped lrom tKis market
from the early pari of September up
to and including yesterday.
The estimated value of the 768,000
bags ol peanuts *was placed at $384,-
000. Tobacco led the \ list with its
value estimated at $1,950,000. While
these two commodities represent the
shipments of the local market, the
4,000 bales of cotton represent several
market*. The value of the cotton was
/estimated to be $400,000, making a
grand total lor the three commodities
of $2,734,000.
, Hac.ng the total for the three com
modiues at one-half the total value
w for the entire county, a resulting
average income for the 26,000 indivi
duals—the population of the county—
would be around $220. This income
only receipts from cgt
ton, tobacco arm peanuts. To show
a complete report, corn, potatoes, meat
and other farm commodities should be
considered..
S It is thought that shipments of
farm commodities from the market
here were the greatest they have been
in the history of the county. For a
period of almost four months, dozens
of railroad cars have been pulled from
, the sidings loaded with peanuts
1 and tobacco. The Norfolk, Baltimore
and Carolina Boat Line has handled
boat load after boat load of cotton,
peanuts and tobacco^
And the shipping is not all com
pleted according to one of the local
peanuts buyers who stated yesterday
Ithat he thought there would be at
least twenty-five more cars of pea
nuts would be shipped from here be
fore the market closed. Tobacco ship
ments wily, continue during the next
few days, it was also stated.
WEED REPORT
FOR DECEMBER
19,912,916 Pounds Sold in
Bright Belt During Past
» Month
According to the North Carolina
tobacco sales report, 19,912,916 pounds
of tobacco were sold in the New Belt
during the month of December, bring
ing the total sales for the season in
the belt up to 241,811,826 pounds. The
average for the season was given at
$21.99. Local warehouses reported
529,308 pounds sold during the month
of December, and 7,367,654 pounds for
the season up to the time the hol
idays began. The figures for the sea
son are are shown in the report do
not inelude dealers' resales. The aver
age price paid on\ .e local market,
20.29, was figured with all scrap
> bought on the market added to the
number of pounds sold.
Favorable Trend in
Business Circles
New York, Jan. 16.—Industry dis
played continued signs of expansion
last week, while other lines of trade
were just beginning to recover from
the post-holiday lull. The general
trend of the country's commerce as a
whole was favorable.
STRANrv
THEATRE I J
WEDNESDAY
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, in
"The Action Craver"
Also
2 - REEL COMEDY
and
FREE TICKET
FOR SHOW FRIDAY
Theatre Well Heated
THE ENTERPRISE
Roanoke Fair To Begii -
September 25 This Year
The Roanoke Fair here this
year will be held September 25,
26, 27 and 28 according to ten
tative dates arranged at a meet
• ing of fair secretaries in Wil
son last Friday. The fair here
is the first on the list accord-"
ing to the dates announced at
the Wilson meeting.
Mr. J. L. Kodgerson left Sun
day for Kichmond where con
tracts for the midway attrac
tions will be drawn up and
signed. Before leaving, He stat
ed that he was going to, make
every effort possible to bring
the biggest and best attractions
on the road today.
TENTH SERIES
BUILDING AND
LOAN MATURES
$29,400 Paid Out By Local
Association Yesterday;
About Half Cash
NEW SERIES Itf MARCH
Association Has Paid Share Holders
Six Per Cent Besides Helping
To Build Many Homes
With the tenth series of the Mar
tin County Building and Loan Associ
ation stock maturing this week, share
holders subscribing when that 'series
opened, were paid $29,400 yesterday.
The tenth series was subscribed to en
tirely by local people, and represents
a saving of $29,400, accumulating
over a period of 332 weeks.
The cash paid out by the associa
tion to its shareholders amounted to
around $13,600, the remainder ol the
$29,400 was for the cancelling of
loans floated by the organisation.
The Martin County Building and
Ixian Association haß paid its share
holders six "per cent, 'on their sav
ings, and during its existence it has
financed many home-builders in the
construction of their homes. Anotner
series of the association will open in
March, it was announced by officers
yesterday.
NEW FREIGHT j
RATEFORSOUTH
How New Rates Will Com
pare With Old Ones Not
Yet Known
New freight rates for the South
have been ordered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, effective Jan
uary 16.
