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I mm I Latchkey to Ow Sixteen It R«M Item County Home* VOLUME XXXIII—NUMBER 104 MARTIN COUNTY COUNCIL HOLDS MEET THURSDAY • Curb Market Plans Advanc ed at Meeting Held In Agent's Office Here The county council of home dem onstration clubs, composed of the of ficers of the chhs of Martin County, had an enthusiastic meeting yesterday afternoon in the office of the home demonstration agent, with Mrs. Julian Mixelle presiding. Reports of work for the quarter were given by the president of clabs. Plans for the district federation meet ing, which ia to be held National Mu sk Week, in Greenville, were discussed by council members and it was learned that Martin is to put on a ten minute musical or recreational program. Miss Margaret B. Evereett is chairman of this program. Miss Lora E. Sleeper, home agent, suggested that a tour to some adjoin ing county which has made outstand ing yard or home improvement, would be possible during Better Homes Week, coming the last week in April. Further plan* for the opening of i home demonstration curb market in Martin County were made. Mrs. T. >l. Woodburn, of Parmele, was ap pointed to represent the women in ad vertising the curb market through the civic organizations. It wss decided to appoint three women to serve as a price-fixing committee, two to come from the county and one from town Mrs. Lisxie Smithwick. of Jamesvilie, and Mrs. C. L. Daniel, from ( Holly Springs, were appointed to act for the county. Miss Pauline Smith, of State Col lege, gave additional information rela tive to the development of curb mar kets, stressing standardization, grad ing, sanitation, and attractiveness. HARDSURFACING -HAMILTON ROAD Laborers from Miles Away Come Here And Apply For Work on Road The first batch of concrete was poured on the five and one-half mile link to be paved on the road leading from this point to Hamilton yesterday afternoon. Paving operations were to have been started Wednesday, but de lay was met in placing machinery, and the big mixer did not turn until yesterday. The work will continue through two months, according to information gained from Mr. W. E. Brown, of the Brown Paving Company, contractors. Laborers from miles around have applied for work, and many have been turned away, the contractors filling all vacancies in an unusually brief time. With a contract for another State job, the paving company will rush as rapidly as possible the work on the Hamilton road in an effort to com plete it in two months time and move their equipment to the new job. No Picnic At Lilley's Hall School Closing In di*cu*sing the exercises for the Lilley'i Hall School closing, patrons and teacher* decided at a re cent netting not to have a picnic to mark the occasion. Picnic* have been popular with the *chool patrons each year, but realiiutg condition* would hardly warrant the holding of one thi* year, the cuatom waa abandoned. Miss liarina Roberson, principal, outlined the program plans for the school closing to the parent* at the recent meeting held, and the parents assured their Marty cooperation in making the closing event a success ful one. Lilly's Hall is one of the few schools in the county having the short term. Small Decrease Reported In Poultry Loadings Here Operating in Jamesville Tuesday and here Wednesday, the cooperative poul try ar received 8,221 pounds of the fowls. The car had opposition furnish ed by hucksters at this point, result ing in a small decrease in the loadings. Reports were not available last night from Robersonville, bat Connty Agent Prendon stated that the loadings there yesterday were large. Fair loadings art expected hi Oak City today. alley's Hall'school Honor Roll for the Third Month The LiHey's Hall scholastic honor roll for the third month, recently brought to a close, inludes the names of 11 pepils, as follows: First grade: Charles Gorkin, Rosa Grace Lißey, David Dicker son. Second grade: Garland Hardiaon, Lettk Hines. Third grade: Edith Hines, Mamie C. Harris, Vera If. Lißejr, Vergil Lil l«y- Fifth grade: Thermon Griftn. Sixth grade: Albert W. UOey. THK ENTERPRISE Water Supply In Two Schools Is Condemned By Inspector State Inspector Rates Local Hotels and Cafes While Here This Week The water supply in two of the schools Sandy Ridge and Bear Grass, was condemned this week following an examination of water supplies in all the sfhools, vfiite and colored, in the county by the State Board of Health. Sample* taken by Inspector E. B. Roach through the direction of Win. E. Warren county health officer, were tested by the State Laboratory of Hygiene in Raleigh, (he