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Have Your Bundle Ready When F** A* UK on Yoar F«bw iU It Carries the Data Wnai Your Bahar i IpUm Kxpires VOLUME XXXII—NUMBER 94 UNPAVED ROADS OF COUNTY ARE IN BAD SHAPE Recent Rains and Freezing Weather Make Some Impassable ROUTE 125 FARES BAD Rural Carries Are Having Hard Time Negotiating Their Routes, But Oat Around Somehow ' # Light but continuous rains in this section during the past several days hav rendered the county roads almost impassible in many places and have limited traffic to a minimum, according, to reports coming from practically every township in the county. The State route, No. 125, from here to Hamilton, is reported in terrible shape tnd traffic is indirectly threading its way in in effort to reach the several towns. The condition of the roads is said to be the worst in several months, highway officials in several sections of the first district stating that they are having much difficulty in keeping* the routes open. Route 12S continues a sore subject in this county, and appeals of those served by the route have only attracted more clay and more sand. Much traffic be tween here and Hamilton has been eare'd lor by rgads leading from and near Everett*, it is understod. Even with a break in the had weath er, the condition of the roads wilt hardly be bettered for several days to come. Rural mail schedules have been al most forsaken out of necessity, the car riers making their rounds, but how? Their ability to negotiate the ruts and slippery hills is indeed a mystery. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck looked as if he had lost his last friends yesterday morning when he received a call from Hamilton Township. With heavy shoes and adequate wraps, he started out with little tjftpe of reaching there and even less "rofnTrfettifn. Through traffic continues unhamp ered, but even on the jirincipal high ways in this section a marked decrease in travel is being noticed. VITAL STATISTICS IN CROSS ROADS —si—— 56 Birth and 22 Deaths Are Recorded During Past I Year ♦ Fifty-six births and 22 deaths were reported in Crosa Roads Township during the year 1929, according to vital statistics of the diatrict filed here thii week. During the previous year the registrar for the township reported 60 bfcths and 20 deaths. Seven of the births and four of the 22 deaths were reported in the town of Everetts. Thirty of the births were male, the number being about equal between the two races. The number of males was slightly greater than the reported fe males. u Five of the deaths were apparently attributable to old age, ttie victims varying from SO to 83 years of age. Taberculosis was given as a cause for one or two deaths, but outside the deaths among infants, pneumonia took a large toll. The illegitimate births number three and were confined to the colored. Doc tors Wfre summoned in 28 of the cases, midwivca aerving at the others. While it is time for all registrars in the several districts to file their re ports, only the statistics from .Cross Roads hare been received at this time. Program of Services at Presbyterian Church Sunday, Tuuuury 26, 19W. «Tk. Church With an Open Door- Trae Sayings: "If you moat be JMfcal, be radically right.'' Sunday school, 9:46 a. m. Depart iMntal claaaea. Warship service and aarmon, 11 a. m. lb all who are strangers in our town IT- 1 to all who hare no church .ad who would enjoy a helpful hour of worship each Sunday, our chuich invites you to worship with us. ft all who are weary and would Old nafcj to all who are not satisfied with present manner of life and weuld live Yhigher life, and to all who an willing to help us in herald ing the eoming of the Kin* and in ap plying Hia ideals, truths and princi plu (]k problems of the home, our Chuck life and our dty, this church rTfrnd- a cordial, heart-felt welcome. Regular Meeting of • ~ Teachers Tomorrow The regular monthly meeting of the Martin County teachers will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Robersonville High School building. While bad roads are interfering with traffic, school officials are expecting a goodly attendance upon the session. THE ENTERPRISE AUTHORITIES DISCOUNT THEORY OF SUICIDE IN IRVING GIBSON'S DEATH 200 CHILDREN ARE EXAMINED Pre-School Clinics to End With Examinations At Bear Grass Today Approximately 200 children have been examined in the pre-school clinics held throughout the county this week, according to a statement made today by County Health Officer William E. Warren. The examinations in the county will be completed at Bear Grass today, according to the schedule ar ranged several days ago. While many of the children examined were found to be in very good health, an astoundingly large number was found to be suffering bad teeth or dis eased tonsils. The underweight chil dren numbered many, and a "few cases calling for immediate attention were reported by Mrs. Cherry, State health nurse. By examining the children planning tt. enter the schools next year and finding existing defects, health officials ate hopeful that the needful cases will be cared for before the fall. The cor rection of such case* will be of great value in that the child will be in a posi tion to enter school without physical handicaps, it was stated. RECORDER