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Adiwtliw WD Pad Oar COL- M • Latchkey to Ovw BUt H—drii Marti* CM MTJ BMMM VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 62 'INSOLVENT' TAX LIST IN HANDS OF SPECIAL ACENT S. H. Grimes To Collect Personal Property Tax Unpaid Since 1929 S. Harcum Grimes, former deputy sheriff, hat been appointed collector of the coaaty "insolvent" tax list with instruction* to collect all outstanding personal property and poll tax ac counts for the years 1929, 1930, and Approximately SB,OOO remain unpaid Jfot the period, representing accounts averaging about $3. The collector is now figuring the amounts unpaid, qnd estimates that SI,OOO in 1929, $2,500 in 1930 and $4,500 in 1931 are""due the county. Adverse crop and pr»:e conditions were considered during those years, and very little personal property was seized for payment of delinquent per sonal property taxes. The authorities are of the opinion that many of the accounts can be collected at this time, and Mr. Grimes has been instructed to handle them. He will probably ■tart calling on the personal property owners who have failed to pay their taxes some time next week. Those citizens owning both person ' al and real property will not be vis ited by the collector. A large amount of the uncollected taxes represents poll taxes unpaid by colored people. Mr. Joe Roebuck is now connected with the sheriff's offije while Mr. Grimes gives hit full time to the col lection of the old tax accounts. WOMANS CLUB , HOLDS MEETING Principal D. N. Hix Makes Address on School Work To Club Members The regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Club was.held in the club room yesterday afternoon, when Pro fessor D. N. Hix, principal of the lo cal schools, addressed the members in connection with problems confront ing the schools. Reports of the offi cers and several committees were sub mitted to the body. Mr. Hix, in his talk, stated that the greatest problem facing education was the successful operation of the schools on the limited funds appropriated by the last legislature. The success of the term rests upon concerted efforts within the school and a strong coop eration on the outside as handled by the parent-teacher associations, the school man explained. Parents were urged to keep in close contact with the teachers and show an active in terest in school affairs. Scholarship was pointed out as one of the main objects for every pupil, the professor suggesting that a reward be offered by some organization to those who prove themselves leaders. The reward should! not be too great, he warned. Public school music is needed in the schools, and literary so cieties should be organized, the prin cipal concluding in asking the club members to take an active interest in the educational programs. Prospects Point To Big Fair at Rocky Mount Eastern Carolina's fall festivsl will center around the greater Rocky Mt. Fair, opening in Rocky Mount Mon day, (October 16, and continuing thru the w«ck. • C. W. Jacks, manager of the fair and for several yean in charge of lhe| Roanoke Poultry Show here, stated this week that present indications point to one of the most successful I fairs ever held in this section of the State. One of the largest midways j traveling south this year has been booktd, and the free acts are the best in years, Mr. Jacks said. On Thursday and Friddfc October 19 and 20, nationally known auto driv ers will race. Already exhibits have been arranged for, and the manager is looking for record attendance fig ures at the low admission prices of IS and 35 cents. A. B. Rogers Firm Holding Cloaing-out Sale Tomorrow ♦ The A. B. Rogers mercantile firm, located next to the Proctor Shoppe and Manning's Grocery, is closing out its stock today and tomorrow at great sacrifices Forced to move, the firm is offering its entire stock at record bargain prices, and will turn the keys over to the owners next Monday, it is understood. San Ganderson, operator of gents' furniahing stores in EBcabeth City and Edenton, plans to occupy the build ing now housing the Rogers firtrf. According to present arrangements, the m firm will remodel the store out. THE ENTERPRISE Red Cross Drive Nets $lB2 In Cash, Food Clothing and food conservative ly valued at $140.7$ were collect in the town and community this week for storm victims in several near-by countiea, it waa learned from lira. A. R. Dunning, chair man of the Martin County Red Cross chapter, here yesterday. In addition to the food and clothing 's4l waa raised for distribution a hong the needy in the atorm stricken areaa. While the gooda and caah, a mounting