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Watch th? UM Oh Tw wd T* 1 ^*** THE ENTERPRISE^ VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 30 , Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, April 12,193S ESTABLISHED 1899 POULTRY CAR IS LOADED IN FACE OF COMPETITION Trucker Threatens To Test Validity of Ordinance Regulating Loading ? Overcoming keen competition offer ed by trucks, Martin farmers are mak ing a comparatively large cooperative shipment of poultry this week. At three places, Jamesville, Williamston, and Robersonvitle, the farmers loaded 12,628 pounds of poultry, receiving ap proximately $1,600. Loadings are be ing completed in Oak City today. Under a new ordinance, truckers were routed from almost under the car here last Wednesday, but even then many farmers patronized them. One of the truckers, when ordered to move from within a certain distance of the car, flared up and hired himself a lawyer to contest the validity of the ordinance. When he was requested to post a $50 cash bond for trial week after next, he pulled outside of the town limits. This man was said to have had a price of 1 cent above the car quotations for colored hens, but was also said to have had a lower price for other types of the barnyard fowls. It is understood that this same man came here when the first car was loaded several weeks ago with a price about 3 cents under the cooperative car quotations. At Robersonville yesterday the truck ers were ordered into the alleyways, it was said. Commenting on the situation, Agent i Brandon said the poultry cars were operated for the farmers, that if the chicken raisers had rather sell to the truckers, he would not attempt co operative loadings in the future. Strict Enforcement Of Highway Laws Begin Next Week ? Will Arrest Those Driving On Wrong Side of Lines in Center of Highway Beginning probably next Sunday or Monday the State Highway patrol will start enforcing those rules designed to stop promiscuous driving on the high ways. Motorists caught driving on the wrong side of the black or white lines in the center of the road will be carried into court, unofficial reports heard here stating that no warning wilL be given lhe violators and that the first offense would be prosecuted. Thousands of motorists have been warned against running their cars on the left side of the center road mark ings, but all those motorists caught violating the law will be proscuted. While no arrests have been made in this immediate section, many drivers in other sections have been prosecut ed in the court for excessive speeding on the highways. in th??j section are warned against the prac tice, for the first one caught driving ^t an excessive speed will be carried into the courts. 57 Women Attend District Meeting ? Fifty-seven women from Martin County attended the district meeting held at the campus building at East ern Carolina College in Greenville this week. The women came from seven of the organized home demonstration clubs in the county. All reported a most enjoyable day. Martin County was honored this year at the meeting by having the district president ap pointed from this county. Mrs. J. S. Ayers, of. Everetts, county council president, will serve as district chair man for the next year, and the dis trict meeting next spring will be held in this county. A few Martin Coun ty men attended the meeting this year, and we were pleased to have them en joy the meeting along with the women. Arrangements Completed for Holding Pre-School Clinics in County Next Week Arangements have been completed for the pre-echool clinics in this coun ty, beginning next Monday in the school here, going from here to near ly every school in the county, the of fice of the superintendent announced yesterday. Several doctors, including the den tists of the county, a state health nurse and others will work in the clinics created principally to uncover any de fects in those children planning to en ter school next fall. Once discovered many of the common defects can be corrected and if they are corrected, then the child has a beter chance of succeeding in school from the start. No charges for these pre-school ex aminations will be made, and all par ents hvaing children old enougli to enter 11-honl anywhere in the rrninlv are urged to bring or send them tc their nearest school on the following days: Williamston, Monday morning A^ril IS; Jamesville, Tuesday morn ing and Farm Life Tuesday after noon; Bear Crass Wednesday morning and Everetts Wednesday afternoon; Robersonville and Gold Point at Rob ersonville Thursday ^morning: Oal City Friday morning aod Hamilton and" Hassell at Hamilton Friday after noon. Easter Week Service To Be Held in All Local Churches Thia Sunday all the churches of Williamstoci will enter upon a very busy week'that leads up to East er. Of course, there trill be the regular services in the churches this Sunday. Then, beginning Monday and lasting through Fri day, there trill be noon-day serv ices at the Watts Theatre. These noon-day services will begin ex actly at 12 o'clock and last only 20 minutes. Each night at 8 o' clock there trill be services in every