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Published Every Tuesday and Friday by The
ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
WILLIAMSTON, NORTH CAROLINA^
W. C. Manning Edito '
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
(Strictly Cash in Advance)
IN MARTIN COUNTY
One year
Six month* J —— 73
OUTSIDE MARTIN COUNTY
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Advertising Rate Card Furnished Upon Request
Entered at the post office in Williamlton, N. C.,
as second-class matter under the act of Congress
of March 3, 1879.
Address an communications to The Enterprise
and not to the individual members of the firm.
Tuesday, September 23, 1930.
Thoughtless Talk
Some county citizens made a mistake following
the recent murder of an 84-year-old ex-l*nion soldier
by a worthless negro for the pur|x>se of robbery when
a few good citizens thoughtlessly remarked, "he ought
to be lynched." The remarks were heard- by the
thoughtlei r."bbel who then took up the chorus and
re[*ated if among their fellows. The threats were so
pronounced that the officers effecting the arrest
thought it best not to confine the alleged murderer in
the county jail but confine him in Raleigh.
It is easy to say things "ought to Ik- done, but
when they are actually done then we see they should
not have been done. We can, of course, picture the
aged and helpless man shot dead, ritled of his money
and his body thrown into the river. That is murder.
But it does not disturb our j>eace of mind half so
much as would the thoughts of having swung a human
being, whether good or bad, up and taken his life. To
do so would make murderers out of ourselves. We
can never cure an evil deed by committing one our
selves. Men should be extremely cautious how they
talk about lynching. They will find it better to urge
men to keep the laws.
The Unemployment Situation
Of all the economic problems facing America to
day, the unemployment situation stands out as the
most serious one. It is far worse than low prices.
Prices will swing back, but employment will not; the
doors are closed and the jobs are gone forever.
The figures recenty given out by the census bureau
show that 234,854 people in New York are seeking
Work and can't find it. In Detroit there are 78,153
without work. Chicago has 154,852 jobless |*ople,
and Philadelphia has 73,275. With 541,134 people in
just four cities without work, offers a serious problem
for the coming winter. The figures not on'y mean that
there are a half million people without work in these
cities, but they also indicated that the unemployed
have families who are dependent upon them for their
daily bread. If these families are of an average size,
it means that more than tta and one half million peo
ple without any income tb face the coming winter in
Gorman's Sons Market Report
Prices on body tobaccos have improved during this week, and we look
for still further improvement on these tobaccos the coming week.
The sales are still showing a very large percentage of common lugs and
black tips, and these are holding down the general average.
The sales have been larger for the past few days. The market sold until
late in the afternoon Thursday. Gorman's is working harder this year than
ever to get you every dollar there is in your tobacco. And if you are not
selling with us, come and see our sales or talk to some one who does sell with
us, and you will bring us your next load. We are being told every day that
we are running the best sales on the market, and this is because we know to
bacco, have the experience, and have the confidence of the buyers and are not
afraid to back our judgment by buying in order to protect our customers and
get them the very top market price on every pound we sell.
Gorman's is the best lighted and best equipped warehouse in the State
and has the very best force that money can hire.
When you are in Greenville, make Gorman's Warehouse your home.
Bring the ladies and children with you, as we have an up-to-date rest room
and can make them comfortable while here.
* Gorman's Warehouse is out of the congested business district, and you
can park your car or truck and not have it shifted several times while yob tre
here. V
Bring your next load to Gorman's, and you will go home with the top
market price for every pile you sell, and you will know that everything pos
sible has been done for you.
GORMAN'S SONS
GREENVILLE, N. C.
Wednesday'—First Sale ' Thursday-—Second Sale Friday —Fir st Sale
our four largest cities, most of the number living in
bouses not their own. Many of them have neither
kindred or friend lo help them. Nearly all these peo
ple have never done anything in their lives except
walk by a time keeper at the factory gate each morn
ing and did such work as directed by a superintendent
through the day, returning to their families at night
with just enough to eat and wear and pay house rent
Saturday night. That is all they know and there is
no other place for them to go.
The Southern farmer may think bis path is gloomy,
but if he will think of the Northern laborer, he will
change fcs viewpoint and consider himself blessed.
The farmer and those depending upon the farming
industry, as is the case in most places in the South,
have one good chance and that is to live. Economy
will be necessary, no doubt, and our wants will not be
met in many cases, but then our lot is much bettet
than the future staring the city unemployed in the
face. The unemployed city factory hand has no such
opportunity. About the only thing the immediate fu
ture holds in store for him is death either by freezing
or starvation.
