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VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 27 Williaznston, Martin County, North Carolina. Friday, April 3, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899
27 CASES TRIED
LAST TUESDAY EN
COUNTY COURT
Session Was One Of The
Largest Held So Far
This Year
Holding the first session since
March 10, the Martin County record
er's court swiftly handled the crowd
ed docket last Tuesday and ad
journed a few minutes after 1 o'
clock. Twenty-seven of the 31 cases
on the docket were called by Judge
H. O. Peel, several of the defend
ants drawing long road sentences
and others being required to pay
substantial fines.
The case charging C. L. McKeel
with embezzlement was sent to the
superior court, the defendant under
a (200 bond.
Prayer for judgment was contin
ued until April 7 in the case charg
ing S. M. McMullan with drunken
automobile driving;
The case charging Luther Casper
with larceny and drunken driving
was not prossed.
Prayer for judgment was contin
ued three months in the case charg
ing N. B. Lilley with an attempted
assault.
George Marriner was found not
guilty in the case charging him
with disorderly conduct.
Mack Peterson was sentenced to
the roads for six months in the case
charging him with violating the li
quor laws. He appealed, and bond
was required in the sum of $150. In
a second case, Peterson was found
guilty of operating a car without
driver's license, and the court fined
him $10.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of cost in the case charg
ing James Bridgers with operating
a car with improper brakes.
LeRoy Ange was fined $50 and
taxed with the cost in the case
charging him with drunken auto
mobile driving.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of the cost in the cases
charging Daniel Ryan and Samuel
Slade with operating cars without
drivers' licenses.
E. R. Bateman was fined $50 and
taxed with the cost for alleged
drunken driving.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of the costs in teh cases
charging LeRoy Roberson and Will
Edwards with operating cars with
improper equipment.
Prayer for judgment was contin
ued until April 28 in the case charg'
ing Lewis Bond with non-support.
Robert Edmondson and Henry
Thopias pleaded guilty in the case
charging them with larceny, and
were sentenced to the roads for
three months, the sentences to begin
at the direction of the court.
James Slade and James Bullock
were sentenced to the roads for
three months on a larceny and re
ceiving charge.
The case charging Gus White with
larceny was continued under prayer
for judgment until next Tuesday.
Joe Johnson was sentenced to the
roads for three months on a bas
tardy charge.
LeRoy Andrews was sentenced to
jail for 30 days on a larceny charge.
'Tom Eborn, charged with an as
sault with a deadly weapon, was
found guilty of- simple assault, the
court suspending judgment upon
payment of the cost. Alice Sanders,
a second defendant in the case, was
found not guilty.
John Lee, charged with violating
the liquor law and resisting arrest,
was sentenced to the roads for 18
months. He appealed and bond in
the sum of $200 was required.
Jesse Walston, charged with tres
pass, was found not guilty .
Charged with violating the liquot
laws, J. R. Cherry was sentenced tc
the roads for six months, sentence
to begin at direction of court and
on condition that a $50 fine be paid
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Twelve Killed In Tornado
That Sweeps Greensboro
Twelve people loat their live*,
?cores of others were injured, and
a property damaged estimated at
one and one-half million dollars re
sulted when a funnel shaped cy
clone suddenly struck the city of
Greensboro early last evening.
Rev. C. H. Dickey, former pastor
of the Baptist church here, was in
the city and in a special communi
cation to The Enterprise today said
that mandemonium reigned through
out the city, that hospital were
filled with injured peoplejffln.lcyc
filled with people injured in the
disaater. Ambulances ran for more
than three hours after the storm
subsided in picking up the injured
and carrying them to hospitals.
Lights wars out and power cut off
for hours.
Immense throngs are in the city
today viewing the wreckage, the
minister said.
WPA Sewing Room Workers
Have Made 8,400 Garments
Starting work the early part of
last November, ninety WPA work
ers in this county have manufac
tured 8,481 articles of clothing, in
cluding shirts, overalls, caps, jump
ers, gowns, socks and a large num
ber of quilts and blankets. The
number of workers was reduced last
week, but the manufacturing goes
forward, creating . supplies for the
needy families in this and other
counties.
