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aa *? THE ENTERPRISE Advertiser* Will ru Oir Col umns a Latchkey to or er Ijttt Hemes of Martin CMUtf. VOLUME XL?NUMBER 94 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. November 23. 1937. ESTABLISHED 1899 Few Cases Tried In Superior Court During First Day ** ? Divorce Granted and Agree ment Is Reached in Second Case ? Convening here yesterday. ? special term of Martin County Su perior court made little psugieas that day in clearing cases from its crowd ed civil docket, but reports from the courthouse this morning indicated that the court machinery is turning rapidly and that the number of ac tions would be greatly reduced by Judge W H S. Burgwyn before the court quits the latter part of next Starting the $4,500 damage of John D. Overton against W. R. L Purvis yesterday morning, the court was in line for a two-day trial, but an agreement was reached whereby the plaintiff was to recover $1,300 The complaint alleged that the de fendant cut a large amount of tim ber from certain lands, causing dssnagr in the sum of $4?00. alleg edly The only other case cleared from the docket Monday was a divorce ?the court favonng Dare a Price in her action againsi Henry Price. Thr action wa an two years of separation. Tomorrow the court will recess for the Thanksgiving holidays and will reconvene next Monday when the ?an Deusen $13,000 damage suit a slated for trial On Wednesday of next week the $40,000 damage suits of Stone and Lmnmons against Skin ner are scheduled to be heard, these cases having been set by agreement for trial at that time. The court is attracting fair-sued crowds, but the proceedings are proving of very little interest to the general public Judge Burgwyn. suffering an in fected tooth yesterday, visited a doc tor late in the day and is said to be feeling much better this morning Red Cross Drive Progresses Slowly 4 Incomplete reports released today | by Chairman H A. Biggs indicate that the annual Red Cross Member, ship Roll Call in the Martin county ] chapter is not meeting with the re sponse the organisation heads had hoped for. Very few reports have been received from the canvassers, and there is some doubt if the ap peal is being directed at all in some communities The three canvassers reporting to* Chairman Biggs have turned in $37.73 to date, this imraint having been collected in Williams low Only two more days remain for handling the membership canvass, and the chapter officials are urging a icircled interest in the campaign. No action has been taken, but it M likely that an extension for complet ing the roll call will be asked for is some communities Memberships not previously a Mrs L B. Harrison. John Henry Edwards. Dr. W. C. Mercer. Mrs W. G. Peel. Mrs J. W. Anderson. Lewis T Williams. H. A. BsrnhiU. John E Pope. C B Clark (Ha ugh ton street), H. L Swain. Ernest L. Ethcridge Jan. C. Manning. Mrs B. A Critch er. Mrs J. D. Thrower. Mrs G T Roberson. Miss Hattie Thrower, Mrs J. A Leggett. Miss Ahna Bryant, Miss Trulah Ward Page. Other con .$75. V Martia Citizens In Court For Game Law Violations Several Martin County people, al the game laws have been cam mto the courts of Bertie in recent | County Sheriff Enters Hospital For Treatment; B. Roebuck, Martin Coun W?i Church Services to Feature Thanksgiving Day Program With no sports events scheduled, religious activities in several of the churches will feature Thanksgiving Day observance in Williamston i Thursday- Turning from the old cus tom of holding a union service, ra ng worship at 10 and 11 o'clock in the Baptist. Episcopal. Pentecostal Holiness and Christian churches. There will be no programs in the other churches of the town, but the people of the town and community are cordially invited to be present upon any of the services scheduled. Services in the Pentecostal church will be held at 11 o'clock. The programs in each of the churches will center around thanks giving. and special offerings will ha raised for the various orphanages. Reaping the most plentiful bar. vests in many, may years, our peo ple can well pause on this Thanks. giving Day and offer thanks to the Creator. Free of war and occupying a chosen seat in the economic world just at this time, our people surely have more cause to offer thanks to the Almighty than any others in the nation or possibly the entire world. That this may be done and dona with a deep earnestness, religious leaders of the town anxiously await the response of their charges. Business activities, with very few exceptions will be suspended for the day throughout the rural community as well as in the town. The postof fice will be closed and no deliveries will be made here or in the rural sections. A few hunters will follow the dog into the fields and woods, a few will witness interstate athletic contests, but