to $181.75, have already NRA Cooperates in Business Speed-Up jf START COLLECTING j Tax collectlona for the current year are now under way in thia county. Property Owner W. A. Planting, of Hamilton Townahip, being the first individual to pay hia 1933 taxes in the county. Sev eral corporatkma have already paid their accounts, and thousands will flow into the county coffers from all sources during the next few days. The accountant's office is pre paring several hundred receipts daily, and the collector'a office is placing several hundred hundred of the approximately 7,000 noticea of taxes due in the mails daily. PREPARING FOR BIG STATE FAIR ■ • SIO,OOO in Permiums To Be Awarded for Farm Exhibits Raleigh.—With SIO,OOO in premiums for the best farm exhibits to be award ed to farmers, the 1933 State Fair to be held here during the week >f Oc tober 9, promises to be one of the largest October events North Caro linians have ever seen, Norman Y. Chambliss, secretary-manager, an nounced today. On leave of absence from the Plant ers' National Bank and Trust Co., of Rocky Mount, to stage tlie Stale Fair this year, Mr. Chamhliss, who lias op erated the Rocky Mount Fair success fully for many L years, is enthused over the outlook for the State Fair this year and he is leaving no stone un turned to make the coming fair an event long to be remembered. Mr. Chambliss said distribution of the premium book wil Ibe started not later than September 10th. The book is an attractive one. "We intend to make the State Fair ttii« year a complete mirror of what is\ going on in our State, and we as sure all who attend the Fair that they will be able to get a complete picture of what is going on in North Carolina, agriculturally as well as industrially," Mr. Chambliss said. In addition to the SIO,OOO prize a wards for (he best exhibits, Mr. Chain bliss said the entertainment this year will be of a very high order, entertain ing as well as clean. At a cost of $6,000, the fair management will bring the famous Ernie Young's Winter Garden Revue out of New York City for nightly performances in front of the grandstand. The midway will have Max Lindemann's World of Mirth Shows, an enlarged combination of the one-time Bernardi's Greater Shows and a part of the Johnny J. Jones Shows, as the big attractions. • Magician at High School Here Next Monday Night - ♦ Lippincott, well-known mystery en tertainer, will appear at the high school auditorium here, sponsored by | the atMletic association, Monday night of next week. { Featured in his program is the pack j ing box escape, made famous by the Harry Houdini. The box Lippincott will use here was built by the Williamston. Sup ply Company and is now on display 'in front of the Davis Pharmacy. A committee from the audience will in spect the box and renail it before the magician is nailed in. Hg promises to escape in less than one minute no matter how well he is nailed in, or the box roped and chained. Lippincott shows many recommen dations from leading schools and col leges through the South who are loud in their praise, both as to the man's ability and the large crowds he drew. The school's shsre of the proceeds will be used for the purchase of ath letic equipment. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, October 6,1933 been forwarded to the needy in the atorm sections, many arti clea are atill being received by local Red Croaa workera. A sec ond shipment of clothing and food will probably be made week after next. A quantity of food and clothing haa been collected in the local schools, and that will be in cluded in the next ahipment. Much of the caah, and many of the cl&thing articlea were collect ed by apecial workera canvaaaing the town laat Wednesday. f BUY NOW' DRIVE 1 COMMITTEE HERE IS SPONSORED BY —.— .| Campaign to Get Underway; Throughout Country Next Week America is ready to swing into an other great movement to combat the forces of unemployment, arid for the next twelve weeks a nation wide program will be under way to speed up the momentum of the business ma chine. Just how these far-flung plans will be carried out was described to day by W. C. Manning, chairman of the NRA committer here. "This project quite naturally follows the Blue Eagle campaign," he sail,> I "which has captured the imagination! k and the enthusiasm of the nation as nothing has done since the stirring, i war .lays of 1917 and 1918 The Blue F.agle drive, including the codification activities of the NRA, has resulted in' placing more than 9() per cent of tlie I i business of the country under the President's agreement. More than, 2,000,000 workers have been reeni-j