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Your Old, Broken, Discarded Toys Will Help Bring Christmas To the Poor?Call 46 for a Messenger rib Watch the Label aa Tea Paper, aa It Canlaa the Date | Tear Sabeeripttea llpre THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 96 WiUiamston. Martin County. North Carolina. Tuesday, December 1. 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899 SOCIAL SECURITY ACT FORMS SLOW TO BE RETURNED All Employees Required To Return Cards To Post Office Saturday The first obstacles encountered In setting up the machinery for han dling the provisions of the Society Security Act were learned from em ployees in the local post office this week. These obstacles, or some jf them, are not considered of any i! eat consequence now. but it may mean that someone, when he reach? the age of 65 years, will experience difficulty in procuring any money under the old-age plan. Aside from the indifference on the part of both employers and em ployees in furnishing necessary in formation, the main problem is get ting the correct names and other data that are required in setting up accounts. The startling fact that one colored worker thought he had "never had a pappy" was unofficial ly reported, and if he had had one he did not know him. It is certain that the illegitimate crop is going to cause much confusion in setting up the accounts, but it is possible that the problem will be solved some how. Cases have been found where real names have been supplanted by others. One worker is said to call himself Tar Teck, which is all rigni,, probably, but how will the security act handle a case of that type with out some additional means of iden tification. But the task goes on, and all of the more than 1,100 forms, SS-5, are due to be returned to the post office for this district by Saturday of this week. Less than one-tenth of the forms delivered last week had been returned here today, it was learned. Many of those received were not complete, it was stated. Reports from one or two smaller post offices in the county state that the first forms requiring employers' identification had not been returned. It was said that employees should get busy and see that accounts are set up by the government for them. It is considered hardly possible to expect the government to run peo ple down to give them pensions. I Mrs. Janevie Griffin Died Early Sunday ? \ Mrs Janevie V. Griffin, 26 years old, died at the home of her broth er and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Ambrose, on East Church Street here at 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. Mrs. Griffin had been ill with tuberculosis for 17 months, spending most of that time in bed. The daughter of Mrs. Larcie Am brose Wynne and the late William Ambrose, Mrs. Griffin was born and reared near Roper in Washington County. When a young girl s he moved with her parents to Beaufort County, moving to Martin about 10 years ago. She was a member of the Christian church and had many friends out in the county and in sec tions of Washington and Beaufort Counties. Besides her mother she leaves three brothers, Eldridge Ambrose, Ellis and Henry Wynne, all of Wil liamston; and three sisters, Mrs. Edith Brabble, of Bear Grass, Mrs. Mary Savage, of Williamston; and Cottie Mae Wynne, of this county." Services were held at the old Waters home place, near Yeatesville in Beaufort County, yesterday' morning by Elder B. S. Co win, of the Primitive Baptist church.?Bur-, ial was near the old family home.1 - I Farmele School Remembers Needy During the Holiday The vocational department of the Parmele Training school again re-1 membered the needy during Thanks giving. The gifts this year were not only valuable and abundant, but were of a quality that gave increas ed assurance of the kind and quali ty of . work being done under the di rection of PrnfMM A. B. Wyn and his co-workers. Corn, turnips, sweet potatoes, col-, lards, meal, salt, sugar, carrots,' string beans, mclasses, rutabagas. tomatoes and peas were donated and distributed to a numb** of the : .eedy in the Parmele eeetioa. I **tt is needless u> say mat die re sponse and appreciation of the many persons thus reoeing the timely aid. was encouraging for future activi-. Uss of this nature," Wynn said Local Boy Scouts To Collect Toys, Clothing For Needy; First Canvass Friday Afternoon Efforts to calls of between 1M needy children la this i Ity at Christnu ward rapidly. Cheer drive to reach the pahhc Friday afternoon of this week between 3:3# and 5:3# o'clock, when local Boy Scoots will can vass the town for discarded