our people, as a whole, will pass the day quietly ii\ their homes. W. A. Ellison, Native Of Williamston, Dies FIND MONEY Mv is a really n fa ? a 'J. aear ?fail a reward, bat aareiy be fa Native Of County Dies Near Bethel Un Suik A. Heard, widow of J W Hoard, died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. J. E Hammond, near Bethel, Saturday morning at 4:45 o'clock, after a long period of declin ing health The daughter of the late Noah and Salbe Price Gurganus. Mrs. Hoard was born in this county 75 years ago. She lived most of her life here, but had made her home with her daughter, near Bethel, for the past several years For nearly half a century she was a member of the Williatnslnn Mem. anal Baptist church. She was an un pretentious woman, one who valued the simple things of life and one who found time to show a real interest in her friends. She never enjoyed the greatest of advantages, for her life was based on a period that exper ienced the costs of civil war and the resurrection- All that she possessed was willingly shared in the hosne and among her friends in need. She was one of the oldest members of the Baptist church here, and had many friends in her native and Three daughters. Mrs. Hammond. Mrs. A. J Summerlin. of Williams ton: and Mrs. W. W. Wells, of Tar boro. and five sons, N. C Charlie; and J a Hoard, all of Tarboro; & F Hoard, of Norfolk, and A. J. Hoard, of WUliamston. She also leaves 40 grandchildren and 15 great, gradchildren Funeral services were conducted at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Hammond. Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock by Rev. M. M. Johnson, Beth el Baptist mmislcr, and Rev. Jas a Smith, pastor of the Williamston Baptist church. Interment eras in the Bridge Keeper s life Threatened Tht We of Hugh Spruill, of the Rnannbe River bridge here. by two ?Urged he tried to nine they i isdiul through a ialety gate and ahnoat went in river. Mr. Sfwmll was struck ?ms by one of the ne as ordered to stand buck at the ant of a pwtnl Driving a ISM Ford v *. the two heavily laden with the river After ck Funeral Held at Late Home In Belhaven Monday Afternoon Prominent Churchman Dies Early Sunday Morning; Interment Here W. A. Ellison, native of Williams ton and one of its most upright and greatly beloved citizens and church leader for many years, died at his hctue in Delliaven Sunday morning following a long period of declining health. His condition had been con sidered critical for some time prior id his death and the end was not un expected. Born in WiUiamston 79 years ago. Mr Ellison was the son of the late James H and Bell Hatton Ellison, members of well known families in this section of North Carolina When a young man he entered the employ of the railroad company and for nearly 40 years he held that posi tion here. He was the third tele grapher to ever operate in this coun ty, and in that position he trained a number of young boys of the com munity. boys who have gone out to make names for themselves. More than sixteen years ago he resigned his position as agent and telegraph er for the Atlantic Coast Line rail road and entered the employ of the Norfolk Southern with headquarters in Belhaven where he made his When a young man he married Mollie Gibson who survives with two children, Mrs. Robt D. Mitchell, of Belhaven. and William A Ellison. Jr.. of New York City. He also leaves one brother, John R. El lison, of Suffolk, and three sisters, Mrs. J. L Robertson, of Williamston; Mrs. J. G. Godard. of Dunn, and Mrs. H H Pope of Robersonville. Mr. Ellison is remembered here as a great churchman and one who was vitally interested in the welfare of his community and people. No more faithful servant and follower did the church here and the one in Belhav en have than Mr. Ellison He was a pillar in the Methodist church for many years and continued active in the church in Belhaven until his health began to fall. He held respon sible offices in the church here and waa superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School in Belhaven for six teen years, and member of the church's board of stewards. He not only interested himself in the church and its work, but he also lived his religion A selfish thought never en tered his being, and his life was lived for his family and all human (Continued on page six) ? County Schools Close Tomorrow For Holidays All schools in the county close to morrow for the Thanksgiving hob days and reopen next Monday in with a schedule ai by education authorities, of the teachers plan to spend the holiday at home. fining dates for the Christmas aeaaosi have not been determined at reports from the office of it today stating action in this connec be taken tomar a conference with lo cal msnmittermcn and members of board a< education. Pres. call for a one week Christ Peanuts