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ESS THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XL?NUMBER 24 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 23, 1937 ESTABLISHED 1899 9 PLAYERS SIGN ED BY IIAUGKR FOR BALL CLUB HERE St. Louis Browns Sending A Man; Several Old Players Also Signed Scouting the by-ways and hedges) of eight states. Ait Hauger. the Mar baseball skipper, has al ? players, and coo-1 tracts bow pending with four others | will be closed shortly or in I the aggregation to reach here for spring training about the middle of | nest month. Club President R H I ?? today Oth in daily, and Pilot 1 dirt inns, but in ? ceneil yesterday he stated he was i building a hustling team of proems-1 Three pitchers with splendid rec ords have been signed, and contracts with four others are awaiting con firmation Two outfielders, three inftf triers and a catcher are included in Skipper Hanger's spring training line-up. Ace Villiptgue. of Topcka. Kans. and Stan Hodges, of CampbeUsport, Wis-, outfielders, were described by Hauger as nice ball players with a batting average of over 500 last sea son. their first round in organized hall They are tug fellows and fast" Hauger added Artie Dunn, at Sioux City, Iowa, was ranked as a real ball player, with a batting average of over J last year, his first experience in i organized camp Just out of school and a freshman this season in organized ball. Bud Stradel. of lona. Minn. was lefel red to as a 10-second man on the in field. Steve lakntas. of Detroit, Mich, starts training work at the second station and makes his debut in gamzed K?n Bill Dick, of Throop. Pa, is book ed as a candidate for the receiving job, Hauger stating that he is a lad of only 10 years, fimw nc j a dandy throwing arm and is going to make a great ball player Raymond Stmnk. of Norwood. Mo, won 10 and lost 7 games pitch ing for Hauger at Beotooville, Ark, sign me nl in organ i led ball He is dumbed as a big fellow. Jim Rollins, of Gassville. Ark, an other pitcher signed by Hauger. has a winning percentage of over .750. Jep Grant, of Dover, Ark, will bid for a place on the mound as a beginner, "hut he has a great fu ture." Hauger pointed out. While Hauger is scouring a big corner of the U. 5. for players, offic ials of the St. Louis Browns, "paps" of the llartms. are signing players for use here. Signing Otto Engle skind a few days ago. G. E. GUli land. vice president of the Biuwua, wrote President R H Goodman follows: ? played with the Ci ville club in the Arkansas-Mime J?Cne last year aid Hauger i, ql familiar with his ability. This I was declared a free agent and ca to us asking for the opportunity r. whom he o Blaze Trail Through Here 'Alter Violator Federal Law violator of the Federal lan. U. S. Government agents are aid to have hurriedly a trail lliima.li the t Friday night at lia Flew details of the could be learned, but the agen ?aid to have picked at* trail in Rocky City alter a 110-mile Colored Man Arrested for Alleged Theft Bag of Corn Calendar and Weather Get Together To Usher in Spring The calendar makers and the weather joined hands to usher in Miss Springtime under ideal condi tions here last Saturday evening at ?.-45 o'clock. Surety, the exit of Ole Man Winter and the debut of Miss Spring could not be detected to the minute, but the change was in the air in a big way Sunday, when the birds started chirping and the autoists started joy-riding in big numbers. The weather man was not so kind to some section! as he was to Mar tin County, reports indicating that winter tightened its grip in the north and west by snowing spring under with a white blanket and low tem Sap in the trees, coaxed from its lethargy last January, when spring time weather battled successfully for high temperatures, was found at a low point when the official change in the seasons was announced. In fact, the trees are sleeping later this spring than usual after being fooled into "putting out" just to be caught with their sap up by freezing wea ther and snows in February and March. Warm weather is expected to get a renewed response, but it is feared that the response by fruit trees and tender bushes will be quite weak. Towns To Get Share of County Liquor Profits POULTRY CAR -< Martin Caaaty timen cnUnljr dipped UJSJS p at paaltry to the by the affice at the ed la II^N tJ. JamesvUIe I ed S#7 panada and received 1UI At WUliaautoa the tana era received S7M.5S fee S.M ?77 panada far MMJ) aad Oak City 1.1S4 panada far SIMM. MRS. ROCERSON PASSES AT BEAR GRASS SATURDAY Last Rites Held Sunday at 3 O'clock at the Home Of Her Daughter Mr*. Mary Ann Rogerson. highly respected and greatly beloved wo man of Bear Grass Township, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Amos Perry, there last Saturdayj afternoon at 4 o'clock following a long period of declining health. She was S3 years old last October and a life-long resident of Bear Grass Township. In early womanhood she was mar ried