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VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 19 Williamston, Mucin County. North Carolina, Friday. March 6.1936 . ESTABLISHED 1899
8 CASES DISPOSED
OF TUESDAY IN
COUNTY COURT
Drunken Automobile Driv
ing Cases Feature of
Session
Eight cam were handled with dis
patch in the last Tuesday session of
the county recorder's court docket
by Judge H. O. Peel and Solicitor
Hubert Coburn, drunken automobile
driving charges featuring the docket
Pour of the cases had to do with li
quor, and one was of a civil nature.
The case charging S. A. Martin
with violating the liquor laws was
Henry Wallace, charged with in
jurying livestock, was found not |
guilty. ? \ 1
? In the case charging M. D. Wil
son with violating the stock law. I
the court suspended judgment up-1
on payment of the costs.
LJnwood Johnson pleaded guilty
of driving an automobile while
drunk, and was fined $90 and taxed
with the cost. His license to oper
ate a car was revoked for one year.
The case charging Bryant Wynn
with being drunk and disorderly,
was nol pressed.
Wiley Phelps, charged with a
saulting a young boy with a deadly
weapon, was sentenced to the roads
for a period of four months. He ap
pealed to the higher courts and bond
was required in the sum of $150.
Robert L Grant, reported to be
Northampton County's coroner and
undertaker, pleaded guilty of oper
ating a car while drunk and was
fined $50 and taxed with the costs.
His license was revoked for a per- J
kod of one year. Grant was arrest
ed in Williamston last Monday aft
srnoon with f)r M. A. Sewell, also
of Northampton County, and held
oner night. Sewell was tried in
Magistrate J L. Hasell's court on a
disorderly conduct charge and fined
$2.$0. costs added.
The civil action* was brought by
J B. Colt against Joseph Lilley, but
the court ordered the case off the
docket when it was learned that the
matter had been settled out of court.
To Load Poultry
Car Next Weekl
The second cooperative poultry
shipment of the season is planned
in this county next week. County
Agent T. B. Brandon calling atten
tion to a change in the operating
schedule. Beginning at JamesviUe
Wednesday morning, the car will
run a day behind the old schedule,
reaching here Thursday and going
to Roberaonville Friday and com
pleting its loadings in Oak City Sat
urday of next week.
The car next week may be the I
last cooperative loading in the |
county, another shipment depend
ing upon the patronage received, |
Mr. Brandon said. Prices are list
ed in a special advertisement.
T
John Deere Day To Be
Observed Here Tuesday \
An entertaining and instructive
moving picture. "Sheppard and
Son,'* and "Murphy Delivers the
Goods," produced by the John
Deere Company, will be shown free
of charge at the Watts Theatre here
next Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock
and again that evening at 7:30 o'
clock at the plant of the Lindsley|
Ice Company.
The Lindaley company, sponsor
ing the picture, invites all farmers, I
their families and others to be their |
at either of the showings.
Young Man Hurt in Auto
Wreck Still Seriously I III
Howard Stone, young white man
who eras injured in an automobile
wreck near here last Sunday eve
ning. is getting along as well as
could be expected, but his condi
tion continues serious, reports from
a Washington hospital where he was
carried, stated this morning. The
young man. whose home is in Nor
folk. is expected to recover if
meningitis does not develop, it is
Series of Farm Meetings
Is Meeting With Success]
of farm educational
being held over the coun
ty continue to meet with much sue
M. L Barnes, assistant county
it, said y astir day. following a
at Oak City the night be
Tomght at 7:30 Jamesville far.
ers are to attend a meeting in the
Next Tuesday night, March 10,
s will meet in
Grass school, the farm
the edu
Coastal Plain League Holds
Meet; 7 Towns Represented
The Coastal Plain League was re
ogranized at a meeting of club pres
idents and representatives in Kin
gton last evening, seven of the clubs,
Goldsboro, Kinston, New Bern,
Snow Hill, Greenville, Tarboro and
Williamston, in the league last sea
son, signing for another round. Ay
den, without a representative at
representative at the meeting, was
given until the 20th of this month
to decide if that town will be rep
resented in the circuit this year.
Officers of the league last season
were reelected and the rules and
regulations in effect last season
were approved with few exceptions
for the coming season. Changes in
the rules will be up for considers
tion at a meeting to be held in Tar
boro the 20th of this month.
It is Hinderstood that if Ayden
surrenders its franchise, several olh
er towns in eastern Carolina will
make a bid for it. Names of the
towns that might consider entering
the league to round out the eight
unit circuit were not disclosed, but
Wilson has been mentioned as a po-s
sible one, it was unofficially learned
here.
