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VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 81 Williamston, Martin Couhty, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 8. 1935 ESTABLISHED 1899
POSTAL RECEIPTS
AT LOCAL OFFICE
CONTINUE CIIMB
Postmaster 'Pete' Predicts
$18,000 Business For
Local Office In 1935
Postal receipts at the local office
continue to show a healthy increase
over those of comparative periods
for the past several years, it was
learned this week from Postmaster
Pete Fowden, following the tabula
tion of the postal income for the first
three quarters of the current year.
Present indications are promising for
one of the most prosperous years in
the history of the local office, the
postmaster predicting a business In
the neighborhood of $18,000 for the
12-month period.
While the office was reporting one
t-f its largest comparative gains in
stamp sales, money order business
suffered one of the largest declines
in years to feature the activities dur
ing the third quarter and last month,
especially. Money order business
that has been showing startling gains
since September a year ago, took
one grand flop last month. Gains
were reported in July and August
this year over the same months last
ytar, the patrons apparently trading
on anticipation, but after the mar
ketr opened the money order busl
ness fell from $26,595 17 in Septem
ber, 1934, to $13,903.05 last month.
This decrease alone is expected to
hold down the money order busi
ness under the 1934 figures. In the
third quarter of 1934, the money or
der business at the local office a
mounted to $37,758.22, as compared
with $29,771.18 last quarter. In the
second quarter of this year money
order business handled by the lo
cal office amounted to $26,720.25.
During the third quarter, stamp
sales amounted to $3,999.06, against
$3 274.63 in the 1934 third quarter.
The postal -receipts started increas
ing in July, when the stamp sales
amounted to $1,244 82. In August j
the income was $1,316.37 and $1,
437.87 last month. For the third
quarter period last year, the stamp
sales by months were: July, $1,005.89
August, $1,067.93; and September,
1,201.81.
Newton D. Hardison
Dies at Daughters
Home Last Friday
Once Carried Mail Over 14
Mile Star Route on Foot;
Jamesville Resident
Newton D. Hanson, about 76 years
of age, died at the home of hia
daughter near Jamesville last Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock, following
an illness of about six months' dura
tion. He was taken suddenly worse
and died a few minutes later.
Mr. Hardison was a native of the
Jamesville section and lived there
all his life. He enjoyed very few
advantages in life, was recognized
as a ,hard and willing worker at
whatever task assigned him, and
never complained. More than 40
years ago, a star mail route was es
tablished between Jamesville and
Amherst (Hardison Mill) and Mr
Hardison carried the mail. For sev
eral years he walked the approxi
mately 14 miles with the mail on his
back, going in all kinds of weather
and never failing in his task. He
worked under Willis Moore, colored
postmaster of, Jamesville, for a num
ber of years.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Sal
lie Padgett, with whom he made his
home, and Mrs. Dora Perry, of Wil
liams Township.
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday by Daniel Hardison at the
home, interment following in the
Lilley burial ground in Jamesville
Township.
Big Crowd Attends
Bear Grass Meeting
The annual association of the
Primitive Baptist church at Bear
Grass Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day attracted thousands of follow
ers of that faith and their friends
from a wide territory. Sunday was
the big day as far as numbers were
concerned, estimates placing the
number of visitors at between two
and three thousand persona. People
of the community handled well the
huge task of feeding the multitude
at noon Sunday. Unfavorable weath
er threatened the activities Sunday,
but even then acres of ground were
used to park the hundreds of cars.
The sessions were brought to a
close yesterday, reports stating that
the association was one of tha most
outstanding in recent yean.
Firemen Have TwaCalls To '
Start Fire Prevention Week
The first real cold snap of the sea
son started the local volunteer fire
men running over the week-end,
three calls having been made from
Saturday morning until yesterday
noon. None of the fires proved of
any great consequence, but the fre
quency of the calls certainly placed
"fire prevention week" on the spot
to start off with. Hot fires dropped
sparks on the roofs of two homes,
and a defective flue was the cause of
a third blaze.
Last Saturday morning, the fire
men were called to the office of At
torney H. G. Horton, where fire had
gained much headway on the roof.
Starting from a defective flue, the
Art was soon brought under control
by water handled through a hose di
rect from the Are truck. Damage
there was estimated at about $25.
The Primitive Baptist association
and, the noon-day meal in particular,
left hardly enough firemen here to
l.undle a call to John Res pass's home
rn Church Street. The apparatus
was Anally carried out by several;
volunteers, but the small roof Are1
had already been extinguished when!
the Aremen reached there.