to William Lassiter, who died about 43 years ago. Five children were born to the union, Mrs- Amos Perry and Mrs. Ben Bowen. both of Bear Grass, surviving. She later married Bisco Rogerson, who died a number of years ago. One broth er. Mr. I survives. Mr. Daney Taylor, of Everetts.' Mrs. Rogerson was a member of the Primitive Baptist church at Bear Grass for 35 years or more, and was devotad to its services. She was a good woman and her gentle and understanding ways gained for ber an extensive friendship both old and young, and sh the lasting respect of everyone knew her, regardless of their t tion in life. / Attended by one of the largest as semblages of friends and relatives ever to gather in this section and pay a last tribute to one's memory, the funeral aei vices were conducted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. In terment was in the old family burial ground on the Peel farm in Bear Grass Township. Elders B S. Cow in and A. B. Ayers, of the Bear Grass church, and Rev. J. M. Perry, of Robersonville, officiated. Holy Week Services At The Church ol the Advent There will be four services dur ig this week at the Church of the Advent. On Wednesday evening at 7J0 o'clock there will be evening prayer and a sermon on the subject. "Why Was Jesus Crucified?** Thurs day night at 7:30 there will be Use Maundy Thursday Communion. On Good Friday there will be two serv ices, at 10 JO a. m. there will be the Litany and ante-Communion; at 7 JO pi m. there will be a cantata on the seven last Bear Grass Seniors To Give I Annual Play On Thursday The Bear Grass senior resent its annual play. "Aaron Slick From Pumpkin Creek," in the litnrium there Thursday evening g o'clock. Principal T. O. Hick today. The play is la three-act comedy and has the arm be i Measure Presented By Senator Coburn Is Passed This Week Compromise Effected And Rate of Profit Sharing Reduced to 20 Percent Introduced in the senate last Fri day. a bill was passed in the State Legislature this week providing a division of liquor profits between | the county and the four towns | where stores are located. Similar | n.tt? have been introduced and passed affecting liquor profits in a boul 25 counties, the distribution to the towns ranging from 25 to 50 per cent of the net profits earned by the individual store. Each town where la Store is located shares, under the new law, to the extent of one-third of the net profits earned through the sale of legal liquor in that particular i town. The main support to the bill pro ! viding for a distribution of the prof its was the increased cost of law en forcement by a number of towns, it a as pointed out by Senator R. L. Coburn. who introduced the meas ure in the Senate last week. Rep resentative H. G. Horton piloted the bill through the house. Net profits from the sale of liquor in the four stores of this county i?a year amounted to $25,489.80 Had the law directing a division of the profits been in effect during that period, the four towns would have received $8,496.60. divided as fol lows Williamston. $1,16576; Rob ersonvilli-. $1,654 02; Oak City, Uncertainty sui rounds the trend of liquor sales and piofits in this county at the present time, and the towns will find it difficult to consid er with any degree of accuracy the .mount that may bo expected from liquor profits when making up their annual budgets. I The Slate has stepped in and, in stead of sharing to the extent of 3 per cent on groas sales, it will col lect 7 per cent on gross sales, or an amount equal to about 20 or 25 per cent of the net profits. The 3 per cent sales tax collected since the 'opening of the stores , in 1935 was I included in the purchase price, but whether the State Liquor Commis sion. when it starts functioning, will lower liquor prices and take, the 7 per cent at the expense of profits or raise prices and include the en tire 7 per cent in the purchase price. ,,??..111. to be seen. Hiere is some guessing both ways. Dry counties now surrounding Martin may go wet and naturally sales will decrease?a decrease in profits following closely. Several counties have called for liquor elec tron, but neither Bertie nor Wash ington has made arrangements to cany the issue to the people. An amendment was tacked on to Ibe bill when it went to the House, kavu* the distribution of profits entirely to the discretion of the county commissioners. This action was reconsidered at noon today, and the bill, on its final passage, provid ed a distribution of 20 percent of the t profits instead of ? 