President Pete Fowden and Busi
ness Manager Billie Spivey attend
ed the meeting. The two men will
consider applications for the posi
tion of manager of the local club
over the week-end, it was learned
yesterday.
Large Crowd Expected
At Farm Bureau Meet
BUREAU SPEAKER
Charles J. Brockway, actinf
secretary for the State Farm
Bureau Federation, who will ad
dress a mass meeting of farm
ers in the courthouse here to
morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.
Bear Grass Road
Matter Considered
By Highway Body
Impossible To Be Included
In Plans Before Next
Fiscal Year
It will be impossible to include
the Bear Grass road project in the
State's highway construction pro
gram this fiscal year, Capus Way
nick, highway commission chair
man, told a delegation from Bear
Grass and Williamston in Raleigh
this week. However, the delegation
composed of Rev. Z. T. Piephoff,
Urbin Rogers, W. M. Harrison, and
T. O. Hickman, was assured that the
project would receive every consid
eration possible in the new year.
It is understood the commission's
fiscal year ends June 30, making it
possible that the Bear Grass project
will come to the front some time
in the summer or late fall of this
year.
While in Raleigh, the delegation
inquired into the possibility of ex
tending electrical transmission lines
to Bear Grass in connection with
the Federal Rural Electrification
program. The delegation was said
to have been Encouraged in this
connection, according to reports
reaching here.
Lawrence F. Ange
Dies at Angetown
Lawrence F. Ange, well-known
farmer of this section, died at his
home in the Angetown community
of Jamesville Township, last Tues
day night following an illness of
only a few weeks. He had been in
declining health for some time, but
his condition was not regarded as
serious until late. Heart trouble
and other complications caused
death.
Mr. Ange, 88 years old, was born
in Jamesville Township, where he
lived all his life and farmed for a
livelihood. He was the son of the
late Mack and Julia Ausbon Ange.
He never married and is survived
by two abrothers, Messrs. Levin
Ange, with whom he made his home
and Charlie Ange, of Jamesville
Township.
Funeral services were conducted
yesterday afternoon at S o'clock, and
interment followed in the Ange bur
ial ground not far from the home
thas. J. Brockway,
State Secretary, To
Make Main Address
Hope To Enroll 1,000 Mem
bers in County; Aims
Are Outlined
With a chalenge to do something
staring them directly in the face
hundreds of Martin County farmers
are expected to attend a county
wide mass meeting in the court
house here tomorrow afternoon at
3 o'clock, when a str?n? and per
manent unit of the State Farm Bu
reau Federation wif Ibe considered.
Reports coming from nearly every
section of the county indicate the
movement will receive a strong re
sponge. The need for such an or
ganization has been and is being
brought home to the farmers, so to
speak, and they plan to do some
thing about it.
drivel be'?re the organization
irive gets underway, appeals, back
led by thousands of farmers, are be
mg directed to the governor of this
state to take definite and favorable
action that can prove of great worth
tobacco farmers this year The
we"gnh,erth ^ 0rga|mZa"0n the "'ore
weight the appeals will carry.
Mr. Charles J. Brockway, acting
secretary of the State Farm Bureau
and M r*Vhe meetln* tomorrow,
and Martin County's drive for 1,000
members is expected to get under
way on a big scale at that time. Mr
Brockway comes to this State from
labama, where he was closely con
nected with agriculture and the
ro vi, thB American Farrh Bu
reau Federation. His address will
Prove of interest and much value to
farmers and others.
th^'r,ea,dy thC bureau activities in
the state are taking form, and the
organization is making itself felt
counties have reported be
ween l,500 and 2.000 m?,b7r. Al
ready, and the progress in those
farmed* /* a ChalJenge 10 Martin
farmers to do something
alr^dv"0!' COnServation Program is
already law, and while marked
benefits will be made available by
I ers tlf^ W,mUCh ,e" '?r the '?rm
ers themselves to do. The program
I's ,?nly temporary, and unless state
oian '" m ^ken' the new federal
P n will be discontinued There
? no better way to make certain the
program and advance other me?