Moving To Two Warehouses of Government Here Ten Thousand Bags Are Re ceived Here In Past Few Days Opening here last Thursday, two North Carolina Peanut Stabilization Cooperative warehouses have re ceived nearly 10,000 bags of the cur rent crop to date, reports staling that few sales are being made on the open market at this time. Deliveries are being made so rap idly to the two warehouses here that the graders stated late last night that they were finding it im possible to accommodate the grow ers. Many of the farmers deliver their crop one day and find it neces sary to return the following day to lake their place in line for their crop weights and grades. Large forces are being maintained at both the ware houses at this point, but even then the two houses are finding it diffi cult to handle the rush. Anticipating increased deliveries during the next few days, operators of the two houses yesterday applied (t - additional allotments which were grai.'ed early today by officers of the (i- oerative. It is estimated that approximately 20,000 or more bags ?ill have been stored in Williamston ?ith the two houses before the end of this week Heavier deliveries could be expected ordinarily but Thanksgiving Day will be observed as a holiday and few of the gobbers will be moved that day. Official reports from the two local graders maintaining that the quality of the crop is far better than many expected. Up until late last evening, the graders had found only two lots that did not measure up to govern ment grades and bring the growers 3 1-4 cents net. open market continues unus ually dull, best bunch bringing 3 1-8 and good jumbos 3 1-4. Few sale* were reported at those figures. Reports received here today indi cate that the peanut stabilization plan is not well understood by some farmers. One report stated that the fanners are paid 3 1-4 cents a pound and that storage and insurance costs are deducted from that amount. The 3 and 1-4 cents a pound is net to the farmer with the exception of a mem bership fee of $1 in the cooperative. Each farmer is required to buy the $1 membership fee. but that is the only cost attached to the delivery of peanuts to the stabilization ware houses. and membership is not bind ing in any way. form or fashion. The farmer may sell any part or all his crop with the cooperative or part to the cooperative and the remainder on the open market. No compliance next spring is required. If the'pnee of peanuts were to ad vance to a point where they could be sold at a profit or above 3 1-4 cents and after insurance and stor age charges are deducted, the farmer is in line to share in that profit. Frankly speaking, no such profit is anticipated, but it is a certain fact that the farmer received 3 1-4 rents and that no charges other than the SI membership fee is made if the farmer's crop grades 6S per cent meat or better. Firemen Get Call To Washington Street Home The local fire company was call ed_put last evening at 6:15 o'clock to watch a blazing chimney at the home of Frances Rogers, colored, on Washington street. No damage was done. The home is the property of Mrs. Bet tie Gurganus. A passerby, seeing the sparks belching forth and landing on the shingle roof, turned in an alarm and members of the family did not know they were about io be burned out until the fire-fighting apparatus reached their home. r OFFICIAL i officially re lay riav Uut the Wil Tobacco aarket (old exactly M14.4M gonads during last Friday. I by more than the high roc la IK7-2* aeason totaled lyuyil early large ware Hastily Prepared Farm Bills by House and Senate Committes in Favor Compulsory Crop Control It Won't Be Long Now?Just 27 Christmas Shopping Days Time continues to chop sway the days, and now there are on ly <7 of them left in which near ly aU of the 19TJ Christmas shopping must be done. The wise shopper is giving the task some consideration already. As the Christmas season ap proaches, the Williamston mer chants are fast completing ar rangements for one of their bus iest periods in years. Through Club Achievement Day Program Here Is Greatly Enjoyed Mor Than 100 Young Girls and Boys Attend Meeting The accomplishments of the sever al hundred 4-H club boys and girls in this county during the past year were reviewed last Saturday when more than 115 of the youths met in the Wllliamston High school build ing for their annual all-day achieve ment program. Attendance upon tha meeting was the largest in the his tory of the clubs .and the prognc^n was the most enjoyable one ever held, leaders stated. In addition to the ^15 club members, a number of visitors were present for the pro gram. Seven of the ten clubs were represented, the attendance prize going to the Bear Grass club. Mr. S T. Everett, Martin County Farm Bureau president, welcomed the 4-H club boys and girls, Miss Ruby