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Watch the Labal On Tow Papar AM It. Carries ths Data What Your Subacription Expires VOLUME XXXV—NUMBER 46 f WILL BE LATE IN FINAL CURING OF TOBACCO CROP Many Farmers In County Will Be Curing Crop In September Martin County farmers will hardly complete harvesting their tobacco crop before the first week in September, it may be even later than that before the work is completed, accord ing to reports received from nearly every section in the county. What promised early last spring the earliest tobacco-grow ing season in years has turned out already to be One of the latest in many seasons. Many ftM-mers now say they will harvest and care tobacco in September for the first time in their lives. The crop is said to be divided into three groups, early, middle and late, and nearly every farmer has tobacco in at least two of the groups, and others have some in all three. The early crop is about harvested, and a bout two curings have been pulled from the crop getting its start sec ond. Very few leaves, and in some cases, none, have been pulled from the late crop. According to reports, the quality of that part of the crop already cured is only fair, farmers in certain parts of this county reporting a better grade of leave than those in many sections of the bright belt. But for many farmers in certain sections of |his county, the crop is almost a failure in both quality and poundage. Reports from Georgia indicate that not more than 10 days will be re quired to sell every pound grown in that State this season. ATLANTIC HOTEL IS IN NEW HANDS A. R. Moseley Experienced Hotel Man Takes Over Management Mr, A. R. Moseley, experienced hotel man, has leased the Atlarftic Hotel here, taking over its active man agement this week. During the past few years, Mr. Moseley operated ho tels in Florida and Louisiana and at Whiteville in this State. Last Janu ary he leased the Garrett Hotel in Ahoskie, which he continues to op erate with Mr. J. Sheppard Brinkley in charge there. The two hotels will be operated AS. the Moseley) Hotel Company. Mr. Moseley is of the wide-awake, affable hotel type man, and assures patrons of the hotel every courtesy and efficient servioe. According to reports, several improvements will be made to the hotel, but definite plans have not been made at this time. Mr*. Moseley, who ia now in Ahos kie, will join her husband here in the near future. —u Mercury Drops 20 Points As Rain Falls Yesterday The mercury tumbled 20 degrees from 100 to 80 here yesterday after noon when a general rain fell in this section, the drop being one of the most radical recorded here this sum mer. As far as it could be learned, the rain was centered in Grif fins and Jantesville Townships, Mr. Wendell Hamilton, of Jamesville, re porting one of the heaviest falls re corded there in more than two months. "If will help peanuts and potatoes and it might do young corn some good, but no good will result old corn, tobacco and a few other crops that suffered severely during the long drought," Mr. Hamilton said. A good rain fell here during the course of an hour or more, but lit tle fell in parts of Cross Roads and certain other sections of the county, it is understood. Roy Strawbridge Starts I 30-Day Jail Sentence Here Roy Strawbridge, South Carolina resident, was placed in the county jail here this morning after he had failed to comply with a judgment handed dowo in a justice of the peace court here several weeks ago. f" He is scheduled to serve a 30-day sentence. Some time ago when the man was . placed in the jail, he fired his mat tress, and the fire company was called out. • Mrs. W. R. Cherry, of Washington, was here last night and this morning attending to business matters. STANDING OF CLUBS } Jkg Gab W. L. Pet. Colerain 5 4 .556 Etiaabeth City 5 4 .556 Williamston ± 4 5 .444 Edentm ■ 4 5 .444 r~ THE ENTERPRISE Peanut Plant Resumes Work Giving Jobs to More Than 100 Tha local plant of the Colum bian Peanut Company resumed op erations Wednesday morning, liv ing 100 women and 21 men em ployment Sufficient quantity of atock is on hand to continue op erations during this and nfoxt month. Captain W. S. Pritchard, manager of the plant, said yester day. First notice that the plant would resume operations waa given by a long blast of the company's plant whistle at 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. Hardly before the blast was completed, hundreds of men and women started running to the plant for jobs, Captain Pritchard ALL FOUR TEAMS STILL BUNCHED