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THE ENTERPRISE / VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 94 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday. November 22. 1935 ESTABLISHED 1899 COUNTY IJKELY TO GO OVER ITS TOBACCO QUOTA Farmers Will Likely Buy 700,000 Pounds of Excess Tobacco This Year ? A While some representatives of the AAA continue to maintain that Mar tin County will not produce or mar ket its tobacco allotment this year, Martin farmers continue to purchase cards carrying thousands of pounds of excess Until yesterday, farmers in this county had purchased cards that they might market more than 600,000 pounds of tobacco. Probably the figure will reach the 700,000 pound mark by the end of the week. Completing the marketing of their crop, many farmers are returning their ma~':?':nz cnrds to the office of the cou :ty agent. Approximately 500 cart s have been returned, but just how much unsold poundage they represeri has not been determined. When all the cards are in, the unsold poundage will offset to a certain ex tent if not all the excess poundage ?old to the farmers. Authorities in Raleigh are of that opinion, at least, but Agents Barnes and Brandon are of a different opinion, Mr. Barnes es timating that the county will exceed its allotment'by about 300,000 pounds even after considering the unfavor able growing season this year. Mr. Barnes explained that it would be to the advantage of every farm er before selling any poundage should there be an excess to deter mine whether or not the parity pay ment will nej him more or less. He also pointed out that one farmer who lacks a few pounds reaching the 85 per cent allotment cannot legally let a neighbor use the card without re cording the sale in the agent's office Capture Man and 2 Stills in Free Union Raiding in the Free Union section, where at one time the illicit liquor business thrived on a large scale, Officers Roebuck and Roebuck and Roy Peel yesterday caught Philmore Boston, colored man, busily operat ing a sizeable liquor plant An as sistant outran the officers and es caped capture. The plant and its 50-gallon copper kettle were wrecked along with 5 gallons of liquor and several hundred gallons of beer. The day before. Deputy Roebuck and Roy Peel destroyed an old steam plant in Poplar Point Township and poured out several barrels of beer. The plant had been operated short ly before the officers reached the site, but the still was cold. Yesterday afternoon the officers raided a plant in Williams Township and destroyed several barrels of beer. The still had been moved and could not be found by the raiders. Start Construction On Candy Factory Construction work was started this week on Williamston's newest en terprise, a candy factory to be op erated by the Clark Candy Company, formerly of Brooklyn. The build ing will be located on the railroad just off Smithwick Street. Mr. Clark manager of the com pany, said yesterday that he hoped to complete the building and install the machinery by the first of the year. Operations will be started im mediately thereafter. The new com pany, specializing in the manufacture of peanut butter and numerous can dy items, will employ eight or ten persons the year around, Mr Clark said. Program of Services at Christian Church Sunday Services at the Christian church Sunday at U a. m. No evening service. The church will join in the service at the ware house. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Every member of the Sunday school and church is urgently re quested to attend and friends are cordially invited. Episcopal Services In Two Churches of County Sunday Charch of the Advent Rev, E. E. Mcteley, rector. Sunday before Advent: Holy Communion, 8am, Church school, 8:45 a. m. 8L Mart la's?Hamilton Church scholo, 10 a. m. ? Holy Communion and sermon, 11 a m. Evening prayer and sermon, 7 p. m. \ Comparison Shows Electric Rates Here Are Still Lowest | .News of a substantial reduction in rates announced by the Carolina Pcwer and Light Company, serving Raleigh and other cities in this state, brought forth comment from V. E. P. customers a few days ago. A com parison of schedules shows that the company serving the more thickly populated areas have just about reached the low point of those rates enjoyed for more than a year by Virginia Electric and Power Com pany customers in the almost strict ly rural sections of Eastern Carolina. It is understood the Carolina com- I pany would have to make addition- | al reductions to meet the rates in ! some classifications offered by the | ! company serving this area. While the Carolina company has j 1 protested against a reduction in rates . i for some time, the Virginia Electric j I and Power Company voluntarily re ? 1 duced their schedules more than a 1 i year ago, placing it in the lead in ' 1 giving its customers among the1 j cheapest rates enjoyed by any < community in this section of the country. Agriculture Building Project Is Approved j ANNOUNCEMENTS l! Sunday, November 24: 1:30?Survey committee will meet at the Baptist church for a religious survey of Williamston. 