toys. Family heads are earnestly act ed to have ready far the can vassers any old toys that son be used in creatine soose happiness for the leas fortanato of community. Prole Griffin will direct the with the cooperation of Princi pal L. W. year barefooted chil dren dashed into the snow when Christmas packages were deliv ered to their hernia Thane pack ages, not at all fancy, made Christmas a happy time for the needy families. If there is an eld toy or arti cle of clothing that ran he con veniently spared in year home, went yea kindly place It aside and have the offering ready for the Scoots when they call Fri day af terns an ef this week be tween J:M and 5:31 o'clock. MINTON CASE UN SUPERIOR COURT SLOWS UP WORK Reconvened Monday After | Two-Day Holiday for Thanksgiving Reconvening yesterday, after tak ing two days off tor Thanksgiving, the Martin County Superior Court struck a snag and up to noon today little had been accomplished toward clearing the docket for the act One divorce was granted. Sudie P. Woo lard, colored, gaining her free dom from Charles Woo lard on the grounds of two years of separation The old Minton case against the I Farm ville-Wood ward Lumber Com | pany was called immediately after the Woolard divorce case was cleared, and a long day was spent taking the evidence. Early reports from the courtroom today indicat ed that the case would last a great er part of today with the possibility time in reaching a decision. The case, reviewed by the State Supreme Court, originated when Minton took an option on some tim ber in Williams Township with the right to enter on a competitive basis the logging work for the Farmville Woodward Company. Apparently the price paid for the timber was considerably below the actual value, and the plaintiff is understood to be suing for the amount above the price paid and the amount the tim ber brought. Several attorneys are in the case and witnesses from as lar away as Suffolk have been called here in the case. When the case was brought into the superior court several months ago. Judge Moore non-suited the ac tion maintained by an interpleader filed by Frank Barber. After Bar- i ber was denied any further claim to the timber or any increased re muneration, the case was carried before the high court, which tribu nal upheld the non-suit as to Bar-1 ber but gave the lumber company a new trial. Since the case is taking so much more time than was allotted it. the court attendants were unable to say today what cases would neces sarily have to be continued for trial, at a later term. Peanut Prices Stronger: Large Sales Are Reportedl After standing at the 3 1-3 cent' mark much of the time since the| season opened a fe peanut prices are now showing add-1 ed strength, the local market a paying from 3 3-4 to 4 cents pound. During the past few days, the] crop has been moving umiaial rapidly, the Columbian company ti plant here buying in caress at 4,000 bags in one day during the past several days. Other buyer* are also reporting large purchase*. SNOW AGAIN Miss Susan Roberson Passes at Home in Cross Roads Sunday Suffered Stroke of Paralysis Early Friday; Final Rites Monday Ilia Susan Roberson. highly re spected citizen of Cross Roads Town ship, died there at the home of her t brother. Simon Roberson. Sundav , afternoon at S o'clock Miss Rob erson. 78 years old. was very active 'for her advanced age and enjoyed apparently good health up to last | Friday morning, when she suffered a stroke of paralysis She was start ling a fire in the kitchen stove that | morning when she was stricken, her 1 brother finding her unconscious on the floor a few minutes later. I The daughter of the late Amos | Roberson and wife. Miss Susan was 'mm in Cross Roads Township and lived there all her life She was a member of the Cross Roads church for more than half a century, con tinuing active in its program almost | o the time of her death. As a prac tical nurse she spent much of her life nursing the sick and doing for others. She was welcome at all I times in the homes of the people of her section, and a large friendship eras hers. Miss Roberson was a good woman, unassuming and unafraid in meeting the problems of life here and hereafter. She enjoyed work and found time and pleasure in do ing for others She never married, and her broth er, Mr. Simon Roberson. is the only near relatives surviving. Funeral services were conducted in the Cross Roads church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. J. M Perry, of Robersonville Burial eras in the family plot on the old home right farmers of Yancey County recently