Yesterday morning the Aremen
were called to the home of B. B. i
Williams on Railroad Street. Fire, |
starting from a spark, had burned
a'small hole in the shingle roof, but
there was very little damage.
Town Finances Topic!
At Meeting of Board
IN RALEIGH TODAY )
County and local aehool au
thorities are In Raleigh today re
directing a plea for additional
tenchen In the schools of this
county. Well-founded pleas by
four schools, Jamesville. Ruber
sonville, Hamilton, and Wllliam
ston, were not considered by the
commission several days ago, it
la understood, and the success
of the mission today is consid
ered doubtful. Senator R. L. Co
burn Is representing the local
school as committeeman. It could
not be learned whether other
schools In the county had per
sonal representatives other than
the county school authorities.
Bloody Knife Battle
Takes Place on Local
Street I^ast Saturday
Warren Ange, White and,
Herbert Brown, Colored,
Are Badly Hurt
Using pocket knives. Warren Ange j
white man, and Herbert Brown, col
ored, nearly cut each other to death
in a bloody light on Washington
Street here early last Saturday night.
Brown, his belly ripped open and
part of his intestines hanging, was
removed to a Washington hospital,
wheer his chance of recovery is con
sidered doubtful. However, last re
ports stated that he was getting along
vtry well, but that peritonitis was
almost certain to develop and pos
sibly result in his death.
Ange, with two ugly gashes on
the side of his face, is getting along
all right. One stroke of Brown's
knife sliced several inches of skin
and meat on Ange's face, the other
severing an artery close to his tem
ple. About IS stitches were neces
rary to close the wounds.
The light is said to have followed
cn argument started when the two
men, both farmers living near here,
failed to agree over the wages due
cr paid Brown for assisting Ange in
digging peanuts. No hearing has
been scheduled, and it is not known
who started the carving.
Witnesses described the fight as
one of the bloodiest teen here in
many years.
Checking Excess
Peanut Acreage
The excess peanut acreage report
ed by 386 farmers in this county is
being checked by six supervisors,
according to a report died by the
farm agent's office to the county com
missioners this week. Nearly every
one of the 386 farmers are hogging
down their excess peanut acreage, it
is understood. Only two farmers are
understood to have notified the agent
that they planned to forfeit their
contracts.
As soon as the supervisors make
their reports, the contracts for most
of the 386 growers will be prepared
and sent to Raleigh, where benefit
payments will be figured and deliv
ered here for-distribution.
Maple Grove Meeting
Attracts Big CrowdsI
The series of religious services
getting underway at Maple Grove
in Griffna Township last evening at
tracted large crowds from a wide
territory, it was reported. Rev. Mr
Ambrose is conducting the meeting,
scheduled to continue during the re
mainder of this week and probably
a part of neat _
Collector Directed
To Seize Personal
??ropert^JoiJax^
Treasurer To Supervise Col
lections; Other Matters
Are Taken Up
Town finances as they center a-,
round tax collections were discussed
at length by the town commissioners 1
in their regular meeting here la?t
evening, and several changes in the
collection system were' ordered.
Chief of Police W. B. Daniel was re
lieved of the duties as tax collector,
the board appointing Treasurer N
C. Green to handle the collections,
with the assistance of the clerk and
members of the police force. Old
tax accounts are to be withdrawn
from the town attorney's office and
placed in the treasurer's office. Col
lection schedules are to be arranged
and a concerted drive directed by
the tax collector and handled by the
police At the direction of the boaid
the officers are to seize personal
property where the taxes have not
jbeen paid.
Showing a greater determination
than in recent months to bolster the
town's financial standing, the au
thorities stressed economy along
with the proposed drive for taxes.
The first step toward effecting a
system of law enforcement activi
ties was taken when Commissioner
Peel made a motion directing the
police to maintain headquarters at i
the town hall, and all officers report
there about every hour while on
duty.
In its economy move, the board
passed an order calling for the ap
proval of all accounts, some befoie
purchases are made.
Under a special order of the board
Mayor J. L. Hassell was directed to'
write the several dus operating
companies and warn them against
the rapid speed of the busses with
in the corporate limits and the un
necessary use of loud-sounding horns
J both day and night.
Adding a fourth officer to the lo
cal police force since the ABC store
was opened, the town authorities
| plan to petition the county commis
sioners for a portion of, the 5 per
cent of the liquor store profits to
partly offset the extra salary. It is
understood that the extra premiums
allowed officers, both local and coun
ty, for arrests of alleged ABC law
violators, is tearing heavily into the
5 per cent law enforcement fund,
one officer presenting a bill of $40
to the commissioners for eight ar
rests.