tests showing that the other sources of wa ter for the schools were all right. Other sources of supply of drink ing water will have to be obtain ed in those two schools, Dr. Warren stated yesterday: No dangerous injury has resulted from the unfit sources of water, the health officer explained, but careful precaution is necessary in limiting disease possibilities. Very unusual results were announced following the tests of the various water samples, the health officer stated. Sam' 1 pies secured from shallow pumps and wells indicated that the water in them was bitter than that secured from the deep wells. None of the shallow wells so far has shown a trace of calon bacilus and the presence of bacteria was negligible. The wells at Bear Grass and Sandy Ridge are about one hundred feet deep leading one to believe that the water seured from them was free from germs. Additional tests are being made to determine more accurately the nature of the germs found in the water drawn from the two pumps. During the mean time, other arrangements are being made for a different supply of water. In addition to the work of inspecting the various schools' water supply, Ins pector Roach inspected the several cafes and hotels here, announcing through the health officer the follow ing scores: Atlantic Hotel, 88.5; Britt Hotel, 72. S; Sunny Side Inn, 75.0; Williamston Cafe, 71.0. In announcing the scorings, Inspec tor Roach explained that each hotel and cafe rating was lowered 10 points because there was not a graded dairy here. PAYS FIVE PER CENT DIVIDEND Roanoke Warehouse Com pany Holds Annual Meet Here Last Wednesday A five per cent dividend on all Ro anoke Tobacco Warehouse Company's common stock was declared at a meet ing of the directors and stockholders held in the courthouse here yesterday afternoon. Three-fourths of the stock or about 800 shares, Were represented by the approximately 100 people pres ent. The company's affairs were referred to an executive committee, the yester day afternoon meeting adjourning fol lowing the election, or re-election, of officers. Mr. Henry D. Peel continues as president of the company, Mr. S. C. Griffin, vice president; and Mr. W. T. Meadows, secretary and treasurer. Farm Life Scholastic Roll For Month Just Closed The Farm Life scholastic honor roll for the school month just closed, fol-, lows: , First Grade—Carlyle Manning, Vera Pearl Williams, Lucas Peele, Laura, Lilley, La la Smithwick. Second Grade —Oscar Wiggins. Third Grade —Bettie Louise Lilley. Fifth Grade —Eva Manning, Mamie ! Clyde Manning, Annie Getsinger, 1 Earle Ruth Corey, John B. Roberson. Sixth Grade—Mary Manning, Em-1 ma Blanche Coltrain, Jas. Peele, J. Daniel. Seventh Grade —Bulah Roberson, ' Thelma Clyde Coltrain, Sarah Rober son, Verna Griffin, Leona Griffin, Fannie Coltrain, Staton Griffin, C. Delle Griffin. i ' Eighth Grade— Chas. Manning ' Peele, Louise Manning. !l Ninth Grade—Mildred Roberson, i Veona Roberson. Tenth Grade —Eva .Brown Coltrain, Irene Coltrain, Archie Coltrain. ■ • . •' Eli E. Roberson Dies at | His Home In Cross Roads Eli E. Roberson died from pneumonia, at his home in Cross Road/township early Wednesday morning. Mr. Roberson was the son of Perry Roberson and wife, Mary Clark Ro-j hereon, and would have been 40 years' old next Wednesday. He married Ifias Lacy Roberson, who with sev eft children survives. He was buried yesterday at his home farm in Cross Roads. The funeral was held by Rev, C. B. Mash-j burn of Kobenomrflle. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, February 27, 1931. HOLLY SPRINGS CLUB MEMBERS PREPARING FOR EARLY GARDENS Will Introduce New Veg etable, "Tendergreen" There This Spring According to a report coming from the Holly Springs demonstration club following a meeting of the members last Tuesday, preparations are com plete for early gardens in that com munity. Garden peas, kale, collards, cabbage and onions have been planted, and while they have no onions now, they'll have some ere long. The meeting was a very successful one, the report stated. A renewed in terest in the home garden was noted, and the acreage to vegetables for home use has bee'fl increased. Members of the club there are plan ning to grow a vegetable somewhat new to this territory. It is the "ten dergreen," a cross between mustard and spinach. The vegetable is said to be very popular in certain sections, and the Holly Springs women are go ing to try it out for their first time this spring. GOERCH LOOKS OVER ACTIVITIES OF LEGISLATURE • Says Visits of Byrd and Smith Should Inspire It To Quit and Go Home BY CARL OOKRCH I If you haven't been up to Raleigh during