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Watch the Labat on Your Paper Aa It Carriaa the Data Whan Toor Sobacriptioo Kxpfcaa VOLUME XXXII—NUMBER 8 COURT HOUSE IS COMPARATIVELY QUIET THIS WEEK Civil Cases Seem Mild After Hectic Proceedings of Last Week JAIL ALMOST EMPTY Ofice Forcaa Get Reat Prom Noiae Caused By Large Number of Prisoner* Last Week With the .removal or release of 16 prisoners from the jai| here last week, quietness is again in order at the coun ty's shrine of justice. The trial of civil cases is being carried an, but the cases are attracting very little atten tion, and one -would think after wit nessing the procedure last week that there is no court at all this week. How ever, Judge Small is clearing the dock et of the civil cases, settling old dis putes and granting a divorce every now and then. Now that things are about back to normal in the jail, Sheriff Roebuck and hi* assistant! are taking life more eas ily, but they are not doing this until they had learned that it was a stren uous task to plan, cook, and feed 25 prisoners. The removal of several of the pris oners brings relief to the office force* in the courthouse also, for at certain times one would have thought the jail was a playhouse. Shooting dice and playing marbles proved very popular with some, while others shouted from morning until night to their relatives three stories below. The visitors were so frequent ttt one time during the week that the officers had to call a halt to visiting hours and order the grounds cleared. ANOTHER TOWN NEEDS PAVING ». Citizens of Brookfield, Mo., In About Same Fix as Local People According to a press dispatch, there is oue other town in the country that is experiencing trouble with muddy streets as well as Williamston. The citizens of Brookfield, Missouri, have asked for State help to drown the frog chorus that makes sleep almost impos sible there. The dispatch continue*, "A street that is to be paved, as soon as the weather permits, has become a frog pond, and the bull frogs from Yellow Creek Valley have started spring re hearsals. The mud is too deep for the sleepless residents to snare the frogs, and a Brook field ordinance prohibits the shooting of firearms within the city limits. The State will be asked to take up the job of driving off the bullfrogs or draining' the mud-filled street. Bound Over To Court On Seduction Charge Charged with seduction, Haywood Morris, colored, was bound over to the recorder's court in this county for trial by Justice of the Peace A. T, Crawford here yesterday. The bond was fixed at $250. According to the evidence offered by the girl, Katherine Williams, colored, aged 14, and her parents, Morris assaulted her yester day at the home in Poplar Point. The defendant denied the charge, stating that he had been friendly with the girl, but other than that he was not guilty. t ♦ Poultry CarTo Be Here The Week After Next According to a schedule in the of fice of the farm demonstration agent here, the next car of poultry to De shipped from this county will be load ed here and at Robersonville week after next, April 10 and 11. Another large shipment is the forecast of County Agent Brandon *ho states that the poultry growers art planning to dispose of the barnyard boarders. WATTS 11 THEATRE U > Wednesday March 27 BUCK JONBB in "THE BIG HOP" Comedy * "Curiosities" Thursday March 28 MARY PICKFORD in her sWeetast and best picture "MY BEST GIRL" M. O. M. NEWS Friday March 29 Ramon Navarro in "The Flying Fleer Better Than "Wings" M. 0. M. News Comedy Shows at 7:19 and 9 P. M. Daily MUSIC BY PHOTOTONE THE ENTERPRISE Investigating Alleged Suicide Of Negro Girl CIRCUMSTANCES VERY UNUSUAL Is Said To Have Killed Herself With Shot Gun Saturday FAMILY QUESTIONED Wedged Gun in Pile of Blankets and Pushed Trigger With Tobacco Stick, Parenta Say _ ♦ Peggy Cherry. 