Both shippers and carriers declare
they are unable to say just how the
new rates will correspond in actual
cost to the old rates. They have di
vided the commodities into twelve
classflcations. The first class rate Is
based at 34 cents per 100 pounds, the
sixth class is 13 cents and the
twelfth class is 6 cents the hundred
pounds.
It will cost, according to this new
schedule of rates, sl.Ol to ship 100
pounds of first class freight 200 miles;
40 cents for the sixth class shipment,
and only 18 cents for the twelfth
class. These rates are for less than
car load shipments.
Shippers generally agree that there
will be a considerable saving in
freight charges in the South now that
the new rates are in effect.
Oakland Increases
Sales Organization
The Oakland Motor Car Company,
which advanced from the position of
ninth in point of sales volume during
1926 to fifth place in 1927, has ex
panded its already extensive sales or
ganization to handle an expected fur
ther sales increase during this year,
j it is announced by W. R. Tracy, vice
president in charge of sales,
i All of the district sales offices are
being expanded and moved to larger
quarter* and the number of represen
tatives traveling among the dealers
from the district offices has been in
creased. Many more dealers are be
ing added to the present total of more
than 4,300 which now is nearly five
times the aiie of the dealer organiza-
Uon in 1926.
Shortage in OBce Force This Week
% ' *
Editor W. C. Manning Is in Ral
eigh this week attending the State
meeting of the Farmers Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, of which he j*
vice president. Mr. W. H. Booker, head
of the composing room of The Enter
prise, is also in Raleigh where he is
A delegate from the local Masonic
lodge to the Grand Lodge meeting be
ing held there thia weak.
We are short another important
member of the force, '"Snowball" who
was sent home yesterday morning
when it that hia father
had the "«mallpox. j
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 17, 1928
FIRE LOSS HERE
DURING 1927 IS
NEARLY $15,000
Fire Company Answers 10
Alarms During Year,
Chief Reports
MAKES GOOD RECORD
Insurance Commissioner Says He Is
Much Pleased With Record of
Volunteer Company
Williamston's fire loss during the
year 1927 amounted to $14,100, it was
estimated in the report of Chief Henry
D. Harrrison, of the local volunteer
fire company, to Dan C. Honey, State
insurance Commissioner. The loss for
the year was practically negligible
with the exception of that incurred by
Murray-McCable Lumber Company
when its dry kilns were burned._
During the year, ten alarms werK
turned in and to each the volunteer
firemen responded hurriedly and faith
fully. The number included the false
alarm sounded in the early morning
of December 26. In 1926 there were
only six alarms, and the loss during
that year was considerably smaller
than it was last year. In his report,
Mr. Harrison stated that two of the
1927 fires were caused by oil from
oil stoves, another by a cigarette, a
third by sparks from smoke stacks,
and a fifth by ashes, and the others
by causes that were unexplainahle. In
the majority of cases, carelessness
was said to have been the indirect
cause of the fires.
Insurance Commissioner Boney, in
a letter to Chief Harrison, stated that
he was very much pleased with the
record made by the local volunteer
fire company during the past two
years.
The 1927 report showed that not a
single fire alarm was turned in from
January to' about the middle of Sep
tember.
A.J.DAVIS DIES
IN JAMESVILLE
Victim of Paralyse Fu
neral Services Held
Sunday
Augustus J. Davis died Saturday at
his home in Jamesville.
Mr. Davis was a native of the Poplar
Chapel neighborhood where he had
lived the greater part of his life. He
was, for many years, a fiisherman on
the Roanoke, and during that time
he caught millions of fish.
For the past number of years, he
was afflicted, being stricken years ago
with paralysis,
He was twic«Kmarried. By the first
marriage, he leaves five children,
John Davis, Norfolk; Wright Davis,
Mrs. Dudley, Mrs. Laura Tyndall, and
Mrs. Will Keel, all of Savanah, Ga.
Hy his second marriage, he leaves
three children, Carrie 8., Mary E.
and A. J. Davis, jr.
He was from one of the old fam
ilies of the community and leaves
many lelativei.
