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Atarthm Will Fod Our Col ama a Latchkey to Over Sixteen Hundred Martin County Home* VOLUME XXXIV—NUMBER 56 70TE FOR EXTENDED SCHOOL TERM MONDAY Board Will Allow Macedonia To Retain School This Year GOODLY NUMBER ATTEND MEETING HERE LAST NIGHT Macedonia Representatives Ask Privilege To Send Their Children Here A third change in the consolidation of schools was effected here last night when Mr. T. B. Attmoore, of the State Equalization Board and mem ber* of the county board of education met and provided the continuation of the school at Macedonia. The action, considered as final, was taken after the school had heen consolidated with the one at Bear Grass, and later at the request of citizens ,in the district, transferred to Williamston.' In a public meeting here last night, about eighty citizens gathered in the courthouse auditorium, the Macedonia group, about one-half the body, ask ing that their children be sent to Wil liamston, and the other group, repre senting the Bear Grass School, ask ing that the Macedonia children be sent to Bear Grass. A marked interest was show in be half of the schools, each district ex pressing its desire to obtain the greatest educational advantages pos sible for the children. FVfr "more than half an hour, the public meeting con tinued, Mr. A. B. Ayers asking the authorities. to remember the Bear Grass School in making their decision. Mr. J. L. Holliday represented the children of the Macedonia district. Going into executive session, Mr. Attntoore discussed the issue at length with the members of the edu cational board, finally compromising by leaving the school in its old neigh borhood. BANDIDSHOLDUP FILLING STATION ♦ Take S4OO In Cash At One Station and About S2B At Second Last Night Handilli, last night, held up V filling station proprietor at Green's Cross, in Bertie county, and relieved him of approximately S4(H) in cash. Driving • big car, the two hold-up men pass ed through Windsor and stopped at a filling station, one mile this side, and robbed another filling station proprie tor, robbing him of S2B. The bandits made their escape. Bertie officers, working on the case here this morn ing, stating that no clues that would warrant arrests, had been established. Going into the Dempsey filling sta tion, about four miles beyond VVind sor, the two men bought cigarettes and gave the proprietor the money. When the filling station operator turn ed to the cash register to make change, the bandits flashed their pistols and took the money without any trouble. The bandits are believed to have pasaed through here shortly after the second robbery, just this side of Windsor. ROBERT WYNNE DIES AT HOME „ Funeral Services Will Be Held From Late Home Tomorrow Afternoon • Robert Wynn, 58 years old, died early this morning at the home of his son, Mr. E. G. Wynn, here of pneu monia. He had been in feeble health for aome time, but up until six weeks ago he was able to be up most of the time. Mr. Wynn was born-in Cross Roads township, moving from there to a farm near here. A number of years a(o, he moved here to make his home. Three sons, Floyd, of Norfolk, and E. G. and Carl, of Williamston, aur vore. Another son, Ronald, died in a government hospital from injuries roceivCd in the World war. Mr. Wypn also leaves several brothers. Funeral arrangements had not been completed at noon today, but the fu neral services will be held from the heme tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 o'- clock. A memorial to Woodrow Wilson, wfr-time President of the United Sfctes, has just been unveiled at Poz n«st. Poland. At Veltcnhof, Germany, a disused windmill has been converted into a chorch in which the millstone is used as an altar. uA i THE ENTERPRISE [ MEOTE MONDAY ] During the next few days, many county boys and girls will be leav ing for the colleges, universities, ' and schools in various parts of the country. They, no doubt, will en joy the home paper with all the home news and current events. Itll be accepted as a letter from home twice each week during the months they are seeking an in creased knowledge of the higher arts. For the small sum of one dol lar the Enterpriae will be forward ed to them twice each week dur ing their stay in school. AH such