the last week or no, you ought U> take the trip and give the legisla ture a look-in. I The boys have at last got warmed 'up, and they're now missing on all six cylinders. The only thing on which they've been able to agree thus far is that it's O. K. for them to take their pay checks. ! Each day's session is opened with prayer. The preachers in Raleigh first tried to cope with the situation but found it to too much for them. Since | then, preachers have been coming from all parts of the State, but the legisla ture seems to be prayer-proof. One of these days somebody is going to jopen the day's session with a gun, instead of with prayer, and then > may begin to happen. | • Businesj commons throughout North Carolina have improved a great jdeal during the last two months. Up until the time that the legislature met, everybody could talk and think of no thing except hard times. Since then, howwever, attention has been focused almost exclusively on the General As sembly. As a result, business has been moving along much more briskly. I i And still there are some folks who do not believe that the legislature does i any good. • i Statistics also show thta there are | fewer divorces during the legislative average man and wife are so busily engaged in cussing out their represen- i tatives up in the legislature that they ' I haven't got time to fuss out each other. | But really, we ought not to com plain. Providence has seen fit to bes tow certain trials and tribulations upon different peonies at different times. Way back yonder there was the flood. Then came the seven plagues that in fested the Egyptians. Later on, there were various periods of captivity which the Jews had to undergo. And so it has been, down throughout the ages. Each nation has had some special chastise ment inflicted upon it. Ours is the legislature. The Children of Israel spent forty year* in the Wilderness, and in the endi they got tp the Promised Land. The Legislature spends sixty days in JU leigh, and in the end all we get is pro mised land-tax relief. | Most of the bills pertaining to what the sheriff of Forsyth county shall have for lunch, the kind of flowers to be planted in front of the Buncombe county jail, the bestowal of a new name upon the goat belonging to the treasurer of Onslow county and the providing of a fund to buy two cans of paint for fixing up the stepa of the Martin county court house, have been disposed of and the legislature is now beginning to turn its attention to some of the State-wide bill*. It looks as though the highway bill and and the measure for consolidating the State's educational -institution* would pass without any difficulty. Governor Gard ner is fighting mighty hard for bis other measures, but there'* no telling how they will come out. I I got a letter thi* week from one of the prisoner* at the State peniten tiary. He thanked me for what I had to say in a preview* article about exist ing condition* at the prison and urged , me to continue making reference* to them. Personally, I don't believe there i* any special need for any great pu ( w back Pl*) WILL ASK FOR 2 MORE COURSES IN SCHOOL HERE Woman's Club Will Ask for Music and Secretarial Instruction In School In an effort to have certain courses of instruction added to the local school curriculum, the Woman's club, in bu siness session yesterday afternoon, ap pointed a committee to appear before { the local authorities and ask them to ; consider changing the schedule of courses that public school music and secretarial instruction might be in cluded in the list. Mesdames J. G. Staton, C. B. Clark and Clayton Moore were named to appear jointly with a committee from the parent-teacher association before the local board in behalf of the two subjects. Neither of the subjects is included in the course of instruction in the lo cal high school aud it is understood that there has been a marked need for one if not both of them. The meeting, held for the transaction of business matters, heard the re ports offered by the various corn miteetnen chairmen. These reports were reported as very favorable ones, indicating that a splendid work is being handled by the club. Reporting to the club, the nominating committee offered the names of Mrs. Frank J. Margolis, president; Mrs.. Clayton Moore, vice president, aud Mrs. Robert Everett, corresponding secretary, as .new officers. Mrs. Mar golis declined the nomination, and the matter of selecting a president is now [lending before the body. DOINGS IN THE LEGISLATURE State Maintenance of Roads | Being Discussed In the Senate Today Activities in the Legislature this week have been limited