IN LEAGUE RACE Heavy Schedule Face All Teams In the League Next Week Only one game separated the lead ers and the cellar occupants in the Al bemarle Baseball League today, Eliza beth City and Colerain leading with five victories and four losses, and Wil liamston and Edenton trailing close with four victories and five losses each. There is again a possibility of the four teams being tied at the end of the week's play. Should Williamston and Edenton win today, the teams will go into next to the last week of play with 5 wins and 5 losses each. Yesterday the teams were rained out. Today the Martin# are scheduled to play the Jaybirds at Elizabeth City and the Colonials go to Goterain. Playing Colerain at Windsor last Tuesday, the Martins were noted out in the ninth by a 6 to 5 sjcore, the Bertie boys showing the strongest op position of the season. An unassisted double play by Jini mie Brown here Wednesday afternoon featured a slugfest carried on by Cole rain and the Martins, the locals win ning, 18 to 13. Attempting to run home on a hit to centerfield, a visit ing player was forced back to third, where he was put out by Brown. An other player attempted to make third on the play and met the first player, and he was also put out when he started to return to second. Cherry started for the Martins, but he was relieved by Kugler in the sixth. Trailing in the fifth, the Martins stag ed a rally and made eight runs in that frame. The visiters made four runs in the sixth to tit the score, hut the locals outdiitanced>thejii from then on to win by a 5-run margin. A heavy schedule faces the team of the league next week when William ston plays four games at home, one at Edenton Tuesday and one at Wind sor. Edenton will play here Monday afternoon to fnake up the game sched uled for last Friday. Elizabeth City plays here Wednesday and Colerain comes here Friday. The Jaybirds re turn Saturday afternoon to play the game rained out yesterday. Special 10-cent admission fees will be bargains for the ladies all the week, Manager Spivey announced this morning. It is generally believed that next week's play in the loop will decide the winner of the second half. All the games are important, and there is every indication that each one will be hard fought. Williamston has the hardest schedule of any of them, with six games to be played in six days, and every team in the league a con tender for the second-half honors. Presbyterians Will Have One Service Here Sunday ' Sunday, August 7, 1932: There will be but one service in Williamston thi« Sunday. The church school will meet at 9:45 a. m. Every one is urged to be present. At Bear Grass there will be but one tervice. The Sunday school will meet at 9:30 a. m. At Roberton* Chapel Sunday school will be at 4 p. m. There will be no worship service and sermon at the Williamston church during the month of Auguit. The preaching services at Bear Grass will be on the 2nd and 4th Sun day nights at 8 p. m. Regular services will be held at Roberson'a Chapel. Attend some church every Sunday. Pastor Will Preach at the Baptist Church Sunday , • The pastor of the Memorial Bap tist church is returning home tonight, and will conduct the regular worship service Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The people are invited to this service. There will be no Sunday evening Williamstoa, Martin County, North Carolina» Friday, August 5,1932 stating that there were enough applications to furnish the labor for two or three plants. Em ployees working in the plant when it cioeed some time agp were 100 per cent in their return for work Wednesday morning. Many pf the number, or nearly all of them, have- been without work since the plant closed, and for them as well as the other 1,500 or 1,600 unem ployed die securing of a livelihood has been difficult. The plant is the only one of major sixe in op* eration at the present time, and continued activities are only as sured during August and Septem ber. LONG SESSION COUNTY COURT HELD TUESDAY Judge Bailey Calls Fifteen Cases for Trial Before Many Spectators ♦ The long sessioi) of the county re corder's court here last Tuesday had the drawing power of a superior court Vlhe many witnesses and spectators almost overflowing the court auditor ium. There were no cases of major significance, but the large docket with its IS actions attracted many wit nesses and spectators. And there were substantial fines imposed and long road sentences meted out. Alexander Smallwood, the colored fellow-who stole sls and a pistol from a market house