The funeral services were by War
ren A. Davis and D. W. Arnold, of
the Christian church, of which hao
been a member for more than fifty
years. Interment was made in the
Davis grave yard, near I'oplar Chapel
church, Sunday afternoon.
Special Program Federation
Meeting Next Friday Night
The Williamston Christian Federa
tion will meet Friday night at 7:30 in
the Baptist church. At this time, the
Rev. Stanley W, Rogers, pastor of
the Bethel Baptist church will speak.
There will also be special music by the
Poplar Chapel Quartette. These boys
are singing in the air and have made
quite a hit. t
The public is cordially invited to
attend and we urge all members, es
pecially those who have not been at
tending lately, to come. The church
should be crowded for this service.
Come and tell others to come.
Roger Critcher, Pres. '
East Carolina Exposition
In Goldsboro April 9th
Goldsboro, Jan. 16.—At the meet
ing of the steering committee of the
sixth Eastern Carolina Exposition and
Automobile show, to be held in Golds
boro the week of April 9, at the
Hotel Goldsboro, lak Thursday night,
the best program ever brought to the
people of Eastern Carolina was adopt
ed, and the secretary, Newell C.
Rartlett, was authorized to proceed to
carry it oat. •
To Present Play At
Jamesville Tonight
"Saved by the Woodmen" will be
staged by an Everett* cast in the
Jamesville school auditorium tonight.
TBI play, In four acts, is prompted by
Miss Rebecca Bonner and it has had
two successful showings in Everetts
•and Bear Grass.
TEACHERS AND
PARENTS MEET
Mrs. W. W. Martin To Ad
dress Gathering Here
Thursday
Mrs. W. W. Martin, a special work
er of the North Carolina College for
Women, will address a meeting of the
parents-teachers' association in the
school auditorium here next Thurs
day afternoon at 3:45 o'clock.
Mrs. Martin,is especially interested
and informed about the parents-teach
ers' organization in the entire State
and she is carrying on a very con
structive work at this time. The pres
ident of the local association, Mrs.
W. C. Liverman, is making an urgent
appeal to every citizen and school pa
tron to attend the meeting and hear
Mrs. Martin.
The meeting was postponed from
last week to next Thursday when Mrs.
K ,Martin will meet with the organiza
tion.
Mrs. Martin is spending the en
tire week in the county,"Visiting the
various parents-teachers' associations
and assisting them in their work. She
| w&s in Bear Grass last night and is at
the Farm Life school this afternoon,
i Tomorrow afternoon she will visit
the Hamilton organization and Wed
nesday night she goes to Jamesville,
tre she will address the associa
there. Thursday afternoon, she
will be at the meeting here and that
night she will meet with the associ
ation in ItoberSonville. Her last visit
in the county will be to the Oak City
school Friday night. From there she
goes to Raleigh.
CHURCH LETTER
PRAISES ELDER
Says Misunderstanding Is
Reason for Differences
In Church
Misunderstanding was given as the
cause of differences in the Primitive
Baptist church at Smithwick's Creek
in a letter to the Council of that
church from the church at Bethlehem,
Tyrrell county. Members of the
church at Buthlshem stated that they
felt it their duty to„ speak in behalf
of Klder W. B. Harrington, submitting
the following remarks in Christian
fellowship:
"Columbia, N. C.
''To the Council at Smithwick's Creek,
"Dear Urethern,
"We humbly beg to be allowed the
privilege of thus addressing you in
behalf of. our beloved pastor, Elder
Harrington. Brother Harrington has
served us as pastor six and one-half
years and during that time he hart
preached a strict Bible doctrine of
Salvation by Grace and not of works.
He has known nothing among us
save Jesus Christ and hiim crucified.
We both leve him and the doctrine he
preaches and feel it our duty to speak
a word in his behalf. We believe that
he is following in the footsteps of
Jesus, the meek and lowly Nazarene.
who hath said, 'Judge not that ye be
not judged. For with what judgment
ye judge ye shall be judged and with
what measure ye mete it shall be
measured to you again.' Did not our
Si Wor command us to love one an
otner?
"' The fruit of the spirit is love,
joy peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temper
ance, against such there is no law.
