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VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 4 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 14. 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899
MRS. KATHLEEN
WALLACE LTLLEY
DIED YESTERDAY
Hold Funeral Services At
Late Home in Jamesville
Wednesday 1 O'clock
Mrs. Kathleen Wallace Lilley, a
member of one of Martin County's
most prominent families, died in a
Washington Park hospital yesterday
morning at 8 o'clock, following a
brief illness. Pneumonia was as
signed as the immediate cause of
her death. Mrs. Lilley told friends
here Saturday that she was plan
ning to enter a hospital for treat
ment, but her condition was not con
sidered serious at all at that time,
and it was thought she was getting
along all right when news of her
sudden passing was received as a
decided shock by members of the
immediate family and her many
friends over this section.
The daughter of Mrs. Pattie Wal
lace and the late Samuel Wallace,
who was a prominent citizen of this
county for a long number of years,
Mrs. Lilley was born in Jamesville
about 43 years ago She attended
the schools of that community, and
later entered Atlantic Christian Col
lege, Wilson, where she was gradu
ated in art and music. In 1918 she
was married to Mr. Herbert Lilley,
who survlvgs-with one son, Arthur
Wallace Lilley. During the past
number of years, she interested her
self in farming operations, handling
personally the duties of running her
several farms in the Jamesville sec
tion.
Mrs. Lilley was a member of the
Methodist church at Jamesville, but
took an active interest in all re
ligious activities regardless of de
nomination, giving freely of her sup
port in a personal and financial way.
She was a friend to everyone, rich
or poor made no difference to her,
and she was widely known through
out this section for her genial and
amicable character.
She had not enjoyed the best of
health during the past few years,
but she continued active in the so
cial, religious and business life of
her community up until the time she
entered the hospital for treatment.
Besides Mr. Lilley, her son Ar
thur Wallace Lilley, and an aged
mother, she leaves one sister, Mrs.
C. C. Fleming, of Jamesville.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the late home Wednesday
afternoon at 1:00 o'clock by Rev.
C B. Masburn, of Farmville; assist
ed by Rev. J. M. Perry, of Roberson
ville; Rev. Gilbert Davis, of Plym
outh and Rev. R. A. Phillips, of Ev
eretts and Pinetops.
Interment will follow in the
family burial plot on a high hill on
the old home plantation overlook
ing the Roanoke.
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Mrs. Odie Forbes -
Died Sunday at
Cross Roads Home
Funeral Services at the Late
Home, Near Everetts,
Tuesday Afternoon
Mn. Odie Forbes, highly respect
ed citizen of Cross Roads Township,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Alonzo Grimes, in Gold Point,
last Sunday night at 11:30 o'clock of
heart disease. She suffered a heart
attack about two months ago, but
her condition was not considered
critical until last Thursday, when
she suffered a relapse, the end com
ing gradually.
Mrs. Forbes, 74 years old, was
Miss Odie Gurganus before her mar
riage. In early womanhood she was
married to Charlie Forbes, who died
a number'of years ago.
She leaves six children, three sons,
J G., G. H., and C. W. Forbes, all
of Cross Roads Township; and three
daughters, Mrs. Joe Johnson and
Mrs. Aubrey Oakley, of Everetts;
and Mrs. Alonzo Grimes, of near
Robersonville. She also leaves 24
grandchildren.
Funeral services are being conduct
ed this afternoon at the home, and
interment will follow in the family
plot near the residence.
Specialist Plans Study in
Vienna, Austria, Soon
Dr. Charles J. Sawyer, local spec
ialist in the treatment of eye, ear,
nose and throat diseases, is planning
a special course of study in Vienna,
Austria, during February and March
and possibly a part of April, it was
learned here yesterday. The spec
ialist plans to leave this country a
bcut the tenth of next month, it eras
Applications for FHA Loans
Renewed Here Last Friday
Applications were entered or re
newed in this county last Friday for
Federal Housing Administration
loans with J. H. McMutlan, field rep
resentative of the organization, who
stated that all the applications ap
peared to be worthy and should re
ceive consideration within the next
10 days or two weeks. The 12 ap
plications call for $32,500 for the con
struction of new homes, most of the
requests for loans coming from pros
pective builders in Williamston, it
was said. Approximately $3,000 were
asked by others who wanted to re
pair their properties.