subscriptions must be entered within the next ten daya. Later subscriptions will be entered at the regular outside county sub scription rate of $2 a year. The Enterprise acknowledges. With thanks, the subscriptions al ready entered by young men and women leaving for the colleges next week.' CANNING WORK AT OAK CITY IS GREAT SUCCESS Preserve 65 Quarts of Food For Uundernourished 1 School Children •— Probably never has a more marked interest been shown in the unfortu nate child tlian that reported in Oak . City last Wednesday when eighteen women of that community assembled 1 . in the school building and worked a greater part of the clay canning and preserving food that the undernourish i ed bodies of the little children in that school district might be cared for dur ing the long and cold winter months jurft ahead. It was one of the best I assemblies of its kind, 1 have ever ' seen, remarked Principal H. M. Ains ley, yesterday. From ten o'clock in the morning , until late that day, the public-spirited ' women canned (>S quarts of soup mix • 'ture, apples, corn, beans and other I foods that will be prepared and fed l ! to the children each day at noon ■ | throughout the' school term there. It i is hoped by the leaders in the work j II that more than 100 quarts of food can • be preserved for use in the hot lunch , ' this term. j ' Ladies left tobacijo grading work to aid in the work, Mr. Ainsley stated, ' and although they were tired at 6 o'- • clock, each one of them enjoyed the task so graciously and willingly ac cepted by her. Ice water and lemon ' I ade were served to the workers, re • freshing them as they sea'ed one can •jof food after another.- j •' "No money, but a big heart," Was '! the expression of one of the ladies as ' sisting in the work. e • \ Informal Exercises In the High School Next Monday o In opening the l">31-32 term n xt | Monday morning at 8:45 o'clock, the , , principal is asking''all children, both j i high school and elementary ones, to assemble in the high school auditorium ; for announcements and room a sign jments. No formal program ha* been I arranged for the day, and children, | after a short stay in the auditorium, j will repair to their respective class g rooms for book and lesson assign . ments, Professor Watson stated.- i The first meeting of the local facul a ty wilt l>e held in the high school build e Ing tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'- clock. ' s » 1 Grist Mill Operators On s Cash Basis In Section i With the price of corn meal at a - low point, grist mill operators, or j a many of them in this section, are an • nouneing cash operations. They state that the toll is not sufficient to off-set | the gas bill, not to even mention al- 1 "'lied expenses. After grinding approximately 80,0001 pounds of corn since March with a - tmaH - mfft running only two daya a week, Mr. Simon Lilley, Griffins Township farmer and miller, stated '• yesterday that he would be forced to adopt the cash plan as the toll sys " tern would result in his filling barns as large as those used in storing grain in Egypt juat before the famine, i a ' a Remains of ancient Egyptians, older d than those of the Pharoahs, have been discovered in Egypt recently. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 11,1931 Tobacco Prices Continue To Decrease on Eastern Markets ★ ★★★ ★★★★★★★★★ Tobacco prices on Eastern Car olina warehouse floors this week reached about the lowest point since Sir Walter Raleigh introduc ed the weed about the time ha at- | tempted to colonise Roanoke It land away back in 1585. A long time to compare prices, but a visit * fo almost any warehouse floor in Eastern Carolina will support the facts. NAME TEACHERS FORSCHOOLSOF MARTIN COUNTY Enrollment of Around 3,000 Expected; Complete Arrangements • Eighty-two white teachers will re port for work next Monday morning when eleven schools in this county 'open for the 1930-31 term. With few 'exceptions, all the members of the old [faculties will return to the various schools, only a new one n6w and then | coming to this county for the first time. 1 The faculties: Williamslon High School: William R. Watson, principal and science, Wil liamston; Mrs. W. H. Ilarrell, French 'and mathematics, Williamston; Miss Bessie C. Willis, English, Goldsboro; Miss