THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 49 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 19, 1936 ' ESTABLISHED 1899
LOCALS WIN TWO
FROM ACES, LOSE
TO BRUINS ONCE
Greenville Leading Martins
By Only Two-Game
Margin Today
Williamston'i baseball team is
nearing the dote of the third week
of play in the Costal Plain loop hold
ing to third position and trailing
Greenville, the league leaders, by
only two games.
The Martins made a strong ad
vance Tuesday and Wednesday
when they turned back Ayden and
pulled the Aces from top position.
Part of the ground gained was lost
in a 3-2 defeat at the hands of New
Bern here yesterday afternoon, but
Manager Walker is confident as the
Martin start a return game with
New Bern there this afternoon.
Douglass, Kinston young man, and
former first baseman for Ayden, now
occupies that position for the Mar
tins, Ferrell going to right field, or
his regular old haunt. The club
personnel was decreased this week
when several players were suspend
ed, but definite selections are still
pending, Mr. Walker said this morn
ing.
Last Tuesday "Dizzy" Dean turn
ed back the Ayden Aces, 8 to 2, the
visitors chalking up only 3 hits, and
Whatley, the all-American football
prospect from Alabama, accounting
for two of those. Armstrong did
the heavy stickwork for the locals
in the eighth when he batted in two
runs with his triple. He also got a
single and Walters and Ferrell ac
counted for two hits each.
In a slugging and running contest
at Ayden Wednesday, the Martins
registered a 14 to 11 victory, Wal
ters doing some heavy batwork with
a single, double, triple and a home
run. Black and Cherry each got a
home run, and Black also hit a three
bagger and a single.
Yesterday Wade pitched a good
game and allowed only 6 hits, but
Fuller, high school boy from New
Bern, cut that figure in half, but
had to call on Left Kennell after
two were out -in the ninth tu finish
the game. It was just another three
or four times at bat for nearly every
body in New Bern's 3-to-2 victory.
Tenancy Gains Are
Shown by Figures
The trend from individual owner
ship to farm tenancy was described
as one of the major problems of the
United States by D. G. Modlin, of
William8ton, rehabilitation super
visor of the Resettlement Adminis
tration showing that nearly half of
all farmers in the United States are
now tenants.
"Every agricultural section of the
country," he said, "has some ten
ancy.'* It ranges from around 8 per
cent in the New England states to
better than 45 per cent in parts of
the corn belt and a high of more
than 78 per cent of all farmers In
some parts of the cotton belt."
The figures of the 1935 census of
agriculture indicate that farm ten
ancy is still increasing in all major
sections of the country Tenancy
in the states of this region is as fol
lows:
North Carolina, 142,158 tenants, a
gain of 3 per cent since 1930: Vir
ginia, 58,388 tenants, gain of 16 per
cent since 1930; Kentucky,1 103,215
tenants, gain of 16 per cent since
1930; Tennessee, 126,607 tenants, a
gain of 11 per cent since 1930; and
West Virginia, 27,021 tenants, gain
of 76 per cent since 1930.
Two Slot Machines
Seized by Officers
Slot machine'owners returning to
this county for whatever scattered
nickels could be gathered, were a
bit hasty when they placed a pin
table in a Hamilton store just about
the time Judge W. C. Harris, presid
ing over the one-week term of su
perior court, directed officers Mon
day to confiscate all the contrap
Two of the machines were brought
in from Hamilton, but no action has
been taken against the owner or the
operators. Sheriff Roebuck stated
that neither of the machines was in
operation, however, and it was not
believed the store ewners could be
held responsible.
As far as it could be learned there
are no other machines in operation
in the county at the present time
with the possible exception of one
unofficially reported at Oold Point.
Directors of the Martin County
unit of the Farm Bureau Federation
will meet in the courthouse hare to
morrow morning, it was
today.
