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Friday, October 13, 1933 || I S.Z22Z 1 Society &l ersonals | j II JU MIL ELBERT S. PEEL, Editor If 4$ J. A. Manning and sons, Ben and Reg, and Frank Weaver and daugh ters, Alverita and Lorraine, attend ed the fair in Raleigh yesterday. ♦ To Attend Football Games Messrs. Bruce Wynne, Herbert Clark, Hugh G. Horton, David Hixj and C. A. Harrison will attend the! Tennessee-Duke and State-Florida' football games in Durham and Ra leigh tomorrow. Here Thursday Mr. Newsorpe Riddick, field agent for the Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank, of Scotland Neck, was a bus iness visitor in town yesterday. ♦ From Oak City Messrs. J. T. Daniel and John W.; Hines, of Oak City, were in town yesterday. • From High Point Dr. and Mrs. John D. Biggs, of High Point, spent the week-end here with their mother, Mrs. Fansie S. Biggs. 1 In Town Thursday Judge Calvin Smith, of Roberson ville, was in town Thursday. Attend Missionary Meeting Mrs. C. T. Rogers, Mrs. H. L. Swain, and Mrs. J. \V. Watts, jr., at tended a missionary meeting at Holly Spring- yesterday. [ FLU - LAX A Pleasant Palatable Liquid for COLDS, GRIPPE, INFLUENZA 25c CLARK'S DRUG STORE PHONE 53 J SOLID CARLOAD FINE Horses & Mules * * Wc want you to see this carload of mules and horses. Those that have ' seen them say it is the finest carload of mules ever shipped to Williamston. Visit our stables and don't wait until they are sold before looking them over. Our prices are most reasonable. Thigpen & Cherry At John F. Thigpen's Stables, Next to Planters or Brick Warehouse, Williamston, N. C. ■—IT tmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmammmmm PROGRAM POR WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY, OCT. 16 I Turnage Theatre Washington, N. C. I Monday and Tuesday October 16 and 17 Thursday October 19 "HOLD YOUR MAN" with "42ND STREET" with JEAN HARLOWE and CLARK GABLE WARNER BAXTER and BEBE DANIELB ■ - Priday October 2d Wedneaday October IS "TOMORROW AT 7" with "HER BODYGUARD" with Chester MORRIS And Vivicnne OSBORNE * I In Chapel Hill Messrs. R. L. Coburn and Mayo Grimes will attend the Carolina- I • 1 Georgia football game in Chapel Hill j tomorrow afternoon and the State -1 Florida contest in Raleigh tomorrow' night. | —.— Here This Week | Mr. Jones, of the Standard Oil' Company, of Edenton, was here this L I week. j j Returns From Norfolk Mr. Harry A. Biggs returned yes terday from Norfolk, where he met his sister, Mrs. E. H. Morrison, and daughter, Miss Frances Williams, and went to the Chicago Fair. They returned Wednesday. ! —*— Attend Dance in Washington j Mr. and Mrs. Jack Frank, Miss Dolores Long and Troy Goodmon at tended the dance in \Vashington on Tuesday night. To Visit in Richmond I Dr. and Mrs. Joseph llason will ( , spent the week-end with friends in j | Richmond and attend the V. I'. I.- J William and Mary football game on Saturday. 1 In Raleigh Thursday J. G. Staton,.R. L. Coburn, J. W. Biggs, and L. P. Lindsley were in i Raleigh yesterday attending the j 1 State Fair. ' From Gastonia 1 Mrs. E. L. Lowie, of Gastonia, is here this week visiting her parents, I Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brown. I In Town This Week Mr. A. E. Turner, prominent farm er pf the Oak City section, was in 1 | town this week selling tobacco. • ■ ' From Robersonville , Mr. J. Dawson Roberson, of Rob i ersonville, was a business visitor in I town yesterday. ! Here Wednesday Mrs. L. B. Tadlock and daugh ters, of Woodard, were shoppers in I town Wednesday. In Town Thursday Mrs. A. J. Holliday and sister, 1 Miss Louise Brown, of Jamesville, shopped in town Thursday. , From Robersonville Mr. Heber Nelson, of Roberson -1 ville, was a visitor in town yester ; clay. i —» j Here Tuesday Mrs. Mayo Mizelle, of Jamesville, | was a visitor here Tuesday. Attends State Fair Mrs. A. R. Dunning attended the State Fair in Raleigh Wednesday. • In Raleigh This Week I David M. Roberson, accompanied jby Mrs. A. E. Griffin, Mrs. J. E. Griffin, and Miss Ida Roberson, at tended the State Fair this week. !In Virginia This Week Mrs. J. G. Staton is visiting rela tives in Kilmarnock, Va., this week j • hi Raleigh Thursday Mr. and Mrs. J. Sam Getsinger, Mrs. John Ward, Benjamin