Annie Van Dyke, mathematics 'and history, Greenville; Lawrence ""C? iThornton, science and history, Fay etteville; W. K. Bouknight, science civics, Greenwood, S. C. I Williamston elementary school: Grade 1-A, Miss Serena Peacock, Fre mont; Grade 1-B, Mrs. l'attie F. Tay lor, Williamston; Grade 2-A, Miss Martha Anderson, Williamston; Grade 2-B, Miss Kstelle Crawford, William 'ston; Grade 3-A: Miss Bessye Har !rell, Aulander; Grade 3-B, Miss Kuth Manning, Williamston; Grade 4-A, Miss Velma Harrison, Williamston; (irade 4-B, Mrs. Lcnian Barnhill, Wil iliamston; Grade 5-A, Miss Lucille Al len, Fuquay Springs; Grade 5-B, Mrs. ! Ethel G. Kobfrson, Williamston; (irade 6-A, Mrs. W. K. I'arker, Wil liamston; Grade 6-B, Miss Ether Gat ling, Windsor; Grade 7-A, Mrs. C. B. I|assell, Williamston; (irade 7-B, Mrs. Jessie Hodßts White, Washington; Piano and voice, Miss Florence Over ton, Greenville. ■ Hamilton School: Mr. W. F. Plyler, principal; Mrs. W. E. Plyler; Miss Lucille Medods, Greenwood, §• C.; Miss Kflic Waldo, Hamilton; Miss Louise White, Andrews, S. C. | Robersonville: K. I. Leake, of Rich Square, principal; Marvin M. Everett, |of Oak City; N. C. Brake, of Rocky Mount; Miss Belle Hockaday, of Lil |lington; Miss Peel, of Williamston; 'Miss Minnie Hobhs, of Belvidere; Miss Leona Moore, of Robersonville; Miss Myra Sale, of Ronda; Miss Thelma Dale, of Mount Olive; Miss Millie Roebuck, of Robersonville; Mr. J. H. I Smith, of Marion. | Oak City: H. M. Ainsley, principal; Misses Leona Newton, Alice Mallard, Adeline Tew, Ruth Pittman, Julia Hoi loway, Fannie Woodward, Elizabeth Whichard, Myrtis Zetterower, and Ruth Williams and Mr. W. Ray La tham. Everetts: D. N. Hix, principal; Miss Martha Baldree, of Ayden; Miss Allie Marie Roebuck, of Hamilton; Miss Iva i' Mae Williams, of Durham; Miss Car- Irie Bell Warren,-of Gold Point; Miss Pauline Askew, of Jamesville; Miss I Lucy Matt Crofton, of Robersonville; I Mrs. D. N. Hix. of Everetts; Mis* 'Alma Baker, of Harrellsville. I Gold Point: E. C. Edmondson, prin cipal, Miss Marjorie Bryant, of Rob ersonville; and Miss Lillian Holliday, I I of Everetts. I S Mrljfpnf Pink Hill, 1 principal; Miss. Rachel Godwin, Co -1 netoe; Miss Pitt Roberson, Roberson ville; Miss Mary Harris, of Bear ' Grass; Mist Ernestine Johnson, of ' Robersonville; Miss Carrie Lee Rob erson, of Robersonville; Mist Frances House, of Robersonville; Miss Hilda Modlin, of Jamesville. > Hassells: Mr, George Hsislip, print cipal; Mrs. Ethel Edmondson, of Has (Continued da the bade pegs) ' ♦ V-"*- - Selling approximately 800,000 pounds since the market opened, including the sales today, the lo cal market will not average aeven | cents for the period. And since last Monday, prices have dropped, the average ainking so low that it is a sin and a shame to mention it Tags have been turned here, and they have been turned on every market. The farmers are losing ( REVIVAL ] Rev. Warren A. Davis, of Waah ington, N. C., will conduct a reviv al at Chriatian Chapel, beginning Sunday night, September 13th, and will continue for several daya, de pending upon the intereat and at tendance at the aervicea. Services will begin promptly at 7:30 each night, and the people of thia section are cordially invit ed to attend thia meeting. SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL CALENDAR TOTALS 52 CASES Two Days Are Allowed For Disposition of Criminal Docket # Fifty-two cases appear on the civil calendar for trial at the nertt term of Martin County Superior Court con vening at Williamston next Monday , week. The first of the civil cases are scheduled for hearing Wednesday, September 23, allowing the two pre ceding days for clearing the criminal docket. The cases appearing on the civil cal endar as prepared by the Martin County Bar Association include the following: Wednesday, September 23 Lynch vs. Johnson. Johnson vs. Fertilizer Company. Ferguson vs. Drug Company. Hoffman Company vs. Brown. Gardner vs. Rhodes, et al. Acme Fertilizer Co, vs. Mollis et al. Boston vs. Cordon et al. Bullock vs. Wynn. Thuraday, September 24 177" Hampton vs. Davis et al. Robefson et al vs. Ausborn, et al. Blount & Co. vs. Meadows et al. Peel Motor Co. vs. Barnhill. 