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Om Th wEL T* 1 THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 59 . Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 23. 1935 ESTABLISHED 1899 MARTINS TO) TWO AND DROP TWO IN LAST 4 CONTESTS ?? Number New Faces Seen in Line-Up With Others Contemplated After exploring fifth place for a day or two, the Williamston Martina hur riedly started climbing again in the Coastal Plain League column of stand ings, and is now holding to four po sition with no great margin separat'ng them from the leaders. The season is just a little over half finished, and strong * reenforcements are being planned for the remaining games. Next week, the clubs will not be allowed to hire new players, and the local club officials, as well as others, are effect ing numerous changes in their line ups Ihis week. McCready has been released as first baseman, and Herbert Cheek took over that position last week. Doug John son and "Doc" Allen have been added to the pitching staff, and Johnnie Doyle is expected some time today or tomorrow for a trial behind the bat. Another pitcher is expected during I the week and other changes are con templated, the cfhb officials said this I morning. The Martins dropped a close con tcst to Tarboro hcr^ last Friday, 3 to 4, when Brake, formerly in the lo cal line up, returned with the Edge combe boys and did some heavy hit ting to score several of.the visitors' runs. He batted .750, with 3 out of 4, to lead both teams. Marable, Good mon, Leary and House, with two hits each, led the locals at bat, House tak ing top honors with a home run in the first inning. Saturday, the Martins reversed the order and defeated Tarboro at Tar boro, 7 to 2, behind the 7 hit pitching of Dick Cherry. Hautz, Corbitt, and Gay lord annexed' fhre? ftifs eicH, Gay lord and Hautz batting .750 each. Sunday, the first time a scheduled game had been played on the Sabbath here, was Gaddy^s day, the boy from Wake Forest turning Ayden back with three hits. While the score read 5 to 1, in favor of the locals, it should have been a shut out.?An error by Gaddy in the seventh accounted for the vis itors' lone run. Yesterday the Martins lost a hard luck game when Snow Hill made sev en hits off Morris and Johnson count for 7 runs. Griffin, right fielder for Snow Hill, hit a home run in the sev enth off Johnson with three on. Cheek the new first baseman, led the locals ?t bat with three hits oUt Of fOUf tripj This afternoon the locals are play ing Snow Hill a double-header, an tomorrow a double tntl is schedule here with New Bern. Land Measurements In County Will Be Finished This Week Compliance Records Will Be Sent To Raleigh Immediately All lands in this county under agri cultural adjustment contracts will have been measured by the latter part of this week, Supervisor D. N. llix said this morning, and compliance re ports will be forwarded immediately to Raleigh and sent on from there to Washington. It is understood that well over 1,000 contracts have already been handled by the office in this county, and that nearly all the remain ing compliance records will be ready for delivery to Raleigh within a com paratively short time. Compliance records for tobacco will be sent first, and it is estimated that rental checks will be prepared and re turned within three weeks^following the arrival of the data in Washington. Excess acreages in many peanut crops have delayed the compliance, and records for peanuts will probably be the last to reach Washington, it is understood. ? White Woman in County Mother of Colored Child ? , ? Deplorable conditions have been re ported by welfare worker! and others in this county daring the past year or two, but a record-breaker, it is be heyrd, was uncurered this week wl a white woman was learned to be the mother of a several-months-old negro baby. Few facts could be learned in connection with the case, other thaa that the family had moved to the Hamilton section from some oth county some time ago and that the child had been kept in hiding. Their names were withheld. It is understood that efforts will be made to return the family to its native county. Telegraph Boy Gets Thrill in County's First Plane Crash Martin County's first airplane wreck was reported near here Sunday about noon, when a private plane, piloted by George Seay, of Norfolk, crashed into a tree on the E. P. Cunningham farm just across the railroad from the Edgewood dairy. No one was badly hurt, but considerable damage was done to the machine. Rufus Cherry, Western Union tele graph boy here, was a passenger in the plane, and the short ride was, he said, his first and last. The engine is said to have developed trouble just as it was about to take off from the Edgewood Dairy pasture. The pilot could not stop and he could not gain 'day afternoon. altitude. He went under the tele graph wires, but the wheels failed to clear a fence. The machine then jumped the railroad track and crashed into a cherry tree, smashing one wing and tearing, other parts from the ship, and finally landing in Mr. Cunning ham's tobacco patch. Young Cherry stated the ride of about 350 yards cost