The type of work handled by the
workers in this county has received
favorable comment from district
and state representatives of the
Works Progress Administration and
the project! handled in sewing
rooms in several parts o( the coun
ty have proved very successful.
Miss Ella Mae Gay lord, who heads
the work in this county, has ac
complished much good in aiding
those who needed and deserved em
ployment and at the same time su
pervised the manufacture of gar
ments for the needy.
While the distribution of the ar
ticles was delayed several weeks
last winter, the needs of the less
fortunate are being well cared for
at the present time, and if the
projects are continued much good
can be accomplished in the future,
no doubt.
Another Theatre To Be
Erected Here by Watts
FIRST MONDAY
No action other than that of
a routine nature is scheduled
for consideration by the Mar
tin County commissioners in
their regular meeting next
Monday. In fact, present indi
cations point to an uneventful
meeting for the commissioners.
The county board of educa
tion has no meeting scheduled
for next Monday, but will prob
ably hold a session later In the
month.
As far as It could be learned
today, Williamston's board of
commissioners will have noth
ing but routine businesa for
consideration at their meeting
Monday evening.
Baseball Schedule
For High School
Team Is Complete,
Locals To Play Their First
Game With Hertford
Here Tuesday
Williamston's high school boys are
planning to open the baseball sea
son here next Tuesday, when Hert
ford is scheduled to send its team
over. Practice schedules are being
maintained and while the locals
have no championship hopes, they
are expecting to make a creditable
showing.
In the game next Tuesday, Clay
ton Moore will hold down first base;
Tom Barnhill, the second sack; Ash
ley Wynne, shortstop; Roger Rid
dick, third base; Howard Cone or
Bruce Chesson, catcher; Walter
Cooke and Fred Summerlin, pitch
ers; B. Hardison, Thad Harrison, R.
Gurganus, C. T. Roberson, James
Williams, and Victor Andrews in
the outfield.
The complete schedule for the sea
son:
April 7, Hertford, here.
April 10, Edenton, there.
April 14, Elizabeth City, here.
April 17, Washington, there.
April 21, Hertford, there.
April 24, Edenton, here.
April 28, open.
May 1, Wilson, here.
May 5, Greenville, there.
May 8, Washington, here.
May 12, Wilson, there.
May 15, Elizabeth City, there.
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Skewarkey Union Sunday
Was Largely Attended
The Skewarkey Primitive Baptist
union meeting held with the local
church last Sunday was largely at
tended, visitors coming here from a
number of the eastern Carolina
counties. Elder C. W. Miller, of
Rosslyn, Va., preached the main ser
mon. He is a good speaker and his
sermon was well received. Elders
Denson, of Rocky Mount, and Cor
bitt, of Greenville, also preached.
Following the services a picnic
dinner was served on the grounds.
Glee Club To Appear In
This County April 19th
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The Atlantic Christian College
Glee Club will sing at the local
Christian Church the third Sunday
morning In this month at 11 o'clock
They are to appear that afternoon
in Oak City at 3 o'clock, and at
Robersonville that evening at 8 o'
clock, it was announced today by
Rev. J. M. Perry.
President Howard S. Hilley will
appear on the program with a short
address. He is always greatly en
joyed. The program this year will
have some new features of Interest
to the public.
Plan To Begin Work
At Once; Location Is
On Haughton Street
Building Will Cost About
$10,000 According To
Reliable Estimates
Plans and blueprints are being
prepared this week for the construc
tion of a new moving picture the
atre here, the owner, Mr. J. W.
Watts, stating today that work on
the building would be started just
as soon as possible. The new movie
house, estimated to cost approxi
mately $10,000, will be located on
the Staton property next to the Co
lonial Oil Company service station
on Haughton Street. The exact
type of building hasvnot been defi
nitely determined, Mr. Watts say
ing that it will be of brick construc
tion with modern equipment and
will seat between 300 and 400 peo
ple. The construction schedule has
not been determined, but it is
thought the theatre will be complet
| ed and ready for occupancy during
the late summer.
