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VOLUME XXXIV—NUMBER 58 ft
COUNTY TAX RATE IS REDUCED TO $1.29
Allotments for Extended Term
11 SCHOOLS OF
COUNTY TO GET
TOTAL OF $12,418
Larger by $1,179 Than Aid
Received Prom State
Last Year
The eleven schools in this county
enjoying the eight months term will
receive $12,418.78 for the operation of
the seventh and eighth months, it was
announced by educational authorities
here this morning. The fund received
for the operation of the extended term
this year is larger by $1,179 than the
amount allotted the eight months
schools in the eounty last term. Three
districts. Dardens, Gold Point, and
Hassell, the Equalisation Board stat
ed, could operate their schools on a
14-cent rate, or less, and they do not
participate in the allotment.
There might be a slight alteration in
the allotment, but as it now stands it
will just about care for one-third of
the expense necessary in operating the
•choola for the seventh and eighth
aionths.
The allotments were made to the
(•dividual districts as follows:
Dardens .. ... None
Jamesville $ 3,247.47
Bear Grass 1,510.47
Williamston - 3,369.82
Everetts «, 1,055.95
Gold Point None
Parmele 759.13
Robersonville 1,691.68
Hamilton i, . 534.501
Hassell , None
Oak City 251.76
Total *12,418.78
TO SELL OLD
SCHOOL SITES
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Ten Sites and Buildings To
Be Sold at Courthouse
Here October sth
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In accordance with the public school
laws of the State, the Martin County
Board of Education is making prepara
tions to sell ten pieces of school prop-
erty located in various parts of the
county. Signed by Chairman W. O.
Griffin, the order of sale wai issued
yesterday, and the property will be
sold to the highest bidder at an auc
tion to be held at the courthouse door
here the first Monday in October, the
board reserving all rights to accept
or reject any bids.
These properties, mad* vacant
through consolidations, are as follows:
Ange School, 1 acre land.
Poplar Run (Poplar Chapel) School
no land.
Coopers School, 1 acre land.
Spring Green School, 1 acre land.
Sandy Ridge School, 2 acres land.
Burroughs School, no land.
Cross Roads School, 1 1-2 acres
bad. —~ «'■•? t, - ' T J
Smith wick (Fairview) School, and
land.
Smith school, 1 acre land.
James School (colored) and land.
6 ARE PINED FOR
GAME VIOLATION
Caught Htenting Without
Licenses by Deputfy
Game Wardens
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Six hunters were given hearings be
fore Justice of the Peace J. L. Hassell
here last Tuesday for violating the
game laws. Hunting without licenses,
J. A. Jones, Robert Price, J. D. Har
rison, Wilmer Brabble, Percell Stov
all, and Lester Joees, all of this town
ship, were each taxed with $9.50 costs,
the justice suspending sentence.
Price, Harrison, and Brabble ap
pealed and their caaes will be heard in
jhg recorder's eoart October 13.
Deputy Wardens Mayo Grimes and
Thocnas Crawford carried the cases
before Justice Hassell.
Unusual Hen Egg Is
Reported By Resident
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Mrs. Mack G. Taylor, local resident,
reported an unusual egg of unusual
, site yesterday when her cook crackfd
the shell of the hen fruit Inside the
shell was a perfectly formed egg and
around that was another egg, hot with
oat a yolk. No measurements or
weight were recorded, Mrs. Taylor
sating that the egg wae use of the
largtst she had ever seen.
THE ENTERPRISE
ASKING AID FOR CHILDREN KEPT OUT OF SCHOOL
Mysterious Grave in Woods
Draws Crowd
Acting upon advice given by Lu
venia Slade, colored woman living
near Mill Branch, on the Hamilton
Road, officer* late Wednesday aft
ernoon started digging for what
was thought to be a human body,
mysteriously buried.
Tuesday night, the Slade woman
saw a car enter a small path neer
the branch, where it remained for
about 30 minutes. The next morn
ing she was traveling the narrow
path and when she paased the spot
where the car waa parked she saw
fresh dirt. The happenings the
night before, and the sise of the
grave led the woman to believe
f SCHOOL RATE ]
Meeting last Tuesday night, ths
local school board tentatively es
tablished a 20-csnt rate to care for
the extended school term in this
district The rate is 2 cents under
the one in effect last year.
WOMAN'S CLUB TO
HOLD FIRST MEET
NEXT THURSDAY
Full Membership Urged for
First Meeting of the
New Club Year
The local woman's cluh will hold
its first meeting of the 1931-32 cluh
year in its rooms next Thursday aft
ernoon at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Myrtle
Brown, the new president,, will pre
side.