1-3 percent si [imposed for the four towns here stores are located. | Opetnngs for Ten Young Men In the CCC Ranks Ikn are 10 openings in the Ci vilian Conservation Corps ranks to be Oiled by lfartin County youths aa April T, Miss Mary Taylor, wi fare head, stated this morning There an opening for 8 white and md applications immediately by office, William ston. MARCH TERM OF COURT BROUGHT TO ABRUPT END Leavister's $50,000 Suit Is Again Continued, Set For Trial April 19 The second week of the March term of Martin County Superior Court was abruptly brought to a close at 11 o'clock today, 30 min utes after Judge Paul Frizzelle re convened the tribunal following a long week-end holiday. The court I machinery was set in motion at 10:30 o'clock, the jury was in its box, and the defense was ready for action in the Andrews and Leavister $65,000 damage suit against J. Lloyd Corey, when a wire was received from Plaintiff Attorney MacMillan. advis ing that Attorney Clyde Douglass's wife was critically ill and they would be unable to appear in the case this week Judge Frizzelle accepted the ex cuse and the case was thrown back into the clerk of court's files, where it has aged and mellowed these many months, or since early in 1935 Exacting arrangements were made before the court quit its work to have the case preeminently set for trial on April 19, or on the first day of the second week of the two-week term. The continuance this week adds another chapter in the ups and downs of the case since it was first tried in March, 1935, and the verdict was set aside. The case drifted a long, and when it was scheduled again for trial about a year ago, a continuance was granted the plain tiffs on account of the illness and death of Attorney Douglass's sister. Anothbr drifting period followed until last September, when the case was again set for trial. Judge Grady, after working on the case for several years, on his own motion continued the case. Following the fourth continuance this week, the rase was set for certain trial next month. Other rases were on the calendar for trial, but several attorneys ap pearing in them as counsel were in the legislature and Judge Frizzelle, court officers, court stenographer and most of the lawyers could see nd reason why the court should not close its doors and quit for the term. Bear Grass Sixth Month Honor Roll The Bear Grass School honor roll for the sixth month, recently ended, includes the following names: First grade: Evelyn Harrison. Christine Harris, Mary Elizabeth Whitley, William Bryant Rogerson, Mattia Faye Rmwn Mary Virginia Hodges and Iva Lane Roberson. Second gra^e: Peggy Jones, Louise Taylor, Susie Gray Tolar, Betty Ray Leggett, Eugene Rogers, Dillon Harris, Ralph Ross Bullock, Joseph M. Terry. Alice Ward Cherry, Edna Earl Harrison, Magolene Bowen. Third grade: Atung Bullock, Dil lon CherTy, E. D. Harrison, Reginald Peel, Kathleen Bennett, Mandy Bul lock. Anna Lou Leggett, Mildred Norris. Fourth grade: Baby Gray Cherry, Brownie Roberson, Lorraine Roger son. John A. Harrison. Sixth grade: Laura Leggett, Sybil Harrison, Vernon Roebuck, Hay arood Mobley, Herbert Hyman, Luke Mizelle. Wade Mobley, Jack Rober son and Gilliam Rogers. Sizth grade: Laura Leggett, Sybil Peel. Olivia Rogerson, Ruth Evelyn Terry and Rufus Gurganus. Seventh grade: Nina Lee Britton, Mary Lou Hodges, Hattie Griffin Ward, Rebecca Roberson and Elbert Harris. Eighth grade: Rachel Ayers, Car rie Dell Terry, Ethel Bennett, Ron ald White. Ninth grade: Edna Earl Harrison, Annie Mae Bailey, Velma Bailey, Evelyn Hodges, Amanda Wynne, Al ta Britton and Louise Wynne. Tenth grade: Mildred Ward, Ruby Wynne. Effie Davis Britton. Eleventh grade: Elizabeth Bailey, Bessie Mae Terry, Leon Rogers. Contract for New Furniture Store Here Now Pending Bids for the construction of a new furniture store here for the Van jDyke Furniture Company were re ceived yesterday. Contracts are be ing neiil in abeyance until day after tomorrow, it was learned. Local Florist Preparing For Large Easter Business Mrs. Kate B. York, local florist, is receiving one of the largest assort ments at Easter flowers ever shipped Si J - m 1 rl 1 i ft aL A MM today, adding mat sne is better prepared than ever to han dle large numbers at orders to the of bar patrons. Renewed Activity Seen on Peanut Market This Week Peanuts started moving on the lo cal market this week as prices ad vanced a few points and as the buy ing activities showed added strength following a period of almost unre-' stricted indifference. Superior grades advanced fcom 4 1-2 to 4 3-4, the range for good stocks falling be tween 4 and 4 3-4 cents a pound. Storm-damaged goobers are al most without friends, buyers refus ing to execute contracts until thor ough inspections have been made in every case, and then the price traits! the quotations on those nuts picked and stored before the rains started falling several months ago. Judging from activities reported on the local market yesterday and today, the crop will have moved out of the farmers' hands in its entire ty within two or three weeks, with the exception of a few cases where the growers are holding their offer ings off the market for a 5-cent price 985 Soil Conservation Checks Are Received Being Delivered To Participants in Soil Program This Week D Amount Received To Date Is About One-half The Amount Expected Soil conservation, or, as many farmers commonly refer