The machinery for handling the
applications in this county has been
all tangled up during the past sev
eral months, Mr. McMullan said, ex
plaining that the situation was be
ing investigated in the hope that it
might be cleared up as soon as pos
sible.
Several applicants are said to have
gone so far as to pay their apprais
al fees, but heard nothing from their
applications for loans.
Mr. McMullan stated that he
would be in the courthouse again
next Tuesday, the 21st, to renew ap
plications and receive new ones or
handle any other business in connec
tion with the Federal Housing Ad
ministration.
River Receding After
Reaching High Mark
SCHOOLS REOPEN
After a holiday of three weeks
(ranted by the oflciaLs and pro
lonfrd by unfavorable weather
and bad roads, several thousand
white rhildren returned to the
several schools in the county
Monday, nearly all the schools
reportin( good attendance rec
ords for the first day. At several
earl schools all the trucks
traveled their routes, arriving
at their destinations on time.
One or two of the busses got
stuck, but were not delayed for
any great length of time.
Principal D. N. Hix, of the
local schools, was well pleased
with the attendance record here,
stating that 715 out of an en
rollment of 800 were present
yesterday. The grammar school
attendance, 530 for the day, was
about 25 below the average, but
the high school was up to nor
mal. Similar reports were re
ceived from most of the other
schools.
MAIN STREET TO
BE WIDENED TO
LIMITS OF TOWN
Eastern End To Be 30 Feet
Wide, and Western
End 24 Feet
Proposed plans for widening Wil
liamston's Main Street from the top
of the river hill almost to the city
limits, near the river, and from a
point near the H. H. Cowen home
to the city limits on the west, were
approved by local town authorities
yesterday. The street on the rivet
end would be widened 6 feet on both
sides, making the thoroughfare 30
feet wide. The west end of the
street would be widened 4 feet on
each side, making it 24 feet wide, or
the same width as that part of the
street is where the railroad crosses
over the street.
Bringing the blue prints here yes
terday for approval, Mr. J. D. Mil
ler, assistant highway engineer, stat
ed that the two projects would likely
be included in a contract letting, i
probably within the next three |
months.
When asked if the commission was
planning any other work in this
county, he said that the road lead
ing from Robersonville to Highway
125 and the one leading from U. S.
17 to Bear Grass had been men
tioned, but that he did not know
when work on those projects would
be started.
Home Robbed in
Griffins Township
John Moore, colored man, just out
of the county jail, was returned
there yesterday morning for the al
leged robbery of Henry Roberson's
hnme in Griffins Township Sunday
morning. Going to the colored man's
home about 11 o'clock, while the
family was attending church, Moore
is said to have stolen two suits of
clothes, several dresses, a coat suit,
a rain coat and other wearing ap
parel.
The next day officers picked
Moore up between Robersonville and
Parmele with the clothes in a sack
on his back.
Roberaon lives on the Corey farm
in Griffins.
At a hearing held before Justice
Hassell, Moore was bound over to
the superior court for trial next
March. Unable to raise the $200
bond, he was placed in jail.
Likely To Be Several
Davs Before Viater
Baek Within Banks
Traffic Continues Inactive]
On Stream As Docks
Are Under Water
After reaching the highest level,
14 feet on the gauge, in several
years, the Roanoke started falling
last Sunday afternoon. The waters
are receding very slowly, however,
and it will be several days before the
stream is within its banks, reports
from the weather station today indi
cated. At noon today, the stream had
fallen about six inches from the high
point reached Sunday.
