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VOLUME XXXV—NUMBER 88
HOUSE BUSY ON
PROPOSED PLAN
OF FARM RELIEF
Domestic Allotment Idea Is
Both Praised and Derided
Before Committee
"What the Equalization Fee was in
1927, the Export Debenture in 1929,
Price Stabilization by the Farm Board
in 1931, Voluntary Domestic Allot
ment is in 1933—the phrase
of-the-moment on farm relief. Unlike
the equalization fee and debenture, it
will probably become reality. Wheth
or it will work better than price sta
bilization is the problem for President
elect Roosevelt to solve.
"Shortly before Christmas Chairman
Marvin Jones called his House Com
mittee on Agriculture together to start
hearings on the domestic allotment
bill. Thirty-seven representatives of
the National Grange, the Farm Bu
reau Federation, the National Farm
ers' Union, and 33 other farm organi
zation, after a three-day Washington
meeting, united solidly for domestic
allotment. President-Elect Roose
velt sent Henry Morgenthau, jr., son
of the one-time Ambassador to Tur
key, to the Capital as his personal
agent. If the Jones bill, amended,
passes the present Congress, a Hoov
er veto is viewed as a certainty.
Thereupon, domestic allotment will
very likely become the first business
of a special session of the new Demo
cratic Congres^.
"In 1926 th* Department of Agricul
ture's late £■. ..William Jasper Spill
man first seriously proposed domestic
allotment. Professor Milburn L. Wil
son, of the Montana State College of
Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, is
generally regarded as author of the
plan in its present form.
As set for in the "purely tentative"
Jones bill, domestic allotment would
work approximately as follows:
"Thirty days after enactment, the
Secretary of Agriculture would pub
licly estimate what percentage of the
1933 U. S. production of cotton, wheat
tobacco, and hogs will be absorbed by
U.' S. consumers. To each producer
of these four staples he would give an
'adjustment certificate' stating his
shjre of the output to be thus con
sumed. For example:' If two-thirds of
the wheat crop is for domestic con
sumption and a farmer is raising 600
bushels of wheat, he would get a cer
tificate for 400 bushels.
"The certificates, negotiable, would
have fixed values, as follows: Wheat,
42 cents per bushel; cotton, 5 cents
a pound; tobacco, 4 cents per pound;
and hogs, 2 cents a pound. After har
vest, the farmer would sell his full
crop in the open market. Thereupon
the Treasury would step in and col
lect as an excise tax 42 cents from
millers on every bushel of wheat they
bought for flour, 5 cents from spin
ners on every pound of cotton, 4 cents
from cigarette and cigar manufactur
ers on every pound of tobacco, 2 cents
from meat packers on every pound of
pork. Thus special treasury funds
would be created out of which the
Secretary of Agriculture would pay off
the adjustment certificates by the
producers. TM wheat man, for ex
ample, if the market were SO cents
per bushel, would get S3OO for the
regular sale of his 600 bushels, and in
addition $l6B as a Government subsidy
collected from the miller, Jh his 400
bushels for domestic consumption.
"In 1934 1 , under' the Jones bill, the
Secretary of Agriculture would esti
mate the domestic consumption before
the farmers planted their new crops,
and this time 'adjustment certificates'
would be issued only to those farm
ers who voluntarily contracted with
the Government to accept an 'allot
ment' of production. Thi* allotment
might be as much as 20 per cent lest
than the farmer's last crop. Those
who refused to accept 1934 production
allotments would not share in the tax
distribution. Producers who broke
their contracts and overproduced
would likewise be deprived of bounty
benefit*.
"At the House hearing*, Frederick
Lee, representative for the United
jFarm Organizations, proposed two
faiajor changes in the Jones bill: (1)
make the 1934 system, with a manda
tory 20 per cent acreage cut, apply to
1933; (2) leave the excise tax rates on
(he four commodities unspecified so
that th* Secretary of Agriculture could
fix them at whatever level would be
necessary to restore pre-war price par
ity for fee producers.
"The first objectors to domestic al
lotment before the committee were
flour millers and cotton .manufactured
' from whom the special taxes would be
first extracted (and who, of course,
would pass it along to consumers in
higher prices). Fred Lingham, of the
Miller*' National Federation, warned
that floor would become a profitable
bootleg commodity "unless there was
* policeman at every grinding milL"
"Charles Cannon, North Carolina
towel man, argued the plan would re
dace consumption and drive people to
the use of untaxed substitutes. He
saw ruin for U, S. cotton manufact-
THE ENTERPRISE
[ TOBACCO SEED
Preparations for another tobac
co crop, and a large one it is
feared, have been started by Mar
tin County farmer*. A few have
already had their *eed cleaned and
treated, and the first plant bed*
will be prepared within the next
few week*.