to them, "soul conserving." checks are being delivered rapidly and in large num bers to those participating in the program in this county. Miss Mary Carstarphen, secretary in County Agent Brandon's office, stated. Following the receipt and almost instant distribution last Saturday of 415 checks amounting to $31,683.10, the agent s office has already re ceived 570 additional checks amount ing to $41,075.21. _ Owners of the checks are being notified direct by the agents office today to call for the checks, and dis tribution will be underway on a large scale tomorrow. Those farmers participating in the program who have not yet received direct notice ore urged to await directions before calling for their checks. The 985 checks received today, representing a total of $72,758.31, cover 501 farm contracts and are about one-half the number due the farmers in this county. Just when the remaining checks will reach here, authorities in the agent's office ore unable to say, but they are just as anxious to receive and distribute them as the farmers are to get them. Quite a few farmers are learning now that they made a mistake by not signing work sheets a year ago A few have asked the opportunity to sign now for what has already passed, but they are too late and they will not receive one penny of the meet the program requirements, but nearly everyone of those included in the 81 per cent of signers is re ceiving benefits much larger than they anticipated. The season for signing work sheets for the year 1937 is now open, and quite a few farmers failing to par ticipate in the program last year are making certain their participation this coming season. Those farmers who signed work sheets a year ago do not have to sign again this year Comments coming from farmers after receiving their checks have been very favorable to the conser vat ion program. One farmer state that he had enjoyed greater bene fits under the new program than he received under the AAA control system. The distribution of the checks to tenant and landlord sep aralely is cause of great rejoicing for the tenant. Briefly stated Mar tin farmers are beginning to place a stamp of hearty approval on the con servation program. ? . ? Unofficial reports state that most of those receiving checks are ex changing them for cash and making ready for another farming season on a cash basis. Six Boys Arrested, Ages From 10 to 18 Crime activities in this commun ity last week-end reached into the cradle jail records showing 6 ar rets eolored boys ranging "?<*?? from 10 to 18 years. Nine arrests were made by local officers, six of, the defendants being jailed pn : drunk and disorderly counts. William James Crandall, 10 years old was booked for alleged larceny. Charlie Razor, 15, Frank Simmons, 13 Daniel Williams, 15, Thomas Ryan, 17, and Stark Razor, were arrested for being drunk and dis orderly. Dock Perkins was placed in jail for being plain drunk. Jul ius Latham, charged with an affray, literally fought his way into the hooeegow, and Sam Williams was picked up foe aDaged poeeeeeioti. NO HOLIDAY I Pushed for time, none of the schools In this county will ob serve Easter Monday as a holi day, according to official in formation from the office of the county superintendent this week. Several schools were consid ering observing the day as a holiday, a custom that has been followed for many years by the educational people, but the thoughts of spring and farming by the patrons ruled against a day of rest. Several schools are already considerably behind in their schedules as a result of un favorable weather and condition of roads during January and February. ASSEMBLY ENDS 'LOUSY' SESSION AT NOON TODAY Work of Assembly Proves Disappointing To Most People "Back Home" " North Carolina's State Legislature is quitting Raleigh today after com pleting the 76th daily session shortly after the noon hour. A mad rush to get legislation of a local nature pass ed marked the activities of both houses during the past few days. Some of the legislators, returning home this evening following nearly three long months spent at law-inak ing, are disappointed in the activi ties of the session that has been de scribed as u progressive one. And many of the people hack home are disappointed, too. They feel as if they have not fared equally in the distribution of favuis and lilt' sild dling of tax burdens by the domi neering hands that have directed the activities in the legislative halls these past three months that will affect their destiny and the destiny of their State during the coming two years. Probably the high spot in the activities of the past few days was the passing by the Senate against its determined will a resolution en dorsing President Roosevelt's court reform proposal. Jpenator R. L. Coburig home for the week-end and who was one of the main supporters of the resolution favoring the court plan, had some interesting remarks to offer on the Senate action last week. "The boys did