church. The same minister who leads the noon-day service trill go to the schools in the morning and to the County Home in the afternoon. An additional feature of the Holy Weak eervicaa this year ia the fact that the colored people will cooperate and have special services in their churches. Their ministers will visit their school and also the prison camp. Perhaps this will prove the most intensive religious effort ever made in Williamston. The response last year at this season was very grati fying, and showed that those days leading up to and including Easter are the most fruitful for spiritual cultivation of the srhole year. All Christian people are urged to work and pray for these services that they may prove a great blessing to the whole community. W ill Build Addition To Brick Warehouse COUNTY COURT HAD BUT 1 CASE LAST TUESDAY! Session Is Last Until Afteri Two Weeks Term of Superior Court The Martin County Recorder's court had one of the smallest dockets in recent months last Tuesday when Judge Peel called only one case, and the defendant was found not guilty. The session lasted only 20 minutes. Bryant Hill, Goose Nes,t colored ?man, was charged with the theft of three chickens from J .J'. Flannagan, near Oak CiTy, recently. The pwner of the missing chickens claims that one of the three was found at the home of Hill and he assumed that the other two had been killed and eat?n at the Hill home. Witnesses in the case stated that they saw the chicken in the toad and that as they started by in their car, the chicken ran into Hill's yard, the evidence satisfying Judge Peel that the defendant was not guilty. For the first time in the history of the court, a live chicken was intro duced as evidence, Flannagan and Hiil both claiming ownership. Dismissing the action, the court did not decide the ownership of the barnyard fowl, but tln? rUfpnHsnt waiyfd |ds rights to it. reports stated. Suspending operations next week and the week following to give way for the trial of civil cases in the su perior court, the recorder's court will not hold another session until the last day of April. Relief Fund May Be Taken From County ? ? "Unless somebody furnishes us ad ditional office space all relief funds are subject to be withdrawn from Martin County," Miss Selma Ayers, in charge of the emergency relief of fiice here, said yesterday. Efforts have been made to turn the second floor of the town hall into offices for the relief group, but the approval of a $1,200 expenditure necessary for the project, has not been gTveiT as yet. The federal forces are limiting all their assistance to those who afe able to work but wo cannot find work, and k?artin County \is meeting th? bill necessary in caring for the helpless. Sunday Services at the ' Church of the Advent Rev. E. F. Moseley, Rector Palm Sunday Church School, 9:45 a. m., MorningI Prayer and sermon, 11 a. m. Evening] Prayer and sermon, 8 p. m. Note the change of evening hour| to 8 o'clock. CONTRACT IS LET TO WILSON FIRM HERE THIS WEEK Work To Be Started At Once and Completed in Forty-Five Days Big Help To Market Preparations for a decidedly larger Williamston tobacco market this year are being made rapidly;-the latest de velopment calling for an addition of 60 feet to the length of the Planters Warehouse. Bids for the structure were opened last Wednesday evening by - the warehouse companies and the cdnTract was awarded to Jones Broth ers, of Wilson, for $4,320. J. T. Har disofi, Washington, submitted a bid for $7,000, and Perry and Alexan der were next with a $5,531.25 bid. Under the lerms of the coniract, the addition is to be completed within 45 days, and it is understood that con struction will he started at once. Plans for operating the house dur ing the next five years were complet ed this week when Messrs. Cozart, Foxworth, and Langley agreed to a substantial increase in rent to offset the building cost of the addition. The Planters house proprietors arc planning more extensive operations this year, and have accepted John A. Manning as a fourth partner in the firm. Mr. Maning, a prominent pea nut buyer in this section, is known to several thousand farmers in this coun ty, and his association with the firm will be well received by them, no doubt. The operating personnel for the Williamston market is now com pletc, giving this section one of the strongest and most reliable selling forces to be found anywhere. While prospects for prices might not be as bright as they were last season, tobacco men ar confident that fair averages can be- expected, that the present indications point to a very successful season for the producers. Check Payment of Sales Tax on Sales of Mules The sales my horse and mule ex changes and dealers in this section o( the state are being checked by the State Department of Revenue to make certain the payment of the 3 per cen1 sales tax. The department represen tatives were here some time ago re viewing the sales for 1934, but their findings were not made public. Mrs. Peters Opens Beauty Shop on Washington Street Equipped with al modern apparatus used in the up-to-date shop, Mrs. "Frosty" Peters opened her beauty parlor in