on the Jamesville road, was sentenced to the roads for 10 months. Harry James, adjudged guilty in the case charging him with an assault on a female, was sentenced to the roads for a period of six months. Dave' Melton was fined $25 and taxed with the costs when found guil ty of reckless driving. He appealed, the court requiring bond in the sum of SIOO. Several cases were on the docket charging defendants with operating trucks without proper licenses or vio lation of the traffic laws. T. E. Hines and William Sutton were fined SSO when the court -adjudged them guilty. They appealed their cases, Herfiert Brown f indicted under a sim ilar charge, had his case continued one week. B. G. Hines, charged with permitting the operation of a truck without proper license, was fined SSO and he appealed. A similar charge preferred against J. R. Everet was continued one week. Clinton Rogers, James Ollie Purvis and Fred Smith, charged with lar ceny and receiving, were found not guilty. ——"T ——— Josh Pritchaxd was found not guil ty in the case charging liini with an assault with a deadly weapon and car rying a concealed weapon. Probable cause was not found in the 'case charging Joe Mills with an as sault with a deadly weapon. Charged with violating ihe liquor laws, Clara Ann Sutton was found, guilty and sentenced to jail for one day. Jim Chance appealed to the higher courts when he w?as adjudged guilty and sentenced to the roads for 18 months in the case charging him with an assault with a deadly weapon. The longest sentence of the session was meted out to Herbert Page, young white man recently returned from the roads, when the court adjudged him guilty of indecent exposure of his per son. Prayer for judgment was continued until the first Tuesday in September in the case charging Herman Farmer with driving an automobile without proper license. Beer in Finland Finland's breweries have been un able to supply the demand for beer since the Finnish Government in> creased the legal alcoholic content of the beverage from 1.6 to 2.25 per cent. j WHERE THEY PLAY ) FRIDAY, AUOUST sth Williamston at Elizabeth City Ed en toil at Colerain MONDAY, AUOUST »TH Edenton at Williamston. TUESDAY, AUOUST 9th Colerain at Elizabeth City Williamston at Edenton WEDNESDAY, AUOUST 10th Elizabeth City at Williamston Edenton at Colerain THURSDAY, AUOUST 1 1th Elizabeth City at Edenton Williamston at Windsor FRIDAY, AUOUST. 12th Edenton at Elizabeth City Colerain at Williamston SATURDAY, AUOUST 13th Elizabeth City at Williamston. BARNHILL CASE i STILL PENDING; NO HEARING YET Aged Man Said To Have Threatened Life of His Foster Son The status of the investigation into the Jesse Barnhill murder jn the Flat Swamp section last April continues un changed, no new developments having been publicly given out following the arrest of Tom Barnhill, aged foster lather of the dead man, last Satur day. No hearing has been arranged as far as it could be learned late yes terday. Sheriff YVhitehurst, of Pitt County, | and Solicitor Clark, of the second district, were here Wednesday after noon and questioned the prisoner for more than two hours. TTi« conversa tions were held secret, but it is un derstood that the authorities are gath ering important evidence rapidly. It is believed that sufficient evidence has already been gathered from various sources strongly indicating that the aged man has some knowledge of the mystery surrounding the death of young Barnhill. It was unofficially learned that many incidents just before the killing have been established as facts that might warrant a more serious consideration of the case. Barnhill, it is said, never appealed to the sheriff of his county for aid in running down the murderer, and his own statements indicated that he thought he might be arrested. It is also understood that th« man threat ened his son when the boy is said to have refused admittance of a woman, Cora Andrews, to their home. He is said to have drawn a pistol on the boy; informing him that he would run his household as he wanted to, but when this took place it not be learned. The officers are continuing to weave and it is believed they are rapidly completing a net that will bring re sults in the case. No other arrests have been made, however, or none had been made up until yesterday after noon, as far as it could be learned here. «. , KIWANIANS IN REGULAR MEET Receive Invitation To Meet With Other Clubs At Bayview August 25 •—- ~ The program at the regular week-| ly meeting of the local Kiwanis Club Wednesday was featured by a