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Watch" the Label oa Yew Paper, aa U Carries the Date Year Sabeertpttoe Expires THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Flat Oar Cat enas a Latchkey to Over l.M* VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 77 WUlimmstoa. Martin County, North Carolina. Tuesday. September 24. 1935 ESTABLISHED 189* PROCEEDINGS IN MARTIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT Three Cases Called Yester day; Only One Entirely Disposed of The Martin Superior Court opened iu second week yesterday, calling only three cases during the day and disposing ofipnly one of the three in itr entirety judge E. H. Cranmer, of South port, returned Sunday to continue his work on the bench. Much of yesterday was required " in handling tKe case ol W. t. James against the North Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank. The plaintiff was given a verdict, but Judge Cranmer set it aside and the case was sched uled for trial again next November. Ellen Cowen Twiddy was given a divorce against J. O. Twiddy on statutory grounds. The case of Nancy Rolox against H C. Nocman was placed in the hands of the clerl^of court for ref erence. i Today the court called the cases of Worsley and Raynor against the Gieen Oil Company. Plaintiff Wor sley is asking $1,000 damages and Raynor is pleading for $2,S0b as a result of injuries received in an au tomobile-truck wreck at a street in tersection in Oak City the 14th of last March. The plaintiffs declare Li. Champion, driver of the truck, was driving at a rapid speed through Oak City at the time and that caused the accident. Mrs. S. E. Roberson Died Last Friday at I lome in Cross Roads Highly Respected Womah Passes Away After Long Illness Mrs. S. E. Roberson, highly re spected?woman?ef?Crniin?Road ? Township, died at her home there lust Friday evening at 6 o'clock from a complication of diseases. She had been in declining health for the pus 13 months, and her condition had been serious for some time Mrs. Roberson was born 57 years ago in the community where she lived all her life. She was married to Mr. Roberson at an early age, and he, with seven children, James L. Roberson, of Washington; Alma Roberson, of Florida; and Judea and Irvm Roberson, of Cross Roads; and Mrs. Herman Williams, of Everetts; Mrs. Taylor, of Rocky Mount, and Miss Marie Roberson, of Cross Roadj survives. She also leaves three sis ters, Mrs. A. T- Rbthiirk Mr. j. T. Edmondson, of Williamston, I and Mrs. Wiley Rogerson, of Rober-j sonville; and one brother, Mr. J. H.j Wynn, of Maysville. Funeral services were conducted from the Christian chapel in Cross' Reads Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o' clock by Rev. Warren Davis, and in-' tcrment followed in the family plot ! Mrs Roberson held membership in' the community church for many! years, and her life was marked for its Christianlike character and friend1 liness to everyone. Many Oak City Grads Taking Advanced Study A large numb. r of last term grad-| uutes from the Oak City High School' are seeking higher learning than any of the school's previous classes ' it was reported by Mist Stalla, di-' rector of senior aotivities there this week. Ten members of the 1935 graduating class are attending var ious schools and colleges in this and two other states, as follows: Ora Johnson and Elizabeth Ed mondson, business college in Nor folk. Bettie Mayo Everett, Woman's College, Greensboro. Ludell Bellflower and Nancy Hai slip, Teachers' College, Greenville ] Virginia Perkins, business school in Raleigh. Lucius Long Davenport and Mel vin Crisp, Campbell College, Buies Creek. Hassell Worsley, Oak Ridge. Dick Blade, The Citadel, Charles ton, S. C. Revival Services Being Held at Riddicks Grove Rev. W. B. Harrington, pastor is conducting a aeries of revival serv ices in the Riddick's Grove Baptist church this week, the first of (he services having been held Monday night. The meeting will continue through Sunday, the minister an nouncing services each evening at 7:30 o'clock. The public is invited to attend. Tobacco Marketing Cards Change Hands This Week The sale and purchase of tobacco marketing cards were reported this week by the office of County Agent T. B. Brandon. Cards carrying more than 5.000 pounds of excess .tobacco, have been turned into the office, and several thousand pounds have already been sold at the agreed figure of 4 cents a pound. The office explained that a farm er did not have to wait uhtil he marketed all his tobacco to offer any expected surplus poundage for sale. When a farmer foresees he will have .0B_excess poundage on his card, he can sell that excess at once by car rying his card to the office of the agent. Card transfers should be made through the office of the county agent, but farmers have the right to buy and sell from whom they please, and at any price they might Determine. It is advisable to han dle the transfer through the office of the agent, because no production credit will go to the farmer who has to buy excess poundage when no record is made at the office. It was announced as a certainty that there would