the Atlantic Hotel building on Washington Street here Wednes day. Mrs. Peters, who has had much experience in beauty culture, is the wife of the popular athletic co?:h in theloc al high school. Visiting Ministers Take Part In Easter Services All the regular service, will be helc at all Chapels and church this Sun day. In connection with the pre-Eastei services that are being held in Wil liamston the ISth through the 21 si there will be a service in the Presby terian church""?Seh night at 8 o'clock These services will be held by the various ministers o( Albemarle Prea bytery. The Rev. H. K. Dudley, ol Kinston, will bring the mesage VIon day night. The Rev. L. W. Topping of Elisabeth City, on Tuesday night and the Rev. H. M. Wilson, of Farm ville, on Wednesday night. :OUNTY COTTON GROWERS HEAR M. G. MANN HERE Delegates Are Named For District Meeting To Be Held in Greenville ? Crowded out of the county court house. Martin County's little band of Cotton Growers Cooperative Associa tion repaired to the dingy little ware house of the FCX on Railroad Street last Wednesday afternoon and lis tened to their leader. M. G. Mann, out line the work of the organization and review the situation surrounding the production and marketing of cotton. Messrs. H. L. Purvis. J. E. Griffin and N. S. Cherry were chosen as dele gates to attend a district meeting in Greenville on April 26, and elect two district directors of the association. Perched on sacks of feed and fer tilizers, the group of 15 or more farm ers listened attentively to Mr. Mann as he pointed out the great import ance of marketing cotton, explaining that $5,000,000 worth of the staple had been handled advantageously for the association members. He com mended President Roosevelt for his aid to cotton growers and stated that Secretary Wallace, in a recent book, pointed out that 200 men control the affairs of this country. Stopping here Thursday afternoon from a visit to Bertie and Chowan Counties, Mr. Mann explained that cottonseed were germinating low in many sections, that it was extremely advisable for farmers to send about 1 pound of seed to the State Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, and have them tested. Thousands of bushels of seed have been found inferior, and since the acreage has been greatly re duced, the farmers will no doubt find it profitable to make sure their seed are all right, Mr. Mann explained. The seed-testing service is not limit ed to membtys of the cotton Jtaocta tion, Mr. Mann said. Work Goes Forward 3n 3 Houses Here Construction work is now underway on three new homes for occupancy by white people, and plans arc going for ward for several more, but even then there will continue a shortage of dwel lings, it is believed. The duplex home on Elm Street is just about complete by its owner, Mr. R. S. Critcher. Work is progressing rapidly on tb? Davis home on Academy Street, and foundations are being prepared for a two-story home of-Mt. and Mrs. j. W. Andrews on Church Street, and a bun galow for Mrs. W. B. Humble on North Haughton Street. One or two homes for occupancy by colored people are being built, and plans for at least 25 or 30 more are being considered. Little Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Harrison Dies Carrie June Harrison, 8 years old, died in a Portland, Maine, hospital Tuesday morning following a mastoid operation performed 10 days before. Funeral services were conducted there yesterday afternoon and burial fol lowed in the Maine city. She waa the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester H. Harrison, of Port land, and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Harrison, of this county. The little girl visited here last summer. Remember These? By Z. T. PIEPHOFF So long, see you in Church Easier servi.es in theater at noon drawing large crowds? Many businesi houses closing for 20 minutes at noon to permit em ployeea to attend the theater services? The employees of the V. E. 8c P. Co, and others attending Easter servicei in a body? All hottessea of various club meet ings at night during Easter week have agreed to diapense with this week'i meetings in order that the aervices ol Holy Week might have right of way Those and a few other things re call pleasant memoriea of the fellow ahip enjoyed during last Eatter week The tame services If- being nltnnrC for next week, April 14-21. Since the God and Father of our Lord and Sav iour, Jesus Christ, has been so gooc to each of ut and haa so richly blessec our effort! and labor of the past year let'a make theae services this year jus at good and just ai well attended, ll not even better than they were ? yeai ago. We know you well enough tc know that you will. So long; see you in church?Sundaj school, too. Mayor and 5 Commissioners Renominated at Convention Legislature Passes Bill Providing for Commission To Decide Road Refunds By a close vole, the General Assem bly yesterday created a commission to investigate and determine the amount of money due the several counties sup porting the highway commission in its early expansion program. While the bill makes no provision for the re payment of money