Editor W. C. Manning
To Return Tomorrow
Reaching New York this afternoon
from a ten weeks trip to Europe
and . the Holy Land, W C. Manning
I is expected home late tomorrow, a
radiogram yesterday advised.
Gives Definition of
Term 'Quality Eggs'
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The term "quality eggs" is used
to determine eggs that are of stan
dard weight, uniform in size, shape
and color and with a well-ftnishod
shell. The eggs should also be in
fertile and free from blood spots or
other foreign material and should
contain a large percentage of thick
albumen and a yolk that will "stand
up." Fresh eggs with cleah shells
that conform to the specifications
outlined are classified as "quality
eggs" and command a premium
when packed and shipped or sold
on the local markets.
REGULAR MEET
COUNTY BOARD
IS HELD MONDAY
Erection of Cold Storage
House by WPA Is
Discussed
Martin County's commissioners
were in session a greater part of
Monday inspecting current monthly
tills, listening to the appeals of the
less fortunate, drawing a jury for
the two weeks term of superior cou> t
convening the third Monday in next
month and discussing several oth
ers upon which no official action
was taken. Among the matters dis
cussed was the erection of a pro
posed agricultural building and cold 1
storage house by the Works Progress
Administration. Commissioner V.
G. Taylor was appointed to discuss
the plans with state officials and re
port back to the boat d his findings.'
John Pope, colored, of Roberson-'
ville, was admitted to the county
home.
Rose Winston, Jamesville, was al
lowed $1 a month.
J. A Bowen, of Williamston R. i.
D. 3, was granted the sum of $3
monthly.
Charles V. Gorham, disabled war
veteran of Pitt County, was given
permit to peddle goods in Martin
without the payment of a license tax.
A permit was granted J. J\ Pad
gett to sell fireworks in the county
upon the condition that he pay a $50
license tax.
Reports were submitted for review
by the county form and home agents
i nd- others in the agricultural serv
ice of the county.
World War Veterans
Are To Be Guests ol
Loeal Post of legion
Biggest Gathering for Vet
erans and Wives Planned
Here in Years
The John W Hassell post of the
American Legion is inviting all. the
World War veterans and their wives
joi Martin County to a free barbc
jcue supper in Williamston on Oc
tober 14th, at 6:45 p. m. Cards are
being mailed out to the veterans
jwith a reply card attached. All who
mail the reply cards to 11. L. Swam,
jtommonder of the post, by October
iO, will get their names "in the pot"
for the free supper It may be that
some veteran has moved into Martin
County since the war or that the
card will not reach the veteran who
went from this county. If such hap
pens to be the case and they will
get in touch with Mr. Swain befoie
Friday, the plates can be arranged.
Naturally the Legion cannot pre
pare plates for all the veterans un
less it knows that they and their
wives aie coming. It is therefore
important that each veteran sign
and return the card at once and if,
for any reason, he does not get a
card, he should get in touch with
Mr. Swain.
This is expected to be the largest
gathering of veterans and their
v/ives exclusively in many years. II
is also hoped that each veteran will
bring $3 for his Legion dues and *1
for his wife's auxiliary dues.
After the supper all are expected
to attend a public meeting of both
the Legion and auxiliary for a joint
installation of the officers for 1636.
At this meeting Josephus Daniels, jr., !
the new state commander, and other
leaders in the Legion and auxiliary
will speak.
Last but not least, the line Wil
liamston High School Band, under
the leadership of its director, Mr.
Bobbitt, will give a band concert
and take part in dedicating the post
colors.
The Legion and auxiliary are do
ing many fine things in Martin Coun
ty and are expecting to do much
more for 1936 under the leadership
of Mrs. Ray Goodmon, president of
the auxiliary, and H. L. Swain, com
mander of the Legion.
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Local Negro Tries To
Enlist for Ethiopia
?
Desirous of aiding the Ethiopians
in the defense of their country
against Italy, Henry Gilliam, local
negro, is said to have made an effort
to get into Emperor Haille Selassie's
army recently. He wrote to the U.
S War Department and offered his
services, but could And no way to
get into the Ethiopian army. The
department advised him that he
would be placed on the preferred
list, it is understood.
Gilliam weighs about 225 pounds,
stands well over 6 feet, and saw
service In the World War.