21 -year-old negress of the upper part of the county, com mitted suicide last Saturday about noon under circumstances reported as being very unusual by those investi gating the case. While there were r.o eye-witnesses to the act, four wit nesses, Mack Cherry and his wife, parents of the dead woman, a brother and a sister, stated it«was suicide, hut they could assign no cause for the rash act. Coroner S. R. Biggs Went to the home about 7 miles above Partnele near the Pitt County line, and he with a Bethel officer investigated the case. The girl was said to have wedged the stock of the gun in a pile of blankets in one corner of the room, and after placing the barrel of the weapon on a chair she seated herself on the arm of another chair and pushed the trigger with a tobacco stick, the entire load of shot entering the upper part of her ab domen. She died instantly, never as signing any cause to the act. questioned, the other mem bers of the family told similar stories, causing the coroner to announce prob able suicide. The father and mother with » (laughter, Anna, were in the kitchen and failed to hear the report of the gun. A brother, Oscar, aged 14, failed to hear the shot but heard his sister fall, afid .he called other members of the family. The case was reported and the coroner started an investigation immediately, and while a verdict of probable suicide was re turned, the case has not been dis missed at the present time. Insanity, to a certain extent, is said to' run in the family, but this was not stated as a cause for the girl's act that ended her life. When the offi cers reached the home the gun had been removed from the corner, re loaded and placed on the rack over the door. The girl was said to have been very quiet, remaining at home much of the time and without regular companions. TRANSPORT 731 CHILDREN DAILY County School Trucks Run An Average of 540 Miles Daily According to a recent issue of "School Facts" a bulletin published in the interest of education in this State, 731 schoolchildren were transport ed daily in this county to consolidated schools during the 1927-1928 term. This number consti tuted 21.2 of the attendance for all the schools. The number of miles traveled by all the busses doily to transport the 731 children was 640, and the trucks ran 142 days, making a total mileage covered .during the season of 76,680 miles. The number of trucks in operation this term is greater, and the number of pupils transported to the consoli dated schools has been materially in creased. \ Several counties transported more than 3,000 children daily, the. trucks being driven as many as 2,287 miles daily for 165 days. Conducting School for Leaders of Boy Scouts Conducted by Herbert Stuckey, Boys Scouts leader in this section, the school for training leaders in the organization was held here for the first time last night, many from this place and Washington attending. Several courses of instruction have been offered by Mr. Stuckey in Wash ington during the past several weeks, and local leaders have been going there for the special training. Peking Fills With Camels As Bandits Become Bolder Peking, Feb. 21.—Famine to the. north on Peking in the Sulyuan and Chahar districts and the utter devas tation of the entire Chinese-Mongoli an frontier region have mad? "pick ings" for bandits so meager that hordes of these predatory bands are now descending from the mountains onto the plain aroundgCYking, and the roads around Pekii9^no longer safe: " This eruption of banditry has re sulted in filling the city with camels. The caravan routes are now so unsafe that the camel owners will not risk their valuable beasts. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 26, 1929 FARMERS BEGIN WORK IN FIELDS Spring Plowing Order of Day As Weather Gets Better Hindered in their wet v.'eather during the vdfiy- pift of this month, farmers of this section prob ably turned more earth last week when the weather j cleared than in a similar length of time dufing the past several years. Only the, high and dry spots of earth had 'been turned under a, week ago, but a survey of the con ditions at the present time will show that there are very few spots not plowed. The planting of certain crc >s has al rtady been started, and with a con tinuation of the warm weather ex perienced during the past several days, it will he a matter of only a very fiw weeks before the fields will have lost their barren look and be covered with the green tops of Corn, cotton, and other crops grown in this section. The inspection of a few tobacco plan>fM.'ds indicates that there will be no shortage in the plants at trans planting .time this year,* tor apparent ly there is a good crop as well as a large one of the plants. GIRL KILLED IN AUTO WRECK • Miss Myrlte Jackson Dies From» Injuries Received When Car Turned Over _—«, Plymouth and community were saddened Sunday afternoon when the lifeless body of Miss Myrtle Jackson, victim of an automobile accident on the Plymouth-Roper road, was carried into the town. Miss Jackson was rid ing with a party of friends when the Ford sedan driven by Miss Mary