Griffin, of the Farm Life cluty responding. Rev. E F. Moseley, main speaker on the morning program, addressed the club members on 'The Exploitaf tion of Youth." "In many foreign countries, youth is being preserved, his statement placing more value on the policy and training provided youth in this country and State. "Ii> 4-H Club work, interest lies not in preserving the youth today to be ex ploited tomorrow, but interest rests in training them today so they can be better and more useful citizens (luring their entire life." Rewards and certificates were giv en to the 4-H boys and girls who had made definite achievements during the year. Sixty certificates were giv en for satisfactory completion of one year of work. The beautiful cup giv en by T. W Wood and Son to the 4-H club boy who had the best ten ears of corn in the Martin-Bertie county corn exhibit at the Williams ton Fair was awarded to Lacy Ward of the Robersonville high club. Prizes were awarded to the club members who brought exhibits to Achievement Day. The winners were: Boys exhibits Yellow Corn, 1st Abner Simpson, $2.00; 2nd prize, E. H. Manning, $1 00; 3rd, Ottis Col train, 50c. White Corn. 1st Prize, Lacy Ward, $2.00. Record Books, 1st Durward Everett. Jr., $1.50; 2nd Charlie Harrison, $1.00. Girls Exhibits: Record Books, 1st, Mary Manning, $1.50; 2nd. Lola Smithwick, $1.00. Fruit, 1st Audrey Coltrain, $2.00. 2nd. Beulah Modlin, $1.00; 3rd. Mabel Barber, 50c. To matoes, 1st., Hattie G. Ward, $2.00; 2nd., Lessie Edwards. $1.00; 3rd., Naomi Cratt 50c. At 12:30 the meeting adjourned for lunch. A very nice lunch had been prepared by the girls from the individual clubs furnished by all 4-H club members attending. Immediately following lunch ev eryone visited the display of exhib its that was put on in the class rooms These exhibits showed the quality of work conducted by 4-H club members. The entire afternoon was devoted to recreational games supervised by Miss Ethel Nice, Pitt County home agent. There was recreation enough for everyone present to participate. Everyone took an active part and enjoyed every minute of it. When the afternoon was over prizes were awarded for outstanding individual accomplishments during the day. Lacy Ward and Abner Simpson won the prizes for the boys ?$1.50 in merchandise at Margolia Bros, and $150 at Wllliamston Hard ware Co.; Mary Manning and Au drey Coltrain won the prizes for the girls. A beautiful string of beads from Davis Pharmacy and $1.50 in merchandise at Margolis Bros. ? long months these merchants have served the people of this section, making hardly enough to meet the costs that must be raised in support of yours and our community. At this time let us remember them first when starting our Christmas shopping realizing full well that the suc cess of each of us is measured to some extent by the success of the home merchant. FEW IDLE HERE It was estimated today that less than 100 people out of the approximately 10.000 served by the local postoffice are out of employment at this time. Possi. bly there are 350 who only have part-time employment, but a preliminary survey of the vol untarv census returns indicate that there is no serious unem ployment problem in this im mediate section. A complete survey of the sev eral hundred census cards re turned to the local postoffice is underway today, Postmaster Fowden said this morning. Rev. S. A. Maxwell Succeeds Grant In" Methodist Church Rev. R. R. Grant Will Go to the Manteo Charge This Week Rev. S. A. Maxwell, of Kentucky, will succeed Rev. R R. Grant as pastor of the local Methodist church, it was announced following the close of the 101st annual conference of State Methodists in Raleigh last Sunday evening. It was one of the few changes made ifi the Elizabeth City district. Rev R. R Grant, end ing his 38th year in the ministry and his third year in Williamston, goes to the Manteo charge. Mr. Grant and his family will leave tomorrow for Hyde county xt/hnrn thr>y will- spend a few days before going to Ins new charge to enter upon the duties there on Sunday. It could hot be learned today when Rev. Mr. Maxwell would reach here for work in his new field. Reports state that he will hardly be able to reach here before some time next week, that he will likely hold his first service in his new charge on Sunday, December 5 Rev. Mr. Maxwell, about 45 years of age, is a native of this state, but has made his home in Kentucky for the past 15 years While there he taught in one of the largest church schools in the state, and he is rec ognized as an able preacher and community leader. He is a graduate of Duke university and earned his master's degree there. In addition to his training in this state he has stud ied in several other leading univer sitiel and colleges in the country. Preparing today for his move to the coust country. Rev. Grant