him nothing, and the fact that he had to walk back seemed to be the worst feature of the accident for him. The owners of the plane dismantled! the wings in their entirety, placed the tail of the machine in the rumble seat I of a car and towed it to Noroflk Sun Other County Towns Seeking Liquor Stores NOT SO GOOD Making the first purchase of legal liquor at the Williamston atore last Friday, Lawrence Grif fin, young white man, later stated that he had had better Martin County corn than that he got' at the store. He explained that the particular store brand was of the cheaper grade, and added that he was going to purchase one of the best brands and if that was not a great deal better than the first he would be through with the whole control business. Liquor Law Headed For Test in County Within Few Weeks Appeal* Likely If County Court Fines or Jails Violators The Fas quo tank liquor enforce nent laws and all other alcoholic con* rol provisions are subject to a test it once in this county. A preliminary est was scheduled a week ago, when iever?l cases charging citizens with >ossession of bootleg liquor were :alled in the county court. Judge H 3. Peel continued judgment in the ictions, and should he adjudge the de endants guilty tliey are likely to ap >eal, and it will he several weeks be ore the actions can be scheduled in he superior court. Reliable reports indicate the alleged wotleggers and others on the side of tome-made liquor wil ocntest the ontrol program advanced by the :ounty authorities, the county control >oard, and others. Numerous people are said to have liscussed the situation with lawyers, ind it appears lawful to possess i quantity of liquor and yet violate no date law. The only evidence carry ng weight is when the law catches a ale, a rather difficult task, to say the east. At the same time the Federal tuthorities are armed with the proper veapons to war against bootleg liquor, ts manufacture and sale, in any place md at any time. # Ilad Dog Killed in Farm Life Section Last Friday A mad dog wa9 killed in the Farm Jfe section late last Friday, the re >ort stating that no people had been ittacked but that he animal had fought i number of dogs over that section, rhe dog was killed by Nat Ellis, and i report from Raleigh, where the ani nal's head was sent, stated the animal vas mad. Dog owners in Griffins are >aid to have started killing out their logs known to have been attacked by he stray canine. Other dogs are be ng treated, it is understood. ? Mrs. Gladys G. Taylor Is Hurt in Wreck Sunday 9 Mrs. Gladys Gurganus Taylor was gainfully cut about the head but not leriously last Sunday afternoon when ihe car in which she was riding crash ed into a tree between Everetts and Bear GrassT She was treated here ind is getting along all right. Miss [^raiding Badeettf driver of the car, escaped uninjured, it was reported. Miss Badgett lives in Tennessee, but vas in the county visiting relatives. ? Big Increase in Lespedesa Plantings Are Reported ? In 1924, on* acre of leipedcia wn planted in Alexander County; In 19J5, there arc 5,-166 acre, planted, rhia la 14.2 percent of the eel tinted land in the county. INo Action Will Be Taken on Requests For Several Weeks Jamesville and Hamilton Tlalce Applications To Control Board Applications for the opening of two additional liquor stores, one at James ville and one at Hamilton, hayc been! received by the Martin County Alco holic Beverage Control Board, it was learned from Board Chairman V. J Spivey this week. Action on the two applications will be delayed several weeks, or until the operation of the] stores already open at Williamston and Robersunville, and the one to be, opetied at Oak City can be observed,! it was stated. While H* is generally! believed the Oak City, Kobersonville and Williamston stores will adequate Ty serve the terriiory, IT is understood the control board might consider the opening of other stores mainly for creating stronger competition for the bootleggers in those centers. The opening of the Oak City store, first planned for this week, will be de layed until next week, it was officially learned -today. Repairs are necessary to the building before liquor sales can be handled, and it might be August 1 before arrangements for the opening can be completed, it was stated. Liquor sales in the two stores al ready open continue faiily?moderate of size, the Williamston store report ing approximately $400 sales last Sat urday, following a total oF $188 on Friday, the opening day. Very few drunks were seen on the streets here over the week-end, those showing too much having been re portd slightly off in their equilibrium before legal liquor went on sale. AGENT REPORTS .ACTIVITIES FOR MONTH OF JUNE Leader of One Clubs Holds Demonstration With Colored Women ? By Miu Lora B. Sleeper, Agent Poods and Nutrition Eighteen food and nutrition leaders conducted nine meetings during the month. One leader after a success ful meeting with her own club group met with 12 colored women. Bread making was the subject of all meet ings, and very few women attending the meetings failed Co practice IRF" making of bread in their own homes