1 tassel! et at vs. Bank. Respass vs. James et al. Taylor vs. Fertilizer Co. Harrison ffhis. & Co. vs. Small. Farmers & Merchants Bank vs. Bunting et at. Friday, September 2S Jobbing Company vs. Bailey. Harrison and Co. vs. Mobley. Taylor vs. Gurganus et al. Fertilizer Company vs. Williams. Taylor vs. Street. Fertilizer Co. vs. McLawhorn et al. Monday, September 28 Parker vs. Railroad. Whitaker et al vs. Rogerson et al. Fertilizer Company vs. Raynor. Fertilizer Co. vs. Barnhill et al. Fertilizer Co. vs. Maning et al. Chevrolet Co. vs. Roebuck. House vs. Roebuck. Fertilizer Company vs. Weeks. Fertilizer Company vs. Kerr et al. Tueaday, September 29 Fleming et al vs. Bank. Fertiliser Company vs. Sumrell. Rubber Company vs. Brown. Staton vs. Hadley. Roberson and Co. vs. Jolly, Adm. Davis vs. Davis. Fertilizer Company vs. Hassell. Anniej Jones va. Knights of Gideon. Harrison vs. Lilley et al.- Harrison vs. We&b et al. Wednesday, September 30 Fertilizer Company vs. Everett. Fertiliber Company vs. Frizell et al. Fertilizer Company vs. Bray. Fertilizer Company vs. Allan. Peel vs. Brown. \ Williams vi. Odd Fellows. Fertilizer Company vt. Heckstall. Fertilizer Company va. Wilson. - James va. Bunting. Mr. Irving Smith, of Robersonville, wss a business visitor herr today. everywhere, it seems, and they are closely followed by the warehouses and other allied businesses. Once in a long while a pile will sell for 25 or 30 cents, but those piles are so few that they would not aerve as bait in a crowded fish hatchery. The cotton farmer is now sym pathizing with the tobacco farmer and vice versa. It is a precarious situation. 11 SCHOOLS OPEN TERM IN COUNTY NEXT MONDAY —! — I Faculties of Eleven White Schools Opening Monday Are Announced » Vacation days will he over for a season for approximately 3, (MM) white children next Monday* when eleven: schools cfpin their doors in this coun ty to receive the seekers of knowl-j edge during the 1931-32 term. For them a year of hard work and serious thought is just'ahead. Opening under the new S(,ate school laws and with a new consolidation ar rangement, the school authorities' will find it difficult to make adjustments the first day, but extensive prepara- 1 lions have heen made in an elTort toj have the 11 units operating smoothly within a very short time thereafter.. Faculty appointments have heen made 1 complete and while detailed operat ing arrangements in the schools, in several instances, are awaiting the, outcome of the election in the county next Monday, a successful opening, is anticipated in all the eleven units' any way. Thirty-two of thfc thirty-four trucks in operatin last term have been repair ed and will be 4>ut back into service next Monday. Nine new busses will be added to the fleet, it was learned from the superintendent of schools' 1 office here yesterday. Two of the new trucks will replace old ones, and the other seven will care for recent con solidations and still leave a crowded transportation. Truck operation will be closely observed in tlu? county this year and careless drivers will l>e dis- 1 charged; in fact, one driver has al- ' ready been-replaced for his careless' acts, it was stated by the superintend- 1 ent. Busses will be numbered this year, it was stated. A meeting of the bus drivers wilj be held within the next feyv days when rules and regula- ' tions for operating trucks wil be dis- I cussed by the authorities. A slight enrollment decrease, due to various causes, is expected next ' Monday, opening day, but any losses will be, in all probability, regained as the term progresses. Last year there 1 were 2,906 pupils enrolled the first day in the eleven schools opening next Monday. This number included the newly consolidated unit enrollments, and upon this basis, the following en rollments are ex|>cted this term in the eleven units: Jamesville, 371; Dardens, 83; Wil lia'mston 700; Hear Grass, 267; Ever-, etts, 310; Kobersonville, 423; Oak City, 336; Hamilton, 165; Parmele, 80; Gold Point, 102, and Hassell, 70. Only four whie schools will fail to open Monday, and their opening dates will be determined next Mon day by the election. If the election is carried, these four schools, Farm Life with an enrollment last year of 142; Griffins with an enrollment of 29, Lilley Hall, 46; Macedonia, 34, will probably open the 21st. If the elec tion fails, the opening for the