County Legion Post Planning
Erection of Permanent Home
Members of the John Walton Has-J
sell American Legion Post in^ this
county are pushing plans for the
construction of a Legion building or
hut, according to a member promi
nent in the affairs of the organiza
tion. Members of the organization
and all former soldiers are being .so
licited to advance a portion of their
bonus to the building fund. Ar
rangements have been made with
the Williamston banks and the Bank
of Robersonville to accept the dona
tions and give the veterans official
receipts, it was stated.
The Legion post building commit
tee includes the following members:
Joseph H. Ayers, of Oak City; J. R.
Winslow and Mack Wynn, of Rob
ersonville; W. E. Dunn, H. G. Hor
ton, A. T. Gurkin and J. D. Wool
ard, Williamston; J. W. Eubanks, of
Hassell; and O. W. Hamilton, James
ville. Mr. John A. Ward is treas
Potato Crop Is Small;
Price Holding Up Well
General rains (ailing during
last night are said to have Anal
ly ended the dry season in this
section. According to reports
received from over the county
this morning, some over an Inch
of rain fell, the weather station
reporting 1.12 Inches at this
point.
So far this month, 4.14 inches
of rain have fallen here, the
heaviest fall having been re
ported on June 4. Some sec
tions of the county have not had
near that much, but the rain
last night is said to have re
lieved drought conditions gen
erally.
Grand Jury Makes
Quarterly Report
To Judge Harris
New and Adequate Index
System Recommended
For Clerk's Office
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Completing their work just be
fore noon Tuesday, the Martin
County grandjury members were
publicly thanked by Presiding
Judge W. C. Harris for their work
and the report read in open court.
The body of the report reads, as
folows:
"All bills have been disposed of
that came into our hands.
"We visited the county home in
a body and. we found same to be in
good condition. We And that the ex
tra milch cow had been added that
the grand jury reported needed at
at the December term, 1935. We also
And the leak in the cellar Aoor has
not been repaired. We recommend
this be done at once.
"We visited the prison camp and
found same in good condition.
"We And that the county garage
has thirty-four scifool busses which
are being repaired at this time.
"We also visited the register of
deeds* office and And same in good
condition.
"We visited the clerk of the
court's office and And all records,
including guardian and administra
tor bonds, in good shape The grand
jury recommends that the commis
sioners install a new indexing sys
tem, as the one in the office is obso
lete."
The report made no mention of
a review of turnovers of proAts by
the liquor control board as suggest
ed by Judge Harris in his charge
Monday.
The names of the grand jury
members are, Eli Rodgers, fore
man; R A Roebuck, W. M. Green,
Ira F. Andrews, W. A. Vanderford,
and R. L. Smith, all of Roberson
ville; J. T. Matthews, jr., Charlie
Hux, J. F. Crisp, all of Oak City;
E. K. Edmondson, Mills Ayers, of
Hamilton; Harry Martin and R. L.
Hardison, of Jamesville, of Wil
liams; J. C. Gardner, of Bear Grass;
Jesse Keel, of Everetts, and Noah T.
Tice, of Griffins.
Second Contest for Senator
Still Pending in 2nd District
Taylor B. Attmore, third?high
man in the race for Slate Senator
from thia district, has not yet made
up his mind as to whether he will
ask a run-off against R. L. Coburn
next July 4, it was learned this
morning. Mr. Attmore who trailed
Coburh in the first contest on the
8th of this month by 271 votes, has
until tomorrow midnight to make
his decision, it is understood,
When questioned today, the Beau
fort County man said that he had
not fully made up his mind as to
what he would do about asking a
second primary.
Wm. Rodman received a major,
ity and C. U Bailey and Julius Dees
were eliminated in the first coo
Market Expected To
Be Closed by Litter
Part of Next Week
Prices For Number 1 Grade
Potatoes Ranges Around
$5 Barrel at This Point
Getting underway this week, the
irish potato market in this section
will be the shortest in recent years,
reports indicate. With hardly half
a crop produced, the market will be
virtually spent the early part of next
week, leaving just a few scattered
lots unsold here and there.
Number 1 potatoes were selling
for $5 a barrel this wek, the next
grade, or number 2, commanding a
price of $3 a barrel, f.o.b. this point.