brief talk by Carl Goerch, editor of the Washington Progress. Mr. G. H. Harrison, in charge of "the program in the absence of Kev. C. H. Dickey, club president, intro duced Mr. Goerch who extended an invitation to the local club to meet J with the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs j of Greenville and the Rotary club of Washington in a joint meeting to be held at Bayview August 25th. After extending the invitation to the Witliamston club, the speaker made a few remarks relative to the | welfare work that is to be done in Beaufort County this coming winter, and he made several valuable sug-' gestions that cotjld be made appli -1 cable to this community in carrying |on welfare work this winter. I The welfare problem, which is sujK" ject to be a major one here, as in some of the other counties of the 'State, caused the members of the 'club to give the speaker their close 'attention and they were well pleased j with his suggestions which will be I studied by a committee of the local club and possibly be put into practice in this community. Regular Services At The Methodist Church Here C. T. Roger*, Pastor Regular services will be held at the Methodist church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and that evening at 6. A good attendance is expected as there will be no service on the next Sun day. The pastor and family will be out of town for a couple of weeks. Services at Holly Springs at 3:00 o'clock . M., Sunday. All are invited to be present. Local Girl Plans to Study In Illinois This Winter Granted a leave of absence for one year by Duke University, Miss Eve lyn Harrison arrived here this week to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Harrison, before leaving the early part of next month for Urbana, .where she will study for a year in the University of Illinois library school. She will resume her work in the Duke University library in September of next year. John Ward, of Smithwick Creek, wu here for a while today. He said fhey had a helping rain there yester day afternoon. New Contract for Mail Route Will Be Made on Auaust 16th COMMISSION TO CONSIDER WORK ON HIGHWAY 125 Contract for Hardsurfacing Route 125 Might Be . Let This Month Meeting with highway officials in Raleigh this week, representatives of this county were assured that the com mission would consider hard surfac ing the remainder of Highway No. 125 to the Halifax County line. The project is said to have been approved by the federal representative and fav orable action on the part of the State Highway officials is expected when they hold their next regular meeting the latter part of this month. Several contracts will be let the latter part of this month; it is understood, and it is hoped that the work on Route 125 will be included in the letting. It is understood that a delegation from Hassell is in Raleigh today in the interest of having Highway No. 11 run through that town, but it could not be learned definitely Just what at titude the Itiighway authority will take in the matter. It was unofficially learned here that Commissioner Le land Kitchin did not favor changing the course of the road so as to have it run through Hassell, but this could not be established as a fact. Delegations from many sections of the State have already or are visiting Kaleigh in the interest of road build ing projects in their respective coun ties. DRAW JURY LIST FOR NEXT TERM SUPERIOR COURT Judge Frank A. Daniels, of Goldsboro, Scheduled To Preside Jurors for the two weeks' mixed term of Martin County Superior court convening here the 19th of next month were selected this week by the board of commissioners, judge Frank A. Daniels, of Goldsboro, is scheduled to presided over the term, but it is pos sible that he will exchange courts with Judge Paul Frizzell, the jurist presiding over the last two terms of court held in the county. The names of the jurors are, as fol lows: / Fir.t Week JamesviUe: E. E. Ange, C. C. Sex ton, A. C. Brown, M. H. Ange, H. L. Ange, L. C. Brown, and L. H. Lilley.. Williams: J. S. Andrews and Simon D. Perry. Griffins: Roy C. Coltrain, C.