to the passage of numerous local bills and to altera tions of the road bill. Former Gover nor Byrd addressed the assembly this week, and Al Smith will be down from New York to tell the law-makers how it's done in New York, j The Legislature completes its 60- day run Saturday of next week. No time is prescribed by the Constitution for the adjournment of the body, but the pay automatically stops March 7. The Governor thinks the Legislature "will have to continue in session until April 1 if all work is completed. It is true that no major legislation has been enacted thus far, but the wheels are now ready and the first turning is expected late today when the road bill is slated to pass in one form or another. The task of raising revenue for the schools continues before the law makers, and they could continue in session forever and not reach a satis fatory end as far as locating taxes. But it is reasonable to believe that the legislature could lift the thorny crown fro'm the heads of real estate owners and place it somewhere else within a week. -» Bundle Day Here Last Wednesday A Failure "Bundle Day" here last Wednesday was almost a failure. Very few article* were received indicating that the spring buying had been delayed by the for tunate while the less fortunate con tinue without. The needy will hardly freeze now that spring is only a few days off and the weather is warming up a bit, but warm weather will not hide one's person. Bread Prices Reduced by j Local Bakery This Week | Selling bread, 16-ounce loaves, at five cents and pan rolls at five cents per dozen, the Sally Ann Bakery re ported a big business this week. In an effort to better acquaint the public with the Sally Ann produts, the pro prietor, W. H. Gurkin, adverised special prices for the week, using a I small advertisement in this paper. The following day, the proprietor report ed his largest sales, the supply fan ning short so numerous were thc | calls. QUESTION BOX Q. How many income tan re turns were filed in Martin County last year? Q. How many Martin County people actually paid income tax last year? Q. What was the total amount of income tax paid in Martin County last year? Q. What was Ike total income of the people filing return hut year in Martin County f Q. What waa the oat taxable income in Martin County in 19*9 as revealed in returns filed laat | year ? Ask Discontinuance of Schools If Funds Are Not Available OAK CITY SCHOOLS CARRY OUT LIVE AT-HOME PROGRAM Radio Talks Arranged for the Pupils There Dur ing the Week Oak City, Feb. 26.- T The Oak City High School carried out in detail the full program as outlined by Governor O. Max Gardner last week. Through the courtesy of Mr. G. W. Barrett a radio was installed for the week. Mr. Barrett was very kind in helping to carry out the program in giving his service for installing and the use of the radio for the week. The programs were very interesting, teachers and pupils all putting their lives in the work. F.ach morning at 9 o'clock the school assembled for the radio talks. These talks were dis cussed later in class. The height of the program was reached Friday when a live-at-home dinner was prepared under the lead ership of Misses Myrtis Zetterower and Mary Maxine Lewis. Everything on the menu was raised in the Oak City community. The dinner was served at 12:20. The program for Friday was on the garden and led by the second and third grades. Miss Sleeper, with her 4-H club girls brought out great thoughts by posters showing the things neces sary for health and pellagra preven tion, showing the death from pellagra last year was 1,002 in North Carolina. Mr. VV. C. Manning next delivered a timely talk confronting the past with the present, showing how thoughtless living had brought want and woe. He said that the youth must remake the nation. Everybody was milch im pressed with his talk, and he left ideas that no doubt will aid families in liv ing more on their farms than any other one thought. FINISH NEGRO SCHOOL SOON —• — - Is Not Known Whether the Building Will Be Used This Term or Not The Negro school building, now un der construction here, will be ready for occupancy about the 10th of next month, it was learned from Mr. Thompson, of the Thompson Con struction Company here yesterday. Ac cording to information received from the local office of the county board of education, it is not known whether the building will be used to house the school during the remainder of the current term. The school will com plete the 1930-31 term early in April, it is understood, making a change al most unnecessary before next fall. The high and dry location* of the