The colored w&rnen were most grate ful and enthusiastic that Mrs. George Bailey was kind enough to meet with them, and teach them to make bread There have been very few failures. X few of the women have even reported making loaf bread. One of the leaders sold hot rolls through the curb mar ket for the first time during the past month. Clothing Twenty-eight different homes of girls were visited during the mouth ?of- June,- and ? girls assisted* with* their project work in clothing. Wherever the girl's mother is a Home Demon stration club member, the mother has been requested to allow her daughter |to assist in the making of bread. Girls visited during the month, at least the majority of them, reported having completed three pieces of work which was the required amount for atendance at camp and also the short course. Many of them are ready to complete their fourth and final piece of work for the year. (Continued on back page) ENTERS NEW WORK Recently resigning at pastor of the Williamston Memorial Bap tist Church after nearly ten years of faithful and earnest service, Mr. Chas. H. Dickey has just accept ed an important position with the North Carolina State Baptist Convention with headquarters in Raleigh. The family will move to Raleigh and Mr. Dickey will en ter upon his new duties early in September. REV. C. H. DICKEY WILL LEAVE FOR RALEIGH SEPT. 1 Local Pastor To Take Upj Work of State-Wide Nature After nearly ten years of service in the Memorial Baptist church here, the Rev. Charles H. Dickey and his fam ily will move to Raleigh early in Sep tember, wire re Mr. Dickey will* take up his new work with the North Car olina State Baptist Convention, with j headquarters in that cTtyC At its June meeting the general hoard of the 'convention unanimously elected Mr. Divkey for work with the i'onveiitnTrr mThe^ state. Hr rocs on m a new capacity, expecting to devote much of Ids time To the publicity work of the denomination in this state Lip to now, there has been no publicity director for the vast organization. And while he has been convention re porter for years, he vvttT now be able to concentrate his efforts on this work | throughout the state. The North Carolina convention is large organization, covering every one J of the 100 counties in the state. The | denomination has 69 associations, a half dnzeii colleges and cducitihiual In stitutions, 2,400 churches and a simi lar numhcr-ol-Sunday- schools- Jugd dition every department of church work is included in the set-up. The Baptists number near one-half million communicants in the state, with an other Jialf million constituency. Mr. Dit kc\ \ work will iin fude a program of publicity carried on in the denominational press, the daily and the county newspapers of the state something like 200 of them in all. The plans contemplate radio broadcasting, as well as public addresses throughout the territory. This is the first time a| program of thh nature has been uu dertaken, and in looking for a man| for the place, it was felt by the dc nomination's authorities that Mr.| Dickey had fitted himself for just such, a task. His tenure of office in Williamston terminates with the month of Au gust. Going immediately to Raleigh, he will have office space in the dc nomination's headquarters in Raleigh, which city is also admirably situated for news gathering and dissemination, both the Associated and the United Press organizations having offices there. Raleigh is strategically situat ed to the Baptist strongholds of the state, and Mr. Dickey will spend some time in the field in the interest of the general promotion efforts of his group Thus he goes from the service of one church to the service of 2,400; from work in one county to effort in the 100 counties of the state; from at tempting to influence the course of his denomination in one segment of the state to a work that is calculated to influence the entire denominational set-up in the Commonwealth. He goes with the denomination immediately aft er his work is completed here, and will plunge at once into the fall's work, which always is heavy preceding 4h? meetings of the 69 associations and the annual meeting of the convention in November * Editor W. C. Manning , Reported Better Today I Taken ill suddenly' while visiting in Beaufort last Sunday afternoon, Edi tor W. C. Manning was reported much belter today. He was able to return here last night and is now at home with his daughter, Mrs. E. S. Peel on Academy Street. Several Young Physicians Considering Location Here Several promising young medical doctors were here a few .days ago in vestigating the possibility of locating in Williamson, reports stating that each of the five would like to establish themselves here. The five young men came here one after another almost during last wek, and all of them are said to have been favorably impressed with the territory. No definite arrangements were made to locate here by any of them, as far as it could be learned, and while the numiber -ot~-people- per doctor in thi-? immediate section is probably greater jthau the average, it is believed that the immediate location of additional 'members of the