three units will be delayed several weeks, it is understood. Four colored schools, Williamston, Jamesville, Robersonville, and Par mele, with a combined enrollment of 1,607, are also scheduled to open next Monday. -T; Mrs. Irene Jervit, of Philadelphia, Pa., has been compelled by law to give up her miniature zoo, which consist ed of 100 white mice, IS turtles, 10 dogs, 5 cats, 6 parrots, and 2 monkeys because one of the latter animals had beaten a neighbor's head with the ban -1 jo it had stolen. vj [ REMEMBER THEM j A last call is being made to the citizens of this county to consider I the future welfare of their children j and vote in the election next Mon day. The polls are scheduled to open at 5:33 a. m. and cloie at 6:16 p. m. Tomorrow is challenge day, and it is believed .that the registration of 2,431 will be altered slightly in several of the precincts, but ..not j more than a dozen votes, if that many, in all the districts combined. The Enterprise is making ar rangements to tabulate the vote as early as possible after the polls close at 6:16 next Monday, and wishes to thank those who are co operating in the effort. In an effort to get the complete returns by eight o'clock Monday ni(ght, poll holders are cordially , asked to start their counts as soon as possible after the polls close and telephone 46, collect, their counts. 'BUS SERVICE IS MUCH IMPROVED HERE THIS WEEK —• Total of Sixteen Busses Daily Now Operating Through 'Here ■ • Inaugurating a n improved bus I schedule here yesterday, tin- Virginia Beach litis Lines and connecting com ! panics are now operating fourteen large busses in and out of here daily, offering Willianiston and this section j one of the best .Ims passenger services | enjoyed by any large city in the , South. While the present schedules . might be slightly altered later on, | operating arrangements were virtually I completed here yesterday by General I Manager Hawkins, of the Virginia j Heach Line and officials of the Sea | shore Transportation Company ami | the Carolina* Coach Company. I Yesterday, ' schedules were niain | tained out if here to Norfolk, Raleigh and Wilmington . and , intermediate points as well as points further north, south and west. The first hi Is leaves Williauistoii at 8:l»> a. m., folio-wed by I I • another at 11:10 a. in., and another at 2:15 |>. in. and still another at 5:45 p.j in. and a fifth one at 9:00 p. in. The first Ims for Killcigh during the day, or rather just after midnight, leaves here at 12:15 a. ill , a second one leaves at 11:30 a. in., a third one at 3:20 p. ni. and a fourth one at 7:30 p. in. Tin' Seashore line, is operating a bus out of here for Wilmington at • 11:30 a. in. and another •tie .at 4:00 p. m. -The Virginia Heach Bus Line is operating ,a bus out of here to Wash ington at 5:45 and another at 9:00 p. in., making connection with a bus at I Washington for Wilmington. A bus operated by the Seashore Lines, reach jing here at 6:00 p. in. from Wilming jton will leave again on its return trip [at 7:30 p. in., hut will spend the night _in Washington and continue the fol lowing morning. In addition to these 'schedules, the Bethel-Columbia Line will continue its two trips daily be tween those towns, stopping here at 11:20 a. ni. and 3:50 in the afternoon. All schedules * (are maintained the week around with the of of the Bethel-Columbia trip&._^ The schedule is centered here be tween 11 a. in. and 12:00 o'clock noon, I when busses leave for Raleigh, Nor folk, Wilmington and l'lyiuouth and connecting lines. over the Norfolk to Raleigh route has required two busses at times this week, and when additional colleges begin to open during the next few-days, more busses will be added to the regular schedules. Increased traffice is anticipated on the Norfolk- Wilmington route when the service between New YJ»rk and Florida, via Willianiston, is firmly established, it is understood. The lines have added several new busies, tlicit ..equipment eemparmg favorably with that used anywhere. One of the Wilmington busses, operated by T. J. Morton, will be held here each night after its return trip from Wilmington at 9:00 p. m. To put the town on the map as a Gretna Green, five Evanston (111.), jus i tiers of the peace will not only per form the marriage ceremonies with