While no great loss has followed
the inundation of thousands of acres
of lowlands in this section, shipping
activities have been at a standstill
on the stream at this point for some
time. With the exception of a few
boats that plowed their way through
ice floes a week or more ago, there
has been very little activity on the
stream. One oil boat, the Virginian,
supplying the Texaco distributors
here, unloaded a large cargo just be
fore the Harrison docks were flooded
by the high waters. Another oil
boat, the Haven Belle, is tied up at
the river waiting for the water to
fall so a connection carl be made The
boat has been in the Roanoke for
several days now.
Approximately 40,000 feet of tim
ber floated away when the river
flooded the banks at the mouth of
Conine Creek.
Ice in the river, and then high wa
ter, have delayed shipments in some
cases, and one or two oil companies
have pumped their distribution tank8
dry and are now hauling gas from as
far away as Greenville to supply
this territory, it was stated yester
day.
Colored Man Hurt
In Truck Accident
Jesse Wiggins, local colored man,
received a wound on his head that
required 14 stitches to close when a
truck, owned by Farmer Jim Staton,
crashed' into a tree near Greenville
last Saturday evening. No one else
was badly hurt, and Wiggins is get
ting along all right, The truck, load
ed with sweet potatoes, was wrecked
Reports reaching here stated that
the truck started to pass a car, and
just as the driver got almost even
with the machine, the car driver driv
er started to make a left turn into
a filling station. The truck driver
turned to the woods to avoid a crash
with the car. The filling station op
erator started out the door just about
the time the truck crashed and re
marked when the sweet potatoes
started flying past his head, "Oh,
what a big covey of quail.'' He was
hit by one of the flying missies.
Stockings Given Inmates
Of Home at Christmas
e
Home demonstration club women
supplied Christmas stockings to all
inmates at the county home here at
Old Christmas. Approximately 25
women coming from six club* a.wem
bled at the county home Sunday aft
ernoon, January 5, at 3:30 p. m
Preachers Shoe, from Robersonville,
and Rev. Daniel Hardison, from
Jameiville, were present and made
talks to the inmates and held a short
prayer service with many good
hymns sung. The inmates were giv
en a happy surprise when bags lad
en with fruit, candy and nuts were
supplied to each one.
65 CASES NOW ON
SUPERIOR COURT
CIVIL CALENDAR
$25,000 Suit Against Henry
Harrell Holds Spotlight
In Term This Month
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Sixty-five cases have been placed
on the trial calendar by the county
bar association for the special term
of Martin Superior court convening
Monday, January 20, with Judge
Clayton Moore on the bench. The
term was scheduled to have been
held last November, but was post
poned on account of the illness of
Judge Moore at that time. Since
November, 12 new cases have been
placed on the calendar, making it
one of the largest of its kind in the
history of the court.
With two or three exceptions, the
calendar carries cases of little im
portance and very little interest to
the general public.
The $25,000 damage suit brought
by Tom Harrell, of this county, a
gainst Henry Harrell, of Kidgecrest,
N. C., is scheduled for trial on the
first day of the second week, this
case probably being the most im
portant on the docket. Mr. Tom Har
rell jwas riding with the defendant
a year ago last November when the
brakes on the defendant's car locked
causing the machine to skid on the
wet pavement and roll down a 30
foot embankment near Morganton.
The plaintitY suffered a broken neck
and injuries toftiis back, and barely
escaped with his life. Mr. Harrell
now has to wear "harness" to sup
port his head. The defendant car
ried insurance on his car* it is un
derstood.
Another damage suit is that of
Ben Frank Little, colored, against
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Company. Losing his foot when he
jumped from a passenger train near
Hassell several months ago, Little is
asking for $2,500 damage.