Last year the top market price was
$2 a barrel for the best grade, the
growers offering very few of the
second quality potatoes for sale. The
increase price this year over the
figures prevailing in the 1933 season
is due to a decreased acreage and
production throughout the general
potato regions.
Last year approximately *20 car
loaos or Irish potatoes were shipped
from this point. This year the ship
ments are not expected to exceed
8 or 9 carloads.
Marketing activities are fast sub
siding in the main potato regions in
this section, and the diggers are
moving farther north. The Colum
bia section has made money on the
crop, even though the production
was hardly more than 50 per cent
of normal.
The influx of foreign labor from
states as far away as Georgia and
Florida to the potato regions in this
state has not been as large as it was
four years ago. In 1932 the hungry
and poorly clad hundreds passed
through here on worn-out trucks
looking for work in the potato fields.
There were some pitiful stories con
nected with the caravan at that
time. It will be recalled that one
truck figured in a wreck miles be
low here, but the caravan continued
on its way with the injured includ
ed in the list ot travelers. This year
only one or two truck loads of the
foreigners have passed through here
looking for work in the potato fields.
Diggers have made money, and
while the barrel manufacturers have
had no record sales, they are receiv
ing cash for those barrels they do
sell.
Tobacco Stocks Moving
To Manufacturing Plants
Tobacco consumption has either
picked up considerately or the ex
pectations are for a greater decrease
in the current crop than it was flrst
thought, judging from large tobacco
shipments under way at the present
time to some of the big manufact
urers.
Unofficials reports state that one
concern recently purchased 30,000,
AAA rwiin/la , f 1 QOR
Uuu pounds ox ine iwoo trop irom
independent dealers in eastern
North Carolina. Fifteen or more
loads have moved from this point
during the past few days, it is un
derstood, end even larger shipments
are being made from other points.
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Robbers Get $175.00 From
FCX Safe Here Last Night
Robbers entered the Farmers Co
operative Exchange warehouse on
Railroad Street here early last night
and stole around $175 in cash from
a small safe. Several checks, total
ling around $20, were also stolen.
The robbers tore the lock from
a side door, took the small safe and
carried it across the street and
knocked off the door with an axe
on the Staton cotton gin lot. Rain,
falling later in the night, washed
out rfll tracks, but officers are try
ing to get Anger prints from the
bottom surface of the Iron box.
Manager Stephenson as id the safe
and money were insured against
burglary.
FARM PROGRAM
MEETINGS TO BE
HELD NEXT WEEK
County Organization To Be
Set Up for Handling Soil
Conservation Work
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An organization for handling the
soil conservation program in this
county will be perfected next week,
Assistant County Agent M. L.
Barnes announced today. Commit,
teemen will be named by work
sheet signers at community meet
ings to be held next week, begin,
ning in Robersonville at 8 o'clock
in the high school building and one
in the county courthouse Tuesday
evening, June 23. Other meetings
will be announced later.
As it is understood here, a com
plete and new organization will be
effected, the farmers choosing their
own men at the community meet
ings. Each community will name
four committeemen, and one of
those will be chosen as chairman.
The chairman of the individual
groups will be recognized as mem
bers of the county committee, the
organization of which will be per
fected following the community
meetings.
In addition to laying the founda
tion for the program organization
committee, the meetings next week
will review the soil conservation
urogram to date; explain how the
farmer may earn additional soil
building payments and advise how
arid when applications for govern
ment grants should be made.
All farmers signing work sheets
are eligible to vote, and they are
urged to attend their respective
community meetings.
May Borrow Funds
For Organization of
Farm Ooo|>eratives
Resettlement Administra
tion To Aid in Setting
Up Cooperatives
Farmer cooperative enterprises
now may be organized in .Martin]
County with the aid of funds loaned
to such organizations by the Reset
tlement Administration, D. G. Mod.
lin, county rural rehabilitation sup
ervisor, announced.
Funds have been made available,
Mr. Modlin said, for loans to com
munity and cooperative associations
and to farm families for participa
tion in such associations as well as
in existing cooperatives. This is
one of the means by which the fed
eral government is helping farmers
to gain new economic security, he
said.