Very little ha* been said about
the blue mold or whatever it i*
since the crop wa* transplanted
last spring. However, it is gen
erally believed that the disease
will be present again and that a
damage even greater than that of
la*t reason can well be expected.
Mr. Joa. L. Holliday said today
that he noticed something like the
disease in many of his winter
plant*.
REGULAR MEET
COUNTY BOARD
IS HELD MONDAY
Insolvent Tax List for 1931
Is $5,620.72; Reduce
Officers Salaries
The county's ..insolvent tax list
reached a high peak for the year 1931
it was learned following a settlement
made by Sheriff C. B. Roebuck with
the county commissioners in regular
session Monday. The list is $5,620.72,
made up mainly of small accounts that
the collector and commissioners agreed
were next to the impossible to extract
from depressed owners of personal
property. Sevtral hundred dollars of
the amount will probably be collected
within the next several months.
Starting the new year Monday, the
commissioners had little business be
fore them ior the day. No alterations
in the county's poor list was made,
and only two tax changes were effect
ed. Archie Hodges, of Bear Grass,
and J. Monroe Everett, of Roberson
ville, were relieved of the payment of
poll tax on account of physical dis
ability. ,
Another reduction in county officers'
salaries was made, -the action follow
' ing a motion by Commissioner Joshua
L. Coltrain and seconded by Commis
sioner H. S. Everett. The motion
called for a 10 per cent cut in the sal
aries of clerk of court, sheriff, and reg
ister of deeds. The reduction, effect
ive the first of this month, is the third
to have been made in recent months,
making a total reduction in the clerk's
and register of deed's salaries of a
round 28 per cent, and around 19 per
cent in the sheriff's salary.
The board adjourned at 2:30 that the
members could have the opportunity
to attend the funeal of A. R. Dun
ning.
TOWN BOARD IN
REGULAR MEET
»
Permit Granted for Erection
of Filling Station on Main
and Smithwick Streets
♦
Meeting here last night, the board
of town commissioners ordered a 5
per cent reduction in all town salaries
and established a new scale, effective
January 1, for common labor. The
reduction w»s the second made by the
board in recent months. E. Ramie
was retained on the night police force
at $lO a week for the present.
Permission was granted C. D., and
W. H. Carstarphen for the erection of
a filling station on the lot where the
Carstarphen store now stands. Few
particulars have been made public in
connection with the proposed project.
A permit for a carnival was grant
ed the American Legion Post. The
matter has not been placed before the
Legion members, and it is not known
that the post will sponsor the indoor
attraction.
urers gampeting with British produc
ers for world markets.
"At present price levels of cotton
and wheat, domestic allotment means
a 100 per cent tax, collecting possibly
$350,000,000 a year. Its critics prompt
ly pointed out that farm representa
tives were largely responsible for the
defeat of general sales tax legislation
as a burden on the poor and yet now
they champion that same principle of
taxation for their special benefit. Oth
er objections outlined: (I) a gigantic
Federal bureaucracy from Washington
down to the smallest farm; (2) pos
sible refusal of a vote-hungry Con
gress to suspend the taxes after the
emergency; (3) socialism at its raw
est.
"Even then, Washington observers
reported that many a conservative
business man was quietly for the plan.
Their attitude; 'We must try some
thing drastic to break the circle of
depression, »o why not this?" News
paper writer Walter Lippman thinks
domestic allotment is 'the most daring
economic experiment ever seriously
proposed in the Unted States.'"
Williamstoa, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 3,1933
SALE OF AUTO
LICENSES HERE
GOING SLOWLY
♦
Cars Will Be Stopped After
Thursday Unless New
Tags Are Displayed
•-
While the old tags have expired,
the sale of new State automobile li
cense plates is progressing slowly at
the local bureau, Manager N. C.
Green announced this week. Sales
were reported yesterday at about one
half the size of the distribution for i>
similar period last year. The bureau
Here sold around 250 plates last Sat
urday, the busiest day the office has
had since the plates went on sale on
December 15.
Up until last Saturday night the
sale of licenses at the local bureau was
55 greater than up to the first the
year before, but yesterday the sales
dropped about 75 per cent. On the
first day of the year 1932, the bureau
here sold nearly 500 plates; the sales
yesterday were around 150.