3:30?Choir rehearsal at the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse. Ail who can sing and will volunteer to help in this large chorus choir are asked to be present at this first rehearsal. William Retts, of Glendale, Calif., will lead. 6:30?Union young peoples' service at the warehouse. All young people invited. 7:30?Opening service, George T. Stephens will preach. Sub ject: "A Sure Thing." William Retts will sing. Come early for a back seat. Old County Jail To Be Converted Into Whiskev Warehouse Change Planned to Remedy Crowded Conditions In New Jail Plans are under way to convert the old jail into a county liquor stor age house, it was learned yesterday from V. J. Spivey, chairman or the .board. Contractors are preparing I cost estimates, and the board will make its decisions after the figures arc available, it is understood. | Two or three weeks ago, the large .number of prisoners crowded the jjtil, and it is with the view of re lieving congestion should another crime epidemic, though minor it may "he, occurs that the board plans to move about two carloads of liquor from two cell rooms in the hew jail to the old building just back of the courthouse. Repairs to the old jail building will include a new flor and the j boarding up of several windows. To Dedicate Church At Everetts Sunday Surely, every member of the Ev-| eretts Baptist church will want to be present Sunday, Nov. 24, at 10 a. m., for the program of dedication, i It is a great day to start building a church but a greater day when the last dollar is paid. "The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we arc glad." Some of the former pas tors will be present for the occasion.) Di. B. W. Spilman, one of the finest speakers in the state, will appear on! the program. Also wt Shall have special music by the girls from the Kennedy Home. Dinner will be served on the I grounds for all who come. The jchurch and the pastor take great pleasure in extending to all the friends of Everetts and the county a most cordial welcome. All form er members and all friends are urged to be with us. Our debt is behind us, our face is toward'the future, and our "God is marching on."?E. C. Shoe, pastor. Song Leader at Baptist Church Sunday Morning Bible school, B:45 a. m. , Morning worship, 11 a. m. B. T. U.. 8:30 p. m. Instead of having our regular eve ning services for the next two or three Sundays, we are planning to cooperate with the county-wide evangelistic services at the ware house. Every one is urged to do his part in making this a successful meeting. Mr. Retts, the singer who assists Mr Stephens, wUI be at the Baptist church Sunday to render special music. For 19'II Taxes Also Made at Board Meet Sheriff's Settlement Number Important Matters Disposed of at Special Session Tuesday Meeting in special session Tues-i day afternoon of this week, the Mar-! tin County commissioners accepted final settlement for 1934 taxes from Sheriff C. B. Roebuck, the collector, and named S. H. Grimes, former deputy sheriff, collector of the so called insolvent list. The commis sioners also approved a WPA project calling fofr the construction of an agricultural building, and decreased the license for handling fireworks from $100 to $75 in the county. While the insolvent tax accounts stood about the same as they were last year, a marked reduction was noted in the amount of land sale to tals. The insolvent list thi^ year is $6,163.63 and the land sales totaled I $9,604.78, the latter figure dropping from about $21,000 last year, it isj understood. The insolvent list rep-1 resenting unpaid taxes on personal property will be turned over to Mr I Grimes, the special collector at once ' A specified collection percentage of. |15 per cent for the first $1,000 col lected and 33 1-3 for all over that amount was stipulated in the con tract between Grimes and the com missioners. The auditors are work ting on the 1933 insolvent list and a report of the collections is expected ^within the next few days, it is un derstood. The report wil likely be ready for inspection by the com missioners at their next regular meetings the first Monday in De cember. Uncollected taxes represent just a fraction over 3 per cent of the total levy of $175,103.26. It is estimated that of the $6,163.63 insolvent list and 9,604.78 land sales, the collec tion agencies will gather in about four-fifths of the $15,768.41, or in the neighborhood of $12,614.73. Con sidering everythin, the collection rec ord is a good one and far above the average for the State, it is believed The Works Progress Administra tion project approved by the com missioners calls for the erection of, an agriculture building to house the offices of the county agent, assist ant agent, home agent, assistant in cotton control and other employees