Political bombast, what has it done? This country
needs more serious thinking and honest work and les?
political bunk.
Using Cars for Too Many Things
We are trying (o use automobiles for too many
things these days. Only last week some Martin
County gentlemen were hauling a hog in the back seat
of their car and when the animal, dissatisfied with
the mode of travel, tried to dismount, the driver for
got h's business and ditched his car.
Week before last, a Massachusetts fisherman caught
a turtle and attempted to carry it home in his car.
The turtle bit the driver's leg and caused him to run
the machine into two other cars.
The auto is being used for transporting liquor, caus
ing many wrecks and the loss of scores of lives every
week. From hog-hauling to "petting," the auto is ap
parently taking a big part, and automobile driving is
too important' for many of the uses the car is put to.
Carteret County's Dilemma
Will Carteret county ever come out or will she final
ly be dissolved? From an audit of the county books,
it would seem to be an even bet either way.
The debts of that county have mounted to the
enormous sum of $3,602,500 with only $14,000,000
of property to pay. It means that for every thousand
dollars worth of property in that county, the public
debt on it is $250. and calls for a tax load of $1.50
per hundred dollars.
The worst part of it is that from all appearances at
least half a million dollars, if not a whole million, were
stolen by men in the road construction some where be
tween the engineering department and the auditing
department. No more glaring evidence of fraud has
been seen in any place, Judging from the published
figures.
While our county debt seems large, it is only about
one fourth as much as that of Cartaret's. But the
liest |>art of it is that there is no evidence of a single
wrong in operating this county.
Paying Off Old Debts
One of the things that is troubling the farmer so
much these days is the task of paying off debts made
in good times. Very few farmers or business men are
falling behind these days and, no doubt, they would
lie getting along exceptionally well were it not for
those old debts and interest accumulated when tobacco
was selling fo thirty cents and cotton for twenty.
One of the tragedies of life is that we have not learn
ed to know a good thing when we see it.
THE ENTERPRISE
I PUPIL COST IS 31
CENTS DAY IN N.C.
State Ranks Eighth in List
Of Southern States; Was
• 30 Cents 2 Years Ago
Raleigh, Sept. 18. —Thirty-one cents
a day for each pupil attending is the
average cost of operating the public
schools of North Carolina, according
to figures compiled by the United
States Office of Education for 1927-28
and released by the State Superintend
end of Public Instruction today.
Among the sixteen Southern States,
the statement issued further says,
North Carolina ranks eighth in daily
per pupil current expense. Florida,
Maryland, West Virginia, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, each
spends on an average more per pupil
for the current operation of their public
schools than is spent in North Carolina.
The average daily cost per pupil in the
United States as a whole is 51 cents.
I Two years ago the daily per pupil
cost of operating the schools ino North
Carolina was 30 cents, while the United
States average was 48 cents. The in
crease of one cent in North Carolina
lor the two years, education officials
'point out, has not been as much as the
average of three cents increase for the
nation, and consequently the daily ex
penditure in this State is now 20 cents
less than the national average whereas'
in 1925-26 the difference was 18 cents.'
Charles Goslin of Plafftown,
county, harvested 25 tons cA hay from '
13 acres and sold the hay /or S3O a
ton which he claims is better than to
bacco or cotton.
Dairymen in the Zebir.on community
ot Wake county are buying cows from
the drouth-stricken area of Virginia. I
Lepsedeza plowed under on the'
farm of B. A. Buckner, of Siler City,'
Chatham county, for two years increas
ed his average corn yield on a five
acre tract from 12 bushels to 35 bush-!
els an acre.
M. T. Clark, of Pittsboro, Route 2,
Chatham county, says he will make a
bale of cotton to the acre over his en
tire farm this year. He dusted the crop
with calcium arsenate.
Despite the dry weather in David
son county, common lespedeza is niak
a growth of from 14 to 20 inches.
Forty 4-H club /nembers of Iredell
county will show their 50 pure bred
Jersey cows and heifers at a club show
to be held at Statesvifle on October
4 The prize winners will represent
the county at the State fair.
NOTICE OP SALE
Under and by virtue of the power
and authority conferred in that certain
Deed of Trust executed by W. T.