out charge, but they will also pay taxi fare for out-of-town couples from the railway station. ' t Watch the Label On Yoor Paper As It. Carries the Data When Yoor Subscription Expires ESTABLISHED 1898 WILL REQUIRE 1,216 VOTES TO CARRRY PLAN Failure To Vote Counts Same As Vote Against Proposal I The future of Martin County's youth will rest in the hands of 2,431 citi zens next Monday, when those voters take part in an election calling for a two-months extended school ternf in this cdunty. To assure Martin Coun ty's approximately 8,000 children equal j educational advantages, none less than - v j 1,210 of the citizen.i registered will j have to favor the proposal with-their ..votes next Monday. -Heavy registrations have been re ported in virtually all the 12 voting .precincts in the county, and a close | contest is expected. Indifference on j the part of those citizens registered |,'and who favor the proposal will mean defeat, for there is a marked opposi | tion ill several of the 12 precincts, and pilose who wonld have equal educa tional advantages provided for the should remember that when they fail to vote tor the measure, it | automatically counts against the ex tended term. „ | Ballots are being distributed this week and booths are being erected in the 12 voting places preparatory to | settling one of the most important questions to face Martin County school j children In a number of years. All 'day next Monday hundreds of peo 'ple, interested in the welfare of Martin I County and its youth,will visit the polls in an effort to establish an eight ! months county-wide school term. J There will be opposition, strong op position, reports indicate, and those |who would provide for the youth of tomorrow will have to fight hard to win. | Generally .speaking, and with but I few exceptions, the opposition is I strongest where the proposal is not fully understood. All kinds of un founded tales have been told by some of those who would reduce their chil dren to serfdom that the educational , opportunities might be limited to the lew while the less fortunate continue their labors in tobacco and cotton fields. Martin citizens are urged to go to the polls next Monday'and take part . in the election, one that .is not of a political nature, but one that means ' much to the county's welfare. | Following is the registration figures jfor the 12 precincts: | Janiesville 250 J Williams , 132 i Griffins .. ..., ; 31S ' | Bear Grass ;. 201 Willianiston 430 J Cross Koads 199 . i Robersonville 368 i Gold Point 87 ' (loose Nest 123 • Hassell 113 I Hamilton ~...? 131 ' l'oplar Point 82 Total 2,431 I In connection with the election, the following letter was issued this week by the office of the Martin County Board of Education, and signed by i T. C. Griffin, chairman of the board I of commissioners; W. O. Griffirt, chair man of the board of education; }, Sam Getsinger, auditor; and J. C. Manning, ' superintendent: "To the voters of Martin County: There still seems to be some question in the minds of many people about the | special county-wide tax election. "For your information, we are giv ing here an exact copy of tlve proceed - ings of the calling of this special elec , tion: -1 "'Board of Eduation in regular ses- I sion August 3, 1931. "'Motion Mr. Rogers, second Mr. ( Getsinger, that the Board of Educa tion request the county commissioners I j to call a county-wide special tax elec- ( I tion to extend the six-month school I' term. Th levy not to exceed 20 cent 9 I on the SIOO property valuation, that it lie made clear that the present tax continue in case the new eletion is not successful. The Board of Educa -1 t(on went before the county commis sioners and stated its action. The commissioners voted unanimously to call the special election in accordance with the wishes of the board of edu- ' cation. It is further ordered that if ' said election is carried that no addi ' tional special tax shall be levied in 1 any special taxing district in the coun- , ty, but if said election is not carried , then the present system of local taxa , tion is not to be affected.' "There are a number of citizens in the 'county that have been told and I led to believe that this is an added . tax on the special taxes they are now (Continued on page four) • > .. , iSH