ployed and millions of dollars have been added to the weekly pay en-1 velopes of those who toil. All this! ' has speelcd tremendous happiness for! millions of homes and has completely changed the economic outlook. "But it is to he remembered that j this addition to the buying power of the public has also placed, burdens on business because of the in.'reaseil pay rolls. Business must be speeded up' in order to make it possible for these j loyal employers who anr operating un-j der the Blue Eagle to continue to maintain their added labor costs. Then there are still many millions of men still out of work and jobs must be! ' found for them. Something like 3,- 1 500,(KM) families are now receiving pub -1 lie relief, and, with winter coming on, this number will be greatly in r creased unless business in general is t stepped up to a much faster clip than - is the case at present." The chairman then explained the ' methods by which it is hoped these • objects will be attained. "The activities will be based on the j logic of our slogan, "Now is the time' "I to buy." You will note we arc not 1 making use of the word 'campagin.' r Our plan calls for a logical systematic ' program to be carried on between now and the holidays with the sole object] ' of stimulating a well-ordered business r acceleration. There is to he no emo- 1 r tional appeal, but rather an appeal will be made to the calm, sober judg ment of the country.. Of course, the! ' element of self-interest will enter in-' to it. For it is just about as sure as 1 1 tomorrow's sunrise that price levels! 1 are going to rise. Every possible ef-l fort is now being mdae to put up com-1 modify prices and every index shows I the upward trend has arrived. Hence, f it is simply a matter of self-interest! for people to buy what they can at' - this time rather than wait till prices' i go higher. V "There is scarcely a family in Wil-1 1 liamston—or a corporation, either, for' that matter—that has not been put-! Ic ting off purchases. In the homes fur t niture and carpets and rugs have used that should have been discarded t long ago. Uepapering, remodeling, andi . refurnishing have been put off from Y month to montty. Members of the] household have allowed their ward . robes to become depleted. In the case' c °f factories and buainess houses, equip s ment has een allowed to run down! a and a general program of rcplenish r ment and rehabilitation is long over due. - Woman's Club To Hold Dance Here tonight s ♦ '• The Woman's Club is holding a s dance this evening at 9 o'clock in the - club hall. Windsor's orchestra will play. ONE SCHOOL IN' COUNTY CLOSED BY EYE TROUBLE i Bear Grass Plans To Open Again Next Monday Morning School operations in parts of the county were scrtously handicapped this week when pink-eye attacked hundreds of children, making neces sary the closing of the Bear Grass scltool last Tuesday and threatening the continued activities of the schools here and at Hamilton. It could not he learned here this morning whether the Hamilton school would close or not, hut it was stated that the pink eye cases were numerous there, and the decreased attendance was great. At Hear Grass, where there was a bright outlook only a few days ago for a successful and uninterrupted j term, the attendance average is said I to have been decreased by'more than one-third in a very short time by pink-eye. According to present plans, the authorities will reopen the school , there next Monday. Attendance figures are estimated to have fallen about 25 per cent in the j local schools this week on account of the eye trouble among the pupils, i While no definite reports have been received from other schools, it is uu-' derstood that pink-eye >is present in thein, but not to such an alarming ex tent as it is in ifie three schools at Bear Grass, Hamilton, and William- 1 ston. | And all the trouble, it is believed by many, is traceable to little gnats that have swarmed the section in millions during the past few months. No serious cases of pink-eye have been reported among school children, but il is understood that many vic tims outside of school are suffering greatly with their eyes. Mr Jesse Ha wis, Bear (irass farmer, suffering! excruciating pain with the pink eye in 1 his right t»ye, said here yesterday that from then on he would feel sor ry for even a dog that had eye trou-j ( hie. ■ • Former Martin Man Badly Hurt in Automobile Wreck —• | James Mizelle, young Plymouth j white man, was dangerously hurt in j ; an automobile accident near Plymouth | last Saturday night. Driving a big I Buick car belonging to his grand-' | father, Mr. J. K Jackson, of |)ardens, Micelle suffered a punctured lung, I when the machine and a truck crashed on the Plymouth-Roper highway. I The yoiutig man is said to be slowly i recovering. Other parties in tin at | cident were not badly hurt The , j Buick was wricked, but little damage resulted to the truck. I 'el.,ils in con nection with the cause of the wreck could not be learned here. Young Mizelle ligmed in a wreck that cost the lives of three men lie i low the river hill here several years ' ago. He was driving a Buick at that time, I Majestic Range Will Be Demonstrated Here Soon A special representative of the Ma jestic Manufacturing Company, mak | ers of the famous Majestic cook stoves , will be with the B. S. Couitney fur niture Store here all next week. V'.K'C ial demonstrations will be hi Id ing that time, and personal visits have been planned. r~> The new all-enamel Mrqesiic range ! is recognized as one of the most en durable conk Moves offered on the Aniei iran market today tinder the , pay-as-you-use-it' plan. The repre ; senlative will gladly demonstrate the stove and explain the details surround ing the purchase of a Majestic, but there will be 110 obligation to buy, 1 ! Mr. Courtney said. Single Women Here Win , Benefit Baseball Game, While probably not scr lucjcy in love, I single ladies of the community estab lished their luck as baseball players j I here last Tuesday"ufternoon when they ( won over the married women by a' I 14 to 12 score on the high school dia ! mond. The players reaped a full crop , of jsore limbs and numerous bruises; , the elementary grades reaped $.H.50 tin cash for tfie pur. base oL badly needed room supplies. A fair-sized crowd turned out for, ! the event, a most unusual one in this section. And the fans, some coming' . from out of town, enjoyed the play. 1 Milton Lilley's Car Stolen From Streets Wednesday A Chevrolet roadster, belonging to Milton I.i I ley, "Was stolen front its parking place on Washington Street here last Wednesday morning while the owner was out of town. No trace of the car has l»Ben found. The own er carried no insurance on the ma chine. . « - Tobacco Price Is Better This Week But Still Below Parity RECORDER HELD ALL-DAY SESSION, LAST TUESDAY! I —- Largest Docket in Recent • Months Is Disposed of I Recently j In session all day last Tuesday the county recorder's court had its larg-' I est docket in recent months, Judge j Peel calling about 25 cases. Pushed j aside by the "big"' court last week j 1 and the week before, the county trib- | ' unal made up for lost time by impos-' ' ing fines amounting to around $l4O ' and meeting out several road sen ' tences. A no! pros resulted in the case a-! j gainst Matthew Cotton, charging hint with reckless driving. B. (i. Mndliu was fined $lO and' ' taxed with the cost in the case charg ing him with violating the traffic laws. Grover Phelps was fined SSO and taxed with the cost in the case charg ing him with operating an automo ", bile while intoxicated. t Martin Jonfcs was sentenced to the roads for a period of (>0 days when he , was adjudged guilty of receiving goods known to have been stolen. W. Bobbins was fined $lO and taxed with the costs on a reckless driving charge. I Clarence Lloyd was fined $25 and taxed with the costs in the case charg ing him with the illegal posession of liquor. I A fine was imposed upon V. K. Huskey, charged with violating the traffic laws. | Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charg I ing Noah Brown with disturbing re- I ligious worship. j Adjudged guilty of a simple assault, I.email laylor and Jack Taylor were taxed with the costs in the case, the cour suspending judgment. - 1 1 The case charging Tom Bell with | violating the liquor laws was con tinued. | A nol pros resulted in the case charg ( ing Worth Moblcy ami Burner liar ris with an assault willi a deadly weap on. Herbert Brown was found not guil ty in the case charging him with an a sail 11 with a deadly weapo/l anil car lying a concealed weapon. I'. \\ Wells was fined $lO for the alleged hunting without license. ,1 hnocli Peel was required to pay | the court cost and $5 a mouth to Maggie Keys for a child during the next six months. An appeal was not ed ' I Prayer for judgment was continued ,111 the case charging Ralph Coburn j and ( laud Manning with obtaining gasoline under false pretense. Jule Page, charged with the theft j of a chkkeu, was sentenced to the loads for 60 days, and he appealed the case, j Tom Rogers was sentenced to the r >ad for 64) days on an assault with a deadly weapon charge. A nol pros resulted iu the case charging Guilford Purvis with violat inn th elraffic