medical profession will he hardly posisble until arrangement:* for offices could be handled. ?None of the five doctors visiting ihere last week'could be reached today, land just what they plan to do is not jknown. i All of the young men were told that Williamston is one of the best small towns in the whole country, that its people were the finest in the world, and that at least one more, and prob lably?two, vmld locate here with success. Birth and Death Rate Of County Increasing Number of Deaths Increase From 201 To 260 In One Year Colored Deaths Decrease in Number While White Ones Increase Martin County's birth and death J rates took .1 decided turn upward in 1934 over the rates for the previous year, it was learned from a review of vital statistics filed in the office of the register of deeds for this county.'The death rate, a hit startling hut possibly explainable, jumped from 8.5 to 11 1 per 1,000 population. In 1933 the death rate was lower by 2.7 pexsqns per 1,000 population than it was in 1932." Year before last the birth rate was increased by only 70 points, the rare "tie* persons per 1,000 population greater than it was in 1933 There were 260 deaths and 794 births reported in the county last year, and while the number of white deaths increased from 73 in 1933 to 143 last year, the number of colored deaths decreased from 128 in 1933 to 117 last year, a rather unusual trend in vital statistics. At the same time, the number of white birts were de creased by^tx, while the number uL colored births was increased by 49 over those of 1933. The death rate was increased in every township but three, Gopse Nest, Hamilton and Williamston. James villc reported 40 deaths or 21 more than in 1933. and while Cross Roads did not have many, the number was more than twice $s great last year a.s Ui7T^Ktr~~ltDbei t>onville had?23 deaths in 1933 ami 44 lost year. The number of deaths in Williamston and Hamilton remained the same, while Goose Nest, the only township to re port a' decrease, had 27 or one less than the number in 1933. Births decreased in five districts, Bear Grass, Cross Roads, Griffins, Robersonvillc and Williamston. W il liams led the increase witli 55 births as compared with 38 the year before, that district reporting the liiglu birth rate, 54.2, in the county. Poplar Point continued with a right healthy birth rate, the district reporting 47 births or more than 50 per 1,000 pop ulation. Despite the increase in the death rate, the births continued to increase more rapidly or at about the propor tion of three to one. lhc number of illegitimate births showed a slight decrease last year from the year before, but even then about one out of every 25 children making Tiis cartMy appearance in tlii* county last year was born out of wed lock. The number of illegitimate white children was reduced from nine to four, the shameful figure tor flTTT colored population standing at jhc enormous figure 88. The abundant harvest of the little brats, so termed for no fault of their own, v\a> divided among the ten townships, as follows: Jamcsvillc, one white and two colored; Williams, seven colored; Griffins, one each; Bear Grass, none reported; Williamston, 24, (15 in town and nine outside, and all colored); Cross Roads, three colored; Rober sonvillc one white and 17 colored; Poplar Point, six colored; Hamilton, one white and 17 colored; Goose Nest, seven colored. The number of deatftl and birth* and resulting rates, by townships and (Continued on back page) Committees Cooperating To Build Up Agriculture The county board of agriculture and the county cotton and tobacco committees are cooperating to build the agriculture of Pitt County. The three committee met recently; and i are proposing a budget for the farm work of the county. TOWN CREDIT GOOD The soundness of Williamston's financial condition was well es tablished last week, when the town sold $5,000 in tax anticipation notes at one of the lowest inter est rates ever in effect here. The sale was readily made to the Branch Banking and Trust Com pany, a local institution, and thr notes bear S per cent interest. The sale was made through the Local Government Commission, Raleigh and wasTnade necessary by im provements \to Smith wick Street and the opening of Marshall Ave Number Arrests for Drunkenness About Same for Week-End Little Change Noted Since Advent of Legal Liquor In Martin County ir ? TTm5 IllllllliL'i nf?t ascs?