HAD ONLY 4 CASES Is Smallest Docket Before Judge Bailey In Several Months • In session here last Tuesday, the.re corder's court had one of its smallest dockets in severaj. months, only four cases being called during the day.' The proceedings required only a short while, and the work was of very little im portance. The four cases called: Two nol prosses were returned in the cases, one in which W. T. Roberts was charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, the other charging E. Boston with dis posing of mortgaged property. Early May Boston was sentenced to three months in jail when the court found him guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon. The commissioners arc empowered to hire him out. Pleading guilty of being; drunk and disorderly, Ancc White was fined $lO and taxed with the costs. BLACKBIRDS TRAVEL FAR Bird Caught By Boy Near Here Was Banded in Harrisburg, Pa. » Trapped by C. Jones here severa 1 weeks ago, a black bird, carrying band around ita leg, waa released by H. B. Wood, in Harrisburg, Pa., Ma 14, 1929, according to a report from the Bureau of Biological Survey, Waahington, D. C. The number on the atrip attached to the bird's leg waa forwarded to the bureau at Waahington, the following reply being received here this week: "The oird carrying band No. A 812,- 644 was an adult female purple grackle banded at Harriaburg, Pa., by H. B. Wood, May 14, 1929. The Bureau aaya: "By meana of theae numbered metal banda important inveatigationa rela tive to the migrationa and other facta in the life hiatoriea of North Ameri can birds are being advanced. The banda are attached to the birds by volunteer cooperatora, both in the United States and Canada who serve without pay. Success in the bird banding work ia therefore dependent upon the reporta of peraona in botl countries on auch banded birds aa come to their attention. "Migratory waterfowl have been banded in large numbers at mom than 60 stations scattered over the con tinent and have been recovered aa far aouth aa Central Amrsica and the island of Trinidad. Small aong bird* have been banded in still greater numbers, and many interesting facts concerning their move men ta are being discovered." Roberson, Little A Co. - Dissolve Partnership ■ • The partnership of Roberson, Little & Co., prominent merchants, of Rob -ersonville, was dissolved this week, Messrs. J. H. Roberson, jr., and son, Vance L., purchasing the interest of Mr. J. W Little, according to a notice filed today effective as of January 21. The store-will be operated under the firm name of J. H. Roberson and Son, it is understood. Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina. Friday, January 24,1930 EXPECT TO MAKE ARREST IN CASE THIS MORNING » m Authorities Are Withhold ing Information for Developments AUTOPSY CONDUCTED ——• „ Course of Bullet Indicates That Dead Man Could Not Have Shot Self, Officials Assert Investigating thfc reported suicide of Irving Gibson, young white farm er on the Sherrod farm in Hamilton Township, last Tuesday morning, of ficers yesterday are believed to have secured information warranting an arrest in connect*)©. with the case, it was unofficially learned here last night. The facts in the case are be in& closely guarded by officers, but according to information gained here this morning an arrest is expected to follow within the next few hours. The names of the suspected parties were withheld. The suicide* theory advanced by Mabel Moore Gibson, widow of the dead man, was discounted following an autopsy of the body by Coroner S. R. Biggs and a local doctor in the Biggs morgue here last Tuesday. De scribing the course of the shot, Mr. Biggs stated that the bullet "entered the epigastric region, puncturing the lift lobe of the liver and abdominal aorta and finally lodging in the back bone." Commenting upon the bullet's course, Coroner Biggs gave as his opin ion that it was almost impossible for the man to have killed himself in the manner reported by Mrs. Gibson. Tuesday afternoon, Coroner Biggs, with Sheriff Roebuck, empanelled a jury and held an inquest. The verdict in the case is being withheld until ad ditional evidence is made available, it was learned last night. The jury, including Messrs. W. B. Bennett, W. S. Bunting, E. V. Smith, M. S. Hyman, N. F. Brown, and J, W. Hines, interviewed Mrs. Gibson and several others. Mrs. Gibson stat ed that while she was preparing break |f£st the husband went to the home of Mr. Pittman, superintendent of the farm upoh which they lived. Finish ing her work in she started fo the mail box and met her husband returning from the neighbor's home. She told him to go get his breakfast, and she went on to the mail box. Re turning to the house she stopped in a front room, and while there she heard a gun shot. Her husband began to groan and she went to the rear of the house and found him lying on the back porch and the pistol on a kitchen table. Continuing her statements, she said she went to the Pittman home and told them that her husband had shot him self. She with her two brothers, workers on the farm, went to the house and prepared to take him to a doctor in Oak City. The man died about (the time they reached there, it was stated. Much of the evidence given the jury and additional facts collected by Offi