and demonstration quarters. It is ptoposed to attach the building to the present courthouse, fitting it in between the offices of the clerk of ccurt and superintendent of county schools on the west side of the old hall of justice. It is estimated that the project will cost $5,479.25, the county to furnish only the. site, which is figured at $633. Plans of the WPA project are be ing carried before authorities in Elizabeth City this week, and it will likely be some time befoie the fate of the proposed project is learned. A copy of the plans is not available in the county at the present time, but it is understood that the building will have an entrance apart from the main courthouse. (Continued on page six) SAFETY CRUISER OF OIL COMPANY WILL STOP HERE Will Give Safety Program Near Guararity\ Bank at 8:00 P. M. Tomorrow Stressing greater safety on streets and highways, the Standard Oil Company is sending a specially de signed cruiser over the country as its part in the campaign to effect a decrease in the number of motor ve hicle accidents. The cruiser, equip ped with loud speakers and of mod ern and unusual construction, will stop in Williamstoji tomorrow after noon, Mr. Herbert Lamb, official of the company, announced yesterday Reaching here about 4 o'clock, the jciuiser will take city officials aboard and travel about toWn, pointing out traffic violations and stressing great er safety. At eight o'clock tomorrow evening, the- cruiser will be parked between; the Guaranty bank and the Atlantic Hotel, where a special safety pro gram will be featured. The pro gram has been recognized as a valu able aid to making the people safety conscious, and they are assured they will find it entertaining as well as instructive. Mr. Lamb pointed out! that carefully made films, including animated cartoons, will be Hashed on a special screen, and the public us cordially invited to the entertain-] merit which is being brought here at, the expense of the Standard com ! pany The safety-preaching ? crusade reaches here just a few days late,! three people having lost their lives or. the highways of the county dur ing the past few days, but the roads are still infested with danger, and if the program here betters condi-. tions even a little bit, the trip will have been well worth while. The cruiser has traveled 53,000 miles in 12 states already, touching the larger centers, as a rule, and when the campaign ?to save lives? has been completed, it will have traveled probably four times that far Large crowds are expected to see the cruiser and witness the program ht.e tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Arrest Alan for Shooting Wife Mrs. Dillon Padgett was shot but not dangerously hurt by her angered husband at their home near James ville Wednesday afternoon. Several et the shot, fired from a 12-gauge gun, struck her back, but only one or two of them pierced the skin, it was said. Details of the trouble lead ing up to the shooting could not be learned, reports indicating that the man was drinking at the time and hardly knew what he was doing. Mrs. Padgett told officers that when she saw her husband go for a gun she started running and was about 75 yards or more away he fired. Padgett was jailed here on an as sault with a deadly weapon charge, his case being scheduled for trial the first Tuesday in December. S. H. Grimes Heads Local Kiwanis Club Coming Year At a special meeting of the local Kiwanis Club, held in the offices of Hugh G. Ilorlon Wednesday after noon, S. Harcum Grimes was elected to head the organization during the coming year. Rev. Z. T. Piephoff was named vice president and Clerk of Court Bruce Wynne was elected secretary and treasurer. The new of ficers will be installed at the next meeting of the club the early part of rext month. Presbyterians A nnounce Schedule Sunday Services The Presbyterian church will hold its regular services at all points. Sunday school at Roberson's Chapel at 3 p. m. Sunday school at Poplar Point at 3 p. m 'Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life," Market Closes Suceessful Season The last of the lfU tobacco tales on the Wllllamston market were completed shortly before noon today, marking the close of one of the market's largest selling seasons. Complete figures were not available at noon to day, but np to last evening the market had sold 7,771,650 pounds for fl,574lM2.77, a resulting av erage of >20.17. The offerings today wlH carry the tales for the over the 7,800,000-pound mark. ^ -j. Reliable Information heard thin morning clearly indicate* that the market here "has one of the best price averafes in the entire belt, considering the quality of the offerings during the season. The market has ?erred more patrons from a larger territory this year than ever before, and a successful fu lure is manure It alone with the Urgent market* In the belt. With one or two exception*, all the mailer market* In the belt have cloaed or are cloning