According to p?esent arrangements
the local bureau will close Saturday
night of next week.
Chairman E. B. Jeffress of the state
highway commission announced Sat
urday that drivers who operate their
automobiles without 1933 licenses will
be subject to prosecution.
Mr. Jeffress said that license sales
arc running about 25,000 less to date
than at this time last year. He de
clared that automobile owners must
procure their new plates without delay.
Mr. JefTress-Wd that highway pa
trolmen will be warned to instruct
drivers for the next five days to get
their licenses, to force them to park
cars without new licenses after Janu
ary 5, and to start making arrests of
motorists without the 1933 plates aft
er January 10.
North Carolina was shy the money
on 25,526 automobile plates Saturday,
using the figures of December 31,
1931, as the basis for. comparison. j
When the bureau of the revenue de
partment closed Saturday, 65,329 plates
had been sold as against 90,855 for
December, 1931. The licenses aver
age about sl4 for all cars. If the fig
ures were exact, North Carolina would
be $357,364 worse off at the close of
1932 than on the final night of 1931.
There isn't anything sinister in the
figures. Everybody, of course, knows
that there are many losses in license
plates. The number of cars no long
er on the roads and paying gasoline
and license taxes is far below the av
erage. There are now about 375,000
cars in use in the state.
DEATH OF MRS.
WILLIS MCKEEL
Holding Funeral Service In
In Holiness Church Here
This Afternoon
Mrs. Willie McKeel, wife of Willis
McKeel, died at her home on the
Mary Cherry farm near here at 3 o'-
clock yesterday morning following a
shdtt illness. Mrs. McKeel had been
in failing health for some time, but
she was able to be up until the day
before Christmas. A complication of
diseases was given as the cause of her
death.
The daughter of the late Jno. Clark
and wife, Mrs. McKeel was born and
reared near Everetts. . She was 52
years old. In 1899 she was married to
Mr. McKeel and he with nine chil
dren, seven boys, Virgil, Chas. Ben,
J. D., Clayton, Clarence, Willis, jr.,
and two Mrs. Robert Mc-
Claron and Miss Euzela McKeel, sur
vives.
She was a member of the Holiness
church here and her pastor, the Rev.
Mr. S. A. Fann, of Tarboro, is con
ducting the last rites from the church
this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment
will follow in the local cemetery.
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Regular Meeting oi Local
Kiwanis Club Tomorrow
♦
The first Kiwanis meeting in the
new year will be held at the Wom
an'* Club Wednesday at 12:30 o'clock.
There is some business of import
ance to the club that will come up at
this session, and the full membership
is requested to turn out.
Last year was a good year for the
local club, the membership increasing
over any p/evious year. The club won
distinction in its district, sponsored a
gain the Boy Scout work, and in many
other ways was of service to this sec
tion. The'new year should find the
club resolved to make even a better
record.
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Presbyterians Holding
Regular Prayer Services
• ■
Prayer meeting is being held each
Wednesday night at 7:30 at the Pres
byterian church. The Book of He
brews i* being studied. The general
public ia invited to -these service*.
[ RAINFALL ~)
A rainfall of 46.72 inches was
reported her* during the past year,
the amount being about 7 inches
below the normal yearly average.
As strange as it seems, there was
more rainfall last year than there
was the year before, Hugh Spruill,
who keep* a record of the rainfall
at the river here, stating that 46.21
inches fell in 1931. The months
of April, May, June, and July of
last year were unusually dry
months, cauaing much damage to
crop* in thi* section. The heav
iest rainfall during the past year
was in October, when 6.49 inches
fell here. There were 14 rain* in
December, but the rainfall was on
ly 5.06 inches that month.
BETTER PRICES
FOR PEANUTS IS
AIM OFCONCERN
*
Columbian Peanut Co. Has
Attacked Low Prices at
Both Ends
The Columbian Peanut Company,
operators of 25 or more cleaning
plants aftd a number of warehouses
spread over the national peanut belt,
have attacked the low market of pea
nuts at both ends.
A strenuous national campaign to
increase the consumption of peanuts
has led to a sales increase of more
than 100 per cent over that of the pre
vious year, according to statement of
company executives. At the same
time the "Columbian Storage System"
which provides storage and cash ad
vances at a low peanuts stored
in warehouses at their mill locations,
and the effort to hold peanuts off the
market have hud a sustaining influence
on the current market.
