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Mwrtfam WB MO« Col- MM ■ I iHtlii to Our Sixteen Hiwdrad Mirth C—«ty HIM VOLUME XLII—NUMBER *9 ANNOUNCE PRIZE WINNERS IN HOG RAISINGCONTEST - Three Jamesville Township Boys Win; Sponsored By Local Company m In an effort to determine the most economical and best methods of feed ing swine, s number of boys in the Jantetville section, entered a contest several months ago, the Lindsley Ice company, local ice, fuel snd feed deal ers, offering substantial priies to the winners. The contests were brought ■ to a close recently. Professor W. T. Overby, head of the agricultural work in the Jamesville schools, snd who as sisted the boys in the work, announc ing the winners yesterday. Various rules were agreed to by the several boys, and they were closely followed, Mr. Overby stated. An ap proved method of feeding, available feed, price of feed and balanced feed were considered, but no special feed or brand of feed was required in the contests. In one contest, the boys stsrted off with five pigs each, the boys making the largest gain at the smallest cost receiving sls; second. $lO, and a third, $5. In a second con test only one pig was used in the I tests, the winners receiving sls, 10,1 and $5 respectively. A grand prise of | S2O was also offered for the best re-1 suits. Mack Ange won first prize in the | one-pig contest and the S2O. grand prise offered for the cheapest gain per pound in either group. The young far mer started with a pig weighing 107 pounds. Sixty days later, the pig or hog weighed 263 pounds, making a daily gain of 2 3-5 pounds. The cost per pound gain was 4 67-100 cents. Ange fed corn, costing, $3.38; pig chow . costing $2.95 and meal costing 96 cents making a total cost of $7.29. The pig was a grade mixed Polan China and Essex. . - - Dsniel Holliday won first prize in the five-pig contest. His pigs weighed 351 pounds when he entered the con test and at the close they weighed 958 pounds, a gain of 607 pounds or a lit tle more than a two-pound gain daily. His corn cost was $24.00; pig chow, $5.84 and hog chow, $3.56, a total cost of $34.09 and a per pound cost of 5 1-2 cents. Earl Tetterton won the second prise in this contest. His five pigs weighed 364 at the beginning and 730 pounds M the end, a net gain of 426 pounds, averaging 1.42 pounds a day. He spent $15.61 for feed corn and $8.15 for pig and hog chow. His total cost wss $23.76 otf, a per pound gain cost of 5 snd 58-100 cents. No pure bred hogs were used in the contests. Young Hollidsy used grade Duroc Jerseys and Tetterton used Du roc Jerseys snd Hsmpshires crossed. These three young prize winners are seniors in the Jamesville High School this year and are completing their four year-agricultural course un der Professor W. T. Overby. They have studied crops, soils, fertilisers, horticulture, gardening and farm man agement and the many things that bear on these particular subjects. According to Professor Overby, these young men have learned that the farm is one of the best snd safest places for the young man today and that it will be th* best snd safest place for him tomorrow. OYSTER SEASON 45 DAYS SHORTER Will Open October IS This Year and Close Ntjxt March 15 » • Oyster season in North Carolina will be 45 days shorter this year than heretofore, according to action taken i by the Board of Conservation and De velopment at its last meeting. The season will open October 15 this year, 15 days later than the initial date last year; and will close Msrch 15 instead of April 15, as previously. ' This action was taken a view of improving market conditions for the Tar Heel oyster, particularly to en courage the offering of the best pos sible bivalve to this branch of the State's fishery trade. Deferring of the season's opening wilt allow more of the warm fall weather to pass before shipments begin. Since the market for fresh oysters usually closes in February, lopping off the end of the season is believed to eler, an opportunity for maintaining • high standard product and will not pfect the oystermen materially. In cooperation with the U. S. Bu reau of Fisheries, the N. C. Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment is seeking to develop the oyster industry of the State, particularly a long the lines of increasing the de mand lor this type of seafood and ea tsUisttnq the highest standard of product Opportunities in "oyster farming* have also frequently been ***** - THE ENTERPRISE Lightning Strikes Here Wednesday Lightning early lut Wednesday evening did minor damage when it ■truck the home of Mr. and lira. W. B. Hardy on Haaaell Street and tore a picture or two from the walla. No one waa hurt A second boh struck the home of Jesse Slade, colored, near the Baptist cemetery, and rendered his son. Buck Slade, 20 years old, un conscious. The boy was able to be up yesterday, but ia now unable Highway Patrolmen Hold Meeting Here DISCUSS STRICT ENFORCEMENT OF MOTOR LAWS Lieutenant Jones and Ten Patrolmen Discuss Law Meeting Wednesday I Meeting in the courthouse here last | Wednesday afternoon, Lieutenant Les- J ter Jones and ten of his Division A 'patrolmen, discussed several matters in connection with better protection for motorists and others by a more careful observance of the motor laws. The discussions centered around a stricter enforcement of the laws, the lieutenant directing his subordinates tq effect arrests where violations were noted without exception. Over-speeding, heretofore handled lightly, was discussed and the atten tion of the patrolment was directed lo the enforcement of the law limiting the speed of motor vehicles on North Carolina highways to 45 miles an hour. In an effort to lessen the danger surrounding wide and long loads, the lieutenant, referring to those trucks and trailers hauling piling that meas ured over 100 feet in length, stated that proper flags must be displayed by day and proper lights by night if they are to continue on the highways. As to the' width of vehicles and loads thereon, Mr. Jones told the patrol men that no truck with a load meas uring more than 90 inches in width is permitted to travel theh ighways, and that when one is found with a greater width than 90 inches to stop the truck and have the driver re-load the vehicle to lessen the width or take it off the road. Propev lights must also be dis played on trucks, it was stated. Mr. Jones also explained that no trailer of two or more tons capacity should use the highways unless it is adequately equipped with brakes. Strict enforcement of the law requir ing brakes on trailers of two or more tons capacity will be in effect after the first of the year, it was pointed out ift the lieutenant's talk to his men. RETAIL FOOD PRICES GO UP Increase Is Small, However, Only About 1-2 of 1 Per Cent Washington, Sept. 22.—Retail prices of food in Richmond and Norfolk fol lowed the trend of the prices through out the country during the month end ed August 15. i The Labor Statistics Bureau of the Department of Labor, issuing a com pilation of prices in 51 cities of the country today, said retail food prices for the country showed an average in crease of slightly over one-half of 1 per cent on August 15, as compared with July 15, but there was an aver age decrease of about 16 2-_3 per cent since August 15, last year. In Richmond and Norfolk, the in crease for the month amounted to less than one-half of 1 per cent, while for the year Richmond showed an increase of 19 per cent and Norfolk showed an increase of 18 per cent. » N. S. Godard Suffers A Broken Leg In Wreck • N. S. Godard, son of Mrs. Alice Godard, of this place, suffered a brok en leg and other injuries in an auto mobile-bus collision near Wilmington early last (Wednesday night, a cord ing to reports received here. It was also stated that a girl riding with him at the time, was badly hurt in the wreck. Mrs. Godard, returning here yester day, stated that N. S. was in a Colum bia,, S. C., hospital, and that his in juries were not considered serious. It waa reported here that the auto mobile driver shot the bus driver, bu» Mrs. she knew nothing about that Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 25, 1931 to talk. Other than the loaa of his •peech, SUd*, Js apffwendy all right He is able to eat and get around. Other members of the Slide family are said to have been stunned by the bolt, but were not badly hurt. Neighbors rush ing to the Slade home immediately after the storm wss over, were un able to learn the trouble there un til lengthy prayers snd "testimon ials" were offered by members of the Slade group. FIREMEN CALLED OUT WEDNESDAY Old Blount Manufacturing Building Threatened by Fire Late Wednesday Fire of undetermined origin threat ened the machine shop and the main factory of the old Blount Manufactur ing company on Smithwick Street her late last Wednesday night. When discovered shortly after 11 o'clock, the blaze was eating its way through the roof and side of the small shop, just a few feet from the big three story wooden structure. Resulting damage was