today, It in understood. Buyer* are leaving thin after noon and tmorrow for their re npeetlve home* where moat of them will spend a few days be fore going to Kentucky to work on the market* there. Revival Services Will Get Under Way Here Sunday County Representatives Are Seeking Old Boundary Maps | Preparing to vigorously oppose I Beaufort County's claim 1o annex 'several thousand acre*; of land in 'the Dymond City area of Griffins Township. Martin County is sending its attorney. Elbert S. Peel, and the board representative. R Lee Perry, I to Raleigh today to search records for information that may be used | .in refuting the boundary line claim advanced by authorities of the neigh iboring county Residents living in or near the disputed area are said to be a bit disturbed over the neighboring county's effort to establish the line deeper into Marttn territory This morning it was learned that a map drawn prior to the 70-year-old _>ne prepared by Francis Lightfoot shows the hour. ' try line to the south, or further fato Beaufort territory than th< one the Martin Comnjisstoners are trying to maintain Drivers Continue To Flunk Examinations Many Are Called but i Few Are Chosen?To Get Drivers* License Really Amazing Answers Are Given To Questions By Some Applicants * j. Patrolmen BiHie Hunt and Geor j gie Stewart, the old schoolmasters! every Tuesday and Friday, are either herd on their pupils or their pupils arc- all but totally ignorant, accord ing to reports coming from the court- j house on those days following the; examination of applicants for li ce nses to drive motor vehicles. So I far the examiners have flunked just .about one out of every four appli cants. or that many appeared to j know little or nothing about thej motor vehicle and traffic laws of I the state? Last week 19 applicants | took the examinations. A passing Tuesday of this week, 8 out of 23 i passed Professor Hunt warms the. applicants up with the questions pnl the inside of the'courthouse, while j Piofessor Stewart airs 'em out on' the outside. ,Mr. Stewart explaining that the applicants are better driv i er:: than they are students There are 32 writen questions for the applicant to master, and the an swers given to some of them are downright absurd but unusually! funny. 4I can't read the signs," one i applicant who had been driving a car for 20 years said this v/eek. An other actually did not know on which i I side of the road he was sypposed or required to drive on It might be added that a great many of those ! v/ho have licenses don't know that half the road belongs to the other ' fi llow "School Zoiu?" meant stop and back up to. one applicant To another "R. R ." meant slow down loi the bumps. If an aplicant passes the exam ination it costs him a dolar; Pf he | fails, it costs him nothing, but in th'e , latter case he can't take another ex | animation within 30 days and dur i ing that time he violates the law if j he drives a car. The dollar fee is for the license, the examination cost- ' ing the applicant nothing 1 Small Kiln at Chair Factory j Burned Wednesday Noon Fire starting from an over-heated j furnace wrecked the smal dry kiln ' of the Moore chair factory at the end cl West Main Street last Wednesday 1 i afternoon at 1 o'clock, resulting in I a damage estimated at about $35 I Several hundred chair rounds and, hi ck strips were in the kiln and theyj [burned. Local firemen hastily an-. . swered the call, but the kiln and itsi I dry contents were just about de-1 j stroyed when the fire apparatus reached the scene. The truck tanks were emptied to keep the fire from spreading tt? other buildings REPORT PROGRESS I ^ ?J With the membership list car rying the names of nearly 190 names already, the annual Red Cross campaign has prospects of reaching the 200 quota by neat Thursday. Harry Kiggs. chair man of the county chapter, an nounced late yesterday. Four canvasesrs in William ston. the o.ily ones to report so far. enrolled about 80 members, leaving several other local com mittees and all from outside the town yet to report their activi ties. Jamesville Young r Man Widentally Shot \\ ednosdav First Hunting Accident Of Current Season Reported In Martin County The first -accident of the hunting soasori was repoiUvi m t'u Otniper Swamp section of Jamcs\ illc Town ship early last Wednesday.merninii. when Jesse' Modlin. \< ung white man, was accidentally shot by Mi Dave Dayis Modlin was treated in a Washington hospital where it was said his 'wounds were not serious Three shot struck bini near the eye. and it was impossible to get those out, but several others were removed from his body lie was'discharged from the hospitaiycsterday and was reported to be getting a Ion,; very well The two hunters and their com panion, Hubert Gardner, entt^red the wihkIs and siM?n separated In walk ing about the Swamp. Modhn hap pened to come w ithin the range of the Davis gun. Mr Davis could not sec the man. but when lie saw some