be sufficient cards to care for the marketing of the cur 1 rent crop, and -those, farmers who w ish- to sell any of their card ex cess should make arrangements to do so at their earliest convenience. / ? Average Is Higher on Mart Here This Week County Tax Collections Showing Slight Increase Martin County tax collections con tinue to reflect slight increases from | day to day as the time for advertis-j ing draws near, Sherifl C. B. Roe- | Luck said yesterday. Approximate- i ,1> $35,000 of the $175,000 levy re mains uncollected, but it is believed \ that about half and probably more this amount will have been paid j before the list is advertised early ' next month. A final warning is being issued by the collector today, urging im- I mediate pdVment. Washington Reports 10X1 Tobacco Prices In Excess of Parity Officials Say No Way To Improve Prices Under Present Terms of Act Washington, D. C?Since they ? re always glad to see their friends. 1 it was said in AAA official circles, [yesterday that the delegation repre senting the flue-cured tobacco grow er:. would be welcomed when they1 arrive Wednesday; but it is still not [clear how the government is to in [tcrvene in the situation with a view t( improving prices It was said that in 1934 there was produced in the Slate 413,103,000 pounds of flue* cured tobacco. The average farm price for that year was 27.3 cents a pound. It is now estimated that 523,974, "CtW poUhdrwill be placed '"on the* market during the current season,1 and up to the present time prices, have averaged L9.7 cents a pound It was stated that no one expected | the price -situation that so happily prevailed last year would be dupli-j cated any time soon, but it is never theless contended that the average1 for the season is thus far still above1 parity. The parity price is now fig ured at 18.9, arid not 19 1-2 cents, as some of the friends of the far mers had been led to believe. The view is generally taken here that if the formula for arriving at parity is to be changed, or if mar-1 ket conditions are to be changed in j any material respect, the agncul tural adjustment act itself will have to undergo alterations at the hands oi Congress. Inmate^of County Home Dies Sunday Alfred Hodges, 58-year-old inmate et the Martin County Home, died there early Sunday morning follow ing years of suffering caused by rheumatism. He had not been able to walk during the greater part of his stay of 10 years or more at the home, and was confined to his bed two years or more. Funeral services wore conducted yesterday afternoon uy Rev Z. T Fiephoff and burial was in the cem etery at Skewarkey church. One sister, Mrs. Maggie Stubbs, of Raleigh, and four brothers, Eli, Columbus Hodges, of Wiiliamston, Norwood Hodges, of Petersburg, and John Hodges, of Raleigh, survive. Public Meeting of Cotton Farmers Here Next Friday A public cotton meeting will be held in the courthouse in this coun ty Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, when representatives of the N. C. Cotton Growers' Association will re view the cotton situation. All farm era are urged to attend. Sales for Season Are !\ear Three arid Hall Million Pound Mark Better Quality of Tobacco Being Marketed and Average Climbs Tobacco prices, while still consid ered low, are strongei on the mar l-el this week than they were last, official records showing an increase of more than $2 a hundred for some grades. Prices for other grades are little changed from what, they were last week, when the lowest averages of the season were reported over the belt. However, farmers appeared in a btter frame of mind on the market here yesterday and today, and many received more than they had really expected.. v Sales yesterday totaled 170,872 pounds, bringing a total of $31,510.07 an(Taveraging $18.44. Today, it was estimated 140,000 pounds were put on the floors with the average a lit tle higher, due possibly to an im provement in the quality of tobacco rather than an upward trend in the price. Thirty-cent averages were fairly numerous, and lots of 4,000 pounds and more were bringing well e ver 21 cents. So far this season, the market has sold 3,388,922 pounds for $008,602.85, or an average of $17.96. The sales today will carry the offerings well ever the three and one-half million pound mark, and push the averagd above the 18-cent figure. Some farmers are said to have turned tags during the past few dayf tine patronized two or three larger markets Several of those same farmers were reported back here today and stated they found the Williamston market one of the most reliable they had visited. Reliable estimates indicate that a bout 40 per cent of the crop has' been sold in this section, and that conditions are very favorable for the Williamston market to establish new poundage records this season. Negro Arrested for Greenville Robbery Arthur Johnson, colored man, was arrested here Sunday morning for the alleged robbery of a market and bank in Greenville the night before. Arrested by county officers, John son was turned over to Greenville officers Sunday afternoon. When arrested here, Johnson is said to have had a few articles