Officers, announcing the meeting,
stated that matters of great ini|>ort
ancc would be placed before the or
ganization for discussion, and a full
membership it urged to be present.
| The club, facing what is believed one
of it* years of greatest fervice, is ap
'pealing to its membership and other
'interested citizens of the town and
| community in an effort to continue
ithe worthy work carried on by the
.club in the paat.
NEGRO CHILD IS
KILLED BY CAR
Dr. Albert Anderson's Auto
Figures in Accident
Near Tarboro
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Clifton Huges, eight-year-old negro
boy, was instantly killed— late but
Tuesday afternoon near Tarboro when
he was struck by an automobile driven
by Dr. Albert Anderson, superintend
ent of the State Hospital, Raleigh.
Dr. Anderson was returning to hisi
home after attending the funeral of!
Mr. A. Anderson here, when the boyi
ran out of a cotton patch into the
road in front of thenar. Dr. Ander
son stopped to render aid, but found
the boy dead. The accident was un
avoidable.
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Program of Services
At Baptist Church
The pastor of the Baptist church
will lecture to his congregation Sunday
evening at 7:30 o'clock on the Chero
kee Indians of Western Carolina.
The Cherokee Reservation is one of
the Baptist missiop fields of the
State. There are 63,000 acres com
posing the reservation; there are about
3,000 Indians now living there. They
have their churchea and Sunday
schools, and much progress has been
made.
The pastor was in the reservation for
some time on his recewt visit to West
ern Carolina, and will lecture on the
life and religious practices of these
people. *
Sunday morning the sermon subject
will be, "Mountain Peaks of the Old
Testament.**
The church and its pastor wish to
express their deep feelings of sympa
thy to' the families of l(r. and Mrs,
Arthur Anderson, and Mr. and Mra.
A. J. Summerlin in these days of their
|aom»w.
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 18,1931
that a child had been illegally bur
ied. Sheriff Roebuck was noti
fied.
With spades and scoops, Sheriff
C. B. Roebuck, Chief of Police W.
B. Daniel, Attorneys B. A. Crit
cher and Wheeler Martin, Farmer
H. H. Cowan, Engineer W. A.
Cherry, and Messrs. W. G. Peel
and A. R. White went out to dig
up the body. The work became
exciting to the onlooker when the
diggers found s few old rags and
leaves about two feet under the
ground. More dirt was removed,
and the carcass of a lowly canine
was discovered.
'FARMER IS FOUND
DEAD IN YARD OF
HOME NEAR HERE
William Bryant, 65, Dies
Suddenly; Funeral Is
Held Wednesday
| William Bryant, about 65 years old,
| was found dead at the home of his
son, Robert Bryant, on the Burroughs
Ifarm, near here, early Wednesday
morning. Rising early that morning,
the son noticed that his father was not
in his room, and going into the yard
he saw the old gentleman lying on
'the ground dead with his (ace down
land arms outstretched. About three
years ago, Mr. Bryant suffered a
stroke of paralysis, and it is believed
that he suffered a second stroke and
that it resulted in sudden death.
The son heard his father go on the
porch about 10 o'clock the night be
fore, and it is believed he fell dead a
short while thereafter. The body was
cold when found Wednesday morning.
Having apparently recovered from the
stroke suffered several years ago, Mr.
Bryant was thought to be in good
health when he left his room Tuesday
night.
Mr. Bryant had married twice, both
wives preceding him to the grave.
Since the death of his last wife he had
made his home with his son, who,
with several sisters, survives.
' Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon and burial was
in the Taylor grave yard, near Gold
Point, Rev. C. H. Dickey, of the lo
cal Baptist church, administering the
last rites.
399 LICENSES TO
[ HUNT ARE SOLD
Williamston Leads List By
Issuing 150; Most Are
For County Use
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Up to and including last Tuesday,
399 hunting licenses had been sold in
this county, the greatest number be
ing designated as county hunting per
mits. The sale, Warden Hines stated
yesterday, is about the same in size as
the one last year for an equal period.
Williamston led the list with 150
| county licenses, 36 State licenses, and
4 each for hunting and trapping, and
hunting and fishing. Oak City sold
66 county hunting permits and 3 State
permits. Other sales were: Roberson
ville, 24 county, 16 State; Hamilton,
40 county and 3 State; Jamesville, 31
county, 3 State, 4 hunting and fishing
and 1 hunting and trapping; Hassell,
14 county licenses.
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Program of Services
At Methodist Church
C. T. Rogers, pastor.
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.—You are
invited.