everything they could to have the resolution buried in the calendar committee, and since that method of procedure failed their cause, they let the resolution pass before having thqir votes rc corded^against it. The most regrettable thing about the entire session, according to At torney J. C. Smith, of Robersonville, was the passage of an act compen sating state employees for the low salaries received by them several years ago. "They did not make any provision to pay the farmer a bonus to recuperate his losses suffered in the sale of 90-cent peanuts and six cent cotton and so on. The Legisla ture had made and baked a nice pie up until that time, but then turned around and stuck its foot in it," the Robersonville attorney said in com menting on the work of the Gen eral Assembly. P.-T. A. Sponsoring Show At Jamesville Friday Night Sponsored by the Jamesville Parent-Teacher Association, the "Lazy Moon Minstrels" will be pre sented in thrf' school auditorium there Friday evening of this week at 8 o'clock, Principal Jim Uzzle an nounced this morning. A male quar tet and clog dancing will be added features, the school man said. A small admission will be asked that funds may be raised for use In the school. BARNHILL, EVANS AND MOYE NEW TOBACCO FIRM Will Operate New Farmers Warehouse Here This Coming Season H. Leman BarnhiU, Holt Evans and Joe Moye will operate the New Farmers Warehouse here this com ing season, it was officially announc ed today following the forming of ? partnership contract by the three well-known tobacconists just a day or two ago. - "" Messrs. BarnhiU, Evans and Moye are widely known throughout the eastern tobacco belt, aU three of them having been in the tobacco business for a number of years. Mr. BarnhiU was in partnership with [Mr. W. R. Ingram for a number of were partners in the operation of a house in Robersonville for several seasons. Last year Mr. Evans was a partner in the operation of the Planters House here, and he, like his newly acquired partners ,is weU liked throughout the section. Plans for the operation of the market here this coming season are virtually complete, and the Planters operators are expected to announce Their partnership momentarily. Messrs. S. C. Griffin and Jimmie Taylor, two hustling tobacconists, will be at the Roanoke-Dixie again, and present indications point to a strung market here this fall. (. Two County Home Inmates Die Sunday Death struck twice at the Martin County Rome last Sunday, Mrs. Ad dle Davenport dying that morning at TO o'clock, the death of Lewis I Powell following six hours later. Mrs. Davenport, 60 years old, was a native of Pitt County, but she had lived in this county for a number of years, spending the greater part of the last three in the home. She had been in declining health for some time before she entered the home. The daughter of the late Jim and Mary Bullock, she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Annie Ayers, of Edgecombe County. Mr. Powell, a resident at the home for two years, was a native of Rob ersonville Township. He was 60 years old and death followed a stroke of paralysis suffered on Tuea day of last week. Three brothers, Joe, John and Elic Powell, all of I Robersonville Township, survive. I He also leaves three children, a daughter, of Washington City; a son, of near Parmele; and a second son, whose address is not known. Funeral .services were conducted Monday afternoon. 1 Home Economist To Be In the County This Week Mrs. Helen B. Zoller, home eco nomist prominent in the nutrition field, will be in the county Wednes day and Thursday of this wcttk. Meetings have been scheduled through the coo|>eration of Mrs. Hill, home economics teacher in the Jamesville school, and Miss Josephine Urant. home economics teacher in the Williamston school, In the department laboratories. Mrs. Zoller will give demonstra tions in food conservation Wednes day at 1:30 at Jamesville, and at the same hour in Williamston the following day. The meetings have been arranged to assist home eco nomics girls, 4-11 club representa tives and club women in their can ning problems. Bill Passed Today Lowers Power Cost The towns of Ilobgood, Oak City land Hamilton received a favorable break" in the State Legislature this morning when Senator R. L. Coburn and Representative Leggett sponsored the passage of a bill limit ing the profits to 10 percent on the re-sale of electrical energy by the town of Scotland Neck to them. "The bill will reduce the cost of cur rent to the three towns by about one-half the present charge," Sena tor Coburn explained. The three towns own their dis tribution UnM Into Scotland' Keck, and are under contract to buy elec trical energy from no other source, it was pointed out. Chevrolet Buys Large Amount of Tire Tubing The tubing bought in a year by Chevrolet if laid out in one piece would extend more than 1X900 miles?halfway around the earth at the equator.
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