building bubbled forth this week as a result of recent rains, making certain changes necessary, in the basement drainage system. An automatic pump proved inadequate and the contractor is now arranging a* sure system, one that will handle the water by natural drainage. Value Store Lease Turned Over to A. and P. Company The Value Store which has been operating here for over two years will close definitely tomorrow night and the remanents of merchandise that can't be sold at give away prices will be packed and shipped back to Eliza beth City Monday. Mr. Tom Robbins, who has been here from the Elizabeth City store | conducting the Liquidation Sale, has bedn informed from headquarters, that the store had been sub-leased to the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company According to a statement frrim Mr. Robbins the lease had been signed and returned by Mr. C. O. Roberson, owner of the Value Store and holder of the original lease, to the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and they expected to occupy the store by March 15th. Short Docket Features Recorder's Court Tuesday A short docket featured the lust Tuesday of the county recorder'! court held here. Only five cases were called, and three of them were nol proxed. Clyde Silverthorne, charged with violating the liquor laws in an earlier session, was sentenced to the Edge combe roads for nine months. He entered an appeal, Judge Bailey re quiring bond in the sum of S2OO. The following cases were nol prossed: Bonnie Wynn, drunk and dis orderly; J. H. Ellison, assault with a deadly weapon; and Joe Wheeler James, larceny and receiving. Clinton and Ira Davis were found guilty of being urunk and disorderly. Commissioners Are to Appoint Road Trustee The appointment of a road commiaaioner (or Williamaton township to fill the post made vacant by the death of John M. Bowen, ia scheduled to be made by the county board of com missioners in regular session here next Monday. Very little has been said about the schedul ed appointment, and only two men have been, referred to aa possible candidates. If the new road bill, now un der consideration in the Legis lature passes, the township road commission will be a thing of the past within a comparatively ahort time, and then too, there isn't so much importance attach ed to the commission locally any way. RE-PASS BONUS 1 BILL OVER VETO OF PRESIDENT House Vote Is 328 To 79-; Senate Considering Message Today President Hoover yesterday vetoed the World War Veterans' Loan Bill, the House of Representatives over riding the veto within an hour after the message was sent to Congress. The President, in his message gained a small support, but the final vote favored the bill by 328 to 79. "The measure would not aid the return of real prosperity and was not in the best interests of the veterans themselves, "President Hoover stated. The Senate opened its discussion on the measure at 11 this morning, agree ing at that time to take a vote on it | at two this afternoon. The bill, effective immediately on the expected Senate passage by two thirds, will make larger loans avail able to 3,400,000 veterans who hold adjusted compensation or so-called bonus certificates. The amounts made available for loans range from a few dollars to a maximum of $7.50 The bill increases the loan value from the present 22 1-2 per cent, of the face value to 50 per cent. In terest rate is reduced from 6 to 4 per cent. On first passage, the House vote was 363 to 39 and the Senate 72 to 12. Anticipating enactment, the Veter ans' Bureau said checks could be mailed to veterans within 10 or 15 days from receipt of loan applica tions. Bureau officials have been drilling [clerks in mechancis of handling ap plicants in volume. Additional per sonnel will be rushed to points where needed. Veterans were advised not to mail applications for loans to Washing ton, but instead to apply to the near est regional office of the Veterans' Bureau, where blank forms will be supplied. Local American Legion and Red Cross officials arc prepared to help inquiring veterans. If a veteran never has received a loan, he must produce his adjusted service certificate with his loan ap pliation. Veterans who already have borrowed need only file appliation blank*, as their certifiates already are lon file. Agents Conduct Several Raids In Two Counties Federal Prohibition agents, working out of here, raided sections of Mar tin and Beaufort counties this week, locating several stills and a small quantity of beer. Tuesdayf the agents found and des troyed a steam plant 'And about two hundred gallons of beer near the Beaufort line. Near