estimated at $25. Glancing from a back window in his Main Street home shortly after 11 o'- clock, Mr. Herbert Taylor saw the blaze and telephoned the fire station. The volunteer company went out on record time, and within a very few minute}, the firemen had the flames under control. Only one line of hose was laid. After workmen left early Wednes jday afternoon, no one was seen in the building, and during the evening a ! heavy rain fell. But the rain had Ist j tie effect, for once started, the fire burned rapidly from the floor on up the wall and into the rafters and roof of the building. Joe Peel, young colored boy, who sleeps on the second floor of the big building, went to his room a bout 11 o'clock, but he saw no sign of any fire at that time. Several other people passed along the street about eleven o'clock and thy saw no signs ,of any fire. I The call was the first received by the |local fire company in more than three months, the last call before that com ing when the firemen were summoned to a fire started in the county jail by a prisoners last June. TWO ARE HURT I IN AUTO WRECK I —• — ,Car of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Johnson Wrecked Near Here Late Tuesday M. C. Johnson ,of Norlina, was bad ly cut on the arm and bruised about the chest, and his wife was slightly I hurt in an automobile wreck on the 'jamesville road early last Tuesday | evening. Their car, a Ford sedan, was : badly damaged. I Driving toward Williamston, Mr. 'and Mrs. Johnson passed a car and .had continued only a short distance be fore the driver of the second car in creased his speed and started to pass I the Johnsons. When almost opposite I the Johnson car, he started turning toward the right side of the road. | Mrs. Johnson, driving the car at the time, ran two wheels off the hardsur . face, but that did not make sufficient room for the driver of the other car, for he continued to the right and hook ed his bumper in the front wheel of the Johnson car, causing it to turn over. The other auto increased its speed and did not offer assistance to those in the wreck. Mr. Johnson stated here shortly aft er the wreck th*t the hit-and-run ma chine bore the license plate of a for eign state, but he was unable to iden tify it ' All Dressed Up Sweet Potato Exhibited Here A sweet potato all dressed up with 'a collar on was exhibited here this morniiig by John Lilley, Williams (Township farmer. The freak potato, in its early growth, passed through the neck of a broken quinine bottle, and as it grew the band become tighter and tighter. The bot tle neck held firm, and while it retard ed the growth of the potato at one 1 particular point, either end continued to grow, making it impossible to re move the bottle neck without damaging the potato or breaking the gt»*» Mr. Lilley discovered the freglc when he was digging in his potato pgtch day before yesterday. COURT ADJOURNS ON ACCOUNT OF EXCESSIVE HEAT Pay Costs and Fines Or Go To Jail, Judge Grady Tells Defendants Proceedings in the Martin County Superior court were brought to an abrupt close Wednesday morning when Judge Henry A. Grady, of Clinton, declared it was too hot to continue scheduled work. One ther mometer in the courthouse registered 82 degrees shortly before the jurist | adjourned the court. The mercury, however, climbed in the courthouse as the hours passed, but the red fluid be haved well there compared with what it did in the fields, in the offices and in other places of business where work was imperative. The action cost the county approxi mately S2OO. The courtw ill convene again next | Monday morning when a number ol [civil cases is scheduled for trial. No startling cases were brought up before the court, and the two dozen or more causes called were rapidly dis posed of by the tribunal. Just before leaving the bench, the judge passed a decree whereby all defendants indebt ed to the court must pay their fines and costs by the next term of superior court or go to jail. Paper were or dered issued in each case. Thep roceedings, not including those previously, reported, follow: Sam Kaynor, charged with larceny, was adjudged guilty and sentenced to the roads for a period of eight months. Claudie Wilks, charged with assault with intent to rape, was found not guilty. Prayer for judgment was continued upon the payment of the cost in the case charging Jesse Rogers with forg ery. Judgment was suspended in the case charging Willis Pearce with operating a car without licenses. Judgment was also suspended in the (Continued