In considering the construction of
a second theatre for the town, Mr.
Watts explained that he had to buy
a certain number of pictures, or ac
tually more than could be shown in
one theatre, and that it would be
possible, with two showhouses, to
offer a more varied program. At the
present time the management is re
quired to book a large number of
pictures to get those he wishes to
show, and as a result he finds it Im
possible to show all the bookings he
actually pays for. At the same time,
the theatre-going public will have
made available to them a larger se
lection of amusement features and
a service unsurpassed even in towns
and cities eight to ten times the
size of Williamston.
Legal Liquor Sales
Show Decrease Last
Month; Total $7,231
Marked Decrease Reported
During Period by Store
At Robersonville
Legal liquor sales in this county
last rqonth amounted to $7,231.80,
the store at Williamston selling more
than half, or $4,053.05. Roberson
ville, where sales have been mater
ially decreased during the past few
months, reported sales of $1,594.85.
Jamesville held third place for the
second consecutive month, outsell
ing Oak City $875.45 to $707.55.
The first liquor profits will be
| turned over to the county's general
fund next week, the exact amount
not having yet been determined
The quarterly audit is In the mak
ing at the present time, and the
amount cannot be determined until
the audit is completed. Since the
stores started operating last July,
approximately $15,000 has been
cleared, but most of the amount has
been held by the liquor board to
diacount bills and purchase stock, it
wgs said.
Parole Investigations Are
Being Made In County
A representative of the State pen
al division is said to have been in
the county thia week checking th?
records of several people who wers
paroled from State prison or farm
His findings could not be learned
but unofficial reports indicate thai
possibly three or four of those now
out under parole are likely to be
returned to prison. >
NEW JERSEY MAN
MAY ESTABLISH
PULP MILL HERE
Another Firm Interested In
Locating Basket Mill
In This Section
H. M. Kieckhefer, head of the
Kiekhefer Container Company, of
Delair, New Jersey, is considering
establishing u pulp mill here, pro
vided certain arrangements can be
made, it was learned from Mayor
John L. Hassell today following a
lengthy interview tthe mayoi had
with the visitor day before yester
day.
Few details of the prposed new
industry could be had. Mr Kiek
hefer explaining that he planned to
return here in the near future to
tnske n more extensive ?nvestiga
tion of the location, timber supplv
and other allied facts. It is under
stood the concern has a normal pay
roll of me re than 200 person-i.
Mr. Kiekhefer stated while here
this week that he had examined
possible locations all the way from
New Jersey to Florida, and that he
found Williamston held the greatest
promise of any of them. He ap
peared to he quite interested in this
as a location, but explained that his
company had had very attractive
offers from one or two Florida
towns.
While Mr. Kiekhefer was investi
gating the possibility of starting a
mill in this section, the head of a
New York firm was here consider
ing locating a box and basket fac
tory in or near Williamston. High
water in the Roanoke made a tour
of inspection impossible, but it was
learned thex company would send a
representative here within the near
future to mdjpe a field study of the
timber supply in this section. Few
details of the basket man's plans
could be learned, but some of those
Iwith whom he talked gained the im
pression that the company would lo
cate a plant here within the next
few months.
Final Rites Will Be
Held Here Sunday
For Dr. Morrison
Prominent Physician Died
Yesterday at Home In
Virginia Beach
Dr. Edgar H. Morrison, prominent
citizen of Virginia Beach and Tar
boro, died at his summer home in
Virginia Beach yesterday afternoon.
He was 62 years old, the son of the
late John Royal Morrison and wife,
prominent family of Danville for a
number of years.
Educated at the University of
Virginia and the Medical College
of Virginia at Richmond, Dr. Mor
rison started practicing medicine in
1908. He retired from active prac
tice in 1922 to devote much time to
the management of his properties
at Virginia Beach. He later mar
ried Mrs. Jacksie Daniel Thrash, of
Tarboro, and following her death
he married Mrs. Carrie Biggs Wil
liams, daughter of Mrs. Fannie S.