! Church acnrice, 11 a. m. You are
invited. No service* at night.
Epworth League, Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Hi League, Tuesday, 7:30 p. m.
Mid-week service, Wednesday at
7:30 p. m.
Holly Springs
Sunday school, i 0 a. ns.
Revival servieoa now going on and
will con time daring the coming
weels. Attendance ia good. Come and
worship with aa. *
LACK OF BOOKS
KEEPING MANY
FROM CLASSES
Enrollment Increased Since
Opening Day; 182 Are
In High School
The number of pupils enrolled in the
local schools has increased from 704
on opening day to 714, Principal W. R.
Watson stated this morning. Seven
of the increase was reported in the
high school, bringing the enrollment
there up to 182, with a few more pu
pils yet to enter, it is understood.
The large enrollment of 89 in the first
grade on opening day has been in
creased and there are now 95 pupils
-classified as beginners.
Without proper clothing and unable
to buy books, at least 20 children have
found it impossible to enter the school
here, Mr. Watson stUted today, basing
his estimate on reports received fffcm
seteral sections served by the local
schools. Arrangements arc now being
made in an effort to provide for these
.children that they might share in the
educational training offered here. It
is a big job to care for these cases,
[and help is urgently solicited by those
in charge.
Bus facilities are not adequate to
handle all the children, but Principal
Watson stated that work was progress
ing very well considering all handi
caps.
ARREST NUMBER
FOR VIOLATION
OF LIQUOR LAWS
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Fifteen Martin Men Await
Hearing Before U. S.
Commissioner Here
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Around 50 or 60 violators of the
liquor laws were arrested in this and
I*
Bertie counties yesterday by Federal
Prohibition enforcement agents. A
list of the violators had not been made
public at noon today, but there were
more than a dozen young men brought
here from Bear Grass township for
| hearings before a United States com
missioner today. Other hearings were
I held this morning in Bertie, it was
stated.
| Working under cover, two agents
had conducted a thorough campaign
into certain sections of this and Ber
tie counties, picking their victims here
and there as they went.
Shortly afternoon the hearings
scheduled in this county were still
being held up pending the completion
of thdlV in Windsor. It could not
' be learned just when the commission
er would complete his work in Ber
tie and start the hearings here.
According to unofficial information
gained here, the defendants are charg
ed with possessing and selling liquor.
William P. Hodges Speaks
From WPTF Thursday
William P. Hodges, young Raleigh
lawyer, and son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Hodges, of Williamston, made an
address over the air yesterday after
noon at 4:45 o'clock in observance of
the 144 th anniversary of the adoption
of the constitution of the United
States. Discussing the preamble to the
constitution, Mr. Hodges outlined the
origin of the document and offered
comments in connection with its im
portance.
Aa far aa it is known here, Mr.
Hodges is the first Martin County
man to make an address over the air.
He was in the WPTF studios, Ra
leigh.
( WORK ON ROAD
State forces this week started
the construction of a road about
three milea lone to Dymond City,
in Griffins Township. The road
will be need as an outlet for the
Dymond Ranch, now being devel- _
oped on the 11,000 sere tract
The new road, following the
come of the old one, wll bo 30
feet wide and will have four
bridges. The coet of construction
will be abut 11,000.
Stronger Trend
Prices Noted Past Few Days
While prices continue low, a
stronger tone in the local tobacco
market sales was noted this week.
Prices, not including the one
cent grades which continue un
changed, ranged higher yesterday
and today and very good sales
were reported by the market.
Reporting approximately 95,000
pounds on the floors here today,
the market is nearing the million
and a half mark, the average price
so far paid being so low that it is
a shame to make it known. That
the average price paid here com-
SUPERIOR COURT
DOCKET LISTS 29
CRIMINAL CASES
Most of Them Are of Minor
Importance; Term Will
Begin Monday
wenty-nine criminal cases have
been placed on tin*- docket for trial in
the Martin County Superior Court
convening next Monday and running
for two weeks. The docket, with the
exception of one murder case, is of
little consequence and the murder case
—State against Ernest Vick will hard
ly attract more than passing attention.
As a whole, very few of the cases
were entered on the docket directly,
a majority of them reaching there
through appeals from the recorder's
court during the past three months.
Several were continued from previous
terms, and one or two of the other
causes are virtually the same as dead
wood, but which have not been order
ed removed from the docket.
Judge Henry A. Grady, of Clinton,
is scheduled to preside over the term.
The first two days of the court have
been set aside for work on the crimi
nal docket. Civil causes will be heard
during the remainder of the week and
the week following.