purchased a car of lime this fall Some of the soney to pay for the cut and sold cross Preparations Being Made To String Christmas Lights Here The task at ston's Christmas lights throughout the business district is schedule get underway at once. Several I dred additional lights aril] be | on the streets this year there were over 1 JOB vari colored lights Street from Watts to on Washington from Main road Straat ?Sorts wiU be Lights on the latter part of this week the early part of next, thoae in ?ft of the work stating that they could not tell definitely when ha ready far w, in the courthouse have not they will compete in 39 LICENSES TO MARRY ISSUED IN NOVEMBER Number Is Largest Issued In Single Month So Far This Year The largest marriage license issu ance of the year and the largest for the month of November in three years was reported for the past month by Register of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger. Thirty-nine licenses were issue, 21 to white and 18 to colored couples during the month just end ed, as follows: Shelton Jones Lattimore and Mar garet Burton Ross, both of Rober sonville. Ira Everett Barber and Daisy Le una Page, both of Martin County. Floyd Ycomans, of Harkers Island and Marguerite Pipkm Ball, of More head City. v--""" Spivev ..mi Esther Elizabeth Harrison, both of William ston. Edmond Alton Harrison, of Plym outh. and Mary Kathryn Shute, of Williamston. W Hubeit Cobum and Velma Marine Harrison, both of William ston. Johnnie Andrews, of Parmele, and Julia Bland, of Robersonville. 11. S. Johnson, of Hamilton, and iima Faye House, of Robersonville Wm E. Manning and Lillian P. Holliday, of Martin County. Roland C. Griffin and Minnie Kathlyn Griffin, of Martin County. Woodrow Wells and Dorothy Cal loway. of Martin County. James Eason Revels and Zora Brown Lilley, of Martin County. W. Herbert Lilley. of Jamesville. and Annie Lamb, of Williamston. David G. Modlin and Nettie Fer rell Meador, both of Williamston. Willie Burt Dickerson and Zula Mae Bonds, of Martin County. M 11 Wells, of Greenville, and Minnie Ellen Norville. of Falkland. Johnnie Sampson Hodges and Evey I. Manning, of Martin County. Henry K. Griffin, of Washington, ?nd Lillian Pearl Daniel, of Griffins. F. C. Williams and Cora Frances Wells, both of Martin County. Robert Shernll Gurganus and Marjone Taylor, of Martin County. Joseph Sidney Mallory and Bes sie Cordell Daniel, of Martin County Cslored Roddick Lynch and Ethel Collins, both of Oak City. Andrew Jackson Wiggins and Be ?trice Latham, of Martin County. Thursday Lynch and Willie Mae Bryant, both of Martin County. Ralph Foskey and Bettie Small, af Martin Levi Faison, of ML Olive, and Sel ma of Williamston. Clifton Peel and Viola James, both if Martin County. Eddie Little and Sarah V. John con, both of Washington. Joe Nathan Phelps and Ida Faulk,! "I both of Martin County. Jeffrey Spruill and Emma Clagon, jf Robersonville Calvin Stade and Mary Jana Pow ell Moore, of Martin County. Arthur Pettiford and Pearl Hol lay, both of Plymouth. . [ Elijah Manning and Mtg*? Dawes, both of Williamston. Johnnie Cooke and Mae Delia Knight, both of Oak City. Robert Ormond and Ella Mae Mc Intyre, both of Williamston. Grady Lee Gilliam and Maggie Ddell Bond, both of Bertie County. Pender Lock and Cherry Martin, if Martin County. Hack Wiggins and Nancy Morgan, both of Martin County. JOHN EARL HLNES DIED SATURDAY! HAMILTON HOME Funeral Services Conducted At Late Home Sunday Afternoon John Earle Hines. native of Wayne County, died at his home in Hamilton last Saturday morning at 7 o'clock following a long period of I declining health. A stroke of paral-l vsis was given as the immediate cause of his death. Mr. Hines was employed hy Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Com pany for a number of years and was a conductor on one of its trains for some time. In 19H he moved to this county and had charge of road construction activities for the vari ous road commissions One of the main projects handled by him. and one that was not changed by the State highway forces when they took over the roads, was the rutting down of the old river hill on Wil liamston's East Main Street and placing top soil and gravel there. For a number of years he has made his home in Hamilton, continuing road construction work until failing health forced his retirement. Mr Hines was a member of the Methodist church and was a Mason He married Miss Matlie Williams, of Pitt County, and she survives with four children. G. E. Hines, ol this county; Mrs. B. & Taylor, ol Hamilton; Mrs. N. D. Stokes, ol Greenville; Miss Evelyn Hines, ol