Do we love one another when wo are
condemning and judging our brother,
knowing there is one Judge who will
judge us all ? Did rffft the apostles
suffer criticism, Were they not
brought before councils and threaten
►ed ? Yes, even beaten. Yet God
strengthened them and preserved
their doctrine to this day. Therefore,
we beseech you as Gamaliel did the
council of old. 'Take heed to your
selves what you intend to do as touch
ing this our brother. Refrain from this
man and let him alone, for if his doc
trine be of man, it will come to
naught; but if it be of God, you can
not overthrow it.'
"We have been made to rejoice in
God our Baylor while sitting under
the sound of his voice and we. haVe
conversed with him and ever found
him sound in Bible doctrine and he
has never preached Armenian doctrine
or any other doctrine save the doc
trine of Salvation by Grace in our
hearing and we believe hi;i accusers
have misunderstood him and that God
will preserve him and bring all things
out right in the end.
"Therefore we submit these few re
marks in love and Christian fellow
ship for you and all trtie believers.
Trusting in the goodness of God to
bring peace among us all.
"Church at Bethlehem."
Sixty One Cases On the
Docket Edgecombe Court
Sixty-one cases are on the criminal
docket of the Edgecombe County
Superior court, scheduled to be held
in Tarboro next Monday. Five of the
cases involve murder.
COUNTY BOARD
EDUCATION WILL
MEETTOMORROW
Routine Matters To Be
Considered at Meeting
In Afternoon
ALSO NIGHT MEETING
Will Take Up Problem of Choosing
Location for Local School Build
ing at Night Session
In all probability, the selection of
a site for the proposed new school
building here will be made tomorrow
afternoon and evening when the Coun
ty Board of Education meets in its
regular session. The meeting has been
announced for 3 o'clock in the after
noon when regular routine business
will be handled. That evening, the
board is expected to consider the se
lection of a school site.
It is understood that written recom
mendat'ons will be placed before the
county board by the'local school com
mittee. If these recommendations are
direct, that is centered on one plan,
it is the opinion of many that the
school site will be selected at the
1 meeting tomorrow evening. If the
written opinions of the local board
members vary, it remains to be seen
just what action the county board will
take. The local committee will hold
a meeting tonight when it will pre
pare its recommendations as to the
selection of a site.
While it*is virtually understood
that the town will run its water and
sewer lines to any point within the
town to connect with the building, it
is expected that its willingness to do
so will be expressed in written form
and will be considered by the educa
tional board. The necessity, if any,
of erecting sidewalks will also be
cared for by the town, it is under
stood.l
MRS. MATILDA F.
BROWNING DIES
.
Was One of Oldest Citizens
of Jamesville Township;
73 Years Old
Mrs. Matilda F. Browning, 73, one
of the oldest citizens of Jamesville
township, died last Thursday from an
attack of pneumonia. The daughter of
Muck Ange, she was born in the
Jamesville neighborhood w-here she
lived all her life.
She married Luke R. Browning
who died 23 yeprs ago. From this
marriage twelve children were born,
seven of them are now livjng. They
are William K. Browning, Washing
ton; Mrs. Mary M. Evertts;
Mrs. Martha Smith, Aurora; Henry
E. Browning, of Leggetts. The three
youngest Children were triplets and all
are now living and married. They are
John R. Browning, New Bern; W. C.
Browning, Washington and Mrs. Allie
Norris, of Jamesville.
The deceased had been a member of
the Free Will Baptist Church. The
funeral service conducted by El
der W. B. Harrington and interment
was niade at the Ange burying ground
near the home.
Ehgineers Refuse Facts on
Surveying ol the Roanoke \
A few months ago, a meagre sum
of money was recommended for the
improvement of the mouth of Roa- j
noke river. .According to a Plymouth
correspondent a survey is being made
of the river's mouth, and it is reas- j
onable to believe that the meagre ap- I
propriation recommended will be wip- '
ed out if the engineers linger much
longer at the river's mobth.