"Loans will be made to coopera
tives that submit sound plans on a
basis of a real community need for
the service. .There must be assur
ance that such an enterprise will
be abletooperate on a self-sustain. J
iny h??l? "
Mr. Modlin said he would be glad
to receive the suggestions of Martin
County farmers in his office in the
City Hall Building in WilLiamston.
Many Veterans Are
Calling for Cash
Receiving their bonus bonds early
this week, many Martin veterans
are losing no time in calling for the
cold cash and all that is due them.
So far, 540 bonds, representing $27,
000 in cash, have been forwarded to
Raleigh to be converted into cash,
it is understood. The 540 bonds rep
resent the returns from the Wil
liamston office only, it was stated.
The delivery of bonds continues
to go forward but not so rapidly as
the distribution the first day of this
week About 10 or 12 packages of
the valuable documents are reach
ing veterans at this point daily.
Commission Urged
To Pave Highway
Headed by prominent citizens of
Griffins Township and Jamesville,
a delegation of IS or more is appear,
ing before the State Highway and
Public Works Commission with a
strongly supported petition asking
that the road from Jamesville, via
Farm Life, to U. S. Highway 17 be
paved. The delegation has already
been assured a hearing before the
commission, Mrs. C. T. Roberson, one
of the members of the delegation,
said last evening.
The delegation, leaving here early
this morning, was accompanied by
a county attorney and a resolution
prepared at the direction of the
county commissioners at a special
meeting held hey last Monday.
Free Vaccination To Be Given
Only at Places as Desigmited
In ordering the extensive cam
paign that gets underway in this
county next week against typhoid
fever, the county authorities made
arrangements for free immunization
at the 23 dispensaries only. Free
vaccinations cannot be given other
than at the points scheduled, and the
public will greatly aid the valuable
movement by reporting at the near
est point for the free vaccine and
not applying for it at the office of
any doctor. It is no more than right
thai a direct charge be made when
the individual goes to the office of
any physician for protection against
typhoid fever.
Every man, woman and child,
white and colored, is urged to take
advantage of the free treutment, and
everything possible will be done to
limit delays to a minimum. Study
the schedule appearing elsewhere in
this paper, tell others about it and
plan to attend the dispensary near
est you. While only three weeks
are required to complete the treat
ment, the health authorities will
continue the campaign for four
weeks tor tne convenience of the
public.
Typhoid Vaccination
Drive Begins Monday
Health Officer Urges
All County Citizens
To Take Treatment
Vaccine Will Be Available
At 23 Dispensaries In
Martin County
Promptly at 7 o'clock next Mon
day morning, Martin County will
start an extensive campaign against
typhoid fever, the first dispensary
opening at Sandy Ridge schoolhoyse
at that time, followed by one in
Jamesville at 10 o'clock, another at
Farm Life at?10:30. In the upper
end of the county, the campaign
.will get underway the same morp
ing in Oak City at 10 o'clock and
in Hamilton that afternoon at 3 o'
clock.
On next Tuesday, the clinics will
be held as follows: Eason Lilley's
store at 7 a. m.; Smith wick's Creek
schoolhouse at 9 a. m.; Macedonia
schoolhouse at 12 noon; Parmele
school, Hassell school and Dardens
school (white), all at 10 a. m.; Har
dens school (colored) at 12 noon.
Dispensaries will be opened on
Wednesday, June 24, at Bear Grass
Tor whites at 7 a. m , and colored at
11:30 a m., and Poplar Point col
ored schoolhouse at 3:30 p. m.
Thursday, June 25, the campaign
will open in the Everetts school at
7 a. m., and for colored at 9 a. tn.;
Cross Roads schoolhouse at 11:30 u
m., and Gold Point school at 10 a.
m.
The first round of the campaign
will get underway here in th^ Wil
liamston white school at 7 a. m., Fri
day, June 20, and in the colored
school at 2 p. m. Dispensaries will
be held in Robersonville the same
morning at 8:30 in the white school
and for the colored at 10:30 a. m.