Biggs, of Williamston, and the late
John Dawson Biggs.
Dr. Morrison is survived by Mrs.
Morrison, a step-daughter, Mrs.
Charles B. Herriott, of this place;
and the following brothers and sis
ters: Miss Hope Morrison, of Los
Angeles, California; Mrs. William
Grady, of Danville; Walter Morris
on, of Arizona and Willard - Mor
rison, of Danville.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the late home in Virginia
Beach tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'
clock, after which the body will be
brought to the home of Mrs. Fan
nie Biggs here where a second serv
ice will be conducted Sunday after
noon at 3 o'clock. Interment will
follow in the Baptist Cemetery
here.
No Seine Fishing Yet On
Roanoke at Jamesville
High water in the Roanoke con
tinues to delay seine Ashing on the
Roanoke at Jamesville, unofficial
reports from there this morning in
dicating it will be some time next
week before operation can be start
ed at the plant.
Small-scale fishermen are said to
be handling large catches with their
machines and nets, but very few
rock or shad are being taken. One
machine caught, 1,500 herring at
this point yesterday, and many far
mers are working with small nets
in the stream now.
The river continues over the bank
and is rising very slowly, the
weather station stating today that
apparently it had reached a crest.
Plans Completed for Beginning
Two-Weeks Union Evangelistic
Services Sunday at Tabernacle
HONOR ROLL OF
LOCAL SCHOOLS
FOR PAST MONTH
Names of 102 Pupils Are
On List for Scholastic
Attainments
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One hundred and two pupils in
the local schools gained recognition
during the fifth month for their
scholastic attainments, Principal D.
N. Hix announced this week. The
names of the honor pupils are as
follows:
Grade 1-A: Peggy Mackey, Annie
Virginia Chesson, Lucy Marie An
drews, Louise Griffin, Suzanne Grif
fin, Louise Hines, Elizabeth Hopkins,
Mary Mac Kear, Elizabeth Manning,
Catherine Moseley, Jeannette My
ers, Elizabeth Parker, Maxine
Phelps, Melba Revels, Libby Taylor,
Dan Bowen, Hugh Horton.
1-B: Frank Bennett, Bert Moore,
Therman Raynor, Nellie Fay Bunch,
Gertrude McLawhorn, Eula Mae
Williams.
2-A: John Daniels, Jesse Gurganus
Wilber Jackson, Erwood Old, Mil
lie Coltrain, Shirley Cowen, Sylvia
Green, Frances Griffin, Rachel Mi
zelle, Irene Peele, Dora Twiddy.
2-B: Elma Wallace, Gloria Robort
3-A: Curtis Hopkins, Jack Mobley,
David Roberson, John Whitley, Jo
seph Wynne, Frances Booth, Mamie
C. Holliday, Alberta Knox, Anne
Meador, Betsy Helen Manning, An
gela McLuwhorn, Betty Davis Rog
ers, Helen Weaver.
3-B: Henry Mizelle, Dalton Jones,
Estelle Corey, Susie Revels.
Grade 4-A: Jasper Browder, Con
rad Getsinger, Burke Parker, Bill
Peele, Luther Peele, J. D. Woolard,
Saru Coble, Virginia Hines, Lenof a
Melson, Nancy Mercer, Delia Jane
Mobley, Susan Moore, Mary Trulah
Peele.
4-B: Frances Thomas, Annie
Hoard, Elsie Coltrain, Noah Nichol
son, Carrie Wobbleton, Elmer Mi
zelle.
5-A: Shirley Booth, Evelyn Grif
fin, Reno Howard, Patricia King
Velma Perry, Mary O'Neal Pope,
Madelyn Taylor, .Bill Griffin, Ther
on Gurganus.