cers Biggs and Roebuck are being withheld at this time, pending a further investigation in the case. Usual Services at Bear Grass Sunday Night\ ■ 4 The usual Presbyterian services will be held in the achool house audi torium Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Were you present last Sunday night ? or did you miaa bearing the Big Fou Quartette of Williamaton sing. Theae services are enjoying an increaaing attendance. Good singing by and for all ages, story telling and • Gospel meaaages feature theae services. Are you miaaing them ? If so, dont do so any mors. Come and worahip with us Sunday night. Mr. S» F. Pope will lead the singing and also sing a solo for ua. Baptists Announce Program of Services The pastor of the church is preach ing on each Sunday evening a succts- j sion of sermons which is intended to cover the major events in the life of the Christ as He foea on His way to the crost. It is planned to close these studies about Esater, with a sermon on the Resurrection. The regular program of service will be earned through Sunday: Sunday school, morning preaching service and the B. Y. P. U. meetings in the evening. 11M people are invited to any nnd, to all of these service*. MANY ORDERS FOR FERTILIZER ARE RECEIVED • Local Plant Is Preparing j For Its Greatest Season This Spring C APACITY~INCREASED i • Shipments So Far This . Season Are T~ Three Times Greater Than for Any Previous Year » Greatly increasing the capacity of its output by the erection of a third unit, the Standard Fertilizer Com pany, located on Roanoke River here, is planning for one of its greatest sea sons this year. Shipments so far this season, according to official state ments, are three times greater than I they were fot,& corresponding period last year, pointing to a big business during the coming months. | With-' potato growers and other truckers planning their early crops at this time, shipments are increasing | daily from the local plant and the or jders continue to pour in. General Mati lager Crockett stated yesterday. From the coast to the far parts of western North Carolina, the famous "Gro ' More" brands will be used in growing 'all kinds of crops and truck this year, j To meet the demand of the farmers 'this season, the company has around 30,000 tons of fertilizer goods in its | huge plant and additional shipments are I continuously en route from the allied I plants at Baltimore. That all this fer tilizer material might be handled in a I very short time, the officials have {equipped the plant with the latest mod ern equipment. Electrical equipment, with one or two exceptions, handles the fertilizer from the time it is shipped until it is placed in the car for delivery to the farmer. Electrical hoists, trucks, conveyors, and mixers form the ment to make the plant one of the most modern in this entire section. With all this machinery in operation at one time, the plant will turn out approxi mately 25 solid bagged fer tilizer daily. Between 60 and 70 men, directed by skillful managers, handle the plant operations. Results obtained by the use of Stand aid "Gro-More" products were given as one of the main reasons for the in crease in the volume of sales. Testi monials, pointing out successful farm- Big with the "Gro-More" brands, have been received by the hundreds and personal calls to the plant are increas ing all the time. Located in one of the best agricul tural sections of the country, the Stand ard Fertilizer Company is fitting its fertilizer to the soil, adding thousands of satisfied customers to its already large list yearly. Established here in 1927, the com pany, by its expansion program, is giv "hig weight to its trade mark, "Gro- More." V Population Figures Are Steadily Cowing Washington, Jan. 22.—TheP*»la tion of the \jnited States at 10:45 a. m., today was estimated by the Cen sus Bureau at 121,951,856. In the course of the immigration committee's hearing today on the Johnson and Box bills to restrict Western 1 hemisphere immigration, Chairman Johnson found a need for exact figures on the country's pres ent population. He dispatched a mes sage to the Immigration Bureau and obtained this'information: * One birth every 18 seconds. One death every 23 seconds. One immigrant entering the coun try every 1 1-2 minutes. One immigrant leaving the country every five minutes. q The average increase in country's population as based on these figures, was placed it 1 every 88 seconds, with the excess of births over deaths esti mated at 900,000 annually, an the above total estimated. Postpone Entertainment At Everett s To Monday ♦ Tile baby show, yo-yo contest, and arf old-fashioned blue-back spelling bowk match, scheduled for tonight in the Everett* School auditorium, has been postponed,* the officials of the parent-teaeher association there stating that the condition of the roads was so bad they deemed it advisable to post pone the entertainment from tonight unit next Monday night. Bad Roads Delay School Busses In This County • School buaaea throughout this coun ty are running lata this week, one ar riving lwre this morning at 10:80 o'- I dock, more than two hour* behind its regular achedole. I Bad roada, a cauae for the late , schedule*, an reported in praeticall. every district in the county. Saturday To Be Observed