menih* farmer? equality than
ST*. m the F?rm Bureau
Federation, it is generally believed
bounty Schools in
Session Saturday
With five fairly successful days
behind them so far this week, the
Martin County white schools go on
Th.*i week ?chedule tomorrow, i
V? 'en*thy schedule, going into ef
feet probably for ,he first time in
the history of the school, on such
foil "?ale' wi" ''kely be
wiik? ng the ne*t 10 or 11
ha^'k f,lli"g yesterday 1, mU u,
!? brought slight interruption to
the activities today, but to no great
TS WhH P0"'61? exception
3ame?ville and
P to all the
schools Vere reporting beter attend
finco records diily,
niinh n^f?rt 10 aid thoae many pu
pils handling regular Saturday Jobs
zvvho'Lrupun,?^^
day at 8 o clock, teach through the
r oda and adjourn about 1
ach"dul* will be fol
ZZZL * th* "cho?l here, 1, w.s
Jno. Thomas Savage
Died Tuesday at His
Home in Oak City
Prominent County Citizen
Succumbs To Complica
tion of Ailments
John Thomas Savage, prominent
county citizen and a high-toned gen
tleman of the old school, died at
his home in Oak City last Tuesday
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, marking
the end of a life that had been de
voted to his family, the advance
ment of the religious and civic in
terests of his community. He had
suffered some time with asthma
and high blood pressure, which with
other complications resulted in his
death.
A native of this county, Mr. Sav
age would have been 70 years old
the 15th of next September. Born
on the farm at the outbreak of the
War Between the States, Mr. Sav
age experienced many hardships in
early life, but he never turned from
his agricultural pursuits, and large
ly through his untiring efforts he
succeeded. He was a friend to man
kind, a thoughtful husband and
father and a Christian gentleman,.
He was a member of the Baptist
church for many years, and his
friends were numbered among alf
people.
In October, 1888, he was married
to Miss Annie Elizabeth Hurst, who
survives with five children. Their
names are M. H. Savage, of Rich
mond; Herman C., and Claude B.
Savage, of Oak City; Paul B. Sav
age, of Norfolk; and Miss Mary
Lee Savage, of Oak City.
Funeral services were conducted
at the late home Wednesday after
noon at 4 o'clock by Rev. E. C.
Shoe, Robersonville Baptist minis
ter. Burial was in the Conoho
Primitive Baptist Cemetery, near
Ouk City.
New Series B. & L
On Sale Saturday
A sizeable stock subscription was
predicted today in the 38th series
of the Martin County Building and
Loan Association opening tomorrow
an official of the organization said.
Several hundred shares of associa
tion stock have already been spoken
for, and the 38th stock series has the
promise of being the largest in sev
erul years.
The building and loan way has
been proved the best way for tinanc
ing the construction of a home or
for a systematic saving system.
Aged Colored Man
Burned To Death
Armstrong Miller, colored man of
about 65 years, was burned to death
when his humble cabin was de
stroyed by Are late last Saturday,
night. The man, for some years
past had lived alone in a shack be
side the Windsor-Williamston high
way, about three miles from Wind
sor.
He was crippeld, having been in
jured in childhood in an accident
that made him lose the use of his
legs, and this fact is said to have
been the factor causing his deuth;
he was unable to get out of the cub
ing in time to save himself when
it caught on Are. His charred bones
were all that could be found Sun
day morning in the remains of the
Are that had quickly wiped the
wooden house away.
He.was known by many Bertie
and Martin County people who re
called his willingness to work and
good reputation in general.
Resume Regular Services
At Piney Grove Sunday
Regular preaching services will
be hel din the Piney Grove Baptist
church Sunday morning at 11 o'
clock, the pastor, Rev W. B. Har
rington, announced today.
Services in some of the churches
in the Farm Life community have
been suspended for around two
months on account of the weather
and bad roads. Regular schedules
will be maintained in the future, it
is planned. The service at Piney
Grove Sunday is the Arst to be held
there since February B, Rev. Mr.
Harrington said.
Officers Capture Large i
Still in Poplar Point
A copper stil of about 100 gallons
capacity was taken in a raid by
County Officer J. H. Roebuck and
Roy Peel last Tuesday afternoon In
Poplar Point Township. Nearly
1,000 gallons of beer were destroyed
and all equipment burned.
The plant had been operates ear
lier in the day, but the officers found
no one when they arrived there.
Farming Activities Are Resumed
With* Advent of Better Weather;
Many Peanuts Still To Be Picked
Several Overloaded Trucks
Caught Here by Patrolmen
With many of the route* closed to
heavy traffic, there has been a
marked increase in the number of
large trucks running through here
to and from Virginia during the
past few days. Seeing all the
strangers coming their way, Patrol
men Billie Hunt and George Stewurt
went into action this^veek in front
of the county courthouse, and in an
hour or two, and before the warning
got around and around, they had
collected $243 from owners operat
ing overloaded trucks. The patrol
men weighed the loads on the main
street and ordered the trucks to
park until adequate licenses were
purchased.