A list of the cases follows:
N. S. fiodard, seduction, continued
from a previous term; Mote Mills and
Furney Coley, assault with a deadly
weapon, appeal from recorder's court
on two counts; Jane Powell, larceny,
appeal from recorder',s c«jurt; C. M.
Barber, assault wtih a deadly weapon,
appeal from county court; Jesse Rog
ers, forgery, continued from previous
term; James Bullock, larceny, appeal
from recorder's court; John Jasper
Black, assault and disorderly conduct
and operating car while drunk, ap
peal from county court; Buck Oufter
bridjfe, ctfrryinfpcrmcealed weapon, ap
peal from county court; Sam Kaynor,
bouse breaking and larceny, entered
on docket by warrant; Claudie Wilks,
assault with intent to rape, warrant;
Charlie Keel (colored), assault with
intent to rape, warrant; J. T. Sarvis,
assault with deadly weapon and drunk
and disorderly, appeal from county's
court; Earl Mobley, larceny, appeal;
Teddy Jackson, drunk and disorderly,
appeal; Jeff Ausbon, drunk and dis
orderly, appeal; Primus Cherry, se
duction, entered 011 the docket by war
rant; Priu) Sherrod, larceny, warrant;:
J. T. Sarvis, incest, warrant; 11. D. |
Rogers, non-support, appeal; Hettie
Powell, larceny, appeal; Willis I'earce,
operating truck without license, ap
peal; John Griffin and Curtis Rhodes,
affray, appeal; Isam Williams, non
support, appeal; Spence Gurganua,
rape, warrant; Sam Raynor, larceny,
appeal; Golden Godard, .cruelty to
animals, continued from previous
term; Ernest Vick, murder, entered
on docket by warrant. Vick, charged
with the death of Frank Price, in an
automobile wreck near Oak City sev
eral weeks ago, is now out under bond.
Offer County Home Tract
For Use of Convict Camp
The use of several acres of land on
the county home farm was offered the
State Highway Commission this week
by the commissioners. According to
recent plans announced by -the com
mission a convict camp will be con
structed in tbii county, but detail*
have not been released in connection
with the proposed construction of the
buildings.
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pares favorably with actual aver
ages on other markets is almost
certain, but it must be said that it
is lower than some of those made
public since the market opened
September 1. C
Heavier sales are anticipated on
the market here next week, ac
cording to reports.
This week a goodly quantity of
tobacco has been sold from for
eign counties, several large trucks
from Pitt unloading several thou
sand pounds during the past few
days.
[ RADIO REPORTS ]
Each afternoon, with the excep
tion of Saturday and Sunday, the
State and Federal crop reporting
service reviews tobacco prices paid
on the Williamston market in a
report over radio station WPTF.
The reports are based on govern
ment grading service.
RECORDER HAD
ELEVEN CASES
HERE TUESDAY
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Five Other Cases Continued
By Judge Bailey; Next
Term in October
Eleven cases were called in the re
corder's court here last Tuesday, JudKe
Bailey continuing five other cases
scheduled for trial at the session.
'The court will not hold another ses-1
sion until next month, the superior j
court convening next Monday for a'
two weeks term.
| C. M. Burton, charged with passing
worthless checks, was called, but lie
failed to answer. Tapers were issued
for his arrest.
i The casf charging *Ca.briel Wiggins
I with non-support was nol prossed.
{'leading guilty in the case charg
ing him with operating a car while in
toxicated, J. I). McKeitlian was fined
SSO and taxed with the costs.
' A nol pros resulted in the case*
charging Roy Boston with larceny.
| Fined SSO for carrying a concealed
weapon, Norman Williams appealed to
the higher courts.
! Willie Muggins was sentenced to
jail for 30 days to be hired out for
operating a car without lights and li
cense.
| Htjck Brown, adjudged guilty of an
assault upon a female, was sentenced
-to- jail for JO day* to Ite hired out.
| Karly May Boston was fined SSO
and taxed with the costs for ntauu-'
farturing liquor.
| Levi Harris was sentenced to jail i
for 00 days for an assault with a dead-'
ly weapon,
I Mrs. Joe hhugar appealed to the
higher courts when she was found'
guilty of reckless driving and fined SSO
and taxed with the costs.
Charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon, Roosevelt Yarrell was
adjudged guilty of simple assault,
Judge Bailey suspending judgment
upon payment of the costs of the case'
and assured good, behavior.
COUNTY HOME
INMATE DIES
William E. Rogers, 55, Is
Victim of Heart Disease
Tuesday Night
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William E. Rogers, highly respected
irmiate at the Martin County home for
a\[put five years, died there last Tues
day night of heart disease. He had,
been in feehl? health for some time.