The storage plan was established
by the Columbian company last sea
son to back up an advertising cam
paign to growers ueging them not to
Hood the market with the new crop.
The assistance of the storage system
enabled several million pounds o| pea
j nuts to be sold in an orderly manner
! rather than rushed to an already over
loaded market at the end of the pick
ing season.
Excerpts from a "trade circular"
mailed out recently to thousands of
users of peanuts, candy manufactur
ers, and others, is an example of the
efforts of the Columbian to increase
consumption of peanuts. The circu
lar reads: (
"As we approach the close of 1932,
we are again reminded of the consid
eration, cooperation, and support of
our friends and customers, old and
new. Needless to say, we fully ap
preciate their confidence and support
so generously bestowed, w(licit result
ed in an increase in sales, the past
season, of more than 100 per cent over
the previous season.
I "Our efforts during the past year
were directed primarily to a greater
development of the peanut industry as
a whole. Beginning with the farmer,
|on whom the industry basically de
pends, we endeavored to sustain de
clining values and vanishing returns,
by intensive use of the facilities of our
entire 25 mills, with first consideration
in supplying the best quality possible;
and, second, a dependable, efficient
service, which combined with the co
operative efforts of the users of pea
nuts and manufacturers of peanut
products generally, created a new
"consumer demand" which resulted in
the largest consumption in the history
of the peanut industry.
"It wilt require again, renewed ef
forts to hold the position attained last
season, but we believe that consump
tion can be maintained and probably
increased during the coming year, as
advantage can be taken of present low
prices to increase sales of the various
products, at new low prices, which
should attract increased 'consumer de
mand.'
A representative of the Columbian
said that the company had consistent
ly endeavored to sustain the market
of farmers' peanuts when possible to
do so. When peanuts were declining
in price, as was tKe case last season
and again this season, the company
ifljit on the market almost continuous
ly always paying the best prices pos
sible, it was said.
But, it was added, while the com
pany is doing this, farmers can do
still more by marketing their crops
slowly. In order to assist farmers
and merchants in holding a part of
their peanuts, the company established
last season fhe "Columbian Storage
System," which provides storage %nd
cash advances at a low rate on pea
nuts stored in warehouses at their
mill locations ft the following points
in the Virginia-CaroKna section:
Virginia: Petersburg, Suffolk, Boy
kins, Disput'anta, Stony Creek, Zuni,
Wakefield.
North Carolina: Ahoskie," Enfield,
Elizabethtown, Lewiston, Scotland
Neck, Williamston, Tarboro, Windsor,
TAX LEAGUE IN
MEETING HERE
LAST FRIDAY
Plan Another Meeting of
Taxpayers for Friday
Of Next Week
m
Meeting in the cpurthouse here last
Friday afternoon, the Martin County
Tax League discussed at length a num
ber of vital problems confronting lo
cal government agencies and offered
certain resolutions in an effort to low
er and at the same time main
tain efficiency in public functions. D.
G. Matthews,-of Hamilton, presided,
and E. P. Cunningham, of William
ston, served as secretary. -
After a discussion of property reval
uation, the body unanimously voted
that all property be revalued. The ap
peal will be made to the proper au
thorities, asking for a complete rcval
i uation be made and that property be
listed at its true value. The last leg-
I islature permitted a 10 per cent reduc*
tion in property values, ,J>ut it has been
several years since an out-and-out re
valuation was made.
1 he question of abolishing the office
of county treasurer was deferred un
til complete information can be ob
tained showing whether or not any
saving could be effected without low
ering the efficiency of the service.
A discussion was also held in con
nection with doing away with the sal
ary system and returning to the old
fee system, no vote was taken, the
body carrying the matter over for fu
ture consideration.
Discussing the salaries paid teach
ers, the league did not state its posi
tion, but the group did condemn the
plan of paying all teachers of certain
ratings the same amount of money
regardless of whether they were suc
cessful in their profession or not. The
body did not consider it fair for the
State to penalize a local board when
an agreement had been reached with
the teacher in carrying on the extend
ed term when funds are not immedi
ately available. •
Considering the plight of delinquent
property owners, the meeting was a
j greed that the property pwner should
have at least five years in which to re
deem his land-with the interest rate
limited to 6 per cent. Objections to
this were .noted, it being pointed out
that a large number of people would
borrow their tax money for five years
at 6 per cent, a rate cheaper than they
can ordinarily get it from other
sources. This procedure would cause
the business structure of the counties
to collapse.