As Bundle Day, Benefit of Poor Hearing on Chur Is Continued JUDGE SINCLAIR WILL HEAR CASE IN COURT HERE * Agreement Reached in Tar boro To Try Case at . March Term INJUNCTION IS ASKED Complainants Did Not Ask for Re straining Order at Hearing in Tarboro Wednesday The Smithwicks Creek Primitive Baptist Church controversy, starting buck in 1927, when "complaints and divisions of opinions developed and became more and more pronounced with respect to either the style or manner of preaching, the expressions uted, or the doctrines proclaimed by Kev. W. B. Harrington," will be car- I lied before the March term of the I Martin County Superior Court here, I according to an agreement reached by the litigants in Tarboro last 1 Wednesday. The case will follow the criminal docket and will very likely be called on Wednesday, March 19. Carrying the complaint in the case before Judge N. A. Sinclair, presiding official at the January term of Edge coinh? Superior Court in session at 'i aruoro, the plaintiffs asked for no retraining order, and the status of the controversy continues unchanged. The judge was busy with the proceedings the Edgecombe court and since the case will be called ill such a short while, the request for an order restrain ing the.,defendants in the use of the church house and property was not made, it is understood. The March term of the court here will he presided over by Judge Sin clair, according to the schedule. CHICKS WORRY POSTAL CLERKS 500 Biddies at Post Office Chirp All Day Long Yesterday The shrill chirps of 500 baby chicks without a home', caused local post office employees much concern and almost diove them to distraction yesterday. All the (ky long, and in unison, the chicks chirped and chirped, driving the office employees to prayer for relief. The" biddies were ordered from aj concern in Missouri for delivery the latter part of February. I'lie date of shipment was ni&ved up over a month, and when the premature chickens ar rived here yesterday morning the Would-be purchaser was not in a posi tion to handle them and refused the entire shipment. Telegrams Were ex changed. but that procedure brought the postal employees no relief. Any chirps heard from the workers at the office are traceable to the chicks. Welfare Officers Have Girl Sent to Samarcand Welfare work in this county reach ed a climax yesterday when a twelve year-old girl was ordered committed to the school of correction at Samar cand. No direct charges were brought against the child at a hearing before juvenile authorities here yesterday, but conditions warranted the inter vening action on the part of welfare officers. The father of the child is ssid to have deserted her mother, and the grandfather is dependent upon the county. With these facts and other allied conditions crflled to their at tention, officers investigated the case; * Program of Services at • Church of the Advent • Rev. A. H. Marshall, rector. Sunday school, 10 a. m.—Maurise S. Moore, superintendent. Morning service, 11 a. m. ♦ Program of Services At Christian Church Services at the Christian church will be held both morning and even ing Sunday, in the morning at 11 o'- clock and 7:80 p. m. Sunday school, 9:46 a. m. All visitors will be welcome at these services. "Situations Wanted" Ads Will Be Published Free ' 1 Realizing that the number of em * ployed workers unusually great at this time, this paper, in an effort to bring employee and employer to gether, is .offering space in its "want advertisement" column free of all cost. Anyone, white or col ored, desiring work of any form, are invited to enter their wants in the column. The tasks available might be of no great purport, but the requests for work will show the willingness to work of those who can find noth ing to do and warrant the help of others. * • GOOD PROGRAM , AT SCHOOL HERE Tom Thumb Wedding Will Be Presented in Audi torium Tonight . m. • According to reports, the entertain ment by the primary and grammar grade children this evening at eight o'clock in the new high school audi torium promises to be one of the best of the school year. Featuring a Tom Thumb wedding, the teachers and pu pils have been holding regular prac tices during the past week or more. Several other attractions will be in cluded in the program to add to the entertainment of the evening, it wan stated. The proceeds of the evening will be used to purchase equipment for the i public school music department. WILL INCREASE LEAF ACREAGE ■j- m -.. Observer Sees 20 Per Cent Increas in Acreage in South Georgia Quantity production of tobacco this year i 8 looming up in Georgia ac cording to advance reports coming from that section. A report in yester day V News find Observer reads: "I have just returned from a week's trip through south Georgia, where I rode for the entire six days over much of the new tobacco grow • ing territory and I am convinced that there will be i phenomenal in crease in the acreage to tobacco down there this season," said Purman Smith, sales manager for the Ameri can Limestone Company and a visitor at State College yesterday. "Some of ' the leading tobacco operators told ime that the increase would be at least 20 per cent and probably larger. The growers are convinced that they have *a good tobacco growing section. They say that