Spruill to O. S. Anderson, Trustee, on
February V, 1926, being recorded in
Hook Q-2, page 501, Public Registry
of Martin County, N. C., default having
been made in the payment of the in
debtedness therein secured, and at the
request of the holder of the said note,
the undersigned Trustee will offer for
sale, at public auction, for cash, in
front of the courthouse door in Wil
lianiston, North Carolina, on Wednes
day, October 22, 1930. between the
hours of 12 M. and one o'clock P. M ,
the following described real estate:
That tract of land in Martin County,
North Carolina, containing H2 acres,
more or less, adjoining the lands of
B. A. Critcher and Dowell Slade.
I This the 19th day of September, 1930.
O. S. ANDERSON,
se-23-4t Trustee.
For Anderson-Crawford & Co.
W. A, Lucas, Attorney
For O. S. Anderson.
NOTICE OF SALB OF REAL
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed to the undersigned trus
tee by W. C. James and wife, Fannie
G. James, on the 26th day of Novem
ber, 1923, and of record in the public
registry for Martin County, in book
N-2, at page 419, said deed of trust
having been given for the purpose of
securing a note of even date and tenor
therewith, and default having been
made in the payment of the said note
and the stipulations contained in the
said deed of trust not having been com
plied with, and at the request of the
holder of the said note, the undersigned
trustee will, on Friday, the 17th day
ot October, 1930, at 12 o'clock m., in
front of the courthouse door in the
town of Williamston, N. C„ offer for
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ton. of tbla ptern, tells bow ah*
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bf UUnt Card ul.
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Thornton. "My bsck gave ms ft M
of troobto Z f*H like my back wu
apralasd. X ni wrjr narrow and
resUasa. X did not steep Mil at
night I was ao tired in my hut
It seeoaad to hurt aw when X tried
to turn orar. _
1 did not mat tnitUai to ut.
XtiitabftdriMpe.
"X thought X would try aom* Oar-
Ad. The first bottle seemed to sess
the peln sotns to my beck. I took
another bottle, end then X felt more
Wm —l*rf X aotloed fo** i Ml
more atrength and my work seemed
eealer. My back aMnt teal SO
awfully bad whan X bad lb atend,
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sale for cash to the highest bidder, the |
following described real estate, to wit:
Bounded on the'' north by Conoho I
Creek and the lands of Harry Waldo,
on the east by the lands of Gut Sals-1
bury, on the south by the lands of R.,
T. Taylor, and on the west by the
lands of the W. A. Flemming heirs, I
containing 149.5 acres, more or less, j
and being the land whereon W. C.
James and wife, Fannie G. James, now
reside, and being the same land de
scribed in deed of trust from W. C.
James and wife to the Tf. C. J. S. L.
Bank, dated March 28th, 1923, and of
record in the public registry of Martin
County, in book 0-2, at page 493.
Tis 17th day of Septemoei, f930.
W. C. MANNING, i
523 4tw Truste.c I
Williamston Barber's Association
The Barbers of Williamston have organized with all shops operating under the same rules and
with the same prices prevailing in every shop. The prices are as follows: Hair cut, cents; shaves,
20 cents; Ladies' neck clip, 10 cents; Ladies' shampoos, (short hair) 50 cents, (long hair) 75 cents.
All tonicsjnshampoos and massages for men will remain at the old price.
With these prices we will endeavor to give the public the best service possible and we would ap
preciate their cooperation in assisting us with their patronage so that we can pay our rents and over
head expenses.
To pay our bills we must have the cash. A credit business will close our doors. With a cash
business every one's credit is good.
All shops will close at 7 o'clock during the we.-k and at 11:00 o'clock on Saturday. We have
adopted these hours for closing time and the town clock will be the clock every One will abide by.
This rule will go into effect September 25th.
We highly appreciate the courtesies the people have shown us and we appreciate every job given
us whether large or small. It may seem to the public that our prices are too high but our expenses
are considerably larger than one imagines—we cart't work chaper and remain in business.
MIDWAY BARBER SHOP SERVICE BARBER SHOP
CITIZENS BARBER SHOP L. C. HOLLIDAY'S SHOP
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to not only meet but BEAT Mall Order
and other Special Brand tires
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NOTICE
Our Optometrist, Dr. 0. C. Hodgens, will be
in adjoining office to Dr. J. M. Kilpatrick, Rober
sonville, N. C., the Second Wednesday of Each
Month.
At the Clark Drug Store, Williamston, N. C..
the Fourth Wednesday of Each Month.
BELL JEWELRY COMPANY
WASHINGTON, N. C.
Tuesday, September 23,1930*
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