$25.67 Average Monday
N ew High for Season Here
Fire Destroys Home
Of Gus Moore Near
Here Iiast Saturday
Occupant Barely Manages
To Escape With Life;
Two Are Injured
Fire of undetermined origin de
stroyed the Gus Moore home and all
its contents in Williams Township
early last Saturday evening, one of
the residents, Sylvester Moore, bare
ly escaping with his life when trap
ped on the second floor of the eight
ioom house. The piano was removed
from the house and a porch swing
and cfcair were saved, every other
article, including all Mr. Moore's
wearing apparel, going up in smoke
The man had already retired and
when he learned the house was on
fire he did not have time to grab a
single article and rushed from the
building in his night clothes.
Neighbors rushed to the scene and
aided in removing the piano, but
were unable to save anything else
from the inside. Andrew Hardison, I
a neighbor, and one of the Moore
beys attempted to reenter the house
but were greeted by a sudden burst
of fire and were badly burned about
the face and arms. They were given
medical attention.
It is believed that the fire started
in the rear part of the house from a
lamp. Mr. Moore turned the wick
of the lamp down and blew the flame
out, Iput apparently left a little fire
on the wick. It is assumed that the
fire, continued to burn down the
wick and into the oil, causing the
lamp to explode.
The extent of the loss could lifel
bo learned, the $800 insurance car
ried on the building only partially
offsetting the loss, it was said.
Set Dp Office Here
To Gather Material
For American Guide
To Bring Before American
Public Points Of Interest
Found In Small Towns
?
In an extensive nation-wide pro
gram to bring before the traveling
public a graphic and more compre- j
hensive- picture of points of interest,
and folk-lore to be found in Wil
liamston and other selected North
Carolina towns, the Federal Writer.}' I
Project, a subsidiary of the Works
Progress Administration, has taken ,
the initial steps toward organizing |
the "American Guide," it was
learned here today.
c
This exhaustive American Bae
decker which after completion is ex
pected to reveal the seven wonders
distinctive of special American
towns, but little known outside of
their immediate communities, is to
be a five-volume affair, paying par
ticular Attention to towns of less
than 10,000 population size", inas
|much as those above that class gen
erally have guide books already.
According to Director Henry Als
berg, chief, offices will be set up in
Williamston and comparable towns
ever the country out of which the
unemployed of that district will gatli
er material for the guide. Funds will
come from the $27,000,000 allotment
given to the Works Progress Ad
ministration for the needy folks in
the music, art, drama, and writing
fields.
"Each field office established in the
various cities," Mr. Alsberg told the
Enterprise correspondent, "will be
allocated funds as they are needed
to carry on the work. We intend
to gather material on the little high
ways and by-ways of America to
that travelers may more fully ap
preciate the beauties of our coun
try."
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County's Delinqnent Tax
List To Be Advertised
Martin County's delinquent tax list
will be advertised the first time next
Friday, preparatory to sale by the
sheriff on the first Monday in No
vember, The liat, said to be consid
erably smaller than any one in re
cent years, has already been pre
pared for publication. \
The town of Williamston delin
quent list will appear one week lat
er in accordance with instructions is
sued to the tax collector by the.
commissioners at a recent meeting
N. Y. CHAMBLISS
Manager of the State and Roa
noke Fairs. Mr. Chambliss as
sures the people of this section
that the event here early next
month will be one of the best in
recent years.
HORSE RACING TO
MAKE COMEBACK
AT RO ANOKE FAIR'
Has Key Position in Newly
Organized Circuit With
$20,000 in Purses
Holding a key position in a newly
organized harness racing circuit of-j
fering more than $20,000 in purses
to late campaigners, the Roanoke
fair here will attract many of the
trotting and pacing stars of big
time speed circuits for the three-day
meeting at the local fair grounds on
Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday.
Nuvumbur 5, 0 and 7.
Joining hands with fair officials
at Raleigh, Greensboro, Clinton,
Rocky Mount, Winston-Salem, Shel
by, Tarboro and Wilson, the local
lair organization has hung up allur
ing purses and offered other induce-,
ments as its part in a state-wide at
tempt to revive North Carolina as
a harness racing speed bed.
Seven different events, three each
for the trotters and pacers and a
free-for-all bringing together out
standing contenders of both gaits in
to a feature contest, are listed on the
lccal fan programs. Entry books
Iwill not be closed until Tuesday,
October 20.
"If harness racing makes a come
back at Williamston and other'
points along the North Carolina cir
cuit this year, I think we can de
velop valuable stake events and
other important races that will
biing outstanding grand circuit
stables into the state each fall, Hai
vty Walker, resident manager, de
clared this week. He believes the
current efforts to renew interest in
the sport will bring gratifying re
sults this year.