Weedo, turned over, fracturing the young woman's skull which caused death to follow a short while later. The six young people were driving near Plymouth when the car was thrown off its course by a rail crossing, and making it impossible for the driver to handle the machine. Parties who saw the wreck, stated that the car turned over as many as four times, wrecking completely the machine. Miiis Jackson wan Hitting in the middle of the rear seat, and while her injuries proved fatal, the other five occupants, Miss Weed, Miss Elma Sat terthwaite and sister, Tom Copeland of Plymouth and James Campen, of Hertford, escaped with only minor injuries. . At the time of the wreck, the car was said to have been traveling not more than 35 miles an hour. Miss Jackson was the daughter of Mr .and Mrs.' R. C. Jackson, ,of the Hoke section in Washington county. Regular Meeting of Local Masons Tonight There will be a regular communica tion of Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, A. I'. & A. M., tonight at 7:45. The mas ter, N. C. Green, urges that all mem bers who can do so to attend. The officers are especially requested to be present and on time. There will be work in the second degree in addi tion to the regular business to be transacted. Visiting Masons are in vited. Schools To Be Closed Friday and Monday Classes in the local school will be suspended Thursday afternoon until ti»e following Tuesday morning, ac cording to an announcement made public this week by the principal. Usually one day constitutes the Easter holiday for the local school, but by giving an extra day, the week end will not cause a break in the commencement exercises in May, it was explained by the principal. Many of the teachers will spend the time at their respective homes. Washes Half Million Dishes Sipce August Pittsburgh.—William Nauer, burly and blond Lithuanian, has washed nearly 500,000 dishes here since Au gust. * *«i He is doing a job of scientific dish washing to discover bow soon soap and water and a dishcloth will eat or wear off the surface of trays made by the Westinghou.se Electric and Manu facturing Company from carbolic acid and an odorless formaldehyde. Engineers decided that hardest wear to which the trays could be exposed was dishwashing. A woman, the first dishwasher, quit because too much soap and water was marring her hands. Next came an Italian steel mill worker. The monot ony sent him back to the mills. Then came Nauer, who yet shows no sign of weakening. QUICKLY REPAIR STORM'S DAMAGE TO LIGHT SYSTEM > a Heavy Wind Saturday Does Some Damage To System Here SEVERAL WIRES FALL Over SO Street Lights Blown Out By 2,300 Volt Line Palling Across Street Lights Circuit The and rain storm here last SaturdaySfeafternoon wrecked the street-lighting System here badly, burning out more than SO of the lights and throwing to the ground several spans of wire. Sever of the wires carrying 2,300 volts were blown across the street-light circuits, turning ifito the lam|>s current in silfch amounts as to cause a blue light, finally burning the filaments. The special construc tion force, now rebuilding the distri bution system, assisted in repairing the damage and before dark that day a majority of the lights were replaced and burning. Special orders of lamps v ere brought front the division's headquarters in Roanoke Rapids, and a l&rge number were placed Saturday night, the remainder being used Sun day morning. The damage to the system was un officially estimated at about S2OO. Coming up in a very few minutes, tin storm caused very little damage to property here other than that to the electric lines. A strong wind, driv ing a beating rain, accompanied the storm. AGENTSCAPTURE STILL OPERATOR V George Rogers Bound Over To Court; Aged Negro Is Released The holding of a mid-night hearing by a United States commissioner here last Saturday presented scenes that were both pathetic and funny. Federal officers, King and Street, assisted by J. H. Roebuck, raided in Beaufort county earlier in the night and found a still there in full oper ation. The officers captured George E. Rogers, white, and Redding L. Leggett, colored. The officers with the two men reached here just in time to give the case a Saturday dating, but it was early Sunday morning when the evidence was completed. Rodgers was frank in telling the facts in the raid and claiming ownership in the still. He admitted his guilt, like a man. The old colored man's story, told with tears running down his cheeks, was