-C. Col train, and N. R. Daniel. Bear Grass: H. C. Green and L. H. Taylor. Williamston: R. B. Brown, jr., Ralph Taylor, Virgil McKeel, C. H, Cowin, jr., and Raymond Taylor. Cross Roads: John Jackson, C. B. Clark, J. W. Hardy, Nathan Bullock, I). C. Peel, and J. B. Bullock. | Robersonville: Adrian Gray, W. 0. House, H. A. Jenkins, J. W. House, and J. L. Whitfield. Poplar Point: Lester Keel. Hamilton: James L. Pritchard and J. T. Moore. Goose Nest: Z. D. Cox, W. E. Ty son, and D. E. Bunting. Second Week JamesviUe: L. P. Holliday and J. M. Ange. Williams: A. M. Griffin and B. L. Gardner. Griffins: George P. Roberson. Bear Grass: B. F. Whitehurst. Williamston:" R. H. Smith and W. L. Stalls. » Cross Roads: H. L. Bullock. Robersonville: J. H. Bell, J. M Highsmih, and N. D. Matthews. Hamilton: W. H. Everett, W. F, Haisli.p M. E. Fleming, and J. E. Adams. » Goose Nest: Lee Cox and G. W. Barrett. In the list of jurors, there are many names of young men just becoming of age to serve. Bear Grass Team Wins , Its Fourteenth Game Last Saturday the Bear Grass base ball team defeated the 1 New Road team for its fourteenth win of the season. Peel and Rogers pitched (for New Road and Malone caught. Stalls and Gurganus pitched and Cook caught for Bear Grass. The score was about 20 to 3. Piephoff led with the willow for Bear Grass, getting two home runs and a single. R. Rogers also hit a homer. Th« Bear Grass team is play ing Oak City on the high school dia mond here this afternoon. \ TWIN EGGS ] At little old white hen, belong ing to Mrs. Erah Coob here, laid two eggs in on* day the early part of the week. The ex tra activity of the chicken that day waa not much noticed, but a day or two later, the white hen commanded much attention when ahe laid two eggs joined together after the fashion of the iSiameM twins. Connected end to end, the egga were full site and perfect in every way except for the shells which were softer than the normal covering. JuM( imagine the ower-pro duction should all the hens in the country start in for such antics as that. WELFARE AGENT MAKES REQUEST FOR RELIEF AID It Is Hoped Martin County Will Share in $300,000,-. 000 Relief Funday Efforts are now being made by wel fare workers and others to have Mar tin County share in the relief fund established by Congress recently, but nothing definite has been an nounced indicating that Martin will share in the fund and to what extent if it does. The authorities are work ing in behalf of the relief fund for this county, but the outcome of their efforts will hardly be visible before the winter, if at all. The nature of the relief plan is*lit tle known here at this time, it not being known whether the fund will be used as a dole or to promote work for unemployed or both. Over in Beaufort where an applica tion for $50,000 of the fund has been made, the Washington Progress has the following to say in connection with the relief fund: "While various other comities in North I arolina are clamoring (or their share—and in a good many cases more than their share—of tjie fed eral emergency relief fund, Beaufort County has let it be known that she I doesn't care to have its citizenship [classified as paupers. As a matter of fact, a number of leading men of this city believe that the distribution -of a large sum of money throughout this section would be one of the most un fortunate things (hat could happen. The government, during the last ! session of Congress, set aside a fund 'of around ' for the relief 'of such unfortunate citizens as were ! unable to weather the storms of ad versity duri'iig 'tlie present depres sion. North Carolina, it is believed, i will get around _six or seven million | dollars -of this fund. A number of • counties jalready have put V tiheir application for a part of this amount. | The Beaufcft County Welfare De partment has asked for SSO,(KM). Guil ford County has applied for sloi,ooo. I Many other counties have filed their requests with the Governor. I It seems that Governor Gardner is responsible forNhe distribution of this fund throughout the State. The Gov ernor is depending for advice upon Mrs. W. T. Host, the capable head of the State Welfare Department.' Mrs. Bost, in turn, is depending upon the various county welfare officres. "If the money is distributed in the same manner as one would throw a few pennies to a beggar on the street, then *it is believed that this emerg ency relief fund would do the coun try a more lasting harm than the de pression itself. It is pointed out that many individuals, knowing of the ex istence of this fund, would apply for charity whether needed it or not. Beaufort county, it is felt, would 4>e harmed to a greater extent by any such relief than it would be benefit ted." The Kiwanis club here last Wed nesday appointed a committee to in vestigate the relief program and pre sent Martin's claim at the proper time. Oak City Youth Nearly Drowns There Recently James Raw!