In announcing the protection
which is made available free to all
the people in Martin County, Dr.
Jos. H. Saunders, health officer.
said:
"Typhoid fever is gradually being |
reduced, but there must be" no let
up in vaccination. Now is the timel
to protect yourself against it. The|
season is at hand. T?K.I- Ihf treat.
ment every third year.
"Diphtheria can be prevented by
taking Toxoid. Have your children
over six months of age immunized
against it. It takes about Ave
months to get the protection, so now
is the time to take the treatment to
be protected this fall.
"There is no excuse for even a
case of typhoid fever when perfect
immunization for two years at a
time may be obtained through at
tendance at the cltnics as scheduled
It is the duty of every intelligent
citizen to become inoculated toward
all preventable diseases,, especially
typhoid fever, for their own pro
tection, as well as the protection of
their?neighbors,?It is slim?then'
duty to do all in their power to per
suade others to take preventive
meaures.
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Announces Sunday Services
Jamesville Baptist Church
Rev W B. Harrington will eon
duct the two preaching services in
the Jamesvllle Baptist church Sun
day at U o'clock in the morning
and at 8 that evening. The Sunday
school will convene at the usual
hour, 10 o'clock. The public is in
vited to attend. ?
Open Radio and Electric
Shop Here This Week
The Williamston Radio and Elec
tric Shop, a new concern, was open
ed in the Purol station building,
next to the A. C. L. Station on
Haughton Street this week. Messrs.
John E. Roger, formerly of New
York, but now of Greenville, and
Stuart McArthur, also of Gretnvllle,
are the operators.
I SWEET MUSIC
News of the arrival of his
bonus bonds came as sweet mu
sic to the ears of Sam Hardison,
local fisherman, last Tuesday
afternoon. Trudging along the
sidewalk. bearing a heavy
"turn" of old sloppy catfish
strung out on a paddle. Hardi
son. according to the story, was
near a trash can when he was
told his bonds were waiting for
him at the post office. He
threw catfish, paddle and all
into the trash barrel, and bur
riedly made his way to the post
office.
Interest Increases iir
Daily Bible School;
Enrollment ( limbs
Cooperative Movement To
Continue Through
Next Week
The Daily Vacation Bible school,
a cooperative effort on the part of
the churches of Williamstori, moves
forward with results gratifying to
ministers and workers assisting
Attendance records show a daily
increase in all deportments, the be
ginners having todate 37 enrolled,
an increase of 7 since the opening;
the primary group having 44, an in
crease of 9; the juniors having 80,
an increase of 25; and the inter
mediates having 19, an increase of
10. The present enrollment of fac
ulty, students, and workers is 178.
Officials expect 250 by next week.
The worship services are being
held in the various churches in ro
tation, the purpose being to teach
the students to \tfork and worship
in unity. A special offering is tak
en each morning at this time for
some missionary project, the object
to be determined by the school.
Cooperating ministers wish -te
commend the faithful work being
done by the efficient corps of teach
ers and workers. Mention is made
of Misses Jossio Maw Huiloman and
Frances Bowen, whose services
have been secured since the last an
nouncement.
There will be a commencement
held at the close of the second
week of the school, giving a*dem
onstration of the work being done
in the several deportments. At this
time a special offering will be tak
en to defray expenses incurred by
the school for actual necessities.
All parents are urged to cooper
ate in the maintenance of a good
attendance throughout the remaind
er of the term.
New Lumber Mills Located
In Dymnnrl City Territory
Two lumber manufacturing con
cerns, operating four portable mills,
located in the old Dymond City area
of this county a few days ago, and
plans are just about complete for
cutting over the approximately 70,
000 acres of timberland there, ac
cording?to?iiifuiiiutiuii?leceived
here this week.
Unofficial reports received hera
yesterday indicate the operators are
planning to locate a planing mill
at Jamesville and ship the lumber
from there by rail and on large
trucks to Washington City.