1 he meeting was of the opinion that
the the State should take over certain
Martin County bonds issued by the
county to finance highway projects sev
cral years back. . The county issued
bonds-to-build high ways Nos. 40-, 90,
and 125, and $150,000 for the con
struction of the Roanoke River bridge
and causeway. All these roads are
important connecting links in the
State highway system connecting
county seats. ~
No expression was offered in con
nection with a sales tax, the meeting
refusing to discuss that type of tax.
A resolution was passed asking that
judges be required to work more days
during terms and not carry over such
big dockets.
The question centering around the
big pay given court stenographers was
discussed, and the methods followed
by judges was condemned.
That the people might be represent
ed in the General Assembly conven
ing in Raleigh this week, the league
asked that $35 be appropriated for
maintaining a representative there.
Friday of next week, the league will
hold a secod meeting in the county
courthouse at 2 o'clock, and a large
representation is urged by those in
charge.
FEW CHANGES IN
BUSINESS HERE
Same Old Business Line-up
Starts On the Schedule
For the New Year
Characteristic of the first of the year
a few changes in business firms and
locations have been made here during
the past few days, and a few more will
follow within the next few days, it is
understood.
The Peel Jewelry Company 1r mov
ing from its building on East Main
Street to the Gurganus building next
to the five and ten cent store. A por
tion of the Gurganus building will be
used by a hat shop, it is understood.
The Service Cleaner, located during
the past few months in the Gordy
building, has moved to the McGowan
store, next to the Roanoke Hotel. Mr.
W. J. Hodges has retired from busi
ness and hi* store is not in use at the
present.
As s whole, the same old business
line-up is starting 1933 with but very
few changes.
A. R. Dunning
Here Early Sunday
\ HAPPY DAYS
Happy days are just ahead for
holdera of 225 shares of stock,
when the Martin County Building
and Loan Association pays out
122,500 in retiring its 19th series
issued in September, 1926. Checks
will be mailed to the stock own
ers next Tuesday, it was an
nounced yesterday by Mr. Wheel
er Martin, an officer in the associa
tion.
The series is one of the largest
to mature in the local association
during the past two years, Mr.
Martin said.
DRIVE AGAINST
RATS MEETING
WITH SUCCESS
County Agent Distributes
Poison Bait To Nearly
100 County Farmers
The anti-rat campaign now under
way in this county is meeting with
fair success, according to reports com
ing from those in charge of the elimi
nation program. Seventy-five orders
for poison 4»ait have been filled and
deliveries are being- made almost daily,
Agent Brandon said this week.
A cooperative order has been plac
ed with the manufacturers of a deadly
rat poison, and farmers who care to
do so can purchase any quantity at a
comparatively small cost. '
Of all the pests of the world, the
common brown rat, or house rat, is
the most inimical to the interests and
welfare of mankind. Every "man, wo
man and child in the United States is
concerned with the rat, both economi
cally and physically, whether or not
the individual comes into direct con
tact with the animals. Wherever
foodstuffs are grown, stored, or trans
ported, rats abound.. Rats thrive in
sewers, dumps, and other unspeakable
places, and in the dead of night drag
filth and disease of those places into
granaries, warehouses, grocery stores,
meat markets, and restaurants, and
thus pollute the food that is later sold
for human consumption. Rats have
no place in the present state of civili
zation.
Also, from an economic standpoint
the rat has been called the most de
structive animal in the world, and
there is no doubt, that. Collec
tively, rats in the Uuited States each
year destroy produce . and 'property
worth several niTllfoiis ,of dollars.
Surely this*>is an item that we can
not afford to overlook; and when we
consider in Conjunction with this great
loss the real danger of the rat to
public health, we are impressed with
the (act that the time lias come when
we must take a more definite stand
to control this great menace.
Rat control demands individual ef
fort, but it requires more than that.
| Rats are highly migratory. They
move from faint to farm, community
to 'community, state to "state and
even from country to country. With
out cooperation there is always the
prospect of rcinfestatio from adjacent
property. - Community organization
and united action are essential to in
sure permanent relief from these
pests.
Martin County people are urged to
take part in the anti-rate campaign
now underway.
Twelve-foot Rise Expected
In Roanoke Here by Friday
The muddy Roanoke, already out of
its bank's by several inches, will con
tinue to rise until about Friday, when
the crest will be reached, according to
those acquainted with the doings of
the stream. A rise of 12 feet above
the normal mark is predicted,..the wa--
ter having nearly reached the 11-foot
mark. The water will cover the banks
by about 18 inches, it is believed.