*, 9 years old, barely escaped with his life recently when he slipped away from the home of his parents in Oak City and went swim ming in Sherrod's Mill Pond, near there, with several other boys about his age. The young boy ventured too far out, and had gone down the third time when G. D. Pearson, jr., 12 years old, weitt to the rescue. Young Pear son and hia comrades rendered the boy •rst aid and carried him home on their shoulders. After a few days stay in bed he was able to be up. Advertiser* Will Pad Our Cot- Latchkey to Ow Sixteen Hundred Martin Coontjr Homes ESTABLISHED 1898 MANY EXPECTED TO ENTER BIDS FOR LONG ROUTE People from as Far Away As Pennsylvania Are Considering Job VVhile the present carriers are mak ing every effort to maintain schedules over the mail route from Norfolk to Wilson and return, and failing much of the time, it is understood that many Others are planning to enter bid* for the joh. According to reports re ceived here, people from as far away as I ennyslvania have investigated the route, and a few local people have discussed it with the possibility that they might enter bids. Ihe contract now in effect is only a temporary one. but beginning Sep ember 1, the contract will be in effect for four years, excepting two months. Bids will be received until the I.6th of this month, Under the terms of the contract, an SIB,OOO bond will be required, and that alone will cost the carrier or carriers around S7OO. When the route was first'established a man named Wat kins accepted the contract for a little over $3,000 a year. He failed, and after the second day another party started out. He did not last, and a third party, after trying the job, resigned, and then the pres ent carriers accepted the contract, but in the meantime the price had been advanced to nearly $9,000. And it is believed that the carriers will hardly break even at that figure. Under the new contract, the oper ators of the route will handle all ' classes of mail, only certain classes having been handled heretofore. It is understood that the present carriers have hauled as much as five tons on one trip, and -more may be expected when all clasess V)f mail are included and when the rush of the busy seasons of the year is to .be met. Since the schedules have not been maintained regularly, the government has iiiade the office here a distribut ing center for towns between William- ' ston and Tarboro, and patrons in those places are now getting regular serv ice. Heretofore, mail for Everettts, Kobersonville, and other towns up the line was left at this point by the Wil son-Norfolk bus and sent to Plym outh where it was dispatched" on the morning train of the Coast Line, lhe Plymouth bus made very few con nections with the other line, resulting in a delayed service of 8 to 24 hours for patrons up the road. Now the mail is taken from the Wilson-Norfolk bus and dispatched from here every morning in titue to catch the Atlantic Coast Line train to Tarboro. Postmaster Jesse T, Price, talking about the route between Norfolk and Wilson, said it was one of the longest maintained by the government in eith er North Carolina or Virginia, and that it was really a big undertaking. Bids will also be received August 16 for, operation of the route between here and Plymouth. LOCAL POST WINS STATE TROPHY Awarded Cup for Having Largest Membership Gain In Year » The John Walton Hassell American Legion post here was awarded a val uable trophy at a meeting of its mem bers here this week for having made the largest percentage of membership gain of any post in the state during the year. District Commander Mad dry, of Rich Square, presented the cuj>: .. With a large number of members present at the meeting, the-post made preliminary arrangements to join the other posts, Rich Square, Ahoskie and Windsor, in the fourth district in an Armistice Day celebration next No vember. Committees will be appoint ed details will be announced later, Adjutant Diyin, of the local post, an nounced yesterday. 9 Few Taxpayers Plan To Discuss Budget Monday While the Martin County budget for the year 1932-33 has been tenta tively prepared, a few attacks wilt probably be directed against it next Monday when a few taxpayers are planning to meet with the commis sioners. According to reports received here, no large crowd is making plana to discuss the budget with the author ities, but a few are expected to come f here from Gooae Nest, Hamilton, and probably Robersonville aad William ston Townships. The official budget will be adopted following th« public hearing Monday, according to present plana.