The following cases appear on the
calendar:
Monday, January 20: Insurance
company against Critcher et al; Peel
against Taylor; Fertilizer company
against Moore; Rhodes et al against
Gurganus; Howell against Leggett;
Roberson against Roberson; Fertil
izer company against Gaitley; Hardi
son against Mcl-awhorn; Roebuck
against insurance company; Roebuck
against insurance company,
Tuesday, January 21: Fertilizer
company against Hardy; Cowen a
gainst Price; Bowen against Archer;
Blown against Everett; Ross against
Ross; Coltrain, administrator, a
gainst Coltrain; Baker against
Rhodes and companyt James against
Matthews; Hall against Moblcy.
Wednesday, January 22: James a
gainst Land Bank; Iuind Bunk a
gainst James (two cases); Moye a
gainst Land Bank; Fertilizer com
pany against Hardee; Cherry against
Morris; Land Bank against Rober
son; Holliday against Roberson;
Grimes against Biggs; Rhodes and
company against Piland.
Thursday, January 23: Boston a
gainst Walts; Culpepper against
White; Davis against Price; Fertil
izer company against Worthington;
Gardner against Coca-Cola company
and Harris against Wilkins.
Monday, January 27: Harrell a
gainst Harrell; Little against Rail
road; Williams against Eubanks;
Holliday against Mizelle; Bailey a
gainst Anthony.
Tuesday, January 28: Minton a
gainst Lumber company et al; Tayl
or against Bank; Lindsley against
Rogerson; Lindsley against Hope
well; Cox Motor Company against
Wynn; Fertilizer company against
Briley; White against Matthews;
Griffin against Johnson; Lumber
company against Johnson.
Wednesday, January 29: Fertilizer
company against Turner; Fertilizer
Company against Heath; Fertilizer
Company against Holliday; Fertil
izer company against Baucom et al;
Lindsley against Holliday; Fertilizer
company against James; Fertilizer
company against Green; Fertilizer
company against Wilson; Fertilizer
company against Green; Barnhill a
gainst Burroughs; Powell against
Drake; Manning against Manning;
James against James; Grimes a
gainst Smith; Rolox against Norm
an. and Peeks against insurance
company.
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Name of Hugh Horton, jr.,
Heads First Grade List
In publishing the third month
honor roll for the local schools, the
name of Hugh G. Horton, Jr., was
left off the list by mistake. His name
should have headed the list in the
A section of the first grade, Princi
pal Hix explained.
Seven-Point Program Embodying
Bounties for Soil Conservation Is
Proposed as Substitute for AAA
County Veterans To Receive
$254,000 When Bonus Paid
With the payment of the soldiers'
bonus almost certain at this session
of Congress, Martin County World
War veterans are in line to receive
$257,774.40 as their share of the $34,
622,162 scheduled to come to the vet
erans in this state.
The bill providing for the pay
ment of the bonus was passed by the
House of Representatives last Friday
by a vote of nearly 7 to 1, all mem
bers of the group from North Car
olina favoring the immediate pay
ment of the money to the veterans.
The Senate, favoring the measure by
a small majority at the last session
of Congress, is expected to give the
bill more support when a vote is
taken in that branch of Congress
within the near future.
Veterans in near-by counties
would receive the following amounts
Beaufort, $385,846 42; Bertie, $284.
697 51; Edgecombe, $527,600 31, Hal
ilex, $586,55794; Pitt, $599,997 46.
land Washington, $127,818.65.
Last of AAA Benefit
Payments Approved
Prov ides for ?7,012
For Peanut Farmers I
Of Martin County
Not Known When Peanut |
Checks Will Be Ready
For Distribution
About the last applications (or
benefits under the old Agricultural
Adjustment Act for Martin County
farmers have been approved, accord
ing to information received by the
office of County Agent T. B. Bran
don this week. Around 500 applica
tions for peanut h<?eflt payments
were approved three days before the
Supreme Court killed the AAA, en
titling peanut farmers in this county
to benefits totaling .$37,012.94. The
question now is when will the checks
arrive? It may In? 10 days or it may
be three months or even longer than
that before the checks reach the
farmers, but it is reasonably certain
that the checks will be made and
distributed. ,
With the distribution of these ben
lefit checks, aid to farmers in this
I county under the AAA will come to
?n end unless some other system is
| inaugurated.