on his person stolen from the bank. He was said to have been found in the market Saturday night by the own er, but ran ever the man and es caped. A third business house was robbed in Greenville the same night, and it is believed that Johnson was one of the parties stealing several dresses there. Some of the articles, said to have been stolen there, were recovered here last night, and two or three more arrests in this county are ex pected shortly. Farmville-Woodward To Enlarge Their Plant Here According to reliable information heartl this week, the Farmville Woodward Lumber Company is planning the enlargement of its plant here within the near future. A representative of the Arm said yes terday that details for the enlarge ment had not been completed, but that new equipment would be add id to the plant and that approxi mately 29 additional men would be given employment. SIZE OF TOB ACCO CROP TO GOVERN PLANTINGS IN 1936 Possible That Full 35 Per Cent Reduction May Be Made, Hutson Says With reference to prices paid fori (hip-cured tobacco in portion, of. North Carolina, the Agricultural Ad-1 1 justment Administration this week made public the following statemen" 'by J B Hutson, director of the to ibJ-cco division: j I "In connection with the price sit ^TOH T^^rcured tobacco, the question has been raised as to the probable 1936 plantings. ??The 1936 flue-cured tobacco ad justment program provides for a re duction of not exceeding 35 per cent from the bases estab'ished in th ? -contract. Whether the reduction with I Oc the full amount authorized, or a 'lesser figure, will depend upon th-j size of the 1935 crop and develop mints affecting world consumption, during the next few months. I ? At the time the program for 193* was formulated, it was anticipated It hat the program would result in a ci op of approximately 715,000,000 rounds. Some current estimates arc 'above and some below this figure^ It was contemplated that a crop of I i" 15,000,000 pounds would bring the 'stocks, which were below normal, following the short crop of last year, ( Ito near the normal level. With a i normal stock situation, plans for 11036 would provide for the reduction of the crop to the level of consufnp uon which would mean a reduction V, between 25 and 30 per cent from jhe bases established under pres ent contracts unless world consump | jtton should increase above present; 'levels. - If -consumption should de-j tcline materially below present lev els and if the crop should turn oui ,o be near the higher of the current estimates, the full 35 per cent re duction probably would be made. Local Gridders Will| Opeir Season Friday With Windsor Here Prospects for Season Look Better Now Coach Says, Have Hard Schedule Williamston's high school football j 'team will open the season here Fri-| day afternoon of this we^k at 3.30 j O'clock, when Windsor sends one of j its strongest teams here in several I seasons'to oppose the Green Wave j |The locals, while far from mid-sea-1 I son form, are expected to make a I creditable showing this season, be bpfrfflng"witn the contest this week, 1 Coach Peters explaining that several ' o*. the boys on the team last year had returned to school this term, and would take part in the gamtv Charles Daniel, strong lineman of ?last season, will not be in the game as a result of an accidental shoot 1 ing. The young man is said to be | ul! right, hut his participation in the sport is considered not advis able, it waB said. The local squad has one of its most difficult schedules this season than for several years, and the sup port of fans is solicited. Oppon ents include. Greenville, Farmville ! Flizabeth City, Washington, and ! others. At Least 4 More Teachers Needed Preliminary enrollments from sev eral of the coynty schools indicate that four additional teachers are needed, it was learned from the of fice of the county superintendent this week Definite reports will not be available until the end of this week, however. Even though the enrollment in crease justifies additional teachers, it is not at all certain that the school commission will ^sanction any fac ulty additions. 'When the attend ance is checked for the first twoj weeks of the term, and there still exists a need for additional teach-! era. the county authorities will place applications with the state commis sion. Local Masonic Lodge To Hold Meet Tonight V. J. Spivey announced this morn ing that there would be a regular jniceting of Skewarkee Lodge tonight in tha lodge hall at 7:30 o'clock. De tails of the attendance contest will joe worked out and a large attend ance is requested. Attention is called I to the change In hour of meeting, from 8 to 7:30, Delegation Seeks Aid of AAA To Raise Leaf Price Tobacco Sign-Up in County 90 Per Cent Complete This Week 99 Per Cent Support for Program Predicted by-? Asisstant Agent The new tobacco control program sign-up was announced 90 per cent j complete in the county this week by j Assistant County Agent M. L. frames, who?