Hamilton; and one brother. F. G. Hines, of Mount Olive. Funeral services were conducted at the late home Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. R. N. Fitts, Methodist minister of Rnbcrsonville, assisted by Rev. E C Shoe. Baptist minister, also of Robersonville. and Rev E. F. Moseley. Episcopal min ister, of Williamston. Interment was in the Hamilton cemtery, members of the Stonewall Masonic Lodge, ol Robersonville. conducting iK> l?.i rites at the grave Mrs. Guy Raw Is, 34, Dies in Washington! Mrs. Guy Raw Is, 34 years old. die? in a Washington hospital Sunda; morning at 4 45 o'clock from kidne; rouble with which she had suffered only a short time. Suffering an at ack, Mrs Rawls was entered las Thursday evening, and her conditi i was not considered serious until Sa urday. Mrs. Rawls was the daughter o I Mrs. Edith Whichard and the lai I Dave B. Whichard She marnei dr. Rawls 19 years ago and he witi ive children survives. Their name are Lloyd, Guy, jr., Mildred, tielei and John Cotien Rawls. During tin past four years the family made it home near Roberson's Chapel, wher. .hey enjoyed a large friendship Mrs. Rawls was a member of th? Presbyterian church, and was activi in its work in that community. Shi .?lso interested herself in commun ity activities, and was a thoughtfu wife and a good mother. Funeral services were conducte* yesterday afternoon in the chape of the Presbyterian church by Rev L. T. Piephoff. Interment was u .he new burial plot in the churcl yard. Jamesville School Will Stage Carnival Thursday The Jamesville achool will give a arnival Thursday night. December 3, at 7 30 o'clock Elaborate prep ration are being made for midway nd grandstand attractions.?A very small admission charge will be made Everyone is urged by Die apbhabrs to come and enjoy the fun. Watson Says Holliday Murder Premeditated ONLY 20 MORE DAYS ! ^ -* Just three more Saturdays be tween now and Christmas, the I# remaining shopping days lor handling the holidays lash mak ing immediate action necesary. Store decorations for the holi day season are going up rapid ly. and a preliminary saney shows more Christmas goods on counters and in shelves of local stores than ever before. H illiamston merchants are making every effort to serve ef ficiently and adequately the needs of all the people in this great territory. They have bought heavily, and although the economic trend is decidedly advancing, prices will he found in line with those anywhere. Do your Christmas shopping in Uilliamston; for in so doing you aid others as well as your arlf. Griilins Township Farmers To Have Meet Friday Night Present-Day Fanning Sit uation and Outlook To Be Topic at Meet Farmers of Griffins Township will meet in the Farm Life school Friday evening of this week at 7 o' clock, it was announced this morn ing by M L. Barnes, assistant Mar tin County farm agent. The meeting topic will center a round the farm situation as it exists tmia.v. ami famieis will be given a?: opportunity to express themselves as to what type of program they would like to have in the future. County farm leaders and possibly others will address the meeting After enjoying a fair parity along with other industry, agriculture is now losing its hold again and the cliange is being made rapidly. In dustrial prices are advancing, in Justrial workers are receiving in reased wages, while agriculture is' depending u|>on an uncertain piro-i gram for the future Pitt County m, arisen to the occasion by throw-1 mg its support behind a farm or .animation that can, if there is sup port to be had in Other counties, plead the cause of agriculture Whether Griffins Township farmers will pledge their support at the meeting Friday evening of this week is to be seen They have always come across in the past, and a suc cessful drive there may be a turn ing point in rallying all Martin farmers behind a definite movement in behalf of agriculture All farmers of the district are m vited to attend the meeting. White School Children Get Two-Week Holiday White school children in this county will enjoy one of the longest Christmas holidays in years, the of fice of the county superintendent of schools announcing today that the plants would close on Friday, De cember 18, and reopen oh January 4 In the new year. Colored schools, starting a week late in the fall, will be closed for one week only, De cember 22 to 30. Before the holidays go into effect. jected to mid-term examination, it was learned. The examinations will be held week after next. Auto License Tags To Go On Sale at Local Bureau on 15th The I9S7 State automobile license