Twenty-seven Army Planes
Passed Over Section Today
*
Twenty-seven twO-motored army
airplanes passed over here this morn
ing, presumably en route from Lang
ley Field, Norfolk, to Fort Bragg, at
Fayetteville. The planes, flying at a
moderate speed, were in formation and
are believed to be the largest group
to ever pass here at one tim.
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General Assembly Opens
1933 Session This Week
A hectic session of the North Car
olina General Assembly will be under
way this week when that body meets
in Raleigh to effect certain legislation
and find needed revenue.
Adrartbm Wttl Fad Ow Cot
am* a Latchkey to Ow ihtii
Hundred Martin County Hone*
ESTABLISHED 1898
SUDDEN ATTACK
HEART TROUBLE
PROVES FATAL
♦
Funeral Services Held from
Home, Monday After
noon at 3 O'clock
• -
A. R. Dunning, prominent citizen
and successful lawyer, died suddenly
at his home on Main Street here Sun
day morning shortly after midnight of
a heart attack, his sudden death com
ing as a decided shock to his relatives
and many friends throughout this sec
tion of the State.
After completing the duties in his -
law office here he went to his home
about 10: JO Saturday night, and al
though he was not feeling very well
at that time, his condition was not
considered serious. A short while lat
er he became worse and the family
physician was called, but efforts to
save his life failed.
Born on a farm near Aulander 55
years ago the 2nd of last October, he
was the son of W. J. Dunning and
wife, Ryxamiu Rice Dunning. After
completing his education locally, he
entered Wake Forest College and re
ceived his M. A. degree from that in
stitution. -—After teaching history for
a year in Chowan, College, he turned
to the study of law, and after procur
ing his license lie entered the law firm
of Russell & Gore, Wilmington. Two
years later he severed his connection
and located in Robersonvilje, forming
a partnership with the late G? W. New
ell. In 1908 he moved to Williamston
and practiced law with J. C. Smith.
A partnership, later formed with Clay
ton Moore, continued until 1927, when
Mr. Moore was.. made a superior court
judge, Mr. Dunning was the oldest
me in bet of the Williamston baf since
the retirement of Harry W. Stubbs sev
eral years ago.
Serving his county as a member of
the General Assembly in 1913 and
| 1915, lie held the important position
j of chairman of the judiciary commit
j tee. He was active in public affairs
lof the town and county and was a
! member of the board of school trus- 1
J tecs here for a number of years. He
1 was interested in politics atld conduct
, ed several campaigns ill this county
j in .behalf of his candidates.
| In WUB he 'was married to Miss
j Mary Alice Grimes, of Robersonville,
| and she with one daughter, Mary Alice
j Dunning, survives. He also leaves his
I father, who is n.ow 82 years old, and
one brother, Mr. Godwin R. Dunning,
lof Aulander. Another brother. 1! J.
DunhTngT dieTl sf"cral years ago at
i his home in Roanoke Rapids.
Mr. Dunning was a member of the
Baptist church here for a number of
I years and was also a Mason and a
| Shriller. •
j _ Funeral services were conducted
jfroni the late home yesterday after-
I noon at 3 o'clock by Rev".- C. H.
j Dickey of the local Baptist church. In
' terinent followed in the. local ceme
*
tery.
COUNTYSCHOOLS
REOPEN MONDAY
Normal Attendance Is Re
ported by Nearly All
Schools in County
The several Martin County schools
reopening yesterday after enjoying
two weeks rest during the Christmas
holidays reported average or normal
attendance figures for the day. A
marked drop in attendance was ex
pected on account of sickness and the
weather. And then it was expected
that many tenants, yes, even landlords,
would be moving about the first of the
i year, dragging the little tots, just too
I numerous in too many cases, along
with them and holding them out of
school.
The attendance reports received
here indicate there is not a great deal
of sickness and there asen't so many
people moving this year as there were
last season. Reopening last week,
Bear Grass reported the mumps in
large numbers, but they were not con
sidered serious, and as far as it could
be' learned activities in that school
and in all the others in the county
are moving along very well at this
time. ' ,
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Auto Turns Over Several
Times Near Here Saturday
m
Davis Harrison ind H. B. York es
caped injury last Saturday afternoon
when their "car, a Ford sedan, turned
over two or three timet and landed
in a corn field near her® on Highway
No. 90. The body of the car wii
badly damaged.