on page tour) LOWER RATE OF INTEREST PAID FOR SAVINGS ■ ♦ New Rate Will Go Into Ef fect At Local Bank October First Lower interest rates on saving ac counts and certificates of deposit, re- . ported throughout the country, will go into effect here the first of next month, I it was announced yesterday by the Braneh Banking and Trust Company. In announcing the change, Mr. H. D. Bateman, president, stated: "Under present economic conditions, opportunities for making safe and prof itable loans are limited. Investments which measure up to the rigid standard of safety set for all banks, offer today the lowest interest yields in years. For instance, certain United States Government bonds, held largely by banks because of their unquestioned safety and liquidity, are at present sell - t ing on a basis to yield a return of less ' than 1 per cent in interest to the bank. Naturally, therefore, if a bank can not earn as higf? interest now as formerly, i it can not safely continue to pay as high a rate to its depositors. "Safety for our depositors is put first above every other consideration. Therefore, we believe that the an nounced reduction in our interest rate is a wise move which will meet with i your approval. "When the time comti 1 that the in terest return on safe and liquid bank i investments increases we will again - share these increased earnings with our depositors. . "We have explained this matter to ' you fully in this way because we are ! confident that we can rely upon your I loyalty and understanding. And we I believe that when you do understand, I you will not be dissatisfied with us for taking a step which is so plainly in tended for your safety and protection. "Therefore, this is to sdvise our de positors that beginning October Ist and until further notice, interest will be paid on savings accounts and cer tificates of deposit in this bank at the rate of 3 per ceitt per annum, instead i of 4 per cent as heretofore paid. Rules and regulations otherwise to remain as they are now. i • Aged Negress Dies In the County Home Wednesday Rosa Andrews, aged negress, died II in the county home near here, last i Wednesday afternoon. She waa buried in the county cemetery yesterday aft -1 ernoon. I The woman was entered in the home ■ abouts ix months ago from Roberson- I ville township. Her death the second to occur II at the home in g very abort time. ' However, it WM Otto ol two occurring I there lo about a year. Ask Special Sessio To Limit Production Tobacco And Cotton in No WOMAN'S CLUB IN REGULARMEET HERE THURSDAY Will Continue Its Welfare Work in Community —i——This Year With the new president, Mrs. Myr tle Brown, presiding, the Woman's Club of Williamston met in its club home yesterday at 4 o'clock. Mrs. T. B. Brandon, secretary, read the min utes of the last meeting, held*iri June, ami ' those of the executive ' meeting held this week. After which commit- tee reports were made, as well as re port of the treasurer, Mrs. James Ci. Staton, who made a good report in view of the fact that the club has ob served a holiday for the past two months. Upon suggestion o£ Mrs. P. B. Cone it was decided (o organize a garden club in connection with the Woman's I Club, and this will be perfected with in the next few weeks. | The club, for the past two years, has done a great deal of welfare work and after discussion it was decided to continue doing all that it possibly could in helping the needy. Mrs. L. B.' Harrison lias accepted the grtieral chairmanship of this com mittee, and Mrs. W. C. Manning, as lassistant chairman, will have charge of the work among the school children. She will work with Superintendent Watson, who cooperates so well with the club in its work among the young folks of the totvn. The other mem bets of the welfare committee as ap pointed at this meeting are Mrs. Mil-i ton J. Moye, Mrs. Frank J. Margolis, ami Mrs. John A. Ward. LOCALS TO OPEN SEASON TODAY Playing Rich Square Team There; Meet Windsor Here Next Week J The local high school football team opens its football season this afternoon when the squad goes I" Rich Square to play that eleven. Coach Bouknight has been holding light practices with the squad since school opened here two weeks ago, but unusually warm weather limited organization work dur ing a greater part of the time, and final line-ups for the season have not yet 'been determined. According to Coach Bouknight, the ( following boys will start the game this afternoon: | Jim Cooke, quarterback; Stuart Whit jley, fullback; Melton Matthews and ( Oscar Anderson, halfbacks; "Snorter" ( Cox and Henry I.ec Hardison, ends; George Harrison, jr., and Saunders Revels, tackles; Gomer Taylor and ■ Tom Manning, guards-; Joe Godard, center. J The sixteen boys on the reserve squad are; Henry Lee Hardisoij, Rob 'ert Cowen, Billie Watts, Henry Har rison, Marvin Roherson, Kader Rog erson, Jack Manning, Ben Hopkins, I Plliis Ramey, John Hatton (iurganus, Hardy Rose, Tom Rose, Jim Rhodes, .Cush Hassell, Arthur Gurganus, ami iWarren Roebuck. Two Prisoners Sent To j The Roads from County Two prisoners, Sam Ray nor and Norman Williams, colored, were re moved from the county jail here yes terday and transported in a new State patrol wagon to the highways in Hali fax county where they will do service during the next several months. The number was the smallest com mitted to the roads during a superior court term in this county in several Twenty prisoners continue in the lo cal jail, many of whom are awaiting trial in the federal courts. Then there are a few being held for non-payment of court fines and costs imposed at previous sessions. Indicted for Killing Child Near New Bern Recently —■ ; ■ -. —~i i m • Charged with hitting and killing Henry Henderson, small child, near Jacksonville, Onslow county, August 19, Mr. Stacy Cop, of this place, is in that county today answering the bill of indictment. According to reports received here, the accident was un avoidable, witneisevso* stating tit the time. t L_ Mr. Cox was accompanied to Jack sonville by his attorney, Elbert S. Peel, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and Chief of Police W. B. Daniel. TOBACCO MARKET Tobacco prices on Eastern Carolina markets continue low, with many grades selling lower than they have since the markets opened the early part of the month. A few grades of excep tional quality are. said to be com manding fair and even good prices, but those piles are limited in num ber, according to reports coming from several markets. Other than the break last Mon day, sales on the local market have been of medium size. Approxi mately 90,000 pounds of the leaf are on the three warehouse floors here today. Z.M.WHITEHURST DIES WEDNESDAY AT GREENVILLE Number of Years a Leading Citizen of Martin County Zebulon M. Whitehurst, a native of this county and for a number of years one of its leading'citizens, died at his home in: Greenville last, Wednesday, Death came after several year.s of ill ness, the last two years having been spent in bed following a stroke of paralysis. | Despite the intense pain which, at tended his illness, Mr. Whitehurst bore his suffering with Christian for titude and always manifested interest in the Community. | Funeral services were conducted from his late home yesterday at 3:30 o'clock by Rev. W. H. Covert, pas |tor of Immanuel Baptist church, as sisted by Rev. W. A. Lillycrop, rec tor of St. Paul's Episcopal church. I Hurial was in the Cherry Hill ceme- tery there. Mr. Wliitrhurst was born near Oak City, this county, October 31,1853, and would have been 78 years old next month. He was married to Miss Rebecca Sherrod December 22, JIBBO, and moved to Greenville about 22 years later. He was held in the highest esteem by a wide circle of friends in Martin and Pitt counties, and his death was received with profound sorrow. He is survived by his wife, two sons and five daughters and one sister. CHANGE SEEN IN FARMING SYSTEM Clarence Poe Predicts Per manent Readjustment In Southeast Washington, Sept. l'>,—The south ern cotton crisis was described today Iby Poe, editor of the Pro. gressive Farmer and Southern Kuralist as the forerunner of a permanent re adjustment of that section's fanning system. j In a radio address over a national broadcasting company hook-up, Or. Poe listed the expansion of cotton acreage in the last decade and asserted . a reduction of 10,000,000 ai res was in evitable, predicting it would be made I largely east of the Mississippi. Any future expansion would be in the southwest, he said, particularly in Texas, where power machinery does .the work cheaply. ■«' I "For the southeast,' he sa«l, "pres 'ent cotton prices mean not just a tern -1 porary emergency and then a relapse to former cotton "acreage. Rather, we have come to a permanent readjust ment of our farming system. And this readjustment will involve, first, more live-at-home farming; second, more livestock, dairying and poultry." : Willie Rogers Dies At Home In Bear Grass ♦ Willie Rogers, 34-year-old farmer, died at his home in Hear Grass last Wednesday afternoon