they can grow the weed cheiper than it can be produced in North Carolina because living ex penses are less, wages are lower and they have a better tobacco soil. There is no doubt that south Georgia will greatly increase its tobacco acreage this season." Farmers Meet Again at Jamesville on Tuesday » A second meeting for the study of 1 tobacco plant bed preparation and the proper treatment of seed will, be held in the Jamesville school next Tuesday [evening at 7:30 o'clock, with Professor W. T. Overby, agricultural teacher there, leading in the discussion. Very few farmers attended the last Tuesday evening meeting, the unfavor able weather and the bad condition of roads probably limiting the attend ance. 4 Professor Overby i* very anxious to have a large number of farmers pres ent at the next meeting, as the time for preparing plant beds will soon be gone. Program oi Services At Methodist-Church Dwight A. Petty, Pastor . Sunday school at 9:46. Morning service at 11. Sermon by the pastor, "Come, Tarry, Go." Evening worship at 7:80. Third of the series of sermons on "Religion for Every- Day Life." Theme of Sun day's meseafe, "The Simplicity of a Good Life." Senior League, Monday evening at 7 o'clock. HI League, Wednesday at the same hour. . Prayer service, Wednesday at 7:80. Choir practice at 8:15, Wednieday. Advertisers Will Find Oar Col. tunas a Latchkey to Orsr 1,600 HOOMM of Martin County ESTABLISHED 189H NUMBER NEEDY CASES INCREASED BY BAD WEATHER Committee Finds Supplies Collected Last Month Are Inadequate MANY ASK FOR HELP m North Side of Town To Be Canvassed Tomorow; South Side Saturday Of Next Week ' • • Needy cases, resulting from the cvld weather of the past few days, Have become so numerous in this sec tion that the welfare committee of the local Woman s Club finds the sup ply of clothing collected on the 19th of last month inadequate to meet the immediate needs of the unfortunate ones. Calls for help have multiplied this week to such an extent that the committee held a special meeting yesterday afternoon to make ar rangements for a continuation of the welfare work, the members deciding that a bundle day would be neces sary at once if the cases are to be handled. Beginning tomorrow after noon, the Boy Scouts under the di rection of Scoutmaster Wheeler Mar tin, will canvass one-half the town, j calling on the remainder of the homes Saturday of next week. According present plans, the Scouts will call at all homes on the north side of Main Street, the side the school buildings are on, tomorrow aft ernoon. The south.side yvill be can vassed tlie following Saturday after noon. A detailed report of the welfare ac tivities carried on since the early part of December was read before the com mittee by the chairman, Mrs. W. C, Manning, sr., at the meeting yesterday afternoon. While-tfil report deals-with only a small district, it well indicates the need for some kind of relief work in this section. So., much has been said relative to cc nditions in Eastern Carolina that to day one things everybody has.plenty; tomorrow he'll think differently, After • studying the stores' oi cases reported litre, it is to be admitted, regardless of the cause for unfavorable situation, thjft there- are many cays deserving help and succor. The erring ways so common among we Easterners can not be corrected in one season, and when we sit back by the fire and listen to a radio talk coming from comfortable quarters and accept the views»as stated wt do so while hunger and coid pre dominates in many Quarters. Investigating a majority of the cases* reported here, the welfare workers have found. that the ones asking for help withhold, in many instances, their re quests as long as possible, and that when their appeals are made known the needy ones gladly accept whatever is offered them. Rather than take the conditions to their homes for consid eration around a fire, the members of the local committee are going to all parls of the district answering the calls and viewing the situation at first hand. They are not combatting an adverse financial situation; they are battling hunger and cold. People of the town are asked to have their bundles ready , tomorrow after neon and the following Saturday when the Scouts tnake their collection rounds. The welfare committee assures the donors that the articles contributed will be presented to worthy cases and that the needy ones will he overjoyed with I the gifts. ~— —— First Snow of Year • Fell Here Thursday The first snow of the year fell here yesterday morning, the flakes barely covering the ground, however. Auto mobile and house tops and other spots were covered by hardly more than half an inch. For a few minutes the flakes fell thick and fast, sending household ers scampering to their woodsheds to prepare for what looked to be a big snow. County Boy Among 26 Highest at University • In the group of 26 students making an average grade of 95 in their scolas tic work at the University of North Carolina during the fall quarter, this county was represented, V. A. Ward, jr., of Robersonville, meetnig all the requirements, it was stated in a re port, released by the institution's regis trar last Wednesday. Thi* * jfoung Warfs first year in the unirersifr.
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