Mr. Hodges Improving In
A Washington Hospital
Mr. F. K. Hodges, who fell and
fractured his hip the 8th of last Feb
ruary, anff who continues in a Wash
ingtun hospital, was reported much
improved this week. It is thought
he will be able to get about within
a week or two with the aid of
crutches.
SUPERIOR COURT
TERM IS CLOSED
HERE THURSDAY
Court Sets New Record In
Granting Six Divorces
During Short Term
The June term of Martin County
Superior Court was brought to a
( lose yesterday afternon, the tribu
nal establishing what is believed a
record in grinding out divorces and
imposing long sentences. Six di
vorces were granted, ail on the
grounds of two years of separation,
and the sentences in the aggregate
totaled 65 years and 4 months.
A lone civil case was handled by
the court, but it required the great
er part of two days to set aside a
deed in the case of James against
James. The plaintiffs, represented
by Attorneys Peel and Dunn, al
leged that the defendant, represent
ed by S. J. Everett, had exercised
undue influence in having their fath
er deed a certain farm* in the upper
part of the county to the first party.
After deliberating at length, the
jury favored the plaintiff and de
clared the deed void. No notice of
appeal to the higher court was not
ed in opei\ fcourt here, but it is un
derstood the defense has 10 days or
more to appeal from the judgment.
A divorce was granted in the case
of Keel vs Keel
Other proceedings not previously
reported:
A plea of nolo contendre was en
tered in the case charging Marion
Hodges with an assault on Heber
Cox at the Old Mill Inn on the
Washington road several months ago
Prayer for judgment was suspend
ed in the cage upon payment of the
'vost wheu it was learned that a
civil action between the prosecting
witness and the defendant had been
settled. It was unofficially learned
that Hodges paid Cox a cool thous
and dollars.
Joe Peel, jr., colored, drew 12
months^on the roads when he was
found guilty of larceny.
Raymond Wynn was sentenced to
the roads for 12 months for house
breaking and larceny.
Patters, were issued for tl\e arrest
of 11. Ml. Proctor, Greenville man,
when l|e failed to appear in court
and answer (o a charge of drunken
automobile driving.
Sylvester Webb Dies
At Bear Grass Home
Sylvester Webb, a native and life
long resident of Bear Grass Town
ship, died at his home there yester
day morning following an illness of
several weeks' duration. Heart
dropsy was given as the immediate v
cause of his death. Mr. Webb was
56 years old, and was recognized as
ct~tTard-workinK farmer." He enjoy -
ed few advantages in life, and al
though he experienced many hard
ships he valued his obligations and
laboretTTbng hours to meet them.
Mia. Webb died three ana one halt
years ago.
Besides one brother and four sis
ters, he is survived by five chil
dren, Mary B., Daisy Mae, Ola
Irene, Walter and Charlie L.
Webb, the oldest 17 and the young
est five years old.
Funeral services are being con
ducted this afternoon at 3 o'clock
at the home by Rev. J. M. Perry, of
"Robersonville. Interment will fol
low in the R G. Rogers burial
ground near the Webb homg.
Number Cases Tried
By Mayor Hassell
Mayor John L. Hassell had a num
ber of cases in his court this week
after a period of little activity dur
ing the nasi few weeks
Faced with 30-day jail sentences
or leave town, three colored women
charged with disorderly conduct
packed and left overnight, Fannie
Purvis going to the country, Ethel
Keed back to Washington, and Mary
Foreman to her old home in Vir
ginia.
?Ed?Wallnce?and?Willis?Smith,?
rharged with disorderly conduct,
were fined $2.50 each and taxed
with the cost.
William Hill, colored, charged
with vagrancy, was sentenced to the
roads for 30 days.
Henry Smith drew 30 days on the
roads "on a disorderly conduct
charge.
Joe Woolard, charged with seduc
tion, entered a plea of nolo conten
dre and the case was cleared from
the docket when he paid the coat
and married the girl.
James Jones, charged with carry
ing a concealed weapon; John Hen
ry Mills, charged with larceny; and
Abner Bennett, charged with for
cible trespass; were bound over to
the county court for trial.