Hopkins, and Mrs. E. L. Lowie, of Gastonia, I j attended the fair in Raleigh yester day. Critically HI Mr. Roy Gurganus is critically ill at his home in New Town, having suf Ifered an attack of double pneumonia I Wednesday. j • At State Fair Mrs. W. H. Biggs, Mrs. Roger LCritther, Mrs. Daisy I'ope and little J daughter, Mary O'Neal, visited the State Fair in Raleigh yesterday. I # In Durham Thursday Mr. T. B. Brandon, Mr. Roger Critcher and son, were in Durham yesterday. ■ In Durham Hospital I Mrs. Mary B. Osborne is under going treatment for sinus trouble in j a Durham hospital. [ Attend State Fair Macedonia Club Meets I • The Macedonia Home Demonsrta tion Club held- its regular October meeting in the home of Mrs. S. B. Lilley. New officers were elected for the coming year as follows: Mrs. Eason Lilley, president; Mrs. Leßoy White vice president; Mrs. Elmo Lilley, secretary; Miss Velma Griffin, assist jant secretary. ' Mrs. Lilley served cake, fruit sal ad, and iced tea, which were enjoyed by all. The club adjourned to meet !again in November. Most for Your Money In a Good Uutirt Thedford'H BLACK-DRAUGHT hu been highly regarded for a long, long time, but it In better appre ciated now than eyer before. Peo ple are buying everything mora care fully today. In buying Black-Draught, they K«t the moat for their money. In u Kooti, effective laxative, depend able for the relief of ordinary conaU pitll 1 trouble*. 25 or more dote* of Tncdford's Black-Draught in a 23-cent package I'tir Children gut pleasant-tai>HuC 11 '" "I Thf' fard't Hluntc-DratipM THE ENTERPRISE PITT FARMER IS ROBBED OF $4,000 Held Up By Three White Men Near Chocowinity Monday Night Greenville, Oct. 10— R. H. Tripp, farmer residing several miles north of ' Greenville, was robbed of $4,000 when , he was held up by three unidentified white men on the Greenville-Aurora highway, a short distance from Choco winity last night, Sheriff Sam White | hurst reported today. | Although a search was started for j the bandits, no information leading I to their apprehension had been ob | ,tained today. Tripp told Sheriff Whitehurst he | was driving along the highway In tween Aurora and Chocowinity when j a car drew up behind and one of the. I occupants began firing upon him with a shotgun. One load the side of | Tripp's machine and he immediately | stopped. Three men left the other car, and demanded that he turn over , all of the money he had in his pos session. Tripp handed over the $4,- 1 000 he carried in a wallet. The shotgufT.charge passed through ,' the side of Tripp's machine, his head by a narrow margin, but he j was uninjured. He said he did not recognize the men but knew they I were white. j Tripp was returning from a visit ; In his sister in the Aurora community j Ihe holdup occurred about 9o'clock and officers started an investigation a short time later. I ripp is said to have gone to Wash ington to put the money on deposit, j but the bank had closed and he then i decided to visit his sister with the | money on person. ! MAN ROBBED LAST MONDAY I; j jOak City Colored Farmer Gets Drunk and Loses Tobacco Money ' Kobersonvillc, N. ('., October 12. I.eroy Lanier, colored farmer of the Oak City section, was said to have . been, robbed of about SIOB here last Monday morning when he got drunk and put himself on the merry of the ( wtirld. James Henry Hrown and I homas 1 erkin,', local colored men, are being held in connection with the ' alleged robbery for a hearing before - Mayor C. M. Hurst. [ After '-tiling a quantity of tobacco lon the local market Monday niorn ! '"Ki Lanier said he accompanied •' . i friend to the colored section of the town, known as New Town, to get a drink. Ihe fir^t called for a second, l and so on until the man "passed out." Officers were notified and they jailed Lanjcr. Tuesday morning the farm er sobered up to find his $1()K missing. A . cording to Lanier, Hrown and l'er ,kins assisted by one or two colored ' women got him drunk, and then the ' money disappeared. \\ illiam Hell, local colored man, was given a preliminary hearing by May or C, M. Hurst here last Monday morning lor the alleged* driving of an automobile while intoxicated. In dc- I fault of bond, the man was jailed at | \\ illianiston to await