pathetic. He stated he was not guilty, that he was only a visitor, going to the still in the hope of beting treated to a drink. Rodgers said the old man was telling the truth about the matter, and when the old Negro stated he had raised 16 children and this was the first 'rouble he had ever been in, he was promptly released. The old fellow, his seventies, smiled and was overrun with joy. Mr. Rodgers was ullowed bond for his appearance at the next term of federal court in Washington. The officers destroyed the still, a few hundred gallons of beer, nine gallons of whiskey and plant acces sories. /The n.ght before the officers form ed a plot to catch the still's operator, but they were not successful in their attempts. ARGUMENTS FOR ALL-TIME DOCTOR AS HEAD OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT Hv L. H. DAVIS J> " % 1. More money will he expended in the county at same cost to the tax payers. (a) $5,000 against $2,523.20, as during the three previous years. (b) ()r $5,000 against $2,500 plus $1,036.80 for those duties that the nurse would not assume; health officer's salary, etc. Total amount spent with nurse, $3,536; with the county paying $1,250 * plus $1,036.R0, or $2,286.80. 2. More, unified department with one directing and supervising agent. (a) There is no supervision at present. (b) There would be two fields of work with nurse: (1) Institutional practice, vital statistics, and general supervision by poorly paid doctor as at present. . (2) Vaccination campaigns, maternity wyk, school work, etc., by nurse. V (c) The same person who planned would the entire county and carry out his own plans. 3. Those fields would be reached and remedial work done where nurse%could only recommend to some doctor in the county. ■** l - (a) Nurse would make gookassistant to doctor. (b) Nurse could do no actual clinical work. (c) Extra expense to people of county for keeping nurse in the field and af the same time paying extra for remedial work or doctor ing. 4. Broader ground-work lor future. + (a) All counties about us doing good work under supervision of all „ time doctor. » - (b) No counties are giving up their once-adopted and established departments. (c) §ome of the richer counties are paying as much a* $12,000 for health work on the all-time doctor plan. Pre-School Clinics Are Being Held in County This Week PLAYMAKERS PLEASE CROWD — +4 — Large Audience Delighted With Presentation of 3 Original Plays Giving a performance here for the first time since their organization at the University of North Carolina more than 10 years ago, the Carolina Play makers made new friends and won the whole-hearted praise .large audi ence at the city hall last Saturday eve ning. While the people of the com munity, as North Carolinians, claim a part of the pride in the record estab lished by the playmakers, the presen tation of the three plays here brought to them a more vivid realization of the work that is being carried on at the University in the field of drama. With a well-arranged program, the Playmakers .were declared, real enter tainers, who, supplementary to their work in the classroom, portrayed their parts with much efficiency. The original-play presented three plays, two comedies by Paul Green and a tragedy by Loretta Bailey all being well received, the audience, however, centering its applause on the tiag'edy, "Job's Kinfolks," and the Comedy, "Quare Medicine." The first of the plays, Paul Green's comedy, "The Man Who Died at Twelve O'- clock," acquainted the spectators with the work that has been done and is now being carried on by the Play makers and prepared .Litem for the tragedy of some of the less fortunate ot the earth, and, lastly, for 30 min utes of real enjoyment and laughter in the comedy, "Quare Medicine,'' The entire program, characterizing life and conditions right here in our own State, and this particular section in "one instance, carried one along from the throes of laughter into a glooiu of grief, just to return the spectator again within a few moments to the amusing. While the members of the entire cast did an excellent work in the por trayal of their parTs, Loretta Bailey, in the role of "Kizzie" in the tragedy, and Hubert HetTner, as "Old Man Jcrnigan" in the last of the plays', stood out as -veterans of the stage in their rt spective parts. And though the next year's program is many months away, it is believed that the Playmakers, through their ap pearance here Saturday, established themselves so well