Mr. Rogers, 55 yeArs old, was the
son of the hite Levi Rogers, Primitive
Baptist minister, and his wife, Patsy
I Corey Rogers. He is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. Dicie Cowan, and Miss
Asa Rogers, and two half-sisters,
Misses Emma Wade and Ada Leg
gett, all of this county.
Funeral services were conducted on
Tuesday afternoon at thecoqnty home
by Rev. W. B. Harrington. Burial
| was in the county burial ground, near
here.
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Paper As It Carries the Date
When Yoor Subscription Expires
ESTABLISHED 1898
IS 5 CENTS LOWER
THAN RATE FOR
PRECEDING YEAR
State Aid Enables Board to
Reduce Rate Despite
Lower Valuation
Meeting here last Tuesday for the
third lime this month, the county
board of commissioners dealt a last
economy blow to budgets and estab
lished a county-wide tax rate of $1.29
on the $IIM) property valuUtion. While
the rate is only 5 cents under the one
levied last year, it reflects a much
greater saving to taxpayers because
property values dropped more than a
million and a half dollars under the
figures of last year. This valuation
decrease actu.tllv made increases nec
essary in some departments, but even
in the face -of valuation losses, "the
school rate more than offsets the in
creases and lowers.the rate by 5 cents,
l-ast year l >2 cents were levied to run
the schools. This year a levy of 57
1-2 cents will be necessary to operate
the schools, care for bonds and bond
interest.
I liis year, the county anticipates the
collection of $180,826.03 to run the
county one year, care for all depart
ments, including bonds and interest,
operate the schools and care for. re
retirement of bonds and bond inter
est. Last year the county had found
it necessary to collect $21(i,|64. , >l for
these items. In other words, the
county will find it necessary to collect
$35,3.18,88 les-, than it did last year for
the schools and for the general county
purposes, due partly to increased aid
fm schools from the State, the change
in road operation and a strict econo
my. • -
In reality, the rate in Williamstoii
I ownship has been reduced 24 cents,
as follows: The road tax, a special
Jcvy, is now only 18 cents, as com
pared with 35 cents last year. The
special school tax is 20 cents as com
pared with 22 cents last year. And
then there is the 5-cent reduction in
the county-wide rate. When one con
sumers that property values dropped
more than a million and a half dollars
jthis year, or 10. per cent, lie will see
that the rate in township could
have been reduced 37 citnts had the
valuation remained the 'same as it was
in 1930. ■
In some districts, the reduction will
be as much as 4(1 cents, while in others
there will be little, if any, reduction,
on account of .heavy road bond issues
and fluctuating levies for the extend
ed school term. The rates that will
be necessary to care for township road
bonds and extended school terms have
not been determined in all the dis
tricts, and until they are, it will be im
possible to say just how much taxes
are reduced. It is believed, however,
that when all the special rates»are de
termined, the total tax levy, includ
ing everything, will be from $75,0(10 to
$90,000 less than it was for the year
Ihe •Commissioners, in determining
the rate, slashed the budgets, refusing
county aid for the commercial depart-
TjTcut m thr KobrrMinvillr schools and *.
I agricultural work in the Jamesville
schools this* year. It is understood
that the affected districts will support
the respective departments from 10,
, cal tax funds. The commissioners al-
I so refused to extend county aid to the
| schools for the payment of an extra
month's salary to principals who work
ordinarily two weeks before school
opens and two weeks after it closes.
Elsewhere in this paper appears a
budget summary, showing the various
1 items to lie cared for in the 1931 tax
I levy. The budget calls for $124,-
(»24.77 for the operation of the schools.
Of this amount the county is U> raise
by taxes $27,582.16. The State says
each county will pay to the extent of
15 cents on the 1930 valuations for the
support of the schools. The valuation
decrease made a rate of 17 1-2 cents
necessary, and-finding that the schools
could not be operated on the allotment
and by the State the county approved a
supplemental budget of 3 cents, which
will raise $3,751.61., The 17 1-2 cent
irate will raise $23,830.55, it is estimat-
ed. ~
The biggest items in the budget are
there to care for debt service of the
county and schools, approximately
$105,000 being required to care for
bonds add bond interest.
As compared with levies In other r
eastern counties, the rate in Martin
is low! 1
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Sunday Services At The .
Church of the Advent ,
Rev. A. H. Marshal, rector.
' Holy communion, 8 a. m.
Sunday school, 10 a. m. ,