_aL_lhat time, predict ed approximately a 99 per cent sup port for the control measure in the county this year. Contracts are be ing handled in the county court house, and while there is no great rush, the farmers are steadily sign ing. No definite date for closing the campaign has been announced, Mr. Barnes stating they, were desirous to bring the drive to a virtual close by the latter part of this week. Very few farmers are said to have refused the contracts, and in fact there has been less opposition to the agreements since tobacco prices reached a new low last week. Some j farmers who hesitated to sign when the campaign was first launched, are understood to have reconsidered and willingly signed in recent days. Mrs. Frank Brittoni Dies Suddenly Near Plymouth Saturdayi Native of This County Vic tim of Apoplexy; Fin&l Rites Sunday Mrs. Marv Kmilv R'itt.m mf,. of Frank Britton, died at her home near Plymouth in Washington County 1 late last Saturday night following an illness of only a few hours' dura- j lion. She suffered a stroke of apo-1 plexy at 6 o'clock Saturday evening j after returning from a visit to neigh bers. Mrs. Britton was a native of this county, the daughter of the late W. G. Bailey and Mary Gurganus Bail ey She lived in this county until about two years ago, when the fam ily moved to Washington County She? had experienced failing health i on one occasion some time ago, but | just prior to her last illness, she was considered in fairly ? good health church, and Rev. Richard Lucas, Plymouth, conducted the last rite at the home Sunday afternoon. Bur ia' was in this county, near Evei etts. Mr Britton survives with flv children, Arthur, of Dardens; Ell Mae, of Edenton; Emily, Hubert an Gracia Britton, all of near Plyrn louth. She also leaves three broth ers, Messrs. John Bailey, of Everett, and Bob Bailty and Con Bailey, c TTobersonville. She was 57 years ol land a good woman. Justice Clarkson To Speak In County Next Sunday Associate Justice llerriott Clark- , son of the Supreme Court of North Carolina will speak in the Church I of the Advent next Sunday, Sep tember 29, at 11 a. m. and in the evening he will speak at St Mar-1 tins Episcopal church at Hamilton This advance notice is given be i cause it is believed that a large con ' gregation will want to hear Justice Clarkson, who is a prominerfc Epis copal layman and active in religious work. Gives Directions on Fruit Selection for Fair Exhibits The necessary essentials in select ing fruit for exhibition ut fairs is to .see that it is free from any blemish, has the typical color for the kind: in true to size and shape for the va riety, and that all specimens are uni form. Be sure that the proper num ber of each kind of fruit is selected This number varies with different (airs or associations, and the cata log must he studied for the correct' r.umber. Make the exhibit as neat j and as attractive as posisble with! contrasting colors between fruit and container. Quality fruit has been given a low score many tildes due to poor arrangements. Six Person County farmers, grow ing corn after lespede/a, report that their acre yields will be doubled this season. DROP FIVE BUSSES Five school busses were taken out of operation in this county a day or two ago at the direc tion of E. W. Avent. state school commission representative, who made a study of the transporta lion system. In four of the five cases, trucks will make two trips, a large-size truck doing the work ot two at Oak City. One bus was discontinued in each of five schools. Jamesville Farm Life. Bear Grass, Kober sonville and Oak City. Very few chanjrev were made in the routes themselves, it was learned Monday follow in* a four day study of the system in the county. Colored Prisoners Extend Thanks for Ixeli gious Sen iees Religious Program at Camp Near Here, Most Irtspir in of Any in County Ever since the opening of tlie local prison canvp. No 1 III. a number of months ago, llev C? T. Hill, colored minister atid school teacher, assist cci by ottier interested colored nun isters, has been conducting a reltgi cu> service each Sunday afternoon i'cr these prisoners This work fron the very bet;inning has been under -inc. auspices and direction of the lo cal Presbyterian church', At .1 nom inal expense the work has continued from month to month The salary of the minister has been prov ided bv interested friends,-. ?S' 'pteiishcr?h?the following resolution of thanks was signed b> 4t> of the present inmates and sent to Hev. T PiephofT.. pastor of the Martin County Home Mission Field of the Southern Presbyterian church To the Rev Mr 7. T. Piepholl aiui his mission board "We. the undersigned men of 1*? is " on Camp No | til, of Wtlhamstpit/ N. C\, wish to extend to >k>u our Sincere thanks for sending a man to us every Sunday to teaeli us the w ay ? ol the Lord. "Through this work we have been made to see our errors in life, ami W? are now determined to change our ways and become law abiding Citizens of North Carolina Again, we CVTSlT~TT? "thank you and a?sure you that your great elTorts shall yield a very bountiful harvest. ' All who have signed our names Ik re, you can depend upon as be ing changed men at heart" . In commenting on, the work l>? ii:g done among the colored prison - J era of the local