Plymouth, Jan. 16.—Because en
gineers in charge of surveying the
mouth of Roanoke river near here, I
will not disclose any facts or will not'
divulge any/Tnfbrmation as. to their
work, President Zeb Vance Norman,
of the local chamber of commerce ap
pointed C. L. Groves, A. L. Alexander
and J. W. Norman, as a committee,
to interview the officials in charge oi'
the work and if they continue to re
fuse information, they are to corres
pond with Congressman Lindsay War
ren and Senator Simmons.
If the > river is dredged as the mea
gre information reveals, the commer
cialists wish to request the enlarge
ment of the channel by several yards.
/This is the reason for the interest
manifested.
Margolis Brothers Make
Changes in Their Store
*Vhe Messrs. Margolis Brothers are
making several changes in their store
this week preparatory to the enlarge -
ment of their ready-to-wear depart
ment. To make tKese changes, they
are making great reductions in many
lines of dry goods, and Frank, the
senior member of the firm, stated that
every yard of goods must be closed
out before he leaves for the market
next month.
SAYS TRAINS ARE
RUNNING AT LOSS
A. C. L. Train Master Gives
Some Facts About Re
moval of Trains -
Official figures given out by C. G.
Grigg, train master of the Norfolk
division of the Atlantic Coast Lint
railroad, here yesterday showed that
the revenue originating from the
operation of trains 56 and 57 between
Tarboro and Plymouth amounted to
only one-third the actual cost of main
taining the schedule. Mr. Grigg point
ed "out that the two trains had made
money during the twenty years the
schedule has been in force, but with
the development of the highway sys
tem, competition has grown to such
an extent that the train company is
now operating the two trains at a
great loss.
The train master stated that a bus
company could render a service sim
ilar to that tendered ,by the trains,
and at an expense far below that in
curred by operating the two trains.
STATE FIRE LOSS
MILLION UNDER
PREVIOUS YEAR'
But Policy Holders Paid
Premiums From 10 to
25 Per Cent Higher
2,333 FIRES IN STATE
Total Loss Was 15,674,787; Amount
Is $974,145 Less Than in 1926,
Commissioner's Figures Show
Ualeigh, Jan. 16,—North Carolina's
ft re loss was reduced nearly a mil
lion dollars last year over 1926, but
■State policy holders paid insurance
premiums from 10 to 25 per cent,
higher for protection during this ban
ner year.^
The rates were boosted by the
Southern Underwriters Association
and after hearings before Stacey W.
Wade, then Insurance Commissioner,
were placed in effect in the fall ot
1D26. The insurance companies
claimed that they were actually los
ing money in North Carolina, but
analysis of their claims showed that
[ they figured on a very high cost of
doing business.
The matter of the increase was
taken up by the insurance committee
of the last legislature, but nothing
was done toward reduction. The
loss ratio wa.s reduced by twenty
per cent, last year, but still Tar Heels
are paying the increased premiums
ten per cent, on pertain mercantile
rate and twenty-five per cent, on so
called special hazards. »
The question has arisen: Who
benefits by the saving? Does it go to
fatten earnings of the insurance
companies or will the purchasers of
insurance, a public necessity, be bene
fitted by lower rates?
In lowa in 1922 the Insurance
Commission issued orders reducing
fire insurance rates ten per cent. The
companies protested, carried their
case to the United Stated Supreme
Court, month it was decided that
the reduction was legal, and the in
surance companies will have to return 1
some seven or eight million dollars
collected in premiums after the order
was issued to policy-holders. The lowa
decision appears to open the way for
a reduction hi North Carolina. The
striking reduction in fire losses ap
pears to make such a redaction im
perative. .
—Loss from fires in North Carolina
last year was $974,145.00 less than in
1926 despite, material advances in
property hazard, official-figures an
nounced by Xjiate Insurance Com
' niissioner Dan E. Uoney show.
The of fires during 1927 was
2,383 and they entailed loss of
$5,674,787. In 1926 there were 2,436
fires with a total loss of $6,649,032,
accounting for a decrease in 1927 of
103 fires and loss of $974,145.
Salesmen Say Eastern
\ Carolina in Good Shape
Drummers traveling through this
part of the State declare the outlook
for 1928 to be the brightest in yearS.