tags will go on tale at the Carolina' Motor Club bureau in the offices of! the Wiiliamston Motor Company the 15th of this month, reports stating j that no extension of time will be granted auto owners In 1937 for pur-| chasing the plates. In fact, unoffic ial reports maintain that the patrol. has been instructed to arrest own-' era who operate their cars with 1936 tags on the Aral day uf the new. year even if the owners are on their, way to get the new plates. It will be lawful to display the ISHrof Ibis iwmlh. Tag pnrea wttl be about the same as they were 1&>1 year when they were slightly duced from those of the yrer before. More than 6,000 of Uie IM have been sold by the local bureau, but sales now are few and far be tween, the car buyers remaining off the market until time arrives for purchasing new tags. The b here is one of the few in the remaining open all the year. . mobile owners in several cot patronise the local bureau, which maintains a large and Admissions Made in (Quizzing Sunday of Damaging Nature r c Still Claims Bullock Was Accomplice in Robbery And Murder Bombarded with questions from morning until well into the night Sunday. A W Watson, young Georgia white man. charged along with Willis Bullock, of this county, with the brutal murder of Thomas Holliday. 24. in Robersonville early on the morning of November 22. broke down and told in detail how lie and Bullock had planned rob bery several days before, agreeing to kill the hold-up victim and de stroy evidence While, in his confession made be b-rc officers in the county jail Wat sim sull maintained that Bullock was his accomplice, the latest story told added to the seriousness ol Watson's case, if such a Uung is pos sible The young Georgia boy now admits that they had planned to rob and kill the filling station attend ant. that he talked to Holliday while Bullock slipped from the dark and hit the station operator over the head with a tire tool. Watson ad mits that he dragged the helpleas man from in front of the station to the side, where he looked on while Bullock dealt the death blows. After robbing the station, Wataon claims he took Bullock in his car, stolen in Athens, Ga. about a month before, and drove to the high-school building, turned to the left and fol lowed the railroad down to a street running parallel with Main, where Uk'v turned aeaip and continued to? the "warehouse district, where Bul lock got out Watson then went to his rooming house, where he went to bed. With a picture of the dead man before his eyes. Watson broke down and cried like a baby, huge tears rolling down his cheeks and -plashing as they fell to the cement | fiooi He stood up and, with his ? ighl hand in the air. Watson, jtharged with robbery in Georgia just a few weeks ago. mumbled I what he described was a complete story of the crime. Bullock, still maintaining his in nocence. appeared very nervous when he was carried .before Wat son The story told by Bullock a bout some one borrow ing his shoes the morning of the murder he ap parently considered incredible, and he explained to officers that he had changed his mind and now was cer lain that his clothing had not been touched by other persons on the morning of November 22. His lips quivering and his hands shaking. Bullock denied the accusations di rected at htm by the crying Watson. "1 have nothing to gain by accus ing you." Watson told Bullock, "but you know you were with me, and If you deny it now you will talk when you draw the first breath of gas in the death chamber," he added. Findings of a fingerprint expert have not been made public, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington. D. C , has not forward ed a report on its activity in exam wg blood found on Bullock's shoe and comparing it with that found on Holliday's shirt. A preliminary hearing in the caee is not being considered, officers and members of the private prosecution still centering 'heir ?knrt. nm ?ka task of gathering all evidence pos sible for presentation to the Martin County jury the 14th of this month. Two Men Fined $S ior Assault Last Saturday J S. Livingood and RuotU Jones ?w *5 each and taxed with tha mats by Justice J. L Hassell in his court here tan Saturday morning for simple assault The defendants were found guilty of assaulting Junmir Watts, young white boy, who eras alleged to have been polled into Roar's store by the defendant Livingood and slapped by Jones. The youth eras with a group of local high-school boys night advertising the foot ton the follow day. It wi out m the trial that the boy
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