In Magistrate liassell's court
Tuesday, the truck operators faced
still further action, and each oper
ator was tlned $10 and taxed with
the costs. The defendants were S.
T. Jones, of Rocky Mount; J. E.
Hawkins, of Nashville, and C. I
Spencer, of Tyrrell County.
In the case charging Herbert
Brown with speeding down the
town's Main Street. Mayor Hassell
suspended judgment upon the pay
ment of the cost.
Progressing Slowly on
New School Buildings
Shortage of Masons;
Material Deliveries
Also Kmilling Late
Skilled and Semi-Skilled
Labor Needed; Plenty of
Unskilled Workers
Since the weather has moderated,
construction work on school build
ings included in Martin's $100,000
program has taken on new life, but
the builders' are still facing certain
difficulties, according to reports com
ing from the employment bureau
here.
Brick masons are almost as scarce
as/hen&' teeth, so to speak, reports
indicating that there has always
been, with few exception, a scarcity
of masons in this immediate sec
tion, and now the shortage has be
come state-wide. It is possible that
unemployed masons will be import
ed from other sections of the coun
try, but the report could not be ver
ified officially. There are several
lined up for work on the five school
building projects in this county, but
advices from the employment bu
reau state that others could be used
to advantage.
Building material dealers are said
to be runnirfg slightly behind in
their deliveries, and this shortage is
said to be causing some delav. Pri
vate builders, and present prospects
indicate there will be a fair sized
number in this town during the next
several months, are also finding it
a bit difficult to get delivery guar
antees. Weather conditiors durine
the past two months were given as
the immediate cause for the short
delays in deliveries.
Reports from Mr. C. D. Gilliam,
head of the county's employment
bureau, also indicate there is little
skilled and semi-skilled labor avail
able on relief rolls for jobs on road
and street projects already contract
ed in Williamsl^p, Robersonville
and county. Men rkilied in handling
road machines, including tractors
and other similar motor vehicles,
who are not employed and vho have
not registered are urg?J to visit the
county employment bureau at once,
for a job is almost assured them,
Mr Gilliam said. No shortage in
common labor is now predicted but
the PWA projects already under
way and the WPA work about to
get started are expected to ubsorb
a large majority of the jobless.
Graham To Speak
At Legion Meeting
P p
A. H. (Sandy) Graham, Heuten-j
ant governor and Democratic can
didate for governor, will address the
regular meeting of the John W Has
aell American Legion post here
next *Monday evening at 7 o'clock,
it wax announced by Attorney H.
L. Swain, commander of the post,
yeaterday. A chicken supper will
be aerved, and plans are going for
ward for a big meeting.
Mr. Grahaam, according to "The
Martin County Legionnaire, a
monthly buletln issued by the Juhn
W. Hassell post, cornea here not as
lieutenant governor, nor as a can
didate for governor, but he cornea
aa a "buddy" of the former soldiers,
a great legionnaire, and he will talk
as a legionnaire.
COPS TO MEET HERE I
V? j
Patrolmen from all over east
ern North Carolina will meet
here next Thursday noon ' as
guests of local and county offi
cers, it was announced today.
More than 50 members of the
patrol, headed by Lieutenant
Lester Jones, of (ireenville, are
expected here for the meeting.
Dinner will be served the visi
tors at Sunny Side Inn.
Koad hogs, reckless and spir
ited drivers, operators of over
loaded trucks in this section are
not faring so well now, but they
will not have the chance of a
snowball in fire if they appear
in the open next Thursday with
all those patrolmen coming here
from every direction.
Finals of County
(iage T ourney To
Be Held Tonight
?
Williamston and Jamesville
Boys, Jamesville and Bear
Grass Girls in Finals
? ?
Williamston's ami Jamesville's
boys meet here this evening to bat
tle for Martin County's basketball
championship, the two teams hav
ing survived the preliminary en
counters last night and the night
before. The Jamesville and Hear
Grass girls wil lalso meet to play
for a championship title.
In the first round of the county
tournament, Williamston defeated
Farm Life boys, 23 to 17, Cook with
10 points and Barnhill with 9 lead
ing the locals in scoring Farm Life's
Griffin accounted for 8 of his teum's
17 points. The thrilling game of
the tourney so far was the match
last evening between the local boys
and Bear Grass Williamston scored
a 21 to 20 victory, with Cooke lead
ing the scoring with U- points and
Gurganus next with 5. J. C. and
E. Ha wis, brothers, led the visitors
with 7 points each.