Especially is this outlook bright in
Eastern Carolina, according to the
traveling men. They claim 'everybody
is making progress in this part of the.,
country. They go far enough in their
statements to say they believe diversi
fied crops la the source of prosperity.
To Start County School
Championship Series
■ 11 ■ ' t
The first game of the County Bas
ketball Championship series will be
played tomorrow night when Farm
Life and Williamaton meet on the lo
cal court. The game is scheduled to
begin at 7:30.
Dates and places of play for other
teams taking part in the series had
i ot been announced last night.
Next Friday night, the high school
boys will play Beulahville here.
Advertisers Will Find Our Col
umns a Latchkey to Over IJOO
jHomes oj Martin County
ESTABLISHED 1898
MANY SEEKING
PROTECTION
: FROM SMALLPOX
! .—v
Many People Throughout
County /Apply For
Vaccination
[FREE FOR CHILDREN
r
j Order Requiring All Children To Be
Vaccinated By Wednesday Issued
By School Authorities
-N r ...
While the smallpox epidemic has
not reached the stage where itTs con
sidered serious in this county, many
| people are making sure that they are
I safe from the disea>«^ / by being vac
!' ciliated. Old scars counted for little
[yesterday when it was learned that
[ many new cases of smallpox .had de
veloped, for person after person ap
i peared in doctors' offices here for an-
I other scar.
A close check of the health records
S in the schools of the county revealed
the fact that scores and scores of
children had never been vaccinated
against smallpox. In the local school
there were 140 such cases', and it is
reported that a la fee percentage of
the children in other schools have not
been vaccinated. An order, requir
ing all children in school to be vac
cinated by Wednesday morning, was
issued here yesterday by school au
thorities. Those toho fail to be vac
cinated, it was stated, wilt be turned
from tin? doors tomorrow.
Two years ago, the county board
Sf health a law requiring all
.school children to be vaccinated
against smallpox. At thartmie prac
tically all the children in the schools
were vaccinated, but it is understood
that the vaccination was not com
plete. The law also provided free vac
cination school children, and
according to school authorities, there
will be no charges now fur vaccinating
sehool children at this time.
Reports Coming from the several
towtis in the county sbfrw where many,
both school children and citizens, are
being vaccinated daily.
.EVERETTS AND
AULANDER TIE
Extra Five-Minute Period
Leaves Count Knotted
At 10-All
One of the most exciting basketball
games witnessed here this season wa>
played last Saturduy night when Au
lander and Everett* tied 10 ail. With
only one Held goal to its credit, AG
lander saved itself from defeat with
goals made from the free-throw line,
while Everetts tore away from de
fensive playing every now and then to
gain two p'oints from the fiefiT. Will'
the score tied at the end'of the game,
five more minutes of play were or
dered, but at the end of the additional
period, the score remained unaf
fected.
The game \vas witnessed by a large
crowd, and another match between
the two teams is expected to attract
an even greater number of fans.
DOUBLE HEADER
HERE THURSDAY
Jamesville ; Maysville and
Local Washington
Teams Tb Tie Up
The basketball season in the county
will beamt in full swing next Thurs
day night when jamesville meets
Maysville and the local town team
meets an all-star quint from Wash
ington on a local court.
The locals [legin. the 11)28 season
with an expressed aim to better its
recrod of 21 victories out of 23 games
made lust year.* For the past several
weeks they have been going through
tegular practice, preparing to open
the season in a mid-season fotm.
While there are several -members
from last year's team out again this
season, new material has been added
and a fast and steady team has been
developed. This year's squad includes
11. B. Anderson, Irving Margolis, B.
Hood, David Hix, Raymond Taylor,
Lyman Britt and Ira Harrison. Last
year, the locals turned down teams
from all over Eastern Carolina, and
out of twenty-three games played
they turned twenty-one of them into
victories.
Jamesville meets M»ysville at 7.30,
the Williamston-Washington game
following immediately.
County Teachers Meet „
Here Next Saturday
A meeting of the teachers of the
county here next Saturday was an
nounced this morning by the County
Suiterintendent. This is the first meet
ting of the teachers that has been
celled this year and is the fifth to b«
held during the 1927-"28 school
term.