5-B: Emma Belle Ward,
6-A: Bill Bowen, Dolly Godard,
Mary Charles Godwin, Susie Griffin,
Elizabeth Parker, Sybil Roberson.
fl-B: Leslie Coltrain, Garland
Wynne, Mildred Moore.
7-A: Marjorie Grey Dunn, Kath
erine Manning.
7-B: None.
Grade 8: Sallie Grey Gurkin, Dor
othy Manning, Virgil Wurd, Held
White.
9: Keg Manning.
10: Grace Chesson.
11: Marie Griffin, Evelyn Lilley,
Marjorie Lindsley.
Will Dedicate New
Methodist Church in
Parmele on April 12
Bishop William E. Brown
Is To Be in Charge of
Special Service
Bishop William E. Brown, of the
Blue Hidge Atlantic Conference will
be in Parmele Easter Sunday to as
sist in the dedication of the new
Methodist Protestant church there.
Bishop Brown, a man of prominence
in the Methodist church, will deliv
er the principal sermon dedicating
the new church.
The new church, which is a credit
to the Parmele section, has been un
der construction for the past several
months and is now completed and
serving the Methodists and other de
nominations of that section.
The officers of the church extend
a cordial welcome to the people of
Robersonville and community to
worship with them on this special
occasion.
Editor To Tell About Trip
To Jerusalem at Farm Lite
W. C. Manning, editor of The
Enterprise, has accepted an invita
tion to address a meeting in the
Farm Life School auditorium Sun
day afternoon at 3 o'clock. His
topic will center around a several
weeks' trip last summer to Europe
and the Holy Land. The public is
Invited to hear him.
MARKING TIME
The Martin office of the coun
ty farm acent Is marking time
while awaiting the arrival of
application blanks for farmers
who wish to participate in the
federal government's soil con
servation program. While the
Nblanks are expected within the
next few days, it could not be
learned just when the program
would be carried before the far
mers pin a series of communi
ty meetings and by committee
men. The office, however, is
ready for action and the drive
will likely get underway just as
soon as the proper forms reach
here.
During the meantime, many
farmers are interesting them
selves in the program, making
it appear that this county will
participate in the soil conserva
tion movement to a large ex
tent.
High School Band
Has Part in Music
Festival at Raleigh
Director and Thirty Pupils
To Leave Early Sunday
For Afternoon Play
Director W. S. Bobbitt and bis
band boys wil participate in the
third spring festival of the Eastern
N. C. Band Masters' association.
Plans are complete for the trip and
the director and 30 of his pupils
will leave here Sunday morning to
participate in the program at Kal
eight that afternoon, beginning at
2 o'clock.
There are 15 bands on the pro
gram which will close witli a mass
parade about 5 o'clock that after
noon.
The names of those planning to
make the trip from here are:
Jack Saunders, Wilbur Culpep
per, Ben Hardison, Howard Cone,
Edgar Gurganus, Whit Purvis, J. L.
Mobley, Jimmie Watts, Reg Grif-1
fin, Ray Goodmoni Dale Wagner,
Jerry Clark, Frank Weaver, Junie
Peel, Robert Peel, Harry Taylor,
Thad Harrison, E. G. Wynn, Reg.
Manning, Milton James, Jack Ed
mondson, Eli Gurganus, Bennie
Daniels, Carlyle Hall, Dick Dunn,
Clifton Malone, Jim Manning, Ellis
Ramey and Evelyn Lilley.
Ladies' Night Observed
By Local Kiwanis Club\
Ladies' night was observed by
the local Kiwanis club last evening,
seventy-five or more members and
special guests being present.
Following dinner, Club President |
Harcum Grimes opened the pro
gram and started the ball rolling
by telling the roughtest and stalest
joke of seasons. Mr. Grimes then
presented J. H. Leroy, club presi
dent of the Carolinsa district, who
made a splendid talk.
Dean E. L. Cloyd, of State College |
look charge of the program as spec
ial entertainer. He prefaced his re
marks by saying he was a teacher
and not a politician, explaining that
his wife usually went with him on
such occasions to warn him when
he began to intrude on dignity. His
line of jokes, for the most part, was
very funny, although some of them
carried rather much color and per
haps needed the censorship of his |
wife.