Jamesville scored a 29 to 10 vic
tory over Kpbersonville Wednesday
night and skipped last t veiling to
go into the finals against the Wil
liamston boys tonight.
The Bear Grass girls started a
strong drive toward the champion
ship title Wednesday night, when
they turned back Kobersonville, 40
to 2 Farm Life was unable to trav
el over bad rwjds, and the girls from
Bear Grass meet Jamesville tonight
in the finals.
WilUamston's girls lost to James
ville last night by a count of 17 to
12, Hardison and Johnson handling
the scoring for the visitors. In the
victory, the Jamesvilel young ladies
earned the right to meet those from
Bear Gras sin the finals tonght.
Aged Colored Woman
Dies Near Hamilton
Lucy Dancy, one of the county's
most highly respected colored
women, died at her home in Ham
ilton a few days ago at the age of
about 86 years. Until she waa taken
sick four_ days before her passing,
she was active around her home and
in the service of others.
It was said of her that she was an
"old-timey darkey," numbering far
more friends among white people
than those of her own
Probably First Time
In History Pickers
J
Have Run in March
Peanuts in Large Stacks
Said To Have Remained
In Good Condition
Almost unbelievable activities are
beinK reported on farms in this sec
tion these days, but the reports are
authentic even if the facts seem far
from the truth. However, there is
no reason to be alarmed about any
thing in the farm situation just now.
other than what many regard as the
fiddling of Governor Ehringhaus in
his delay to call a special session of
the legislature while the present
prospects indicate the 193t> tobacco
crop will go up in smoke.
The recent bad weather accounts
for the unseasonable farm activities
Farmers are picking peanuts in
March, just a short while before the
time for planting another crop. The
pickers, forced out of operation
since away back in December, start
ed turning on a number of farms
in the county this week. Peanuts
placed in large stacks are said to
be in excellent condition, even
though they came through the worst
weather this section has experienced
in years; that is, those peanuts es
caping crows and blackbirds came
through in excellent condition. Some
farmers said the blackbirds had eat
en so many peanuts on the edge of
the stacks that it was no use to run
those vines through the picking ma
chines. While the farmer lost some
peanuts, the bird raids separated
the dark from the white peanuts
and probably increased the Value of
the unpicked crop at that time. No
reports have been obtained on the
condition of those peanuts placed in
small stacks, but it is believed that
the quality of the goobers in those
cases is not very good.
Few farmers have started their
spring plowing so far, reports stat
J mg that most of them are running
stalk cutters and disc harrows just
now. An extended and concerted
attack will likely be started next
week, weather permitting, by the
turning plows on old mother earth
Tobacco plant beds have been
sown for the most part, and the
farmers appear somewhat relieved
Some were so anxious to plant the
beds that human beings were
hitched to plows. A report from
Cross Koads stated that when a
draft animal could not be used on
account of miring down in the soft
earth, two men were hitched to the
plow and broke several hundred
square yards of ground. Four men
were used to drag a harrow, it was,
stated The general concensus of
opinion is that farmers will be about
ten days late starting the transplant
ing of their tobacco crops, barring
further delays.
Fertilizers are beginning to move
in increased quantities in those sec
tions located some distance from
hard-surfaced roads. Farmers, aft
er remaining idle for two long
months, are now entering a long and
busy season. But even with numer
ous tasks awaiting willing hands,
large numbers of farmers are find
ing a little spare time to visit in
town some time during the week
and on Saturdays
Work Is Started
On New Highway
Actual construction on the Rober
sonville-Spring Green highway was
scheduled to start today, according
to information coming from the
office of the county employment bu
reau here. Twenty men were as
signed jobs on the project today,
several of the workers going from
this point and others from Oak City
F. D. Cline, contractor of Raleigh,
who has been assigned street wid
ening jobs here and at Roberson
ville, was here this week making
arrangements to rstarting work on
Williamston's main street within the
next few days, probably the latter
part of next week, it was unoffic
ially learned today.
Local People in Hospital
Are Getting Along Nicely
Messrs. Jas. Harrison, who nearly
cut off his foot about a month ago,
and F. K. Hodges and Bob Price
who suffered broken hips some
time ago, were reported late yester
day to be getting along very ^rell
In a Washington hospital.