advanced, Senator R. L. Coburn and Representative H. G. Morton are of the opinion that the action yesterday will finally lead to the return of donations made by 44 coun ties to the commission years ago. Martin County donated or lent ap proximately one-half million dollars to the commission for the construc tion of the river bridge and main highways in this section. Forty-three other counties also made donations, bift there were others who advanced money and have been repaid. The passage of the bill yesterday is the first successful step advanced by those counties asking a refund of the donations. Efforts to have the com mission accept the obligations have met with failure during the past four or six years. LOSS OF PADDLE SAVES 10 SMALL BOYS FROM WHIPPING IN PUBLIC; 2 OTHERS GO TO REFORMATORY All About 12 Years Old: Tried in Juvenile Court For Thievery Stories Are Pathetic Pathetic in it' every detail was the trial of 12 small negro boys in Judge Wynne's juvenile cdurt here last Tuesday afternoon in connection with the theft of property from the Wil liamston Motor Company and the Geo. Moore chair factory a few days before. Ten of the group were turned over to the parents who were given certain I instructions for handling the boys. Henry Biggs, both 12 years old, are to be entered in a reformatory. The culprits barely missed a public thrashing in the courtroom ?by their parents when officers were unable to find the paddle once used in the James ?itte?schools.?The licks?were?num bered by the judge, the parents receiv ing instructions to spread them where the most good could be accomplished, but the paddle was lost and smiles were noticed on the faces of the little rascals. Interest in the case probably is cen tered more on Alexander Tcel than on any one of the other eleven boys before the court. One of 10 children, like unto that of a low-grade dog. Leaving his home in Robersonville, the tot, inadequately -clothcrh to compete with the stinging cold of recent days and nights and hunger written in his youthful face and frail body, has been hanging around here. When he was hungry and could get nothing to eat in a legitimate way he would steal. Three times he has been in the court |foi stealing.?He hardly ever slept in the same place twice, for when time came to retire he would crawl into the back seat of a car, any car convenient ly parked on the streets, and when one jside got too cold he would turn it next to the cushions* and expose the other for a while. The other night lie crawled into a car belonging to a traveling salesmen. Retiring late the night before, the lit tle fellow overslept the following morning and did not awaken until the owner had gotten, in and -started driv ing away. Alexander, his eyes swelling} to proportions twice their usual size, jumped up and is said to have fright ened the driver nearly out of his wits. After receiving a heated scolding, the youth told his story and the traveler hatf compassion upon him. The sales men gave the boy a quarter, and it is understood 15 cents went for eats and 10 cents for a show. Meek as a lamb, following his trial Teel continued his stay around the jail until Wednesday afternoon, when he was returned to Robersonville to await completion of arrangements for his entrance into a reformatory. His mother deserted by an irrespon sible father, William Henry Biggs pre sents another pitiful case. He is a syphilitic patient, apparently inherit ing the disease. He is to go to a re formatory. Leaving the courthouse with one oi the other 10 boys, a mother was heard to remark to her son, "I am going to lay it on you when I get you home.' And the whipping was for something he did not really intend to do, but did do as a result of a keen desiie tu see things his economic circumstances simply could not support. Piney Grove Services Will Be Held Sunday ?* Regular preaching aervicea will be conducted by the paator, Kev. W. B Harrington, in the Piney (irorc Bap tiat church Sunday morning at the II o'clock hour. Viaitora are welcome to attend. "CHARITY" CHECKS Confuting the word "parity" and apparently regarding the payment more as a donation than at remun eration for value received, an old colored woman called at the office of County Agent T. B. Brandon a day or two ago and said, "Please give me my 'charity* check." Hers was one 9f the last few to be dis tributed from the first group of checks received in the county. Reports indicate that almost as fast as the checks were distrib uted, the largest single amount probably going for fertiliser The banks in this section reported only slight deposit increases. Mer chants reported comparatively large increases in their sales dur ing the p&t few days. Local Band Going To Raleigh Sunday ? Director VV. S. Bobbin and bis 38 pupils in the Williamston High School Band leave Sunday morning to par ticipate in the band festival in Raleigh that afternoon at 2 o'clock. Fifteen bands are taking part in the program, following the festival Til Raleigh's Memorial auditorium, the bands will parade to the Capitol, where thev will play en masce under the direction of Harry J. Charlton, of Wisconsin. The following will