Much fun and merriment was had
and several songs and a piano duet
by Ben Manning and Ella Wynne
Crltcher and a cornet solod by
Ray Goodmon, jr., and a dance by
Miss Mary Davis Hardison were
much enjoyed.
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Third Poultry Shipment
Being Loaded in County |
The third and last shipment of
poultry this season is being leaded |
in the county this week. Approxi
mately 1,700 pounds were loaded
cooperatively in Jamesville Wed
nesday, farmers delivering around
6,500 pounds to the car at this point
yesterday. leadings are being made
in Roberxonvilel today, and the last
stop will be made in Oak City to
morrow.
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"Farmers are expectantly waiting
foi some plan to be devised that
will enable them to control produc
tion this year," says T. J. W. Broom,
of Union County.
Local Ministers To
Alternate in Pulpit;
Engage Song Leader
Will Hold Brief Services
In Watts Theatre Each
Day at Noon Also
Plans were announced virtually
complete today for a two-weeks un
ion church meeting here beginning
with a service Sunday evening at 8
o'clock. The services will be held
nightly in the Roanoke warehouse
with local pastors occupying the
pulpit. An experienced singer,
Charles E. McBay, of Winchester,
Va , is expected here over the week
end to take charge of the song serv
ices. it was stated.
At a recent meeting of the pas
tors of the town and a number of
prominent laymen, a unanimous
resolution was passed asking all
clubs, fraternities, organizations,
and operators of amusement houses
to refrain from featuring any spec
ial attractions during the two weeks
the meeting is in progress that the
greatest amount of spiritual good
may be obtained. The county Amtr
ican Legion post has already can
celled its regular meeting' scheduled
for the 13th, and other organizations
and social groups are planning to
cooperate in advancing the religious
movement.
Pleaching assignments will not be
made in advance, but the various
ministers of the town will be ready
to take their turns in the pulpit.
The movement is being advanced as
a community-wide undertaking, and
the general public is cordially urged
to attend as many of the services as
possible
Noon prayer meetings will fea
ture the religious movement. Be
ginning Monday at 12 noon and
continuing each day at the same
hour through Thursday, 20-minute
meetings will be held in the Watts
Theatre. Dr. Joseph Eason, Attor
ney 11. G. 1 lor ton, Superintendent
J. C. Manning, and Professor T. O.
Hickman will address the noon-day
j meetings, it was announced.
Augustus Rogers, 35,
Died Early Today
At Bear Crass Home
Funeral Services Will Be
Conducted Tomorrow
Afternoon at 3
Augustus Rogers, young and well
known farmer of Bear Grass Town
ship, died at his home there early
this morning following an illness of
several months' duration. He had
been in ill health since the latter
part of last year, his condition rap
idly becoming critical.
The son of Mrs. Sarah Rogers
and the late Henry Rogers, he was
born in Bear Grass about 35 years
ago. He farmed there all his life
or until his health began to fail.
In early manhood he was married
to Miss Vida Rogers who survives
with three children, Amanda, Sadie
and J. B. Rogers. He also leaves
besides his mother, two brothers,
Messrs. Edgar and Theodore Rogers,
all of Bear Grass Township.
Funerul arrangements had not
been completed at noon today in
their entirety, but it was announced
the last rites would be conducted at
the late home tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock and that interment will
follow in the family cemetery, near
the home.
Local Colored School Has
Part In Triangular Debate
Colored debating teams from the
training schools in Hyde "and Beau
fort Counties will meet here this
evening, the local school sending
its teams to those two points, Prin
cipal E. J. Hayes announced. The
subject is, "That the several states
should enact legislation providing
a system of complete medical serv
ice to all citizens at public ex
pense."
School Principals Meet
Here Next Tuesday
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Principals of the several schools
in the county will meet in the office
of the county superintendent here
next Tuesday afternoon at 1:S0 o'
clock, It was announced today.