The complete program at the Roa
noke fair with $150 purse and added
money for each race, is as follows.
Tuesday, November 5?2:24 trot
and 2 24 pace.
Wedntsday, November 6?2:14
tiot and 2:16 pace.
Thursday, November 7?2 16 trot,
2:18 pace and free-for-all trot and
pace.
Locals Get 7-7 Tie
I With Scotland Neck
Scoring a touchdown in the last
few seconds of play, Williamston's
High School football team barely
missed defeat at the hands of Scot
land Neck's strong eleven in the
Halifax town last Friday afternoon.
Hardison scored the lone touchdown
end Holloman kicked the extra point
i to tie the score at 7-all
Scotland Neck scored in the first
few minutes of play and offered a
stubborn defense, but the Green
Wavers broke through with a pas'
at the end to knot the score. Re
covering a fumble in the early par,
I of the game on Williamston's three
yard line, Scotland Neck finally went
across the goal line on the fourth
down.
I Friday afternoon of this week,
Washington sends its strong team
here to meet the Green Wave. It
will be remembered that the Wash
ington eleven was one of the strong
est faced by the locals all last sea
son, and a good game is expected
here this week. The play starts
promptly at 3:30.
Prices Are Regarded
Nearly as High as at,
This Time Year Ago
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Better Tobacco and Orderly
Marketing Combine for
Better Outlook
Tobacco is selling good on the
Williamston market, official reports
today showing that a new high rec
ord has been reached in prices and
that the trend is decidedly upwa-d
Farmers are releasing those sr
that were all the go last sea:
things are really looking up- u
on this market now. Probabl there
has been no marked increase in tho
price itself, but the better tobaccos
are coming in right along now, and
they are sending the prices to levels
?n close keeping with those joyfullv
experienced last season. And it is
certain that some of the grades are
higher than they were a few days
terviewed this morning were well
pleased with their sales, explaining
of their own accord that they had
received more than they had hoped
tor.
With offerings far from heavy, the
marketing is being carried on smooth
ly, apparently effecting a slight in
ciease in prices. The orderly mar
keting and the better quality tobac
cos are brightening up a situation
that proved disappointing earlier in
the season, and the weather is just
light for the activities. All indica
i tions are that now is a good time to
sell tobacco. - ,
The new record for the season was
set yesterday, when the market sold
107,722 pounds for an average of
$25 67, th* figure including all of
ferings from the lowest to" the high
est. Forty-cent tobacco was seen
frequently, and?30 cent?averages
were the rule, some going consider
ably higher.
Up to today, the market had sold
4,623,082 pounds for $870,306.64, and
an average of $18.82. .
Observing the sales in a local
warehouse this morning, a farmer
fiom over the Roanoke remarked
that he had seen many sales organi
zations in action, but be had yet to
see one better than those on the
Williamston market.
Series of Minor Auto
Mishaps Occurred in
This Section Sunday
No One Hurt But Several
Cars Damaged in
Crashes
Several automobile wrecks, none
Of any serious consequence, were re
ported in this section Sunday after
noon and evening Considerable
'damage was done to two or three
cars, but no one was hurt.
Floyd Spruill, colored, drove Hen
ry Woolard's Ford coupe into a
Chrysler parked on West Main Street
here about 8 o'clock Sunday evening,
doing no damage to the parki ??
but tearing the running gi:n
under the Ford.
Two Newport News young
[men turned their car over six times
Jon a curve between here and James
ville Sunday afternoon about 4:30
e clock and escaped without a scratch
jThe top of their car, a Chevrolet
roadster, was torn off and the doors
torn away. One of the boys came
through the wreck wearing the hat
01 his friend that had shiften dut
irig the six-turn spin.
Two cars crashed near James
vilie, but no one was hurt.
Mrs. Alice Wynne
Dies at Bear Grass
Mrs. Alice Wynne, 80 years old.
died st her home in Bear Graaa
Township early last Friday morning
following an illneaa of aeveral
months' duration.
Mrs. Wynne had been married
twice, her first husband dying a nuni
ber of years ago. She later married
Mr. Joseph H. Wynne, who eurvlvea.
She also leaves one son, Money Rob
eraon, and one sister, Nancy Rogers.
Funeral services wart conducted
by Rev. J. M. Perry, of the Rober
sonville Christian church, and inter
ment was in the A us born cemetery
in Cross Roads Township.