More than 900 cotton parity checks
totaling around $10,000 have been de
live-red, leaving about 100 ready for
immediate distribution and about
100 more contracts yet to be ap
proved and checks prepared for dis
tribution. Except for the peanut
benefit checks, the system of offer
ing aid for crop control is just about
a thing of the pust in this county.
(iOcal High School
Boys Win; hirls Lose
While the local high school girls
went down in defeat, Coach James
Pe ters' boys continued their victory
percentage of 1,000 at Washington
1< at Friday evening. Undefeated this
season, and with only one or two
losses against their record in past
years, the Washington girls turned
the locals back, 20 to 0, reports stat
ing that neither team seemed to
quite hit the stride of which it was
capuble. Taking advantage of 8 free
shots, Williamston scored 4 of its 6
points by that route.
In the line-up were: Humble Lil
ley, Mishoe, - forwards; Ilolloman,
Hard won, and Keel, guards; Rober
son and Ward substituted during the
contest.
The boys' contest was a tight one,
Coach Peters' boys winning, 10 to 9.
Cook, with Tour shots from the field,
led the Williamston five, while the
guards suppressed any attack ad
vanced by the opponents. Bainhill
and Moore played the forward posi
tions for the locals, Gui ganus at cen
ter and Wynne and Cooke at guard,
| with Cone coming in as the only sub
I stitute. .
The two local teams are scheduled
to meet Columbia at Columbia this
evening.
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Legion Auxiliary To Meet
With Mrs. Swain Saturday
The regular monthly meeting ot
the American Legion Auxiliary of
the John Walton Haaaell post will be
held Saturday afternoon, January 18,
at 3 o'clock, in the home of Mrs. H
L. Swain, Williamston.
MOVING
Moving of farm families in
this county is going forward on
a larger scale this year than in
several seasons, according to re
ports reaching here. In many of
the cases the moving constitutes
only an exchange of houses. "
The local school reported one
of the largest turnovers in pu
pils this season than in years.
Principal D. N. Ilix stating that
31 children had moved out of
the district with their parents.
Nineteen, coming' from other
districts, were in the school here
yesterday, the school man ex
plaining that probably the gain
would more than offset the loss
as many of the newcomers tb
the district were unabe to re
port for work the firs tday.
RECEIPTS AT NEW
HIGH LAST YEAR
FOR POST OFFICE
Business for Period Shows
Gain of More Than
Twelve Percent
Supported by a substantial return
toward recovery and a marked in
crease in population, the William
ston post offce last year broke all
records for receipts. Postmaster L.
T. Fowden reported stamp sales to
taling $17,577.11), or an increase of
about 12 per cent over the stamp
| income in 1934. Considering that
the income was derived from sales
| as low as 1 cent, the $17,577.19 is to
be recognized as a large sum for a
l>ost office located in a rural com
jmunity of this size.
Postmaster Fowden attributed the
gain about equally to recovery and
j increased population. "There is no
doubt about there being a marked
degree of recovery among our peo
ple during last year and the year be
fore, and in addition to that Wil
hfimston has a population close to
4,000 now, as compared with 2,731
five years ago,'* Mr. Fowden ex
plained.
During the past six years, the lo
cal office has reported gains in its
stump sales, but the increases were
negligible until 1933, when Presi
dent Roosevelt took over the reins
of government. During that year,
the increase was nearly $1,000, where
it had been limited to two or three
hundred dollars during the previous
two or three years. In 1934 the gain
was in the neighborhood of $3,000,
and last year it was more than $2,000.
Last quarter saw the largest business
in the history of the office, stamp
sales exceeding $5,000.