in the hearts and minds of the people that theii rappear a nee ill Williamston next year and the next, and so oil, is practically assured. Young Son of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting Dies in Oak City - Ira, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Bunting, of Oak City, died at the home of his parents there last week, following an attack of pneu monia. Funeral services were held by Rev. K. P. West, pastor of the Ham ilton Baptist Church, and interment was made in the Bunting cemetery, near Robersonville. Conoho Chapter R. A. M., To Meet Thursday Night ® Conoho Chapter Number 12 will meet on Thursday evening ut 8 o'clock in the hall here. Much important business is to come before the chapter at that time, and' every member in urgently requested to be pre Bent. FIRST WASHELD HERE MONDAY Vaccine Failed to Arrive Another Clinic Will Be Held Here Thursday ABOUT 40 EXAMINED Clinic Is Being Held in Jamesville Today; To Be in Robersonville Tomorrow Although one of the State nurses was"unable to assist in the pre-school clinic held here yesterday, the exam ination of the children was carried on very satisfactorily, although the pro cess was slow. Dr. W. E. Warren, county health officer, assisted by Mrs. Cherry, State health riurse, and sev eral members of the Woman's Club examined the children here yesterday, hut no vaccinations were inad«t>.jis the vaccine failed to arrive. Failure of the second nurse.to at tend the clinic and the shortage in vaccine give cause to another clinic here next Thursday, Dr. William K. Warren stated this ntornifTg. Par ents who did not get their children to the clinic here ™ , sterda>"-are asked to bring them Thursday, from' 10 to 12 o'clock. Those who attended yester day and did not get the children vac cinated for smallpox ;trc "asked to. turn Thursday, - Spcakjng of the clinic-held yester day, D ( r. Warren stated this morning that the parents, both from the town and country, cooperated splendidly in the undertaking, that between 411 and 50 pre-school'children were examined here yeserday. The part-time health officer stated that many detects were found ami that the correction of these defects now would be of great value to the child whjui entering school next fall. This, %i addition to .tlx,'..child's health should" he seriously considered by the parents, and provisions for the correction, of the defects should be made at Unce. It was reported at t|te clinic that a few children were under weight. that they were'not given milk,; others had diseased tonsils and Other allied troubles. It is believed, how ever, that bad tonsils are retarding the littl#childrcn more than any one other things. I Today Dr. War mi and the iiufke ari examining the children in James ville and community. Tomorrow they will hold a clonic in Hobersunville, re turning here Thursday to eonudete the work started yesterday. At the clinic in Jumenville today, Dr. Warren Htated that approximately 15 children were examined, and that, as was the cane here, many defects were found. 1 R. B. ROBIiRSON DIES NEAR HERE Had Been 111 for Several Weeks; Funeral Held Sunday Afternoon 1 Hi ley p. Roberson died.at the home of his daughter, Mrs. S. L. Andrews, near here, last Friday night following an illness of severul weeks, pneu monia Anally developing and causing his death. Mr. Uoberson was a native of Wil liams township where he had lived all his life, 78 years. He first married Miss Emma Williams who died a number of years ago, leaving four children, Ransom Roberson, of Jumes ville, Lloyd Roberson, Mrs. George Williams and Mrs. S. L. Andrews, all of R. P. D. 4, Williamson. A second, marriage to Mrs. Barbara Jones, who survives. The funeral was.held at the An drews home Saturday afternoon by Elder W. B. Harrington and burial was at the James Williams gruveyard near the old home. *> Judge Small To Speak at Kiwanis Meet Tomorrow ♦ The regular meeting of the Kiwanis club will be held in the Woman's club hail tomorrow at 12.30, it was an nounced today. Judge -Walter Small, "who is now holding court here, will address the meeting, it was stated by Mr. C. A. Harrison, member in charge of the meeting tomorrow. The meeting announced for last Wednesday was called off at the last minute as a result of a misunder standing among the serving com mittee, it was stated. > Grady Ange Dies At Home Near Dardens *—— Grady Ange, the 20 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh C. Ange, of near Dardens, died at the home there early Sunday following a stroke of apoplexy suffered two weeks ago. He never recovered from the stroke, but gradually grew worse. The funeral was held at the resi dence yesterday by Rev. C. E. Lee. Interment was made in the Ange cem etery, near the home. Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to Over 1,600 Home* of Martin County ESTABLISHED 1898 MAN IS HERE TO CHECK CHANGES FIRE EQUIPMENT Will Recommend Second- Class Rating for The Town MEANS LARGE SAVING Authorities Must Approve Recom mendations Made by Fifld Representative ' The requirements necessary to effect - : a second-class fire insurance rating for the town having been met. the South- l> I eastern Underwriters, of Atlanta, Ga.. . bad. ~.a-.reiirc-seittuliv-e hurv - checking the changes and tabulating a I report. ,\T\. Allen, the representative, spent practically all of yesterday morn ing g"ing over the tire fighting ap paratus here and preparing his recom mendations to be forwarded to the in surance commission at Raleigh Otlce the recommendations are ap proved. alnl it is very likely that they will be. the various insurance com panies will their ageffts here the. new schedule of rates" and the recla.vialica'ijoii will lie iw "order -at that time. > \\ bile it is not definitely known jiVst what the savings in insurance premi ums will be as a result of the pro posed change from a third to a sec ond class rating, it is understood that the premiums-will be decreased .from 1 j to- 20 per cent. The new rating would have been for several weeks ago, but it was impossible to complete the night quarters for members of the fire com pany until recently. A telephotie"~aßlf e\tra large bells have been installed, and with the approval ot the change in rating it will be possible to turn in alarms by Jelephone direct to the fire station. The represeutati\c here yesterday staled that it would be about a week before the change could be approved by the proper authorities. According to tb.it information, it is expected that a drop in tire insurance premiums will lake place in a comparatively short time. C. T. MIZELLE DIES SUDDENLY Popular Citizen of Poplar Chapel Community 4 Buried Monday Charlie *T, Mizelle, 55-yearn-old citizen of the Poplar Chapel com munity died at his home there Sunday evening while sitting in his chair. Mrs. Mizelle noticed a peculiarity in her husband's appearance, but before she could reach him he fell from the chair dead. Heart failure wan thought to have been the cause of the sudden "death;" ———- Mr. Mizelle had enjoyed good health through the greater part of his life and his death came as u great sur prise and shuck to the family and friends. He was the son -of W. T. Mizelle who died only u few years ago. Jri early life he married a Miss Hardison who with six children survives. The deceased was a brother of,/the late W. H. Mizelle, publisher of the iJob ersonville Herald. The funeral WUH conducted yester i day afternoon by Revs. W. A. Davis and C. E. Iee, of Washington and burial was in the family plot near the I home. r" I • Daughter ol Pitt Register Ol Deeds Married Here * Apparently disliking the idea of being sold by her own father for #5, the price of a marriage license, Miss Louise Gaskins, attractive daughter of _ Register of Deeds Gaskins, of Pitt 1 county, with her finance, Mr. Bennie | Ridge, of High Point, game to MiWr : tin Sunday to purchase ! their marriage license and to gilt | married. Upon the arrival of ! bridal party's arrival here, it looked as Tf the couple would be foiled to purchase the license from the father after all, for Mr. J. Sam Getsinger, register of deeds for this county, was out of town for the afternoon. How ever, the party waited patiently for the register's return and after Secur ing t&e license about dark the couple was married by Rev. A. H. Marshall in the Episcopal church just before the evening service was scheduled to begin. The teremony was .witnessed by only a very-few close friends of the contracting parties. Mr. Ridge, formerly of High Point, is now with the Charles store.i in Kinston. Mrs. Ridge is a young wo man of much charm, and has many friends throughout Eastern Carolina. "King of Kings" Plays To Large Crowds Here The picture "King of Kings" played to a full house at the Watts theatre here last night, practically everyone seeing the picture declaring it to be the beßt they had seen. The picture will be shown here again tonight.
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