--barging drunkenness in this county over the week-end, following the opening of legal liquor stores varied' but little from the arrests reported week after week prior to the legal sale of liquor, it was learned from a review of activi ties in town and county courts today. A drunken auto driver, Lester Whit aker, was arrested in Rohersonville Saturday night and placed in the counly Jail Sunday.?K. 1>. Spruill, lo al colored man, was jailed Sunday while about c.raay _ drunk, .Spruill bought a pint of store, liquor Friday and told officers he was going to have lug time right on his front porch Sunday. He is understood to have consumed the store pint and added a pint of bootleg, missing by only a few drams an inward drowning. Several fficers carried him to jail. A third drunk was a man said to be from New York. Mark Peterson, colored, was arrest ed for possessing about a quart of bootleg spirits, which he .laiined to have bought from the control store. Several other drunks were said to have roamed the streets, but narrow ly escaped, falling into the hands of the law, reports stated. Officers continue their plans to deal bootlegging and illicit liquor manu facturing a death blow, but the suc cess of their efforts depends upon the meaning of the law and actions of the courts. J. E. Poj )e Moving Office Here Today Mr. J. K l*opc, local insurance man,I is vacating the old N. S. Peel build ing next to the Williamston Cafe on, Main Street and is locating in the Biggs Building next to Margolin] Brothers Store today. Arrangements are being made fori renovating the i'eel building for a| mercantile establishment. The name! f the tenant has not been announced,' hut it is understood a general mer-l chandising firm plans to move here' from Washington just as soon as the building is made ready for occupancy. The W. C. Bunch Barber Shot) moved' from the building a week ago, and, was forced to suspend business, as an other location in town could tut be found. Double Acreage Production With Herd and Lespedeza Feeding a car of beef cattle and growing vetch and lespedeza on his farm each season has doubted the acre production on the farm of R. C. Wil liams of the Rock Rest Community in Union County. SELECT FACULTY FOR JAMESVILLE SCHOOL FRIDAY Only Three Changes Made; Prof. James Uzzle Is Again Principal Meeting last Friday evening, the lo cal committee completed the James ville school faculty appointments, the list carrying only three changes. An nouncing the appointments this week, Principal J. T. Uzzle stated that ar rangements are virtually complete for starting the new term on the date to he determined by county board of education. An opening date for the schools in this county has not been mentioned, but there is a probability the term wi4l get underway between the ninth and middle of September. Changes were made in the person nel for the seventh grade, science and? history au.d Knglish in tire high school. Miss Snoedc Leeson, teacher in the Hardnrs -srlmrd?and more recently a? member of the Bear Crass faculty, has been assigned the seventh grade in the Jamesville school. Miss Leeson is well known in that section. Mr. Russell P. Martin, assistant principal at Bear Grass last term, will teach science and history; and Mrs. Charles Hough, of Hardens, will teach high [school English. Mrs. Hough was a [former member of the Farm Life I School faculty in this county. Miss |Leeson is from Ocean View, Va., and (has taught in this county several years. [Mr. Martin is a native 6f Jamesville. Other faculty members and their assigned grades are: First grade, Miss Emily Smith wick, of Windsor. Second grade: Miss Opal Brown, of Jamesville. Third grade: Mrs. Charles Daven port, of Jamesville. Fourth 'grade: Miss Margaret Moore Everett, of Robersonville. F?fth grade: Mrs. Andrew Holliday. Sixth grade: Miss ftacTtel Godwin, of Conetoc. High School French and mathe matics: Miss Roslyn Satterwhitc, of Farmvtlle. Professor James T. Uzzle, principal. Jamesville Is Going Forward With Plans For Water System ?# - . . Government Will Furnish 45 Percent of $20,000 Estimated Cost I'lani are going forwanLJour water and sewer systems at Jamesville, ac cording t?? reports received here today following a recent meeting of the town authorities there. A preliminary sur v< \ of the proposed project eills for an expenditure of approximately $20, 000, it is understood. The govern ment will appropriate 45 per cent of the amount, and it is planned to bor row the other 55 per cent and liqui date the debt from the revenue. According to information reaching litre, the authorities are planning to rush the project, with the possibility 11hat definite action might be taken 'within the next few weeks. A similar project is being consid ered at Evcrctts, but definite details [have not been announced in connec tion with the progress of the project there. j The town of Jamesville, now With out a respectable jail, is also consid ering the Construction of a new one. but the plans are pending, it was stat ed. Legion Auxiliary ' Meeting^aturday The regular monthly meeting of the John Walton Hasscll Post of the vVnie'rTcan Legion Auxiliary was held Saturday afternoon, July 20, in the Itomc of Mrs. W. II. Gray, in Rob sonville. Election of officers took place, and the following were elected for the en suing year: Mrs. Ray Goodmon, pres ident; Mrs. W. E. Dunn, first vice president; Mrs. J. E. Harris, second vice president; Mrs. J. R. NVinslow, treasurer; and Mist Eva Peele, ?ec retary. The auxiI iary _agreed \Q adopt ife* family of an Oteen veteran, and planned a shower for this family, con sisting of a mother and six children, for Tuesday. , Next month was designated as "Vis itation Month," and each member will endeavor to interest and obtain new members for the new year, which will begin in October. Following the business session, Mrs. Gray served ice-cold watermelons.