trial in the COUII ty recorder's Court there next Tucs day. , WORK ON WIDER ROAD UNDERWAY Robersonville-Stokes Road" Being Made 40 Feet Wide by Convicts (Kobersonvillc Herald) Work on widening Highway No. 903 froni Kobersonville to Stokes is now under way, activities now being centered on that part of the road in 1 I'itt County. State convicts are cle.ir ! ing a 40-foot right of way, and a Jew t buildings are being moved nut of the way, including some of those on the Asa Congleton place. While only a few minor changes ■ will be made in the roadbed on the | Stokes end of the route, it is under- stood that the course will deviate from the present road in several instances on this end. The improvements will eliminate a number of short curves I on this end of the route and cut down | the distance between here and Stokes !o some extent. . . It is not known just at this time what the* State plans to do to the Mrs. Margolis Hostess Mrs. I* rank Margolis was hostess at a charming party Tuesday eve ning at. her home on Simmons Ave nue, honoring! her card club and a number of other friends. Her pretty home was attractive in its arrange ment for the occasion, lovely bowls of fall llowerS enhancing its charm. There were guests at seven tables, and Mrs. Karl Wynne won high score prize in the club. Mrs. W. K. Parker won guest prize and both were given suede card table covers. I'unch was served by the hostess during the games and at their con clusion a salad course followed by cake and coffee were served. 1 —— 1 •TARBORO MAN IS ) KILLED MONDAY > NIGHT BY AUTO 'Salesman For Cox Motor Company Driver of Car t' In Accident Monday i • I Louis Pliipps, white, was killed, and » his wife was injured in front of their 3 home in Tarboro early Monday night - when they were struck by an auto mobile driven by T. T. Cox, salesman r for the Cox Motor Company, of Rob- ersonville. Cox, painfully but not seriously in jured, was treated at" a Tarboro hos pital and later placed in jail, wjjere a charge of manslaughter was preferred against him. The automobile, Belong ._ ing to the Cox Motor Company and used as a demonstrator, was wrecked. Pliipps, about .Li years old, was wcrking on a track just off the high -1 way in front of their home a few hun ' died yards this side of the Tar River r bridge. His wife was holding a lan r tern to furnish him light that lie might complete the repair work start " cd on the truck earlier in the da>\ Cox,' I said to have been drinking, rounded 1 the last curve going into "Tarboro-so ! rapidly that he was unable to hold, the car. Pliipps died almost instant ' ly, according to teports reaching here. | The lower part of Pliipps' jaw was ! torn away and a leg was broken. He 1 also suffered internal injuries. Mrs. ' | Pliipps suffered a broken limb, Jjut her ' j injuries are not considered serious 1 According to reports reaching here, the car, after striking hPipps and hi' jxxile, struck a telephone pole and car • | ried a portion of it 93 feet up the road. 1 | At a hearing held in Tarboro on c I Wednesday morning, Cox was placed j under a $2,000 bond. | Cox and his family, residents of I Kobersonville during the past two or ,three weeks, are not related to the I owner of the motor company, and the. driver of the death car is not inter f 1 >tcd the business other than as salesman* before the accident. I road after it is widened, hut apparent ly the route will he hard surfaced or .. treated some time in the future. The I* new route will shorten the. distance j. between here and Greenville by sev (jleral miles, and no doubt much traffic I will ge diverted via Stokes when the I j improvements are completed, WANTS i ' 'JUST RECEIVED: CARLOAD OF I I wire fencing. All sizes. Price right, C. 1.. Wilson, Kobersonville. ,1*22 HI OATS, RYE, AND BARLEY FOR ''| (all sowing. Mowing, machines and 1_ stalk cutters. C. L. Wilson, Rober ' ( sonville. 