brush shake he thought it was a deer or some other kind of animal and fired Several of the shot hardly pierced the skin, but three plowed deeply into the flesh aro.md the man's eye. If no nerve-, were touclied it is likely that no effort will be made to remove the shot, but if there is any pain an operation may be necessary, it was said Evangelist To Preach At Methodist Church Sunday Following the regular Sunday school service in the Methodist church Sunday morning. Rev. Geo T Stephens, evangelist, will preach at the 11 o'clock hour in the absence of the pastor. Rev R R Grant, who is attending the Methodist confer ence in Wilmington, it was an nounced this morning The public is cordially inyited to hear the visiting minister Services at Reddick's Grove Church Sunday Afternoon Rev. W B Ifanngton will con duct the regular Sunday afternoon preaching service Reddick's Grove Baptist church at 3 o'clock, it was announced today The public is in vited. Farm Life Faculty Will Present Play Tuesday The Farm Life School faculty will present the play. -Little Clodhopper" in the auditorium there next Tues day evening at 7:30 o'clock. A small aumission fee will be charged, and (he public it urged to attend Ex, MTt I^rge Crowd For First Serviop:To Font iline 3 ^eeks Comfortable Auditorium Is Arranged for 1,000 Or More In Warehouse Assured ti:.- ?up4jort of relijrio*i denominations 1 c e an ! about t ccunty and ha . in ihr x i.dnrsen.er of religious leade: ? iu.i proiuinc business and profess** -ial men of the* tt wn, a big county-wide religious nu vement go's under way in i spec lal auditorium in the R >anoke-D xi?* Warehouse here Sunday evening a' 7:30 o'clock. . Present indications point to large crowds the opening night and each night thereafter un til the meeting closes the 15th of nex* month Much interest in the event ha> been shown by laymen of all do nominations here and in other parts of the county, many having volu Utred their services free in arrang ing the warehouse for the meting Rev George T Stephens, who will conduct the series of services, tomes here as an experienced minister o the gospel and recognized Bible scholar Foregoing the sensational methods practiced by some evange lists, he comes here with the endorse nunt of ministers of great churches r? more than a do/en states, inHud ing the Rev A S. Johnson, pus'o' cl the First Preshyt. n c Charlotte. Rev. Job C W- iV. j toi of ,First Pap- -u.?i h of vsnnah. M SuTti c ? * bc?n* Canada 45 yea*1 "a.- ' - in tins country since be was 12 ** s jof age. AtTihating w :!' the ci.u a} the age of 17. he s: ? .1 pica 1 ing when he was 22 and ente: d evangelistic work a few years la His home is now in High Po:nt. Connected with the minister in the meeting here is Mr William Rett:;, leader of the King's Messengers, a quartet appearing in mftnv of t e lei est churches in the ? * en ring rt* 'nt month - Rett* ill o dm I the singing. ?? lc? i the v> among the \"in . |?r ? d .v Preparatory * * th- 1 toting be gir ning Su.-'i ?y eve: \ co*tage piayer rmtings and re fur nary services 1.1 e been held 1 pointing to successful religious movement during the next three u eeks Partitioned otf. the auditorium in tin warehouse has a seating capacity foi about I.IKhi pe< pie and a hun dred or more in the choir Four large stoves have been placed in the room, and all detail.3 for the meeting have bet n hand let 1 The several churches of the town and some in near-by centers are call ing off their regular Sunday evening services and weekly prayer meetings i.t cooperating with tne movement4 Members of all denominations and oon-mcmbct well are cordially invited to a**end as many of thn services as po .1 > According to present plans, services will bo held each evening except T.K "aay. ul?d every Sunday afternoon after lb * meeting gets underway. Meeting oi County Farmers Held Yesterday Afternoon Mr Johnson, of the State College Extension Service, Raleigh, ad dussed a goodly number of Martin County farmers in the courthouse here yesterday afternoon, pointing out the advantages of the Farmers' Cooperative Exchange and explain ing the origin and history of the or ganization. Mr. M G^Mann, sclied ? u?ed to address the meeting, was unable to reach here as he arrived to* late from a meeting in New Or leans. it was explained. The FCX operates a branch here Ion the railroad just across from the , W illiamston Supply' Company plant on Elm Street. Lindsley's Install New Fire Protection Syste.n ? One of the most modern tire prn Itcitiuti systems in existence has jus. I been installed in tl.e stoie of til Lmdsley Ice Company he>e. T">e [system is made up of .'0 separ ' and automatic extinguishers, each re leasing its contents when the tem perature reaches a certain point. In stalled by Charlie Conger, district agent, the system is strictly auto matic and sounds an alarm when a fire breaks out in any part of tha {building.
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