laws. Lindsay Speight, deaf mute, was dismissed by the court when no prob j able cause was found in the ease carg ing hint with an assault. Speight was thought to have entered the home of an aged colored woman in Hamilton Township and almost beat her to death. Unable to read or write,' Speight, colored, proved a problem to! the court, and for more than one-half j hour il could hardly be determined 1 whether he was shaking his first at j the judge or waving good bye to the * I spectators, so peculiar were his mo tions made ill an effort to testify in the court. Rev. Mr. Mosley Announces Sermon Topics for Sunday m ■■ | | At the morning service at the j Church of the Advent this Sunday the 1 subject of the sermon will be: "Labor ers Together in God's Service." At , the evening service at 7:30 o'clock, the subject will be: "The Price of | I liseipleship," ';. . i The membership of the church is I reminded that at this time there is 1 a concerted work throughout this 1 Diocese fur Spiritul Recovery. Every | rtne is urged to come to these par-; ticcular services. Our friends and visitors are cordially invited to wor ship v.'illt us. Baptist Philatheas Hold Business Meeting Tonight Members of the local Baptitt Phila tliea 'Class will hold a business meet ing in the home of Mrs. J. Sam Get singer in New Town this evening at 7.45 o'clock. All member* are urged to attend. 1 1 MORE CHECKS I V _ J j Thirty-six more checks issued j I to farmers in this county coop- I erating in the cotton crop reduc tion movement were received here j yesterday. The checks, amount ing to $1,940, are for farmers in 1 the Robersonville and Oak City j communities principally. Includ | ing the last group, 97 of tfre ap- { j* pvoximately 465 checks due farm ! ers in this county have been re- I ceived here. The aggregate cash | received so far amounts to $4.- ] 471. Government employees in Wash ington are working night and day, 1 Mr. M. G. Mann, of the cotton 1 association, said yesterday, and | they hope to have all checks in the mails not later than the 15th of this month. M. G. MANN TALKS TO FARMERS ON COTTON PRICES —♦ — Urges Hearers Not To Sell ' Any Cotton on Present Low Market More than 100 Martin County I farmers met in the county courthouse here last Wednesday morning to hear an address by M. G. Mann, of Raleigh, secretary-treasurer of the | Niylh Carolina Cotton Growers Co-' ' operative Association, on the cotton ' situation and optlok. Mr. Maun urged the farmers "not to sell a bale of cotton at present prices," pointing out that due to the rise iu commodity prices the purcltas | ing power of a bale of cotton today is no iimre than it was when it was sell ing for (1 cents a pound last year. I He recalled that those who took 1 the advice of cooperative leaders and collateralized their seed .Joans last! year with cotton on a '> 1 2 cent basis | made a profit of from sls to $lB a! bale over those will) heeded the ad-! vice of others and let their cotton slip' 'forever out of their hands at prices] 1 below the cost of production. The government has recently an- j iioiiuced thai every borrower who fully collateralized his loan with cotton on | a 9 I 2 cent middling 7-8 basis last year can now get his papers back and | that his loan will he cleared up. Mr. Maun commended the efforts of President Roosevelt iu "noihl a pcr i 11 litne 111 agricultural prosperity" and calle-l upon farmers to support the 'president iu this move by holding their crop loi orderly marketing and not dumping it on the market where it will lend lo defeat what the president |is trying to do raise cotton prices. Urging farmers to plant winter cov er crops, Mr. Mann said, "You must make your land work for you both winter and summer." lie also point ed out the advantages in dollars and cents of planting improved chiton-1 'seed. Announce Regular Services at the Piney Grove Church Rev. \Y B Harrington will fill his regular appointment at the Kiddicks Grove Baptist church Sunday after noon at 2:30 o'clock, it was announced by the minister yesterday. Methodist Church Ladies To Serve Supper Tuesday m The ladies' aid society of the local Methodist church will serve an oyster ."supper in the Woman's (Tub hall next Tuesday evening at h o'clock. Other plates will be served also, i| was stat j ed. The public is invited. Regular Services at Local Christian Church Sunday I• . 