said that he had enjoyed his stay in Wil liamston these past three years, and that he had become attached to Us people Missionary Meet Underway Today ! The first meeting of the North) Carolina Christian Missionary Con vention for the new year is under way with the Williamston Christian church today. The nine members of the board come from widely separ ated sections of the state. W. C. Manning is chairman of the board. The final check-up on the mm sionary offerings and registrations at the state convention in Goldiboro will be heard Petitions from mis sionary churches will be received by the board and appropriations will be authorized. The board will in all probability determine the city in which the next convention will be held. About forty board members and ministers were expected to at tend. The church was serving a turkey dinner to those in attendance and the table laid with the Thanksgiving motif. Congress Expected To Consider Farm Measures At Once Opponents of Lynch Bill Plead for Delivery of Agriculture Bills ? Worn out by a filibuster directed to halt action on an anti-lynching bill, members of the Congress yes terday were assured relief when the Senate and House agriculture com mittees offered hastily drafted bills directed at the nation's farm prob lems The high spot in the two bills is the support accorded the compul sory control feature for tobacco, cot ton. wheat, corn and rice. Peanuts and potatoes may possibly find a roosting place later. Yesterday, the situation was rec* ognized as a desperate one, for mem bers opposing the anti-lynching bill were demanding the introduction of just any sort of farm bill. More cor rections are to be made, so a per fected bill may be expected today or tomorrow. Representative Harold D. Cooley, who last week had his motion to ap ply compulsory quotas to cotton re jected by a vote of four-to-one in the cotton subcommittee of the house committee on agriculture, yesterday secured adoption of the same motion by the margin of four-to-one. Later, the provision was written into the hill in the fuM cmm'M'"1 p vn?? of 16 to six. Although he always received sup port for quotas for tobacco because I of the tmammity on the subject of both the growers and their repre sentatives in cougress, Mr.. Cooley appeared for several weeks to be in a hopeless minority on the question of compulsion for other commodi ties. Potatoes and peanuts have been left out of the bill. Representative Kerr expressed himself as unable to understand this, as more acreage is devoted to peanut production than is planted to tobacco, and three times the acreage on which rice, still in the bill, is grown. Mr. Warren thinks Mr. Cooley and his colleagues on the tobacco subcommittee have done well by the farmers who culti vate a limited acreage. _ Growers. who~ fully cooperate will be permitted to produce as much as 3,200 pounds without being subject to the penalty of overproduction. As the two bills now stand, one of the principal differences between the House bill and the Senate bill is on the question of penalties for sales of cotton over and above quo tas. The Senate bill carries a penalty of 75 per cent of the market value. The House bill carries the far small er penalty of two cents a pound. Rep. Cooley suggested a penalty of three cents a pound, but Chairman Jones insisted upon the smaller penalty; and on that point his views prevail ed. Tobacco provisions of both House and Senate bills carry a penalty of 50 per cent of the market value for sales above quotas, but Chairman Jones regards that penalty as too high also, and may attempt to lower it before the bill is reported finally, which is now expected today or Wednesday. Tobacco representatives will hold a final meeting to pass upon the to bacco provisions, but is believed that the minimum quota provisions for flue-cured tobacco written into the bill by the committee today will stand. Under those provisions, any grower who grew 3,200 pounds or less before the beginning of the re duction programs, but who has re duced that amount because of any act of congress, including the AAA, the Kerr-Smith act and seed loans, twould be allowed to grow his origi nal amount without any cut. This would mean that of the 140,000 grow ers who had allotments under the AAA, 55.000 would not be required to make cuts, the entire cut being absorbed by the remaining 85,000. However, these cuts would be no larger than before, because it is planned to give total allotments of 700,000 pounds, somewhat larger un der than the amount allotted under the AAA. O FUes To KUniriMk Boarding a special plane at the flying field near here early today, Mr. Wm. H. G. Chase flew to Kil marnock, Va., this morning to visit his father. He will return this af ternoon in the special airship.
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