522 8t I BENTHALL PICKER; GOOD AS f new, for sale at less than half price. !Si c me to l«iy. J S Whitley, at s Williamston Supply to. of) 4t y STOVE FOR SALE: CIRCULATOR ! I or Hcatrola. Good as new Will sell for half price. See or call Mrs. t J, S. Rhodes. o!3 2t 1 NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that under and by virtue of the power of sale contained iu that certain deed of trust I executed by W. 11. Higgs anil wife, ' Lettie Biggs, to Wheeler Martin, tills j tee, and dated the sth day of March, 'll9lß, ami of record in the public reg I istry of Martin County, in book U-L ,',it page 73, and at the request of the *| holder of the notes of indebtedness thereby secured, default having been made in the .payment tlireof, I will, on | the 4th day of November, 1033, at 12 o'clock noon, at the courthouse door !in Martin County offer for sale at '• public auction, for sasli, the property s (described in said deed of trust,'as fol g | lows, to wit: s i Hounded on the north by Rewfus 1 Lloyd, on the east by Joe Hull Heirs, - on the south by Williamston-Wash v ington piad, and on the west l»y the e -Atlantic ( oast Line Railroad >.. ! This the 2nd day of October, 1933. WHEELEK MARTIN. 013 4tw Trustee s e NOTICE OF SALE UNDER -j DEED OF TRUST „ I Under the power vested in me by the terms of that certain deed of trust executed on the Bth day of May, 1929, " and which is duly recorded in the 's' public registry of Martin County in n book Y-2, at page 458, the stipulations s | therein contained not having been com plied with, I shall offer for sale at ! public auction to the highest bidder, c for cash, on Saturday, November 4th, e 1933, at 12 o'clock noon at the court ; house door of Martin County, in ; Williamston, N. C , the land described iin said deed of trust, as follows: ] All that certain piece or parcel of 81 land situated, lying and being in _ ''Cross Roads Township, Martin Coun- I ty. State of North Carolina, bounded - on the north by the lands of Nathan j Purvis, on the east by the lands of j John Purvis and ilarnhill and Wynn, V I on the south by the Robersonville and . Kveretts road and the lands of Barn hill and Wynn, on the west by the s lands of MxG. White and a branch, and more particularly bounded and described as follows: '■ ' Beginning at Harnhill and Wynn 1 corner on the road from Roberson ville to Kveretts, thence N. 20* 15' • K. 1081 feet; thence S. 70* 30' E 304 1 feel; thence N. 9* 30' W. 207 1-2 feet; thence N. 8* 25' E. 368 feet; thence • N. 65* 30' E. 264 feet; thence N. 71* 3 5' E. 242 feet; thence N. 12* 55' E. 635 feet; thence N. 15* 15' E. 563 feet; thence N. 69* 5' W. 854 feet to a black i gum in a branch;,, thence along the branch 2950 feet to a cypress; thence S. 22* 30' E. 1427 feet to the Rober- I sonvitle and Everetts road; thence a- * ' long the ryad N. 70* 3s' E. 800 feet- : ' to the bcginninK, containing 81.8 VISIT THE acres, more or less," as shown by map lof same made by S. Peel, surveyor, ffc ' from a survey made by John J. Well, IC. E., said map being made January O&J O 24, 1923, and ->aid survey having been dfT^TTTVT/"~V [> made December 21, 1915, and being I I I I 111 I the same land deeded to J. I. Britton *-».«. I/AVf by the Martin County Realty Com- JO PhotOPTanhi pany by deed dated October 31, 1917, « ,' £ P and of record in book Q-l,' at page tOT 1(J Merits , 374 j Over Darden's Depart r This the 4th day of October, 1933. ment Store » I N. K HARRISQN, Trustee. 1 1 ■ 1 ——— ———— —— — .———__...—-_—^ ; Our Entire Sale Averaged , $15.60 Wed., October 11 i * ' __ 4 • ■•• Yesterday We Sold Tobacco ,4s High As 46 CENTS PER POUND Bring Us Your Tobacco and ' Get the Highest Dollar ; Berger and Perry ;! PROPS. PLANTERS WAREHOUSE WILLIAMSTON. N. C. i ■ I Curb Service , Discontinued ?! H BEGINNING , Mon., Oct. 16 tj * The Town Board of Commissioners at their last regular meeting passed an ordinance prohibiting the drug stores and soda fountains from giving curb , service. This action was taken by the , I board at the request of the drug stores and fountains who petitioned the com , missioners to pass such an ordinance. f P. P. PEEL * J. C. LEGGETT s ; DAVIS PHARMACY ; . , CLARK S DRUG STORE 5 ' NOTICE! y t I, * - ■ V e "| Notice is hereby given that all per -111 . L . sons or corporations bringing suits '• either in the Superior or the Recorder's [J Court of Martin County will have to de lf posit an advance cost fee of not less than ten dollars. d 1 ; BY ORDER OF THE Board of County Commissioners J. Sam Getsinger >T. C. Griffin Clerk Chairman PAGE THREE
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