of pneumonia. He bad been ill for almost two ytfrs, suffering a complication of disenes during that time. Funeral services were held from the home yesterday afternoon by Mr. Lewis Holliday. Interment was in the Harris burial ground in Bear Grass township. He is survivedb y hi* widow and five children. • _ Ground limestone used in Clay county last fall under soil improving crops is stvowing excellent results on 1 al soils and all crops, reports E. D. Bowditch, county agent. Watch the Label On Yont Paper Aa It Carries the Date When Your Subscription Expires _____ ESTABLISHED 1898 SMALL NUMBER OF FARMERS AT MEET THURSDAY Meetings Throughout The r State Favor A Special Legislative Session Meeting in the courthouse here yes terday, a ({roup of farmers, small in number hut faithful to their cause, passed a resolution asking the Gover nor of North Carolina to call a special session of the General Assembly that some legislative action might be tak en in an effort to limit cotton and to bacco production in the State next.' year. Similar meetings were held in more than KM) towns throughout East ern North Carolina, some of the meet ings reporting than 500 farmers pres ent for the discussion and adoption of a resolution favoring a special ses sion of the legislature. i Other than that shown by the less than a dozen men attending, there was very little interest in the matter here. As one of the farmers attending the meeting stated, it was a flop because on one side of town there were many farmers deploring the low price of tobacco when they should have been in the courthouse on the othor side of town trying to do something about it. I "We were warned not to plant much tobacco, but few of us give heed to the advice, and it looks as there'll have to he a law, with a death penalty for its violation, to keep us l/otn in creasing the crops again next year," |ime farmer stated in whole-heartedly expressing himself as favoring a spec |ial session of the Jhat sotite u tiuii might be taken to cotton and tobacco crops in North Carolina. The resolutions adopted in the sev eral meetings will be presented to .Governor Gardner through the East ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the organization sponsoring ihe move ment. Meetings were held earlier in 'the week in several set-lions of the cot- j. ton and tobacco belts, and it is be lieved strong pressure will be brought upon the governor in an effort to have him call the lawmakers to Raleigh in special session to consider limited pro duction of cotton and tobacco. * Throughout the South, special ses sions of legislative bodies have been Itehl in the various state capitals, and legislation limiting .cotton planting in 'a number of them has been passed. While the cotton feature is more or less seondary to the tobacco issue in this State, there is enough of the crop [raised to demand somc.actiuu that"will limit production even more. The resolutions passed at the meet ing here yesterday read, as follows: "Resolved, That the Governor, O. Max Gardner be, and lie is hereby, re | quested to call a special session of the 'General Assembly of North Carolina lor the purpose of formulating some plan for tlie reduction of the produc tion of cotton .uid tobacco in this State in the year 1 ( >32, in conformity to and in connection 'with, other cot ton and tobacco producing states." ESTIMATE LOSS IN PEANUT CROP Quality of Crop In This County Believed Better ... Than It Was in 1930 «> With no rain falling during the past 33 days or more in a large portion of the Virginia-North Carolina peanut belt, the yield of the goober crop has been decreased by 30 per cent, accord ing to a report sent out this week by J. W. IJflfry Company, Norfolk. The market w\ reported dull and very lit tle demand for the crop. Prices were quoted at from 2 to 4 cents,- accord ing to grade. The crop in this county is said to be of better quality than it was last season,' but no reports as to the ex pected- yield have been made. Farm ers are agreed that no hay shortage is likely, as the vines have flourished this season. Large vines, however, do riot ' always represent a good nut crop. " . r~T~r*Tii." I Maggie L. Walker To Speak Here Wednesday Maggie L. Walker, secretary and treasurer of the Right Worthy Grand Council, Independent Order of St. Luke, of Richmond, Va., will apeak at the colored high school here Wednes day evening, September 30, at 8:30 o'clock. The public ia cordially invited, and a special invitation to attend is extend ed white friends of the school.