1 Regufar services will be held at the j 1 Christian church Sunday morning and evening at 11a m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 9:45. All mem bers and friends are invited to all j these services, where a welcome awaits them. 1 • Colonial Beauty Shoppe Opens In Hotel Building The Colonial Beauty Shoppe, Mrs. J H. Everett, manager, is now re ceiving a substantial patronage fol lowing its formal opening in the At lantic Hotel building here last Friday evening, when many visitors were present for the event. Extensive alter ations have been made and the mod ern equipment is now conveniently ar ranged' for the shop patrons. The es tablishment is under capable manage ment, and its operators offer an ex perienced service in beauty culturt. wr * mow mm ESTABLISHED 1898 ORDERLY SALES HAVE PREVAILED 'ALL THIS t WEEK j Agreement, Guaranteeing a 17-cent Average, To Be Signed Today, Said I The second week closes today in the marketing of tobacco since the holi day, and while prices are- reported sgme higher than they were a few days ago they are still far below the "par ity" level. The agreement promising .a 17-cent average has not been signed, but ii was expected that the com panies would affix their sigr#tures to the paper some time today. The agree ment lias been hanging fire since the 25th of last month. So far no one seems to understand the situation as it exists today, but it is agreed that | the price is now far below the "par ity" level or promised 17-cent figure. I The marketing of the crop has ad | van.ed slowly this week following blocked sales during the first few days after the holiday. Conditions have been very favorable for the crop marketing, but still the prices lag. Much inferior tobacco has been offered ; for sale this week on the local market, j • ! and the prices have average around 12 cents or a little better, indicating that s there will be some high-priced tobac i co later on, provided, of course, the 17-cent average is guaranteed the > ■ growers ■ ' Farmers are becoming demoralized, i as Representative Kerr has described | the situation in North Carolina, be cause the government has thus far failed to make good on promises to se cure parity prices for growers. Representative I'ou and Judge Kerr have an appointment with Secretary Wallace tomorrow, and they will tell I tl.c secretaiy that the time for action . mii the tobacco agreement has long since arrived • I lie local market is far beyond the , 2,000,000-pound mark with the aver- I a>;e ranging around II cents up to , | a 'lay or two ago, when the price I trend advanced about 2 cents a pound. I No blocks have interfered with the j sales here this week, and the mar | keting of the crop has been very or deily. Willi oiilv one or two excep tions farmers selling here yesterday were will pleased with their sales. I' veri though there was a large quan tity ot black and inferior toba'co on the Hours ,the average was around 1.1 I cents, hanners were of the opinion that the sales yesterday were the best , | ot I lie season, and they are equally as good toady, according to reports made [following the first two hours of sell ing this morning. Wet and Dry Petitions Filed In This County Wet and dry candidates for dele gates to the State prohibition repeal convention front this county have fil ed their petitions with Mr. Sylvester Peel, chairman of the Martin County Board of Klcctiuns, it was unofficially learned here today.- The number of names appearing on the' petitions could not be learned The andidates are a day or more ahead their pe titions in this county as tomorrow is the la'-t day papers will be received. — Schedule oi Presbyterian Services In the County | The usual services will be held in Willianiston tliis Sunday. At Ballard's Farm, church school will meet at 2 l>. til. At Roberson's Chapel, where the Rev M. O. Summers, of Clinton, is delivering soul inspiring inessagas , in a series of servi.'cs, the only serv ) ise will be preaching at 7:30 p. m. j At Hear Grass the church school will meet at >:3o a. in , and announce , ment will be made at that time con- • cerning the night service. I At the prison camp. Rev. G. T. Hill . (colored) will preach at 3:30 p. m. * Rev. C. T. Rogers Makes Methodist Announcements —. —t,»i ■ . C. T. Rogers, pastor. Our annual conference is only a few week away. We are on the home Stretch, and miK'h is to be done, so don't make excuses, but pull, pull, pull, (jive (>od the part that belongs to Him, and we will pay in full. Don't use God's part for self; you will he the loser in money and suf fering. God's laws are unchangable. Begin now to even up. The children who received the coin collectors are asked to return them Sunday. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.; churchy services at II a. m. and 7:30 p. ni. Kpworth League, Monday 7:30 p. m. iM'ou are always welcome. . '«m£EP «. *4l *«.?. Lx' , s