Highway No. 30, the following day, they found two plants and several hundred gallons of beer. Thirty-five gallons of liquor were found at one of the plants. Over in Beaufort the officers found a cop per still, of 100 gallon capacity, and 400 gallons of beer. None of the stills were in operation and no arrests were made. Begin Series of Pre-Easter Services at Baptist Church —* ' The pastor is beginning a course of pre-Easter sermons, morning and eve ning, for the Sundays between now and Easter. Sunday morning the subject will b« "The Holy Comforter." Sunday eve ning it will be "Jesus Before Pilate." Sunday school and young people*' meetings as tuual. Watch the Label On Your Paper Aa It Carriea the Date When Your Subecription Expiree ESTABLISHED 1898 ROBERSONVILLE MEN PLAN TO GO BEFORE BOARDS Financial Condition About The Same As It Was ' Last Year LIMITED TO DISTRICT If Sufficient Revenue Has Been Col lected, County Will Be Asked > To Continue the Schools That the county authorities will be asked to stop the schools during the eighth or even the seventh month in the Robersonville district of this county if there isn't sufficient revenue already collected to finance them, was unofficially learned here yesterday. The rumored action is limited to the one district and will not affect the other schools, it is understood. As the proposition advanced by two of the loCUI committeemen of the par ticular district is understood here, the schools there will be continued during the eighth month provided sufficient money has been-collected and cred.t d to the special fund to make possible the operation of the schools during that period. If the revenue is not suf ficient, then stop the schools. The same proposition holds for the seventh month. If there has been a sufficient amount of special tax district money collected, then the committeemen, it is said would look to the county to continue the schools during the seventh and eighth months. According to reliable information, the county's, financial condition is li.tlo different from that experienced last year. It is authoratively reported that sufficient money is available to finance the last month of the six-months term, now underway, and it jg possible to negotiate anticipation notes in April as has been the practice for several years past, it will be able to finance the extended term. Anticipation notes were issued in April last year to finance the schools for the remainder of the 1929-30 term, and according to figures received from the court house here yesterday, the county .has a margin of SIOO,OOO to float any an ticipation notes that it wishes to float. Many counties are meeting with some difficulty in selling their notes, but just how much success Martin will lia\?e in selling hers is t" be determined later. Just what action will result at the meeting of the two county boards here next Monday as pertains to schools is a matter for speculation, but it is try car. received 8,221 pounds of the learning will occupy a prominent place on the discussion stage. 42 CIVIL CASES MARCH COURT Judge W. C. Harris Comes Here To Hold Term for The First Time Forty-two casts have been placed? on the civil calendar for trial at the next term of Martin County Superior Court convening here March 16 and con tinuing two weeks. The number of civil issues scheduled for trial at that time is believed to be the smallest set for a hearing before a superior court judge iti this county in many months. In preparing the docket, members of the county bar association allowed I the first three days of the week for • the trial of criminal causes, the first of the civil issues being scheduled Thurs day morning. Judge \V. C. Harris, of Raleigh, re cently elected to the superior court bench will preside. Several of the cases have been scheduled for trial before, but the doc ket,-as a whole, carries fresh cjtses. Jury List For Federal Court Includes 9 Martin Citizens Nine Martin County citizens were selected this week to serve as jurors in the next term of -federal court con vening in Washington Apr.il 6. Fifty one other names were drawn in Ra leigh this week, representing the fix remaining counties in the Washingtoh district. As far as it could be learned here yesterday, the number of cases so far placed on the docket it not as great as is generally the case. The list of citizens selected from this county to serve on the jury fol lows: ' W. S. Bunting, Oak City; C. H. Cowin, Williamston; H. C, Norman, Robersonville; D. G. Matthews, Ham ilton; f. C. Edmondson, Hassell; W, A. Brown, H. C Green and John Da niel Biggs, Williamston, and Eli Sod | gers, Robersonville.