While stamp sales were increasing
a> a rapid rate, the money lorder bus
iness in 1934 was almost double that
of 1931. I^ast year, however, the
money order business showed a de
crease of about $10,000, but it still
represented a sizeable sum, $131,
880 20.
Stamp sales and amount of the
money orders written for the past
six years are, as follows:
Year
1930
1931
1932
1933
1634
1933
Stamps
?11,147.88
11,250 51
11,627.92
12,520 06
15,394.95
17,577.19
M. O.
$94,380 08
73,178.96
83,874.99
133,09108
141,84724
131,886.20
County Farmer ^ ho
Attended Meeting in
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Washington Re|)orts
New Plan Is Declared All
Right As Far As Its
Provisions Go
Called to Washington last week.
farm leaders from over the nation
endorsed a seven-point program that
has as its general aim the conserva
tion of the soil as a substitute for
the deceased AAA F'Uins for con
tinuing the return of prosperity for
the farmer as embodied to the pro
gram are not of definite .form just
now, farm leaders, averring, how
ever, that the proposed substitute is
all right, as far as it goes Just how
fai the substitute goes in effecting
control of farm production is a mat
ter of speculation, and the limited
program might go just far enough
to pave the way for a general calam
ity to the farming industry.
Commenting on.the program, Ben
Everett, who operates farms in this
county and who was called to Wash
ington as one of a delegation of four
to sit in on the conference, said, "It
does not go quite far enough, but it
is all right as far as it goes." Others
think the principles in the report
will do the job
Itocal farmers, while not acquaint
ed with the proposed substitute, are
of the opinion that any program will
receive support for a while, but will
lose its strength in a comparatively
short time, unless there are some
teeth in it.
The seven-point program is as fol
lows:
1. Congress would empower the
Secretary of! Agriculture to provide
for rental anil withdrawal from com
mercial production at equitable
rates land'necessary to promote toil
conservation and to balance domes
tic productioiTwith demand "at prof
itable price*." Three methods for
payment of cash to farmers were sug
gested.
2 Congress would *ppropriate
'adequate funds'* unofficially esti
mated at about $500,iMki.iKHl for this
year?for the soil conservation and
price adjustment program.
3. "Reasonable taxes" would be
levied on processing of livestock ami
dairy products, the proceeds to be
used to "expand foreign and domes
tic outlets"
4 Valid provisions of the AAA
such as those aiftori/Aig marketing
agreements wnuwf he '^retained and
strengthened," and a provision allo
cating to the Agriculture Depart
ment 30 per cent of customs receipts
f ?r expansion of farm markets would
remain.
I 5. Marketing of cumnuKlities com
ing under Federal control would be
handled through farm cooperatives
qualified under the Capper -Volstead
act.
(j The "American market" would
be preserved for the "American
farmer*' and expansion of foreign
markets would be promoted.
7. Final decision on the question
of new taxes and similar issues was
deferred for "continuing action and
attention" by organized farm groups.
Cash payments to farmers under
the recommendations could be made
by government rental of a given
percentage of the cultivated acreage;
by fixing a quota for trie volume of
I i nducts, or on a basis involving
both acreage and volume. Such pay
ments would be cond.tioned on the
individual farmer adjusting his cul
tivated acreage for preservation of
toil fertility and "proper stabiliza
tion and maintenance of adequate
price levels."
The emphasis on the retention of
the present act's allocation of 30 per
cent of import duties for "the expan
sion of foreign and domestic outlets
for farm products" caused some
speculation. President R?v)sevelt in
his budget message Monday, before
the court ruled on AAA had recom
mended repeal of this provision.
Numerous Arrests Made in
County During Week-end
* Officer* in thii county had a com
paratively busy week-end. the rec
ord* showing more than a dozen ar
rests from Friday until Monday. Sev
en of the arrests were made Satur
day and included four drunks. Lar
ceny and receiving accounted for
most of the other arrests.