camp, Mr. Piepholf1 said that he considered this work as^ one of the most needy11, inspiring and appreciated pieces of religious work .that is being done in the cou**-~ tv. The greats t :icv*d of the work at this time is hymn hooks. About 75 to 100 of these books are needed. ! No greater piece of mission work could he done by some interested Christian than to send Mr. Piepholfi a check that these books might b * put chased. Town Tax Collections Still One-Fourth Short Making preparations l<? advertise the delinquent tax li t early next] month, the town treasurer's office yesterday reported $10,508.33 prop city taxes unpaid, or alxmt one fourth of the levy for 1034 In ad cition to that amount, the office re ported $3,050 03 paving assessments unpaid. Collections are increasing gradu ally since the town authorities or dered the delinquent list advertised next month and the sale the second Monday in November. ~ Local Colored School Has Big Enrollment Monday Starting the new term yesterday morning, the local colored school reported 533 children enrolled, 83 in the high school and 450 in the elementary department The open ing day enrollment broke all previ ous records, Principal Hayes stating that the number was only 4 greate", than the enrollment was last year, however. An increase in the enrollment is expected as the term progresses and the children are released from vari ous jobs. (,losing of Markets Suggested as Filial rr Resort l>\ (Growers Committee Headed by Sen ator Bailey and Governor Ehringhaus A special committee, named at a mass meeting of tobacco farmers in Raleigh last Saturday will appear before AAA authorities in Washing ton City tomorrow and plead for higher tobacco prices. ? the closing ~~ oi He markets wax mentioned an a last resort to relieve the situation discussed at the mass meeting Governor JOB Ehringhaus, Sen ator J W Bailev. Dr Clarence Poe. rs many of" the 12 congressmen v. possible, the slate advisory commi - tt c. and representatives of the Eas' irn Carolina Warehouse Association arc carrying the case of the tobacco farmers to Washington tomorrow afternoon The committee goes to Washing ton .with a 10-point program of sag- _ guest ions adopted by the mass mee. nig last Saturday The programj 1 Immediate completion of the tampaign to secure farmer signature, oa control contracts for the n? lour years 2. Improved acreage allotmen' . plans, with more attention given the viewpoint of growers and the crea t-on nf a stabilization corporation to take Surplus tobacco ?S the market, t. he held until th-" supply shall-be diminished by reduction of, acreag'e i Immf-diaV' conferences w tth the tobacco' manufacturers in an effort (i- secure thi-i.' cooperation in ttoo-' nig prices tt> a fair level. 4 A definite unequivocal announce motit hv Secretary of Agriculture llcnry A. Wallace, that the tobacco acreage wilt be Cut by S definite percentage next year, thereby off setting the effect of the present sur plus. 5 The inauguration of a fairer more accurate system of estimating the "parity" price of tobacco and th public announcement of parity, in Older that farmers might know what price level the AAA is trying to hit to Adoption of some methoif by which contrifpt growers can expres their opinions more readily to the AAA authorities in Washington. 7 The issuing of a statement from Washington that, regardless of the year's average in all tobacco slates. last week's prices were below par 7T~ (Secrefafy Wallace in a letter to Governor Ehringhaus said they v. ere above the 'parity level for the time of the year, and there Was, a fear that farmers, believing Wallace considered present prices fan. would not sign again ! . II A joint effort between the cv-m n .llee and the AAA tij work out a solution of the problem as speed.lv as possible, in ordit that the farm ers' might get the most advantage but of any use "in prices. It). The consideration of a is hatco holiday." ? short period dol ing which tobacco markets would be closed during a whirlwind sign-up campaign. While the committee was center ing on Washington, tobacco prices vere said to have improved slightly over the low average of last week Otlerings were not as great, many farmers having stopped grading for fi-ai a holiday would be called. A few farmers from this county attended the meeting in Kaleigh Sat in day and are anxiously awaiting developments 'in Washington tomor row. Second Still ol Week Is Captured in Bear Grass Making a second raid of the ' i" Bear Grass Township. Officers Joe Koehuck and Roy Peel found a Iarge copper still and all plant equipcnen: li st Friday afternoon. Six barrels of beer and four gallons of Imjixt wi re found and destroyed The plant was in operation at the time but the colored operator jumped in to a swamp and waded through wa tt r several feet deep to make good hit escape r... e To Begin Revival at Maple Grove Church in October Rev. M. L. Ambrose will a series of revival services m Mr.ple Grove Christian church, g.nning the ftrit Sunday in it was announced this services will be held each mg one week, it is understood.
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