attend from here: Jack Saunders, Howard Cone, Wilbur Culpepper, Vernon Hardison, Whit Purvis,, J. L. Mobley, Ben Hardison, Edgar Gurganus, Horace Ray, Ray Goodman,?Jx.t iiarry- Taylor, Dale Wagner, Jerry Clark, Ben Daniel, J. D. Bowen, Thad Harrison, Jim Man ning, Billie Biggs, Kli Gurganus, Clayton Moore, jr., E. S. Peel, jr., Frank S. Weaver, Ellis Ramie, Car lyle Hall, Robert Peel, J. D. Thorw er, jr., Ned Cunningham, Elmer Jen kins, Collins Shaw, E. G. Wynn, Reg. Griffin, Pete Kagan, CFarles Dickey, jr., Marvin Roberson, Geo. Peel, Miss Louise Cooke and Bennie Daniels. Negro Youth Struck By Hit-Run Driver Struck by a hit-and-run driver, Charlie Wiley, young colored man, was rendered unconscious for a short while last Tuesday evening. He was able to be up the following day, a bit sore but suffering no serious injury from his narrow escape. Wiley was standing along the hard-surfaced road on Washington Street when a man, driving a Plymouth car, ran into and knocked him down, it was said. The identity of the driver could not be es tablished. LARGE CROWD OF LOCAL PEOPLE AT MEET LAST NIGHT Friendly Contest Results in Race for Place on Town Board Commissioners Election on May 7th .Willianiston's government was given i stamp of approval last night, when learly 200 citizens assembled in the rourthouse and nominated Mayor J. L. Ilassell and the board of commission ers for another two-year term begin ling the first Monday in June. That ocal people arc interested in their jovernment was evidenced by the large lumber attending the meeting and the <een interest shown by them in the levclopments. Mayor HasseU's nomination was without opposition, and a friendly race followed in the nominations for commissioners, when Attorney H. G. Morton offered the name of Mr. R. H. Goodmon alter R. I.. Coburn had ad vanced the names of the old board. With Judge Clayton Moore as chair man and W. C. Mailing, secretary, the Following vote was announced: N. C. Green, 159; G. H. Harrison, 156; V. I). Godwin, 156; L. P. Lindslcy, 148; Luther Peel, .141, and R H. Good mon, 67. The town election will be held in the town hall Tuesday, May 7. Seizing the opportunity to advance baseball here this summer. Judge Moore, after the nominees were, named addressed the asseinhly, I'mt, the meet mg .blew up when he asked the opin ion of the crowd and casually men tioned financial support. One by one the convention visitors left, Judge Moore ordering adjournment a few minutes later. Expect Allotments Of Peanut Acreage Within Next Week Actual Land Measurements Lower Total Acreage to ?Crop Last-Season? ?? Peanut acreages will probably be allotted farmers in~KTartin County the latter part <ef next or early the fol lowing weeln\it was learned from As sistant County Agent M. L. Barnes here today. Adjustments in the 1933 and 1934 acreage are being completed this week, the assistant agent explain ing that the farmers will be eligible to plant close to 19,000 aucs to ttie crop" this year, or just a few hundred acres applied the tape to their laud. In the second measurement of the 1934 acreage completed several weeks ago, more than 400 acres were elimi inatcd, tuauy farmers finding their es timates or guesses too high when they applied the tape.to their plantings. Mr. Barnes is of the opinion that the reduction program will go into effect with very littlct if any, oppo sition. He explained that no hojizon tal reduction will be necessary. and that the 10 per cent reduction agreed to by the contract signers will not be executed in its entirety. ? Regular Services at the Methodist Church Sunday ? Pre-Raster services begin at the local Methodist church Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock and will continue througli the week at 8:00 o'clock each night. This Sunday services will be held as follows: Sunday school at 9:45 a. in. preaching at 11 and 7:30 o' clock. The public cordially is invited to attend these services. Another Rise in Roanoke Is Forecast; To Reach Crest Middle of Next Week Before a third freshet could get out of the way, the Roanoke started on another rampage today, the state wea ther bureau predicting a rise here of about 12 feet 3 inches about next Tuesday or Wednesday. Just what is behind the freshet starting today could not be learned, some believing that rains and snow in the Roanoke basin would hold the stream up for quite a while. However, if no addi tional rises take place, the river should be within its banks at this point by the latter part of next week. During the past several weeks the Roanoke has been at flood stage, do ing no great damage to property, but causing a loss estimated in the thous andti dollars for fuharmcn at James* ville and Plymouth. Ordinarily the best Ashing is had about this time, but all the seine operators can do is remain idle and wait for the waters to recede. Fishermen using small nets are re porting only medium catches at this point. The herring are said to be all over the swamps, making large and proAtable catches almost impossible. Profltable Ashing is predicted at this pgint when the water starts falling.
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